Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-08-19

The crisis in Europe may mean
the supreme test of our civilization
The basis of our civilization is ed
ucation and that is of two kinds
that received in the schools and
the supplemental education receiy
ed thru outside study, travel, ind
association with intelligent folks.
The Chautauqua thru which we
have just passed has been an intel
lectual treat. Every number has
been enjoyed by those in attend
ance and the crowds have been re-
markably good, when the pressure
of the harvest season and the in
stability of the weather are taken
INTO consideration. In several inl
stances autoes have been obliged to
stop by the roadside and have.
yer bad strips of road but in near
ly every case the same car would
be found parked near the Chautau-
qua \ tent for the next session. The
programs started Thursday, August,
18TH, with an entire afternoon and
evening devoted to Thurlow Lieu
rance All-American Band. Thurlow
Lieurance himself is, an interesting
character. An expert band master,
composer OF some note, member
of the staff Of the Etnde, a COM
;c+
lac,or He is also a veteran of the
Spanish American War and has de-
voted much time to the study of
indian legends and specialized in
American Indian music He carries
with him fine band of accomplish
ed musicians and his day was a
source of both pleasure and pro-
fit to his audience.
Friday, music was given over to
The Bohannans, two musical artists,
and the best to be found in their
ssyls of entertainment. Mr. Bohan-
nan with his beautiful tenor voice
and his wife, pianist and soprano,
gave the preludeS both afternoon
and evening and in each case left
their crowds calling tor encore af-
ter encore. Friday afternoon Prof.
G. w. Wassam from S. U. l. gave
his noted lacture on The Boy Pro
Dlem and was listened to with
rapt attention by an unusually large
crowd. The evening was devoted
to Ellsworth Plumstead in his un-
comparable character sketch work
H is an inimitable impersonator
and gave one of the most popular
numbers of the entire course. Sat
urday, the entire music of the day
Quartet with two preludes and an
evening concert. Their repertoire
seems inaXhaustable date as this
was for them return trip will
an entire new program. They would
alweys be greeted by crowded
hous IS in Extra. The speaker fol
Saturday afternoon was the Hon
Otis 'Wingo with his lecture on .Ru-
raj Credit Legislation" This lee
ture was perhaps the deepest ant
most studied of any number of the
course and was delivered in very
pleasing manner. He is one of the
youngest members of the Nationa
House Of representatives and ha
made some stir in that institution
Believe me.
Sunday was the Big Day with i'm
mense crowds and ditto programs
Wm. Peterson, the Danish Bariton
assisted by his wife and little son
furnished good sacred music whicl
was enjoyed by all, and the after
noon lecture was impossible to beat
The Whir of the Newspaper Press
by Albert L.. Blair, was a gem o
thot and rhetoric and was fille'
with good genuine common sens
from start to finish. The Sunda.
night program was given by the 0
jibway Indians in their rendition o
that beautiful poem, Hiawatha. TIL
company is made up of Ojibway In
dians from Canada,-part of tn
same band that originated the Hi
awatha play. Many of them hav
taken their parts for several year
and most of them have given tn
same play before some of the crow
ed heads of Europe. 1t was wei
rendered and depicted the India
mode of living and loving as n
lecture could have done.
Monday, the last day of the Chau
tauaua was one of the best. Dl
! John A. Gray of New York Cit
gave his famous lecture "Out Q
Work" He spent three and one
half months among the down an
cutters of his city gathering firs
hand material for this lecture an