The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-07-01
FIRST CHAUTAUQUA
VERY SUCCESSFUL
Morrow County Folks Enjoy Six Days
OF Rare Entertainment.

Music, oratory, literary entertain
ment and sociability have reigned su-
preme in Heppner town during the
past six days. We have been enjoy
ing the season of our first Chautau-
qua and it has about put the most of
us on the blink" from a business
standpoint, not having time nor in
clination for the ordinary affairs of
life. But 1t is over with tonight, and
we can then settle down to the rou-
tine again, being stimulated by all
the good things it has been our for
tune to see and hear. Our first Chau-
tauqua has been complete success
the people have enjoyed themselves
and received wholesome and uplift-
ing entertainment. They want more
of it; witness the hearty response to
the call for pledges ror another year.
The attendance upon every session
has been good, Notwithstanding the
very warm weather and we believe
that all have felt that the time has
been we'll spent.
The local Chautauqua has been un-
d. Foster vino has done all In his
power to make the sessions pleasant
and profitable. Under his manage
ment everything has passed off well
and all programs have been started
promptly on time and moved along
without a drag. lie has been ably
assisted by Miss Margaret Miller who
had charge of the Juni0r Chautauqua
and cared for the children in their
happy play hours. She drilled them
in many entertaining and useful
games and presented the little folks
to the people on Wednesday in their
folk dances and other exercises. This
feature of the Chautauqua will no
doubt be greatly enlarged next year
as II will be better understood.
The Chautauqua proper will be
better understood by our people from
now on, and it will be an easy mat
ter to maintain these popular enter
tainments in coming years. This year
many of our country people have
been compelled to stay at home be-
cause of the opening Of harvest, and
the attendance from the country was
not as large as as 1t otherwise would
have been. Yet there was aatter-
ing attendance from outside OF Hepp
ner, and for this the local committee
and management Of the Chautauqua
are truely thankful.
Two important numbers on the
program have been Marion Ballou
Fisk, cartoonist, and Marietta La Dell
the child impersonator and entertain
er. These two ladies are real artists
in their lines. Mrs. Fisk weaves in
with her chalk talk her lecture on
"Kweer Karacters | Have Known"
which gives an insight into old New
England character that is highly en-
tertaining and educational. Her
talks" are interspersed with suffi-
cient humor to keep her audience in
happy frame of mind all the while
and she was much enjoyed by old and
young alike. AS to Miss La Dell there
is little that we can say that would
express the praise due her for the
delightful entertainment she offered.
1t had never been our fortune to
hear such an artist In child imperson-
dtiOuS DtlOlC DuI ouC SCi tuihly uuo
the babies all beat city block in her
impersonation of What Baby
Thinks" Miss La Dell is a charming
entertainer whose ability lies along
many lines, and it is hoped that she
will be on the program next year
when we are sure that she will be
greeted with much larger audiences
than she was in this, her first appear
ance before the Heppner people.
Arthur A. Frankie, heralded as one
of the younger and newer lecturers
on the Chautauqua platform, in his
lecture 1.-The Spirit of the Rockies, .
presents new ideas touching the
handling of state law making bodies
and says much to set people to think
ing. He breaches gospel of pro-
gress, and progress means change
from the set order of things even in
the law making function of our sta
tes. Mr.. Frankie Is well versed in
the evils surrounding state legisla-
tive bodies, and these he sets forth in
a clear and comprehensive manner,
yet 1t may be fairly stated that he is
somewhat disappointing in the reme-
dies offered for the cure of these
evils. To our mind, however, his 9TH
er lecture, 1.-THE Matchless Book" is
entitled to a place among the best of
platform orations. He should have
been heard by more people for he de-
livers a great message in this lecture
and places the Book of Books on
the high plane which 1t is entitled to
occupy. Mr.. Frankie is a scholar and
an orator of no mean ability and will
be gladly heard on future programs
Col. william Hamilton Miller Is a
olive wire" and no mistake. He was
greatly enjoyed and his place as a
platform man is certainly unique. His
lecture is made up out of life's exper-
fences and he is just full to running
over with wit and humor. While he
told stories and related experiences
in abundance, keeping his audiences
roaring with laughter much of the
time, yet through 1t all he was weav-
ing thread of thought that went
home to his hearers and they did not
fail to get the weight of his hard
knocks and sensible ideas on com
munity building and human better
ment. 1t should be in the contract
that Col. Miller will appear in Hepp-
ner at our next Chau;auQua.
The Chautauqua closes with the
session tonight, and we feel that the
Heppner people have been well paid