The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-21
PROGRAM WAS FINE ONE
Ev.rv Number This Year Was Unusu-
ally Good, and keokuk People
Had Real
Treat

Yesterday at meeting OF the chau-
tannua boosters, and contracts were
signed last night between the associa-
tion and the chautauQua people. Slg-
natures were taken from people VINO
wished to be identified with the chau-
tanoua movement next year, and keo-
Ink will be assured Of another spleh-
did week of entertainment.
The chautauqua which closed yes
terday presented one OF the best pro-
grams that Keokuk has had IL IS
regretable that not enough heokuR
,aonle took the interest in the assem-
blyI that they should, to have maze
The week a financial success that II
might have been. Every program
in the six days had something of mer-
il. something of pleasure, something
of interest, and the verdict of all VINO
attended that this was, the best chau-
tauqua of all.
Reaction from the war and general
breaking of contracts was given as
the reason for the poor showing MADE
BY the chautauqua companies last
year. This year, however, Things
have gone back on sane basis, ana
it is believed that in another year,
with a program as delightful as thls
has been. Keokuk should have the
most successful assembly since they
were begun.
: Final Program.
The final program Of the chautau-
qua was given yesterday, and last
evenings entertainment was splendid.
The Royal Hawaiians are good enough
in themselves to furnish an entire pro-
gram and they and Miss Jessie Rae
Taylor, in impersonations, gave the
audience an evening OF unalioyed
pleasure. Miss Taylor's impersona-
tions are wonderfully true to life and
she gives them in splendid fashion
The five young men composing the
Hawaiian troupe presented the pre-
Jude in the afternoon and full con-
cert in the evening. They are artists
in the wierd haunting melodies OF the
Paradise of the Pacific, and besides
being artists on the ukulele, steel gull
tar and taropatch, they inject an eie-
ment of vaudeville that is clever ana
never fails to draw laugh.
There is, something weird, some
thing haunting about their native mus
lie. and vierra troupe emphasized this
wierdness, this haunting, fleeing
melody. Possibly, nothing more beau
itiful has been heard than their rem
Idition of the Rosary. on the steel
guitar.
Some Expert Suggestions.
The speaker yesterday afternoon
was Harry R McKeen of st. Louis,
community expert, who spoke on the
topic, "The American Revolution, :
land pointed out six or seven ways
lin which America is revolutionizing
itself today.
He urged the city of Keokuk or any
city that seeks to grow to look to the
community about it and develop this
phase He urged cooperation and
said he could always tell what kind
of town he was in by the way the
hotel clerk spoke to him; by the way
the merchants acted when he talked
to them, and in other ways. "If one
store hasn't the goods you wish, and
you speak to the clerk or manager,
and ask him if there is another store
in the same line, and he answers
you Grossly, impatiently or grouchily,
just put it down that it isn't good
town Cooperation is lacking"
Mr.. McKeen spoke of the underpaid
school teachers and preachers, said
Iowa was the richest state in the
union, but was only twenty-first in
education; spoke of Missouri's wealth,
but her lowly position in the educa-
itional things, and urged change In
courses of study. Don't cram the
pupils" he said. He said he was
sorry the modern typewriting ma
chimes made SO many mistakes in
spelling sally that brought laugh
from three employees of downtown
office.
Ignorance, not God, he said was re-
isponsible for the loss of lives each
year from disease. He warned his
audience against a food famine. this
coming winter, because of under pro-
duction, due to the exodus from the
farms.
Judge Baggott III.
Reports came to the chautauqua
people here yesterday of the Illness of
Judge Roland w. Baggott, of Dayton,
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