The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-06-30
BEST CHAUTAUQUA
FOR SEVERAL SEASONS.
Talent Pleases from Start to Fin
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community viii ever turn to witt
pleasant memories and glad
ness that it was made. The tai
ent which furnished our enter
tainment this year was above thu
average, which fact was delight
fully apparent in the results
Nezperce maintained her repu
tation as one of the best chautau
qua towns on the Ellison White
six-day circuit by making this
her annual holiday week and per-
mitting her normal spirit of good
fellowship to have full swing.
On the opening afternoon, the
Liberty Bellies Trio, of Boston,
Misses Pease, Beemont and Krate
gave a very pleasing musical
program, following the introduce
tory talk by Miss Scott, the little
lady who, as superintendent, kept
the whole machinery running
smoothly and agreeably through
out the week.
In the evening the Trio gave
another program, and then DR..
Robert Parker Miles delighted
the audience for an hour and a
half with his wonderful descrip-
tive stories of men and women
he had met in his wide experience
as a journalist and interviewer
of celebrities.
The afternoon bill Of the sec
ond day brought us many a
healthy laugh with the Stone
Platt-Bragers Trio, who also in
troduced excellent musical num-
bers. The lecture was delivered
by Dean Ellwood G. Perisho and
in his able handling of "The
Problems of Today" he made a
hit with the thinking element Of
his audience especially, leaving
among the influential in our COM
munity much pithy matter for
use in reckoning the bigger prob
lens of the nation.
A short time before the open
ing of the evening program rain
and wind storm swept over this
section and necessitated the use
of the school auditorium for this
session. This was unfortunate,
for many of those who were de-
sirous of hearing Congressman
Henry T. Rainey's lecture were
unable to do 50 on account of the
limited room at the auditorium,
but every inch of this room was
aiken up by interested auditors.
After the Trio of mirth and mus
C makers had given the audience
mother happy half hour, Con-
,ressman Rainey, the veteran Of
he Ways and Means Committee
# the lower house Of Congress-
he head Of that great taxingI
committee during our World
Var experience took the plat
orm and held his audience in
vrapt interest with a business
ike narrative of the process of
ur national taxing system. In
he course Of his speech he gave
luch information first hand
nent the inner workings of our
big committees de-
ails one does not find in print
nd phases of the stupendous job
financing the war that gave
ach interested listener a far
etter grasp Of this mighty mat
n than he had been able to get
sewhere. The big personality
the speaker fitted well into
lis big subject of taxation which
} gave to the audience in way
at all could understand and ap-
The chautauqua would
} well to keep more men like
Rainey-though his
ass is limited on its programs.
The third day brought us one
the community's big favorites
the Lowell Patton trio, who
lighted the afternoon and even
g audiences with vocal and in
musical selections, and
usual Mr.. Patton was not al /.
we'd to desist from his piano
until he just quit
yway. Misses Lula Root and
Icille Collette, the other mem ,
rs of the trio, came in for a !
cd share of applause in their =
rts of the bill. The reading Of ]
inifred Windus, in the after
on was exceptional and begot
gch favorable commendation. for
B. Fish In his lecture Paying har
, Fiddler gave the evening ing
lience something different on for
labor question and a keen cen
anent labor leaders and gas
skers. tha-