Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-07-06
THINGS SHAPING UP FOR
BIG CHAUTAUQUA ASSEMBLY

Only little over three weeks
now until the opening of the Mus
kingum Valley Chautauqua. Things
are beginning to indicate the usual
activity on the part of the associa-
tion in putting everything in ship
shape for what has come to be the
big annual event of the middle Mus
kingum valley.
A neat program booklet contain
ing full information about the pro-
gram and assembly is now being
distributed and display cards and
street banners begin to proclaim
loudly that the time is near at hand
for the annual feast of good things.
The coming assembly will be the
seventeenth, and the dates will be
from July 20 to August 6. Prices
for tickets of all kinds will be the
same as last year, though the cost
of the program is more than ever.
Season tickets will go on sale
Saturday, July IS, at the usual
scramble in matching numbers for
free season reserved seats.
The management of the local
ChautauQua is substantially the
same as when the institution was
organized, in 1905. They have
seen the assembly weather the vicis-
situdes of fire, flood, war, panic and
what not; and today the assembly
stands just about free from debt
and in the strongest position fl
nancially it has ever enjoyed. All
this has been practically without
any financial assistance other than
that derived from the sale of
tickets and the actual proceeds of
the assembly. A few contributions
were accepted in 1920 from inter
ested parties who wanted to see a
small deficit wiped out quickly, but
in all the history Of the assembly
the policy and program has been to
make the Chautauqua self-support-
ing, and no burden to anybody.
The prices charged for tickets
have been lower than those charged
by almost any good Chautauqua in
this country. thus giving the public
the benefit of the program at min
imum of cost to them, and on the
other hand money has not been
spared when it came to building
programs. Nothing is too good for
this locality, has been the idea from
the start, and on that basis this as
sembly has succeeded far beyond
most of the Independent Chautau-
Quas throughout the country.
A glimpse over the booklet shows
that we are to have a new platform
manager this year, in the person of
Rev. Charles A. Gage, of Rockford,
Ill. DR.. Gage is we'll known here as
the second tenor in the Chicago
Preachers Male Quartet, one of the
most popular companies ever on our
program He will preach, lecture,
manage the platform and conduct
community singing from time to
time.
The list of lecturers includes,
Congressman S. D. Fess; Ex-Gover-
nor w. l.. Harding, of Iowa; Hon.
Webster Davis. of Kansas City; Dr.
Newton N. Riddell, of Chicago;
Henry Clark. humorist; DIR. M. H.
Lichliter, famous pulpit orator;
Mrs. Mabel Guam Stevens, who was
SO popular last year; and DR.. John
G. Benson, of the famous travellers
church, of New York City.
The musical companies are: The
Sholle orchestra, Ward Waters
Trio; Mr.. Gage, tenor; the Nettle
Family; DeSellem Folsom Com
pany; Hruby Brothers Orchestra,
and our own Malconta band, as US
ual.
Charlie Hitchcock, of Chicago;
Miss Jessie Rae Taylor, the Ward
Waters Trio, the Nettle Family and
the Clifton Mallory Players, are