ANNUAL CHAUTAUQUA NUMBER
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS
SEC. 2-PAGES 1 TO 8
VOLUME XVL
LA GRANDE, OREGON. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1917.
NUMBER 307.
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CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAM REPLETE WITH FINE ATTRACTIONS
Wonderful Film "Civilization" Will Be Banner Feature at Riverside Park Pavilion July Fourth
1917 ASSEMBLY
NOT HARMED BY
WAR IN EUROPE
RIVERSIDE PARK NEVER AS
BEAUTIFUL AND INVITING
AS THIS SUMMER
WELL-BALANCED OUTLINE
PROVIDED FOR SESSIONS
Musically, Numbers Far Excel Recent
Programs Lecture Series Is Also
Splendid Usual Feaures Provid
ed tor All Who Attend the 1917
Chautauqua.
BY A. W. NELSON.
Once again, Time, in its flight, has
carried denizens of peaceful Grande
Ronde valley to that month of the
yeair when the gates to Riverside park
are to be opened wido upon an annual
Chautauqua assembly. Cataclysm
abroad, recruiting and conscription at
home, bugle calls and the ratt'e of
musket-butts on our. very doorsteps,
have not shorn, neither have they
warped the 1917 Grande Rondo Chau
tauqua assembly plans the program
will occur despite turmoil, blood-spilling
and limb-maiming in Flanders,
The Tyrols, Mesopotamia, ami all the
rest of the 3hrapnel-splintorcd and
bomb-iblistered battlefields of Europe.
The Chautauqua is an institution that
endures; officsrs and directors of the
Grande Ronde Chautauqa association
offer no apology and advance no ex
cuses for braving the tendencies of
the hour which oftimes maneuver
disbandmcnt of usual recreation and
entertainment. Rather, the assembly
at onco becomes an asylum and re
treat to us who day after day shudder
and mourn the terribleness of world
affairs. From June 27 to July 4th
patrons of the Chaufauqua will seek
and find sepulchre 'neath the towering
cottonwoods midst the medoly of
rippling waters haird by; haven of
rest from tho stress of it all up town
and out on the farm; secure in this
cosmopolitan school of learning and
uplift for the Chautauqua is all
that, and more.
Wide Diversity of Numbers.
The session 'his yoar is remarkably
broad and diversified, yet withall,
popular and worth while. Roughly
classified the outline present such fea
tures ns the following:
Lecture Staff Learned One.
Elias Day is coming; Elias, the
real and genuine, Elias not unlike
"our own" S. Piatt Jones.
Dr. Henry Smitlh Williams is one of
America's greatest physicians. He
"has written more than seventy-five
books, with over a million circulation,
including "Every Day Science" in
fourteen volumes, one of his most
notablo works.
His subject at Chautauqua will be,
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Botanical Gardens
Lustv slicing at brush between the
river and the South driveway at Riv
erside park has mado available a con
siderable amount of , new tenting
' space. It permits extension of the
tented city area and furthermore has
added to the general attractiveness of
the now famous park in which the
Grande Ronde Chautauqua association
holds its sessions.
As a matter of fact the Park com-
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4 a volleyball court will be erect- 4
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4 keep the grass well worn about 4
4" the court. The men too will 4
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Below a General View of Riverside Park and Pavilion in Which Are Held (he Sessions of the Annual Chautauqi a Assembly. Spacious Lawn in the
Foreground, Copious Plant Life and Clinging Vines on the Fireplace- the Fireplace is the Common Meeting Ground of All Social Castes AH
Summer Long of Picnic Parties as Well as During the Assembly. The Building Comfortably Seats 1000. . Second Scene From Top Is Side
View of Pavilion Showing Typical Audience. '
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DR. BROUGHER IS
INITIAL SPEAKER
Best-Known Pastor-Orator of the West
Expected to Cram Auditorium Fir&t
Night Campers Urged To Be On
Hand Promptly ard Be Settled Be
fore Opening.
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EARLY
SETTLEMENT
NEEDED
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It has been advised that
tents be pitched earlier than
Wednesday afternoon in order
that campers may move out
J the opening day and be settled J
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4 opening evening. "Get settled 4
4 early" is the slogan. 4
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James Whitcomb Biougher!
Isn't he a dandy to start the Chau-!
tauqua lecture series with: Ihis
scintillating orator-tpreacher of whom
Oregon is proud, a good many years
iago addressed an audience of men
when the Baptist church in this city
was dedicated. There were present
men of all types and stations in life;
saloon keepers, bartenders, ministers,
'Sunday School teachers, pedagogues
'and teamsters. When Dr. Brougher
I caught his stride that afternoon all
cried together like women, laughed
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At Riverside Park
, mission is ever alert to enhance the
appearance of the grounds. From
year to year, often against serious
handicaps and reverses, the commis
sion provides Caretaker "Tap" Thom
as with new rhrubbery to plant out
until today tho tasty arrangement of
lilacs, spirea, Japanese quint, peonas,
tulips, Siberian peas, honeysuckles
and a score of other familiar plants
and flowers have made what once was
a virgin forest into a place of ex
treme beauty. Virginia creepers, 1
planted in profusion, hide fences and
nosts. and are now fastening their
tentacles upon the fire-place end of
the Bavilion. Climbing iroses have
been set out in abundance only recent-
ly in fact just this spring the spaci-
ous lawns with their fringes of beau-
i tif ul flowers have been made all the j
more artistic with the planting of new
snruus anu planus. nie puia vum-
mission is always on the alert to make
La Grande's beautiful park more beau
tiful and in this policy the public
acquesces.
Government of the park is by a
commission, of which the ohief execu
tive of the city president. The por-
8onnel of this industrious commission
at present is: Vincent Palmer, presi-l
J . . lfM W XT Unhnanlrnmn M -a
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Chester P. Nowlin, Mrs. E. Polack,
Hon. W. J. Church, and William
Miller.
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WEEK'S PROGRAM IN DETAIL
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Reduced to the most concrete and crux-like terms, the 1917 Grande
Ronde Chautauqua assembly will consist of the following numbers:
Wednesday, June 27
Morning Opening Exercises and Announcements
Entertainment "The Australian Manikins"
Lecture "What's Under Your Hat"
Dr. James Withcemb Brougher
Thursday, June 28
Evening Lecture Wm. G. Harrington
Junior Chautauqua
Afternoon Concert The Davenny Festival Quintet
Lecture "Adding Years to Your Life"
Dr. Henry Smith Williams
Evening Concert The Davenny Festival Quintet
Illustrated Lecture Chaunccy Hawkins
Wonderful Pictures of the North Woods by America's foremost
wild-game photographer
Friday, June 29
Morning Lecture , Wm. G. Harrington
Junior Chautauqua
Afternoon Concert Smith-Sprimg-Holmes Company
Humorous Lecture "Yarns of the Yank"
Hon. W. I. Nolan
Evening Grand Concert
Saturday,
Morning Lecture
Junior Chautauqua
Afternoon 'Special Music
Community Lecture "Watch Your Step"
Dr. A. E. Turner
Evening "Chimes of Normandie" Boston Light Opera Co.
Setting a new record in Chautauqua Attractions. Delightful
comic opera, full singing cast and archestra, twenty-four people,
Sunday, July 1
Morning Usual services at all Churches
Afternoon Musical Prelude The Ongawa Company
Lecture "Are You Christian or Only Religious?"
Lee Francis Lybargcr
Vespers All invited.
Evening Musical Prelude
Readings
Monday,
: Morning
JLecture
Junior Chautauqua
j Afternoon Concert
Lecture
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Popular Concert
Lecture
montaviiie r lowers
Tuesday, July 3
Lecture Wm. G. Harrington
Junior Chautauqua
-Pngeant Junior Chautauquans
Mornjng
Afternoon-
J'olly of the Circus"
evening jrnna Closing ixmcert, James uoonarn, rsass-isantone or V 1
Chicago Grand Opera Company. The world's greatest barito..i.
Assisting Arists Ruth Ray, violinist; Robert Yale Smith, pianist.
Daily Schedule of Hours.
Morning Hour Lecture, 10:00 a. m.; Afternoon Concert, 2:30 p. m.;
Afternoon Lecture, 3:00 p. m.; Children's Hour, 9:00 a. m.; Evening Concert,
r.nv p. m.; r.vening lecture, :i! p. m
Slimirinlaniliint or, A Mnrn!n
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iecture subjects:
I "Modern City Government", "The
You", "Practical Public Speaking''.
1 Bible study class, auspices W. C.
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Smith-Spring-Holmes Co.
June 30
Wm. G.
Harrington
Boston Light. Opera Co
The Ongawa Company
Elias Day
July 2
Wm. G. Hurrington
Musical Arts Quartet
"The Mind of Germany"
Dr. Frank Bohn
Musical Arts Quartet
"Rebuilding the Temple'
Annie Therese Davault
Tuln.n. W, t 1I..h4m
Citizen's Job", "The Personal Factor
T, U., eaeh day at 9:13 a. m.
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JOYOUS TIME FOR
THE LITTLE TOTS
From the Very First Night Until the
Close Children Will Receive Their
. Share of Amusement Manikins
First Feature.
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4 constant attendant on the ploy- 4
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4 ways will this be a fine con- 4
4 venience. The junior Chautau- 4
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Directors of the Grande Rondo
Chautauqua association have long
since learned it is imperative that
junior patrons have some attention.
Therefore they take great pleasure in
saying to the little folks that tho very
first night there will be something
especially charming for them in the
Manikins an attraction sure to con
vulse the little ones and chase away
grouches among the old.
Whole Week Cared For.
Last year "The Princess (now Mrs.
R. F. Murphy, of La Grande) kept the
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Membership Method is Still in Vogue
During the year 1916, sales of sea
son tickets of tho Grande Ronde
Chautauqua association were the
largest in the history of the associa
tion except the first year. The daily
gate receipts from the sale of day
tickets only were correspondingly
smaller. More and more of the Chau
tauqua patrons are beginning to buy
season tickets and to attend the
Chautauqua programs regularly.
The season tickets will be sold this
year at the same price as in preced
ing yeurs. For adult tickets the price
is $3.00 per ticket and for children's
tickots the price is $1.50 per ticket,
for children from eight years to six
teen years old, inclusive. However,
anyone who purchases adult tickets
in quantities of four or more may re
ceive the tickets at the rate of four
tickets for ton dollars. An adult
ticket can be exchanged for two chil
dren's tickets at any time and also
j two children's tickets may be ex
changed for on adult ticket at any
time.
I The association is the owner of a
number of tents and these tents will
bo rented to any one desiring to
Scamp, for the sum of $5.00. If the
tents are placed in Chautauqua row,
are desired to be put up at the time
the workmen are putting up the
tents in Chautauqua row, then the as-
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BE OBSERVED
SPEAKING, SPORTS AND MUSIC
OUTLINE FOR DAYLIGHT
HOURS OF DAY
WELL-KNOWN FILM IS
TO BE SHOWN AT PARK
Need of Entertainment for Campers
Seen Ticket Holders Put to no Ex
tra Cost by Reason of Addition of
Another Day's Program Details
Coming Later. '
Confronted with the necessity of
providing something in the way of en- ,
tertainmont for the campers at River
side park and the public in. general on
July Fourth, the directors of the
Grande Ronde Chautauqua association
have gone to much expense to provide
suitable programs for the day. Chau
tauqua ofHcially closes on the night
of July 3rd but arrangements have
been made to give a program of good
quality on the 4th which will be an
added feature without expense to the
ticket holders. A nominal fee will be
charged to such as only want to at
tend that day.
One splendid attraction already
provided is the master film, "Civiliza
tion" which will be put on that even
ing. (While this marvelous picture
has been here once, only a compara
tively small fraction of the community
was able to see it. This opportunity
will not likely be available again.
In addition to this film, of which
so much has been said in the past, and
the quality of which is too well known
to need any further enconiums here,
the directors have other good numbers
booked. A speaker of reputation will
"be brought here, and in the morning a
sport program will be arranged. The
La Grande Elks' band will likely be
on hand too. All In all the July
Fourth program will be one of merit
and quality.
TRANSPORTATION AS USUAL
F. L. Meyers is Chairman of the Com
mittee Listing Adequate Facilities.
Problems of transportation have
been solved in years past largely
through the inclination of the public
to help out in carrying passengers to
and from Riverside pork during rush
hours. At such moments it is usually
a lucrative business, but the commit-,,
tee must provide for those who wish
to visit the park in the forenoons and
afternoons when traffic is loss brisk.
Chairman F. L. Meyers of the trans
portation committee is working to
provide adequate transportation to
run on stated schedules. (While all
conveyances will not be operated on a
1 10-cont basis, likely, arrangements to
,have some of that price available are
always made.
party desiring it. Any one desiring a
Hoor put in the tent will have to ar
range to have such floor put in upon
their own account.
Any one desiring to have the tents
wired with electricity will also have to
have them wired upon their own ac
count, and a charge of fifty cents will
be made for the electricity used dur
ing the term of the Chnutauqua.
Reservations for camping space
may be made with Caretaker Thomas
now, and for tents with Mr. C. J.
Black.
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W. G. HARRINGTON SUPER
INTENDENT OF CHAU
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An essential in well-regulated
Chautauquas is a live and af
falablo superintendent. Wm. G.
Harrington, who occupies that
important post this year, pos
sesses all the requisite qualifi
cations. He will lecture each
morning at 10 a. m. using the
themes "Modern City Govern
ment," "The Citizen's Job,"
"Tho Personal Factor You," .
and "Practical Public Speak
ing." Ho comes well recommended.
NATAL DAY
IN SANE WAY
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