Parsons Advocate

CHAUTAUQUA A BIG SUCCESS.

The Parsons Redpath Chautauqua closed here last Friday evening after a week's most delightful and uplifting series of musical, oratorical, and educational programs.

The chautauqua this season was pronounced the best ever and the tent at each number was packed to the limit with a possible exception of a few of the afternoon meetings at which time many patrons were at work.

The latter half of the week was just as much appreciated as was the first half. The programs each day were of a high class and each day throughout the whole five days the entertainers were artists in their various lines.

One of the biggest, and by many the biggest number of the week, was Charles H. Plattenburg whose message last Wednesday evening on "The Old Town in a New World" took the big packed tent by storm and his lecture was so much enjoyed that a meeting of the River City Club was called for the next morning at which time Mr. Plattenburg was motored to the various scenic points surrounding Parsons and afterwards was the guest of the club and another very inspiring talk was given by Mr. Plattenburg, after which he was escorted to the train by a large number of business and professional men.

Words cannot describe the Plattenburg lecture and the good it will do here. If this year's chautauqua would have been nothing more than Mr. Plattenburg and would have closed after his wonderful lecture all would have been well repaid for the admission asked for the entire week.

These same remarks were heard of the other lecturers such as William Rainey Bennett, in "The Man Who Can;" Alton Packard, the famous cartoonist, humorist and musician; Geoffrey F. Morgan, in his lecture on "Success With Ease;" Cotton Noe, in his wonderful talk on "The American Home."

This year's musical combination were strictly all in a class by themselves and were never excelled here. The local children's pageant, the "Conquest of Peace" was well rendered and proved beyond a doubt that the junior Superintendent had been on the job each day in a most thorough and painstaking manner.

All in all this year's chautauqua was the biggest success of all others here. The financial goal reached here and went over the top the fourth day and before the close, next year's chautauqua guarantors were signed up thus guaranteeing next year's chautauqua attractions. The guarantors for next year's chautauqua, known as the "1923 Honor Roll," are as follows:—

H. W. Auvil, Wilbur Young, A. S. Lindsey, E. R. Mosser, Clarence B. Pifer, S. C. Simpson, Paul Dudley, A. A. Dorsey, H. D. Wilfong, J. F. Dumire, J. F. Blackman, R. E. King, C. R. Parsons, H. F. Colebank, D. W. Thurston, Kent W. Scott, W. K. Pritt, H. R. Dudley, H. J. Campbell, S. S. Ford, D. E. Gilmore, L. B. Fankhauser, F. K. Lyons, Edward C. Hall, J. F. Bane, J. M. Ours, M. H. Wilmoth, Nellie Greider, Mrs. P. T. Stroup, Mrs. A. G. Minear, Mrs. Riley Harper, R. B. Shrout, Ellis J. Von Haven, Rex Orr, S. C. Grose, Rev. H. V. Bennett, Herman Lambert, Hazel Martin, C. J. Hausford, P. W. Smith, S. V. Poling, S. F. Davis, Mrs. G. H. Buchanan, Carl W. Long, W. W. Lambert, Mrs. Sue Comp, J. B. Ambrose, Mrs. W. D. Scallon, Jay Phillips, H. W. Campbell, Miss Leota Hovatter, D. I. Beckner, Jas. A. Corrick, J. W. Campbell, C. A. Roberts, W. F. Lipscomb.