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The Best of Talent in Science, Music

MANY NEW SPECIAL FEATURES THIS YEAR

Shakespearian Players are Thursday evening, August 26. Booked for the Grand Opening, August 19. It will be held at "Lakeside" in the handsome grove of E. G. Thayer, where all previous assemblies of this nature have been held. The Paw Paw Chautauqua opens this year on Thursday, August 19, continuing eight days, closing on Thursday, August 26. This year the Chautauqua will be under the management of the Paw Paw Commercial club, but the program is furnished by the Midland Chautauqua Circuit of Des Moines, Iowa, which is a guarantee of the best talent that can be procured. This annual event is here to stay, and after six years of trial, has proved to the people of Paw Paw and vicinity that it is indispensable. The amount of good our community receives, the inspiration and good thoughts that the speakers leave, and altogether the influence on moral and social life that is left with us as an asset is not to be compensated for in a monetary consideration. It brings one in personal contact with the best of entertainers and platform lecturers in the country, people whom we could not meet or see otherwise. The people of this village and vicinity in general should congratulate themselves for having this opportunity, to lay aside the cares of a busy world for eight days, and to fill their minds with intellectual inspiration. As an educator the Chautauqua is the best learning institution of the country. You learn something from the platform you could not learn if you read all the books published, because the lecturers speak from their own personal observation, their own experiences, which you do not find in any literary library in the country. The lecturers that will address the assembly are all of national reputation, who have made the subject of their discourse a special life study, who have put their whole energy and thought in the matter which they bring to their audience. No college, school or seminary has these thoughts in their libraries, and as an educational exponent, the Chautauqua stands ahead of Yale, Cornell and all other institutions of learning. The week of August 19 to 26 will be a week of mirth, music, mystery, information, instruction and inspiration, and will bring to Paw Paw as fine a literary, scientific, musical and art program as is presented anywhere, so plan to attend every session.

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

In preparation for this event the management have kept in mind the children-the young American of today-and have made it possible that the little ones have a Chautauqua all their own. Tell Mama and Papa that you want to go to the Chautauqua, as you will have a director who will conduct all the programs. The story hour will be of intense interest because the director is a capital story teller. You don't want to miss one of them. Then there will be athletic exercises and contests, something interesting and profitable every day. There is more for the little folks than anyone else, so you want to arrange to spend every day at the Chautauqua while it lasts.

AMONG THE LECTURERS.

Dr. N. D. Hillis.

One would go miles to hear a man like Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis. Why? Because he is a man of world-wide reputation, an orator, preacher and author, and is the successor of Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott. In all probability no man in the world brings to his audiences such learning, eloquence, patriotism, and such passionate earnest for good as Dr. Hillis. He will lecture on Sunday evening, August 22, his subject being "America of Today and Tomorrow." In order for everyone to hear Dr. Hillis the price of single admission tickets will be 25 cents.

Chas. S. Medbury.

Mr. Medbury, as we have previously told you, is a repeater. Owing to the many requests coming to Mr. Holladay for the return of Mr. Medbury, he has made it possible for him to again address the Paw Paw assembly. Those who had the pleasure of hearing him on his former visit here pronounced him the best on the program. His subject this year will be "Forty Million Young Folks," on Monday afternoon, August 23. His lecture has grown out of this man's touch with boys and girls and young people throughout all the years of his unusual experience. His lecture deals with the vast army of young people in America under 21 years of age. It raises questions as to who they are, where they came from, what they are doing and where they are going. No boy or girl, young man or young lady, mother or father should miss Medbury. You'll regret it if you do. The price of this lecture is 25 cents and you get a hundred dollar's worth of good common sense from it. Remember Medbury-Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Dr. Wiggam.

Here's something no one will miss-Dr. A. E. Wiggam on "Heredity and Human Progress." Friday evening, August 20. By means of lantern slides he presents the main great facts of the new heredity. The doctor's subject is a most fascinating one and no man on the platform has mastered it in all its bearings more completely than Mr. Wiggam.

Senator Lafayette Young.

At this time everyone is interested in the great war that is involving nearly every nation in Europe. Col. Young has recently returned from the war zone and his experience in the Spanish-American war has placed him in a position to find out what it would have taken others years to accomplish. He knows what war is and how to describe it to the minutest detail. You get the trouble in the East first handed from one who has spent months on the firing lines gathering information for this lecture. He visited all the principal cities. He has been arrested as a spy and can tell you all about the great war. Col. Young will lecture on "Four Months in the War Zone" on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

AMONG THE ENTERTAINERS.

Those who love Shakespearian plays and literature, and those who never read Shakespeare will find mirth and laughter in the "Twelfth Night," as presented by Miss Maude Sheerer and her company under the coaching of Arthur Kachel. Mr. Kachel formerly visited Paw Paw and is well known to Chautauqua people, but here is something new. Part of the company have been with the Ben Greet Players and are experienced actors and actresses. This company is the opening number this year, so all come and start the 1915 Chautauqua off with a good, big crowd. The price of this entertainment is 50 cents.

Robert O. Bowman,

The character portrayalist, has come to be recognized as one of the foremost exponents of the art on the platform today. He puts the life and vim into the character he creates. He is possessed of a rare dramatic ability and is sure to please his audience. He will have the program on Wednesday evening, August 25.

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Edmund Vance Cooke.

Mr. Cooke is a new number on the program. While his years of experience in his work has placed him at the head of his profession, he has something new for this assembly. He is a master of human expression, and sees all human things in all kinds of light. He sings songs for everybody, at all seasons and in all moods. Mr. Cooke is with us on Tuesday, August 21, in the afternoon.

Tell the children the Chautauqua manager says there will be a special free entertainment for them at the Chautauqua at the Children's Hour the day Edmund Vance Cooke is on the program. Get them ready early for there will be a crowd. "Wholesome fun" "A continuous succession of thrills" At Houston, Texas, Mr. Cooke had four thousand eager, attentive children listening to his "original, modern, exciting, amusing and gloriously improbable stories. The Chautauqua Management gives this free to all children under sixteen years and to season ticket holders; all others 25c. No charge for seats and none reserved. Better go early.

Rosani, the Juggler

Is an entertainer of unusual ability. He is a juggler, manipulator, and a man of many wonders and supplies a very unique, pleasing and novel program that will be of interest to the young and old alike. He gives the entertainment on Saturday evening, August 21.

IN MUSIC.

Bostonia Sextet Club.

For 17 years this club has been before the public, which is a mighty good record for a musical organization of this kind.

Ernest Gamble Concert Co.

The Gamble Company are not new, but are like Medbury, they are repeaters. That the company made good in 1914 is evidenced by the repeated requests for return dates. Those who had the pleasure of hearing the Gamble Co. a year ago pronounce them artists in their profession. They furnish the evening's entertainment Monday, August 23.

The Boyds

Have appeared here on a lecture course program and given entire satisfaction. They appear here in the preludes on Tuesday and are sure to please.

Opera Company.

This company furnishes the preludes on Wednesday, August 25, and is one of the best musical organizations of its kind.

The Meistersingers Male Quartet

Will furnish the preludes on Sunday. This organization carries with them a 49-note organ chimes. Besides playing the chimes their voices blend beautifully in quartet.

Victor's Florentine Band

Is one of the most successful bands ever sent out by this circuit. It will furnish the program on the closing of the 1915 Chautauqua.

You All Want to Hear

The debate on Socialism, which is at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The price of single admission is 35 cents. The debate is between Lee Francis Lybarger and Hon. C. D. Thompson. Mr. Lybarger is orator, scientist and author and is thoroughly convinced that Socialism is unjust, etc., while Hon. Thompson is head of the statistical department of the National Socialist party and is thoroughly convinced that Socialism holds the key to the "Fulfillment of Democracy." You can readily see that this is no frame-up debate, as both these gentlemen are convinced that they are right upon the views they present and leave the final decision with their audience.

At 10:30 on Thursday there will be a Sunday school rally, conducted by Paul Dietrick. This is something new to Chautauqua assemblies and is free to everybody.

We have given a very complete synopsis of the program, but we have failed to notice a few of the prelude numbers. We are sorry that space will not permit it.

The slogan this year is "Everything for Everybody," so all boost for the 1915 Chautauqua, as it is the biggest, the most comprehensive and the best one ever held.

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Idle Hour August Thursday 19 Special Matinee at 3 p.m. Prices 5-10c