Prof. D. B. Towner, Col. Geo. W. Bain, Dr. A. A. Willits, Dr. D. F. Fox, Dr. Theo. G. Soares, Dr. Wayland Hoyt, and Rev. John L. Brandt, the latter in an illustrated lecture on "The Passion Play." The Slayton Jubilee Singers have been engaged for five days, and entertainments will also be furnished by the Ottumwa Male Quartet, Elias Day, impersonator, Chas. J. Carter, the magician, and many others. Mrs. A. E. Shipley of Des Moines, the state secretary of the C. L. S. C. for Iowa, will conduct C. L. S. C. Round Tables, and will also direct the girls' outlook club and the women's council. PETERSBURG, ILLINOIS. classes can meet. The program provides for Bible work each day for both juniors and seniors. The latter class will be under the direction of Rev. Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, D. D. A "Church Congress" will convene at ten o'clock each morning. Three lectures are provided for each day, unless the evening hour is given to a concert or an entertainment. Especial attention will be paid to chorus training. C. L. S. C. Round Tables and Councils will be held daily at four o'clock. While the program promises that every day shall be a great day, especial preparation is being made for RIVER LANDING, PONTIAC (ILL.) CHAUTAUQUA. The Old Salem Chautauqua Assembly, located at Petersburg, Illinois, has a twelve days' session from August 8-20. A complete new waterworks and sewerage system has been installed, and the sanitary conditions. are perfect. A large dining hall with kitchen is in process of construction. In addition to these improvements there will be an entirely new fleet of pleasure boats on the river. New cottages and church headquarters are being built, and indications are for a prosperous season at the assembly. The program contains such names as Governor Hubbard and Governor La Follett, Lorado Taft, the artist, Dr. George E. Vincent, who will speak on Recognition Day, August 16, General Gordon, Dr. Chapman, Russell H. Conwell, J. DeWitt Miller, Rev. Anna Shaw, Dr. R. S. MacArthur, Hon. Chas. Denby, Professor Richards, and a large number of other speakers, entertainers, and musicians of note. A summer school will be organized, and the Bible courses will be in charge of Prof. H. M. Hamill. PLAINVILLE, CONNECTICUT. The Connecticut Chautauqua Assembly will hold its first session July 24-31 upon the grounds near Plainville and Forrestville, Connecticut. The grounds are located in a large tract of primeval forest most delightfully cool and pleasant, and admirably adapted to assembly work. There are a hundred or more comfortable cottages, a beautiful openair auditorium, and a number of halls where Thursday, July 25, which is designated as Connecticut Day, when Governor George P. McLean will speak. Recognition Day occurs Wednesday, July 31. The address will be given by Dr. J. L. Hurlbut. This will be the first Chautauqua Recognition Day ever celebrated in Connecticut, and promises to be an occasion of great interest. The regulation Golden Gates and Arches will be in position, and the original order of graduation exercises will be followed. At the close of the Recognition services there will be a reunion of Connecticut Chautauquans. PONTIAC, ILLINOIS. The Pontiac Chautauqua Assembly of Pontiac, Illinois, holds its fourth annual session at Riverview Park for fourteen days, commencing July 25. A great deal of thought and attention has been given to the arrangement of the program, and it is conceded that the one for this year is the strongest yet given. Last year there were two hundred and eighty-six" white homes" erected, and every indication is that this record will ROCK RIVER, DIXON, ILLINOIS. be beaten this year. Among the lecturers and musical attractions complete the engaged are the following: Rev. John Henry program. Barrows, D. D., General Ballington Booth, Dr. Charles A. Crane, Herr Gustavus Cohen, Rev. Russell H. Conwell, Dr. A. P. Cobb, Thomas Dixon, Jr., Dr. E. L. Eaton, Maj. A. W. Hawks, Sam P. Jones, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, Prof. C. M. Lowe, Walter Thomas Mills, George L. McNutt, Dr. A. J. Palmer, Prof. N. N. Riddell, Col. Z. Sweeney, Dr. Anna H. Shaw, Dr. S. A. Steel, and Prof. A. H. Yoder. Illustrated lectures will be given by Bolling Arthur Johnson and W. Hinton White. Dr. A. J. Palmer, Dr. John Henry Barrows, Dr. Charles A. Crane, and Dr. E. L. Eaton will preach. Entertainers are: the Boston Carnival and Concert Company, Imperial Male Quartet, Schumann Lady Quartet, Isabel Garghill Beecher, Karl Germaine, and Prof. Lee G. Kratz. Mrs. A. E. Shipley conducts the assembly Round Tables. Recognition Day is August 6, the address being given by Dr. E. L. Eaton. There will be classes in art, astronomy, chorus, boys' clubs, citizenship, cooking, elocution, free parliament, girls' outlook club, health, kindergarten, ministerial conference, normal Bible, physical culture, sociology, and woman's council. PIASA, ILLINOIS. The beautiful grounds of this assembly are situated on the banks of the Mississippi river, and can easily be reached by boat or rail. Boating, bathing, and fishing add to their attractiveness. The annual session of the assembly is from July 18 to August 15. Many improvements have been made during the past year, and several new cottages have been built. A Sunday-school teacher's conference and normal drill for ten days will be under the direction of Prof. H. M. Hamill. Schools in kindergarten, music, art, and languages, embracing New Testament Greek, will be held the entire session. C. L. S. C. Round Tables will be conducted by competent leaders, and Recognition Day will be held August 8, with Rev. Chas. Crane of Boston as orator. A new feature is College Day, with a reunion of college students. The platform talent engaged is of the best, and lectures will be given by Hon. W. J. Bryan, Senator Chas. A. Towne, Prof. A. W. Hawks, Hon. J. Nick Perrin, Hon. J. H. Littlefield, Prof. Dana C. Johnson, Mrs. Lenora M. Lake, Mrs. Nellie C. Berger, Rev. Eugene May, and Rev. H. A. Orchard. Readers, moving pictures, chalk talks, The Rock River Assembly at Dixon, Illinois, will be held July 24 to August 8. This is the fourteenth annual meeting, and promises to be an improvement upon its predecessors. The grounds were never in better condition. All the buildings are new, and hence no marked improvement in that line can be noted. Recognition Day will be observed on August 1. The officers are planning to put new life in the Chautauqua work during the assembly. The general program is full of interest. Rabbi Cohen, Col. Geo. W. Bain, Rev. R. H. Crossfield, Rev. F. B. Roth, D. D., Rev. D. F. Fox, D. D., Rev. Russell H. Conwell, and Rev. Sam P. Jones are among the principal lecturers. Entertainments will be given by the Imperial Bell Ringers, the Labadies, Mrs. Isabel Garghill Beecher, Miss Sybil Sammis, Germaine, the magician, and others. Liquid air and Edison's projectoscope will be features of the assembly. Frank R. Roberson will present China and South Africa in illustrated lectures. The schools this year have been transferred to the management of the newly organized Midland University. Part of them will be held on the assembly grounds, and part in the Steinmann College buildings adjoining. Rev. Chas. W. Heisler, D. D., president of Susquehanna University, will give twelve morning lectures on the life of Christ, and Rev. H. A. Ott of Topeka, Kansas, will give six exercises illustrative of the proper use of the blackboard in the Sundayschool. SELLERSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA. The assembly committee has decided not to hold a session this year, but Saturday, July 13, will be observed as Recognition Day, and a general rally of C. L. S. C. members is expected. Several members of the Class of 1901 will receive diplomas at this time, and the occasion will be one of interest to C. L. S. C. readers in the community. RUSTON, LOUISIANA. The Louisiana Chautauqua Assembly will begin its tenth season July 1, and continue four weeks. Since its first regular assembly in 1891, it has steadily improved and expanded its work, and the coming season Marion Harland (Christine Terhune Herrick), in her book "First Aid to the Young Housekeeper" (Chas. Scribner's Sons, N. Y.), says: "There can be little doubt that soaking the clothes lessens the amount of rubbing that must be done, if the clothes are put into lukewarm water to which has been added a small quantity of some trustworthy washing powder. In the former days, unadulterated washing soda was used by unscrupulous washerwomen who did not care how much damage was done to the fabric, so long as the dirt came away easily, but the injury is (even in such a case) often less than the wear the goods would receive in being rubbed into cleanliness on a washboard." Pearline is proved trustworthy. promises to be rich in attractions and opportunities for culture. Col. R. G. Pleasants of Shreveport will deliver the address on Recognition Day, July 17. C. L. S. C. reunions and Round Tables, conducted by Mrs. M. H. Williams, will be held each week of the assembly. The summer school will embrace the following subjects: mathematics, science, civics, psychology, pedagogy, methods, art, music, physical culture. Bible study will form an important feature of the work. Platform lectures, concerts, and tainments are planned for that large class of people who seek recreation under the favorable atmosphere of a Chautauqua gathering. Gov. J. D. Sayles of Texas will be present on July 4, and will assist in the great patriotic celebration of the day. Among the lecturers and entertainers engaged are: Dr. William Caldwell of the Northwestern University; Dr. Thos. E. Green of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Dr. J. T. McFarland of Topeka, Kansas; Mrs. J. B. Sherwood of Chicago; Miss Theodosia G. Ammons, Rev. PARK SCENE AT TULLY LAKE (N. Y.) ASSEMBLY. entertainments of a varied and attractive nature will be given, making the season one of the best in the history of the association. TEXAS-COLORADO, BOULDER, COLORADO. Sam P. Jones, Mrs. Bertha Kunz-Baker, Miss Katherine J. Everts, Polk Miller, Dawkins Violin Quartet. Mrs. Noble L. Prentis of Kansas will have charge of the woman's department. Mrs. A. E. Shipley, the state secretary of the C. L. S. C. for Iowa will present the Chautauqua work. Copies of The Chautauqua Journal, devoted to the interests of this assembly, may be had on application to J. W. Freeman, Denver, Colorado. TULLY LAKE, NEW YORK. The Central New York Chautauqua Assembly holds its 1901 session from the 10th to the 25th of August at Assembly Park, New York. Recognition Day will be Thursday, August 15. The park will be much improved, several new cottages having been built. The important features of the program will be the regular annual stay of Fanny Crosby, our poet laureate; debate on political and A six weeks' session will open at this economic topics, addresses by Dr. W. T. attractive Rocky mountain resort on July 4. S. Culp, Rev. C. B. Smith, Dr. Edward HayFor three years the educational departments ward, Passion Play, Alton Packard, Dr. N. of the Colorado Chautauqua have been care- M. Waters, Dr. J. W. Phillips (Recognition fully developed, and each season they have Day address); Hon. Wallace Bruce, F. M. been better adapted to the needs of the Ackerson, and others. Entertainments by people. The educational committee has Jubilee Singers, Hearons Sisters' Orchestra, arranged with a corps of specialists from Empire Concert Company, Mackie" the various parts of the country for a school of magician, Utopian Mandolin and Banjo Club, five weeks, beginning Monday, July 8. All Eolian Male Quartet. Elizabeth Snyder the principal subjects taught in summer Roberts will again have charge of the C. L. schools, and those most necessary for teach- S. C. department. Other features are Bible ers who wish to advance to higher positions, study, musical department, and W. C. T. U. will be included in the courses of study at school of methods. The summer school will Boulder. Language, literature, science, be in session from July 15 until August 8. history, music, pedagogy, art, elocution, This department does work in preparing physical culture, domestic science and the teachers for all of the New York state allied subjects will be presented by com- examinations. It prepares for college, norpetent instructors. The auditorium enter- mal schools, training classes, etc. 66 |