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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
2
Southern poet actor and impersonator Thomas Elmore Lucey performs readings and impressions at the Chautauqua with a featured poem about Isreal and suffering. Captain Jack Crawford, the Poet Scout, appears for Sunday and Monday with a $250 fee plus expenses.
The Fifth Regiment Band under E Barbour will provide two daily concerts at Carrollton Chautauqua. Performances set for 2 30 pm and 6 pm on the square in the band stand. Barbour subjects the group as one of the best in the South.
The Southerners Concert Co schedules two daily concerts starting Tuesday on Newnan Street with C E Barbers Band as a feature. Arthur E Gringle, from Indianapolis and Lyceum World editor, is the platform manager dubbed the unique platform celebrity. Bob Seeds will also appear, noted for his ability to cut ice in any month and his high demand for Chautauqua appearances.
Bob Seeds is featured among the stars at Carrollton Chautauqua. He will lecture on How God Made the Soil Fertile next Saturday and present The Queerness of the Queer on Friday. The event will include over thirty performers from the North and South, inviting farmers to attend and judge the talent.
Mr Dodd labored tirelessly to make Carrollton a Chautauqua town. His dedication aimed to ensure the community could enjoy the blessings and benefits of a Chautauqua, leaving no stone unturned to realize the 1911 Chautauqua.
Four Thoughts encourage residents to buy tickets for the 191 Chautauqua event. The questions appeal to family responsibility pride civic progress and communal enjoyment. They urge securing tickets for wife and children and imply daily concerts and happy faces.
The 1911 Chautauqua will feature a daily motto printed on the back of the stage. One dozen mottos from top American authors may be used, each offering a lesson for the day. R Lee Sharpe invites readers to submit mottos for free printing in the motto department.
Geo. W. Harper extols the 1911 Chautauqua as a force for social progress. He notes a shift from old theories, liberation from bondage, and the spread of enlightened ideas. Advanced thinkers and audiences share and carry the light to distant regions of the earth.
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