CULVER'S CHAUTAUQUA FOR NEXT YEAR IS FULLY ASSURED

The Chautauqua closed Thursday night with the concert by the Imperial Bell Ringers a nd lecture by Hon. Charles H. Poole of New Zealand, and pleasurable memories of six consecutive days of inspiring music and addresses remain to furnish thought for many days to come.

We do not know of anything which has given the community such an uplift as must be ascribed to the Chautauqua. It has taken us out of ourselves and raised us to a plane of higher intellectual and artistic conceptions.

It has aroused interest and enthusiasm in matters which are engaging the atteution of people of larger commuuities, and in the young people especially it has awakened a more or less latent ambition to be up with the times and abreast of the live topics of the day.

So, all hail to the Chautauqua as the very best thing that has hapieiiel to Culver in many a year! Thanks, also, to the men who took hold of the venture aud put it through looking for their reward only iu the pleasure aud benefit which it would coufer upou the public.

The verdict of the people was recorded when, on the last night, the subscriptions for season tickets reached the unexpected num ber of 640! This was grand.

So many organizations as well as in dividuals are now interested in the success of uext year's Chautauqua that there is uo question as to its financial outcome.

At a meeting of about twenty of the subscribers to season tickets at the Osborn hotel on Friday night the following officers for 1914 were elected: President, A. J. Michael; vice president, E. E. Parker; sec retary-treasurer, John Mitchell.

A statement of the finances of the late assembly was presented.

After allowing all the outstaudiug bills the deficit was found to be less than $75. This satisfactory result was largely due to the liberal concessions made by the LincolunChautauqua System whose president came here in person, so much was he interested in establish ing a Chautauqua in Culver.

The guarautee list for the 1914 Chautauqua includes 56 names; this year it was half that number.

This, aud the steady iucrease in the attendance from day to day, shows how the Chautauqua made frieuds aud impressed itself upon our people. Aug 21 1913 CCitizen