Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — The Fourth in Northern Jasper. [ARTICLE]

The Fourth in Northern Jasper.

The good people in the northern part of the county “and towns around” live so far away from Rensselaer that they can’t all come here for their Fourth of July. They have accordingly organized a celebration for the can’t-get-aways. That they have a clear understanding as to how such things ought to be done will be made manifest by the subjoined bill and programme. They will have a full-sized time and noxliscount on it.

FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC AND BOWERY.

The people of northern Jasper will celebrate in the grove at Pleasant Valley school house, in Keener township. Hurrah for a good oldfashioned time! Speeches, milsic, basket picnic, bowery dance, etc. Come one, come all! Come everybody! President of the Day—D. E. Fairchild. Vice Presidents—John V. Meyers, B. W. Harrington, Edward Tanner, Edward Boyle. Marshal—S. L. Swain. AssiSTANTB-Ralph Bongarts, David Shields, Wm. Meyers, of Walker. Floor Managers—Bruner and Hanson. Com. on Arrangements—E. D Fairchild, Jacob Baker, R. W. Marshall, J. F. Antrim, Wm. Taylor. Com. on Grounds—J. F. Bruner, Geo. Guild, Theodore Hanson, M. A. Whitson, A. L. McDonald. Com. on Music —John Gant, I.

B. Bobbins, E. Booth, Mrs. Lola Shortridge, Mrs. Jennie Bruner. PROGRAMME. 1. Address of Welcome by the President. 2. Music. 3. Reading Declaration of Independence by Miss Ella Pierce. 4. Address by the Hon. A. O. Marshall, of Joliet, 111. 5. Dinner, 12 to 1 o’clock. 6. Music. 7. Address by the Rev. L. Short- ! ridge. Dancing will commence at 2:30 o’clock p. m. A fine display of fire works in the evening. Ice cream, lemonade, and all kinds of refreshments on the grounds. Parties wishing to run a stand must procure a license from committee ou grounds. No intoxicating liquors ■ allowed on the grounds. Jim , Rushon, of Wheatfield, will be on ' hand and take charge of the heavy I artillery.

A Barkley township correspondent of the Republican says: “D. B. Nowel 5 received thiz votes of two “halfbreed” Republicans and six Democrats.” How amiable that “statwart” feels towards his “half-breed ’’friends! Again, he says: "Four Republicans and one honorable Democrat voted for Mr. Mitchell.” That (imaginary) Democrat must feel highly flattered at. the high esteem in which he is held by the “stalwart.”

Mrs. Jessie Monegan, from New Haven, Conn., who has been visiting -with her daughter, Mrs. Pat. Donnelly, two or three weeks, died last Friday. Her health had been very poor for some time and her physicians advised her to come west, thinking she might be benefited. She was 75 years old.

Married. —At the residence of the bride’s parents, at Long, Vermilion Co., 111., on Wednesday, June 15, 1881, Mr. C. P. Mitchell, of Rensselaer, Ind., and Miss Malissa Vanduyn. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have the best wishes of the Sbntinel that their voyage together through life may be harmonious, happy and prosperous.