Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1887 — Lawn Festival and Baby Show. [ARTICLE]

Lawn Festival and Baby Show.

The Ladies Industrial Society of the M. E. Church are preparing to give a grand and unique entertainment, next Tuesday evening, Aug. 23. It will consist of a Lawn Festival, in the umbrageous reepsses of the court house yard. Icecream and other refreshments will be on sale, in unlimited quantities. A baby show will be the greatest feature of the occasion. First and second prizes will be given for the finest babies one year old or under; and first and second prizes for the finest babies over one year and not more than two years old. No entrance fee will be charged, and all babies present at the festival will be considered as entered, unless the parents desire otherwise. A musical entertainment will be given in connection with the festival. The grounds will be illuminated with the soft effulgence of Oriental twilight, imported from the flowery realm of the slant-eyed Chinamen. All come and have a good time, at little expense, and help a good cause. Capt. W. H. A. Thompson, associate editor of the Masonic Advocate, Indianapolis, visited Kensselaer, Wednesday. ‘ Wes’ Duvall did the showing up of our town to him. Misses Bosa A. Chamberlain and Ida Biddle, of Chalmers, White eounty, are spending a couple of weeks with their uncle, Jno. Chamberlain and family, three miles, southeast of Rensselaer.