Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — More Aid From Away Foy The Milroy Soldiers' Monument Fund. [ARTICLE]
More Aid From Away Foy The Milroy Soldiers' Monument Fund.
Enclosing a check for ss*oo, T 3. L. Coen, Ist Vico President and Cashier of the Erie County Banking Co., of Vermillion, Ohio, and an old Jasper county boy and graduate of the Rensselaer high school, writes: “I take pleasure in enclosing my check for $6.00 as a contribution to the Milroy Monument Fund as the project appeals me as being worthy in every respect. When, in addition to the erection of of -the proposed monument, Milroy park itself has been improved* and beautified, the whole will constitute a fitting memorial to General Milroy and other Jasper county veterans.” Mrs. Eva Morgan, widow of James Morgan, and until recently a resident of Rensselaer, writes to Mrs. Thompson from Chicago as follows: “Enclosed please find_ check for one dollar ($1.00) for the Milroy Monument fund. May success crown your efforts.” Mrs. Nathan Eldridge, of Barkley, township, has contributed SI.OO for the Milroy Soldiers’ Monument. Cyrus A. Ball, of Francesville, a member of the 87th Indiana, sent a dollar by E. L. Clark for the monument fund. Today contributions were received by mail from the following former residents of Jasper county. N. V. Snodgrass, of Gretna, Neb., who requests that the name of Guilford D. Snodgrass, who died at Battle Ground, be placed on the monument. W. G. Paxton, of Hammond; Frank Morlan, of Williston, N. Dak; Harve Robinson of Sentinel Butte, N. Dak., Ad Robinson, 3f lola, Kansas, and Ella I. Morris, of Chicago, each send $5.00.
