Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1910 — Milroy Soldiers’ Monument Aid Coming In From Many Sources. [ARTICLE]

Milroy Soldiers’ Monument Aid Coming In From Many Sources.

Aid for the Milroy Soldiers’ r bhument is coming in quite rapidly, the contributors being both local and from some distance away. Mrs. Thompson received a letter from Mrs. M. A. Porter, of Coats, Kas., enclosing $5 for the fund a few days ago. It reads: “I take the Rensselaer paper and have been- much interested in the progress of the monument being erected to the memory of our brave General Milroy and now I wish to add my mite to the fund. My husband and two of his brothers were in the service and all gave their lives for their country and I feel it my duty and also a pleasure to do what I cau. Please accept $5 for myself and my daughter, Mrs. Fred Hammond. I wish I could do more.”

Ed Heath, of Oxford, but for some time a resident of Rensselaer, and a well known citizen of the two counties, sends $5, and writes: “Just to remind you that I have not forgotten my old home and the good l people of Rensselaer, I enclose $5 for the monument fund ” Ed is somewhat of a baseball fan and is a strong partiza.i of the Oxford Cubs. He says that he would like to attend the monument unveiling but that hinges on whether or not Oxford has a ball game that day. If they do, he goes to the ball game, but if they have an open date, ihen he comes to the unveiling. Mrs. Catherine. Hinkle sends $1 from Nashville, Okla., writing: “Myself and husband were residents near Rensselaer till 1887, when we moved to Ford county, Kansas, near Bucklin. I am pleased to assist in this worthy cause.” Lewis L. Daugherty, an ex-sheriff of Jasper county, and a soldier in the 9th and 48th Indiana regiments, having enlisted from Jasper county, sends $1 to aid in the movement. Mrs. Harvey IV. Wood, Sr.,, whose husband had previously contributed $lO, gave $2 herself, for the names of her brothers, David B. and The former contracted disease and died while home on a furlough. Fathers T. F. Kramer and P. Kanney, of St. Joseph’s college, called at the Republican office Thursday and each gave $1 toward the monument fund. t ’•

The following have also contributed: George E. Murray. $5.00 Guy Swim 1.00 F. W. Bedford 1.50 Mrs. William Bennett 1.00 Mrs. Henry Amsler 77. 2.00 Mrs. John Martindale 1.00 William Bull, Sr., 1.00 John Merritt 1.00 Fred Arnott 1.00 Chas. Simpson 1.00 Mrs. June Hinkle ...... 1.00 tV. W. Matheny 1.00 Chas. Rishling 1.00 Geo. W. Ott 1.00 Mrs. Elizabeth Gwin 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wilcox 2.00 Cyrus A. Ball, of Francesville ... I'ioo H. H. Downing, of Goodland .... 1.00 Mrs. Henry Sparling, of DeMotte. 1.00 All money that has been pledged and not pajd is now needed and persons are a4ked to pay it to the person on whose list it Was pledged. It should be impressed on the minds of all that beside the cost of the erection of the monument it will cost $1 per name to cut the names on the monument and contributions are asked from relatives every place and from all others who feel interested in this memorial in honor of the gallant sol-diers-ol thedvil-war „ The richest thing yet, “Frou Frou” sugar wafers. Home Grocery.