Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1910 — Former Republican Editor Sends Aid For the Soldiers’ Monument. [ARTICLE]

Former Republican Editor Sends Aid For the Soldiers’ Monument.

A letter was received from George E. Marshall this morning enclosing a $lO check for the Milroy Soldiers’ monument fund. The letter read: “I am enclosing check for $5 as a contribution from myself and the same from my wife towards the soldiers’ monument and Milroy statue. Uam very glad this long projected monument is at last to be realized, and that the fine and fierce old fighter, and Jasper county’s most distinguished citizen is to receive this deserved recognition in his old home town and I am also glad to know that Mary Washburn, the most promising artist Jasper county ever produced, is to have .a sample of her work in so conspicuous and honored a position in her old home. If the statue could only have shown the “Old Gray Eagle” mounted on the back of “Old Jasper” it would have left nothing to be desired, but that would have been too large and costly a project to hope to have carried through, as nothing less than life size figures would have been suitable. ( “None of my own nor my wife’s many soldier relatives enlisted from Jasper county, but our small contribution will help pay the expense Of putting a few names of others on the monument, who are dead and have no relatives left to pay it for them. “I notice in the papers what terrible and unseasonable weather the Middle West has been having the past few weeks, and the great destruction they have occasioned to fruits and gardens, and planted crops. Out hero we have had a very favorable and very pleasant spring, and have every prospect of a bumper fruit crop.” Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fisher, of Mexico. Mo., also sent $1 for the monument fund, wishing us success. Add to Marshall article. John Paris, of New York City, also sent $lO for thd monument fund; Misses Edith and Mary Miller, of Chicago, sent $2; John D. Timmons, of Otterbein, who was a member of Co A, of the 87th regiment, sent sl, and Harrison Wasson, the bus man, gave sl.