Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1911 — Band Boys Profit by High Prices Paid for Boxes. [ARTICLE]

Band Boys Profit by High Prices Paid for Boxes.

There were only eighteen boxes, although a number of them were double, offered for sale at the band boys’ box social Tuesday evening at the armory. The auctioneering was done by John Culp, who succeeded in getting some fancy prices and the eighteen boxes brought $47.30. The lowest sold for $1.05 and the highest single box for

$3.75, while the highest double box brought $4.05. This Indicates that the high cost of iiving don’t worry the young fellows at all, for, after eating three Bquare meals a day they are anxious to bask in the light of a young woman’s eyes and eat nablscos at $3 a box. And some times the box owners were not young women either, for a number of the boxes were prepared by mothers of the band boys.

A pleasant dance followed the eating of the supper and where the dancers had not bought boxes they were charged for the privilege of the hop. The band boys made a nice profit from the supper.

William Hamilton, who was burled Monday at Hanover, this state, disposed in his will of >60,000, giving >25,000 to Muskingum college, Concord, Ohio; >20,000 to Cooper college, Sterling, Kan., and >I,OOO to Carmel United Presbyterian church of Jefferson county. .