Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1911 — AROUND CAMP THE FIRE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AROUND CAMP THE FIRE

TO HONOR KANSAS SOLDIERS Grand Army Pest of Clay Center, Kan., Starts Movement to Build Suitable Monument. In Kansas, the state which furnished so many soldiers in the Civil war, very few'monuments have been built, and little has been done to leave memorials of the war and to serve as incentives to patriotism’ among the youth of the state. However, within recent weeks the Grand Army post of Clay Center, Phil Sheridan post, has started a movement to erect 1 in the court house square in Clay Center a monument to theif comrades, and the work is now well under way. It is planned to spend about $2,500 or more on the * monument. The foundation already has been put down and early in the spring the monument will be built, the

nnvelling to take place next Memorial day. The monument is being built in, front of the Clay county court house,, within the court house square. It will stand to the south of the main walk leading away from the court house, in the same relative position in the square which is occupied by the cannon which was placed* in the square about 12 years ago by the Women’s Relief Corps of that city. This big cannon, which was given to the women by the United States government, is a big gun which did service in the war and was discarded by the government many years ago. It rests on a stone base and was placed at the north side of the court house walk In 1897.

Monument at Clay Center.