Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1911 — Former Rensselaer Man Took Part in “Exile” Events. [ARTICLE]

Former Rensselaer Man Took Part in “Exile” Events.

Of Will Paxton, a former Rensselaer boy, now a prominent lumber dealer in Hammond, the Lake County Times has the following to say: “You would not think that a dignified man of affairs like W. G. Paxton would get out and romp around like a boy, but that Is Just the effect that the Indiana society has on its members. - “Paxton was doing things from the time the outing started until it finished. x He drove a team of mules in the classic chariot races and had the people of Hammond been able to see Paxton in his Ben Hur outfit they would have stood aghast. “Paxton drove a great race, but was not able to win the contest. He got in the money, however, and won second place. He also entered in a number of other contests and acquitted himself creditably. . “In the obstruction race in which he was compelled to climb over one fence, under another, crawl through a barrel, drink a glass of buttermilk, eat a pile of crackers and then sing ‘Yankee Doodle,’ Paxton won the race bands down.

“A. M. Turner expects to enter Paxton in a number of contests from now on, and says that he has a man who is not only willing, but is capable ant trustworthy, and is very docile to his trainers. “Going down on the train E. F. Johnston won a fine rubber coat. Dr. H. E. Sarrer, who usually gets inside the money in anything which he enters, won a book in the grand free drawings. “When Paxton won his chariot race he proved to be such a good mule driver that he was lifted on the shoulders of the admiring throng and carried about the grounds. He was also presented with a fine loving cup.”