Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Old Soldiers Picnic at State Soldiers’ Home, Sept. 7. [ARTICLE]

Old Soldiers Picnic at State Soldiers’ Home, Sept. 7.

The fourth annual picnic of the Indiana State Soldiers’ Association will be held at the soldiers’ home at Lafayette on Thursday, Sept 7th. This will furnish a fine opportunity for old soldiers and their friends to pay a visit to the beautiful home furnished its heros by Indiana. A bill advertising the picnic says: The members of the home will bepleased to meet the comrades they touched elbows with from ’6l to ’65. Come boys, bring your folks and picnic baskets and let us make the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war, one Iqng to be remembered. The post outside of Tippecanoe county bringing largest percentage of members will be presented with a handsome American flag. Posts having received flags at former contests barred.