Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1912 — First Open Air Concert of Season Given Thursday Night. [ARTICLE]

First Open Air Concert of Season Given Thursday Night.

The Rensselaer Boys’ Band gave its first open air concert Thursday night. Although it threatened to rain, a goodsized audience assembled down town and many people came in from the surrounding country. Prof. Otto Braun, of Lowell, has bad charge of the boys all winter; he has worked hard with them and came down about twice a week to instruct them. He has developed some real good musicians among them and the excellence of the program as rendered last night shows that his efforts have not been in vain. The people as a whole, were well pleased with the concert and will probably turn out in larger numbers.