Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1912 — Ice Cream Social at Virgie. [ARTICLE]

Ice Cream Social at Virgie.

The Ladies’ Aid and C. E. Society of this place will give an ice cream social in the school yard Saturday evening, August 17th. Everybody come and help make this a success. Proceeds to be used for church and Sunday school purposes at this place. Secretary of Interior Walter L. Fisher finds nothing in the transactions which former Representative James E. Watson has had with the general land office to warrant criticism. The investigation which Secretary Fisher ordered, after recent charges by the Philadelphia North American and Chicago Tribune, has ended and it Wins stated at Secretary Fisher’s office that the affair is a “closed incident,” as far as that office is concerned. The investigation showed no irregularities, it was stated.