Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1913 — MONON BOOSTERS HERE WEDNESDAY [ARTICLE]

MONON BOOSTERS HERE WEDNESDAY

Thirty-Five Autos and Crowd Of Two Hundred Here To Advertise Gala Week There.

Gala week at Monon will be Aug. 27, 28 and 29. Every person in northwestern Indiana will have the dates «indellibly impressed on his mind if the boosters keep up their methods of advertising. Wednesday evening at about 4:30 some thirty-five auto loads of boosters arrived here and paraded the streets, gave several band selections, passed bills and shouted for Monon. We have had boosters here before but never a crowd that bubbled over with enterprise and enthusiasm like this bunch did. Professional men, tradesmen, merchants and all, accompanied by a cluster of women and girls, all wearing paper caps, of the “George Washington Crossing the Delaware” type, swarmed together and didn’t seem to mind the fact that they were covered with dust and had been about eighty miles and given a dozen parades before. They were filled up with their mission to advertise gala week and they certainly did it effectually. The boosters left Monon with 44 ears, headed by the big truck in which there were thirty-five people. The Delphi, band was a part of the boosting crowd, having been hired for the occasion. The route was from Monon to Monticello, Delphi, Brookston, Chalmers, Reynolds, Seafield, Wolcott, Remington, Rensselaer, Pleasant Ridge, McCoysburg, Lee and back to Mon On. Next Wednesday they will make another trip, including Burnettsville, Idaville, Winamac, Medaryville, Francesville and Buffalo. Dr. J. H. Hansson, a former Monon citizen, inspired a little reception for the boosters and with his car and the car of Mayor Meyers met the autos at St. Joseph’s college and led the parade to town. A word about gala week. There will be two aeroplane flights each day, free acts from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m., a ball game each day, band music all the time, and a lively, wholesome time all the time.