Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1913 — Mayor of Harvard, Ill., Pays Visit to Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Mayor of Harvard, Ill., Pays Visit to Rensselaer.

Mayor J. H. Yidkers, of Harvard, 111., was a Rensselaer visitor today, having stopped off here between trains for a brief visit with J. J. Montgomery, manager of the Jasper County Telephone Cos Mayor Vickers was a member of the 47th general assembly in Illinois and was defeated for re-election last fall by the advent of a third party. He is engaged in the real estate business and has an office in Chicago. Some twenty or more years ago he and Mr. Montgomery wex;e roommates at Rockford, 111., and it was through Mr. Vickers and his wife that Jack and his wife became acquainted. Mayor Vickers was surprised to find that Rensselaer has a daily newspaper. .Such journalistic enterprise is not known in his country. Harvard and Woodstock, the latter being the county seat of McHenry county, are each considerably larger than Rensselaer, hut neither has a daily paper.