Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1915 — Parr Parade Made Hit With Band Concert Crowd. [ARTICLE]

Parr Parade Made Hit With Band Concert Crowd.

At about 8:20 Wednesday evening thirteen auto loads of gaily bedecked Parr citizens arrived in town and made a parade through the business streets. A fife and drum corps, with the old fifer, John E. Alter, on the job, created much interest, while the paper hats, the red paint, the false whiskers and the comic attires completed a boosters’ parade that will doubtless add greatly to the number of Rensselaer people who will visit Parr Saturday of this week. Aside from the number of Parr citizens who were here the crowd was the largest of the season and bespeaks the popularity of the band and of Rensselaer as a, weekly gathering place of congenial people.