Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1915 — Band Concert and Tag Night—Don’t Fail to Help. [ARTICLE]

Band Concert and Tag Night—Don’t Fail to Help.

“I’m a friend of the band; this proves it.” Tags to be used as a means of securing funds for our fine band have the above words printed on them. A committee will pass among the crowd this evening and ask you to prove your friendship by contributing to the support of the band. You pay whatever you wish and get tagged. If you do not have a tag it is prima facia evidence that you have not contributed. There should be a number of $5 tag sales and any number of $1 sales. The band has not made an appeal for a long tiihe and their splendid concerts are a delight to all and result in great crowds being assembled here every week. Men, women, boys and girls should produce the money when a member of the committee approaches and give it cheerfully for the band is in financial straits, unable with the revenue derived from subscriptions to meet the running expenses which include the pay of the director, Prof. Otto Braun, Hie rent of the band room and the purchase of new music. For seven or eight years the band has played, giving weekly concerts and lately twice weekly, Sunday and Wednesday evenings. The band has improved until it is now one of the very best in this part of the state and it has appealed for aid only a few times. Let every person give just as fully as possible and wear the tag to show that you have proven the friendship you profess by a contribution. ,