Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — NO JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION HERE [ARTICLE]

NO JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION HERE

Meeting of Merchants Retail Association Friday Night Decides Against Celebration. At the monthly meeting of the Rensselaer Retail Merchants Associat.ion held last evening it was decided, that Rensselaer would not celebrate the Fourth of July. For some time there has been an effort on the part of some of the merchants to raise money with -vhich to celebrate Independence Day, but they met with but little response from the bulk of the business men. Owing to the alck of enthusiasm displayed by so many, the few who were in favor of the celebration were not so strongly in favor of it that they cared to finance the proposition alone; hence Rensselaer people who care to celebrate on that day will have to go elsewhere.

Two young and rather neatly dressed strangers appeared at the Western Union office yesterday and asked for the rates to send SI,OOO by* wire to Baltimore. When . Miss Spaulding told them they asked if she would accept a check. They were flatly refused and left the office.