Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Announcement has been made by the Rockefeller general education board that they have made gifts to the extent of $789,980 for educational institutions throughout the country. B. F. Mather, aged 81, a retired farmer and union veteran, is dead at nis home in Martinsburg, Va. He served as bodyguard to President Lincoln when the latter made his famous address at Gettysburg. President Wilson has approved the tentative selection of Senator OUie James, of Kentucky, for peimanent chairman of the democratic convention at St. Louis. This assures the election for the senator at the convention. ' To demonstrate their patriotism, 500,000 German and AuStrian-Hun-garian Americans and their’ friends went to Sheepshead Bay speedway Sunday and saluted a gigantic American flag composed of 2,000 girls attired in the national colors.

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