Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1916 — Riley Day Will Be Observed All Over Indiana October 7. [ARTICLE]

Riley Day Will Be Observed All Over Indiana October 7.

Indianapolis, Sept. 14.—8 y a proclamation today, Governor Ralston has set aside Saturday, Oct. 7, as Riley day, and urges observance of it throughout the state in a manner that will be fitting to the memory of James Whitcomb Riley, Indiana’s famous, poet, who died a few 'months ago. “It is directed,” says the proclamation, “that public schools celebrate. tHeloccasion on Friday, Oct. 6, by appropriate exercises and it is suggested that the churches of the state make proper recognition cf it on Sunday, October 8.”