Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1916 — CENTENNIAL PROGRAM FRIDAY EVENING [ARTICLE]

CENTENNIAL PROGRAM FRIDAY EVENING

On Account of Campaign Activities Centennial Date Has Been Changed From Saturday to Friday. Jasper county’s centennial ■ exercises will be Friday evening, Oct. 20th, at 7:45 at tlie. high. ac2xool auditorium. The date for these exercises was previously announced for Saturday, Oct. 21. The change in the date hrs been made on account of the fact that the exercises vould conflict with the campaign activities that are scheduled for the 21st, when Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico, will make an address in Rensselaer and the county throughout the day. A program suitable to the occasion will be given on Friday evening. There will be several—musical numbers and also talks on early Jasper county and the program promises to be very entertaining throughout, and the public is urged to attend. Tho admission will be free. Part of the program will be as follows; “The early history and organization of Jasper county and the different settlements”; —L. H. Hamilton. “Manners and Customs of Early -Jasper-County People”—John E. Al-. ter. ' “J" “Reminiscences of ISarly Life mJasper County”—<Mrs. E. HrParkinson. TKe~ complete program will be publishcd in a later issue of The Republican.