Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — Here is Your Chance to Be a Goodfellow. [ARTICLE]

Here is Your Chance to Be a Goodfellow.

There will be some Christmas cheer in every home in this city on December 25th, 1916. Our people will see to it that thre are no hungry families here., The good people of Rensselaer have always looked after this matter. But there will be boys and girls who will expect a visit from Santa Claus but that visitor will not come unless you, “My Goodfellow,” send him. O, yes, the Sunday schools will see that they get a sack of candy. But some of these boys and girls are not in Sunday school. And more than that, the neighbor’s boy and girl will get at least one nice present. When they awake Christmas mom the stocking will not be empty. Happiness and joy will reign in that What will be the feeling of the tot who awakes to find that his stacking was hung up in vain, for lo it is empty. The pain and anguish of that little heart would be pitiful. Do not let it happen in this city so proud of its philanthropy.