Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1917 — PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE]

PROCLAMATION.

'Whereas the citizens of Indiana yield nothing in loyalty and patriotism, and it is believed that there would <be danger that alien enemies to our (government might take advantage of celebrations by the use of fireworks to conceal incendiary 'operations by the destruction of property, and also material used ia the manufacture of fireworks is needed in the production' of munitions, and it has been a question whether the public gets any retal pleasure out of fireworks but there never has been any doiibt that many have been maimed and killed and that thousands of dollars have been wasted annually in this fleeting manner of entertainment, and it would be a calamity for food warehouses or elevators to be destroyed at this time, and much better use can be made off the money cost of fireworks, and at the suggestion <rf the Governor of the State of Indiana, made on the 16th day of May, 1917, I hereby appeal to the patriotic spirit of all citizens of Jasper (fourty, Ini diana. so jlend their support to the enforcement of sftl Jaws ano restnetions on this subject, and ask that no fireworks or toy balloons be employed in celebrating the Fourth of July in the' year 1917. / Respectfully submitted, BEN D. McOOLLY, Sheriff of Jasper, County, Indiana.