Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1917 — Decorate Your Home With Flags On Next Wednesday. [ARTICLE]

Decorate Your Home With Flags On Next Wednesday.

The festival to be given Wednesday night by Jasper copnty for Company M will be a memorable event. Let everybody help to make it so by decorating their homes. This fete must have a setting worthy of the cause which it will benefit, and there must be music and decorations.

Extensive and beautiful decorations will be carried out, without question, on our principal business streets, the line of march and the place where Co. M will drill. The court house lawn, the center of festivities, will be brilliantly lighted that night and beautifullly decorated. As patriotic citizens we should not be satisfied with the decorations centralized; we must show our loyalty and enthusiasm to our country and in honor of our own soldier boys to the fullest extent. One of the ways of doing this is to array the entire city in red, white and blue, our great national colors, and for which our Company M will soon go to fight. Will every family please decorate their home and grounds on this day for this occasion—not simply with a tiny flag or two inside a window, but let us vie with each other in carrying out an artistic and beautiful effect, making the town as a whole an impressive scene, which will long be remembered by all who witness it, especially by the soldiers of the U. S. army from our county and vicinity.