Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1918 — JACKIES’ BAND WILL INVADE CITY TOMORROW EVENING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JACKIES’ BAND WILL INVADE CITY TOMORROW EVENING

The Famous Jackies’ Band, now touring Indiana, and which will appear in Rensselaer on the 19th day April is made up wholly of boys. Ed. Wuensch, of the bond department of the Fletcher American Bank, is the advance agent for the Jackies band on its two weeks' trip throughout Indiana. Mr. Weunsch travels' from tiwo to three days ahead of the band and checks up on the programs for the ban d’s entertainment at each of the places where It gives a concert in co-operation with the Liberty loam county chairman and the Liberty loan publicity chairman in each county. Mr. Wuensch arranges for proper and plentiful food, lodging and public entertainment for the band members. ' ’ . Accompanimg the band is a crack drill squad wbicn gives an exhibition of marine maneuvers at each appearance of the band. These men, fully equipped with rifles and other accountenment are in charge of Coxswain A. L. Anderson. The member of the drill squad include George Raoch, C, Y. Wilson, A. B. Flow, L. A. Robinson, J. Akers, C. A. -McGaughey and D. C. Wilson. Jesse E. Eschbach, head of the speakers’ bureau for the third liberty loan in Indiana, Who has been in charge of the routing of the Jackies band, throughout Indiana, after receiving reports of the early days of the band’s progress In the state said that he hdd never scheduled an attraction in Indiana that had appealed in a more genuine way. Mr. Eschbach in the last ten years has been in charge of many speakers bureaus and when he puts his “O. K.” on an attraction in this fashion it is a sure bet that the attraction is far above the average of,its kind.