Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1918 — WAR TROPHIES HERE TWO HOURS [ARTICLE]

WAR TROPHIES HERE TWO HOURS

WAR EXHIBITION TRAIN TO BE HERE MONDAY, OCTOBER SEVENTH. War trophies which for two weeks thrilled almost 2,000,000 persons at the governmental exposition in Chicago, have been assembled under the direction of the Liberty Loan committee on two exhibition trains fbr a tour of the Seventh Federal Reserve district. Similar shows will be given simultaneously, it was announced, in each of the twelve reserve districts in the United States. These trains, each consisting of two flat cars, a box car and a Pullman, left Chicago Wednesday, Sept 18th, on a trip of three weeks through northern Indiana, Illinois, southern Wisconsin and lowa. The first train, which left the Municipal Pier in Chicago at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday evening, is making a tour of lowa first Later it will make points throughout Illinois. The second train, which left Chicago late Wednesday night, will first cover Wisconsin and will finish up with a tour of Indiana. / In each town on the route the train will stop an average of one to two hours. Each exhibit is guarded by twelve soldiers from Camp Grant and twelve sailors from Great Lakes.

Notable speakers will deliver an address at each stop. The show is free to the public. The exhibit in the Seventh district will be composed of the most interesting of the 5,000 or more trophies of the allied nations shown in Chicago. Anti-aircraft guns with which Pershing’s army brought down Hun planes. French 75*s, 10-inch shell, 14inch siege guns, poisoned barbed wire entanglements from battlefields in France', wrecked German airships and trench mortars, howitzers, grenades, torpedoes, helmets and breastplates taken in battle will feature the show. Many of the bombs with which Austrian aviators attacked Venice also will be displayed. There will also be a showing of new American equipment. • Tht Indiana itinerary will bring the train to Lafayette Oct. 7, at 5:30 a. rn. It will be at Rensselaer from 7:30 a. m. to 9:30 a. m., and at Monticello from 10:40 a. m. to 12:10 p. m. It will be at Delphi Oct. 6 from 4:30 to 6 p. m. —BVY A LIBERTY BOND TODAY—TO SERVE THE COLORS. All accounts owing THE MAIN GARAGE must be settled by Friday, Sept. 27, as I leave on the 28th for the training camp. This is a necessary patriotic duty for you to settle up so that a soldier’s attention may »e undivided with his country. Please attend to this matter at once. I also wish to thank all of you for all past considerations and ask your kind indulgence until such a time as I may return. And remember not to grant .peace until he and his whose fault this is are driven to Unconditional Surrender.” N. C. SHAFER.