Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1918 — VICTORY IS CELEBRATED [ARTICLE]

VICTORY IS CELEBRATED

ENTHUSIASTIC DEMONSTRATION MARKS RECEPTION OF VICTORY NEWS. ?’ .; The lid was pulled off Monday night and the people of Rensselaer and vicinity went wild with joy over the good news from “Over There.’* Possibly just a htble of the edge of the hilarity had been taken off by the premature celebration held on the 7th. But when it did not come seven it sure -came eleven. St. Joseph college band furnished the music. There was a big bon-ftre in Milroy park and stirring addresses were made by Revs. E. W. Strecber and J. Budman Fleming.

The Liberty Guards and the members of the Grand Army of the Republic were in the line of parade from the court house square to Milroy park.’ Thousands of people were in the city. The noise was deafening. The ringing of bells, Wowing of automobile horns and steam whistles and . the young lads with every conceivable instrument of noise helped to make the air ring with rapture. Fathers and mothers of boys in the service met and greeted one another with tears of joy. The bond of-fel-lowship between them was marked. All spoke of the even more joyful day, the happiest day of a lfetime, the day when the ’“boys cem'e home.*’ . Let us prepare -to be worthy sires of the grandest young men, the most gallant soldiers, the greatest heroes who, when the stone walls of liberty were assailed, went forth with the armor of true patriotism and won ithe victory, the greatest victory ever Won in the sacred cause of humanity.