Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — MAX BRILL COMING TO TOWN [ARTICLE]

MAX BRILL COMING TO TOWN

OLD ftylE RENSSELAER BOY NOW CLOTHING KING OF NEW YORK. How many of the old timers will remember little “Maxy” Brill who used to sell clothing, Star tobacco and general merchandise for Fendig in the old Nowels block some twenty-five years ago, and who used to be the crack third baseman 'of the old Rensselaer ball team and one of the crack 'batters of the northern Indiana circuit? Well, according to Earle Reynolds, who was also a member of the old team and who ran across “Maxy” recently in New York, “Maxy” has decided to make a trip west and is going to spend a few days among his friends in Rensselaer. You all remember “Maxy” Brill when he was chief clerk in the Fendig store, and many of you will be greatly pleased to hear that he has gained one of the highest positions in the commercial world possible to obtain. In other words, Max is now the king of the clothing merchants of the greatest city in the world, New York. Even with bis vastbusinessinterests, Maxalways finds time for athletics which he enjoys daily in a beautiful club gymnasium which he recently built in the heart of New York, and of which he is the director. Although Earle Reynolds and family will not be here when Max comes to Rensselaer, Earle has arranged to see that Max gets a number of good, old-fashioned country dinners during his few days of handshaking among the old guard. „ Rhoadesr T ‘‘iShorty” Simpson, Charfes Blue and a number of other boys who knew Max have been appointed as a committee to see that the disr tinguished New Yorker gets the best food he has had in twenty years, even with all his millions, when he drops off the old Monon fast flyer. The key to the city is awaiting “Maxy” when he arrives.