Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1920 — WHISTLES AND BELLS TO SOUND IN GLADNESS [ARTICLE]

WHISTLES AND BELLS TO SOUND IN GLADNESS

Beginning promptly at 10:55 a. m. and lasting until 11:90 o clock a. m. all whistles, bells, automobile horns and other noise making instruments in the city will be sounded in commemoration of the cessation of hostilities on the European battle-front November 11, 1918, a day which brought to a close the | bloodiest w»r iB bII hi * t ° r T’.. . I day which has been officially declared as a legal/holiday—Armistice Day. , . The fire whistle and siren, the mill whistle, the train whistle of the 10:55 a. m. train and sundry other whistles will shriek in gladness, and church bells will peal forth m all their volume. Automobile owners are asked to sound their horns dur-1 ing the five-minute period, and those without automobiles are urged to purchase lung-power horns and lend their bit of noise to the occasion. All ex-service men are asked to assemble at the court house yard and stand at attention during the five-minute celebration .while Sergeant Allen Bowsher blows "taps. * NELSON SHAFER, Commander Dewey Biggs Post.