Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1908 — HOME-COMING IS OVER. [ARTICLE]

HOME-COMING IS OVER.

Friday’s Attendance Better Than Anticipated, And Big Crowd Was Out to “Jack’s Fire Show.” The attendance at the home-com-ing Friday was better than anticipated, it being rather better than the opening day, and the crowd out at night to Jack Montgomery’s fire show was quite large, there being practically the whole town out and hundreds from the surrounding country. The fire show was along the same lines as the fire show at the 4th of July celebration here last year. A temporary frame structure, or the front and one side to one, rather., was erected on the vacant lot north of Washington street and just west of the river. Colored fire and fireworks were fired off. making a realistic fire, the fire-team and fire paraphernalia came tearing down the main street at breakneck speed to the scene. The “guests” of the Newall Hotel—for such the structure was called—were “rescued” by the firemen, but the “hotel” was beyond “saving” and it was soon a “mass” of blackened timbers. Altogether this show .was the most exciting of all, and while nobody got hurt nor killed, the possibility of such accident was great enough to lend spice to the affair, and a fewwomen and children were pulled out of the way of fire wagons in time to save them from being knocked down.

The balloon ascensions, except for one flight made Thursday forenoon was a complete failure, either the fault of the balloonist or the balloon, and it doesn’t make much difference which. The balloon man and his wife pulled out on an early train Saturday morning, leaving his Dutch assistant with but $2 for his services, but the amusement contractors from Chicago who had contracted the features here, settled Dutchey's board bill and took him to the city with him. A reduction was made to the committee for the balloon's failure to "go.” The register of former residents who were visitors here during the we» k was very incomplete, and several registered who ought not to have done so. The list below gives the names of those registering, we having excluded from this list some who registered from Remington and Wheatfield and a few others who should not have been on the list. Otherwise, we believe, the list is complete. The names have been bunched to save spate, and others who failed to register have all been mentioned in The Democrat in its last week’s issues: Nancy E. Marion, Covington, O. H. and Miller Guild, J. H. and Bertha Vanßuskirk, Medaryville. Merl Benjamin, Los Angeles, Cal. G M. Burk, Walton, Ind. G. W. Burk and wife and Allen Robinson. Lamar, Colo. W. C. Comer, Danville, Ind. Simon and Clarence Dobbins and Omar Smith, Francesville. Mrs, Victor A. Timmons, Kanka- . t ■ ■ ''

kee, 111. W. H. Overmeyer, Roselawn. Myrtle and Frank E, Rees, LaCrosse, Ind. Lawson Meyers, • Hyland Park, Hl. E. Heath, Mrs Rose Ladd and son Louis, Oxford. John Kimble, Copemish, Mich. Geo. Barcus, wife and daughter Ruby, Wabash. 8. Gerard and Jacob Schanlaub, North Manchester. Minerva C. Mills, New Point, Ind. Geo. W. Catt, J. J. Blair,C. C. Hughes, Wesley Taylor, Wright J. Hinkle, Joe Arnet Cecil Mlddlestath, Harry Winchler, Monon. Arthur and Georgia Landis, Monticello. Mrs. Mary Schneider, Cleveland, Ohio. Lorenzo Wartena, East Chicago, Ind. L. H. Adamson, Culver, Ind. C. w. Hopkins, Greensburg, Kan. A. A. Albert, Stanley, Wls. M. L. and Mary McDonald, Wilders, Ind. R. A. Murray, Stokes, Kan. O. M, Daugherty, Springfield, la. H. S. Daugherty, and wife, Highland, Ind. R. J. Lefler, and wife, Joliet, 111. L. L. Lefler, Crawfordsville, Ind. J. B. Clemens, and wife, Shelby, Ind. J. H. Thomas, Enid, Okla. F. E. Thomas, Foresman, Ind. Mary E. Hinkle, Bangor, Mich. Mary A. Porter, Coats, Kan. O. A. Faris, Ennis Beyers, Medaryville, Ind. Mrs. Ada Saylor Hufty, Mt. Ayr, Ind. A. M, Munden, and wife, Charlottsville, Ind. Hester A., Idabelle, J. C. and wife and L. L. Daugherty, Elmer Babcock, W. D. Robinson, Alfred Hickman and wife, Merl Meyers, Albert Orcott, Mrs. R. J. Huffman, of Hammond. B. F., Mrs. and Marion Learning. Goshen. Mrs Walter Gibson, A. C. Hopkins and wife, Blanche Fritts and daughter Florence. Leota H., Dorathy and Jeannette Nowels, Delphi. Robert L. and Mrs. C. D. Martin, Chas. L. Mann, Cincinnati, Ohio. Harvey Goff, A. D. Washburn and wife, Kentland. Harrison Warren and Drew E. Frazee. Peru, Ind. Wilson A. Clarke, Cedar Point, Kan. Frank Wolfe and wife, Michigan City, Ind. • Miss Ella Ritchey, Katherine, Bansh, Anderson, Ind. M. L. Spitler and wife, Oklahoma City, Okla. C. M. Archer, Yukon, Okla. Mrs. Lib Mattix, J. C. Reynolds, Frankfort, Ind. Misses Della, Mabelle and Lora Seifers. Montmorenci, Ind. Louis Odegaard. Watseka, 111. C. B. Harold and wife, Clyde, 111. W. M. Gray, Lee, Ind. Israel and Mrs. Martin, Geo. W. Chapman. Kokomo. W. A. and Mrs. Huff, C. A. and Richard Hone. W. R. Bolder, Fowler. Ind. G. H. Robinson and L. W. Faris, Gallion, Tenn. Ben. F. Coen, Fort Collins, Colo. T. F. Clark and wife. Battle Ground, Ind. W. A. Cole and son Bright and Mrs. Susan B. Lockwood, Lafayette. Ind. R. E. Thornton, lowa Falls, la. Mrs. C. H. Horsewood and son, Topeka, Kan. Augusta Saylor, Augusta, Mich. Wallace, W. W., J. Y- and Fanny Parkinson, Bucklin, Kan. Chas. Berbage, Yeoman, Ind. H. H. Downing, A. E. Perkins and wife and P. R. Hopkins, Goodland. James P. Yeoman. Ambia, Ind. Mrs. Nina Sweet Irwin. Mrs. Jen-; nie Gray Graham. Miss A Graham. Wolcott, Ind. Addle Crosscup, Townsend, Mont. John C. and Mrs. Fisher, George K. Babcock, and Harley Lamson, Bluffton, Ind. M. O’Halloran, Mrs. Maude Irwin Wallace, Lillian Zacher, Mrs. J. M. Stackhouse, J. C. Galbraith and wife, Albert E. Coen, wife and son Alvin, George B. Hemphill, Beatrice A. Wemple, Mrs. Leota M. Jones, Mrs. E. N. Hyland, Mrs. Laura Rathfon Fischer, W. W., Evalyn, Major and Mrs. Belle Watson, Edward F. Mills and wife, E. S. Parr, w’ife and daughter, W. P. Knox, Thos. Eiglesbach, Chicago. Jack Groom. Kingman, Kan. Bepj. F. Edwards, Pontiac, 111. Clara Coen. Bloomington, 111. Benj. McColly and wife, Chicago Heights, 111. Geo. M. Dunlap and A. J. Brenner and wife, Hoopeston, 111. W. E. Timmons. Elk Falls, Kan. James F. Hemphill and daughter, Danville, 111. E. M. and Mrs. Banes, of South Bend. Ind. Thomas Randle and family, Hope, Kan. W. C. and Mrs. Milliron, Denver, Ind. Mrs. Rose Chestnut, Hoopeston, Hl.