Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — OYSTER BAYITES LOSE SLEEP FOR ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

OYSTER BAYITES LOSE SLEEP FOR ROOSEVELT

Band and Villagers on Hand to Greet Former President.

Oyster Bay, March 5. Citizen Roosevelt, free from all official cares, rests peacefully this morning in his own home on Sagamore Hill, three miles from this village. At the end of the ten hour Journey, the former president seemed somewhat weary, but was in the best of spirits. The long trip from Washington was delayed over three hours. The special train rolled Into Oyster Bay hours after midnight. He found the station brilliantly illuminated. A big banner bade him “Welcome Home.” Better than all there was a crowd of from 200 to 300 of his neighbors on hand, whom neither the lateness or, rather, earliness of the hour, the biting wind nor the snow covered roads could deter from waiting to greet their fellow townsman. The president, well pleased at this sign of friendliness, stayed In the station for fifteen minutes or more to exchange handclasps and greetings with enthusiastic friends. The village band was on hand to enliven the proceedings.