Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — CHICAGO CELEBRATES APPOMATTOX DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHICAGO CELEBRATES APPOMATTOX DAY

Banquet to Mark Anniversary qt Lee’s Surrender. Chicago, April 9.—The forty-fourth anniversary ,pf Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, which marked the downfall of the Confederacy and the close of

the great civil war, will be celebrated in this city tonight by a public banquet given by the Hamilton club to General Frederick Dent Grant, son of Lee’s surrender, and other distinguished guests. The list of speakers at the banquet Includes Senator Smith of Michigan and Senator Borah of Idaho, two of the senate’s best oratorb, besides General Grant. Among the Invited guests is Secretary of War Dickinson, who promised to attend if his duties in Washington would permit of his leaving them. Senator Smith will speak on "The Integrity of the Nation,” while Senator Borah will have for his subject “The Integrity of the State.”

JACOB M. DICKINSON.