Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — DROPS ROCKEFELLER'S NAME [ARTICLE]

DROPS ROCKEFELLER'S NAME

Illinois Town Hereafter Will Be Called Area—No 111 Feeling. Rockefeller, 111., July 13.—The village board has voted to change the name of this town from Rockefeller to Area. This action was taken coincidentally with the laying of the cornerstone of the first building of Sheldon university. It 18 asserted that no ill feeling is held against John D. Rockefeller.