Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — REAL INDIANS IN A SHAM BATTLE [ARTICLE]

REAL INDIANS IN A SHAM BATTLE

Ghlef Godfroy to Entertain the Old Settlers. » *« • WILL MAKE ATTACK ON CABIN Red Men Will Attack Man and Woman and .Then Set Fire to Structure of Pioneer Days—Soldier* Will Come to the Rescue and .After Latter Will Surrender as In the Days of Old. Anderson, Ind., Aug. 13.—Concluding that old settlers’ reunions of former years have been devoid of enough life to make them interesting to even a pioneer, John L. Forkner, banker, former mayor of this city and president of the Madison County Old Settlers’ association, is going the limit for the next reunion of old residents of Madison county, to take place at Mounds park. He has induced Chief Gabriel Godfroy, of the Miami tribe of Indians in Miami county, to agree to assist in enacting pioneer life with real Indians as principals. Chief Godfroy. his son, Frank, and ten other Indians of Miami county will participate in an attack qn a cabin in the park next Sunday. In the sham battle Chief Godfroy and his real Indians will be assisted by about fifty “made up” Indians. A cabin has been erected in the park. An old prairieschooner type of wagon will convey a man and woman to the cabin. They will be .barely inside before the cabin is attacked by Indians. The red men will be repulsed and later will fire the cabin and it will be alowed to burn to add ralistic effect. Meanwhile a company of “soldiers” from the Chieftain’s league, of this city, in continental uniforms will advance on the Godfroy tribe, and after a sham battle the Indians will surrender. Each side will be provided with forty rounds of blank cartridges.