Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — Good Sized Crowd Out to German Picnic Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Good Sized Crowd Out to German Picnic Sunday.

The German picnic out at August R. Schultz’s farm in Union tp. last Sunday was quite well attended, but the threateneing weather kept many away. No doubt there would have been twice as many people in attendance had it not been for the threatening clouds, and in fact it did rain some there in the afternoon.’ Despite this, however, there were several hundred people on the grounds, many coming by automobile from Hammond, of which place one of the speakers was also from. Another of the speakers was from Indianapolis, and State Representative W. L. Wood of Parr also made a good talk. A band and glee club furnished music for the occasion and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. There were stands on the ground at which refreshments were sold and an auto truck loaded with 25 or 30 cases of the product that has made Milwaukee famous accompanied the Hammond crowd to make sure that the Hammondites did not suffer from thirst. The speech making was in both English and German.