Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1916 — CITY SCHOOLS TO RENDER PAGEANT [ARTICLE]

CITY SCHOOLS TO RENDER PAGEANT

Local History Will Be Portrayed In Review • FEATURING ANCIENT SCENES Local Pioneers and Their Costumes To lie Featured by Pupils in Interesting Pageant Next Week. The city schools of Rensselaer will give a pageant in the high school auditorium on Monday and Tuesday evenings, November 27 and 28. This pageant portrays typical scenes of Indiana history. First come the Indians in their home life, braves, squaws, children and pappooses. In this scene will be used a deer antler found on the Lamson farm and an Indian stone ax belonging to David Yeoman. Then the coming of the early settlers to Jasper county will be shown with Impersonations of John Nowels, Joseph Yeoman, his wife and their son, the first white child born in this county. In this scene will be used an old table made by Mr. Yeoman, and an old oil lamp and a brass candlestick belonging to the Lamson’s. (The candlestick will hold a candle made in a mold belonging to the same people); Julia Randle will wear a cap w&ich belonged to her # great great grandmother, Mrs. Mary Kenton. An old spinning wheel and fire tongs have also been secured. • As Lincoln lived at one time in Indiana, a boyhood picture of him will An old-time husking bee. a rustic dance and a colonial minuet will serve to show early amusements, while a scene from the “Hoosier Schoolmaster” will represent early school days in Indiana. Symbolic will show the forces that have made modern Indiana great and the admission of Indiana to the JJnion.