Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. | 5 BANDS AT BRAUN FUNERAL Lowell, May 16.—The Grand theater, with a seating capacity of 800, was packed to the doors yesterday afternoon and 200 persons were compelled to stand outside during the funeral service for Otto Braun of this city. After the sermon, by the Rev. V. B. Servles of the First Methodist church, the Odd Fellows lodge performed its ritualistic ceremony. The procession to the cemetery was a mile long, almost the entire populace participating. The Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen, the Royal Neighbors, the Rensselaer, Brunswick, Lowell, Francesville and Lake Village bands were in the line of marcel. Mr. Braun had been leader of the bands In the past.