Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — MEMORIAL FOR M’KINLEY [ARTICLE]

MEMORIAL FOR M’KINLEY

Many Attend Dedication of S4OO/100 Monument at Niles, O. Niles, 0.. Oct. 5. —With thousands of persons from northeastern Ohio participating. the McKinley memorial was dedicated here With impressive ceremony. Many notables assisted in the exercises. It was a holiday for Niles. A chorus of several hundred voices jmd a parade at noon were features of the program formally opening up the §400X>0() building commemorating the martyred president who was.born a Fh >rt distance from the site. Political dut - from Cleveland, Canton, Pittsburgh and YoungstoWn participated in th*- parade. The building not only contains a magni ficent statue of McKinley, but in the two wings are an auditorium and the public library. The McKinley statue, the work of J. Massy Luind of New York, is carved Georgia marble. The statue weighs 18 tons.