Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — MORE OLD PICTURES ON DISPLAY [ARTICLE]

MORE OLD PICTURES ON DISPLAY

Still more old and interesting pictures have been left at E. S Rhoads’ grocery and are on display in his ■window. One of these is of the Rensselaer band taken on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone for the new Methodisi church, the brick structure which -replaced the old frame building some thirty years ago, but which was extensively remodeled a few years ago. The members of the band then were the same as thos( in the picture taken in 1889, mentioned in last Saturday’s Democrat Another interesting picture is that of the members of the old Rensselaer Fair association, taken more than thirty years ago. Of the eleven men in the picture Emmet Kannal, Dr. M. B. Alter, J W. Duvall, WiLs Porter and Addison Parkison have been dead foi several years; William M. Hoovei and David iH. Yeoman are stil’ here; C. W. Coen is at South Bend; C. D. Nowels and Robert Randle are at Parsons, Kansas, and Tom McCoy® is now located at Grand Rapids, Michigan, or was there the last we heard of him.