Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1901 — Concerning Band Concerts. [ARTICLE]

Concerning Band Concerts.

There will be no band concerts in Rensselaer this season unless the merchants donate enough money to pay expenses. To run the season successfully it will require about sixty dollars a month. The band boys are all willing to donate their service providing the necessary funds for expenses are secured. New pennies, nickles, quarters, dollars and double eagles, all bearing the stamp of the new century, are dailiug pouring from the chutes beneath the coin dies in the mint. It wouldn’t be money stamped 1900, even if the president himself wanted it. On New Year’s day, after the regular custom and by the law, all of the 1,200 dies which were used last year in stamping United States coins at the Philadelphia mint were destroyed and on the next day the money was made with brand new dies. In former years, the old dies were destroyed by beating them flat with steam sledgep. This year the faces of the dies were ground off by emery wheels. Only the obverse side of the dies is ground away. The reverse is hardly ever changed and the dies are sent to Philadelphia from all other mints and the obverse side reworked. The report that a new 3 cent piece has been authorized by congress could not be verified at the mint. There is a large demand for such a coin through the west. It is said that the new coin will be made of nickle, and the size of an old bronze cent, having in the center a hole onefourth of an inch in diameter, which will easily distinguish it by sight or touch. O. 8. Chamberlain has sold out his interest in the Rensselaer Steam laundry to F. O. Lagen, of Dubuque, lowa. Mr. Lagen knows the laundry business thoroughly, having been engaged in the work for several years. For the past year he has had charge of the C. O. D. Laundry at Hammond. Messrs. Porter & Lagen have sent to Chicago for a new set of machinery and expect to make the Rensselaer laundry one of the best in the state. The Indiana school teachers in their recent state association meeting at Indianapolis, recommended that files of the neighborhood newspapers be preserved at the school libraries. The teachers did this because it was their opinion that no better record of events, which could afterwards be referred to as history, could be found. The oldest love letter in the world is a proposal of marriage for the hand of an Egyptian princess, made 3,500 years ago. It is in the form of an inscribed brick, and is, therefore, not only the oldest, bnt also the most sub stantial love letter that'has ever been written.