Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — Independence Day Celebrations. [ARTICLE]

Independence Day Celebrations.

AT COMER’S GROVE. The people of Union township, and vicinity, will hold their celebration at Comer’s Grove, about a mile north of Alter’s Mill. Among the features of the programme are an oration by S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer; a comic German speech, by J. E. Alter; remarks by Messrs, M. A. Makeever, James Brusnahan, J. C. CKilcote, David M. Shields, and others. Also various sports, and in the evening a Bower Dance, and Fire-works. An entirely novel feature of the celebration will be a representation of the recent Chicago strikes. J. V. Powderly will be present and make an amusing speech to the strikers, who will be massed in a large body. The police will charge upon She strikers. The bomb shell be thrown and a general melee ensue..

AT DEMOTTE. The people of DeMotte, and vicinity, and also of Rose Lawn, in Newton county, will hold their celebration in Troxell’s Grove, at DeMotte. The people of that place never fail to have a big celebration, when they set out for it, and this year will be ho exception. Their bills announce that they will have a basket picnic; a full programme of interesting exercises, including speeches by Capt. R. W. Marshall and Rev. L. Shortridge, of Keener, and others; music by Yeoman’s Martial Baud, and Rose Lawn and DeMotte Choirs; a splendid platform dance, in the evening, upon an immense platform, 28 by 28 feet in dimensions, and a grand display of fireworks, at half past nine o’clock, in the evening. > ■— .... The Indiana School Journal, for June, says: “Supt. D. M. Nelson, assisted by able corps of instructors, will open a five weeks Normal at Rensselaer, July 26. The County Institute will open Aug. 30. The teachers of no other county in the state are afforded better facilities in improvement than are supplied the teachers of Newton county.” “ The School Journal is entirely correct in the above quoted note, except in using the name of Newton 'county, where Jasper was evidently the one that should have been used. •