Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1887 — A Big Fourth, for DeMotte. [ARTICLE]

A Big Fourth, for DeMotte.

The people of Northern Jasper, and vicinity are going to have the . biggest kind of a big time on the Fourth of July. The day will open with a street parade, at 10 o,cloek. After which will come speeches and remarks by various gentlemen, including, especially, M. F. Cnilcote, W. B. Austin and O. M. Daugherty, of Rensselaer, and D. L. Bisfiopp, of Kentland. W. C. Tyler will read the Declaration. Music by Yeoman’s martial, ban l, and by the DeMott glee club. The attractions promised for the day are almost too numerous to enumerate. A basket picnic, a balloon nacensioi^_gamfi..Q£.„JijalL--xacea-o£-Sfiveral kinds, including that most ludicrous of all, a jinney race; the skating rink will be open all the afternoon, and in the evening a grand ball will be given in the town : hall, of which W. C. Tyler will be manager and Profs. Frank: Dennis and Joseph Frame the musicians. { Among the attractions unintentipnally omitted from the bills.will be i a glass ball and target shooting match and a horse swing. Altogether it looks as though the peo- : pie of DeMotte meant this year to surpass all of their own splendidly successful effortsfof previous years, in celebrating the Nation’s anniversary.

Farmers.— Call on B.F.Ferguson and examine the new Triumph Binder, the beet in the market, /