Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1888 — The Republican Jollification. [ARTICLE]

The Republican Jollification.

The Republican jollification in Rensselaer, last Saturday night, was an immense success, notwithstanding the fact that the weather was so unfavorable as to prevent almost all attendance from ,oiit* side the immediate town. About six o’clock the people began to crowd the business part of Washington street and soon a procession formed consisting of all the bands of music in town and countless footers on tig horns of all sizes, from 8 feet in length down to a couple of inches. Some also had bells, while A. T< Perkins oqtdid them all by fixing a calliope attachment to his mounted steam wood saw, and therefore did his tooting by eteam. It was an ingenious and very successful arrangement. These combined elements raised a triumphant racket that beggared description. It surely far exceeded anything ever heaid before in this town. After a little more than an hour of noise, the doors of the. t Opera House were flung open, and enough of the crowd soon filed in, to fill it far beyond its seating capacity. The. room finely decorated for the occasion, with banners, mottoes, pictures-, &c. Much of it being the workTof the talented artist, W. J. Miller. The exercise# cgnsisted of short speeches and many songs, interspersed by intervals of roof-rais-ing clamor from the horns. Speakers who to speak beyondthei five minute limit were cut off, in the very blossom of their eloquence, and literally drowned in a volume of sound. Good order prevailed during the entire proceedings, outdoors as well as in, and nothing like the red-paint pranks of 1884 was indulged in.