Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1889 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LET’ER FLY \\ J \\ ■ For tie Big Tine is CcariDg AND - IS - ALMOST - HERE. A Fourth of July of Colossal Dimensions. AND CONTAINING MANY FEATURES OF STRIKING AND ABSOLUTE NOVELTY, ENTIRELY UNLIKE ANYTHING EVER SEEN IN THE COUNTY. Fifty Genuine Indians is fc CostUEG. Fine Prizes for Largest Delegation. The City Illuminated by Electric Lights. Eyery indication points to the largest Fourth, of July Celebration in the hjstory of the town. The people of the surrounding country, towns and villages are coming in by hundreds and by thousands, and Rensselaer, which “never does anything by halves,” will entertain them, right royally. The features of the celebration will be too numerous to mention. THE PROGRAMME includes: Artillery and bells at 5. A. M. Decorating the town, and music at 7, a. m. GRAND PARADE at 9:30. Assembly at Grand .Stand at 10:30. MuisiO"by-Healy’s-""Bftttd-;-hrvx->un-tion, Songs, Reading Declaration by Chas. R. Peregrine, Ten minute speeches by lion. E. P. Hammond, J. WLDouthit, Samuel Sparling, MLJb. Austin, M. L. Spitler. Hon. Mad 1 White, M. C. of Crawfordsville, one of the most eloquent orators in the state, will deliver the principal oration. The inimitable PROF. HANS COUFFMAN, of Union township, will make one of his irresistibly funny speeches. All the students m- St. - Josephs Catholic Indian School will be present, in full Indian costume, headed by the hereditary chief of the Chippewas, and will inarch in the procession and hold an Indupi Pow Wow in the public square. This feature alone will be worth coming 40 miles to see. In the PARADEO will lie the Rensselaer Fire Department, with engines ami apparatus, Bose Ball Clulis, K.of I*. Drill Corps, Band ■ : Dairy Maids in 'Uniforms, Prol’. A, T. Verkins with his celebriited’Stea.n UnHope, Indiana White Caps, Fifty lUimg i lII', '.a n i'.r.: Ve- in War i 'n-t nine, Flouts representing various trades, indnstries vA t-r-s-r-rV—rr--"—!-!-A GUM CHEWING CONTEST by Indies, for tho.Championsliipof Northern Indiana, and u gold prize, will be one of the most interesting features of this jawful ocaion. , A SPLENDID DANCE will lie given in the igternoon and evening upon a platform, and for which the choicest music and the ablest management has been secured. In the evening tlie beautiful ♦ELECTI{I<S:MGSTO* will shed their soft, effulgent rays over all the grounds and tlie streets of the city. The display of «IFIRE WORKSto in the evening wilfprobably be, by all odds, the finest ever seen in the County. ...