Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — City Can’t Celebrate. [ARTICLE]

City Can’t Celebrate.

The Fourth of July celebration in Rensselaer has gone busted. At the meeting of the members of the various previously appointed committees, and citizens generally, held at the court house last Friday evening, after full discussion, it was solemnly voted to abandon the proposed celebration. There seems to have been a general back of interest among the business men and citizens generally, and this apathy naturally was strongly apparent on the subscription paper. There was also evidently a pretty strong sentiment that Rensselaer ought not to celebrate every year, but to give our citizens a chance to go elsewhere, on the Fourth of July onep in a while..