Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — A Great Work of Art. [ARTICLE]

A Great Work of Art.

Th re is a big enlargsd photograph on exhibition at the oonrt house, labelled “Loading Statesmen of and as the gentlemen it thus parports to portray ara not known here, it may bs a very good likeness of One of the parties however bears quite notioe*ble resemblance to Commissioner A, Halleok, as he sits at the table iu the commissioners’ room. There is a leading German Btatem*n on eaoh side of M'. Hilhofc, which some people have guessed might be Commissioners Denham and Waymire, but tbe pictures themselves give mighty little indication that way. Two other Teutonic state men are standing up, bjhind the other three Ooe of them has a stern aid far awsy i look like Kaiser V4lihelrn himself, but with his upturned mustache in the ehop for repairs. It is given ont straight that Janitor Morlan was about in thbt position when the photograph was taken. The other pmture, supposed by many at first glaDca to be be old Count Bismarck himself, really bears some considerable resemblbnce to Cap*. Marshall the county attorney, though he wonld be bopptog mad if he heard anybody say so. The picture was f>om a kodak taken by a representative of the Inaianapo'is > bridge oompauy, which company had tbe pet are enlarged, framed and presented to the county. It is a great work of art, tru'y.