Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1907 — Whitingites are a Hospitable People. [ARTICLE]

Whitingites are a Hospitable People.

The High school basketball team, and the teachers and rooters. who accompanied them, all agree that they were shown the time of their lives at Whiting (a new name for Standard Oil) Friday night. The party, which was composed of the team, three or four of our high school teachers, to act as officials and chaperones, and a few rooters, were met at Hammond by a delegation Hbm the Whiting high school .who took them in| charge and landed them safe in their city. Upon their arrival there the team and teachers were taken to the diffeient places where they were to stay, and the rooters went forth on the street co find a place to eat and sleep. The eating was easy if you had the price but the sleeping was a different proposition, owing to the fact that there is only one hotel, good, bad or indifferent, in Whiting and that is quarantined on account of scarlet lever which is very prevalent up in that country just now. After supper everybody went to the game, the result of which as is well known, being an easy victory for Rensselaer. After the game the whole Rensselaer bunch including some former inhabitants now residing in Hammond, were steered over to the High school building where in company with the Whiting team and most of the members of the Whiting high school, they “set in”ton a good lay out of grub. Several good toasts and responses were given, Misses Casey and Laßue very ably representing 'Rensselaer. After the banquet everyone repaired to the assembly room of the school and spent the rest of the night or most of therestin “avin’ a’ell of a time,” as a little “h’englishman up there imformed the Republican’s representative. Whiting as a town is a disappointment to anyone expecting something beautiful, as there is nothing to it bnt Standard Oil. If they worship anything up there, they ought to worship their patron Saint John D. Rockefeller. All the inhabitants]work and two thirds of them wbrk for John D. Just for an illustration of the conditions there Whiting is a town of about 5,000, and in the junior class in the high school there are only eight or nine and in the class of 1907 only six members. This is accounted for by the fact that as soon aft the pupils reach the Bth grade they Sit school mid gO to #o¥k for andard Oil, which by-the-way Mys very rood wages and apparently treats ltd efopldyes very 4relf, bnt it requires that they make good, and ne lazy bones need apply,