Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1907 — July Fourth A Great Day [ARTICLE]

July Fourth A Great Day

Chicago Band and Marvelous Street Performances Supplied by Amusement Company. Everything .Absolutely Free Fire Chief Montgomery Will Give a Fire Show Equal to Any Realistic Performance Ever Undertaken, Baying Bis Great Volunteer Department in Training for a Performance That Will be Better Than Any Display of Fireworks Fver Attempted in the Country—Other Attractions.

If there ever seemed to be any laxity of effort in the matter of the Rensselaer Fourth of July celebration, it whs simply smouldering embers, and now the preparation for the great event has progressed so far that we are able to tell of some of the good things we are to have. To begin with, the music has been secured, Harry Parker, of the music committee, having secured the famous Deßaugh Twentieth Century Band of Chicago. It will be personally directed by Thos. B, Comfore, and every musician is • soloist The baud will arrive here on the early morning train and will be ready for- business by the time the milk train arrives. It is a band worth going -miles to hear. The committee on amusements contracted with the Lang Amusement Agency of Chicago for several wonderful performances, among them the DeMateos, hand-cuff and mart bag magicians, coupling with this -their world-famed straightjacket mystery; the Victors, in their great bag punching and boxing acta; the Leighs, comedy jugglers, and a thrilling and mirthprovoking singing and musical act All these performances, both afternoon and evening, on an -elevated stage and free to all. " Fire Chief Montgomery, the ingenious head of the Rensselaer Fixe Department who is equal to any

emergency in the entertainment line and - who could, with little difficulty, give a whole show by himself, has decided to give a fire show un an elaborate sc-le, and having as his assistants some of the most able young men in the city, he will no doubt be able to make the night performance far surpass anything ever undertaken here. It will take the place of the time-worn fireworks displaj that is always a foke because the manufacturers do not give the buyer a square deal. Jack’s fire show will doubtless make the White City affair look like a store-box performance. Father George Held man, the patriotic orator from the Indian School, has accepted the invitation of the committee to deliver the oration, and all admirers of patriotic eloquence should hear him. Sol. Limerick, the noted contortionist and trick bicycle rider, will do his numerous comedy stunts on the streets. Free ball game at the park. Foot races and other small events, combining the most elaborate and busiest 4th of July program ever devised. Better than first expected, getting better every day; make your plans to be here for the first event and to stay for the night vaudeville and fire show. Program later.