Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — A Quaint Custom. [ARTICLE]

A Quaint Custom.

The annual historic “red hose" games have just been held on the village green at Carnwath. According to the conditions in the charters granting the lands of Lee and Carnwath to the Lockhart family, this race must be run annually at a stateu period. The winner becomes tne heir in succession to the estates should the Lockhart family die out without issue within the ensuing year, his name being proclaimed at the Cross of Edinburgh.—London Globe.