Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1908 — MAYOR ELLIS TO HEAD PARADE [ARTICLE]

MAYOR ELLIS TO HEAD PARADE

Rensselaer’s Mayor Will Ride In Carriage With Mayor of Kokomo at G. A. R. Parade. Mayor James H. 8. Ellis, for some years at the head of our city government, and a man of distinguished bearing and Jovial ways, went to Kokomo today, Tuesday, to ride with the mayors of fifty Other Indiana cities at the head of the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic. But Mayor Ellis is not only one of the fifty mayors, but he has been chosen by the Kokomo committee in charge of the program to ride in front of the entire parade, occupying a carriage with Mayor Arnett, of Kokomo. The reason this-honor fell upon our mayor was because he lived in Kokomo for several years, and has a wide acquaintance there, knows them and they know him The Kokomo Tribune of last Friday made quite an article c/I the important part that the,two mayors were to take in the parade, from which we clip the following: "Mayor Ellis is an old Kokomo boy, having been raised In this city, and many of his old friends have requested that ‘Kokomo's two mayors’ should head the crowd.” Our neighbors have evidently not been informed that there is such a striking resemblance between Mayor j Ellis and William J. Bryan, and with' our chief executive in the front car-1 riage it is certain that many who are familiar with the looks of Bill J. will be certain that the democrat- ! ic apostle has heard of Kokomo and dropped in without being advertised.