Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1908 — Excursion to Purdue a Success. [ARTICLE]

Excursion to Purdue a Success.

Th? Monou excursion to Purdue University yesterday was a big aJUair, 400 laripprs, farmers’ wives tpid topics P^'^ S and L%ke costing visiting _ University. The social train Btartef a,t Lowell and made its #op at McCoysburg, where the Gifford road brought a crowd" to join the excursionists. At Lafayette the visiters were met by proL George I. Christie, superintendent of ibe agricultural extension department, with a number of other tnamh£ rjs °P the faCult y- Bight special street cars took the visitors to the whore, after visiting the various buildings they enjoyed a campus luncheon. Tga crowd assembled at Fowler EjalV at 1 o’clock, where Dean John Hj. Skinner, of the school of agriculture, mad, 6 . a brief address of welcome and Professor Christie talked on the Utork of the extension department LatC r ip the afternoon the visitors W@rn taken to the Tecumseh’s trail, Battle Ground and the Soldiers’ Home. August 2% there will be large excursions of farmers to Purdue. Two hundred, will be there from Huntington county on special cars. Omar Sumgiers, president of the Huntington county farmers’ Institute, will have charge, of the excursion. On the same day 300 farmers from Randolph county will visit Purdue on a special train on thq Big Fo.ur. E. W. Hilh president of the Randolph farmera’ institute, will have charge of the latte? excursion. '■ - : ' . . M. V. Brown, contractor.