Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS ADDRESS BIG CROWD [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS ADDRESS BIG CROWD

Capt. J. K. Gowdy Held Informal Reception at Makeever House and Greeted Old Friends.

Captain “Jack” Gowdy and Mrs. Gowdy arrived in Rensselaer and took up headquarters at the Makeever hotel Wednesday afternoon, and as soon as it was learned that they were in the city his old friends began to call on them at the hotel, and the popular and illustrious erstwhile residents of Jasper county had very few idle moments from that time on. Old 5 friends from the west end of Jasper county and from the east end of Newton county were not expecting to see him until Thursday and they began to arrive early in the morning to greet their old neighbor and to have a little talk with him about the “has beehs” of the long ago.

And there was the greatest mutual happiness at the meeting. Hon. Frank B. Posey, of Evansville, who was a congresmjp for a short time in the latter eighties, came Thursday morning, and he was met at| the station by an automobile parade, which was led by the Remington and Brook bands, the former having been hired especially for the day by the republican central committee. Mr. Posey was taken to the Makeever hotel, .where he was introduced *to many prominent republicans. I The speaking had begun on the court house square, and was being heard by a large audience when the Republican went to press..