Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1909 — Pleasant Ridge. [ARTICLE]

Pleasant Ridge.

Our school will be out the 2d of April. ■ Wm. Lowman was a Rensselaer geer Tuesday. j j t Mrs. John Reed was a Parr geer Wednesday. “Buck” Kenton was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. John Sr. and Ed. Martin were Rensselaer goers Monday. Mel arrived here Tuesday evening on the milk train to serve a lunch for the shooting match.

Mr. M. W. Phillips- who lactures here next Tuesday afternoon and night on Indian life and the old Northwest Territory is ag: eat favorite witty the American kid. He is their champion and understands the American youngster better than the best of them. He has coached the high school, boys in their sports such as baseball and track events. He has played their, games and even today gets on the field with them and,' hails with delight their light gay life. He holds the American boy up to the lime light as a factor in American history as one who has achieved much and gained little credit That his name and fame are lost in oblivion while others who have done no more go down in the pages of history as the illustrious dead of our land. With this idea in view he has dedicated the lecture he will give here next Tuesday to that personage which is the only one in history who has been forgotten, “The American Kid.” He will show a number of slides in his lecture of the daring deeds of the American boy in history. When he lectured in Tipton several months ago a youngtser was so tickled at his allusions to the American kid that he jumped up in his seat and clapped his hands in glee and yelled out “You’r Right Sir.” Mr. Phillips prizes that as the greatest tribute to his lecture career. The lecture will not only be a valuable contribution to the graded school history but to the boys at St Joseph college as well. He was the baseball coach of the famous Oakwood high school baseball team and U»e college boys and that team are very friendly. In Tipton the pariah and public schools attended his lecture in a body. At opera house, Tuesday, March 16th.