Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — Boys’ City to Be Visited By the K. O. K. A.’s Next Week. [ARTICLE]

Boys’ City to Be Visited By the K. O. K. A.’s Next Week.

The K. O. K. A. boys who are to visit the Boys’ City at Winona next week are promised a fine time. They will be chaperoned by Rev. Parrett, and as their mothers are not expected to visit them there with baskets filled with good things to eat, a recurrence of the trouble of last year when the boys were, in camp on the Tippecanoe is not expected. Prof. Tillman will accompany the boys to the city. This is the third assembly of the Boys’ City inhabitants, Boys from all over the middle west are counting on a big time in their own city on the banks of beautiful Winona Lake, where they run the city from mayor to poundmaster. Mayor Joe Clark, whose home is in Portland, Ind., was at Winona Lake recently and arranged to open his office there in a few daysv and begin his official duties in getting together his official family. Mr. W. Henry Collisson of Winona Lake, who has a wide experience in handling boys and providing entertainment for them, will be the business manager of the city this year. Judge Willis Brown, who was formerly connected with this popular camp, has no. connection with Boys’ City this year. The annual election of officers will take place about July 30, when a new mayor and new city officials will be elected. The boys will have their own daily paper, bank, postoffice, souvenir stand, boathouse, bathhouse, shoot-the-chutes, and a barrel of fun every day.