Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1910 — Ladles of the G. A. R. Follow Inspection With 6 O’clock Dinner. [ARTICLE]

Ladles of the G. A. R. Follow Inspection With 6 O’clock Dinner.

The Ladies of the G. A. R. were inspected Thursday afterhoon by Mrs. John W. Graves, department inspector of Lafayette. The circle was found to be in a very prosperous condition, twenty-four new members having been initiated since the first of last January and most of them being young women who have shown a great amount of interest In the auxilliary work of the Grand Army. Mrs. Graves expressed herself as greatly pleased with the condition of the circle. At 6 o'clock dinner was served and to it the husbands of the members had been invited and they responded by a general attendance. The president of the circle is Mrs. A. L. Padgitt, to whose untiring efforts the upbuilding of the circle is largely attributable. Mrs. Padgitt presided at the after dinner meeting which was turned into a literary program, with u number of songs and some speechmaking. Mrs. Julia A. Healey spoke on “The Cost of a Country.” She enumerated several of the purchase costs, as of the Louisiana purchase, the Florida purchase, the purchase of Alaska and the Philippine Islands, she spoke of the cost of prosecuting wars from the standpoint of the money it required, but said that this was but a trifle of the cost of a country. No one could estimate the cost when purchased with human lives and human heartaches; no one cohid estimate the cost of a country whose freedom was gained by the sacrifice of its patriotic sons. Mrs. Healey used the Ingersoll expression that “no one can paint a sigh." Her talk was very interesting and she held the closest attention of all. ; Mrs. Graves spoke reminiscently x>t the civil war period. She lived at Battle Ground when the war broke out and her husband was one to enlist and go to the front. She was sorry then, but as she looks back now and sees what was accomplished she is proud that he went. Mrs. Graves said that no circle she had inspected had made so favorable an impression as this one. Mrs. M. E. Spitler, Capt. J. M. Wasson and others also spoke and the evening was very pleasantly spent.