Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1911 — Gillam Township Lady is Opposed to Youthful Marriages. [ARTICLE]

Gillam Township Lady is Opposed to Youthful Marriages.

Editor Republican: Are the people of Rensselaer and vicinity asleep? Have they lost their Christianity, or what is the cause of these boys and girls running away to St. Jpe. Mich., so often? Do they call Ahis love? What will become of the country and churches if this state of affairs is allowed to continue? When these older people pass away who is going to step intO|,their-place and run business and church? Will these boys and girls be qualified to fill their places? There- is a great deal of talk of p money panic coming. Will there not be a far worse panic in Jasper county some day if these boys and girls don’t stop and think of the steps they are taking in leaving their studies to join in the sacred ties of matrimony? Think of mere children running away to marry. ,_i Very respectfully,

MRS. YEPPE HANSEN.