Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1914 — Call For Exhibits Meets With Success. [ARTICLE]

Call For Exhibits Meets With Success.

Mrs. Robert H. Strong, of Indianapolis, superintendent of Indiana Woman’s Work Exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition, who is going into each county in the state to solicit fancy work for this exhibit, gave an interesting talk to the ladies of Rensselaer on Tuesday evening, at the high school auditorium. She told, of her travels throughout the state, in quest of fancywork for the exhibit, and of some of the exquisite and beautiful work she had secured. She said the woman’s work exhibit.wits to be given in the Varied Arts building at the exposition, and was given a space fifty feet-by seventy feet. An artist is now there planning a scheme of decoration as a setting for this exhibit. Sculpture, pottery, china painting, and all kinds of needle work will make up this exhibit. Only such work as excels wifi he Chosen, as everything will be examined by expert judges before accepted, At San Francisco the best work will he awarded medals, gold, silver and bronze. Several valuable pieces of needle work have been secured here, with more in view. The women of the county are asked to contribute, and those who wish to do so may obtain contributor’s blanks and tags from Mrs. George A. Williams, chairman of Jhe Jasper county woman’s work exhibit.