Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1914 — SONS OF VETERANS ARE PROSPERING [ARTICLE]

SONS OF VETERANS ARE PROSPERING

Ten New Members Taken in Friday Night and Charter Membership Reached Fifty-Two. The Sons of Veterans are prospering in Rensselaer. Teo new members were taken in Friday night and a number of others are now pledged. It is probable that the membership can be increased to one hundred during the next few weeks. The sons off loyal fathers and mothers feel that they owe to them a patriotic duty in preserving the institutions dear to them and to which their sacrifices so richly entitled them and this inspiration has caused many to volunteer their membership and they are finding the .service of the order valuable, the instruction profitable and the initiations refined and interesting. < The old effort to give a military tone to the order has passed away and the plan is patriotic and sociable. It is probable that plans wity be taken to offer to furnish pallbearers for all funerals of soldiers and soldiers’ widows and to take over entirely the Memorial plans. Those to be obligated Friday evening were: Ross Dean, E. C. Maxwell, Jud Adams, Will Scott, Leslie Miller, John F. Payne, Clifford Payne, Albert Timmons, Chas. W. Spencer and E. W. Matheny. J. W. Childers, whose active work resulted* in starting the order and in working up the large membership, was honored by-being elected delegate to the state encampment. Walter V. Porter was elected alternate delegate.

We are unloading another car off fancy apples. Baldwins, Greenings, Northern Spies, Wagners, Johnathans. Grimes Golden, Ramboes, Snows, Talman Sweets and Golden Russets Buy a barrel for Christmas. JOHN EGER.