Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — LADIES LITERARY CLUB AIDS PLAYGROUND [ARTICLE]

LADIES LITERARY CLUB AIDS PLAYGROUND

Appropriates SSO For Apparatus For School Children—Remington Ladies Here Friday. The Ladies Literary Club met Friday afternoon with Mrs. W. L. Bott, holding what was termed federation day to receive the report of Mrs. M. D. Gwin, who was the delegate to the recent meeting of the federation of women's clubs in Indianapolis. The report was very interesting and complete and gave all who heard it, including some thirty ladies from Remington, a splendid idea of the important work in which the women's clubs of the state are engaged. An ijnportant act of the meeting Friday was the appropriation of SSO for playground apparatus at the schools of the city. It is probable that the first purchase will be a slide and that the addition of other apparatus will follow. The subject of the Literary Club this year is “Italy,” and Mrs. J. H. Chapman read a paper on “A Day In Venice,” which was extremely interesting and instructive. Mrs. Gwin played two Venetian boat songs, one from Mendelssohn and the other from Nevin. Mrs. J. A. Dunlap sang “I Hear You Calling Me.” Light refreshments were served. Next Friday, Nov. 12th, is the first regular meeting of the Matinee Musicale, an auxiliary of the Ladies’ Literal y Club. The following Friday, Nov. 18th, will be anniversary day and it will be celebrated by having Mrs. W. I. Thomas, of Chicago, give an address. Mrs. Thomas was one of the delegates to The Hague peace conference, accompanying Jane Addams there. The place of holding this meeting has not been announced but will be in a later notice. With the Daughters of the American Revolution behind the plan for a permanent bandstand and the Ladies’ Literary Club behind the playground plans Rensselaer is sure to prove what noble women devoted to the welfare of the community can do and both are to be congratulated for their interest in public matters.