Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1915 — Van Rensselaer Club Held | Important Meeting Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

Van Rensselaer Club Held | Important Meeting Tuesday.

The Van Rensselaer Club held a business meeting Tuesday evening and a large number of the members were present. The new quarters of the club in the Hollingsworth building on Washington street are proving ■quite popular and many of the members are spending quite a little timb there during afternoons and evenings, proving that club quarters when all furniture is installed will be an attraction to many. The quarters art inadequate with respect to some conveniences that it is proposed to procure and the board of directors wert instructed to secure information about the cost of the things needed. The house committee was also instructed to have repaired and installed in one of the rooms of the club a pool table which Judge Hanley is donating and >Dr. C. E. Johnson has also promised to give to the club a billiard table. . ' Emmet Laßue, Floyd Meyers and Don Wright were appointed a committee to make arrangements for a smfoker to be held . soon. It may be before Chrirtmas or during the holidays. The annual banquet plan* were discussed but definite arrangements will probably not be made until after the smoker. A meeting will be held Sunday afternoon when the new By-laws will be discussed. These make a radical change in the management of the club, giving the directors almost exclusive charge of the business and the membership. . -..j Bridge is becoming very popular with the members and two or three games are in progress each everting. On motion President Spitler wa# directed to eppoine a ommittee to look after the "pood fellows” feature of Christmas. This has been a function of the club for two or three years and the money raised is expended for the poor under the direction of the ■Charity Board. Many homes are thus given a cheerful Christmas that might otherwise be forgotten.