Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — RENSSELAER MERCHANTS ARE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER MERCHANTS ARE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC

Says the Head of the Indiana Federated Clubs In Speaking of the Ladies’ Organizations. Valparaiso, Ind., March 2.—Rensselaer clubs are live wares. The Ladies’ Literary Club, which has devoted this year’s program to the study of Indiana, producing several papers of real value on Indiana topics, has widehed its field to include very real work for humanity in Indiana. This club cooperated with the Fortnightly Club ol Remington and the Home Economics Club of Rensselaer in the sale of Red Cross seals this year. They report, that the sale by the school children was miost effective, and the Ladies’ Literary club rewarded the oluldren in the three “best” rooms with fine framed portraits of James Whitcomb Riley. The united clubs were awarded one of the three pennants offered by the state society for the greatest sale in their class. Another fine thing accomplished by the Ladies’ Literary is the fumishafig of the women’s ward in the new Jasper county hospital—the first hospital to be built under the new stateTaw. The Home Economics Club of Rensselaer is scarcely behind the Literary in activity. They have brought demonstrations of practical value in their line to the women of Rensselaer, and have made possible the serving of noonday luncheon in the schools. They expect also to assist in the furnishing of the new hospital, and while their club dues are-too low to permit of large financial donations, this club has contributed to’ all lines of state wbrk from, which an appeal has been made. Mrs. M. D. Gwin, who is chairman of Jasper county clubs, has her forces well organized and “enthused.”