Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1917 — WOMEN PATRIOT’S WILL MEET SATURDAY [ARTICLE]

WOMEN PATRIOT’S WILL MEET SATURDAY

For the Purpose of Organizing a Local* Branch of "The Comforts Committee.” Women, awake! Your country needs you. There will be a called meeting of the patriotic women of Rensselaer and vicinity at 3 o’clock Saturday, April 21st, in the ladies’ waiting room at the court house. The object of the meeting is to organize a local branen of “The Comforts Committee of the Navy League,” to work in co-opera-tion with the national headquarters in Washington. Independent units are being farmed by groups of women all over the United States. There are no dues and no obligations of any kind, except to work. The work consists of knitting articles of wearing apparel for the comfort of our sailors, who not only have to battle against the enemy, but also against the elements .as welL V Let every woman feel a personal responsibility in making an organization large enough that we may be able to do something worth while for our country in her time of direct need.