Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — Keener Township Not Enthusiastic. [ARTICLE]

Keener Township Not Enthusiastic.

The Red Cross meteing at DeMotte Friday night was not in keeping with the other enthusiastic meetings that have been held all over Jasper county during the drive for the war fund. The Hollanders, at least, many of them, in that township have been reading German papers and are not back of the war wit hthe same spirit as most of the other people of the county. The Holland people are a good people and have made mighty good and useful citizens and if the matter can be given them in the light of truth and justice they will do everything in their power for the cause of the country that has given them better homes and greater opportunities than were offered in their native land. Dr. E. W. Strecker delivered a stirring address and many of the good loyal people there did their bit. A hundred and forty dollars of the Keener allotment of $250 was subscribed. The following named merchandise we are now selling for less than wholesale prices: Men’s and boys’ clothing, muslin and knit underwear, rugs, shoes, women’s and children’s dresses, all kinds of hosiery, dress goods, ginghams, percales, calicoes, etc.—The G. E. Murray Co.