Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1917 — Community Meeting to Be Held At Parr September 6th. [ARTICLE]

Community Meeting to Be Held At Parr September 6th.

Program. Song, America, by all. Wheat—And All Its Phases —Co. Agent Learning. Discussion, C. D. Lakin, Joseph Kosta, and S. A. Brusnahan. Thoroughbred Cattle, Beginning— O. S. Bell. Discussion, ope nto all. Recitation—Hazel Stephenson. Song—Anistasia Lakin. Necessity so the Attendance of Children in School—G. H. Hammerton. Song—Beatrice Piatt. Conservation and Patriotism—W. L. Wood. Song—Millie McCurtain. Selection—L. L. McCurtain. Closin gSong—Star Spangled Banner, by all. We have as our authority, J. J. Hunt for the statement that the month of August, just ending, is the first month for eleven months past in which there has been no frost. This statement was submitted to Charles Chamberlain and he says it is correct, but that Abraham Halleck is. working on the lower Kankakee and not the lower Iroquois ditch. The proposed Williams ditch is an extension of the Kankakee . river improvement (Not from Abe Martin.) L ■ The Trust and Savings Bank will move Monday into the rear of the building now occupied by the State Bank. The State Bank will move into the room vacated by the Trust Bank.