Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1917 — Don’t Mist The Knitting Contest This Evening. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Mist The Knitting Contest This Evening.

Our citizens will be provided with a novel entertainment this evening in the way of a knitting contest, which will be staged in the windows of the Red Cross rooms. The contest will occur from seven-thirty to nine o’clock, and will be staged in an attempt to further increase the interest in the Red Cross work and to show just what our ladies are doing in the way of providing for our soldier and sailor boys. Did we say ladies? We meant to say ladies and children—and men, for among the participants in the performance this evening will be J. H. Holden, Chas. Malchow and Orval Kane, who say they are just as proficient with a knitting needle as any lady. Other contestants will be: Mrs. Frances Hopk ins, Miss Katherine Watson, Marjorie Hill, Ruth Thompson and Margaret Myer.