Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Regular Report Of The Ladies’ Literary Club. [ARTICLE]

Regular Report Of The Ladies’ Literary Club.

Undaunted by the severe weather’ conditions, the larger number of the members of the Ladies’ Literary dub listened to the program given Friday afternoon at the library auditorium. Punctuality and regularity of attendance have been especially emphasized by the president, Mrs. F. B. Learning, who exemplified the efficiency which she expects of others in these strenuous times by knitting diligent! v on a Red Cross sweater while performing her official duties, calling attention to the need of doing old things in a new wa< saying that as many were busy with their hands the voting hereafter would be by “ayes” and nayes,” thus avoiding anv dropped stitcnes. Mrs. O. F. Parker, chairman of the committee, who had charge of the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals gave the following very satisfactory report which showed the largest sale of - its kind in the county’s history: Number of seals sold, 20,253. Sum realized, $202.53. Jasper’s 25 per cent., $50.63. Indiana Society’s 75 per cent., $151.90. The school sold 7,248 seals and as a reward were given two $3 pictures, which went to the grades selling the most seals. The grades taught by Misses Ryan and Parkinson received the pictures. The committee has been to some little expense in conducting the drive' but/ have decided to take care •f the expense them selves. The club is supposed and urged tv use the money realized from •the sale as an. anti-tuberculosis fund. 6. H. McKay presented the society with $2 and pledged $1 a montn toward the prevention of tuberculosis during the war. Following the report, Mrs. Parker then read a very complimentary letiter from the chairman of the state who stated that the name "of our county would appear in the national

honor roll. . Review of the history of South America through the biographies of the political and military leaders was made, beginning with that of Francisco Pizzaro, the daring Spanish conqueror of Peru who explored and conquered the, country for Spam at the beginning of the sixteen century, by Mrs. E. N. Loy and followed by that of Jose San Martini, a military leader of Argentina who had a military training in the Spanish wars in Africa and the peninsula and who aided his struggling countrymen m establishing their independence, given by Mrs. C. C. Starr. Mrs. C. G Spitler read the paper prepared by Mrs. A. F. Long, portraying the lives -of two well known residents of Paraguay, Carlos and Francisco Lopez, who aided in. the. political reconstruction of their own country. Mrs. W. L. Bott described the work of Don Ambrosio O’Higgins. The biography of the well known South American liberator, Simon Bolivar, was given by one of the new members, Mrs. Hale Warner. Mrs. G. A. Williams in a paper on the “Wars of Independence of South America,” discussed the great political changes in South America that transformed this great continent from colonial possessions of Spain and Portugal to independent republics which are destined, no doubt, as time goes on to play an important part in the future political and economic history of the world. Mm J. B. Fleming described the consular, military, civil, life-saving, diplomatic ani. public health service of our own-country in a helpful and enlightening manner. ; t - • The responses to roll call were the spelling and locating of a city in South Amenta. . The meeting closed with a reading by Mrs. B; F. Forsythe.