Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — WAR CONFERENCE DATE CHANGED [ARTICLE]

WAR CONFERENCE DATE CHANGED

STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE CHANGES JASPER COUNTY CONFERENCE DATE. t Arrangements are being made to hold War Conferences in each of the ninety-two counties of the state. The state council had named the date for > Jaspercounty. This date was February 18. The folowing telegram received from the State Council of Defense Thursday has changed the date to Tuesday, January 29. “In order to be certain of the best speakers from Washington, it is necessary to change the date. Many conference, changing your date from February 18 to January 29. Regret the necessity and will appreciate thoroughly, your assistance in this ’ emergency. The whole -schedule is now worked out satisfactorily and finally if these changes can be made please help in this way, if at all possible. immediate answer by wire is necessary. ' —-~ WILL H. HAYES, Chairman. Charles C. Warner, ex-clerk of the Jasper county circuit court, has been appointed chairman of the War Conference and all are requested to co-

operate with him in every way possible to make the meeting worth while. »The chairman of each of the committees of the Jasper county Council of Defense are to look after the matter of presenting their work to this war conference.This meeting is to be for Jasper county, what the great state war conference was for the state of Indiana. _