Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1918 — GOOD SPEAKERS ARE PROVIDED [ARTICLE]

GOOD SPEAKERS ARE PROVIDED

BY STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE FOR COUNTY MEETING HERE JAN. 29th. The following letter was received by the editor of the Republican today, containing the list of speakers, who will appear in Rensselaer on January 29, to address the citizens of the county at the County Conference meeting: Mr. Louis H. Hamilton, Sec., Jasper County of Defense. Jan. 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Hamilton: Upon inquiry today at the headquarters of the State Council of Defense, I find that Dr. Wilbur has notified the State Council that he will

be Unable to fill any of his Indiana dates during the first week of his schedule. The State Council has substituted John Ruthledge as the federal speaker. Mr. Ruthledge has Just returned from a special mission •on the French and Italian fronts, -where he -has been studying war conditions. He will be excellently prepared to make the patriotic address and I understand that he is an exceptionally fine speaker. Here is a corrected and full list of the speakers that will be supplied for your County Conference on January 29 th: Federal speaker, John Ruthledge State speakers, R. E* Proctor, of Elkhart, Indiana, and Prof J. J. Pettijohn. Thrift Stamips, Rev. Alfred H. Backus. Red Cross speaker, Ralph Sollett, (Director of Junior Red Cross for Indiana.) Boy Workers Reserve, Fred R. Farman, County Superintendent of Laporte. Woman speaker, Miss Elizabeth Cowan, assistant in Home Economics, Purdue University. This is a fine list of speakers. The State Council has certainly not slighted Jasper County. <■ I certainly hope that you will have a successful Conference. Yours truly, W. S. McMasters. Next Monday, January 28th, the newspapers will be found on sale at the Princess theatre, which will be open all day.

J. J. MONTGOMERY.