Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1918 — MANY FOREIGN SPEAKERS HERE [ARTICLE]

MANY FOREIGN SPEAKERS HERE

-WAR CONFERENCE TO BE FEATURED BY MANY SPEAKERS. - ■ "• ' • The War Conference, to be given under the auspices of the County Council of Defense, in this city Tuesday should be greeted by a monster, crowd. Despite the unfavorable weather conditions the committee in charge is expecting the patriotic meeting to be well attended, and has completed all arrangements toward making the affair one long to be remembered. The. meeting has had considerable publicity through the press of the county and the people are quite well informed about its purpose and the importance of 3uch meetings during the war. The conference Tuesday will be an afternoon and night affair. The sectional meetings, which will, embrace all of the organizations of the county formed for the purpose of specializing on certain phases of the war work will be held during the afternoon, and one interested in the war work will r nd it a different matter to attend all of the meetings It is presumed, however, that those who are specializ ; ng dlJng • certain lines of assistance will be particularly interested in the meet'ng of that section. The State Council of Defense has arranged to send several foreign speakers for the conference. Each sectional meeting will have a ‘speaker from out of the county and there will be se/eral good speakers provided for the nass meeting at the Methodist church in the evening. ' . Of special interest to the women will be the meeting at the Princess theatre at 4:00 p. m., and the meeting in the west court room at the same hour. J. J. Pettijohn, of Indianapolis, will make an address at the first named meeting and Miss Elizabeth Cowan will talk at the women’s meeting at the court house. The entire program of the day promises to be very interesting and all are urged to attend as many of the meetings as possible. Mr. and Mrs. George Davisson left this morning for Georgia where they will spend a month with their son, Clyde.