Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — WOMEN TO BE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR [ARTICLE]

WOMEN TO BE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR

The organization now information weparatory to making the Third liberty loan drive, recognizing the iplendid service women are .able to render are planning on giving them a very prominent part in this campaign. That the women of Jasper county will respond to this call there can be no doubt. Under the enthusiastic and efficient leadership of Mrs. Ora T. Ross, Jasper county has taken a very prominent place in the women’s war activities of the state. She has been a very prominent factor in many of the women’s state meetings and has prefected an organization here that is doing a most splendid service. With the hearty co-oper-ation and assistance of many of the women of this community a vast amount of Red Cross material has been prepared and sent forward to be used by that great organization in the most beautiful service ever rendered by “angels of mercy.” Mrs. Ross is also a member of the county council of defense having been appointed by Judge Charles W. Hanley with six others to carry on the work of that organization in this county. At her request $75.00 were set aside by the defense council to be used out of the appropriation made by the county council, to buy yarn with which to knit sox for our soldiers in the service. The purpose of getting this yarn was to knit sox and send them direct to the boys from this county, who might be in need of them. All of the sox knit out of the yarn furnished by the Red Cross have to be sent to the Red Cross headquarters and are sent to the soldiers from there. Yarn has become very expensive and being anxious to make the $75 go as far as possible Mrs. Ross has been slow in placing the order. At the meeting of the council last Wednesday in her report she informed that body that she had at last been able to secure the yarn at $2.75, which is considered a very low price. The yarn was purchased by the “Women’s Patriotic League of New York.” James Lefler went to Hammond this morning.

Terrible Terry McGovern, that little two fisted Irish fighter, took the final count in Brooklyn, N. Y., Friday, from the Great Umpire. McGovern first gained prominence in the padded area in Brooklyn and his rise to the top was swift, and be became champion of the lightweights at an early age, ultimately being dethroned by Young Corbett, a Denver, Colorado third rater at the time. McGovern was noted for his rushing tactics and he never turned down a fight to a title aspirant. He was thirty-seven years of age at the time of his death.