Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1918 — EIGHTEEN NOW IN THE SERVICE [ARTICLE]

EIGHTEEN NOW IN THE SERVICE

VAN RENSSELAER CLUB TO PUT ON MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN. The following newly elected directors of the Van Rensselaer club, Van Grant, B. J. Jarrette, Samuel Fendig, Moses Leopold and V. Newels, met in this city and selected the following officers: Presidept, Van Grant. Vice-President, B. J. Jarrette. Secretary, Samuel Laßue. Treasurer, Clifford Payne. This club now has eighteen members in active war service. While in this service they are not required to ..pay dues. It is the purpose of the present membership to invite some thirty-five business men of the city to become members and to keep the club active and progressive during the absence of the boys. An investment has been made in building and loan stock and when this is matured it will give the club a neat sum of money with which to improve quarters and to have the club in splendid condition for the boys when they come home. The club means a great deal to the young men of the city and it proposes as it gains in membership to broaden its influence in the city. Expensive functions and the expenditure of any considerable amount of money will be avoided during the war. Already the eighteen boys who have answered our country’s call are greatly missed. Those who cannot go propose to “keep the home fires burning” and to keep the Van Rensselaer club in condition to give these boys a welcome that will make them know that they have been remembered and that the institution which they founded and which they all loved so dearly, has been perpetuated and will be kept in order, ready with open arms to receive them and have them again assume their association among the fellows where good cheer arid happiness had reigned before duty had called them to the colors. An appeal has been mailed to all members to stick to the club and make possible a home coming as well as a permenant home which clean social enjoyment may be enjoyed by a large membership.