Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1918 — HOOSIERS MEET IN WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

HOOSIERS MEET IN WASHINGTON

400 ATTEND FIRST PARTY OF *'*"■• INDIANA SOCIETY AT CAPITAL. , Washington, Dete. .14. —It was a happy gathering of Hoosiers —about 400 of ’em—that attended the season’s first meeting of the Indiana Society of Washington held Wednesday evening in the crystal room Of the Hotel Ebbitt. . T ' Every county of the'state was represented by this Hoosier Four Hundred. Young women war workers, yeowomen, soldiers, sailors, embers of congress and old-time Washington residents who still think of Indiana as home, were all there. The meeting was the occasion for-a reunion Of boys and girls from the same home town for the same college. Many found friends at the meeting whom they did not know to be in Washington. .

George F. Schutt, president of the society and host, received congratulations on all sides on the success of the party. Mr. Schutt, who is proprietor of the New Ebbitt, has not •lived *in Indiana for several years, but he is proud of his Hoosier birth and is loyal to the state and its citizens. His early life was spent at Ft Wayne, where heis widely known in business circles. He was once the publisher of the old Ft. Wayne Journal. Mas. Schutt is a native of Peru, Ind.

Mr. Schutt, as president and host, and Mrs. Schutt, as chairman of the reception committee, were at the head of the receiving line and they extended a welcome hand to their Hoosier guests. They dispensed a brand ofhospitality that everybody liked. “I tm never so happy as when with Hoosiers,” said Mr. Schutt. ‘‘l have pride in the fact that Indiaha was the place of my birth and still the home of many warm friends.” - Those serving on the reception committee with Mr. and Mrs. Schutt included Mrs. J. A. Huston, Mrs. J. P. Hornaday, Mrs. George W. Dix, Miss Anna Brown, Mrs. J. P. Megrew, Mrs. ■! i*. A. Everett, Miss Alice Sanger, Miss Minnie Gurry, Mass Rhea Fuighum, diss Blanch Tenfield, Miss Daisy Mallory, Miss Mildred €. Coldmian, Judge S. J. Peelle, Victor L. Garrigus, Judge J. W. Thompson, H. W. Webber, N. W. Lewis and L. M. Foutz. Miss Curry was chairman of the entertainment committee. Miss Mary Hughel, of Anderson, is recording secretary of the society; J. A., Huston, formerly of Indianapolis, is financial secretary, and Victor L. Garrigus, former Kokomoitet, is the treasurer.

A short program preceded dancing. Mrs. Edith H. Hamilton gave a reading on Hooverizing and Miss Mary Beisser sang. President Schutt spoke briefly, extending a Hoosier welcome. Some of last winter’s meetings did not always appeal to younger members because too often they were characterized by extended speechmaking, but Mr. Schutt 'happily favors “a good time by all” without having some speaker tell the history of Indiana all over again. Nathaniel J. Palzer, a Mt. Vernon boy in soldier’s uniform, was delegated by Mr. Schutt to act as floor manager and he did well with'his job. In an effort to help guests find their home-town friends he called out the names of different towns in Indiana, asking for a display of hands iby persons from those towns. There was a response .to every town mentioned. One Delphi girl thought she was the only representative of that town present, but When that town was called out half a dozen 'hands shot up. At the close of the party Mr. Palzer led n the singing of “Indiana”—a song popular with the people of other states as well as Indiana. Those in attendance from Rensselaer Were Miss Vera Healey, Miss Nell Meyers, Miss Luella Robinson, Miss Edna Robinson, Miss Lucille Luers, Miss Mildred Biggs, Miss Florence IRyan, Miss Clara Plunkett and Capt. C. Arthur Tuteur.