Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — RECEPTION FOR ARMY YOUTHS [ARTICLE]

RECEPTION FOR ARMY YOUTHS

WAR MOTHERS ENTERTAINED RETURNED SOLDIERS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The staid old walls of the Jasper county court house have witnessed many scenes in the last twenty months —the organzation of the Red Cross, Council of Defense. meetings, conservation of food demonstrations, patriotic addresses for the Liberty Loan campaigns, and the final roll call as our soldiers were leaving for the different camps, when they stood with uncovered heads and listened to the words of advice and the parting prayer of some one of our ministers. It must have been a new sensation to hear music, songs and the happy laughter of youth last Saturday afternoon when' the War Mothers gave their first reception to the returned soldiers. • <•! j A short business meeting was held in the G. A. R. room, and the remainder of the afternoon was, devoted to the entertainment of the soldiers ana their friends. Miss Littlefield and Miss Martindale gave two lovely voice numbers. Perry Horton at the piano and Paul Healy with the drum furnished excellent music for dancing. Mrs. Kenneth Allman sang two selections in her usual delightful manner. The War Mothers served cake, ice cream and coffee in the ladies* waiting room. . . x, .xL It has been the intention of the War Mothers to give a reception each month to the returning soldiers if the first one justifies further effort that line. •

Agnes Kahler returned to Dyer Sunday and will agai ntake up her work as a teacher in tht palace. He* friend, Florence Watson, of Goodland, who is the domestic science teacher n the Dyer schools, accompanied Miss Kahler.