Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1920 — PERHAPS THEIR WIVES OBJECT TO COMPETITION [ARTICLE]

PERHAPS THEIR WIVES OBJECT TO COMPETITION

Declaring against the use or presence in the homes -of their members of talking machines, the annual conference of the old order branch of the Brethren church came to a close at Hoovers, twelve miles east of Logansport yesterday. Five thousand people attended. Some of the more conservative sought to obtain from the council action forbidding the use of the automobile, calling it a “devil” machine. This move failed.