Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1905 — M. W. A. STATE CAMP MEETING. [ARTICLE]

M. W. A. STATE CAMP MEETING.

At the M. W. A. State Camp meeting at South Bend Wednesday the following delegates and alternates from this district were chosen for the Head Camp meeting which is held at Milwaukee next month: R. B. Spellman of Lafayette, and Theodore 'Jesse of Valparaiso, delegates; F. E. Babcock of Rensselaer, and J. H. Lehman of Crown Point alternates. Our district was represented on the various committees by Chas. W. McClain, of Kentland, resolutions; G. A. Proctor of Crown Point, credentials, and R. W. Merchant of Brookston, assistant sergeant at arms. Mr. Theodore Jesse, the northern delegate to the Head Camp meeting, will be remembered by many Rensselaer people, as he was a clerk in the Chicago Bargain Store in the early nineties.

Will 8. Arnold of Marion was elected State Consul, and Arthur J. Miller of Mt. Vernon, was reelected State Clerk for another term. The State delegates were handsomely entertained by Mayor Fogerty and the South Bend Woodmen, and many were the words of S raise heard on all sides of the eauty of South Bend. The meeting two years hence will be held at Terre Htfute, although New Albany, Ft. Wayne and Linton were anxious to secure same.