Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — GOME OUT TO THE WAR CONFERENCE [ARTICLE]

GOME OUT TO THE WAR CONFERENCE

To Bo Held li Rensselaer Nut Tusday, January 29. IS COUNTY WIDE IN SCOPE Speakers of State and National Reputation Will Be Present and Address the Meetings, A county-wide conference df all societies and agencies of the Jasper County Council of Defense will be held in Rensselaer next Tuesday and, weather permitting, it is expected that there will be a very large attendance. The schools of the county, it is understood, will be dismissed for most part at least and the teachers will attend the meetings together with many of the school patrons and pupils. The State Council of Defense is to send speakers here of national and state reputation who will address the general meetings, which will be held at the Methodist church, one at 1:30 p. m. and another at 7:30 p. m. Following the general meeting in the afternoon, as announced in Wednesday’s Democrat, will be sectional meetings at the court house, armory and Methodist church —the Fuel, Food, Woman’s Work, Educational and Agricultural committees to meet at the court house; the Military committee at the armory; the Morals committee at the Methodist church, and the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. in the directors’ room in the new First National bank. The Democrat has not been advised as yet as to what speakers will he sent here to address the general meetings. The chairman of the committee of each sectional meeting is to provide the program for such meeting.