Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1919 — VAN RENSSELAER QUARTERS [ARTICLE]

VAN RENSSELAER QUARTERS

Have Been Partially Remodeled and Now Have Furnace Heat. The Van Rensselaer club members now have very comfortable and commodious quarters these winter/ days and evenings In which to spend an idle hour or two in their club rooms on the second floor of The Democrat building, which have recently been, remodeled to some extent by taking out the two partitions on the south and throwing the three rooms into one large billiard and pool room, which is equipped with both a fine billiard table and a good pool table. This still leaves the commodious front room and the room immediately in the rear of , same for •members who do not care for billiards or pool or to watch the games, both of which are comfortbly furnished, while the entire suite is well heated from the furtlace in the basement of the building at all. times. While this club, which is largely made up of business and professional men of Rensselaer, went on a war footing soon after hostilities 'were declared and kept close Shore during the war, in which nearly a score of its members were in active service, it now expects to give a little more attention to social activities and enlarge its membership, as well as its quarters, and to this end is expecting to take on a lease of the third floor of the building it occupies within the next few months and use the large hall on the third floor for banquets, dances, etc., and. will extensively remodel both floors, putting in hardwood floors, removing the hallway partition on the second floor and putting in a handsome open stairway, which changes will give the club very flne and roomy quarters indeed and at a minimum of expense.