Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1920 — WHAT DEMOCRATIC WOMEN ARE DOING [ARTICLE]

WHAT DEMOCRATIC WOMEN ARE DOING

The county was well represented by both men and women of the Democratic county workers at the meeting Thursday afternoon at the Democratic headquarters. Plans were laid for taking the poll in the most efficient manner; each woman poll taker being furnished with printed instructions from the state. Mrs. Olive Beldon Lewis,, a former well-known state organizer for the Franchise league, is at the bead of the women’s organization work of the Democratic state committee, which is an assurance that this important work will be capably handled. Mrs. A. P. Rainier, Miss Gertrude Besse and others of Remington, Miss Alice Ryan of Gillam, as well as the local precinct chairmen, were on hand, anxious to get the work under way id their respective pljjecincta. The first social gathering in the new headquarters, which itave been newly furnished and papered, was held yesterday afternoon, when eight tables of euchre constituted the program. This was the first of a series of social gatherings which will be held each alternate Friday, the school of citizenship meeting on the other Fridays of the month.