People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — Lecture Associltion. [ARTICLE]

Lecture Association.

While the citizens of the upper Iroquois are hustling to gather the water into ditches that the dry land may appear, the citizens of Rensselaer are trying to organize a lecture association to maintain our bodies, minds and souls in support with the best and highest ideal. It is almost as necessary to reason correctly and to practically discern social right and wrong as to provide food, lodging and clothing. The mind makes the man. The mind which can in the bustle of seeking bodily comforts for self and those of its own house find time for a harmonious love, wrestle with science, literature and art needs no mystical aid of doctor, lawyer or preacher to make it happy. As citizens of the town we pay taxes to make drains and streets to maintain schools for our children, while children of a larger growth are wandering off after stimulation, gambling and other seductive but unfriendly habits. This movement to supply philosophy for the learned, imagination for the poet and fun for all, needs the earnest support of every well wisher of our lovely town.

A member of the committee will wait upon each of our citizens in an effort to secure over one hundred members. Mechanics, bankers, merchants, pupils, teachers, public officers, lawyers, doctors, farmers and preachers and gentlemen of leisure should hasten to be one of the centenary members of this organization. All who signify their intention to become members are invited to meet at the court house at 7.30 p. m. on Friday, April 28, to agree upon officers and a plan of organization. We want two hundred members if we can get them. CHAS. W. HANLEY, BENJ. F. FENDIG, JOSEPH HARRIS Committee on solicitation of membership.