People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Fifteen Hundred Delegates. [ARTICLE]

Fifteen Hundred Delegates.

Des Moines, lowa, Oct. 31. —The state convention of the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor has turned out to be a bigger affair than was expected. The 1,500 accredited delegates are nearly all here, together with more than 1,000 visitors. After the praise service yesterday morning R. E. Towles was appointed secretary and the regular committees named. In the evening Dr. F. E. Clark, the originator of the movement, addressed 3,000 people who were crowded into Calvary Tabernacle.