The Stevens Point Women's Club supported schools, women, labor forces, suffrage, and the community, and after the Great War it led the effort to create South Side Memorial Park in Stevens Point as a memorial to the men of Portage County who defended their nation. In 1921, three years after the end of World War 1, the city purchased land north and west of what is now known as the Church Street underpass for use as a park. Shortly afterward, the Stevens Point Woman's Club urged the City Park Commission to rename it South Side Memorial Park and raised $1800 to build a memorial. In July 1923, the park was dedicated with Rear Admiral Albert W. Grant, a native son, as the main speaker, and he praised the Women's Club for its efforts to erect the memorial. The site was fitting because most if not all soldiers would have left for or returned from the war from the train platform just south of the park. The club later helped sponsor the monument's rededication in 2010. During the war, large numbers of women entered jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight, expanding beyond teaching and domestic work into clerical positions, sales, garment and textile factories, transportation, construction, war production, and Red Cross service. In 1917, the government rationed food and other vital materials so enough supplies would be available for war production, soldiers, and civilians, and with no television or radio, posters placed throughout communities became a major tool for spreading messages urging voluntary reductions in the consumption of meat, wheat, fats, sugar, metals, and other materials as Americans on both the home front and the war front made sacrifices to win the war.