Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-09-28
RED CROSS DOTNGS 's'i:.
In OTHER CITIES
Heron Lake Raised 500 a Minute
for As Minutes Stevens County
Among Leaders

be the scene of Red Cross Home Fes-
tival. The Carnival opens Sept. ~
with a patriotic meeting. Speakers
of state prominence will deliver ad-
dresses during the festival. Mrs.
Mary McCahill donated pure blood
Shorthorn bull which will be dis
posed of by lot the last day.
Heron Lake, Mimi, claims rec
ord in raising funds. At meeting
which lasted As minutes that city
raised 500 for each minute in a
drive to provide the Jackson county
chapter of the American Red Cross
with adequate funds.
A campaign to raise $4,000 for
the Nicollet county chapter of the
American Red Cross will start at st.
Peter. Mimi, Oct. l. The county
has been divided into districts and
canvassers appointed to see every
man, woman and child in the county.
Crookston, Mimi, is the first city
in the Northwest to start on the or
ganizatiOp of a Junior Red Cross.
The board of education there has
given it's sanction to the Junior Red
Cross and appointed a committee to
confer with the officers of the Ameri-
can Red Cross Chapter.
More than 200 farmers in the vi
cinity of Mortified, Mimi, are Civ
ing a percentage of the profits from
their fields to the American Red
Cross.
The American Red Cross chapter
at Anoka, Mimi, has organized 10
sewing units Of Is women each.
a certain number of articles required
for our troops in France.
The invitations for a knitting bee
for the Pennington county, Mimi,
chapter Of the American Red Cross
were in rhyme. The verse, composed
by Mrs. T. L. Melgaard, follows:
Since every good woman must do her
bit,
Will you come to my party and learn
to knit?
We will try to combine our pleasures
and work,
a shirk
On economy cake and Liberty bread,
AS Hoover orders, you shall be fed;
And while our needles flash and
CLEAN,
Well learn to rib and narrow and
seam.
An auxiliary of the American Red
Cross has been formed by the Red
wood Falls, Mimi, chapter among
the women of the Indian agency near
that city. Thirty-six Indian women
are now knitting and sewing for our
troops.
A Fourth of July fund.- raised in
1909 and never used has been don
ated by Candy, Mimi, to the Ameri-
can Red Cross as the most fitting and
patriotic way Candy could celebrate.
When the fund was placed in a bank
eight years ago it amounted to
$225.66. It had accumulated $9O.26
in interest. The gift was announced
this week.
On Sept. 20, the American Red
Cross chapters in the four states of
the Northern Minnesota
Montana, North Dakota and South
Dakota-has made and contributed
1897 knitted articles for our troops
in France and 8,641 articles were
in process of being made and due
for delivery within 80 days, accord
ing to report made to National
Headquarters by Northern Division
Headquarters. The articles contri-
buted included 492 knitted sets, 8
navy sets, 331 mufflers, ITO pairs
of wristlets, 2143 pairs of socks and
A helmets.
In North Dakota Wahpeton chapt-
er is now knitting 286 articles and
the patriotic women of Lisbon are
working on so knitted sets.
Redfeld, S. D., has sent 100 pairs
of socks. Sioux Falls has sent 258
articles and announces it could dou-
bic its output if sufficient yarn could
be obtained.
Minneapolis now has 1884 knit
ted articles on hand. Albert Lea,
Norman county, Stevens county and
Sherburne county are the leaders in
production to date.
The Division Manager is making
every effort to procure sufficient yarn
to enable the chapters of the North
ern Division to complete their al1ot-
ments of kitted articles in quick
time. The supply of knitters has
far outgrown the supply of yarn and
needles.