The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
Big Companies Here Are Be-
hind Soldiers to a Man.
400 of Their Workers Join the
Topeka Army of Mercy.
OTHER FIRMS TO FOLLOW
All Plans Made for the Opening
of Drive Monday.
Workers To Take Lunch at
Chamber of Commerce.

L In the Christmas Red Cross mem
bership campaign which officially be-
/ gins in the business section of the
| city and the county outside of city
Monday noon. three Topeka firms, the
/ Inter Ocean mills, the Page Milling
Co, and the Topeka Milling Co, and
their employees, have already proven
/ themselves 100 per cent back of the
| Boys in Olive Drab, it was announced
| today by Morton Albaugh, chairman
of the committee in charge of the
Shawnee county drive. The three
mills today notified Albaugh that their
officials and employees, without an ex-
ception, have purchased memberships
of the Red Cross.
The total memberships purchased
in the three companies tota1ed nearly
400
Albaugh explained that the officials
of the mills handled their own cam
paign among employees. All other To-
peka mills, adm scores of large Topeka
business firms are doing the same
thing, he asserted, and without a
doubt will keep up the pace set by
companies.
Luncheon for Workers.
All is set for the beginning of the
drive Monday noon, Albaugh asserted.
The men have been fully organized for
the business district campaign and all
these workers are requested to attend
the Monday Chamber OF Commerce
luncheon without fail. Those who are
to attend include both the citizens
committee, the Christmas membership
committee and all workers connected
with the business district drive. The
workers are to come to the luncheon
prepared to take the field Immediate
ly after the talk by Bishop James
Wise.
B. B. Merriam, head of the COM
mittee in charge of the county outside
of the city, announced today that his
workers were practically organized.
A captain, with some exceptions, has
been named for the school districts
and places not filled today will be
occupied Monday.
Oakland will be practically the last
place of any size in the county to be
organized. 1t will be organized fully,
it was said today, Sunday afternoon
at a meeting wherein w. A. Biby
and Albaugh will be the principal
speakers. Several meetings are sched-
uled in the city and over the county
between this afternoon and the first
part of the week. This afternoon at
O'Clock the Red Cross drive was pre-
sented and explained before the Pa
mona grange in convention at the Y.
w C. A by c. B. Merriam and
others. Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock
a meeting will be- held at Lyman school
house. Another will be held Monday
evening at the Boys Industrial school
before the Kaw Valley institute and
extension SCHOOL
Women Are Organized.
The women workers who are to can
Vass the residence section of the city
beginning Wednesday, are fully or
ganized with the exception of one or
two precincts.
I'VE are ready to go into action"
Albaugh said today. Everything is
set. In the churches tomorrow the
ministers will preach Red Cross ser
mons and our start will be well uni
fled.
Ten years from now there will be
two great badges of honor in this
country. The greatest, of course will
be the honorable discharges of the
soldiers who went into the trenches
and won this war. The other will be
the record made at home by those
who couldn't go into the trenches
showing that they contributed to the
relief of the soldiers and in that way
helped win the war. The latter rec
ord can be made by joining the Red
Cross"
The following are the ward vice.
chairmen:
First ward, Mrs. J. p. Hicks
Second ward, Mrs. H. L. AIkire.
Third ward, Mrs. H. S. Morgan.
Fourth ward, Miss Nanon Herren.
Firth ward, Mrs. H. w. Roby
Sixth ward, Mrs. w. w KitcheIl
Each precinct has a captain and
neutenants- In some instances the
latter number as many as eighteen.
The team workers, whose names are
IN the hands of the precinct captains,
constitute an army. The various pre-
cinct captains are:
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