The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-11-16
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
CITY'S RED CROSS DAY
Campaign Started to Raise Funds to Finance Local Red
Cross Chapter. Funds Are Badly Needed to
Carry On the Work. Everyone Is
Asked to Help.

A rousing meeting was held in the
club rooms of the Chamber of Com
merce and. Agriculture Tuesday even
ing, called by Mayor Murray for the
purpose of discussing the needs of,
and ways and means of, financing the
local chapter of the Red Cross.
Attorney Thomas Dignan addressed
the meeting at length, setting forth
the magnitude and multitude of duties
which fall upon the National Red
Cross organization. Mr.. Dignan
pointed out the fact that the work of
arranging for the feeding of Ameri-
can prisoners who are detained in
German military camps also fell upon
this society. The fact that the Ameri-
can troops are already in the trenches
and that any day we may receive word
that many of them have been cap
tured, makes this part of the work
most urgent, for it is well known
fact that Germany is pinched for pro-
visions for her own troops and it is
only reasonable to presume that the
prisoners will suffer hunger, perhaps
starvation at their hands, unless food
stuffs are sent in from the outside.
The Glasgow chapter has at all
times been one Of the most active and
most productive of results in the
state, but the loyal hearted women
who have been giving so freely of
their time and labors to the work,
have been handicapped by the fact
that they have at times not had suf-
ficient financial means to purchase
the necessary materials to work up.
Right now the chapter is sadly in
need of money with which to purchase
a supply of yarns and other materials
and at the same time they have many
offers daily and calls for material to
work on, which they are unable to
furnish. The women are doinng their
part nobly and it now devolves upon
the men of the county to see to it
that the organization is amply fl
nanced.
The question is most vital one and
one that every man, woman and child
in the nation should take to heart.
We may hear any day now that some
of the boys who left from Valley
county have been either killed or
wounded, and the thought that we
have done "our bit" toward financing
the Red Cross will be a solacing
thought when this news comes in.
Every dollar, every fifty cent piece,
and every quarter counts in the hand
some aggregate. If all who are able
would contribute from fifty cents to
two dollars per month regularly the
Valley County Red Cross chapter and
it's auxiliaries would have ample
funds with which to purchase the much
needed materials.
Remember that Tuesday, November
27, has been set aside as Valley Coun-
ty Red Cross day and if a committee
fails to call upon you, look one up
and get your donation down anyway.
The county schools, churches and
societies of every kind are joining to-
gether to make this campaign one of
the most successful of the year.
Mayor Murray has appointed a COM
mittee of nine men in Glasgow to work
in cooperation with the local chapter
and it's auxiliaries and this committee
will arrange for the appointment Of
subcommittee in the different towns
throughout the county. 1t is the
earnest desire of the committee that
every home and business place in the
county be solicited on Red Cross day
and that everyone give what he or she
can afford.
The coming week the Four Minute