The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-15
BISMARCK HOME
I. GUARD TO MAKE
DRIVE FOR R. {.
Ten Squads will Report at Com
mercial Club Monday to Launch
City Campaign
BURLEIGH COUNTY HOPES
TO WIN STATES BANNER
Will Seek to Lead North Dakota
in Increase Members to
se Get Service Flags

oA46AG oAu COL y AAAo1uuy AAAAo
the Bismarck Home Guard, 100 strong,
will launch the Capital City's Red
Cross membership drive, determined,
in Bismarck, to make it RED Cross
Christmas" indeed. The plan was
placed before the guardsmen at their
weekly drill in the state armory last
evening, and it met with hearty and
unanimous approval. 1t was determin-
ed that each squad should be assigned
a certain section of the city to cover,
and there is expected to result a
wholesome rivalry which will aid to
the success of the campaign.
Most of all the worthwhile, able.
bodied, red.blooded American Inen Of
Bismarck are active or associate mem.
bers of the Bismarck Home Guard,
and when they place their shoulders
to a wheel, that wheel is bound to re.
volve. Chairman H. p. Goddard to-
day expresses satisfaction that on
Christmas eve there will not be a
single dwelling, flat or apartment, bus.
mess house or office In Bismarck
without its Red Cross service flag
sending out into: the night it's CHEEKY
message of Peace on Earth, Good
Will to Men,"
Must Get. Flags
Burleigh county now mas 100 Rel
Cross members. 1t is hoped through
the drive which formally begins with
services in all the churches of the
county Sunday to increase this total
to 1900 or 5000.
Al! Red Cross memberships taken
out prior to'July l, 1917, will be con
sidered to have expired as of Decem'
ber /, and It will be as much the pur.
pose of this drive to procure renewals
as to obtain new memberships. Mem.
bership procured since July /, 1917,
will run until December 81, 1918, up,
on which date the new memberships
and the renewals taken in the drive
beginning Monday will expire.
The Bismarck Home Guard has de-
cided to handle the drive in squad
formation. l.Iere will be len groups
of eight men each, under the regular
corporals, and there will be an Of.
hcers' squad headed by Capt. E. G.
Nanner. Tne squads will be headed
as follows: Squad No. /, Corp. W.
T. LOmas; Squad No. 2, Corp. L. e.
Marks; Squad No. 3, Corp. F. A. Lahr;
Squad No. 4, Corp. J. r. Clinton, vice
Corp. p. r. Fields, who was compelled
TO leave for the east today on busi'
ness mission; Squad No. 5, Corp. F. A.
Copelin; Squad NO. 6; Corp John A.
Larson; Squad No. 7, Corp J. L.. Whit
, ney; Squad No. 8, Corp. G.. w. Nc
Gray; Squad No. 8, Corp. James A.
Brown; Squad No. 1C, Corp. Grant
Marsh.
All of the squads will report at noon
each day during the big drive, com
pare notes and swap encouragement
and suggestions. 1t Is tAe desire OF
President Wilson that every home in
America take at least one 81 Red
cross membership, which entities the
holder to the National Red Cross
magazine, an interesting periodical
which brings the most recent Red
Cross news each month. A family
may take 81 membership and as
many single dollar-memberships as it
pleases, and it is entitled to star on
It's service flag for each membership
! taken. ...,
I "Burleigh county wants to win that
1 silk banner which carries with it the
/ state championship" said Chairman
i H. =. Goddard this morning. Judge
I Young advised by wire just this morn
1 ing that the banner is to be awarded
to the county showing tie largest per-
4 centage of Red Cross memberships at
/ the close of the drive. Burleigh
| county can win it, and if we all do
our best | know she will win it. We
4 want that banner here in the state
capital of North Dakota
Women Point the Way,
"The women of Bismarck and Bur
4 leigh county who are knitting their
/ hearts and souls into sweaters and
4 mufflers and sox for the boys at the
II front are putting the men of this com
\ munity to shame. The least we can
/ do is to put our dollars at work, buy
ing the yarn which these women must
\ have. We can't afford to let our
wives and mothers and sisters and
sweethearts call us slackers We've
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