Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-19
Red Cross Week
in Gardiner

On Monday evening at o'clock the
! members OF the executive committee
| Tor the Red Cross Week Campaisn and
the members of the six soliciting teams
met at the Community Club. At this
meeting flnal plans were perfected for
the campaign in Gardiner. The reports
OF the members of the executive COM
mlttee were most encouraging, and a
number OF subscriptions were reported
In advance of the campaign.
The members of the yarious teams
selected the names of citizens of Car
diner, Farmingdale and Randolph to
whom personal appeal will be made.
Each member of the team was assign
ed his list of names and this morning
the campaign opens in earnest. 1t is
Gardeners task to raise $4,000. This
means for Gardiner, Randolph and
, Farmingdale, about one dollar for ey
cry man, woman and child, or in 9TH
er words, 1t means five dollars for each
and every family. AS to the Justice
OF this appeal perhaps no better state
ment may be made than the following
letter addressed to Mrs. Charles n
Gray by Kenneth Robbie, secretary of
the War Councils:
! Dear Madam:
within few weeks our local bows
Will stand upon foreign soil benea tn
the Stars and Stripes. prepared to rep
resent our great nations ideals. y,ior
and entering this great conflict for the
preservation of human rights for mere
personal glory
1t has been observed by those who
! follow the lines of battle to bury the
dead soldiers, that in the dying hour
the soldier unclasps his weapon and
reaches Tor the inner pocket to touch
some faded letter, some little keepsake.
some likeness of wife, or mother. These
pathetic facts teach us that it is love
of God, and Home and Native Land
that inspires the soldier and makes his
arm invincible.
When your son, or friend, receives the
command "Out of the trenches and AZ
them. and God bless YOU" will he do so
with the certainty that 100OO0,D0o free
born Americans at home have met their
obligations in financial sacrifices and or
gained relief to meet the veritable hell
OF suffering he goes forth to meet and
conquer?
Each night of campaign week I wish
you would wire the War Council where
your citizens stand on this human. and
patriotic issue. There will be an honor
roll of cities in Washington May we
record your ctys name each day as lead
ing all the others of similar size in your
great patriotic State?"
The following is the list Of men who are
serving On the soliciting teams Each
man will be provided with the official
form or blank subscription card and all
subscriptions will be acknowledged in
this manner. AS soon as contributions
are received by the treasurer he will is
sue to the donor serially numbered re-
ceipt.
Team No. I: S. D. Soule, captain;
Ralph Mairs, John Mcdonald. H. F.
Twombly, Geo. o. Smith, H. p. Winslow.
Team No. .: E. H. Maxcy, captain;
Harry G. Coombs, DR.. H. NJ. Church,
Wlfred Demers. w E. Maxcy, W. R.
Frost.
Team No. 8: Chas. H. Gray. captain;
Earle Hodgkins. Edmund Lucas. DR.. c. J.
Bragdon.
Team No. 4: A. J. Burns, captain: w.
c. Atkins. E. W. Ellis, F. S. Smith. Nor
ris Potter, Rev Chas. W. Robinson.
Team No. 5: E. A. Wagner, captain:
Stephen D. MONAGHAN. Thos. Devine, NJ.