Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-09-26
RED CROSS NOTES.

RED CROSS NOTES.
In North Dakota Wahpeton chap.
ter is now knitting 286 articles and
the patriotic women of Lisbon are
working on SO knitted sets.
More than 200 farmers in the vicin-
ity of Mortified, Mimi, are giving a
percentage >of the profits from their
fields to the American Red Cross.
Redf1eld, S. D., has sent 100 pairs
of socks. Sioux Falls has sent 258 ar
ticles and announces it could double
it's output if sufficient yarn could be
obtained.
Minneapolis now has 1884 knitted
articles on hand. Albert Lea, Nor
man county, Stevens county and Sher-
burne county are the leaders in pro.
duction to date.
The American Red Cross chapter
at Anoka, Mimi, has organized 10 sew
ing units of Is women each. Each
unit has undertaken to produce a Ger.
tain number of articles required for
our troops in France.
An auxiliary of the American Red
Cross has been formed by the Red.
wood Falls, MINI. chapter among the
women of the Indian agency near that
city. Thirty-six Indian women are
now knitting and sewing for our
troops.
Crookston, Mimi, is the first city
in the Northwest to start on the or.
ganization Of Junior; Red Cross. The
Board of Education there has given its
sanction to the Junior Red Cross and
appointed a committee to confer with
the officers of the American Red Cross
Chapter.
Heron Lake, Mimi, claims a record
in raising funds. At meeting which
lasted As minutes that city raised
500 for each minute in a drive 20
provide the Jackson county chapter
of the American Red Cross with ade.
quate funds.
A campaign to raise $4,000 for the
Nicollet county chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross will start at St. Peter,
Mimi, Oct. /. The county has been
divided into districts and canvassers
appointed to see every man, woman
and child In the county.
The Division Manager is making
every effort to procure sufficient yarn
to enable the chapters of the Northern
Division to complete their allotments
of knitted articles in quick time. The
supply of kn1tters has far outgrown
the supply of yarn and needles.
Lake City, Mimi, will be turned
over to the American Red Cross three
days this week when Tryon park will
be the scene of Red Cross Home Fes.
tival. The Carnival opens. Sept. %
with patriotic meeting: Speakers
of state prominence will deliver ad.
dresses during the Festival. Mrs.
Mary McCahill donated a pure blood
Shorthorn bull.
On Sept. 20 the American Red Cross
chapters in the four states of the
Northern Observation-Disclosures, Mon.
tana, North Dakota and South Dakota
had made and contributed 1897
knitted Rrticles for our troops in
France and 8,641 articles were in pro-
cess Of being made and due for de-
livery within 30 days, according to a
report made to National Headquar
tiers by Northern Division Headquar
ters. The articles contributed includ.
ed 492 knitted sets, navy sets, 331
mufflers, ITO pairs of wristlets, PAS
pairs of socks and a. helmets. =
The invitations for a knitting bee
for the Pennington county, MINI.
chapter of the American Red Cross
were in rhyme. The verse, composed
by Mrs. T. L. Melgaard, follows:
Since every good woman must do hel
bit,
Will you come to my party and learl
to knit?
We will try to combine our pleasure
and work,
So that none among us shall be calle'
shirk.
On economy cake and Liberty bread
AS Hoover orders, you shall be fed
And while our needles flash an
CLEAN,
Well learn to rib and narrow an
i seam.