The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-06-21
GREAT ACTIVITY
TO RAISE MONEY
COMMITTEE ORGANIZES AND
PLANS RoUsING CAMPAIGN IN
INTERESTS OF RED CROSS
ENTHUSIASTIC MASS MEETING MONDAY
Team Captains in Every Precinct
Throughout County Seeking to
Raise Dollars.

The weeks activities in the Red
Cross work, since last issue, have
been as varied as anything could be.
The publicity committee wrote to all
the print shops in the county and
asked each II to print for circula-
ton a thousand or more small remind
ers in red and blue on white paper.
SO far as can be learned all promised
to do so.
Saturday evening a general commit
tee meeting was held and the first
arrangements made for the meetings
of this week.
Every pastor in the county, that
could be reached by the publicity Gem
mittee had been written to regarding
the preaching of one sermon on Sun
day on the work of the Red Cross.
This was done as far az we know in
every church in the county, where
the pastor has beer requested.
Monday evening on the lawn in
front of the court house, a general
rally was held to which all the county
had been invited. While the attendance
was not up to the desired mark, sew
eral hundred people attended. With
the band or some other agency to call
people together "a larger crowd would
have been gathered.
Rev. Mr.. Roberts acted as chairman
of the meeting and introduced the
speakers, first of whom was President
Perisho, of state College, whose APP
peal to the people was along the
lines OF the Red Cross needs and the
food necessities of the times. Philo
Hall, who followed, gave some after.
ton to the record of the society end
to some of the mistaken notions re-
garding its scope of work. George A.
Mathews, closed the meeting. with an
address along general lines of the duty
and patriotism of the people as a
whole. He also read a poem by Kip.
ling that was used at the time of the
Boer war to stimulate giving in Eng
land.
After the meeting all those present
work of the week assembled inside
the court house and talked over the
plan of campaign and received such
information on the subject as they
needed.
Taken all in all the meeting was a
good one. The people who were there
showed that the interest in Brook
ings is aroused and that they will do
their duty in full. Frequent applause
greeted the speakers, especially the
call of Mr.. Mathews to double the
amoun set to be raised.
Meetings were held throughout the
country on Tuesday evening and the
following is the program OF places
and speakers. as the same was car
ried out:
Lake Hendricks Township-at Tru-
lock schoolbouse-F. f. Brown and j.
II. Hubbart.
Bruce and adjoining townships
Hall Bruce-President Perisho.
White and adjoining townships
Hall White-Geo. A. Mathews and
Rev. w. A. Mast.
Bushnell Village and township
Hall Bushnell-M. f. Culhane.
Volga City and township-Hall Vol
ga-Philo Hall.
Aurora Village and township-Hall
Aurora Rev. l. NJ. Hargett
Sinai and Lake township-Hall Sin
AIN. G. Carlisle and Rev. B. A. Ben
son.
Como and Bangor township-Hall
Como-A. B. Dalthorp and Rev. D. V.
Richardson.
Elkton and adjoining townships ton
Thursday evening)-Hall Elkton--
Father Shean.
Trenton and Medary townships
Hughson School-Geo. p. Hall and
Rev. NJ. B. Milne.
Reports from all of the meetings
that were held Tuesday evening are
TO the effect that with the exception
of the one arranged for Aurora, they
all had enthusiastic crowds and were
well attended. Through some mad
yertance the a-rrangemen for a sneak
er at the Aurora meeting fell through
and while a large and patriotic crowd