New Britain herald., 1917-06-18
First Few Hours of Solic for Red Cross and
 c. A. Army Camps ' Show Returns of $12G
COMMITTEES REP0
 AT NOON LIJNCHE(I||

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 $loo, ,ooO, 900 Opens All over
 try Connccttcus to Give 91l
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 With weather favoring. tho M away day of the campaign for 31 500 for the Red Cross and 4Js1f M. c. A. Army Camp fund opSa this city. At the, noon day Iunk5 held in the banquet hall nk Britain lodge, R. F. Q. E.. m confidence was noted as the afty representing ten teams got Gofiif the work. Vociferous appiaaiSe S ed the announcement of Ckxl Clarence F. Bennett that ti1,6fr. realized on the first days cax1 this amount. having been s1Ge l by corporatikn interests. W1flky as an impetus. the workers ohaS5f Saturday, have attained the8 While no lunches woro about today. the carpentAr whps ed the blackboard on which
 ceipts of every days campa12 be recorded, evidently had
 monition that 1t would reauar large board for after 1t sha& s9a completed, 1t was found thaf too large to get In the bu1lx alterations were made this The workers on the Qhfl1l$ .'sept men of business ahal4 have. in similar carnpat m a 11l their worth. Seated It EhdS table today were the fo1 Chairman C.. E. Bennett.
 George "A. Qutgleys Rev. JciSs !; {, ters, Rev. Warren IF. Co0 F. Smith, Howard lSet5i :.
 Brooks and A. w.. ta1( ' v Y sa Father WihtArs ofrsre4 lfS Y isopeHing of the luncbaosl < At tic 6ondt6siors Cisnax nett explained thht ! would be conducted na0uS Il7sS
 lar to that of the Boys sass are made out cont 1fnlaH X names of, the persons licited, and no member IT 0x5 ed to take more mes he can canvas in one dAy Affol nouncing the amount alread scribed, the chairman spojlx needs at the front and he h0t was confident that the sum V to the committee would be He announced that tho la.j would be served every noDE o'clock. He then prcscntes1 Quigley. s@
 May Send Io,0oo, 900 Afos. A The municipal. executive tSaT his wishes to the workers fotsH0& in their work. He spoke nf t1sH
 ent time which should be cont
 as one sacrifice. The boys. M15 marching away, are the ones mako tlse, sacrifice; however,, AQ4j persons who will cc,stFfbute financial aid. The, pressAt cNs5S1 which the committed IT stSFttn9 IT
 is but a forcrunnax of othcxa en2 low. With an. air Of opt tt1nixHx Qusgley spoke of the ligSt xn9xtlll which many persons treat th4s crisis. many evinctnG an air a faction t71at troops arc s1s across tho ocean and are hoaltl lsf \ Germany will be licked witAitl E short tirnc. The speaker Batd t . talk with Q military tsth6x@l gently in New York, tlsjs : formed him that in his ops nh present conflict would last fr0nA to five years, and would siiece the sending across to foreign Q4 X OOO.O0O soldiers. The spealN
 that he believed New Britain
 do her share in the coming cA1
 and if the citizens do not S6& to expectations he would be S1l( of them. In . letter recetv4 morning. he was informed thAkS Britain companies now in were short 105 men and thix
 must be made up before July 1ss
 Father Winters was the pf} speaker of the day. and he rS . circular letter received fr6 Rev. Bishop John ]. Milan Of
 diocese, In which the suppof$
 Catholic churches in thin ctS
 state is urgently asked in
 money for the Red Cross nAA4 At the outset of his remaSlH
 Winters said that all those Of t nomination not solicited by mes of the committee would be r1a1 through collections to be tAkeN next Sunday. even the children sofs parish being asked to contribute z mite.
 Reiterating his remarks to 5 parishioners yesterday, the priest that conditions at present made imperative that all should Join. aiding our allies in this war, fo America failed to do so. in shore 1t would be forced to comDatSl the enemy ct its own door. take the Germans a long tlMAs forgive us, as she holds us to ni! for this war, and If she is not A4I she will send her ships over he8 our beloved land" the sRA
 warned. The present colossat t
 Scon,.nus4 ion 1sntA