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The Caisson Club Which
Any May Join, Is
Organized
DUES ARE Is CENTS
A MONTH DURING WAR
E Battery Will Receive Spec
ial Attention-Mem-
bers Wanted

An organization which will at once
appeal to every citizen of this vicinity
VINO has a just pride in the Knox
county boys who are going forth to
tight the battles of the United States
was formed at the Y. NJ. c. A. Friday
evening by old members of the
knights of Temperance.
It's name is "The Caisson Club"
/ Its purpose is to supply Knox county
men in the service, and especially
members of L battery, with the little
things which will not ordinarily come
to them.
It's membership is open to any male
resident of the county.
/ Harry Mitchell was elected temper
AIRY chairman and l.. L. Rawinson TEN.
porary secretary. r. I. Arnold was
made chairman of the membership
committee and Donald Fl. Harper of
the publicity committee.
Active work in soliciting members
for the organization will be started
very shortly bya committee of 10. II
will be impossible to see everybody,
so any who desire to join may notify
Mr.. Arnold.
When approximately 200 members
have been secured the organization
will be made permanent at a general
meeting.
Old members of the Knights of Tenn
perance, a quasi-military body, took i
upon themselves to start the society
A call was issued and, at the meeting
Friday evening, the following resolu
tions were adopted:
WHEREAS our government has
called to arms the men of the ma
tiOn for the preservation OF the
fundamental principles of our re-
public and with determination to
triumph over the governments of
autocracy and despotism.
THEREFORE,, BE IT RE-
SOLVED by the undersigned, That
while the men of Knox county are
absent from their homes in the
service of our country. we endeav-
or in every way possible to aid in
the comfort and happiness of our
soldiers in the following particu-
lar:
BY supplying our men with COM
fort bags, sweaters, magazines,
books and such other items from
time to time as may be determined
necessary for their good, and to %
build at once a machine behind
the men that will aid in their ef-
iiciency.
That this organization be called
THE CAISSON CLUB (Second
Line of Defense to E Battery.
That each member pay to the
treasurer the sum of % cents per
month and give the necessary time
for carrying out the purposes OF
this organization during the per-
iod of the war.
The name "The Caisson Club wa
taken because it suggests a battery o
field artillery and because caissop
carry supplies.
Immediate needs of the Knox count.
mon are comfort bags and sleeveless
sweaters. The w. C. 7. U. has al
ready made number Of the former
but approximately 130 are still need
ed. In this. the club plans to have
the bags cut by the overall factory ant
the women of the city finish the work
The club will only undertake to sup
ply bags with needles, thread, etc
leaving the other places in the ba!
open for the boys to put their individ
ual toilet articles.
The number of members Will not o'
limited Two hundred would mean al
annual monthly revenue OF 500 TO p'
sent the boys, when they leave TN
city, for their small needs.
The club will also undertake to sup
ply larger needs by subscription, al
they arise. 1t is also the plan for
delegation from the club, at their owl
expense, to visit the boys in CAM
sometime during the winter, proyidin!
they are still in this country.
In short, the club will be an aid so
cietv on which the boys may feel fret
to call at any time for anything.
The next meeting will be, held Fri
day evening at 1880 o'clock at thu
Y. NJ. C. A. In the meantime, new
members will he secured-as rapid,
and as many as possible.