The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-23
CAPITAL CITY.
PLEDGES REACH
OVER $4,000
Burleigh County Outside of Bis
marck Will Bring Total Well
Over $4,000
TWO MORE DAYS OF
RED CROSS CANVASS
Campaign to End Monday Evening
With Rousing Dinner at Nc
Kenzie Hotel
TOTAL REACHES s23. .54s. 60,

TOTAL REACHES $23,54e.60.
Up to noon today the Burleigh coun-
ty subscriptions to the $1O0,00O,00O
Red Cross war relief fund reached
$23,548.60 The teams held an enthu-
siastic luncheon at the Mckenzie
hotel.
E. G. Patterson subscribed $500 and
Col. w. p. Tuttle of Dawson wired q
$500 donation to the local committee.
The city teams collected $2,O55.50
for the day and county reports totaled
$5,39210.
Reports from women canvassers
have not been tabulated, hut these
will be included in the report pub
lished in Mondays Tribune.
Bismarck and Burleigh county sub
scriptions to the Red Cross have
passed the $4,000 mark, with good
prospects of the grand total reaching
$4,000.
While county returns are coming
in slowly, enough has been learned
through unofficial sources that more
than $4,000 will come from points
outside of Bismarck. ~&
All subscriptions will be tabulated
this evening from county districts
and acknowledged in Mondays Trib
une. 1t was unofiicially learned yes.
terday that Mckenzie will subscribe
$4,000; Driscoll, 1904; iMenoken $945.
hop q 00n fNhno0
amounts doubtless will be increased
when final reports are made.
Challenge the Nation.
.Burleigh county challenges any
county of its population in the United
States and Bismarck joins In the chal.
lenge for any city Of its size for Red
Cross record. .%.
Bradley Marks, chairman of the
Burleigh county Red Cross chapter,
last evening sent the following tele-
gram to c. W. Leitrich; secretary OF
the Red Cross war council: ri. 4"
win far exceed apportionment.
We challenge any city our size"
Dinner at Mckenzie. .,e
Teams met today at the Mckenzie
hotel for the noon luncheon. Under
President Wilson'S proclamation, Red
Cross week ends Monday evening.
This event will be celebrated 'Dy q
rousing dinner at the Mckenzie ho-.
tel, attended by the team members
and others who have co-operated In
the campaign.
At that time complete report will
be read by H. P. Goddard, who has
been the man behind the gun from
the first and to- whom, more than
any one man, Is due the organization
which put Burleigh county in tho
forefront probably of the nation for
counties Of this size.
Concluded Monday.
The campaign will be continued to.
day and all day Monday. There is
more enthusiasm today than there
was when the campaign started.
Some of the team members don't
want to let up until the very
last minute.
Congratulatory kilograms have
been received from the National Red
Cross headquarters, complimenting
Burleigh county upon it's excellent
showing. ''.. '.
Special mention of the part Bur
leigh county, outside of the capital.
played in this record breaking cam.
paign will be made Monday, when
all the returns are in.
Women Work Hard.
Then, also, are the women who can
vassed from house to house under
the direction Of Mrs. w. c. Taylor.
I'M. -.
Monday. Too much credit cannot be
given them, for they worked Loyalty
in. a house to house canvass, which,
meant many miles walked and tired
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