St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-06-06
RED CROSS WEEK CAMPAIGN ENDS
WITH TOTAL MEMBERSHIP 1907
Effort To Raise The St. Johnsbmy Branch Membership
From 300 to 900 Meets With Wonderful Success;
Passumpsic May Lead State

$50 members in all from the Fair
banks office and factory. Eighty five
names were turned in by few busy
men on Railroad street who found
time away from their business.
"A young lady from one of the
down town offices handed in a list OF
AZ new members, most of which were
secured on Saturday afternoons One
lady, who had previously obtained
goodly number of subscriptions, gath
cred a score of new names at tho
Railroad street headquarters in Lou
gee and Smythe's store Saturday af
ternOOn. SummerVille contributed IA
additional and Arlington II.
East st. JOhnsbury turned in %.
In a previous report we mentioned
the successful and patriotic results OBJ
tanned by one family on Summer
street and of another family on South
Park. 1t is "a remarkable fact that
these two families turned into the
Red Cross treasury exactly one hun
/ drcd dollars each. This is a record to
be proud of and in each instance these
results were brought about in a de-
! lightfully pleasant manner with no ap-
| parent idea of having done anything
out of the ordinary.
The little village of Passumpsic
! has capped the climax of all previous
records and has probably obtained
| the greatest percentage of new mem
| bers of any town in the state. Pas
sumpsic's final score is 160 obtained
by the untiring efforts of a few ener-
! getic young ladies of the village. SeV-
! enty new members were secured since
/, lation Of Passumpsic by the last avail
able figures is ZAP. One hundred and
| thrty-six Of this new membership was
obtained in the village proper and "a
outside the village.
, THE patriotic service at the Pas
sumpsic church was very interesting
and largely attended. The seating
capacity of the church is about $50.
| The congregation this morning num-
| bered 1876.
THE service was patriotic from be-
! ginning to end. The music was pa
! triotic and consisted of both vocal and
| instrumental selections which were
~pleasantly rendered.
Mrs. Theodore Chase gave an in
teresting and instructive talk on the
origin and object of the Red Cross
what it does for us both in peace and
in war, and what we can do for The
Red Cross. This was followed by {
tableau in which one of the soldier:
of Company H, 1st Vermont Infantry
acted as color guard with a large sill
American flag. Grouped around the
soldier were six little girls with small
flags and beyond them a group O.
prospective Boy Scouts. The service
was concluded by the singing of tht
Star Spangled Banner with the con
gregation standing.
cit is worthy Of mention that eigh
soldiers, all that were off duty from
guarding the bridges at the north an(
south of Passumpsics were present a
this service. Announcement was made
that all money in the collection takel
at this service outside the regular
church envelopes would be given tt
the St. Johnsbury branch of the Ret
Cross. This amounted to twelve dol
lars, a very generous contribution fol
lowing the extremely liberal respons'
to these people to the membership
campaign