The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-03-11
Fairbanks, March g, 1918.


 Treasurer Alaska Committee. This amount includes all the sub- scriptions received during January and February, as well as s21.25 from the raffle of a bureau scarf and s36.50 from the boys and girls Of grades five and six, Fairbanks high school.
 Treasurer's Report
 Fairbanks, Alaska, March g. 1918. Received 10 date, as acknoWl-
 edged through the columns
 of The Daily Alaska Citizen. $3S1.5 50 Draft this date to the order of
 Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co,
 for "The Fatherless Chil-
 dren of France .....s3 s3o1-oV This sum will support 10 French children for one year.
 ANNIE MARY FITCHETT,
 Treasurer Alaska Com.
 Detailed Report
 Included in the above report of s3S1.5O received, the Alaska Commit tee gratefully acknowledges:
 s75 from a raffle at Brooks, Tolo- yana. of a centerpiece donated by Miss Shepherd.
 s73 from the Roodle Club of Fair banks.
 s365O from the Boys and Girls of Miss Carpenters Toom.' grades 5 and 6, Fairbanks Public School.
 s36.50 from "A Friend in Fair banks.
 s9e.50 from Mrs. A. J. Williams oi Fairbanks.
 Other smaller amounts as acknowl- edged from day to day in The Citi- zen, while not enough of themselves to support child for one year. yet helped materially to swell the total, besides showing the continued inter- est taken in the fund, Contribu- lions were received from Nenana, Tanana, Tolovana, Ester, Fox, Cleary, Chatanika and even from the Roy ukuk and Fort Yukon.
 Three articles which were rallied added s57, viz: A bureau scarf, do mated by Mrs. A. C Troseth, ot Cleary. s21.50, on which Miss A, Ferretti sold 56 chances and Mrs. Troseth 30; a patchwork quilt, do- mated by Mrs. Gagne of Fox, s30,25, raffled by the Pioneers of Alaska. Igloo No I, at one Of their January meetings; a pincushion, donated by Mrs. D. D. Lowery, of Fort Yukon, and rallied by her for s5.25.
 Three pledges have been received from children of Fairbanks: Essie Elizabeth and George Fred Moves, $500 a month; Boys Bible Class, St. Matthews Sunday School, s3.00 a month; Ted Brown. still continu- ing his 75 cents a week.
 Three other pledges of 75 cents a week have been signed by Mrs. Max Love, Mrs. Cecil H, Clegg and Mrs. J Harmon Caskey.
 All contributions amounting to s3650 a year entitle the Donors" to the name and address Of the French child or children supported. Each donation will be acknowledged. as heretofore, by The Citizen.
 ANNIE MARY FTTCHETT, Treasurer Alaska Committee, F. C. of F.
 In the name of The Children of Interior Alaska" the sum of s1,65O75 was forwarded on January 4th to the New York headquarters of The Fatherless Children of France" to support forty.five French orphans during 1918. Since then an addition al s3s150 has been received, ac- knowledged and forwarded, making a total of s2,032.25 to date. As it takes only ten cents day or s36.5O a year to take care of child in its own home, this s2,032.25 will pro- vide for fifty-fve of the fatherless children
 Forty-nine have already been as signed 10 lnQlNluudl SuUSCilDciS' "Ao have voluntarily undertaken the ob- ligation Of becoming PARRAIN or MARIANNE by contributing s36.50 or more These godfathers and god mothers to date have the names and addresses of forty-nine orphans, leav- ing six to be credited to the many other subscribers whose smaller sums helped so materially to swell the orphan fund. The names and ad- dresses of the additional six child ren will be published as soon as re- ceived. It is interesting to note that the younger children, and the older boys and girls of Interior Alaska are sup porting fifteen orphans. viz:-Bill and Dick Thompson 1; Essie Eliza beth and George. Fred Moves |; Ted Brown l; Grace Church Sunday School, Nenana, l.; The Camp Fire Girls from the war bag at the Dec. bazaar 1: The Boy Scouts. the Camp | Fires and other children of Fairbanks | 3; Grades and 6 Fairbanks Public