Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-02-07
RED CROSS NOTES

ticles by the various divisions up to
Jan. /, 1918. Only articles actually
distributed to soldiers in the various
camps and environments and overseas
are included.
According to these figures the
Amircean Red Cross has distributed
up to Jan. 1, 774,752 sweaters, $780,
121 pairs of socks, 298,569 wristlets,
252, 1858 mufflers and 1926 helmets.
OF this number Northern Division
workers have produced 57,195 sweat
ers, 77,O34 pairs of socks, 42,925
wristlets, 33,357 mufflers and 2,74s
helmets.
There must be no let up in knitting
on the part of the workers in the
Northern Division on the account of
the coming spring, according to Mrs.
F. L. Fridley, director of the Wo-
mans Bureau.
ut is the desire of the Woman's
Bureau" she declares, "that knitting
snail be conntiued until we send out
instructions to the contrary. We re-
ceiveu : telegram from Washington
few days ago stating that there Id
still great demand for knitted arti-
cles by the soldiers.
Sweaters will be used by the men
until late in the spring and to some
extent all summer. 1t will undoubt-
eddy be necessary for US to continue
knitting socks all the year around. >
Scnool children at Sioux Falls, S.
D., have begun campaign to help
the Red Cross and win the Shetland
ponies for themselves.
i A short time ago business man of
that city offered ID Shetland ponies
to the Red Cross, for use in any way
local officials saw fit. The ponies
were offered as prizes for children
who in three weeks wou,d sell the
most 1O-cent tickets, proceeds..to 20
to the local chapter.
The child selling the most tickets
will get first choice of the ponies,
the one selling the next highest num-
Der second choice, and so on.
i officials Of the Candy MINI. Red
Cross chapter received a check this
week for $42s as, proceeds from a
benefit dance held by the firemen of
that city. In addition to selling num-
bers for the dance charge was made
for dinner to all who attended.
Henry Bast, Elm Creek, MINI.
who declared to crowd at Triumph
that the Red Cross was graft from
start to fipish and that army camps
were not fit for dogs to live in, plead
ed guilty at Fairmont, Mimi, and
was fined 5000.
County Attorney Allen urged a
straight Jail sentence for. Bast. "To-
day in Poland, BELGIUM and parts of
France" he said, nearly all of the
children under four years old are eth
er dead or dying from starvation.
The Kaiser and his war lords are to
blame. The only hope of relief from
such suffering is the United States
and its best relief agency, the Red
Cross. This man has denounced the
Red Cross as fraud and clearly
approves of what the Kaiser done
and has ATTEMPTED to paralyze the
hand of America by maligning her
training camps and poisoning the
minds of her young men,"
| Complete returns from the Christ
mas membership drive show that Todd
county won championship Red Cross
honors in South Dakota. With a
population of 2,4O3 persons, the
county achieved a Red Cross member
ship of 2,132. A peculiar circum-
stance in connection with the Todd
county drive is the fact that fifty per
cent OF the population of the county
consists of Indians.
Five dray loads of Red Cross sup
plies were shipped from Bismarck,
N. D., last week
At GAINESVILLE, MINI. a Red Cross
auction Melted more than $4,000. All
stores and business places were closed
for the day by the mayors order and
the Red Cross auction was the only
activity of the day. Produce and
merchandise of every kind was auc-
toned.
In production of socks, muffIers