The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-07
LINCOLN SCHOOL
LEADS THRIFT
STAMP SELLING
students Make Second Best
Record in Two States,

Lincoln school, winner Of the Red
Cross flag offered by the American Red
Cross, through the local organization,
fer the highest thrlft stamp sales in the
city schools campaign, has the proud
distinction Of being second IN the
national c. paign in the states oi
Kansas and Oklahoma The Horace
Mann school, Kansas City scored SlS,-
600 Lincoln school. $500
Room S-A OF Lincoln school banded
together into a thrift society, The VIC
tory War Savings society,"" leads the
school with its remarkable record OF
$222}5S Thrift stamp sales, Tor forty
eight pupils, or nearly $50 perscapta
Mrs. Ida Mo,hicr, teacher began the
thrift stamp campaign by urging her
children TO deprive themselves Of some
thing each week to save a thrift stamp.
Enthusiasm began to grow and the ,irSt
Friday set apart as thrift stamp day
fifteen children bought stamps They
began 10 iorcgo chewing gum candy
and visiting movies
Mother Gets Rest,
One mother stated that she hO had
great rest since the Thrift stamp cam
palgn began for her little son has taken
/. over all the dish washing every eve
ning for the price of a thrift stamp TO be
turned in Friday thrift stamp day
3 Master Davis II. Owen, son OF Judge
and Mrs. Thomas II, Owen of Sl East
Fourteenth street, in a composition on
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stamp "a small green stamp a LITTLE
larger than a postage stamp but he
SAYS mo matter how small it may look
\ to us, every quarter you save helps 10
buy guns, shells and all kinds OF am
munition for our boys, who give their
3 lives to make us happy and comfortable
/, and the world a decent place to live IN
He has purchased $1,000 worth OF these
Small green stamps"
Little Miss Marjorie Carsons, another
worthy patriot has purchased 500
( worth OF stamps Dorothy Carol SSn75,
Truman Miller SlS7S, Bert Duke $50,
Walter Hawkins SIS Juanita Eldrldge
$50, Ida lnman $3.50 Lois Langford
. $40, Edgar Naught $lo45, Clifford
Gresham $40
Work to Buy Stamps.
Not all the children found it easy 70
add their bit to the growing fund, many
of them worked for money to purchase
every stamp they owned
Walter Hawkins who has SIS in|
stamps, sold marbles and carried water
making Soc in some Of his good sales
DAYS and IN. ON water CARRYING days
\ but he worked faithfully and his pile
( grew with his industry
y Grace w. Miller another proud owner
of thrift stamps, does her mothers
4 dishes evenings and also waters the
Z garden thereby adding to the food sup
rIy and providing many a meal for a
soldier by her twolold energy Little
Grace suggests that every child should
let little thrift stamp crawl into a
thrift stamp bool, and keep the candy
from crawling into the mouth
Blonvil WahL another pupil in the
heat OF campaigning, says that three
buffalo nickcls and one thin dime will
help to break the lIindcnbcrg line and
he, too, is turning them into bullets for
war
Ruth Arnold a pretty little thrift
stamp holder, has earned her stamps
posing for her artist brother who pays
her as generously a, professional models
are compensated
In addition to the S2225S9 amount
in thrift stamp, the pupils hold thirty
eight Liberty bonds as a safe war in
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