Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-18
'omorrow will be Red Cross sunday

Tomorrow will be Red Cross sunday
in Augusta.
Beginning at morning services IN the
Augusta churches, when Red cross ser
mons Will be preached or addresses
given; continuing through the big Re
Cross parade, which gets under way
al T. M; and ending with the mass
meeting at City hall Immediately after
the parade. the city of Augusta will lie
given over heart and soul TO the organ
ization that has won the right to its
slogan: a great net of mercy drawn
through an ocean of unspeakable pain.
Monday morning Il teams. made up Of
i9l men and so women OF Augusta, viii
begin the local campaign, while teams
in Hallowell, Winthrop and the small
towns of Augusta chapter will begin So
lititing for funds. In Augusta and the
towns Of the Augusta chapter S%l,GotI
must be raised. and an effort Will be
made to raise it promptly.
The parade Sunday evening promises
to he an important event in the cam
paign. Shortly after 6 the various
groups will begin to gather for their
march to the point where the parade
forms. Many of the employees of local
commercial and business organizations
will meet at their plants and march
from there to the assembling points on
the streets radiating from and near the
corner of state street and Western
avenue.
Grand Marshal Blaine Owen expects
10 start the parade promptly at , and
to have II over by o'clock, so that
the mass meeting can start at that
time.
A company of Spanish War veterans
has been secured from the National
Soldiers Home and will march in the
parade dressed in the Home uniform.
Three mounted nurses will lead the Red
Cross division. Sixteen nurses in uni
form from the Augusta General hospital
will be in line. The Edwards Manufac-
turing Co expects now to have 800 peo-
pie in line The remainder of the pa
rade will be as previously announced
and fully 300 will undoubtedly be in line.
Chairman owen has heard from
number of mothers of men in service
and expects that the Mothers division
will be in every way the most impress
sive division of the parade. All moth
crs are asked to mount their service
flags on a staff and carry them in the
parade.
All paraders are asked to secure flags
and to carry them. 1t is also requested
by the committee that everyone along
the line of march display flags. The
line of march will be: state street to
Bridge, down Bridge street and over
the bridge TO Bowman. up Bowman TO
Arsenal, over Arsenal to Cony and down
Cony to City hall, where the parade
will disband. The paraders and spec
tators will then go to City hall for the
mass meeting.
The school children and other juvenile
organizations will turn at the corner OF
Arsenal and Cony and go up Cony street
to the High school grounds for their
meeting. which will be addressed by
Hon. Frank Harrington.
The mass meeting Sunday night will
ta.. the capacit~ OF City hall. The
principal speaker will be William II
Kenney, who will tell of war conditions
as he has seen them during his service
with the Red Cross in France. Hon.
Elaine s. Niles will preside and Cam
paign Manager Henry E. Dunnack Will
make the closing address.
Monday the actual campaign starts
in Augusta, in kennepec county, IN
Maine and throughout the entire United
States. In seven working days mis-
lion dollars must be raised. The share
of this chapter is sao,@co-called s3l,Gol
for luck.
That it will be raised promptly is GER
tain. little less than a year ago the
Red Cross came before the people of
America with request for So, 0o0, COO
and got it, At that time there was no
surety that the Red Cross was COM
petent to spend that sum efficiently, for
the relief of suffering humanity. Now
that uncertainty has ceased to exist. In