Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-04-26
RED CROSS ACTIVITIES
Meeting With Hearty Encourage
meat Throughout the County

York, April 10Th: THE Commits
sion for Relief in Belgium begs to
acknowledge with many thanks
your generous donation of cloth
ing shipped April 18TH" Signed
Edward j. Williams, assistant
treasurer. The shipment consist.
ed of six boxes end weighed $50
pounds.
Hen Day" has already proved
a big success, Notwithstanding the
fact that on very short notice the
committee announced in last Fri
days papers that they would be-
GIN receiving hens on Saturday,
April Goth, instead of waiting UNI
til the first Monday in May as
FIRST planned. Over twelve hun
dred pounds of hens have already
been received at Huntingdon and
every day sees more added to the
list. Good quantities of hens have
been delivered at other points in
the county. The shipments from
Huntingdon are being handled by
Mr.. Porter, manager of the farm
ers union store, free of charge for
the Red Cross. Mrs. O. E. Tatum,
manager of the hen campaign,
wishes to announce that hens will
be received any day up to and in
GLIDING Monday, May 9th.
H. L. Mann. a prosperous far
mer and generous citizen, called at
Red Cross headquarters Tuesday
and announced that be would do
nate wagonioad of corn to be
sold for the benefit of the Red
Cross and the Army Y. M. G. A.
j. Sam johnson, representing the
Army Y. NJ. G. A and w. L.
NOEL, the Red Cross, have notified
Mr.. Mann that his generous offer
has been accepted and the corn
will be brought to Huntingdon
first Monday in May and sold at
auction. j. Sam johnson will be
in charge Of this sale and it is GER
tain that this load of corn will
bring record price. If any one
else wishes to donate anything to
be sold for The Red Cross or Y.
M. G. A. bring it on to Red Cross
headquarters any time Can't
few farmers spare a nice pig or
two to be sold for the Red Gross
II Germany wins the war you
won't have any pigs or corn very
long. Let's win the victory as
quickly as possible.
I. G. Lowry, chairman Of Hol-
low Rock Auxiliary, reports that
they are still going over the top
with their donation sale and selling
at auction each day, when there is
a crowd in town. Last Saturday
a small bottle of home made to-
mato catsup sold for SO. 20 and the
catsup was given back to the Red |
Cross to be sold at some future
time. The total sale fund is now
over $500 Hollow Rock is en-
titled to the blue ribbon.
Here is donation that is highly
appreciated from The Girls Club"
of Huntingdon. Instead of buy
ing new books for the year, they
voted unanimously to donate the
to the Red Cross, and it
affords US a special pleasure to ac-
knowledge the receipt of $2l from i
''The Girls Club" Of Hunting
don. Many thanks to the twenty
one members of your club for this I
generous donation. !
We can't afford to ask for mem
bership space to mention every do
nation that comes to the Red Cross
room, but we want to specially
thank the young ladies of Clarks-
burg school for their donation and
10 Poplar Camp, No. 279, w. o.
W., of Lavinia, for their offering
Both are highly appreciated.
Several have asked about the to-
tai corn fund of April /. The COM
mittee has finally disposed of all
the corn and hay. and the total
amount received for the corn and
hay fund is $273. There is still
luite lot of canned goods to be {
sold yet, and the total fund of ]
April lst donation day is now over
81 $50, and a little is being added :
zach day,
A short time ago a business wo-
nan, with three children, moved
o Huntingdon to engage in bust
less. Soon afterward she came to
he Red Cross room and paid in 5
Il for annual memberships in the
Red Cross for herself and three
children. That's what we call pa
riotism. And yet there are some
nen and some women that have
.pank oil THAR livoe IN Huntin0dhn.