The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-04-11
Women in War Work
Still More for the Cantean.

This week we said bood-bye to an
other class who had has completed their
training at Camp Herring and welcom-
ed new class that came in ON Tues
day and which has been most generous
in its attendance at the Canteen. On
Easter Sunday an attendance of more
than one hundred and twenty-five
mostly sailors made it one of the big
gest days that the canteen has known.
They were hungry crowd and kept
us busy frying the seven dozen eggs
called for in sandwiches. During the
week we have entertained 375 soldiers
and sailors.
The following donations have recent
ly been made to the Canteen: pies, bv
Mrs. Clarence Head, Mrs. Nathan All
len, Mrs. A. Fl. Lance and Mrs. W. w.
Strong; a crock of homemade pickles
by Mrs. John Perkins; six pounds of
coffee by Perkins Brothers; cakes by
Mrs. James O'Connor and Mrs. A. E..
Buckmaster and by the ladies of the
Congregational Church; brown bread
by Mrs. Bennett, and fudge by Mrs.
Ellis Travers.
The following cash donations have
also been received: Kandoo Club, $500;
Mr.. Rose, $500; Danish sisterhood,
$1,000; Past Matrons, A. E. S., $500;
and the S. 7. Club, $500.
The ffty-ffty regulation on the pur-
chase of wheat -four can never be dis
cussed as an economical proposition.
It is humanitarian, life-saving pro-
position. FFThe idea is to save and
keep alive the people on the other
side" Discuss it from the emotional
standpoint, not from the statistical.
And don t forget that there is pormise
of a big wheat crop this year, and the
probability that by next September
our troubles of this sort will be lighter.
The Woman's Committee G. G. of
D. has just received two bulletins from
Washington, "American Loyalty"
and "The War Messages and Facts
Behind it"-which have been placed
in the Simmons Library.
Among organizations of women who
are first to show their combined pa
triotism and business acumen by in
teresting in the Third Liberty Bonds
and the Jewish Ladies Society, The
Danish Sisterhood and Danish Ladies
Aid Society, Woman 8 Relief Corps,
St. Matthews Ladies Aid Society and
the Kenosha Hospital Alumni.
"He also fights who helps the fight
er fight Therefore invest in a Third
Liberty Loan Bond and help win the
war.
There has been some delay at Wash
ington in sending application blanks
for the Third Liberty Loan but Ken
osha is now partially supplied and the
Woman's Organization Committee
C. G. Of D. will meet at the Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday afternoon, April
8, at $3.50 O'Clock to make plans for
the house to house canvas which is
to be part of women 8 work in this
Third Loan campaign.
Kenosha men and women are to
have the privilege Of seeing movie
favorite in the flesh and of hearing
him talk about the Third Liberty
Loan, Douglas Fairbanks itinerary for
the Seventh Federal Reserve district
will bring him to Kenosha on April
Is. Time and place to be given later.
The chairman of speakers for the
Woman IS Committee has arranged with
Mr.. Walter Burke to talk to the Par
ent-teachers Association Of Newberry
Woodwork, Monday evening on
the Third Liberty Loan and allied pa
triotic subjects.
The attention of the guests at the
card party, given in Eagles Hall, Sat
urday afternoon by the Catholic Wo-
man IS Club, was called to the Third
Liberty Loan by Mrs. stanhope, who
urged the need of united, tireless, pa
triotic support of this campaign from
the women Of Kenosha. The party
was given to raise funds for the sup
port Of the French War Orphan which
this club has so generously "adopted. -
This is a phase of war work that
makes it's own peculiar appeal to wo-
men.
Can any American mother look at
her rosy-cheek children playing in
their unbroken home and not feel an
overwhelming desire to help one of
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