The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-02-05
REPORT OF RED
CROSS SEAL SALE
10O,950 Seals Sold In County, With A
Per Capita of IL Cents

TIE report of the Chairman of the
Red Cross Seal Sale in Hand County,
states that a total amount of 100, $50
seals were sol in the county, as COM
pared with a total of 10000 seal sales
in 1917, there being none in 1918. The
per capita sale for 1919 in the county
was Is cents.
Hal the seals arrived early enough
to begin the sale OF them throughout
the county on December LIST, the COM
mittee believes the amount sold would
have been much larger. According to
a letter received from Mrs. Wanzer,
the aim In the first place was to sell
20 cents per captain the entire state.
In order to do this, the state commit
tee placed the quota higher than that
In order to be sure of getting the 10
cents per capita, as many counties
would think they had sold their ten
per capita only to find afterwards that
they were far short of that. She also
stated that if Hand County had sold a
ten per capita, she believed they had
as good a record as any county in
the state
The largest amount sold by any one
school in the county was $23; the
smallest, s cents. The pennant for
the school selling the most seals per
capita goes TO the Bailey School in
Como township, Miss Mabel Werdel,
teacher. This schoo, with an enroll
ment of s pupils, sold s23 worth of
stamps, making a per capita sale of
:2.S7h.
The next highest per capita sale was
made by the Nelson School, in Pearl
township, Miss Sylvia Thomas, teach
err. There are 8 pupils enrolled. Their
sales amounted to Sc, with a per capita
sale of So.
Other schools making good records
we're those taught by Miss Katherine
Lapke, Park township, with Is pupils,
and a sale of s17; Miss Diana Tarle-
ton. Park township, IL pupils, and SIS
sale: Miss Kate Bawdon. 16 pupils,
and a sale of $14.
The number of seals sold by the
Iupils of the Miller schools amounted
to 1 $4,000 The three pupils selling the
largest amounts were Vert Engle-
mann, Harlan Wier. and Gwendolyh
Weber. The gold pin goes to Miss
Curley, the County Nurse, who sold
S. 0worth of health bonds, besides
seals.
The total amount of seals sold in the
county was 100, $50. Out of this, a.
265 we're sold in Miller; st. Lawrence
Lad a sale of 1875; Rec Heights 1876;
and Vayland, 1000.
Sixty-five per cent of the proceeds
or 1856, will be retained for the use
of the Public Health Committee of the
county, and must be used according
to the instructions of the Red Cross
Seal Commission of the state. Ten per
cent goes to the national Red Cross,
and the other twenty-five per cent will
be used to carry on Public Health
work in the state.
The committee wish to thank all
who in any way. however small, con
tributea to the success of this sale,
and especially do they wish to thank
the school children and teachers of the
county, who were responsible for the
sale of the greater number of these
seals. While a number of the teachers
did not show the interest in this sale
that they should have, IL was perhaps
largely due to the fact that they had
been asked to do SO many other things
before time for this sale, and that the
seals were SO late in reaching them.
Mrs. Wanzer asks that the seal sale
be kept prominent in the minds of the
teachers for the ensuing year, as it is
an annual event, and has been for
years, and should take precedence
over new drives that might come UP
previous to 1t.
The editors of our newspapers who
SO kindly and cheerfully donated their
valuable space for publicity work dur
ing this sale also have the sincere
thanks of the committe, as without
their cooperation it would have been
impossible to carry on the sale sue
cessfully.