The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-11-11
HAAKON COUNTY CHAPTER
AMERICAN RED CROSS


Red Cross membership dues for
the year 1921 are payable during
the week of November 18th TO 18th
when the fourth membership drive
in the Northern Division takes
place. Over one-half of the mon
ey received remains in the chapter
treasury. Since its portion of the
dues obtained from members Is
the only regular source of income
of the National organization, upon
the receipts of this drive depends
| it's continued existence. Prompt
remittance of dues, and enthusias-
tic support of the drive are there
fore necessary to insure the carry
ling out of the extensive Peace
/ Time Program which has been
planned by the Red Cross.
Il Haakon County, South Dakota,
was quick to respond to the call
for Red Cross work after the de :
claration of war. Temporary or
ganization of the chapter was COM
pleted as early as June 18th 1917,
and although formal organization
was not completed until somewhat
later, much preliminary work in
the formation OF local branches
and the raising Of war funds was
undertaken When finally organ
lied, Mr.. Alvin Waggoner, a prom
inent lawyer of Philip, was elected
q Il ali man. Mrs Mrs I Mcclure, assr
energetic club woman, secretary,
and Mr.. ] G.. Nelson, treasurer.
The executive committee under
their able leadership organized six
teen branches in the county by
December31, 1917, and by July IL,
1918, there was an enrolled mem
bership of over 2t00 in a county
of little over $500 people Money
70 aid the work was given freely
In the spring drive of 1918 over
S25, 900 was raised, an average of
over ST 90 per person, most re-
markable showing of whata could
be done by enthusiastic work in a
sparseIy settled community. Much
Of the money thus raised was used
in the purchase of yarn, colth and
surgical supplies for the making OF
knitted goods, garments, and sur
gical dressings for home and for
eign hospitals, and for refugees in
war ridden countries abroad,
This productive work was under
the superintendence of Mrs. Har-
riet Waggoner. Women of the cha.
pter made hospital supplies to the
value of S4,346. Is; knitted gar
ments to the value of S5,324 so;
surgical dressings to the value OF
1929. 40; aud refugee garments tc
The value of s732 SO; total val
nation production of s10,632 s;
during the period from August /
1917 to December 81, 1919. Dur
ing 1918 alone the per capita val
uation of products was S2,135
The work rooms occupied the
whole first floor of new bricl
building.
III The Junior Red Cross was orga
nized February 8, 1918 by the ap
noinfment Of Mrs. Jennie E
| ONcal of Philip, South Dakota
chairman, Mrs. T. j Mcclure
secretary and Mr.. j. c. Nelson
treasurer, and Mrs. A. Beeler, ]
F. Anstette, Miss Beatrice Bennett
and Mrs. A. l.. Maring to repres
| ent the branches. Out of the eigh
ty schools in the county, eighty
were organized on one hundred
per cent basis with 987 members
| At one time there was S1,474. 81
| in the treasury and S517 82 wa!
contributed to the National Chill
| dren's Fund, illustrating how thor
oughly aroused the children were
to the patriotic demands on then
by the war. The Home Servic.
work was organized rather later
than the other departments, bu-
by June 1918 Mr.. Jno. T. Forsel
with Miss Nellie Lindsay, Mr.. w
E. Holbrook and Mr.. O. K Whit
ney was appointed to handle th.
county problems arising out o.
war conditions. Over one hundret
men in the county went into ser
, vice and during the period from
June 30, 1918 to May 1919i ovel
eiphty-four families and men were
assisted in varous ways.
When the American Peace Time
Program was announced the inter
est of the chapter naturally turn
ed to the plan of nursing service
The county was sparsely settled
and the proper care of the sick
some times located far from ply
sician was almost an impossibility
At the suggestion of the chapter
the county commissioners employ
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