Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-14
TAG DAY. WORKERS
: AID IN COMMUNITY
SERVICE CAMP A|GN
Seek Contributions For Budget
Fund Throughout the
City.
ABOUT $4,000 IN HAND

This is Tag Day in the Wilmington
| Community Service budget Scores o
workers iiocked among King street shop
| pers and the pedestrians ON Market street
tagging people for contributions to the
| drive. Among the manufacturing plants
members Of the Junior League piled the
workmen with requests To help the cam
| paign and many of them bad remarkable
| success.
There were teams from the High School
! Salcslanum, Beacon ;, Friends, Y w. CA.
| and some OF the churches The weather
was fine overhead and the workers were
| in good spirits.
Members of Boy Scout troops exempIi-
fed the big motto of the order, tDo a good
turn Tor some one every day" and inci-
dentally did many good turns for the
Service
At Mrs. Donald S. Ashhrook S home this
morning delicious home made candy was
made and at the noon hour WAS offered
for sale at the highest prices obtainable
among the hundreds who passed through
the lobby of the Hotel du Pont. Mrs.
Ashbrook and her big hearted aides have
done yeoman service and every one who
has been fortunate enough to obtain any
OF the candies have been more than
pleased
While nothing like any definite report
is possible OF the returns today, the actual
cash in hand is about $4,000. Not anv
OF the teams that are expected to make
encouraging reports have been heard from,
so that there is big news yet TO come, the
leaders in the drive believe.
Lammot du pont sent his personal
check for $500 last night. and this proved
OF much encouragement TO the workers.
TRAVELLERS AID WORK.
Some idea and an up TO the minute illus
tration of what the Travellers Aid Society,
Service activity, is doing for the citizens
who pass IN and out and through Viii
mington IS fully explained i'm the following
letter:
Henry Watson Childrens Aid Society.
Baltimore city branch of the MARYLAND
Childrens Aid Society, Baltimore. Md.
Feb II, 1920 Travellers Aid Society.
War Camp Community Service, vii
mington, Del.
Dear Sir: We are very much interested
IN Mrs Hanna Thomas of this city. for
meriy of Cambridge. Maryland She
and her baby Francis are passing through
Saturday, February II. on
her way to her mother who lives at Wood !
side, Delaware They leave Baltimore |
lj.oo. We are WfftlhS 10 ash tflAt one OF /
your agents see that Mrs. Thomas gets on |
the right train at Wilmington, for her |
home
Thanking you in advance.
lours very truly.
(Signedl Jeanette Smith, visitor"
The local workers will be on the watch
Tor the mother and give her every possible t
attention.
The colored workers expect to play a
prominent part in today's work. There
Will be teams from the Young Mems
Progressive League, OF which William j.
Hart is financial secretary; the South Side
Club, of which S. Beatrice Hall is captain:
Nay L. Bayard Club, Mrs John Birds
Vest Side Club, and teams captained by
Mrs. Herbert Hudson, Mrs. j. Hunter
hudson, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, Mrs. ].
3. Stubbs, Arthur Chippey, Annie Z.
1hippey. Other workers are Lewis Rum
ord, Corbit Spruance, NJ Spackman,
red Wardenberg, Dallas Sparrit, John
Reese, Robert Richards, Edward Bardoe.
eugene English, Arthur Bailey, Miss
Madeline Miller, Helen Gibbs Mrs Emma
|. Sykes, Estelle Hedgeman, Mrs Fannie
reese, Eta Roach, Victor Darrell
Every Evenings classified advertise
nents bring results. Proved by the satis-
action of many and will be to you--Adv. |