Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-11-12
A. o. CLAVE APPOINTED
ROLL CALL CHAIRMAN
Red Cross Drive in Stevens County
to Take Place Monday, November
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VI LuS hSu STOSS, Win regard TO the
fourth roll call which will take
place on Monday, November 22.
At meeting held on Tuesday eve
ming in the Commercial Club rooms,
plans for the organization of the
drive were discussed, and the time
set. Mrs. F. A. Hancock presided.
A. o. Clave, chairman of the drive
has conferred with workers in AL
berta, Chokio, Donnelly, and Han
cock, and workers for these villages
and the adjoining townships are be-
ing appointed. The same general
plan of organization as that used
during the Liberty Loan drives will
be followed. The City of Morris will
include in it's territory the townships
of Swan Lake, Framnas, Morris, and
Darnen; Alberta includes Scott,
Synnes, and the south half of Pep
perton; Chokio, Baker, Stevens, and
Everglade; Donnelly, the township
of Donnelly, Eldorado, Rendsville,
and the north half of Pepperton;
Hancock, Moore, Horton, and
Hodges.
Mrs. L. c. Spooner was made chair
man of the City of Morris, and is to
have charge of the appointment of
twenty-one women who will make the
house to house canvass on the day
of the drive. Each woman may
choose some other woman to work
with her. The business district of
Atlantic Avenue will be canvassed by
four or five men appointed for that
purpose.
Everyone who gives a dollar will
receive receipt ard a 1921 Red
Cross button, and window placards
will be presented at each residence
or place of business in which mem
berships are obtained; little red
crosses, one for each membership Sc
cured in the house will be pasted on
the placard. It is expected that
every house will f1aunt placard and
every person a Red Cross button by
Monday evening. The names of the
workers in the villages and town
ships of the county will be published
in next weeks issue of the Tribune.
The following message was re-
ceived from Warren G. Harding,
president elect, by the National
Headquarters of the Red Cross; with
regard to the fourth roll call:
Noting that your membership
Roll Call for this season is pending,
I have wanted to express my very
sincere sympathy for your cause, and
my hopes that it may be forwarded
- by the coming campaign.
eff, in all the world, there is an
organization more entitled to be re-
garded as doing good universally and
doing nothing else at any time or
any place, 1 do not know what it
may be. 1t would be peculiarly a
misfortune if the Red Cross, with it's
magnificent organization and splen-
did purpose of useful achievement,
should lose any measure of efficiency
because the special interest and en-
thusiasm of wartime has ceased
Your organization has been built to
serve humanity, and humanity needs
its services in peace just as it did in
war.
my wishes for all success go out
to you
(Signed) Warren G.. Harding.
Over one-half of the money re-
ceived during the drive remains in
the chapter treasury. Since it's por-
tion of the dues obtained from mem
Lbers is the only regular source of in
~aome of the National organization,
upon the receipts of this drive de-
pends it's continued existence
Prompt remittance of dues, and en-
thusiastic support of the drive are
therefore necessary to insure the
carrying out of the extensive Peace
Time Program which has been
planned by the Red Cross.
Since the first extensive call fol
members and funds was made at the
beginning of the war, the people oi
Stevens County have given enthusi
Chapter of the Red Cross was or
ganized June Is, 1917, and by July
1, 1918, just year later, there wer'
2055 people Of the county enrolled
as Red Cross members. In the sec
ond War Fund Drive, when asket
to contribute $4,000, Stevens Count!
presented the Red Cross with $11,
017.31. ~. r.
The first officers of the Chapte,
Mr.. P. e. Miller, chairman; Mrs. j
W. Harris vice-chairman: Mr. 8, j
siverts, treasurer; and Mrs. w. {
Light, secretary. In the fall o
1917, Mr.. Geo. W., Beise succeeded
Mr.. Miller as chapter chairman, Mrs
F. A. Hancock became vice-chairman
and Miss Minnie Hanson was chose1
secretary. Mr.. Siverts retained hi
position Of treasurer and still acts il