Red Cross Sale Sets Record While Socks Drive Tops List
The Elwood Red Cross sale at Mike Teeneys’s ranch on Decoration Day raised 2211.04 dollars, claimed as the largest Red Cross sale by any U S organization within reach of Haakon county. Northern Division dictated a September 1 sock allotment of 526 pairs, with detailed sizing rules and a yarn order to meet demand. A Red Cross dance is slated near Nowlin on June 14, and all garments will be required under the new allotment plan.
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RED Cross
Elwood Red Cross
Mike Teeneys Ranch
U.S
Haakon County
Northern Division
W. If. Morris
Nowlin
Five Millions Not Large Army Analysis
Scientific American cites U S Army strength figures showing a 1 6 percent of the population in uniform and questions the logic of pursuing a five million man army. Sam Legler reports from Oskaloosa Iowa that his father is critically ill after a ten day visit.
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North
Scientific American
Sam Legler
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Fort Pierre and Haakon County War News and Notices
Fort Pierre Times reports Dr. A G Allen of Deadwood leaving for San Francisco to report for medical corps duty. It notes wartime divisions, celebrates Fred Marrington’s birthday granddaughter and son’s wedding, and recounts Charles Peck’s meeting with a home-raised horse in France. Thirty four Haakon county men called to entrain at Philip for Funston Kansas with detailed rosters. real estate transfers and local obituaries are listed alongside agricultural appeals and public notices.
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A. G. Allen
Deadwood
the Hills
The
Colors
Deadwood Sunday
San Francisco
Fort Pierre
Fred Marrington
West Fork
Fred
Charles Peck
Perkins County
France
Young Peck
Per- Tring County
Rome
United States
Yvoung Peck
Frank Colelough
Philip
James Engleman
Midland
Peterson
Huron
Donald Pease
Boise
Idaho
Ernest Hellekson
Frank Hawk
Grindstone
Ernest Ellis
Winnetka
John Powell
Powell
John Brennan
Grandfield
Albert Moore
Detroit
Minn
Issac Cadman
Elbow
John Edw
Miles Conner
Ottumwa
Helmer Thompson
Grindatone
Virgil Colvin
Perry Ollom
William Stubbe
Ill
Elmer Anderson
Pokwana
Haakon
Help Produce Food War Time Duty For County Farms
The message urges men to temporarily leave current work and help on farms during peak cultivation and harvest. It frames farming as a wartime duty to boost food production and stresses national effort over personal employment. It calls for local participation to ensure adequate labor locally.
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France
United States Department of Agriculture
State Agricultural College
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T. J. McGuire
Bank of Philip Farm and Cattle Loans Insurance
Mavericks
Jos
Kukal
Hutton
Mr. Hatton
Kadoka Press
Philip Foramp Funston
Kansas
John Orson Ginther
Marengo
Towa
Joseph D. Hogan
Chicago
George Fletcher Reeder
Edward Berger
Plum Creek
George Robinson
Milesville
Dominick Guerra
Sioux City
Thos
Hickcox
Ree Heights
Edmund Meyer
Reedsburg
Wisconsin
Amos Michael
Earley DeWitt
Stephen Bodish
Patton
Emery Jacobs
Floyd Franklin
Hartley
Kas
Isell
Doel Hareide
Pierpont
Ernest Elrod
Grace Russell
Chas. Russell
Denver
H. B. Fislar
Elizabeth M.wallace
Albert W. Rogers
John Malone
James F. Jacobs
Roy Laur
Mark BE. Wheeler
John D.schlotterback
Ernest FE
Graham
Will R. Walpolene
J. B. Peyton
Jonea
H. J. McMahon
Gilbert Durston
Ll. B. Roberts
Christ Chrisjtensen
Bertha Stoner
Hua
Nels Rogde Se
Will Schwen
Oscar C. Anderson
Joseph Munch
Alvin C. Munch
F. A
J. W. Jasa
Ben
Jassie
John D. Heyl
Frank A. Cutler
John W. Steckman
Henry W. G. Rintelman
Lindley
Hun
D. H. Seamands
Gottfried Griesel
Paul K. Griesel
Hans J. Vow
Albert Bertelson
Fred H. Root
Union Coloni
Zation Co
C. T. Coyne
Charles Beckenhauer
Mark E. Wheeler
Will R. Walpole
William H. Heltzel Jr
Pat
Henry I Dutton
John J. Scanlan
Henry
Hanson Pat
First State Bank of
Philip Philip, S.dak
A. C. Kingsbury Lumber Co
Helmer Eleeson
Philip, S. D
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