Red Cross Notes and Overseas Parcel Rules
Local Red Cross reports progress on fabric work and awaiting further instructions. It lists Christmas parcel rules for overseas shipment and notes a collection point at Miss Ballard's store. A letter from Junction City thanks the chapter for hospital supplies and mentions Ft Riley and Fuptson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lea
Fairbury
War Trade Board
Red Cross
Miss Ballard
Fouts
Junction City
Kans
Bage Hospital
Ft. Riley
War Ends as Kaiser Fell and World Cheers
Harbine residents celebrate the end of the great war with bonfires and rejoicing around town. News from Sabetha Wilber and Portland touches the influenza cases and deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Jene Harvey and their children, while other locals visit relatives and tend farms amid flu care efforts.
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Kaiser
Bill Hohenzollern
Holland
Oo Serooaher
Sabetha
Kansas
Frank Shipman
J. B. Thompson
Wilber
Nebr
Har- Line
Diller
Jene Harvey
Portland
Oregon
Ed. Wrigley
Lincoln
Harbine
Harvey
W. Harvey
Ethel Wrigley
T.murray
Erwin, Nebr
Herman Buller
Camp Funston
Faigbury
Mudrow
Albion
Local Social Notes From Harbine and Surrounding Areas
The column lists residents visiting relatives and traveling to Beatrice and Lincoln. Lou Londen and family, Ommen, Mrs. Chas. Sandman and family, Mrs. Ralph Sandtoun, Mrs. Alex Rea, Chas. Coffin and family, Bill Bishop and others are mentioned. Mrs. Oaks left for Beatrice. flu is waning in Harbine. Fred McPherson and his daughter visited H. W. Parker’s family. Bert Parker was ill. Geo. Fielder and family celebrated in Ellis. Helen and Anna Thiessen had Sunday dinner with P. A. Buller, who was in Lincoln on business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Londen
Ommen
Chas. Sandman
Ralph Sandtoun
Alex Rea
Chas
Coffin
Bill Bishop
Bull Kreetsching
Oaks
Beatrice
Hearbine
Conger
Harbine
Fred McPherson
H. W. Parker
Bert Parker
Geo. Fielder
Ellis
Helen
Anna Thiessen
P. A. Bullers
P. A. Buller
Lincoln
Methodist Minute Men join Centenary World Program drive
The Methodist Church adds the Minute Men to its Centenary World Program to arouse churches in wartime opportunities and duties. A district chairman will organize speakers in churches Sunday schools and youth meetings to promote the program and prepare for postwar plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minute Men
Old buggy wheels turn into hen roost roast setup
A farmer Mr J A Steckman eight miles east of Beat Rice shows a novel farm device. He uses two cast aside buggy wheels mounted on axles in the chicken house to form upright roosts two feet high. The wheels provide space for over fifty hens to roost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Steckman
Beatrice
Revolving Roost Solves Mite Problem and Delights Neighbors
Mr. Steckman touts a rotating chicken roost that makes mites scarce and lets farmers fetch a desired young rooster by turning the roost. The device is so popular that discarded buggy wheels are scarce as they are all in use for the roosts in his neighborhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Steckman
War Council salutes Red Cross chapters 1918 meeting notes
The War Council sends greetings to American Red Cross chapters for 1918 annual meetings. It highlights chapters as the organization’s bone and sinew and summarizes 18 months of war effort including fund drives, membership totals, and vast material contributions. It notes 225 million dollars in money or value, and lists joint campaigns with other groups aiding soldiers at home and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
War Council
American Red Cross
Red Cross
United States
National Headquarters
War Fund
wartime reading drive by American libraries and partners
American soldiers seek fiction poetry history biography and technical works. The American Library Association joins with the YMCA YWCA National Catholic War Council Jewish Welfare Board War Camp Community Service and Salvation Army plus six other U S organizations to supply books in the United War Work camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United War Work Campaign
Y.W.C. A
National Catholic War Counci
K. of C
Jewish Welfare Board
War Camp
Community Service
American Library, Association
The
Salvation Army
American Library Association
National Catholic War Council
War Camp Community Service
Also Mentioned on This Page
Red
Eva Stotts
Wilhelm
Europe
Satan
Alice Munrow
Olive Tell
Lawrence Grant
Beast OF
Berlin
Jestic
C. W. Bartlett
Mgr
Taitor
Heine
Heinie
Majestic Theatre
Fond Drive
Jefferson Co
J. Monroe Davis
Col
A. L. Tristman
Diller, Nebr
Civen Farm
Record Printing Co
Frank T. Pearce
Public Diller - Nebraska Eee
H.R. Royle
Bank Bell
Elerbeck & Hale’s
Diller Record Office
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