The Greatest Mother Turns to Tasks of Peace
Poem contrasts to Red Cross's life saving mission with lines about crosses and sorrow. Vote for Vance Cooke as source credit. Invest a dollar in Red Cross and cut happiness coupons the rest of the year.
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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1919
Page
2
Poem contrasts to Red Cross's life saving mission with lines about crosses and sorrow. Vote for Vance Cooke as source credit. Invest a dollar in Red Cross and cut happiness coupons the rest of the year.
The Red Cross service flag will appear again in November in Northwest windows and farmhouses, city homes, homesteads, fishermen huts in Alaska. It symbolizes affiliation with the organization that knows no politics or creed and unites hearts for service to fellow-men, now with an extra stripe for three years of membership.
The Red Cross continues support for Camp Lewis soldiers and sailors hospitalized after the armistice. Convalescent wards show daily relief in chairs, music, books, and friendly visits as overseas men remain hospitalized and grateful for care provided by The Greatest Mother across army hospitals nationwide.
A nation wide drive invites Granges churches business and fraternal clubs to sponsor Red Cross club days in October. The purpose is to organize peacetime recruitment for the Third Red Cross Roll Call to run November 2 to 21 with volunteer workers and speakers to enroll members and support wartime and postwar relief efforts.
A long list praises subscribers who funded the Weston Memorial Hall project in Oregon, honoring pioneers soldiers and sailors. Names include Watts Culley Banister Mercantile Co Saling Jones Greer Fitzpatrick and Watts. totals shown with many local clubs banks and individuals. The piece notes work on grading old barns and building details plus requests for payment of balances and original subscriptions.
Memorial Stat dedication report promised in next Leader issue. Local tourism and wheat county notes discussed with quirky humor and brief Red Cross Magazine highlight. Mentions Northwest Tourist Association data, autumn living costs, and a showcase of ads and products from era brands.
Fragmentary prose notes maple sumac hawthorn and poplar drawing attention then fade as winter closes in. The text hints at inexorable change and the woods shifting from color to brown, gray, and quiet.
The text presents a speech by Theodore Roosevelt asserting immigrant assimilation and loyalty to the United States. He argues Americans should be treated equally when adopting American citizenship, reject dual allegiance, and favor English as the national language, warning against sectarian or foreign loyalties.
Latah county Idaho reports rising land values as farmers repurchase at higher figures. A highly improved tract near Moscow was bought by O. P. Mix at 200 per acre. The Mix family controls more than 1900 acres just north of Moscow.
The American Red Cross urges that ten thousand mothers die yearly in childbirth in the United States unless public health nursing resources are extended. The Third Red Cross Roll Call begins November 3 to fund necessary care and education for mothers.
More than 8,000,000 women and girls helped sew knits for the Red Cross during the war. They will actively solicit members for the Red Cross in 1920 during a ten day drive ending Armistice Pay. In two years they produced nearly 100 million dollars in surgical articles and garments, including 376 million in surgical waists.
In the Circuit Court of Oregon for Umatilla County Hilda Love plaintiff vs William B Love defendant. You are required to appear and answer the complaint by November 2 1919 or face decree dissolving bonds of matrimony and granting equitable relief. Published by order of Judge Gilbert W Phelps with first publication October 17 1919 and last November 6 1919 Weston Lauder Weston Oregon.
In Umatilla County Oregon Claude Linn Lloyd sues Shirley M Lloyd. Defendant must answer within the legal time after first publication on October 16 1919 or risk default. Judge W. Pootpa presides. Attorneys Paterson, Blair, and Clar represent the plaintiff with residence and postoffice details listed.
Notice is given to the concerned that a term has been settled for the estate of Malet McDonald with the will annexed. Creditors must present their claims with vouchers to the administrator within six months of the first publication. Dated October 1010. M. Perenson is the administrator with the will annexed of Malcolm McDonald.
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