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Show (ormtiic i ORANGEVILLE i The Red Cross seems to be a forgotten for-gotten number in this town and almost al-most throughout the county. Some of our patriotic ladies started the matter some time ago and endeavored to get a chapter organized. They met together to-gether and made badges and did some other preliminary work and tried to get in touch with the county organization organiza-tion but cold water has been poured on the enterprise from some source and they have never got together as a body and those who have sons in training have done their Red Cross work at home and forwarded it privately priv-ately to the several camps. Something should be done to stir us up to a sense of our patriotic duty as citizens of this great republic! We see by late dispatches from Washington that a special examiner of the bureau of pensions has recommended recom-mended that the Indian war veterans of the companies of Captains Daniels, of Payson; George, Tucker, Day, Seely and Larsen of Sanpete county; Miles of Salt Lake county; and James An-drus An-drus of St. George, Washington county, coun-ty, shall be admitted to pensions as Black Haw k Indian war veterans. |