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Show APPEAL FOR FUNDS Salvation Army Begins Collecting for Annual Harvest Festival. The local branch of the Salvation Army will begin tho collection for the annual harvest festival fund this week. All tho collectors will carry with them proper credentials, and It is hoped there will be a liberal response. In Its appeal for the fund, the Army asks: "Have you ever heard or a poor, troubled, sorrowful, perplexed, hopeless man or woman appealing fruitlessly to the Salvation Army? Do you know that something like 3,000,000 Just such people are upheld by this wonderful organization? organiza-tion? Do you know that In twenty-threo different homos fallen women are each year rostorod by the score to honor and a life of useful purity? Do you know that In three different havens little children, chil-dren, all the way from nursing babes to sturdy boys and girls, are being succored? Do you know that scattered over the country aro seventy-eight BhelterH In which nightly some 9000 homeless, often hopeless, men or womon are cared for? Do you know that these institutions represent rep-resent but a mere fraction of tho charitable charita-ble work successfully carried on by the Salvation Army In tho United States? "The Army Just now Is making a special effort to raise funds, and they are asking for not only cash, but articles that can bo converted Into cash." |