Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-05-27 | Page 3 | Poppy Sale for Veterans' Graves Brings Success

I Poppy oppy Sale for Veterans Veterans' V etel Graves ns' Graves Brings Success I I With every everyone one ot of her twelve tea team tean captains making urgent re requests requests requests re- re quests for additional supplies of ot poppIes before noon Saturday Mrs Warren our commander in chief of ot the army of ot pretty poppy peddlers who Invaded the tho downtown section of Salt Lake Lako lo in the interest of ot the A American t t p. p Auxiliary t marY announced d Sat Saturday t ne whole at affair w was s an overwhelming success Similar success was wis enJoyed enjoyed enjoyed en- en Joyed by the ladles ladies of the Veterans of ot Foreign Wars auxiliary and both organizations state the financial re reports reports reports re- re ports which will be forthcoming early next week wiil show handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some totals to be applied to the en endowment endowment endowment en- en fund for tOr tho graves of American soldiers soldiers' In foreign lands Everywhere the girls went to offer the bright colored tokens the money fairly rained on them Business Busi Busl- ness men took personal charge of ot them in many Instances escorting I them there all over their respective es establishments establishments establishments es- es and helping them to pass out the poppies In i no place I were the girls denied admittance Public buildings and private of offices Ices were alike open to them and hardly I was approached without a asale asale asale sale being made In many cases the returns were most generous As the tho boxes carried carried car car- ried ned by the girls precluded the makIng making malting mak malt ing change with any degree of 01 facility fa fa- ra- ra clUty many men would drop quarters quarters quarters and half dollars Into them and go away smiling The Tho best record reported during th the day was the sale of poppIes in ten minutes It was accomplished in a 0 lar large e wholesale house where the he he executives offered ever every assistance In the outlying districts the same degree of or success was sas met Many business men offered the use of their automobiles which the auxiliary auxiliary auxiliary aux aux- In about a dozen instances gratefully accepted According to Mrs the day started out outmost outmost outmost most auspiciously with ever every one of the dozen team captains reporting promptly at it the headquarters of ot tb the I legion auxiliary in the basement of the Hotel Utah Waiting autos were quickly loaded and the campaign cam cani- I W was I on Hardly anyone wanted more more than one poppy but nearly everyone asked the price The majority ac according according according ac- ac cording to tho the girls seemed astonished astonished aston aston- aston aston- t ish cd to learn the price was a matter matter matter mat mat- ter of judgment with the purchaser but all seemed satisfied with this detail of ot tho the arrangement