Show the throe three biggest days ili hi sight for will bo be the ono one cent sole sale at t pg aitch drug co next thursday friday and saturday ho be suro sure and attend stock up tip on oil necessaries for the winter whiter ady adv CROSS GAVE RELIEF FOLLOWING 88 DISASTERS DURING YEAR tho the american red cross has riven given aid to more than a million and a quarter disaster sufferers during the organizations fiscal year according to figures contained in its ita annual report and made public recently by local rod red cross officials relief was extended by tho the american society following 66 disasters in this country and 22 abroad and a total of persons were helped of these wore in tho the united states while were in tho the nine foreign countries where relief work was conducted or lit in the insular and foreign possessions of 0 the united states v floods raging over hundreds of miles fires destroying whole villages tornadoes orna does and hurricanes sweeping t over entire states and death dealing explosions combined to make the year one of great calamities tornadoes lead the list of disasters in which tile the red cross gava relief with 29 2 fires run a close second with 24 while floods aro are third with 14 there were tour four earthquakes four hailstorks hailstorms hail liall storms and three mine explosions I 1 the other disasters were miscellaneous cel col laneous catastrophes including epidemics ide shipwrecks typhoons famines in dam breaks break landslides and volcanic 01 eruptions the two outstanding disasters of t the he year vere the new england flood of november 1927 and recurring overflows in ill tile the mississippi valley these thes e overflows together with continuing relief operations which have been necessary as a result of 0 the great flood in the spring of 1927 have kept a largo large staff of workers busy in the valley in new england where swollen mountain streams swept down with torrential force and played havoc in 21 countley countie cou utley 8 the organization gave reconstruction aid to families involving moro more than portions persons tills this dis disaster astor necessitated tho the llauro of a relief fund in fit excess of ot of which more than como come from the national tron treasury sury ot of the red cross whilo while public attention has not boon centered ered on oil the valley floods this year because ot of lack of 0 dramatic or spectacular interest holess persons have been affected and one halt half as many counties have boon inundated as wore were flooded in fit tho the spring and summer of 1927 tho the red cross has had 28 disaster relief workers nurs narscis cis etc in ArI arkansas missouri mississippi and louisiana where tributaries tributa ries of the mississippi have been flooded last may heavy losses lit in crops hayo have necessitated extensive relief operations and will make necessary tho the continuation of activities in the valley tor for some mont months lis mallef work has also been under way during tho the year at points in fit illinois Ron kentucky tucky indiana and west virginia whore where the dig big sandy licking and other rivers havo have boon tit in lood flood f tho the tornado which swept nebraska south dakota and illinois in early september and the west indies hurricane which occurred shortly after do not lot fall within the fiscal year lit in question |