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Show Keep the Flag Waving; Join the Red Cross Is Gunnison going to fall behind in Ihe Red Cross drive? Let the answer an-swer lie NO! Gunnison heretofore has has beep, at the top in her Liberty Loan drives, War St'. nip sales and former lied Cross drives. Keep the honor flag waving and rally to the support-buy support-buy your button today the drive will close tomorrow night. On account of not having received 'he buttons and other necessary equipment from Manti,. the drive in Gunnison was delayed jn starting and it was not unt;I Wednesday that the patriotic women who are engineering engineer-ing the drive were able to start soliciting so-liciting memberships. A canvas of the cast side of State street resulted in securing less than 140 mem"oers Wednesday. Soliciting committees did not start on the west s'de of the town until yesterday afternoon and poor progress was made. At a meeting of the Red Cross women, and wilh a view of gelling Ihe citizens to help the worthy cause, t lie drive has boon continued until tomonow (Saluiduy) n'ght. So if you hr.ve not yet joined and if you would not "junk" the Red Cross so-! so-! eiety, see to it yourself that you are j provided with a membership by "coming asross" with your dollar. Only 35 buttons were provided from the headquarters at Manti, hut an appeal has been made for more and those who have purchased memberships mem-berships and did not receive the button, but-ton, will be provided with one Just as soon as they arrive. So lie sure and get 'your emblem of "patriotism." Although handicapped to a degree on account of the non-arrival of the supplies, sup-plies, Gunnison will not be classed ' as "slackers" and it is thought tint by tomorrow night, when Ihe drive closes, we will be hailing from Ihe topmost wrung of the ladder of any community in the county. GET BUSY AND BUY NOW! |
