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Show USED FLOUR TO 'RAISE DOUGH' Unique Money-Raising Plan Successfully Successful-ly Carried Out by Waukegan (III.) Legion Auxiliary. By use of a unique funding plan, the American Legion Auxiliary at Waukegan, Wauke-gan, 111., has succeeded in providing club-room furniture for the Legion post of that city. Little expense was Incurred In-curred In the campaign nnd the ladies were able to deliver a sufficient fund to the members of the Legion to completely complete-ly equip the clubrooms. A house-to-house canvass was made by the auxiliary women in the interest of a certain brand of flour. When a Waukegan woman was impressed by the "canvass" and they usually were they placed an order for a bag of flour, to be delivered at a future date. On every barrel of flour sold the workers received $1, tlie goal being set at $1,000, which it is said was realized within a short time. Incidentally, Waukegan Wau-kegan grocers were forced to lay in a large stock of the flour to care for the demands from the result of the solicitation solici-tation of the workers. |