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Show RED CROSS ROLL CALL One hundred per cent membership n the American Red cross will be the .nal ol the four Minuite Men in t nine day drive commencing Dec. 15th nd ending Dec. 23d. An armistice is not a peace; a mill ion or more Americans may have to stay in Europe for months - perhaps voars; and even after peace is signed and sealed, there will be work for the 'Greatest Mother in the.World". She must help to rebuild Belgium and restore re-store France in addition to her special spec-ial serviice of rebuilding broken bodies bod-ies and strengthening stricken spirits for a long time to come there must be no lotting up in her work of mercy. That work costs money and needs funds; it will be financed by all Americans Amer-icans who have "a heart and a dollar" which is to say by 100 percent of our population. The Four' Minute Men will report to the people on what the American Red Cross has been able to do with the money they have given in times past. They will tell where that money mon-ey came from and where it has gone; and what will be needed in the. near future. All these facts, together with a hundred examples of what the work means to the war-scarred countrief are contained in a bulletin of information infor-mation just received from national headquarters of Four Minute Men foi the use of their speakers during the campaign. They will ten you what the soldiers sol-diers and sailors and marines think of their Red Cross. They will repeat the heartfelt thanks of the babies of Belgium, of the mothers of Poland and Serbia. In the name of heroic nurses who have given their lives in field hospi tals under the bombs of Boche, they-will they-will call for 100 per cent response to the Christmas Roll Call of the Red 'Cross. Remember, when you hear theim that the work of mercy will not be finished while a wounded man, a scattered scat-tered family, a helpless widow or orphan or-phan remains unattended and uncom-forted uncom-forted amone the ruins of ttio w-i, war. The wounds of the world must be bound up, and our hands work iii4 through , our American Red, Cross - are sublimely privi'e.ge ! to perform this service. All it needs to repeat the well-known slogan, is. i hearl and a doll -r W.'S. s l'APPY FAMIL ' One can scarcely find happier people peo-ple than our worthy postmaster, Steve Stoker and wife, who are rejoicing re-joicing over the capture of their sora Wayne Stoker. This wayword son went to work for Uncle Sam, October 14th, at the Hercules powder plant. Nitro, West, Virginia, working at that place for a month. He then visited the cities of St. Louis. Nashville', Tennessee Ten-nessee and was sent to Charlston West Virginia, to work for the Di-Point Di-Point engineering company, Old Hick ory department, After nine days with this company the war ended so Uncle Sam thought the boys need ed a little fun as well as work, and turned them loose. Wayne started for Florida, with suit case in hand, but decided it was too heavy, so stopped stop-ped off at Christamra. Tenn., to get it checked, and sent the suit case to Mobile. Ala. In the meanwhile Postmaster Post-master Stoker had heard that ;:-was ;:-was ended and thought, now we can make use of that boy at home he is just the one to sling mail. So he put out a tracer and caught the y-man y-man at Christaina. Tenn., just as he was boarding the train to resume his journey. Wayne isnow at home at the Milford post office, but his suit case is seeing the sights in Mobile. Vabama. TV.S.S. Will Limb, of Beaver City passed away at the hospital late last evening. even-ing. His wife and mother were with him in his last hours of sickness. 'Mr. Limb leaves a wife and two little ! daughters to mourn his loss. Mr. Limb came over from Beaver a couple I of weeks ago to work in the shop of his old friend Phil Orwin. who has , 1 een very sick so sick that his neo- pie were very anxious about him for ; a number of days. Mr. Orwin is slow- lv gaining strength. |