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Show SACK OF FLOUR TO l if 1 Is - o Shriners Start Sack on Its Way to Be Sold and Re-sold in Interest of Red Cross. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28 Revel Colt Gridloy's famous sack of flour which was sold and resold hundreds of times during the Civil war and thereby there-by earned $275,000 for a rehabilitation fund for union soldiers, has a counterpart counter-part in a Birailar sack which was first raffled by tho Shrlnors here and which is now making a tour of tho country. The sack Is- duo In Leavenworth, Kansas, Kan-sas, today. On December 7 It Is to be sold In Butte, Mont., and on December Decem-ber 14 In Helena, Mont. The total receipts re-ceipts of the' accumulated sales aro to go to tho Rod Cross. Tho aack was started on its way in this city on May 26 of this year and has been "on the go" over since. It was taken to Honolulu and sold there for $1036. It was also sold on the steamers which took it to nnd brought It back from tho Islands. Grldley's sack, which was first started start-ed from Austin, Nev., wore out dozens of ordinary flour sacks and three buckskin buck-skin coverings beforQ it reached the final purchaser. It has already been in a lauhala or tough, matllko covering. cover-ing. This covering was a gift of tho Honolulu Shriners. In every case when the sack is sold, auctioned or raffled off it is returned by the purchaser to tho person selling it. Thus It Is being kept in tho hands of the Shriners, who pass it on from lodge to lodge. The sack will progress on Its money making way until there is nothing loft of It, or until the demands de-mands of the Shriners for this particular partic-ular Red Cross fund havo been satisfied. |