Volunteers Are Wanted

PALMER, BLACKFORD, CASADY, DOUD, BRUGGEMAN, FAULKNER, MILLER, FULTON, BRYSON, HODGES, STONG

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 1/24/2014 at 21:47:56

Volunteers Are Wanted

Solicitors for Red Cross War Fund Drive in County Will Get Short Assignments

A call for volunteers in both towns and country areas to assist in the Red Cross war Fund drive in Van Buren county has been issued. The drive will be held Monday and Tuesday, December 29 and 30.

It is hope that at least 300 persons will volunteer to make solicitations sa a complete job can be done, reaching every person in the county, in the 48-hour drive. Persons who can aid are asked to report to chairmen in each of the county's ten towns not later than Friday evening.

The chairman are:
Birmingham-Frank D. Palmer
Bonaparte-Mrs. A.V. Blackford
Cantril-B.C. Casady
Douds-A.L. Doud, Jr.
Farmington-Ed Bruggeman
Keosauqua-Fred Faulkner
Milton-Carl B. Casady
Mt. Sterling-Edgar Miller
Selma-W.W. Fulton
Stockport-Dee Bryson

Rural residents should report to the nearest town chairman. The entire county will be divided into sections and each solicitor assigned a highway or street to solicit.

A special gifts committee, composed of the bankers of the county, has been organized to solicit persons and firms which can give large contributions. Mrs. Cornelia C. Hodges is in charge of a committee for the schools, to permit the youth of the county to participate in the drive.

Van Buren county's quota is $2000 toward a national War Fund quota of $50,000,000.

"I have just learned." Jo S. Stong, county chairman said yesterday, "that Burlington, Iowa, oversubscribed its $10,000 quota by a thousand dollars in a one-hour drive."

Donations to the War Fund drive will have to be much larger than roll call donations if the county reaches its quota.

Every person who contributes a dollar or more will receive an "I Gave" button.

Van Buren county fell short of its roll call goal in the campaign last month.

"It is inconceivable that the county will fall short again." Chairman Stong said. "Four men from Van Buren county have given their lives in the national defense effort: Joe Barker, Donald Tade, Lyle Teal and Louis Robbins. Donations so large that they entail real self-sacrifice will only begin to match what these men have given-and what scores of other young citizens of this county, in the services or dangerous defense occupations, stand ready to give.

"The size of contributions should not be measured by what we can easily spare; it should be measured by what we can raise with real self-denial."

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