Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1911 — What Other Towns are Doing in Sale of Red Cross Seals. [ARTICLE]

What Other Towns are Doing in Sale of Red Cross Seals.

Bloomingdale has sold more than one seal per inhabitant Muncie has adopted the slogan ”100,000, Red Cross Christmas Seals Sold in Muncie.” 1 , Marion workers are reaching out to Fairmount and Johesboro in their campaign. "Stamp out Consumption” bills were placed in all copies of a recent issue of Elkhart and Decatur newspapers. Peru has ordered seals four times In an effort to keep a live lot of selling agents supplied. Evansville is campaigning among members of the country churcjies and sending speakers to their meetings. Preachers are directing the sale in Anderson and Jeffersonville, and they are delivering the goods. Terre Haute has a “flying squadron" of messengers to deliver the daily orders for Red Cross Christmas seals.

Richmond is offering a prize of $2 for the best essay or story dealing with tuberculosis and 'the work of the Red Cross Christmas seals. Seals sold so fast in Mishawaka that the agent had to borrow a supply from South Bend while hurrying a telegram to the Indianapolis headquarters for more. The Tri Kappa Sorority at Greensburg has established branch agencies in Adams, Burney, Ciarkesburg, St. Paul and Sandusky, five small towns near Greensburg. Indianapolis has distributed 490,000 seals, Terre Haute, 300,000, Evansville. 250,000, Lafayette 100,000, Marlon 50,000, Richmond 45,000, Elkhart 40,000, Hammond 40,000, Logansport 60,000, Muncie 41,000 and South Bend 40,000.