Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — Red Cross Campaign Next Week. [ARTICLE]

Red Cross Campaign Next Week.

Suncay the ministers of the different, churches of the city will ta*e up the matter of the Red Cross work in f.'is county. This will be the open.ng of a three days’ campaign which will be made next week by the Jasper county chapter of that organization in which an attempt to get one thousand members will be made. Everypersoninthis-conntywho will not be called upon to enter the war should contribute liberally and freely to this great organization. The love of our fellow® and our country shoud compel us to answer this urgent call. You can not go to the front with the boys, but you can minister to their wants by having this organization there with its nurses, it bandages, and other means of relieving suffering and_ possibly saving many, many lives. The soldier offers his aft, his life. Will you share your property? Get into this movement with your means and your enthusiasm. Give and urge others to give. Your boy may be wounded upon the battlefield. Who will dress that wound and relieve his pain? Place upon the alter your saorifice. As you love your own son, the nation must love her soldiers. Count it a privilege and not a duty. Go to the Red Cross headquarters in the Shafer building, first door east from the postoffice and make your offering. Arrange to be active in the campaign. do Your part. ‘