Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — IS DOING HER BIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IS DOING HER BIT

Miss Virginia Cannon Le Seure, young granddaughter of “Unde Joe” Cannon, ih the uniform her service for the Red Cross society has entitled her to wear, photographed on the steps of her grandfather’s 'home, in Danville, 111. “I never was so proud of anything in my life,” Uncle Joe’s favorite granddaughter confessed, in talking of her uniform and her work. “I’m learning the real joy of service. Of course there aren’t any parties or anything of that sort now that -there is-war, and I think it’s beautiful, to be doing even a little something that is useful.” But it isn’t so small a thing that Miss Le Seure is doing. With the opening of the Red Cross classes in intensive training at the Chicago headquarters, this daughter of fortune enrolled and worked devotedly until she had completed her coujse.

A substitute for gasoline in the role of fuel has been found by a South African company in natalite, a distillate of molasses. .