Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1918 — SMALL BOY KNITS SWEATER [ARTICLE]

SMALL BOY KNITS SWEATER

Ten-Year-Old Youth Gets Yarn From Red Cross and Turns in Finished Garment. Chicago. —A “Sammie,” “somewhere in the United States” or “somewhere in France,” is today wearing a nice warm knitted sweater and in all probability dreaming of a beautiful girl “somewhere in the United States, who knitted the sweater. Clifford Hammerberg. ten-year-old schoolboy, was anxious to help the boys fighting for Uncle Sam, went to the Red Cross headquarters, obtained some yarn and went home and knitted the sweater. It was returned to the Red Cross and sent out with other sweaters for boys in the service.