Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — RED CROSS IN ALASKA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RED CROSS IN ALASKA

Mrs. Louis K. Pratt is a prominent clubwoman and chairman of the Liberty bond committee of Fairbanks, Alaska. Fairbanks claims more than 2,000 Red Cross members who are raising funds despite the decreased buying power of their dollar. All bridge clubs are donating their club dues to war, purposes; the various woman’s clubs have collected during the winter every scrap of discarded metal and rubber to be sent to the “States” for the Red Cross at the opening of navigation. One small club raised by delicatessen sales enough money to endow a bed' In the Neuilly hospital, which Alaskan women are trying to support. Their second sale alone netted them $447.50.