Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — Canned and Dried Fruits to Endow Hospital Beds [ARTICLE]

Canned and Dried Fruits to Endow Hospital Beds

Frim proceeds derived chiefly from the sale of canned and dried fruits, farm women’s clubs in West Virginia contributed $2,100 for the endowment of hospital ..beds for wounded soldiers in France. During the past summer they canned for this purpose 20,000 quarts from materials formerly allowed to waste. Nineteen of the thir-ty-one counties put away for winter use 1,500,000 quarts. Farm women’s clubs in this state took the lead in the use of substitutes, thereby releasing a very considerable amount of- food; . *r—•