Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — RAISE FUNDS FOR RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

RAISE FUNDS FOR RED CROSS

About Five Hundred See Benefit Ball Game Friday Afternoon. More than 500, people attended the benefit ball game at Riverside park Friday afternoon, as indicated by the gate receipts. A total of $125 was taken in. which has been applied to the Jasper county Red Cross fund The attendance might have been larger but for the threatening weather but the receipts are quite satisfactory. And those present received their money’s worth for the game be-

I' tween the two teams representing tE-c Foresters lodge and Company M was a far better exhibition of , the national sport than many exI peered to see. The game was won ;by the soldiers, the score at the • end of the seventh inning, when [rain stopped playing for the second I tithe..being S to 6 in their favor. I The employes of the A. Roth Co. } cleared about S3O at a benefit show lat the Star theater Friday night, I which has also been added to the Red Cross fund. The girls were i untiring in their efforts do sell j tickets and the crow d out for this |show was one of the largest ever j seeking admittance to a Rensselaer | playhouse. I The benefit dance given by the | Knights of Columbus at the armory , Friday night netted that organization between $lO and sll for the Red Cross fund. There was too much going on for the one night and ail who might otherwise wished to be present were unable to do so. The Knjghts will hold a meeting in the near future and devise other means of increasing this amount before it is turned over to the Red Cross committee.