Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1917 — APPEAL TO INDIANA WOMEN [ARTICLE]

APPEAL TO INDIANA WOMEN

Soldiers Soo. to Go Abroad Need Many Owafortiwg Articles. The enlisted men of the First Field Artillery regiment, soon to go overseas, will wear. woolen socks knitted by Indiana girls and women when they go to France. For two months 700 or SOO . women, representing many cities and towns, have been patiently knitting these socks to be presented to the first regiment of Indiana to start for the battle front. The socks have been knitted under the direction of the “Socks for Indiana Soldiers organization, of which Miss Mary Helen Boyd is state chairman: Miss Boyd. catching her idea from the wonderful work which has been done by Canadian women in giving foot comfort to the Canadian soldiers who hare gone to the trenches, formed branch organizations in a .large number of cities and towns and she has had the hearty co-oper-ation of hundreds of women. She started out with the idea of having perfect pairs of socks knitted by September 1- but then she little thought that there would be a call for Indiana soldiers as scon as that. Now that the call has come before that time she is ‘issuing an urgent appeal to all Indiana women who have been enraged in the work to tend in al! completed pairs at once. The early call to the colors of several hundred of the Hoosier boys has so stimulated the knitters that most "of them are putting in many extra hours each day to snake sure that the quota is completed before the regiment is ready to depart. With pairs it will be possible to present each of the Hoosier artillerymen with three pairs. Four hundred pairs from the various branch stations were delivered to the state headquarters at Indianapolis week.