Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1917 — ITEMS FROM THE RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM THE RED CROSS

Do not fail to see the gar quilt in the Red Crooss window. It was knitted by the following school children: Eva Karnowsky, Helen Ranton, Orville Cain, Margaret Myer, Marjorie Hill, Norman Thom(as, Ida Myer, Mary Ann Ham, Gladys Griggs and Elizabeth Kresler, and it will be sent abroad to help relieve the suffering children there. Please leave your scraps of yarn at headquarters, as the little knitters are eager to finish another quilt. • American prisoners of war in Germany are to- be supplied with food and clothing by the American Red Cross. Already 1,800,000 individual rations, or enough food to feed 10,000 men adequately for six months, have been ordered. A special ration is being wrirked out for invalid prisoners.