Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — EVERYBODY KNITS, EVEN‘DAD’ [ARTICLE]

EVERYBODY KNITS, EVEN‘DAD’

Local Red Cross Gives Uniqne Knitting Demonstration. It Is probable that no local Red Cross headquarters in the country is as busy a place as that of the Jasper county headquarters in the K. of P. building. A bunch of ’tomen are busy there every day and evening and a report of the total work done is astonishing. Many of the women, including the president,_ Mrs. Ora T. Ross, and the secretary, Miss Ida Millikcn, are giving practically their entire time to the work and they have accomplished wonders.. Among the wor£ sent out from the headquarters since August 1 are 62 mufflers, 103 sweaters, 154 pairs of sox, 53 pairs of wristlets and seven helmets. Over 200 pounds of yarn has been used, and lots more articles are in preparation. This does not include, of course, the many sweaters, helmets, etc., that have been knit by individual ladies rnd sent to relatives or friends in the army service. Wednesday evening a* unique knitting demonstration was given in the large window of the headquarters that attracted much interest despite the inclemency of the weather. Both sexes were represented in the knitting, as were all ages. John Holden, sexton of Weston cemetery, represented the male sex past the half century age. and Jack Grant and Paul Robinson the boys; while Mrs. Frances Hopkins, seventy-eight, and Mrs. Charles Platt represented th r c’der and middle-aged ladies, Miss Katherine Watson representing the young ladies, and Misses Marjorie Hill, Margaret Myer, Virginia and Ruth Thompson, ranging in age from ten years to five years—-little Ruth Thompson, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Thompson, being the youngest as well as one of the busiest, fastest and most efficient of the knitters-—rep-resented the female juvenile. Mr. Holden was knitting on a sweater, and had it almost done, .but most people who observed him at work were cruel enough to suggest that he must have begun on it at least two years before the war started. "Uncle" an aged German citizen who is said to bo an expert knitter, was to have been one of the knitters, but he concluded it was too bad a night for him to come out, much to the disappointment of everyone. The demonstration was indeed interesting and a photograph should have been taken of it and preserved that future generations of our people might see what their ancestors did to help the cause of the C. S. in the greatest conflict in the world’s history.