Many benefits, combining work with pleasure, were given for
the Red Cross.
On June 12, 1917, Mesdames L. W. TERRY, A. M. BOWEN, W. R.
SKINNER, and W. N. COBB gave a practice
reception at the TERRY home, where light refreshments were
served. It was a decided financial and social success. The silver
collected at this entertainment amounted to $62.75.
At the Patriotic Community Social given on August 8, 1917,
at the Union Park, in honor of the doctors and boys who
were called to service, the City Federation of Women's Clubs
served the refreshments. The contributions and net proceeds amounted
to $119.98.
Mrs. I. H. HOWARD suggested starting a series of parties
to raise money for the Red Cross. Mrs. HOWARD gave the
first party, with twelve ladies as her guests; each guest,
in turn, entertained eight others; each of these entertained
four others; and each of these four entertained four guests.
These parties given during the summer of 1917, netted $128.00.
The Evangelical Church, the Revered Mr. HOFFMAN pastor, contributed
$7.75 on June 27, 1917. Mrs.
BODYCOAT held a social at Avon [Rock county, Wis.] which
netted the Red Cross $6.05, and Mrs. George MARSHALL's two parties
brought in $8.50. The Presbyterian Guild and the Woman's Study
Club each contributed $5.00. Also the Mothers' Club donated $10.00
from a collection taken when Mrs. Edith HOYT spoke in the Congregational
Church on Mothers in War Time.
The Presbyterian choir gave the Red Cross $30.00, the proceeds
of its annual Harvest Concert.
At the W.R.C. chicken pie dinner and fair, November 17, 1917,
$136.35 was raised for the Red Cross.
On Thanksgiving night, 1917, the firemen held their annual
concert and dance for the benefit of the Red Cross. The net
proceeds turned over were $257.00. The proceeds of the supper
conducted by the ladies of St. Rose's Church were $66.26, so
that the total amounted to $323.26.
The True Blue Class, under the direction of Mrs. HALE, gave
an entertainment on December 14, 1917, at the
Congregational Church parlors. $15.00 was made.
$210.88 was made from the picture show given under the auspices
and for the benefit of the Red Cross, the day the
Jackie Band was in Brodhead.
The Senior Class of 1918 turned over to the Red Cross the
sum of $50.00, one-half of the net proceeds of their Class
Play. The other half was given to the Junior Red Cross.
From the sale of hand-painted china, donated by Miss Myrtle
HILL, $40.00 was received; and a doily made by Mrs.
Abbie KARNEY and sold under the auspices of the Round Table
Study Club netted $30.00.
From an M. E. Church entertainment $59.25 was donated; from
the Spring Grove School District No. 7, $26.00; from
the Pine Bluffs Mothers' Club, $25.00; and from the Woman's
Relief Corps, $10.30.
Spring Grove Ladies donated $18.25, and the W.R.C. gave $10.30
for pajamas. Mr. Charles ERICKSON and the
War Relief Workers held a basket social at which they made
$15.00; and $15.00 was donated by the Union Hill Ladies.
Camp Fire Girls donated $16.00. They also made comfort bags
and made $4.30 from the sale of these. The Junior Red
Cross donated $15.20, and a collection of $15.00 was received
at a union meeting of the churches.
From the sale of paper hand-bags made by the Eighth Grade,
$22.00 was received; and from the Seventh Grade, for
labor done at home, $5.10.
After it disbanded, the Community Chorus gave its treasury
balance of $6.81; the ladies of the Union Church of Oakley
gave $22.32 received from an entertainment; the Dawson Ladies'
Aid gave $8.19; War Relief Workers gave $20.00; the Evangelical
Girls' Club donated $10.00, and the surplus of the Service Flag
Day Celebration, amounting to $16.00, was turned over to the
Red. Cross.
The Norwegian Ladies' Aid gave $21.00; the Reverend Mr. KVALE
(Ladies' Aid) donated $10.00, and the Ladies'
Bridge Whist Club $15.00. The Congregational Aid Society
gave six dozen napkins and six dozen tray cloths, and the Reverend
Mr. RAMSETH (Norwegian Ladies' Aid) two dozen towels. Mrs. Eva
SWANTON donated a quilt made with Red Crosses on a white background,
and the War Relief Workers six fine comforters. A Red Cross flag
was donated by Mr. and Mrs. F. P. SKINNER to be used on all Red
Cross occasions. Miss Eliza SHERMAN donated three afghans knit
by herself. Donations were also received from Spring Valley and
Avon [both in Rock county, Wis.].
Besides these numerous donations, there were many other private
donations, too many to list in this article. Almost every
week a certain few came to make a voluntary contribution
to the Red Cross.