The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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THe Ralston Tribune
Entered at the Ralston, Okla., Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter
By Orrin L. Browning
Official Newspaper of the Town of Ralston. Progressive in All Ways.
$1.50 the Year in Advance
Ralston, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Friday, December 12, 1919
Volume IV Number 12
■H SUL MONEY
TO BE SPENT 10 SM
Only Small Amount Goes to
Help Work Outside of
Oklahoma
* )
• ^ "Far the Health of This Corn-
•C munlty." Such Is the slogan
| appearing on the flap of enve-
f lopes on which the Red Cross
Christmas Seal Is printed. The Issue
of such envelopes In order lo save the
trouble of affixing gummed seals to
letters sent out tn quantity by large
corporations and business houses has
been Inaugurated this year as part of
the machinery of distribution set In
motion by the National Tuberculosis
Association and Us 1,009 State and lo-
cal organisations In disposing of more
than 650,000,000 R I Cross Christmas
Seals during the ten day sals which
began on December L
The significance of the slogan lies In
the fact that whether the letter Is
mailed la l<os Angeles or Boston, In
Chicago or In Galveston It still holds
trua “This community" literally
means the place where the seal Is
bought and used. To be exact, 01.7
per cent of the funds raised is devoted
to local anti-tuberculosis activities In
tbs state. Of tbe remaining 8.3 per
cent s portion goes lo tbe Red Cross.
President Endorses Sale
mLb President Wilson, In a letter
eda to Dr. Charles J. Hat-
1 field, Managing Director of
| • the National Tuberculosis
Association, expresses keen luterest la
the work of the association and wishes
success to the 1919 Red Cross Christ-
mas Sent sale. More than 0.>0,000,000
seals must he sold during the ten da>
drive which began on December 1, to
assure a one hundred per cent, appli-
cation of the Association's 1W-0 educa-
i tlonal aud preventive campuigu. Tbe
President’s letter follows:
I “Allow me to express again my deep
Interest In the work of the National
Tuberculosis Association. I am very
much Interested to learn of the efforts
of tbe Association to raise the sum
of six and oue-hnif million dollars that
tbe elite budgets may be financed for
the coming year, and write to wish the
very best success of the effort."
Christmas Fruits
Let us have your order for Christmas
Candies and Fruits. Will be in position
to sell you Oranges by the box for your
Christmas Trees. Drop in and get
prices.—JAMES A. HANEY.
our
Mrs. Thos. Murphy was taken to the
Wichita Hospital, last Friday, where
she underwent an operation Monday.
She was accompanied by Mrs. M. W.
Gay man who returned home Monday.
Red Cross Approves Sale
-f- Dr. Livingston Fnrranrt. nee-
•f* uttve head of the American
I Red Cross, hns glveD his un-
■ qualified endorsement of the
1919 Red Cross Chrlstinss Seal sale,
which Is now under way and which
will extend for ten days under the
auspices of the National Tuberculosis
Association and Its !.«» silled organ-
izations. A fund of more than $6,500,-
IKXi. which will be used In the 1920 ed-
ucational and ■preventive campaign,
will be raised through tbe sale of tbe
seals.
Acquainted as he Is with all ques
lions of general health community im-
provement and relief because of the
.ature of til" work and office, Dr Far
rand's endorsement ts bused upon an
expert knowledge of what tbe N'a
tlonal Tuberculosis Association has ac-
complished and will accomplish In the
future. Ills letter to Dr Charles J
Hatfield. Managing Director of the Na-
tional Tuberculosis Association, fol-
lows :
“1 have been greatly Interested In
the pluns that the Nntlonnl Tuberculo-
sis Association Is making for the sale
of Christmas Seals during the coming
holiday season The success of that
effort Is Indispensable to the carrying
out of the furreachins plans of the
Association In Its tight ugaliist tuber-
culosis In this country.
“The American people. In common
with the nations of Europe, are he
coming aroused to the critical impor-
tunes of the problem of vitality ami
conservation of health ns the neces
sary factor In reestablishing the
world after the devastation and de-
struction caused by the war. Of all
the preventable diseases, tuberculosis
takes perhaps the llrst place In Impor-
tapes. For that reason 1 view with
keenest sympathy and approval the
splendid work which tbe National Tu-
berculosis Association Is conducting,
and I trust that the response of the
American people In the Christmas Seal
Campaign will be generous und univer-
sal. Sincerely yours, *
(Signed) LIVINGSTON FARRAND.
“Chairman, Central Committee, Amer-
ican Red Cross."
Henlth Bonds Popular
,1, The demand for the Health
Bonds which the National Tu-
1 berculosls Association Issued
I this year for the first time are
meeting with a ready sale. The bonds
ure In graduated denominations, the
smallest being for $3. In tbe past
some of tbe large business houses and
other large contributors found It ditll
cult to use up the number of Red
Cross Seals their subscriptions called
for. The bonds have been Issued for ]
the convenience of large subscribers
and the proceeds of their sule will be
used for tbe same purpose us the
Christmas Seal funds—the financing
of the 1900 effort to reducs tlie num
her of deaths from tuberculosis In the
United States. Uist year the disease
claimed 1 B«,000 lives. The health
bonds can be obtained from state uud
local tuberculosis nssoclutlous.
Misses Ruth and Elizabeth Jones re-
turned, Friday, from several days visit
with relatives in Wichita.
Tuberculosis Kills 150,000 AMERICANS every
year.
And yet, Tuberculosis ia Preventable and
Curable.
The National Tuberculosis Association is con-
ducting a sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals, begin-
ning December 1.
The proceeds of this sale will be used to combat
Humanity’s most deadly enemy—The White Plague
—-in every community in the United States.
Approximately 92 per cent of the money raised
In your state will be spent there.
This Campaign to save AMERICAN lives will
succeed if you do your part.
Get in touch with your state or local Tubercu-
losis Asspciation.
Buy Red Cross Christmas Seals, or Health
Bonds.
Don’t wait for the Seals to come to you.
U MB PEBSONIL
BENS Bf TBE WEEK
Brief News Items Concerning
Local People, Places
and Events.
Hints on How to Save Fuel!
Go to bed early and stay there.
Eat your meals out of tin cans and use
lots of red pepper.
Go and spend the winter with your
wife’s folks.
Think about the coal strike or the
Mexican situation; that ought to make
you hot enough!
If that won’t work, talk mean to your
mother-in-law. She’ll make it hot for
you.
Announcement
Hereafter The Tribune will be printed
on Thursday, and all copy must be in
the office by Wednesday noon. No job
printing will be done on Wednesday or
Thursday as those ure the days that
will be devoted to gathering local news.
—The Editor.
T. W. Chance will hold a public sale
soon and will remove to Kansas.
Ozie Carter visited relatives in Fairfax
the first of the week.
Mrs. Glenna Nicholson and baby came At tbe Christian Church
down from Wichita, Friday morning fo
an extended visit with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. David Jones.
There will be regular preaching servic
es at the Christian Church Sunday-
morning and evening by the pastor.
Christmas Suggestions
Christmas is fast creeping upon us.—Just 13
days away and you are puzzled to know
What Shall I Give?
% 4
\YTE HAVE a fine line of merchandise for you to make
VV your selections from.** Aluminum Percolators $2.50
to $8.00.** Aluminum Dishpans, Buckets Etc.**Community
Silverware, Knives, Forks, Spoons and Ladles, ** Rodger Bros.
Silverware.**The finest lot of Manicuring sets ever shown in
Ralsten.**A nice lot of Dishes and Bowls.**Tricycles, Kiddie
Cars, Roily Horses, Sleds, Coaster ^Vagons, Air Guns, and
many other things. **^Ve also have Quite a Lot
of Toys and Holiday Goods.
Ross, Hunsaker & Co.
Business Change
J. H. Perrigo, this week, sold his har-
ness and shoe repair shop, including the
building and lot, to Mr. Russell who is
now in charge. Mr. Perrigo has not yet
made any plans for the future.
To the Public.
Packages to go out on the evening
mail should be in the post office by 2;00
o’clock.—MRS. ORA McCAGUE, P. M.
Notice
All persons indebted to me will please
make settlement at once as I have sold
my business.—J. H. PERRIGO.
A gift that will endure and please—a
piece of good jewelry. See our new line.
—SIMPSON, the Jeweler.
A gift they will always keep is a good
piece of jewery. See our nice new line.—
SINPSON, the Jewelry.
The Everidge family, living in the Big
Bend, have a child quite sick with ty-
phoid fever.
Buy HER a piece of jewelry for a
Christmas gift.—SIMPSON, the Jeweler
Dr. Barber was at Fairfax on profes-
sional business, Friday.
A fine line if box candies now on hand
at the Rexall Pharmacy.
Fine fresh box candies on sale at the
Rexall Pharmacy.
Buy your Christmas gifts at the Rex-
all Pharmacy.
CHILDREN.
David Starr Jordan says:
wAm “There Is nothing tn nil
I the world so Important os
I little children; nothing so
Interesting. If you wish to go In
for philanthropy. If ever you wish
to be of any use In ths world, do
something for lltt'o children. If
ever you yearn to be truly wise,
vtudy children. We con dress the
sore, bandage tbe wound. Imprison
the criminal, heal tbe sick and
bury the dead, but there Is slwuys
a chance that we can save the
child. If the greet army of phi-
lanthropists ever exterminate sin
and pestilence, ever work out the
raoe's salvation. It will be because
• little child has led them."
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS
SKA1.8 SAVE THE LIVES OF
AMERICAN CHILDREN — Buy
them to-day.
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Browning, Orrin L. The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1919, newspaper, December 12, 1919; Ralston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc907681/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.