In that instance the reason was ample, for it was at the time when the local resources were driven the limit in financing the wheat growers of the county. The first important duty of the United States and the farmers was to produce wheat and they had to have money to do so. The second drive fell thirty thousand dollars under the quota, but the third Liberty Loan went over by sixty thousand, thereby making good and much more, as it made up by some extra thousands the shortage of the second drive.

June 5, 1917, three hundred and forty-four Deuel county boys registered for service in the various branches of the army and navy, which, with those who had previously come before the county clerk, made approximately four hundred for the first registration day. On June 19, following, the Deuel County Red Cross Society was organized with the following officers : Mrs. Ruth Vandiver, Chairman; Mrs. Ethel Pfeiffer, Secretary; Miss Ada Wolf, Treasurer; Mrs. Olive Bedford and Mrs. John Cave were nominated a Committee to solicit members. Red Cross Tag Day netted four hundred and ninety-four dollars and some cents, which with previous collections amounted to seven hundred and twenty-five dollars. The executives and committee met at the home of Mrs. H. C. Heming to plan their additional work on June 30. There were by that time a hundred and fifty active mem-

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bers in the organization, but they set the goal at a thousand members.