By January 3, 1918. the Kimball chapter of the Red Cross had a membership of 1013, exclusive of those who took out life membership before the drive. The result of the recent drive enabled Chairman W. S. Rodman to report for Kimball, 884 members ; for Bushnell, 127, and for Dix, 102.

The financial report showed membership reports, Kimball, $927.00 ; Bushnell, $127.00; Dix, $103.00. Balance of checks, $525.00. Supper. $4.00. Sale of goose, $26.50. or a total of $1,172.75 . In January a war savings meeting held by Harry O. Palmer of Omaha gave this work an enthusiastic launching.

Some of our Kimball people were no doubt kicking about high prices cf food products in 1918, long before the prices of 1919 and 1920, but if they only could have experienced the prices that the exchange showed existed in Berlin -- butter, $2.25 per lb ; sugar, 56c ; ham and bacon, $2.11 ; American soap, 5 bars for $1.12 -- they would drop into satisfied silence.

Professor Johnson of Kimball schools resigned to take effect Saturday, January 26, 1918, to enlist in the navy ; though he was not yet twenty-one and not subject to the draft, he had hastened into the service.

By September, 1918, Treasurer George L. Vogler of the Kimball chapter of Red Cross showed a membership of 1,150 which was certainly remarkable for the population of the county. In 1910 the official census showed but 1,942. ' The financial settlement for the chapter in December, 1917, had been- 81.287.93.