In March, Kimball was announced to have won a second place among the ninetythree counties in the state for having the largest per cent of membership in the Red

Cross in proportion to its population. While it did not win first place it came the next thing to it and the only count}' ahead of it w-as a well-settled eastern county. The table showing membership and per cent in relation to population is as follows :

County Population Per cent

Butler 9,230 72.5

Kimball 1,150 59.2

Grant 649 59.1

Scottsbluff 4,738 56.7

Douglas 94.424 56.0

Dundy 2.131 52.0

Morrill 2,381 51.9

Cheyenne 2,358 51.8

Dodge 11,171 50.4

Phelps 5.115 48.9

War Savings Stamp Campaign By March 22. 1918. chairman W. S. Redman of the "War Savings Stamp campaign was able to report Kimball had raised her $56,120 share on that day.

It is interesting to know that Nebraska was the first state in the Union to go over the top on the War Savings campaign. The Wrar Savings Stamp scheme had been figured out and placed in charge of one of the leading financiers of the nation, Frank A. Yanderlip, of the National City Bank of New York City. But it remained for a little county out in Nebraska to hit upon the most feasible plan of selling the small thrift stamps and war savings certificates. A group of men in Seward county held a meeting around the holiday season in 1917, shortly after the appointment of count}- chairmen and local committees, to devise ways and means to meet the quota in Seward county, accepted the suggestion of Mr. W. H. Brokaw, now director of the Agricultural Extension Department of the State University and Farm Bureau work. They drew a plan from this idea, to conduct a preliminary campaign of education and follow it with a set date, upon which there would be called a meeting simultaneously, for the same day and hour, in every school district of the count}-, and each district would endeavor to subscribe to its quota then and there.