BlockNew Salem Township
The complete chapter on this township from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920. 305 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
305 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
New Salem Township
The local Branch of the Red Cross for Precinct 1 of New Salem Township was organized for the village of New Salem in the fall of 1917, The officers elected were as follows: Chairman, Mrs. L. B. Campbell; vice-chairman, S. L. Griggs; secretary, Mrs. Bessie Wyreman; treasurer, Mrs. Jessie Campbell. Mrs. Shaffner was appointed superintendent of the work room with Miss Nettie Laird and Mrs. Leah Hillman. Superintendent of cutting, Mrs. J. B. Norton; assistants, Mrs. John Black, Mrs. Harley Dunham, Miss Emma Hall: work room secretary, Mrs. Clarence Irwin; assistant, Mrs. Grace Woodward. Mrs. Abbie Dean was superintendent of the knitting department, with Mrs. Fidelia Girard and Mrs. Frances Moore as assistants. Mrs. Jessie Campbell was in charge of the buying committee, with Mrs. Lucy Shrigley as assistant. Miss Nellie Dean was appointed to get the knitted sets ready to mail when called for, and also to pack the Christmas boxes.
The work room of the local Branch was the church parlor of the Universalist Church, which was furnished free of charge. New Salem furnished its quota in all calls for hospital supplies, knitted articles and refugee relief garments. As each draft contingent left the county, the local Branch presented each man from New Salem with knitted sweaters and helmets, 21 sets being given out in this way. The money for the yarn was all donated by home people. The greater part of all the war work in New Salem was handled through the Red Cross organization, and the record made in each campaign was very good. The first Y. M. C. A. drive was oversubscribed; the second Red Cross drive was put over the top; the Salvation Army Campaign more than over; the United War Work Campaign away over, and each one of the Five Liberty Loans, and the War Savings campaigns also.
Provenance
Text from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.