Volunteers organized a Sewing Club - especially for girls - who were taught how to knit. These finished products were also sent to the . The most popular knitting was the "four- inch square" These were knit by both the boys and girls. When enough were completed, some¬ one in the district would sew them together to make the popular "afghan". These were sent Overseas. In later years some of the 'knitters' have wondered how any competent sewer could actually make the afghan look perfect when so many 'squares' had sides that were anything but square. One wonders if these volunteers had to unravel the work of those industrious children in order to make them presentable. Did each 'skewed' one actually have a 'matching' square? Young people were taught to be very thrifty with their earnings. No penny went unaccounted. Rather than buying things for oneself, all young people made purchases of the 25 cent V - for Victory - stamp, from the . The school teachers encouraged this practice as they also gave each child a stamp, rather than a gift, for their album at the Christmas concert. With larger amounts of money the War Savings Bonds were purchased. These War Bonds were cashable at the end of the War years. As the War ended, the servicemen and women returned to their homes for a visit or to take up the work that they had left behind. The residents turned out to welcome them home. A dinner was held in each one's honor and a gift was given. This was followed by an 'open house'. The 'single' servicemen were presented with gifts of personalized leather wallets. Quilts, made by W.I. Members , were presented to those who had married during the War years. This was also the occasion to welcome the new "War Bride" to the community. Two soldiers who did not return were Pte. Leigh MacKay , son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. MacKay , who became ill in Sicily and died at the age of seventeen. The second was Otto Dunning , son of Frank and Rena Dunning, who moved from Stanley to Long River . One would be remiss if the names of James and Catherine (Anderson) Brown were not men¬ tioned. They had four sons enlist in World War I, namely; Chester, Dawson, Hartle and Leander. Three sons were killed. Hartle was the only one to return. He later moved from the village to Vancouver, B.C. The toll taken on the men from this community was extreme in World War I as one notes that eight - out of twenty-three enlisted personnel - were mortally wounded and are buried in a 'foreign land'. World War II Lancaster bomber 39