The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-06-21
THIS IS RED
CROSS WEEK
VALLEY.WIDE DRIVE UNDER WAY
From Cash and Fruit Contributions Hood
River County Will Probably Ex-
ceed Allotment Of $4,000

bSloIt lulS Wteh Stldll nave CiOSeu,
if the aim of the captains of the 10
teams selected for the work is real
lied, the people of Hood River will
have exceeded by far in making up the
sum of 1900, their allotment of the
5000, 600 to be raised by Oregon during
Red Cross week. The local drive is
managed by c. w. Hooker. The cap
tains selected to head the 10 commit
tees, the members of which are cam
vassing every section of the Apple
Valley, are: DIR. H. l.. Dumble, Tru-
man Butler, l.. E. Ireland, A. W.
Stone, f. W. Buff, +. W. Birge, H.
F. Davidson. Charles Steinhauser and
A. W. Peters. In addition to Mr..
Hooker the following men are on the
special committee in charge of the Red
Cross drive: Z. o. Blanchar, Leslie
Butler, Walter Kimball and C. N.
Ravlin.
While the committeeman expect to
raise large sum through cash contri-
button, the larger portion of the $4, 900
allotment will come from subscriptions
of fruit. Already the members of the
Hood River Valley japanese Farmers
Association, numbering about 100,
have each given the Red Cross a crate
of extra fancy strawberres. Estimat-
ing the total from the average prices
of ordinary seasons, it was thought
that the Japanese fruit contributed
would bring in about 5000. With
Strawberries soaring the allotment of
fruit will bring the Red Cross at least
$400. Contributions of apples, cher
ries and vegetables are expected to
augment the fund by thousands of dol
lars.
Originally the Hood River Red Cross
Chapter started out with the motto,
"a Thousand Members Anyhow" To
date the organizatiop has more than
1,500 members. The officers are de-
terimned that every adult in the mid
Columbia shall be a Red Cross men,
ber before the next month shall have
passed. The Chapter has two auxili-
aries located respectively at Dee and
Cascade Locks. Branch Chapters have
been organized at White Salmon and
Underwood. The activities of the
White Salmon people, who recently de-
voted an entire Sunday to systematic
drive covering all communities of
northwestern Klickitat county resulted
in phenominal success, and in no Sec
tion of the country can more enthusi-
astic Red Cross groups be found than
at euler, Laurel, Trout Lake and
Glenwood, prosperous agricultural dis
tricts of Klickitat county.
In former seasons social events in
Hood River county have been numer-
Gus. This year is characterized by the
absence of frivolity of any nature.
Dances and parties have grown fewer,
and those that have been held here
within the past six weeks have had the
increase of the Red Cross fund as their
motive. Thursday night at the Pine
Grove grange hall, the orchardist
grangers of the East Side held
dance, raising a substantial sum for
relief work.
One central group and four commun-
ity groups of Hood River women are
now engaged in the manufacture of
bandages and other Red Cross supplies.
The women of the city and surround
ing orchard districts meet twice week
ly at the rooms of the Commercial
club, where the hum of the sewing
machine is heard, where scores of
women ply needle and thread, cut
gauze and wind bandages.
The local Chapter has netted approx
imately $400 from rummage sale of
thousands of articles donated univers-
ally by local families. The sale has
been held in vacant store room in
the Masonic building, corps of valley
and city women acting as clerks.
Final plans for the Red Cross drive
were formulated at a dinner at the
Mount Hood hotel Wednesday evening
of last week.
4 simply will not hear any excus-
es, said manager Hooker, when some
of the proposed captains started to tell
how busy they were. "You have been
asked to perform patriotic duty. If
any of you decline to act, we will SIM
ply eliminate that team, and it will be
necessary for the members of other
teams to work that much harder"
Following this injunction not sim
gle captain appointed rendered his res
ignation and already a keen rivalry is
being manifested to see which team
will report the largest fund next Sat-
urday.
The dinner at the Mount Hood was
characterized by the absence of levity.
Addresses were delivered by the fol-
lowing men: Mayor Dumble, Truman
Butler. Walter Kimball DR.. ]. NJ
Waugh, c. W. Hooker and M. Yasui.
Mr.. Yasui said that the Japanese felt
glad of the privilege of being able to
participate in the subscriptions to be
used in assisting the government in
winning the war against the kaiser.
At dinner held Monday evening at
the Hotel Oregon, where tables were
prettily decorated with huge red cross
es, the members of teams selected for
the drive met and outlined details of
the work. At this meeting it was an
nounced that 10 men had already do
mated $100 each, or fourth of the en-
tire allotment for the county.
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