The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-02
LOCAL CHAPTER
 OF RED GROSS
 IS VERY LARGE

That rh, Panama Valley chapter ot .aa American Rcd Cross BON has l.,oo members. and ghar the list Is a- ln incomplete. owing 10 the fact ruar rne 'auous uS,mcrz at dl-- ..a.- from Fairbanks have not yet ] reported was inc information con
 Ha.t in wire dispatched Sunday afternoon to Pruslden Wilson by .a. officials O, .ha chapter The ..r. also stated that something like 1 sl5oo is now r~adg for forwarding and tha, u win be dispatched as
 oon as the entire fund. which is ex- yno.od to aggregate close to 5000. is gathered together
 ru.un hundred members of the Rcd Cross in the Panama Valley means s15oo. or that amount hall remain. hor- and the other half will be dispatched to the national head quarters of he association at Wash in-fon. D. C. To that hMr however, l has been added the $5n5 realized from The bazaar at Nenana: rhe $g>,5 turned oyer to the chapter hy the Womon's Loyal League of the Panama Valley. and numerous donations for Red Cross work in amounts running from three dollars 1 10 ten dollars, making the total amount now on hand and ready to urn over to national headquarters .a thn neighborhood oe $I500.
 The @750 that remains at home @ ot ho membership fund is to be- dispensed in focal Red Cross work. Bg the terms under which chapters of Rcd Cross are organized there iz d proyiso to hat effect ] Consequently, should penniless man be injured. he will be taken car. of or the money will be used .ously in ease of general trouble of any kind resulting in the injury of any person or persons. Credit for the big success of the Rcd Cross movement in Interior Al a~ka f- undoubtedly due chiefly to the women of the various communi- ! ties Fostered by the Womrn's ] Loyal League of the Panama Valley. the chapter grew. all of the women who had had part in the orsanization of the league taking like part in 1 the oraan.zation of the chapter In addition Red Cross workers were named in all of the outlying dis uicts. and although complete re ports are in but from a few places, their efforts are already showing re suits.
 Mrs. Thomas Riggs, Jr, and her assistants at Nenana, succeeded in getting 2s0 Red Cross members and have prospects of securing at least l5O more. Mrs II. J. Atwen, ol Brooks, has secured l19 members to date, but reports that she is not yet through soliciting Mrs. $. R Weiss, of Chatanika, managed to sell l lO1 tags Miss Johanna Miller solo ! Fl tags at Olnes Mrs. James Clinic and Mrs. CordeIia M. Karshner oi Rampant and Hot Springs respective Iy, have each telegraphed they have secured 50 members and that they have prospects Of securing more Mrs. C. A. MacQuarrie sold 10 Of of the little Red Cross tags on Es- ter creek From Fairbanks creek comes the report that Mrs Tom Gil more added twelve members to the Red Cross rol while Mrs F. C. BIeeckor of Fox, secured eight mem ber hips.
 All of the Red Cross solicitors in Fairbanks were very successful in their endeay0rs to secure subscrib CTS to the Red Cross fund Mrs. F. M. Dunham secured 1S4 mem berships. while Mrs. Charles Beam sold ll5 tags. Mrs Rae B. Carter was third, having sold 76 tags.
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