The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-24
Activities of Keokuk
Red Cross CHAPTER

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appointed by Mr.. Mcfarland. chair
man of the Red Cross society, to
organize the women for work in the
southern half of Lee county, has ef-
fected a very satisfactory organiza-
ton at Summitville. The whole COM
mittee Of organization is Mrs. Dime.
low Mrs. E. Ross Baker, Miss Ignore
Rich and Mrs. J. l.. s. Scadding, the
latter going with the committee to
teach knitting.
There Is now on display the work
which has been done recently at the
Red Cross by the committees sewing
for Belgian and French children.
Some of the articles are Of special in
terest, among them the comforts
made by the old ladies of the Benev-
client Union. home from the scraps
left from the dresses made for the
children. One little boy. Harold Nc
Kenney, felt that more work was be-
ing done to provide clothes for little
girls, so he purchased from his own
savings a pair of trousers for some
teller who needs friend" over there.
A shipment of three hundred art
icles will be made on Tuesday. the
garments on dipslay being part OF
the proposed shipment
The ladies meet every Tuesday and
Friday morning at the Red Cross
shop to sew for this much needed
work. Mrs. G. F. Mcfarland is chair
man, and she is assisted by Miss
Dora Younker and Mrs. W. j. Fulton.
Workers are always welcome at these
meetings and arrangements are made
by which those desiring to do so, can
take work home and sew there II 1t
is more convenient.
Urgent letters and kilograms have
been received by the chairman Of the
Keokuk Red Cross, asking that the
number Of surgical dressings made be
greatly increased If possible. To do
this, many new workers must give
their help, as the present workers are
doing all they can. Can any woman
of Keokuk feel easy in conscience
when she knows that there is direct
call for her time and work and she
does not give waht she can?
Glasses Of instruction, such as were
held last summer, will be held In the
Masonic building. beginning Tuesday,
December 4th, and lasting eight days,
December 4, s, 6, Z, II, IL, 13 and IA.
, 1t had been planned to hold these
classes after Christmas, but the need
for more workers and for supervisors
! to instruct them, Is necessity great
err in Importance than anything else
at this moment. A serious shortage
in surgical dressings and conse-
quent increase in suffering in the
| hospitals is threatened unless all
American women do their whole part.
VIII any woman who can enter this
course of instruction, give her name
to Mrs. Frank Anderson, I'll North
1 Seventh street. Telephone Black
SS4. There is no tuition charge.
The classes for instructors that
ended Friday, were most successful
The Red Cross gives to those women
who have taken the full instruction,
passed the examinations and worked
iseventy-two hours in the Red Cross
shop, the standing Of supervisors,
with the right to wear the official
Red Cross emblem on their caps and
aprons. Those who have so qualified
are the following:
Mrs. Frank Anderson. Miss Martha
| Baldwin, Miss Caroline Baldwin, Mrs.
French Bland, Mrs. o. E. King, Mrs.
C. F. Mcfarland. Mrs. Joseph O'Brien.
Mrs. James Mullarkey. Miss Ida Nc
Carthy, Miss Dorothy Younker, Mrs.
Miss Mary Irwin, Mrs. Anna s. Robi-
son, Mrs. A. C. Decker, Mrs. Frank
Weber, Mrs. l. r. Malone, Mrs. w. F.
Guiss, Mrs. G. Lloyd Norman, Mrs.
W. N. Sage.
Recently Miss Elizabeth G. Bissell
of Dubuque. received appointment
from the American Red Cross society
to an important executive position in
the canteen department in Paris,
and will sail early in December. Miss
Bissell until her appointment to the
Red Cross was state corresponding
secretary Of the Iowa Equal Suffrage
association. She Is a proficient French
scholar and trained office woman,
which will enable her to do the work
efficiently.
Friends Of the Red Cross who were
not fully informed as to the methods
of the organization for providing
Christmas packages for soldiers and
sailors have in some instances been
sending these packages to national
headquarters.
The Red Cross plan Is to have all
Christmas packets assembled by To-
cal chapters and auxiliaries. They are
packed in cases at the work rooms
and forwarded directly to division
warehouses;, and thence distributed
through the division Offices.
The function Of the national head
quarters Is executive, and 1t therefore
has no facilities for handling these
donations. The American Red Cross
is deeply grateful for the interest
which has been shown everywhere in
helping to carry out the Christmas
plan, and is anxious to have every
helper properly informed on this point.
SO that there may be no loss or delay
in gathering the packages.
In accordance with It's policy Of
keeping the people Of the country
thoroughly informed on all of its ac-
tivities, the war council Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross makes public sum-
mary Of salaries paid at national head
. quarters as Of November /.
On that date there were 1923 paid
! employees, a reduction of sixty-three