The courier-index., 1917-10-12
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SUMMARY OF WORK DONE

I the afternoon and received S4 mem bers. who were willing to have a Red Cross Society in our little city oI Marianna.
 On May , I sent in the names of these S4 members, together with a check for S4l to cover payment of membership dues, and filed an appli- cation with the national headquarters for authority 10 organize chapter of the A. R. C. in Lee county, and on the 18th of May we were granted permission to organize a chapter.
 On June we called our first meet ing, for the purpose of electing our officers, and to perfect arrangements for getting started into actual work ing order Next we secured our work rooms and headquarters, through the kindness of our mayor, Mir Russell Dupuy, and our city coun- cil who graciously rendered the city hall for our use, just as long as we wished to use it for this work.
 Next was the securing of sewing machines, and ready response came to our appeal Machines were donated for our cause by Mrs. w $. McClintock. Mrs. F. R. Dupuy, The E. ]. Beazley Co. Mrs. H. F. Role son and Mrs Morris Lesser.
 Now we were ready to begin work, but we had nothing to begin on. so three of our ladies, Mrs. Y. M Har- rington. Mrs. Macklin McClintock and Mrs. Guy Leary. volunteered to SO licit donations for materials to begin work with, and I am very proud to say our merchants and friends re- sponded to our appeal very Derally. And soon we were at work.
 As a result of our first three weeks work. on August we made a ship ment of something near 600 articles, consisting of hospital garments and different bandages and supplies, to the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn. N Y. for the use of our American soldiers, and on August 26 we received a let ter from Red Cross headquarters in New York City stating our shipment had reached New York on August r. was inspected and marked o K first class, and was on the way to France. and would soon be in the hands of our American soldiers. After the ninth cf August we decided to work only in the mornings, and the few ladies who came to work have most certainly been earnest and faithful workers.
 We have only five teams of work CTS. and each team has a captain. We do not work on Saturday, as we feel every housekeeper has all and sometimes more. than she can do al her own home on that day.
 We now have something over one thousand finished articles. consisting of bandages, bath robes. pajamas, hospital bed shirts. operating leg gings. operating gowns, helmets. caps, shoulder wraps, sheets, pillow cases, towels handkerchiefs. foot warmers, tray cloths and wash cloths, ready for shipment, and we could and should have had just double the amount had the ladies responded to the call for workers as they should have done But we have a few of the faithful ones. who have certainly done their bit for this great cause of humanity, and are still doing their bit We now have $50 members and four auxiliaries
 We have the Moro auxiliary with 29 members. and you do not know what pleasure it is to us to report to you what these splendid ladies Ns October ,, they sent in two boxes containing l26 beautiful finished hos pital garments, and six pillows.
 We have the Haynes auxiliary, 31 members. who have been doing a splendid work, and have finished a large supply or hospital garments.
 Oak Forrest auxiliary. Is members, and are doing a splendid work
 tvxy vii at 32 members. These ladies are doing a fine work and have quite sum in their treasury.
 And I sincerely hope before the end of the year we can have a Red Cross society in every community in Lee county.
 What the Red Cross is Doing
 We have a report up to October l. The total shipment of articles for use abroad during September was a quarter of a million articles sent from Missouri. Arkansas, Kan sas, Oklahoma and Texas.
 Fifty public health nurses have been assigned to the zones surround ing the national cantonments the national guard camps and naval bases. The nurses will work under the Red Cross sanitary directors in cooperation with the local, state and federal health authorities. The nurs- es have already taken mp their work in the vacinity of all the cantone- ments.
 Cost of the War
 The following figures are given regarding the losses suffered by the belligerent nations since the Euro pean war began Killed 9750,000, imprisoned, 4250.000. Money spent by the warning nations s107 7000000,- 0O0 Value of property destroyed, sS 900 900 .000
 Our Army and Navy First Care
 In all our work our own army and navy come first If this war goes on for another year the United States will have a million men fighting for the liberty of America, in a country three thousand miles from home, and think you will all agree with me. I h1x hn