South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
THOUSANDS JOIN
LOCAL RED CROSS
Appeal For Aid in Caring For
Wounded Meets With
Ready Response.

I
I the Red Cross workers who started
( the elaborate three-day campaign IN
| South Bend Thursday morning. With
I booths situated in more than so To-
/ cations throughout the city. includ-
ing stores, hotels, candy shops, thea
I tiers and other places, the sale OF
membership buttons was unusually
large during the day.
Up until noon the number Of new
members secured during the first
/ few hours of the campaign were
numbered at approximately $500
| This number was considered I'M
usually good by the leaders in the
! Red Cross movement and it is be-
/ lieved that the results during the
! three days will be record breaking.
| In addition 10 the response from the !
! people in the central part of the city
the Red Cross workers are meeting
with unexpected success among the
residents of the west side, or among
| the foreign speaking element. 1t
was reported Thursday noon tina:
| the memberships were coming in
thick and fast from that end of the
city, and that the people were lend
| ing every effort TO make the move
ment a success there.
Get 1000 Members.
More than 1000 members Joined
the Red Cross at the Studebaker
plant Thursday morning. The big
plant has been divided into divisions
! under the direction Of the various
superintendent. and figures will be
posted daily at the various gates
| showing the percentage of employees
| in each division who become mem
! bers of the Red Cross. The move
ment has been greeted enthusiast
tically by the workers at the auto
| mobile plant. Friday and Saturday
a similar campaign will be waged at
/ the oliver Plow works, the Singer
! Mfg. Co. plant and other concerns
| throughout the city.
The women members Of the or
| ganizaiton have been very liberal in
/ offering their services during the
three-day campaign. and the head
/ quarters of the Red Cross in the
/ Chamber of Commerce building was
/ like a bee hive an day Thursday,
supplying the various booths with
! buttons.
There is a shortage of buttons, but
/ another shipment is expected to ar
| rive from Chicago before Thursday
/ night Although 1000 buttons were
sent to the Studebaker plant Thurs
day morning, the supply was exhaust
/ ed by noon and the men were sign
/ ed up and viii receive their mem
I bership buttons later.
Fridays Workers.
The assignments for the various
Red Cross booths for Friday are as
Efollows:
oliver hoteI-Mrs. J. +. Reynolds,
jr Mrs +. ]. Roche, Mrs. Thad
/ Talcott, Mrs. William Bertch. Miss
! Flavia Mae Judd, Miss Jessie Bry-
ant.
South Bend National bank-Mrs.
r. w. Doty, Mrs. z. d. Lloyd
Robertson Bros. Mrs. Harry
Arndt, Miss Ruth Maker. Mrs.
Frank Robertson. Charles E. Pur-
key.
LasaHe theater-Mrs. ]. \. Swy-
| CART, Miss Dorothy Award.
Y. NJ. c. A.-11:3O-1:3O, Miss FL
dona Lontz; 81, Miss Eldona Lontz
/ MuesselTs-Mrs Z. J. Retiring.
| Mrs ]. 5. Kerner. Mrs. r. w. Doty,
| Mrs w J. Bremen.
! Farmers Trust building Mrs
! Frank Ward, Mrs. j. c. Harper
Philadelphia-Mrs. w X. Sher-
/ man, Miss Ella Learn.
j. NJ S. lobby-Mrs. G. H. Hooper.
]
! City hall-Mrs. Thomas Williams,
Mrs Don MacGregor.
Ellsworth's- Mrs. Charles Mill
house, Dorothy Brugger, Evelyn
] Pace Mabel Britchard
Street Car station-lIrs. B. D.
Coon. Mrs. Art Irwin. Mrs. F. c.
Koos. Mrs. Charles Frye.
livingstone Albert Meadin.
Farmers Trust Co.--Mrs. Harry
Sebrock.
Independent . and 1O-NIrs. C. E.
Lentz, Mrs. II. Penrod, Mrs. Walter
/ Muessel. Mrs A. G. Hill.
Wheelock' s-Mrs Harry Wheel
ock. Mrs. @. Wheelock.
Merchants bank-Mrs. +. 3.
/ Warner, Mrs. w. B. Slower.
Jefferson hotel Mrs. G.. A. Ash,
Miss Annabelle Lippincott. Mrs.
/ Charles Hansel. Miss Alice Greed.
Court houce-Mrs Vernon Hast
| ings W. O. Williams.
Herr and Herr-Mrs. F. c. Toepp.
Mrs. c. c. Herr.
First National bank-Mrs. Heo.
Award. Mrs. Z. $. Dickens. Helen
| Burke, Mrs. Frank Robertson.
EIbel Bros.-Mrs. J. Cooney. Miss
Kathleen Moran
St. Joseph Loan and Trust Co
I Mrs c. y. Fassett, Mrs. f. T.
/ Bonds. Mrs. F. L. Chilcote, Mrs VIII
| liam Edison.
Union Trust Co-AIrs. J. DEMPSEY,
Mrs. C. II. Smoke. Mrs. ". Z Bryan.
Mrs r. II. ShOntz.
Mueller's grocery - Mrs. Grant
Tank. Mrs. Edward Fricke, Mrs
! smith. Mrs. John Rush.
Orpheum-Mrs. George Oltsch.
! Mrs. r. NJ Boone. Mrs. Milburn
| Studebaker. Miss Dorothy Cloyes.
Sax-Nrs. George Wolf, Miss
| Maud Weber. Mrs. Dr. Gammack.