El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-25

TOREDCROSS
Cooley's Team Is Cordially
Received; Pr omine nt
Women HeIp Canvass.


A drive in Juarez was Mondays
feature Of the Red Cross campaign to
raise 100000 in FL Paso and neigh
boring cities and towns. Winchester
Cooley's team went over and was met
by Gen. Jose Carlos Murguia and con-
sui Eduardo Soriano Bravo and given
the keys to the border city. Divided
into two committees the Red Cross
workers solicited hundreds of bust
ness houses and individuals for con-
tributions, meeting with a generous
response. Mrs. Soriano Bravo headed
one of the committees and the sisters
of Gen. Murguia led the other. The
American committeeman accompanied.
The campaign in Juarez was in
charge Of the charity society of that
city, of which Mrs. Aurea B. Farias
is president She was assisted by
Miss Juana Murguia, sister OF Gen.
the following women: Mrs. Angela
B. de Barrosa, Mrs. Judith ARIA
gada, Mrs. Maria del Pillar de Are
chuga, Miss Josefa Jauregui and
other members of the society. Juan
Marshall, vice consul in El Paso, also
assisted the committee, representing
consul Soriano Bravo. The members
of the committee from FL Paso were:
W. P. 3. AIcSain, H. W. Schroeder,
Norman Walker, r. IT. Oliver, H. p.
Hadfield and A. II. ROdeS-
Definite information will be given
out tonight at the Red Cross dinner in
the Paso del Norte hotel of the
amount raised for the fund in FL Paso
and vicinity during the weeks drive
Monday morning it was understood
that $4,000 had been collected in FL
Paso and $4,000 in the towns report
IN 70 ha ea~o -
100000 started out for a week ago,
in spite Of the fact that number of
important centers decided to report
direct and not have their totals in
cluded in the districts sum.
Close With Roundup Dinner.
The Red Cross campaign will be
brought to a close with a general
roundup dinner to take place at
o'clock tonight in the ball room and |
roof garden OF Hotel Paso del Norte. /
All the workers will be the guests |
Of the FL Paso chapter. ". ". Tur- |
ney, general chairman, will preside. |
No fixed program of speeches has /
been arranged, as Mr.. Turney intends /
to call on various team captains and /
their workers to tell of incidents they /
have met in their work during Red /
Cross week
Opera Company Offers Program.
A special musical program has been 1
arranged which will include orchestra
selections, songs by the University
club quartet and an entertainment by |
the Mexican Italian Grand Opera
company, which is appearing at the /
Texas Grand theater. Miss AIDA
Navarrete, prima donna OF the com
Dany, has donated the services of the
artists to sing at the dinner a pro-
gram Of the best selections from the
The program will be;
Sextette from ."Lueia"-Navarrete
lsynez, Galian, Corral, Perez and
Setancourt-
La Boheme"-Racconto. Rodolfo
md Mimi, by Lopez. Gontis and Leo
The Locura air from 'Lucia"-Adda
Sayarrete.
Prologue, 'Payasos"-Eduardo Le-
arazu.
Quartet. Rigoletto"-Adda Ma
-arrete, Bthancourt, Lopez Gontis and
NeiEhbOrfng Towns Generous.
Reports Of the towns in the Ell
'aso district show that their people |
ave been most generous in the Red
uota Of $1,000. The townspeople had I
My raised $500 Of their quota and (
he additional 500 was donated By {
. E. Booker. Alamogordo raised {
1900. Midland about $500 and other
tiles did as we'll It is believed that S
OF a single city in the FL Paso dis Z
-ict has failed to raise the sum al {
)tted for It
dough Hounds Collect S272.
Headed by the 64th infantry band
nd r. H Oliver and II. W. Schroeder Z
S standard bearers. carrying Ameri-
an and Red Cross flags, members of J
Winchester Cooley's team No. 4, who 7
allied themselves the dough hounds" q
| the Red Cross campaign. paraded
l Paso streets Saturday night and
0llected money for the Red Cross. S
My rs cent donations were asked. a
he expedition obtained $272.55 as a >
ssult Of its energy. The procession F
topped at every corner in the down
'wn district where the military band
ave concert During the concert
ooley's dough hounds" announced
trough megaphones that they want
two bits for the Red Cross"
roup Of the workers carried a huge
merican flag. flat, into which coins
ere pitched by people along the
sidewalks. The Cooley A
am not only canvassed the Satur-
" night crowds on the street thor
lghly, but entered every business c
)use as well and took up collections -
ON customers and clerks
Salvation Army Gives Collection. a
The response to the appeal for the