The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-13
OFFICERS SHOW EFFICIENCY
Cabinets, Representing Membership of
300 People, Display Ability-A Trib-
ute to Flying squadron-s Sup
plies are Faultless.

Five soldiers of the national army
left for Battle Creek on last Thursday
and thereby proved the loyalty Of the
county toward the work to be done at
the front. But there is service behind
the lines, which is equally important,
and here, too, the people of Kenosha
county have done their bit, satisfac-
tory part. The citizens of Bristol,
Wilmot, Salem, Silver Lake, Trevor,
and Somers, are modified for Red
Cross work and are doing it, too,
with an efficiency and speed that speak
we'll for the spirit Of the county.
This is the gratifying news to be
drawn from the latest official state
ments of E. T. O'Brien chairman of
the committee on branches for the local
Red Gross chapter. The work of in
stallation has been done by the
sFFlying Squadron, but the more i'm
portant service of actually making
Red Cross supplies or furnishing Red
Cross funds has been done by the loyal
women and men comprising the mem
bership of the smaller associations. Not
a town has proved Stacker. Wherever
the movement has been inaugurated it
has been accepted with ever increasing
enthusiasm, until more than half the
county is now actively engaged in pro-
viding the necessities and comforts of
life for the Sammies at the front. The
result is a tribute to the patriotism
Of the community and a compliment
to the officers of the various branches
thus far established.
The cabinets of the new associations
recently founded by the "Flying
Squadron" are composed as follows:
Salem Membership 81.
Chairman. ...... DR.. William Fletcher
Vice Chairman. Mrs. j. A. Foster, Jr.
Secretary ....... Mrs. Ada G. Stewart
Treasurer. ............ John Evans
Bristol Membership 125.
Chairman. ......, T. O. Rowbottom
Vice Chairman. :. Mrs. F. E. Stevens
Secretary ........ Mrs. Roy Murdoch
Treasurer. ....... Mrs. F. A. Turner
Wil1ot-Membership 98.
Chairman. ........ Mrs. O. E. Lewis
Vice Chairman. DR.. E. G. Murphy
Secretary. ........... Ermine Carey
Treasurer. ....... Mrs. H. H. Darby
Silver Lake-Membership 81.
Chairman. Miss Florence Matthews
Vice Chairman. ........ r. T. Button
Secretary ....,........ Mrs. J. Dalton
Treasurer. ... W. G.. Schelcht
Trevor-Membership 81.
Chairman. ....... Mrs. M. B. Schreck
Vice Chairman. Mrs. August Baethke
Secretary. .......... Mrs. Vera Dixon
Treasurer. ......... Mrs. L. FL. Mickle
Somers-Membership SO.
Chairman. -. Mrs Herman Herzog
Vice Chairman. Mrs. Louis Barrows
Secretary. ..... Mrs. L. Markuson
Treasurer 5000. Mrs. j. w. Miller
A tabulation of these results will
show that six branches of the American
Red Gross Association have been es-
tablished in Kenosha county with
total membership Of approximately
five hundred people. For first drive
the results are highly satisfactory.
They indicate that the people in the
various towns have caught the Red
Gross spirit and will shortly be COM
pletely modified in this service Of
country and humanity. No little ere
dit for this work is due to Mr.. O 'Brien
who has been the executive head of
the committee on branches and who
has been the general instigator of the
whole movement He has been ably
supported in his efforts by the So
called "Flying Squadron" composed
of DIR. Helen Harbert, A. E. Buckmas-
ter, Judge Tully, W. E. Cox and Earl
Marlatt, speakers; Mrs. F. H. Truax,
soprano; Miss Marjorie Miller, plan
list; A. Epstein, Fred Raiman, and G.
E. Dewey, automobile patriots.
The work of the branches has not
ended with organization. They have
been making supplies with near
phenomenal rapidly and have made no
small contributions to recent Red Cross
to France. Mrs. E. G.
Theirs, vice chairman of the local chap
ter, reports that the work of the
smaller associations has been almost
faultless and has been both a help
and an inspiration to Kenosha women
at the sewing rooms.