The weekly soliphone., 1917-05-17
RED CROSS WORK
 WILL BE STARTED
Local Chapter of Five Hundred Members Expected to Be Con-
 pleted Within Few Days.
(From Tuesdays Daily Press)

(From Tuesdays Daily Press)
 More than hundred Paragould ladies met yesterday afternoon at the Vandervoort hotel for the pur- pose of entering, energetically, in- to the task of completing for Greene county the formation Of i, chapter of the National Red Cross a Society.
 Dr. o. Wilson, acting as chair | man, called the meeting to order :. and briefly told of the necessity for organizing, locally, for Red Cross work. Mrs. c. W. Stedman was : made president, Mrs. J. D.. Block < vice president, Mrs. H. J. Green ! secretary and Mrs. A. H. Burr treas urer.
 It was explained that minimum ,r 500 members must be secured thin sixty days or ninety days Tn
 or to perfect the organization.
 here are six classes of member
 'p-the Annual Member, with dues of one dollar per year; the Subscribing Member, with dues Of ; two dollars per year (which amount includes twelve-months subscrip- tion to the Red Cross Magazine); the Contributing Member, with dues of five dollars per year; the Sustaining Member, with dues of ten dollars per year; the Life Mem Der, with flat payment of twenty five dollars; the Patron Member with dues of one hundred dollars flat payment. Both men and wo- men are eligible to membership. At yesterdays meeting cam paign was initiated to bring Greene countys membership up to the full minimum strength of 500. Miss Ruth House was made chair man of the Membership Commit tee.
 Monday night, May 21, rally will he held on the court house lawn, followed by parade. Local organizations of all kinds-includ- ing fraternal, social and religious are asked and expected to take part in the parade. A committee has been appointed to arrange for the rally The committee is head ed by Mrs. A. Bertig, Mrs. A. Fl. Burr, Mrs, Will Trice, Mrs. J. A. Edwards, Mrs. F.. H. Borneman, Miss Ruth House and Miss Anne Stedman.
 It is pointed out that member ship in the society involves no specific or fixed obligation other than an implied loyalty to the Red Cross and the extension of such help as members feel able to give. Special classification of work is contemplated. such as First Aid, Military Relief, Elementary Fly giene and Home Care of the Sick. The Red Cross is an international organization, world-extensive in It's scope and lends it's efforts to relief work not only in times of war, but in cases of unusual calamity, such as floods, fires, devastating cy- clones, etc Duties of the member ship frequently include the making of hospital supplies after a form 3 decided upon by the executive com
 'ttee This work will doubtless he entered into by the local chapter. rnc'uded among the articles of ne-
 -s;ty often made by Red Cross
 t7 are surgical dressings, socks,
 cts wash rags, handkerchiefs,
 Children can assist with the
 commonplace articles. All
 r iT done according to govern
 tol specifications. The treas
 a~. when the local organization
 been perfected and chatered,
 he required to keep a record funds received and an item 3 n of expenditures. The books eaudited annually under su-
 VI on of the war department.
 On Sunday, May 27, at 2:30 o'clock the following places will be visited by committees from Para gould in the interest of the Red Cross Society for Greene county: Oak Grove, Lafe, Beech Grove, New Liberty, Marmaduke, Finch. Wal colt, Pruett's Chapel, Stanford, Spring Grove, Gainesville, Cotton Belt school house and Bard. The people of these communities are urged to be at the churches at this time.