The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1917-10-13
RED CROSS MEETING.
Annual Meeting Of Iron County Chap
ter Was Held Last Tuesday.

The annual meeting OF the Iron
County Chapter OF the Red Cross was
held in the court house in Crystal
Falls last Tuesday afternoon. The
meeting brought large attendance
from Iron River. mostly women i'm
terested in the work.
II was expected that new officers
would ne chosen, but the laws Of the
association state the officers will not
be elected until 1918 so the only cleo
tion that took place was that % di-
rectors.
All of the old directors were chos-
en- again including Leigh G. Caswell
A. II. Pohland, Mrs E. C. Bowers and
Mrs NJ S. McDonough. These direc-
tors will hold for two years.
The annual audit OF the affairs OF
tile chapter was made by w. j. Rey-
nolds Of this city and his statement
showed that there are 1921 members
OF the Iron County Chapter OF which
number 1851 are annual members.
The total collections Of county
funds amounted TO Sl.SO27O and Of
this amount SS655O was sent to the
National Red Cross on membership
dues
A letter was read from the national
association giving the names OF about
five residents OF Crystal Falls who
had sent dues into the National Asso-
citation expecting that they held mem
bership in that association instead Of
the Iron County Chapter The sec
retary Of the National Association
wrote to the secretary OF the Iron Co.
Chapter giving the names OF these
persons and instructing the secretary
TO enroll them in the Iron County
chapter Any person desiring mem
bership in the Red Cross must hold
his membership IN the county chapter
II one exists he Irrational Associa-
tion kept the money sent in by these
people for dues.
The war fund collections and sub
scriptions TO October lst showed up
as follows:
Subs. in Iron county .$lL6l23O
Paid in TO Oct. /. ......... 6,41400
Balance 10 collect .,...., 5,i9S.30
There was considerable discussion
on the knitting question. Iron River
and Crystal Falls were both given tho
same amount OF work to do. II was
pointed out by Chairman Richards
that the greater population at Iron
River and Stambaugh warrants more
work being done over there and 30
the ladies consented to do a larger
proportion OF the work. They have
done splendidly SO far. much better
in proportion than Crystal Falls has
done and in explanation OF the lag
gsrdness here Il was. stated that un-
der false impression some organize
tions have been doing work and send
ing II out OF the county. This work
eventually gets into the hands of the
National Association. the difference
being that organizations in other
places get the credit that should be
given TO Iron county.
In order TO bring about q changed
condition il was agreed TO appoint =
committee to walt upon the member.
/ Of these organizations and endeayor
10 show them the injustice which
they are bringing 70 their home town
| by this procedure. In the discussion
OF this subject Il was explicitly SCI
forth that the organizations must not
be charged with obstructipg work A.
all but few of the members arr
working with the Red Cross and con.
titues some of the best workers.
Il d hoped 70 speed up the worl
here and get Iron county's quota q
work out very shortly now