Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14

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cause of military preparedness so are
all of the city'S people listed in the
one recognized agency where every
body can aid regardless of whether
one possesses the necessary military
requirements. The minimum member
ship fee is one dollar but any amount
over that will be gratefully received at
the Red Cross headquarters at 206 Wal
nut street.
For the benefit of those Harrisburg
ers and suburbanites who cannot take
the trip to headquarters, application
blanks will be printed in the newspa-
pers. The blanks may be clipped out
and mailed together with the member
ship fee, to Robert Mccormick. treas
urer of the Harrisburg Chapter, Amer
lean Red Cross, 206 Walnut street
CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE PAY
ABLE TO THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS.
Wide Cooperation.
All the commercial and industrial es-
Establishments, all the civic and pa
triotic bodies, the lodges. secret socle-
ties and labor organizations were ask
ed to name a membership solicitor for
the Red Cross. The responses are ar
irving at headquarters in every mail
and by Monday there will be consider
able work ahead for the flying SQUAD
merly of the American Ambulance in
France, is the head
Beginning Monday morning the fly
ing squadron, which will have at it's
disposal a number of high powered au-
tomobiles, will begin to comb the city,
paying visits to the designated mem
bership solicitor, giving him sufficient
membership blanks to supply his needs
Mrs. Lorne Hummel is vice-chairman
of the committee on the automobile
division.
A beehive of activity will be the
headquarters when the intensive mem
bership campaign opens Monday morn
ing. There will be representatives of
the membership committee present
from 10 o'clock in the morning to in
the afternoon and from to at night.
every day for two weeks, to receive
membership applications. Workers en-
gagged on the making of Red Cross
supplies will also be busy during those
hours at headquarters.
BENEFIT Performances
Several benefit performances have
been planned for the Harrisburg Chap
ter of the Red Cross. Next Saturday
evening the Bethlehem Steel Company's
Band, assisted by Christine Langen-
ham, soprano, of New York City, will
give a concert in the Chestnut Street
Auditorium. under the auspices of the
SurBlcal supply department OF the To-
cal chapter.
The Mendelssohn Choral Society will
repeat its Easter concert program next
Wednesday evening in the recreation
hall of the Harrisburg Cigar Company.
No admission will be charged but a
silver collection will be taken.
Miss Sara NJ. Murray, of Philadelphia,
chairman of the State Committee on
Red Cross Nursing Service, last night
addressed 100 graduate and student
nurses of the local schools on the work
of Red Cross nurses. The meeting,
which was held in the Academy of
Medicine, was called by the Alumni As
sociation of the Harrisburg Hospital
for the purpose of outlining plans for
organizing a local committee on Red
Cross nursing service.
Members of the p. G.. C. Club, of the
st. Matthew's Lutheran Church, in
charge of Miss L. LeVene Grove. $50
Curtin street, have applied for perms-
sion to assist the Red Cross Society in
making bandages and other surgical
necessities. They will be given a table
at the Red Cross headquarters and will
take up the work on their regular
meeting nights.