The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-05-17
REQ CROSS MEETING
THURSDAY NIGHT WAS
SPLENDID SUCCESS
WORK OF THE CAMPAIGN Elk.
PLANNED BY CHAIRMAN JUDGE
J. T. MCKNIGHT.
CHAIRMAN AND NAMED
Headquarters viii Be Kept Open Ev-
cry Night During Drive From May
20 to 27 to Receive Daily Reports
Of chairmen.

The final instruction meeting of tn,
Red Cross chairmen Of the various
committees throughout the count,
was largely attended last night TIL,
meeting was held in the county cour
room, which has been converted int
a headquarters for the drive, May q
to u, with Judge j. T. Mcknight
chairman of the executive committee
presiding.
4 Judge Mcknight read the instruc
tons from the pamphlet sent out from
the head office, and the most import
ant features of the coming drive fol
the raising of the $4,000 apportion
ment to the Maury Chapter wer,
stressed upon the chairmen.
Among the most important features
of the drive that were stressed were
for the teams to confine themselve.
to the names given them upon tax
cards; and not to confuse this wal
work drive with any other war worl
fund or feature OF the Red Cross work
For the captains of each team to re
port to the head chairmen of the
district and for the head or centra
chairman to report each day to the
head office in Columbia which will re
main open every night during the
drive until nine o'clock. To approach
man for the pledge that is shown
on his card and to stay with him un
til he agrees to give. One of the
strongest points brought was not tc
take mo" for anything.
A motion was made and unanimous
ly adopted to keep the headquarters
open every night until nine O'Clock
and that there be telephones placed
in the headquarters. Gilbert Orr was
unanimously elected chairman of the
information bureau with the author
| ity i. to appoint any assistants or as
MANY assistants as he may need tt
help him in the work. He with his
Assistants will be located at the
headquarters and will be at the dis
posal of any and all Of the commit
tees throughout the county to cal
| upon him at any time for information
pertaining to the drive
Judge Mcknight appointed Mrs
John 7. Wooten chairman for the
! county woman's branch of the cam
paign and instructed her to make
her appointments at once so that the
women chairmen could meet with the
men and formulate the work in each
district Mrs. Wooten accepted the
appointment and is preparing a list
of appointments which will be an
nounced within the next few days
Every lady as we'll as every man nam.
ed on these committees are expected
to accept and no excuses are con.
sidered
1t was then suggested that head
chairman be appointed in each civil
district to which the different cap
tains of the various teams could re-
port each day, which resulted in the
election of the following district
chairmen:
First district-Dr. M. F. Walker
Santa Fe.
Second District-M. E. Allen, Column
b, r. R. s.
Third District-E. II. Ayres, Jr.
Spring Hill.
Fourth District-A. j. Hardison
Glendale, R. R. /.
Fifth District-Jonn P. Graham
Culleoka.
Sixth District-Dr. r. s. Perry
Columbia, R. r. Z.
Eighth District-Joe Frank Porter
Wiliamsport.
Ninth District-R. s. Hopkins, Co
lumbia.
! Tenth District. c. Taylor, Mt
Pleasant, r. r. 4.
The Seventh District, a portion Of
the Sixth and portion of the Tent
Districts are in the Mt. Pleasant chap
ters territory.
The suggestion to launch the drive
with big parade in Columbia wal
voted down, with the explanation tina
this was mighty busy time, that thu
ladies who would have to take al
active part in the parade were over
run with the Red Cross work, the wa
kitchen work and the canteen worl
and various other war works, ant
the same is the case with the men
and it was the unanimous opinion
that the energy that would be ex