The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-31
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Var Work
TELEPHONES.
Central sewing ana knitting de-.
p.rtneni. MBpIe ere.
Central surgical Dressings depart.
ment. Maple sb2.
LlL., Hall Night Surgical Drc-slnEs
init, Maple yS6.
Women. Council If Defense. Maple
fbRs.
Red Gross Chapter Secretary. Maple
Civilian Hsliei. Maple lgo.
Registration offices for HE'D CrO~s
classes In first AID. home care ~ the
SICK and dlrtrtirs. Maple 1913
hed Gross fsnteen service, Maple
nm He second meeting OF the ncw
elias, At the Liberty Kitchen met
today There was a good attend
auce and an interesting lesson
bas had IN vegetable canning The
FRIDAY afternoon negro class has a cuI-
lection Ut canned fruit, to show Tor their
IaborS this week, there arc canned sweet
potatoes, corn. grapes. tomdtocs, and
'arrot.. These vegetable, are for iho
.pccial exhibit At the state fair Mon
lay a new clas, viii be started IN gen
rral home economics. There will be Sly
lesson, in the course outlined and will
AXE M the work from the standpoint
NJ the rive food principles, and will IN
.ludc the planning ut meals and general
household management ANY one 'n-
'erc,tcd is invited 80 attend these
GLASSES.
Payment, are ,,lll coming Iu 90 the
tumar's committee OF the council nj
national defense desk for NE liberty
litrhen note, There were several rc
rciyed today in the carly morning de-
livery. There Is also a plentiful supply
VI war cook books, and although these
book, have been IN demand. they can
I'll be secured at the desk nj the wom-
en-, committee.
\ Youthful knttcr is found 900 the
,entral Red Cros, sewing rooms today
This is lirle Mis-, Alice Phelps, the "
vcar-old daughter OF Charlie, II Phclp,
Mice is knitting on a pair Of sock,
hat is rapidly grow ing nearer compile
lion each day Mr.. Russell Hall
burton and Mrs. Guy klmball are a,
me knitting desk receiving and giving
mt yarn to the kuitter,, and Mrs. D.
e. Wrlty IS knitting instructor OF he
q day. In the sewing department the
committee, Mrs. G.. W Spence and Mrs
J.. b. Prest, is inStrucling worko 8 m
the making OF p-c0er'y bags
On last Tucsuly there we're seven
workers at the Willard unit OF the Red
Gross. these NO ncn made tive RirI'
refugee aprons am Twelve ,antecn KITS
On Friday the unit met again with eiRh'
workers and there were tive aprons
and twelve canteen kits made and also
iour pairs OF socks turned IN Itom
the quilting department OF this unit
$40 was realized this week to 60 10
the Red Cross fund. and $ was turned
oyer to the hospital fund TO maintain
the Oklahoma bed in France
At the Columbus school unit Of the
Red Cross, Mrs. T. l.. Wilson, chair
man. there were turned in ior the pa,'
weeks work twenty boys shirts, eight
suits OF underwear, one sweater and
Jour pairs OF socks. This represent,
the work of the twenty women preSen'
Al the two meetings and finishes the
August quota OF the unit More work
will be supplied for the coming month
and the women will meet and work
regularly.
Work al the Eastern Star unit Of the
Red Cross was carried on as usual
with the exception of the Friday meet
ing which will be held on Saturday.
This is IN honor Of the birthday OF the
founder OF the Eastern Star organiza
ton. Robert Morris. The meeting viii
lie in charge OF the Nova chapter and a
social hour will be spent at noon, at
which time a luncheon will be served to
the guests. The work in the unit for
this week has resulted in tho compile
lion OF fifteen pairs OF paIamas and
with an average OF fifteen women pres
cnt for the three days.
The members of the East Tenth
.treet unit OF the Red Cross met in reg
uiar session this week and completed
live suits for the refugee boys, There
were only four women present at tho
meeting, owing to the fact that many
If the members are away. An inter
sting feature OF this unit is that ev-
cry member OF the organization has
won the seventy two hour emblem, and
many OF them several times.
Western avenue Red Cross unit Of
the Lutheran church met Wednesday
afternoon for Red Cross sewing and
knitting. There were twelve workers
present and four pairs Of paiama ttous-
crs, two full pajama suits and one boys
shirt were made. Al the SAINT time four
pairs Of knitted socks and one sweater
was turned in TO the chairman. Mrs.
lack DeRoy. Two OF the women Of this
unit won their sevcnty-two hour EN-
hlems this week These were Mrs. W.
T. Wright and Mrs. w. 4. Buck.
Tuesday and Wednesday the women
Of st. Luke's Methodist church meet
for all day for Red Cross work. This
- the usual, custom from week to
week, and the young women's mission
AIRY society serves the workers lunch
at the noon hour. This week the work
turned out was twenty pairs of pa
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