The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-03-18
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||llT WORK FOR
IED'cRoss HERE
upl|s at jefferson Building
'f Sew and Knit

voek for the soldiers ana ,ailofs ahu
~ wounded. that the go pupils Of
jeilenon school, Cla.en boulevard
~ dong now, Is that the Red Cross
unisy the auspices Of whose junior
oorisfy the work is done, does not have
y provide the materials. Jefferson
so1.ooI finances itself. .,
his school has seventeen rooms WIN
! following teachers " charge ~,
Easan, Catherine Davis, Ethel
s;nser. Juliet Gilmef, Alma Hodges.
JSo,je Daniels, Elizabeth Riehmsn
rah Fink, Grace Chandler, Maude
Iortuer. Mabel Coombs. Verna wis
NJ Spinney Avis Sellers. Anita Hin.
-. Winnie Day, Louise West and
yosnnetie Phillips
~ Everyone Helps Red Cross.
Every room in the building is doing
some form Of Red Gross work, even
~ little tots in the kindergarten snip,
- o,eees OF cloth y be used 10 siuil
Sui1ier, pillows. The work was start
a about . month ago and II. {. hing
nrincipal OF the school, says that the
.eacher, have had 10 iamiliafire them,
seSves with the kind Of articles the Red
cross could use and tesoh Red Cross
pflhods TO their pupus ~ no Red ross
sohker has been asked TO take tune 70
soene and explain the work.
he Red Gro. work !, done Tor one
lunrth Of the time in the school day
~ n week The average age Of inc
SHs a this school is - years. In the
- taught BY Miss Eagen, the ~
- o-B room, on Friday afternoon the
~ and girls flor the boys DO sewing
~ knitting. tool finished up the last
q (hsee dofsn towels and fifteen prop
ertv bags" II having taken three ait
srnoons to do this work.
NssAkerehiefs Are Made. =,
y While some OF Miss 'Eagans pupils
sre doing this work, some OF inc
anhers were Knitting squares for trench
1aakets. These squares ave knlleo
- OF remnants oi yarn each mcthe,
Hnds in the home and sends to schooI
q be knit 40 into the squares. which
Vhen finished make the best and warm.
~ kind OF blankets the soldiers can
hive.
Miss Catherine Davis. . teacher, was
fe9enious enough to solicit old "oLn
- discarded sheets from among INC
vSothers Of her pupils. These sheets
kve been cut up into handkerehiei' ioI
IL use OF soldiers in hospitals. inc
mills of Miss Davis have also Cd
n}ned cotton and other kinds oi clo.n
a. Of which little garments ici re,u,
- children have been made, In th''
Snou. As In all the rooms at Jefferson
Srhool, when the loan OF one or mor'
Xv;na machines was solicited pupils
nsthers sent all the machines needec
4 me school IRON the homes;
y The method by which the school oo
Min funds 10 buy what material y
- sessary is described by frineipA
RtnR rs follows
wv Boys Collect MsgaIines. &,
"a eThe teachers and found that Al
qAossh the great majority OF the boy'
Seerc willing to knit and sew hens t'
80 the boys over across, there wer'
G, hovs biz fellows. 10 whom sew
E.od ku;tt;os wa, an awkward bus
~ They iust couldn't do il. In TIN,
t,.u;., I've devised a plan OF worl
,h... hoys which has been fol
siso In many other schools. o.
st,erroons when the othet pupil
do;ng their Red Cross work here
s.icr,ed snuads Of four or five boy
among orr school mothers col
r,ug nld masa,ines
sRs}o,eh.nd the pupils from home
As,s thew will donate old magazine
o,,r worry bring the name and ad
49,. 70 their teacher. The squads ,
IN charge Of a captain start o,
XS these .Sd,e..e. and call at II
80, where N, mayarines have be,
Lin bundles and are ready for thei
...re Of our bows drive the family III,
- .nd use /, N hiring the ma