The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-10

WM four hours credit in Red
WV Cross work. Mrs Colin Val
cntine Of 7j2 West Eigh-
leenth street and Mrs. C. B Stuart of
4lO West Thirteenth street received
heir second 72-hour Red Gross emblem
yesterday with TWENTY-FIVE other mem
bers Of Saint Paul's Parish house unit
Mrs Stuart received her first reward
by working in the Eastern Star unit,
Mrs. Campbell receiving hers as a mem
Der Of Central Red Cross knitting unit
where she may be found every Tuesday
and as many more days a week as she
is needed
Others of the Saint Pauls unit to re-
teive their crosses yesterday were Mrs
l.. A. pcyton chairman Mrs G. T.
Stickley. Mrs Ernest Chambers, IN.
structors. and Mrs Thomas Martin
Mrs. +. G.. Remmers Mrs. T. II. lid
nam, Mrs. +. NJ Tuil Mrs Warren X
Snyder, Mrs g. + BaIiour. Mrs K. W,
Kendall. Mrs J. NJ Dorchester, Mrs
Mrs {. NJ Muslin. Mrs +. A. Nelson.
Mrs X. J Edwards, Mrs. ] K. Amos,
Mrs. C. T. Mccarthy, Mrs & W
Branden. Mrs. r. d. Harden, Mrs. 4.
Crawford and Miss Anna Downs.
Sixteen workers spent the morning
working on helpless case shirts, pa jana
suits and refugee garments, fifteen help
less case shirts being completed.
Mrs {. A. Peyton, chairman OF the
unit, distributed the crosses.
or the S179. 946.50 Red Cross fund for
Oklahoma county Red Cross obtained
during the recen, campaign Sl2JOi91j
was paid IN spot cash, leaving $3.50
S9bT III unpaid pledges
OF this approximately $4,000 Of one
fourth was due July OF that amount,
at the close OF the weeks entries Sat.
urday evening, Sl2o0976 had been paid
in Monday over one thousand dollars
was paid yesterday. another thousand
matched Mondays payments, yet many
pledges remain unpaid.
Miss Rosaind Heninger Of the board
OF pardons at the state capitol won
her Red Cross 72-hour period OF work
before leaving last week on her sum
me- vacation
Chapter + of the p F. O's and the
Bible Study club will make surgical
dressings at the State Capitol unit rooms
tomorrow, when the department IS open
in an all-day session.
Miss Edna NJ Wagner employed in
Attorney General Freeling's office at
the state capitol won her Red Gross
ublem representing 72-hours' work
She completed her period at )
o'clock, yesterday, but work will be
continued with as much punctuality as
before.
Mrs. o. J. Logan, wife OF Senator
Logan OF Hobart, Okla. was among the
earlier workers at the State Capitol Red
Gross unit TO win 72-hour period en-
blem.
Mrs F. NJ Kerr, wife of the state
senator from Muskogee won her r.
hDur Red Cross emblem at the State
Capitol Red Cross unit
He was four years old with long
black curls and the dancing black eyes
that only a little French boy can have
and with his mother, and his father
George Aufrere French artillery off
Ger from Fort Sill, visited the Liberty
kitchen yesterday.
Neither Nine Aufrere nor little Guy
speak English but it had been explained
10 him that the party would inspect the
Liberty kitchen, and what is a kitchen
if rs not place where one gets cook
les and spice cakes and lots Of other
good things?
So Guy Immediately asked where the
cakes we're kept and the Liberty kitchen
workers found him some cookies spread
thckly with jam and after eating one he
asked his father TO buy one OF the In
dian baskets on sale at the kitchen.
He thanked the workers in French
with elaborate polteness and went away
carrying the rest Of his real American
cookies In real Indian basket.
Fifty visitors a day is the average
at the kitchen. according to Mrs Ray
Haun, who is In charge.
Two departments OF the Oklahoma
county chapter OF the Red Cross were
enriched in their output this morning
when Mrs. ]. G. Smith, chairman OF the
Edmond branch knitting unit, and Mrs
l W. Rodkey, chairman Of the surgical
dressings department, arrived with
their months quota Mrs. Smith de- |
livered eighty pairs OF socks, ten wrist |
lets and thirty knitted wash cloths.
Mrs. Rodkey brought in 1906 4x4 com
presses The output Of this branch Of |
work In surgical dressings for Nav and |
June totaled l4,078 4x4 congresses.
Both departments meet in the Edmond |
high school, the knitters veeting Mon
day and Wednesday; the surgicai dress
ing workers meeting every day.
The branch Is q weIl-to-do as goes
the saying. for recently their Red
Cross drive netted 5000 and pledge.
come In every month totalinR $3.50. All
materials taken from central workrooms
are paid for by Edmond branch work.
ers.
A new knitting unit merged into
Iioht yrsterdav afternoon y,heo ,.,.,,, |