The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-04-16
Sixteen County Schools Have
Completed Their Junior
Organizations.
REGULAR CONTRIBUTIONS
Some Interested Workers Have
Adopted the Plan of Giving an
Amount Each Month-Other
Red Cross News.

The Junior Red Cross work is
progressing satisfactorily. The six
teen county schools which have COM
pleted their organization are all ac-
lively engaged in the work of pro-
duction. Mrs. T. M. Hughes, chair
man of the cooperation committee,
reports that the work is coming in
regularly and it is excellently done.
Mrs. M. j. Perry with her usual
clever dexterity and skill has COM
pleted 16 attractive Junior Red Cross
banners which are being distributed
to the organized schools. Miss Joe
Foster has contributed her artistic
bit in the form Of 16 beautiful hon
or rolls done in water color. The
chapter school committee is indebted
to Mrs. Perry and Miss Foster for
thei Resistance in the matter of
helping to furnish inspiration for
100 per cent enrolment in the
schools.
The schools are all being invited
to join in the great patriotic parade
next Saturday. Each school is asked
to furnish a Junior Red Cross float.
The Lancaster Central school has
accomplished such an enormous
amount of work that they long ago
exhausted their membership dues.
After the extraordinary success OF
the recent play the purchasing COM
mittee under Miss Neely's chairman
ship Sill be able to purchase a large
amount OF additional material. The
surgical dressings unit under Miss
Brock renders valuable assistance in
the workroom every Wednesday af-
ternoon. A large attendance is urg-
ed this week as rush order OF large
cotton pads is to be made.
Miss Florence Robinson. one of
Lancaster's foremost business wo-
men. has established precedent
which other prominent citizens
would do fell 10 follow. Miss Rob
inson voluntarily came to the office
last week with a check which she
graciously contributed to the Red
Cross work, and she declared her in.
tention OF giving regularly once a
month to the local Red Cross treas,
ury. This method of giving is a
very happy one, and il adopted by
others would save the finance com,
mittee and other officers untold anx,
iety as to where the next yard of
gauze or yard of muslin is coming
from.
The Lancaster Department store
has recently contributed an attrac-
tive china cabinet which is OF splen.
did service in the tearoom.
TIL etearoom committee with Miss
Mamie Hill Moore as chairman, is
subcommittee of Mrs. r. c.
Browns entertainment committee.
This committee has been remarka>
bly, successful in the amount of net
proceeds OF the tearoom, and has
thereby assisted splendidly in the
purchase of supplies for the work
room. Lancaster is more fortunate
than other chapters-Co for
instance. where large pc recent OF
tearoom profits go for the monthly
rental of 500. The Lancaster
chapter has not one cent Of overhead
expense as the rental, lights ana
fuel are all contributed by a gener
GUS and patriotic citizen OF the town.
The last appropriation OF the enter.
tainment committee was check for
s62. donated to the layette fund.
The workroom is open on Monday
and Tuesday morning for those who
wish to make hospital garments, and
Mrs. G. ID. Jones, chairman OF the
workroom. asks for volunteers in
this work. She also requests that
all who have shirts and pajamas
send them in to her at soon as pos
sible, as she has almost box of
each ready for shipment, and is anx-
Gus to get them off to headquarters.
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