The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-11

can heQ CTOSS Will Ue uciu uuElHS
day and the officers elected will as
sumo their duties July 1.
Initiated at a time when the Red
Cross was but a vague thing to most
Goldfield people and its actual war
time workings we're entirely un-
known here, as elsewhere in the coun-
try, the first move for the organiza-
ton of the Goldfield chapter was
made at a meeting of the Woman's
club held April 10, 1917. A Red
Cross auxiliary was then organized
with 81 members.
In no department of civilian war
work has Goldfield achieved a finer
record than through the Red Cross
chapter and its auxiliaries in the
county and as the end of the first
years of activity draws to a close a
history of the chapter and its
achievements will be of interest to
members.
A short time later this auxiliary
met with so women present and a
petition was prepared and c%irculat-
ed in the town, 255 signatures being
obtained in -four hours. DR.. d. A.
Turner, then a member of the med
ical branch of the council of national
defense, essentially the father of the
local chapter, addressed this meet
ing and later forwarded the petition
to John l.. Clymer, national direc-
tor for the Red Cross society, who
was then in San Francisco, asking
the national director to act on the
petition for the formation of a
chapter here.
The charter of the chapter is dat
ed May 10, and from April Is until
late in June, when the big w%ar-fund
drive was undertaken, was the for
native period of the chapter. The
war-fund drive in Esmeralda county
was in charge of a committee of
which A. H. Petit was chairman and
resulted in 26S subscribers being
obtained for %$4796.75. The actual
cash raised through the drive was
s4145.4O, $651.35 proving uncol-
lectable. Of this $4145.40 there
was deposited to the credit Of the
national organization ~$3116.55 and
s1O28.S5 was retained for the pur-
poses of the local chapter.
After a big membership had been
obtained the chapter was more or
less inactive during the summe
months owing to the absence or the
members and inability to secure ma
terials. But little work was done
except the collection of sums pledged
in the war-fund campaign. 1t was
during this period that the Junior
Red Cross was organized, under d.
rection of Mrs. Harry Moon, under
whom the making of comfort Kits
for soldiers was started, the first
step in the work of this organization
which has gradually grown to It's
present important proportions from
a humble start in which it gained
the distinction of being the first or
ganization in the state to make COM
fort kits, which have since been
given to the members of every con-
tingent leaving here for training
camps. I
Mrs. Moon remained the active
head of the Junior Red Cross until
was put in charge of the school
a short time ago.. and
much was accomplished during her
management.
The following junior organiza-
tons are now affiliated with the
chapter: Goldfield district, Column
bia district, Hornsilver district, Dyer
district.
These organizations are represent
by an advisory committee, OF
Mrs. Harry Moon is chairman.
Practically all of the school children
of the various districts are members
of their respective organizations.
The Goldfield chapters member
ship is now as follows: Annual.
1245; magazine, 80; contributing, z;
sustaining, l; life, IA.
The life members are DR.. d. A.
Turner, Charles S. Sprague, William
Floyd, John F. vardaman, j. A.
Houlahan, Mrs. Charles Allier,
Charles R. Evans, A. H. Howe. J.. K.
Turner, Mrs. r. L. Richie. Helen
Rosenthal, Mrs. Mary McGinn, the
Goldfield Woman's club and Charles
E. Dutton.
Mrs. L. L. Patrick is chairman of
the membership committee and has
auxiliaries in Hornsilver
and Fish Lake valley, which are in
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