Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-05-01
Red Cross Activities.

week two new Auxiliaries, both OF
grown-up folks. Red Hill, with
Miss Alpha Hammond as chairman
and Antioch, with Mrs. Julia Pres
colt as chairman. These units will
get to work at once and will be Of
invaluable service to us.
The .. d. G. Auxiliary has
named Mrs. Alice Jones az its chair
man and a committee from this
unit gave faithful work in the cnt-
ting room on Saturday afternoon.
Hereafter there will be U. D. G..
committee to work on every Thurs
day afternoon.
On the past Thursday afternoo
four women from the D. a. r.
gave efficient service.
The Episcopal ladies have com.
pleted for their two weeks work
about ten garments.
The Trenton Branch sent in quite
n large box Of finished garments,
sweaters and socks on Friday.
The Juniors again worked on
Tuesday and Miss Norma Shannon
houses Sunday school class is to
meet also on Tuesdays to clip
scraps for hospital pillows. / hope
every woman in Edgefeld will save
her scraps and strings, never mind
how small they are for these pa
triotic little ones to clip. The pill,
lows are to be Of white drill lexis
inches, filled with any kind of soft
material. and it has been found that
the clippings, if they are fine
enoagh make an ideal filing. 1t
takes twenty pillows to move a
wounded soldier, so you see how
necessary this branch of the work
is and tits work that even the
smallesttchildren can engage in.
Eleven. new names have been
handed in for membership as fol-
lows: Miss Alpha Hammond, Miss
Sallie Smith, Miss Lula Quarles,
Mrs. Fl. H. Smith, Miss Lydia
Holmes. Miss Hortense Woodson,
Mrs. Willis Brown, Mrs. Henry
Quarles, Mrs. Jasper Mcdaniel and
Mrs. q. w Kesterson.
Therasis 10 one in the Red cross,
room ;sStsst erning aas- they are,
opened only in the afternoons, from
$50 until it is too dark to see.
Each Auxiliary chairman can take
out the quota of work for her anil,
and bring it in finished if she pre-
fers that to coming to the rooms to
work, but strict account has to be
kept by the Secretary Of the Aux
iliary, and a report sent in to Mrs.
James B. Kennerly, chief clerk or
Woman's Work, monthly, OF the
amount of work taken out and the
number Of finished garments sent
in. All work sent out from the
chapter to its Auxiliaries is cut out,
and finished sample with dlrec'
tions, accompanies each bundle of
work.
it is only through organized ef-
fort that efficient service can be
given the Red Cross. You can
easily see that if there is a chair
man of the work in each Auxiliary
and that their chairman is RESPONSE
Bile for the out-put of work from
her unit, how much more will be
accomplished than if all depended
on the Director of Woman's work,
who is already over-burdened with
duties. She will not feel that it Is
up to her to keep the work rooms
full of workers, and her mind will
be relieved of that strain, and she
will know that the work IS being
carried on in an efficient and meth
odical way and much more will be
accomplished.
We have only three machines
that are in serviceable condition.
If each Auxiliary could see to the
placing in the work rooms of one
more good machine we could ac-
commodate more than the six wo-
men a day asked for. We have
plenty of work room space, but
need good machines.
The Women Of the Red cross
furnished 29 lunches to the lncre-
ment of colored soldiers who left
Cd Monday.