The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-09


Civilian Relief Maple 40
heEis'Tation offices for Rrd Cross
classes ~ tirst aid. home rare of tho
sick and distrtlcs, nipple li1b,
Ird Cross 'nntesn service, Maple
Abs
~ APlTOL Hin unit led in the
III amount OF work turned into
EN Red Cross headquarters dur
ing the last three days OF the
week, following the closing day Of
| the Fourth OF July, their completed ar
ticles being seven hundred and twenty
| five property bags eighty three muslin
bed shirts twenty-SiN canton flannel
shirts twenty helpless case shirts and
| fifteen undershirts Tenth and Robin
son Streets unit va, a close second with
40 comfort kits. Culbcrtson Heights
unit turned m twenty hclplcs, case
| shirt, aud sixteen muslin bed shuts
Harmony lllll ten bed shirts; Central
| work rooms fifteen helpless case shirts
| Franklin UNI three hospital bed shirts
| and sixty pairs OF hospital bed socks
Columbus unit thirty canton flannel
shirts and SIX muslin bed shirts; Ninth
and Robinson Streets unit five canton
llAllllNl lNu NANl - lHIN'l III iNAIlN
helpless case shirts; Western avenue
| twenty-five helpless bed shirts; Mrs H.
) Schilling ten helpless case shirts.
Luther branch Of the Oklahoma
county Red Cross chapter completed
$3.50 s.rgieal dressings during the
month OF June as follows ESQ Sxi
compresses los 8xl2 absorbent pads
E5 4x4 compresses, 2SS many-tailed
bandages 50 2X2 compresscs, 10 scu-
letetus.
June's output in knitting IN the Okla.
homa county chapter Of the Red Gross
10 as follows: 22l sweaters, 452 pairs
Of socks, thirty-tw two helmets twenty.
two scaris, thirty.two pairs OF wrist
lets, total OF ~ July'S required
quota is HS speed up is the lat.
est word from divisional headquarters
Mss Elizabeth Brock. Miss Lorraine
Housed, Miss Ruth Bulkley, Miss Mar
gsret Hoffman and Miss jeanette Spar
row represented the ] + P.S at Cen
tral surgical dressings rooms yester-
da morning.
Miss Katherine Zattman was the lone
member Of the High Jink,' club IN Cen
tral Surgical dressings department YES
trrday.
The entire canteen service committee
were on duty Saturday afternoon from
until II o'clock in the evening when
1000 draft men were given cold drinks
sandwiches and little things such as
gum, candy. post cards. tha. gave them
cheer for the rest OF their tourney
Feis' Special, Golden Grain. Pablo and
Bevo were used in quenchiug the thirst
OF the troops, II requiring system OF
handling the drinks 10 permit such an
| aggregation of men to have individual
service. Each OF the three trains re-
manned from thirty TO forty minutes at
the station and during that time the
kegs OF soft drinks were handled by !
Mr. Stumpf and two helpers while |
pitchers constantly being filled and |
emptled were rushed to the cars and
emptied into troop cups, by the canteen |
= squad. Yes, rushing the can is right" !
I Mrs, Haskell said when asked il her
assistants were able to keep up with the
Z iema.
The Ninth and Robinson Streets unit |
2 completed 20l4 front line parcels and |
2 SOS five yard rolls during the month Of |
I lrnc.
Two thousand four hundred and
Z 'sty-siX front line parcels were made |
The South Side unit during June
Mrs. Mamie Walker Parks, county
iood dcmonStrator. has found an i'm. !
portant use for woman's latest weapon,
the steel knitting needle When driving |
vegc blcs the blanching process and
cooking is tested by Mrs Parks with |
knitting needle with which she pierces |
the vegetable, ascertaining whether il |
IS threc-iourth' cooked, according to di- |
rections
The Arcadia branch specialized on
! psiama suits during June when twenty
five were completed Edmond made an |
even hundred helpless case shirts
Luther turned to comfort kits. making
twenty-five while Harrah led with |
their branch work as follows: eighteen
undershirts, twenty-five suits OF pa
iannas, twenty-five comfort kits. Spencer
turned out Sixty-five bed shirts and two
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