The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-11
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giks' Han Unit Of Red Cross, mspl.
Registration offices for Red Cross
CLASSES In first aid, home care OF the
slck. and dIetetIcs, Maple f+Ta.
6N HE bureau OF supplies, sewing
department, refugee garments
J and knitting sections of Okla
homa county Red Cross chap
Er, now on the third floor OF Scott
lalliburtonS department store. will be
owed soon after June IS to the third
DOR OF Mason Little & Co.. Mrs
William Pettee announced today.
Mr.. Little is completely renovating
,e third floor for the Red Cross, the
oak rooms being finished and floors
Anished yesterday The room will as
ire workers a comfortable and com
odious place for the enlarged bust
tss OF these various lines of activity
At a recent conference at the south
estern divisional headquarters it was
ecided quotas hereafter will be limited
American pajamas, right and left
eipless shirts, operating gowns and
bag covers.
A large shipment OF sweater and sock
krn has been received at central Red
ross work rooms, in white, natural
nd khaki colorings. The sock yarn
pines in natural, white and khaki col
Sweater yarn in khaki.
The first Methodist church ladies' aid
,ciety added a SIS donation yesterday
the fund for Oklahoma soldiers
ID in United States hospital No. |
France This will apply on the up
tep Of second bed.
Miss Lillian Wilkin of the gradual
II class OF 'l8 was a busy worker in
le surgical dressings rooms at CEN
Al Red Cross headquarters yesterday.
The Jersey calf which Judge F. G..
pilman of 500 East Tenth street do
lted towards the auction sale tomor-
pw for the Red Cross fund died last
eek Judge and Mrs. Spilman are
ut OF the city visiting their son who
stationed in West Virginia.
Putnam City junior Red Cross work
rs made 246 articles during May and
hrned them into the everflowing stream
hich reaches the southwestern dlvi-
onal headquarters.
sYou are the first woman who has
bokcn to me since / left Mississippi
nd ! thank you for speaking to me,
as the response which Miss Hewey oi
Wichita Kan, cooking expert for the
liberty kitchen. school, received wher
ne spoke to a silent, lonely soldier boy
|ho had sat all day in the parlors oI
he Lee Huckins hotel without attcA
on. Saturday
Miss Hewey who is a member OF the
tnnice Sterling chapter Of the Daugh
Irs OF the American Revolution, i'm
bediately placed a query in the sug
estion box at the hotel asking tha
pine feasible plan be discussed tC
lace voluntary hoStesses in the hotc
aturdays and Sundays whose duty
|ould be to greet visiting soldiers who
pend their week end in the hotel.
Miss Hewey suggests 'that chapter
Members from the d. A. X, and d. O
be enlisted
The Ready-to-H Help club completed
Wenty-six garments as a portion OF IT.
led Cross work last month.
The negro schools in their junior Re-
ross work knitted eighteen pairs o
ccks during the month OF May anC
nrned them over to the refugee gar
hents department of the Oklahom;
ounty Red Cross chapter
St Joseph's school made twenty fou
efugee garments last month and turned
hem over'to the junior Red Cross chap
er department.
Among the refugee garments com
,ieted in the twenty-three city school
IS reported for the past month were
wenty-tw afghan quilts, $40 pieces o
Underwear $50 petticoats, los comtor
iillows, ten rag rugs, one lo-piece IN
ANT lavette and l46 miscellaneous ar
icles not including pin balls, shot bag
br infant bootees
Canteen workers abroad according Il
Information prepared by the iniorma
ion department of the women's com
nittee of the council of national de
ense must have attained ages betwee
8 and 10 years, be OF excellent healt
Ind character and enlist for one yeai
,ay their own expenses or be finance
10 the amount of 5000 a year and sub
scribe to all governmental and asso
ciation rulings. This service is unde
The American Red Cross, Washington
D. C., or intercollegiate committee o
Somen's war work abroad 100 Eas
Fifty second street. New York
Soon after the United States entere
the war the league of American Pc
Women recommended the organizatio
f national committee for activ
American propaganda in neutral cour
tries, TO counteract the insidious Ger
man propaganda already launched.
Nurses aids requested from the Pari
pffice OF the Red Cross, now being ser
rs promptly as possible will not b
nsed in American army hospitals bt
instead with the French population an
the repatriates and also in French hos
bitals where nurses aids have bee
Employed since the beginning OF III
war. All nurses aids should be pre-
Jared to accept any assignment that
(iven them as conditions change raT
div.
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