The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-03
RED CROSS NOTES,

RED CROSS NOTES.
The Bates County Red Cross head
quarters will be moved this week to
the Armory in the Opera House
block. All county branches sending
in finished work will please send
| there. Some one witt be there to re.
ceive work.
Miss Mayme McBurney has been
appointed chairman of Women's S
Work for West Point township.
Mrs. Edmund F. Brown, director of
women..s work in a notice to Red
Cross chapters, writes, "We want to
take this opportunity of expressing to
the Chapters of this division which
have so nobly filled this huge rush
order for Surgical Dressings our ap-
probation of the splendid effort which
they have made and the spirit in
which it has been made. We have
more than filled our quota of 100000
dressings"
George w. Simmons, division man
agcr OF the Southwestern Division,
is in receipt of letter from person.
al friend who recently volunteered for
Red Cross service in France, which
says they are desperately in need of
socks. sweaters, etc., also surgical
dressings; that Red Cross nurses and
army nurses have been called into the
surgical dressings room to help. The
women are working every day from
900 till 600, and at night do sterili2-
ing. and night shift then takes the
rooms and goes on during the night.
He says the French have certainly
done their part. 1T is surely up to
America. Why is it that thousands
of women in America who can easily
afford the time arc not at work 50
that these necessary articles might be
on hand here? The situation is more
serious than America realizes. Can't
you wake them up? Do what you
can TO get the women III the South
west to realize the Red Cross needs
are desperately urgent. You can not
put it too strong
Received at Bates county head
-Quartcrs the past week: Charlotte. .
pair socks; Amsterdam, 20 many
tailed bandagcs, IS hot water bag
covers, Io irrigation pads, e paper
backed pads, "a operating caps, Is
helmets, scarf. $50 AKA wipes;
Spruce, l2 bed shirts, l3 bed socks, g
ice bag covers; Summit, 60 bandages,
sweaters, S pair wristlets; Grand
River, 70 many tailed bandages; Rich
Hill, ISL paper backed pads, 24o wipes
4xt IS sweaters, lao many tailed
bandages, 24 bed shirts, IS operating
gowns.
Shipments to St. Louis headquar-
ters last week: 365 paper backed
pads, .,8 ice bag covers, ZOE hot water
bag covers, 1o2 bed shirts, 30 operat-
ing gowns, sc pair pajamas, = bath
robes, "a operating caps, IS operat-
ing masks, ia pair bed socks, 400
many tailed bandages, IS sweaters, IS
pair wristlets, 10 scarfs TO pair socks,
S helmets.
The following appointments for
Womcn's Work of Bates County
Chapter of Womens Work for 1913
have been made: Director of Wo-
mems Work. Miss Rachel Tingle;
Assistant Director of Womens
Work, Mrs. Ora l.. Cunningham;
Chairman Publicity for Bates Coun
ty, Mrs nellie Henry
The Director Of Womens Work
has made the following appoint
ments: Supervisor of Hospital Gar
ments. Mrs. c. Vantrees; Supervisor
OF Knitting. Miss Lille Norton.
Visitors at the Butler work room
last week were: Miss Mayme Nc
Mrs. Mary A. Mcdonald,
Mrs. Edgar Bailey, Mrs. Pearl Crum-
ley, Amsterdam; T. w. Foster, M. D.,
J. S. Newton, NJ. d., Z. N Chastain,
NJ. D., Butler; II. A. Rhoades, M. D.,
Foster; Mrs. Peter Denning, Virginia.