Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-11-22
RED CROSS ACTIVITIES
Contributed by
MISS LOUISE AVER,
Secretary Olympia Chapter.

on tuesday, the 18TH. the annual
meeting of the chapter was held. and
the executive committee of 80 men,
pers who will manage the affairs of
the chapter for the coming year was
elected. 1t comprises the following:
c. A. Rose, G.. d. Prgmore, c.
B. Mann, Mrs. A. +. Fitzhenry, Mrs.
Ada j. Lewis, Mrs. A. H. Chambers,
X. l.. Blankenship. Mrs. f. w. Agate.
Mrs. E. +. Overton. Mrs. +. S.
O'Brien. Mrs. d. r. Hughes, Mrs. C.
A. Rutledge, Mrs. r. b. Rowe. George
G. Mills, Mrs. w. H. Hosler, Mrs. c.
j., Lord, S. l.. Lester. Mrs. Jesse
Mills, H. l.. Hughes. George Draham,
Mrs. H. NJ. Pierce. Miss Helen
Cowles, Mrs. Sam Lockwood, Mrs. A.
w. Robertson, Mrs. A. l.. Brown, Mrs.
A. A. Holmes, Mrs. w. F. Lea. Mrs.
G. w. Ingham, w. v. Tanner, Eagle
Freshwater, Mrs. r. o. Dunbar. G. G.
Winstanley, Mrs. F.. NJ. Kenney. Mrs.
II. c. Heermans. Mrs. James C. Allen,
Mrs. d. ]. Larson, Mrs. l.. A. Ran
dali, Mrs. William Goudy.
These are a few of the many Red
Cross members in the county who
have rendered faithful service to the
chapter during the past year.
The following report of the secre-
tary, read at this meeting, shows
as well as cold figures can the
amount of work you have done to
help prosecute the war and bring
about this glorious peace:
Secretary's Report.
The work of the Thurston county
chapter, successor to Olympia chap
ter, can best be measured by it's out
put. AS the bulk of it has been done
since the last annual meeting, and
since through the cessation of hos
tilities, certain features of the work
will be discontinued, l am includ-
ing the entire output of the chapter
since it's organization in the following
statement:
Surgical dressings, 27,145; hospi-
tai garments, 4,035; hospital sup
plies, 1906; knitted garments, A.
CAT; refugee garments, 1,16S;
Christmas packets (1917), 1856;
contagious ward masks, 10000;
fruit pits and nut shells, 10 sacks.
Thirteen thousand four hundred
and five pounds of secondhand
clothing were contributed to the COM
mission for relief in Belgium.
Besides the above, the Junior Red
Cross has shipped some $4,000 gun
wipes, q number of property bags,
coat hangers and some refugee gar
ments, but much of the work as
signed to them has necessarily been
performed by other departments.
Perhaps the most vital work of the
chapter is that Of the Home Service
past year, It has dealt with 625 fam
lilies, rendered special services to 375
such families, given information to
241. and expended In financial assis-
lance $1,826.91.
A brief report of the financial
standing of the chapter on October
81, 1918, is as follows:
Cash on hand November 1, 1917,
$664.19; receipts from November l.,
1917, to November /, 1918, $685.
1860; total. $30.010.S5. Expendi-
lures from November l, 1917, to No
vember 1. 1918. $20.670.00; balance
on hand November l, 1918, So
34O.e5.
The present membership of the
chapter is approximately 1896, of
whom 1896 are annual members. %
subscribing, two contributing and
Ave hold life membership.
The largest single contribution
made to tn chapter was that of the
Tumwater Club house which through
the generosity of the Schmidt estate
has become the fee simple property
Of the Thurston County Red Cross.
As to the future work of the chap
ter, we are instructed through divi-
sion headquarters that the making of
surgical dressings except such as may
be ordered by the army will be dis
continued. The collecting of plat
inum, tin, fruit pits and nut shells
II also at an end. But Red Cross
commissions abroad assure US that
there is most urgent need to continue
every other form of chapter produc-
ton activity. In other words, there
will be a change in kind OF output,
but not in degree.
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