The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-06

RED cro.s. Financial Secretary,
Maple 2862.
Civilian Relief Maple 42o
Cent al Red Cross WorkrOoms'
ElkT HslI Unit Of Red Gross. Maple
Registration offices for Red Gross
classes In fIsst aid. home care OF the
sick, and dletetles, Maple iVs,
m VERY member of the canteen
la service is busy assembling the
lC home cheer gifts which will go
J with the 900 soldier boys com
prising the last quota to leave Ok
lahoma City the last of the month Six
8 hundred pocket kits are being filled and
hundreds Of miscellaneous articles be-
Ing listed
On June l8 examinations will be Civ
en- by the United States civil service
commission to fill vacancies in the
states relations service department Of
agriculture at salaries ranging from
81 500 to 1000 year AppointeeS
will visit county club leaders in or
ganization work with the farm bureaus
with a view TO getting definite results
in boys and girls work in food pro-
duction and food conservation, Appli
cants must be graduates OF a college or
university of recognized standing and
have had one years experience in ex-
tension work with boys and girls.
Sixty-three workers comprising em-
ployes and their wives OF the B. & NJ
Clothing company and Ford employees
spent their time Tuesday evening max
ing surgical dressings at the Elks
home unit
A useful addition TO the property bag
Is a piece of white muslin. measuring
approximately four inches by three
inches of a character and weight such
that the recipient may write his name
upon it in ink. This may be stitched
on about the middle Of the front Of the
bag. The men carry these bags with
them when they leave the hospital, and
like to have them marked.
The junior Red Cross workers who
are gathering during the summer vaca-
tion to add their bit TO their winters
work may make the following refugee
garments: Girls chemise, l6-year-old
size, pattern No 10; boys blouse suits,
8-year r-od size, pattern No. los; girls
dresses, l2-year-old size, pattern No.
ga children's dresses, 4-year-old size,
pattern No %; chldren's petticoats o.
year old size, pattern No. 1903; chill
drens pinafores, 8-year-old size, pat
tern No. %; boys shirts, l2-year old
size, pattern No. $50, (the double bosom
and pocket may be omitted from this
pattern) boys winter underdrawers
l0-year-old size, pattern No. lOI; chil-
dren's cap. small size, pattern No lOo;
layettes, pattern No. 100,
There are approximately N0OOC
refugees in France and nearly SOOOC
In free Belgium These are the over
seas people which the Red Cross mus'
help and furnish garments Tor.
Labelling all finished garments is in,
dus,riously going on at central Ked
Gross work rooms this week, prepara'
tory TO shipping the hundreds Of gar
ments already turned in.
The new label distributed by the
bureau Of supplies reads: "Compli-
ments Of the American Red Cross COX
lahoma) chapter" blank to be filled in
with a rubber stamp. They are at
tached to the following places: bed
Jacket inside collar band bed socks
Inside on hem around top OF leg
center back: comfort kits, on hem IN
side of bag; convalesccnt robes, inside
cellar band: handkerchiefs, on hem, II
one corner operating caps, inside band
raiamas. shirts. undershirts have tht
label on the inside OF the neck band.
Day and night since the German drive
was begun Red Cross departments and
their workers have been ceaseleSsly a
their desks. The capacity OF two Of
It's Paris hospitals has been increased
from forty-five to l28 beds in one in
stance. and forty-one to seventy sever
IN the other An emergency corps o.
physicians and nurses for whatever
service might be required has also beer
enrolled
Oklahoma chapter No 10, order o'
Eastern Star, worked Yesterday in ar
sll-dav session at the Masonic tempIe
Mrs. Carey w. Townsend and Mrs
w W Morris were in charge with th'
following workers at their machine
during the morning Mrs. Sara
Walker Mrs J r Hetherington, Mrs
II A. Roscoe, Mrs. A. c, Eagle. Mrs
Crystal Hetherirgton, Mrs J D. Lank
ford Mrs 7. w. Walden, Mrs. A. A
DOUGHTY. Mrs NJ. G. Thedford, Mrs
Jessie Mice, Mrs. F. N Evans. Mrs
r House and Mrs II. B Hendricks
Miss Viola Hendricks
Directions for making refugee aprons
FOR the Belgans, which call for twr
and quarter inches OF twenty-sever
Inch material each, have been received
from the southwestern division head
quarters The directions are as follows
cut two strins crosswise of the goods
two and a half inches wide for bel
and strings Divide the rest Of the ma
terial into two breadths one yard lone
and split one breadth down its length
Stitch half hreadths on each side o
the whole breadth and turn one and
half inch hem al the bottom Gathe
the anron niece the belt in the middl
and stitch IT, BRINGING niecing at oente
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