The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-19

.Neo SroH ChApter, secretary, -
Red Gross, Financial Secretary,
Civilian Relief Maple 4so.
Central Red Cross Workrooma
Elks' Hail Unit Of Red Cross. Msp.
Registration offices for Red Cross
classes In first aid, home care OF the
sick, and dletetles, Maple t41s.
Ass. ~ "'
no far the Liberty kitchen has
~ taken care OF the surplus offerings
~ Of fruits and vegetables on the
market, either reselling them at re
tain price or conserving them by drying
or canning, but the market Is constantly
Increasing and unless voluntary workers
Immediately respond great loss 20
producers will result
Orders for nearly 800 quarts. Of
canned fruits and vegetables have al
ready been booked, which the commit
tee in charge finds they are unable to
handle because OF lack OF assistance.
In addition, daily orders are arriving
from hotels hospitals and outside pa
irons, necessitatng an added equipment
and ~ least forty voluntary helpers
and eight trained workers a day who
can be used III two shifts, morning and
afternoon.
Three quilts were made by the Junior
Red Cross of Wheeler school and were
placed on sale .ast Saturday when the
otate auctioneers held the Red Cross
f.. I ,,ta
Two quilts were knocked down for less
than the cost of materials and the third
quilt, a fine white cotton voile with
pink flower designs, was auctioned so
low that Mrs Mary Couch, their prin-
cipa, bid it in and returned it TO the
eociety and II will later be sold by
The young people themselves The quilt
was made by the fifth and sixth grade
pupils under Miss Caywood
A twenty-five acre peach orchard,
five acres OF pears, two acres OF grapes
and 2,4O0 tomato plants, is the stand of
fruit on the {. C. Dittmer farm, ten
miles south OF the city
Yesterday morning Mrs D. II. Shaw
who has charge of the products Offered
the yield Of blackberries to the Liberty
kitchen and also made an appeal at the
Kitchen for discarded empty crates and
empty bushcl baskets so that the fruit
might be marketed when ripe This un-
usual appeal for crates and baskets is
due to a shortage in the city OF both
baskets and crates. Unless these can
be obtained a great harvest of neediul
fruits within marketing distance of the
city will go to waste.
The new quarters of the sewing and
knitting workers and bureau of sup
plies of the Red Cross in the Mason
Little and company building on West
Main street opened this morning at .
o'clock for regular work.
Yesterday the great task OF moving
the entire equipment and supplies from
the Scott Halliburton building was con-
Quoted quietly and Systematically, with
two contngents of workers on hand
Mrs. William J. Pettee, director of
women's work, remained in the central
work room to supervise the removal
and Mrs. Hansen, chairman Of the hos
.pital garment section, supervised the
new rooms and adjusted the supplies
as they arrived The commodious sup
ply rooms were in order early in the
day In the evening quiet and order
was restored,
The second hospital bed for Okla
homa soldiers is almost assured by the
recent donations turned in to Mrs.
Charles Hopes who has charge OF the
collection Recently the Colonial
Danes of the First Presbyterian church
and the First Methodist church added
substantial donations to the fund of 5000
required for years support OF the bed,
Miss Bernice Nee, member of the
Merry Maids, has only four hours to
complete in the Red Cross work before
she receives her 72-hour Red Cross
emblem.
Forty-eight navy boys will leave the
city every evening this week, and each
train will be met by the busy canteen
servers and men given the smokes, post
cards and other remembrances. Owing
to the supply on hand in the local
canteen service being for soldiers who
use khaki equipments, no pocket Klts
ihus far have been given the navy lads
as they use black shoe strings and black
buttons, but if regular volunteers are
to leave hereafter the canteen workers
will assemble a navy equipment. The
supply of needles in the canteen service
is running low and the price Of the same
soaring. Yesterday the price quoted
for needles was Is cents a packet
On June 2S 600 soldiers under the
draft will leave Oklahoma City Can
teen workers are bending every effort
to have 600 neat pocket kits ready, and
from indications at headquarters their
efforts will be realized Women instead
Of carrying knitting around are carry
ing spools and spending their leisure
time winding thread on bits of past
board, ten yards per board, TO go into
the pocket kits Five dozen kits were
delivered yesterday by the Catholic
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