The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-10-11
Red Cross Notes.
Cross Shop has beer

he past week due to the quarantine for
Influenza, but If the quarantine should
De lifted at the end of tie week, the
Red Cross Shop will then be open as
usual and all ladies are urged to come
and help to get the quotas ready for
Shipment.
The quota up to the present time IL
500 comfort kits, and 100 absorbent pads.
A shipment OF knitted garments was
made last week, and contained 325 pairs
If socks, 100 sweaters and 20 pairs OF
wristlets. Another shipment is TO be
made in few days.
The following townships have contri
buted TO hese shipments:
Columbia township 55 prs. ocss, 10
sweaters, 10 prs wristlets.
Madison tp 81 pre- socks, "a Sweaters
HARRISON to. AZ pairs OF 'cks.
Marion tip. % pairs socks, Sweaters.
Hall Up. 10 pairs of so ks.
Boone TIP. 90 pr So"k,. y Sweaters.
pair wIistlets.
Knitted articles Turned in since last
-eport Socks by
Mrs. q. Henke 50th, Dona Osborn 9th
drs. Fred Jackson 9th, Miss Florence
Dougherty, Mrs. Raymond Febribach
lZIH, bdiah NoOPel III, MIS- will
Durlauf 14th.
Sweaters. Mrs. Geo Kuper 9Th. Mrs
Eifert ord, Misses Barbara Eifert Sth, |
Ernestine Fierst End Marie Dupps 4th
From the War Mothers
Socks, Mesdames G Rumbach Sd. Jos
Hoffman 18th, VIM Flick 9th, Fred
Beckman 9TH, Jos Frtch eth, And.
Buerhler 4th, John Bohnert 4th.
no loo r
Red Cross Chapter is Mr.. Clemens
Henke, who has sent In her 5Oth pair OF
hand knit socks.
The Lake Division of the A. R. G. has
sent out the following important notice
The Government is asking for all kind
of nut shells to be saved and sent In,
which will be used in making gas masks.
Evansville has been chosen for the
shipping center for Southern Indiana,
and is supposed to send at least two car
loads. Ali nuts can he used excepting
almonds, peanuts, buckeyes or horse
Icheetnut. Old nuts from last year are
lalrigbt. The following nuts are wanted
Pecans, Peach Shells, Apricot Pits,
Prune Pits, Date seeds, Cherry Pits,
Butternut shells. Brazil nut sh slls,
Walnut shells, Hickory nut shells.
| NuG sDellS NAY NC EcHI W thO tsSo
Cross Shop, Public and Parochia
Schools. Let us see if we can't come NJ
Wi, h our quota in this just "a we have Al
ever thing else.
Activities of the Ame.ic lean Red Cros
lin England since this country eDtere,
the war, is the subject of the latest re-
port of the War Council 20 the American
, lnsople. regarding the disposition OF tn
of
donations made by the American Re-
n Or ga to the British Red Cross, wit
n whom it has BEEN in close co-opera 10
reached total of 81, 1899 by the en-
), of jane. Various British institu ion
engaged in relief work will receiv
u Sis. $50 during the latter half OF tn
d wear. More than 1000 workers, mostl
volunteer are now employed In Amer
n lean Red Cross Work rooms IN England
!" They are producing about 800, 900 surgl
. cal dressings every month, and recentl
n filled and urgent order from the Amer
e can Army for 200, 900 first aid PACKAGE
II total output Of 900 separate art
e cles.
is residing in England, are members OF I'll
rs "Care Committee. They keep In tOuc
Nl6n every WOuuOcQ hhhOi Se@h $500
lin that country. The committee make
IF about 5000 visits to wounded soldier
|; every month. cheering the men, an
supplying them with comforts.
The American Red Gross is at the ser
vice of every American soldier from tn
thine h, Ian DIS in England, until I
lie leaves for France.
: The Red CIR, ss has established ct
tons along the Irish coast with st OK
of clothing and first aid outfits sufficiei
to care for 5000 shipwrecked American
in the shortest possible timo. The az
sropriations for this emergency servlc
:, IN addition to 5000, 1892 already spent,
I'll 1898 500 for the last half OF 1918.
pr Many of the American soldier
o. wounded in the prest Mt severe fghtin
in northern France, have cen taken
Us England, and the American Red eros
VS. hopes to have all these men transferre
Is t it's own hospitals, where they Will
10 attended by American physicians an
n nurses. 80 900
lie IL has also appropriated slsO,oOo
sd cover the cost of chris mas presents
" every American soldier on christm'
ID day.