The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-08

4 NE HUNDRED NINETY-SIN
N III workers spent time at the Stat,
Y ~ Capitol Red Cross unit ihi'
\ week. Chapter + Of the p F. O,
Z the En- Avant club. the East Side
b Ladies Aid society Of the Methods
4 church, and wives Of the Commercial
z travellers association joining the indi'
Z vldual workers
il Yesterday no clubs worked, but forty.
one young women clerks OF the capito
| family gave one hour each, coming and
going from 9 until o'clock whenever
they had spare time.
Mvs. John B. Harrison Of 4D East
+ Eleventh street Is in charge with Mrs
( /. Z. Cahill supervisor OF the work ior
this week
Last month both the May and June
! quota were completed, but there Is no
cessationso industry on account OF their
over output
: As the capitol offices close at noon
Saturdays the unit does not open on
that day,
A call for reading matter has come
from Jewish boys in the service. To
this end patriotic appeal has been
made to send books to the Jewish Wei
fare board in New York.
Thirty-three workers were undaunted
by the continuous rains OF yesterday
and spent their entire morning In the
surgical dressings room al Central Red
Cross workrooms.
The Friday committee at Central Red
Cross workroom was; Mrs. Robert p.
CARPENTER, Mrs. Roy Hoffman. Mrs. j,
NJ. Owen, Mrs. Russell G. Lowe Mrs
r. A. Lysle, Mrs. Joseph Huckins, ir
and Mrs. r. II. Wilkin.
In response TO requests which have
come from many women who wish 10
find the kind OF war service for which
they are best fitted, the information de-
partment OF the council OF national de
Tense has prepared list including
"Canteen Workers Abroad"
For this service requirements are
Age D-4s; self-reliance; good health,
and willingness to endure loneliness
and hardships and to obey orders. Re
fer to Y. M. c. A. Ninth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue N W., Washington, d. {.
Mrs. Thomas B. Chambers and Mrs
F. T. Bynum represented Philomathea
club at. Central Red Cross workrooms
yesterday.
ID Mrs. A. w. Cutler Mrs ]. r. Nc
Neal, Mrs. L. A, Johnston, Mrs. Charles
IF, Draper, Mrs, R S. McCabe and
Nrs.. c. f.. Lewis represented Cro-
fstIEm club at Central Red Cross
workrooms yesterday.
The bimonthly meeting OF the board
Of directors OF the Oklahoma county
chapter OF the Red Cross will be held
at the Chamber Of Commerce Monday
noon.
The Progressive league OF the Second
Spiritualist church, which meets at
]. o. o. F. hall for services, has pur-
chased a 500 Liberty bond. The bond
was received yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. S, A. Layton is secretary OF the
league and Mrs. M. J. Mettr, president.
Workers OF the league in Red Cross
activities have completed Red Cross
quilt which will be on display in one
Of Kerr's windows the latter part OF
next week Later the Quilt will be
sold and the proceeds turned over to
the Oklahoma county Red Cross work
Western Reserve University in Ohio
will give ten weeks preparatory
course for young women desirous OF
entering the nursing profession, begin
ming June Is. This course eliminates
the three months probationary period
in the hospital and enables pupils to
complete the hospital training in two
years and nine months Tuition is free
TO all pupils affiliating themselves with
eligible training schools
The Catholic women's service league
OF Albany. N. Y, has sent 700 pairs of
socks and 1000 handkerchief TO the
chaplain for his boys. This league also
outfitted forty-seven nurses who were
assigned to base hospital.
College girls are needed in war serv-
ice during the long summer vacation,
according to Miss Claribel Nye of the
home conservation division of the
United States food administration.
Miss Nye suggests that they act as
assistants 10 local authorities engaged
in work OF the food administration, as
In almost every county agents are over
worked and in need of help,
Miss Elizabeth Brock Miss Marie
Myer, Miss Katheryn Nash, Miss Eliza
beth Pope. Miss Katherine hartman and
Mis- Netts Kapp Of the younger set
spent yesterday in Central Red Cross
surgical dressings room
Barnard college, New York, has two
lines Of war work which students are
supporting entirely. a canteen in the old
Columbia boathouse and a Red Cross
workroom. The canteen will be kept
open during the entire summer vaca-
ticn, while the Red Cross has already
sent out more than eight hundred knit
ted garments and many thousand surRi.
al dressings
The B. 4 N. Clothing company Is the