Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-01
WOMEN WANTED
BY RED CROSS

BY RED CROSS
Call Issued By Local Auxiliary
For Help in Making Hospital
Supplies For Our Soldiers in
France.
To All the People of Tazewell Coun-
ty.
We've got to have more working
members of the Red Cross.
We've got TO take care of the new
army being drafted.
- We've got to be ready when the
Kaiser makes his big drive on our
boys in the trenches.
YOU are needed You women who
cannot stay at the work rooms take
some work home and do it. We be-
lieve there isn't a Stacker in the coun-
ty. The time has come TO prove it.
A nice shipment was received from
Pocahontas last week.
The North Tazewell work-rooms
sent in a good supply of patients
clothing.
Two boxes were sent to Washing
ton last week. They contained:
Eighty sweaters, fifteen pairs of
wristlets, nine pairs of soX, six he'll
mets, two scarfs, seventy-eight pa
jana suits, one hundred and fifteen
pairs of bed socks, two bed jackets,
twenty-four handkerchiefs.
Another room in the Court House
has been secured for the sewing de-
partment, which leaves more space
for the additional workers on surgi-
cal dressings are badly needed.
The Red Cross wishes to advertise
as widely as possible the absolute
falsity of the report that used post
age stamps have any value through
the extraction of the dyes contained
inthem.
To give relatives of American SOL
diers details of casualties at the front
tile American Red Cross has organ
ized at national headquarters Bu-
reau of Communication, Of which
William r. Sastel, jr., formerly dean
of Harvard College and editor of the
Harvard Graduates Magazine, is di-
rector. The Bureau supplements in a
personal and humanitarian way the
reports of the statistical Division of
the War Department, which gives to
relatives official notice when u SOL
dier is reported killed, wounded or
missing.
The anxiety that results from the
wounded" or is missing" will, as
far as possible, be dispelled by the
Bureau, which will advise in detail
the nature and extent of the wound,
and will gather evidence from COM
rades in arms and at the hospital and
rest camps regarding those reported
missing.
Any information of intrest or con-
ISOLATION to relatives thus obtained
will be transmitted to them through
personal letters, while messages from
the wounded will be conveyed through
this same agency.
The information on which the Bu-
rcau will base its reports is gather
ed through central Office in Paris, un-
der the direction of E. Gerry Chad
wick, of New York City, aided by the
Rev. Robert Davis, of Englewood, N.
j., and thirty assistants stationed at
the base hospitals and rest camps to
which soldiers are generally returned
following important engagements.
AS casualties increase the work will
grow heavier, and parents are advis-
ed to send in requests for information
regarding the army personnel All let
ters of inquiry will be forwarded to
Mr.. Chadwick, address American Red
Cross, Washington, D. c.
Mr.. Chapman called a meeting of
the County Auxiliaies on Wednesday
of this week. Representatives from
Graham, Clear Fork, Jewell Ridge,
Richlands, and Tazewell were present.
General business of the Red Cross
was discussed and it is hoped great
er activity and better understanding
of requirements will result.
A new auxiliary at Asberry has
been organized.