Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-07
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Girls OF Riverview Patriotic league
| finished 10 checker bags at their
regular weekly meeting Monday aft
| ernoon. Thirty.three members were
present. Plans were made for
patriotic program to be given May
81. The record Of this organization
is an enviable one. In addition 10
its Red Cross activities, the league
| has given program every month
| The following articles have been
turned in at headpuarterse or IRE
local chapter; dozen posters, doz-
| on comfort bags, 3 dozen large ban
dages. 2 dozen triangular bandageS'
| 30 white muslin bags, 4 dozen tow
els. 20 many-tailed bandages, "a
emergency bandages. 100 checker
| boards. large afghans. Belgian
afghnns. 10 bags for checkers, l4o
| emergency kits. lS hot paTl-holders.
The boys division folded so emer-
gency kits, ib boys were present.
Mrs Denny Jones is chairman OF
the committee and Is assisted by Mrs,
r, A. Penny, Mrs. a. l.. Dehner, and
Miss Moore. Mesdames r B Berlin,
II. NJ, Beam and Miss Thompson
have charge OF the boys work.
Some OF the persons interested in
Red Cross work in this city have
been asked IL, when a soldier Is away
from his camp on furlough and II
Is necessary he be taken TO hos
pital for treatment. whether the
| United States government will stand
| good for his hospital bill. The an
swer would be that while the gov
ernment would do everything II
could to get the sick man back to
| the hospital at his camp or the near
est military hospital, II VIII not pay
| his hospital bill at private hos
pital, Warning Ia given that any
| hospital thus caring for and giving
q sick soldier treatment should ex-
poet to receive pay for it's services
from the soldier himself"
Red Cross headquarters has been
converted into one large work room
| for tho making of surgical supplies
and garment making has been sus-
pended for the time being. until
Thursday at least The women in
charge are putting forth every ef-
fort to finish the chapters quota of
front-line parcels, but unless they
receive the proper cooperation the
work cannot be completed. Forty
thousand tampons and front-line
parcels, each OF which is n most i'm
portant article OF the parcel, must
be finished and the work must be
| done by Tulsa women.
Notwithstanding the fact that last
weeks meeting OF the Tizrah club
with Mrs. Nj. c. Kimball was an
nounced as an all-day social session,
the-membors put In almost the entire
| day doing Red Cross work. 2S5
many tailed and 50 scultetus banda
ges were made and sweaters
pair wristlets and 3 pair socks were
| turned in. There were twenty mem
bers and six visitors present Lun-
cheon was served AZ noon.
Where You May Servo Today.
Immanuel Baptist unit. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday, at church.
Christian women, Red Cross head
quarters
Cherokee Holghts unit. Second
| Presbyterian church.
West Tulsa unit. Tuesday. Thurs.
| lav and saturday
Maple Ridge unit, home of Mrs
Presley G, Walker ir
Betsy rDss Unit will hold it's reg
ular meeting this afternoon in the
home Of Mrs Arthur Newlin. This
unit. composed of young matrons,
with Mrs. Rex y walker as cap
tain, Is making plans to extend its
already large membership and to
purchase u knitting machine in the
immediate future. Later IL is the
plan to secure q machine for the
knitting St sweaters,
The L, s. A. club. which has for
its work Il making OF layettes and
clothes for the needy civilians Of
Belgium and France. OF which there
are hundreds, will meet on THURSDAY
afternoon in the home OF Mrs. John
MescrNe.
Marines unit OF which Mrs viii
son is acting az captain in the alb
sence OF her daughter. Mrs W. H..
Pomerry, meets Friday with Mrs
William ], Gregg The meeting last
week was with Mrs. Lawrence X.
Cone.
The American Red Cross has ap-
pointed the French Wounded socicy
to visit sick and wounded American
soldiers and sailors in France.
Women who have bccp waiting for
sock yarn are Informed that some ,
has arrived and VIII he unpacked |
and made ready to=diStribution to- |
day at Red Cross Headquarters
French Novelist Dies.
fARlS, May G.--rhc death OF |
Georges Ohnet, French novelist and
dramatist, ls announced here. In |
1875 his first play was written and /
was produced under the title OF Re |
gina Sarpi lie wrote IL novels
that gained prominence and some
hair dozen IF these were dramatized
with e-Ss,3erable success.
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