The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-09-09

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vey of the county % nurses were en-
rolled.
There have been 144S Junior Red
Cross members enrolled during the
last year, many schools having a
100 per cent membership. The Jun
iors gathered clothes for the Belgi-
ans and fruit seeds for gas ,masks.
One Junior auxiliary made 9 beau
tiful scrap-books.
To further interest people in Red
Cross work subscriptions to the mag
azine were solicited. Thirty-two per-
sons in town are now taking the Red
Cross magazine.
Inspired by a talk from Mr.. Par
kinson the chapter this spring en-
ployed home service secretary who
visited the secretary in Laurens, S.
c., to learn how to manage the Of
flee. Since then this department has
handled 697 cases.
The women of this chapter have
made the following articles:
Hospital bed shirts 1906; pajama
suits 562; operating caps 1856; frac-
ture pillows 1902; operating leggins
so pairs; bed socks II pairs; COM
fort pillows 1928; navy comfort kits
with housewives 200; Italian comfort
kits 200; property bags 268; sweat
ers 639; mufflers 383; wristlets 419
pairs; helmits 4; surgical dressings
9,733; socks 1873 pairs; outing quilts
to Camp Jackson 2; mended shirts
to Camp Sewer 994; Belgians relief
garments 1924 pounds.
People in town contributed and
made not only the 148 sheets, GIL
hand towels, 304 bath towels, 40
napkins and 425 handkerchiefs for
! the American hospitals in France
but also 9 sheets, IS pillow cases, 13
; bath towels, 20 hand towels, 40
napkins and 81 handkerchiefs for the
hospital of the student army train
ing camp at Newberry college. The
latter have since been returned and
/ are kept for use by cases with whom
the Red Cross is working.
! A history of the Newberry county
Red Cross chapter would not be COM
plete without special mention being
made of the work and of the will to
do on part of the negroes. The flour
ishing auxiliaries were organized in
the town, and every call on them for
service with their time or means was
met gladly. A drive thru any part
of the county will show the Red
Cross service flag in the window of
majority of colored homes.
! AT the community Christmas tree
of 1918, every body was reminded
that Red Cross work held it's place
in the Christmastide thoughts of the
)people. On the public square a large
tree was placed and above it glowed
an electrically Illuminated Red Cross.
After the school children (more than
1000 in number) had gathered
around it and had sung their Christ
mas anthems, young girls, dressed as
Red Cross nurses, passed thru the
crowd, collecting tiny white bags, a
red cross on each, and each contain
ing Christmas offering towards the
work of the chapter.
A few months after organizing
and before any allotments were re-
turned to the chapter, funds ran ex-
ceedingly low-so low in fact, that
there would have been no materials
with which to continue work. A COM
mittee of men was appointed to raise
some money, and with such a ready
response did they meet, that within
few hours more than $1,000 was in
! hand.
The treasurer has handled the fol-
lowing amounts of money in the fol-
lowing way:
Receipts.
Cash on hand October /,
/ 1917 81, ,456.42
Membership dues collected 4,333.OO
Contributions 3,766.48
Sale of buttons and maga-
zines $500
Home missions ......... 1855
Received from war fund. 3,932.76