The courier-index., 1919-01-03

and wounded soldiers. FOllOWlng is
complete list of garments of all
kinds Lee County Chapter has pro-
duced:
One thousand four hundred twenty
six outing flannel pajama suits, 1,125
abdominal bandages, 1,790 triangle
bandages, $50 many tailed bandages,
$50 T bandages, 400 Scultetus ban
dages, $50 reversible helpless case
shirts A and B, 500 hospital bed
/ shirts, $50 hot water bottle covers,
800 ice bag covers, $50 surgeons OPP
Grating caps, 200 surgeons operating
helmets, 259 surgeons operating
gowns 200 comfort pillows, IS shout
der wraps, $50 pairs trench foot slip
pers, 260 feather pillows, 1922 pillow
cases, 900 bed sheets, 1,400 linen
towels. 500 linen napkins, 600 linen
handkerchiefs, 200 wash cloths, 175
tray cloths, 60 bath robes, 20 bath
caps, SO pairs foot warmers, 400
comfort kits, 400 housewives, 10 bed
quilts.
Knitted garments: 419 sleeveless
sweaters, 429 pairs socks, 132 pairs
wristlets, 112 mufflers, Is slumber
union suits, wool
Refugee clothing: 70 infants lay
| cites. 1853 child's flannel petticoats.
1T child's flannel dresses, $50 boys
| flannel undershirts, Isl boys drawers
60 girls black satin pinafores, 81
girls serge dresses, 270 women's gin
CHAM aprons, 11S boys dress shirts,
| 25 girls chemise, 10 pairs girls draw
ers, so child's bingham dresses.
Nine hundred ninetyseven pieces
hospital linen for France.
| Five thousand pounds of refugee
clothing for the poor of France and
Belgium.
Many thousand gun wipers and
shot bags made by our little school
girls and boys.
| wish to make the statement that
we have been able to furnish all the
articles listed through our own eff
forts. In many different ways we
| have been able to raise sums OF
money for our work, and the many
generous donations of cash and ma
| terials we have received from time
to time, and the per cent the chapter
was permitted to retain from mem
bership dues, has enabled us to carry
on this great work.
Through the kindness of most loyal
| friends, we have never had to pay
! any rent, light, ice or fuel. Our ship
| ping cases have also been donated to
| us. and our supplies have all been
packed and made ready for shipment
| by our friends, Messrs, Gregory, Pat
terson, Yewell and Parker. No sal
airy has been paid to anyone up until
the last month when it became neces-
sary to pay janitor a very small
weekly salary. The value of supplies
furnished by the Lee County Chapter
during our past twenty months of
organization amounts to $4,000.
! Every hour we have spent in the
| American Red Cross service was
worth while We still can serve, we
still have the opportunity to be useful
to do work less spectacular but no
less necessary than anything we stay
at-homes have done in the war. TO
what ever extent we have helped the
cause we have a right and duty
to rejoice in the victory. Let us re-
member however, that the ending of
bloodshed, the relief from the enxiety,
the tension and the effort of the past
is not the ending of our work nor
the ending of our privilege to serve
humanity. AS the new year greets
us, the happiest year that the world
has ever seen, don't let us in our big
personal joy, overlook the great OPP
portunity of service in offering com
fort to the fatherless, befrined the
friendless, clothe the destitute, and
feed the hungry.