The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-29
Red Cross Officers to Be
Chosen at Adjourned
Meeting
ANNUAL SESSION
IN BRATTLEBORO
Reports Show Large Amount Of Work
Accomphshed-Milhon Articles Sent
From Rooms Here Since Headquar-
ters Were Opened.

Adjournment was taken without the
election of officers yesterday afternoon.
when the annual business meeting of the
Windham county chapter of the Red Cross
was held in the Brooks House, no name
being presented as successor to Frederic
{. Adams, chairman the past year As the
chairman was the first officer who was to
be elected it was thought advisable, after
thorough discussion, to adjourn the meet
ing until slate of officers could be pre-
pared for presentation to the chapter.
Before this action was taken, however,
suggestion which viii obviate the neces-
sity Tor such action in the future was
made by Clarence L. Stickney, who moved
that provision be made IN the bylaws
that a nominating committee be named by
the chairman the first of September each
year and that the committee be instructed
to prepare a list of officers for the an
nual meeting, which ordinarily is held in
October. The motion was carried by
! unanimous vote.
While the number of those in attend
ance did not indicate much interest in the
Red Cross work several gave interesting
reports of the accomplishments of their
respective branches. These followed the
reports of the secretary and treasurer of
| the chapter.
The report of Mrs Fayette Miller as
secretary showed that on April /, 1919.
! there were 1892 members and that the
membership list Nov. totaled 7,7lS as
| against 1854 on Nov. /, 1915. c. L. Stick
i ney's report as treasurer showed receipts
of more than $4,000 with expenditures of
about $4,000 since he took that Office less
than a year ago.
Reports were given by representatives
OF the branches in Bellows Falls, Putney,
! Vernon, Westminster, Whitingham and
! Brattleboro Some of these included a
financial report and others a report of the
work committee These were followed by
Mrs. j. c. DeWitt's report of the county
chapter work.
i Chairman Adams called attention to the
fact that very close to ,0000 articles
had been sent out from the work rooms
since the organization of the Red Cross
here. He also spoke of the roll call re-
: turns as compared with previous years
: He said the returns from the third Red
, Gross roll call now showed more than a.
: 900 and that he hoped it would come up to
, was $500. Contributions to the SIS 600 ,00C
: fund had come in surprisingly well, the
chairman said.
e. Referring to the home service work Mr.
: Adams said that the headquarters had
{ been asked for another home service work
r er for this county, but that they were un
able to send one here, the demand being
: much greater than the supply
Il Mrs. Dewitt IS report for the Brat
tleboro branch showed that 1S2 boxes
had been sent, 20 of them since Nov
f 90, 1918, and the boxes contained the
Ell following articles:
ell Four hundred ninety-one men,
r sweaters, 1859 pairs men IS socks, q
h pairs wristers, four helmets, one pai
G hospital socks, IS children's sweaters
l35 pairs children's stockings, sever
children s mufflers. four women !
2 shawls, seven afghans, SIS propert,
e bags, 200 black pinafores, $50 ker
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