The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-01-10
ANNUAL REPORT OF WHEELING
RED CROSS CHAPTER SHOWS
EXCELLENT RESULTS FOR YEAR
MEMBERSHIP has GROWN FROM
SEVENTY FIVE, IN PRE-WAR
PERIOD, TO 12,sTS.
Forty Nurses Have Served In Military
Camps From Chapter - Financial
Report Shows KeaIthJ Conelttoa

Every Elrneber si{lC SHii't''i - 49,
Wheeling chapter American Ped Cross
can say. with Robert LOUIS Stevenson.
that they know how TO hr happy. be-
cause they have done good work. and
.his fact is in rvld"ncs II III" annual
.-srort of the chapter. rs road last niHht
- -lradcua.terS in n" EIub building ny
Chairman c. ~ Robinson.
Prn,lic;o uS III work. hut indifferent L"
the social part Of N" organization. tn"
vast majority of III" members were not
present at the meeting last night: IN
fact. the attendance MAS :" small 'hal
n quorum could no. ~ gotten t"C"'h"V
10 hear the wonderful report "t the
work accomplished by IL" local chap
ter in war work and charity. and u Will
he through tn" medium "f III" nsw$ra-
ners that over - Don members Will learn
that the Wheeling chapter is in ihc
from, ranks OF tho. army "t chapters
throughout th.> United States relieving
suffering humanity.
From rs to 1855.
The chapter was instituted IN Narrh'
1918. with about - members. or whom
about 10 wcrc active. This "rGaHiZH-
ton was kept together IL the piping
times OF peace with no growth I" speak
Of, as necessity. did not demand II.
On the entry Of ths United STATES
into the war. the Wheeling chaptrr WAS
rather small. which made a splendid
nuc1eus as has been demonstrated by
the grand total membership today or
1878. Rev. A. L. B"nzc was chairman
until n Few weeks after the d'ciara-
tiou Of war bur resigned when ne gave
IN his paStoratc in this city (" accept
a pulpit in Toledo. His place was 'ak'n
nv the present incumbent. {. A. Roo'n-
son. who has pilotsi ,hc chapter 10
safe harhor.
Supplied Forty Nurses
Wheeling chapter has sent aooe' ="
nurses 10 military camps IN thiS cou"-
try and for service across IN" seas 'i''
OF these Miss Alice Young. tradS me
supreme Sacr;tiC" Will" nursing StF''h-
IN soldiers a, Camp Sewer. s. {. 1t
was Will. performing her Humanitarian
duties during the Spanish influenza cpl
donnie that she contracted tn" dread diS-
ease and succunlbrd carly last tal!.
Furnished Over 10000 Packages.
As evidence Of what regard tho o:t!-
Gals az the Potomac DIVISION h'tH tHV
.ho local chapter III" division head
nrar,ers selected thru chapters in IN"
division rn whom they could rHl! 10
mako q large amount Of fr"n;-lino pack
ages. one Of which WIS gwen 10 'a'n
soldier h>fnrn hs Won: over the TOP
and consisted % fr$t-Aid articles N -
or wounds suffered Will" crossing No
Mans Land.
Wheeling was ncc cf.tt" ihr"" char~
tors selected gu, "f n" r";"r!ac Owls
ion 20 mako those ra"ka S"S. which hah
10 b. gotten out III record ii'n' IN"
Wheeling did i. furnishing -".+i' pack
ages as her Shar" Ut tn" work
The greater portion Of tn" work WAS
volunteered, ard for all III" labor don"
rho only wages paid on; was >-'"E"'
which went for Sr"N"Sr:ph:" services.
Following is C'hairi,lan E"h'ns"ns re-
port:
chairnan's Report to Annual Meeting.
whsn tho record "t what tho E'6
Cross has don" during the war. now
Lonnilv ended : mad" ZIP. wheeling
r,h:,ntnr will 81 :"und IN the YER front
ram: Of all the Chapters N n" United
sI,-,e This statement will bc found IN
he truc, regardless 10 tn" angle tT"H
which vnu may -:"w Wheeling Chapters
nnsi,inn. Il IS true regarding n" per
capi,a contribution %; H." c:tE ana co"A-
u. In each'"t thc 1917 aud !?iH ta"'
naicns. Ohio county waS called upon l"
furnish one hundred and titty Thousand
1880 Gnnr dollars. III" next larScSt
allo;incn. n tn" stat" VAS that OF hi
nawha county. ninety Thousand 'S9"'
n06l dollars. In hota OF tH'S" o'''''
paigns. Wheeling and Obi" county went
"ovcr In, top :" Tt;jckt: and so Ear that
the top was almost forgotten.
Whil> our membership was not quiz"
as lars.. IN proporti"n - IN" entire pop
ula;ion Of the CITY and county rs IN on"
or two counties ~ IN" state. Il was very
much ahov" tn" av"raS" and II was from
this Nom berShlr that our faithful, "ti-
Gent and willing workers Wer" drawn
and from who's" work tn" r'marNao';
results OF the Chapter as a whole is due
In III. matter Of surgical dressings