The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-04-24
RED CROSS NOTES
Community Nurse Doing Fine Work
Juniors Are Busy.

pOlntment on April ZnQ, aS coiliHlu-
nifty nurse for Williamsburg county,
has been busy visiting and caring
for the sick here at Kingstree or in
the county. She has spent ten days
at Lane, gave daily care to one pa
tient there and visited three others
several times; also visited number
of families where all the children
had whooping cough. Mrs. Mouzon
finds that the mothers greatly ap-
preciate and welcome suggestions
made for the care and relief of their
little ones, and that the idea of
community nurse seems to appeal
very strongly to the people OF the
county.
The Kingstree Red Cross chapter
feels that there is no better way to
promote public health than by Sc
curing the services Of a community
nurse. Mrs. Mouzon has written to
representative women in each dis
trict of Williamsburg county, ask
ing that they secure all new MEM
bers possible for the Red Cross. We
hope that many hundred more
members may be added to our chap
ter in this way. The salary and
travelling expenses of our communi-
ty nurse must be paid, and although
there is at present a substantial
sum in the Red Cross treasury, how
ever, if this work is to continue in
definitely, as all progressive and
right thinking citizens hope that it
will, there must be constant pour
ing in of membership fees.
Illustrative of the efficient home
service being rendered our soldiers
and their families by the local chap
ter of the Red Cross, the following
incident may be cited: On Saturday,
March 1st, Mr.. R. E. Adams, who
lives about ten miles north OF
Kingstree, informed Mr.. Mcdowell,
chairman of the Kingstree chapter,
that he had not hear0 from his son,
Private ]. F. Adams since Decem-
Der 26th. That he was then wound
ed and in a base hospital in France.
That every effort to hear from him
had failed and that he was greatly
distressed, fearing that his sons
wounds had terminated fatally. MIR.
Mcdowell at once took up the mat
ter with the War Department at
Washington, and one week from
that date another son of Mr.. Adams
was in town with a letter from the
War Department saying that Pri-
vate J. F. Adams had been located
at a hospital in France, and though
wounded was doing we'll. This, OF
course, is but one instance.
The officers of the Red Cross
stand ever ready to render most
cheerfully any service possible to
the soldiers and their families,
white or colored. They should either
see personally or write, fully ex-
planning their troubles, to Rev. E.A.
Mcdowell chairman, Kingstree, s.
C.
Kingstree Juniors
Miss Agnes Erckmann, chair
man of the Junior Red Cross of the
Kingstree School Auxiliary, has ap-
pointed the following girls and boys
on the clipping committee: From
the 4th grade Dora Harrington and
Emery Davis Nesmith, from the
5th grade, Jane Gilland and Jack
Arrowsmith, from the 9Th grade,
Pattie Scott Epps and Adolphus
Frierson, from the 7th grade, Daisy
Mcintosh and Paden Montgomery,
It is the duty of this committee to
clip all Red Cross news from the
newspapers of Williamsburg county;
of these clippings one copy is sent
to Red Cross Headquarters in At
lanta, one to Washington, one to
the local chapter, and one to 60 in
scrap book kept by the Junior
chapter.
An sewing allotted to the Kings
tree Juniors has been completed.
The work of raising money for
French orphans continues. One Sat-
urday afternoon several enterpris-
ing little girls of the fifth grade
held an Easter egg hunt on the
Kellahan Park, and cleared 81 to
add to their fund. Sandwiches and
ice cream are being sold on the
school grounds at recess for the
same purpose. The children are
evincing much originality in devils
ing schemes to secure funds for
their adoption of French orphans.