The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-11-09
$4,000 WANTED
BY RED CROSS
Ehringhaus to be Speaker on
Opening of Local Drive for
Red Cross Funds

will open with grand start on
Armistice Day, Sunday, Nov
enbcr II at three p. m. public
meeting will be held in the AL
krama Theatre, and Hon. J. c.
B. Ehringhaus will be the prin-
cipal speaker. The Red Cross
wants $1,000, but no collections
will be taken and no contri-
buttons asked at the meeting
on Arnistice day.
J. H. Leroy, Jr., is chairman Of
the Red Cross Roll Call for this
year. Mr.. Leroy has started off
the campaign with splendid ef-
fort and is marshalling his forces
in splendid form. If the drive is
successful, Mr.. Leroy says it is
the plans Of the Red Cross to hire
full time County nurse for the
benefit Of sick children who other
wise are sadly handicapped. The
nurse the Red Cross would get for
Elizabeth City children would be a
competent one. trained by the Red
Cross In the work Of the Organiza-
ti0n, says Mr.. Leroy.
Mr.. Leroy points out that much
money Is spent locally from funds
raised for the Red Cross in this
county. "More than $50 month IS
now being spent In PasQuotank
County from these funds" he says.
He illustrated the, need Of larger
funds and a nurse, by telling of one
instance that was observed by the
County Welfare Officer. On the
edge of town in a destitute home
small child was i'll with fever.
The ignorant parents had bound
salt herring to the feet of the
child, and around its neck hung a
Squirming collection of SOW bugs
in bag. The deliriOus child was
chewing on the bag Of bugs that
had been applied to stop the fever.
At the meeting to he held at the
Alkrama Theatre which has been
rendered the local organization by
the owners, the American Legion
is cordially requested to be present.
Seats will be reserved for the men,
bers of the local branch.
J.. E. Skinner is the director of a
splendid musical program which is
being arranged. This program will
include the best talent of the city
i'm musical and instrumental num-
berS.
Not only will the Red Cross work
open in Elizabeth City, but in every
! church in PasQuotank County on
the Sunday morning Of November
II, it is planned to have a speaker
who will devote five to ten minutes
in behalf of Red Cross work. Two
young ladies representing the Red
Cross nurses will be detailed to
every church outside Of Elizabeth
City to solicit subscriptions i'm
mcdiatcly after the service, and to
enroll several ladies of each church
, to assist in the work.
In Elizabeth City it is planned
to carry out the thOro canvass of
every residence during the week o.
Nocember 18th to II for the pur
pose of soliciting members for the
Red Cross.
At n meeting of the Red Cross in
this city Monday night with Chair
man Leroy presiding, Mrs. s. NJ.
Boettcher was appointed secretary.
pro tenn. Z. G. Sawyer, chairman
of speakers, reported that arrange
ments had been made for the Ar
mistice Day meeting.
Those present at the meeting
were j. II. Leroy, Jr., p. G. Sawyer,
V. +. Williams, ID. G. Pappendick,
Chas. w. Gather. G. r. Little, A.
r. Houtz, Mrs. +. G. Jacocks, Mrs.
Raymond Sheely, Mrs. II. b. COtter,
Mrs. s. NJ. Bocttcher and Miss Nan
! Burgess.
The teams for the drive have been
divided as follow: Water Street, A.
b. Houtz: Poindevter Street,
Charles Gather; Main Street and
Matthew'S, and Burgess to Church,
ID. c. pappcndick; Burgess and
Road to Church and Martin to
Church, Frank ScattergoOd: Cy-
press, Walnut and Broad and north
side Of Burgess, Miss Nan Burgess
Beginning at Southern Hotel, North
side of Main to Parsonage street,
Mrs. c. Il. Pugh: Parsonage street
to railroad, including north side
and west side, Mrs. Fred Davis
G. F. Seyffret with his committee
to see all mills and manufacturing
plants: Third Ward, Mrs. Jacocks
and Mrs. Sheely; Fourth Ward,
Mrs. Gid Hughes, Mrs. Lydia Nc
Mullan, and Mrs. Aubrey McCabe.
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