The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-11-17

The regular monthly meeting O. the Wrangell chapter of the Ameri- can Red Cross was held Tuesday evening. Nov. 1st, at the City Hal with Chairman J. c. Grant presid- ing.
 II. D. Campbell, chairman of the membership committee. reported that Wrangell citizens had respond cd to the annual Roll Call as fol lows: I6S annual tS1.0o) member ships; five contributing 0S5.00@ memberships. one sustaining ($259 membership and donations amount ing to S12s50. Fifty cents from each membership. making a total Of SS9 Was forwarded To Red Cross head quarters and the remaining amount Sf43.50. was deposited in the loeal chapter funds to be used locally.
 Dr. 0. H. Mhaley. treasurer, iI making a reeapitula1ion Of the work the Wraneell Red Cross has don since January !. 1927 showed that the chapter had raised s345.69 through benefits given and dOna- tions solicited for the Mississippi Valley Flood Relief. had paid $500 for a stretcher for local emergency cases and had disbursed local relic from chapter funds in six eases.
 The local relief covers a wide range of eases. The case of 2 new conner To town who was i'll was re- ported 10 the chairman as being on where the wife was exhausted from giving her husband nursing care da5 and night and who needed nursing help. It was not possible to get nurse to send to the home so the Red Cross arranged 10 have the patien cared for St the Wrangell Genera Hospital where he passed away two days later The wife. although re lieved of the nursing care. did no rest, but stayed by her husband tc the end.
 In another instance. an aged woman. perhaps a little unbalanced mentally. was left on the hands Of United States could agree on her status.
 An operation for removal of ton sils and adenoids was imperative for little school girl but the cost was forty dollars more than her parents could spare after the fishing season had been a failure 50 the Red Cross supplied the deficit
 After a hard-Working Native. the head of a large family, had suffered from a disastrous fire last summer the chapter authorized Charles Ben jamin to deliver fifteen dollars worth of groceries to him, and aid was extended in other ways. MT Benjamin charged only S12.50 fo the grocery order
 During the summer an aged and i infirm pioneer was brought in from the fishing grounds where for the previous year other fishermen haf looked after him although the old 1 gentleman made valiant efforts to be self supporting. His friends felt that he needed nursing and medica care they could not give so sent him l into town. The Red Cross arranged 1 to have him taken to the hotel where he was given a good room and 1 the best board of the hotel for forty days. at the end of which time he l was accepted at the Pioneers Home at Sitka. Mir Grant charged the chapter S2.00 a day for the man E l board and room, although it was a l the height of the tourist season anG l rooms were in demand. The o1C man was given two dollars when he left so that he would have money in i his pocket during the trip to Sitka
 This case has been taken up with Judge Thomas NJ. Reed and it i probable that the chapter will be reimbursed to some extent at least for the cost of board and room from territorial funds.
 A Wrangell resident recently l suffered the loss of his new homo i into which he had put the savings of many years and the building of which he had done mainly himself nights after doing a hard days work at the sawmill. His house had scarcely been completed when it caught on fire and burned down A subscription list circulated by sym
 pathizing friends was headed by 2
 donation of s25 from the Red Cross
 Thus the Red Cross serves the community. All are ministered unto regardless of race or national ity. The above recapitulation by Dr. Nnaiey IS merely financial one and does not show the many acts of personal service where cloth ing and food were distributed with
 out touching chapter funds, nor
 does it show the number of letters
 written, the cables sent and aid ob-
 tained from other sources, all in the l spirit of service and in the name of the Red Cross whose motto is, "- serve."