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How about those old clothes you
promised to send to Red Cross head
quarters?
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There’s a place now waiting with
our boys at the front for every Amer
ican graduate nurse eligible for en
rollment.
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Shipments made' on the Alameda to
headquarters in Seattle: Fifty-four
hundred surgical dressings, one hun
dred and thirty-five kits, one hundred !
and thirteen hospital shirts.
An allotment for surgical dressings
has been received this week, and il
will mean work "three hundred and
sixty pads, sixty-eight hundred com
presses." Material for this to arrive
on next steamer.
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The allotment of surgical dress
ings, long past due, was completed
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lust Wednesday afternoon, Mesdames i
Howard, Day, Fursman, Hubbert, 1
Shrlver, Kerr, Bogart and Glassbren
ner working overtime.
The "Greatest Mother in the
World" poster, which made such an j
impression upon the American people I
during the last Red Cross war fund ;
drive, is to be used by the British j
Red Cross Society, to obtain funds in j
Kngland.
The bureau of prisoners' relief at
national headquarters of the Ameri-i
can Red Cross has prepared a poster
llesi j ibing in detail the proper method
of sending mail and parcels to Amer
ican prisoners In Germany, and also
instructions for remitting money to
these prisoners. These posters have
been received in Cordova and have1
been placed ill the postoffice and Red
Cross headquarters.
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The hurry-up order for 135 navy I
comfort kits is completed, all due to
(he efforts of Mosdames Lacy, WII- [
son. Sapiro, Kline, Young, Thirkhill,
Harding. Lactone. Bratton, Graham,
Wittlg, ('. Phillips, Rosswog, Frazier,
Randall. Long, Ward, Cook, Mellison, |
Wain, Bogart, I. L. Smith, Glassbren-1
tier, Currier. Bloedhorn. Day, Kerr,
Karnes, Cunningham, Fursman, Coun
cil and Giles.
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The national woman's liberty loan
committee. Mrs. William G. McAdoo!
chairman, has prepared four letters
dealing with government war appro
priations and expenditures to date
and needs for the future These let
ters are being forwarded to all Rod
Cross chapters In the country. The
first letter has been received by the
local chapter. We are asked that
these letters be read each week to
all workers, that at an appointed hour
all Red Cross work cease, the work
ers be assembled and the letter read.
It is needless to say that we will
gladly welcome the opportunity to co- j
operate in this importam work.
Five sweaters and twenty-one pairs i
of socks have been turned in during
the past week by the following ladies:
From Mesdames Day. Wilson, Single-;
ton, Bollinger and Miss Kllen Frai
sure, one sweater each, from Mes
dames Breyhmer, Bogart, Vance, Gra- i
ham, DeLeo, Spencer and Webb, one
pair of socks each; from Mrs. Man
toll, live pairs; Miss Townsend, three
pairs; Mrs. Karnes, two pairs; Mrs. I
Buchanan, three pairs; Miss Dorothy I
Dooley, one pair; from .Mrs, Charles |
Cochran and Mrs. William Uniuhurt, i
six hospital garments each; from
Mrs. Casperson. three garments. 1
Nothing but Patriotic Yarns
"Have you any pink knitting yarn?"
"No, ma'am. Slackers' department 1
is in the basement."—Detroit Free)
Press.
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Armenian Refugees Being Cared for: ■
by Red Cross
Thousands of Armenian refugees at,:
Port Said and many homeless fumi- •
lies in and near Jerusalem are now :
being cared for by the American Red 1 •
Cross, according to cable advices just :
received by the war council from the •
Red Cross commission to Palestine,
headed by l)r. John H. Finley.
The relief work in this part of the
world was undertaken at the request
of General Allenby, and is being car
ried on under the direction of the
military governor. One of the first
moves of (he Red Cross was to estab
lish a bureau where applications for
relief were received and Investigated,
the organization co-operating to the
fullest extent with the relief agencies
of all denominations.
The American Red Cross has estab
lished a general dispensary and hos
pital with children's clinic at Jerusa
lem. where hundreds of people have
already received treatment.
At the request of the government
of Jerusalem the organization has ]
taken over two orphan asylums with
four hundred children, w hile three \
hundred Russian refugees are also be
ing cared for in Jerusalem by the I
American Red Cross.
Letter from a Mother to Her Boy's
War Chief
Raymond Fosdlck, chairman of the I
commission on training camp activi
ties of the United States war and
navy departments, has the following j
to say in the "Rotarian" for Septem
ber:
When I was at the front General
Edwards, who commands the Twenty
sixth division in France—a division
that has made itself a terror to the j
Huns—gave me a copy of a letter!
which the colonel of the 104th infan
try in his command had received from j
the mother of one of his men, which 1
was as follows:
"Please accept the best wishes of
the mothers of the men In your regi
ment for complete success. We think
of the 104th In Its time of service
without any thought of self or the
hlngs which may happen to otir boys
o mar them or to destroy them. We
hink only of the more than honor
hich has come to ns to be the moth
irs of such men We are asking our
ielves. Are we worthy of the honor
heir work* has already brought to
is?' tind ‘How can we become more
ivorthy mothers of such good sons?’
"When my son left this home he
ook a great big patch of each day's
lunshine with him. lie has been the
enderest son of an invalid mother.
A'e have been chums for twenty five
ears reading, studying, thinking and
oving together. 1 never shed a tear
tver his being away. i know bis
great heart could not stand to see
love, home and worm n outraged and |
destroyed. I know he is only a type |
of every man in your command, and |
if he dies it is as one of an army of g
noblemen
"Because you are his war chief and %
all we could he to him I wanted to £
speak to you. Daily reports of tin*
l<>4th infantry at the front show us
how splendid you all are and how
faithfully you have worked to be
ready to do flu* work you are doing
today. We send you our most rev
erent, affectionate greeting."
It seems to me that thi- mother lip
caught the spirit of the thing more
dearly and accurately than aything I
have ever heard or seen. *
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REPRESENTATIVE
HENRY A. SLATER
(Republican Nominee)
OF CORDOVA
Election November 5th.
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