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Show tw Attendance Was Among the Largest of the Season and the Zm to Between $300 and rv Snment of Organization a Great Success-All People of Camp Responded. ' One of the most delightful and best , attended dances of the-season was given by the Italian chapter of the Red Cross at Canyon hall-Wednesday night This unit of the Red iltosb i a new one and the officers and mem-1. bers have been working valiantly during dur-ing the p.ast few weeks to make the i, first public meeting after the organiza tion was formed a success, and they met with a merited success. The large ' haU was well filled and the people who attended were highly pleased with the entertainment In addition to those present on the floor there were hundreds hun-dreds who purchased tickets and were unable to attend. As a result of this meeting the grops receipts of the Bed Cross will be somewhere between 300 and 500. This will give the organization a good start, and the enthusiasm manifested by the great number of attendants is an assurance of the fact that this unit of the ed Cross is to be a valuable ""The idea ef an Italian chapter of the Red Cross was conceived some few weeks ago by 'A. C, Cole and he took . . . .rtii. a mirr.hpr fix resl- the matter up with a number of residents resi-dents of the camp. In this work he found a ready response on the part of ' -' . the Italian ladles. In fact they were tf enthusiastic over such an organization and in a few days after the matter was mention a splendid, well officered unit of the Bed Cross was formed. And they did not stop '!h merely organiz-VA organiz-VA ing but commenced wort at once and 'i vfv- found a hearty support throughout, s the camp. . . ' Of all the dances held here during Fv the past winter it is jprobable that ' there was more interest and enthus iasm in the one Wednesday night ' than any which preceded It It was - a matter of regret that Mrs. John Con- 7 I tratto, secretary of the organization. " : who did so much work for the success of the entertainment was unable to attend at-tend on account of illness. " , |