Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 32 | Local Mercy Chapter Breaks all Records

LOCAL MERCY CHAPTER BREAKSALLHECORDS Shipment of Supplies in December De-cember Exceeds That of Previous Months. APPEAL FOR LINEN ievised Heturns of Memberships Mem-berships Shows Total of 34,450. Suit Lake county chapter, American ltd Cross, has l.rokon nil its previous rentals in tin! manufacture, of the various vari-ous iirt.ii-los that, am furnished fur the sol, Hers at the front, those in the traiii-liii; traiii-liii; camps ami for the hospitals estali-li-licl by the allies. .Mrs. I'nion Wor-thiiiUton, Wor-thiiiUton, hea.l ul' the supply department depart-ment of I he chapter, reported the sending send-ing out yesterday of eitfht standard cases of articles, three of which were furnished by the Red Cross workers of the Mormon church Primary association. asso-ciation. This, said Mrs. WortlnnRton, makes a total of thirty seven cases for the month of Decemlier, an amount ...,.arly double the record of any previous pre-vious mouth in the history of the. chap- tvi , , , , ; -i.,l for more old clean tablo and lied i' i in-ii, new muslin, cotton and ii, her material used ill the making of bin eica-, dressings is voiced in a statement state-ment is. "nod bv the ladies of the 1m-mattiiol 1m-mattiiol I'laptist church. . They, with I heir frieinds, have been making surgical surgi-cal dressing s and hospital supplies tor the national .surgical dressings committee commit-tee of Americ a. an organization with . mucins throughout the country, and I hut has sent man .v thousands of dress-ines dress-ines lo the hospita-.Is in V'ranee. Salt Ui'ko so far has coulrdbuteu about 15110 articles through this sunirco. Linen Is Needed. The stock of old linen at the disposal of the local workers is about Exhausted and an appeal is made to tl.ioso who desire to assist to leave the. , material at the church. Fourth East an-d Second South street, at any service., or on Tuesday, when the sectiou ii;ieets for ' sewing. If this is not convenient word may Co Hdit to Mrs. W. i Calhoun Kliiuigh, Hvland 3(i2-W, or to, Mrs. C. K. Allen, Wasatch 6S-11S-K, and a messenger mes-senger will be sent. ' Among the visitors at the I'bcal headquarters head-quarters yesterday was Mrs. A. S. Baldwin, Bald-win, chairman of" the TwolVth district, federal reserve, Women's Liberty Loan committee, and a member Of the 'Women 'Wom-en 'b National Liberty L,oan connnit-lee. connnit-lee. .Mrs. tlaldwin, who was enter-la enter-la mod tit luncheou at the Alta club by : he women 's executive committee for the 1't.ah Liberty lon.u, said that she was returning from tho Liberty loan conference held iu Washington December Decem-ber JO. She said that while in the i ast there was some opposition to bonds of snraller denominations for the next lone., that is anticipated before lung. She believed that $100 and $50 bonds would be retained in the plan. ' O. P. lluish, a merchant of Payson and an enthusiastic Rod Cross worker, ailed yesterday at local headquarters for a conference with Manager Frank li. Cook. Mr. lluish has written (both words and music) an 4 ' Ode to America,'' Amer-ica,'' a stirriug, patriotic composition of merit, which lie has dedicated to I he K'ed Cross. He desires that, should tiie ode be published, every cent of the proceeds derived go direct to the Red Cross fui.ii. Auxiliaries Busy. There is a need for sewing machines fur the workers at the capitol rooms, according to reports f:om local headipiai ters, and tlu. request is made that those who have machines to spare omniunicate v.'ith tho executive offi"rfs. The I'td Cross auxibsry to the Ladies La-dies of the United Commercial Travelers Travel-ers will meet January S at the Wilson hotel. Mrs. Kin ley Brooks, chairman of the unit, reports the turning over to the Red Cross of thirty-four pairs of pajamas, ninety-nine bed shirts, six convalescent robes ancj twelve triangle bandages. Dr. Mary Gamble, chairman of the Red Cross auxiliary to the Shakespeare Reading club, announces the meeting of the unit at her apartments in the Fifth East hotel next Friday afternoon. after-noon. This unit has turned in to the Ked Cross sixty bandages', five pairs of wristlets, live mufflers, ten sweaters and twelve bed shirts: Its membership member-ship is only ten. 1 inal revised returns of the member- ships secured in the Red Cross Christ- ; mas drive bring the total for the Salt , Lake county chapter up to 34,450, each membership representing tho payment of $1. At the special meeting of the committee, held last Thursday, the report re-port showed 34,364, but the revised returns re-turns gave the gratifying gain. County Chairman John i). Spencer last night received a message from Chairman Manning of Summit county that there had been received 1054 memberships. The quota was 1000. The town of Echo, the inhabitants of which, foreigners and' all classes and colors, number 101, sent in V2i memberships. member-ships. The Daughters of the American Revolution Revo-lution unit of the Red Cross will meet Wednesday at 9 a. ni. in Whitnev hall.