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Show RED CROSS MAKING RECORD FOR SHIPMENTS i MARCH LIKELY TO SMASH PREVIOUS FIGURES . A QUARTETTE of "snippers" doing their bit for the Red Cross. They are, from left to right: Phyllis Hall, Peter Olson, Jane Byer and Herman Kinnersley, all attendants at the Emerson Emer-son school. .W.m'W) M.K'Ji'JW ' .'. wkwiri..iiijpiii jmmWiimM!wmWMimmiimimmimimmm I..IIIIIIHIJIII. .yy..iiTO..i . klllliilliliiiiitMiiil1fiiWW-lmiTll-Tvlfrr- itnfi irTTMrfninTtrr T"i ; rn'frir liiliiiiif jMiniiillM-ilM mfir i i'rt "ill f- J --v V--. - -t Reports From Various Parts of State Show Increasing Increas-ing Activity, WITH the shipment yesterday by the Salt Lake County chapter, American Red Cross, of eleven standard cases of articles to Denver, Den-ver, headquarters of the mountain moun-tain division, the shipments for the first five days of the month amount to a total of sixteen cases, five boxes of surgical dressings having been sent forward Monday. Mon-day. Six of the boxes shipped yesterday were the gift of the Primary association Red Cross workers of the Mormon church. In view of the fact that the number of workers in the county is being steadily augmented and these workers are rapidly rapid-ly profiting by experience gained, it is regarded as almost certain at local headquarters head-quarters that the total of shipments for the month of March will be well in excess ex-cess of that of February, when the heretofore here-tofore unprecedented record of seventy-six seventy-six cases was made by the local chapter. The first number of the first volume of Arc Rays, the American Red Cross official of-ficial publication in the mountain division, di-vision, arrived yesterday at local headquarters. head-quarters. It is devoted entirely to news matter and articles concerning and of interest in-terest to the Red Cross generaJly, with special reference to the work in the mountain division. The publication is filled with up-to-date Information concerning con-cerning the various phases of Red Cross work, with many live statistics regarding the collection and distribution of funds. General Pershing's tribute to the Red Cross Is featured on the first page of reading matter by George E. Lewis, the editor. The commander-in-chief of the American forces in France says: "I want to say that no other organiza- I tion since the world began has ever done such great constructive work with the efficiency, dispatch, understanding, often under adverse circumstances, as has been i done in France by the American Red j Cross in the last six months." 'Visitors Are Numerous, 1 An unusually large number of visitors, both local and from out of town, was one I of the features yesterday at local headquarters. head-quarters. Mrs. J. W. Wing and Mrs. Pearl Davis, both of Iehl, will be here several days, taking special work in surgical sur-gical dressings, preparatory to instituting institut-ing classes in their territory. Mrs. Julia Hancock, chairman of the gauze room at Payson, and Mrs. Thomas Haynes, a diligent dili-gent Red Cross worker of the same city, were also among the callers. Mrs. Sam Elbert, active In the Red Cross work at East Ely, Nev., came in for a conference with the local officials. It was announced yesterday that there was still opportunity for a few more to enter the class in dietetics under Mrs. Viola K. Gilbert, Miss Nellie Halllday having been called cast fn tho government govern-ment service. All desiring to enter are requested to register at headquarters before be-fore Thursday. S pi end id reports continue to be received re-ceived concerning the Red Cross work done by the pupils of tho Emorson school. Tho young students are both knitters and sewers, children of various ages being engaged in the big work and numerous small boys who have not mastered the arts of sewing and knitting use the scissors scis-sors to good advantage In "snipping." Governor Bamberger yesterday received a report from Pleasant Grove to tho effect ef-fect that nt the recent. Red Cross auction auc-tion sale $050 was realized. Tho governor gover-nor attended the sale and auctioned off the first article, which was a case of canned fruit. Not thinking the bids high enough, he knocked the case down to himself for $11 and this seems to have sot the paco. Articles Turned In. Tn spite of the storm that prevailed most of tho day, a large quantity of finished fin-ished articles was turned in yesterday to the receiving of fieen of the supply department. de-partment. A pfirtbil list follows: Snow auxiliary, four bed shirts, six handkerchiefs. handker-chiefs. Liberty stake Primary association associa-tion auxiliary, eight pairs of socks; thirty-five bed shirts. Granite stako auxiliary, auxil-iary, flfty-ono pairs of socks, one pair of wristlets, nine pairs of bed socks, sixteen six-teen "T" bandEiges. twenty-eight bed shirts, twenty-one suits of pajamas, seventy-two ha ndkcrehlefs. Among consignments to the workers yesterday t lie following were noted: Granite stake Relief auxiliary, ono bolt of pa jama material, one bolt of bed Jacket material. Central Christ.! an church nuxlliaiy, five bed shirts, twelve "T" bandages. Lynds auxiliary, one bolt of bed shirt material, two bolts of pajaina material. Westminster church auxiliary, rIx bed shirt h. I 'hi 111 pn Congregational church auxiliary, t wenly hanks of wool for soekn. i'recdom auxiliary, ten bed shirts. Ensign stake, Twenl y-so von I h ward, auxiliary, seven bed shirts, (far-field (far-field branch, six bolts of gauze. Women's Service auxiliary, two boltH of pajania material, two bolls of bed shirt, material, I nuighl '-rs of tin Mormon Battalion, fifteen fif-teen "T" bandages. I'Yom St. George come n. report of splendid conditions In tho WHShinKion county chanter. Oncaidzed November 10. with seventeen meiub'rs, the chapter hn-H crown to ii. membership of SS7, with nix branchen nnd two nuxlltnrios. It itnnwered I the call from Denver with fifty-one packages pack-ages for the soldiers, besides sending each of Its seventy-one Washington county boys a Christ mas packet. Ninety miles from an express office, the chapter has shipped eighty-three sweaters, sixty-seven pairs of socks, fourteen suits of pajamas, pa-jamas, forty-three bed shirts, sixty pairs of bed socks, thlrt y-six abdominal bandages, ban-dages, fifty-two triangle bandages, ninety-eight wnsh cloths and thirty-soven napkins, all of the work being pronounced excellent. |
