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Show mm m m is OOSMOO WORK, Chapter and Its Auxiliaries Accomplishing Much for Benefit of Soldiers. Special to The Tribune. GUXXTSOX, Feb. 11. The Gunnison V n 1 e y i-h a v t e r of t h c A m o r i v a n 1 ed Cross, with headquarters at Gunnisoiij h branch at CeuterfioKl nd auxiliaries at Fayette and Axteli, has 543 live members. mem-bers. Of these 163 were members prior to the Christmas membership drive. A school auxiliary with an enrollment enroll-ment of iiiuety-three has been fully organized or-ganized in the South Sanpete high school The prrhlie school af Gunnison has nearly perfected its organisation as school auxiliary, while preparations arc under way to enroll each school under the jurisdiction of this chapter during the junior Red Cross drive. Up to date this chapter of the Red Cross hase made completely and sent to headquarters at Denver two la i fie cases containing lull equipment for nine hospital hos-pital patients, complete hits to thirty-three thirty-three Gunnison valley boys now in I'nde Hani's service, fifty-seven pairs of socks, forty-two sweaters, twentv-eicht twentv-eicht mutrlers. 6fteen pairs of wristlets and seven helmets. Four hundred yards of goods have been purchased to be made into i-lot h:nix for hospital patients and refuse children. chil-dren. This work will be commenced next Monday at the Red Cross work room. The girls of the hih school auxiliary aux-iliary are working on hospital supplies, while the boys of the manual training department will prepare standard caos for shipping the output of the chapter. The chapter expects to tak,e up surgical dressings as soon as an instructor in this line can be secured- The officers of the local chapter are: Mrs. IT. A. Kearns. chairman: Mrs. William Wil-liam Metcalf, vice chairman: Mrs. Au-Cust Au-Cust Villard. sceretarv ; Mrs. .). W. .Tone, treasurer: Mrs. Ray R. Metcalf and Mrs. George H. Knighton, members to term, with above officers, the executive committee. com-mittee. A. K. Parks is chairman of the finance committee. |