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Show GRDESBECK HQS RED CRMKERS Salt Laker Gives Interesting Interest-ing Talk at Local Headquarters. Head-quarters. A talk on Red Cross work as conducted on the western European battle front was given by John A. Groesbeck, who recently returned home from France, in the gauze room of Salt Lake county chapter headquarters, head-quarters, Amelia palace, yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Mr. Groesbeck's talk was entertaining entertain-ing and. instinctive, being composed of anecdotes and fragments of his experl- ! ences. ; The efficiency of the Red Cross In the field was highly lauded by Mr. Groesbeck, who stated that the quality and the quantity of the supplies was entirely adequate ade-quate in the territory in whioh he was stationed in his work for the organization. organiza-tion. There was a large number of work- ers present. Mr. Groesbeck was presented pre-sented by E. O. Howard, chairman. Wool picked from thorns, shrubs and hushes by a Wyoming sheepherder during a season's herding has netted ?70 for the Red Cross, according to word sent out from Denver, headquarters of the Mountain Moun-tain district of the Red Cross. The sheepherder, the statement says, carried a bag on his daily meanderings after his sheep herd, and whenever he found a knot of wool caught on a thorn or shrub he gathered It and packed it In the sack. The gleanings were carefully hoarded day by day until his flock was sold. Then he sold the crop, paying $70 over to the Red Cross chapter at Raw-lings. Raw-lings. Salt Lake's quota to graduate nurse supply for army duty is 104. This number num-ber must be raised by January 1. Salt Lake's individual quota is about sixty. Miss Demarls A. Beeman, who is in charge of the graduate Red Cross nurses, expresses the belief that the quota will be hard to fill, explaining that home work offers more satisfactory compensation than mercy work overseas. Yesterday Secretary Mrs. W. O. Cle-land Cle-land of Salt Lake chapter. Red Cross, received a eher:k for $64.85, representing "box office" receipts for a play staged By prisoners at the state penitentiary on July 4. The check was sent In by Warden George H. Storrs. G. J. Giguette, who was with John A. Groesbeck in the Red Cross ambulance .service in France, and who has been a guest in Mi. Groesbeck's home in Salt Lake the past ten days, leaves Sunday lor his home In Pasadena, Cal. He will make an attempt again to get Into the national army, and, if he fails, will re-enlist re-enlist In Red Cross mercy work at the front. He was a visitor at Amelia palace. pal-ace. Red Cross headquarters, yesterday The Red Cros.s shop yesterday received 100 heavy paper shopping bags, which i have been placed on sale. The bags are ' especially adapted for marketing pur- i poses, and have been tastefully decorated by the ladies of the shop. A second-hand typewriter, fn good condition, con-dition, has been given to the shop for sale. |