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Mothers' dob ot SmittiTille
ftji gnvm a val^mtine party to the
ildreti of Rooms I .and ll. The
hers played games with the chil-
and entertained them with the
ietrola The mothers provided » fa-
for each school c^ild, and litll«?
liHor.
Ttie Mothers' Club has a good start
IW, having ahout twenty-five mem-
ir». An Mothers are invited to the
M^tings on the first Wednesday of
•eh month in the school house.
BELLMORE
Home Workers Wanted
The flremen held iheir month^ meeting last Monday evening, Febru¬ ary 1»
William Hodgson died at the home of his son. .lohn Hodgson, of Wilson avenue, after a long illness Monday morning. Mr. Hodgson had been ac¬ tive until about a year ago, when his health started to fail. lie was in his SiHh year. He will be missed a great deal by his friends and rela¬ tives.
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The l>adies' Aid Society of thf Bellmore Preshyt<»rian Church held their meeting at the home of Mrs. M. A. Hendrickson last Thursday af temoon.
The Hcllmorp Theatre has resumed the schedule of two performances on Saturday evening instead of one per¬ formance, as has been the schedule for the past month.
The firemen held their dance on February 2lRt in the local hall. A large crowd attended, and the affair wns recorded as a big success hy all who attended.
.Many of the residents of this vil- Ifige were sorry to learn of the death of Clarence V. .Smith last Tuesday morning at the home of his parents. .Mr. and .Mr^. Alva R. Smith, of .Merrick Road. Mr. Smith's health started to fail him about a year ago, and hoping for an improvement in his condition as the result, he went to the mountains and spent several months. As his condition did not im¬ prove he was brought home about three weeks ago, where he has been in a critical condition ever since. He is survived by a youn^ widow, Mrs. C. V. Smith, formerly Miss Gladys Self; a young child, his parents, one sister, Bessie, and three brothers Alva R., Jr., Robert and Richard.
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The lisdies' Aid 9oci«*f and their friends held s thimble party st the home of Mrs. Willism Webster last Wednesday sftemoon.
I>on't forget the Red Cross luncn eon on Monday, February 25th, and also the regular business meeting of the Red Cross.
•Tohn W. .Seaman, of Bunker Place, hns been confined to his home for the past week with illnesi.
Henry Reinke is at the Nassau Hos¬ pital with an abcess of the stom¬ ach and pentonetis has set in. We all hope for his speedy recovery.
Mrs. A. I). Southard was operated on Monday at the Mercy Hospital.
Mrs. E. .1. Seaman, of Wantagh avenue, has been confinerl to her home for the past week with illnes.s.
Elvin Brodley, the local station agent, who enlisted several month? ago, waa called last week to report for duty.
SCHOOL NOTKS
.lanuary perfect attendance:
Charlea Ileusch, Lucy Albrecht Grace Seymour, Beatrice Smith, Thos. Davis.
Spelling contest No li, flrade 4 Alex Norton 100, Gertrude James !)!». Dorothy .Mack !»H, Raymond Wood 91, Thomas Davis 9f), Beatrice Smith 96, Gertrude Adel 9.'>, Robert Gorsline 90, Dorothy Connors 89, Basil De Long 8."), Charles Baldwin IH, Fred Hellmer .')2, Carl Dryer 41; class av¬ erage 8.').
Grade .3--(!race Seymour iM), Ruth Wood 99, Doris Polk 98, Ruth Sey¬ mour 9."), Raymond Wood 9.^, William Ludford 9.'), Dorothy Meyer 94, Har¬ old*. Smith i>2, Kenneth Hodge 91 Herman .John H8, Clinton Stevenson 87; class average 93.6.
Grade B—Sadie Muller 90, Palmroy Box 100, Eunice Duryea 98, Winifred Duryea 90, Shirley Vail 9f), Judson Allen 97, Edgar Ludford 90, John Bonert 88, Elizabeth Rollins 88; clas.s average 94.
Grade 6—Ida Verme 97, Frediric Norton 97, Fre^ Box 92, Bertha Al¬ brecht 97, Victoria Muller 100; class average 9.5 .3i7.
Cirado 7—Alfred Herrlich 79, Tal¬ bot Baldwin 94, Edna \'erme 97, Lew¬ is Wun.stein 99, Harold Walter.s 99. Ethel .Michaud 98, Lurana De LonK 98, Cecilia Meyer 100, Arthur Law^ rence 68; class average 92 12.
Grade 8—Ruben Nilson 82, William Coron 90, Lucy Albrecht 99, Leona De Long 9(5, Adelaide Ludford 97; class average 92 4'5.
The attendance banner for Janu¬ ary was awarded to Room II because it showed least loss.
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William Stahl, while cutting wood in the woods on Saturday last, cut his foot so that he had to have sev¬ eral stitches taken in it. Dr. Skou of Bellmore is attending Mr. Stahl.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Walker of Seaford passed away last Saturday Mr. Walker is the principal of the Seaford School, and has been living in the village since last October.
Mrs. Mattie Fitzsimmons, who has been visiting Mrs. L. Ketcham, has returned to her home in Brooklyn.
The services in th^ Episcopal Church on Sunday, February 24th will be held as follows: Sunday School at .3 p.m. Evening service at 4 o'clock. The Thursday night ser¬ vice will be held at the home of Mrs. Louis Ketcham at 8 o'clock.
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Red Cross Junior Workers
And The Children They Aid
The upper photograph shows junior members of the Red Cross making garments for the refugees of devastated districts of Europe.
The lower represents a group of children in Italy wearing some of the garments made by chil¬ dren in the schools of this coun¬ try.
JUNIOR RED GROSS IS BIG FACTOR IN WAR RELIEF
Army of 20,000,000 Youthful
Workers to Be Mobilized by
Washington's Birthday.
When the Junior Membership Cam¬ paign of the American Red Cross ends on Washington's birthday, the public, private and parochial schools of the United States will have been mobilized for war work In the Interest of Ameri¬ ca and her Allies.
The enrollment campaign was launched In every State in the coun¬ try on Lincoln's birthday. It opened amid marked enthusiasm on the part of the pupils and teachers—an enthu¬ siasm whlph has convinced the Red Cross that the movement will be en¬ tirely successful.
Each School to Be Given Charter.
The campaign is being conducted by the schools themselves. The Red Cross is not canvassing tbe schools, but is depending for Its results upon the Ini¬ tiative of t|ie pupils. Enrollment Is by schools and uot individuals, nnd no schools will be given a Junior iled Cross Charter unless all tts pupils are Included In the blanket enrollment. As a necessary step to the.formation of a Red Cross Au.xlllary the school must raise a fund equivalent to iwenty-livo cents for each cliild. This fund !nay be coniiiletetl through eiitertaiiiinoiHS or througli contributions from outsid¬ ers. Tho linpressUt!! lius gone out that the Individual child can coulrlhute not more thun one penny. This Is not true. According to Andrew Tin Kyck, in charge of Junior Enrollment for the Atlantic Division, the children can contrlhute from one cent to twenty- five cents euch to the^ fund. '
Hundreds uf schools In the Atlantic Division have for many weeks been doing war relief work under the su¬ pervision of tbe Atlantic Division. One of the principal forms of work haa been the-preparation of garments for French and Belgian refugee chil¬ dren. These garments are made from tbe apparel of grownups. Tbe gar¬ ments are taken to tbe school rooms, where tbey are cut down aud sterilized and made ready for shipment abroad. Children Aldlns In Many Ways.
S<:hool children give many forma ot service. Pupils in the flrat and sec¬ ond grades wind balls of yams for tbelr older sisters to knit into sweat¬ ers, socks and wristlets. They also wind thread on pieces of cardboard for tbe convenience ot those pupils wbo devote their time to saaking sew¬ ing kits for tbe men in service. Oth¬ er children In the lower grades are occupied putting pins in completed garments, attaching buttons or cutting cardboard for pin balls.
Tbe Red Cross bas found excellent workera In the children of tba fourth, fifth sad sixth grade*. Tbe boys in these grades will work Uke Trojans. Tbey have profound admiration fur American nghting men, sud ttn,vthlng tbey can do tu belp them they do with eCfervesclnK eutbuslasoi. So these boys, for the must part, have Leeu as¬ signed to tbe task of uiaktug woolly doth, two aud a half laches iMiuare. put up In packages of (rout twenty lo
thirty. This cloth can be used by sol¬ diers for cleaning und Khlnlng their guns.
Another uspful nccnpnllnn for school children Is the making of puzzles for soldiers. Nothing hangs heavier on the wounded soldier than time. The authorities of. France and England hove found -thnt puzzles divert the mind of an Injured mnn from thoughts which tend to retard his recovery.
A good puzzle can be made by past¬ ing a colored picture on a piece of cardboard nnd cutting It into innu¬ merable pieces of all shapes and sizes. The wounded men then try to arrange the pieces properly.
The Red Cross Junior workers also prepare scrap books, collect novels and magazines, put np jellies nnd jams, make splints and crutches and Innu¬ merable other things that are neces¬ sary.
For the successful conduct of the affairs of the Red Cross every bit of this work is absolutely necessary. Some one has to do It or our soldiers will futfer many discomforts. And the men In the trenches mny be as¬ sured that It Is not going to be left un¬ done and that behind them there Is an nrmy of 20,000.000 true blue American school children devoting their labor to the work of the American Red Cross.
CARDINAL LAUDS JUNIOR RED CROSS
Cardinal Gibbons hns Issued an ap¬ peal to teachers and pupils of paro¬ chial schools throughout the country to co-operate In the campaign to enroll the scliool cliildren of the United Slates as iiieiiibers of the Junior De- partnicut of the American Red Cross.
The cnnipalKn opened on Lincoln's birthday and will close on Washing¬ ton's birthday. A determlped elTort will be made to enroll every school lu the country as an auxiliary of tho American Ked Cioss. Cardinal Gib¬ bons' message reads:
"The President of our beloved coun¬ try, who Is also President of the Red Cross, has issued a call for all schools of whatever kind to become auxiliaries of tbe Red Cross, and each pupil in each school a Junior member of the Ked Cross. His desire is not only to add the efforts of all tbe children to the work of tbe Red Crosa in sustain¬ ing the fighting forces of tbe nation, but to teach by practice to tbe children those lessons of unselfish love and service which must be part of the ed¬ acation of every child if this republic is to endure as a Christian nation and remain the baveo of Freedom. 8ervle«« of Chilcrren Needed.
'^D this tim« of peril our country needs the services of the children as well as the adults, and In tbe days to come she will need still more the clear heads, the honest hearts and strong and steady bands of men and wooaen wbo today are school children.
"Therefore I ask and urge that each of you make full response to the rail of our President and thst each school become a Red Cross saxlllary, thus making every pupil a Junior member. It Is a privilege, uo less tlmu a duty, for the children to belp baer tbe bur¬ dens of tbe momentous hours of Amer¬ ica's trial, and lo the days of her grat¬ itude for final victory to rejoice tbat thef have helped to preserve her as tbe'bome of liberty. (81gued) Faith fully yours lu CUyst, J. Card. UUHmuis, ArebbUbop «r Baltlmor*,"
DGROSS CARES FOR OUR TROOPS HELD BY ENEMY
Each American, Captured by Fee,
Will Get Three 10-Pound
Packages of Food Every
Two Weeks.
Parents who have thought of prison life in Germany as perhaps the worst experience that could befall their sons In the Amerlcnn army will be re¬ assured in knowing that tbe American Red Cross provides a service to sup¬ ply prisoners with food. This Is further proof of tbe great value of this organi¬ sation.
The plnn, briefly, is this: The Amer¬ lcnn Ited Cross Committee stationed In Berne, Switzerland, will send each American prisoner three ten-pound packnges of food every two weeks. Al- rendy enough supplies are In Switzer¬ land or on their way there to care for 10,000 American prisoners for a period of six months.
Naturally General Pershing does not intend to let tbe Qerraqus capture that many American soldiers, but the Red Cross Is monsurlng the possibilities by what has liai>peiicd to the Ifreucb and English In slgantle engagements when both Bides lost heavily.
Expert Dietitians on the Job.
Tills Red Cross bureau will be the sole agency licensed by the War Trade Board to transmit money to American nnd allied prisoners in Germany. The German government never yet has had occasion to doubt the good faith of the American Red Cross, so that Ita relief plans are certain of execution.
Stories about the starvation of pris¬ oners In Germany bave been printed so frequently In this country that many parents will consider tbe Red Croas plan worth all tbe money they have contributed to it If It did not attempt any other form of war relief work. The kind and amount of food to be sent every two weeks to each Ameri¬ can prisoner will be determined by ex¬ pert dietltlana.
General Pershing and other higb offl¬ cers consider such work by the Red Cross a vital factor In winning the war. It make* all tbe difference In tbe world how a soldier feela When a whole army becomes depressed disas¬ ter followa
RED CROSS ORGANIZES
FIRST HOTEL AUXILIARY
The flrat Red Cross Hotel Aoxlllary organised in tbe Bast has established, headquartera in tbe Biltmore Hotel, New York city, onder the name of the Biltmore Auxiliary Surgical Commit¬ tee. It will operate uuder tbe drlectloik of the New Yurk County Chapter.
Spacious Ited Croas workrooms bave- beeu provided aud equlpoed by tbe hotel msnagemeot. Anoouuceraeut of tbe formation ot tbe aiulllsry la placed Id tbs box of every guest lu tbe botel. Tbe ouuber oi TtlMtitr VWlMni l« dally Increasloi^ s
