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Newspaper
Yerington Times
Location
Yerington, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
4
Reports from Yerington and nearby towns detail visits by Ruth Carter and various residents, plus travel of M Pachet te’s widow, Mary Lothrop Davis’s funeral in Reno and interment at Dayton. Notes cover commerce, social events, and upcoming fundraisers including a Christmas bazaar and Y.M.C.A. donations across Nevada communities.
FE O Shaughnessy of Mason was summoned to Tonopah as a witness in a Nye county court case. The Ladies Aid of Smith Valley will hold a bazaar and serve a supper at the parsonage in Smith on Friday December 7 at 3 p m.
Mr and Mrs George Friedhoff welcomed a fine boy born in Reno on Saturday November 24 1917 with mother and child thriving George beams. A baby girl arrived at Mr and Mrs Frank Perry Cedarville California on November 11 1917 with both mother and child well. In Yerington Tuesday morning November 27 a son was born to Mrs Dini formerly Miss Cleora Russaschi. Both mother and child are in good health.
The Dayton Red Cross sent a shipment of knitted garments last Saward including eight pairs of socks three sweaters three wrist sets and eleven wash clothes. Junior Red Cross members show lively interest in knitting as volunteers speed up hospital supply efforts. Mrs. Geo Barton, former Dayton resident, was buried in Reno last Thursday with many Dayton friends attending the funeral.
The American Red Cross will purchase material to be made into surgical dressings hospital garments and knitted articles by American women at a cost of 3 457 200 dollars. The material will be sold at near-cost to Red Cross Chapters nationwide with proceeds credited to the Supply Re Sale Fund. The purchases are routed through the national head office to support chapter operations.
The Slacker squarters plans to supply chapters with goods at cost plus handling. The Red Cross Woman's Bureau and European staff approve the purchase of 4,000,000 yards of flannel 1,500,000 yards of unbleached muslin 560,000 yards of Varovat blanketing and 1,163,108 pounds of knitting yarn. Flannel makes pajamas and bandages muslin for bandages and bed shirts and bath robes from blanketing. Wool will be knitted into sweaters socks mufflers wristlets by Red Cross workers. (Continued on Col Six.)
Margaret Christy vows to wed Robert Wallace as war drums rise. He enlists after a fiery scene over a slacker marriage, while Margaret inspires recruits and endures the strain of public duty. George Wallace enlists, a German slaps him, and Robert redeems honor, returning home on leave before sailing for France.
Merc Delaney recalls Plattsburg camp on Lake Champlain and discusses Civil War links. He notes his father born in Plattsburg, camping shoreside, and says northern winds make the training camp conditions notably harsh for Union soldiers.
Classified note describes a buckskin horse about 1400 pounds lame in front foot and a white horse around 1600 pounds. Reward offered. contact Fred, A Fridia A Lanin in Nevada for recovery. Reader cautioned about seasonality and winter pen conditions.
John O'Neill a 6 foot 1 inch 44 inch chest Navy recruit chosen to star in the wartime surge film The Slacker at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was stationed at the Hotel Biltmore New York as an instructor at Biltmore School of Chimnery and praised for screen potential as an American sailor amid Allied fleets. A Michigan graduate and artist by training O'Neill, in his early twenties, seeks a submarine assignment as his next challenge.
War Council releases a salary summary for 423 paid employees at National Headquarters in October. Four months earlier 700 paid staff existed. trips in Red Cross membership and doubled chapters accompanied a staff reduction due to decentralization and workload transfer to thirteen division offices. Volunteers at HQ serve without remuneration.
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