The Potlatch Rallies Under Red Cross Strong
CHAPTER LAUNCHED IN LI MBER CITY
POTLATCH—Scott Ogden, member of extension committee of Red Cross, from Moscow, addressed a large audience at the Union church Sunday with a view to organizing a Red Cross auxiliary in this city.
The meeting was opened with patriotic music accompanied by the church and after a scripture reading by the Rev. N. M. Fiske was turned over to Mr. Ogden. A branch auxiliary to the Moscow chapter was organized and the membership reached a total of 60.
Mrs. Richard Burke of Moscow, an ardent Red Cross worker and who has been giving lectures throughout the middle west was in the city and had expected to lecture here, but was too ill to be present at the meeting.
The meeting orchestra
Rev. N. M. Fiske was elected temporary chairman and J. R. Gardner A nominating committee of appointed consisting of five members was elected.
Messrs. Jahnke, Storer, Cummerford. The result of the Balch and Hearn nominations are as follows: Chairman, Mrs. J. E. Frederickson; vice chairman, Mr. Otto Lachmund; secretary, Miss Ferris Gehrke; treasurer, Miss Grace Wood. Committee—Military re chairman; Executive, Mrs. A. W. Laird, first aid, Mrs. R. A. Balch, chairman; finance, I. Wilson, chairman; membership, Mrs. E. J. Boyer, chairman.
"Sons of Silence"
VANCOUVER, Wash  One thousand deaf men—all experts with the right will be a part of Colonel Roosevelt's proposed volunteer division, if J. F. Meagher, instructor in the Washington State School for the Deaf, has been asked. He has written the colonel his way. For permission to recruit a thousand "sons of silence," whom, he says, he has ready for service in four months. 