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Red Cross Angels
Angels of Mercy
Members of the Red Cross Canteen service
on duty at the Southern Railway Station.

The following received badges for service for the Red Cross:

Mrs. E. W. Ogden 2,400 hours or 18 months       Mrs. J. Walter Wright 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. Chas. Huff Davis 2,400 hours or 18 months   Miss Maud Christian 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. B. D. Bosworth 2,400 hours or 18 months   Mrs. E. Clyde Gothard 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. W. A. McBath 2,400 hours or 18 months   Mrs. C. M. McClung 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. Walter McCoy 2,400 hours or 18 months   Mrs. Lena Warner 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. Walter Scott 2,400 hours or 18 months   Mrs. Alfred Sanford 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. J. Stewart French 2,400 hours or 18 months   Mrs. W. A. Lowry 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. N. E. Logan 2,400 hours or 18 months   Mrs. Boynton Armstrong 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. Roy Woods 2,400 hours or 18 months   Miss Mary Emily French 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. W. R. Murphy 2,400 hours or 18 months   Miss Bessie Lobenstein 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. George F. Harrison 2,400 hours or 18 months   Mrs. J. Y. Johnston 1,600 hours or 12 months
Miss Anna Magee Sanford 1,600 hours or 12 months   Mrs. E. H. Sanders 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. Frank C. Bearden 1,600 hours or 12 months   Mrs. D. C. Chapman 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. Henry W. Curtis 1,600 hours or 12 months   Mrs. E. B. Love 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. James Maynard 1,600 hours or 12 months   Mrs. J. G. Johnson 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. Horace VanDeventer 1,600 hours or 12 months   Mrs. J. J. Ashe 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. I. E. Dooley 1,600 hours or 12 months   Miss Margaret Ashe 1,600 hours or 12 months
Mrs. George A. Werdehoff 1,600 hours or 12 months   Miss Ella Williams 1,600 hours or 12 months
Miss Laura Thornburgh 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. C. Duncan, Jr. 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Margaret Wells 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. H. G. Neal 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Rosa Scott 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Victor Gilbert 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Ida Ross 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. W. T. Kolter 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Eleanor Ernest 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Reba Hill 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Jeanette Paulus 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Margaret Sanders 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Decie Merwin 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. W. M. Cooley 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Eleanor Atkin 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. C. Duncan, Sr. 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Ella Bradley 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Virginia Rush 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Katherine Carson 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. P. Moffett 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Fletcher Morgan 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Eugene Galyon 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. W. M. Goodman 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Daniel Briscoe, Jr. 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Jas. C. Todd 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. W. R. Foster 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. J. E. Stockwell 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Clarence Carmichael 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Daisy W. Meek 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. John E. McMillan 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Hugh VanDeventer 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Carrie Hunnicutt 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Fayette VanDeventer 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. W. C. Hackney 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. John Hudson 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. S. McSpadden 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Albert George 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Grace Fuller 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Anne Leach 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. R. J. Yearwood 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Antoinette Dosser 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. M. B. Arnstein 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. J. T. DeWitt 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Floyd Utterback 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. J. T. McTeer 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. R. Ledgerwood 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. W. M. Anderson 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. S. A. Ogden 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. J. D. Morris 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. E. Gardner 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Eliza Kirby 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Alex Manard 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. W. P. Chandler 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Geo. P. Chandler 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Minnie Parker 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. D. Collier 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. J. H. Hall 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. W. W. Woodruff, Jr. 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. A. I. Smith 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. W. H. Moore 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Jas. G. Carson 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Russell Kent 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. J. S. Jamerson 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Lynn Haun 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Alex McMillan 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Henry Fenton 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. S. D. Coykendall 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. H. J. Kelso 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Will S. Hall 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Lucy Rhea 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Sue Barton 800 hours or 6 months   Miss M. P. McNutt 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Bert H. Jardine 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. K. E. Steinmetz 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. A. B. Norton 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. A. A. May 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Richard McCargo 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Roy Johnson 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. J. M. Miller 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. W. G. Lee 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Bettie Young 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. W. Harrison 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. H. M. Luttrell 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Margaret Adams 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. I. Adler 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Gertie Lobenstein 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Morris Bradt 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. E. E. Wait 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. C. H. Baker 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Fred Conner 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Fannie Salmon 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. J. E. Obern 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Frank Callan 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. M. T. Hogan 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. W. T. Claiborne 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Sophie Harrill 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Ellen Johnson 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Ada Lawhorn 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Miriam Porter 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Kate Lenoir 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. B. W. Akers 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Harry H. Galbraith 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. W. H. Dawn 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Fritz Staub 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. L. H. Leach 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. L. E. Henderson 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Pauline T. Yule 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Bessie Thomas 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Henry Berends 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Ida Good 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Hugh Gallaher 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Sophie Ducloux 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. Joseph G. Johnson 800 hours or 6 months   Miss Kate R. Ogden 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Bettie Wrinkle 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Isabelle Jackson 800 hours or 6 months
Mrs. W. B. Trent 800 hours or 6 months   Mrs. Henry P. Foster, Jr. 800 hours or 6 months
Miss Harriet Brown 800 hours or 6 months   E. W. Ogden 800 hours or 6 months
John M. Thornburgh 800 hours or 6 months   Will S. Hall 800 hours or 6 months
W. L. Lyons 800 hours or 6 months   R. K. Gibson 800 hours or 6 months
Jas. A. Hensley 800 hours or 6 months   G. H. Gallaher 800 hours or 6 months
Ed. S. Albers 800 hours or 6 months   Fred T. Bonham 800 hours or 6 months
N. Ernest Logan 800 hours or 6 months   A. H. Steere 800 hours or 6 months
Harry K. Ryder 800 hours or 6 months   Jesse Jamerson 800 hours or 6 months

The following county or business women were unable to devote their entire time to the work, but did at least 400 hours:

Mrs. Thomas H. Hardin       Mrs. Goodman
Mrs. Henry Hodge   Mrs. A. O. Child
Mrs. Carter Beeler   Mrs. George N. Gill
Mrs. Edward Tillery   Mrs. William McClellan
Mrs. R. M. Lewis   Mrs. J. E. Groner
Mrs. N. J. Lawhorn   Mrs. W. P. Lawson
Mrs. F. E. Hicks   Mrs. C. L. Carney
Mrs. E. D. Ball   Mrs. G. H. Morgan
Miss Roxie K. Goddard   Miss Lillian S. Goddard
Miss Ann S. Jones   Mrs. William Delpeuch
Mrs. J. G. Prater   Mrs. S. V. Watt
Mrs. Frank Lonas   Miss Lida B. Watt
Mrs. M. J. Bolden   Mrs. G. L. Trent
Mrs. S. D. Mitchell   Mrs. John McCampbell
Mrs. Sam Hill   Mrs. W. R. Sammons
Mrs. John A. McMillan    

Those rendering assistance in the influenza epidemic, which raged among the 700 soldiers gathered at the University of Tennessee and Chilhowee Park, were:

Mrs. Lena Warner Miss Jeanette Paulus Miss Ada Lawhon Miss Edna Kirby
Mrs. Mary Hartcock Miss Helen May Clare Read Miss Sadie Steinmetz Mrs. Lillian Bird Zimmerman
Miss Effie White Mrs. Georgia Loy Miss Elizabeth Allison Mrs. T. H. Glenn
Mrs. J. S. Jamerson Miss Antoinette Dosser Miss Decie Merwin Miss Ellen Johnson
Miss Helen Murphy Mrs. Garfield Beaman Mrs. W. A. Lowery Mrs. Henry Kelso
Miss Ida Ross Miss Ella Bradley Mrs. Russell Kent Miss Anna Lawhorn
Miss Margaret Ashe Miss Josephine Knaffl Mrs. W. A. McBath Mrs. Lynn Haun
Mrs. Henry Fenton Mrs. Fletcher Morgan Mrs. John Flenniken Mrs. W. M. Anderson
Mrs. J. Stewart French Miss Minnie Emory Miss Margaret Condon Miss Sina Webb
Mrs. Kate Pate Miss Bertie Harris Mrs. C. R. McIlwaine Mrs. W. A. Collins
Miss Ruth Dunn Miss Marian Woolridge motor-service  

Officers and workers of the Knoxville Red Cross Canteen Service were:

Mrs. Clyde Gothard Chairman
Mrs. Frank Meade First Vice-Chairman
Mrs. John Hudson Second Vice-Chairman
Mrs A. F. Sanford Treasurer
Mrs. H. J. Kelso Secretary
Mr. H. G. Gallaher Chairman of Supplies
Mrs. S. V. Minskey Assistant Chairman of Supplies
J. A. Hensley Chairman of Information Booth
Mrs. Jas. McDowell Assistant
Miss Anne Gettys Assistant
Miss Ella Bradley Assistant
Miss Kenzell Assistant
Mrs. C. E. Lucky Assistant
Mrs. Rachael Huff Assistant

Feeding the Troops
Knoxville women spread magnificent dinners upon long tables, erected on the street for the returned heroes.

Members and Captains of teams serving from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. on every day in the week were as follows:

Sunday Mrs. Carrie Hunnicutt, Captain; Mrs. Anne Shields, Mrs. A. F. Aurin, Miss Lillian Goddard, Miss Roxie Goddard, Miss Grace Fuller, Miss Martha Richards, Miss Anne Jones, Miss Bessie Thomas, Miss Alice Fonde, Miss Margaret Barton and Miss Addis Fuller
Sunday Night Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gallaher, Captains; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Jameson, Mrs. H. J. Kelso, Cyrus Kehr, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gaut, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Simmonds, Miss Cornelia Howell, Miss Rose Agnes Shea, Miss Gladys Gallaher, Miss Mary Gill, Graham Gill, Jesse Jameson, Spears Webster and Miss Julia Harpman
Monday Mrs. John E. Oberne, Captain; Miss Elizabeth McClellan, Miss Frances Trent, Miss Mary Trent, Miss Lal Bean, Mrs. E. T. Sanford, Mrs. Edward Oates, Mrs. H. G. Fowler, Mrs. R. W. Ogden, Miss Stella Shea, Mrs. Harold Powers, Mrs. Edward Ashe, Mrs. J. H. McClintock, Mrs. J. E. Hacker, Mrs. Henry Hudson, Mrs. Robert VanDeventer, Miss Clare Shea, Mrs. W. E. Lacy, Mrs. D. W. Meek, Mrs. H. L. Powers and Mrs. T. D. Hacker
Monday Night Mrs. Fletcher B. Morgan, Captain; Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Young, Mrs. Pauline Yule, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm McDermott, W. E. Miller, John Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jardine, Mrs. A. Y. Burrow and A. M. Stewart
Tuesday Mrs. Cary F. Spence, Captain; Mrs. Chas. Cullen, Mrs. Eugenia Dulin, Mrs. E. W. Ogden, Mrs. Edward McMillan, Miss Grace Mountcastle, Miss Elizabeth Ashe, Miss Maria Logan, Miss Inez Miller, Miss Margaret Ashe, Miss Annette Ashe, Miss Katherine Varnell, Miss Lillian Oppenheimer, Mrs. Edward Lutz, Miss Julia Oldham, Miss Helen Petway, Miss Elizabeth Rose, Mrs. John K. Craig, Mrs. David Madden and Mrs. Lee A. Gridley
Tuesday Night Mrs. Pauline Yule, Captain; Mrs. Fletcher B. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jardine, Miss Isaline Yule, Miss Gladys Murray and Miss Helen Hitch
Wednesday Mrs. John Hudson, Captain; Mrs. William C. Ross, Mrs. Ambrose Gaines, Mrs. Kenneth Gilpin, Mrs. Spears Webster, Mrs. T. A. Wright, Mrs. Robert VanDeventer, Miss Ellen McClung, Miss Marguerite McClure, Miss Catherine Davis, Miss Miriam Porter, Miss Mary Dooley, Miss Dorothy Dooley
Wednesday Night Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Beardsley, Captains; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnston, Miss Marguerite McConnell, Miss Margaret Kyle, Miss May Sheddan, Miss Julia Harpman and Miss Edith Rogers
Thursday Mrs. Albert George, Captain; Mrs. Floyd Utterback, Mrs. Eugene Galyon, Mrs. Frank Gaut, Mrs. Frank Meade, Miss Kathleen Kennedy, Mrs. Walter Mynderse, Mrs. Walter Baer, Mrs. Clarence Carmichael, Miss Margaret Ashe, Mrs. Bruce McCallie, Miss Anne Gettys, Miss Laura Thornburg, Mrs. Fred Conner, Mrs. Richard Boyd, Mrs. William Martin, Mrs. John E. McMillan, Mrs. J. M. Moulden, Mrs. Howell Davis and Mrs. W. R. Fuller
Thursday Night Mrs. Henry J. Kelso, Captain; Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Staub, Mrs. J. J. Ellis and Miss Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Melendy, Mrs. Lena Warner, Mrs. H. J. Kelso, Miss Jeanette Paulus, Miss Ida Ross, Miss Elizabeth Scruggs, Miss Ethel White, Miss Rose Agnes Shea, Miss Ella Bradley, Miss Mattie Attix, Mrs. G. H. Gallaher, Miss Gladys Gallaher, Miss Lucy Rhea, Hugh Gallaher, Graham Gill, Mrs. J. Stewart French, Miss Ella Bradley, Miss Mary Nelson and Jesse Jameson, Jr.
Friday Mrs. W. W. Woodruff, Captain; Mrs. Fayette VanDeventer, Mrs. S. V. Minskey, Mrs. E. H. Hurst, Mrs. Harriet McClellan Young, Mrs. C. J. McClung, Mrs. E. J. Briscoe, Mrs. W. T. Claiborne, Mrs. Rudolph Knaffl, Miss Helen Murphy, Miss Anne Leach, Miss Josephine Knaffl, Miss Maude Sharp, Miss Katherine Lindsay, Jesse Miller, Morgan Hazen, Miss Anne Houk, Mrs. J. Willow, Mrs. Albert Watson and Mrs. James McDowell
Friday Night Mrs. T. T. Jamerson, Captain; Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Staub, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Gallaher, Mrs. H. J. Kelso, Mrs. Ed. Gillenwaters, Mrs. J. J. Jameson, Miss Cornelia Howell, Miss Gladys Gillenwaters, Miss Ida Ross, Misses Denton, Miss Schofield and Miss Scruggs
Saturday Mrs. Albert George, Captain; Mrs. Walter Mynderse, Mrs. Wm. Fuller, Mrs. Howell Davis, Mrs. Walter Utterback, Mrs. Walter Baer, Mrs. Fred Conner, Mrs. Bruce McCallie, Mrs. Eugene Galyon, Mrs. J. M. Moulden, Miss Antoinette Dosser, Mrs. Frank Meade, Miss Kathleen Kennedy and Miss Margaret Ashe
Saturday Night Mrs. Fletcher Morgan, Captain; Mrs. John Yule, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jardine, Mr. W. E. Miller, Mr. A. M. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jones, John Caldwell, James Hensley and Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Burrow
 
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