Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - September/October
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - September/October
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from September 11th, 1934 to October 2nd, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-06-14
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34?
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - September/October,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 26, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/105.
Text
Cowley Leads Country In Women’s Projects
Cowley county leads the counties of the United States in women’s relief projects. According to a recent survey, Kansas is first among the 48 states in relief work and Cowley county heads the list in Kansas.
This county now has six projects for women under way. A few other counties have five projects.
Among the works being carried out in this district are the sewing rooms, home acres, library and nursing. In the sewing rooms women prepare garments to distribute to the needy. The home acres project is carried out by an expert home worker and her assistants. They visit homes, give budget suggestions, help arrange home furnishings and do other i home duties. 9-10-34
The library consists of books and magazines which are donated by persons throughout the county. A course in practical nursing constitutes the nurse project.
A lease on the Hamilton building in Winfield was completed Thursday by the county to run for several years. Mrs. Jessie Miller is the county case supervisor.
Increase Seen
In Families On
Relief Rolls
—9-11-34
An increase of 234 families on Cowley county relief rolls during August was announced Tuesday by Mrs. Jesse Miller, county case supervisor. Sixty-eight other families, most of them in the Winfield district, have been added since Sept. 1.
Families receiving relief Sept.
1 totaled 1,695, the August report showed, and included 6,208 persons.
Winfield passed Arkansas City in the number of relief cases with a total of 911 families (3,306 persons) on the rolls. There were 784 persons (2,902 persons) receiving relief here during the month.
About 65 per cent of the new cases were farm families, whose food supplies had been exhausted when their crops were ruined by the drouth. Farmers who need livestock feed but not other assistance are included in the regular relief records, Mrs. Miller said.
Supplies allotted by case workers to families not receiving work relief during August totaled $11,432.62, an average of $3.46 per family. This included $8,427.18 for groceries, $2,583.75 for clothing, $42.54 for milk, $134.25 for rent, $28.58 for fuel and $216.29 for miscellaneous items.
Federal surplus’ commodities distributed in the county during the month were valued at $3,003.65. These included 2,729 pounds of lard, 7,874 pounds of pork, 3,963 cans of beef and 1,194 packages of cheese.
Crippled Children--- 5,363.71
County CWA Contribution----------------- 53,282.56
Mrs. Miller Dislikes Quarters Furnished by
10-2-34 County
The county relief organization was split Tuesday, the case workers staying at 401 South A street and the order clerks and timekeepers doing their work at 313 South Second street, as sharp differences of opinion between County Commissioner W. F. Walker and County Case Supervisor Jesse Miller arose as to the merits of the latter place, which is supposed to he the new location of the county federal relief offices.
Mrs. Miller made the following statement: “The offices are an insult to the case workers. They are old shed rooms and unsanitary.” Concerning the same offices Mr. Walker said: “I have given Mrs. Miller 800 square feet of office space for her staff. The offices are visible from and accessible to the 200 seats which we have installed for those on relief. We have spent $350 on material and plumbing alone, and I invite the taxpaying public to inspect the place. Five leading Arkansas City business men along with representatives of the central labor union visited the quarters and complimented us on our set-up.”
Heat Is Turned Off The heat had been turned off at the old location at 401 South A street and most of the case workers were sniffling in the cold as they awaited further orders. Mrs. Miller indicated that she would give no further instructions to her staff until the matter was cleared up.
“I am ready for a showdown on this thing,” said Mr. Walker. “We have devoted time and labor to building a satisfactory place and are being held up by what looks to me like an old-fashioned case of stubbornness.”
They Move Too After remaining in the empty house on South A street for most of the day, the case workers finally moved in to their new office about 2:30 o’clock this afternoon on instructions from Mrs. Miller.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - September/October
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from September 11th, 1934 to October 2nd, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-06-14
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34?
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - September/October,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed April 26, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/105.Text
Cowley Leads Country In Women’s Projects
Cowley county leads the counties of the United States in women’s relief projects. According to a recent survey, Kansas is first among the 48 states in relief work and Cowley county heads the list in Kansas.
This county now has six projects for women under way. A few other counties have five projects.
Among the works being carried out in this district are the sewing rooms, home acres, library and nursing. In the sewing rooms women prepare garments to distribute to the needy. The home acres project is carried out by an expert home worker and her assistants. They visit homes, give budget suggestions, help arrange home furnishings and do other i home duties. 9-10-34
The library consists of books and magazines which are donated by persons throughout the county. A course in practical nursing constitutes the nurse project.
A lease on the Hamilton building in Winfield was completed Thursday by the county to run for several years. Mrs. Jessie Miller is the county case supervisor.
Increase Seen
In Families On
Relief Rolls
—9-11-34
An increase of 234 families on Cowley county relief rolls during August was announced Tuesday by Mrs. Jesse Miller, county case supervisor. Sixty-eight other families, most of them in the Winfield district, have been added since Sept. 1.
Families receiving relief Sept.
1 totaled 1,695, the August report showed, and included 6,208 persons.
Winfield passed Arkansas City in the number of relief cases with a total of 911 families (3,306 persons) on the rolls. There were 784 persons (2,902 persons) receiving relief here during the month.
About 65 per cent of the new cases were farm families, whose food supplies had been exhausted when their crops were ruined by the drouth. Farmers who need livestock feed but not other assistance are included in the regular relief records, Mrs. Miller said.
Supplies allotted by case workers to families not receiving work relief during August totaled $11,432.62, an average of $3.46 per family. This included $8,427.18 for groceries, $2,583.75 for clothing, $42.54 for milk, $134.25 for rent, $28.58 for fuel and $216.29 for miscellaneous items.
Federal surplus’ commodities distributed in the county during the month were valued at $3,003.65. These included 2,729 pounds of lard, 7,874 pounds of pork, 3,963 cans of beef and 1,194 packages of cheese.
Crippled Children--- 5,363.71
County CWA Contribution----------------- 53,282.56
Mrs. Miller Dislikes Quarters Furnished by
10-2-34 County
The county relief organization was split Tuesday, the case workers staying at 401 South A street and the order clerks and timekeepers doing their work at 313 South Second street, as sharp differences of opinion between County Commissioner W. F. Walker and County Case Supervisor Jesse Miller arose as to the merits of the latter place, which is supposed to he the new location of the county federal relief offices.
Mrs. Miller made the following statement: “The offices are an insult to the case workers. They are old shed rooms and unsanitary.” Concerning the same offices Mr. Walker said: “I have given Mrs. Miller 800 square feet of office space for her staff. The offices are visible from and accessible to the 200 seats which we have installed for those on relief. We have spent $350 on material and plumbing alone, and I invite the taxpaying public to inspect the place. Five leading Arkansas City business men along with representatives of the central labor union visited the quarters and complimented us on our set-up.”
Heat Is Turned Off The heat had been turned off at the old location at 401 South A street and most of the case workers were sniffling in the cold as they awaited further orders. Mrs. Miller indicated that she would give no further instructions to her staff until the matter was cleared up.
“I am ready for a showdown on this thing,” said Mr. Walker. “We have devoted time and labor to building a satisfactory place and are being held up by what looks to me like an old-fashioned case of stubbornness.”
They Move Too After remaining in the empty house on South A street for most of the day, the case workers finally moved in to their new office about 2:30 o’clock this afternoon on instructions from Mrs. Miller.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.