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Mrs. George F. Blackie and Mrs. Frank W. Ring were Chairmen for the Second Drive for Refugee Garments of the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross. in April. 1918. and a liberal contribution for this cause was obtained from the Miliated Chan- ters. I . D. C.
Mrs. W. T. Young. Chairman for the Nashville Chapter. I. D. C., secured seven hundred dollars for the Alied Orphans' Fund. and each chapter of the U. D. C. affiliation adopted a French and a Belgian orphan.
Additional members of the Nashville Chapter. U. D. C., who were one hundred per cent in all phases of war work. and who responded wholeheartedly to every war relief call. were:
Mrs Henry Stein, Mrs. J. W. Warner. Mes, Feed Whitemore. Mrs. E. W. Foster. Mr. J. Matt Williams Mr -. W. T. Yeargin. Mrs. (. 6. Young. Mrs. William B. Shelton. Miss Mary Ellen Behne, Mass Elizabeth Campbell. Miss Virginia Claybrooke, Miss Evelyn Crutcher, Mis U zabeth Frost, Miss Lampe Goodwin. Miss Martha Gooch, Miss Cora Hager. Miss Elizabeth Hancock. Mass Elizabeth Hatheld. Miss Mary Belle Hopkins. Miss Addie MeClean, Miss Jennie Man Me Quidds. Miss Jennie Morrissey, Mis- Edith Pope. Miss Marjorie Spurr. Miss Mabry Talbert and Mises Nannie and Nellie Wood.
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Roster of members of the Kate Lytton Hickman Chapter who did creditable war work is as follows:
OFFICERS: Miss Mabry Talbot. President; Mrs. J. T. Chadwell, Vice-President; Mrs. Harry Threlkeld. Recording Secretary; Mrs. R. G. Crowley, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Fannie Selph. Treasurer: Mrs. Beulah Russell. Historian; Custodian of Flag, Miss Lizzie Barry; Regis- trar, Mrs. C. C. Young: Director of Children of the Con- federacy Auxiliary, Mrs. L. A. McMurray; Chaplain, Miss Lizzie Barry.
MEMBERS: Mrs. S. M. Allen, Mrs. John L. Bailey. Mrs. Count R. Boyd, Mrs. W. A. Carter, Mrs. I. K. Chase. Mrs. James L. Cooper. Mrs. J. A. Crawford, Mrs. J. A. Cullom, Mrs. George Davis, Mrs. J. S. Dunbar, Mrs. Edgar M. Foster, Mrs. W. W. Gambill, Mrs. M. M. Gee, Mrs. Smith Gee, Mrs. Lyman Gunn. Mrs. W. S. Hite, Mrs. W. V. Jarrett, Mrs. J. T. Jenkins, Mrs. Martha Lanier, Mrs. Roscoe Matthews, Mrs. T. H. Morris, Mrs. Lewis MeCary, Mrs. M. M. McMurry, Mrs. Haskell Rightor, Mrs. C. B. Rucker. Mrs. W. B. Shelton, Mrs. Euclid Snow, Mrs. John T. Smith, Mrs. A. F. Stanford, Mrs. J. R. Tarpley, Mrs. Thomas A. Vaughn, Mrs. M. W. Webb, Mrs. Daisy G. Yar- brough, Mrs. W. E. Davis, Mrs. Charles Hall, Mrs. Alice Lee. Mrs. Alma Pitman, Mrs. Anna Toon Sloan, Miss Mai Anderson, Miss Lena Caldwell, Miss Margaret Dew, Miss Adele Gordon, Miss Coralee Gibson, Miss Bessie Hardaway, Miss Nettie Hutch- MRS. L. F. BEATY (Susan Roberta Tennal) inson. Miss Annie L. Morris, Miss Willie Belle Pardue, Miss Martha Pardue, Miss Mabry Talbot, Miss Kate Talbot, Miss Elizabeth Talbot. Miss Margie Thomas, Miss Bettie Hooper Turner. Miss Jennie Whitsitt, Miss Mary Williams, Miss Daisy Gunn, Miss Emma Sloan. Miss Mary O'Donnell, Miss Eva Cunning- ham, Miss Sarah Elizabeth Dorris, and Miss Ruth Talbot.
Members of the Nashville Chapter who engaged in World War activities were:
Mrs. F. F. P. Allison, Mrs. M. L. Andrews, Mrs. Thomas H. Appleton, Miss Mary Elizabeth Allen, Mrs. Robert Abernathy. Mrs. W. H. S. Armistead, Mrs. Robert Armstead, Mrs. Thomas Binns, Mrs. Brown Buford, Mrs. W. A. Buntin, Miss Jean Bradford, Mrs. Stanley Cooney, Mrs. Walter Clark, Miss Lizize Lee Bloomstein, Mrs. L. F. Beaty, Miss Margaret Boisseau, Miss Eliza Claybrooke, Miss Virginia Claybrooke. Mrs. Sheffield Clark, Mrs. Charles Cooney, Mrs. H. H. Corson, Mrs. Thomas Craighead. Mrs. Thomas P. Cal- houn, Miss Janie Cockrill, Mrs. H. T. Campbell. Miss Evelyn Crutcher. Mrs. James T. Dougherty, Miss Gladys McClain Clark. Mrs. Thomas J. Dougherty, Mrs. M. E. K. Doak, Mrs. Charles Eastman. Mrs. W. G. Ewing. Mrs. F. M. Erwin. Miss Henry Ewing. Mrs. G. W. Fall, Mrs. Alexander Fall, Mrs. E. W. Foster, Mrs. C. C. Gilbert, Miss Cora Hager. Miss Medora Hill, Miss Martha Hill. Mrs. C. F. Hurd, Mrs. W. W. flargrave, Miss Elizabeth Hancock, Mrs. S. K. Harwell, Mrs. A. B. Hill, Mrs. John Hollins. Mrs. William Hume. Mrs. C. Ross Handly, Mrs. Horace G. Hill. Mrs. B. Randolph Hughes, Mrs. Russell Hart. Mrs. Amelia Hancock. Miss Dorothy Hill. Miss Catherine Hill, Mrs. R. W. Jennings. Mrs. T. B. Johnson. Miss Louise G. Lindsley, Mrs. M. A. Montgomery, Mrs. W. L. McKay, Mrs. MRS. MARK HARRISON ( Willie Wood) W. J. McMurray, Mrs. S. A. McAlister, Mrs. James McHatton, Mrs. Caleb C. Motz, Mrs. R. O. McLean. Mrs. Elizabeth Mor- row, Mrs. F. W. Millspaugh, Mrs. Thomas Newbill, Mrs. Robert Nichol, Mrs. Jesse M. Overton. Mrs. Nancy Baxter Overton, Miss Meta Orr. Mrs. Alexander Porter, Miss Rebecca Porter, Mrs. A. H. Pardue, Mrs. G. A. Puryear, Miss Edith Pope, Mrs. George Price, Mrs. R. E. L. Parman, Mrs. John B. Ransom. Mrs. T. M. Steger. Mrs. Henry Stein, Miss Carrie Simms. Miss Marjorie Spurr, Mrs. M. A. Spurr, Mrs. John Thompson, Mrs. W. O. Tirrill, Mrs. Leslie Warner, Mrs. J. W. Warner, Mrs. Idabelle Wilson. Miss Mary Lou White, Miss W. W. Wilkinson, Miss Glenna Wilkinson, and Mrs. W. T. Young.
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The following were active in all war activities from the Annie Humphreys Mor- ton Chapter :
OFFI FRS: Mrs. West Humphreys Morton. President: Mrs. Will Bass, Vice-President; Miss Obvia Cark Recording Secretary: Mr-, Thomas J. Christman. Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Claude C. Sullivan, Treasurer: Mrs. Harry Rene Lee. Historian: Mrs. William Il. Shepper-on. Flag Chstodian: and Miss Virginia ( lark. Registrar.
MEMBERS: Mrs. Robert Powell. Mrs. William A. Norman, Mrs. Minerva Youree Smith. Mrs. S. B. shearon. Mr -. Tessie Harris, Mrs. J. H. Chandler Mrs. Mattie Almond. Mrs. O. B. Ilof- stetter. Mrs. A. Leathers. Mrs. Mary Farrar Crutchfield. Viss Georgie Brown. Wiss Willie Brown. Miss Julia Me- Creary. Miss Mary Traylor. Miss Mary Chandler. Miss Nell Powell, and Miss Elizabeth Powell.
MAS L A. M. MURRAY (Fla Sophie Hawkin-)
NASHVILLE AFFILIATED CHAPTERS OF UNITED DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
In September. 1917. the Affiliated Chapters of the U. D. C. contributed two hundred and fifty dol- lars for a Red Cross ambulance in France, and en- dowed several hospital beds. Eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars was contributed to the fund for the Vanderbilt Unit "S" by the chapters, and Miss Margaret Simpson, Chairman for Tag Day for the American Hospital at Rheims, France, secured two hundred and fifty dollars.
The U. D. C. Chapters co-operated with the War Savings Organization from the beginning. and during one week's drive at a local department store. Miss Elizabeth Claybrooke and her committee sold $1.075.00 in stamps. In the W. S. S. Campaign in April. 1918. the Nashville Chapter sold $10.803 in stamps, and the Affiliated Chapters in May sold a total of $1.260.00, and secured five hundred dollars from members of the One- Hundred-Dollar Club.
A large number of the members of the Miliated Chapters. I. D. C ... were mem- bers of the Girls' Patriotic League: many signed and distributed Hoover pledge card- under Mrs. Walter L. Jones, Food Pledge Chairman for Nashville, and others served as registrars for the Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense. on Registration Day. One hundred U. D. C.'s were members of the Army Comfort League, of which Mrs. Perey Warner was Chairman and Mrs. William B. Shelton. a faithful Daughter, was Secretary.
On the Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense. the Chapters of the Davidson County United Daughters of the Confederacy were represented by Mrs. Mexander Fall, who was Treasurer of the Nashville Woman's Committee: Mrs. James Wh Hatton. Fighth District Chairman of the County Woman's Committee: Mrs. Robert W. Nichol. County Chairman of Woman's Committee: and Mrs. West Humphreys Morton, County Treasurer of the Woman's Committee. Mrs. Idabelle Wilson and Mrs. Leslie Warner held prominent state offices on the Woman's Com- mittee.
Members of the Miliated Chapters. U. D. C .. worked in the campaign for the Nurses' Reserve in August. 1918: and during the influenza epidemie in October, 1918. a number of them gave their time to the work of nursing at Vanderbilt Uni- versity. at the School for the Blind. and in North and South Nashville.
In the first drive for refugee clothing. Mrs. L. A. Me Murray served as Chairman of the Affiliated Chapters, with Mr-, Maik Harrison as Secretary. Mrs. Harrison
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also served as a state officer in the United Daughters of the Confederacy during the war.
Miss Virginia Claybrooke. Director of the Felix Grundy Porter Children's Aux- iliary. formed a Nashville Chapter, Red Cross knitting unit from a coterie of girls from the Auxiliary, with the following girls serving as officers: Miss Edith Rob- erts. Miss Virginia Puryear. Miss Amelia Appleton, Miss Martha Warner and Miss Martha Rawls.
This unit knitted several complete kits for the soldiers, and in addition to the knitting, purchased Liberty Bonds in each of the five Liberty Loan campaigns. The Auxiliary as a whole adopted a French orphan and maintained a Christmas market, the proceeds of which were sent to the children of France. In memory of her daughter, Mrs. Felix Grundy (deceased). for whom the Auxiliary was named, Mrs. Thomas Steger gave a lib- eral contribution to the fund, which was a great help to the children in finaneing their cause.
Miss Evelyn Crutcher, a loyal U. D. C., worked three days each week in the Surgical Dressings Depart- ment of the Nashville Chapter, Red Cross, throughout the entire war, often serving as instructor at her table. This splendid record is surpassed by only a few other women in the county.
The following women were efficient workers in the three Refugee Garment drives for the Red Cross. in the MISS MARTHA WARNER five Liberty Loan campaigns. the several W. S. S. campaigns, the campaigns for books, and each was registered for work in some one of the departments at Nashville Chapter, Red Cross Headquarters:
Mrs. Thomas Appleton. Mrs. Robert L. Abernathy, Mrs. W. B. Ballard, Mrs. Collins Baker, Miss Maud Ballard, Mrs. R. B. Beal. Mrs. L. F. Beaty. Mrs. N. M. K. Bryan, Mrs. William Carr, Mrs. W. N. Carter, Mrs. J. T. Chadwick, Mrs. F. A. Cheatham, Mrs. R. G. Crowley, Mrs. J. A. Daugherty. Mrs. Meredith Flautt. Mrs. Smith Gee, Mrs. Nathaniel Gooch. Mrs. Nathaniel Gooch. Jr., Mrs. Lyman Gunn, Mrs. W. W. Hargrave. Mrs. J. B. Harper. Mrs. Rush Ilawes. Mrs. Harvey Hogg. Mrs. William Hume. Mrs. Charles Hunt. Mrs. L. M. Hurst, Mrs. Ella Hussey, Mrs. Dorris Kelly, Mrs. R. C. Kenyon, Mrs. Percy King. Mrs. Harry Lee. Mrs. James R. Love. Mrs. L. A. WcCarver. Mrs. Lewis MeCary, Mrs. Fred W. Millspaugh, Mrs. A. H. Mizell, Mrs. Eugene Morris. Mrs. W. H. Randall. Mrs. M. B. Morton, Mrs. West Humphreys Morton. Mrs. Allen O'Dell, Mrs. R. E. L. Parman, Mrs. Harold Patterson, Mrs. J. B. Pope. Mrs. J. V. Smith. Mrs. Jesse Sparks. Mrs. A. F. Stanford. Mrs. Maude Sullivan, Mrs. Vivian Tupper, and Mrs. T. A. Vaughn.
Davidson County did not possess a more patriotie and efficient war worker than Mrs. Thomas Newbill. She was a eredit to her county and to the Daughters of the Confederacy of the entire state. Nashville Daughters made no mistake when they chose Mrs. Newbill as their Chairman for Davidson County's World War activities, as it was through her efforts the County U. D. C. work gained national recognition.
Mrs. Bennett D. Bell was Chairman for East Nashville for the Nashville Chap- ter, Red Cross. Mrs. L. F. Beaty, State Historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, served as a Red Cross worker throughout the war, and also assisted in other war work. Mrs. Mark Harrison, a state officer in the United Daughters of the Confederacy during the war. was an able instructor in the Surgical Dressings Department of the Red Cross. Mrs. John C. Brown, for several years a prominent
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leader in [. D. C. work, assisted in all Liberty Loan drives in the county and was active in many patriotic organizations.
In October. 1918. the Confederate veterans of Nashville, jointly with the United Daughters of the Confederacy (27) from four chapters, sold the Evening Tennes- sean. donated by the management. on the streets of Nashville, netting over eight hundred eighty-seven dollars and thirty-one cents. Brigadier-General Harry Rene Lee. a veteran of the Civil War, exchanged that sum for French francs and forwarded foreign exchange to the Vanderbilt Medical Init (Hospital Unit "S"). at Nevers, France. Each of the nurses (16) and privates (31) received eighty-four francs as a Christmas present from the Confederate veterans of the Tennessee Division, sta- tioned at Nashville. Brigadier-General Lee holds the individual recipient's receipt.
A Confederate battle flag (6x91. donated to the Vanderbilt Medical Unit by Mrs. Ilarry Rene Lee. was displayed in the Hospital Unit "S" during the whole period of its foreign service. The flag is now in possession of A. J. Baird.
Miss Martha Warner. daughter of Mrs. J. W. Warner, a stanneh U. D. C., member of the Nashville Chapter. did exceptional work in the Liberty Loans. W. S. S. drives and tag days during the war. She also assisted in various activities of the Nash- ville Chapter. Red Cross. The Warner family was also well represented among the fighting forces. Miss Ann Humphreys Morton. a granddaughter of the venerable Ann Humphreys Morton, for whom that chapter was named, was another ardent war worker among the girls, as was Miss Amelia Appleton, niece of Mrs. Thomas Newbill. Chairman of War Work of the U. D. C.'s for Davidson County.
French Independence Day Parade
MRS. VERNER MOORE LEWIS. Chairman-General
On July 11. 1918, Nashville celebrated French Independence Day with a spec- tacular street parade to commemorate the fall of the Bastile. Mrs. Verner Moore Lewis was appointed Chairman-General of the parade, ably assisted by Mrs. Joseph T. Howell and Wiss Annie Demoville.
Every patriotic and civic organization in Davidson County was represented by historical floats and individual impersonators commemorating some important event of French or American history. the parade extending for several miles in length.
The largest crowd that gathered in Nashville until the return of the Tennessee soldiers of the A. E. F. assembled to honor the French national holiday.
One of the most attractive floats in the parade was that of "Somewhere in France." designed by Mrs. Joseph T. Howell for the Fatherless Children of France Society.
Others that were extraordinary were: State Council of Defense. a reproduction of which is shown with that organization: the National League for Woman's Service. Nashville Chapter. A. R. C .. "The Greatest Mother." Army Comfort League. War Savings Organization. Nashville and County Woman's Committee. Council of Na- tional Defense, the Girls' Patriotic League, and the Victory Garden Association.
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MISS ELLEN STOKES as she appeared as "Joan of Arc," in the French Independence Day Parade, in Nashville, July 14, 1918.
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Council of Jewish Women MRS. LEO SCHWARTZ. World Har President WIRS. REUBEN MILLS. President. 1923
In addition to maintaining the Bertha Fensterwald Social Center and its pre- scribed activities. the Council of Jewish Women, composed of several hundred mem- bers. gave instant and hearty co-operation in every phase of organized effort in Davidson County made necessary by war-time conditions.
One hundred knitted articles were made and donated by the members to the Navy Comforts Committee in April. 1917: and before the formation of the Nash- ville Chapter. Red Cross, two groups of women from the Council gave two days each week to the work of the Red Cross, and as a result 1.860 completed articles were turned in to the Nashville Chapter Headquarters upon its organization.
Two hundred and forty-six Council members joined the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross. during the first membership campaign in May. 1917. and during the years of 1917 and 1938 the sum of $3.111.50) was contributed to the Red Cross by the Council.
Twelve members of this organization served as registrars on Registration Dav in October. 1917. and. under the direction of Mrs. Reuben Mills, the members real- ized the sum of one hundred ninety-one dollars from the sale of the special editions of the Tennessean for the Nashville Woman's Committee, of which Mrs. Mills served as the Publicity Chairman. and much of the success of that organization was due to her capable manner of presenting the cause.
The Jewish Council also served with the Nashville Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense. in the Christmas Red Cross Roll Call of 1918. of which Mrs. John W. Thomas served as Chairman.
In response to the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross call for linens the Jewish Council donated thirty-nine dozen handkerchiefs. fourteen dozen face towels. twelve dozen bath towels, ten napkins, sixteen sheets and sixty dollars in cash.
Thirty five members of the Council took the course in dietetics, and classes in canning and home economies were organized at the Council's Social Center. Gar- dening also received much attention from the members of the Jewish Council.
In Liberty Loan work the Jewish Council members sold >70.300 in bond- in the First Campaign: $110,000 in the Second: and $115.150 in the Third. In the Fourth and Fifth Loan campaigns more than one hundred members served as bond salesmen. Mrs. Sam Kessler. a Captain in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. sold more bond- than any other captain in Zone 1.
The Council contributed twenty-five dollars to the Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense. for the purchase of kits For the soldiers, and sent Thanksgiv- ing offerings of jam. jellies and pickles to soldiers in training at Camp Sevier. S C .. in 1917. for the 113th and IlIth Machine Gun Battalions and the 1Ilth and 115th F. A. Regiments. So generous was this offering that the express charges for same amounted to thirty-five dollars. Numerous letters of appreciation were re- ceived by Mrs. Leo Schwartz, President. from the soldiers for the offering.
In the various drives the Council members donated sixty-one dozen emergency handkerchiefs to the Nashville Chapter. Red Cross, and nine hundred fifty book- and 2.500 magazines in the book campaigns. Eight French orphan- were adopted
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GROUP OF WORLD WAR OFFICERS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN WHO ANSWERED EVERY CALL DURING THE ENTIRE WAR PERIOD
They are left to right. first row, Mrs. Sam Kessler, Mrs. Eli Redelsheimer (Ida Joseph) , Mrs. Leo Schwartz (Selma Frank ), World War President of the Council, Mrs. Wilbur Florsheim (Sadie Belle Reisman) . and Mrs. Julius Martin ( Jeanette Levy). Second row, Mrs. David Lowenheim (Tessie Blum), Mrs. Morris Ellis (Etta Goldberg), and Mrs. Lee Loventhal (Gertrude Moses). Third row. Mrs. Louis Aach (Emma Bloomstein), MIrs. David Rosenfield ( Minnie Lowenstein), and Mrs. M. A. Grief (Theresa Katz). Mrs. Reuben M. Mills (Helen Wile), who was the Council's President in 1923. was one of the most able and untiring world war workers of the county. Her publicity work received state and national recognition. 1
by the Council. and a contribution of one hundred seventy-two dollars was made to the milk and ice fund by. this organization in 1918.
Members of the Jewish Council assisted the Nashville Woman's Committee with the registration of student nurses in August. 1918. and baby gowns were made by members and distributed to needy mothers throughout Nashville by nurses of the Civilian Relief of the Nashville Chapter, Red Cross.
The service rendered by the Council of Jewish Women in Americanization work was so successful that it was still being carried on by them when this volume went to press. During the war ninety-nine foreign-born adults of Nashville were taught to read and to write English by members of this organization. and twenty-nine students were induced to attend the Nashville night schools, and eight additional pupils were added to the classes at the Watkins Night School. In many cases foreign-born mothers were taught to correspond in English with their sons who were in service." No other organization in the state did a more creditable or far- reaching work along this line than this one.
The following members of this organization served as executive officers of the Jewish Council Organization during the World War:
Mrs. Leo Schwartz, President: Mrs. Dave Rosenfeld, First Vice-President: Mrs. Dave Lowen- heim, Second Vice-President; Mrs. Lee Loventhal, Treasurer: Mrs. Louis Aach, Secretary: Mrs. Julius Martin and Mrs. Joe Cronbach, Corresponding Secretaries; Mrs. Lou Frank and Mrs. Max Bloomstein. Auditors.
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Special Chairmen for World War activities in the Council of Jewish Women were:
Mrs. J. W. Stein, Food Conservation, War Gardens and Collecting of Books for Soldiers: Mrs. Paul Cohn. Second Call for Books for Soldiers; Mrs. Reuben Mills, First and Second Liberty Loans: Mrs. Sol Lowenstein. Third Liberty Loan: Mrs. Ben Lindauer. First Emergency War Work: Mrs. Morris Ellis. Second Emergency War Work: Mrs. Joseph Weinstein, Ameri- amization: Mrs. Lee Leventhal. War Saving- Stamps; Red Cross, Mrs. Ben Lindauer. Mrs. Dave Rosenfeld, Mrs. Henry Teitlebaum, Mrs. Mor Greif, Mrs. Eli Redelsheimer, and Miss Sadie Frank. Newspaper Sales. Pageantry and Exhibitions for War Work.
Members of the Council who held important positions in other patriotic or- ganizations were:
Mrs. Bernard Fensterwald, Red Cross Canteen. Red Cross Motor Corp- and Girls' Auxiliary ; Mrs. M. S. Lebeck, Vice-President of Army Comfort League and Vice-President of the National League for Woman's Service, and Chairman of Automobiles in Fourth Liberty Loan; Mrs. A. Loveman, State and Davidson County Treasurer of National League for Woman's Service: Mrs Joseph Lindauer. Chairman Nashville Chapter, Red Cross Shipping Department; Mrs. Reuben Mills. Publicity Chairman of Woman's Committee for Nashville, Council of National Defense. and Publicity Chairman for Woman's Committee in First and Second Liberty Loans and 1918 Red Cross Christmas Roll Call: Mrs. Leo Schwartz, President of the Council, served on the Americanization Committee's State Board, and was Chairman of Social Service Agencies. Ten- nessee Division of Woman's Committee: Mrs. Henry Teitlebaum, Vice-Chairman for Nashville. Woman's Committee. Council of National Defense: Miss Sadie Frank. Psychologist for Recon- struction Medical Aid (also served overseas with American Relief) after the Armistice: Mrs. Sul Lowenstein. Third Liberty Loan; Mrs. J. C. Lucky. State Chairman of Jewish Council for United War Work Campaign: and Mrs. Sam Kessler, Captain in Fourth Liberty Loan and Chairman of War Activities for Equal Suffrage Association.
Members of the Council purchased and sold >10.181.30 in War Savings Stamp- during one week of the Second W. S. S. Campaign in January. 1918.
In April. 1918. the Council of Jewish Women was in charge of a booth for the sale of stamps. from which they realized 822.000. Mrs. J. C. Lusky sold the largest amount of stamps that was sold by any woman in Davidson County in one day during the entire period of the war. while Mrs. Lee Loventhal. Chairman of W. S. S .. held the best record of sales made in any patriotic organization of the county. Mrs. Lou Lusky was one of the most ardent workers in all tag days for war irlief work.
Among those in the Council who worked in every phase of war activity were: Mrs. Lanis Aach, Mrs. Iadore Abrahams, Mrs. Julius Abrahams, Mrs. Jesse Albert. Mrs. Joseph Abrams, Mrs. Sam Albert. Mrs. M. S. Averbuch. Mrs. J. Bach, Mrs. Carrie Bernstein. Mrs. Lee Bissinger, Mrs. Julius Bloch, Mrs. Max Bloomstein, Mrs. Sam Bloomstein, Mrs. Harry Blum, Mrs. Joseph Blum. Mrs. L. Blum Mrs. R. D. Blum. Mrs. D. Bogat-kv. Mis. 1. Bogat-ks. Wr4. Perry Bromberg, Mrs. 11. Brown. Mrs. Max Burke, Mrs. Ellis Cahn, Mrs. 1 .. ( aplan, Mrs. Sol. Cline. Mrs. H. A. Cohen, Mrs. Jacob Cohen, Mrs. Louis Cohen, Mrs. M. D. Cohen, Mr -. Nathan Colin, Mrs. Sol. Carnawet. Mrs. 5. Cromstein, Mrs. Charles Cohn, Mrs. Sol. Com, Mrs. Joseph Cronbach. Mrs. 11. Dalheimer. Mrs. A. Davis, Mrs. Julia Davis, Mrs. Louis Diamond. Mrs. Sel Dreyfus, Mrs. M. Dickerman, Mrs. Joseph Ehrenwald, Mrs. I. Ellis, Mrs. Morris Ellis Mrs. V. Epstein. Mrs. Alex. E-kind, Mrs. Joseph E-kind, Mrs. Oscar E-kind. Mrs. E. Feld man. Mrs. M. Feldman. Mrs. Sam Feldman. Mis. Bernard Fensterwald. Mrs. Max Firestine. Alrs, Sidney Firestone, Mis. Adolph Fish. Mrs. Jake Fishel, Mrs. Joseph Fisher, Mrs. J. Fisher. Mrs. Sam Fishman, Mrs. Frank Flei-man. Mrs. M. Fleisman, Mr., Wilbur Florsheim, Mrs. 1. H. Foreman. Mrs. Aber Frank, Mrs. Ben Frank. Mrs. Emanuel Frank, Mrs. James Frank. Mrs. John P. Frank. Mrs. Low Frank, Mis. Milton Frank. Mts. Sol. Frankland. Mrs. Leopold Franklin. Mrs. J. Fried. Mrs. B. Friedman, Mr -. Moritz Freidman, Mrs. M. Freidman, Mr -. Simop Chertner, Mrs. E. Click, Mrs. Joseph Click, Mrs. A. I. Goldberg, Mrs. A. 1. Goldberg. Jr .. Mrs. Paul Goldberg, Mrs. Sam Goldberg. Mrs. Sam Guldfine, Mrs. Alvin Goldner, Mrs. E. Guldner, Mrs. B Guldner, Mrs. Fred Guldner, Mrs. J. Goldner. Mrs. 1 .. Guldner. Mrs. M. Guldner, Mr-, Max Goldstein Mrs. Walter Goldstein. Mrs. Solomon Goodman, Mrs. Saul Gordon, Mrs. Adolph Greenspan. Mrs. 1. Greenspan, Mrs. Mose Greif, Mis. Dan, Gross, Mrs. Alex Haas, Mis. J. Haber. Mrs. Ella Haiman. Mrs. Hattie Harcash. Mrs. W. E. Harris, Mr -. i.roh Hecht, Mr-, Opheba Recht, Mrs. Abe. Henning. Mrs. Ben. Herman, Mrs. 1 .. Hershkovitz. Mr. 1. 11. Hertzkt. Mrs M. Hirsch, Mrs. Sam Hirsch, Mrs. Abe. Hirshberg. Mrs. Charles
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