The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1917-11-09

garments as the, are about the
scarcity of yarn. Our directors tell
US that our supply depot is also supply
ing Michigan and Indiana, and that
we must simply stand in line and wait
with all the patience at our command.
All who are interested in French Re-
lief Work are urged to come to the 1
meeting at Mrs. j. C. Beedle's Millin-
cry store on Monday, Nov. IL, at 2
o'clock. The generosity of the Medina
people was much in evidence at the
last meeting, as could be seen by the 4
number in attendance, and the great
amount of clothing which was brought
in. This work is for the purpose of
sending clothing to the French whose
homes have been devastated. Let ev-
cry one come and help in this worthy
cause.
Leroy Auxiliary reported a good
beginning in Christmas work, in its
correspondenceof last week.
4 Lodi Auxiliary, through it's director,
Mrs. F. H. White, reports that it's
Christmas work was planned and
started before the call was issued
from headquarters. Christmas packets
from Lodi Auxiliary will contain home
made candy some gifts of more SUBJ
| stantial nature, and personal, friend
, ly letter from the sender. Attention is
!, called to Lodi's' very practical plan
, for the study and practice of Conser-
, walton. Using the booklets issued by
/ the National Council of Defense on
= Preservation, Substitution and Con-
servation, they made their sewing
; room cleaning house for ideas and
/, recipes while hands are busy with Red
Cross Work.
fl Christmas packet campaign is well
in hand and promises results before
Nov. Is. when all overseas packets
must positively be sent to insure
Christmas delivery. Auxiliaries VIII,
have not sent their bags or packets
: please bear this in mind: After Nov
4 Is will come the campaign for {
e Christmas packet for every soldier ant
a sailor, in our cantonments and camps
- Next wek's' columns will have a lis
IF of desirable contents for these packets
is Extracts from letter of Marie Louis
st Brent in Paris
81 "Just back from a most excitin,
t, day at the Office. We have been aske
g to help the Department of the Aisne
"a Ten thousand people from nearb
IF towns were herded together in a tow
i'd that in normal times contained fou
IL thousand. They were locked in cellar
ne ne and hadn't been allowed out since tn
1e 1st of December. They were hal
% starved and so covered with vermi
81 that they had hardly looked human
ce The wounded had had no care and thel
of wounds were in a fearful condition
ms The Carrels took a lot of them at ono
nd to heir hospital at Campeigne, br
i'd the stencil of these poor creatures wa
ad so awful that their seasoned infrm
NJ ties were all ill. They found that dea
Of bodies had been systematically shl
nd la up with the children for five days
" order to breed disease amongst ther
u There is no UNSPEAKABLE thin
* that was not done to them. We g
hs busy at once and managed 100 balt
n and cases Of warm clothing, blanket
= rice, dried beans and peas and col
he D densed milk. 9
ms ms "I went down to see Madame Cou
lst col at the cantine, and there four
q such sight as I have never seen sint
i'd the war began, or ever, of course, in
ce agined before. Around the long tab
,id were crowded old men. women ar
ID. children, sent back from the town
d. that have been retaken. Madam
Courcol was feeding them and arour
M the table passed constant stream I
nd their friends, hoping to find some Il
!, their own families, Of whom they hs
We not heard for nearly three year
Never has the war come home to n
p- in all it's horror as it did in th'
nSs moment. There were about 500 peop
lie standing in line for their return to {
Of down into the cantine. They we
u taken in groups Of fifty at time.
shall never forget the look in Il
ay faces of those awaiting their turn, Il
expression of mingled dread and hop
,io After two and half years Of suspenI
IS they were to know the truth. The
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