Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-07-19
ANOTHER AMBULANCE
FROM AUDUBON COUNTY

A letter was received by Mrs. +.
S. Watts recently from her sister,
Miss E. H. Terrill, of Los Angeles, a
one-time resident of Audubon, but
who is now touring the east. Anoth-
er sister. Mrs. David Burton Beggs,
| formerly Miss Lou Terrill, of Los An
| geles, and a recent visitor at the
| Watts home. has also contributed a
| fifty dollar check to the ambulance
fund, which with local contributions.
| is nearing the four hundred dollar
mark.
Anyone wishing to contribute to
this fund may send checks or cash
to Mrs. Jno. Weighton, Mrs. F. S.
Watts. Mrs. Jno. Wagner. Dr. A, l..
Brooks or F. S. Watts at the First
National bank When the full amount
of the price of a Ford ambulance is
received the money will be turned
over to the Red Cross and the pur-
chase made.
The letter. which is of much inter-
cts locally. is as follows:
Hotel Westminster, Copley Square,
Boston. Mass, July s. 1917.
Dear Sister:
Your letter received. | expect ev-
eryone is working for the Red Cross.
| have not done anything yet so am
glad to give my mite to Audubon and
your friends who are working for
enough to send another Red Cross
Ambulance to France. Enclosed find
draft for fifty dollars.
| hope you will conclude to buy a
Ford ambulance as everyone who
knows anything about il says that it
is the only kind that will stand up to
the work required.
| saw two young men in Montreal
trying to learn to run one and they
had a great time killing their engine
every few minutes.
We have been seeing conside ra bic
of war precautions and PREPARATION all
the way from Seattle to the Atlantic
coast. The emigrant officer was stop
ping every man that boarded the boat
at Seattle and making him sign pa
peIs stating how long he was going
to be out of the United States. When
We arrived at Vic oria we saw large
rambler of doctors leaving for the
front
The Red Cross is certainly active
in Victoria. There was a wnIte dog
on the street with a ribbon on its
neck, to which was attached metal
box. An inscription on the box said.
II have earned 1000 for Red Cross"
You could not stop a minute any
where without some one would come
up to you and ask for donations.
Every able man in Victoria has
gone to the front. All those left seem
to be the aged and crippled There
was a musicale at our hotel one af-
ternoon and we talked with a num-
Der of the ladies present and every
one told of a husband or father in
France
When We reached Vancouver it
was tag day. The society girls were
out in force. two ion every street
corner by eight in the morning. III
you passed the first two the next
couple caught you.
Everyone in Western Canada was
conscription and how unfair
il was to let their part of the country
furnish so many persons while the
eastern cities were not doing their |
share.
They said that Ottawa. Montreal
and Quebec did not think much of the |
war so were slow in enlistments.
But we saw large numbers of sol |
diers in Montreal when we reached |
that city. There was also a company
of eighty Scotch nurses with their
own military band marching down |
the street. This was a fine looking |
lot of women. They were dressed just |
like the men.
On Dominion Day. July list. there
was a grand review of infantry. Irish.
Scotch and French. each accompanied |
by band which played their own no