The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-19
COMMITTEE Of
45 MEETS WITH
FINE RESPONSE
Hundreds of Dollars Already Con-
tributed to Good Work in
Bismarck
CAPITAL CITY SECTION
PREPARING FOR FRONT
Delegation Of Surgeons and Nurs-
es Will Go to France Wom-
en- Working
MEETS SUCCESS.

MEETS @SUCCESS.
The committee Of IS. which
last Thursday began soliciting
funds for the Bismarck chapter
Of the Red Cross, has met with
splendid response from the CAPT.
tai city. Each committeeman's
subscriptions to date range from
$50 to 500. In only one instance
has any member Of the big COM
mittee metiwith refusal. individ.
uaI subscriptions run all the way
from 81 to $24.
DR.. Quain, when war was declared,
paid personal visit to Washington
and rendered the services of a Bis
marck section. Shortly after his re-
turn from the national capital; he re-
ceived telegraphic advice that his ten
der had been accepted and instruc-
tions to proceed at once with the or
ganization and equipment of the local
section and to be prepared to move
on brief notice.
Section Personnel.
The section as organized consists
of Drs. E. p Quain, J. o. Arnson and
F. r. Griebenow of bismarck, and
NachtWay of Dickinson, surgeons; a
head nurse and corps Of six nurses;
two orderlies and stenographer.
The section will carry surgical equip
ment and appliances valued at $4,000,
as we'll as ID boxes of hospital sup
plies from Bismarck and ten from
Dickinson The section, ready for
the field, will represent an expendi-
ture Of $4,000, and Bismarck will en-
JOY the distinction of being the first
city in North Dakota to render this
valuable service to the National Red
Cross association. rf
Women at Work.
Women of Bismarck, Dickinson and
Wilton have been laboring heroically
in the preparation of the vast quanti-
ties of bandages, dressings, lint,
gauze, ETC., which is required in hos
pital work. Dickinson is filling ten
boxes, while Wilton is cooperating
with Bismarck in filling the IA boxes
which this city has pledged.
Bismarck women have started or
their long list of Red Cross hospital
supplies which will 60 to fill the IA
boxes for the Bismarck hospital
corps. Scores of women met Friday
in the basement of the new nurses
home and started sewing. The list
which the Bismarck women are asked
to furnish will include AZ doc
tors and nurses gowns, &c dozen bed
sheets, 4S dozen pillow cases, 72 doz-
en- linen huck towels "a dozen Turk
ish towels, 1873 operating room sheets,
252 operating t5Wels, '2SS pajamas,
IA pairs 81 Waqd 'eHbpers,a IA bath:
robes, IA hospftal' Tied" sheets, 6oo
socks i2T4 shi Il 'Gnt 7HHn ~
Good Start Made.snil'. IT,
Friday the women made two dozen
sheets, one dozen pajamas and four
dozen binders. The response of the
Bismarck women for this work has
been most gratifying and it is ex-
pected that the boxes will be COM
pleted before orders come for the
section to- 60 to- France.
Old muslinse are being solicited to
wrap the articles for the boxes.
Those in charge of the preparations
are anxious for as many women as
possible to donate old muslins for
this part of the work. Anyone not
able to assist with the work at head
quarters will be allowed to take sew
ing home. -~-.-... q"
The City Federation of Womens
Clubs at meeting Friday in the Com
mercial club rooms voted to assist in
the work of the hospital corps.