The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-24
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NEARLY |. ! 10000
ARTICLES FOR
SOLDIER BOYS.
Northwestern Rel Cross Women
in Noble Work for Warriors
" at the Front
NEEDLES DOING SERVICE
IN THIRD AMERICAN WAR

Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept 24.-Since
Major Grayson NJ. P. Murphy, Ameri
can Red Cross commissioner Stir
France, cabled a month ago an urgent
request for knitted articles to protect
the soldiers Of the American expedi
tionary force this winter the north.
west has produced 1897 knitted arti-
cles and started them on the way to
France, it, was announced today by
northern division headquarters. The
patriotic women of the northwest are
now making S,G41 additional knitted
articles, it was also announced, and
these will be forwarded within the
month.
While this, in the opinion of Ameri-
can Red Cross officials, is an enviable
record, it would have been doubled
had knitting yarn and knitting needles
been as plentiful as knitters. And
this record. furthermore, does not rep
resent the total output of the north
west, for many knitted articles were
made by other relief societies before
the American Red Cross became the
central shipping agency for all war
relief material, and many Red Cross
chapters have been slow in reporting
on the progress of their work on their
knitting assignments. In cases where
chapter has been slow in reporting
estimates for that chapter have been
extremely conservative.
Compliments Women.
"The promptness and willingness
displayed by the women Of the states
of the division-Minnesota, Montana
North and South Dakota--in mobiliz-
ing for the work of protecting our
fighting men from the rigorous cold
of the trenches is one of the most
magnificent aspects of war activities"
says A. r. Rogers, manager for the
northern division.
cover night thousands of knitting
needles began to flash and within
week the patriotic and industrious
women Of the division had started
stream of warm, knitted articles flow
ing toward France. This stream has
been growing daily, and it's size now
is regulated only by the amount of
yarn that can be procured to feed it.
Needles Of 81.
II venture to say no response ever
issued. by the American Red Cross,
or any other similar organization,
found so many willing and capable
hands to fulfill it. Knitting needles
that had rested since, their owners
saw the boys of 81 march back to
home are plying now, buster than ever.
Mrs. John Gould Of Morris, Mimi, is
using needles that are veterans OF
two wars. 49,.
"Throughout the entire United
States it is the same way. To put
the saying of public man of other
days in more apt words, "A million
patriotic American women took up
their knitting needles in a day The
ones who were proficient became in
structors, and their work is now COM
ing back an hundredfold."
Reports from the Field.
In North Dakota, Wahpeton will
have esq articles, it reports, within a
week or so. Lisbon is working on
so knitted sets, most of them nearly
complete.
Sioux Falls, S. D., has sent 1OS pair
of wristlets, ~ pair Of socks and is
mufflers. eve can double that out
put when we get the yarn" the chap
ter adds to it's report. Rcdfield has
sent 100 pair of socks.
The knitted articles already pro-
duced include 492 knitted sets, eight
navy sets, 3S1 mufflers, 1,17O pair OF
wristlets, 2,143 pair Of socks and "a
hemlits. A knitted set includes six