The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-21
Or. Gray, Or. Fuller, Mics Bell, Miss
Hsnke and Mrs. Blank Have
Enlisted With Or.
Clarke
EXPECT ORDERS soon
OrderIies and Aids Have Been Chosen
From jefferson County, and
Several Are From
Parsons College.

! BIN2 Keokuk will give two doc
! HSsNsas9s5 ,rs and three nurses to Red
| ross Unit r from the south
astern section Of the state,
under command of Major Fred Clarke
OF Fairfield. The doctors will be
Henry Arthur Gray, chief Of surgeon
staff with rank of captain, and Frank
M. Fuller, medical staff with rank OF
! captain. The nurses are Grace Shire
ley Bell, Dora Blank and Margaret
Henke
Dr. Clarke in command OF the unit
has announced that his command is
ready for the CALL The following
from Fairfield will be of interest since
Keokuk is to be represented in the
unit:
The personnel of the company con-
sists OF twelve physicians, twenty
one nurses, fifty young men who are
known as orderlies and three clerks.
These have been chosen from all over
southeastern Iowa and very carefully,
too, by DR.. Clarke. Each member is
believed to be especially adapted to
the work which is before him and JEFF
ferson county people who are sending
their boys and their friends boys to
the front to fight for Uncle Sam will
|
pital unit is one Of the best equipped
in the entire service. This county
alone has Just finished giving $4,000
In cash to this organization. BurlinS-
ton, Mt. Pleasant, Fort Madison, Keo
kuk, Ottumwa, Abba, Oskaloosa and
lCenterville are each contributing in
an equally unselfish manner and fully
$4,000 worth of supplies and equip
ment will be taken by this organiZa-
ton to the service when it goes.
While no definite time has been set
for the mastering in Of this hospital
organization according to DR.. Clarke,
who is to be the director, 1t will be
ready for service any time after Au-
gust LIST and It is thought that it will
soon be called upon to proceed to
France.
! The Personnel.
The members of the organization
are as follows:
! observation-disclosures Frederick Clarke
Fairfield, director with rank of major;
Walter A. Sternburg, Mt. Pleasant,
adJutant with rank Of captain; Henry
A. Gray, Keokuk, chief surgeon staff
with rank of captain; John F. Herrick,
Ottumwa. chief medical staff with
rank Of captain; Lora D. James, Fair
field, medical staff with rank of cap
tain; Frank NJ Fuller, Keokuk, med
fcal staff with rank Of captain; Ed
ward Wehman, Burlington, medical
STAFF with rank Of lieutenant; John R.
Walker, Ft. Madison, medical staff
with rank of lieutenant; Albert O..
1Noerke, Burlington, medical staff with
rank of lieutenant; Albert Riemers,
TT. Madison. surgical staff with rank
lof lieutenant; Roy A. MCGUIRE.
Brighton, surgical staff with rank of
lieutenant: Kenneth L. Johnston, Os-
Ikaloosa, surgical star with rank of
lieutenant.
Nurses-Amy Beers, Fairfield, head
nurse; Esther Albright, Danville;
Madge Baldwin, Philomina Bauer
Nellie Davies. Mable Lusk, Ottumwa;
Grace Shirley Bell, Dora Blank. Mar
garet Henke, Keokuk; Anna Benson.
Fairfield; Daisy Carnes, Olive GRADER.
Elsie Thompson, Laura Tolander, Eu-
mice Worrell, Burlington; Beulah
|Swope, Birmingham, Bessie Whitaker,
Olive Whitlock, Mildred Learner,
Grace Van Evera, Davenport.
Orderlies-Frank Abbott, Alton;
Roy Anderson, Ottumwa; Robert An
stead, Fairfield; Irwin Atwood, Fair
field: Sylvester Barnett, Centerville;
De Witt Bregonier, Princeton; Paul
Bischop, Glasgow; Lowe F. Berger,
West Point; John Barwise, Fairfield;
Archibald Cantrell, Fairfield Orion o.
-, Coppock; Thos. F. Campbell,
Libertyville; Walter Clements. Fort
Madison; Charles Clarke, Fairfield;
Claude Downward, Fairfield; Paul E.
Terrell, Libertyville: Martin Edwards,
Fairfield, Harvey Gaumer. Fairfield;
Warner Glofelty. Fairfield; Chalfant
&C. Hemminger. West Point; Clifford
IEammerson Fairfield; Noble Hines.
Milo: Edmund V. Hunt, Fairfield;
William l.. Hobbs, Fairfield; William
A. Johnston, Birmingham, Clarence 5.
Johnston, Ottumwa; Harold l.. Ian
caster, La Claire; Milton Lorimer,
Fairfield; John G. Larmore, Fairfield;
Fllwood Lindbom, Fairfield; Charles
Is. Lamson. Fairfield: Bruce Mellis,
Ottumwa: c. N. McCarty. Ottumwa;
William P. McGiffin, Fairfield; Henry
IF. Mccullough. Charlton; Fred New
kirk, Fairfield; Joe G. Norris, Fair
field: Ralph PARROT, Fairfield; Hayes
w. Parsons, Fairfield; Warren Rogers,
Int Pleasant; Curtis Schillerstrom,
Fairfield; Calvin Scovel. Fairfield;
Paul G. spainhour, Burlington; Har-
old Self, Fairfield; M. F. Schlatter,
Davenport: Daniel Winters, Fairfield;
Guy Woellhaf, Fairfield; Stanley
Watts. Birmingham; Alton J. wesley,