The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-11-30
E CROSS NOTES
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The fifth Red Cross shipment was
sent TO headquarters at Minneapolis,
IN Monday. The articles contained IN
th;s shinment were made by auxlllar-
les at Oswcgo and Opheim, and the
Glasgow chapter. There is a decloeo
increase in the interest SHOWN III Ine
work. and it will not be long ere an
other box will be ready to be shlppeo'
A list of articles sent follows:
Three operating caps, D operating
masks. 26 bed shirts, II pairs paJa,
mas, 18 bed jackets, GO bed SOCKS :.
pair pillow cases, II bed sheets, ~
comfort pillows, 3 sweaters, null
lers, 3 pair wristlets, 3 pair SOCKS
Mrs. F. J. Tyner of Oswego was IN
Glasgow last Friday attending the
snecial meeting of the Red Cross held
in the Commercial club rooms, and
obtaining instructions in the work OF
the organization. H..
The Auxiliary of Oswego is just
being started, but already good %
has been accomplished. The ladies
assisted in the making OF the gar,
ments sent in the fourth shipment, and
the following ladies sent IN articles
by Mrs. Tyner to the chapter: MRS
Claud Johnston, 3 pairs pajamas; Mrs
Tilford Hagen, l pair pajamas; Mrs
Victor Jelmberg, l pair pajamas; Mrs
Martin johnson, l pair pajamas; Mrs
Tom Dorr, / pair socks, and Mrs. Z.
B. Smith, l pair socks.
Mrs. A. W. Schilling donated $4,000
to the work of the Red Cross.
The Glasgow chapter received S54.O9
in membership dues from the Nashua
auxiliary, and also a donation of $167'
This auxiliary has been dome excel
lent service. On Monday Mrs. A. N.
Currie of Nashua brought in the fol
lowing garments, made by these la,
dies: 10 pair knitted socks, Al bed
shirts, 2 pair pajamas, l pair bed
socks, 2 knitted mufflers.
The following donations apart from
those already mentioned have been re-
ceived by the Glasgow chapter: Roam
wood, $500; A~vondale, $500; Mrs
J.. j. Tattan, 5000; Mrs. Henry Hos
ford, $500; Mrs. j. w. Baker, S1.OO,
and $500 in membership fees from
the Ossette auxiliary.
Eight van loads of Red Cross sup
plies, sweaters, shirts, socks, surgical
dressings, and other things made by
the workers, reached the division sup
ply house every day. A small army
of men, women and girls, working I'M
der the direction of Mrs. Laurence p
Horton, chief Inspector for the divi-
sion, are kept busy from morning I'M
til night, unpacking, sorting, inspect
ing and finally repacking the supplies
and shipping them to their final desti-
nation, either across the sea or to the
soldiers in our own training camps.
AS the boxes come in they are un
packed and the different garments
assembled together-the sweaters il
one pile, surgical dressings in another
and socks in another. Then each gar
ment is inspected to see that it con
forms to regulations. The surgical
dressings are inspected more minutel,
than any other article. Women, mos
of them nurses, trained in the work
go over every gauze compress seeking
for stray threa Is that the worker
may have overlooked.
Finally the goods are repacked il
huge boxes, lined with waterproof pa
per, nailed and bound with strips o
metal. A printed list, showing wha
contents. The address of it's fina
destination, together with an an
nouncement of the contents is STENCIL
ed on the outside of the box. Fror
35 to 40 of these boxes are shippe
from the division headquarters dali,
During the rush of Christmas good
for France the output was even great
er.
Frequently the inspectors discove
notes attached to the garments, writ
ten by the women who have made tn
goods. Contrary to the popular bt
lief, it is extremely seldom that
"mash note" written by a girl seel
ing to strike up a romantic correspond
ence with a soldier, is found. MOI
often the notes seem to be write
by elderly women, women who ha,
sons, husbands for brothers in tt
army. These messages are full
encouragement and good cheer. O
casionally the workers write the
messages in poetry, some good, son
not so good as to rhyme and mete
Often placards on the garments a
nounce that the knitters are men
women past 80 years old.
School boys at Great Falls, Nor
; are learning to knit and are doing
much Red Cross work as their G
companions.
Any concrete evidence that swes
/ ers or other garments, made by t
Red Cross workers for soldiers, a
being sold to soldiers or others OF
side the military life, would be mt
cordially welcomed at the Northe
Division headquarters.
: Scores of rumOrS reach the hes
quarters every day. Attempts ha
Z been made to trace these stories
s their r. repeatedly, but never /
8 a fragment of truth been discover
! AS a rule the stories sem to st;
': when Mrs. Jones tells Mrs. Smith II
she has heard that the soldiers {
compelled to pay $40 for sweate
4 Always it is 10, no more and no lie
and always it is for a sweater. SIN
. meets Mrs. Brown and tells her Il
4 Mrs. Jones knows of a soldier who
3 paid SO for a sweater. Mrs. Bro
q tells Mrs. White that Mrs. Jones
: a letter from a soldier telling how
paid $40 for a sweater, and Mrs. VIII
comes out with the completed sto
i which usually finds its way to +
4 Cross headquarters, to the effect Il
] Mrs. Jones had a letter from her s
+ in France, announcing that he p
:. SO for a Red Cross sweater that M