The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-12-07
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On November 26, the girls of the
North Side Sixth and Seventh grades
organized a Junior Red Cross under
the leadership Of Miss Works.
The purpose of this organization is
to make garments to send to the SOL
] diers, and to make money in various
; ways to aid in the great Red Cross
movement.
The girls will meet every Friday
evening after school at the High
School sewing rooms.
The following officers were elected:
President ...........--..-.Cecllla Grltz
Vice President .........E leanore Wood
Secretary and Treasurer.......-.-.-...
Marguerite Gritz
A supply of grey and khaki yarn
i: has been received by Mrs. c. E. Smith
! from the Litchfield Wooden Mills, for
/ the Red Cross. Anyone desiring to
: knit may obtain the yarn at the Red
: Cross chapter rooms. Let every one
|! get busy.
! There was a box social held at the
Vandalia school house on November
3 20, for the benefit of the Red Cross.
y On behalf of the committee in charge
b Mr.. John David turned over to the
4 local chapter 1925 which was the pro-
3 ceeds realized. The Vandalia people
q have also contributed $50 to the Army
q Y. NJ. c. A.
= At a recent meeting of the executive
8 board of the Red Cross chapter, John
8 l.. Slattery was elected chairman.
Senator J, E. Lane, Lewistown,
Mont, head of the local Red Gross
chapter there, has issued an official
denial Of the rumors that garments
= and supplies shipped to the northern
u division have been refused.
Attempts to hinder the work of the
Red Cross by creating ~dissension be
tween Catholic and Protestant work
ers was detected by members of the
Chicago chapter, according to a Letter
received at Northern Division head
quarters from the secretary of the
Illinois organization. ~
Recently a ~sectarian periodical o.
Chicago published an article declar
ing that the Chicago chapter was con
trolled by Catholics who had refused
to allowed bibles to included in sol
dier's comfort kits because they wer'
the St. James revised version ant
therefore non-Catholic.
This report received wide circula
ton, extending through the northern
as we'll as the central division. Il
his letter the secretary of the Chi
cago chapter explained the origin o
the rumor. Bibles of a large size, h
said, had been rendered for shipmen
in comfort kits but had been refuse
on account of their bulk. Bibles Q
any version, if small and compac
enough, may be in the comfort kits i
desired, he announced.
In the little town of Akra, N. D
up heal the Canadian border nearl
every woman and girl began to kni
for the Red Cross at the outbreak Q
the war. They soon exhausted thei
supply of yarn. No more could b
supplied from Fargo OF Grand Forks
Not in the least disheartened tn
workers sent a message along tn
roads of Pembina county to ever
farmer in the section, SHEAR a shee
for the Red Cross" was their plea.
Hundreds of farmers did so. The
brought the wool to the women {
/ IAkId, WIN CdIOCOS "ONC 0A4N oPNAA Va
wool into enough yarn to last thel
all winter.
In a letter to friends at home T. n
Joyner of the Tw~enty-fifth Unite
States engineers, tells of opening h
comfort kit sent by the Red Cros
! 81 opened my Red Cross comfort kit
he writes with all the anticipation {
I'M a child exploring his stocking G
3 Christmas morning. My surprise ar
= appreciation were equal to those of
E child. l wish l could extend my gra
itude to the Red Cross chapter whic
+ made the kit"
G More Sweaters Needed.
The War Council of the America
4 Red Cross recently sent the followin
statement to all division managers:
at is imperative that all of tt
s sweaters, wristlets and socks that CO
Z possibly be made by the women of Il
country should be turned in to Il
T. supply department at the earliest pc
E sible date. With the cold weather COZ
ing on, the demand, for sweaters e
pecially, has been beyond the capaci
F. of all our Our to supply. v
have forwarded promptly all knit
articles received from the chapte
Z and have in addition been compell'
to buy in the market $50 900 sweater
of which about $50 900 have been d
y livered. These sweaters are MACH