Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-12-20
RED CROSS NOTES

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Soldiers ct Fort Smelling will be
supplied with knitted articles this
week, according to Coler Campbell, di-
rector Of the bureau Of military relief
ttr the Northern Division.
| Up 70 the lresent time the deruand
for knitted garments abroad has been
30 insistent that every available alti-
Gle was shipped to France or to the
ports from which the troops were de-
parting. Now that the weather in
Minnesota has become cold Mr.. Camp
bell has decided that the troops here
must be supplied. He has requisi-
TONED enough garments from the d.
vision supply house to equip every
man Ut Fort Smelling with . sweater,
. pair Of socks and to all who wish
them mufflers and wri1tlets. In ad-
dition the Minneapolis Red Cross
chapter will present each man with
comfort kit.
| When Mrs. W. L. Scantlin, Lead,
s. D., was visiting in Nebraska
town. she discovered that there was
not Red Cross branch in the place.
Not woman in town knew how to
knit well enough to take the lead in
the organization Of an auxiliary.
Mrs. Scantlin made house to house
canvass, enlisting women for Red
Cross work. Then she discovered
that there was not set of knitting
needles in the city. Even this OBJ
istacle did not deter the Red Cross
advocate. She obtaind = number of
meat sticks at the local butcher shop,
the kind Of sticks that are used to
bind roasts, converted them into knit
ting needles, and when she left the
ely it had q Red Cross auxiliary with
nearly every woman in the commune
ty . member, all industriously knit
ting with meat sticks.
| Eighteen patients at the state hos
pital for the insane at St. Peter,
Mimi, began knitting for the Red
Cross three weeks ago. Up to date,
they have completed 102 sweaters, 81
muflers and 80 pairs Of socks, all of
which have been graded "a" One
patient, who began knitting only .
fortnigt ago, has completed six
sweaters, an average of three q week,
q record for the institution and
thought to be speed record for most
any knitter.
Gunder Gunderson, proprietor of q
bowling alley at Minor, N. D., ar
rested for alleged Islander of the Red
Cross, has been bound over to the
federal grand jury by United States
Commissioner Gustave Schuler,
Wahpeton, N. D., and released on
81 900 bail.
Indignant denial that Red Cross
garments are being sold to soldiers
was contained in letter written by
Edwin H. Brown, Red Cross field
director at Camp Cody, to Mrs. r
ard WEIGH, secretary of the American
Red Cross at Litchfield, MINI, who
had written in regard the rumors
that are being circulated broadcast
regarding the Red Cross:
1.-THE Red Cross sells absolutely
nothing the soldiers" Mr.. Brown
declared. Something must be
wrong with the makeup of people
who spread such stories. OF course,
they are hopelessly ignorant of what
is really going on to speak as they
do. If they could only hear what the
men say about the women who are
sending these things and know how
they are appreciated, every woman in
the country would be proud and happy
to say she had provided ut least one
sweater or pair of socks or wristlets
for the soldiers. Such stories stir
anyone up who has ever had anything
to do or any actual knowledge Of the
Red Cross"
Copies of a cablegran from Thomas
Nelson Page, American Ambassador
to Italy, to Henry P. Davidson, chair
man Of the American Red Cross war
council, were received at Northern
Division headquarters. Speaking of
the work of the Red Cross in Italy,
Mr.. Page says: "The Red Cross here
has perfected its organization and is
doing excellent work, covering we'll all
OF the large cities. It is reaching
not only refugees but through provin-
cinl committees the families Of poor
soldiers at the front. It is making a
great impression"
At Osakis, Mimi, angry citizens
seized E. H. Stratemeyer, who had
been outspoken in his sympathies with
Germany and his opposition to dona--
lions for the Liberty Loan and Red
Cross, and administered coat of tar
and feathers. He was warned that
more drastic punishment would be
given if he continued in his course.
At Hoven, s. D., town composed
largely Of inhabitants of German ma
tivity, Red Cross auction Monday
brought $3.50 for the Red Cross.
Articles of every kind were sold. A
barrel Of apples brought $40. pair of
fowls were sold for $22. Red Cross
tags produced handsomely ,one four
year old girl selling $50 worth.