The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-04-19

in the work of the Red Cross for
Valley county. More work has been
given out and taken in then in any
proceeding month up to this time.
Splendid boxes of garments have
been received from Oswego, Hinsdale,
Ossette, Baylor, Lismas, Roanwood,
Glentana, Opheim and the Thursday
club auxiliary. The Junior Red Cross
societies all over the county are doing
very commendable work.
During this month six cases of sup
plies have been shipped to headquar-
ters at Minneapolis, which include
the following articles: 20 bath mitts,
IS sweaters, 5 scarfs, 40 pair socks,
10 wristlets, 12O bed shirts, $50 bed
socks, 20 pajama suits, 5 French caps,
3 bath robes, 10 layettes, 2 boxes Of
Squibbs sugar, "a irrigation pads, So
gauze congresses, 1856 gauze wipes.
Resourcefulness comes easily
enough when buildings and equipment
are complete; it is in completing them
that the Red Cross doctors, nurses and
relief workers in France have shown
their native genius. At Evian, on the
Swiss border, for instance, where
trains come in daily bringing the re-
patriated from Germany, Belgium and
the invaded country, the former kitch-
en- of a hotel vas turned into a dental
dispensary and a workable dentists
chair evolved from a wine barrel.
The garage on the same place was
made into a children's dispensary
where-naturally enough-a kitchen
table served as an operating table
until the regular equipment arrived.
Physicians Of the children's bureau
established by the American Red
Cross examine an average of 500 chill
dren arriving there each day, and send
those i'll from contagious diseases to
the hospital. Every Ease thus stopped
and isolated at the border means that
the chance of epidemic elsewhere in
France has been avoided. Among the
first cases to be treated at Evian was
that of an under-nourished boy from
Lens whose family of seven had lived
for .wn years and a half in the cellar
Of their ruined nome.
The American Red Cross is sending
large orders to its chapters through
out the country for surgical dressings
for the United States army medical
service. The makeup Of the dressings
will conform to army specifications,
but those who have been working on
the Red Cross standard dressings Will
have little difficulty in following the
army directions.
o,; l. is the tn + intention ti!. Of the army auth
t ~ ~ ter" .rr to the Red Cross
~" -...I, such as gauze and cotton.
.equired to make the dressing definite
ly asked for by the medical corps. The
Red Cross chapters will in turn have
the benefit of this arrangement.
The productive capacity of the Red
Cross workrooms throughout the
country has been steadily increasing,
and with much of the work practic-
ally under army direction, the Red
Cross will be even more helpful to the
medical service than in the past.
Beresford, S. D., again claims cham
pionship in knitting sweaters. Mrs.
Wertor Smith, a worker in the Red
Cross branch, has established a record
recently by completing a sweater in
exactly four hours and forty-five min.
uteS.
During the month of February, The
Minot. N. D., chapter Of the Amer.
lean Red Cross completed $4,000
worth of work for the Red Cross
This was the largest amount sent in
in spite of it being the shortest month
Queen Mary of England has re
Gently made a gift of a beautiful pear
of great value, taken from among he
own jewels, to the committee which i
endeavoring to make a collectinn o
these lustrous gems with the idea o