The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-06-13
RED CROSS
NEWS NOTES

NEWS NOTES
A very successful Red Cross May
festival was held May %, at Ashton,
N. D. The program began with the
opening of a bazaar at $3.50 p. M,
land included a May pole dance, mill
tary drill, auction, vaudeville and
dance, and eliminated with a mid
night supper. The proceeds amount
ed to over $4,000.
More than 100 farmers in the vicin-
ity Of Bradley, S. D., have pledged to
donate to the Red Cross the income
from al acre Of land. The pledges
were made at a sale held recently at
Bradley which Melted the local Red
Gross $1284.69.
A movement has been started in
International Falls, Mimi, to have
the entire town sing "America" every
day at Z p. m. Every m in the
town is enrolled in patriotic work Of
some kind. The latest venture is the
ladies' patriotic chorus which sings at
the moving picture show twice each
week. It is the desire that through
this chorus everyone will become IA
miliar with the patriotic songs Of the
country.
The fourteen front canteens of the
American Red Cross in France served
100000 hot drinks during March,
while seven line of communication
-canteens served $4,000 hot meals.
Red Cross branches Of the Suits
man county chapter, North Dakota,
have been raising large amounts for
the Red Cross by means Of auctions.
Millardton, a town with a population
of 100 inhabitants, $3,420 was reali-
lied, in spite Of a downpour Of rain
during the day Of the auction. Ed
munds, about the size of Millardton,
raised $1,000 at a sale. Pingree, hav-
ing q population Of 800, raised $4,000
and Eldridge with only so persons
raised $1,000 at auction sales.
To see that the dependents Of SOL
diers and sailors shall be able to live
under proper conditions while the
wage Garner is fighting is the general
purpose Of the home service work of
the American Red Cross. Without
any suggestion of charity or patron
age this section will do everything to
assure the physical and moral well
being Of these victory families. (
Hilger, Mont, recently held an
enormous Red Cross sale. In spite
Of the fact that last years crops were
almost a total failure, each citizen
gave generously both of money and
products. The crowd gathered in the
forenoon and after q dinner provided
by women members, and served in. the
Red Cross work rooms, the sale began.
Everything was bid on from a pigs
squeal to a wooden horse. A quilt
donated by the Junior Red Cross was
sold for 500 and the purchaser plans
to send it to the Belgiums. In the
evening the crowd adjourned to a
large hall where the school children
presented a patriotic play, after which
q dance was given. The total pro-
!ceeds of the day amounted to $4,000.
A barn dance given at Garrison,
Mont, during the week of the second
Red Cross wal fund drive, netted 1888.
Nearly every individual Of the COM
munity was present, and Red Cross
workers furnished refreshments and
held an auction during the evening.
Two hundred fisher folk who fled
from Grando when the Austrians re-
took this Italian-hearted Austrian
town were sent to Terracina, Italy,
where they could engage in fish. That
they should not be a burden to their
new neighbors, the American Red
Cross has undertaken to supplyneces-
sary food and clothing until they be-
come self-supporting.
More than 1000, 900 surgical dres-
sings have been sent to France and
Flanders since April, 1917, by the
American Red Cross.
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