Red Lake news. [volume] (Red Lake, Minn.) 1912-1921, 1918-03-01
RED LAKE, MINNESOTA, MARCH /, 1918.

RED LAKE, MINNESOTA, MARCH !, 1918
the department were asked to pledge subscriptions
of ten or twenty-five cents each to be paid every
month so long as the need for a hospital exists.
The first letter calling for pledges went out in the
latter part of last July and the responses
quick so spontaneous, that within short time
Mrs Lane had the assurance that the Interior De-
partment ward would be fully equipped and ade-
quately maintained
The far flung endeavors of the Association
started drive for hospital beds by the Alaskan
Engineering Commission in September and which,
before the last of the following month, resulted in
cash subscriptions aggregating $7,510.S6 In the
Neuily Hospital there will be ward, over the
door of which will be brass tablet bearing the
legend Department of the Interior and three of
the beds will be marked Department of the In
terror, Anchorage, Alaska" and two so marked for
Nenana and one each for Seward, Turnagaln Arm,
Matannuska, Talkeetna, and three for Fairbanks
Some of the subscriptions were made by laborers
who could not write their names. Other beds will
be marked to designate the bureau or Interior De-
partment branch which paid for the bed.
The Makah Indians of the Neah Bay Reserva-
ton on the Pacific Coast in Washington sent Mrs
Lane SO little baskets as their contribution to Red
Cross work. About that time the Association was
considering the advisability of having general
sale of articles such embroidery and other fancy
work to be contributed by women in Washington,
but when the Makah Indian baskets came they
gave rise to the idea of having a sale Of Indian
bead work baskets, Silver work and Ike articles.
So the Indians of the country were notified of the
plan and were requested to send in what they
could
The result sale of Indian goods at the
Home Club out Of which 81, 400 cleared and
the committee decided to that money for sur
gcal dressings.
The women of the Interior Department in Wash
ington gave a Thanksgiving dinner to 100 soldier
boys and after the dinner dance and reception
at the Home Club. The expenses were paid from
funds secured from volunteer Contributions OF In
terror Department employees in Washington ana,
after all expenses had been paid, there remained
500 which was turned to the War Work
Association.
There is nothing of the emotional about the
work of the Association. It's activities are char
acterized by businessike methods which give us
rooms the appearance almost, of commercial es-
Enlistment for it's organization has been erected
along strictly practical lines. The results OF the
first four months Of effort appear in the reports
made by Mrs. Lane which show that IN Septem-
Der. October, November and December there were
made, packed and shipping the following hospital
garments and articles: 34s Sheets 552 pillow
cases 1872 face and 1872 bath towels, 3O2 suits OF
paiamas ia suits of underwear, los day shirts,
Sc hospital shirts, II bath robes and pairs OF
SLIPPERS There also were knitted and shipped 2lo
pairs of wooden socks 124 sweaters, 80 helmets,
40 scarfs or mufers and Is pairs of Wrlstlets.
Besides the garments and other articles there
have gone across large quantity of absorbent
cotton a thousand yards of uncut gauze, lOO rolls
of three=inch handages and 200 rolls OF inch
dages Gift bundles for convalescents leaving the
made nv Interior
which are shaving soap and brushes, tooth brushes
and powder wash cloths, combs and brushes and
the like and the women of the Pension Bureau clip
entertaining stories, jokes illustrations and other
matter from newspapers and magazines and paste
them in scrap books to help the sick and wounded