The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-11
Mrs. L. A.. Hamili Has Interesting Pa.
per at Meeting at keokuk Chap
ter D. A. r. Saturday
Afternoon.
ACTUAL EXPERIENCES
The Censor, However, Saw to it That
Interesting Things Were Clipped
Out of the Letters
She Had.

Keokuk chapter D. A r. was enter
/ tanned Saturday afternoon at the home
| of Mrs. j. w. Townsend with Mrs. j.
| d. Rubidge, Mrs. James B. Diver Mrs.
Robert M. Lapsley and Miss Dunlap
as assisting hostesses. Mrs. j. f.
Elder, the regent, presided and rout-
inc reports were made by Mrs. K. M.
Lapsley, the secretary, and Mrs. A.
! G. Decker, the treasurer. Miss Gage,
the registrar, reported that Mrs. Marg-
! aret McElroy Collision had been re-
ceived into the chapter by unanimous
vote, and that her lineage papers had
! been accepted by the national society.
| Mrs W. G. Blood read a letter from
/ j. A. Dunlap thanking the committee
,of the D. A. r. for having judged the
flag essays in the recent contest, and
enclosed ten dollars in payment for
/ the same, which amount was turned
into the chapter treasury. A vote or
thanks was given Mrs. D. A. Collier
for a gift of ten dollars to the state
society for the PHILIPPINE scholarship
fund, which gift Mrs. Collier made in
the name of the Keokuk chapter.
BY unanimous vote, Miss Wilma
fred Jones and Miss Edna Jones were
made delegates to the continental
congress to be held in Washington in
May. The Misses Jones are now liv-
ing in Washington.
Mrs. J. F. Elder, Mrs. Robert NJ
Lapsley and Mrs. Henry w. Huis-
kamp were elected delegates to the
state conference to be held in OF
tumwa in March. Mrs. W. G. Blood,
Mrs. N T. Wilcox and Mrs. A. G.
Decker were elected as alternates.
Mrs. D. A. Collier goes to the con-
ference as state chairman Of the Phil
ippine scholarship committee.
Recently the chapter adopted a
French orphan for which 5000 was
paid for it's maintenance. That
amount having been over-subscribed.
1T was decided to adopt second
orphan. Among the various d. A. X
chapters in Iowa, more than $1,000
has been given this year to the
French orphans fund.
Medical Work in War.
The program for the afternoon was
a paper on Our Medical Work in the
War, by Mrs. l.. A. Hamill. In intro
ducing her paper, Mrs. Hamill said
that the committee had asked her to
tell some interesting things which she
had heard from her niece, Miss Ruth
Hamill who Is Red Cross nurse !
in France, but said that the censor
was the only one who could tell the
interesting things as he had care !
fully clipped them from the letters. |
Miss Hamill had written in every |
letter of the cold and the rain and |
that they were living in huts back OF
the line without fire or heat Of any |
kind.
Mrs Hamill gave resume Of the |
history of the beginning Of the Amer
re n o
the Franco-Prussian war, done under |
the leadership of Mr.. and Mrs. Nc |
,Farland, who belong to the same fam
lily to which C. F. Mcfarland, the |
president of our local Red Cross chap
ter belongs These first American
Red Cross workers in France had
one ambulance and one small hospital
as an equipment and were enabled to
save the lives of 1900 men by their
efforts. They cared for both French
and Germans alike. The American
flag floated from the top Of their
ambulance and on the sides were
printed American Ambulance Hos
pital," and underneath was home.
made Red Cross emblem. This was
the beginning Of the American Red
Cross in France When this war was
declared. the same sort Of work was
but on an infinitely
larger scale The hospital units sent
from this country have been better
equipped than any army hospital
units ever have been. The men COM
posing them are college men, the
nurses highly trained and experience
ed, the whole personnel becoming a
part of the U. S. army.
Training the Nurses.
when unit r was organized we
all know how deeply it touched Keo-
kuk. They are now receiving their
f;,o1 training tho nurSes taking