Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-02-28
RED Cross NOTES

hcU OnUOS VUItS
Men ore being enrolled slowly 70
service in ship building and will b
called intQ active service when needed
transportation from their homes t.
the shipyards where they are needet
will be paid by the government.
Statistical reports on the activity OF
the Nelson County, North Dakot,.
Chapter Of the Red Cross show that
the county has enrolled 4,666 men,
bers, has raised funds amounting t.,
S12,135, and has made and shipped to
Minneapolis 9,284 Red Cross articles.
The following letter from Miss Mo
bel Erb, formerly a worker in the sur
gical dressings department of the
Northern Division headquarters ut
Minneapolis and now in Paris, gives
an idea of the wonderful work that it
being carried on by the Red Cross in
France: Il think the French people
appreciate ss much as anything else
what is being done at this time TO,
the children in France, The distribu-
ton of food and clothing throughout
the devastated districts, as we'll as
here in Paris, has caused the French
people to express much gratitude. /
am copying paragraph from the Red
Cross Daily Bulletin, issued by the
Publicity Department: The Children's
Bureau is supplementing the rations
in the school canteens Of the 10Th Ar
reimbursement in Paris, where Amer
lean food daily goes to 1920 children
as means of preventative hygiene.
For the next month, the following
povisions have been requisticned: 12s
Kilograms of flour; 255 kilograms Of
beans; 200 Kilograms of sugar; "a,
Kilograms of timed beef, and 100 kill
ograms of cheese. The principle OF
supplementing school rations rather
than waiting for the effects of under.
nourishment to become evident, will b.
extended to the other ACCOMPLISHMENTS
of Paris. Department of Militar,
Affairs-Four thousand French mill
tary hospitals are receiving supple.
from the Hospital Department Ser.
vice of the American Red Cross. A,
present the Surgical Dressings Ser
vice is supplying some 1000 hos.
pitals."
Fifty farmers in Black Loan town.
ship, LaMoure county, North Dakota
formed Loyalty League last weel
and signed the following pledge; "Ou,
Motto: America First, Last and Al.
the Time. We, the undersigned far
mers of Black Loan township, L,
Moure county, North Dakota, believ.
ing that every man, woman and child
in the United States should do thcil
part to back the boys at the front
and help bring our war with Germany
to speedy and successful close, here.
by pledge ourselves to do our best
working early and late to produce
large crops to feed our soldiers ant
those of our Allies during the dura.
ton of the war. We further pledge
ourselves, each and every one of US
to set off one acre of wheat, to be
marked by crosses, and the total pro
ceeds of each acre thus set off to be
donated to the Red Cross society ir
the fall of 1913"
In a conversation recently with Idah
McGlone Gibson, General John j.
Pershing told what they thought Q
the work done by the American Rec
Cross since the outbreak of the war
II want to say" said General Perish,
ing, fthat no organization since the
world began has ever done such great
constructive work with the efficiency.
dispatch and understanding, often un.
der adverse circumstances, that has
been done in France by the American
Red Cross in the last six months.
Mrs. Werter Smith, Beresford, S.
D., claims the knitting championship
of the state, if not the nation. In
test race, Mrs. Smith knitted a COM
plete sweater, of the type approved by
the Red Cross standards, in seven and
one half hours.
Ralph C. Bagley has been appoit-
ed assistant director of military re-
lief for the Northern Division and d.
rector of the canteen service depart
ment of that bureau. In addition Mr..
Bagley has taken over the task of es-
tablishing an organized system of let
ter writing to men in the service
from people living in the towns from