Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-08

Wnen the thousands OF non EnSllSn
speaking Hungarians, Poles, Slavs
and Italians were driven from their
homes by the terrible explosion in the
Gillespie Munitions plant near South
Amboy, New Jersey, Mrs. Edith Terry
Bremen Of the Division for Foreign
born women Of the Y. W. C. A. with a
group Of her workers speaking the
languages most needed at the scene of.
the disaster, volunteered their services
to the Red Cross in Perth Amboy.
Railway and Newark. The Brooklyn
International Institute had been call
ed out at 2 a.. m. Miss Edith Jar
dine Of the New York International
Institute stayed with her helpers at
the ferry which took the non-English
speaking refugees into New York city.
There was a scurry for the loan of
u new var uniforms, as a Y. w. c.
A. uniform is a pass where civilian
clad women cannot go. Mrs. Timko,
a former worker Of the Y. w. C. A.,
cared for eight hundred or more refu-
gees in a reformatory at Newark. She
speaks Hungarian, Polish and Ruth
enian. =
1t was because the International
Institute had a program for the every
day life of the foreign-born hat it
became the right hand of the Red
Cross in these hours Of distress.
The Alpha Sigma Epsilons enter
tanned at a small town" circus last
evening when they held open house
to the girl students and faculty wom-
en- remaining on the campus. Stunts
were put on by each resident hall
group. Informal dancing conclud-
ed the evening.
Alfred H. Anderson of this city, who
is in training at the Great Lakes naval
station. secured a marriage license in
Chicago yesterday to wed Miss Elsie
Berkeley of Dearfield, III.
Mrs: John Bulge left yesterday for
Moosejaw. Sask., where she was
called by the illness of her sister, Mrs.
Frank Young.
Miss Blanche Lynch is ill at her
home. 4ao South Fifth street.
Captain Veach Of the Salvation
Army and Mrs. veach have an
nounced the birth Of a son Thursday
morning, November Z.
Miss Sophia Thornton arrived yes
terday from Devils Lake, where she
has been taking care Of her sister who
has been Ill. Miss Thornton will re-
main in the city until the school at
V11LlV6l OpSIl6. FN
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Ossen, 6 Girard
Place, have announced the birth Of
O daughter.
Miss Erma Grumiller, who is SER
iously i'll with pneumonia, has been
taken to a local hospital.
Mrs. c. E. Dezotell, who has been
i'll with the influenza; is improving.
Miss Bessie Bains is reported to be
recovering after an attack Of influ-
enza.
Miss Edith Veitch, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Veitch, Cottonwood
street, will leave on Monday en- route
for New York city, where she will
report on November 10 for overseas
duty as a nurses aid and refugee
work. En- route Miss Veitch will
spend Monday with her brother. Mel
o veitch. at st. Johns Military
Academy, and h will also spend a
day at Cleveland, Ohio, with her
aunt. While in New York, Miss
veitch will be the guest Of Rev. and
Mrs. Matthews, formerly Of this city.
"How about your new fiat?
BAH"
Huh! Why. only last week your
wife was Dragging about it as a rare
find"
1T has just dawned on us that We
moved u of that fiat four years
ago."-Minneapolis Tribune.
About 10000, 900. acres Of land i,
given over to tobacco cultivation In