The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-01-25
RED CROSS NOTES

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At Havre, Montana, all chickens do
mated to the Red Cross since Thanks.
giving were kept and fatted and Their
sold last week at a monster poultry
auction.
According to the latest reports al
the northern division headquarters
Montana leads all other states in the
Union in the number of Red Cross
nurses enrolled in proprtion to the
number in the state. Out of 38 regis
tered nurses in the state 81 have en-
rolled for active service.
Members of the city council at Val
ley City, N. D., voted an a%ppropria-
ton to buy an electric knitting ma
chine for Red Cross workers of that
city. Their action was ratified by the
mayor without an hours delay. Now
the local chapter is more than doub-
ling it's output of knitted goods.
The Red Cross cannot endorse the
"god-mother" idea, according to a let
ter received from G. E. Scott, director
of divisional organization in Washing
ton. In many communities such &C.
tivities have sprung up, the members
pledging themselves to carry on COR
respondence with a soldier abroad and
to send him comforts periodically. The
Red Cross is unable to endorse this
plan because it is impossible for the
organization to handle packages con-
signed to designated individuals.
The Shriners of Butte, Montana,
have turned over to the local chapter
of the Red Cross $3.50, proceeds from
the sale of the famous sack of flour
sold by Islam Temple at San Fran
cisco and which is on it's way around
the United States to be sold and re-
sold for the benefit of different chap
tiers.
After being sold by Islam Temple,
the sack went to Honolulu where it
brought $1036 at Aloha Temple. Aloha
Temple agreed to double the amount
any other temple raised if it exceeded
that secured by the Honolulu sale. AL
geria Temple at Helena took up the
challenge and raised $4159. 1t was
then enclosed in a bear skin and SEN
to Butte, where Bagdad Temple out
did the generosity of the Helena
mobiles.
"France is a nation of mourning.
There is not a home from which some
loved one, a father, husband, brother
or son has not been taken"
This was the statement made by DR..
P. Sedgwick, 2O15 Kenwood Park
way, Minneapolis, who for six months
was in charge of a Red Cross hospital
near Toul, France, only a few miles
behind the firing line.
I'm this country we cannot appre-
the grief and suffering which
exists all through France" said DR..
"Every ablebodied man of
military age is either in the army or
has been killed or crippled. The wo-
men, the children and the old men are
bravely to till the little farms
and keep up the work at home.
"For miles and miles there is moth
ng but desolation in what was once
he most beautiful region of France.
Where there were once villages there
s now not a building standing. At
hight fires all along the horizon show
where hamlets and homes are burning.
cannot imagine here the hatred
he French people have for the Ger
mans.
"At the hospital where l was our
patients We're mostly refugees, driven
back by the advancing Germans. Many
If the people had lived for days, weeks
months in cellars. They were all
destitute and the children were filthy,
and alive with vermin.
"France will never give up. Their
hatred of the Germans is too great for
that, but they must have help to win
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can hold their lines on the
western front, but they feel that they
cannot advance. Our soldiers must be
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