The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-04-24

fit 81 the Red Cross II towns Of Rock
County, and it is expected It will %
sold at other Auctions to be held
the future.
Alexandria Harper,o6 Buffalo, ST.
d., who is 80 years old, is knitting
socks for the Easter Custer County
Red Cross chapter. Mrs. Harper has
already been thru four wars but, in
spite Of her advanced age, is doing
her "bit" in the present world crisis.
A "silver tea" recently netted $50
for the Yellowstone county Red Cross
chapter, Billings, Mont. Workers in.
uniform served, and program Of
vocal and orchestral music was given
throughout the afternoon. The vol
unta " offerings were silver coins Of
any denomination.
One of the leading greenhouses of
the city donated 1900 carnations, to-
gether with violets and roses, to be
sold on the strees by Red Cross work.
ers. The proceeds from the flowers
amounted to 1925.
During a Red Cross sale held in
Chancellor, S. D., last week, a bushel
Of wheat brougDht 500; a rooster sold
for $51.5O; a cake fer $42.25; and a
United States flag for $1O7. The en-
tire amount realized from the sale was
$114O.35. This town has a population
of only 22S.
Queen Mary Of England has recent
ly made a gift Of a beautiful pearl of
great value, taken from among her
own jewels, to the committee which is
e%ndeavoring to make a collection of
these lustrous gems with the idea of
forming an historic and unique mckee
lace to be sold later for the profit of
the Red Cross .
The Red Cross expects to spend APP
proximately $1,150,00 of which ST.
10000 has already been appropriated
by the war council in construction and
equipment of c~onvalescent houses, and
for nurses at camps and environments
Of general hospitals in the United
States. A preliminary appropriation
of $4,000 was made February 81,
and an additional million has just been
voted on by the wal council.
Contracts have been executed foi
the erection of twenty Red Cross hous-
SEES for co%nvalescents at and average
cost of $4,000 and furniture ordered
at an average Of $1,000 for each hodse
Contracts are about to be let for 81
additional convalescent houses and
probably ten more will be erected,
bringing the total to fifty one at some
camps where conditions do not justify
erection of a building Of standard size.
It is planned to erect smalled build
ings; their cost, with furniture, to be
about $1,000
Nurses houses which the Red Cross
will erect with the approval of the
Surgeon General Of the Army will
adioin nurses quarters at each large
army camp and other places, as such
buildings are needed. A STANDARD
plan has been prepared for these
buildings; their cost to be between
$1,000 and $1,000 each.
About forty completely furnished
Red Cross houses will be erected, fol
convalescent in addition to sleeping
quarters provided with sun parlors
rooms for moving pictures and othel
forms Of entertainment, and will
games and comforts which assist il
fastening recovery of the health o!
young soldiers upon discharge from
cantonment hospitals. Accommodation,
also will be provided for reatives sum
moned by serious illness Of men in tn,
camps.
!. At the Red Cross auction held re
J GENTLY in. Brewster, Minn.;-a villag,
; with a population Of 30O-$4yO00 wa,
) raised for the local branch disc hex
been donated by farmers and business
men. IL, II,
One of the features. of the sale wa,
an egg which sold for $258. A DO,
. Of cigars brought $500 and then til,
empty box was auctioned off for $34
. The "Kaiser's goat" was sold for $151
Girls Of the Martin-Kene Agricult
ural scholar Indian school in Kene
Is. D., are using scraps Of cloth from
the sewing department of the institu
ton in making quilts to be sold 70,
the Red Cross. They furnish, the pad
ding and lining themselves out Of theil
allowances. Two of these quilts wer,
sold recently for $40 apiece.
The King Of Italy has turned: par
Of his palace at Genoa into warehouse
for the American Red Cross.
The Red Cross has been shipping
millions Of dollars worth Of supplies
for refugees and the families Of sold.
iers, into Italy. Large storage space
was needed, and the King solved thu
difficulty Of SO far as Genoa was con,
cerned by. opening the royal palace. {
great stone building crowning one o
the steep hills which rise from thu
harbor, for the purpose.
The building has two large wings
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