Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-30

Nancy lynne Tells Of the Work Lancaster fnnA Son Is
Born to Lieutenant and Mrs. Conser-Other
Matters OF Social Interest

IYAvE you seen the inside Of the emer-
IA gency hospital at Lancaster Inn? You
know everything in Il has been lent and
every piece Of furniture and equipment is
tagged, 40 that II looks like a museum.
The women Of the Main Line have been
doing wonderful work out there and Mrs
Thomas Branson has been most faithful
a. H. They have tea every afternoon IN
the nurses sitting room for the nurses
members OF the motor corps and aides. and
the doctors have lunch there every day at
1850 and talk things over together.
1drs Walter Chrystie is in charge OF the
househ sd department and there are vol
unteer workers every day, who WASH
dishes, arrange the linen ard cut flowers
FOR the forty.ive patients that are now IN
the hospital. The whole thing is nnanceo'
SOu know BY the Red Cross and the town.
Gh.p committee Another thing that VOL
unteer workers have done out there is to
!, keep one Of the laundries open, With 40
many demands on its capacity and many
OF its employees down with ilhuenSa, II
would have been entirely swamped II II
hadn't been for these women, who went
there and co ~nted things and sorted them
ana did things like that to release the
people who ordinarily dc 1t for the regu'
lar laundering.
think we owe a vote Of thanks to the
women who Lave been doing this volunteer
work--and are still doing 1t. They havent
hesitated for minute and their work mas
been Of the most trying kind Mrs. Jonn
wanamakef, Jr.. Of the Emerge c. Aid'
who had charge Of the emergency nursery
for children whose parents were sick Is
still busy arranging for the CHILDREN VINO
have had the disease themselves to be sent
to the country or to some place where
they will be we.. taken care OF ana 1eo
while they are getting over 1t.
INHERENT you delighted to h. ar that
w Jack and katherine Cohgcr have
little son? He was born on Monday, ana
he is to be named John De Feyster Conger'
Jr. Quite coincidence! His little cou-
sin. Katherine Clark's baby. Bayard Stock
ton Clark, was born in New Haven last
week. Katherine Clark and lack Conser
are sister and brother, you know. ana so
the little cousins will doubtless be close
friends, The Ciarks are in New Haven
for the winter, as Frank Clark Is in the
service there Lieutenant Conger is sta
toned at Camp Upton, though he has been
given a two weeks leave at present ana
has therefore seen his small. son.
Mrs. Conger was Katherine Hare,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. r. Em' tt Hare,
~ this CITY. and sister OF Phyllis Hare
Yarrow. Rene and Emlen Hare. Since her
anarriase sh. has been living with her
Husbands family, as Jack has been IN
tamp most o. the time.
DONT you feel proud Wan you actualy
~ know one Of the men who nave oeen
k.ommended? I do. 1 just fairly guipeo
with 10Y wien I learned that Vaughan
kAerrick had been commended my Major
f3eneral Muir for nghtng on Tor TWO
hours after he had been wounded. refusing
10 be relieved or to leave his men. BOD
.efferys, too, was spoken OF. Those boys
twera both in the Troop an were trans
ferred into the infantry. Vaughan is
brother of Mrs. Mexican Downs. who was
Anne Merrick, and he hes two other SIS
ters. Mary and Catherine. and brother.
Rodney Merrick. They are devoted ana
united family and must oe PROF. -
Vaughan's fine record
Bob Jefferys is the son OF Dr. JeHerys'
Who ia rector of st. Peters Church he
Episcopal Hospital unit.
TN THE midst Of all the fighting ana
j horrors overseas it doesn't take an
American lcng to pick out the or'snt
spots and it doesn't take him very inuch
longer to write them down and send tnem
home. captain who has been over there
for a long time and has seen his company
pretty we'll shot to pieces. wrote an inter-
esting letter the other day. He told very
bittle of the fighting, but he did tell
lpood story. 1t was about one OF our gal
liant colored fighters who was stroii'ng
along muddy road. A big gun was sta'
toned nearby, but 1t was SO well camou-
daged that he knew nothing about IT uhta
NJ suddenly "riz up" and sent large H. T.
.cross to Jerry with such thunderlhg
roar that tho wandering Yank was thrown
completely of his feet and out OF his sell
no.sAssion, Good Lawd!" he exclaimeo'
feeling for broken bones. count your men
A. x.,ser," NANCY WYNNE.
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