Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-08-03
NATION WANTS $4,000
YOUNG WOMEN NURSES
Iron County Must Furnish Five. Big
Parade Next Monday Evening
at Seven O'clock.


25, 900 young women to join the
United States Student Nurse Re
serve and hold themselves in readi-
ness to train for service as nurses.
The war is creating an unpreCed-
ented demand for trained nurses.
Only those who have taken the full
training course are eligible for ser
vice with our forces overseas.
These nurses are being drawn larg-
ely from our hospitals at home.
Their places must be filled BY stud
ent nurses enrolled for the full
training course of from two to three
years, Every yourg woman who
enrolls in the United States Stud
ent Nurse Reserve is releasing a
nurse for service at the front and
swelling the home army which we
must rely on to act as our second
line of hospital defense. Upon the
health of the American people will
depend the spirit of their fighting
forces.
Age-The call is for women be
tween the ages of nineteen and
thirty-fve.
Qualifications Intelligent, re
sponsible women of good education
/ and sound health are wanted-the
pick of the country. A college
education is valuable asset, and
many hospitals will give credit for
it. Credit also will be given for
special scientific equipment or for
preliminary training in nursing,
such as that given in special c0urs-
es now being conducted by various
colleges and schools. Some schools,
on the other hand, do not even re-
quire a full high school education
Enrollment-W Women will be
given an opportunity to enroll in
the United States Students Nurse
Reserve in any one of three ways:
l. AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April l,
1919, to accept assignments to
nurses training schools. These
women will be sent to the schools
as fast as vacancies occur. Those
of superior qualifications will be
given preference, and it is, of
course possible that not everyone
who enrolls will be accepted.
2. AS desiring to become candi-
dates for the Army Nursing School
recently established by authority
of the War Department, with
branch schools in selected military
hospitals.
3. AS engaging to hold them
selves in readiness until April /,
1919, to accept assignments TO
either civilian training school or
the Army Nursing School. Those
who so enroll will be called where
the first need arises. The Govern
ment hopes that majority of those
who enroll will thus put down
their names, for both.
The campaign in Iron county
will be featured by a big parade
next Monday evening at 7 o'clock.
The parade will .orm at the court
house and the order of march will
be as follows: Tony Varda Drum
Corps, school children, band, city
fathers, county officers, Homt
Guards, veterans, nurse recruits,
Red Cross members, war mothers
and sisters, women, men end the
/ fire department.
The parade will move I orth on
Third avenve to Silver street, east
on Silver street to the bridge and
back on Silver street to Fifth ave
nue., south on Fifth avenue to Iron
street and east on Iron street to the
ball park. At the park the child
ren will sing patriotic songs and
the whole audience will be expected
to join in. The speakers will be
David c. Owen, DR.. Uren, Rev. J
KlopP, Rev Harries, Geo G. Fo5
ter and A. L. Ruggles.
Every citizen OF Hurley should
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