The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-28
RED CROSS
NEWS NOTES

Ralph c. Bagley has been appoint
ed assistant director of military re-
lief for the Northern Division and
director of the canteen service de-
partment Of that bureau. In addi-
ton Mr.. Bagley has taken over the
task of establishing an organized
system of letter writing to men in
the service from people living in the
towns from which the men have en-
listed.
LaSeuer, Kittson and Pennington
counties in Minnesota and Pierce
county in North Dakota, Mr.. Bagley
says, have already formed commit
tees to have charge of letter writ
ing to their men in the service and
other counties are falling into line.
"We are receiving many requests
for soldiers who want someone to
write to them," said MI. Bagley. "Un-
less chapter officials make public an
nouncements asking persons who wish
to write to soldiers to apply to their
chapter heads for names Of men from
their neighborhood who are in the SER
vice, the division headquarters will be
swamped.
"The work of collecting the names
of soldiers from each section and of
assisting omeone TO write to each is
particularly a duty of chapter and
branch officials. 1t is easier for them
to collect data and assign writer's who
have something in common with the
soldiers to whom they are asked to
write"
While in Deer Lodge, Mont, Mrs.
w. A. Bower, surgical dressing in
structor visited the penitentiary to
inspect the work being done by the
prisoners. Much of the work, she
said, was not up to standard, so she
pointed out the faults and left the
prison. A fortnight later she made
another visit to the institution to find
that all the work had been done over
and more garments and dressing, all
worthy of "Grade A" had been added.
Also the prisoners had equipped them
selves with white jackets, decorated
with red crosses cut from tobacco
boxes.
One of the department managers
for the Anaconda, Mont, Copper
Mining Company has completed his
third Red Cross sweater and is work
ing on the fourth.
Business men at Pine Island, Mimi,
compelled to close their places dur
ing heatless days improved the time
by cutting wood for the Red Cross. A
farmer near the city donated the
wood, the merchants furnished the la
Dor and SIP worth of wood was sold
for the Red Cross, the result of the
first days work.
Watertown, S. D., Red Cross work.
ers did not allow the stormy weather
to interfere with their work. The
city patrol wagon was placed at their
disposal, gothered up the workers
at their homes and took them to the
Red Cross work rooms. At night the
women rode home in the patrol wag-
on.
Miners at Fromberg, Mont, have
voted to give one days wages a week
to the Red Cross and to work Sun
days to speed up coal production un-
til the fuel shortage is v
In a conversation recently with Ida
McGlone Gibson, General John ].
Pershing told what he thought of the
work done by the American Red Cross
since the outbreak Of the a
II want to say" said General Per-
shing, "that no organization since the
world began has rel done such great
constructive work with the efficiency,
dispatch and understanding, often
under adverse circumstances, that has
been done in France by the American
Red Cross in the last six months"
Park Rapids, Mimi, started the
"Red Cross wood day." movement.
Pine Island business men were next
to take it up and now other towns
are following fast and furious. Be-
midi and Mankato, also Minnesota
towns, are the latest to take up the
new idea.
At Bozeman, Mont, a White Or
phington roster was sold at a Red
Cross auction for $177.50, thought to
be a record price for poultry.
Mrs. Werter Smith, Beresford, S.
D., claims the knitting championship
of the state if not the nation. In a
test race, Mrs. Smith knitted q COM
plete sweater, Of the type approved
by the Red Cross standards, in seven
and one half hours.
The Red Cross has supplied be-
tween 1900 and $4,000 sweaters, the
same number of socks, 10000 wrist
lets, 5000 mufflers and between l.
500 and 1000 helmets to men of the
Thirty-fourth division. at Camp Cody.