The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-26
Kenosha People Strip Their
Own Beds to Bring Com
fort to Suffering Men at
Camp Logan.
ANSWER TO DEAN LATHROp
More Than Hundred Pillows Rushed
to Camp Logan This Morning to
Ease Heads Of Enlisted Men
Taken With Influenza.

''The boys at Camp Logan are dy-
ing for lack of pillows. We want five
hundred pillows to save their lives"
Was the message that Dean Charles La
throp Of the All Saints Cathedral in
Milwaukee brought to Kenosha after
ten O'Clock last night. Before noon
today, Mrs. j. r. Gottfredsen in
command of the Red Cross Motor Corps
Of Kenosha was on her way to Camp
Logan with motor car loaded down
with one hundred pillows taken from
beds of patriotic people in Kenosha and
before six O'Clock this evening, Keno
sha will have sent more than $50 pill
lows to the Camp to meet the patriotic
need. In the meantime Dean Lathrop
in Milwaukee has organized his forces
there and the other two hundred and
fifty pillows will be collected in Mil
waukee and at Camp Logan by the time
Old Glory is pulled down this eve
ming.
The report that Spanish Influenza
had attacked the boys at Camp Logan
and that hundreds of them are i'll and
iii danger brought the danger Of the
disease nearer to Kenosha today. Near
" all the boys at Camp Logan are well
known to Kenosha people. They have
been spending their weekend Glib
erty" here for some time.
On Tuesday afternoon Dean Lathrop
received the call for help from his
Curate the Rev. Mr.. Sturdevant who
was recently named to succeed the
Rev. G. F. T.. Sargent at Camp Logan
as Chaplain He sent an urgent call
for blankets and bed socks for the boys
just after seven o'clock in the eve
ming The Rev. Charles Everett Mccoy
Of st. Matthews Church received mes
sage that Dean Lathrop was coming
from Milwaukee with blankets and bed
socks and here he took an automobile
and went to Camp Logan. g. B. Voor-
his of the Kenosha Chapter Of the
Red Cross accompanied the relief
party to Camp Logan. They found
many Of the boys i'll and the great lack
was pillows Many of the boys were
suffering from pneumonia. The mem
bers of the Kenosha party returned
just before midnight bringing word
from DR.. Angel, Chief Surgeon at the
Camp that pillows were needed to save
the lives Of the boys. Chairman Alfred
Terrell of the Kenosha Red Cross was
notified of the serious need of the men
in camp. He promptly started work
and the Kenosha committee told the
Milwaukee men that it would meet half
the demand if the remainder could be
met in Milwaukee. This morning many
Of the members of the Kenosha Red
Cross were busy collecting pillows. It
was the first time that Kenosha people
had been asked to strip their own beds
TO make comfort for the BOYS in the
service, but nearly every patriot call
ed upon met the demand without a
murmur and it is certain that the full
supply of pillows needed will be at
Camp Logan before the day is over.
The Surgeons in charge explained that
the pillows were necessary for the
boys suffering from the Influenza and
pneumonia Get the pillows and get
their heads up to save their lives =
was the slogan heard all over Keno
sha this morning. The government will
furnish pillows later but the men suffer
ing may die before the Government re-
QUESTIONS are filed. If you can give
pillow call the Red Cross and if the
need has not been fully met your pa
triotic sacrifice viii be accepted