The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-29
NURSES' DRIVE OPENED TODAY AT
 WAR BUREAU Start to Obtain Our Per centage of Connecticut's r. Quota. COMFORT CLUB
 COMMITTEE MEETS Picnics Planned For Play
 ground Children at
 Seaside.

Miss Margaret Rourke was the re- cruiting officer for the first day of the drive for Bridgeport's shore of Con- necticut's quota of 450 student nurses. The headquarters for this city is at the War Bureau in the Bridge port National Bank and it opened this morning at o'clock and will be open each day until August Il, from to 5 o'clock This is one of the greatest opportunities offered to the women of this country to do valuable war work.
 Those who will be in charge on the other days of this week will be Mrs. Winifred Grammar, Tuesday; Miss J. B. Scanlon, Wednesday; Miss Eliza beth Oliver, Friday, and Mrs. Hugo, Saturday.
 Owing to the fact that so many nurses have gone into the service it is most necessary that their places should be filled and so the govern ment has sent out a call for 25,G00 student nurses. It is imperative that whenever a graduate nurse enters the service there should be at least two student nurses to take her place. They will be needed not only over the seas but in this country as we'll. | Every young woman who volunteers can have her choice as to which class she will be placed in, the preferred or the deferred. The first named class accepts the assignment to whatever branch of service the government sends her whether it be to a military or civilian hospital or for over seas duty. In the second class, the nurse will only go to certain hospitals. This class was created so that those who cannot go far from their homes for ure of service. l Young women who are desirious of entering the profession must be be- i tween 19 and B years of age, must be sound in health and must have had year in High school or it's equiva- lent Bridgeport now has quite few | young women who are interested in this branch of war work and when this drive is over it will be found that Bridgeport has furnished its percent age of Connecticut's quota.
 | Mrs. Charles I. Crosby entertained the Ways and Means committee of the Comfort Club this afternoon at her home on Beechwood avenue. It
 will be the last meeting of the com mittee for the summer months. Plans
 were discussed for the raising of
 money as this is, the most. important | part of the work this club does. It
 has been sending $200 a month to the members of the 102nd Ambulance Corps since the club was founded and is very desfrous of keeping up this
 practice as it is greatly appreciated
 by the boys for it enables them to buy
 many little comforts that they could
 not otherwise enjoy.
 Under the auspices of the Recrea- , ton Board the first of a series of
 picnics for mothers and children is to be held on Wednesday at Seaside
 park. At this time the children who play in Washington Park, at Old Mil Green and the Waltersville Schoo playground are to be taken to the : park in jitneys, starting from the playgrounds at 9:30 o'clock. These jitneys will go back to the park at {
 o'clock to take the youngsters an6 their mothers home. All the childrer
 are to take is carfare, bathing suit: and luncheon. There will be two more of these picnics for the young sters at the different playgrounds ant
 their mothers, one on August first anC n another on August '.
 s Franklin Sherwood of Laurel ave y nue accompanied by his daughter-in law, Mrs. Franklin Sherwood, 3d, 0
 Lafayette street, spent the week-ent
 in Jersey City at the home of hi
 daughter, Mrs. William c. Stone.
 The condition of Mrs. Fanny Kan .. who is seriously i'll at her home o1 il Warren street remains unchanged. Mrs H. W. Fleck of Lafayett ' street has as her guest at her hom '' her father, James H. Gray of Cam | den N. J.
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