Grand Forks herald., 1918-09-13
IOf Interest to WOnl en-
Nursing Course
To Be Started

A course OF instruction in Ele-
mentary Hygiene and Home Care of
the Sick is to be started here within a
snort time, according to an announce
lnent made by Mrs. O. j. Barnes,
chairman Of the Red Cross commit
tee on this work: The classes will be
held In rooms on the third floor of the
federal building which are now being
equipped and fitted up for this pur-
pose.
Recent communications from the
division headquarters advised the
committee to delay the opening Of
the classes until the new books on
the subjects to be taught, have ar
rived. and it is expected that they will
be here during the next week.
Registration for the classes may be
IN the First National bank building.
with the office secretary. The classes
are open to young women and
matrons who are interested in the
work. In view Of the fact that there
Is such a great demand for nurses
aids, to serve in military hospitals in
france, and also that there is such q
shortage OF nurses for home service,
this course should appeal to num-
bers Of women.
The course includes Is lessons.
When these have been completed,
and the class members have salts
factorily passed the final exanina-
tions, they are entitled to volunteer
for nurses aids, or are equipped to do
creditable amount of home nursing.
Nurses aids must be at least rs years
of age.
At the present time it is hoped to
have two classes in progress-that is,
morning and afternoon, or evening
classes. In order to get the classes
under way, each must have a member
ship of at least Is women and girls.
There is such general demand for
the nurses aids, and home nurses,
that these courses in Elementary
Hygiene and Home Care of the Sick.
are to be an important and per-
manent feature of the Red Cross
work. 's
Women interested may register at
the Red Cross chapter rooms, daily,
between in the morning and in
the afternoon, with the exception Of
Saturdays, when the rooms close at
noon.
One hundred and fifty local unions
will be represented in the annual
state convention Of the North Dakota
w. c. T. U. which will take place at
Bismarck, September 10, to 23. The
Bismarck Commercial club, and the
Bismarck w. C.NT. U. through its
committee on general arrangements,
Miss Aadyth Ward, and Mrs. William
Suckow, are now busy making prep
arations for the entertainment of the
delegates.
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson
of Fargo, the, state president, is to
preside at the meetings, which are to
be addressed by number of promi-
nent temperance workers of state and
national importance.
The w. c. T. u. has always been
primarily a. patriotic Organization,
and for the past year and half it
has accomplished a large amount of
war work without losing sight of its
main goal, national prohibition. The
North Dakota w. G. T. U. has done
its full share ef regular Red Cross
work, has furnished hundreds of
North Dakota soldier boys with COM
fort kits, has adopted a number of
French orphans, and has sent over TO
France a field ambulance and two
field Kitchens
Mrs. Lillian Beard, home demon
stration agent, has announced that St.
Michaers pro-cathedral kitchen will
be open Saturday afternoon from to
5 o'clock, and all women who, had
products canned at the community
canning meetings recently; may call
for themFSaturday.