The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-04-05

Red Cross Supplies.
Up to date the Valley County Mon
tana chapter, have shipped into head.
quarters at Minneapolis, 81 cases of
past month. This is an excellent re-
cord, and much credit is due the tire
less workers.
The following articles have been
shipped since the last issue of the
Courier: 10 bed sheets, $50 bed shirts,
80 bed socks, 10 comfort pillows, 40
sweaters, 10 mufflers, 40 pairs socks,
25 pajama suits, 5 pair wristlets, 3
bath robes, 5 French caps, 10 bandage
foot socks, s ambulance pillows, 40
irrigation pads.
One hundred completed layettes for
refugee French and Belgian babies are
now on display in one Of the windows
of the Yellowstone county chapter
workroom, Billings, Mont. The ma
terial for these garments was fur
nished, and the greater part of the
the Red Cross. Dressed dolls to be
ored bags and piles of folded gar
ments have been added to the ex-
hibit.
. The Cherokee (Iowa) Democrat re-
!, city, who has acquired a method by
y which two socks can be knitted at
once, in the following words: "Mrs.
. Watson, wife of DR.. George L. Wat
son of this city has figured out how
= two socks can be knitted on one set
of needles at the same time. This is
known as the Australian method and
has but recently been brought into
Il use. There are but three or four
g women in the country who can do the
= trick. This work requires very ex-
4 pert and exact knitting as one mis-
s step would throw the whole work out
! separate the socks. One sock is
g knitted inside of the other, and from
= ! two different balls of yarn, so they
q need not be of the same color. It is
8 said that by this method two socks
= = can be knitted in considerably less
q time than one can be knitted by the
g old method"
9 Registered nurses of the northern
X division are continually being called
6 into service by the director of the
. American Red Cross field nursing,
s Washington, D. c. Among the en-
4 listed Red Cross nurses who have re-
8 ceived notice to report are Miss Amy
Y Y Lamont, Sioux Falls, S. d.; Miss
8 ! Mary Henriette Ray, Fargo, N; p;
y y N. D. These women have all left for
X s New York and expect to be detailed to
s France soon.
Q L. B. Hanna of North Dakota. has
8 volunteered and will accept an exc
6 cutive position in the Red Cross fo1
q work in France. Mr.. Hanna will leave
i almost Immediately and will pay his
s own expenses in addition to working
q without compensation. He was twice
3 governor of North Dakota, and is
s. probably North Dakota's best execu'
9 tive and administrative business man
= He was formerly decorated by thu
g king of Norway in 1915.
g In securing Mr.. Hanna's services
= the Red Cross and the northern divi
3 sion can be Justly proud, and espe
e that he places his loyalty and tn
8 great cause for which the nation i
o fighting ahead of personal interests
"a ambition and comfort.
Mrs. August Belmont of New York
who recently returned from Europe
where she spent five months in tn
interest of the American Red. Gross
made an address to the staff at ma
tional Red Cross headquarters las
Tuesday, relating many OF her yer
interesting experiences at points nea
the fighting front and in the center
of American Red Cross activity.
The story of what the America
Red Cross IS doing in France, as tol
by Mrs. Belmont, is an inspiration t
every citizen of the United States VIII
may hear it. She learned from Frenc
soldiers and women and children {
the undying affection for Americ
which the people of France as
whole have developed as q result {
deeds of mercy performed through tn
Red Cross. She spoke in part 8
follows:
~ zone of the things that intereste
me most was the spirit Of the Frenc
poilu. l think when you come ava
more brightly than anything else
the wonderful spirit of the Frenc
poilu.
"Another thing was the volunte'
work among the women of Englan
Nowhere have I seen the same Sc
sacrifices that there is among the w
men of England. You find that it
spread from the highest to the lov
est women of the land. They. a.
working in surgical dressings, Of t.
Iaccepted sort Of thing we are DOR
here. But you find they have do'
it for three years-they don't ha
there isn't that sense OF restlessnes
that desire to CHANGE, They dor
want to fly around to this place
that because it is more romantic I
more interesting. They stand
their posts.
Il! zone Of my greatest joys was g
inc through our warehouses. Eat
warehouse takes care of its own pa
ticular district. Going through the
warehouses you see boxes represen
ing chapters from Texas to Maine.
also went through one Of U hosp
tails that was working in the Britis
zone. The doctor. talked Of our splel