The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-07
MOOrheGd NeaUs
ROSE CLARK AT
CHATEAU THIERRY
Head Nurse in Red Cross
Hospital Bombed by
Huns

Rose Clark, formerly assistant
superintendent OF st. Johns hospital
Fargo, is now head nurse in an 500
bed Red Cross hospital at Chateau
| Thierry, France. In a letter written
TO her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. E
Clark, Morhead, on Nov. s, Miss
Clark tells how the hospital unit
| been driven out last spring. The let
| ter also refers to the bombing Of the
hospital by Hun airmen.
Miss Clark was one of the Red
Cross nurses Of ths northwest to
volunteer for service in France. She
Is a graduate OF st. Johns training
school and took her post graduate
course at Simmons college, Boston.
Leaving Moorhead on Dec. 81, last
year, Miss Clark went directly to
France, arriving there early in jan
uary.
The letter, written at Chateau
Thiery. follows:
Dearest Folks: Received your
.2tter written Oct. 10 and 1t Is the
| only letter / have had from the
states for two weeks. The mail is
30 slow in coming here.
Had a letter from Paris saying ]
| could have my vacation; but we
! have rumors we are to move, maybe
| to another country and l don't want
to be left behind. But the war is
over now and we can all be thank
/ full for that. My! but we were a
happy crowd yesterday. One of the
nurses aids and entertained all the
| officers here at tea. and, in the even
ing. we had a few non commissioned
| officers over to celebrate the good
news in our own way.
DO not think the nurses or SOL
diers will start for home for two or
| three months yet, but l HDpe to -
| home by the last of March or April,
maybe before. Have met many nice
| people over here, and made many
good friends. The parting for home
| will be rather sad.
IT surely felt bad when heard OF
Maurice Masterson's death. l go
out and look at the graves of the
American soldiers who fell right In
this town, and read every name
thinking may know some Of them.
Am going to take q chance now
and tell you where l amt is Cha
teau Thierry. You remember last
spring when the papers were full of
| the name. When read in The Fo-
rum about the big drives the Ameri-
cans were making wondered IL you
knew how close was to all that.
You know what the marines did at
Belleau woods. We are near that
and Hill 204. We came right in aft
er the Boches left and were only Is
miles from the front line trenches at
| the place where we were bombed. OF
| course. the front Is a long way of
| now. so or 10 miles.
This hospital was kept here and
was made chief nurse, so / dig not
get a chance to move on with the
rest Of my crowd. We have 800 beds
here. If the censor reads all I am
telling you / will get killed, sure.
But the war is over and won't wor-
ry. You ought to have heard the
men yell yesterday. We have a field
hospital company, 100, a southern
crowd, attached to this hospital and
| they are surely fine fellows to work
with. They bring me flowers nearly
every day. I have two big punches
of carnations on my table now. The
mess sergeant Just brought in one
bunch. l am surely being spoiled.
you write of having influenza at
home. We have had dozens of
cases here and only lost two. It is
bad all over France. Nearly every
one Of the doctors has had it but the
nurses have been fine. We had to
stand worse than that last August
and September. You didn't know
anything about It at home, as we
were not permitted to tell.
"We have better eats now than we
ever had and everyone says am get
ting fatter. It will not be so very
long now before I see you.
Lots and lots of love. Your low
ing daughter, Rose"