The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-01-24

will be the main line OF investigation
this winter. We are, also, investi-
eating trench nephritis and foot
wound infections including gas gan
creme and tetanus. The animals used
are principally guinea pigs, rabbits
and white rats. If the operations
causing pain to animals are perform
ed, a~naesthesia is used. Actually
very few animals have been used for
this work.
"Signed by the following medical
officers in General Pershing's army:
Col. F. A. Winter, Major j. A. Blake,
Major p. P. Strong, Captain Ken
meth r. Taylor, Major Alexander
Lambert, Lieut.. Col. j. +. Silfer, Col.
M. w. Ireland, Major Williams, j.
Egler, Jieut. E. T. Grossman, Lieut..
E. Deval Kathpaine, Foot Lieut.. P.
NJ. Stimson, Major Roger l. Lee,
Major Homer F. Swift, Major H. E..
Robertson, Captain John P. Peters,
Captain BENZ. Jablons, Lieut.. Her
bert M. Lergamini, Doctor Weillou,
Institute Pasteur, Lieut.. Col. T. w.
Richards, Lieut.. Z. Dulkley."
Abba, Iowa, boasts the youngest
Red Cross member. She is the daug-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs.G D. Miller
and was one hour old when enrolled.
The liquor dealers association aO1
Owatonna has pledged a donation of
$50 a month for the Red Cross. Sew
en- of it's members contributed $35
on the first call. This will bring the
monthly pledges at Owatonna up al
most to $1,000.
Scandinavian women's organiza-
lions in Minneapolis have appealed to
owners of downtown buildings to fur
nish them with headquarters for their
Joint Red Cross work at reasonable
rent.
The Scottish Rite Cathedral in
Minneapolis has been opened as a
Masonic Red Cross station. This is
the largest station in Minneapolis.
Proceeds for the first day of the
Twin Cities automobile, tractor and
industrial show to be held in st. Paul
February 2 to 9 will be given to the
Red Cross.
Miss Edith Fisher of st. Paul, has
left for Camp Cody, N. M, to take
up her duties as a Red Cross nurse.
She has two brothers at the camp.
Miss Anna Himrod, editor of the
Ironton News, has gone to New York
to offer her services to the Red Cross
for work in the war zone. The news
paper will be managed by her father,
Kirk Himrod, during her absence.
The feature of the Red Cross auct-
ions at Iroquois, S. D., recently was
a bushel of potatoes that sold for
$3.50. Proceeds of the auction total
ed Sligo.
Alfred ]. Bruneau, of Deep Creek,
Mont, did seven days work on the
Millegan road with a team and driver
and turned the proceeds, $41.5O over
to the Red Cross.
Sioux Falls realized $2,641.56 fol-
the Red Cross at it's reception and
| ball recently, Incidental sales of al
lied %colors, check o privilege, re-
freshments and gift boxes more than
covered the expenses of the enter
tainment.
The Boys Work Department of the
St. Paul Y. M. C. A. is organizing a
second Red Cross class for boys.
Youths between the ages Of Is and
| 20 are to be admitted and the work
will be the making Of surgical sup
! plies at which boys have been found
fully as capable as girls. They will
/ specialize on the making of pads.
Billings has started a new move
ment in connection with the Red
! Cross. 1t has for it's purpose the
paving of some attention to nurses
who 90 into the service of the Reo
Cross in the field just as the main
body of the Red Cross cares for the
soldiers who go into active service.
The ONE who enter this new
kind of service are called Sallyback'
ers lust as the Red Cross workers
in some sections are called Sammy
hackers.
This idea was suggested by Mrs
H. R. Smith, president Of the Bill
lings Woman's club and was immed'
lately adopted by the Yellowstone
County chapter. All the members OF
the club have pledged themselves te
be Sally-backers and gave departing
Red Cross nurses each a portfolio
with accessories and agreed to mee'
any calls for help made by her TO,
herself of for the hospital with whicf
she is connected. In addition to this
the club sent each Sally a Christmas
box filled with good things. /,
The Burnstad family of Burnstad
N. D., is entered by that town FOL
consideration as the champion Ret
Cross family of North Dakota at leas'
and probably for the Northern div,s
ion. The family numbers IL. In tn
recent membership drive Mrs. =. T
Burnstad and Leo Burnstad were en-.
rolled as new members and y. +
Burnstad, Harold, I've, Grace, Victor
ia, Theodore, Roy, Lorna, Helen, MOI
man and Ralph renewed their mem