The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-11
RED CROSS
NEWS NOTES

tanned a knitting record, is Flor
ence Schwitzer of Braham, MINI.
This eleven-year-old girl COM
pleted a Red Cross sweater in one
week while she was attending
school. Mrs. Oscar Nelson, also
a member Of the Braham branch
knits' socks on one set of needles.
Two dollars in. pennies were
turned in recently to the Bur-
leigh county Red Cross chapter,
Bismarck, N. D., by a group of
Juniors who gave "Huckleberry
Finn in a neighboring barn.
The asst was composed OF news
boys, telegraph messenger girls
and school children. They dram.
atized their own lines, devised
their own costums and managed
the production themselves. The
admission charge was three
cents.
The Red Cross branch at Pine
Point, Mimi, has 81 members all
of whom are full-blooded Chip
pewa Indians who cannot under
stand English and must always
have an Interpreter when ir
structions are being given. The
articles turned out by women of
this branch are up to the stand
ard in every respect, according
to a report received from their
chapter at Detroit, MINI. The
following are examples of the
names which some of the MEM
bers of this branch bear: O.
gob-aine, chairman and Ah-bow-
go-shig, vice chairman.
An imported Percheron stall
lion has been donated to the
Rock county chapter of the Red
Cross, Luverne, Mimi, and will
be sold at auction. He was taken
from France to America in 1907
and later sold for $4,000 to a.
Percheron horse company of
Luverne.
Returns from the second war
fund drive, received since the
tabulatiOn of subscriptions by
states and divisions was printed
in the Washington, D. c., Red
Cross Bulletin, make the grand
total $17O,O38,394.
Paris-During air raids or
long-range bombardments of the
French capital, American Red
Cross ambulances have almost
invariably been first on the scene
of any casualties.
A press cable from London,
under date of June 10, says:
"The American Red, Cross today
opened in it's Lancaster Gate
hospital. where both American
and British officers are treated,
a 20-bed annex, which will be
used exclusively for Americans.
It's staff will be composed entire
ly of American trained nurses.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, widow of
the former American ambassa-
dor to Great Britain; Lady Har-
court, formerly Miss Mary Burns
of New York; Lady Osler and
Maj. William Endicott, Ameri-
can Red Cross Commissioner to
Great Britain, attended the open
ing" i
At an auction sale in charge
of the local C. A. R. post of Lake
Preston, S. D., $4,000 was Sc
cured for the Red Cross. Lunch
es served by women of the Red
Cross branch brought $156. This
is the most successful Red Cross
auction yet reported to the
Northern Division headquarters.
A new enterprise in the form
of a roller skating rink is to be
opened for the benefit Of the
Red Cross at Morris, MINI. The
two promoters Of this plan are
Louise Wollthan and Margaret
Grove, eleven and nine years
respectfully, and a large garage
will be used for the purpose. A
charge Of five cents will be made
for the privilege of skating on
the rink and all the proceeds will
be turned over to the Junior Red
Cross.
In response to the cabled re-
quest of the commission of Italy,
| the Red Cross war council has