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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-19

Miss Edna Knudsen retur-
ned to Ute, Iowa, Monday,
after a few days visit here.
with her parents, p. G. Knud-
sen and wife.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-19
PROPOSAL FOR EREC-
TION OF SCHOOL-HOUSE

Notice is hereby given that pro-
posals for the erection of School
house No. |, Oakfeld twp, Audu-
bon County, will be received at the
Brayton Lumber Office, where plans
and specifications may be seen un-
til | o'clock p. M, Saturday, July
18th, 1919, at which time the con-
tract will be awarded to the lowest
responsible bidder. The board re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids. i1O
GILBERT P. NELSON, Pres.
CHRISTIAN HANSEN, sec'y.
Dated at Brayton, Iowa, June a.,
1919.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-19

s. 3. Hockenberry spent last
week at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Andrew Jensen in the country
S. p. enjoys a visit to the farm
occasionally.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-19

}. L Parrott returned toI
his home in Walnut Grove,
Minnesota, Monday, after at
tending the funeral of his
father, Perry Parrott.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-19

Mr.. Ebbe Hansen of Harlan was
in our city on business last Satur-
day. Mr.. Hansen did not forget to
call at the Journal Office and cheer
up the force.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-06-19

DR.. Hall will go to Daven-
port to visit over Sunday
with his wife.
Miss Edna Knudsen retur.
ned to Ute, Iowa, Monday.
after a few days visit here
with her parents, 2. G. Knuda
sen and wife.
j. L Parrott returned tos
his home in Walnut Grove,
Minnesota, Monday, after at
tending the funeral of his
father, Perry Parrott.
Mrs. Matt Frost and daugh-55
ter, Clara, left Monday for
their home in Waterloo.
They came here the last Of
last week from Adair, where
they were to see her sister,
Mrs. Richter, who was very
sick and while here visited
at the Mrs. Mary Thielen
home.
The Country Club met last
Thursday afternoon at the
home Of Mrs. H. w. Rogers,
west of town. Light refresh
ments were served. The next
meeting will be held Thurs
day, June 26th at the home
of Mrs. T. NJ. Sorenson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hall and
children will leave next Wed
nesday for Edmonton Alber-
ia, Canada to make their
home. These good people
have four children residing
There.
PROPOSAL FOR EREC-
TION OF SCHOOL-HOUSE
Notice is hereby given that pro-
posals for the erection of School
house No. l, Oakfeld twp, Audu-
bon County, will be received at the
Brayton Lumber Office. where plans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

lished for the firemen and police
men. Here the men could battle
their feet and their arms and their
eyes, and their small injuries were
taken care Of. The fremen and po-
licemen and employees of the Stand
ard Oil Company worked without
rest for many hours. The Red Cross
had forty Of its canteen women on
Tor thirty hours at a stretch. In
their service they supplied 1000
gallons Of coffee, 5000 sandwiches.
5000 cookies, 1000 packages Of
cigarettes and 1000 sweaters.
New workers came in finally to
take the places of those who had
been on for more than twenty-four
hours. The Brooklyn chapter had
charge Of the situation, assisted by
the New York County and Queens
County chapters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
To Meet
Brother"

"The train for Baltimore doesn't
leave for long time yet" she ex-
planned in most businesslike way.
Don't you want to come and sit
down in comfortable CHAIR"
So the youngster tripped after her,
stopped at a mirror in the waiting
room to shift her hat to a more be-
coming angle, and took her place
with much dignity in rocker.
An hours conversation and tact
full cross-questioning convinced the
Travellers Aid worker that there
was something queer about the case
The little girl appeared candid
enough, explaining that she was on
her way to meet her brother in Bal
timore. But she steadily refused tc
tell her name or the place where she
came from.
An hour more passed, and another
until finally the worker drew the
truth from the youngster. There
was a "soldier boy" in Baltimore
whom she wanted to visit.
Every day, and nearly very train
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Y. W. c. A. Stages Com
munity Dramas From
Georgia to Oregon i'm
Americanization Work
Home Talent PLAYS
Leading Roles
Hazel Mackaye Is Able
Department Director of
Pageantry and Drama

MODEL pageants are being put
~ on by representatives Of the
Y. w. c. A. in all parts of the coun-
try. The field map Of the United
States used by the "Y. W." is d.
vided into eleven districts. An in
terpretative pageant has been
planned for each district. One has
been given in Georgia, one in Du-
buque, Iowa, and one in Astoria.
Ore.
The directors in the field for these
pageants are women who have had
experience as teachers and in or
ganlzation work, and stage expert
ence as we'll. Sue Ann Wilson had
charge Of the performance in Geor-
gia. She has played with Otis Skin
ner. Eda Heinemann, the director
in Oregon, has been an instructor in
colleges and secondary schools and
had experience in theatrical work.
A Job for
Every One
"The making of the pageant is the
work of the people of the commu-
nifty themselves" said Hazel Mac
kaye last week. Miss Machaye is
director of the Department of Pag-
eantry and Drama of the Y. w. c..
A. at develops a community sense
in the people of the rfeighborhood.
The directors sent out by US from
the Y. W. c. A. are simply teachers.
They help the people of the commu-
nifty get themselves organized for
the model pageant. They put them
into touch with this bureau here in
New York where they can find out
the names of pageants and where to
get the material for them"
Miss Mackaye has compiled an ex-
tensive list of pageants, besides hav-
ing written a number. The demands
for this sort of material are con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

ers and sisters and their wives and
husbands and children.
A stray copy Of mazaginc issued
by a fanatic religious organization,
The Pillar of Flame" we shall call
it, made mystic faddist of the wife
She subscribed to the magazine, pay
irg the exorbitant sum of 81 a
month.
The husband disapproved, with
the result that the wife left her un-
happy home and came to New York
to join "The Pillar of Flame" Right
at her heels came the husband to the
city. The woman was temporarily
lodged at the Travellers Aid. She
agreed to talk matters over with her
husband.
Finally each agreed to give up cer-
tain things and start all over again.
The woman abandoned her pillar
Of Flame" and the husband promised
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

for any girl who is suspected of
being runaway.
Not always are they sent away to
their homes. If investigation of the
case convinces the Travellers Aid
that the child will be better off here,
position and a proper place of
lodging are found. But whenever it
IS possible conditions at home which
led to his or her leaving are straight
ened out and the child is induced to
give mother and father and all of
the other ''insufferables," as one
girl called them, another chance.
Field workers of the Travellers
Aid Society, all of whom are women,
are holding conferences at the as
ISOLATION headquarters, 465 Lexing-
ton Avenue. Their purpose is TO en-
large their field of activity and to
increase the number of workers in
the organization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Serbia Appeals
For More Women
Phi ysicians
Mahometan Viewpoint Leads
Men of the East to Prefer
Women Doctors for Their
Secluded Women Folks

WOMEN physicians are particu-
larly asked for by the Serbian
government in an appeal for medical
aid for that country, where physi-
clans are greatly needed. At head
quarters of the American Women's
Hospitals, 637 Madison Avenue, it
was said that women physicians are
especially desired in Serbia be-
cause Of the Mahometan point of
view there which prompts the men
of that country to prefer women
physicians for their womenfolks.
The American Women's HOSPITALS
have had women physicians in
Serbia for nearly two years. Sew
eral have been decorated for their
devotion and bravery. Early in
July another unit of four women
physicians and one woman dentist
was sent out in connection with the
Serbian Relief Committee. These
women are financed by the Ameri-
can Women's Hospitals and work
under their direction.
DIR. Eta Gray, of Los Angeles.
president of the Medical Women's
National Association, Of which the
American Women's Hospitals forms
the war and reconstruction commit
tee, has been sent to Serbia and the
Near East to investigate conditions
and to arrange for the establish
ment of hospitals where most
needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The Red Cross
Shows War Speed
AT Fire on L. I.
Brooklyn Chapters Quick
Snappy Work Meets Many
Emergencies During Re.
cent Creenpoint Disaster

WORKERS for the Red Cross
were called into action a
week ago by the big oil
fire in Greenpoint, Long Island.
They answered the summons, many
of them, like firemen, throwing aside
all other business and rushing to
meet the emergency.
The girls, who were canteen work
ers in the Long Island City chapter,
had been celebrating their years
work with a dinner party when the
reports of the fire and it's ravages
reached them. They threw on their
wraps and pinned on their hats with
the Red Cross and hurried into ac
ton. Not until the wee small hours
did some Of them realize that their
white slippers and low-necked gowns
were out Of keeping with the work
they were doing.
Hundreds Of families living in
tenements near the oil plant were
moved out Of their homes by the
police and firemen. By early even
ing of Saturday many Of them had
bundled their valuables into blan-
kets and sheets, packed what they
could into queer little foreign
trunks and stood huddled in groups
on the streets several blocks away
from the fire. Red Cross ambu-
lances took those who had actually
been burned out to the knights of
Columbus huts and to the Elks Club
for shelter.
Lost children kept many of the
Red Gross girls busy for hours. The
effort of carting and carrying house
hold goods had made many of the
parents lose track Of the little ones.
And it was not only the persons who
were moving home and hearthside
that lost children. In the glare of
the smoky columns of fire a worried
young father left his automobile to
walk frantically and aimlessly about
asking every one if he had seen a
three year-old boy without hat.
The Red Cross girls took this man
in charge and with this meagre
description went from one group of
people to another, asking for "a lit
tie boy, three years old, without a
hat"
At 10 o'clock the cantecn workers
were on duty. Ten motor ambu-
lances were there early in the even
ing. A first aid station was estab-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Predicts Early
Ratification
RATIFICATION of tho Fed

RATIFICATION Of tho Fed
eral woman suffrage amend
ment by two-thirds Of the state
legislatures before February was
predicted by Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, president Of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage
Association.
Sixteen states have already
ratified. Utah will be the seven
teenth, a special session being
called for September 20. Colo
RADIO, California, Washington, In
diana and North Dakota have
pledged special sessions before
January.
Two states are expected to rat
ify the first week Of their regular
sessions-Rhode Island and Ken
tucLy. The suffragists believe
New Jersey will ratify in Janu-
airy. The states now expected to
hold special sessions would bring
the number that have ratified I'D
to twenty-five. Mrs. Gait believes
that other suffrage states will
bring ratification up to thirty-six
in time for the women to vote and
take an active part in the Presi-
dental elections of 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

Illuminating companies. If you are
not on this list it will cost you SO
cents to get in.
But it will be worth it, for among
the happenings will be these: All
day long fourteen different wash.
ing machines viii be put through
their PAGES. They include prac.
tlcally all Of the efficient washers
on the market, and this is a ban
ner opportunity to see just how
they work. Some fifteen vacuum
cleaners will be making a clean
sweep of things at the same time.
But this is not a show for house
keepers only. By no means. George
r. Parker. who is telling the public
all they are allowed to know in ad-
vance about the exposition, an
nounces that free breakfasts will
be given to all bachelors, old or
young, male or female, who apply
at the Palace at II o'clock and vol
unteer to cook the raw materials
provided on the grills, percolators
ana coasters assembled for the pur-
pose. Eggs, bread, coffee, ct al
VIII be on hand, for such as have
'ne Courage and skill to take them
IN hand and turn out a breakfast.
ana furthermore, if you don't know
now, but only have the desire to
learn electric table cookery, you will
10 taught. Now we shall see
whether the high cost OF living is
really Worrying folks or not. Mr..
fafker invites all hungry, cafe-har-
red bachelor men and maidens to
S'ep up and give an account of
themselves.
for the real housekeeper who
''ust take things more seriously and
vi larger scale there will be ar
''ec'rlc bakery of impressive pro
po'l'ons. Mrs. Laimheer, of the
bureau of Home Economics of the
WV York Edison Company, viii
owe an imitation Of what woman
" resources would do if company
1cme on the girls day out. She
va De assisted by the whole army
VI electric table appliances, but by
"0'ning and no one else. The kitchen
S'0per will be ignored in meeting
me emergency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The Passing of
The C0ndlsct0rette

MORE than 1000 women now
In the employ 81 the B. r. T.,
some Of them the support Of
their children, probably will lose
their jobs at the end of this
month.
The State Industrial Commits
sion notified the New York and
Queens Railways, the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company and
the New York Railways Com
pany last week that by the end
of the week they would be ex-
pected to observe the laws lin
iting the hours of women's work.
prohibiting night work and re-
curing consecutive employment
and one hour for lunch.
Amy Wren, counsel for the
women employees Of the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit, said, follow
ing this order, that the women
employed by the B. r. T. had
little hope Of being retained.
''The hours of the transit COM
panies do not coincide with the
hours laid down by the law" she
said. "The union men decided
that they would work ten hours
in order to earn more money. It
will be impossible for the women
to work at the same task with
the men if they are to be re-
stricted to nine-hour laws and
a time set for their lunch hour.
"1n my conferences with the
B. r. 7. and the I. r. T. the men
of the company said that they
were satisfied with the work the
women had done aid regretted
that they had to be dismissed.
We expect all the women on the
B. R. T. to go by October l."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
another Ne,v
job for Women

NrW York Tribune
Washington Bureau
\ MOTHER Of the government
"A positions usually held by
men which is being opened to
women is that of receiver of
money for public lands. One of
the first women to be named by
Uncle Sam to take the money
paid i'll by homestcadcrs on pub-
lie domains was in Alaska. The
Senate Committee on Public
Lands is now considering the
naming Of a woman in Pueblo,
COL, for the work. There is no
special training required for the
job, but it is one which has been
held by men for years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

slant. Each shift in American life
brings demands for pageants on new
subjects. As soon as the armistice
was signed the call came for recon-
structlon pageants. Industrial, peace
and "Welcome Home" pageants have
been sent out from headquarters.
The pageant to be given in Dallas,
lex, will be on the progress of
women through the ages. "The Torch
Bearers" it is called.
In Westchester
This Week
Westchester County, New York.
will have the next pageant, its pro-
gramme being scheduled for Septem
Der 81. 1t will be given in the af-
ternoon at the Vanderlip Theatre.
"Our work does not end with the
production Of one pageant" said
Miss Mackaye; eve plan some sort
of 'carry-on' work, usually. Wher-
ever it is feasible drama council is
formed for the furtherance of dra-
matte work in the community. Edu-
catlonal work is done through these
councils"
The widespread work of the COM
mittee Of the Y. w. G. A. will be
carried as far as there is response
to it. Demands came in in large
numbers for suggestions and help in
the summer, and the opening of
school and the fall season have about
doubled the requests. Miss Mackaye
lnterprets these pageants as a phase
of education in Americanization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Pursuing Suffering
With Mercy

Next, the unit moved to Nancy,
and from there conducted dispen-
saries in various devastated towns
and opened a hospital Of seventy
five beds for the care Of refugees
in collaboration with the American
Fund for the French Wounded. This
work demobilized on April /, when
the French took over the work. Both
organizations then moved on to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
A Runaway
Seventy-three Years Old

Yes; there was actually a seven
ty-threeyear-old runaway. She was
dear little old lady, with white
hair and snappy eyes. At the time
the Travellers Aid agent found her
she was getting ready for a nights
repose on one of the touches in the
waiting room.
Though she appeared perfectly
happy and self-sufficient, her age
was so apparent that the agent
went and offered assistance. She
had been at the station for two days,
amusing herself with watching the
crowds, and sleeping at night on a
comfortable leather couch in the
women's restroom.
1t seems her relatives, firing of
having her live with them, had
placed her in an old ladies' home.
AS she expressed it, the monotony of
the institution bored her to death"
80 she gathered her possessions in a
little, worn bag, dragged out from
under her bed the stocking contain
ing her life's savings, slipped out of
the house in the dead of night and
took the first train for New York.
She had been having a beautiful
time at the Grand Central. She saw
no reason why she couldn't stay on
there. But she made no protest
when the Travellers Aid got in
touch with her relatives and ar
ranged to have her taken care of in
a more humane way.
They are of all ages and all classes
these girl runaways. There are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
suecial Features for Bach
elors and Spinsters
as Well as for the
Skilled Housekeeper
Free Breakfasts J
For Good Cooks
Experts Demonstrate Up
to Date Equipment for
the 'Servantless Home

IN WEDNESDAY morning next,
at the Grand Central Palace,
at II o'clock, the electrical show
will be on. To all consumers of
electricity complimentary tickets
will be sent by the three local
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Fresh News From
France of That
Nations Needs
DIR. LIE Fort, of Women's
Overseas Hospital and
American Fund for
French w 0und e d.
Tells of the Work

DR. WAREHOUSE lie FORT
- is back from the front after
a year and half in France
for the Women's Overseas Hospital.
She left New York as director of
the second unit sent over, August,
1917, for the treatment of gassed
men. Before this time Dr.. lie Fort
was assistant attending physician at
Bellevue Hospital dispensary. She
comes back with a vivid, first-hand
knowledge Of the needs Of France
at this time, and after making her
final report to the Women's Over
seas organization (Which discontin-
ued its activities in France on Sep
TENDER u will return at once to
her new post as director of the
temporary quarters of the American
Memorial Hospital at Rheims. These
are being operated by the American
Fund for the French Wounded pend
! ing the construction Of the perma-
nent buildings.
DR.. lie Fort wears the insignia of
the French Service de Sante, which
speaks Of the instant and grateful
recognition by the French govern
nent Of American women physicians
who made haste to the front
At Beauvais in Picardy, in the
region back of the military zone,
DR.. LIE Fort directed the units work
in French hospital of 900 beds.
The treatment of gassed men, ag-
gregating probably ten or fifteen
thousand, was carried on through
out the war. The last group of
! forty-tive was received the night
of the armistice--most of them
blinded. Grip was raging at this
time and supplies and medicines
were pitifully short.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
SIX-YEAR-OLD recently ap.

~ pcdfeu IN Grand Central
Station and made for q
ticket booth with the easy, sophisti-
Gated manner Of a globe trotter.
Gimme ticket for Baltimore,
pleath, Mithter," she lisped as she
stood on tiptoe to empty a handful
of coins on the counter.
After recovering from the shock
the ticket seller smothered a laugh
and winked at "a Travellers Aid
agent who happened to be lowering
near. The agent approached and
took in the situation at a glance.
She suspected this was a runaway,
and so INDUCED in one of those white
fibs SO often necessary to divert
tragedies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Too Many
Relatives

One of the big causes for running
away seems to be the difference in
their attitude toward life Of Amer
leans and foreigners.
Such was the case with a pretty
little woman who was found wan
dering about the station with a tiny
baby in her arms. Her husband was
foreigner, and following the GUS
tom of his country had brought his
bride to live at the home of his
parents. There livsd all the broth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

Rheims at the request of the French,
because people were pouring into
the city, thousands a week, with no
hospital facilities Of any kind.
These people, of whom there are
by now 10000, are undernourshed,
homeless; many are tubercular; the
children are often soft boned.'
One woman came carrying a child
that had two broken thighs and was
in stupefied condition from pnue-
nlonia. The mother had dropped
The child while she slept, holding it,
and was unconscious of the injury.
The French are struggling with
these desperate conditions, but are
utterly unable to meet them at this
time. Some say that the French
no longer want the Americans"
said DR.. lie Fort. eve would never
have had a suspicion Of this IN
France. And when we who were
working there asked the question
frankly, Would you rather have
the money and have US go?' weWere
answered, How could that be, when
the Americans have saved us and
cur need is still so great? Let us
send a. petition to prove that we
want you Only those who cannot
understand French or are very far
away could get such an idea
at is to meet such immediate
needs" continued Dr. LIE Fort, that
the hospital in Rheims is needed.
Five or ten years from now, if the
Huns really pay the 'dommage de
guerre,' France will carry her own
burdens, but let no one make you
believe that she does not need US
now.
Under present conditions the
running Of the hospital is extremely
costly. Eggs and milk are sky-high.
The children must be nourished first
of all, and the babies being born
must enter life under decent con-
ditions if France is to live again.
The gratitude of these women who
are repeopling France under such
terrible conditions, when the bare
necessities Of decency are given
them, is overwhelming.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Travellers Aid for Runu,udvs
From Sir Years toSeuenty.t1ve
Field Workers of This Society Are All Women
conference in Session to Increase Membership
and Extend Scope of Their Organization

brings several runaways into the
protective net that the Travellers
AID spreads over the stations. These
adventurous girls" range from
mere infants like this youngster to
those of threescore years and ten.