The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-07
VISITING Nurse Directors Meet.
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board at It's meeting this morning
made tentative plans for their annual
Christmas work and for the sale Of
Red Cross Christmas seals. They
also planned for the annual tubercu-
losis budget and committees were
appointed to carry on the work.
The committee appointed to assist
Miss Younker in the sale OF Red
Cross seals was Miss Agnes Trimble.
Miss Mary Irwin, Miss Elsie Buck,
Miss Adalove Howell, Miss Elizabeth
Collier, Miss Madaline MoGrath and
Miss Besse Blood.
The committee appointed to make
out budget for the years tubercu-
losis prevention work is Mrs. G. M.
Rich, DR.. F. M. Fuller, Miss Younker
and Mrs. Harry J. Reeves.
Miss Younker gave a detailed re-
port OF the recent meeting Of the
Anti-Tuberculosis association held in
Des Moines to which she and Miss
Brown, the visiting nurse. were dele
gates.
Report was made that Miss Sellers
OF Donnellson, Is in training at Ann
Arbor. Mich. in preparation for the
public health work to be done in
southern Lee county beginning in
January, under the Red Cross.
The Visiting Nurse association Is
cooperating with Mr. Mcfarland
and his committees of the local Red
Cross chapter.
Miss Brown made the nurses re-
port for the month and had for In
spection the monthly report which
is made to the Des Moines associa-
ton OF the anti-tuberculosis work
being done in Keokuk. Twenty-one
patients are receiving instruction
and care by the nurses here. Miss
Brown reported one patient recently
sent to the sanitarium at Oakdale
and a little girl sent to the clinic at
Iowa City to receive surgical treat
ment under the Perkins law.
Miss Brown reported visits made
in the district, 81; in the infant wei.
fare department, 80; Metropoliton
visits, %; tuberculosis visits, Is;
total visits in all departments, PIT.
Since Miss Henke is taking special
training in Chicago and Miss Zichey
is conducting first aid classes, Miss
Brown carried on the work of the
association alone during the month
of September.
Mrs. c. M. Rich presided at the
meeting this morning, Miss Mary
Wells Irwin made the secretary's re-
port, and the treasurer's report was
made by Miss Agnes Trimble.
Alpha rrIst outing Thursday.
The members of the Alpha Trist
club will go to Wild Cat Springs next
Thursday for their annual outing.
There will be a picnic luncheon at
noon.
The Guest Of Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. George P. Houston Of Chicago
and Vicksburg, Miss. is the guest of
her sister. Mrs. Lafayette Brown at
her home on Orleans avenue. Mrs.
Houston will be rem embered by many
Keokuk people as Miss Cora King,
having lived here in her girlhoOd days.
Attended Convention Yesterday.
Mrs. Katherine Jones, Mrs. Mary
FIiesbach and Mrs. Flora M. Teeters
the local Womans Relief
Corps at the seventeenth district con-
vention held yesterday at Washing
ton, Iowa. There were $50 delegates
at the convention which met at the
Masonic hall. Ft. Madison was chos-
en- as the next place of meeting. Mrs.
Teeters was a member OF the press
committee.
D. A. r. Chapter to Meet Saturday.
The KeokuR chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution will hold
their first meeting of the year next
Saturday afternoon at o'clock at the
home of Mrs. J. o. Boyd on the river
road. The regular business meeting
will be followed by picnic supper.
The social committee has the arrange
ments in charge. The committee in
cludes Mrs. R. M.Lapsley, Mrs. H. B.
Blood, Mrs H. w. Huiskamp, Mrs. W.
H. Bissell, Mrs. l.. A. Hamill and Mrs.
Theodore Craig.
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