The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-03-22
Minneapolis Catholic Record

252 hospital shirts, 80 paper1linet
vests, l,4OO remodelled army shirts
1876 T bandages, IS scultetus bandages
100 many-tail bandages, SO girls
dresses 90 years., l Belgian shawl, /
silk quilt, 500 quilt blocks. Knitted
articles: 1,103 pair hand-knit socks
1862 hand-knit sweaters, SIS trench
caps, helmets, y pair wristbands
Total 1885. Average attendance, As;
days per month, 6; time 8 months
director, Mrs. w. J. Congdon
Holy Cross: 179 bed shirts, 253
helpless-case shirts, All pajama suits.
so operating sheets. Refugee gar
ments: SO suits underwear, 20 girls
dresses Go years., ia chemises, so
petticoats, 80 boys shirts, 10 boys
winter suits, so remodelled army
shirts, $50 comfort kits. Knitted ar
| ticles: 122 pair hand-knit socks, 80
| hand-knit sweaters. Total, 1868. At
tendance 100; days per month, 10; d.
rector, Mrs. r. D. Emmons.
St. HeIena: 102 pajamas suits, "a
,, bath robes, 4S helpless-case shirts, 20
bandaged-foot socks, Al comfort kits,
so housewives" $50 remodelled army
shirts Refugee: 40 boys winter
suits, 20 boys summer suits, 10 girls
pinafores. Knitted articles: A pair
hand-knit socks, 25 hand-knit sweat
ers. Total $50, average attendance,
IS; days per month, 4; time, II
months; director, Mrs. l.. Cote.
st. Joseph: 275 pajama suits, GA
bed shirts, 81 hospital shirts, 4S draw
shirts, 80 helpless-ca shirts, 20 oper-
ating gowns, "a remodelled army
shirts, 4S pair bandage socks, II pair
bed socks, "a sheets, 6 bath robes, |
hand-tied comforter. Refugee: 20
girls dresses. Knitted articles: 47O
pairs hand-knit socks, 100 hand-knit
sweaters. Total 1906; average at
tendance, %; days per month, 4; di-
rector, Mrs. Carl Sievers.
st. Stephen: 1926 pajama suits, 1858
hospital shirts, 100 helpless-case
shirts, "a day shirts, "A undershirts,
Sc bath robes, 80 operating caps, "a
operating gowns, 40 suits mems under
wear "a operating sheets, ia muslin
bandages, 1875 property bags. Refugee:
40 girls pinafores, 20 chemises, 20
boys summer suits, 20 boys winter
suits, 20 boys drawers, III bandages,
2 helpless-case shirts, IL pillow cases,
8 operating gowns, "a operating
sheets, Ga pajama suits, 80 bed packets,
IL Nnnratino itc
derwear, 73 towels, &c pair operating
leggins, 20 pairs bed socks, 80 girls
| dresses, 1877 yards muslin made into
bandages. Knitted articles: 425 pair
hand-knit socks, 120 pair machine-knit
hand-finished socks, AZ hand-knit
! sweaters, 126 machine-made sweaters
completed, 5 trench caps, pair wrist
bands. Total 2,765; average attend
ance, 25; days per month, s; time, II
months; director, Mrs. J. K. MCGEE.
| Three service stripes
ST. Anthony: 257 bathrobes, $50 pa
jana suits, 1884 bed shirts, Sc hopeless
case shirts, 142 pair bandaged-foot
socks, 100 property bags, 700 scultetus
! bandages, 1927 remodelled army
shirts, 100 comfort kits Refugee gar
ments: 10 girls dresses (ten years.,
70 boys suits az years., 40 suits boys
! underwear, "a mems drawers, 252
, hand-knit socks, 29 hand-knit sweat
ers. Total 3,671; average attendance,
30; days per month, s; director, Mrs
c. H. Bradley.
ST. Lawrence: 424 hospital shirts,
67 helpless-case shirts, so T bandages
Is abdominal bandages, 81 many-tail
bandages, 2 four-tail bandages, s
sings, 487 muslin envelopes, $50 com
fort bags, 400 housewives" 62 ia
jana suits, "a bath robes. Refugee
garments: 40 boys suits, 40 girls
dresses. Knitted articles: 485 pairs
hand-knit socks, 116 hand-knit sweat
ers, 8 trench caps, 9 pair wrist bands
1 afghan, 1879 machine-made, hand
finished sweaters, 1874 pairs machine
made, hand-fnished socks. Tota
1850; average attendance 25, days pei
month, 4 time, IA months; director
Miss Mary Chute.
For the French linen shower this
! station supplied: 100 bath towels, 81
hand towels, 119 handkerchiefs, As
napkins, 10 sheets.
The officers of the central station
were: director; Mrs Grace Gum; as
sistant director, Mrs. G. F. Corriveau
secretary, Mrs. d. D. Daily. Mrs. L. S
Donaldson, president of the Mime
apolis Catholic Red Cross, has haC
many opportunities to observe how
the work of the organization has edi
fed those members of the Red Cross
outside the Church. While our Cath
Ollie women were working in othe
units, the question on every tongue
was, what are your Catholic womel
doing for the war;" But since the cit.
J wide organization of our Catholic
women in the parish units, begun il
December, 1917, that question has beel
| gradually drowned in the CONSTANT
: swelling chorus of EXPLANATIONS an
{ congratulations "How much the Catf
t Ollie women are doing! How well tn
: Catholic women work" The organize
: ton in parish units simply above
| their eight to shine before men,.