The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-07-17

ISOLATION, of which every adult in the.
county should be member.
Rev. w. B. Milne spoke next in his
usual CHEEKY style. In his Short adj
dress he emphasized the need of being
patriotic in times Of peace and some
Of the important ways of being 80.
The audience was most fortunate in
being able to listen to two women
who had served in France during the
war-Dr Ida Alexander and Mrs.
Stewart Campbell. They appeared in
their neat overseas uniforms. Mrs.
Campbell wears gold wound stripe.
She spent much Of her time near the
front and received a shrapnei wound
during ope Of the German drives.
Both women served in the hospitals
of France, DR.. Alexander as physi-
clan and Mrs. Campbell as a nurses
assistant and entertainer. DR.. Alez-
ander put in plea for the American
Women's hospitals in Europe and
Mrs. Campbell was seeking to revive
the interest in the Red Cross refugee
sewing and knitting. Both women
were very convincing in their manner
of putting their subjects before their
audiences, but each had a different
way of doing so. DR.. Alexander
showed by her depressed staccato
speech the intensity of her interest
in the wonderful charity work for
which she is sacrificing her career,
while Mrs. Campbell had a merry man.
ner which showed plainly why she had
been chosen for the work of enter
tanning our boys who were lying bad
ly and even fatally wounded. Mrs.
Campbell was none the less convinc-
ing by this gayety, as she more than
once brought tears to the eyes of her
listeners. She only touched on the
amusing side Of her own experiences,
never mentioning the fact of having
been wounded or of any personal
hardship, Both women contended that
it is our privilege as we'll as our duty
to. help those stricken people who have
borne the brunt of this terrible war
which scarcely touched US here in our
land of plenty.
Miss Julia Newton from the Uni
versity farm, spoke most entertaining
ly about the work of the home demon
stration agents Of whom she is the
assistant state leader. She explained
a number of the new methods in
"Home Making" which, she said, were
not intended to combat the old meth
DDS but were to supplement and clari-
fy the old methods employed by our
mothers and grandmoth She spoke
of number of advantages to be
gained by the county's having home
demonstration agent, part of whose
salary would be paid by the govern
ment. The agent would conduct
classes in cooking, canning, dressmak-
ing and many other useful pursuits,
which would make economy be spelled
with each letter capital for any
housewife who cared to avail herself
of the opportunity. The farmers have
a county agricultural agent, why
should not the farmers wives have the
advantage of home demonstration
agent?
Mrs. Frank Beatty. of Anoka, the
tenth district president Of the M. F.
w. c., welcomed into the federation
the Isle Civic club, five members of
which drove the IS miles from Isle to
be present at the rally. Mrs. Beatty
had for a subject, "Ideas and Ideals
for the Tenth District" but as the
program was long, she gave her time
to Mrs. Geo. J. Allen of Rochester.
who is the state president of the M.
F. w. c..
Mrs. Allen spoke on the advantages
to be gained by forming and maintain
ing clubs and gave some very con-
vincing arguments. She had many
helpful suggestions to give to club
members. Above all she urged them
to hold to the best in everything and
so to live that their examples might
be followed by all.
Hoffman Arrested for Nonsupport.
j. H. Hoffman was arrested in Min
neapolis last Friday and on Monday
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