The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-22
Glasses in Nursing
Start Next Thursday
Course Lasts Fifteen Days-Many Women Interested
Canvass of City VIII Give Everyone Chance to Join
Only Nominal Fee Charged-Paid Executive Secre-
tary Also Coming Aid in Relief in the County.

Miss Blanche Townsend, the train
ed Red Cross nurse who has been en-
gagged to conduct classes in home
nursing and home hygiene, will come
to Wolf Point on No. next We'd
nesday, and the first classes will be
held on Thursday, Jan. %. A great
many women have expressed their
intention of joining these classes, but
in order that everyone may have an
opportunity to join who might wish
to, and with view to being able to
present the matter in detail to any
who are interested, canvass of the
entire town is going to be made be-
tween now and the date of the OPEN
ing of the fifteen-day course.
The classes will meet in the domes-
tic science room of the high school.
| The course comprises fifteen lessons
of two hours each, and it is expected
that there will be at least three, and
probably four, classes formed. The
fee is only $1.00, which includes the
price of textbooks used. BY spe-
cial arrangement, high school girls
desiring to take either course will be
admitted free. The local Red Cross
chapter will take care of the bulk of
the expenses, as the fee charged does
not begin to cover the cost of getting
the nurse here and fitting up the
room.
At Culbertson, where Miss Town
send is conducting classes now, the
ladies are very much pleased with
the work and consider that a single
lesson is worth the price of the en-
tire course-and, indeed, the knowl-
edge gained at one of these lessons
may mean the ability to save a life
in some critical situation.
Executive Secretary
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee Of the Red Cross held We'd
nesday afternoon, it was decided to
employ paid executive secretary,
in the person of Miss Agnes Aitkin,
who is at present at Culbertson, and
who will work along the lines of
home service and relief work. Mr..
Ecklund, who was present at the
meeting, strongly advised employing
her, and it was upon his recommend
alton that the committee finally de-
cided to do so, after considerable dis
,ussion as to the advisability of pay
ng out the amount of money neces-
;ary to employ a secretary.
Miss Aitkin, who was sent to Cul-
'ertson by the Northern Division of
he Red Cross, is spoken of as high
y trained social worker. She has
,een in the employ of the federal
and was engaged in Red
cross work even before the war. For
time she did field investigative
work, with the California State We'll
are Committee and the Russell Sage
work.
Familiar with Conditions
Miss Aitkin will travel all over the
ounty consulting and investigating
ases called to her attention, and ex-
ects to have the cooperation of the
ounty superintendent, county COM
lissioners, board of health, physi-
ians and others who are in a posi-
on to bring needy cases to her at
sntion. She has lived in Montana
Or a time, and probably knows con-
itions as well as any other executive
scretary who might be secured from
distance. So far practically all the
antilles that have appealed to the
cal Red Cross for relief, have been
such urgent need and so patiently
that the question of in
,stigation was a secondary matter.
here are, doubtless, throughout the
,untry, numerous other families,
ally in need of aid, who hesitate to
,peal for this aid from a sense of
-ide, and it is such cases as this
at Miss Aitkin will be able to get
touch with and to help.