The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-27

years' experience with bands While
the aggregation consists OF some
new members recruited this year. a
largo portion of tho men have been
with the a. 4 VI. three ana four
years. Al reports Indicate that their
performance compares well with the
'odically the engine stocked up"
wood.
Six girls did work other than
nursing with the Red Cross. Miss
| Florence Ieald. daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. X. J. Head. 1896 South
Boulder did hospital. hut and can
teen work In England. Miss Emma
Bond. now Al at her home IN Atoka,
| okla. did clerical work with the
| Red Cross In France and later In
! Italy. Miss Blanche Ashton, now
| with the Tidal oil company. first
! dld statistical work in the Paris Of
/ fico OF the Red Cross. was next
transferred to Italy and last acted
as treasurer of the Rcd Cross COM
mission to the Balkans, the arduous
! duties Of which position took her to
! Balkan states and ended In France.
Miss Josephine Rothhammer,
| employed at Halliburton -Abbotts,
went abroad In November, 1918,
]
| months she worked in the home
| communication department or the
! Red cross office In Paris and was
| then sent to the central records Of
! ffcc at BourPcs. returning in July,
| 1919. one Of tho bits OF serviC"
| wich Miss Rothhammer enjoyed
most was giving home cooked din
ucrs for soldiers at Bourges. The
| Red Cross girls, with whom sh"
| shared a tiny French house devoted
! their extra money 70 giving two ain
ners each week and spent almost all
| Sunday concoc'ing a big sunday
dinner, all for the enlisted men and
never the officers,
Saw Many Friends.
Miss Marguerite Burke, employed
IN the Southwestern Electric COM
pany. was with the Red Cross In
France from August 1913, to July
I191O. She did clerical work In the
home communication bureau at the
Paris office, where details about the
men I'm service or those Killed In ac-
ton were obtained for their folks
back home. on Sundays she
washed dishes, served meals and
performed other services In large
railway station. she met an amaz-
ing number OF people whom she had
known or who knew mutual friends,
fact which perhaps was not so
amazing after all az her home was
East Orange, N j. and her adopted
home New York city. both rather
population CCnterS.
Miss Rose Berry, employed here
with tho Aumwalt, wilson 4 Car
nett Co, received her appoint
ment for clerical work with the Red
, Cross AT Madison, wis, and sailed
from Quebec in September, 1918
After three weeks at the headquart
: ors office in Paris. She was sent "a
Ncvcrs, $50 miles south OF Paris, q
: large hospital center whore the Rec
Cross had Just opened up some
, warehouses. After two months sh'
was transferred back 10 the Pari'
office. and In April was sent 20 the
/ international Red Cross conference
% at Cannes, held for four weeks ir
. tho beautiful background or th'
: Mediterranean coast by doctor'
! from many countries. she had
share in compiling the report Of thb
| conference, assisting az me ial J
office to edit the proceedings, anc
Tho speeches interpreted from othe
/ languages. June, 1912 touhu he'
% homeward bound.
Eleven Red Gross nurses have
s been found to date for the a. w
q. l.. membership roll, Miss Malin'
/, l.. Hatch. now with the TulS
% Tuberculosis association, was over
r scas from April. 1913. 10 the sam'
, month in 1919. Going from IoNinE
0 ton. Ky. with base hospital staff NO
4 40, she uurscd I'm a hospital n
Salisbury Court, France. MIS-
. Emily /. Krui2cnEa went from Loo
- Angeles. Cal. IN company with lN'
. other nurses I'm base hospital No
. az staff She arrived in France Il
q July 1918. served for about SN
D months at hospital No, 10 at Trier
, Grmanv
. Had Pleasant Work.
Miss Anna Dee DOuahue wa
- abroad for nine months, boEinnin'
p November. 1913. She received he
4 appoiutmont at Joplin, Mo. Sn'
4 was IN base hospitals in Franc" Sh
% described her work abroad as pleas
ant rather than otherwise, as IN
I hospitals were not flooded, as dur
% ing The actual progress ot the war
r "A great deal of entertainment wa
n furnished and there were plcasan
excursions 20 other parts OF France
Tho hardest work WAS during tn
pneumonia epidemic In camps II
, | New York state before she sailed.
Miss pcarle NJ l'ahncstock VIII