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Red Cross headquarters will be
open Thursday and Friday afternoons
of each week. Bring in your finished
garments—come get more or come
and work.
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The Northwestern Division Bureau
of Supplies has just been asked to
ship to Europe 200,000 yards of
material for refugee garments and
100,000 pounds of yarn for knitted
refugee agrments. If all divisions of
the Red Cross are shipping accord
ingly the women of Europe are to do
considerable work to supply garments
for themselves and children in addi
tion to what the women of the
divisions are asked to do.
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Sewing machines are among the
greatest needs of the devastated dis
tricts of France, according to a cable
gram received from the American
Red Cross commission for that
country and chapters throughout the
country with sewing machines no
longer needed are asked to contribute.
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Twent-two women, other than
nurses, have died in the service over
. seas of the American Red Cross.
Influenza and pneumonia caused most
oi the deaths.
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“Tiie Death Train.” *
Stark realism reminiscent of the
old school of Russian fiction mahes
the fact story, “The Death Train,” in
the April number of the Red Cross
Magazine, which shows the terrible
state into which great Russia has
fallen. Simply reproduced from his
dairy, written while the scenes were
still burning themselves into his
mind, Rudolph Bukeley’s description
of the trainload of diseased, crazed,
dying and dead prisoners, dragged
madly over into Siberia with no
destination, in cars reeking with filth,
appeals even to those who know what
Siberia is today. Eight hundred of
the poor wretches died before the
American Red Cross workers could do
anything against the panic and chaos
that accompanied the train.
> .fu'WiS; -e, seen the dead/’ writes
Red
Cross workers on the spot, "through
whose bodies disease and vermin
have eaten their way until life itself
has departed after five months of daily,
agonizing torture from hunger, filth,
exposure. I have seen through the
windows of box-cars whose dimen
sions were 24 x 10, containing 40
animals that once were human—men,
women, and children faces that when
they glared at me I could not recog
nize as those of human beings, but
who resembled beasts of a species
unknown to man. I have seen the
dead lying along the roadside and 50
or 60 men fighting like dogs for pieces
of. bread thrown >.to them by the
sympathetic poor people of Nikolsk.
And the sights I have seen will be
duplicated all over Siberia, and
thousands, aye, tens of thousands, will
literally rot to death. I use the words
advisedly, for human life is the cheap
est thing in Siberia.”
The Plucky Serbian*.
Serbian soldiers may be seen on all
the roads of Serbia, from the south
ern frontiers to the Danube, slowly
making their way to their homes on
foot, the war over, their fighting done
—a long trail for these plucky defen
ders of Serbia, who stood in the
mountain trenches for four years
without release and went through the
last campaign without a woman
nurse, without anesthetic for their
wounded.
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Russian Children Made Happy.
No feature of the civilian relief
work of the American Red Cross in
North Russia has elicited greater ap
preciation than the American lunches
which have been served in all the
public schools and orphanages of
Archangel. School work, according
to a statement by the superintendent
of Archangel schools, could not have
continued in many cases without Red
Cross help, since the children were in
such an ill-nourished and weakened
condition that they were unable to
undertake the journey to and from
school.
The sentimental side of this relief
seems to have impressed the children
most strongly. They are moved with
a new curiosity about the children of
that distant democacry about which
they are just beginning to learn; and
since they are told that the cocoa and
biscuits which they receive comes
from them through the Red Cross,
they devise new ways each week to
show their appreciation. The head
quarters of the Red Cross in Arch
angel is piled with toys made by Rus
sian children for their friends in
America. This new friendship is
something they will never forget.
At a recent celebration at the Alex
androff Orphanage, a handmade lace
collar was presented to the Red Cross
officer who attended, to be sent to
Miss Margaret Wilson, about whose
distinguished father the children have
heard so much. Hand-worked hand
kerchiefs were also sent to the
school children of America.
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An Unwelcome Souvenir.
There is a soldier at Walter Reed
hospital, in Washington, who is sup
porting the boycott of German goods.
When he came out of the ether, the
other day, he found a good-sized
jagged bit of shrapnel tied to a but
ton on his pajamas. It had been re
moved from his leg.
“A little souvenir,” explained the
surgeon.
"Take it away,” said the soldier.
“I don’t want anything around me
that was made in Germany.”
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Mother Ricaux of Perpignan.
Rat-tat! The postman’s knock!
Babette hastens to the door, wiping
her hands on her apron as she run. A
letter from Jean!
“Bon jour. Mother Ricaux!” Bab
ette eagerly seizes the fat envelope
from the extended hand of the post
woman, who smiles brightly at the
young girl at the door. After all, it is
not unpleasant, bringing the world,
bringing friends and love to the little,
vine-hung doorways of Perpignan,
albetit one’s feet are weary at night.
Mother Ricaux had done far more
trying work than this! Yes, the little
rolling canteen was harder than this!
But then there were the “poilus.” One
did not mind so much being tired
when a "poilu's” eyes laughed over a
thick sandwich!
Mother Ricaux ’s donkey-drawn
canteen was a familiar sight along the
winding French roads leading battle
wards during the four long years of
war. She bears the distinction of hav
ing approached closer to the actual
fighting lines than any other “can
tiniere,” and has two wound stripes
to attest it! One of these was re
ceived in the retreat of the Marne in
1914, just after the battle of Cracy.
The little red pony, the donkey's
predeceBor, was killed then.
But Mother Ricaux was not dis
couraged, only slightly inconveni
enced by her wound for a short time,
and soon the little canteen was trun
dling trenchwards again with its
tempting array of sandwiches, cheese
and biscuits, pots of mustard, salad,
eggs—and soap! From Tracy to
Bailly, rain or sun, under sprinkling
shrapnel, she was the faithful friend
of the second line. Her round, smil
ing face under her “tin hat” was al
ways welcome among her soldier
friends. And Mother Ricaux was not
without troubles of her own. Her
husband was a cripple, his legs crush
ed by a heavy gun-carraige, and there
were three small children.
Upon another occasion this brave
woman was overcome by asphyxiating
gas which confined her to the hospital
at Compiegne for more than a year,
and when that city was under bom
bardment, none was so fearless and
calm as Mother Ricauifc, who assisted
in evacuating the wounded.
Now the war is over and Mother
Ricaux is back at Perpignan with her
little family. She must work. There
are no “poilus” to be fed now. Peace
has brought her pleasant work, that
of carrying the mail for the village of
Perpignan—a sharp contrast, after
ministering to hungry soldiers under
fire—and Mother RIcadx is* trot quite
satisfied. She longs once more to es
tablish a little confectionery shop,
like the one she had before the war.
But she has no money, no house, no
furniture only the three small Ricaux,
a crippld husband and her own two
willing hands—sufficient assets, if she
only has a little help. She has brought
her story to the Red Cross—that ever
DIMON NICKOLOFF
8HOE REPAIRING
Red Cabin (Ocean Dock)
Men’s Shoes half-soled and
heels sewed and nailed.$2.75
Rubber heels and soles. 2.75
Ladies’ Shoes lialf-soled.2.00
Heels, rubber and leather.76
Men’s haf-soles . 2.25
Children’s Shoes, heels and
soles . 2.50
Harness Repairing; Automobile
Tires Vulcanized
Rubber Boots Repaired
Hand and Machine Work
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open ear—and we feel sure that It will
not be long before Mother Ricaux is
again dispensing “sweeties” across
the counter to the small purchasers of
Perpignan. And further, it is not dif
ficult to imagine the “poilus” settled
down In domesticity again, longing for
the pies that Mother Ricaux used to
make.
KETCHIKAN NEWSPAPER
TAKEN OVER BY STONE
A company composed of business
men of Ketchikan has purchased the
Ketchikan Progresive-Miner from J.
E. Rivard, and arrangemntB have
been concluded whereby B. M. Stone,
formerly of Nome, Seward and Val
dez, will be publisher of the new
company. Mr. Stone promises the
people of Ketchikan a wide-awake,
modern newspaper.
The purchase price of the Progres
sive-Miner has not been given out.
The Progressive-Miner has been
under the management of J. E. Rivard .
since the consolidation of the Pro
gresive and the Miner several years
ago. It is the heir of other daily and
weekly papers of Ketchikan. The first
paper at Ketchikan was established
by Governor A. P. Swineford nearly
twenty years ago, which he afterward
sold to L. R. Gillette and W. S.
Coutant. Governor Swineford later
established another paper—the Miner.
Later these papers were consolidatd
and came under the management of
Richard Bushnell. A few years ago
Mr. Rivard moved his Petersburg
Progressive to Ketchikan and after a
short time he purchased the Miner.
Since then he has published the
Progressive Miner.
There have been several other
Ketchikan papers started and oper
ated for a short time, either to sus
pend or be taken over by the older
line of newspapers which have been
consolidated into the Progressive
Miner. The last of these was the
Pioneer, first a monthly, and after
wards a weekly, established by T. R.
Needham and the late Paul F. Stan
hope. It suspended a short time ago.
A short time ago, before the sus
pension of the Pioneer, a company
was organized at Ketchikan, of which
F. J. Furnival and others were the
moving spirits, to establish another
daily newspaper. The company ”
absorbed, it is understood, the Need
ham plant and good will. It is this
company which has purchased the
Progressive-Miner.
Mr. Stone, it is understood, will
have a free hand in the managemnt
of the new daily paper, which will
start with the entire Ketchikan field
to itself.
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