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The Hospital Breeze from Fort Riley, Kansas • 3

The Hospital Breeze from Fort Riley, Kansas • 3

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Fort Riley, Kansas
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HOSPITAL BREEZE, THUBSPAY; XARCH 1919, DETACHMENT CLUB ROOMS PL A NX ED 'FOR PERSON EL Sergeant Curtis in charg of Section and Sergeant Apple, mess sergeant, enjoyed a week end pass in Kansas City. tirtG for Lounging Room and Offices Corpsmen's Organizations Will Be Provided. MANY NURSES TRANSFIGURED. Orders for the transfer of thirty-five nurses from Fort Riley to various camps were received Tuesday morning. The nurses probably will leave the Ease Hospital this week.

Nurses going to U. S. Disciplinary 'Barracks, Fort Leavenworth; Nurse Lula M. Chalelle; Reserve nurses Mayme E. Clark, Iva Hill-yard, Bertha R.

Klatt, Beula Martin, Edna 0. Curry, Ida V. Kin-land, Sara L. Mallory, Mamie S. Sterling, Martha M.

Sutter. To Fort Snelling, Nurses A club room for the exclusive use of the enlisted personnel of the Hospital will be informally opened within the next week, according to Captain C. H. Belknap, Detach ment Commander, who is, using his influence to procure still better TOURNAMENT BEGINS MONDAY. The House that Makes Service a Personal Consideration.

Rfady-fo-YVear Millinery i Dry Goods Notions Hosiery Underwear Corsets In the Basement: Trunks and Hand Luggage Men's Wear The Taylor, Dry Goods Co. Junction City facilities for the entertainment and comfort of the men in the Detachment Medical Department than have been available in the past. The Hazel I. Gregg. Lillian 11.

M. Por ter; Reserve nurses Cecelia Burns, Betty M. Borg, Pauline Howden, Laura A. Johnson, Eva B. McLat-chie, Wilhelmina Sievert, Anna I.

club room will be housed in a frame building, twenty feet wide and one hundred feet long, which was formerly indeiitified as Ward 2S, Section It has been Christiansen, Nancy A. Erwin, Cornelia Fontaine, Margaret Ken The little unit of five reconstruction aides in physic therapy are busy and happy these days. On checking up their lists for February they find that in that short month one hundred seventy-nine patients have been treated in Sections and.S. Eighty of this number have been discharged. In Section alone where a little more than half the time of the unit is spent, one thousajul thirty7one treatments were given.

What might they not accomplish with a convenient and well equipped departmnt of their own? emptied of its hospital equipment nedy, Lotta R. Parker, Selma Peterson, Elizabeth Wolfe. To Cooper Monmouth Building, Chicago: Reserve nurses Lida M. and will be refurnished at once, in an appropriate manner. The club building is situated directly north of the office of the Detachment Commander, and is easy of access to the members of the Detachment.

Keeran, Hildur J. Steinborg, I. -Minnie Olsson, flattie Strieter. To Fort Sheridan, 111.: Nurses Martha E. Kammerer, Anna J.

'The main purpose of the club," Madsen, Lillian Reh; Reserve, nurses Frances M. Hawver, Koselle McDonough, Alma T. Lund. The coming basketball schedule Is interesting the entire hospital at this time. The teams are busy training and many practice games have been played.

The completed schedule, which appears In this issue, calls for thirty-six games to be played off within a period of two weeks. The Schedule. vikMcmday, March 10, 6:3011 vs. 7:45 vs. Mess.

Tuesday, March 11, 6:30 vs. 7:45 Rcgtrs. vs. Mess. Wednesday, March 12, Hdq.

vs. Parade; 7:45 Mess vs. B. Thursday, March 13, 2:00 Me3s vs. vs.

6:30 Regtrs. vs. Parade; 7:45 vs. S. Friday, March 14, 2:00 Hdq.

vs. Mess; Vs. 6:30 vs. 7:45 Vs. Parade.

Saturday, March 15, 2:00 Parade vs. 3:15 Mes3 vs. 6:30 Regtrs. vs. 7:45 Hdq.

vs. Monday, March 17, 6:30 Regtrs, vs. 7:45 vs. Parade. Tuesday, March 18, 6:30 vs.

7:45 vs. Hdq. Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 L. vs. 7:45 vs.

K. Thursday? March 20, 2:00 Par said Captain Belknap, "is to provide a place where the men in the Detachment may spend their even ings and other hours when. they are 1 The Nurses' Glee Club sang "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "Rejoice ce With Jerusalem," at Y. M. C.

'A. No. 1 a week ago Sunday night. It was greatly appreciated and we hope they will s6on favor us again. After continuous service of near not on duty, and at tne same tunc feel that they are at home.

We. want all of the men, if possible, to ly fifteen months in the Receiving Section, Private Edward Lipson has been transferred to Section for duty. FIRST NATIONAL BANK United States Depository. Let us take care of your banking business. OFFICERS: Thos.

B. Kennedy, Pres. Jas. V. Humphrey, V.

Pres. O. O. Clark, V. W.

F. Miller, Cashier. Vassar Durbon, Ass't. Cash. The week has produced much excitement among the nurses which is most apparent at meal time.

The occasion is the trans use the club rooms, and when they do so, to feel that they are using what is really their own that they are not the 'guests' of anybody. The Government is paying the expense and the benefits are purely for the men themselves. fers and discharges of several of Private Victor W. Chovil is again driving ambulances after an absence of nearly a month. The reason for his absence being that he has been a patient in Section during that time.

The need of such a place as this the nurses. THE ARMY SCHOOL OF NURSING. has long been felt here. Most of the men have held the somewhat erroneous idea that whenever provisions were made for their enter Sgt. Ralph Benn of Section was operated upon for a mastoid in Section Saturday.

tainment that they were sort of outsiders who had been invited in as guests. This is an idea that we ade vs. 3:15 vs. 6:30 Regtrs. vs.

7:45 Hdq. vs. L. Friday, March 21, 2:00 Regtrs. vs.

3:15 vs. 6:30 vs. Mess; 7:45 vs. Saturday, March 22, 2:00 vs. 3:15 vs.

6:30 Mess vs. Parade; 7:45 Hdq. vs. Regtrs. want to get-away from in forming this club.

The men should feel that Sgt. Frank R. Frazier of the medical supply depot, formerly of the building, equipment and every their Base Hospital detachment, has thine connected with it are Ever since their arrival at Fort Riley the student nurses have been very busy, but never quite so much so as at the present time. Probation period is rapidly drawing to a close and ther are many classes to finish and examinations to take. Their evenings are spent at 10413 practicing for the musical comedy which the Athletic Club will give March 14.

received his honorable discharge. i C- ARMY NURSE CORPS One of the most enjoyable enter tainments given in the wards re- i cently was that given Saturday by the Ukulele Girls of Salina. The girls were all well trained singers BOON MARKET Now a real Market, with everything good to eat, including Meats, Groceries, Fish, Oysters, Poultry Fresh Fruit and Vegetables and Dairy Products. BOON MARKET Phones74-336. 706 N.

Washg'ton. The reception held at the Red Cross House on "Wednesday evening for the reconstruction aides was an unusually pleasant occasion. A large number attended and own and should feel at liberty to offer their suggestions for any kind of entertainment that they would like to have." As the place is to be purely a club room, it is planned not to have any other similar form of entertainment. Chairs, writing tables, reading matter and other things generally conceded to be conducive to solid comfort will be liberally distributed in the rooms and smoking will not be barred. Several of the smaller rooms in the building will be fitted up for offices and placed at the disposal of athletic, musical, dramatic and various other committees which will be looking for a place to meet from Monday evening, February 24.

Chaplain Bradley added one more feature to the busy life of the students by forming a Bible Class organization among-them. The first meeting was devoted to a study of Genesis, Chap. 1 and to the election of officers, the result of which was: Miss Nichols, president; Miss, Sei-leck, vice president; Miss Vance, secretary. It was unanimously decided that a treasurer was not needed among the student nurses. and players and put on a tine program.

The girls were chaperoned by Mrs. Minnie Stiefel, and came to Fort Riley under the auspices of the Jewish Welfare Board. Programs were given in Sections and later in the Red Cross Convalescent House. In the party were Misses Elizabeth Bulkley, Edith Helen Stanford, Frances Felt, Alice Robinson and Tuts Pierce. the program was delightful.

An address of welcome to the aides was -made by 'Miss Brock. The Giee then sang "The Viking Song." Following this Miss Kraettli sang very charmingly "The Banjo' Song," receiving a luearty encore. Miss Youmans, of the Student nurses, danced a Flower dance in costume; Miss DeBarr gave a dramatic reading entitled "The Angels of Buena Vista," and Miss. Kraettli and Miss Gifford sang in duet "The Songs My Mother Used to The chief feature of the -program was Miss Goodnow's address. She time to time.

of these office rooms will be permanently occupied by the Detachment editorial staff of The Hospital Breeze. UNION STATE SAVINGS BANK Several rehearsals of the new play have been held. The chorus and dancing parts are being well taken by members of the student nurse corps and a cast of fine stars has "been chosen elsewhere from the dramatic material in the Post. "I notice a great many smoke trees in yonder garden." "Yes, it belongs to a tobacconist." San Francisco Chronicle. Pvt.

1st class Carl Gutekunst was in Chapman, Thursday, visiting Former Sergeant Arthur Knight of the M. O. T. C. He attended a dinner party given for twenty discharged soldiers and sailors living in Chapman.

Save and Have. spoke interestingly of her experiences as a nurse with the allied armies abroad, giving us a new point of view which our failure to go across lias denied our gaining at first hand. After the nroerani MILITARY RENDEZVOUS ATTRACTIVE STATIONERY. Tablets 10c andup. Box Stationery 35c to $3.50.

Phillips Dry Goods Co. Ladies' Ready-to-wear Wash Goods, Dress Goods, Silks and General Drv Goods. Hand Bags and Suit Cases. Eighth and Washington Junction City, Kans. and maccaroons were served.

A committee of nurses, headed by Miss Nimcoeks, arranged a unique costume dance which was Friday evening at the Administration Building. Some of the most effective costumes were Mrs. Hayden as "America, 'Mrs. Bel-nap as "Fatima." Miss Hubbell as "Princess of Night," Miss Harri- Conklin Self Filling Fountain Pens $3.00 to $5.00. Popular Fiction, splendid titles, 75c each.

Magazines, Loose Leaf Memorandums, Gift Goods. TROTTS BOOK STORE i Junction City, Kans. Eon in effective crepe costume of in' gingham with red mitts and a milk pail and stool, dragging her dairy along. Amone the men sue- ri 1 1 1 i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (jj THE HOME STATE BANK Deposits Guaranteed. interest raid en Time Deposits and Sariug Accounts.

cesefullv costumed wer Contain Cole Bros. Dry Goods Co. WHOLESALE AND SlTAIL City, Kan. yilnnhattan, Kan. Belnap as "Omar of the Turks" and Lt.

W. H. Kelly of dining car fame whose shining black face and rifcktie find skilled cran Bkootioz 'furnished amusement for all. Mail Tlit Breez home. iiiiuiiiii tuiii i ciii ii ii 1 1 ii ii in riui ii ii iiiiuf ti if i iiiiimif inn ii 1 1 1 iiiniiniiii i.

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1919-1919