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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 13 Feb 1926, p. 18

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16 WINNETKA TALK February 13, 1926 JAMES G. BARBER som. AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEER a7 0 1508 Elmwood Ave., Evanston 5 5 Xe = Chicago Motor Club Official (24 Hr.) Service Station Repairing--Rebuilding All Makes of Cars Machine Shop--Welding--Painting--Electrical Velie Sales and Service Wholesale and Retail Parts for Paige-Jewert Jordan--Marmon-- Yellow Cab--Chevrolet For Better Home Made Candies Let Beach & Geils Candy Tell Your Valentine Story Beautifully packed in heart boxes of red satin--in all sizes. Valentine Chocolate Favors, Red and White Cream Hearts--and other Valentine Candies. OUR WINNETKA STORE and mail your box te COMMUNITY KITCHEN : tends. 584 Lincoln Street distant friends Phone Winn. 1740 1633 Orrington Avenue University 5970 We will pack, wrap >" { <0 ®, / JOIN THE FUN! RINK Bowman's Milk for the "pep and go" of happy health. Join wholeheartedly in the joys of active sport. Bowman Dairy Company Milk is rich in energy--it contains all the precious elements so vital to your « physical welfare. Adopt the habit pe of thousands -- those happy thou- sands who drink at least a quart a day and find bounding health in its creamy goodness. Bowman's Milk is safe milk -- per- fectly pasteurized to assure its pur- ity. In sterilized bottles it is swiftly brought to your door. -- = tof Telephone our nearest ! office for quick delivery oP pet te owinan DAI RY _COM x / bo : 'DR BROWN IN MIDST lof three courts. Each court ac- [ ° |commodates about 135 patients, until | more doctors came. At first 1 was OF CHINESE WARFARE | oaniving, separating the lightly Toe wounded from the severe, sending the . 3s former on to a Chinese hospital two Well Known Winnetka Physician | miles away. For ten days I worked Stationed in Peking Busy 1 | harder than any others in my life. Attending Wounded Men Care for Wounded Soldiers 3 The bus comes for us at the NOTE--Dr. Alice Barlow Brown, for language school at 7:30 and we leave many years one of Winnetka's leading tl om ct 8 It is 'very cold.id physicians, who has been in China the 1ere at 2 p.m. t 1s very cold, Cry past two and one-half years, is now | and windy, temperature 14 to 20 de- connected with the Department of |grees. Sometimes we give anaesthet- Physical Education of Yenching [jos all day, which is an easy job. For Women's college, a branch of Peking | five 1: eo 1 have bee Md i : ¢ university. Yenching is a "sister col- | VE days have been 1m charge of lege" to Wellesley, Miss Pendleton, | Court 16 which is the furthest away president of the latter, being on the | from the center of things. directing board of Yenching. | : ph | The men whose bullets are still Dr. Brown has attended the North | ... : . Fie nina China Union Language school at Pek- |within are sent up for X-ray and ing for over a year, to acquire a work- | then operated, if possible, that day. ing knowledge of Chinese. The severest must be taken care of The following extracts from a let- first. Dr. Hodges has X-raved 100 ter dated December 30, show that her a day Operations have been 50 a war work in France has stood her oy ve ® mii a hg ile in good stead, and %ring home to us day, and many lie suffering to be tak- more closely the actualities of the |en care of. All kinds of wounds from fighting in China. head to feet, various kinds of bullets, = oe furnished by different countries are : Peking, Dec. 30, 1925. |found, American, German and French. We have been cut off from outside "The soldiers are young, from 18 communication with the world for |years on. One was only 11 years old, about a month. The war has come|had been made to carry ammunition. very near to us, so that we are plung- | These men are all General Feng's men ed in to our necks, with the result|and are wonderfully patient and cheer- that since December 17, not a doctor |ful. or nurse enjoyed a pleasant Christmas.| Christmas day the barracks were ie Blea 3 b y 5 all decorated. Lanterns were hung It was like any other hard working| om a center arch placed in the day on the field. parade ground to each court. Services Formerly Feng's Yu Hsiangs head-| Were held at 2 p. m. for all of the te ; at N Yu 15 il ambulatory patients. The Salvation quarters were at Nan Yuan, 15 mileS| Army band came in the afternoon and south of Peking, and there is where | played in every court. These men all they have sent more than 2,000 know ihe Christian hymns and en- : 3 joyed e music. wounded to be taken care of by those Nanny Doctors" ii who would--Peking University Med- I have had to give up and stay in ical college. That is the Rockefeller |two days for a bad cold. Twenty doc- Foundation hospital (Methodist) ; lors are down with the flu, from over- Sleeper Davis (The Lady Methodist); | = phe recruits from the Presbyterian-Salvation army and the|school were 20 at the beginning, Chinese. I am working with the|which have now dwindled down to ormer, was put in charge at first, (Continued on Page 21) language Announcement ALBERT WALLBERG formerly with C. D. Macpherson wishes to announce that he has established himself in busi- ness and is now ready to meet problems of painting and decorating with a superior grade of workmanship at mod- erate cost. 2715 REESE AVENUE, EVANSTON Telephone University 8507 ] DANCING Every Thursday and 9 ob's Saturday Evening ance Music by and @ virvon currys "Red Hot Orchestra" Dancing from 8:00 to 12:00 P. M. Come early and stay late. 8360 sq. ft. You'll be sure to meet your of dance floor friends. 737 MAIN STREET, EVANSTON Admission Ladies Gents 50c¢ 75¢ 1

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