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,■ i; ■ 'Woman’s Land Army Unit Makes Good in tlebraskaC HADRON, NEB.—Unit No. 1 of the woman land army, three New York girls who have taken to real farming, has been In Chadron for a month. It is composed of Miss Ann Marshall, Miss Katherine Sampson and Miss Linda Sehroeder. All Chadron was at thestation to see the girls arrive. It put them down as of the “city type.” And city girls are house plants, the Chad-ronites reckoned. Marcus J. Cain was waiting for the land army. Cain lives 18 miles out of Chadron on a 4,000-acre farm, with seven men workers. Next morning Cain arose to pilot the NewT Yorkers around the place and show them their duties. Buttheschedule had been “milk the cows.”It was just sun-up. Cain found his army out milking the cows. And that was not Cain’s only surprise. He found that the army, clad in businesslike bloomers and high boots, was able to do any Job on the ranch on which it was put, and to do it as efficiently and as quickly as did the men.| Chadron expected a failure. Cain's first visit to town was an event. Hewas surrounded by a crowd who wanted to know about his “farmerettes.” Cain’s answer was contained in four words.sent by telegraph to the Woman’s Land array In New York: “Send more farm girls.”• Chadron Is now speculating Just how long Cain can keep his land army intact. There are more bachelors with farms out in this country than anywhere else on the face of the earth.In the month they have been here the girls have won fame for themselves, besides experience, admiration and $2 a day with board, room and laundry thrown in.The Woman’s Land army stands high in this part of Nebraska. If it has any more farmerettes like these three that are already here northwest Nebraska can take care of them.Bed Cross Canteen Wedding Eloquently PicturedCHICAGO.—Married at 3 p. m., in the Red Cross canteen: Miss Luella Irene Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Powell of Casey, la., to Sergt. Don T. Deal of Cedar Rapids. Let Elmer Douglas, the staff photographer, tell ofthe wedding which was celebrated at the lake front hut. Elmer was there. He took the pictures, he ate some of the wedding cake, and, did he kiss the bride? We pause for a reply.“You see the bridegroom passed through Chicago some time ago on hta way back to Iowa when he got out of the war,” says Elmer. “The Red Cross girls gave him such a good time in the canteen that he thought he’d like to spend the hnpp!tjf; j||^ of life there. So he wrote and asked them if he couldn't come back and be married there and they said yes. Sergeant Deal is going to be a high school teacher at Fort Dodge, la.- “By cracky I It was the prettiest wedding I ever saw. So sweet and simple and everybody was so nice. They had all the frills, too, yon can bet. The bride was dressed beautifully with white dress, a big bunch of flowers, and a veil, and everything. First, though, I must tell you how the Red Cross girls all lined up, a double row, for the couple to pass between. | Maj. S. C. Stanton of the Red Cross gave the bride away and then he lent her his beautiful gold sword to cut the wedding cake with# One of the Red Cross ladles had baked it, and it was some cake. It’s the first time they’ve ever had a wedding in a Red Cross canteen.” |ll| :M M USIS ' S? ' W ■ :ll
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Browning Leader Record
Browning, Missouri, US
Thu, Jul 17, 1919
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