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WOMAN’S LAND ARMY HAS INVADED NEBRASKAtThree Young Wont «u From NewYork City. Trained Fanners,Tlt;i'■ ■ Work Near ChadronN» Ora ka ha Im*(*n invaded by theWoman's? Lath! Army.Th* first unit of workers three girl: from New York City —arrived ill tin state on May 28 th bound f«rEhlher, Diiwc county, near Chad-ron, where they will go to work on the ranch of .M iron J. Cain as dayIahlt; !'* I on the ante t ■ 1 nt: as men. They re t Atm ' In hall. Mi. •.Katlmrim* kamp-on and M1 LindaS( hrot der. Though they are all New York. City girls, and, until recent months, office workers, theyare not *'i;r«*en hands,** for all threeof them have been doing every kindof farm work tin past year in New York state and Connecticut as volunteer under the l and Army. Theycan do anything from weeding to pitching hay or running a tractor.Mr, Cain, who has a 1000 aeroranch which he i finding ft difficult to man, i the first to experi-nu.nl. with t irl workers in Nebraska, fTe read in a farm journal of the Woman Lind Army, got in touch th it; national director, Mrs. Wll-lian ii. Hubert, 19 W, 14th afreet, New York 'dry, and in a short timethree girts had been found who were cag for an opportunity to work in| ’i! v,lt; t and volun*elt; red to stay the r round houid tie work prove 'mutually satisfactory. ?The Woman's Land Army is an nr; anization of morlt; than 15,000 air! and women oi anized in 1917 to Imlp megt the farm labor short-ae.i- brought about by the war. It tar:ml i a small way at Bedford, A Y 1 ’u • a irainia farm for\\i\ oplt; nc-lt;i and from which •vuj llt;t »,; wlt; i'c :••*•!»; out to help farm-er. on adjaet at farm . The girls . proved si ad. ptnble to all kinds of farm work anti the demand for them ;rlt; w at sin h a pro e that a call w entI out broaden t for girl volunteers.
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Beatrice Daily Sun
Beatrice, Nebraska, US
Sat, May 31, 1919
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