The officers chosen to be in charge of the Canteen are: Mrs. Charles [Anna] Bogue, com- mander; Mrs. Millard [Anna] Hosler, assis- tant commander; Miss Sarah Kelly, secretary; Mesdames [Callie] Davidson, [Mildred] Koch, [Ruth] Cool, [LaVanche] Dickey, [Daisy] Hinman, [Nettie] Tiley and [Winifred] Scott captains. Each captain is in charge of a company of 10 women. Telegraph | July 18, 1918 The war Canteen at North Platte, recently opened, begins its usefulness in a lively manner from the very start, and Saturday evening [July 13] their first big work was to care for three car loads of recruits from the east and destined for some western camp. The canteeners in their pretty uniforms pre- sented a most lovely spectacle as they provided the boys with coffee, smokes, ice cream, magazines and post cards, and their noble work brought forth a rousing cheer as the train left the station. Telegraph | July 18, 1918 The overseers of the North Platte Soldiers Canteen, conducted in the vacated U.P. depot, are earnestly requesting all parties who have later-date maga- zines to call them up by phone and they will come and get them or bring them to headquarters, from where they will be distributed among the soldiers who are daily being transported to the front thru this place.
Telegraph | July 18, 1918 The [doors of the] government branch of the North Platte Canteen for soldiers were thrown open yesterday afternoon [July 12], and a large number of our citizens took occasion to inspect the quarters and pronounced the place to be in every part complete and nicely arranged. The rooms had lately been repainted and repaired, and each department presented a very neat and attractive appearance. One room serves as a kitchen and is provided with an immense coffee urn, three small gas stoves, sink for dish-washing and the necessary tables; another room, the largest of the three, is furnished with long tables from which the lunches will be served; the third room is fitted up for hospital ser- vice, in case a sick soldier should be taken from the train. In each of the windows … hangs a banner with a canteen service inscription. …
Sammy Girls, organized by North Platte High School’s female students. The Red Cross Canteen opened to servicemen on July 13, 1918. ABOVE AND TOP: North Platte’s 1918 Union Pacific Depot, which stood until 1973, appears here in a 1920s postcard (top) and its original floor plan (above). The depot’s restaurant area, at left in the postcard and right in the floor plan, would become the World War II Canteen’s famous home.
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