North Platte women to serve in this war as their moth- ers and grandmothers had in the last. It fell to The Bulletin to paint the last real-time word pictures of the institution it had helped to facilitate. “Prowler,” Daily Bulletin | April 3, 1946 With its doors locked and tables stacked, the North Platte Canteen was a bleak place yesterday with only the memory of four years and more of patriotic effort to aid the progress of the war. Several workers came by for a last look into the barren room which until Monday had been a beehive of activity, and more than one soldier and sailor passing thru on the train was seen to stop and look a bit wistfully thru the windows. Daily Bulletin | April 3, 1946 “Don’t feel bad about closing the Canteen. You’ve earned enough points for your honorable discharge,” said Charles H. Plander of Marshalltown, Ia., when he walked into the room formerly occupied by the Canteen yesterday. Plander and 11 other service men on train No. 22 walked into the room without realizing that the Canteen was closed Monday. Mesdames T.J. [Edna] Neid, Charles [Jessie] Hutchens and Amiel [Grace] Traub, who were finish- ing up last-minute details during the morning, had just finished making a large pot of coffee for themselves but gave it to the service men when they came in.
Helen Christ (left) and Rae Wilson lock the Canteen for the last time, April 1, 1946.
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