Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1918 — Brave Milk Girls of Reims. [ARTICLE]

Brave Milk Girls of Reims.

The little milk girls of Reims are given high, rank by Paul Dramas of that martyred city, in an article he has written praising the heroism displayed by the women of Reims. “The little milk girls,” he writes, “will never be forgotten at Reims. Milk was a necessity for the children, the aged and the sick. Thanks to the little milk girls they never went without The tinkling of their little bells announced their arrival and for 44 months they traversed an the streets of the city. Many a time they were taken by surprise by a storm of shells. Three of them had to be carried away on stretchers, yet the others continued on their route so that the children and sick should have their milk all the same. On February 28 we heard the tinkling of their bells for the last time. The little milk girls were sent out of the city. They had filled their mission to the very end, for after that there were no longer in Reims either children, aged or ftck. All had left.”