Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — Runs Her Own Canteen. [ARTICLE]

Runs Her Own Canteen.

Mrs. Scott Lee, an aged negro woman, is happy because she has found a way at last to cheer the soldiers on their way as they pass through here en route from camp to coast for overseas service, according -to-an Ashtabula dispatch to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Lee, who lives near a railroad track, looked wistfully at the troop trains as they sped through, wondering if there was any way In which she could make a long trip more pleasant for the men. But the trains went through so fast she almost despaired until she finally bit upon a scheme that works to perfection. She got a long pole, and to it she fastens bundles of magazines and lunches, and as the trains whiz past she stands on the station platform and reaches her gifts to the men as they lean from the car windows.