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Show MISS MAE MGRETOH ' After 6l Months Overseas j - o - v , r 1 l j ; i i 1 i -1 i ' 1 ! ' ; J HI ' ' " ' ' 5 "No doubt it Will seem a bit rpliet to return io my poMt.ou at Vvalkors after nine and a half months under shellfiro,'' aid Misi Mao Moreton, Sanation Army lassie, who has just returned re-turned from canteen service aeross the sea-, ''but I will have my inemories.il- way. vivid memories they will be; and they will be wmlh any price I may have paid, and will color all my f u-ture u-ture life." M i.-s .Moreton v. as oniploved Iri the hosierv department of Walker I'.roV. I 'ry licmls cc m pa 1 1 v i ' r" i ou s te I lie Fnited tate,-,' entraio-c into the war; but when t he need ami t ,o call came for v, rviec ammiL; tlio soldier-. --Jie wa.s amoiiLT the iir.-t to Mtlunieer with the ab. atiou ani,v and one of the ery fir-.t to be s i ti t iivcrM're. " : SIp-1 worl ed n:ne and a half mouths1 uicp-r shellfiri1. threo-ipiarter"-- of a miie from the front, living moftlv in duir- 1 ouis. sieepim;. eating and liin in her. uniform. wi'!i never a powder puff nor a mirror in whieh to take one peek uhen -ho knew the soldier boys were; ''';iiii'i','. lint little did she nee.f tunelK-s of powder to make her attractive to! 'he doiiehbovs when they came stra-iriinr stra-iriinr in. mostly between 1J and 4 0 'clock in the mo rn i n -jf, t i red, hungry and nerve-wracked: tor there she whs. with one other la-sie like her-elf. n-adv with hoi .dn.coh.te and doughnuts to put one teu.pnrary brie;.t spyt in their world of troupio. In one dugout into whieh MUs iMore-'an iMore-'an and her eomt'anion went to eral-lih eral-lih their eanteen were fifteen dead ieriiuins : but in a very -lirrt while thev had all been taken out. the place scrubbed and cleaned till it -listened, and in h'-s time, alums', than it rakes to tell. 4uiMj doiiohnuts had been served o 1 ile bov. A fi er t lie. arm is t iee was m cynod i.M i Moreton rni-i'.' ov.-r tla- (brman line, P'ip'j- in into Met::. Alttiouh for so loii"- a time she was stationed v. liero the -hells were praetieally constant I v fal!- 1 n lt. slip was never oven siilirlv in-itireil. in-itireil. even though . several t imes the stnn-Mire in wdiieli she had her canteen was destroyed and one lime tiie chaplain chap-lain in tiie room above her was killed. Mode.-t, quiet, unassumiiiir. Miss M. .rerun tolls of tins wonderful sorviee of hers in even tones, with never a rhoii'jiit. apparently, that she has done i net hinr wonderful just ems to realize that she iias eiiriche-l her own life a thousandfold. Walker "s i-- lad to welcome Miss Moreton back, and with pruie re-es tahlished her in our store family. In one of the windows west from Main you can see her trophies and the mementos she brought home with her. |