The Canteen Honor Roll
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Amherst, Colo. Anselmo Ansley Arcadia Arnold Arthur Atkinson Bayard Berwyn Bignell Big Springs Birdwood Brady Brandon Bridgeport Broadwater Broken Bow Brownlee Brule Bucktail Buffalo Grove Burwell Bushnell Callaway Champion Chappell Comstock Cozad Curtis Dalton Dickens |
Dix Dry Valley Eddyville Elm Creek Elsie Elwood Elyria Eustis Fairfield, Colo. Farnam Flats Franklin Gandy Gering Gibbon Gothenburg Grainton Grand Island Grant Gurley Haxton, Colo. Hayes Center Hershey Holbrook Holdrege Holyoke, Colo. Imperial Ingham Johnstown Julesburg, Colo. Kearney |
Keystone Kimball Lamar Lemoyne Lewellen Lexington Lillian Lisco Lodgepole Lyman Madrid Mason City Maxwell Maywood Merna McGrew Mitchell Moorefield Morrill Newman Grove Nichols North Loup North Port Oconto O'Fallons Ogallala O'Neill Ord Orleans Oshkosh Overton |
Ovid, Colo. Paxton Potter Red Cloud Ringgold Roscoe Sarben Sargent Scottsbluff Sedgewick, Colo. Shelton Sidney Stapleton Stockville Sumner Sunol Sutherland Tallin Table Taylor Thedford Thune Trumball Tryon Valentine Venango Wallace Wauneta Weisert Wellfleet Westerville Willow Island |
By war’s end, the North Platte Canteen “Honor Roll” consisted of about 125 Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas communities that contributed either labor or sizable donations to keep the canteen operating. One estimate of the number of volunteers who worked at the center one time or another is 55,000.
Ogallala, Neb. was the first outside of North Platte to send volunteers. Others later came from as far as 200 miles by motor vehicle or train. Farmers, ranchers, housewives and businessmen all took time off from their own work to spend a monthly 10-hour day making sandwiches, sweeping floors, washing dishes or serving food. Some communities too small to muster much of a volunteer force went in with other towns on their work days. The canteen committee, to give recognition to the out-of-town help, installed an Honor Roll sign in the canteen on December 24, 1943, that listed those towns with monthly service dates.
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