The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-10
Our Memory Album
oR-"Do YOU REMEMBER wHEN-,
Montana Homestead Girl Who Helped Win
the War and Was Honored by King of Siam
Reprinted from Old Files Of
COUNTY TIMES, June 80, 1919

Seven years ago an eastern girl came to
Montana in quest of a home and health. She
had spent q number of years minister:ng toI
the sick and was looking for some place wherel
she could rest and regain the strength she
had so generously expended serving others.
This young woman's name Is Miss c. ".
on a homestead 10 miles north Of Glasgow,
Montana. Her nearest neighbor. three miles
away. helped her build a cabin but she
planted her own garden and each year added
the improvements to her home and land.
The two-room house was a real home. dainty
curtains hung at the windows, pictures, rare
from the east converted the living room into
a place that would have charmed the most
fastidious Of her friends. Once in awhile
she went to her friends in the east but always
spring found her back on her own land.
Then the United States entered the war.
Uncle Sam was calling for recruits and Miss
Craig was one Of the first to respond. She
hurried into GLASGOW with some of the pa
triotic neighbor lads and they all enlisted.
The branch Of the service she chose was Of
course nursing. Upon her graduation from one
Of the largest training schools in the east.
Miss Craig registered with the American
Red Cross. This registration meant that at
any time the organization needed her services
she would respond to the call. She had waited
for nine years but when the appeal came, she,
with thousands Of other capable women all
over the land dropped personal activities and
responded.
After y months service in an army hos
Pital in this country. Miss Craig was sent to
France and stationed in Paris at Base Hos
pital No. ST. She cared for $50 patients daily
and supervised the mercy work in five wards.
When it was possible she and the other
nurses would snatch a little rest, climbing
three flights Of stairs to their small rooms
at the top of the building to do so. There
or milk and If it were possible to prcure
small allotments Of these commodities, the
patients were served them and the nurses
gladly did without.
So grateful were a group Of wounded
Yankee doughboy patients shat when they
were table to take short walks about the
grounds they would discuss the gifts they
would like to present their nurse before their
out what she wanted until one day they
saw her petting a beautiful dog at the gate.
Later she was presented with a splendid
canine by the boys who, after much ques-
tioning told her the dog had followed them
when they were walking near the hospital,
and as 1t wore no collar and persisted in fol-
lowing them they Just brought it along
her new friend. but decided it would be
best to advertise for his owner in the Paris
dailies. She did so, but eight weeks vent By
when she was walking with the dog, to whom
she had become greatly attached a police
man came along and demanded the dog, say.
ing that ne was one Of the greatest war
heroes and that for three years he had
helped to locate and carry the wounded from
the battlefields. His master had advertised
IN every paper in France for him. Miss Craig
e EXPLAINS tn that .htah.e only papers read in her
and the one published by the convalescenf
american patients under the caption 'sThe
PLASTER OF Paris" She went along with the
policeman to call on the dogs master and
her pet. 'H'
While serving in the American nosp,ta, In
Paris 30 wounded Siamese soldiers wer.
Drought IN and Miss crais gave especial at