Johnson, R.I., March 22 Forty trucks, each loaded with twenty WPA workers - 800 of them in all - have rolled out on the Plainsfield Pike morning after morning for a year or more. When they went by a house on the pike, Lillian Obrieter, an 18-year-old girl, ca e to the window and waved to each truckload of men. “The girl at the window” is what they called her.
When the trucks came down the highway yesterday there was not waving. The forty trucks stopped and the 800 men descended and walked over to the girl’s house.
The girl was frightened to see all the trucks stop, so she walked out with her brother Charlie to see what was the matter.
Out of the ranks of the men stepped a “committee” bearing bunches of Easter lilies, a basket packed with nuts, fruits and candy and Easter eggs - and a purse containing money.
“you waved at us every day for a year,” one of the men said. “We want you to accept these Easter gifts.
“You’re the little girl in the window. You don’t know us and we don’t know you, but you’re a bright light as we pass by in the morning and evening.
“Now, good-bye and a happy Easter.”
That's a nice little story. Thanks for the transcription. One reason I prefer to scroll through the whole paper rather than choose among titles in a database is so I can find items like the "girl at the window" story.