Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-04-11

silver medals will be bestowed on the fol-
lowing members Of his volunteer crew:
Nels GreGerson. Frederick Bouchie. Mar
ius Nelson. Joseph NJ. Shute. Aka Holm
Quist and Lewis J. johnson.
A public meeting will be held at Pleas
antville. the home of the modest Casio.
to make formal presentation of the med
ais.
Philadelphia Girls Deed.
Philadelphians are particularly inter-
ested in the silver medal that Will come
to Miss Lucy Ernst. daughter of Select
Councilman Bernhard Ernest. of the For
ty-third Ward. She lives at 1922 North
Sixth street.
Miss Ernst ia not yet q years old. She
is to be married soon. Two years ago
the Ernst family and their friends, the
Schoenhuts. We're spending the summer
at the Porter's Lake Hunting and Fish
ing Club. A party of the young folk, In
GLIDING Miss Ernst and Harry F.
Schoenhut, who is a few years younger
than she. were walking through a copse
back of the clubhouse, Schoenhut, who
was in his shirt sleeves. stopped to cut
a branch from a fallen sapling, and. AS
he did so. a large rattlesnake bit him
above the right elbow.
Miss Ernst seized the knife that he
dropped. cut away the sleeve and apply
ing her mouth to the wound sucked out
NA> BSi'Sh sh1 StCiAA "a "a he
il not q stomach poison, but Miss Ernest
knew that she was running a great risk
because of the fact that she had a fever
sore on her mouth AT the time. and the
probabilities were that she would be-
come inoculated drought 1t.
In spite of that fact, she sucked the
wound clean and was herself ill In bed
for several days as a result of her hero
ism. while young Schoenhut felt no bad
effects from the snake bite.
Give Widow Medal.
Mrs. Sarah A. Marshall. OF New Ken
eington. Pa. was granted a silver medal
and $500 cash. May "a. 1905. for the bravery
of her husband. Gideon X. Marshal. who
lost his life on March Is, 1905. at SPRING
dale. Allegheny county.
Marshall. who was q carpenter. was en-
ployed about a we'll which was being
drilled on the property of Thomas d.
Mellon. Arthur TRULY was at the bottom
OF the we'll. when he was overcome by O.
sudden accumulation of gas.
Fernand Piiette went into the we'll to
Truby's assistance. but he, too, was inn
mediately overcome. Knowing that both
men were unconcious at the bottom Of
the we'll. Marshall. without a moments
hesitation. went to their assistance.
He met the same fate as the two other
men, his body being recovered later, after
eafety appliances had been preceded which
lIIduS u pOSSIDit hlc W reach IHe y
Tom. Marshal left his widow and three
children in poor circumstances. There
was a mortgage on their home, and the
money was given to liquidate the mort
gage,
Get Brothers Medal.
At the May award in 1906 Miss Cora
Williams was given a silver medal for a
brave act performed by her brother.
George Il. Williams. a laborer, of Eliza
beth. Pa.
On October "a. 1904. Williams started
across the iron bridge between Elizabeth
and West Elizabeth. when he heard the
screams of George j. Weigle. a draughts-
man, who WAS hanging suspended high In
the air from a cross-piece.
Some electric cables were suspended by
the bridgework there. and Weigle was be-
ing slowly burned to death by the cur
rent. Williams climbed up to VEHICLES
assistance. but was shocked and knocked
to the bridge floor beneath.
He sustained a fractured skull and died
several hours a~fterward. Weigle was
dead when his body was rescued. He had
gone to hts dangerous position for the