Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Democratic Women Celebrate Victory the Po-Mrs Ding
ley Acting Head of Pen Women, Speaks at Unwilling.
Home Economics Association Notes.

| League of American Pen Women. has
| just returned from charlottesville.
| Va. where she participated in the
unwilling of big bowlder commend
rating a Revolutionary hero who has
had scant recognition for the ire
mendous service ne rendered his
| country in it's struggle for freedom
At Cuckoo. a spot between Rich-
mond and Staunton, where the Cuckoo
| Tavern once stood so named because
| its first owner was supposed TO nave
| imported the first cuckoo clock INTO
America, a group of patriotic citizens
headed by Charlottesville Chapter OF
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton. of which Mrs. Joel NJ. Cochran
is the founder. dedicated boulder
fittingly inscribed to the memory OF
Jack Jouette. the 11-year-old youth
who rode q race with death equally
as courageous as the one which mace
Paul Revere famous, though not SO
handsomely recognized.
According to the story recounted by
speakers at the memorial ceremony,
Young .Jouette was employed at the
Cuckoo Tavern during the Revolution
ary War. and his roadhouse was the
scene of many meetings of officers on
their way to and from the battletields.
One day some British soldiers on q
confidential mission from Cornwallls
stopped there and during the course
of their dinner became bit careless
in their remarks paying no heed 10
the youngster who attended their
wants. But the boy, apparently I'M
concerned, was all ears. He learned
from their conversation that their Inn
mediate commander had been ordered
TO steal upon Charlottesville, where a
Legislative meeting was being held In
secret, attended by Richard Henry
Lee, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jeffer-
son and other prominent leaders.
Slipping away unobserved' the
Young American mounted his horse
and rode like the wind to warn his
compatriots of their danger. He was
forced to make a 50mile detour
through the forests in order to avoid
detection, but he forged ahead. reach
ing the town In time to sound warn
Ing which dispersed the session in
short order and caused the Cresttailen
redcoats to discover that their birds
had flown" when they made their way
leislirely to the nest
For this signal service Jack Jouette
eventually was awarded brace or
pistols. a sword and the thanks OF the
American government. BUT MS eNplolt
was not featured in American history
and it was not until a group of club
women from the ID. A. r. chapter
in that vicinity awoke to the splendor
of his act that steps we're taken TO
recognize him by Il fitting memorial.
Mrs. Dingley. in her address, likened
his exploit to that of the famous
Revere and In the name of that her"
and of the state Of Massachusetts. She
placed wreath on the Jouette me
mortal. In placing the wreath Mrs.
Diugley said il was n tribute IRON
zone patriot to his compatriot Jack
JOuette."
Edward S. Jouette. vice president
and general counsel of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, who is oil
rect descendant of Jack Jouette, fol
lowed Mrs. Dingley with an address
In which he expressed the deep graft
ttlde of his family To the patriotic
women who had 50 h0nored his ances-
tor