Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1877 — A Three-Year-Old Heroine. [ARTICLE]

A Three-Year-Old Heroine.

A remarkable feat was performed by the little 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith, of Pelican, Minn., and niece of Mr. and Mrs. 8. M. Woodworth, of Audubon. While Mrs. Woodworth was on a visit to her sister one night, Mrs. Smith was taken alarmingly ill. Mr. Smith was away from home at the time, and no one near the house to render assistance save Mrs. Woodworth and the child. Mrs. Woodworth could not leave, so she called little Angie and asked her to go to the house of a neighbor, three-quarters of a mile distant, and summon assistance. The child did as directed in an incredibly short space of time, and upon her return with the neighbor it was found necessary to summon a physician. It was now nearly dark, and a storm brewing ; yet this bravo little heroine again took the road and went to the nearest neighbor’s house, a distance of one and a fourth miles in the opposite direction from her first trip, where she found a man to go for a physician. Ere her return to her home the storm had so increased as to render her progress very slow, and the vivid and constant lightning might well have stricken terror into the heart of many an older pedestrian ; yet this 3-year-old child bravely and faithfully performed her mission and returned in safety.— Audubon (Minn.) Journal.