Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — MISS CONNERS’ PLUCK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MISS CONNERS’ PLUCK.

Bow She Kept the Stan and Stripes Over Her School. One of the prettiest stories of the year comes from a little town in Indiana, where lives a plucky young schoolma’am who has recently shown a spirit not unlike the good old Barbara Frietchie. Her noble defense of the American stars and stripes has brought her through the press to the notice of the public from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Miss Emma Conners, the heroine of the story, teaches a district school near Crawfordsville, Ind. She is greatly humiliated to think that the little cotton flag upon which she set such store was torn down and destroyed by a crowd of men who had seemingly forgotten that the great

war epoch ended a quarter of a century ago. That such may not occur again she has made a fort and arsenal of her schoolhouse, and declares that she is now prepared to defend “Old Glory” with her life’s blood. That she will do just what she says no one doubts, for Miss Connors come of fighting stock. An ancestor fell in the war of the revolution; her grandfather’s bones bleach on the arid plains of Mexico, while her own father sleeps his last long sleep on a Scuthern battlefield. Through her personal efforts a new flag and flagstaff now takes the place of the one that was cut down, and Miss Conners sits inside the little schoolhouse instructing classes and keeping guard over “Old Glory” with a flrst-class repeating rifle, which stands in a little niche just back of her desk. She rooms just across the road and within easy rifle range of the flagpole, so a night attack is as likely to be attended with disastrous results as one made under the light of the noonday sun. A paper was put in circulation among the patriotic orders and over SIOO raised with which to purchase Miss Conners a silken flag of large proportions. This

has just been presented to her in an appropriate manner.

MISS CONNERS.

CLARK TOWNSHIP SCHOOL.