Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — PROPOSE MEDAL FOR GIRL. [ARTICLE]

PROPOSE MEDAL FOR GIRL.

Resorters at Bass Lake Would'Reward Life-Saver. Laporte, Ind., July 21.—The people of Knox today took steps to secure a Carnegie medal for Miss Hazel Emigh, 18 years old, who saved Miss Josephine McKee, of Chicago, 18 years old, fromdrowning in Bass Lake. Miss McKee, who was visiting at the lake, ventured beyond her depth, and her screams of terror being heard by Miss Emigh, who ran to the end of the pier extending into the lake, and after heroic struggles, the McKee girl having sunk twice, saved her.