Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Seek Medals For Women. [ARTICLE]

Seek Medals For Women.

One Rescued Father From Vicious Bte«r and the Other Saved * Her Husband. Topeka, Kan. —Because of heroism displayed by Mary Boughton, aged fourteen, of Hamilt6n county, and Mrs. Nora Munday of Gray county, in saving lives in western Kansas during recent snowstorms, friends of the two have started a movement to obtain for them Carnegie hero medals. While rounding up cattle before a blizzard, Mary Bdughton’s father was attacked' by a vicious steer. He was thrown from his horse and the animal was about to gore him when the girl, mounted upon a cow pony, drove the steer away. A few days later a rural mail carrier became lost iu a storm. found him, dug him out !, of na drift and saved him from freezing: „ ' Mrs. Nora Munday, wife of 8. P, Munday, who lives near Cimarron,

Kan., when her husband failed to reach home after a heavy snowstorm March 14, started in search of him. For miles over the prairie she followed an almost obliterated trail and found her husband in a deserted hut almost frozen. Both Mrs. Munday’s hands and both her feet were frozen.