Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — Coed Throws Her Own Effigy on Pyre [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Coed Throws Her Own Effigy on Pyre

ST. LOUIS. —Passengers on a Market street car passing the western end of Forest Park saw a girl trudging along the tracks with what appeared to be the lifeless body of another girt on "her shoulder. The body was clad in a blue suit and a pair of brown-stockinged legs dangled limply. The motofman slowed up the car. One glance at the bead of the object and he threw on the power again. With an indignant look the girl with her burden marched on her way. She »was Miss Annie Brown, president of the Junior class of Forest Park university, who was carrying her effigy to M grocery store half a mile away to foun it. By burning her own effigy jjtfM Brown established a precedent. As the cllmai 1U the class fight which had been on between the junior and senior classes for three days, the seniors bad abstracted a dress of Miss

Brown, stuffed it with paper and rags and hung the effigy on the high oak in the front yard of the university. The effigy was discovered early in the morning by Miss Gertrude Schneider, vice-president of the Juniors. After heroic efforts she managed to cut It down. The question was what to do with, it before the entire school jmw It. It was then that Miss Brown decided on the visit to a grocery np the tracks,,, None of the seniors saw the disposal of the effigy, and all were mystified at seeing the oak tree relieved of Its burden. *