Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1916 — SAVES A RARE OLD VIOLIN [ARTICLE]

SAVES A RARE OLD VIOLIN

Washington Girl Digs Relic from a Trunks as the House Burns to the Ground. Tacoma.—A rare old violin valued at 1700 and owned by Miss Marian Beecher of Puyallup was all that was saved when the little house adjoining the home of John S. Ellegood on South Hill burned to the ground. As Miss Beecher opened the door to enter her room she was met by a cloud of smoke. Her first thought was of the old violin stored in a small iron trunk which had been given to her by her father and which was prized as aa heirloom of the family. Rushing into the smoke she grabbed the trunk, but found it was too heavy to drag out She Tfted the lid, however, lifted out the violin add carried tt to ■afety t , M;i