Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — WAR CROSS TO WOMAN MAYOR [ARTICLE]

WAR CROSS TO WOMAN MAYOR

Mme. Pellequer, Also School mi stress at Quesmy, I* Decorated by General. Paris.—Quesmy, a little village north of the Oise, counts July 7, 1917, a* the proudest day in its modest annals. ' n that day a French general, with a guard of war veterans in attendance, came to pin the War Cross on the breast of Mme. Pellequer, the local schoolmistress and mayor, for her gallant conduct. Mme. Pellequer is one of those modest heroines of whom France has reason to be proud. When the war broke out Mme. Pellequer was teaching school in Qhesmy while her husband was similarly employed at the neighboring village of Maucourt. Her husband left for the front, and she took Over his pupils. The Germans occupied Quesmy, and found Mme. Pellequer installed as mayor, maintaining order and attending to everything. She It was who first refused to salute the Invaders, who, for once, overlooked this insubordination. Then, at last, the French returned la March, and the report they made of the noble work accomplished by Mme. Pellequer has earned her the distinct tlon reserved for the heroes of Franeev