Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1918 — Honoring Bishop Brewer. [ARTICLE]

Honoring Bishop Brewer.

A with reference to the death of the late Bishop Brewer recently came to light through an American missionary located in a remote mountain district of Montana. When the belated news of the death of Bishop Brewer came to a certain woman in this isolated settlement, she hoisted an American flag at half-mast over a little schoolhouse some distance away, in token of his death. The woman did not belong to the church, but she had known and respected the bishop for many years, and it had been her custom through all the years to travel many miles to the nearest mission point to attend the services when the bishop made his visitations each year. Without respect to custom she kept ’this flag there for over a month, and not until the visit of the missionary was the Significance explained and the story related.