Show GEO poet t GETS FIRST MEDAL grand inland neb dec 25 aco county clerk elect of this county today received a letter from president roosevelt informing him that tho first dedal of honor given under the act of congress approved february 23 1903 had been awarded to him for bis conspicuous bravery in the lefft of a child at the risk 0 his own and expressing warm commendation for the deed mr who was a locomotive fireman run alongside alg engine to tha pilot and snatched a little child from tho track saving it from harm but himself fell under the engine losing a leg and beins otherwise badly injured |