Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-24 | Page 16 | Silver Medal Rewards Girl Heroine for Saving Alife

4 I I S Silver lver Medal Rewards Girl Girls I s I Heroine for or Saving a Life I Brunswick Go Ga Dec 23 Surround 23 Surround Surrounded ed by bv members of ot her own wn troop of oC Girl Scouts and the two Brunswick troops o of nO Boy Scouts Scotts with their drum and antl bugle corps Miss Mary tar Miller R aged ed 13 has b been en presented with a silver sUver medal the gift of Miss hs Agnes Baden Baden vell of oC England This medal was presented for the noble rescue from drowning b by Mary Jan Janof of her little old 7 cousin Jeff Bayno Bayne at it Cumberland Island on on the of last August The presentation was made by br Mrs Irs Julia J. J F. F Low the International president president president dent of or tho the Girl Scouts Scouts' Miss Sadie Dart the leader lelder of the local t troop of Girl Scouts Scout had nail charge of the presentation presentation presen presen- tation ceremony which was attractively lively U arranged An effort Is b being made madd to obtain recognition from the Carnegie hero fund c commission and it 1 IK iFS believed it will be successful It that Mrs Bayne and her little son were occupying a small bateau and were crabbing In the middle middle middle mid mid- dle of ot n a cr creek possibly eighty feet feat wide Mar Mary Mar Miller was not In the boat bont but was playing on th the banks hanks of tho creek When she heard the splash and realized rea that the boat had capsized l she hastily removed her shoes and a portion of her clothing and being an expert swimmer started out for the rno mother her and son who wont went under the tho I water when tho the boat turned turtle Mary states that Mrs Bayne Dayne came t to the surface with the tho boy hoy secured in her arms By y this time lime the tile girl had reached the scene swimming some tort forty or tift fifty feet the She knew Ime that her aunt Mrs raf Bayne Dayne was a good swimmer therefore she hc took front from lom her arms the little HUle boy and carried him safely sahl ashore J. J hore Then she saw that Mrs Bayne was waa ae struggling in the water and she shel hastened l to her rescue She reached Mrs In Bayne Dane before the latter finally went under but try as hard as she sho could she was unable to bring the woman ashore However she never ne became excited and suggested d to the drowning woman various Wa ways 15 b by which she might save lave her life 11 Herself almost exhausted exhausted 9 th the until little girl remained with her heH aunt aunt she finally wont went under and when hen she no longer had strength sufficient suf- suf to keep her hor on the surface This is III the second time that Mary figs has succeeded in saving a a. human buman life hip I years ears ears ago when hen she he was only 7 years ars of or a age e she ISha dragged Virginia Hilsman HURman who vho was waa about six years CarR years her senior from the sur surf at Cumberland T re vre her from drowning dro after she ehe Ih mul lo lost t her footing and sank I I. I v ky j r f t r 4 r t r ti r ic tt r L Li Lx i x G Gr Gr Gt r r t l t t 1 t tr a r r MISS MARY IARY twice This story ha has half been revived since Ince h her r daring exploit In connection with her aunt and cousin