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JAIL LOG

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The following persons were arrested or booked into the Madison County jail on Saturday, Feb. 24, through Monday, March 4. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Senate support sought for “Hello Girls” Congressional Gold Medal

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In 2018, Texas A&M American History chair and author Elizabeth Cobbs presented an overview of her book, “The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers,” to the Robert Raines Chapter-National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Navasota. Cobbs heavily researched book shares the experiences of the forgotten female telephone operators known as The Hello Girls, the first women to serve in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and “selected to operate the vital communication network that helped win World War I.”