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YV,U IAM HENRY HARRISON
' was the oldest President when
inaugurated. He was sixty-eight.
Zachary Taylor had never held
any political office prior to his election
to the Presidency.
The following Presidents were
United States ambassadors: John
\dains, Jefferson, Monroe, J. Q.
Adams, Van Rureu and Buchanan.
If'hen Lincoln teas inaugurated
there were five ex-Presidents alive:
fan Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce
and Buchanan.
Five Presidents, Madison. Monroe,
Polk, Buchanan and Garfield, had
the name of James.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ivas the
last President to be inaugurated on
March 4 and the first to be inaugurated
on January 20.
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OF PEOPLE LIKE Y(
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Hello everybody:
You know, boys and gi
most democratic female in the
attentions to any particular clas
on all alike. Why, kings and q
so have doctors, lawyers, cab d
Today I've got a yarn from
Danville, 111.
This adventure happened to
1912, and in those days he was 1
Wolf Creek, 111. That's down n
there was some pretty lonely o
Doc knew, because he us<
pretty regularly. He was co
five miles from his home and
horseback, along a winding road tl
because of the thick growth on eitl
That road led down into a place
and that bottom was midway betv
There was a ford across the creek
down church that hadn't been used
Woman Burned to D
Near the church was an old cl
that people told strange stories abou
been burned to death when that ho
There was something eerie
chimney. Doc used to feel shiv
heme at two o'clock in the mon
mistake of going into that chu
It was one dark night when I
It had started to rain just after he
But, as he rode along, he heard
began coming down harder. He h:
It was a human form of some sort, s
church would afford shelter of a
ling, and plunged through the underl
The church was all but fallen i
side as if it had been pushed over b;
lelogram. The windows were out
guided by intermittent flashes of lig
to a point near the rostrum, whi
didn't come through. The rain did
Doc lay down on a front bench to ?
Huncli Makes H
"I lay there about 15 mini]
caused me to open my eyes and
end of the church. Lightning
enough to enable me to see din
told me to stay awake and, with
inspecting it each time the ligh
"I heard a twig break outsi
was uneasy. 1 felt the hair rise
heart began to beat faster. It
before the lightning flashed aj
there, and in the meantime I si
I could."
And along about then there er
this old church might be haunted. 1
remnant of the house in which a w
if that wasn't enough. Doc began I
must have been buried from that t
lain in their pine coffins before
was lying now. Those thoughts wei
suddenly, lightfling flashed again.
And this time Doc saw somethii
form of some sort, standing there ?
sides of the door. "Now," says E
began to get ready to do so, but h(
only door was blocked, and the w
anxiously for the next flash of ligh
"It came, and my ghostly '
the doorway looking at me. I
seemed to be an old woman \
ing down to her shoulders, no I
sort of a sack apron.
Lightning Reveals the
"She moved with as little noise
be a spirit? I couldn't move. Ho'
Thing coming closer? To my diso
it was. What would it do when it
entrance? Would it take out after
before the next flash of lightning,
two feet closer, coming onward w
Still there was no sound. The
In the darkness before the next fla
fingers on his face.
"Now." he says. "I decided
up slowly, hoping to get past
ning disclosed me. 1 reached
by her side, and then came ano
out loud. She followed suit wi
made a grab at me. But too
"Just one jump and 1 was ou
and off like a streak. I believe i
he'd have envied me."
And what was the Thing that
next day Doc heard a report that
from the Anna asylum not far awt
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D U R S E L F I
the Door"
rls. Old Lady Adventure is the
world. She doesn't confine her
;s of people, but visits her favors
ueens have had adventures, and
Irivers and preachers,
a dentist?Dr. Robert Lentz of
Doc along about the summer of
iving in Williamson county, near
ear the Ozark ridges and in 1912
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?d to ride through some of it
urting a girl who lived about
1 he used to ride out there on
lat was almost impassable in places
her side.
known as Big Grassy Creek bottom,
vecn his home and his girl's house,
and near the ford, an old tumblefor
upwards of 50 years,
cath in Bygone Days,
himney?all that was left of a house
t. According to one tale a woman had
use took fire.
about the old church and the old
ery when he passed them riding
ling. But one night he made the
rch, and then?
Doc was coming back from a date,
left?a thin drizzle at first.
I the rumble of thunder and the rain
id reached the bottom then, and the
landing there with arms outstretched.
sort. Doc tied his horse to a sapurush
to the door.
down. It leaned over crazily to one
f some giant hand into a great paraland
the floor was partly gone, but
htning. Doc worked his way forward
ere the roof was good and the rain
'n't show any signs of letting up. so
10 to sleep,
im Stay Awake,
ites," he said, "when something
look at the doorway at the other
flashed just then?flashed just
ily through the door. Something
sleepy eyes 1 gazed at that door
tning would permit me.
de, and could tell that my horse
on the back ot my neck, and my
seemed that it would be hours
rain to tell me what might be
traightened up just as quietly as
itered Doc's mind the thought that
There was that old chimney?charred
Oman had burned to death. And as
hinking of the countless people who
>ld church?whose bodies must have
that same rostrum near which he
re running through Doc's mind then,
ng in the doorway. It was a human
iith arms outstretched, touching both
oc, "I wanted to make my exit. I
>w was I going to go about it? The
indows were too high up. I waited
tning.
visitor was disclosed standing in
t was plainly silhouetted and it
with matted, twisted hair hanr
tiat, no shoes, and wearing some
Thing Coming at Him.
as the spirit itself. Could it possibly
w was I going to get out? Was the
rdered imagination, it seemed as if
discovered me? Would it block my
me? All those tilings I anticipated
When it came, the Thing was about
ith outstretched arms!"
apparition had advanced noiselessly,
sh Doc could imagine cold, clammy
it was time to move. I slipped
the Thing before the next lightthe
position that I thought was
itber Bash. I jumped, and yelled
th a yell equally as intense and
late!
tside the door, running to my horse
f Tom Mix could have seen me ride
Doc saw in the doorway? Well, the
an aged insane woman had escaped
iy. And that was Doc's ghost.
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\ JULY 13, 1939
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The Questions
1. Why is the speaker of th
house of representatives so called
2. What country is the Land c
Cakes?
3. How big a trunk did the Chai
ter oak have?
4. What is the oldest parliamer
in the world?
5. Is there a word descriptive <
the feeling of annoyance one ha
in a noisy place?
6. About how much of th
world's habitable land surfac
does the British empire cover?
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