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"4. .rv .." ...-v ...:. 1 If you want to reach the people of -the .Piedmont .section .put your ads in THE GRIT. GRIT Largest circulation of any paper in the county. Excellent Adver tising Medium. ISAAC S. LONDON, Proprietor A NON-PARTISAN FAMILY NEWSPAPER $1.00 A YEAR Vol. VIII. Siler City, X. O, Wednesday, December 20, 1911. No. 19. S I L E R - - - mi IV1M' W A .y"!. N.v:mH x HRISTMAS in Washington is not altogether like the north ern holiday, even though there be snow on the Poto mac' hills and. In thv low ly ing valley of the river Itself. Here on the sunny slope of the White House lawn dande lion and the heartsease are Christmas blossomers, while he hepatica not infrequent ly shows itself white and blue to the sun-on the banks con fining Rock Creek. Christmas is a particularly genial season In Washington. There Is enough - of the southern atmosphere in the capital to make the holiday partake of the nature of Ihe Christmas of the further south, for the natal day of Christ always has been given warm and exulting recognition in the country south of the Mason and Dixon line. There are children in the White House at this holiday season as there were all through the administration of Mr. Taft's predecessor In office, Theodore Roosevelt. The president has three children at home with him to enjoy the holiday festivities in the House of State. It is true that of the three children one is Just en tering manhood and the other womanhood, while the third Is just out of knickerbockers. Robert Taft, the president's oldest son, is home from college foF the season's merrymaking, and his sister, Helen, is here also for the gayeties of the younger set. "Charlie" Taft has not out grown the Christmas tree age and a Christmas tree he will have. During the seven years of the Roosevelt ad ministration, although there were five chil dren in the White House, there was a Christ mas tree only once. Mr. Roosevelt did not like the Christmas tree idea because he is a great believer in the conservation of the for ests of the country, and he held that the Christmas tree trade worked havoc with the supply of evergreens. So it was that while Christmas in the White House during his term of office was all that the holiday otherwise should be, the children were not allowed a tree. The youngest Roosevelt boy, however, had Christmas tree views of his own and once he secured one, trimmed it in seclusion, and hen hid it away in a closet where it was not discovered by his father, the president, until the Christmas season had pretty well waned. A Christmas tree hereafter probably will be in evi dence at' the White House at every holiday. Mr. Taft need have no scruples on account of "forest devastation," because Gilford Pinchot, formerly chief forester of the government, has said that Christmas trees enough can be cut to supply the market demand without threatening the future supply. Mr. Pinchot believes in saving the trees, and he would not have issued this statement with out proper study ofthe situation. He did not give out his edict, however, until the Roosevelt family had left the executive mansion, and while the former chief forester is one of Colonel Roose velt's intimate friends, it is probable that the Roosevelt children think that the verdict of Mr". Pinchot on the tree question ought not to have been so long delayed. They play golf all winter in Washington, and if perchance there is snow on the ground they play the game with red balls instead of the ordinary white ones, and so when President Taft plays his holiday games he will not stand in any danger of forfeiting a stroke because of the loss of a golf ball. A red ball is a conspicuous mark against a white background. Every employe of the White House receives a big Christmas turkey as a gift from the president and his wife. Some of the White House house hold servants and some of the members of the of fice force have been in the employment of presi dents through many administrations. Col. William H. Crook, who is the executive clerk, has been in the service ever since Grant's day and recently he has written his reminiscences of White House life under eight presidents. Since the early Civil war days there have been children in the White House under nearly every administration, but whether or not tKere were children of the president's own families to gather about the fire and the Christ mas tree, young people always found their way into the White House circle to help their elders celebrate the holiday. Christmas parties for young people are always the regular order of things in the White House during the holiday season. The children of the cabinet officials, of the army and navy officers, of senators and representatives and of the diplomat ists stationed here always are invited to a merry making in the big east room. Christmas is the great day in the household of the ambassadors and ministers from foreign coun- each year, stand sur prised. The Christmas receptions and parties given by the foreigners are not-given as a rule r; riThlt ,ne hoi - Jmw ar war ma canxtamny day proper is essentially a home day, the day when the family likes to "be a party unto itself." So it is that the affairs to which society and soci ety's children are bidden usually take place be tween Christmas and New Year's, although in every particular they are Christmas gatherings. For two weeks prior to the dawning of Christ mas day the Washington markets are filled with holly and mistletoe. It is believed that before long the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia will be forced to pass laws protecting the beau tiful holly tree from the hands of the despoiler. The demand for Christmas greens yearly kills hundreds if not thousands of holly trees. The trouble is that the men who cut the branches for the market use -little or no discretion in securing their spoils. Holly branches can be cut without injury to the tree if the simplest precautions are taken, but in their greed to secure quantities xt the beautiful boughs with their shining green leaves and polished red berries, the gatherers hack great limbs from the tree, injuring it so that fn many cases it cannot survive the wound. The mistletoe, which is found in great quanti ties In the markets of Washington at the Christ mas time, is a parasite which fastens itself upon the branches of mafly. Ttpecies of trees. Its re moval does the tree good, provided the limbs from which it springs are not injured in the cutting. The mistletoe of the Potomac river country is very much like the mistletoe of England. It is supposed that this parasite growth was used by the ancient Druids in their religious ceremonies among the ancient Britons. All kinds of super stitions are connected with the mistletoe, and many of them are traced back to the days before the Saxon occupation of John Bull's island. These superstitions were brought across the water by the early English settlers, and they are found in - some parts of America in the same form in which they have existed in England for century on cen tury. The White House in a holiday season literally is turned into a conservatory. Washington loves ferent embassies and legations. The representa tives of southern European governments and of the countries of Central and Stmth America make much of Christmas. Not an embassy or a legation in this town but keeps open house virtually dur ing the entire holiday season. Gift giving among foreigners represented here is carried to an ex treme at which even Americans, who give gener ously and are giving more generously and widely here to live finds that the flower affection speed ily takes its hold. The White House is supplied with flowers from a great conservatory carefully tended by men trained to floriculture. There are probably more flower shops In the capital in pro portion to the population than in any other city In the United States. Almost literally they are on every corner. The demand for flowers here at the Christmas season is such that notwithstanding yyyFcp or fv?ypr'o the fact the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia are flooded with conservatories,, the Phil adelphia and New York markets are called upon to help out in the work of supplying the enor mous District trade. The Central and South Americans who come to Washington in official ca pacities are accustomed to outdoor flowers every day in the year in their own lands, and they sim ply will not consent to get along without flow ers In this northern cli mate. Their houses re semble conservatories all through the winter months, but at the Christmas season the Spanish-American literal ly banks himself and his family with blossoms. President Taft attends. Christmas service at All Souls Unitarian church. Mrs. Taft is an Episco palian, and with her chil dren she attends St. John's church on LaFay ette square, known half humorously In Washing ton as the Church of State. It is so called be cause so many of the presidents of the United States have worshiped regularly within its walls. St. John's is a small church, but it has fine music, and the Christmas service and its en vironments are made as beautiful as it is possible to make them. In the official foreign colony- in Washington the Christmas holidays are an especially lively and joy ous season. The managers of the American branch offices of the governments of the world are ever eager to show their patriotism and loyalty by ob serving all holidays or ceremonial occasions just as they would be observed if they were at home in their own countries. Consequently Christmas It the occasion for many diverse and picturesque celebrations in the homes of the official foreign colony. There is scarce a household in the cos mopolitan community that has not its quota of children. Many of the young people in these for eign households are, for the time being, attending American schools and have become imbued with some of the traditions of the Yankee Christmas. Thus the yule-tide programs in many a diplomatic home at Washington presents an odd mixture of foreign customs and American innovations. Especially is this the case in the homes of many of the diplomats from South and Central America, where there are many young people. These Pan American juveniles exchange presents as do their American playmates and await with keen anticipa tion the proverbial Christmas dinner, but they also show allegiance to the customs of their native lands by attending mass at midnight on Christmas Eve, and afterward paying homage at a miniature representation of the city of Bethlehem, the most conspicuous place in which is occupied by a grot to in which are tiny figures of the infant Jesus, and Joseph, together with the three wise men. In the homes of the Mexican diplomats there is followed a novel plan for the distribution of the Christmas presents. All the gifts are placed in a huge earthenware jar which is suspended' from the ceiling and is then attacked by all the young peo ple armed with canes. When the jar is broken the Christmas presents are precipitated to the floor and there is a mad scramble for the mysterious packages., The handsome new home of the French Embassy at Washington will this year afford a spacious set ting for a Christmas frolic that has become one of the important events of holiday week at the cap ital. At the German Embassy likewise there is a Christmas tree with tokens for all the young people in the Embassy circle, while the British Ambassa dor entertains all the members of his official staff and their families at an old-fashioned English Christmas dinner. The Bethlehem of Today Even today, very much as at the time of the Savior's birth, the keepers of the flock3 of sheep and goats sit silently and somnolently about in the fields much as they were doing when, more than nineteen hundred years ago, the heavenly messenger appeared to announce to them the fact that the plec of the birth of the Savior and the stir appeared bright In the hesv r , thorn to thA sacred not. Neither place nor people have under o.a nnv startling change since the Virgin Mary laid the Infant Jesus to i rest in the manger 01 we siauie m which, owing to the overcrowaea con dition of the-khan or rural inn, they had been compelled to find lodging. The conditions under which they were forced to content themselves with such meager accommodations, are re peated, almost each year, with the re- .,. " ; 3 ' .. turn of the Christmas season. That the great Convent oMhe Nativity and other religious edifites, built to com memorate the commencement, in this humble little place, of the earthly life of the son of God, had not at the time" been erected, we need hardly state, but the style of buildings has changed but little since the Savior's time, and In all probability some of the substan tial stone structures that line its nar row, hilly thoroughfares today were already standing there at the com mencement of the Christian era. The Bethlehem of today may be larger and may contain perhaps a few buildings of more modern construc tion than at the time of the birth of the Savior, but to all Intents and pur poses it is the Bethlehem of Jesus's infancy. It requires no great stretch of the imagination to people it again with the actors in the event of nine teen hundred years ago, while the as sociation3 impart to the ceremonies conducted In connection with its cele bration a solemnity and a sentiment that Is peculiarly Its own. KIX)UI3 JOSEPH VANCE IILUSTKATIONS BY 7WA& SYNOPSIS. Garrett Coast, a youne man of New York City, meets Douglas Black stock, who invites hln to a card party. He accepts, although he diallkea Blackstock. the rea son being that both are in love with Kath-erlne-Thajcter. Coast falls to convince her thAt Blaekstock Is unworthy of her friendship- At the party Coast meets two named Dundas and Van Tuyl. There is a suan-el, and Blackstock shoots Van. Tuyl dead. Coast struggles to wrest the weapon from him, thus the police dis cover thenr. Coast is arrested for murder. He is convicted, but as he begins his sen tence. Biifidas names Blackstock as the muederer and kills himself. Coast be comes, freenut Blackstock has married KtepinJQi&x!T and, fled. Coast pur chase acht and while sailing sees a man thrown from a distant boat. CHAPTER V. Sunlight and shadow playing in swift alternation upon his face, as the Echo courtesied to the morning breeze, Coast awakened. For a moment almost thoughtless be lay drowsily enjoying the rise and dip of the boat, as drowsily conscious of a faint thrill of excitement; most ly comparable, perhaps, to the first waking sensations of a fourteen-year-old boy on a Fourth of July morning. Then without warning the small chronometer on the transverse above his head rapped out smartly two double-chimesships' time: four bells: ten o'clock in the forenoon. Astonished., he sat up quickly, and his still sleepy gaze, passing through the companlonway, encountered the amused , regard of the soi-disant Mel chisedec Appleyard. Promptly Coast found himself , in full possession of his faculties. That in obedience to first instincts he nodded with a cordial smile, was significant. Appleyard returned the salutation with a quick bob of his small head. "Godd-morning. hero!" he sang out cheerfully. He sat in the cockpit, huddled Into the folds of a gray blanket, volumin ous for his slight figure, a thin but wiry forearm bared to wield the cig arette he was smoking with every In dication of enjoyment. "Goodjaornlng," he returned. "How d'you feel after your adventure?" "Unclothed but in my right mind," said Appleyard, with a twinkle of anx iety amending: "to the best of my knowledge and belief." He indicated airlry the various articles constituting his painfully simple wardrobe. "Wait ing for 'em to dry." Appleyard hopped up, fingered his everyday attire critically, and pro nounced it bone-dry; then, bundling It up, he returned to the cabin, seat ing himself on the opposite transom to dress. "And the sensations of a hero, re freshed by sound slumbers, are " "Hunger." said Coast He moved forward and began to experiment gingerly with a new and untried alco hol stove. "I can offer you eggs, cof fee, biscuit and nothing else," he added, producing raw materials from a locker. "You see, I hadn't expected to entertain." "Rotten inconsiderate of you," Ap pleyard grumbled. "I'll wire you a warning next time It occurs to me to drop in unexpectedly." Divided between amusement and perplexity, in the course of the meal Coast reviewed a personality singu larly enriched by a variety of sug gestions consistently negative. The man's age was Indeterminable some where between thirty and forty-five. Loosely summarized, he might have been anybody or nobody on a lark or his uppers. Appleyard looked up quickly, with a shy, humorous smile. "Well, what d'you make of me?" "It's hard enough to guess what you've-' made of yourself." "Flattery note," observed Apple yard obscurely. "Yet you win my sym pathy; sometimes I am moved to won der really." He tapped an egg thoughtfully, a crinkle forming be tween his colorless eyebrows. "It's really not what a man makes of him self; it's what his temperament does to him." "Temperament ! " "Yes; you really ought to keep one, too; they're all the rage just now and such excellent excuses for the in dulgence of your pet idiosyncrasies." "Oh! . . . And you blame yours for what?" "For making me a I presume pos terity, in the final analysis, will ad Judge me a Romantic." "Literature?" asked Coast, aghast. "Gpod Heavens, no! Nothing like that: Life." He sighed profoundly. "Shall I rehearse to you the story of my life? No, I shall not rehearse to you the story of my life. But at all costs I shall talk about -myself for a sfiace: I insist upon it: I love to. You don't seriously object?" he added, anxious. "Then compose yourself. . . . Born at an early age In fact, at as early an age as you can comfortably imagine I found myself immediately the sport of sardonic fortunes. That aame, Melchlsedec! One felt that there must be in one's future life some warmth of Romance to compensate for that Infamous ignominy. So la belled any reasonable human should logically have looked forward to sure degeneration into the American peas ant of the New England magazine story type, sans brains, bowels, breadth, beauty. A born lccJeclast, however, as soon as I wakened to. re alization of my plight I mutinied and resolved to live down my shame. Thenceforward I set myself to pains taking muckraking in modern life, seeking the compensating Romance without which life were "but death In life." He paused and cocked an eye 'at Coast. "Not bad for a beginning, what?" "A little prolix," commented Coast dispassionately, falling hi with his.hu mor.i "But continue. You found your Romapce?" "What is so-called alas, yes! 1 found it. as a rule, a nom de guerre for crime. . . . Lured by legend, I have traversed much of the known world, only to come to that conclu sion. I have penetrated the fastnesses of the Tennessee mountains, nosing the illicit still: which proved merely sordid. Counterfeiting seemed to promise largely and discovered itself the most ill-paid calling in the world. Diplomatic intrigue unmasked proved to be merely a popular fallacy shin ing In the reflected luster of the "'Six Best Sellers. . . . But I refriln from wearying you with a catalogue of the exploded mines of Romance; a list inordinately lengthy, believe me. High finance, I admit, escaped my probe; but the recent plague of Wall Street plays discouraged me, demonstrating there could be no Ro mance there. ... So at length you find me turning in despair to the Seven Seas; afloat, at all events, one must of necessity pursue the glamor ous promise of the Unknown that lurks just down the horizon." Appleyard paused, his mien sub dued, his gesture bespeaking resigna tion. "All of which means ?" Coast in sisted. "I hardly know. Frankly, I thought that speech rather stupid myself. That's why I chopped , it off. . . . One talks. . . . You' may have no ticed?" "I have," said Coast drily. "You would, naturally," returned Appleyard without resentment "But would it amuse you to learn how 1 fully. "To resume: My detectloa promptly ensued and my presence-was dispensed with, a trace unceremoni ously, perhaps, but no doubt very properly from the skipper's point of view. With the subsequent phases of this most delectable adventure you are familiar; therefore. I confidently assume your concurrence with my con clusion; which is here am I. . . . Now,", he wound up, inclining hla head at an angle, and favoring Coast with a frankly speculative stare, "what are you going to do with me?" Coast opened his eyes wide, with a lift of his brows. "I don't know that I contemplate doing' anything with you, Mr. Appleyard." "It's not yet too late for the amende courteous," suggested his guest "I'll gladly set you ashore " "Pardon, but that's precisely what I don't want you to do." "But" "A moment's patience, sir. The Echo lacks a crew: I offer my services unanimously in that capacity.' "But I don't want a crew." "Oh, don't say that!" "And I have no need of one." Appleyard lifted both hands and let them fall with a gesture of despair. "Infatuated man!" he murmured, re garding Coast with commiseration. "Why infatuated?" "What do you know of these wa ters?" the little man counterquestlon ed sharply. "Little," Coast was obliged to ad mit; "or nothing, if you Insist." "And yet you say you don't need a crew!" "But, my dear man, I do know how to sail a boat; and with a copy of the Coast Pilot, charts, a compass and common-sense " "You may possibly escape piling her up the flrsff day out granted. On the other hand, I happen to be intimate with these waters; I can pilot you safely whither you will; I can afford you Infinite assistance with the heavy work it's no joke, at times, for one man to have all the handling of a W-Vf "Thank You," Said Appleyard Gratefully. came to be on board that fisherman?" "You mean how you came to be overboard. . . . Perhaps it would. You're the best judge of that." "True." Appleyard accepted and lighted a cigarette, frowning soberly. "It was," he began, "due principally to my fatal passion for this Romance thing, sir. 1 have already acquainted you with my determination to pursue my quest of that shy spirit upon the trackless ocean. Conceive, now, the bitterness of the disappointment which o'erwhelmed my ardent soul when I applied for a berth as a fore mast hand, only to be Informed I was physically unfit, that, as one brutal mate phrased it, I'd blow away in the first half-a-gale. ... I give you my word, Mr. Coast, I've been stick ing round this waterfront a whole fortnight, vainly seeking nautical em ployment. Last night, for the first time, for a few brief hours, I was per mitted to flatter myself that fortune was on the point of favoring me. For a fugitive moment I sipped the chalice of Romance and rolled its flavor be neath my tongue." Appleyard half closed his eyes, and smacked his Hps, his expression one of beatific bliss. "You've a pretty "taste in pleas ures," Coast commented. Appleyard waved the interruption aside. "It came about largely through a whim of Chance," he resumed, "as all true adventure must. Quite by ac cident I fell in with one of the crew of that fishing smack, 'he being well under the Influence of liquor; in a way of speaking, he'd looked too long upon the wine when it was red-eye and half wood-alcohol. Craftily sim ulating a like condition, 1 plied him fur ther and succeeded in learning the name of his vessel and the fact that she was expected to sail with the morning tide together with other de tails that intrigued me. Then, leav ing the sodden wretch to sleep off his disgusting debauch, I caused myself to be conveyed aboard the lugger 1 mean schooner and stowed away in his bunk, trusting to luck to avert discovery until the morning. Unhap pily I, with the rest of the crew, was routed out incontinently by an un mannerly brute with a belaying pin (at all -events it felt like a belaylng-pln an instrument with which I am unac quainted save through the literature of the sea) and forced to go on deck ta help heave anchor. ... Or should I say, 'weigh anchor?' " ' ' "I'm not quarrelling with your style," chuckled Coast "Why not put off polishing your periods until an other time?" "Thank you." said Appleyard grate- craft of this size. I'm exceedingly handy, small and inconspicuous, neat, a fairish cook, and 'normally quite pleasant to be thrown amongst never savage save when denied the sweet consolation of continuous con versation. Finally, I'm a great bar gain." "What do you mean by that?" "I offer my valuable nay, invalu able services, gratis, without pay." "But why do you do that?" demand ed Coast, blankly (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Small Boy and His Hat. He flings his hat across the dining room when he comes In from school, or leaves it In all manner of places in the house; In the coal-bin, or on sis ter's bureau. He loses it Just at church time, and spoils the spirit of family reverence and piety. As the family enters the church the anthem is being sung, and the disgrace of be ing late again is laid on the innocent headpiece clutched in the hand of the small boy who has already forgotten the confusion of which be was the cause twenty minute- ago. In this stage also one's hat is removed on the way to school by the hand of one's bosom friend, passed down the line of surrounding' boon companions, stuffed into others' pockets, while dire Noughts of ultimate loss hold one in their grip, and the reckoning to be paid at home wraps the world in tragedy. George L. Parker, in the Atlantic Dark Smoke No Fun. Funny thing about smoking! If a man were compelled to puff a good ci gar with his eyes shut the operation would lose its zest. A man who had undergone a slight operation upon one of his eyes had to stay In a darkened room for a week with his optics ban daged. After a few days his doctor told him he could take a gentle smoke if he liked. He jumped at the chance and to his amazement found It afford ed him not the slightest pleasure. To be sure, men often smoke in the dark, but there's always the rosy glow of the lighted end to be seen and the faint outline of the cloud of smoke in the air. There's no more fun in a sightless smoke than a saltless egg or a kiss upon your own hand. What's the psychology of it? Smart Youth. "Tommy, what did you do with that penny I gave you for taking your med icine?" "I bought a bun with one halfpenny, ma, and I gave Jimmy the other half to drink the medicine for me." A LONE STAR DIA1 Dauntless Girl Hunter of the Tex as Border. Miss Katie Sharp, a Daring' Big Qam Hunter, Splendid Horsewoman and a Dead Shot With a Rifle. Houston, Tex. One of the mesA daring and dauntless big game hunters in the upper Rio Grande border re gion of Texas is Miss Katie Sharp, of Sanderson. She is a splendid snot with rifle and revolver and is the equal of any cowboy horse woman ship. . She has gone on many hunting expe ditions into the' Santa Rosa mountains of Mexico where bears, deer and otlrer wild animals abound. She has in her home many trophies of the chase, among them being the skins of sev eral large black bears that she killed. On a bear bunting trip Into Mexi co, last winter, she had a narrow es cape from being badly Injured, or po sibly killed, by a bear which she had wounded. She encountered the ani mal in a narrow canyon in the moun tains and the two were within a doz en feet of each other before either was aware of the other's presence. Miss Sharp quickly brought the rifle that she carried to her shoulder and taking quick aim fired at the bear. The first shot went wild, but the sec ond stopped the animal Just as it waa within almost reaching distance of Miss Sharp. With her hunting knife she put an end to the struggle of the beast. This intrepid huntress knows no such thing as fear. She frequently goes out alone into remote localltia of the border region and bags deer and game birds. She knows all of the trails leading through the hills and rough country that rise along the Rio Grande and is also familiar with ev ery locality of the rugged Santa Rosa mountains. Frequently on her hunt ing excursions she has tried the nerve Miss Katie Sharp. and endurance Of seasoned and long experienced 'men at the game. She Is well known all through that region and is popular among the ranch peo ple as well as those of the towns. She is given the sobriquet of the Diana of the Border. WIFE'S CURSE WAS ON HIM Husband, Who Deserted Her, Stricken by Paralysis as Dying Woman Had Wished. Cincinnati, O. The wish of a dying woman that her husband might b paralyzed if he attended her funeral, came true. William Huesman of this city is the victim. Although nearly seventy, and th father of several grown children, he had lived apart from his wife, Minnl Huesman, his junior by only a few years. As the years of their separa tion extended, Mrs. Huesman became each day more and more embittered against her husband. Time and again she declared that she hoped that when she died he might .become paralyzed on the way to the cemetery if he tried to go to the funeral. Immediately arter her death the husband was notified and, forgetting the past, tried to atone by seeing thai his wife received proper burial. He provided a coffin for the body and next day he was on his way to the cemetery when he suddenly collapsed on the street. "Paralysis," said the hospital physi cian. Huesman is not expected to recover. CHILD GETS LOST IN DRAIN Confused in the Darkness Boy of x Crawls 80 Feet From the Opening. London. England. While playing with some boys near his home at Shapperton-on-Thames Johnnie Wil son, aged six years, crawled into a drain pipe. He expected to come out at a joint ten feet away, but missed the place and becoming confused as to directions kept on crawling. As he did not return children gave an alarm and a searching party set to work at once. They dug to the drain pipe, tea feet from the opening. Johnnie was not there. At some distance from the opening they dug another hole, ten feet In depth. Johnnie heard the picks and mistook the meaning of the noises and kept crawling still further from safety. Finally at 80 feet they made another hole in the drain and caught Johnnie by the feet Just as he was crawling past. The lad had been in the 12-lnch pipe for five hours, but aside from being smeared with black mud he suffered no ill effects from the experience. Too Many Cohens. New York. Asserting that the New York city directory contains 2,500 Cohens and 1,000 Cohns and Cohans, Eugene Cohen has just got permission of Justice McCall in special term of the supreme court legally to assume the name of Eugene Corwin. He said that he was constantly receiving gro cery and other bills intended for oth er Cohens and that his telephone was repeatedly ringing with calls for oth ir Cohens. Cohen, who becomes Co?. vin, was born in Missouri. i ":jV . --. v -1 f ( "ft , 'i ! '.I i -I 1 it 4 " .? I '1 S'-i "I fi I i 'TI 5 ' r" 1 ft-
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