The Hamlin Herald from Hamlin, Texas • Page 9

THE HAMLIN HERALD Hamlin, Jones County, Texas FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928 PARROT MIMICS HARRISON VOICE Poll That Lived in White House in 1891 Still Calis Baby McKee. Omaha, Neb. President Harrison's big old grift parrot, tiai to live in the White Hou.st at Washington and ihut still calls Baby McKee in the Identical voice and ex of tlie lato President, has re Gently been discovered in the home of John Metcalf. Meredith avenue. Omaha, where it lias been for many years.

Those were intimate at the While House during the Harrison ad ministration say the Intonation of the parrot is exactly that of President 11 arrison. here's tny hoy? calls out the par- in imitation of President Harri playing hide and seek with his four-year-old grandson, Baby McKee, In White House nursery. my softly, play Jftilly. lovingly, old parrot will re- jpeat. Came to White House in 1891.

Poll, the gray parrot, came to the White House in 1891 and remained until lie Harrisons moved out in 1893, make room for the return of the drover Clevelands. She bad been presented by Russell B. Harrison, son of President, now living in Indianapolis, to his wife, Mrs. Martha Saunders Harrison, daughter of the late Cov. Alvin Saunders of Omaha.

Because Airs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the President, took such a liking to the parrot, Mrs. Russell Harrison gwiesented the bird to her mother in la Mrs. Harrison liked parrot because Poll never learned to sw ar- and does not swear to this Poll Harrison was as prominent whcii she was in the White House Laddie Boy, President Harding's collie, or is Roll Roy or other pets of President Cool id ge now in the White House. Poll was written up mam.

many times in the years jgras the official pet of the Presidency After the death of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the bird was returned to Mrs. Russell Harrison in Omaha and remained in Harrison family here for a number of years. During much tJiat period Poll swung in a cage Iri the office of State Senator Saun ders of Omaha, brother of Mrs. Itus Harrison.

Fifteen Years Ago. The bird took a peculiar liking for Metcalf, mail carrier for that district, and made so much of Metcalf that fifteen years ago it was to Metcalf, who took it home with him and has kept it ever since. GKofrody knows just how old Poll is Thirty-five years ago she lived in the White House. She does not look day Older now on the day sh iwas presented to AJrs. Benjamin llarri- aon Baby McKee, for whom Poll still in the voice of President Harri- tBon, is now Benjamin McKee of Paris, STrnnre, and is forty years old or more.

jRorh President and Mrs. Harrison Jiave long been in their graves. Boh. Ho dog, for whom Poll whistles an I calls has been dead more than thirty years. Met calf believes Poll is nrarlnu the century mark in Mr Russell Harrison thinks she is not more than Xialf that age and bases her opinion on Hie fact that if poll had been out the world very long before she came the Harrison family she would have learned to swear.

OIL (From Front Page) that they are down about 900 feet. Pringle Moore sat over there a full half century waiting for something and THAT SOMETHING is soon to puddle out. From week to week the Herald will tell you on the oil situation. get uneasy, there is no use doubting. The field is to broaden till the whole western skyline will sparkle with derricks some day.

Yep! Sit steady and listen. CLOSE RELATION 1 know Hicks? I should say so He's a very close relative of mine. 8ho 1 should say so. even closer than you are. PLAGE BI3DS AVOID MENACE TO AIRMEN Mysterious Threat Lingers on Pennsylvania Mount.

Pittsburgh. the fact that each year several United States army air service pilots come to grief on the rugged mountain slojies in the vicinity of Uniontown, scientific investigation to determine whether a deadly airplane menace hangs over that section Is to he undertaken by the Pennsylvania State Aeronautical commission. The investigation Is to be made In connection with the work of surveying and routing new airplanes the Keystone state. In years gone by, when Lungin field. Moundsville, was the midway station on the model airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, the fall and winter was a usual period for crashes in the mountain sections.

Almost miraculously the pilots of army planes I escaped death one year, when there were no less than nine valuable ships hauled from the mountain recesses as wrecks after the pilots had lost control. Avoided by Birds. Many airmen assert that a mysterious threat to flying men lingers over sections of the high ridge which urates the seaboard from the vast con. lineut to the west. They point to I the deaths of Pilot E.

R. Emory of Neward, Ohio, and William D. Zollman, mechanic, of Frederickstown, Ohio, who were killed when their plane, modern i in every respect, crashed. Both men i tried to jump, but had no time. Their broken bodies were found beside their wrecked plane in the mountain forest.

And the pilots point also to a fact i long known to dwellers in the moun- Lima for certain spots Lost Gold of Incas! their Even ln the spring and autumn migrations, inin. government has when the turds generally fly Jn a neof vod a large number of applicn tirm Trom residents of I.ltna asking permission to excavate under various detour from old buildings in the city where, legend has tv, ancient Inea and Spanish colonial treasure Is buried. One spot in particular, situated on the (Street of the Orphans) where the Neg reimjs is said to -have a bachelor, three centuries ago after burj beneath his home huge quantities of heavy gold plate, Spanish vdnnbJoons, and other coin of the Is being fur as a site for After getting permits the recipi- xnts set feverishly to work at tin excavating. As far as is known, no success lie- attended effort yet. vHt Scapegoat Paralleled in Indin ancient Hebrew tom of loading a mf parallel in tral India, which tiie sins of the pec scapegoat, which bore them he wilderness, has a modern a certain listrict in con It Is not sins, however, modern scapegoat is re off hut smallpox.

straigth airline, they these suspected areas. Atmosphere. There may he a key to the conditions when it is established why motorists traveling the National or Lincoln highways over the suddenly find their motors stalled. There seems to he a peculiar atmosphere unbalanced air probably. or that condition which all research in physics seems to an atmospheric vacuum.

Aviators may have this same motor trouble over the mountains, it Is pointed out, and they talk of the Pennsylvania ridges as of or, in the vernacular of the air, as A number of machines depend: hie in every way have crashed in the just have dropped. What did the aviators, who looked dentil in the face, see? What did tin realize In the hurtling flash of their descent in their helpless, slipping planes? If any in that instant comprehended the cause of the disaster, the knowledge died with him. None who fell over the mountain lived to disclose it. Cecil Goods Co. Are Celebrating Their 16th Birthday the bad weather on Opening Day, we have enjoyed a fine business from our many loyal customers, during this, OUR 16th ANNIVERSARY SALE.

This Sale Will Close Saturday, Apr. 21 can still Save You Money on your Spring purchases. We list a few of our many Specials and ask you to visit our store during the few remaining days of Sale. Look! What Bargains! HATS HATS at 95c, $1.95 $2.95 and $3.95 3 2 hk EXTRA SPECIAL Florsheim Shoes and Oxfords at $6.95 Rayon Hose Lisle Garter Top SPECIAL AT 89c ONE LOT OF House Slippers Regular 89c Value SPECIAL THE PAIR 69c mehm i ONE LOT and ALL Spring Coats At ONE HALF PRICE PIN CHECK Pants Special the Pair 98c Unionalls Good Range of Sizes, Regular $1.25 Value 98c Field Hats at 19c, 29c, 39c, 49c 69c and 1.85 ONE LOT OF Turkish Towels Size 22x44 SPECIAL AT 19c Each ONE LOT DRESSES For FRIDAY and SATURDAY Only Values at $6.75 m. ei jtS 2 ifi2iiSTijT £lu iiu 5 ii imiSO bfnbSm M.

Casslt HAMLIN vs. ABILENE (Continued From First Page.) P. May, Freedman Dry Goods, not get to see. ALDERMAN BARROW GOES TO STAMFORD Wilson, John T. Day Son Barrow Furniture Post Office The Herald joins in voicing the en- Barber Shop, Wienke Beauty Parlor, tire community regrets on losing Wilson Hardware Hamlin Cafe.

from our city, Mr. and Mrs. R. Y. City Bakery, Palace Theatre, Gibson Chevrolet Co.

Repair Shop and others whom the committee did Thurman Poe, Wilson Motor Barrow and children. has been Furniture manager of Co. of this Mr. Barrow the Barrow place since June 1921. We all call him Well, Bob has won a place in friendly circles of Hamlin that be hard to fill by any man.

He goes to Stamford as Manager of the Store there, but Bob says that Hamlin is his His leaving this city causes a vacancy in the City Council. He would have re signed in time to have a new man elected but he did not know that his vacancy company was going to move him till the it was too late to have a wil) filled by general election. Mr. L. E.

Thompson of Big Springs takes Mr. place as Manager. He is here on the job and this coming Saturday, his family will I join him. They will occupy the house just south of the Baptist Church. $1.50 Pays for The Herald 12 mo.

to carry an outbreak of smallpox oc village the inhabitants re the ceremony of a female goat is purchased by public subscription, and is adorned with the particular types of ornaments usually 1 GS cheapest loan, the only West Texas League Schedule First Half Interest on Farm Loans. The best affixed to the image of a Is then apparently looked Incarnation of the god- of a goddess. The goat updli as an of the disease. The animal is Hppdsed to remove the epidemic as fs passed on from village to vi! iage unril she reaches her own temple. or j' devoured by wild on he loan that is made to suit the needs of the borrower.

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