Show NO SHAVE SINCE CIVIL WAR Michigan Man Has His Whiskers That Reach to the Floor I Photographed Oxford Mich Alex Alex Guiles of Ortonville Or Or- tonville whose hirsute appendage begins begins begins be be- gins at his chin and trails on the ground was In town recently to have his bid for fame recorded by a local loca photographer Although Guiles keeps keep his elongated beard done up in a as neat a ma manner manner mer as the coiffure coUture of a society society so so- clety lady until nothing unusual would be noticed at a casual glance his ac adS ad'S ad ad- S 'S II III I i l I I Alex Guiles vent rent h here re to have his whiskers took by a photographer created no little excitement Guiles is the proprietor and operator opera opera- operator tor of a saw mill at Ortonville and andUs Us said he locks steps with that trailIng trailing trail trail- Ing streamers of whispers as he winds wind his devious way In and about the swiftly humming machinery indifferent ferent to the wind that whistles merrily merrily mer mer- rily among this luxuriant growth o of at human foliage He has not had a shave since war times and does no not expect one striving earnestly to pro te t what he claims is the blue rib rib- b n winner wilmer for length in whiskers He prides himself on having the longest whiskers in Michigan And Am the residents of Ortonville who have bave seen that winding trail of wispy stringy whiskers floating about the saw mill mm over humming saws and buzzing buz zing set screws give Guiles credit for tor as much coura courage e as he has haG halt hall |