Show Man Gives Away To Make Friends Happy AURORA ILL James James Powell 7 74 a retired real estate state and Insurance In In- urance man decided to make hi his friends happy while he was still sti alive So he dealt out t to them He tried to make the gifts gilts which h r ranged from to anon urging that he be identified only as an unknown soldier mare marchIng march march- h Ing lag away He requested that his name nam n not b bt be made public pubu because he did not n want It to appear that I am Join doing what nat I am doing to gain publicity or glory But the gifts were too many t to too many persons for the secret i to o b bg k kept pt long His name got OI oit an and several leveral of his b beneficiaries co con it it t Powell turned over t to Mayor Lloyd H. H Markel asking th that at th toe the city start a fund for tor a municipal al auditorium The money Is to b be Deposited with the city treasurer treasure tor for Use when where needed The fhe sum of was given t to I superintendent K D East Ea at high school for a new building or a an annne I annex M or school equipment Gifts of to were given I to Various Individuals He said sat they were persons who were kin kind kinde I to me e and my dear wife Helen j who no has passed on and my dear dea f sisters also deceased d. d Distant relatives were Included include d j In these these gilts sifts Their benefactor ha has no j Immediate fa family m 11 1 t. t The The gift to the high school Is t to toM be a m memorial morla to j M his sisters Grace Grac 1 and na MIna and himself all grad grad- u. u tei of the school chool 1 j i- i |