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Show VILLAGE HAS INTEREST IN HARDING CAMPAIGN I WASHINGTON. Pa.. July 1. If Warren G. Harding Is elected presl-'dent presl-'dent of the United Btatea 'Ids pretty j little university city in the hills of; Western Pennsylvania will b? bound' uo closer than ever with the White Houae, for not only did Senator Hfcrd- li..; s anccy'or4 h- re. l.nt 1 1 , . teth er of President Wilson also was a' :' sldent of Washington. Senator Harding's great-grand- father, William uii Kirk, was one of i the early Settlers of Franklin township, town-ship, and he and his wife are burled In the family gruveyard on the Charles Van Klrl; farm nenr Point Lookout. Senator Harding Is honor-1 ary president of the Van Kirk family society and frequently has attended' the annual reunion here President Wilson's father. Rev. Joseph i:uR''e. U'll on. ;.s born ..t Btenbenvillei , not far from here and In 1S4S became pastor of the Hills Presbyterian church at Canonsburg, near Washington. Hero the family rentalnsd until their removal to vir-i ginla, where tho president was born i a, short time afterward. |