Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-09-17 | Page 2 | Shingles a House on His 86th Birthday |

Type	issue
Date	1906-09-17
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Shingles a House on His 86th Birthday
Type	birth
Date	1906-09-17
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	2
OCR Text	Show SHINGLES A HOUSE ON HIS 86TH BIRTHDAY BELLE VUB, H. J., Sept. 17. "DonH Judge a man by his years." says Hugh Holmes. "His real age isold ,by his head and his pulae:' ...... . Then the white-haired ex-Mayor of Belleville finished the job of shingling rjls house on his eighty-sixth birthday and. after taking dwn the scantlings, which he had himself set up, presided, fresh and agile, at the celebration of the anniversary. anni-versary. Mr. Holmes is the oldest man In Belleville. Belle-ville. When the town was made a city. In 1874, be war elected its first and only Mayor. Two years Jater it returned to the township form.
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