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Show THE SUIN' A sr?;; SAUNA. UTAH GLAD TO SPREAD GOODNEVS . Helped by Lydia E. Pinkbamf Vegetable Compocnd Cleveland, Ohio. The friends of Mrs. Copy for This Department Supplied by tho American Legion Newo Service.) Helen Kowalczyk of 6819 Hope Avenue were glad to hear that she has regained her health. For quite some time Mrs. Kowalczyk was quite 111 and it was Impossible for her to work. She took Lydia E. Pinkhams M. LEGIONS NATIONAL AVIATION PROGRAM Suggestions for a national aviation program are being laid before the nation by the American Legion. These suggestions are In the form of detailed proposals for a proper development of Record Price of $22,500 thun-derstor- nature Recalls Romance of "Man of Mystery" $875. PENNSYLVANIA $1,050 . Is autograph Button Gwi- Philadelphia In 1912. How Inexorably the law of supply and demand obtains In autographs Is shown by the following list of the prices brought at the Manning sale for the other signatures of the set. Doubtless It will elso elicit expressions of surprise from students of American history. The list: NEW HAMPSHIRE Joslrh Bartlett. June 10. 1776, $400. William Whipple, March 17. 1776, $406. Matthew Thornton, 1777, $560. MASSACHUSETTS Famuel Adams, 1776, $210. John Adams, March 20, 1776, $210. Robert Treat Paine, 1782, $60. Elbrldge Gerry, 1793, $36. RHODE ISLAND Stephen Hopkins, 1744, $7.60. William Ellery, September 21, 1782, to General Miller, denying that he had voted against Washington for commander in chief, $360. (At the Danforth sale, December 1911, this Identical MS. brought $45. Others now. $17.60. CONNECTICUT Roger Sherman, 1776, .o W. Williams, on newt of the battle of Lexington, $800. Samuel Huntington, 1777, $50. William Williams, MS. list of Delegates to congress, September, 1776, $40. Oliver Wolcott. July 26, 1777, $290. NEW YORK William Floyd. 1777, $200. Philip Livingston, 1778, $210, Francis Lewis, December 26. 1776. $530. Lewis Morris. 1778, to Governor Clinton, $431. NEW JERSEY . Richard Stockton, 1768. $525. John Wiiherspoon. ,u!y 29, 1776, $706. Francis Hopklnson. 1769, $186. 7, $700, $450, $650, L. 8. $76). MARYLAND d nnetts signature as witness on the original will of Joseph Stanley of Savannah, Ga., May 20, 1770, as seen by the reproduction. Mr. Manning paid $4,000 for this document at the Danforth sale In (others John Morton, 176 7, $3. George Clymer, Novemler 26, 1776, $210. James Smith, and others. 1778, $626. George Taylor, 1780, $475. James Wilson, December 26, 1776, $520. George Ross, 1773, $200. Samuel William Thomas Charles g This (d) Appropriations sufficient to provide adequate equipment and training for the reserves and the National Guard. Encouragement of civilian and commercial aviation, apart from military Means aviation was recommended. suggested to this end were: (a) Establishment of a bureau of aeronautics In the Department of Commerce. (b) Extension of the air mall, preferably by contract. (3) Construction of lighted airways and dissemination of proper weather George Read, November 4. 1778, to Morris, upholding state rights, $875. Thomas McKean, letter, Aurrust 22, 1813, to Caesar Aug. Rodney (nephew of the signer), giving an account of the adoption and the signing (not until long after July Fourth!) of the Declaration, brought $3,000. This MS. sold at the Henkels RodThe report. ney sale, June 18, 1919, for $675. signed by McKean as speaker, of the Delaware reson 9, the 1777, olutions, May Declaration, aold for ton Gwinnett sets a new world record for autographs. This most valuuble of all autographs was purchased by A. S. W. llosenbuch of New York ut the recent sifle of Part 1 of the famous collection of the lute James II. Manof Albany, N. Y. ning (1854-1925- ) Have you ever heard of Button Gwinnett? Nol Well, you need not feel lonesome. Who was he? Well, he was one of tho three delegates from the Colony of Georgia to the Second Continental Congress In Philadelphia in 1770 and ns such delegate affixed his signature to the Declaration of Independence. There Is nothing sentimental about this record-breuklnprice. It Is strictly In accord with the universal law of supply and demand which obtains In autographs Just as it does In pork or known potatoes. There are only twenty-odof Gwinnett In existence. There are probably ted times that number of rich men In the country who want hts signature. This demand comes especially from men who are ambitious to own a complete set of the signatures of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. A census made last year by Charles F. Jenkins of Philadelphia showed twenty-seve- n of these complete set s, seventeen of which are permanently in public Institutions and ten In private hands. Most of the Gwinnett autographs In these seta are either documents signed, or cut signatures. The J. Plerpont Morgan collection No. 14, has the draft of a will In Gwinnett's hundwrltlng. The Henry E. Huntington set No. 10 has a letter signed, dated March 21, 1777, less than two months before his tragic death. The Louis Bamberger set No. 24 has a note written by Gwinnett In the third Mrs. Gwinnetts person, beginning as follows: compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Sheftel, hopes Mrs. Sheftel Is recovered, and so on. Mr. Jenkins, owner of set No. 26, paid $14,000 In 1024 for Gwinnetts signature on an Indenture of a mortgage on St. Catherine's Island, Ga., April 25, 1770, ' Chase, 1778, $60. Paca, 1783, $55. Stone. 1781, $140. Carroll of Carrollton, June ll,.177l, $600. VIRGINIA George Wythe. 1771, $300. Richard Henry Lee, December 24, 1771, $236. Thomas Jefferson, 1781, $260. Benjamin Harrison, September It, 1771, $630. Thomas Nelson, Jr., 1777, $235. Francis Llghtfoot Lee, September $0, 177$, $371 Carter Braxton, 1777, $185. NORTH CAROLINA William Hooper, November 1, 1776, $400. Joseph Hewes, 1776, $800. John Penn. 1779, to Hewes, $450. SOUTH CAROLINA Edward Rutledge, 1776, $330. Thomas Heyward. Jr., August t, 1801, IntroducThis M3 ing John Huger to Jefferson. $500. brought $195 In the Danforth sale in 1911. Tkomas Lynch, Jr., cut signature only, attested by Tefft In 1840, sold for $2,000. This signature was bought by Mr. Manning. November It, 1907, at the Philadelphia sale of the collection of Joshua L Cohen of Baltimore for $105. On January 10, 1908, a similar signature was sold at the Anderson Henry Goldsmith sale for $86. At the Danforth sale, December, 1912, a similar signature on a title par, brought $580, and at the Thomas sale, November IS, 1924, a copy of John Martyn's Bucollcka of Virgil, London, 1744, with Lynchs signature, sold for $2,600. Arthur Middleton, document. January 22, 1781. being note for 200 Spansigned by him and others, Also ,a letter signed by ish milled dollars, $425. him and seven other Signers, October 13, 1776. I i i ! &). m Robert Morris, 1777, $27 60. Benjamin Rush, 1778. $310. Benjamin Franklin, May 27, 1777, to his nephew Jon. Williams (on the future of the U. 8., etc.). i i work. 1919. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN WENTY-TWthousand five hundred dollars paid for the signature of But- record-breakin- g up. After she had started taking It, American aviation In all Its phases. she wrote to the The plan was officially put before Pinkham Company as follows: "I certhe nation by the national executive tainly boost Lydia E. Plnkhama Vegecommittee of the Legion. It was table Compound. I feel stronger already and sleep sounder. I am very worked out by Reed G. Landis of Chito spread the good news of how glad Nachairman of the Legions cago, It has helped me." tional aeronautics committee. Detroit, Michigan. I heard of When the plan was adopted, the this medicine through an advertisecommittee adopted a resolution reaf- ment In the Detroit News and wrote firming Its Omaha declaration that the to Mrs. Grace Gillem, whose letter was organization is Impressed with the pro- published. Then I started taking the Vegetable Compound and got the best posal for a single department of na- results. I Wash, tional defense nnder one civilian sec- too. I am used the Sanative really happy If I can adwith assistant secretaries for retary, vise women to take your medicines." Mbs. M. E. Murphy, 12163 Washburn land, sea and air forces. Reports of President Coolidges air Ave., Detroit, Mich. Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Comboard, of the American aviation mishas been In use by women for pound of the sion, government efficiency over It Is a vegetable tonic fifty board and of the Lampert committee made fromyears. root and herbs and Is sold on aeronautics In the house of repreat all druggists. sentatives were carefully studied by Mr. Landis In preparing his plan. He also held conferences with military authorities of both the War and the Navy departments. For military aviation the Legion program Is: Keep your horses working with (a) Substantial expenditure each SPOHNS. " Standard remedy for 32 years for Distemper, year for modern flying equipment. Influenza, Cougha and Strangles, (b) Survey and destruction of obsoColds. Give to sick and those exSPOHNS for Dog DisGive posed. lete equipment temper. Sold your druggist. If not, Small battle 0 cent, large (c) Promulgation of regulations on order from tu. by Write for free booklet on diseases. r'ank, pay and duty to fife specialized SPOHN MEDICAL C0.Dept GOSHEN. INO. John Hart, September 1. 1775, $526. Abraham Clark, 1778, $420. DELAWARE Caesar Rodney, July 4, 1776, to Capt. Thomas Rodney (describing his ride through heavy to sign the Declaration), $1,800. This M3, sold for $960 In the Henkels Rodney aale, June 16, for'inerj" ComVegetable pound to build her , Grpzmt3rr7ttTrrojHxu&L, Aacfrstrsi from it CJdfhvrt place. What lias become of the letters and docu- ments that Gwinnett must have written and signed In his career as a business man and public off- icial? Georgia, when the troublous times of the Revolution drew near, was far from unanimous. In fact the Tories were strong enough to prevent the sending of a state delegation to the First Continental Congress, though the Parish of SL John sent its own delegate Dr. Lyman Ilall, a former Connecticut man who was a leader among the Sons of Liberty. Gwinnett seems to have kept aloof until 1770. Then at Savannah January 20 he was appointed a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, with Doctor Hall and Georgs Walton. In October of the Bame year he was reappointed. He was also made a member of the Georgia Council of Safety. In February of 1777 he became an official of the state government and probably had a hand In the drafting of the state constitution later adopted. March 4, 1777, Gwinnett was made president of the Provincial Council. In May of 1777 he was defeated In the legislature for the governorship by John Adams Treutlen. So a little more than a year saw the political rise and fall of Button Gwinnett. Hugh McCall, a Georgia historian, thus accounts for Its meteoric information. (d) Release of a reasonable amount of surplus aviation equipment to civil Ians at fair prices. (e) Program of education and commercial encouragement prepared and executed by the bureau of aeronautics. Means recommended for the encouragement of the aircraft industry were: (a) Cessation of government compe- tition. (b) Instituting a program of continuous production. (c) Protection of rights of design. Name Prize Winners in Legion Poster Contest Piles Disappear Petersons Ointment: Please let me tell you, says Peterthat for Instant relief from the misery of blind, bleeding or itching piles, there is nothing so good Ointment, as thousands have testified. Best for old sores and son, Itching skin. The New EMOLLIENT A. Wlllmarth, Omaha, Neb.; character : third, Wiley Padan, Salt Lake City, Nativs-bor- a Englishmen were In the habit ot Utah; honorable mention, Dwight L. regarding the colontale ae Inferior to themselves, Burke, Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Forrest and they were apt to assume a bearing toward Wood, El Paso, Texas; George L. them highly offensive. In eome degree Mr. Gwinnett was obnoxious to this charge, and he looked Shafer, Wilmington, Del., and EL O. upon his rapid elevation tn public life ae an acWarren, Washington, D. C. . knowledgment of hie superiority. These feelings Prizes of $150, $100 and $50, respecwere too thinly covered when he was president of the council, and aoon engendered among the tively, were awarded. natives a Jealousy that was foolishly reciprocated Maj. Gen. Pvobert C. Davis, adjutant $1,450. GEORGIA by him. This wae doubtless the prime cause of general of the United States army all the difficulties which surrounded him toward and one of the Judges of the contest, Button Gwinnett, $22,600. the close ot bis life and brought him to bis tragThe American wrote Mrs. Shepard: ical death. Lyman Hall, May 17, 1775, $226. George Walton, 1781, $80. The duel which brought about the death of Legion poster contest having come to Gwinnett soon afterward Is passed over lightly by a successful close, I desire to take this Button Gwinnett has been called the Man of the historians. But here Is the true Inwardness opportunity of expressing both my flL shot Into to lie up promMystery. It seems enpersonal appreciation and that of the of the situation which brought about the inence like a meteor and fell like one. And outWar department for the splendid co: counter of la little prominence side of those two years received from you and your operation at Savannah arrived August 80, 1776, Gwinnett known of him. organization. Hancock from John letter a with was born and about from Congress 1732, lie was an Englishman recommending the raising of Georjla troops. Evipossibly at Bristol. As to circumstance of birth, to command them. business and definite System Does It nothing dently Gwinnett was ambitious family, schooling Button or Brown walked Into a restaurant, The coveted epaulets fell to Lachlan McIntosh. Is known. Was his Christian name SL Andrews Parish was full )f Mclntoshes, picked out a certain table and sat was Button a corruption of Burton or Bouton. The name of Gwinnett Is rare In England today, lie who had come over from Scotland In one of Ogle- down. Before he had time to open his McIntosh and Gwin- paper a waiter placed a meal before is believed to have been married, but p.o on a thorpes companies. Lachlan nett were wont to clash In the Council of Safety. him. " knows when or whom he married. We know of How In the name of everything do cone among the living In this state, writes a Gwinnetts election as President of the Council gave him opportunity to you get such service?" asked a friend, and Commander-in-Chle- f Georgia historian, In whose veins courses a drop Mcwho had been watching. Do you own of blood Inherited from or kindred with that of get after the Mclntoshes. He accused George Button Gwinnett Intosh (a brother of Lachlan) of disloyalty, Im- the place? him under guard to lie arrived about 1802 at Charlestown, 8. C. Oh, no, replied Brown modestly. pounded his estate and sent What he did there ts not known. About 1705 he congress at Philadelphia where he was cleared Its a little system Im trying. The last time I was In town I came In here engaged tn general trading at Savannah, Ga. after Gwinnetts death. About 1770 he bought the Island of St. Catherine Gwlunett sent an expedition against East Flor- and gave my order. This Is lt!l The from Rev. Thomas Bosomworth and his Indlnn ida and gave the command to a subordinate of American Legion Weekly. wife. The price Is said to have been 5,250 English McIntosh. The expedition was a rank failure. pounds. Thereupon he took up the life of a Gwinnetts defeat for the governorship followed. Novel Membership Campaign And the Clan McIntosh went about chortling with planter. In the heart of Miami, Fla., mem.Is .there an authentic portrait of Gwinnett In satisfaction - Finally Lachlan McIntosh declared bers of the American Legion constructexistence? Only one seems to have any sort of publicly that Button Gwinnett was a scoundrel. ed a realistic dugout during a memclaim to being genuine. This Is or was In the That, of course, meant but one thing a duel. bership drive. The dugout, constructAn account of the duel Is preserved In a docu- ed of sand bags, was an exact repropossession of llamrton I- - Carson of Philadelphia It has this merit: It shows a face which corment sold at the Manning sale for $550. It is an duction of shelters used by American responds fairly well with Gwinnetts known charundated and unsigned deposition (made in May of troops on the front In France. It was a witness of the duel, beacteristics. r 1777) by George Wells, used as headquarters of the campaign. Where lies the body of Gwinnett? This seems an fore John Wereat, one of the Judges for Georgia. The duel was fought before sunrise May 10, 1777, open question. His burial may have taken place Many D. S. Citations Or In Sir James Wright's pasture behind Colonel Marin the old Colonial cemetery at Savannah. Approximately two hundred Amerihis remains may He on the Island of SL Cathertins house. The distance was but twelve feet. ine. Gwinnett's name Is on the monument erected Both fired together. Each hit the other in the can Legion posts were awarded Disnatn Augusta In 1880 with those of Lyman Ilall and thigh. McIntosh stood. Gwjnnett fell. McIntosh tinguished Service citations by recovered to serve his country In the Revolution tional headquarters for having surGeorge Walton. The bodies of Hall and Walton lie nnder the monument, bat there Is no pretense Button Gwinnett died from his wound May 17 passed their 1925 membership for 1920 before the first day of December, 192a. that the memorial marks Gwinnetts last resting 1777. g MEDICINAL V ANTISEPTIC No Credit Coming to Him Portland (Maine) window dresser t, unconsciously earned a tribute for because, though receiving a painful Injury while tacking a sheet in a window, he retired quietly and without a murmur. A friend expressed his surprise at the stoicism of the window dresser. The latter retorted: How In the blankety-blancould I swear with my mouth full of A k tacks? t D0&T BE CRAW Darken four gray bair gradually, surely and safely in privacy of your home. Used over 80 years by iT millions. Money-bac- k guarantee. BOOKLET KRKifi. cently by Mrs. Eliza London Shepard, liam Freely-Latherin- 60 cents. Giticura Stick Shaving ForTender Faces Winners of the American Legion auxiliary citizens military training poster contest were announced re- national, president of the auxiliary. The contest was commended by the War department' The winners are : First Ben A. Benson, Lincoln, Neb.; second, Wil- All druggists, i v A &nan Restorer HE&SIO-ELU- At your Druggist CHEMISTS, D.pt. W. j 4 j 75 1 TENN. MEMPHIS, 4 Heroic The Critic (loftily) Yes. I'm going to do something big for the theater and dramatic art. The Actor Dont tell me you are ?oing to stop writing .play, reviews. Penn. Punch Bowl. 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