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Show Ohio' Champion Woman Walker. The champion lady pedestrian of Ohio lives in Middleport, two and one-quarter miles below The Telegraph office, in Pomeroy, where she has been employed aa a compositor for the past eight years. Every week day, winter and summer, for the eight years she has walked to and from her work, with but nix weeks' rest Her walks average twenty-seven miles per week, through rain and sunshine, enow, mud and summer heat, and she often clambors around the bluffs to get by flooded districts. ' This gives her 1,404 miles per year, or 11,233 miles in eight years. Subtracting 163 miles for six weeks she rested she has 11,070 miles still to her credit. During the eight years she haa actually performed per-formed 24,600 hours of labor, and has set about 1 9,680,000 ems of type. When she began walking and working she was not enjoying good health, but now she is rosy' cheeked and vigorous, and thinks no more of a jaunt of half a dozen miles than most ladies do of walking around a square in the city. |