Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-20 | Page 3 | Age-Old Cigar of Historic General Proves Explosive

1 W Old Age-Old Cigar of Historic General Proves Explosive CHICAGO Dec 20 The IP-The The cigar that General Ulysses S. S Grant is supposed to have given to Horace Norton founder of Norton college of Williams Point was like the generals general's military thrusts It had power For years it had been kept in inthe inthe inthe the college museum but after it was d decided that the school should discontinue the alumni concluded ed that nothing could be more fit lit litand and proper than to have the thc cigar smoked at their annual reunion And so it was that Winstead Norton grandson of the colleges college's founder was selected to do the honors which were appropriately appropriate appropriate- ly done in a loop hotel And when said Norton I 1 light this cigar with trembling hand it is not alone a tribute to the spirit of him Mm whom you ou call founder but also to that titan among statesmen who was never too exalted to be a friend It was a touching scene as Norton Norton Norton Nor Nor- ton lifted his cigar lighter It was more so when he began to puff The first puff was satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory but on the second the cigar exploded 4