Show Youth Who Took Lincoln's Lincoln s Place in Army Is Honored STROUDSBURG Pa Nov 11 fF JP Monroe county toda today honors the memory of J. J Summerfield Staples the youth who took President Lincoln's Lin- Lin coins oln's place as a soldier in the Civil war He was accorded the honor through a quirk of fate being accosted on Pennsylvania avenue in Washington by y a man who said I am ann looking for tor or a young man to represent the president resident in the arm array army as a recruit A short time later this young na tive of Stroudsburg was ushered into I the presence of Lincoln who was not liable to draft A few minutes conversation conversation con con- and the old year lad was mustered Into the service I Today members of veteran and patriotic patriotic pa pa- organizations dedicate a memorial memorial memorial memo memo- rial tablet to him on a new concrete bridge spanning panning Pocono creek I After almost a years year's service with company H of the Columbia volunteer infantry Staples became ill and was honorably discharged on September 12 1865 b a- a I |