Show SALT LANE LAKE SKETCHES ES Woodchopper at 90 David J. J Davis Attributes 1 tong Long Life an d Good Health to Hard YV Work ork 1 Work hard and live long Ions This is the advice of David t. t Davis is 2308 Windsor street who plans plans' to celebrate Isis his ninetieth anniversary I June 28 by splitting R a cord of I fire wood to show friends he is as ao strong as ever Hale Bale and hearty after niler almost 10 decades Mr Davis attributes his hLo lon long me life and good health to simple living six hours of hard work dally daily and total total to to- tal abstinence from tobacco and alcoholic alco alco- holic drinks He was born June Junc 28 1844 at East Rochester Ohio He spent his boyhood od his fathers father's farm where he learned to work long and hard and to like It it He was 17 when the civil war began and because of his youth was rejected when he tried to enlist with troops training near his home Plants Garden Each Euh Year rear Mr Davis who has lived in Salt Lake 50 y years ars is as active as a man manof manor or of 50 He plants a small mall garden at athis athis his home each year ear cares for lor the lawn and fruit trees t at his house and spends several hours daily chopping wood for exercise He cut three cords or of wood last winter takIng this fuel from n a lar large e dead tree tre he f felled at atthe atthe the rear of his house He does docs all the work without help Mr Davis trained In ranks under personal command of President McKinley Mc Mc- Kinley when the United States de de- dared war on Spain In 1898 but was never called into combat He preferring biographies and never falls fails to scan the daily daB I papers What this countr country needs is less people to tell it what it needs he believes Recalls Panic or of 1893 The depression has been bad but I people have not been as upset as I the they were during the panic of 1893 he believes Those were awful times Mr Davis is said William Jennings s Bryan Bran was trying to convince the people he i was right on his to 16 1 silver platform plat plat- form but the thc voters bus tr I were so busy busy- try ing to save what few dollars they had they didn't have time to listen to his plans of making more Mr Davis still has in his posses sion an original bill of oC sate sale signed b by President Thomas Jefferson and given the formers former's father when he purchased purchased pur- pur chased a farm fann in Ohio from the federal fed fed- eral government in 1800 Mr Davis also has a second deed to additional property signed by President John Quincy Adams in 1825 For breakfast he eats three pieces ot of toast an egg or two a bowl of cereal and glass of hot milk He never drinks tea or coffee He prepares his own lunch which generally consists r X i r 44 4 4 a w J. J Davis i lor of mc meat t a few e vegetables milk and and bread and butter He eats a light din dinner nero ner |