Show iS i'S from froma a January notebook ok January the month when many of us are arc still valiantly working to keep true to our ew Year resolutions is n a pretty good month for history buffs Its s traditionally the time when old governors step down and new neIT governors step in 11 and d devery every four years ears the lease on the White House is renewed or transferred It is b also the month when a few early birds start worrying ing a about out where the money 1 come from to meet Uncle Sams Sam's bill that comes due i April C On January 20 1927 Miriam A Ma la 1 Ferguson had completed a term ns as the first woman governor of Texas During her tenure slue she granted executive e clemency to manatee of the Texas penitentiary penitentiary a record which probably ably ubly still stands C C COn On January 21 1907 Carrie Nation started the year car In news news- making sl style lc She took a hatchet and wrecked a 1 Km Kansas s saloon sI I w t The signing of the Panama I Canal treaty January 2 22 U 1903 gave ave America II a vital link be- be between tween two oceans The Panama I be-I Canal incidentally does not run across the Isthmus east to west It was built from north north- northwest northwest west to t almost lit at right angles to the strip of land lanel and the Pacific end Is II about 27 mlle miles east ea t 0 of t the e Atlantic end Some great Americans were born bor ins Ehn John i Hancock was born on the of January in the year 1737 J In n addition to setting a precedent for a distinguished signature Hancock showed evidence of being a real patriot In autumn autumn 1775 Wl sh I Ington to destroy Boston if such sucha a drastic step was necessary to drive out the British Probably the largest property holder in h Boston Hancock voiced his viewpoint as boldly as he had signed the Declaration of Inde Inde- Independence Burns Boston and make John Hancock n a begger if the public good requires 11 it he told his contemporaries C tC C t 1 1 ite ft John FItch was 21 1743 Ile developed the man carrying ite steamboat It was waR powered by twelve c paddles anti sped alon along the Del aware River at the amazing speed of th three ee mlles miles an hour Me Thomas Jonath Jonathan n Jackson the Confederate general affectionately known as Stonewall was born on Januar January 21 In the year c r 1842 at Clarksburg VIt now W Va Jackson showed brilliance at Bull Run amazed Union leaders in a Shenendoah Valley campaign joined Lee Jn in inthe the defense of and distinguished himself at the second battle of Bun Bull Run Antie tam and Fredericksburg In InMar May Mar 1863 while reconnoitering after dart dark he be was accidentally shot by Confederate outposts General Lee Lec to exclaim I 1 ha have lost 1 s my y right arm |