Washington County News | 1926-06-17 | Page 3 | Boy Walks Forty Miles to See Radio Artist

Boy Walks Forty Miles to See Radio Artist A striking illustration of the inter-I inter-I est the general public takes in popular popu-lar radio entertainers occurred recently recent-ly when a thirteen-year-old boy walked and "hooked rides" all the way from Northlield, Minn., to Minneapolis a distance of 40 miles, in order that he might see what Jack Little, who was I broadcasting from WCCO that week, ! looked like. The vounester, who gave his name as Hicham" Davis, fainted from exhaustion ex-haustion when he reached the WCCO studios. He was given first aid by Announcer Paul Johnson, who, in addition ad-dition to his radio work, is a student of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Min-nesota. The lad was then introduced to I Ittl'e and judging from bis expression expres-sion he felt that meeting this famous sln-er was worth his long trip, ife S'ly that he and some other boys have had very many arguments as to what Utile looked like and be had decided to find nut for himself. There being n0 school on Saturday, he started for the Twin Cities early in the morning. Because he had no money he was forced to walk part of the time and pick up rides the remainder of the way.