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Show fact that there are'no more largeTani- t Hies in the town, such as there were In the old days, may have had some thing to do with It. All the oldtlmers will readily recuH thdt Ulysses Monnett went away to Chicago and became a big business man. For short, we called hlra "tlly," and those of us who were kids with hlifi In that day, when we felt sure we eId outrun him, called him "Useless" "Use-less" Monnett. Jullen, whose mind turned to the law, went away to the state university, and now he Is the head of the law school of one of the big southwestern universities. When Jullen Monnett comes home we always expect to hear some news of the old boys who have drifted away and made a place for themselves them-selves In the world. And, sure enough, he brings back word this year of one of the choicest pf the kids who formed the kingdom of boyvllle In the old home town of long ago. Remember "Woody" Bleakmore? "Woody" licked Henry Scott one night because "Hen" mimicked him when he stuttered. Ah, we will not forget that fight for many a day, because "Hen" Scott was a bigger boy than "Woody" Bleakmore. Well, "Woody" Bleak-more Bleak-more is one of the real, big lawyers of his present home state. He has been on the Supreme bench and has reached tfie top as a lawyer. "Are you the boy that we pulled tfot of the raillrace one day, back In the old home town?' Julien Monnett asked this big lawyer one day when he was a member of the Supreme court. And right there court was adjourned ad-journed while Judge Bleakmore retired re-tired Into his chambers to take up the more important matter of living over acain the days In the o!8 home town, with Judge Jullen Monnett, head of a big law school. Oh, boy I It Is great to have these old boys come back occasionally and give us an opportunity to call the roll. Kansas City Star. FOND MEMORIES OF . THE OLD HOME TOWN And the Boys Who Have Made Good in the World. Jullen Monnett has been visiting In the old home town this week, according accord-ing to the old home paper. Don't remember. re-member. Jullen Monnett? Well that indicates that you are a tenderfoot In the old home town and not entitled to membership In the old settlers' sa-clety. sa-clety. Ask any of the oldtimers about the Monnett family, and they will recall them, and gave you the names , and ages of all the children Leon, Louise, Mary, Ulysses, Julien, Cora and perhaps per-haps one or two others. For , the pioneers of the old home town , had great respect for large families. One reason, perhaps, that the old home town has been losing steadily In population popu-lation during the last twenty years or more. Is that the modern family Is so much smaller than the first families fami-lies were. Lena Strickllng, who used to be the leader of the neighborhood kids in that part of town where the old Strickllng home stood, after a recent visit to the old home town, asked one I of her former schoolmates: "Do you remember the big crowd of children that played with us on the commons up there by our house? Well, there Isn't a child now In that end of town." j The old home town has been accus- Ing, among other things, the free mall delivery and the motorcar . for it gradual decline In population. But the |