Show Grateful gratefully lo U S astory A story of gratitude as aa shown in a will la Is revealed in the following story lancaster An catter ohio mr and hirn bira dorrah snider ot of Oah thorpe near here art ar thankful ao to thi the united states state congress conK ref for or thear little 40 0 acre farm arm now HOW th the 0 dec dOcI tilon of dix of this tract wait placed in the hand of the government Rovern ment to I 1 an un n usual story atory going back veral years when wesley jordan the village bat blacksmith of oak oakthorpe thorpe died d led he teft left abe vet filed here arod it left hla his small farm arm to io the th unit united st states 09 government because ht h felt ho he owed hla him greatest debt of gratitude to tile hl government for the privilege of life lf liberty oro property perty and pur su alt it of happiness happiness the will au author lied tile united states treasury Trea xury department to use the property an aa it deemed boast bist there was wa 4 feeling to the county that the farm should go BO to hit his half sister ure mr knider and her husband bubani A whom jordan had lived n mell mel 0 underwood of tho th eleventh dist district riot took the matter uv up and introduced a joint resolution reao lulon declining the mitt lift it was adopted at the estat ami in of congas politic les beyond grave grav darling gardiner although a south erner was a republican had and carried his political fanaticism beyond the grave lie ile left U to his two brothers and two nephews provided none of 0 them has ever been known ng as a democrat or suspected of for or supporting tho the nominees of bt that party in case all of them were democrats or had ever leaned toward that side of the fence garddner directed that ills his money should be tiled to ta endow a republican newspaper newa paper |