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Show Ohio Uo&tn &j?cifed Community "Rent Xoith Quarrel Over McK'mley'4 "Birth-pi "Birth-pi act. The thriving little, city of Nile. O.. threatens to be rent In twain by question which has get the good Inhabitants In-habitants on ede, has divided families, fami-lies, turned broth-rs against brothers. !not flock to see the wonder In any numbers. The" other half of the divided house was iKiught or lea-ed by a gentleman ! named Flattery, whose busine.-s b. Ing thriving carted for Increiu,, d storatte room. In short, the oilier half and I Flattery says he is sure this Ik the half In which the i worthy ro.-lwii first saw the llht ! h.is bet ome a ! factory. And so the controversy rages. In another part of the town a little red school-bouse school-bouse It polnt'd out as the one hi whb-h M. Kinby learned his A. II. (.". Thi Is used as a carpenter shop. (Orlir.nat l(ou.e) I o-fj ' jj V yy'" and which threat- ens to upset the I 1 . I . whole town. The If - 1 Q7l f r 7 1 jl - . "ir'wMch'.id'e'of UiilJ'Hrprh ill .hVi Ihe bouseVa 't WU- rVTlH I ' 1 1 t ' 7 U.m McKlnley , 7 t T ' . . I ,. I . - f 7 wa born in wsa V "r i-J ' , 3 1 I jf J William M Kinby : H IS born'- It sounds k 1 i i j f S much like the nm- I S sic of a carousel. . I r , But to NUes the and which threatens threat-ens to up'ttt the whole town. The question- Is this "In which side of the bouse that Wil-11am Wil-11am McKlnbT wa born in wsa William M Kinby born" It sounds much like the music mu-sic of a carousel. But to NUes the question 1 no Joke. M Kiniey drew hJi first breath in little (flattery's Half ) CAFSE OF THE FIL.HT IN MLF.S. XShe Oldest Indian XVoman. frame house. which stands. or j sttKd. on the mam atre. of NUes. But . this house, like most other houses, has j ! two entrances at front and at rear. 1 Not so very long ago the hou-e in question was divided Canenters ! went at the sacred beams and historic clapboarda and sawed th.m asunder without the slightest regard for the ' feelings of anybody Interested In birthright nd birthpla.-e. One half ( of the disrupted house waa purchased i by an amusement man who seamed to i think that people would come to the bouse that M.KInley waa born In from all part of the country and piy I real money f it He had It moved j to a recreation park In the outskirts j of the village aud planted near the dancing paviliuo, o that when picnicker pic-nicker got tired of looking at the houe they could trip the light fantastic fan-tastic on their own hooka. The amusement man had placards prepared and slgnboarda painted. Tbey were to Inform th eager public when it came that thta wa the true birthplace birth-place of Mckinley But the nubile did The old Indian woman living I Nn.-y Jacob, who lives in Cedar county, near Antlers. Ant-lers. In the Choctaw Choc-taw nation. She 1 100 year old. Nancy Nan-cy la a big woman. She I very tall and erect She is on of the original ! town Indians, a clan among the Choctaw. She Is a medicine womau. and treat the young people of the tribe with th same mysterious conceptions that were used by ber husband. She says be i a strong a when she wa 2 year old. NANCY JACOBS. l's YKAR3 OLD |