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Show ARE PROUD OF MRS. MITCHELL. jjl Wife of the Mine workers' President H Reared Among Miners of Danville. f Thoro aro over 3,000 coal minors In tho Danvlllo, 111., coal field and every H ono of them is proud of tho ability '-M displayed by their national prosidont, M John Mitchell in tho recent strlko and M hoforo tho strlko commission. Dan- dH vlllo miners uro still moro proud of M tho fact that Mrs. Mitchell was born J and for many years lived among thorn. Mrs. Mitchell was born in Catlln, a M small mining town five miles west on tho Wnbaah railroad, and grew to young woiEtinhoood In that village H Sho was tho daughter of James H O'Rourko, coal minor, who was em- .H ployed in tho old Ohio shaft, located 'mM Just west of tho village M Catherine O'Rourko attended the 'jmM public school of Catlln. When about H eighteen years of ago she removed ' with her family to Bcardstown, where -,H Bho mot and married John Mttcholl, ,M then a common coal miner. "Old Man" ,5 H O'Rourko was a member of tho "holy 'H rollers," as tho miners employed at 'S . ' M .tira. jomn nrrchiELrj ' V 1 1 J . tho Ohio shaft wcro called, and Is re- ' memborod by all of tho old-tlmo mln- .1 ers of this section. J I To Mrs. Mitchell's devotion nnd on- AM couragement, tho president of the -Jl Mlno Workers' union admits ho owes ftH much of his success. -jH |