| Show I Cigar 37 Years Old Is Soon to Be Smoked Kansas City And now comes George C. C Smeltzer Prospect avenue ave nue with a claim which puts to shame the puerile of owners of nn an dent clent motor cars and gro growers ers ers' of big peaches taU corn and long string beans Mr Smeltzer piqued by the efforts of the motorists and agriculturIsts to attain the superlative recently revealed reo re what he believes are the cIty's two oldest cigars one thIrty seven and the other thirty one years old He Be BeIs Heis Is soon to smoke them Both are In a good state of preservation tion Mr Smeltzer asserts and as asgood asgood good as new Except for a slight scent of moth mothballs bans which of course Is excusable their aroma Is unimpaired The older of the two was one ot of ft a box passed out to guests at the wedding wed wed- ding of C. C T T. Prescott law brother of Daitus A. A Brown former In 1890 Mr Smeltzer says Its preservation tion was no reflection on Its quality but the result of a desire to retain some memento of the event Tile younger l is from the box dIstributed distributed dIs- dIs by Mr Smeltzer when his hisson hisson son D D. K Smeltzer was born In March 1894 The box was given to hIm Mr Smeltzer said by the late Fred Harvey founder ot of the chain ot of restaurants and hotels which bear hl his name He saved one cigar from the box for his son to smoke on his twenty first birthday Its prolonged existence Is due to the fact the son never learned to smoke |
