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Show Will John D. Drill on His Golf Links? 7 i - t v. - i, What's this good luck or bad, or retributive justice? Many years ago John D. Rockefeller, retiring from active leadership in the affairs of the Standard Oil compnny. went to the Pocantico hills to fret away from oil and anything suggestive of oil wells. Now, on the PorvnU aud Forsiiap land located not more than half a mile from the oil king's estate, drilling is likely to begin at afi.y time, as indications indica-tions point to oil anticlinal. Roy Forshny. youthful proprietor of the "Pleasnntville Bike Garage," up in Westchester county, had some building build-ing lots for sale until a few days ago, when they were suddenly withdrawn from the market. The reason was the accidental discovery of an oily film m water seeping through rain-soaked and immediately adjoining, which be-ongs be-ongs to William Porvall. The news traveled to New York. :i wns recorder in a few brief o.-ir:i- graplis and hen lungs commenced to happen. Folks swarmed in from the countryside roundabout I'leasantville, asked questions, studied a small bottle of liquid which might or might not be oil of some kind, and asked Roy what he proposed to do when he got to be a petroleum king. .Meanwhile Mr. Porvall. on whose hind the oily substance first was found, no longer stays within sound of the telephone in his home. He has lived here for tH'tcen years, working as a carpenter and builder by day. and In the pleasant evenings looking after vegetables, fruits and flowers. |