| Show ITS ABOUT TIME delays sometimes harrowing but old wrongs finally healed features time heals beals all wrongs it if youre inclined to doubt that old adage read these elmer L nolte nolle now can self officially a graduate ol at lewis town pa high school unofficially he has been a graduate since 1889 the school board finally decided that nolte nolle should be given the diploma he get when the great june flood ot of 1889 halted graduation exercises the school of 0 agriculture at pennsylvania State college received a letter from a tanner farmer who requested the second of 0 a series of lessons for which he LESSO had enrolled after a harrowing investing invest investigation ig a extension service workers learned that the student had signed up for the course in 1908 in 1916 george W austin quit high school in stamford Stam tord conn and went into business recently he decided to obtain his high school diploma returning to the school tor for a week austin successfully passed examinations in history science and social studies and was awarded the certificate 30 years late smiling sweetly a 94 year old woman told frank mcauliffe jewelry salesman in a san francisco store id like to pick up that silver gravy boat I 1 left here to be cleaned my sister said shed be angry with me if I 1 get it pretty soon mcauliffe inquired when did you leave it several weeks ago oh my no in 1902 mcauliffe found it too in the basement at new rochelle Rochel lc N Y T an elderly woman boarded a new haven train 1 I buy it today she told the conductor as she handed him her ticket lie ile looked at the ticket and blinked it was dated september 1898 the passenger made her trip though there was no time limit on such tickets back in those days george cain 77 year old resident of 0 brisbane australia recently was awarded a medal which he won fight ing for the british i army 58 56 years ago Z in september 1890 j cain was one of the five survivors of an expedition into rhodesia it took the london war office 35 years to decide on the award and another 21 years to locate cain and deliver the decoration to him back in 1930 charles B borell of champlain Cham N Y then an employed of the U S immigration service was ordered to proceed from belfast ireland to new york he sent his household goods ahead by freighter it was only a few months ago that congress finally got around to authorizing payment of to borell for the shipping charges his claim had been held up for 16 years because he failed to route the goods on an american vessel |
