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Show I , ' When They Were A Couple Of Kids Jimmy Cox And His Step-Sister Were Rivals In School Mrs. H. E. Wheaton, Ste-Sister Ste-Sister cf Democratic Presidential Presi-dential Nominee, Says Ohio's Three-Term Governor Gov-ernor Wcs Very Doyish Little Boy. , by margRete powrm. TOLEDO. O. Although Mrs H. E. ! Wheaton of Toledo. Ohio, didn't care a "fig" about polltica and women's I rights a short time aco she is going to get up bright nnd early on Nov. 2 i to cast her vote for ""brother Jim" i If fh- women got the ballot. ! Mrs. Wheaton is a step-sister and llfe-loac il to r;i.nno.- Jameq Monroe Mon-roe Cox, Democratic presidential can-1 can-1 ' lil . nnd 15 rp pply -t fr steel and Justly proud of her 'pal's' nomlna-tlon. nomlna-tlon. Slic has lived In Toledo five yes rs "I usod to think voting was a man s vor:,." s're say:i. "but I'll bo right on the Job to vote for Jim and I have been rals ever shice the days when I i, HIS Carrie Martin and the govern, gov-ern, r v -s ttet Jimmy Ctrx." TEN I HILDA EN I N COX I VMILY, Dack In 1STG. when "Ia" Con tnar-rlcd tnar-rlcd ' .Mn" Martin and the Martin family fam-ily moved e'er to the bi CoX farm in J:.cl:sonboro. Jimmy. C, and Carrie, ". made muel piea. strapped and went to stehocl together. "There wore soven phlldren In the Cox fnmily. and three Martin children. chil-dren. We had exciting times in tho old farmhouse when wo wore all a: home," Mrs. Wheaton role! "Jim's bought the old romcs'.end nnd Is fixing it up. hut it w M nevpr be the same place with lb f mlly till grown up." The Cox and Martin children attended at-tended s lltflo rod brick -ountry school taught by the goernor's own cousin, James Btokes. Contrary to the reiiuta-tlons reiiuta-tlons of all other presidential candt-j dates, Jim Cox was not the brightest ! child In bis class. "Although Jim was older than I, we were always in the same classes anel I always had higher grade reports," Mrs. Wheaton says DID SCn RAVE HIGHEST GRADE. She has two grade cuds, both dated Oct. 3, 1384. and signed by James M. Stokes, schoolmaster They were the grade enrds of one Carrie Martin and James Monroe Cox Certainly Jim! wasn't the teacher's pet. for his deportment de-portment was only 03, whereas Carrie was graded 9S. Comparison of the twd clasSftS s low that Carrie received l THCy WEFIC PAl ' THEY A MU D ET C"W & ft "Carrie," now Mrs. H. E. Wheaton, and her step-brother, "Jimmy" Cox, had grea times on their old Jackscnboro farm. 9C In reading while Jim got a scant 83. His writing grade was only 87 while Carrie sported a 0V In arithmetic arithme-tic Carrie was gruued 93. when Jimmy Jim-my had to be satisfied with a 90. But James loved his country and was forever reading about It. Geography and history were his favorite studies, and the grade card shows that Jim i'ox was 91 In the former study, while Carrie was only marked 92. "We used to have spelling bees." Mrs. Wheaton reenlls. "anl one time when I po!t a word that Jim missed and passed hlni, ho became so angry he could think of nothing mean enough to say. Looking at my freckles and they we re plentiful then he growled out. j "Vou old freckled turkey-egg. you!" I "James and I have often laughed about It since, but at the time we were I sworn enemies." N.l.l FOR PRESIDENT JAMES M ROE. I Mrs. Wheaton complains that no one over calls tho Democratic candidate candi-date by his proper, second name. "They Call him Mlddleton, Madison and even McManus in fact they call him everything but his right name of, Monroe. He was namoel after President James Monroe," says his step-sister. Mrs. Wheaton s husband is superintendent superin-tendent of the Toledo & Western Kail-road Kail-road company They have two children. Helen, 1C. and Jack, 13. both of them ! Interested In their uncle s campaign. |