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Show HOME TOWN FOLKS -' TICKLED OVER NEWS ABOUT W. G. HARDING J ; - MARION. Ohio, June 12. This little central Ohio city of nearly 35.-000 35.-000 people went wild with Joy and enthusiasm en-thusiasm tonight when It learned that oiio of Its citizens, AArarren G. Harding, Hard-ing, had been nominated for the presidency presi-dency by the Republican national convention. con-vention. Minutes before it was announced or-ficiallv or-ficiallv at Chicago that Harding had been nominated. Marion started celebrating cele-brating what it considered a sure thing. Factory whistles wore' tooted, church bells rung and Harding's friends and neighbors gathered on the streets in shouting, laughing groups. No one was at the Harding home io receivo the news. The house, one of the modest dwellings of the city, was dark. Harding's father and sister, who live here, were the center of enthusiastic groups of townspeople, who discussed excitedly the developments of tho day at the Chicago convention. Father is Jiappy. The father. Dr. G. T. Harding, n practicing physician, received the news of the honor to his son on his 7Gth birf.hdav. He seemed highly elated, as did a sistcri, Abigail Harding, wno teaches English in the Marion schpols. The elder-Harding received tlie news without excitement. Ho declared tnat he had not wanted his son to be nominated nomi-nated but now that ho was nominated he declared he would vote for him for president, 1 Earlier In t'he day when Harding's nomination appeared likely, the father told intimate friends he hoped o' AArar-ren" AArar-ren" would not be nominated, as so many presidents and men in high office of-fice aro assassinated. Ho said ho did not want his "boy" harmed. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, Dr. Harding appeared to be tnc happiest man in the world tonignt. Havc No Children. Mrs. Harding was with her husbana at Chicago when tho .nomination Was made. The Hardings havc no children. Senator Harding is a successful newspaper publisher. Sinco 1384 ho has owned and published pub-lished the Marion Star. He has been In newspaper work since ho was l'J. When in Marlon he spends all of his time at the Star office in the active management of the paper. Ho is a practical printer, and delights in spending spend-ing hours In his composing ' room, handling typo. He began nls newspaper work on the Marion Mirror, which wa3 a Democratic Dem-ocratic newspaper, at $.9.00 a week salary, and was discharged from me staff of that paper during the Blaine campaign, because his sympathies were with Blalno and because he insisted in-sisted upon wearing the high hat of I tho Blaine partisans. i Played Cornet in Band. The Republican presidential nominee nomi-nee was born on November 2, 18 65, at Blooming Grove, Morrow county, Ohio. Just 19 miles east of Marion. AVhon a. boy his family moved to Caledonia, nine miles nearer MariQn, where young Harding' taught school for two years. He played a cornet in the Caledonia brass band, and later attended ,a little Baptist college at Iberia, Ohio. AVhen he was 19 years old, Harding moved to Marion to study law, but law did not hold his fmcy long. In college lie had been editor of the coi-J coi-J lege paper, and newspaper work thriu- |