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Show STILL ALERT IN 101ST YEAR Attributes Longevity to Temperate Habits and fliitrinnr T.ifp BURSKA Kaa., ian. 31. George A. Gordon, who has lived in the llfe-.j time of every president of the J'nitcd I 'states except Washington, will be 101 i ; year old tomorrow'. Members of the family claim Mr. Gordon la the only grandfather of an j Civil war veteran still living, and one J of the few, if not the onl; man. living j today who heard Revolutionary war stories from his grandfather, who fought for independence in Bl I IM 51 tMPJ I'l "My grandfather. Gorge iordon of j .'Cumberland Pa . was a Mjdler in the American Rev olution, " Mr. Gordon I . I related recently. "It was jrreat uncle. William Arm- 1 .strong, who captured the su Hessians and took them Into Washington's camp and In the reply to the cenct. I question aa to how he captured them, j he ald. 'he nurrounded them' I Mr. Gordon when 76 years old and 1 In 111 health made an overland trip to Texa and had such experiences us j being cuught In a buffalo stampede I and being chased hy Indians. Me ni- tribute, I his longevity to U-mpeiate I habits and an active outdoor life. He never used tobacco or llouor. RAPS WOMEN'S -Mil-Mentally and physlcully ulert. he I approves most modern progress. I "But." he aanerted. "there are Home present-day hystems of which I d"n t approve. I refer to ntylc of women' dre short skirts. low-necked dresaes; also this bobbed hair fad. Perhaps mo,r than anything else I deplore the growing lack of observation observa-tion of the Sabbath ." Mr. Gordon lost iwo MIS In the Civil war. Mr. Hypotla B. Il.nl of i Seattle. Wash., and Mr. I-Uzle K Johnson of Denver, are two of his six i llvlnr dS '-irhters. I |