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Show oo NEVER WENT TO DANCE OR PICNIC Old Soldier Didn't Go to School a Day and Disliked Dis-liked Girls BEAT VOIR. Miss.. Sept 2. Married Mar-ried the nr.st time when 7 1 years old, and the second time when 78. after ss hit h the stork brought nine babies to his. home, Is tho record of James Henry Turner, Confederate veteran. 94 years old, who fs an Inmate of the Jefferson Davis soldiers' home here. Mr. Turners second Wife died two years ago "1 never went to school o day in my life, never went to parties nor dances, nor picnics, where there were girls, and grew up to be a typical old bach-elor," bach-elor," the veteran said today " Girls somehow faile d to attract me even af- j tor I was grown." I'nele James ss he is called at the home, admitted that he spent almost i as Utile time at church as he did In school, but he pointed out that he I joined I he church 14 years ago when he was 80. He was 25 years old when he "rode on a railroad train " the first time. |