Show worlds champion wood chopper visits roosevelt leslie ashton sons company of 0 roosevelt made it possible for our citizens to see ase in action c t on peter pater mclaren cLaren Sl worlds wood chopper cham champion plon monday promptly at twelve noon peter acla cn champion chopper was given a real test As advertised advertise d mr air ale mclaren had ported pooled a n forfeit of fifty dollars to be 0 given alven to any ally person who could c cut ut a log in to i withla 50 per cent of the time I 1 it took him and his challenge was accepted by melvin roberts roberta and jess bircher melvin roberts robarts was first up and chopped tL rough the log in eight minutes and ten seconds jemaa jess bircher came up second and quit the raw after chopping a little over seve i chutes it was mr air mc ale larena next up and he be had a little over 5 6 minutes to chop the log through and after he mide made the first few licks thare was no question as to the outcome he succeeded in n chopping through the log in 4 minutes and ten seconds wild add it 11 was the bellet bellef of the crowd that tie be could have made it jn in 4 minutes easy had he been crowded much aluch credit should bs ba gawn to 10 mel alai roberts as ie he demonstrated to the large crowd that lie wa was j a real wood chopper and everyone remarked what X a neat anup he be made ills his time was not so bid remarked mr air Al mclaren cLaren at least people witnessed red the demonstration |