Show H H H H I 1 ll 11 1111 S W X WHO WAS WHO by louise M comstock II 1111 M H 1 H H H DEVIL JUDD TOLLIVER EVIL john fox jr called LJ him in the trail of the lonesome pine devil judd coill ver vcr but fill all up and down the borderland of kentucky from the bl big sandy to the cumberland and far into tile the blue ridge mountains of virginia ile he was known as bad I 1 cad bad john wright straight shoot ing son of the hills a bad man to pick a quarrel with if you doubted that the lanky old man who died just a few years ago at the age of ninety had earned that ominous title you had only to look at the thirty odd notches on his gun it Is only fair to give credence to wrights claim that all of his killings were in the cause of law and order or at I 1 least e ast under clr cir cum curn stances under which somebody being bound to be killed justice was with the keenest eye and straightest aim but fighting was his second nature during the civil war he served first as scout for morgans raiders on the confederate side was captured and imprisoned at old fort smith and on his release joined up with the union army and fought with it through to the end of the war ne he was quite a family man too several times a husband and father of over thirty cb children Ildren whom he kept track of in his own mind by the ingenious device of associating them with their mothers maiden name alice wright the original of june of the novel for instance was a harmon II armon when john fox jr knew wright he owned acres of land in lonesome cove v v v THE TEDDY BEAR T TUB HE teddy bear essential to every twenty nursery years ago and still a popular toy was of course named for teddy roosevelt but how a president of the united states become became associated with a humble little stuffed bear Is just another proof of the so called power of the press about in a little village in germany a crippled dressmaker named margarete concocted out of leftover scraps of material a little stuffed bear which she presented to a child of the neighborhood the bear proved so popular that her brother richard with an eve to business had bad other bears manufactured and put on the market markel the first stuffed bears sold in this country were imported in 1002 by borgfeldt co that same fall president roosevelt went hunting in mississippi soon the ever watchful press had informed the country that its president had refused to shoot a small bear which had been captured and brought into camp for him to kill 1111 clifford E berryman ryman cartoonist proceeded to make the incident subject for a cartoon in which roosevelt gun in hand and the other raised traffic cop fashion as it if to prevent such a deed stood with his back turned to another man leading a tiny bear on a rope labeled drawing the line in mississippi the cartoon tool took the country by storm berryman subsequently adopted the bear ili as ni mascot ascot for all of his roosevelt cartoons and margarete stuffed bear was soon being sold as teddye Ted dys v v v SAM PATCH F THE name of sam patch became I 1 IF several generations ago a synonym for boasting cocksure foolhardiness it was not so much because of what he be did as because of the way he be did it IL sam was a brave stunt jumper to be sure from leaping boldly off bridges into the stream below and from the tops of windmills he advanced in his art to such a point that he leaped successfully from a shelf of rock midway between the highest point on goat island and the water at niagara falls meantime of course he also advanced in fame and fortune from a humble cotton spinner in pawtucket it L 1 in which place he be was born in 1807 to a pub lie figure drawing down good compensation pensa tion sam waxed in confidence and ambition at length in november 1829 0 he faced an excited cited audience gathered to see lit him in leap the denessee Zen genessee essee falls on tile the genessee river near rochester N T Y and said napoleon was a great man and a great general de conquered armies and nations but jump the falls of the genessee that was lett left for me to do and do it I 1 will and sam patch leaped to his own death proving that even famous stunt Juni jumpers pers sometimes meet their waterloo 0 1932 western newspaper union |