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...Fleming, Ky., was reported last week to be dying an old beech tree, upon which, long ago, Daniel Boone cut an inscription: "Har is whar I killed...
...Pikeville, Ky., John W. Langley, Kentucky Congressman, convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, and out on bail, was tried on another charge-drunkenness. Arrested on the charge of a woman several weeks ago (TIME, June 22), he spent several hours in jail for using profanity in court when he denied the charge. Last week, at the trial for drunkenness, he testified that he had stopped, exhausted, at a friend's apartment to take medicine for dizziness; had taken a cold bath, but no intoxicant, and, coming from the bathroom, had gone to the door of a woman...
...waved her aside and she had to stumble off the platform to her seat. If she cried when she got there, it was nerves, not bad sportsmanship. "G-L-A-D-I-O-L-U-S." Loudly, brightly, firmly, confidently, 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Louisville, Ky., spelled it right. Then he stood quivering with excitement, choking back a grin, while the auditorium-a Washington, D. C, one-crackled loudly with applause for the first national spelling champion, victor over two million foes by the harrowing margin of a single vowel. Frank eagerly accepted his prizes, a gold medal...
...Pikeville, Ky., a U. S. Representative was arrested on a warrant charging drunkenness. A deputy sheriff who made the arrest said he found the Representative in a downtown building only partially dressed. In court, the Representative called his accuser a liar and, according to the judge, used profanity. So he was sentenced to ten hours in jail and a $10 fine. The jail sentence was reduced to four hours at the request of his wife and physician...
Charles Morphy Meyers, Grinnell College, Grinnell, In., History; George Allen Morgan Jr., Emory University, Pulaskn Tenn., Philosophy; John Oddy, Wesleyan University, Conn., Skowhegan, Me., History; John Miller Pratt, Allegheny College, Pittsburgh, Pa., English; Morris Herman Price, Centre College, Paris, Ky., English; Joseph Reese Strayer, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., History; Tillman Grow Titus, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Physics; Austin Wright, Haverford College, Bedford, Pa., English, Harold Whiting Cary, Williams College, Williamstown, History; Joseph Homer Ford, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C., History and Government; Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., History...