The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-12
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AS'sv Hae a6Eeou uP~n - So'nbiN- mise.
 A Horse Aastisn.
 A horse auction the same day ex- cited more interest among the citizens of the village and 1t was but small crowd that gathered about the. court house when Commissioner Handley announced that he was ready to sell the Rock Spring Farm. The Bidding started at ei,500 and was gradually worked up to ,s.eee, ct which price 1t was sold to Mir. Golfers representa- tive. After the papers had been prop erly drawn and recorded. MT. Jones started to drive back to Elisabethtown and encountered one of the belated bidders who was mercilessly hurrying his horse to reach the auction in time to bid.s. An indignant salutation greet cd MT. Jones's announcement that the Lincoln Farm was in his pocket.
 What am to say when get backf' the other shouted in dismay. "I'll give you $i0,e00 for 1t right now" But Mfr. Collier had a peter use for the place, and 1t was nos handed over. Instead, he interested . group of representatiye American citizens in forming national association for the preservation of this ground. This group of citizens or. gsnized the Lincoln Farm Association. which<was pdomptly incorporated un- der the laws of the state of New York. The title of the Lincoln birthplace was transferred to this association and the progrfsm for eeniarging the member ship of the society was at once begun. In order to make the memorial to Lin- coin represent the tributes. of all the people. no contribution of more than t2s has been accepted and anyone con- trtbuting as small a. sum as 25 cents Is entitled to membership In the or- ganisation.
 Since this tins about 2o.oo0 subscrip- tiona have been received averaging . little less than Si.4o to a member With these funds the trustees bought the cabin in which Lincoln was borns and set 1t up on It's original site; they have commenced the Bnemorial build ing which is to cover the cabin and they have made plans for developing the farm into q beautiful park.
 Rooseyels Speaks Ersrpute.
 Pittsburg. Pa. Feb. 1l.-Fresident Roosevelt arrived here at s:1s tonight and remained fifteen minutes.
 There were only three stops between Washington and this city. one at Bal. timore. one at Harrisburg and one at Altoona. At Harrisburg there were 800 or 500 persons congregatsd and they received the chief executive with vo- ciferous cheering. At Altoona there was a much larger crowd. and. despair ing of 9reating all individually. he undertook to speak to them coliect- ively, but was prevented from doing So by the enthusiasm of the crowds. He could And opportunity only to ex- press his qualification over the fact that the people of Pennsyivania were greet ing him with their old time cordiafity, to say that he was very glad to see them and to wish them "ali possible good luck
 Here the President gave a talk to several hundred persons gathered about the rear of hls -car. The President congratulated several of the men upon bringing their better halves. He said the average American citizen was 8 good fellow hut his wife was bet ter fellow. President Roosevelt said he always felt that when he left the White House he wanted khe people 10 feel that he had always done the best thing for them. He appeared extreme " pieassd when the crowd yelled You Srh AtTiIe presiaent is due at Louisville tomorrow at S:2e .. fts.,. and. at Hod- | kanvilIe. Nile nearest railroad station to the kincoih farm about noon.
 Eul6sy ca LinesIn.
 Washington, Feb. 11.-Toward the close of the session of the House to- day, Representative Boutell, or Illinois delivered an eulogy of Abraham Lin- coin. He spoke of Lncoln's entry in- to the body as a member on November s. 1847. Here in this House. he said, attending to Its routine duties and responding to numerous roll calls, Lin- coin spent his fortieth birthday.
 MT. BoutelI said it was altogether fitting that there should be put on the records of the House some memorial