The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-10

Washington. Dec. 10.--Fersons look
ing for novel, pleasant and profitable
ways OF spending Homogeneous ran Get
valuable suggestions from CLYDE II,
TaNcnner. in the scrgeant-at-arms Of
fice in the house ot representatives.
Tavenncr and his pretty little wife
spent their honeymoon This TALL run
III for congress ~ the Democratic
ticket in Il republican district. will,
such good success that when tho
fourth of March rolls around Tavern
ncr. at the age OF 80. will he the
youngest representative in the Sixty
third congress-. and his Wife, who has
just turned 20. will he hy several
Years the Youngest congressional wife.
Mrs. Fatenner is included advisedly
in the running team. FROM the al
tar in Washington on July IL. the
newly-wcdded Tavenners hurried ( q
take a fast train for Rock Island. ILL.,.
where a Tavenner headquarters Was
at once opened and where tho new
Mrs. Tavenner assumed complete
management Of her husbands cun,-
pafEn.~ directing the efforts 81 an office
force of eighteen stenographers and
clerks, while Tavenner spent hts time
ont In the district meeting the electors
face to face.
Up 10 November ; there were Just
two persons in the fourteenth Illinois
district who thought 1avenner would
win. One vas clyde II. ravenner II
the other was Mrs. Isabel Martin Ia
venner. Tavenner won by 1910. Two
days before election Mrs. Tavenner,
who had been polling the district. pre-
dicted that his majority would he only
l.li6. hut with practice she hopes to
attain greater accuracy i'll political
~forecas,ing.
Here's Romance For Nou.
me I~aNenner manc is quite the
pre,tiest bit of sentiment which the
old capitol building has known in
WAS Miss Isabel Martin she was a
stenographer In Senator La Folle,te's
office n Tavcnner vas the Young re-
porter who had occasion to drop in
now and then for items for his news
papers. After q time it was noticed
that IaNenner spent more time in the
outer Office than he did Interviewing
the senator-considerahly more.
Erusty old legislators. regardless Of
party. are NOW chuckltnG with whole.
hearted amusement at the success q.
the KID congressional team. as the
are known. aud if in their
eyes there Is . hint of moisture as
they think of their own early strus-
sles and Of the brides who have grown
gray by their sides what concern is it
of the publtc's: At any rate. IA con-
string OF public men these early
of h session is filing in TO
Tavenper's hand in eincere con.
graduation and to ask TO be relneln-
bered to Mrs. Tavenner.
Tavenner has had such a tough
time most OF his life that there is lit !
tile envy,of his good fortune now. His
parents. out in Cordova, Ill.,. were
Very poor. and from the time he was
a little shaver of twelve, working as
devil in the country printing Office. he .
has had to make his own way in the,
world. At the n OF his fourth yearl
in the printing Office he was stickingl
type ten hours a day for only 81 a !
Week. SO he struck out for Chicago TO
find his fortune. i
There for several years he worked |
as a reporter or one of the big dailies. !
doing almost every assignment, until
was sent to Washington. hut. !
after a year or SO at the capitol. dis |
aster overlook him and he found him.
self out Of a Job. In his WASHINGTON
work TaNenuer had come to the con-
that the, news of the govern.
was not being properly told. and
his soul yearndd to let the people !
know how their hest interests werel
being thwartcd by the sys-l
or Big Business, or some o,herf
Indefinite quantity in capital letters. !
when he was footloose he started a |