The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-09
WILL PAYNE, OF PAW PAW,
 IS 4s YEARS OLD TO-DAY

pauPaNx-ayy haV. hawNis not, as some may suspect, a myrh1caI com mundty existing only in a muslcai comedy, but a sure enough town In Val, Bureau county. Michigan, some twenty miles from Kalamazoo Paw Paw exports large quantities of stoves, grape juice, fruit and live stock, and in the torrid months most of its six teen hundred citizens take 1n Sum uer boarders. Yet for none Of these things is Paw Paw chiefly famous, but as the home of Will Payne, interna- tfonalIy famous as writer of short stories and novels
 Willie is not and never was Will liam. but just plain Will-win cele- brated his forty eighth birthday to- day. He is a product of the rural districts of WhitesIde county, Ill.,, and graduated with honors from the pub lie schools of Morrison, III. After ward he went to Harvard, (Neb.) |, where he married, at the age of twen- ty-one, Miss Katherine Whitney. At twenty-five he found himself, much to his surprise, in Chicago and a men1- Der of the city room staff of the Daily News. He remained with that paper sfx years ago. as reporter, editorial writer. city editor and financial editor, and later became financial editor of the old Chicago Chronicle. He be- came an expert in money matters, and Ie&t the Chronicle to become edi- tor of The Economist, a financial weekly. In the meantime he expert rnented with fiction, and so success fully thak his first book, Jerry the ''phe Money Captain followed in 1sse. and ''The Story of Eva" three years later. Tn 1904 MT. Payne re- tired to Paw Paw to devote his entire time to 1iteratuRs, and has since pub 1ished a number of books and a. multi tude of short stories. MT. Payne is a 6u1On man, and holds a. card in the new Authors League of America He 1s one Of the directors of that organ izGtton, which was formed last month to protect the rights and property of =x1ters against "scab'' authors and publishers.
 Dr. Thomas Francis Moran, profes- sor. lawyer and author, who was re- cently elected vice-president of the American Collegiate Athletic Associa- tfon, fS Rorty-seven years old today. He has been professor of history and economics at Purdue University Laf- ayette, Ind, for nearly eighteen years, and has gained an international repu- ta&ion as the author of ''The Theory and Practice of the English Govern ment," one of the best works of it's kind ever written by American. pr. Moran was born in Columbia, Jack
 
 twenty-oae he graduated from the University of Michigan and was ad- mitted to the Michigan bar. He soon abandoned the legal profession and went to Elk River. Minn., as superin- tendent of schools, and in Septem Der, 1895, he joined the Purdue faculty His interest in college athletics won recognition last month when he was chosen vice-president of the American governing body.
 Maj.-Gen. J. Franklin Bell, form CT chief of staff of the United States army, who left that exalted post to assume command of the Philippine division. was born at ShelbyvilIe, Ky hfty-seven years ago today. He fought the redskins in South Dakota in 1883 and again in 1891, when be took part In the campaign against the Sioux, and was given a Congressional medal for "most distinguished gaIlantry'' in actions against the rebellious natives of LuzOn