The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-11-20
ODD RkTs 0lF NEWS.

Al y
Campbell is believed TO be tue
oldest minister Of the gospel ID
the United S ates. He Is the
pastor of three Baptist churches,
has peen preaching for 70 years,
and b bids th8 record in Kentncsy
asths marrying parsoD.
Grand Rapids, Mich On the
An Of Jaly seven years ato, sal
yRd0r Amati, then / year olo'
wns shot accidentally by bis old
err brother. Paralysis followed,
aud the boy died recently, after a
lingeiir G for seven years.
Mnfold. Conn Ralph Won
Hacht, %, blind from birth III
one eye, had his sight restored
when surgeons successfully per
fotmed au operation for appendi'
.ltis. The appendix had been
testing against one of the nerves
which connects with the optic
nerves.
Shenandoah, La Driving five
logs hitch, d TO an Alaskan mali
sled, Miss Eat, lie Mason OF
Nome, Alaska, is completing
queer worlds tour. She finished
heI Journey at Cincinnati. having
rayelled 80 600 miles. If she
.riives at San FraDcieco with
two of her original dogs and the
mail sled, she will receive sl2,-
900
New York, N. Y Charles
Ere derrick Fowles, wrote IN his
viii that if he aud his wife died
az der circumstances that made 1T
! fficllt to decide which died
first, 1T was to be presumed that
he preceded her They went
down on he Lusitani
/ New York. n Y-Jennie
teis h az, waitress, has bee n
treated in hospitals more thar
|. 0 times in two years She has
oel taken TO three d ffereDt
hespiials and treated for three
dffe,.Bt attacks in one day.
Il, T mslxdy is puzzllDg physici'
ans, y no declare that every time
he rides on a car or in vehicle,
he motion causes her muscles IT,
tense so that she lapses into I'M
consciousness.
| Baltimore, Md --StephanBrowD
wasrushed TO hospital here foi
an operation Oh bis eye, which
had been pierced by a piece OF
steel. A powerful magnet was
placed close TO the eye, the cur
rent turned on and the steel sliv-
er came ont. 1t was one Sly
teentb of an inch thick and three
quarters of an inch long.
MIME apolis. MINI - White
Earth, near here, claims the
champion mother Of this state
and perhaps of the entire couu
try. although Mrs. Myrtle La
Chappelle is only l9 years of age
she has been the mother Of nine
children Her husband is 2:
years old.
Atlanta, Ga. - WheDW liam Fl
Burden, rs years old, advertised
for a bride, the ad was answered
by Mss Lula Douglass Thomson
; rs years old tbs reported th'
g Dom settled S300,OOO on thu
b. ide before the wedding cere
mony Burden has adult grand
chi Idlen.
Portland, Ore is Doc Oslo
Ia the audiences jeremiah Paul
sell, 80 years old, has just ap
piled for license TO hunt bl
game. II don't take water froI
any young fellow says Uncl
Jere.
Cincinnati, O. - Archblsho
/. Moeller, of the Roman Catholl
church, in q statement to til
Ohio Temperance society, say
he is opposed to prohibition 0
y the liquor traffic and believe
4 chat q we'll regulated saloon j
!, not undesirable.
. Mason City, Ia.-Thirty tw
8 years old and married five time
is the record OF Ethel Wicker
Noble Pump Jurdy nghes, VIII
. ls under arrest for bigamy.
b FL PAso, Tex When Stanle
D Cobb applied for license I
Q marry Margaret Corn, the ma
o riage license clerk refustd to |,
. sue the license thinking it was
. joke. When convinced, howe
Ter, he shelled out Pop Cor
: was said TO have opposed til
2 marriage, bnt when appealed {
; said "Shuck aud headed til