The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-14
NOTABLE CHANGES
Remarkable Developments During the CeDtur, =
Life of Mrs. Electra Kennedy
From the San Francisco Can

A woman died recently in Healdsburg ~,
the age of 1O5 years. She retained her facnIt, at
until the end, she took an interest in life She ~!
ed fraternal orders after she was 100 years i
and voted for President Wilson James Madi olu'
the fourth president of the United States was '
ing his first term when this woman was horn 90'''
But it is not the political history of the cor
during the span of this one woman's life tha4 1uy
will consider. 1t is the domestic and industrial W.
VelOpment that transpired while Mrs Electra us ue-
nedy living that is noteworthy. D0A-
She was born on January 29, 1910. Three VOC.
before that time Fulton had taken his first success
full steamboat voyage. Doubtless the country @
full of skeptics concerning the reality of tbaf was
age The child years old when tha s
steamship crossed the Atlantic ocean She lived ~
read of the might and weakness of the Ttanio ~
the Lusitania. Hu
There was no railroad in the country until FIJI,
girl was 18-and she lived to see a continent IN
tersected with lines. Candles were the on M
means of illumination in her youth-even the cnI
oil lamp was not yet invented. And the last voSrs
of the woman were spent in electric ligbto5
house.
There were no cook stoves in her girlhood suob
We have, with and CRATES Wrs
Kennedy was mature woman, 25 years old whom
Morse invented the electric telegraph The news
of her death-fOr the death of person 105 1car9
old is neWs-has been wired" to all parts of +
United States and sent too, by wireless telegram
The woman probably had telephone in her home
in Healdsburg. The telephone invented when
she old woman of Sc years.
Like all women of the days of her youth Mrs
Kennedy made clothes for herself and her men
die, for Mrs. Kennedy SO years of age-she
had been married ten years-when Howe completed
the sewing machne and imagine how long
it was after that before sewing machines became
household necessity.
To digress a moment, Mrs. Kennedy was wo-
of SO when gold discovered in California
Incidentally she and her husband were among the
early gold seekers in California, although techni-
cally they not pioneers" They did not come
until 1852.
The phonograph, motion picture, typewriter, san
itary plumbing wall beds and sleeping porches
automobile (Mrs. Kennedy born before the rail
road train was first operated, lived to take long
rides in an automobile and to be photographed
she born before photography was even conceiy-
ed of-at the wheel of a touring car)-all those
things were unheard of when this woman was born
The flying machine was subject for dersion dur
ing the greater part of her lfe and she lived to
a machine fly in her town.
1t is stupendous to think of what has happened
during the life of a person 100 years od-of the
meager comforts they had in their early life and of
the complex conveniences which now can be
joyed by any who earns at least a living wage
No century ever such mechanical development
We have a written record of the history of man
dating back at least a thousand years before
Chrst-the era of the Great Pyramid is given as
1882, and Biblical records go back much further.
There is more difference between the comforts Of
1915 and those of 1915 than between those avail
able in 1915 and in 5 A. D.