Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-11
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nsat Il Asxico. No
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ago 7 used 70 travel Hon Chicago .
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san Ant0zis and ] uuaA always
iopea ap = SAX and draw tie rznrh-
men srOund ne By isiting hrs with =
roasiag speech On vuEnsa's rights It
Used to make a bit a those days
ard from the wsy the states are vot-
ing roe II stii spPsar stO b. pOpa-
lar.
C60nel Judy vas born IN the bine
grass regioa Of KeHt1eky and since
1881 has mace ass nome N TaIlala.
III, where be and his son operate a
1900 Asre farm At present he Is
paying his annaal visit to his cousin,
Mrs. John N. Davis. Of 1910 North
La Sale stree q former Mexico. No.
resident
Life in the Early Days
When | vas a boy IN Ksntneky
every one was his oWn boss and lived
independent II every one else" the
|cosonel continued. I'VE grew a
patch o. fax and raised . own
sheep. and my mother made every
stitch Of clothing we kids had. We
failed our own wheat and ground our
own gram We dug our ~ wells,
made oar candles. built our orn
homes; in fact we were dependent on
absolutely no one.
-0f eOarse, there was no such thing
as a railroad, > telephone or an auto
mobile Great numbering stage
coaches were the only means Of get
ting about There have been SO many
marvellous discoveries and inventions
that when I heard about the wireless
telephone I Just gave up
Organized Regiment.
The Colonel raised the Hath Regi-
ment Of Illinois Volunteers at the
first call Of Lincoln, who was n Of
his personal friends For this work
he was commissioned a Colonel By
Governor Yates and took command Of
the regiment He was intimately ac-
quainted with Generals Sherman and
U. S. Grant. Indeed, the s114th Of
Illinois, was the fayOrite regiment Of
Billy Sherman, as the Colonel calls
him, always being called out by the
General when work Of particular
strategic Importance was on hand.
Denounces Bomb Warfare.
"But say, the Civil War was a joke
compared with the present war" said
the Colonel reminiscently. I'VE
started that trench warfare and we
used to throw hand grenades, too, but
think Of 42-centimeter guns and mil
lions Of men in a single battle, And
aeroplanes, great guns, we had plenty
Of fighting down on the ground 10
q time, without being fools enough
to 90 up two miles in the sky and
battle, Dropping bombs on innocent
women and children, though, that's
wrong. nothing but ~premediated muir
der.
when the southeners were run
ming out Of ammunition in '64 they
used TO collect hard pine knots and
shoot them at us. about six at a time.
II the Russians had known that secret
it might have STAYED of that big re-
treat eh?"
For t~wenty-four years Colonel
Judy was a member Of the Illinois
State Board of Agriculture and serv-
ed as State Commissioner at the
Worlds Fair, having charge of the
Illinois Building.
Commuters, attention! In ninety
three years and in all of his travels
the Colonel has missed a train.
He also asserts to have never missed
an engagement, and he doesn't know
what it is to be real sick. Today he
enjoys the perfect use Of all his facul-
ties and says he is good for twenty
years more.