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eldest of eight children. His father,
George T.. Harding, was II country doc
tor whose forebears came from Scot
land. Before going, 10 Ohio the Har-
dings were residents of PENNSYLVANIA.
where some OF them were massacred
by Indians. Others fought in the Rev
olutionary1 war. The mother of War
rem. Mrs. Phoebe Dickerson, was de-
scended from an old-time Holland
Dutch family, the Van Kinks.
In his youth Warren Harding lived
the life of n farmer boy, attending the
village school until IA years of age,
when lie entered Ohio Central College
of Iberia, from which he was gradu-
ated. As editor of the college paper
he first displayed a talent for Journal
ism. He was Obliged to stop school
now and then and earn the money
with which to pursue his college
course. AT one time he cut corn, at
another painted barns, and at still dn-
other drove a team and helped to grade
the roadbed of n new railway. AT II
he taught district school and played
horn in the village brass band
At odd times he worked In the viii
lage printing office. in time becoming
an expert typesetter and later d limo
type operator. He Is u practical press
'1h anu "" PRINTER anu hh nuke
up man" Is said to have few equals.
The luck piece he has carried as a
senator is the old printers rule he
used when he was sticking type.
In 1884 DIR. Harding moved his fam
lily to Marion. A short time afterward
the father purchased for Warren Har-
ding "The Star" then a small paper.
On the paper Warren Harding per
formed every function from devil to
managing editor. All the years the
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/ line and kill off the Harding boom
Some tried to get u Wood -Lowden-
johnson agreement to adjourn till Mon
day without making nomination.
There also wns conference be-
tween johnson and Hnrding support
ers In which the OhiOan's supporters
tried without success to have the re-
naming johnson strength swung TO
Harding.
II was the parley between the Har-
ding and Lowden men. however. which
apparently bore the most fruit when
the balloting began again.
Lowden at the end of the ninth had
only 121 votes left out of the :O7 with
which lie ended the eighth, and Gen
eral Woods strength had fallen from
800 ON the eighth TO 2i9 on the ninth.
Johnson dropped from 81 to 81.
AS the tenth roll call began dele
gates quit LOwden. Wood and johnson
right and left. and the big hall was in
almost continuous applause as state
after state announced accession 10 the
Harding standard.
Ii was reserved for PENNSYLVANIA to
add the crowning touch of enthusiasm.
When the Keystone state was reached
the Ohio senator needed thirty-two
votes 70 nominate him and Pennsyl-
vnnia gave him sixty.
II was Governor Sproul. himself, the
candidate of his state on every pre-
ceding ballot and mentioned many
times as "a possible dark horse to break
the deadlock. who announced the big
Pennsylvania vote for Harding.
Entering the Coliseum floor for The
first time since the ,balloting began,
he made his way TO tlie Pennsylvania
standard. and, amid cheers. released
the delegates from longer supporting
him. Then he took IL poll, got the
floor and threw in the winning Har-
ding votes.
A demonstration OF several minutes
followed, most OF the delegates and
spectators standing and cheering while
n procession carrying large pictures of
the candidate and standards of some
of the states that supported him took
up its march around the hall.
But il was TOO tired convention
after the gruelling excitement of two
swcltering days of balloting TO long
keep up such IA demonstration.
Harding Was Printer.
Warren G. Harding has always been
a resident of Ohio. which state he has
represented as United Suites senator
since 1914. In private business life
lie Is publisher of The Marion. Ohio,
Star.
He was born on farm near the
village of Blooming Grove. Morrow
County. Ohio. November 2, 1865, the
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ers on the early ballOting, also went
steadily down hill. FF
Entering the convention as can
didate distinctly of the dark horse
class, Senator Harding got only 81
votes on the first ballot, and on the
second he dropped to SO.
When the convention adjourned at
the end of the fourth ballot he had 81.
In all-night conferences among the
party chiefs, however, he was mem
toned many times as the most likely
to break the nomination deadlock
should neither Wood. Lowden nor
johnson take commanding lead.
They all failed TO do so, Wood and
for the leadership on four ballots.
while the strength of the California
candidate dwindled steadily.
Meantime Harding pushed his total
to 133. individual delegates from many
states swinging to him from the col
umns of the leaders and of their IA
vorite sons. Johnson managers, fear
ing landslide was impending. then
made last play TO save the fortunes
of their candidate. They moved to re-
cess for couple of hours in order to
take an inventory and seek new
combination.
The Wood and Lowden forces. both
virtually at the peak of their strength
and disheartened Mt the long string of
ballots without material gains, fell in
with the recess plan and the conven-
tion adopted 1t. f-tlfys "a
In the dramatic succession of con-
ferences that followed, the fate of the
candidates virtually wns sealed. Some
)f the Wood and Lowden managers
tried Intellectually for an agreement
which would hold their delegates iu
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senator has owned it there has never
been strike or threatened one.
Senator Harding is closely identified
with many other large business enter
prises in Marion and other parts of
the state. He is director of bank
and several large manufacturing plants
and Is trustee of the Trinity Bap-
tist church.
Mr.. Harding has twice represented
the Thirteenth Senatorial District OF
Ohio in the state legislature and served
one term as lieutenant governor. At
the 1914 election Harding was elected
United States senator by a majority
of more than 100000, running 73,0oO
ahead of the next highest on the
ticket. In the Senate he is member
of the committee on foreign relations.
Senator Harding married Miss Flor
ence King in 1891. -ti
Coolidge for Vice Presidency.
The plan to nominate Senator Lenroot
for the vice presidency had the back
ing of many of the men who had helped
Harding over, but the name of Cover
nor Coolidge stirred the delegates and
galleries to repeated cheering and he
was swept into second place on the
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ticket before the first roll call had
gone two-thirds of It's length Again II
was Pennsylvania which furnished the.
winning votes.
Governor Coolidge got 874 votes to
l46 for Senator LenroOt and 6S for
Governor Allen of Kansas. Several
others got scattering support without
being, placed formally in nomination.
The result was greeted with another
demonstration and there was renewed
cheering few minutes later when the
tired delegates were told their work
was done. 1t was early evening by the
time adjournment was reached but he
fore midnight hundreds had checked
Oui and were on their way,
Lowden Released peIeoatsa
Chioago.--Fear of deadlock, which
he beliayed would prove detrimental
to his party, caused Governor, Frank o.
Lowden to release his delegates on the
convention floor. According to a state
ment made by him Governor Lowden
said:
After the eighth ballot, upon which
! received Il plurality of all votes cast.
u was represented 10 me that the dele
gates were becoming restive under the
delay. Fearing a protracted deadlock.
which believe would have been detri.
mental to the interests OF the country.
decided to release all delegates and
advised Them to use their best judp-
ment as to whom they should support.
For the friendships formed during
this compaign and for the loyal sup
port OF 80 many fine patriotic men and
ful."
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United States Senator From Ohio
Who Was the Successful Candi-
date for Presidential Nom
ination at chica

Chicago.-The totals on the tenth
ballot. on which Senator Warren q.
Harding was Nominated for president
by the Republican convention. follows !:
Wood. 1856; Lowden. IL; Johnson
30 40: Harding 692 Ia; Coolidge, > /:
Hoover, 1-2; Butler. ?; Knox. !: : Mis-
cellaneous. 2S: Lenroot, !; Hays. l !;
LaFollette, "a. This is as far us the
voting got when pandemoniun broke
loose and prevented completion of the
official roll call.
Chicago, Ill.-Warren G. Harding,
United States senator from Ohio. was
nominated for the presidency by The
Republican national convention after a
deadlock which lasted for nine ballots
and which finally forced out of run
ming all the original favorites. As his
running mate, the convention named
Gov. Calvin Coolidge OF Massachusetts,
npsetting n plan of combination Of
the Harding hackers to nominate for
the place Senator Irvine l.. Lenroot of
Wisconsin. The collapse of the forces
of Gov. Frank o. LOwden and their
transfer In large part to Senator Har-
ding put the Ohio candidate over Cen
eral Wood lost heavily. however. when
the Harding drift began. and Senator
Johnson. the third of the trio of lead
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NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABoUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
REcoRp OF IMPORTANT GvGhTs
CONDEMNED FOR susY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04

him. He is printer by trade and
will be at home in his new position.
Fred Sievers, one of our purebred
hog breeders, was the purchaser of
the SOW which brought top price at
the combination sale which took
place at the Cass county fair
grounds last Thursday. He paid
$500 for the animal. An average
of S1S7 was received for the thirty
eight sows and gifts which Sarsfeld
& Son put in the sale ring. The
forty-two others sold brought an
average of Sl65.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04

Laurits C Jensen to John P. John
son and Gjode Gjodesen, NJ nw4, sec
9 70 Sc, 10000
Henry johnson and wife to Anton
Nelson, e2 nw4, sec % 10 Sc, $4,000 90.
V M Jones and wife to liver Nelson,
I6 TT of lot and n "a TT of lot 9, blk
81, Audubon, 4700.00
Christ Christensen and wife to Nels
Christensen, NJ SEQ sec 10 10 35, "a, 900.
Annie B Law and husband to John
Burkhardt, lots and blk I, Laws
4th Add to Audubon, $4,000.
Daniel Brandstatter to Ada E Smith
lots and in block Extra, $500. 90.
L o Hayes to George Fabrioius, e2
ne4 sec IL VIZ nw4 sec 12-70- IS, 35, 775.
George Fabricius and wife to T. O
Hayes, lot OF lot ed of nw4 sec 30
80-35, 100000.
Ayety A Stephe nson to Fred Bire-
line, NJ nw4 & sea Of nw4 sec Sc 10 "a,
100000.
Charlie Higgins to Thomas Chris
Jensen, lot 3 block Hamlin, 225O. 90.
Jens c Andersen to Jens P Kjer-
gard, sw4 sec IL 10 36, $4,000. 90
SnhScriha for Tho To,,rrol
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04
Real Estate Transfers

+ G Zaiger and wife to John M Dim-
ick, lot OF lot Ii & lot of IA s. lots 10,
Z 20, Sec 2-7S-35, SAT. 1925.
Andrew A Krogh to Miller Kynder-
sen, lot 2 Of 10 & lot of IA & lots 10
and 20, Sec 2-7s-35, $4,000.
D R Sturdivan and wife to Malinda
Settlemire, lots II and 13, block l.,
Laws Add to Audubon, $4250.
Rasmus Nielsen to John Kyhnn, sci
of sell Sec Is 10 So, $7,4Oo.
John Kyhnn and wife to Peter T.
Petersen, s'a swA Sec % 10 s5, $4,000.
Miller Kyndersen to f c Zaiger, lot
2 of Is & lot of IA g. lots 10 s. 20,
Sec 278 35, $47,lO
Ole Fl Jacobsen j to Hans A Bladt,
nw4 nell & ne4 nwA Sec 81 & sch
sw & Sc 4 sw sea Il s14 se4 of sea,
Sec 30 10 81 except Railroad right.
10000.
Ralph Stepheson and wife to Ralph
Stepheson, ne4 & E1a nw4 & nw4 &
sea Sec % IS "a. $4,000
Henry Stephenson widower to Ralph
Stephenson, NED & E1a nw4, sec 25 Is
81, 2s,O0O.
Ralph Stephenson and wife to Roy
Stephenson, ne4 & Ell nw4 & nw4 se4
Sec % IS "a, $4,000
Roy Stephenson and wife to B j
Lohner, ne4 & E1a nw4 & nw4 sea
'sec % IS "a. $4,000.
/ Jens Andreasen and wife to Jens
/, Jepsen, lot of sw4 of sw4 sec ano
. lot of sea of NED & lot of sw4 of ne4
sec 9 4 lot one of NV of NV & lot one
/ of sw4 of nw4 sec 8 IS 30, 1000
w H Bolton and wife to V NJ Jones
Is sixteen 1T of lot s & n 81 TT of lot
+, blk 81 Audubon, $500.
/ Il II Turner and wife to w FL Boltor
81 nw4 & nw4 sw4 sec % & sea ne4 s
ine4 SEA 81 sw4 ne4 & FL nw4 sea, Sc,
26 81 35, 6l,2 200.
!, w H Bolton ct al to A w Howey
,s12 nw4 & nw4 sw4 sec 25 & sea NED s
NED sea & E112 sw4 ne4 & Ela nw4 se4
lsec Is 81 IS, $4,000.
| c III Christensen and wife to Free
Clemensen ct al, ne fra sec 10 35
S6.6s6.32.
Jacobine Hansen to Carl Christian
Hansen, 2-20 int in and to nw4 nw4
iisa nw4 sec 8 10 ST., probate deed 2400.
| Jacobine Hansen ct al to Jens
Hansen, all right title and interest il
M sw4 & nw4 sea sec 3 10 So, 23,800.
Jacobine Hansen tai to Carl Chris
tian Hansen, all right, title and int il
nw4 NV fra So NV fra sec 3 10 36, 80, 900
| Jacobine Hansen guardian to Jen
M Hansen, undivided 2-21 interest ii
NJ sw4 & nw4 sea sec 10 So, probat
deed, 2514 90.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04
Center of British Industry.

Within two or three hours by rail
and linked to the River Humber by
a network of canals, live 12.000,0 coo
to 15,0000O0 people, mostly engaged
il manufacturing and mining, and
largely exporting their products to
foreign lands and receiving from
abroad the bulk OF their raw material
and food supplies. Seed crushing.
flour milling, oil refining, and the max
ing of paints and other goods into
which these oils enter are the special
industries of Hull. England
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04
NEWS Of OUR
NE|GAB0R|NG TOWNS
Items of Interest Gathered
From Our Exchanges
Roundabout.

The high school students of Au
dubon are publishing monthly
newspaper, "The Red and White"
1t contains school news, many per-
sonal items and numerous squibs.
The first issue appeared last week
with a circulation of three hundred.
Mahaska county has set aside
$1,000 for Junior club prizes. Pure
bred gilt, pure bred eve, grade calf
and canning clubs will be organized
for the coming season.
The local K. P. lodge Of Anita
celebrated it's seth birthday with
banquet last week. More than two
hundred people were present.
Shelby will pave about thirty
blocks of her principal streets the
coming summer. She will also
build a fine new schoolhouse. Last
year she completed waterworks and
sewerage Shelby is coming to the
front rapidly.
Ministers of Avoca are coopera-
ting in a plan for installing library
in the high school building where
the book lovers of the town as we'll
as the pupils may satisfy their de-
sire for good reading.
Kinks Cafe of Kimballton closed
its doors March 1st. This leaves
the town without a place where
meals are served. The Record
offers the suggestion to young men
that they get busy and find cooks
of their own.
The federal grand jury refused to
return an Indictment against M. 0
Kingsbury, the Audubon chiroprac
tor charged with selling Intoxicating
liquor. At his trial in the district
court he was found guilty. The
case was appealed and the matter
came up before the grand jury a
Council Bluffs Wednesday with tn.
above result.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04

A drainage district was estab-
lished by vote OF the Beard of SUI
pervisors of Cass county. By the
action of the Board Indian creek
will be improved from a point near
Marine to where it joins the Nishna-
botna at Lewis, distance of fifteen
miles. With the construction of
the contemplated drainage canal
hundreds of acres of valuable land
will be reclaimed which is now sub
ject to overflow at the time of
heavy rains.
DR.. j. w. Harrison of Guthrie
Center is contemplating adding i'm
provements to his hospital with
the opening of spring. When the
work has been accomplished Guth-
RE Center will have one of the
neatest and best hospitals in the
state.
Leap year parties have not been
much in evidence but we notice
that some of the young ladies of
Guthrie Center were hostesses at a
leap year valentine party recently.
Time is speeding and those who ex-
pect to take advantage of the leap
year privilege should get busy.
| Sixty children Of Walnut ranging
in age from two to nine years pre-
sented STom Thumbs Wedding"
at the opera house there last week.
! Mabel Robson, who recently
stood trial for shooting her step
father, and her sister, Mrs. Jennie
Felt, received from their mother
two-thirds of the Robson estate
consisting of two hundred and
forty acres OF farm land and two
Anita business properties. A war
ranty deed signed by the mother
and her husband transfers to the
daughters 100 acres of land and
two valuable business properties on
Main street in Anita. The esti.
mated value Of the property trans
ferred was 100000. The entire es.
tate had been left to the mother.
County Auditor of Shelby coun.
J ty, Glen Howard has resigned his
office and accepted situation with
Matt Parrott & Sons, printers o
Waterloo, at salary much in ex
cess of what the county has givel
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04
MUCH LIKE WESTERN CITY
Tiflis, Capital Of New Georgian Re-
public, by No Means Typical
Of the East.

Mr. Melville Chatter, recording i'm
pressions in the National Geographic
Magazine. admits that he was sur
prised when he arrived in Tifiis. cap
ital of the new Georgian republic. He
had expected city more suggestive
Of the East, as the Western mind pic
lures it; but the Goloyinsky prospekt,
the main thoroughfare through the
heart of the city. stretched before him,
"as handsome bit of modern metro
politanis1n as can be found anywhere"
and it's restaurants, shops, opera ana
what used to be the viceregal palace
but which now flies the standard OF
the new nation. suggested at once the
French adjective Chic" More than
that, this new capital was brilliant
with uniforms, Russian. Georgian. Ar
menian. British, and most picturesque
Of all, the Caucasian costume, with its
broad-shouldered, wash-waisted coat,
high heelless boots, and astrakhan
cap. One marveled at the load of
weapons that completed it; sword
rafting and clanking with the wear
er's martial stride, a brace of pistols,
a pair of daggers. and a collection OF
what looked like enormous fountain
pens hung across the Caucasian
BOSOM but which turned out to be
hollow tubes intended to be loaded
with powder and shot. One must add
stiff mustacheS and a cloSe-shaven
skull to picture this Georgian in all
his glory on the Golovinsky prospekt
of his national capital. Clothing for
civilians is scarce and expensive in
Tiflis. but the cast-off uniforms OF
military officers are for sale, and many
citizen in need of new suit had
bought himself an old uniform.
Difference in Men.
Some men try to hide their light un-
der bushel and some others try to
make the world believe they are ths
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04
Wild Beasts in Indian Province.

WTIu 6edS1S III f11u1dr1 UV'''SS'
In the province of Sind, India. there
are more than three million five hun
dreo and thirteen thousand people,
and yet there are occasional tigers.
panthers, eopards. wolves and hyenas.
The gad or wild sheep, the ihex, the
chinker. the black buck and the hog
deer are comparatively common.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04

Invariably More Lasting.
Wlsdcm in the mind is better than
money in the hand.-Cingalese Pro
verb.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-03-04
Difference in Men.

Some men try to hide their light un.
der a bushel and some others try to
make the world believe they ale tbs
whole dynamo
The Holt County sentinel., 1920-08-20
DRAWS MUSIC FROM A SAW
itew Yorker Gets STARTLING and Pleas.
ING Effects by Using the Tool
az q Violin.

The conventional snw hns recently
APPEARED M n new rolc-nnmcly. us a
musical instrument. Indeed. one 81
the leading novelties Of current New
York musical revue Is the musical car.
p.nter who uses his saw M u violin.
After rr"irncied experimentation
aud unilrlng practice. sam Moore Of
New York city hns succeeded In get.
ting very agreeable music from oriin.
ury carpenters saw. according 10 the
Scientific American. lie holds the saw
handle between his legs. holds the tip
" the saw IN one hand and works the
usual Niolin how with the other. The
vibrating Steel blade einIts soft. np.
p"nlins notes, the pitch OF which 10
'nrIed by changing the curvature OF
the bn,l.
All sorts of queer effects cnn be
Obtained 10y the adept manipulation
~ the hlnd": In fact, the music tie.
rived 10y this means can hnr,ily he de.
scrihed. " anything, u resembles the
human voice; then again II has the
queer wnll ~ the Hawaiian Ukulele.
All IN MI, the effect Is startling nLd
pleasing,
The Holt County sentinel., 1920-08-20
Attended Our Chsutauqua.

There were many former oregonite,
and old time friends here from a dis.
lance. II was matter OF impossibilty
10 get the names OF all who were here
but We note the following from out OF
the county:
George Nuzum, wife and Ralph
Green. Of Otoe and Iowa Indian blood
in full Indian rcgalia, from the In.
dian Reservation, near White Cloud
kas.; Mrs. II. l.. Caskey and children
and Don Hunt, OF Kansas City, Mo-;
Fred phlbrick. wife and children, Mrs,
T.. A. Poe, John Ncthcrland, Phil
Schultz, Mrs. Leota Philbrick, son,
Lawrence, and wife, Mrs. Settle Tap
kin, DIR, W. {. Proud, wife and chill
dren. James Carder and wife, Paul
Miller, wife and children. of st,
Joseph, Mo-; William G. Sawyer, OF
Maryville, Mo-; Mrs. Louis Stalcup and
children, Of Frankfort, Kas.; Daniel
Kunkel, Sr., Miss Lillian Mcdonald
st. joseph. Mo.
The Holt County sentinel., 1920-08-20

After her marriage she, with her
husband, began housekeeping on the
old Uncle Henry Minton farm, just
west of Napier, where they lived for
two years, after which the famil,
moved to the George Romine farm.
west Of Big Tank, where they lived
for one year. from here they moved
to what was known at that time as
the Asher Lease Iarm, now owned
and Occupied BY Willie Wilson; here
they lived for about six years. and in
the spring Of 1881 moved to the Morris
farm, where she lived until the time
Of her death.
Mrs. Morris was Of Christian be.
lief and while she never united with
any church, yet she was a good woman,
loved by all who knew her. and IL can
be truly said that she left no enemies,
always doing Unto o,hcis as she would
be done by and doing her part in
helping any religious cause that was
worthy.
She was the mother Of four bows and
90 girls, Mrs. Cordia Blevins, Of
Forest City: W. ~. Morris. Of south
of Fortescue; John l.. Morris, Of Kene-
beck. s. D.: Miss Permelia and
Charley. who live at the old home place,
and Allen Morris, who died in La
Jun,a, Colo. December 25. 1910.
All Of the family. were at her bed
side when the end came, and beside
the husband there are five children,
six grandchildren and one great grand
child, and the entire neighborhood in
sympathize deeply with the family in
her going away.
Funeral services were conducted BY
Brother Jewell Howard, pastor Of the
Mound City Christian Church, at the
home at 10 a. IN. on Wednesday morn
ing Of last week, where large crowd
Of relatives. friends, and neighbors
gathered to pay their last respects and
LAY last good-by. Brother Howard
took his text from Isaiah, 6i-6, I'VE
Al Do Fade ~ Leaf
The pail heaters were nor nephcws,
viii stewart, Of Rulo, Ncb.; James
b Stewart, Of Falls City, Nsb.; viii VIII
liams. Of Preston. Ncb.; Charley VII
liams, Of Fortcscue; J. ID. Morris. OF
Mound City, and W. NJ. Mcdowell,
Of Fortescue; the flower girls were her
nriccs. Mrs. viii Blcdsoc. of Forest
City; Misses Tracy, Viola and Alta
, Blcvins.
! lr'ciIcnt was NJ the Baldwin Gene
terry. south Of Mound City. where her
two brothers, Dick and viii. and her
son, Allen, are at rest.