Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-07
(BY c. c. LLON.)

Dayton, Ohio, July 6.-One of Gov ernor James M. Cox's cronies is Ed Antrim of Hamilton, Ohio. recently retired as state law librarian. The two were boyhood friends in Butler county 35 years ago.
 "My earliest recollection of James Cox" said Antrim, reminiscening "was seeing him drive into Jake Nor ner's feed stable, near the old High and Main streets suspension bridge in Hamilton, back in 1885.
 "I was working in Smyers' hard ware store, across the street, and Jim would often come into our store to buy nails or binder twine or other things needed on his fathers farm.
 "The family would send Jim into town from Jacksonsburg, where they lived, about once every two weeks to do the trading He drove an old bay mare, hitched to light buggy with out top.
 "Jake Morner, who ran the feed stable, was an old character, full of good stories and he and Jimmie be- came great friends. I've often looked out of the hardware store window across the street, and have seen Jimmie, sitting on soap box, laugh ing his head off at one of Jake's yarns.
 "When dinner time came, Jimmie would often come across to the store and say: Come on, Ed, let's go down to the Butler House and get some thing to eat,5 and I'd generally go along wit him, if I happened to have the price. They served regular meals for 20 cents.
 "Not long ago, the governor and were having a flaming bee,' and he said to me: Ed, do you think there's any place in Ohio today that serves such good meals as we used to get at the Old Butler House for 20 cents when we were kids?
 "After Jimmie got all his trading done, he always went down to the meat market of Joe and Johnnie Fromn and bought big hunk of be- logna to eat on the 10-mile drive back to Jacksonsburg. I used to say to him: Jimmie, you'll kill yourself eating all that stuff
 "I was out with him year or so ago and we passed meat market that was displaying some very fine bo logna in it's window. The governor ordered his car stopped and he said to me: Say Ed, go in and get a pound of that, will you I like it as well now as I did when I was a kid.'" He Likes to Tramp Through Storms.
 George F. Burba, Columbus news paperman, probably knows Cox bet ter, personally, than any other man. For nearly 20 years Burba was asso- ciated with Cox as editorial writer on his Dayton newspaper and then as private secretary during the gov ernor's first term. "One of Cox's most interesting pleasures" says Burba, "is to walk in the teeth fstorms. He loves to tramp through the fields and along the highways when it's raining tor rents, or. in snow or sleet storm. \ "Many a time he has called at my house in Dayton during storm and asked me to go tramping with him. Sometimes we'd walk for four or five hours and cover as much as 10 miles Iof territory.
 "His wonderful vitality is due, in la measure, to the fact that he, can Esleep few minutes any time he Ewants to. I've been hunting with khim and, after eating lunch, he would Esay: Call me in 15 minutes,' and he'd be asleep almost instantly.
 "On his hunting trips to the wilds Sof Michigan he always sleeps one Enight out of doors, in the dense woods, with only blankets over him.
 "Years before he became prosper bus he used to dream of owning certain tract of land in the Miami Valley, four miles below Dayton, and building a home there. The tract s the present ste of Trails End,' his Insignificant home. It overlooks the Ealley and is the end of an old h. bian trail. He loves the wild woods Do much that he won't allow the for