The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-07-13

lgrew fond OF his fathers wife.
| She said of him day or two ago;
"I'ye always had good warm spot
lin my heart for Jimmie, and he has
lbeen just as good as he could be TO his
father and me. Seems strange that
he is going to be president. When
he was quite young boy he was 2
Republican, but he switched over N .
hurry. He'd argue with any one
labout politics and hold up his end
Itoo, when he was quite small Had
Ito scold him for it sometimes. because
lit seemed like he was sassin' his
elders.
Always q Student
"He was always a-sthdying, wheth-
Ter you wanted him to or not. He just
wouldn't idle. Mr. Cox Is 80 frail
now we can't go around much. but
Jimmie comes over to see as when
ever he can. After he had gone thru
the little school at Jacksonville he
went over to Amanda, where his
brother-in-Iaw, John @. Baker, was n
lcharge of the schools.
When he was eighteen they all
imoved to Middletown, where Mr.. Ba-
ker had something to do with The
Signal, and Jimmie, after teaching
school for while, went to work
there"
Ii was country school at Amanda
THAT Jimmie attended. and he WAS
Graduated when he was sixteen and
then was offered position AZ dis
Itrict school teacher. He accepted with
Ia certain amount of trepidation, due
in part TO the necessity Of disciplin-
ling the strong farm lads who were
lamcng his pupils and also because he
was distressingly sure that some of
the big girls and boys in his class
Iwould know more than he did.
| 81 had to study every lesson over
land over at home before / dared give
lit to the class" he once confessed.
l"Often it was as new to me and as
lunintelligible as it was to the pupils"
During one Of his school vacations
he had worked as printers devil" on
"The Middletown Signal" a weekly
lpaper. MiddletoWn is not far from
Amanda. Mostly he had cleaned ink
Irollers and type. but occasionally he
had been allowed 20 prepare an
"item," and the virus got into his
blood. He wanted to be real re-
lpurter.
Then his brother -in-law acquired
4sThe Signal.n and Jimmie left the
school and went to work as city edi-
tor, reporter. makeup man and cir
culation manager of the paper. Re-
Gently he displayed a yellowed copy
of one of these old Signals" and with
/ twinkling eyes pointed out column
he had written about the people of
Middletown This is a sample:
Mrs. Street. the charming wife OF
ou- up-to-date grocer, Mr.. John
Street, accompanied by her beautiful
land winsome daughter, Miss Helen
i Street, spent today in Cincinnati
Mrs. Street made the trip to the
Queen City on the 7:18 train and will
lreturn on the 6:02. Mrs. Street wore
q gray tarveilng suit, while Mis-.
Helen looked stunning In dark blue
gown
What q Wreck Did
jimmie was growing restless on
"The Signal when one night trair
was wrecked just outside of Middle
Itowr. Jimmie telegraphed the story
Ito "The Cincinnati Enquirer" Sew.
leral persons had been killed i'm the
wreck, but this simply proved anew
the old adage that 'tis an iii wind thai
blows nobody good Jimmie receiyee
an offer from the Enquirer to come
to Cincinnati and work, probably Big
cause it was believed that he woule
come cheaply. He did, too, and a few
months later he was the railroad edi
tor, which meant that he made th,
rounds of the railroad Offices ever
day and CLEANED some copy and NOR,
Iexperience. They counted him goot
reporter in Cincinnati before he has
been there very long.
| Incidentally, it was not so long be
fore that the rival paper, "The Gin
! cinnati Commercial Gazette" !" ha,
numbered among it's cubs husk.
youth just out of college who an
swered to the name of Bill Taft. Ans
aDO01 SAhC SGAAx% bAAaAG uH III M&11Oti
Ohio, one Warren Gamaliel Harding
a gawky youth, was struggling {,
. make living out of "The Marion
, Star"
: Jimmie was fired from the En-
] quirer because of story he wrote
{ 1t was one of the luckiest things tha
ever happened to him. He went bacl
( Ito Middletown with less than So il
| his pocket and sought out Paul Sorg
: who had grown rich through his to
!. bacco fields and wanted to represen
his district in Congress.
] Jimmie's father, aGibn Cox, no,
leighty-six years old and resident O
d Camden, Ohio. town of 1900 peopl
! labout twenty miles from Dayton, tol
e a few days ago how Sorg decided the
t Jimmie would suit him as secretar,
' Old "Gibn is getting mighty feebl
r and there are days when he doesn
t manage to totter down to Billy Wi
e Ison's grocery store and talk polite
i. with the loungers there. but stay
s heme and sits in the faded parlor an
talks to visitors about Jimmie. He
i. deaf and his memory Is PARTIAL
; clouded sky. He says:
& tfT In,@g% vam~llr~& ~-~-..l