The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-07-31

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New York, July 30-Representing
100000 American farm boys and
girls, the Champion Live Stock Judg-
ing Team of the United States and
Canada, composed of three Texas
farm boys, sailed today from this city
for two-months' tour of Europe
and the British Isles. The young
men, all under twenty-one years Of
age, last October defeated twenty
states in the international Stock
Judging Contest at the Southeastern
Fair and Exposition at Atlanta, Ca,
winning by l45 points, and with a
total score of 3,1l0 points. They are:
John Turner, of Hillsboro, Texas;
Alva Debham, Of Lamesa, Texas, and
Gilbert Weiting, of Marlin. Texas.
Rural America will watch the over
seas trip of these boys with inter
est, as they are outstanding speci-
mems of the material from which
the ranks of the farmers of the
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the following year he was elected to
the National House of Representa-
tives from his Massachusetts district.
In Congress he became a leader. He
died in the public service, dropping
dead in the house in 1848.
Jackson Withdrew.
Andrew Jackson, on his retirement
in 1897, withdrew to the Hermitage,
few miles up the Cumberland river
from Nashville, Tenn. He continued
to take an active interest in his party,
but held no public office. He died in
l845, at the age of 78.
Martin Van Buren, was in politics
from early manhood, and he remained
in the public eye long after his re-
tirement from the White House in
l841. He died in 1862, at the age of
80 years.
Death removed William Henry
Harrison soon after his inauguration,
and he was succeeded by John Tyler,
who failed to obtain nomination from
his party and left the presidency in
1916. President Tyler was against
disunion in 1860, and he presided over
the "peace conference in Washington
in February, 1861 He was elected to
the Virginia Secession Convention, and
he there advocated secession as the
only logical course for the South to
take. He served in the Provisional
Confederate Congress, and was elected
to the Permanent Congress, but he
died in 1862 before it convened. He
was the only former president to sup
Tort the Southern Confederacy.
James Knox Polk, of Tennessee,
died in the June following his re-
linouishment of the presidency in
1s49. Zachory Taylor, his successor,
died in office.
Willard Fillmore failed to win re-
nomination at the hands of the Wings,
and in 1853 he left the White House
TO travel in Europe. He died in 1874.
Franklin Pierce laid down the
presidential duties in 1857, and after
three years Of travel in Europe he re-
tired to his New Hampshire home and
died in 1869.
James Buchanan took no part in
public affairs after he turned the
office over to Lincoln in 1861. He
was the only bachelor president, and
he lived at bis home in Pennsylvania
until the time Of his death in 1869.
Lincoln AseasSlhdNeu.
Abraham Lincoln passed away in
his prime as the result Of an
assassin's bullet while he was still
president.
Andrew Johnson left the National
Capital in 1863. He went back to
Tennessee in 1875 and was elected to
the United States Senate. His career
in the Senate was short, however, as
he died during his first year in that
office
u. s Grant. after he quit the pres
idency, made a tour Of the world, fol-