Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — 214 Pounds in 5 Years; What a Man He Will Be When Grown. [ARTICLE]

214 Pounds in 5 Years; What a Man He Will Be When Grown.

Mount Airy, Ga., June 28.—North America, attmtion Terrestrial sphere take note! |g jg In point of ponderosities the State of Georgia is still on the map. Of all lattice ever, “Big Joe" Cody ggQjgg the cake! .. James Adolph Cody, of Habetdham oouinty, is five years old. He only weighs 214 pounds at present, He’s gained 84 pounds in the test two years. At that rate, do you care to figure out how large a part of a ton he’ll baftance when he becomes of age? Janies Adolph Cody was born in February, 1909, on Ms father’s taran, a few miles north of Mount Airy. Qn ‘his entrance into this world the brought no startHing aafioun t of avoirdupois. He weighed 12% pounds—which is normal tar Georgia babies, please remember. But he started right in to grow, up, down, back-and-ifortih, and sideways. He gained 32 pounds the iflrsit year, 45 ithe next, 40 the third, and at four y ears of age, he already .weighed 20 pounds more than 'hi® (father. Now, at the age'of five, he* is four feet, two inches in height, and weighs 214 pounds. He is heaftthy and (strong and always happy. He’s an expert and enthusiastic horseman, but it takes a special variety of cant horse to bear his fiveyaarold portliness. He talks fluently and is unusually intehigenit for Ms age. In a few months “Big Joe” is going to enter professional life. He will follow ithe (fairs this fall, uhider his father's management. They may take Joey’s young cousin along as he is unmsuiafl'ly well supplied wi th fingers, 'having six on the right hand and seven on the left. Between them, the youngsters consider they would make ja complete and paying ten oenit Show. Joey’s father and mother are not abnormally heavy, hut hi® brother, aged 13, weighs 171 pounds. -4 Joey’s another’s father is Joey’s father’s grandfather. Problem of the neighborhood: Untangle that, and show its connection with Joey’s avoirdupois.