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Pearson Resident - Gels Mail, Pays Taxes | My alma mater would Bot hive In his old age he had a daily ut later, the cause of woman’ §| That book was to taxation what } s OT {roy Each morning he called |Sufirage. , “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was to slav- = In Odd Cognomen; Wife Calls Him Willie the Telegram wouldn't have | Been ot gh of oruing of his six ~ Hannah, the mother, Was a ery and for quite a while peop i , t egram when absor CHAPTER FIVE the World, but perhaps would children in Exeter, inquired about r3al one pe igen by Bide verywhere, inspired by Abby's = sour STRANGE SMITHS, INCLUDING % SMITH have been the Sun, and the Sun(the menu for dinner, arrivedig, ghe could sit inside it and en- example, were. chasing tax col Early in the 19th century Sydney Smith, the great would have been something else, Jack at his wn Hordae, at Svs joy the sun while she read, with- ibn abi English wit, recognized the difficulties confronting a Smith maybe the Herald, ee la eal oh Toaeiout bilug distracted By tHe nolsel,,z the H. Allen Smiths. afflicted with a common baptismal name.

Dr. SCHOLL'S FOAM-EASE ARCH CUSHION And things would have been|the one he would eat with that{made by her five daughters. H. .

so balled up generally that the ®Vening. Of the daughters, Le Near Hartford, Conn,

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He named his daughter Saba, after a king mention in Herald-Tribune today would be the 72d Psalm, on t h known as the Journal-American, eh 0 the theory that anyone with a surname..." ive Jourhal-American - the of Smith ought to have an uncommon given name by way war Cry, and the paper we. know of compensation. We will find as the World-Telegram & Sun

os ; able ‘honor to the clan when Earl|might have wound u as the New more striking examples of | wilson, the Watchdog of Broad .5h Dally Peshine. P

this theory at work as we go| vay. put -her on his list of the along. best-busted women in America. Erasmus Peshine Smith was an /ésting name of Coffin Smith was

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house that was once occupied by a Sandemanian (Glassite) minister named Sephaniah Smith, Sephaniah had an eccentric wife named Hannah and five eccentric daughters bearing the interesting names of | Hancy Zephinia, Cyrinthia Sacretia, Laurilla Aleroyla, Julia

Abby Ha-| Is a !dassah Smith become the most Bus Rider $ Protests

|celebrated. She grew up to become! Declared Too Strong jan even more militant foe of taxRICHMOND, Va, (UP) ~~

lation methods than her modern {Connecticut counterpart, Vivien [oudly-squealing alr brakes on a {Kellems. - city bus. caused a passenger, | Abby "20k nto a sweat because Carthonia Crawford, to lose his she had to pay a road tax twice, Patience—and his freedom. iso she struck against taxes. At Crawford, 27, after complaining the age of 78, after her cattle to the driver, J. A. Hairfield, about

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Evelina and Abby Hadassah. had been seized and sold to satis- the noise, advanced on Hairfield look at 3 Smith, a respected mat. He invented the word “tele- {Hampshire, some years ago. Cof-| These females are said to have fy a tax judgement, she wrote a with a knife, Police arrested {citizen of Pearson, Ga. 5 is a |gram.” Think of how it wowld|fin was well-to-do and particular been the first of their sex to book called * ‘Abby Smith and ¥er Crawford on charges of disorderly {person of some prominence in| be if he hadn’t. about what he ate, champion the abolitionist cause Cows.” conduct. | Pearson, being a member of the! ~ vote - n teem am—————— — a | City Council, owner of a jewelry| | store, owner of a farm'and opera-| | tor of a plant which produces con-! crete blocks. He was bern in Dupont, Ga., in| 11912, the son of a mah named Frank Smith who was fed up with| being mistaken for other men wits | NAMEd Frank Smith (there were; |five other Frank Smiths in" Du-/ |pont. alone). | When his son ‘was born, Frank {Smith sat down and considered thé problém, thought of all the confusions and embarrassments he had suffered because of his iname. The more he thought about it the more determined he became that his son should have a first name the like of which no other mortal on earth possessed. In the end he chose 5. Not Five-Eighths, spelled out, but 3; Smith. In the interests of accuracy it must be reported that while everyone else calls him 3;, while he gets his mail in that name and pays his taxes | as 3 Smith, his wife calls him | | Willie. |

» ” » HIS GIVEN NAME has its opposites in the matter of length. A child born during a flood was named William McKinley Louisiana Levee Bust Smith. In 1901 a boy born in Oklahoma | was baptized Loyal Lodge No. 296 | Knights of Pythias, Ponca City Oklahoma Smith. Xenophon P. Smith is head of the Peoria Public Library System. I have seen a picture of him and he doesn’t look like amyone who would be named Xenophon P. Smith. Here is' a note about a Tennessee lawyer, Leonidas D’Entrecasteaux Smith, who named his children Keilah and Ucal. Another note concerns Zemro Smith, who was a leading editorial writer in- Indianapolis years ago.

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