Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1907 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

The Disagreeing Tuckers. Tbe marital troubles of Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker and her husband, Lieutenant Colonel William F. Tucker of the paymaster’s department of the United States army, have aroused much interest in army and social circles. Mrs. Tucker, who is a daughter of the late John A. Logan, began proceedings by endeavoring to have her husband court martlaled for alleged misconduct In the Philippines. Secretary Taft ordered an investigation of the charges, but the evidence presented

was not sufficient to warrant a court martial. Then Colonel Tucker brought suit for divorce. In his complaint he charged desertion. In the fight to “break” her, husband Mrs. Tucker had the support of her mother, Mrs. John A. Logan, and her son, Lieutenant Logan Tucker, United States marine corps. Mrs. Tucker was born in Illinois, but went to Washington at an early age, whHe her father was in the senate. She was educated at Georgetown convent and was married six months after leaving that institution. Lieutenant Colonel Tucker is the son of a former Chicago merchant. A Printer Boy’s Success. Fifty-eight years ago there arrived in Portland, Ore., a footsore and weary printer boy, looking for a job. This printer boy was Henry L. Plttock, now the chief owner of the Oregonian and one of the big timber barons of the Pacific northwest In addition to running his newspaper, just fifty-one years ago young Pittock got together S3OO and bought a block of ground. It was away out in the woods and covered with timber. Portland was the home of the Oregon penitentiary then, and he made a contract with the state government to have the convicts clear his ground for SIOO, making the total cost S4OO. He carried this property for four years without getting any return from it, and then he married and built a little cottage on one corner. As he prospered he built a larger bouse, but an exceedingly modest one, and be is just moving from that to

give place to a modern skyscraper'. This block, which cost a total of S4OO, hag been leased for ninety-nine years. The ground rent for the first ten years will be $30,000 a year, and each five years this will be Increased 10 per cent until from Jan. 1, 1997, to Dec. 31, 2005, the annual rent of the block will be $103,568. New President of Williams. Professor Harry Augustus Garfield, recently elected president of Williams college, Williamstown, Mass., Is the eldest son of James A. Garfield, twentieth president of the United States. Williams college Is one of the oldest educational institutions in the country. For generations it has ranked second only to Harvard and Yale in New

England estimation. Its present president is Professor Henry Hopkins, whose resignation, to take effect next June, was recently announced. Professor Garfield was born in Hiram, 0., in 18G3 and was graduated from Williams college in the class of ’BS. He spent a year at Columbia Law school and some time at Oxford and the London Inns courts. Williams college has been for years the alma mater of the Garflelds. the father of the new president as well as his two brothers having been in its list of graduates. Since December, 1903, Professor Garfield has held the chair of politics at Princeton university. The Use of the Hatchet. When a disease has become firmly established in a flock or a single bird is badly affected the free use of the hatchet is usually the most practical method, as it does not pay to spend $2 worth of time in curing a one dollar bird. Slight cases, however, can often be cured with but little trouble.

MRS. MARY LOGAN TUCKER.

HARRY A[?] GARFIELD.