Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — SIRES AND SONS. [ARTICLE]

SIRES AND SONS.

James L. Davenport, commissioner of pensions, has been in the pension offlce twenty-eight years. Wilson Foster, Klondike prospector, has presented the Dominion museum In Ottawa with 10,000 specimens of minerals secured in the Klondike region, gold, topaz, opals, etc. Henry Putnam of Milford is probably the oldest brown tall moth picker in New Hampshire. He is ninety years old. No tree is too hard for Mr. Putnam to climb, and be says that he greatly enjoys the exercise. F. L. Auten begged to be excused from jury service at Los Angeles because he was eighty-nine years old. Judge Wilson looked him over and refused to excuse him, saying, “Why. you may live to be 100, young man.” Thomas Lawley of Skowbegan, Me., has a razor strop made of foxskin. The strop has been used in the family for more than seventy years. The razor that Mr. Lawley uses was made by his uncle many years ago from the blade of an old scytlie. W. Cameron Forbes is the fifth and youngest governor general of the Philippines since the United States instituted civil government in the islands. Governor Forbes was born in Milton, near Boston, in 1870. His mother was a sister of Ralph Waldo Emerson. General Leonard Wood, now chief of staff, is the youngest American general officer, with the exception of General Funston. He still has thirteen years of active service before him. Only two general officers of 1906, Miles and Merritt, are living, and they are both on the retired list.