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FRANK PERCEY DIES ON TRAIN judgment as to values.
LYDIANS HAD FIRST COINAGE
In 1909 the Percey Fur House, tism and sound judgment. In spite
WHILE ENROUTE TO HIS HOME
with its business and original name of his reserve, he was easy of ap
Treasure Deposited In the Temples
was sold by him to David and Joseph
Was Impressed W ith Badge Or
Father of the Late C. B. Percey Sud Steiner of New York. Albert. J. proach and spoke with flnalty when
Symbol of Divinity.
expressing
his
opinions.
denly Expires—Well Known
Steiner, also one of the firm, is in
charge as active manager.
He was married in this city Aug
Throughout West
Bo fa r os Is known, the Lydians,
A large estate was built up thru ust 14, 1873 to Miss Emma A. Wil soys Herodotus, first Introduced gold
The following article, taken from the fur business by Mr. Percey but h« son, who survives. There are two ami silver coin, The invention was
the Dally Northwestern of Oshkosh devoted interest also to other matters daughters, Mrs. Harry V. Slater and lint fo r to seek. Treasure came to be
Wisconsin, will be of interest to He was president of the Pleasant Mrs. Carlton W. Konrad, both of this deposited for safety- in th e tem ples,
many local people, Mr. Percey hav Home Land Company, a large Osh city and two daughters-in-law, Mrs. w here if w as consecrated to the care
ing visited on the project, and many kosh real estate' company, In which Melvin Percey and Mrs. Albert Per of th e divinity by being im pressed w ith
office he was- succeeded by his son- cey, both of Oshkosh. Mrs. Lea Hol a badge o r symbol. T he sacred sym
know him through his trading as
in-law, Harry V. Slater, when his land and Mrs. Charles Percey, both bol being accepted as g u aran tee of
fur dealer.
value, the pieces of m etal so im j- 's s e d
"Enroute to his home, In a race his health became so precarious that of Hermiston, Oregon, are daughter found easy circulation. The eiulleat
against death, Frank Percey, one of he could give no further attention and daughter-in-law by a former Lydian coins extant, deriving, probably
the best known business men of Osh to it. Mr. Percey was also one of marriage. There are nine grandchil from the reign of Gyges (about 700 B.
*'.). a re l>eaii-sha|>ed lum ps of native
kosh. passed away late Thursday af the original stockholders of the Osh dren.
ternoon at Milwaukee. His death oc kosh Trunk company and when that
Mr. Percey did not seek honors of L.vdlan gold, blenched w ith silver.
curred at a time when his special car institution met with reverses, he any kind and was not given to taking Each coin b ears on Its obverse the
was being transferred from one train with four others continued to support part in publio affairs except In a figure of a lion und on Its reverse the
and finance it. After the death af quiet way. He was a member of Osh Im press of the nail-head serving to
to another.
keep the m etal In place, while being
Charles
Paxton, he became its presi kosh Lodge No. 9, Knights of Pyth struck. From Lydia the one-sided coin
The end came suddenly, and with
peaceful transition, there being no dent and held that office until the ias, and of the Oshkosh Lodge of spread throughout the coasts and Is
business was transferred three years Elks, No. 292.
apparent suffering or struggle. •
lands of the A egean sea, each city Is
suing coins bearing the symbol of Its
It was the closing chapter of a igo to the Belber Trunk company of
divinity. In Greece the earliest coins
long period of suffering, marked at New York City.
Llf. Calls for One's Best.
of silver, with the figure of t h e 't o r
first by semt-lnvalldlsm. followed by
His life was marked by strong
To make a success of life you mnst toise on tlie obverse, a re said to have
a losing fight against the inevitable. characteristics. He was uncompro be always at It with your eye on the
been struck by III uidon of Argos. To
Fifteen or more years ago Mr. Percey mising in honesty, reserved and mod Job. Diversion will stimulate fsr Solon, about 590 B. C., is ascribed the
more
intensive
effort,
but
the
effort
It
was in poor health and underwent est. Although he became Independ
Introduction Into A thens of the tetra-
an operation, but his last illness ex ently wealthy, he maintained a rigid self must have no diverting influence. draelun, on its obverse th e head of
tended over a period of about four simplicity and was not given to “This one thing I do," says the apos Athene, on its reverse an owl. S parta
tle. and In doing It he wins. - Keep
years. It was an ailment which baf; much talking. His advice on busi your eye on the ball and put yonr best enjoyed ail to itself the luxury o f a
purely lron«coinage. T he G reek coins
fled the physicians and Involving an ness matters was frequently sought into the game.
from 480 to fiOO 1!. C. m arked a g reat
internal foreign growth which did
advancem
ent In the way of art, and
not permit of surgical relief. From
A nthenlnn money was the chief m edi
1917 he was In poor health and had 1■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■«J um of exchange during this period.
at intervals been given care at St
O ther n ations la te r adopted th eir own
Luke's hospital at Chicago, but e
coinage, w hich lias continued to im
year ago last January he 4vent there
prove w ith tlie advance o f civilization
for care and remained.
Since November, 1920, he had
HAVE BEER ALWAYS ON “TAP”
been confined to-his bed continual!
but had every attention possible
Beverage Free to All Members of A f
Three nurses were in attendance up
rican Tribe, but Little Drunk-
MAKE CHAUTAUQUA WEEK YOUR VACATION WEEK
to the time of his death. Tuesday,
< enne&s is Reported.
when he appeared to be impressed
Among the Maili or Moru tribes of
with the Idea that the end was near.
the W hite Nile in A frica, th ere ex
Mr. Prcey expressed the deBlre to be
ists a form of m unicipal brew ery th at
removed to his home at Oshkosh.
would m ake a g reat hit am ong the
The details necessary for his re
th irsty in A m erica. A special house
moval required time for completion,
is set aside foi** It, and all the women
but a special car was chartered and
of tlie tribe spend p a rt of th e ir tiiqe
all arrangements made for his com
in m aking beer from m illet seed.
W hite men who have ta ste d it de
fort. It appeared when he left Chi
clare It to he a first-rate drink of
cago at noon that his condition wai
line flavor and heady results. The
no more serious than It had been foi
beer is k ept in enorm ous Jars, and
several days and that he would stand
to each ja r is attach ed a num ber of
the trip without serious results.
gourd dippers. The beer Is free to
A physician, three nurses, nnd hb
anyone or everyone, the only re
oon-ln-law, Harry V, Slater, were
striction being th a t it he drunk in
v, Ith him. He had a sinking spell af
tlie brew ery and not w ith meals. In
sp ite of tills freeiftm the trib e mem
ter the trip started, but appeared to
bers seldom get drunk.
rally and when the end came It was
To m ake su re th e ir women will stay
unexpected. The coach was trans
on as brew -m asters and not go running
ferred to the other train and brought
off with o th er men from nearby tribes,
on to Oshkosh, arriving at 5:20 p. m
the girls a re taken when ten or tw elve
over the Northwestern road, and the
years old and laid orr the ground while
a sh arp stone is used to pry a n d \n o c k
remains were taken to the Konrad
Undertaking parlors.
out tlie fo u r upper and low er incisors.
The resu ltin g effect Is anything but
The funeral arangements will be
b eau tifu l—us tlie intention wns. The
made today, but It Is expected the
clothing of the women consists of a
services will be held Sunday after
strin g w orn around th e w aist, and
noon at the Percey residence, 55S
changed only w hen It gets so d irty
Main street.
th a t it cannot he seen ag ain st tlie
The death of Frank Percey re
dark skim —D etroit News.
moves from Oshkosh one of its best
known pioneer business men. He
The Human Species.
was born In England, near London,
Tlie hum an species, according to th e
February 11, 1943, and was 78 years
best theory I can form of it. Is com
of age. He came to Oshkosh In 1870
posed of tw o d istin ct races, th e men
and was employed In the gun store
who borrow nnd the men who lend.
pf “Ed.” Stevens. He became ambi
To these original diversities mny be
reduced all those Im pertinent classifi
tious to manage his own business and
cation* of Gothic nnd C eltic tribes,
embarked In a small way In a similar
w hile men, black men, red men. All
store, handling guns, powder, traps
tlie dw ellers upon th e earth, P a r
and other articles used extensively
thian*. Medes nnd E lam ites, flock h ith
in those /ays for hunting and trap
e r nnd do full in n atu rally w ith one
ping. •
or the o th er distinction. The infinite
Indians, who were., plentiful In
superiority of the form er, vyhleh 1
those days, were accustomed to bar
choose to designate as th e g reat race.
ter pelts of animals for what they
Is discernible in figure, port and a
certain instinctive sovereignty.
The
required. He had no knowledge of
la tte r a re horn degraded.
H e shall
that line of business and decided that
serve Ills breth ren .
T here is some
If he were to succeed he must post
thing in the a ir of one of th is cast,
himself. He therefore started to make
lean a n d suspicions; co n trastin g w ith
u complete Btudy of furs and became
the open, generous m anners of the
such an expert, his judgement In
other.—C harles Lamb.
such matters was later considered as
being practically the last word.
Credit Belongs to Franklin.
For a period of 20 years, he con
Doc tors* Differ About Uncle Sam
Everybody knows that the versatile
ducted a store on Main street, be
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tween Waugoo and Otter streets, but
In 1900 he erected the large brick
building at 229 Main street.
During that time he continued to
Increase his fur trade until it became
an international Institution. In the
early days, he made personal trips
through the northern states and Can
ada, purchasing skins, and through
personal acquaintance and fair deal
ings he gained a large acquaintance
with trappers and their families,
latter he continued the business lar
gely by mall and his mailing list was
second only to some of the larger
mail order merchandise institutions
of New York and Chicago. His pol
icy throughout the business was
large volume of business on small
margins of profit.
By building up his own reputation
for fairness in dealings, shipments
hy mail or express were made to him
from all over the country, many of
them merely making the request:
"Please pay me what It Is worth.”
Each year for a long period of
years he would go to the fur mar
kets and sales In Europe and so long
as he continued in business, even
when it attained enormous propor
tions, Mr. Percey Insisted that all the
finer skins should pass through his
bands and have his own personal
W hether h e is pictured a s ta ll and slim , or
snug as a r o ly -p o ly —i t ’s all on e t o us— w e’re
neutral. A ll w e care a b o u t is F I T T I N G
him in O veralls w h en he w a n ts a su it and he
surely w ill be fitted to th e Q u een ’s ta ste in
Franklin was tne originator or many
W onderful Vatican L ib ra ry .
things. But few realize that he was
Tbe Vatican library la tbe moat
the first American cartoonist “Join sumptuously boused of all llbrarlea,
or Die,” the familiar sketch of the and cou'.alDs some of tbe rarest mans-
chopped-up serpent, with each piece scripts in existence. Tbe printed n o o k s
representing one of the Colonies, was Include over 2.500 volumes Issued id
entirely the work of Franklin. Even the F ifteen th century, many of them
the cutting of the type-metal was vellum copies. T he library is said
done by his own hands. This first to contain over 220,000 volumes and
newspaper cartoon appeared li& the ■10.000 manuscripts.
.
Pennsylvania Gazette, May 9, 1754,
and was a device for urging united
Remarkable Biblical Verse. ,
action upon the Colonies at the time
The Book of Ezra, chapter 7. verse
of the French and Indian wars. It
may be noted ulso that he engraved a 21. contains all ihe letters of the Eng
map of the siege of Louisburg and lish alphabet except “J,“ which was
published it in the Gazette. This Is 'nnnerly written as “I."
said to have been the earliest attempt
at Illustrating news.—Asa Don Dickin
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
son In New York Times.
In the County Court of the State
of Ortgon for Umatilla County.
In the Metter of the Estat^ of Ed
Weight of Air.
Until very recently nobody knew gar H. Graham, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
how much a ir weighed.
has been appointed admln-
We cannot see the air, and, except dersigned
strntor of the above entitled estate
when the wind blows, we do not feel by the Ju^ge of the above entitled
it. Hence it seems to us to have al ourt, and that he has qualified as
most no substance.
ihe law directs. All persons having
Yet it is a rather substantial fluid claims against the estate are requir
When it moves at a rate of one hun ed to present the same with proper
dred miles an hour it uproots great vouchers to me at my home near Her
Oregon, or to my Attorney W.
forest trees and throws the waters miston.
. Warner at his office in said Her-
of the ocean Into turmoil.* If our T
niston. within six months from the
bodies were empty of air the pressure date hereof.
of the atmosphere surrounding us
Dated this 4th day of May, 1921.
would crush us to an immediate pulp.
Frank Waugaman
A room ten feet long, ten feet wide 34-5tc.
Administrator.
and ten feet high contains 75 pounds
of air.
The Story of
O ur S tates
By J O N A T H A N BRACE
XVI— TENNESSEE
HE history
of Tennes- .
see stretches
back to the
y e a r 1541
when De Soto
with his par
ty of Spanisb
adventurers probably reached
the present site of Memphis on
the Mississippi. The French
under La Salle built a fort here
about 1682. The English also
laid claim to this territory, in
cluding it in the grant to North
Carolina. It wns not until 1770
that the first permanent settle
ment was’ made by James Rob
ertson and this wns soon fol
lowed by many other settlers
from North Carolina.
They
formed what they called the
Washington district, but this
was short lived as It wns
promptly annexed to North
Carolina. In 1784 the Inhabi
tants, Indignant over North Car
olina’s attitude toward • them,
declared their Independence and
formed the State of Franklin
or Frnnklnnd. As this seces
sion was not countenanced by
North Carolina, for a number
of years a state of confusion
existed with two sets of officers
trying to govern.
Meanwhile
the settlement suffered severely
from hostile Indians and from
the Spanish, who still held Lou
isiana, and controlled the Mis
sissippi river. In 1790 North
Carolina finally ceded this ter
ritory to the United States. By
1796 the population had In
creased to over 60,000, so Ten
nessee wns admitted as the six
teenth state of the Union.
At the outbreak of the Civil
war, Tennessee Joined tbe Con
federacy. In I860, when the
state was readmitted to the Un
ion, there was much disorder
during the reconstruction period. »
This led to the formation of the
Ku Klux Kian, the Influence of
which quickly spread through
out the Southern states. This
secret organization took into
Its own hands tile suppres
sion of crime and the admin
istration of justice.
Tennessee contains 42,022
square miles, and is sometimes
called the Volunteer state. It
Is named after Its principal riv
er, which Is a Cherokee word
meaning “Crooked River” or
“bend In the river.”
T
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of the famed Winter hill at Somerville. M««a It is known as Paul Revere
park, ihe liny site set aside by the city is in the form of a triangle, two
sides of which are 30 feet, and the other 20 feet tong This make« the area
of the plot .loo square feet. The old road over which Paul Revere dashed on
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