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ing, one-half cupful of sour
one and one-half cupfuls of
one egg, one-half teaspoonful of
one-half cupful of walnut neats
Two squares of chocolate. Drop
a teaspoon on buttered sheets.
Frosting— Take three cupfuls of
one whole egg, beaten, three ta
fuls of cream. Add the sugar
litcie at a time, until smooth and
blended. Spread on the cookies
when nearly cold.
Fruit Cookies.—Take three well
ten eggs, one scant cupful of sliort
one and one-half cupfuls of
two cupfuls of dour, one tea
it 1 each of cinnamon and soda,
the latter dissolved in half a cupful of
boiling water, one cupful of coconut
and one pound of dates, chopped fine,
one teaspoonful of salt, a half tea
spoonful each of lemon and vanilla ex¬
tract. This makes forty small cakes.
Macaroons.—Take one cupful each
of sugar, cornflakes and coconut. Beat
the whites of two eggs until stiff; add
the sugar gradually, then the coconut
and cornflakes, with two tablespoon¬
fuls of flour. Flavor with vanilla.
Drop on a baking sheet by teaspoon¬
fuls. This makes two dozen small
cakes.
Another Very Nice Macaroon.—Take
one cupful of sugar, two egg whites,
two cupfuls of cornflakes, one cupful
of ground nuts, salt and vanilla. Com¬
bine as in above recipe and bake in a
moderate oven.
Oatmeal and Coconut Macaroons. —
Cream one tablespoonful of butter;
add one-half cupful of sugar, one egg,
well beaten, one and one-half cupfuls
of ground rolled oats, which have been
lightly browned, and one-half cupful
of coconut. This recipe makes two
dozen cakes.
The little touch may hurt the most—
A harsh or kind word spoken
May light another’s darkened way .
Or pierce a spirit broken.
—Mrs. Field.
COOL DISHES FOR HOT DAYS.
Frozen dishes, cooling drinks and
gelatine dishes of various kinds are
especially agreeable for
this season of the year.
Pineapple Cream.—
Make a sirup by boiling
two cupfuls of water
with one of sugar for fif¬
teen minutes; strain and
cool, add one can of
grated pineapple and
freeze to a mush. Fold
in the whip from two cup¬
fuls of heavy cream. Let
stand thirty minutes to harden before
serving.
Cafe Frappe.—Beat the white of an
egg slightly, add one-half cupful of
cold water, and mix with one-half cup¬
ful of ground coffee; turn into a
scalded coffeepot, add one quart of
boiling water and boil three minutes.
Let stand on the back part of the
range ten minutes; strain, add one
cupful of sugar, cool and freeze to a
tni!s ' 1 - Serve In frappe glasses with
"hipped cream, sweetened and flav¬
ored.
Strawberry Ice Cream.—Take two
quarts of strawberries, hull and
sprinkle with one and three-fourths
cupfuls of sugar. Let stand one hour,
mash, and rub through a sieve. Scald
0ne and one-half cupfuls of milk, add
one and one-half tablespoonfuls of ar¬
row root to a half cupful of milk. Add
the hot milk and cook ten minutes,
cool, add cream, freeze to a mush,
add the fruit and finish freezing.
Snow Pudding.—Soak two table¬
spoonfuls of gelatin in one-half cup*
fu j of of boiling cold water, water, dissolve add in one cup
one and one
>ad cupfuls of sugar, one-fourth of a
' ‘"1 °- on juice and and
curth one one
cupfuls of orange juice. When
•'ginning to thicken fold in the whited
' ’ hre e eggs beaten stiff.
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Chocolate Cook¬
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The Maid—Mistress has ft new hus
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The Cook—Do you think he’ll stay?
Cuticura Comforts Baby’s Skin
When red, rough and itching with hot
baths of Cuticura Soap aud touches of
Cuticura Ointment. Also make use
now and then of that exquisitely scent¬
ed dusting powder, Cuticura Talcum,
one of the indispensable Cuticura
Toilet Trio.—Adv.
Withering looks will make a gar
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(Hd Is John?
What isthe Truth about Old Unde John
Shell,of Greasy Creek,Kentucty? Is He The
orOnlyaYoungster Eldest Living Man”
of 95 to !00 Sum mers?
investigator's report
fW|HE fi is age-old put puzzle, into “How the shade old is by Ann,” the
now
? question lately agitated in the public
" press as to “How old is John?”
Old “Uncle” Johnny Shell, the
Kentucky mountaineer, who paid a visit to
the Kentucky State Fair at Louisville last
fall, has become famous over night as a
result of this controversy.
Such papers as a s the “New York
Herald,” the “Literary Digest,” and other
periodicals of national circulation, have
printed his picture, wijth comments on the
question at issue.
So much interest has been shown in
the matter, that a special investigator was
sent to Greasy Creek, Kentucky, by The
Chattanooga Medicine Company (whose
medicine—Thedford’s Black-Draught Liver
Medicine—had been used in the Shell fam¬
ily for many years) in order to get more
information on the subject.
The investigator’s report is given on an¬
other column of this page. The result of
this investigation seems to show’, on tes¬
Facts vs. Fiction JOHN John Shell, SHELL his second AND FAMILY wile II. Shell, and timony Shell is good is of about friends for 112 and years of neighbors, old, his that that his and health John that
Ave-vear-old son. Also A. his wife a man age,
grandson of John Shell, his mind is clearer than that of the
and their two danghters,_ centenarian.
OHN SHELL is without grindstone for Copyright average
1 Jo n Shell turning a KUflDHWOOD 8t A statement from his grandson
doubt the most remark¬ his five-year-old son, Albert, to sharp¬ %JJKD!RWOOO
able centenarian I have en a jack-knife. a TSMea'toht (A. H. Shell) regarding the use of
seen, and he is about the (opyri3hl,UNOUWOOD41)W)ERWOOB,ltt : Thedford’s Black-Draught, by John
eighth I have met,” says our Shell himself, is given at the foot
investigator. “His memory is won¬ of this page.
derful. The nearest that he and his family can come
to his age is 112 years, His family has never claimed him
to be over that age. The tax records that were burned in
the court house at Harlan gave the date of his birth, as The
near as they could make it out, as September, 1808. He beneath picture shows Uncle
John Shell's home at Greasy Creek,
also counts from the age of his first wife, who died at the Kentucky, Uis where first wife he has died lived here, for at 66
of 107. years.
age the age of 107 years.
“John Shell cannot read or write, but for many years
he was an expert maker of flint-lock rifles. John Shell rifles,
marked with his private mark just behind the lock, are
prized by collectors.
“In order to get a consensus of opinion as to his
probable age, I thought it best to secure statements and
affidavits from members of the family and neighbors, who
have known him for many years. I therefore secured such
statements from Judge A. B. Cornett, T. II. Howard, attor¬
ney-at-law, and W. B. Kelly, cx-United States marshal, and
others. These are among the most substantial and reliable
men of Kentucky.”
Extracts from their statements are given below;
him to be, I a have when good known deal, 1 stayed about "Uncle OVER with 16 Johnny" years him, 100. ar.d SAYS ago. Shell the From W. time for B. years, the that KELLY age in has old. Mr. fact, elapsed Shell stayed claimed since, with I §tu<f
would judge him to be a good deal over 100 years Hy
W. B. KELLY,
Ex-United States Marshal.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this April 24th, 1920.
E. F. BOGGEN, Notary Public. Harlan Co., Ky.
Shell family record that says the 112 date in her Bible, Copyright, mtmQQ 6 (ihOMWOOD. New Yorjt
My Aunt, Mrs. Martha Garrison, says j n
containing grandpa’s age, was September 15. 1808. I have every reason
to believe that she speaks the truth. My father, W. C. Shell, says this _
is the truth so far as he has ever known; also my uncle, A. B. Shell. it
A. II. SHELL.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of April, 1920.
G. W. HOWARD. County Court Clerk.
AT LEAST 110. SAYS T. S. WARD
I will be 81 years old the 10tli of July, 1320. I was born and
raised in Harlan County, Kentucky. In 1863 I met Johnny Shell, who
was called "Uncle Johnny” then. I was dodging the Confederate army
and met "Uncle Johnny." He was too old then for service in (he
Civil war. I am satisfied he is at least 110 years old, as he Is a much
older man than I am. Most every one in Harlan County knows me
and will take my word for anything- I say. I would not make a state¬
ment unless I believed It to be true.
T. S. WARD.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 23rd day of April, 1920.
M. G. SMITH, Notary Public. Harlan, Co., Ky.
ATTORNEY HOWARD SAYS OVER 100
In different conversations with John Shell, he often told about
coming to Kentucky with his father in the summer of 1816, and that
they camped where the town of Harlan, Ky., Ts now located, and that
at that time he was 12 years old. In abstracting old land papers I
found one where an entry was made by S. Shell (John’s father) in the OLD “UNCLE” JOHN SHELL
year 1816, in the neighborhood where he now lives. I have every
reason to believe John Shell is a good deal over 100 years old. A Remarkable Old Mountaineer.
T. H. HOWARD. Attorney at Law. Now Living at Greasy Creek, Kentucky.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 23rd day of April, 1920.
M. Q. SMITH, Notary Public, Harlan Co., Ky. Was thought by some to be 131 years
OVER 100 AND AN HONEST 50 MAN I have sold him old, but a full investigation does not disclose
I have known Johnny Shell for about years. any reliable records going back so far.
goods for 40 years. W. B. Kelly told of a man Smith. He and Shell
grew up together, about the same age. If Smith had lived
he would be a little over a hundred now Richard Wilson,
who was raised a few miles from Shell, says Shell has turned
100. I talked to Shell last year. He knew me and talked
to me as intelligently as I ever heard him. I have always
found John Shell an honest man.
S. C. HOWARD.
JUDGE CORNETT SAYS ALL OF 108
I have know “Uncle Johnny’’ Shell for 30 or more years.
I from the have age the known of few 3 2, who of he talked him is lived now as with here at an least old, him when old 108 in he man. years the said last old, From he came and all 1 here and reports believe he at Statement by John Shell’s Grandson
older. I have year
seemed to be intelligent and just as rational as I ever saw A H. Shell, aged 45, Kentucky, grandson of
him (Judge) A. B. CORNETT, Harlan, Ky. of Chappell,
“OLDER THAN Johnny” MY MOTHER. Shell all 104’* life. I John Shell, whose picture is shown in the group at top of this
I have known "Uncle my am page, authorized publication of the following statement:
almost 68. I would place his age at 106. Johnny Shell was
older than my mother, and she would have been 104 . had
she lived till now.’ F. G. LEWIS. “My grandfather has lived to remarkable When
a age. a
In justice to John Shell and his family, it young man, he took very little medicine. Of late years he has
should be said that neither he nor they have ever needed medicine and my wife has looked after it for
claimed the extreme old age that was given in some him. He needed something as a laxative and to keep
of the reports published in the daily press. A story his liver . acting, . she sends to the store for
of the kind grows in the telling, and the desire for so
something startling to make good reading is no Thedford’s Black-Draught
doubt the cause for the intersting fiction (founded
on fact) that has been published about old “Uncle”
Johnny Shell. and makes him
Facts, however, in many cases, are just as in¬ a tea from that and it keeps him in splendid
teresting as fiction, and we have endeavored in shape.”
this article to give the facts as we have been able
to find them.
THE CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE CO.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
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should soon see that even the worst freckles
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Be sure to ask for the double strength
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A prudent haste is wisdom’s leisure,
FARMERS ARE WORKIHB HARDER
And using their feet more than ever before.
For all these workers the frequent use of
Allen’s Foot=Ease, the antiseptic, healing
powder to be shaken into the shoes and
sprinkled in the foot-bath, increases their
efficiency and insures needed physical com¬
fort It takes the Friction from the Shoe,
freshens the feet, and prevents tired, ach¬
ing and blistered feet. Women everywhere
are constant users of Allen’s Foot=Ease.
Don’t get foot sore, get Allen’s Foot=Ease.
Sold by dealers everywhere.—Adv.
ought to drive people
fried mush; then they’d be rich.
99 OUT OF 100
Of the little ills such as Nasal Ca¬
tarrh, Sunburn, Itching, or Soreness
anywhere, may be qufckly relieved by
applying Vacher-Balm which is harm¬
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aud avoid imitations.
If you cannot buy Vacher-Balm lo¬
cally, send 30c in stamps for a tube,
to E. W. Vacher, Inc., New Orleans,
La.—Agents wanted.—Adv.
Integrity of character is the only
basis of lasting happiness.
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