New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 7

WOMAN, 69, PLANS TRIP OVER NIAGARA Orders Rubber Ball in which to Leap High Falls well, that’ aired widow, who long s been prominent in church ac- tivities here, really is in earnest ahout the treachcrous adventure. She isn't after public she . nor mo nor fame, Shte like thrills and Lnows that this will be a brand new or Years ago is 69 and ha in an airy of her physi, flying ever Afraid not one who now five children, rode against the advice an—and she has been ne Grove, Not a Bit! bit afraid of the going over the “I'm a widow and own ho: nd old enough to know what I'm doing. What's a ‘ittle danger at my age? I've flown with the best pilots in Baltimore and Washington and I've dared them to try and scare me. hey tried every stunt they knew and T just laughed at them. Other have gone over the falls and so can I The ball will be built by a rub- ber company in Akron, 0., and 1 expect to make the trip during th: first week of September. “I'm firmly resolved to see this thing through, despite the protests of my family. T kuow I will come through all right. I have great faith fn God and T know He will Kelp me. It has been my ambitio for y and I'm going througn with i Her Project Opposed daughters are try- v possible to stop me. “I'm s ing them to prohibit me from going e Falls and they doing der the sun to check are “It doesn’t matter to me if thev are opposed to my adventure. Aft- er all there is no one with the power to stop me. I realize a num- ber of people have been killed in their attempt to go over the falls but that is a chance I'm willing take. I'm sure a rubber baijl will be the most practical for such a trip.” Mrs. Grove about how she backing, but she is concerned secure finanetal ill not requir: much. The big rubber ball, a hollow compartment v he can curl up, probably will furnished her free. only very with which b GIRI. EDITOR ENDS FEUD IN KENTUCKY Wins Silver Cup for Bringing Peace to Hills Aug. 16 (P—Teace re fends once trou- bled “Bloodv Breathitt” county in the Kentueky hills, and much of the credit is given a 20-yeur-cld girl Frances Holliday, cditor Jackson Times. has won the cup offered by the Kentucky Press assoeiation for the weckly paper performing the most outstanding ervice in the girl took ch Jackson, Ky., reigns now wl of the silver ‘o | father's paper las t was some talk among Jackson | dents about the need of a water- | works system, county authorities were trying to improve the health | of mountain people by sending | public health nurses, and | was thing hitherto unknown—a modera | hara road through the county. The Jackson Times began speak- |ing its sentiments. Week after week, the girl told her readers of the adv of a modern waterworks system | Mountain folk were told that their babies would be healthier and hap- | pier if they would receive | health nurses {vice as to | ditions. Wee | were boosts | plan. oda | the w health service | valued, and co | signed for | modern Jackson. Miss Holliday is no “furriner,” as the Kentuc mountaineers ge- | seribe those rn outside the hills who have come into Breathitt tc reform it. While a college educu- | tion and ¢ with the outside | | world ta r some of the ad- | vantag: 5 tlements,’ did not from her the perseveranc which the moun. taincer is And now w t of the I g turned into con ity build- by the cditor of the Times. For Rreathitt did things by h | When the wor | Breathitt county in such numb man was d public ry con ther: good roads road ross v a has been built s beginn waterworks system for Jackson county never ves, war came on, en volunteer ed from its confincs > awful peaceful now,” Miss Holliday DEAD CONGRESSHEN " PROVE EAPENSIE National Treasuzy Must Pay for Gostly Funerals | Washington an | ordinary bad and hi | to rigure eral exy of Cor death [the federal trd | When a ¢ adjournment is to the tio | commi gt pointed hme, | eulo; Cong 1 volume as high Aug. 16— son dies it's ng relatives have how to meet the fun- | But when a When just. too o | essman dies an n in respeet | departed brother, resolu- | v drawn up, 10 or 15 men is escort the remains | is sct aside to | both in the cord and a spe. the bill may run No matter how obscure a member ma we | been nor how unpopular, he gets |all this attention when he is dead. | Of course if a Pacific Coast | dies iU's pretty ex- When a California mem- way a fe sorrow are n of an | e and 20,000, pensiv | ber B3 alone, |of 14 ono - years ago in railroad fares for there was a committe: and a sergeant-at-arms ana or two miscellancous attend- ants, as usual, went along with the party. In such instances it 1s | sometimes difficult to recruit a full commitiee, but there are us- ually congressmen who have never {been o California and apprectate the free ride with expenses paid T 3 Al committee els in a pr car, and if the d comes toward the end of a s | the opportunity to serve enables a member bly on his mileage passed cost § to allow- rE—IE new custom samples for fall have arived. A large variety of the latest weavings for the man who wants his clothes tailored to his individual Yecu e invited to ars T B 1 h-Ton (&3] CO. ancy - | where near “is own d The bers death come: is out | Each 1 there | month's a movement afoot to build a |eulogy gressio eulogies vun. 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