Monday, Jan. 04, 1926

Milestones

Born. To Mrs. Wayne C. ("Big") Munn, wife of the famed heavyweight wrestler (see SPORT just above) a daughter (11 Ibs.); at Kansas City, Mo.

Engaged. Arthur Cheney Train, 50, famed novelist, author of The Needle's Eye, His Children's Children, etc.; to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of James W. Gerard, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.

Married. Miss Lucretia Garfield, granddaughter of U. S. President James Abram Garfield, daughter of President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College; to one J. P. Comer, Assistant Professor of

Government at Williams College; at Williamstown, Mass.

Married. W. L. ("Young") Stribling, 21, famed light heavyweight pugilist, to Miss Clara Virginia Kinney, 19, brunet granddaughter of Judge Dupont Guerry (onetime President of Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.).

Died. Charles D. Skirdin, adventurous prototype of Novelist Owen Wister's famed "Virginian", redoubtable orphan, daredevil U. S. soldier, able woodsman; at a hospital in Reading, Pa.

Died. Henry Reuterdahl, 54, naval artist; at St. Elizabeth's Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington, D. C. (see ART).

Died. The Dowager Duchess Ina of Argyll, former private secretary to Queen Victoria, Lady of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, third wife of the eighth Duke of Argyll; at London.

Died. Frank A. Munsey, 71, famed publisher; in Manhattan, after an operation for appendicitis (see THE PRESS).

Died. Mrs. Alice Brown Bartlett, 84, at 22 appointed secretary to Queen Victoria "on account of her exquisite and exemplary penmanship," daughter of Alice Death of the noted British shipbuilding family of that name; at the Old People's Home, Omaha, Neb.