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			SHE IS 105 YEARS OLD
	
	"Why shouldn't I bob my hair like the rest of the girls? I'm only
one hundred and five and expect to break the record of my grandmother who
lived to be 125 years of age," said Mrs. Rivka Zippe, the "youngest girl"
in the Daughters of Israel Home ofr the Aged in Newark. She is so full of
joy of living and the curiosity of her sex that her companions at the home
call her the "telephone." "I attribute my youth to my diet." said she.
"I eat no meat and very little bread. Milk, breth and coffee are my chief 
foods. During the nights, if I lie awake, I plan what I shall talk about 
the next day and how much I shall enjoy the years I still have to live. I
love life, I cannot say how much. My favorite diversion is playing with
dolls. I dress them in the gayest colors I can find and give them the 
prettiest names I ever heard. Again, I think I am sixteen and about to be 
a bride.  I have lots of un planning my trousseau. Miss Sheskin, the head 
nurse, tells me how pretty I look and advises which one of my suitors to 
accept. I always take the tall man. Each of the three husbands that I left
burried on the other side of the ocean was tall."


		MRS. DORA LAFFERTY PASSES AWAY SATURDARY
				MORNING


	Mrs. Dora Lafferty after suffering from a lingering illness of many 
years passed quietly away at her home last Saturday morning at two o'clock
at the age of 65 years. She was born on the old home farm a mile west on the
Vaughnsville road and just east of the Truro cemetery. Her whole life was
spent in this community where she constantly labored for the good of others,
rearing a family of five children, giving much of her time to church and
religious work, playing the church organ and performing innumerably duties
of kindness and helpfulness in her immediate neighborhood, thus blessing
her life with the thoughtful recognition of a large number of friends.
Her husband was also an active church worker and held the office of elder 
in the Presbyterian church here. He passed away in 1907, and ever since 
then Mrs. Lafferty has lived a more or less secluded life. Her pastor says 
of her that she was a most devoted and excellent mother and had the respect
and warm esteem of a wide circle of old neighbors and friends.
	She leaves her five children, Mrs. Selma Belford, Cleveland, O., 
W. B. Lafferty, Columbus Grove, Mrs. Stella Towe, Lima, Ohio, and Miss Fern
Lafferty and Mrs. Majorie Fruchey both of Columbus Grove. There are also
seven grandchildren living and one dead.
	Besides these more immediate relatives are many more not so closely
related, besides many friends and acquaintances.
	Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Presbyterian 
church, her pastor Rev. Kohr officiated.

			Card of Thanks
	We desire to express our deep gratitude to all the neighbors and 
friends who so kindly gave us their sympathy and help during the sickness
and death of our mother, Mrs. Dora Belle Lafferty.
							The Children