Those—and there are many—who would be /men of wealth to-day but for some untoward circumstance may derive some consolation from the hard case of Alice J. Miller, who i 1 1908 purchased a section of apparently barren land in Kern County, California, U.S.A., for the sum of £32. -What she intended to do with it does not appear, but in 1907 she was unable' or unwilling to pay the State of California taxes on it to the tune of 13s Bd, and the subsequent proceedings, as Bret Harte puts it, interested her no more. A nW phase of these proceedings has just begun, and it was stated in the Federal Court that one part alone of.the seetion^-tlie famous Klk Hills oiliiclds—is now worth £^00.000,000.
Two hundred years ajro John Wesley preached his first, sermon in the little Oxfordshire <--illags of .SoiUhleigh. The second centenary has just been celebrated in the village church, , .
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 8
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