FRED WHITE

COVENTRY

"MARIA, Here's Your Flour,"

Said White,

When He Returned After an Absence of 16 years

November 13, 1900

   Coventry, N. Y., Nov. 13 - (Special) - In 1884, Fred White was sent to town by his wife to buy a sack of flour.  He returned yesterday carrying the flour on his shoulder.  In the meantime he had sojourned in the west acquiring a cattle ranch and a small fortune.  He greeted his wife by saying: "Here's your flour, Maria.  I didn't forget it."  White was long ago given up as dead.

ANOTHER ARTICLE:  DATE WAS DECEMBER 24, 1900.

   One day in the spring of 1884 Mrs. Frederick White of Coventry, N. Y., asked her husband to bring her a sack of flour from a nearby store.  He started to do so and that was the last she saw of him until one day last week, when he walked into the house with a sack of flour on his shoulder, saying, as he set it down, that he had not forgotten the errand.  He has been in the far west, has accumulated a good deal of money and will take Mrs. White to his western home.