This is thought to be from the Courier Journal, Varsailless, Kentucky. I am not sure where this Reid fits into the family, but, maybe there is help out there? Governor Alfred Smith, N.Y. , N.Y., was in office. Actual date unknown. Al Smith was governor, 1919-1929, his visit may have been around 1917. This could place Joseph Reid's birthday about 1830's. " At Eighty-Seven Years He never Misses His walk The other day as we were coming to work, we passed Joseph N. REID, walking with that rapid, yet easy, gliding step which reminds one of descriptions Indians following a trail. From the time the writer was a "kid", which is quite a while ago, he has met Mr. Reid many, many times and envied his manner of walking. The one thing about Versailles which has been absolutely unchanged in a lifetime (with the exception of the Big Spring), is the morning and evening walk of Mr. Reid. Before most of the inhabitants of Versailles were born, Mr. Reid was taking those walks with unfailing regularity. He takes them with unfailing regularity now. Since he began his walks, kingdoms have risen and fallen, dynasties have changed, and nearly all of the most wonderful inventions of men have been made. But, through all of these Mr. Reid has taken his daily walks .Nothing has ever sufficiently upsets the current of his life to interrupt them, unless he was too sick to get out-a most infrequent occurrence. We have come to regard those walks which all of the ????life (and very much longer, ???) As being like the changes ????. like the sunshine and??? As we have never known a time when they were not, it is difficult to conceive a time when they will cease. One of the greatest American instructors in the art of physical culture, who devised exercises taken by many thousand American citizens, was found dead in bed at the age of 65. Mr. Reid, whose exercise has been a morning and evening walk must look back to the time when he was 65 as to the days of his youth. Yet Mr. Reid has never, since we knew him, been a strong man, and we are under the impression that he was never really strong after the civil war, in which he was a brave soldier. Up to the middle age, and perhaps past that time, Mr. Reid used to walk to Lexington and back whenever he felt the need of a little more exercise. He was born and reared in Lexington coming to Versailles some years after the civil war. He was the first man to start a steam laundry in Versailles, which he and one of his sons, the late Thomas Foster Reid, conducted for a long time. Mr. Reid was also one of the best postmasters Versailles ever had. He was appointed at the request of his neighbor and warm personal friend, the late Senator, J.C.S. Blackburn, and we speak from personal knowledge when we say there was never a better one. On Thursday, September 27, Mr. Reid will be 87 years old. Probably the first thing he will do to celebrate will be to take a nice, long walk." Denver, John ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.