Ex-Councilman Happy in a Municipal Infirmary "Mr. Charles Kohl, former member of Cleveland's City Council, has been discovered living cheerfully at the municipal infirmary he helped to build.
At 76, he seems perfectly contented.
"Ive a good bed here." he says "Tve plenty to eat, end an old man needs little more than that."
He recalls the day, before the turn of the century. when he drove out to the site of the proposed city farm and infirmary with other member of the Council committee in whose hands the project had been placed.
He found it greatly changed when he ed there recently to take up permanent residence. But he met several persons he had known, he said, when he was active in Cleveland politics, He served two terms on the city council, for several years was an assistant to the superintendent of the city light department, and once ran for Congress He was the inventor of a special dust pan and made his living for a while by selling his product, which ko manufactured himself. It was only when his shop burned that he was forced to go to the infirmary.
There, in his spare time. he plays cards, reads the newspapers and still maintains an interest in city poli
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