Wills added a trumpet to the band inadvertently when he hired Everet Stover as an announcer, not knowing that he had played with the New Orleans symphony and had directed the governor's band in Austin.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

The fictional, turn-of-the-20th-century Yale man Frank Merriwell embodied the heroic ideal without racial prejudice, and his fictional successor Frank Stover in the novel Stover at Yale ( 1911 ) questioned the business mentality that had become prevalent at the school.

Even the trademark comic " signs " that clutter the backgrounds of Will Elder's panels had a precedent in Li ' l Abner, in the residence of Dogpatch entrepreneur Available Jones, though they're also reminiscent of Bill Holman's Smokey Stover.

Holman's continuing inventiveness managed to keep Smokey Stover going for nearly 40 years, continuing unabated for decades after the heyday of screwball comic strips had ended.

On October 12, 1927 Eisenhower married Helen Elsie Eakin ( 1904 – 1954 ), with whom he had a son, Milton Stover Eisenhower, Jr. ( born December 11, 1930 ; died December 7, 2002 in Alexander City, Alabama.

He had arrived on December 30 and on the first of January went to work for W. C. Stover at his store.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, long after the mill had been shut down, the Stover heirs gave the area around the mill to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Although no clear connection has ever been asserted, Holman's title and character name also could have been a nod toward the ubiquitous stationary engine manufactured by the Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company of Freeport, Illinois.

Whitman's confections have been produced since 1842, originally by Stephen Whitman in Philadelphia and currently by Russell Stover Candies.

Even after his death, Anakin Solo has been mentioned several times in most following novels, including a possible appearance in Traitor by Matthew Stover, as a droid in Betrayal by Aaron Allston as Anakin Sal-Solo, and in Backlash, where he appeared to his maternal uncle Luke Skywalker and to Luke's son, Ben Skywalker " by Aaron Allston.

Stover along with a number of other players claim to have only been seeking a definite succession plan in order to avoid a drawn out and messy transfer of power such as Upshaw's death has seen realized.

) He began Smokey Stover as a Sunday strip for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate on March 10, 1935.

The etymology of foo is explored in the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) RFC 3092, which notes usage of foo in 1930s cartoons including The Daffy Doc ( with Daffy Duck ) and comic strips, especially Smokey Stover and Pogo.

* Russell Stover – founder of Russell Stover Candies, with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri and a major production plant in Abilene.

* Even with the loss of 900 Russell Stover and 400 TRW manufacturing jobs, overall employment in Cookeville increased by over 1200 between August 2006 and March 2007, resulting in 33, 510 jobs in Cookeville and a March 2007 unemployment rate of 4. 5 percent.

The office of Maine state land agent led the armed civil posse with Deputy Land Agent William Parrott at Fort Fairfield and Captain Stover Rines at Camp Jarvis on the Fish River ( later Fort Kent, Maine ).

The nonsense word " foo " emerged in popular culture during the early 1930s, first being used by cartoonist Bill Holman who peppered his Smokey Stover fireman cartoon strips with " foo " signs and puns.

In 1959, handling the General Mills account as an account executive with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York, W. Watts Biggers teamed with Chet Stover, Treadwell D. Covington and artist Joe Harris in the creation of television cartoon shows to sell breakfast cereals for General Mills.

In 1995, Biggers, Stover, Covington and Harris ( with General Mills ) negotiated a sale of their creations to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels, who later sold the rights to Golden Books.

Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys headlined the second festival with the Williams Family, the Kentucky Grass, the R. F. D.

The goofy situations in Holman's comic strip usually feature Smokey ( short for " Smokestack ") Stover, the " foolish foo ( fire ) fighter ", often riding in his impossible, two-wheeled “ Foomobile ” ( a single-axle fire engine which resembles a modern Segway with seats, or an independent sidecar ), his wife Cookie, his son Earl, his cross-eyed boss Chief Cash U. Nutt, the Chief's wife Hazel Nutt and the firehouse Dalmatian mascot, Sparks.

Smokey has an array of nutty relatives who are also featured occasionally, with names like " Uncle Potbelly Stover ", " Rusty Stover " and " Cousin Cole Stover ".

Odd bits of philosophy and a running gag involving ubiquitous signs with strange, incongruous nonsense words and phrases — such as " foo ", " notary sojac ", " scram gravy ain't wavey " and " 1506 nix nix "— were commonly featured in Smokey Stover.

Holman launched an accompanying topper strip called Spooky one month later ( April 7, 1935 ), to run with Smokey Stover on Sundays.

* Bill Holman's Smokey Stover: Book 1 ( 1985 ) Blackthorne Publishing ( a trade paperback of black & white reprints with an introduction by Harvey Kurtzman )

* A novelty song based on Smokey Stover —" What This Country Needs Is Foo ", with words and " FOOsic " by Mack Kay — was recorded by Eddie DeLange and His Orchestra on Bluebird Records in 1939.

* In the 1980s, a line of smoke alarms were marketed under the Smokey Stover brand name, with the packages featuring his likeness.

" In 1921, he filed for a patent, and secured an agreement with local chocolate producer Russell C. Stover to mass-produce them under the new trademarked name " Eskimo Pie " ( a name suggested by Mrs. Stover ), and to create the Eskimo Pie Corporation.

Stover with some snow cover

* Chris Stover, John Weiffenbach, and John Finnegan of the legendary hardcore band Void ( band )

no: Matthew Stover

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover, born in Virginia of German Lutheran ancestry, moved to Kansas from Virginia.

The Baltimore-based Black Oracle ( 1969 – 1978 ) from writer-turned-John Waters repertory member George Stover was a small zine that evolved into the larger-format Cinemacabre.

(" Foo " is a nonsense word from the Smokey Stover comic strip, a big influence on this cartoon in terms of humor and visual style.

* John H. Stover, ( 1833 – 1889 ), born in Aaronsburg, United States Congressman from Missouri.

The term foo was borrowed from Bill Holman's Smokey Stover by a radar operator in the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, Donald J. Meiers, who it is agreed by most 415th members gave the foo fighters their name.

The character from Yale that Mr. Burns briefly talks to is based on the fictional character Dink Stover from the book Dink Stover at Yale by Owen Johnson.

" Foo " was thought of as a gremlin by the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II, and the name may have derived from the 1930s cartoon Smokey Stover, in which the character used the word " foo " for anything he could not remember the name of.

A local landowner, James Templer, built the Stover Canal in 1792 to help ship clay along the canal and the Teign Estuary from the Bovey Basin to the port of Teignmouth.

Granite from Hay Tor was used to build Stover House which was completed by 1792.

Smokey Stover is an American comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Bill Holman, from 1935 until he retired in 1973.

The title Smokey Stover derived from Holman's observation of an old smoking stove.

The term " foo " was borrowed directly from Smokey Stover by a radar operator in the U. S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, Donald J. Meiers, who it is agreed by most 415th members gave the " foo fighters " their name.

The stone was carried from Haytor to the canal at Stover by the granite railway-a route now commemorated in the Templer Way footpath.

Her last movie role was in The Revolt of Mamie Stover in 1956, and she eventually retired from acting altogether to look after her identical twin daughters Patrice and Ellen.

Stover announced his retirement from football on May 25, 2011 with the Baltimore Ravens.

In 1829 the Duke bought Stover House in Devon, the Stover Canal and the Haytor quarries and Granite Tramway from George Templer.

The creation of Ralph Stover State Park was the beginning of the Tohickon Creek's shift from an industrial area to a recreational area.

At the High Rocks unit of Ralph Stover State Park, visitors can rock climb up cliffs or look at the view from atop.