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Show page five ELDER BOX jdoy, JOURNAL City. Utah November 25. 1949 "Ancestor'' Of Mermaid Dug Up In California BERKELEY, Cal. (UP) The of a sea cow which habited the earth some KNOT'S Uh Enjoy benefit Poultrys triple program: More sell. 1 . profit when you More savings when I you buy. PLUS patronage 3 HUH POULTRY and farmers co-o- p Qtumii OtfKC. MiNWM Brah CuBKAtnM UwA and Souther tm in- 30,000,-00- 0 years ago have been unearthed. The fossil deposits were found near Coalinga by Roy H. Reinhart, University of California scientist. The sea cow belongs to an order of mammals known technically as the sirenians. Previous to the Coalinga discovery, only two skulls, two partial jaws and some of the teeth of the beast had been unearthed by fossil hunters. The sirenians are best known as forming the basis for the legends regarding mermaids, creatures considered to be half human and half fish. New Novel By Brigham City Woman Moves Real-Lif- e People Through Familiar Scenes Sometime after you have finished reading Ladv d Laura, an engrossing and Western novel b Mamie Peters Call, you will realize that your understanding and admiration of those stalwart pioneers who settled this Intermountain area has been greatly enhanced. Without being didactic aoout it so subtly, hi fact, youll think it was unintentional Mrs. Call has paid a profound tribute to her and her neighbors parents and grandparents. She has performed for them the great posthumous service of bringing them to life, making them work and fear, love and think (at times erroneously, like all mortals). The story of Lady Laura is a love story with a happy, though unexpected ending. Laura is a fiery little Welch girl, recently come to America to win fame and fortune with her beautiful singing voice. Along her steadfast path, somehow she becomes involved with a group of pioneer settlers of the Intermountain West, and more and more their interests, troubles and triumphs become hers. Jeff Thajne, capCreomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble tain of the wagon train with to help loosen and expel germ laden which she crosses the plains and phlegm and aid nature to soothe and mountains, supplies the princiheal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial to the pioneer pal attraction mucous membranes. Tell your druggist life, but Laura's dream of artisto sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like tic triumph is not lost entirely. Mrs. Call freely admits drawthe way it quickly allays the cough or vou are to have your money back. ing heavily on the lore of Utah of Box Elder county, if you please where she has lived all for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis of her life, in building her story. Without losing the essential truth of stories she heard at the knee of her grandmother, she has fitted them into her novel. As a result, the saga of Lady Laura is told in incidents more than in straight expository nar RELIEF AT LAST ForYour COUGH CREOMULSION Idaho PAY NOTHING .DOWN! Only 25 0 a day deposited in the Pay Meter will install a brand new rative and description. And for this, perhaps more than anything else, the book is true. Foi the lives of the people of this area SO years ago were lives of action. The west was a land of action: action that delineated character, action that proved great men and women, and just as surely and ruthlessly eliminated the weak in body and character. Mrs. Call, who has aided her husband in the operation of a moving picture theater most oi their married life, herself has led an active life. She always has been interested in writing, since her school days even, but her writing has been crowded into the few vacant moments left from rearing ten sons and daughters, playing a leading role in the church and social life of the community, and interesting heiself in whatever interested her husband and her family. In fact, out of her own family life have grown the themes, in- - MEN TO TRAIN FOR REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS , Age 21 to 60. Must be residents of this county two or more years. Competent appraisers receive $175 to $325 per month. Farm experience valuable. co WRITE BOX R PH1LCO NEWS-JOURNA- L left the house except when ab' solutely necessary. the time snow the drifts By Mrs. started to melt away, Calls novel was ready for the publishers. Intimates of Mrs. Calls will find innumerable recognizable incidents in "Lady Laura. Mrs. Call's father-in-lawas in a buffalo stampede. Her mother was a bright-eyelittle Welch girl, and Lady Laura admittedly has the disposition of Mrs. Calls grandmother, who used to tell of chasing away the Indians with a butcher knife or boiling water. Lady Laura" is dedicated to pioneer grandmothers. "my Laura Davis Peters and JEliza-betBingham, whose experiences helped furnish incidents in the progress of my story. But beyond formal dedication, the entire story dedicates itself to the real, live, splendid people who were contemporaries of that era. And even though fiction, in giving a true picture of their characters, in bringing them to life as they were, the novel makes a substantial payment on the debt owed to them WML' ' ' by this generation. h Phone your society news . to the Phone 727, News-Journa- eidents and even the titles of her stories. In 1938 she and her husband made a trip to Honolulu, to at- tend the wedding of their daughter to an official of the Hawaiian pineapple company. 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"One of the Grill boys, out in the west part of town, used to blow his trumpet in the morning before he would start to pasture with the neighborhood dairy herd." she relates. And theie jou have the title, and the take-of- f point of an interesting story, when handled by such lively imagination and sure narrative skill as Mrs. Calls. was started "Lady Laura three years ago, but it dragged along After the first complete rewriting Mrs. Call wasn't satisfied with it. and it went back on the shell. Then came the prolonged, snowbound IntermounNo one tain winter of 1918-1- 9. Phone 71 I Street Rhone 548 i |