Show PEOPLE AND F S r FRID BAGBY 1 Dr A. A C. C Wherry dentist returned the other da day from irom a day 13 trIp in which he traversed 13 states states' and nude made 13 addresses plus two or three br good measure The doctor he has rio superstitious qualms about 13 and has even started out on trips on Friday the without any whatever He reports that he encountered two heavy rain rain- in Texas but in most other tates the people were vere pra praying ing for ram rain Mere Angleworms r c The mystic sea serpents or of Loch Ness Scotland L' L Lake ke George N. N Y FlorIda and Prince Rupert island in inthe inthe the Pacific northwest are but angleworms angle angle- worms in comparison with the winged mons monster er that tha some 30 years or more ago aco was r reported ported to have its habitat in a submarine cavern near the tle north end of Stansbury island in Great Salt lake I The presence ot of this winged sea serpent was first reported by bya a party of boaters who returned from the island alter after being stranded there by a windstorm for a co couple of da days s 's back in 1902 or ar 1903 According to the story told by the adventurers whose identity has been forgotten in the lapse apse of time the Stansbury island serpent had a body more than a hundred feet long monster monter mon mon- ter ster wings like a bat with a spread equal to the length of the creature webbed feet and a long bill or proboscis like a sawfish The animal was said to have had hada a greenish gray color As the story goes goes the boaters were On the island waiting for a storm to subside when one of the party observed ob ob- served what appeared to be a big black cloud approaching swiftly from the north The marooned excursionists excursion thought it was a cyclonic cloud and prepared to dig in until the twister passed As they watched the thep p pro a chi n g blackness headed for the island it il began to assume form of a monster animal with huge wings The observers de dared the strange creature flew straight over them and one of the party fired a rifle at it The only result it w was claimed was a slower of af salt supposedly from the incrustation tion of lake water deposits on the body of the monster The boaters claimed the monster circled back to the north landed on the water and disappeared apparently Into some cavern ern under the island This tale t. may sound like the latest offering of the dub club but Blair Richardson who ho recalls the story related by- by bythe the boaters says the they probably did see lee what looked like a monster but In reality was only a L large r. r pelican He explains It by the phenomenon of the magnifying magnifying- mirage He Hc says atmospheric conditions are such on the lake occasionally that mirages occur which magnify o objects many times While searching for a lost boat on once e he relates he saw what appeared to be huge trees on the point of an Island HeadIn Head Head- In- In that wa way the trees soon disappeared and when the Island was reached they proved to be only sagebrush sh The men on Island probably saw a a. pelican magni- magni fled by one of those mirages said laid Mr lr Richardson |