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Show Seen and Heard 'Round the Town By EDGAR Dudley Leavitt Mrs. Juanita Brooks is now releasing re-leasing her book, "Dudley Leav-itt", Leav-itt", Pioneer To Southern Utah. This is a biography of her grandfather grand-father giving a short history of his life from the date of his birth, August 11, 1830 to his death, October 15, 1908. Mrs. Brooks has written a book that is intended more as a family history rather than a biography for sale to the general public. It is, however, intensely in-tensely interesting to the people who know Dixie and will be read with interest by a wide group of people outside her immediate family. fam-ily. In following the life of Dudley Leavitt, as portrayed by Mrs. Brooks, I was greatly impressed with the faith of the man. Through trials and tribulations of every kind and description, he maintained main-tained his great faith in his God and his religion. She also portrays por-trays ' him as a man of great physical strength and courage. And, certainly it would take such a man to come into this country and pioneer it. Mrs. Brooks gives a fine insight in-sight into the problems of polygamy poly-gamy and the way that it was practiced. She shows it had many hardships for all concerned, but she also shows that it has its recompense for those who had the courage and faith to live it. The chapter in which she tells of his homecoming with his fourth wife an Indian was especially interesting. inter-esting. It seems that he had gone to Salt Lake on one of his infrequent in-frequent trips and when he was out of Parowan several miles he was called back by a messenger from the bishop there. On his return he was asked to take a young Indian girl for his wife. She had been reared in a white family's fam-ily's home and was educated equally with the other children of the family. It seems that the family had asked her to marry another man, but she stated that the only man that she would be interested in marrying was Dudley Dud-ley Leavitt, whom she had seen on his infrequent stop-overs. It took considerable persuasion, but Dudley Dud-ley finally consented and left for home with his new wife. Mrs. Brooks tells the story in a very human way, with plenty of conversation and quotations to give life and help carry the story along. Dudley's arrival home with his Indian wife, the Santa Clara flood, the family's various experiences experi-ences settling at Santa Clara, Gun-lock, Gun-lock, Clover Valley, Hebron and Bunkerville give an insight into the pioneering of this country that can only be told by those who have contact with the men and women and the records of those who accomplish it. To those of you who are interested inter-ested in reading this book, I suggest that you contact Mrs. Brooks. While the book was published pub-lished primarily for the family, she has extra copies which she is offering for sale. This book was printed at the News office and we all followed each chapter, as Mrs. Brooks sent them to us, with much interest. i Henry Honored Henry Pickett stepped into the limelight with his election as vice president of the Funeral Directors association of Utah. I was informed in-formed that Henry provided the boys with some ideas of how the association should be run and they thought the ideas good enough to say "okeh, Henry, let's see you put some of them into practice". "Plenty Thick!" The Doctors, Jack and Fae Ahl-Strom Ahl-Strom were sitting at a table in Dick's peaceably enjoying their dinner the other day. In came Ez McArthur, who proceeds to go over and share their table with 'them. Dick, then decides it is time to eat his dinner and moves in on the table too. After that, the verbal barrage that went up between Ez and Dick added atmosphere at-mosphere to the whole cafe. (Atmosphere (At-mosphere may not be just the word). There is some doubt in my mind as to whether the Doctors were laughing at them or with them. A Stop-Over At Vegas Coming home from our vacation in California, Hazel, Dick and I stopped at Las Vegas for something some-thing to eat. The cafe was rushed and the waitresses were indifferent. indiffer-ent. One man waited and waited to give his order for a sandwich. Then he waited and waited to get someone to pay for the sandwich. The girl who took his order was busy and the rest of them didn't 'give a hoot what he did with his money. This is the kind of a situation sit-uation that develops when there is so much business that the management man-agement doesn't care for more land when there are so many jobs I open that the help can't be asked I to give proper service for fear that they will quit and go somewhere some-where else. ... I noticed the different attitude of the people in the city. Those who deal with the public all of the time seem to develop an attitude of "the public be damned". They aren't even courteous- when asked a civil question. ques-tion. The elevator operators in one building in particular seemed to dare the people to ask them a question . . . Anyhow, what I am trying to say was it is nice to be home where people are friendly and interested in you and glad to do a service for you if they can. Busy Los Angeles Los Angeles and surrounding towns seem to be very busy. There are many closed stores though stores that have been forced out of business due to war shortages. The big department stores seem to have plenty to sell and the people were surely buying the goods offered. of-fered. When one stops to realize how many businesses are directly and indirectly affected by war priorities, pri-orities, it is easy to see how wide a swath it will cut. The people down there seem to take it for granted that they will be bombed and are taking the necessary precautions. pre-cautions. ... It was quite noticeable how the motorists are treating their tires with care. The average driver has cut his speed considerably. . . . We were right in the swim with the rest of them with the result that we got gasoline mileage that we hadn't duplicated since driving the 1 car in its first 1000 miles. . . . i Our thoughts while driving through Las Vegas could be best summed ' up by "what a mess". |