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Show SECTION TWO PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1937 PAGE ONE - TALES OF REAL DOGS By- ALBERT PAVSON TERHUNE SHEP: The "Professional Stray Dog" Shep began life as a farm collie, col-lie, near Paris Hill, Maine. No, he didn't -ave anyone from drowning or give an alarm when the house caught fire or do anything like that. But his story is worth your reading, in spite of its lack of dramatic thrills. It is worth your reading, if for one reason alone: It tells n every detail the life story and the eccentric ec-centric wandering of a professional profes-sional stray dog. You know, there are some dogs that won't stay. at any one home. They appear out of nowhere and soon disappear again. Nobody knows where thev go nor whence they came. Their carver is a mystery. But Shep' wanderings occurred within a radius of a few miles. Tabs were kept on all of them. Thus, his various experiences in various places could be pieced together, to-gether, something which is the lot of ;dmoct no other professional st lay dog. Here goes: When the collie was a pup, his fat mer-master tried to teach him the job of herding and driving livestock. That is a farm collie's heritage. But shep would have none of it. He didn't care for farming or for any other routine toil, he was a hobo, at heart. So when his breeder insisted on his learning to work f or a' living, Shep walked out on him. Th dog made his way to the local Baptist minister. He liked the minister. He liked the minister's kind family. fami-ly. Best of all he liked the minister's min-ister's food. His breeder came to fetch him home. Shep would not tay there. So he was sold to a farmer who lived on Streaked Mountain and who wanted a young working sheepdog. And that is what the farmer didn't get. Indeed, he a;ot no kind of dog at all. For Shep i an away. After making a leisurely tour of the summer cottages and staying stay-ing at several of them in succession succes-sion for a few days until their occupants and their food ceased to interest him, Shep decided the Baptist minister was the best pal he had encountered thus far. So back to the distant parson-ag parson-ag he trotted. There, his owner found him and took him to St t caked , Mountain again. And again the dog escaped wuh no difficulty at all. and came back Fob? IRemitt! 5 ROOM HOUSE Modern, Garage Apply S7I West First North Can Bo Seen Sundays or Evenings to live with the minister. After a few such experiences the Streaked Mountain farmer got tired of retrieving Shep every few days from the parsonage, and he let the minister keep the tramp collie. Now, there, ordinarily, the story would end. It would be a case of the , dog's electing a master for himself and of spending the rest of his life happily in that master's home: Such things have happened again and again. Especially in books. But that is just what did not happen to Shep. True, he made, the parsonage his headquarters, off and on, for some years. But only intermittently. intermit-tently. When he wearied of the monotony of home or of home food, he took to the road again, for long or short excursions, adopting some other family until his new quarters ceased to interest inter-est him. Then back to the parsonage. parson-age. A retired admiral of the United States Navy had a summer home not far from Paris Hill. And presently pres-ently the admiral's cook become a clo.se second to the Baptist minister, min-ister, in the collie's affection. Indeed, for a while, the cook seemed to be permanently in 'the lead. This, because she taught Shep to drink coffee, a beverage new to him until then. He became a coffee addict. Every morning found him at the kitchen door of the admiral's house, awakening the neighborhood by thunderously barking a demand for his daily bowl of the bewitching drink. Doughnuts were his favorite food. And the doughnuts at the admiral's were almost as good as at the parsonage. Motor cars were novelties in those daysin that region and to Shep. Somebody gave him a ride in one of them. Shep was overjoyed over-joyed at the new experience. Thence forth he fawned on everyone every-one who had a car and who could be coaxed into taking the collie for a ride. The minister moved from Paris Hill. Gladly, Shep went along, to the family's new home at the town of Greene, five miles from Auburn. For a while the strange surroundings sur-roundings seemed to appeal strongly to the dog's novelty-craving novelty-craving heart. But after three months, the novelty wore off. Shep remembered the coffee and the friends of his olden haunts. And back he trotted to Paris Hill. It was a rather long jaunt and over strange territory. But Shep had no trouble in finding his way throughout the entire thirty-five miles. He left Greene af twilight. By sunrise next morning he was barking a cheery request for coffee, cof-fee, at the admiral's house. Later "TTe droDDed around tr Cumming.s' general store for any i food gifts the proprietor might . care to bestow on a happily returned re-turned prodigal dog. Edward Carlson wrote the best of the newspaper "feature stories" printed about Shep. Thus he de- SPANISH FORK MRS. EFFIE DART Reporter Phone 168 Mis. Louise Larsen was hostess to the Ladies' Literary club Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. Twelve members and one special guest, Mrs. Walker Roach, were present. Preliminary business included electing four delegates to attend the state convention con-vention of the Women's Federated Clubs of Utah as follows: Mrs. Hazel Rockhill, Mrs. Dena Bowen, Mrs. Hannah Browne and Mrs. LHazel Thomas. The convention will meet April 21 and 22. Mrs. Ica- 'binda Sorenson gave an interesting report on the work of the district convention of the Federated Women's Wo-men's clubs held recently at Pay-son. Pay-son. Mrs. Hazel Thomas was in charge of the program. The remainder re-mainder of the time was given over to her and she read an instructive in-structive magazine article, "Fifty Rules on Personality." Mrs. Electa Jensen gave an article from the Readers' Digest on the life of George Washington Carver, who has succeeded in making 300 products pro-ducts of use from the humble peanut. pea-nut. At 5:30 delicious refreshments refresh-ments were served; the hostess being assisted by her daughters- scribed the dog's homecoming in the Portland Telegram, and in works better than any of mine: "He wasn't going home to any particular being's abode. Behind him, in Greene, was his family. And he left them because they no longer lived at home. Home, to Shep, was Paris Hill. "Home was the dence woodland below Paris Hill and the steep upland pastures sweeping away on the other side, toward Streaked Mountain. It was Norway Lake; ... it was Number Four Hill and Snow Falls. .. These were the four wide walls of Home, to him. And their scent and the memory of how they looked, all were calling call-ing him home: that night when he plodded thither from Greene. "Shep was at home again. The minister's house was vacant. And he couldn't understand why the minister and his family never came back... But Shep was getting get-ting to be an old dog, now. He had his fling, and he came home to settle down. "He never left Paris Hill again. Paris Hill, no matter who lived First Security Bank of Utah National Association . CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION March M, W.17 RESOURCES I.-uiu.s and Discounts $ 7.4(JG,717.88 llankinir House, Furniture & Fixtures. 128.959.4o Investment Bonds and Securities St'.ek in Federal Reserve Bank Real Estate Owned ('u-tomers' Liability vs. Letters of r red it Other -Assets C;ih aiyl in Banks $7,729,658.77 1'. 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March Lg treacherous and the first of April is not too late. IF YOU FIND that any of your perennials have been lifted out of the ground by the frost, they should be pressed back with the foot or lifted entirely and replanted. re-planted. PERENNIALS are the backbone of your garden. Blooming year after year, they give permanency perman-ency while the annuals give changing variety from year to year. FOR A perennial back-ground there is nothing more attractive than Delphmmn. Their tall graceful spikes and exquisite color add charm and delicacy to any garden. If seed is planted it should be put in the ground early as it germinates best in a ground temperature of forty-five to fifty-five degrees. IN TRANSPLANTING perennials peren-nials from one location to another, an-other, take a good sized ball of soil around the roots. If this is done almost any perennial may be moved. THE SIZE, color and vigor of your flowers are larcely a matter of the amount of plant food in the soil. l"se a good Garden Enricher to be sure that thy get a properly balanced fertilizer- PRIVET and other evergreen hedges that have been injured by the winter should be cut back early. If there is any life lift, fertilization and watering will start It again. there beside him, was his own particular Home!" I warned you, at the start, tha' there was nothing thrilling or melodramatic about old Shep's career. Yet to me that career is keenly interesting, in spite of its lack of thrills. For it tells of the queer workings work-ings of a queer dog's brain; and it tells of an "own-your-own-soul" dog that had none of the deathless loyalty of his breed Shep did his own thinking an J his own living. He did it all. independently. To him, humans were mere adjuncts to his own happily selfish ' instincts. in-stincts. His was the nature of a cat rather than of a normal dog A cat usually cares more for places than for people, more for its own comfort than for loyalty. Shep was like that. Ninety-nine dogs in a hundred are not. That is why I like dogs. However, the story of uch a freak dog is worth reading. And perhaps it is more or less worth your remembering. This, in ca.se you should be puzzled sometime at the mental twists of some other professional .stray dog. GRAND VIEW MRS. CLARK CARTER Reporter i The Grand View camp, Daughters Daugh-ters of Utah Pioneers, held their monthly meeting Thursday at the home of Mrs. Kate Carter. The lesson "Pioneer Missionaries Among the Indians," compiled by Kate B. Carter of the state camp, was given by Class Leader Eva Hortt. A duet. "Darling I Am Growing Old," was given by Theo Harward and Alta Buckner. They also sang, "Days of Summer Glory". A reading, "My Sister's Best Fellow," was given by Ada Brown. Anna Carter told some interesting experiences of the early pioneering of Provo Bench. Refreshments were served to: Mrs. Lucy Clyde. Mrs. Ada Carter, Mrs. Charlotte Davies. Mrs. Laura Weeter. Mrs. Leona Strassburg, Mrs. Sarah Strassburg, Mrs. Eva Hortt. ivirs. NeTue Brown. Mrs. Melissa Brown, Mrs. Ramona Gordon. Gor-don. Mrs. t lorence Stubbs. Mrs. i Mary Bernardi. Mrs. Grace Nut- tall, Mrs. Nettie Brown, Mrs. Pearl Buckley. Mrs. Ella Willough-by, Willough-by, Mrs. Clara Smith. Mrs. Theo Harward, Miss Alta Buckner. and special guests, Mrs. Nancy Mower and Mrs. Anna Carter of Provo. Mrs. Ora Griffith entertained the Stitch and Chatter- club at her home Friday afternoon in the form of a birthday party. Three members of the club, Mrs. Elsie Taylor. Mrs. Verl Johnson and Mrs. Ora Griffiths having birthdays birth-days this month. They were each presented gifts. After a pleasant ! afternoon of sewing, a tasty lunch eon was served to the following: Miss Alta Buckner and club members: mem-bers: Mrs. Margaret Johnson. Mrs. Fontella Buckner, Mrs. Elsie Taylor. Mrs. Dot Davis. Mrs. Tillie Dixon. Mrs. Verl Johnson. Mrs. Luella Hills. Mrs. Ruby Stratton and Mrs. Nina Carter. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Taylor of Ruth, Nevada, have returned to their home after visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hill. Mrs. Hill accompanied them to Salt Lake Saturday. Harold Carter viaited in Salt Lake last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Taylor. Lamar Taylor accompanied him home for a brief visit. Each large railway locomotive contains nearly S000 pounds of copper. Dance with HOWARD It E A R M S AND HIS ORCHESTRA "Music As New As Tomorrow" EVERY SATURDAY at the Beautiful New P ALOMAR BALLROOM SPANISH FORJT in-law, Mrs. Walden Larsen and Mrs. Ben Larsefi. Mrs. Hazel Hughes was hostess to the Beta Bridge club Monday night. A tasty luncheon was served ser-ved at the card tables at 8:30. Each table was centered with daf- i fodils. Four tables of bridge fol lowed luncheon. Mrs. Daisy Daniels Dan-iels winning the club prize for high score and Miss Ethel Hales the guest prize. Additional guests were Mrs. Mae Olsen. Mrs. Viola Roman, Mrs. Neva Green and Mrs. Adelia Knudsen. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Jones and their little granddaughter, Mary Alice, left Thursday morning for Salt Lake where they will entrain for New York City, to spend two weeks with their daughters, Mrs. Dena Taylor and Miss Esther Jones. They will be gone about two weeks. The following couples were guests at a bridge-luncheon Wednesday Wed-nesday night, the hosts being Mr. and Mrs. Martin Merritt of Spring-J ville: Mr. and Mrs Elmer Jones. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Hughes, Mr.and Mrs. Wallace Beagley, and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Roman, all of Spanish Span-ish Fork; Mr. and Mrs. Duke Page. Payson; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tuttle and Mr. and Mrs. Dobe Vincent, the two latter couples of Provo. A tasty luncheon was served at the card tables at S:30. Bridge followed. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Beagley winning the high scores and Mr. and Mrs. Dobe Vincent, the second high. Mrs. Amy Bradford was hostess host-ess to the True X club Friday evening. Lunch was served at the card tables at 8 o'clock. Three tables of '500 followed; Mrs. Lucile Francis winning the high score and Mrs. Bessie Atwood, the consolation con-solation prize. Special guests were Mrs. Robert Bradford and Mrs. Grace Bradford, who won the guest prize. PRICE PLANS BAND MEET PRICE. Utah. April y U.lv Program committees wore working work-ing today to complete plans for regional band contests May 12 to 15. Dr. H. B. Goetzman. general gen-eral chairman in charge of arrangements, ar-rangements, reported "a ood measure of success" in obtaining housing for hundreds of out-of-town students expected to attend. at-tend. 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