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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931 PAGE SEL They aay be goT s section of land, sold it at a high figure, and was seen lording it around the bar of the Brown Palace hotel in Denver, In bis white sombrero and his Prince Albert coat , They say Dixie Lee is his reel wife, and he left her when she was seventeen, came to Wichita, and married Sabra Tenable; and he Is the one who has set Dixie up in the brick house. They say he drank five quarts of whisky one' night and died sad is burled In an unmarked grave in Horseshoe ranch, where the Doolln gang held forth. They say he is really the leader of the Doolln gang. They say. They aay. They say. . It Is Impossible to know how Sabra survived ttose first terrible weeks that lengthened Into months that lengthened Into years. There was In her the wiry endurance of the French Mercys; the pride of the southern Venables. She told herself that Yancey was dead. She told the world that he was dead.. She knew, by some deep and unerring instinct, that he was alive. She ran the paper competently; wrung from It a decent livelihood for herself and the two children. When it had no longer been possible to keep secret from her parents the fact of Yancey's prolonged absence, Felice Tenable had descended upon her pre-- ; pared to gather to the family bosom her deserted child and to bring her, together with her. offspring, back to the parental home.' Lewis Tenable had been too frail and ill to accompany his wife, so Felice had brought with her the more imposing among the Tenables, Goforths, and Tlans who chanced to be visiting the Wichita house at the time of her departure. Osage had looked upon these stately figures with much awe, but Sabra's reception of them had been as coolly cordial as her rejection of their plans for her future was firm. "I Intend te stay right here In Osage," she announced, quietly, but In a tons that even Felice Venable recognized as Inflexible, "and run the paper, and bring up my children as their father would have expected them to be brought up. I mean to stay here In Osage until Yancey until " She never finished that sentence. The Osage society notes became less simple. From bare accounts of quilt-ingsowing bees, and church sociables 'they blossomed Into flowery imitations of the metropolitan dailies' descriptions of social events. Sabra was, without being fully aware of It a power that shaped the social aspect of this crude southwestern town." , The ladles of the new Happy Hour clnb, on her declining to become a member, pleading lack of time and press of work (as well she might) made her an honorary member, resolved to have her Influential name on their club roster, somehow. They were paying unconscious tribute to Oklahoma's first feminist She still rip the paper single handed, with the aid 'of Jesse Blckey, the most expert (when sober), printer in the Southwest and at ' good as ' the average when imarron By EDNA FERBER Copyright kr KdM Fartac,' CHAPTER VIII , ' Dude Lee's girls were riding by en their dally afternoon parade. Sabra (lanced up ai they drove by. She was seated at her deek by the window In the front office of the Oklahoma Wigwam. IBer face darkened new. at the aaw them driving alowly by. Dixie Lee never drove with them. Sabra knew where the waa thla afternoon. She was down In the back room of the Oaage Flrat National bank talking business to the president, March Rankin. The bnaineaa men of the town were negotiating for the bringing of the packing home and a plow worki and watch factory te Oaage. Any one of theae indnitriea required a substantial bonus. . The spirit of the day wai the boom spirit. Boom the town ef' Osage. Dixie Lee was essentially commercial woman shrewd, clear headed. She had made a great success of her business. She was a personage In the town. Visitors earns te her house now from the cities and counties round about She had built for herself and her thriving business the first brick structure In the wooden twn; a square, solid, and Imposing house, Its bricks formed from the native Oklahoma red clay. The house had been opened with a celebration the like of which had never been seen in the Southwest Sabra Cravat, mentioning no names, had had an editorial about It in which the phrases "insult to the fair womanhood of America" and "orgy rivaling the Bacchanalian revels of history" (Tancey'a library stood her in good stead these days) figured prominently. It was this red brick brothel leas sinister than these good and innocent Dixie Lee, now a women suspected. Woman of thirty or more, ruled It with an Iron hand. Within It obtained certain laws and rules of eonduct so rigid as to be almost prim. It was, In a way, a club, a rendezvous, a salon. ; For hundreds of men who came there it was all they had ever known of richness, of color, of luxury. Here they lolled, sunk deep in rosy comfort, while they talked territory politics, swapped yarns of the old cattle days, played cards, drank wines which tasted like sweet prickling water to i their ; palates. They kissed these women, thought tenderly of ' many of them, and frequently married 1 them ; and these women, once married, j settled down contentedly to an almost r ! two-stor- y slavish domesticity. A hard woman, Dixie Lee; a bad Sabra was morally right In i woman. I her attitude toward her. Tet this woman, as well as Sabra, filled her i place In the early life of the territory. The Oklahoma Wigwam had flour-ished in these last five years of Sabra's I proprietorship. She was thinking seriously of making it a daily Instead of a weekly ; of using the entire building on Pawhuska avenue for the newspaper plant and building a proper 1 chickens, dress lengths and shoes and stockings for the children. Sol Levy's store, grown to respectable proportions now, provided Sabra with countless necessities in return for the advertisements which were sent through the country via the Oklahoma Wigwam. In a quiet, dreamy way Sol Levy had managed to buy a surpris ing amount of Osage real estate by now. lie owned the lot on which his store stood, the one'just south of It. and, i;;nong otlirr pieces, the buildirv: and lot which comprised the site of the Wigwam and the Cravats' house. In the year following Yancey's departure Sabra's economic survival was made possible only through, the almost shamefaced generosity of this quiet, d man. "I've got it all down In my books," Sabra would say, proudly. "You know that it will all be paid back some day." He began in the Oklahoma Wigwam a campaign of advertising out of all proportions to his needs, and Sabra's debt to him began to shrink to the She got into the vanishing point habit of talking to htm about her business problems, and he advised her shrewdly.! When she was utterly discouraged be wnuid say, not .triumphantly, but ax one who states m Irrefutable and no; particularly happy ! ! sad-eye- , I fact: , .' ... "Some day, Mrs Cravat you and I will look back on this and ws will laurb-4- ut not very loud." "How do you nwin laugh?" "Oh I will be very rich, and you will be very famov. And Yancey" "Yancey 1" The word was wrenched from her like a cry. "They will tell stories about Yancey untU he will rrow Into a legend. He will be part of the history of the Southwest They will remember him and write about him when all these mealy-facegovernors are dead and gone and forgotten. They will tell the little children about him, and they will dispute about him he did this, he did that; he was like this, he was like that You will see." - k " Sabra thought of her own children, who knew so little of their father. Donna, a thin secretive child of almost seven now, with dark, straight black hair and s lallow skin like Yancey's; am, almost thirteen, moody, wifs.'! Donna was charming, Imaginative. They say be was, seen making the mors like her grandmother Felice VenBui In the Klckapoo land opening In able than her own mother; am re1900." sembled Yancey so strongly In mood, They say Its killed a nan In the manner, and emotions as to have Cherokee Strip Una (Bd'wsf caught tract of; Sabra. . She won- 17 s poses and hoof, Mtersd. with s pang, if shs had felled. , iui .1 spec-jtacula- d so '"" ) BBtfBBVSelBttSSWSlSSv'TsEk. yS"l!!y WkSBI at ttasl ovsraa snot VTitttl Boor fcr Of 1MUSJM wttk (njstts wnoasjj lives a pMaatag eatof nar The atalmaassHig tower, wttb glass panels la waB an root atop Ms tffi be oao of tao out standing features of lower Hew Tort's sdgbt life. President JL S. rncklnson ot the Umeston company, from quarries ay carloads of the stone was ship ped toe Its construction, says tne Buss ell and architects, Clin ton Oo. Ins. builders, Jaesss Stewart are pioneers m skyscraper design. "Double-dec- k elevators save half ot the valuable space.- ordinarily devoted to elevator shafts- be said. "Escalators fumlsb way and exclusive intercommunication between tne floors occupied by the Doberty and Cities Bervlos Interests. Tills is an innovaBodford-Bloomrngt- tion in 7f CCS. CUMStOBM. l. if 118' g i A w p New York office ifQ'"-- ' - -- . S , " ' Vt building. dig-sdt- y, FARM BUREAU NEWS j Social and Religious O. L. Brough, president of North The Tremonton Relief Society will Box Elder Farm Bureau left Saturday hold a social, Tuesday, July 14, at one evening to be in attendance at the o'clock, the closing of the season's Western Farm Bureau Conference and work. The meeting will also include training school to be held July 6, 7, teachers reports, busy work and other 8, and 9, at Santa Ana, California. business. All interested are invited The Home and Community section A good attendance is desired. Work are holding a meeting on the B. R. H. and business meetings will continue or S. lawn Saturday afternoon to which the second Tuesday of each month, jr all officers .leaders and workers in- during the summer. terested are cordially invited. Relief Society Presidency. A splendid program has been prebe which of will one a number pared, team salad demonstration by a from South Tremonton. We are now open with a Recreation will be under the ausLocal. Riverside of the Everypices general line of jewelry. one come and enjoy a good time toWe cordially invite your gether. On Monday afternoon the East Trepatronage, and your associmonton club called the K. K. club ation. crossed bats with the V. V. Clothing club of Tremonton, at the school Watch Repairing Is Our grounds and a very exciting game was Specialty played with a score of 15 to 19 in favor of the Tremonton club. Many W. spectators were perched around in the trees and on fences to get a good view : : Garland Utah and to add their cheering to their favorite team. 4-- H 4-- H J. More LEWIS Cost Milk-Le- ss PURINA DAIRY RATION ... MILLING CO. N ' f - , recommends ASPIR-MIN- T The power that lies within a bank account to open the door to success is not one of magic It is simply applying in a practical n manner the law of psychology confidence Inspires success. It costs but little to well-know- Start Being Successful Tremonton Banking Co. j Notices , ifcOOUGd 7 ' ' V $1.60 Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, of Rigby, Idaho was a week end visitor of her broth er, Mr. Ezra Mason. Mrs. Edna Mason was a Monday dinner guests of her brother, Mr. J. C, Mason, at Ogden. Mr. J. C. Mason, of Ogden, was up on business Wednesday of last week Mrs. Hannah Hess was visiting her sister,, Mrs. DR. Lamb Thursday of last week. i If-- IS'l !?.' 6 I Plymouth ',. I U I. I Another advancement is that wind pressure baa been taken care of by SO per cent of legal require ments. No other high building Is designed with such strong connections between columns and girders. -Combining beauty, strength, permanence and engineering akin, the Doberty and Cities Service bwUdlng la unsurpassed." GARLAND-TREMONTO- Friday of last week the auxiliary organizations of the Plymouth ward were busy making floats for the big time which was held here on the 4th of July. All the floats gathered at the park at 9 o'clock in the morning. The parade was headed by Scout Mas ter",1 Alvin "Smith, ' followed by the scouts, then Uncle Sam and the Goddess of liberty, then the scout float, the Relief Society float, the M. I. A float, the Bee Hive Girls which adver tised the big baloon dance which was held Saturday evening. The Sunday School and Primary came next and last of all Amos n' Andy which gavs entertainment for all. They went from the park to the church house where a program was given. At one odock, races for the children and fights by At three o'clock, a ball the scouts. game between Plymouth and Bothwell with the visiting team winning the game. Last of all came the riding of calves and horse racing. The big day ended by a dance in the evening. Many from nearby towns were here to the entertainment. Mr. D. R. Lamb was in Garland on business Monday. .Ma., Dewey Lamb and mother, Mrs. Lucy E. Lamb, were Brigham City visitors Monday. .Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Lamb returned from .Yellowstone Park where they had spent the week. Tu , oa (To Ee Continued) . in FezrtH Largest Building in World Offers Unique Features in Design der-ring-- drunk. There still waf very little actual in the ' territory. People money Sabra ofteu traded this for that. translated subscriptions to the Oklahoma Wigwam and even advertising space into terms of fresh vegetables, berries," wild turkeys, quail, prairie , j Hi gt ., whisky-scarre- d m East Garland s, ; house for herself and the two chll-- I dren on one of the residence streets j newly sprung up streets that boasted i neatly painted houses and elm and cot-- i tonwood trees In the front yards. Some one came up the steps of the little porch and into the office. It was Mrs. Wyatt "Well I',' , she exclaimed, simply, but managing to put enormous . bite and significance into the mono- syiiaoie. Her glance followed Sabra s. Together the two women, tight lipped, condemnatory, watched the gay parade of Dixie Lee's girls go by. The flashing company disappeared. A whiff of patchouli floated back to the two women standing by the open window. Their nostrils lifted in disdain' The sound of the horses" hoofs ' .' grew fainter. It's a disgrace to the community" Mrs. (Wyatt's voice took on Its plat- j j form note "and an insult to every 1 wife; and mother in the territory. j There ought to be a law." , Sabra turned away! from the win- jdow.! Her eyes sought the orderly .'rows of books, bound neatly In tan j and red Yancey's law books, so long j caused now, except, perhaps, for occa- i aloha! newspaper reference. Her face fl f - . 4 I i m' ui uuea vi resoive. t, in er-i hap there Is." i A' man like Yancey Cravst r, dramatic, impulsive has a J thousand critics, scores of bitter ene-- n tales,' As the weeks bad gone by and Yancey failed to return had failed j to Write rumor, clouded by scandal, i leaped like prairie fire from house to i house In Osage, from town to town In , he Oklahoma country, over the South- west, indeed. All the old stories were revived, and their ugly red tongues j Hexed a sordid path through the new- ly opened land. ' They say lis Is living with the jCserokes squaw who Is really his to Impress herieif on them because of ! her absorption in the town, in, Jhe j newspaper, in the resolve to succeed. . . .j out a photograph of Yancey She A number of people from here went that she had hidden away because to elsewhere to spent the Fourth. Among see It was to feel a stab of pain, and those to Logan and the canyon bad it framed, and hung It on the were: going and famMr. Mrs. wall where the children could see It Carl and Mrs. Mr. Larsen, Mr. and ily, dally. Idaho Falls, from Mrs. Ruel Nielsen, Your father" Sabra would begin, Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Adams and memhim make to resolved courageously, and Mr. and Mrs. live cgaln In the minds of the chil- bers of their family Leo and familly. Oyler internot was dren. Donna especially Miss Marie Larsen was successful ested. Cim said, "I know it" and in passing the tests given by Miss Ada a with tale of his her story capped Broadbent, of Hollywood, California, own in which Yancey's feat of who came to Salt Lake to rehearse the outrivaled any swashbuckling dancing girls for the "Covered Wagon escapade of DArtagnan. not You Days Spectacle."Miss Larsen is in Salt true! but that's Cim, "Oh, mustn't believe stories like that about Lake City attending rehearsels in pre paration for this event. your father." On the Fourth Miss Larsen was a-"It Is true. Isaiah told me. I guess he ought to know." And then the warded five dollars for her dance num "When are ber in the program at the , Crystal question she dreaded. Isaiah and father coming back!" Springs. She could answer, somehow, evasiveMr. and Mrs. J. M. Sorensen and ly, about Yancey, for her Instinct con- daughter, Verda, motored to Logan cerning bim was sure and strong. But on business, Monday. at the fate that bad overtaken the The Misses Eva, Ardes and Leila negro boy she cowered, afraid even Adams were Brigham visitors Monday to face the thought of it For the evening. thing that had happened to the black Mrs. Julia M. Steed, the Messrs. boy was so dreadful, so remorseless David, Dale and Herald Steed, of that when the truth of It came to Clearfield ; Marion Steed, of Ogden; Sabra she felt all this little world of Ricks Smith, of Salt Lake City and Middle West the Misses Winnifred and Nelva Cook propriety, of middle-clas- s convention that she had built np about of Syracuse spent several days as her turning to ashes under the sudden guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Larsen. She flaring fire of hidden savagery. visited relatives and attended the tried never to think of it but some- They celebration in Logan over the Fourth times, at night the hideous thing took and returned to their homes from here possession of her, and she was swept on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Larsen and by such horror that she crouched joined the party group in visitthere under the bedclothes, clammy family Mr. and Mrs, W. E. Hansen in Lo ing and shivering with the sweat of utter afternoon. Sunday gan now of fear. Her hatred the Indians The Misses Carmen Shaffer and amounted to an obsession. . Adams chaperoned the Sea It was In the fourth year of Yan- Maud Gull Girls of the Primary Association cey's absence thst, coming suddenly and silently into the kitchen from the in a wiener roast Tuesday evening. Mrs. Osro Barnard, of Garland newspaper office, where she had been the Fourth with her daughter, spent saw she as her Indian usual, busy, maid twisted in a contortion In front Mrs. Alva Rhodes and family. The Portage and East Garland base of the table where she had been at work. Her face was grotesque, was ball teams held to a close score here wet, with agony. It was the sgony on the Fourth, the local teams winwhich only one kind of pain can bring ning by one point Score four to five. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Larsen and mem to a woman's face. The Indian girl was in the pangs of childbirth. Even bers of their family spent the week as she saw her Sabra realised that end up in Franklin Basin. Miss Maud Adams entertained at something about her had vaguely disturbed her In the past few weeks. a party for her small sister, Ruth, Yet she had not known, had not Tuesday afternoon. Ten little guests dreamed of thl. The loose garment enjoyed the affair. which the girl always wore her Mr. and Mrs. David Larsen and strong natural slenderness the erect daughter Marie motored to Salt Lake dignity of her Indian carriage the City Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Larsen stoicism of her race had served to returned in the evening but Marie re She bad mained for an indefinite time. keep secret her condition. had, too, Sabra now realised In a Messrs. Alva and Keith Rhodes were flash, a way of be'ng out of the room in Western Box Elder Thursday and when her mlstref i was In it ; busy in Friday. the pantry when Sabra was In the Mr. and Mrs. Owen Cheney, sons when kitchen the la kitchen; busy Mack and Ted and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Sabra was In the dining room ; In and Vanfleet returned Wednesday of last out like a dark, swift shadow. week from a pleasant five day trip "Arita! Here. Come. Lie down. to several towns in Idaho, including I'll send for your father your moth- Arco and Mackay. er." Her father was Big Knee, well Miss Louise Atkinson spent a num known and something of a power in of days as the guest of friends ber the Osage tribe. Of the tribal officers in Layton, returning Sunday. he was one of the eight members of Mrs. Harold Selman and little daugh the council and as such was part of ter, Lois, left Tuesday for Soda Spring the tribe's governing body. Dreadful as the look on Arita's face to visit Mr. Selman, who is working had been, it was now contorted almost in that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hansen and fam "No! No!" She beyond recognition. broke into a storm of pleading In her ily motored to Logan Friday. Mr. Howard Oyler was guest of Nor own tongue. Her eyes were black Larsen on his trip to Franklin man never Sabra had of agony. pools thought that one of pure Indian blood Basin. Mr. and Mrs. George Coombs and lit would thus give way to any emotion ttle sons returned recently from a before a white person. She put the girl to bed. She sent pleasant visit with relatives in South Isaiah for Doctor Valliant who luckily ern Utah. was in town and sober. He went to work quietly, efficiently, aided bj Subra, making the best of such crude and hasty necessities as came to hand. "I was sufrering from a bad Colol... Dr. Miles' Aspir-Mirelieved Me."i These two sentences are from a letter sent to us by Gypsy Simon nt Smith. tSr. Smith spends his public life in the germ-ladatmosphere of crowds in hall, church or taberen He goes from an overheated .meeting place into the ' frigid outer air spirtually uplifted, but physically exhausted. His profession demands that he do the very things that he should not do if he wants to avoid catching Cold. He is In position to speak . nacle. with authority oh the subject ' If you have a Cold, or if you suffer from Headache, Neuralgia, Neuritis. Rheumatism. RHutira . DR. MILES for Colds, ; Head-ach-e, Neuralgia, Neuritis, Rheumatism1, Sciatica, Lumbago, Toothache, Backache, Muscular, Pains, Peri" odicpains. Toothache, Backache, Muscular Pains,. Periodic Pains. Jnjibago, Dr. Miles' Aspir-Mi- nt will bring you relief. At your drug Store J5c and 25c. . . DR.MILES f |
