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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1937 Complete Courses J3&4 0 ' 1 Adventurers' ' -S Club ft uw- opntten themselves intn adventures v..j dv. got the big thriU of his life out of the one would eet a man into trnnhlp Some riT. . Adventure Old in automobiles. Mon-v5- al Lady ffl Jo out to meet led has a lot of other fellows around with explosives was But it saying prayers that tossed ! to first class jams. or fifteen minutes of his lif e ten most exciting the hr r jjjfo, find a stranger thing to cause an adventure, or d if you can think of one, I'd doggone well like to hear about it. fill sneet - 11 tiPVI Trnii M licvv js a dealer in scrap metals, and he travels all over the con--I. . Lwintr and selling the stuff. Sometimes business is good, and it's bad. It was bad in September, 1928, when Meyer Meyer was broke, to the uttle town of Madden, North Dakota. . II Ull .j a so he walked into a little Jewish restaurant " and a la it il It kimorv. f vod the proprietor to stake him to a meal, and while he was eating it a man walked i Meyer got the meal, I t, .mi asked the proprietor if he knew anybody who was familiar with the jewisn iia;ci3 iui utc tau, iuc jiiujinciui siiaitucu fellow does," he said. And he pointed to Ms head. "Maybe that 6M 3b lr. Meyer. ! v. 'J :lv New Work Fascinating almost everything under the sun, but Meyer Smookler YfiTT . Shop Students Find By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter fOVc Vinv' - j "Prayers for the Dead' KnOW, Welling (Courtesy B. R. H. S. Searchlight) j Two weeks ago the carpenters of Mr. Last's division exchanged sides ' with Mr. Skinner's "iron" students. Since then students under Mr. Last nave completed a course in leather; and rope work which included the cutting of the hide, making the wax end, sewing, riveting, seiving and polishing. These students seem to have shown fine ability in making belts, halters, lines, knife and gun scabbards, and various rope productions. Next Monday these students are leaving leather work and taking up drawing. I I all of SL Anthony, Idaho, visited c?tr the weekend with relative and friend They returned home Monday morn- I ing. I 35 FIELDING By Enid Washiimton at 25 I (Courtesy B.R.BL8. Searchlight Beginning this week, the Sociology and Economics HassAn tsiu ..r ti.ri. new work in sociology, having finish- ed the study of economics last week. The new work will be principally! in the form of class discussion of, modern social problems, according to Miss Larson. A trip to the state penitentiary, the state mental hospital and such tnsti- -' tution will be arranged later in the! spring, where the students will have the privilege of actually seeing the results of bad social conditions. PAGE SEVEN George Washington saf rare miniature, he was but he was already only twenty-fiv- e well on the way toward becoming Virginia's first citizen. His marriage to Martha, the wealthy widow of Daniel Custis, in 1759 and the death of his half brother, Lawrence, made George at twenty-nin- e perhaps the richest man in Virginia and cer tainly one of the riftiest in America.' But before that m his early twen ties he had made his mark as a soldier who could combine reckless courage with thoughtful purpose. "y for this Mrs. Clara Gam was hostess last Wednesday evening to the Book Lore club. Mrs. Merle Petersen reviewed the book, "North of the Arctic," by Peter Fruken. A good attendance was present and the evening enjoyed by alL Refreshments were served by the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Deakin and children of Blue Creek, spent Sunday visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Johnson. Mrs. Ross Rhodes was hostess Friday afternoon to the Cleo Club, at the home of Mrs. Gertrude Hansen. The afternoon was spent in playing bridge, with Merle Petersen winning high score and Lolita Garn low. Lunch eon was served by Mrs. Gertrude Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. Ervil Booth of Honey-vill- e spent Friday visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Johnson. Mrs. Clara Garn went to Ogden last Thursday to be with a niece, Mrs. Stacy Garn, who was recently oper- ated on. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Richards were Ogden visitors last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Cannon enter tained a group of friends at a house party last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cannon. Sixteen guests were present. Miscellaneous games were enjoyed during ambitious and always, always, mind the evening. Refreshments were servyou do they respect a confidence." ed by the hostess. The mayor of New York recently That last sounds as though the May-saiMr. and Mrs. Roy Jenkins and son, "Women are less selfish, less or's mind went a little of Oleen Jenkins and Mrs. Ethel Davis, ; d, ( Miss Velda Gibbs and Miss Mary Allen of Portage spent the weekend as guests of Miss Beth Cannon. , Mrs. Leroy Welling, who spent Uu past several weeks here with her boys, returned to Salt Lake City last week. Mr. and Mrs. Vera Bourne entertained at a Pinochle party Thursday evening. Twenty guests were present. A delicious hot dinner was served ai. 8 o clock. The remainder of the evening was spent in playing pinochle. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Welling winning high score and Mr. and Mrs. Halve--solow. A delightful evening waa enjoyed by all Bishop M. A. Garn left for Salt Lake City Sunday mornLig to he- vith a brother-in-laMr. Apgood, wha underwent a major operation Morulay morning. Miss Flora Hall of Portage si ent Monday as the guest of Blanche R'ch-ard- s. - Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Johnson of Logan and Mrs. Myrtle Webb of Hyk Park spent Thursday and Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jarvia Johnson, Sr. Garland ward seventies presented the program at our regular Sunday, night meeting. Charles Wood and H L. Bingham were the speakers. Mis Elmer gave delightful readings, and Mrs. Woodward and Mrs. Marriott gave a vocal duet, accompanied by Miss Elmer at the piano. Herman Potter was in Brigham City Wednesday on business. ., Yes, Meyer Knew the Prayers. His The man said his name was Berstein had just died and he wanted someone to sit up all night and pray !LHnir in Jewish custom. He offered to pay Meyer well if he would office. come to his house at eight o'clock that evening and perform that o'clock he and house at 1 Berstein's arrived At eight agreed. Meyer f They showed him into the room where the met by his family. Ifloffin and as Meyer looked at the dead man he remembers it seemed as if he were just taking a nap, so lifelike were his mrawor said he did. think-JSflgth-at itStUTCS uica 41 aVaIaaIp U ViuvAf AO Out ClCVCU And TIT Aa nra aiiaWaiI auu naaa auvj iauiujwasuciaitcu) a near the coffin W left alone with the corpse. There Also there with a telephone on of whisky which the kindly Mrs. it. desk was some fruit and a bottle Berstein had left for him. Mfyjfatjown and waited. Dead Man's Hand Sticking Out. . Afcnnt midnififht the telephone rang. It was the dead man's son. Hetold Meyer he had forgotten to shut off the steam in iproduced the hot water, and he was afraid the boiler Iwculd Meyer do it for him? the heater that would explode. d him he couldn't do it. The heater was in the cellar, corpse alone. But he offered to step into the hot water. That would keep the boiler from ! exploding until someone arrived to shut it off. I "About fifty feet from the house," says Meyer, "ran the Wabash railroad. As I went into the kitchen to turn on the water, a freight train-- I started going by. The whole building shook and vibrated, and the I coffin, being on rollers, shook and rocked, too. As I returned from the kitchen I noticed the DEAD MAN'S HAND STICKING OUT OF THE I Meyer told land he couldn't leave the I kitchen and turn on the Cy tip W&yf11 ' - COFFIN." Meyer didn't like the looks of things. Maybe it was only the vibration but how could vibration make a dead man's hand reach upward and out of its coffin? He remembered how lifelike the corpse had looked when he first viewed it, and his imagina-- I tion began working overtime. He went over to the desk and took left good drink of whisky from the bottle Mrs. Berstem had him. Then, still shaking like a leaf, He went over ana put me hand back in the coffin. 1 1 I 1 I He Was Grabbed by the "Corpse." onmniptplv. "I was still trembling," he linn Qr.Di a "onA t nrant mini- trv nrViero thp whiskv was and nnisnea the on whole bottle. By the time it was gone I was a little unsteady down. I pulled my feet, so I decided to say the prayers while sitting a a chair over to the coffin. Right then and there my stomach took man 1 turn and I felt dead the For my heart sticking in my throat. as trying to get up out of the box, ana nis giassy eyes wcic straight at me" toward the All at once, Meyer's sensss left him. "I staggeredI tried to pusft was he I doing, to," says, "and without realizing what and hand and him back in NECK THE BY ME GRABBED HE again. began motioning to me toxtake him out. I felt my knees giving way, and I was i trying hard not to lose consciousness. For a full iidn'tknow what to do. Then I realized that the man was not dead. After that, Meyer's wits came back to him. He took the man He triea oat of the coffin and sat him down on the couch. to say open his something," Meyer writes, "but he couldn't month. Finally I realized that he was pointing to the empty bottle on the desk and I understood that he wanted some water. a dull knife I squeezed some orange juice into a glass, and using to Pry his mouth throat ana his down open, I poured the juice made him lie down on the couch." Train Shook Him Out of Coma. and faint, and When the relatives came in, they began to scream found out then er had a He down. calmed them job getting ttat the man tough had been in a coma for nine weeks and the doctors had pronounced him dead. Later, Meyer talked to a doctor who was interested in the case, J when he told about the train that went by, shaking the coffin doctor said it was that vibration which had probably brought trie s son man back to consciousness. Meyer says that the old man of gave bun a inh w u v.a having m,it it H eot tired I People come from all over the countryside asking him tote" over and over again until it almost drove mm crazy, awuv ow Tears ago, when he was in the neighborhood, he went to see the and found him in the best of health and planning a trip to Palestine. Tlia acli- l - ... J. THATCHER " hi J fA SCHOOL NEWS in in in hi m , , u, , , Party md Program. Feb. 12, our room enjoyed JTy' "7 much a valentine party. We had PtS. cotnf1"1 whlch consisted of Lin- Gettysburg address, by June A valentine poem by Elaine El-re- -- 'a shrt story. of Lincoln's life. i- Son ""s was Blllie AnrWo, ung Dy oieen snuman, 1oru ouaiuLa. Adams, uiu.v t we and Lew Adams, The eighth n,!rnt3- - trynA A 1 Refreshments were then torElaine Christensen. few days Jackman we workme with the band Past nu on new 80ng8 Mr. stu- - Mr WatkinS( tuncs with them to 11 1 80me tunes we are learning are for ti. e operetta. We are trying very on to make the JJ,1"1thenw band members a success. Dillle Anderson, 7th Grade. For" tii Uie 15th century " wo weeks the students .It was not until la that the human era of our Christian for the " makin to invent enough clever became brain w' which will be presented on a fork." Pte i $' ft . 1 Electnc 1 I ffii. trZy,t con 1 I ,ttttttt.t:r rt,U,AS 1 tee; i- ta- 1 iL - of jCpOlo 1 I proper 4 VOW and ft . cent .l,iVa i rtr i no. I1 veti-orti- ale 1 T-- , pars retv ft111 EIGHT out of every NINE farm homes in Utah Power & Light Territory have good cheap electric service 6trV par, laave la ar iwe 'flovcr Ueage 1 1. on. ... f tweiy rth y? year report. brtog-M- o cfof ,atrner Utah farmers and power companies, as for many years past, will continue working for a common purpose: rural O Continued expansion of exten electrification under liberal phii ntib - Tuesday dent of the iirm& sion policy. rtiiiii wee rard pension jjen! O Lowest possible electric rates tbt consistent with good service town rales for scattered territory. inO Water conservation in the arH.Li 1 U w'". Ha rrncrs T A II NINE farm homes in the nation is electrified, lot ot pa 20 I I . Only ONE in every Kere the, . ?Lnv. disclose. . u A and Uncle Sam hat's headline news is quick to acclaim tte leadership and V5 enterprise of Utah farmers and power companies in rural electrification. 11 m A I t ... A 1 Service March 4th at the Thatcher ward meet cus ing house. The posters will be trihuted around in different places. The students have been practicing on desiens for boarders, then made the posters from their own original ideas. Last time we naa one or iw but this persons make all posters, contributed room our in time everyone a mat Ar.Juanita Adams, 8th Grade. Last Friday when the school chil-to dren went over to the church house practice the first act of the operetta L th stare for the first time they ran into many obstacles. For instance was the first thing that had to be donedown the stage from to get the piano into the amusement hall, then every off time the chorus would try to go walked right the stage they always be" fence. Ve through the "would to get used had we also found that back stage had we to the little space we had over room to the compared here in the gym. . l. omong m in in in in in in hi hi in 111 ' - sSta mf mm rv;!- M Jij f uu6 A terest of irrigation. Development of wider markets for agricultural products. V WEB & tIC Pioneer of FARM ELECTRIFICATION T C |
