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Show t . I THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYS VI UK. UTAH Ui-- r e tiH'k . . or iloti.iinv. "1 roin now ,n 1 nit' (!iuo otit n In tl.ovo rt,M f. tnon HU lei J3G1 J ' , m "ft.i ri 'I' tniu- Tlut n n, note s,,ni fi oiriVtl - for etk rs'ii- - Uiti'r. Now, nisi, Of 41. (hoy Ull (lilt loir in the roil with tlu-l- roJ 'iftiiU. r m in;.lof Plains wm, divining rails. w itli tiling called wluh sticks, "I1'1 llius in detect the precious t. the ab-in- d stulY beneath the earth- - surface. je.irs Hit meandering red nutls tlut were little more tluir tr,iiwj.ail mvii ,mii uecasinn-a- ! buggies, farm vvngojis, an Indian fanjj. along la a miserable cartcreeping or lurclj an automobile making perilous progress through the thick dust in the dry season or tlieslfpperj dough. In the wet. Now those ruine roads nere choked. Impassable The frifll one-wooden av bridges over creeks and draws sagged and splintered vvtlli the stream of t rattle, but no one took the time to repair A torrent them. of vehicles of .c'er.v description flowed without ceusing, night und day. Frequently the torrent clinked Itself with Its own volume, and then the thousands were piled . there, locked, cursing, writhing, battling, on their wav to the- oil fields From the C rook Nose held to Walmo was a scant four miles ; It sometimes took half a day to cover It In a motor car. Trucks, dravs. tvvagons, rigs, flivvers, huckhoards. Every day was like the dav of the Opening buck In 89. Millionaire promoters from the East, engineers, prospectors, drillers, tool dressers, shooters, pumpers, roustabouts, Indians. Men In 'suits and shirts from Charvet's. Only the ruthless and survived. In the days of the covered wagon scarcely twenty years earlier those roads-habeen trails over lhe hot, dry plains marked by the bleaching skull of a steer or thp carcass of a horse, flicked clean by the desert scavengers andturned white and desolate to the blazing sky. A wagon, wheel, a rusted rim, split 1 nr cl-i.- Illusii-ation- f tm XII CHAPTER years Oklahoma had longed statehood a a bride awaits dawn of her wedding day. At rin tiM the bridegroom! hand-to- r uid a paternal government, Here ber over to the Union. Meet forehead. for your to s star -- L Behold- tbe family" Then, at the very altar, the final pact sealed, the to encounter a daz- itnnrer an unexpected guest, 11 embodying jjtot, dreams. kr wildest girlish h !" yelled Bridegroom burling - hereeif Into the rtranrers arms. Whats family to Bel Go away I Dont bother me. words spoken, the bride bad turned breath-takin- 1 -- a, -- rm bnsy." Jbe name of the gorgeous stranrtr was Oil. Oil Nothing else mattered. Oklah- - the oma the dry, the horning, was a sea of hidden oil. wind-swep- t, The red prairies, pricked, ran black work of The, and slimy with ' ' The In a was undone day. years aonbonnets shrank back, aghast Compared to that which now took place the early days following the Idyllic. They Bub to 89 were swarmed on Oklahoma from every itite to the Union. The plaln8 became black with little eager delv-to- g figures. The sanguine roads were choked with every sort of vehicle. Once more tent and shanty towns sprang up where the day before had been only open prairie staring np at a blazing sky. Again the gambling tent the the roaring saloon, the dance halL Men fought stole, the harlot killed, died for a piece of ground beneath whose arid surface lay who knew what wealtw of fluid d richness. Every barren farm was a potential fortune; every ditch and draw and drled-s- p It sun-bake- creek bed might conceal liquid treasure. The Wildcat field Panhandle Cimarron -- Crook Nose Cartwright Wahoo Bear Creek these became magic names; these were the Seven Cities of Cibola, rich beyond Coronados wildest, dream. Millions of barrels of oil born through the sand and shale and clay and drenched the parched earth. Drill, pump, blast. Nitroglycerine. Here she comes. A roar. Oklahoma went stark raving mad. Sabra Cravat went oil mad with the rest of them. Just outside the town of Osage, for miles around, they were drilling. There was that piece of farm land she had bought first years ago, when Yancey showed signs of restlessness. She had thought herself shrewd to have picked up tills fertile little oasis in the mhM f the bare unlovely s q, Ifwitv plain. She wan proud, of her bit of farm, land vj.it h Its plump yield of alfalfa, coriCpotatoes, and garden truck. , She knew now why it had been so prolific. By a win in of nature rich black oil lay under all that surrounding land, rendering It barren through its hidden riches. No taint of corroding oil ran beneath that tract of Cravat farm land, ami because of tills It lay there now, so green, so lush, with Its heuns, its squash, its ridiculous onions, taunting her, deriding her, like a mirage in the desert. Queerly enough, site had no better luck with her share in an oil lease for "whiefr she had paid a substantial sum much more than she could afford to lose. Machinery, .crew, diOs of drilling, weeks of drilling, and, shale, salt. The well had come up dry a duster. That, which happened to Sabra - loose-hun- milk g route Sundays. Every one in Osage knew the story of Fred Sloats wife when the news was brought to her that weeks of drilling on the sterile little Slont farm had brought up a gusher. They had come running to her across the trampled fields with 'the news. She had stood there on the back porch of the shabby farmhouse, a bony drudge, unlovely as the house Itself. Millions!", they shouted at her. Millions and millions I What aft you going to do? Fred Sloats wife had looked down at her hands, shriveled and gnarled from alkali water and She wiped them now rough wcj-kof her gingham apron on with a gesture of otter finality. T Announcement i : i , K i !. -- hllgl-Ui,- : ndi-lanc- e 73o. M "!1 VVMilld . fell- - e, I.V ll i ill- - cot-- l , know u .'nu 4uing a vnMian and n Miirev i.inl lie. id Imld logs in spite " of a bunr of a Donna ri.iv.H, if inn ever again data- - to pe Hint of voiir father I tduill puiitsli v ou, Idg as you pioneer uor,-sioua- l d - are. "Salim dulling, Imvv euli you puulsli n grown wduiun? ou might slap me, and wouldn't slap you lupk, of course-- ' But d be terribly ebdurrusseil for vou. As for fal her ItfIs u pieee. You 1 I KAYSVILLE 1 il o wlmtr x Hu lu-.- remote d..dalnful vLi the Prime Albert emit wim spotted, 1. mi frayed, the .whole figure owvercii with the lieavy-rf-dust of the trampled read, lie nmsj have ridden like an avepglng angel, for hU long black locks were damp, Ids ejes red rimmed And when she saw this Inm Quixote so 'sullied, so idinhhy,, her blood turned to water vviUdn her veil for pity," She thought, it will always be llketlii'i u long as he lives, and each time he" will he a lllile limre broken. eher. Joss and less the figure ofp!endor' married, until St hl.sfT . . She mil) sold, "Yuneey," quietly, lie Mas roaring, hi was reeling with Jovmit lam.liter us he strode Into thlrttlgw,im otlice where she sat tit her orderly dek Just us she Imd Hat on that day years before. Tor a dreadful moment she thought ll. nt he was drunk or mad. He filing Ids soiled sombrero to the desk top, he swept her Into Ids arms, he set her down. 'Sahra! Here's news for you. Jene! licit. Wheres that rum soaked n of a printers devil? f ij km j, i!i'( -- i iuum-uu- i ne-i- t Wa-Im- - qu-nn- Jee! i 1 . A. Williams and Mrs. will leave Wednes- RalplF dny, July 15, for the East, where they will visit with their daughter and sister, Miss Marcia Williams in Washington, D. C. Miss Williams will accompany them on a short tour of points of Interest in the east which will include a visit While away to Niagara Fall. they will yisit in Pittsburg ' MfsT Williams with brother, T. R, and in ChiCotterell, cago with Mr. and Mrs. Horace' Secrist. MiRS Williams, who-hspent the past two years in return Washington, D. C., will home with Mrs. Williams snd Mrs. Layton. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Nielson, of Suit Lake City, and Mrs. 0. A. Williams and Paul Barton spent July l'in Logan. Dr, and Mrs. Edgar Barber, of New York City, visited with Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Whitaker and family Monday. Mrs. Mary Wallace, of Brig- -' ham City, has been the guest-- of her sister, Mrs.' Susannah Robins a Icw days, Mrs. Surah Robins is spending; ten days at McCammon, Idaho, ss guest of. Mr. and Mrs. Orson Robins. , 'i Mr. and Mrs. George Scof field -and children, of Tremonton, are guests of Ml, and Mrs. Samuel Flint for a few (toy FOR SALE Singer sewing ms- -' chine. Phone Kaysvile' 151. . Mj-s- CK . . as - hoi-sti.- the-Wya- ham-ttirTi- k niow-uients- , - i - London-tailore- happened to thousands. The stuff was elusive, tantalizing. Here might be q. gusher vomiting millions. Fifty ' feet away not so much as a spot of grease could be forced to the surface.- Fortune seemed 'to take delight In chnbslng strange victims for her pranks. Erv Wissler, the gawk who delivered the milk to Sabraa door each morning, found himself owner of a gustier whose outpourings yielded him seven thousand dollars a day. He could not grasp it. Why Erv!" Sabra exclaimed, when he arrived at her kitchen door as usual, smelling of the barnyard. Seven thousand dollars a day! What In the world are you going to do with It? Erva putty features and all his frame seemed to stiffen with the effort of his new and momentous resolve. Well, I tell you. Mis Cravat, I made up my mind I aint going to make no more Sunto day delivery myself. Im hire Pete Lynchs bov to take the S I the lied People's Oklahoma country lay heavin- - t nder the hot know It ' summer sun, a s a -- d and dnyd "Your father Is one of the greatful thing with On oil drooling est figures Hu Sjuithw et has ever down Its face a v!(-stream. . prod need Mm. ntt, who used to drive Tracy Well, he's phturesqne "the bus and dra.V Inn between lie enough. I suppose. But and Osage, SMinin g up to the hadn't worked o hind at It. And" reins like a good u.uutnl red faced 'Clin' 'I here s h brother! Xgreut charioteer ns the wugoa, humped help t(i nu- in mv enree'r, the jnen over the rough n uU mis one of folks of this family." In the richest men in nkl.in-inwasn't a ware that you. were the. whole of the I n ted Slo'e. for planning a ember, Sahra retorted, Jesse! Como pi here tt d. Ive that matter. Wvai' 'lhe Wyatt very much In the manner of Ue'.iee been laughing io that 1 almost tdl company. In another live jears enable. I ides get! nig up at liooli. rolled off tnv He vvus stridOil co'ii mnies You were lopping arojind In a klpioiio most up and down ns of old. Ids ing to see their sLu all over the of the dav, nnd lying in the shnhhv coat 'tails spreading with world. The Big from, the rmiding is called a career by tin vigor of Ids the East were to conn- to hint' hat In Ihguum graduates. If It Is, youre liiiutifiil linmU ('sticiiliiriiig. the hand, to Rsk his advice ahoat this; the outstanding stu-- es of your tine eves lilooi! .iot now still cla is." hat. The sum to seek his favor tin fire. that would with Hashing of his dally Income was fantastic. .'Darling, I mlore you when von burn until It consiiuicil him The mind slmpl.v d d not grasp It. get vlperlsh ami enable like timt "oil. my children! More oil than now. a portme In my Perhaps you Tracy himself wits ever thought there was In snvhoih ly and nut undignified looking m in early youth. That's the new psyAm! nn.v one spot hi Hie world. Of of a little more than Ills chology. you know You used to where! Where! On the InOsage wore tell tile about grandma trailing dian reservation. good nu Mired, ruhn mnl f.u-It came In an the grave slightlv astonished look amiiml In her white rnlTled dimity hour ago, Jike the ocean. It make . jof n commonplace m.m who suddenwrappers am her high heels, never every other-fiellook like the Saa a finds himself hand lifting Illy ly petsonnge. - never was such There hara. t 'At Mrs. Wyatt, plainer, more horse-faceleast adv.lt. grandmother Joke! Ii'h cnbuilc Its "terrible. than ever In tier expensive didn't ronshler It a eureer." How the god he Mrs. Joseph Jacobs, of Salt Lake roaring. imiq Neither do I. This lovely New York tried to patronthe unqiiem-hiihlis the guest of her mother, among Laughter City, head Isn't so empty as you ize Sabra Oruvnt lup the Whipple blessed gods!'" Mrs. Joseph Openshaw, for In blood was no mutch for the Miycy. the front poreh tldnkv lolling "Yancey dear, were used to nil weeks. hammock. I know It's no use countThe new money uflectcd Mrs. Wyhere. It's an old story. Conic att queerly. She been me nervous, ing on father, even when ties not .out The Kaysville ward Genealogical now. Come home and have a llot ills docon off one of full of spleen, and the eastern mysierlous Jaunts. tuft li and clean clot lies." In her committee met at the home of What Is he doing, anyw'ny? Living tors stwvke to her- of high blood tnlmls e.ve she saw thoHe flue white Mrs, Charles Odd Monday evening. with some squaw? . . V Forpressure. linen shirt of Id all neatly stacked Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Rnbrn frankly envied these lucky give me. mother darling. I didn't In the drawer as he had left them. George Green, Mg. and Mrs. Ernmean to hurt you- . ones. A letter the pirns Just out with est (,. Blood, Mr. and Mrs. George lie answer For reached Felice Venable to her as had, nnd worse, because lies one arm s and f pile of II. Taylor, Mr. snd Mrs. Walter swept great was rhnrncterlstlc of that weak niiil liaAiit even dad phony TrTn.inT"L.uyoli,hr 8M: gnlley Odd, Mr. snd Mrs. Charles Owen, copy paper, exchanges, we;nu. o)(1 lltatrllinq,. Sabra Idenls. Youre busy wltb-thpaper. nnd dippings off the desk, Mrs. John. W, Barnett, Miss Elizalaboriously craw ling his wny across still dreaded to open tier mothers Tliuts all right. I'm nut proofs, blaming while with the other hand he seized beth Stewart,' Walter W. Stewart, the prulrle. Now the ditches by letters. They alwuvs contained a you. If It wermt t for you wed all the the side of these same roads were and Edward typewriter hy Its steel bnr and Joseph R. Payne, be on the town or bark In Wichistrewn with the bodies of wrecked sting. plumped It to the floor with s force Manning. All this talk of oil nnd millions ta living, on grnndniu In gcTitcol and abandoned automobiles, their anti one In Oklnlmnin rolling poverty. I think youre wonderful, thut wrung a protesting whine snd Misses Ailene Smedley, Barbara skeletons stripped and rotting, In tt.every be hound that zing from Its startled Insides. lie Ill you and nnd I ought to try to he like you. Mildred Brown, Beth Bugger, their lamps staring up at the sky thnt husband of s use typehad nlwnva scorned to yours havent so But I dont want to he a girl reEvans and Martha Holt and like sightless eyes, testimony to the much ns Ills blnck of swathes The writer. enough to till a Innip. Describing the sumptuous herculean pend! hit deeper Into Messrs, Emmett' Simpson, Arthur -passing of the modern ravlsher of Trust Yancey Cravat to get bold porter sunof decorations dandelion and that tortured region. Up and down of the wrong surface thnn any type- Thomsssen, Lynn Mansell, John plere of land. Well, flower at one of CuHsandrii Sipes' the papers Thomas and William Galbraith, atthe teeth. metal roads, fenders writers at least you cant be disappointed. Hot hat hi Hot h I, honey! Do, tended a social given at ths home ripped off like files' wlngs. wheels It has been like that .from the day pnrtle." Goaded by eurhmlty and s kind Rud Bybee in Ogden Monday Interlocking, trucks' overturned, you realize what this menus? Do you married 1dm, though you cant of wonder at thl unnatural creaIn evening. loads sunk the mud, plank thousand two that understand you warn didn't mother you. ture, Sahra must put ber qucHtlon: your beneath the say bridges splitting Osage Indians, squatting In their j AUn Bybee ,on of Mr and Mrs. I hope Donna will show more YVbat do you want to do, then?" train. Devil take the hindmost rags In front of their miserable ; Ualt E Bybee, of Ogden, former sense." I want to marry the richest man It was like an army push, hut withshanties are now Ui riches ; ns- - rp8ijentll of and Miss Donna, home after two yenrs st In Oklnhonin, and bnlld a-- pnlnce out an armys morale or discipline. Miss Dlgnum's on the Hudson, tlon In the world? In the world, I Alma Lane, ofKaysville, were mar111 hardly ever live In. and that Ogden, a Bear reek boasted a killing day seemed Indeed .to be a granddaughteJl you. They were given that and not a Jalljior.a courthouse for ter after Felice Venables own travel like royally, and clunk with land the , bnrest, meatiest desert ried Friday. emeralds. With my skin and hair land In the w hole of the Oklahoma Mrs. Robert Love was a dinner miles around. Men and women, heart. She was In coloring, con- they're my stone." . at the home her daughter, guest of manacled to a common chain, wer And the ungovernment manner, and, outlook, so Oh. emeralds, by nil means," country.Mrs. Marvin Allen, in Layton Sunmarched like slave convicts down tour, United States said. these There, like the other Oklahoma DiaSubra agreed, cuttingly. the road, to the nearest temple of red dogs, take that end live day. McKee, Gazelle Slaughter, monds are so ordinary. And the you a in shack a on It And If you can't live on It, Justice, rough pine George Mortimer, former !n Jewel Riggs. Maurlne Turkey as gsntlemun thnt you ronslder honortown that had sprung overnight on to make thnt tortured, then die on It.' God A'mlghty, I sructor at Davis high, and Miss reme see. let From your ing the prairie. There were no rail of her birth tn the Oklahoma quirements that would, have to be could die myself with laughing. Veda Porter, of Provo, were marroads where there had been no day Millions and millions of dollars. ried last week. nineteen almost ago years prairie Tracy Wyatt, wouldn't It?" towns. spattering, I tell you, sll They're seem Impossible. Even during her Mr. snd Mrs. George Barker and Yes," Replied Donna, calmly. Boilers loaded on two wagons homecomings In the summer vacaover the Osage reservation. There's Mrs. Bobbie, and Mrs. John E. Bar- - . son, Youve overlooked probably were hauled by no stopping that flow. Every buck tions site Imd ntmut her An air of motored to Beaver and spent outfits. Stuck In the mud as they cool disdain together with a kind Wyatt. Of course, Tracy'a only and squnw on the Osage reserva- ker week-enfifty-ond as guests of Mr. and last and you being nineteen, tion Is a millionaire. Inevitably were, only mules could of disillusioned .calculation scry They own. have pulled the load out Long disconcerting to tmr former Inti- theres plenty of time If you'll Just that land. and. by G d. Im going Mrs. Rulon Williams. be patient." Kbe. wn too amused to see thnt no one. takes tt away Mr. and Mrs. Willlatp Jarman lines of them choked the already mates, not to speak of her own to be really disturbed. were road. and children, of Beverley Wagons Hills, them!" from Impassable family. "I 'don't Intend to he patient, have been guests of Mr.-anbe careful." California, heaped with the- pipe through Oh, Yancey, In The other girls living Osage mamma darling." which the oil must be led; with Mrs. Jdseph B. Jarman, this He was drlvlng-hl- s pencil across Oklahoma City and Guthrie and Something In ber hard, ruthless A.- P. week. out Send this the lumber, hardware, rigs, tools, port paper. of were true products and Wahoo tone startled Sahra. "Dnnnn Craable houses nil the vast paraMr. snd Mrs. Joseph P. Kilfoy keep It dark when the tho new raw Southwest country. vat, don't you start any of your They tried to hut wealth and sudden of I'll show them. and children, of Pueblo, Colorado, flow phernalia came, In to crude dress high liked 1 saw They business. a monkey youcnnlng frontier community. kill your editorlnl lead, will leave Friday for their home, growth In colors glaring pinks, cerise, yel at him the other day Sabra, I'll write JL Tongh careless young boys drove low, red. vivid orange, magenta, and whatever It was. went we went over to Wyatt's new Make this your news lead. too. Lis- after spending the past week visit-n- g cars, a deadly the white made np naively with at the home of Mrs. W. P. Ep- house. And I heard you Job on those rough and crowded They ten. The gaudiest and big daubs of carmine some drivel about his being asaying and Mr. and Mrs. C. powder person man and was this It roads. precious cosmic Joke thnt ever was played Saxton. of cheek. The on either daughters . In his and craved thnt life, beauty dreadful stuff that shot .the oil up more government wealthy pnrents drove their that he should have tt; and sneer on s D. Mrs. G. complimentout of the earth. Ilard lads In own cars Rutledge hurst Into firework today when, In s day when this was corduroys took their chances and considered rnthsr daring ifor a Ing politely at the new house unwith a roar that could he henrd ed Mrs. Joseph P. Kilfoy with a I could see him beginning to til their driving high pay, pocketed for miles around, thousands of bar- bridge luncheon- at ths Shatter-Ka- re woman. Imnna , came home tall, Tea Room in Farmington wagons, singing thin to the point of acrnwnlness doubt everything In It. poor fellow. the rels of oil shot Into the air on the as they drove, a red ahlrt tall tied In their opinion; sallow, unrouged. He had been so proud to khow It. miserable desert InndTnowft ns the Wednesday, afternoon. The lunchto a pole flaunting tts warning at drawling, mysterious. She talked But ! thought you were Just talking Osage Indian reservation nnd oeeu eon tables were centered with that New York tal& of yours." the back of the load. Often an with an eastern acent, Ignored th pled by those duped nnd wretched- sweet peas and baby breath. The wasnt. I was talking busito would apfall wagon -!'" expected guests included Mrs. W. P. Eppersnd said neytber letter r, eyrther YVe can't ne that, I tell you." son, Mrs. C. A. Epperson. Mrs. pear. The workers on the field and rlh'ally an4- altogether made ness." Sabra was revolted, alarmed, and never took the trouble to trace It hersetf polsonouriy unpopular with not?" Floyd Whiting, Mrs. J. B. Cooley, Why distressed, all at once. She gained They th or the time to wait for Isn't the Cimarron. It's Mrs Joseph E. Stevenson, and and .This. undeniably stirring girls - knew- reassurance by telling herself that the state of Oklahoma. Thats Mrs. C. V. K. Saxton. that somewhere alongth this was'JuRT'oneof T)onnaTniueer road waa a great gaping hole, with treason thats anarchy!- Jokes pnrt of the streak In her never a sizable fragment of wood visIt's the truth. It's history. 1 Idaho Falls for the week-en- d that Sahra had never understood can prove It. TheyH fie down on or ateel or bone or flesh anywhere with friends and relatives.' iting to tale the and that enrresponded pracfor yards around to tell the those Osage like s pack of wolves. Miss Gladys Pratt chaperoned a tical Joker In Yancey. Thnt, too, At least Ill let them know they're they already knew, number of girls on a hike WednesAbher. been had bewildered . carefully always Acres that had exjiected. Ill run the story, by day. Those on the hike were Helsorbed In the workings of the growtended so that they might yield Qd, as I want It rnn. and they en Whitaker, Camilla Swanger, Luing. thriving newspnper the conver-satlotjielr scanty crop of cabbages, can ahoot me for It,"" Alice Nance, Laura Lais faded to a slim and almost Patillo, You onions, potatoes were abandoned can't wont And I say you .-! Golda In Barton, . and - Vera Jrncfc vender, memoryrotting to oil. the garden unimportant come In here like that. Urn editor Odd. farmers Sahra was sufficiently shrewd of this paper." the ground. and level headed to take Sol Levy's and their scrawny wives and ne turned quietly and looked at The Fourth of July and daring sound advjce. Yon settle down to her, the great head Jutting out, the the week proved to be a bnsy time spindling brats, grown spectacularrunning yonr paper, Sabra, and yon for the officers. Twenty-si- x ly rich overnight, walked out of speedeyea like steel. "YVho ls?r wont need any oil wells. Ton esn their housea without taking the ers were handed invitations to visI am." have the best paying paper and the trouble to move the furniture or Without a word he grasped her it Justice of the Peace Brace Mamost powerful In the Southwest. wrist and led her out, across the lock the door. It was not worth Investigation showed that jor. while. They left the sleazy curBigger thsn Houston or Dallas or old porch, down the steps snd Into there were representatives from Ran Antonio. Because Osage Is gotains on the windows, the pots on street. There, on Pawhusks ave- Salt Lake, Ogden, Layton, Bingthe oil crew, clanking the stove. The ing to he bigeer and richer than nue, In the rull glare of noonday, ham canyon, Logan, - Manti and In, did not bother to wreck the any of them. You mark what I say. he pointed to the weather-worf . Lynndyl, Utah. house unless they found It necea any oil In the town of Osage, Hardy himself, aided by Jesse he that sign was of The Fourth a gala July but millions of barrels of oil all Rickey, had bnng there almost aary. In the midst of an inferno around It, . This town wont he torn 'twenty years before. She had bad day in Bountiful, such as that enof oil rigs, drills, smoke. Steam, to pieces, then It'll grow and grow. It painted and repainted. She bad terprising little city never enjoyed and seeping oil Itself the passerweather-beatenot only IndependFive years from now Itll look like by would often see a had It repaired. She had never re- before. It was was the occasion of ence but it farmhouse. Its windows broken, day, Chicago. placed It with another. the completion of the Bonneville Its front askew, like s beldame Oh, Sol. how esn that tie?" WIGWAM . .THE OKLAHOMA There where the Yen'll see. Irrigation district pumping plant gone mad. gray hair streaming Yancey Crsvst, Prop, and Editor. and its system of irrigation canals. stood with a mod gambling-ten- t about her crazed face as she stare When you take that down, A party of young .folks swit a out on the pandemonium of oil hole In front of It a few yenrs ago n t your-owSab nr, h on cy." and-p- a ' heTT about her. a five' few days last week-en- d in Weber seeTn 'flinicr years youll name np In my place, you'll be tbe In New Tnrk. The farmers moved Into Osage, Those the skyscraper canyon. taking trip inWhat a Rottsn Deal You'vs Had, editor of this newspnper. Until you cluded Miss Marian Jacobs, at that. or Oklahoma City, or Wahoo. They She L'lzs laughed ' Sabra, Dsar. do that. I nm as she had known that YanWilMiss Alice bought automobiles and silk shirts Aideen Jnt Jacobs, like children. Tla - As they stood tbere. she In her liams, Miss Thelma Wiilixms, L :i and to thr boys.- - She paid very little cey had s?nln left her on that neat In he his -- men sat on the front. porchJh. ri'Ir bine serge, crumpled Doris cprcmnnyso "a h sli Tieed" to the clumsy attention- of night Thomley; Messrs. Dut d hat klitif "attire, sh come he would sensed thnt sleeves snd stocking feet and spat the Oklahoma home-townow she Russell Blood, T7H1 I r lads, Barnes, do It. would h fresh young peyer tobacco Juice Into the e back In the midst of this new InVan Sanders and Vernon I adopting toward them a ton, grass. atf'tude very bafillng to sanity that had seized all Oklasell." The chaperons wtre I.r. r I Mila on mile, ss far as the eye these frank and Next Week.) . homa. And come hack be did. from-Go(Continued 1 . Mrs. John W. Thcrr.l y prairie eould see, were the skeleton products. knows where, on the very crest J Z. Henry and Mrs. outlined oil egninst rigs frames of bringing with and she of the oil wave, nnd Her school 1 V Leone Linford new thnt overshadowed his the sky like giant Martian figures a finished dayslnlshed, him of those Horproduct days, return. He entered as he had. left, ev the Yo club across ? landscape. O Tue:d;y stalking she now looked 'about' her coolly, t : home. The no word of explanation, so rible new towns Bret Hnrte Items taken from The Reflex calculatlngly. Her mother she re- with : towns sprang np overmusic and r bizarre as to rnue everything else 10 years ago, dated July 7, 1921; kind of affectionate oil strike garded with 1 were the Into Amy fade to background. at night on the heels of an entertained Green Miss Ella amusement. towns Inhabited by !eople" who came riding, ns alwuys, but It a lawn party at her home Thursday Marcia Yilllzn, C YY'hat a rotten deal youve had. lie stark In to them; stay never meant Sahra dear," she would drawL was a sorry enough nag thnt he be- evening. , Fifteen guests were Maige rerk, C1 . i", . 1 and hideous bouse thrown up hy i Trtr.i'i, "Itlhally, I dont see how you've strode this time; and his white present. dwellers who never Intended to rs stood Vera and battered. wa from sombrero all waa down It these grimed Hazel years." Bishop cross in them; rude frontier - -- rvmil stoics stuffed unli lu tuves' sltlcs of frontlet. n und i , !u urles of sudden wool h idl iiiujd.-together In a sort ,q. m 'ivun; de Tlmiscegenatiou. .jhtrnp and clank of the pump ;u d enr.,slirtiit!lhi clatter o hi, d.shes, t ui the yluk Nil , lu ill f in rested laughter of twin n stmiitleif. Oil. stiti .p II. ns,.;r over the prairies like a plrm. Willing the grass, the trees, spreading. over t'e n f.n-- of tlu S ni tacked to creeks nnd river tree stumps or post for Call 48" S m No. lev. Undertaker. Call Mil. t.dl Doctor Koegh t simnltMs PAGE 5 tr I . v intlm-m-e- i e d d d clot-lie- s flow-er-lik- e d - m adder-topgue- d V'tghter e i dust-choke- d i , , . - glrl--Czari- wlnd-devlle- i s d . - twenty-mule-tea- e, - - - ah-In- g nltro-glycerl- n "l SUITE Dr. E. A. Fonts Dr. Leslie Foutz Dr. H. B. Foutz Dr. A. J. 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