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Show Chatter Box Dear Suzy, It used to be that we blamed everything on the government, but now we all blame everything on the rain-makers. At least the long delay in the stake road show both at Hinckley and Delta can be blamed bla-med on the rain-makers or possib-ily possib-ily to Mrs. Dean Harder for not carrying a compass in her purse. It seems that the Leamington part on the road show did right well with their show at Oasis and Deseret, but when it came to putting put-ting on the show at Hinckley and Delta things did not go so smooth. Mrs. Dean Harder had the young group in charge and was to tootle them from Deseret to Hinckley and then to Delta on their circuit Tuesday Tues-day night. She tootled them to Des eret OK but as she left that fair city she lost her sense of direction direc-tion and turned west long before she should. They had gone some distance and were looking for a lighted window in Hinckley when all of a sudden the bottom dropped out of the road and they looked on a sea of mud instead of the shining faces that they should have seen in the audience. Pushing and pulling was of little avail as the car settled so deeply into the mud that they had to keep the doors closed to stop the mud from running in. It was a case of having to walk and so tossing caution to the winds they took off back the way they came hoping that they could find Deseret. Deser-et. This they did and were soon on their way to Leamington, but in another car than the one they had abandoned in the gumbo. They made a quick trip, too, and got home about 1 a. m., but leaving the Hinckley and Delta audiences in a lather waiting for their part on the road show. Came the dawn Wednesday and Dean Harder loaded up a oat and bulldozer blade and took off in quest of the family car. It was a little hard to find as it had settled set-tled even deeper during the night and had they not had an aerial sticking up in the air to mark the spot the family car would have been a thing of the past. With steady bulldozing (at which Dean is very good) the car was finally brought back to the oiled highway with enough mud on and in it that if the mud was spread out it would make 43 acres, railed and leveled. And that statement is on the level too. Which only goes to show that as long as the rain-makers can't turn it off, now that they have got it started, it is best to confine your driving to oiled roads and not take chances beating new trails about the countryside. The Leamington road show group will put on their act, if and when it ever stops raining. Toots. |