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Show CHATTER j With Our Readers j Down in Washington county last week thieves pulled and hauled away approximately one-fourth of an acre onion patch. It should not take a blood hound to foliow the scent of these thieves. Five years ago next Saturday, May 21, Col. Lindbergh made his famous landing in Paris. Little did the young man who accomplished the world renown re-nown feat dream of the tragedy that such prominency would bring into his life. The car containing 38 pints and a gallon jug of liquor which was tak.M into custody on the night of the '49ers' celebration in Milford, by Marshal Kronholm, has not been called call-ed for, although several parties have offered to buy the car providing the marshal would sell it "as found." Modern safety devices are proving effective in the building of the great Boulder Dam. Insurance experts estimated es-timated that 200 men would be killed the first year of construction work. So far, 14 men have been killed. This is a marked decrease in casualties as compared with similar projects or lesser dimensions. 4 Dan Davis has apparently abolished abolish-ed the idea of having dogs for pets, lie has started a new fad of making i a companion of a small coyote. Mr. Davis captured thirteen of these ani- nuils. Apparently he did not think: anyone else Would cherish such a pet,! for he killed all except one. This small creature is exceptionally tame 'and seems to have taken quite a fancy to his new master. If you j should happen to see a small brown! animal following Mr. Davis, don't i say, "That is a fine looking dog you i have Dan." ! In our search for news each week we run across many wild rumors, which, when investigated, have no foundation whatsoever, and we sometimes some-times wonder how such stories originated. orig-inated. Only this week there was a report circulated on the streets that H. A. Larsen, of the Hal Oil Com pany, had been killed in an automobile automo-bile accident near Fillmore. True, there was a man by the name of Geo. V. Larsen killed near Salt Lake, but H. A. Larsen was very much alive. Monday evening a story around town reported to have come over the wires at Caliente, claimed that Betty Grow, nurse of the Lindbergh child, had confessed to its murder and had committed com-mitted suicide. There were many expectant ex-pectant listeners gathered at the various var-ious radios for the 11 o'clock news broadcast only to learn that even Col. Schwarzkopf and his army of investigators inves-tigators had not learned of Betty's sudden demise. Some rumors are amusing, others harmful, but they are ever being circulated. |