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Show Ruminatin (f Roundabout In which ltuminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bou- I iu-ts while their objectives are j still above the sod to enjoy ihein. and t"i ) a hot-shot now I ar;d lUrn while said Ruminat-j Ruminat-j r can .-!;joy seeing the sparks ' fly. Mrs. !'. L. Osborn, one of Mil-ford's Mil-ford's most estimable women, thoughtful and considerate of cvei-s one, makes it something of a hobby tlie entering of unique I'aiN and incidents in an ever-ready ever-ready little notebook. And thereby hanfs a tale which coi.'ld will be played up by liipley in his choicest compendium of "Relieve It or Not" coincidences. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn had ac- panicd their soninlaw, Clarence Crim:-haw, and family on an Master week-end trip to Las Veens, Nevada and, returning M- "'av, wore a few miles north of St. Ceoree when they noticed a ear stop and pick up wha.t looked to be a bedroll. Making a happy use of her hobby and notebook, j Mrs. Osborn jotted down the j license number and make of car and (rave little further thought to the matter, j That same day The News family j was returning from a similar trip' to Muddy creek channel of Mead lake, near Overton, and had stepped at a place known as Mid-! dleton, near St. George, to get some goldfish for (jhe William's lilly pool. A few miles this side of that point, a sleeping bag roll which had been lashed to the real 'bumper was missed and though the distance was immediately retraced, re-traced, the hag was not found. It was not until Tuesday that, in discussing the trip with Mr. Osihorn, he learned of our loss j and we learned of Mrs. Osborn having taken down the num'ber of the car. The state tax commis- j sion furnished us with the name j of the owner of the car bearing j that particular license number, and this week the bag is back in j our possession following considerable consider-able correspondence on the sub- I ject. Incidentally, though the bag bore the name and address of j the owner, no apparent effort was made to return it until the t matter was taken up through a , sheriff's office which makes our j debt to the Osborns even greater.! Now let us point out some of the facts, not at first obvious, f which make this incident so un- j usual: First, not one in many-thousand many-thousand persons would have (Continued on last pa2:-) ! Ruminatin (Continued from first page) thought to make note of the number num-ber of the car picking up the roll, especially when she had no thought that it might belong to someone she knew; second, not once in many more thousand times, would it happen two Milford cars should be concerned in such a coincidence some 150 miles from home on a day following the holiday and with the occupants of both cars completely Oblivious of the fact that the other was anywhere on ! the road. |