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Show Mrs. L. R. Fournier Home From France L. R. Foumier, general superintendent superin-tendent of the Telluride Power company, com-pany, with headquarters at Richfield, formerly of Milford, was a very happy may Thursday of last week when his wife, Mrs. Fournier, who has been spending three months in France, arrived ar-rived at Salt Lake City. The following is taken from Saturday's Sat-urday's Tribune: When the Kaiser undertook"to subdue sub-due the world, including Uncle Sam, Mr. Fournier was one of those who went over there and helped persuade that ambitious person to change his plans. When the wTar was over, various va-rious duties of cleaning up kept the engineers busy and it was the summer of 1919 before Fournier was ordered home. Then he decided he just couldn't come home alone and he and Mile. Lafond, a belle of Bayonne, Fiance, were married there early in August and came to America together. to-gether. Stories of war brides and war marriages mar-riages were common soon after the war, but these young people were so Jiappy with each other that they didn't bother with what special writers writ-ers were saying about such unions generally. Thev came to Richfield and there, May" 16, 1920, Rene was born. Mrs. Fournier liked America and still likes America, but after . three years in this country she simply had to go back to see her own people again.fSo she went for a long visit to France. Their little girl, Jean-tte, Jean-tte, was born there November 30, , . : 1 ti'zz, ana rejoicing ns gciicioi, ni or, who had been unable to go to France wnth his bride, thought he could hardly wait until the little girl came home, but he did and he waited , much longer than he had thought was possible. For when the baby girl was ten months old, mother's ticket was about to expire and she felt that she should ome" home. But baby was ill. Not lust a temporary illness, but one that mzzled the doctors. They said she could not stand a long trip and must not be taken to America at that time. Po Mrs. Fournier did the only thing .he could do left baby with her mother and sister and came home to husband and son. Since then there has been a main topic of conversation conversa-tion in the ournier home. It has been little Jeanette and her homecoming. home-coming. For the child began to improve im-prove about a year after her mother had come home, and from then on developed into a healthy, robust girl. Mrs. Fournier attended the American Amer-ican Legion convention in Paris this summer and then visited her old home and brought Jeanette back with 'ier. During her absence from Utah, Rene' had been visiting his daddy's old home in Canon City, Colorado, and 'here Mrs. Fournier picked him up and proceeded to Salt ake with her two children, who had known each other onlv by reports. And, incident-!v incident-!v Jeanette spoke only French and Rene only English. But thej are rapidly blending the two languages. Then, "when the trio arrived in Salt Lake Thursday afternoon, daddy was there to see his five-year old daughter daugh-ter for the first time and the reunion reun-ion was complete. It was a happy family that left yesterday afternoon for home in Richfield." |