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Show 1 THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH 1 HOMELY LIGHT CAST ON TITANS OF PEN Rare Papers Show Human Side of Great Writers. The last will Missoula, Mont. and testament of Jonathan Swift, author of Gullivers Travels, 219 years after it was signed and executed has found its way to Montana. The document, now worth far more than the eccentric writers itemized fortune, is a part of a By L. L. STEVENSON Back to Bway: Old vaude.villians are making their return in various forms of the entertainment world. I I X X I i t i t i The 9th Annual i Rich County FAIR and RODEO Tuesday and Wednesday ! SEPTEMBER 14th 15th Whicker, old-time- rs ld ld - 11-m- ile ping-pon- Settlers Protected Forests The first settlers in America were wiser than many of their descendants, for they recognized the value of forests, passed laws to protect them. Special permission had to be gained to cut trees in Plymouth colony: William Penn demanded that one acre of forest remain untouched for every five cut. When Wigs Meant Something Wigs came into common use late in the Seventeenth century, and the possessor of a number of wigs was looked on as a man of affluence. Wigs were fashioned of horses and cows tails, goats hair, thread and silk, and bore such names as feather top, fox full bottom, tail. Indians Used Perfumes The Blackfeet Indians of olden days used a number of perfumes, sweet grass being, the most popular among the women. They also used beaver musk, red cedar, punk from the cottonwood tree, buds from the balsam poplar and dried blossoms of dog fennel and meadow rue. a W. member of the Montana Many are doing bits in the legitiState faculty. university out mate theater, working as extras In addition to Swifts will, in Hollywood and along the main stem, entertaining at private par- - Whickers collection includes an ties, conventions and meetings of original document by Elizabeth various kinds. In the latter field Barrett Browning, in her own they have staunch champions in B. handwriting. The collection also contains original manuscripts and A. Rolfe and Joe Cook, whose memletters of Thomas De Quincy, Roborin lodges and fraternal berships ert Browning, Thomas Gray, Samout as stand make them ganizations uel of commitchairmen entertainment Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Cartees. At a recent party given by lyle and others. one of the Rolfe neighborhood soOnly previous owners of the colfurlection knew that the originals cieties, the following nished the program: Sherman were in existence. Facts concernWade, dancer; ing most of them have never been Harry Brooks, published heretofore. banjo expert; Allan Wallace, Manuscripts Were Gift. songster; Gertrude a well - known northWhicker, DeSylvan, age unannounced, pian- west is not, however, a colauthor, and Lillian fiftyAshton, ist, young The lector. manuscripts were given character singer. year-ol- d to him. Fate: A young woman driving in University students are using the Brooklyn the other afternoon was manuscripts, not for scholarly purstopped by a carload of cops who poses, Whicker said, but for the in no uncertain terms informed her rich personal atmosphere most of that she was on the wrong side of them have, and for the incentive the street. The young woman, un- they may give the students through aware of that fact, remained mute. personal feeling. The manuscripts The officers of the law, however, are also being studied because they went on and on, sometimes taking thrust aside the years and show turns and sometimes working in those whom we tc often worship duets. Running down at last, with as geniuses as being vitally human, a final and most emphatic denunci- concerned with the same human ation, they drove away. With that, problems with which we are conthe young woman, having heaved a cerned, dogged by the same human great sigh of relief, was about to weaknesses with which we are drive on, only to be halted by the dogged. Swifts will is dated September 8, regular man on the beat. Never mind em, lady, he re- 1718, and it lists bonds and mortYou wasnt gages valued at 1,514 pounds. Of marked with a grin. doing nothing. But theyve been on this sum 200 pounds was bequeathed the carpet themselves and they just for a building at Nielytown and the had to bawl somebody out. balance to his family. While the paper is yellow and fragile with Southpaw Right: There is a store age, the document is still legible. on Fifth avenue that displays some Original Poe Manuscript. of the most beautiful gowns in the Another unit of Whickers colleccity. For show purposes, wax modtion is a from one of Edgar page in are whose faces and forms els, Allen Poes original manuscripts on fine which with raiment the keeping is written in criticism. It literary adorns them, are used. Naturally, the exhibits are the targets of many his own handwriting. The page is eyes whenever they are on display. pasted together similar to editorial A short time ago, however, the copy for newspapers or magazines. Samuel Taylor Coleridges letter models attracted more attention than usual. There seemed to be ' to his publisher relative to a certain something wrong with one of the famous Rhyme of the Ancient Maris also included in the most attractive. Close inspection iner revealed why that impression per- group. sisted. The beautiful model had Elizabeth Barrett Brownings two left hands. poem, Life, bears her initials besides her own penciled revisions. Satisfaction: A New Yorker, who The work was originally published Human Lifes by intelligence, diligence and much under the title, A comparison with the hard work reached a point where Problems. he could retire from business ac- poem as it is published today shows tivities, went back to his old home only two of the stanzas are not the town in Connecticut and built himsame as the original. self a mansion. In the days of his extreme youth, in fact all through his boyhood, he had been looked Highway Is Paved With down on, the general opinion being Gold Ore of Low Grade that his kind were worth probably a San Diego, Calif. A highway dime a dozen. When the house, paved with gold ore takes motorists which topped everything the whole from Ramona to Julian, once a colcountryside had to offer, was com- orful mining town in San Diego invitapleted, the owner sent out Calif., according to Charles tions to a party. None were ex- county, H. Reed, secretary of the county cluded, not even those who had bureau of mines. slighted him most in his ragged Although few motorists who travThe guests were taken days. el the strip of highway rethrough the house and then served alize the value of the road. Reed a sumptuous dinner. At the conclusion of the feast, the host arose. said it was consiructed of gravel ore with an average gold conNeighbors, he said, you have and of $7 a ton. tent seen my home. You have been well said the gravel came from a He fed. You know that, despite your on the escarpment of a nearNow made have I quarry good. prophecies, you can all get out. Im going to by mountain, but the gold content was not sufficient to warrant sendbed. ing it to a smelter. Contractors esThey did and he did. timated that at least $2,000 worth of At Parties: Instead of singing, gold is embedded in the highway Carl Ravell sits at the piano and leading to the old Julian gold mingives imitations of Eddy Duchin, Joe ing district. While Julian did not gain the fame Riechman and Vincent Lopez. . . Don Voorhees leads a symphony or- acquired by some mining towns, its chestra in pantomime. . . Mor- history is a picturesque one. ton Bowe does sleight-of-han- d tricks Horace Bailey, owner of the first . . Peter Van Steeden takes de- stage line out of Julian, recalled the g difficulties he encountered in operatlight in beating his host at or pool. . . Phil Baker plays clas- ing the line. One grade was so steep, he sics on his accordion. . . Martin Freed sits at the piano and com- said, that I had to tell my drivers lyrics to make an announcement to the poses about other guests. . . Johnny Green passengers: exhibits tap dancing steps he First class passengers keep learned from Fred Astaire. . . Carl- your seats. Second class passengers ton KaDell burlesques more imporget out and walk. Third class pastant screeft and radio stars. . . sengers get out and push. Charles Martin,' writer, plays the violin. . . Harry VonZell sings bariLake Magadi tone. situated near the Lake Magadi, WNU Service. Bell Syndicate. extinct volcano Kilimanjaro in East Africa is thirty miles long and eight Ranchers Kill Coyotes It is fed by waters carrying Lander, Wyo. Ranchers, enraged wide. soda in solution. As soon as the the on their raids livestock, water runs into by coyote the lake, the sun waged a campaign of exterminaa precipitate it, evaporates leaving the tion against marauders, killing of soda, and the deposit accumulates 800. faster than it can be removed. seventy-four-year-o- i literary collection owned by H. |