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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE RICH REAPER COUNTY Entered w second clai at THE CHEERFUL CHERU5 matter Feb. 8, 1929, dolph, Utah, nnder thi the Post Office, Ra1 Act of March 3, 1879. Layton Marshall, Viter and Proprietor Win. E. Marshall, Business Manager 11 8 Ter Year in Advance SUBSCRIPTION ! EVER TAUS STAR I DUST ADVENTURERS CLUB By Famous Headline Hunter EVERYBODY: sir, Old Lady Adventure has played some queer tricks on the human race from time to time, and heres the story of a strange one that she played on Homer X. Keenan of Barracks No. 8, Veterans Administration, Wisconsin. Homer got into an adventure in May, 1927 an adventure that looked as though it was going to end in tragedy for Homer because his life had HELLO Those Kidmores Clatter actually seem proud of their childs nasty temper. Her Husband Well, I suppose your parents were just as proud of you when you began to talk. Mrs. KITCHEN TOPICS Mr. W. Did you see this item about a hen adopting a little of pigs? Mrs. W. Well, theres nothing unnatural in the association of ham and eggs. P motion picture Trvty improve Vm $ s feel terribly neglected these days. They figured that when the first excitement over the animated drawings that make up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was over they would come back into the - . - By FLOYD GIBBONS VIRGINIA VALE GROWN-U- Words From the Tomb J I wonder wkst you tkink oF me. And Ul tke little. tUv$ktj lve jprvng. -Ok, gentle reader, please be Kind; M.ovie Radio HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! limelight again. But along came the worlds blockhead, Charlie McCarthy, in Goldwyn Follies to distract attention from mere humans, and next The River, a picture without any actors whatever became the talk of the entertainment world. Now mere children have romped in and taken all the attention away from their elders. Judy Garland, been saved eleven years before, down on the Mexican border, by two birds named Bill Inman and Pancho Villa. Dont try to figure that one out. It doesnt make much sense until youve read the story. In 1916, Homer was an enlisted man in the Army Signal corps, on detached service and stationed at Columbus, N. M. It was a telegraph station, and Bill Ingram, who was in charge, always tried to get recruits who came under him to learn the Morse code and become telegraphers. Learn the Morse Code, Said Bill. It seemed to Homer that Bill was hipped on the subject of telegraphy. Time and again Bill told the boys, Learn the Morse code and some But until March 9, Homer day it may save your life or someone elses. didnt pay much attention to Bill Inman. On March 9, Pancho Villas bandits crossed the border and raided Columbus. The telegraph wires summoned help, and by the time Villas men got through shooting up the town, Homer began to see that Inman was right, and that a knowledge of how to operate that little brass key might well save a life or a hundred lives. As Homer puts it, Before it was 'over, I wanted to learn telegraphy and everything else I could cram into my head. And now well leave Homer, while he goes through the World war land one or, two other adventures, and pick him up again in 1927 at Everettsville, W. Va., where he has a job in a coal mine. It was almost quitting time. Homer was on his way to oil the pumps for the next shift when suddenly a great roar filled the under-- very ywr WNU Service. be-lov- ed singing star, is enjoying huge success on a personal appearance tour, and the Tommy Kelly and Ann Gillis of Tom Sawyer have capfourteen-year-ol- "- 111 .1 d DEPARTMENT HARNESS & SADDLES LAWRENCE QUALITY Saddle now on MONTHLY PAYMENTS Favored by farmers and stockmen for 81 years. Highest Quality-exp- ert workmanship low prices. Write for FREE illustrated catalog and terms I Bold THE 6E0RGE LAWRENCE CO.. 306 S W. even-young- er tivated several cities they have ited. vis- k June Lang, Ethel Merman, and Cesar Romero have been flying all over the country attending openings of In Old Chicago and audiences were so appreciative of the opor- - NO BARBER BILL First Portland, Oregon Boulder Dam Memorial The inscription on the monument to the workmen who built Boulder dam, which memorializes those who lost their lives, reads: They died to make the desert bloom. At either side are panels bearing inscriptions, one of which saysf The United States of America will continue to remember that many who toiled here found their final rest while engaged in The the building of this dam. inscription on the other panel is: The United States of America will continue to remember the services of all who labored to clothe with, substance the plans of those who first visioned the building of this dam. Bmohebi hmuA tkat irarsl Menthol Cough Drops Say, shave? Naw; Jim, jes dont let yer me never whiskers freeze, den knock em off. BASE AND BASS Friend What instrument would you say were the lowest in the scale of music? Performer Those that are base, ' of course. He Started Hammering on the Pipe. The thing that every mine worker ground passages. An explosion! dreads. Men trapped, in catacombs two miles under a mountain, with fire raging, and marsh gas seeping through the galleries and no air. Homer Was Half-Burie- d i in Debris. , "...soothe a raw throat instantly." K When it hit me, Homer says, the mountain was rocking like a small boat on a rough sea, and the roar of the flames sounded like Niagara falls. I was knocked unconscious aqd stayed out for several hours. When I came to again, I was half buried under a mass of heavy timbers and tons of slate and dirt. Somehow I managed to free myself and crawled along the floor. I didnt dare stand up, for deadly carbon monoxide gas filled the upper part of the gallery and only near the floor was the air clear. I was hunting for a sump hole full of water, where pump lines ran to the surface, but my lamp was broken and I was in the dark, so I had to feel my way. Groping, my hands fell on dead mules and dead men parts of mules and parts of men. t Fire was sweeping through the mine, and coal strata were igniting all around me. Finally I found the sump hole and built a stopping between me and the fire. I settled down to wait. But Homer wasnt to spend much time in inactive waiting. Its a funny thing, he says, how many thoughts can pass through your head in a short time when youre staring Old Man Death in the face. I thought of what Bill Inman had told me years ago on the Mexican border. The Morse code may some day save your life. ' Three young men singers have become big radio favorites in the past few weeks and by next year radio executives figure they will all be stars. John Carter, who replaced Nelson Eddy on the Charlie McCarthy hour, is an exfarmer and vaudeville dancer. Felix Knight, who in addition to his own Sunday morning program has been appearing with Leo Reismans orchestra, comes from Florida, via Hollywood, and is much too young to have had any career other than d singing. Glenn Darwin, the barytone whom you have probably heard on the Magic Key program, was a famous soprano at the age of nine. top-rankin- g Happy for Life Be glad of Life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars. Van Dyke. rich-tone- His Hammered Message Went Through. h There I was beside that pump with a pipe line running to h the surface, and a wrench at hand. I started ham, mering away on that pipe with all the vim of a brass pounder. A lot of time had passed down there under ground, says Homer. I didnt know what time it was or even what day it was. It might be time with only a few people waiting at the top. But all the time I ' night kept hoping some one would understand what I was trying to do and go for a telegraph operator. And then, after an hour, Homer heard faint clicks on the I am operator for the B. & O. railroad at pipe. He read: Fairmont. Got your message. Who are you? Is any one else with you? Is any one else alive in the mine? Homer tapped out an answer. He was all alone. If there was any one else alive in the mine, he didnt know it. (There were seventeen men alive down there, but Homer didnt find that out until later.) Up above, the Fairmont operator was tapping a message from the mine superintendent. What did Tom say when you Trying to get main fan in operation. Will have air for you soon. told him there were seven figures And in answer, Homer tapped, Mine on fire. Air will cause another in daddys fortune? For Gods sake, dont start fan! explosion. He asked where our five sisters The super asked Homer how long he could live. Homer replied: were. Not long. Its so hot down here my face and hands are blistering. he told him that, if hed connect a blacksmiths bellows to the But FAIR WARNING pipe, they could send him a little air. In a few minutes; air was coming , down the pipe. And it was the most welcome air I ever breathed in my life, Homer When it started coming down, I just went to sleep. And when says. I woke up I was in the hospital at Fairmont, and I thought again about what Bill Inman told me that some day the Morse code might save my life. But I think Pancho Villa had something to do with it, too. June Lang tunity to see players face to face that Twentieth Century-Fo- x plans to stage gala openings for many of their pictures in the future. 50 Fred Allen used to work in the Boston Public library, carrying books to the folks who requested Eddie Cantor was ' errand .them. two-inc- twenty-four-inc- Cm. 1987, Stum bo. HOTEL BEN LOMOND . Copyright. The wicked places. stand in slippery Thats right; youd better watch your step. Wear Mourning Teeth In certain parts of Asia many persons wear black teeth while in Those with real teeth mourning. enamel them. Those with merely false ones, says Colliers Weekly, have a special set of black teeth made for this period of grief. WNU Service. . ' Rio de Janeiro, Brazil More than 400 years ago Andre Concalves, a Portuguese navigator, discovered the bay on which is situated the great city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, traveling from Portugal in a tiny ship of perhaps a bare 300 tons burden. ' boy for a sausage factory. Phil Baker was secretary to a motion picture producer, Walter OKeefe was a real estate salesman, auid Bob Hope was an automobile mechanic. Joe Penner was a piano salesman and Bob Burns was a plumbers helper. k ; ODDS AND ENDS Bill Cody, Jr., son of the popular western star plays Nelson Eddy as a child in Girl of the Golden West. . . Fanny Brice and Constance Collier wandered into an art exhibition and bought fifteen hundred dollars' worth of pictures painted by Darryl Austin, an impoverished WPA worker. 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