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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1925)
RURAL E N T E R P R IS E Kiener’s Lookout’, As A H IS Sedan THO UG HTS Bride—And you think of nothing but me? Groom—Nothing but you, my dear, nothing but you. Bride—And what at th is very mo ment? Groom—Why, I was thinking th at r»u might be thinking that I was think ing It must be near dinner time, my love.—Chicago Dally News. H e r Last E m p lo y m e n t "W here were you employed last?" usked the m anager of the fair appli cant. "In a doll factory, sir.” “And what were your duties there?" "Making eyes." "Very well. You are engaged; but please don't dem onstrate your capa bilities when my wife Is around.” $77i, f . ». I . Lam ing, Mceb, M ore P o w e r ! M ore P u l l ! M ore P e p ! L o w -co st T ra n sp o rta tio n Star@Cars P a I c t • I f . ». A. Lssiisg, M ick. COMMERCIAL CHASSIS . >425 R O A D ST E R ............................ ..... >525 T O U R I N G ..................................I . >525 COUPSTER . . . . . . . . >595 COUPE . . ; ............................ » . >675 C O A C H ....................... r . . . >695 S E D A N ....................................... >775 N o th in g W a s te d The young wife was In tears when her husband came home from work. "W hat Is wrong, darling?” “Oh, that m aid ! She sm ashes every thing she touches." "Good! Send her over next disir at once. Mrs. Spuggs w ants some one to help her move her victrola." D U R A N T M OTORS, Ine. 250 W est 57tli Street, New Y ork General Sale» Dept.— 1819 Broadway, N ew York D ealtri and Servite S la tita i throiighiut thè Vnned S la tti C o m p e te n t Source Mrs. Muddle—Well, John, I have heard both sides of the story of the trouble between Mrs. Nagg nnd her husband. Air. Muddle— And from whom did you hear both sides of the story? Mrs. Muddle—Why, from Mrs. Nagg, of course. TO K E E P A W A Y F R O M H IM 7 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN lEN ER 'S LOOKOUT Is not really Its nam e a t all. It is merely a flic lo o k o u t station on the top of Twin Sisters Mountain in Kocky Mountain N ational Park, and W alter Klener Is the man on w atch for forest tires. Nevertheless W alter K iener's outlook Is unique. F or right across Tahosa Valley looms the dark, sheer East Face of Longs Peak, "King of the Rockies.” Anti It Is there that was enacted last w inter the gritn stru g gle betw een man und m ountain that thrilled the m ountaineers of the world. T h at dread E ast Face did not stop Agnes Vaille und W alter Klener. But altitu d e and storm killed Agnes Vaille a fte r the sum mit was won. crippled W alter K lener for life and did to death H erbert Sortlnnd in an attem pt a t rescue. And from his lofty eyrie on th e Twin Sisters K lener looks out day a fte r day and night after night on these very places. (Picture K Mat, * . ) Rocky M ountain Is the most popu lar of all the national parks. Tahosa Valley, nt th e foot of Longs’ Peak. Is Its south entrance. The Twin Sisters rim T nhosa's cup on th e e a st; the crest of th e vast granite heap is the park boundary. H undreds each sea son climb the Sisters for the magnifi cent view, the alpine flowers, I lie fan tastic tiinherllne. This seuson thou sands Instead of hundreds have worn deep th e steep and narrow trail. It Is th e Twin S isters plus W nlter Klener. Men and women of prosaic lives are fascinated by th e tragic and thrilled by th e heroic. T ahosa—Land of th e Dwellers In the M ountain Tops —Is 9,9110 feet up In the Colorado Rockies. The south Sister rises to 11.3H4 fe e t; Its Twin to 11,430 (No. 2). If your eyes are good '"H can Just see from Tahosa Kiener's Lookout on the bare grnnlte summit of the north Twin. Ills sheltered cabin is hidden from sight. Longs Peak rises to 14,255 feet. Its slopes a re deeply scarred by ancient glaciers. It was not ascended until 's»W—and then with great difficulty from the w est nnd by way of The Notch. Finally w as found a com para tively ens.v trail from T ahosa Valley, which able-bodied men, women and youngsters can safely travel with com petent guides. About a thousand visitors a year m ake the ascent. Rut not more than six w inter ascents have l>een made. The fam ous E ast Face of Long Peak rises 2,455 feet from Chasm Lake in East Gorge. It is mostly sheer. It was believed by all m ountaineers to he Impossible of ascent. In 1922 a Princeton professor made the ascent. Since then it has been climbed sev eral times by experts. The dotted line shows the only way up (No. 1). All of these ascents were in summer. It was this w inter ascent of the E ast Face th at challenged Agnes Vaille. The daughter of a wealthy Denver man, she had chosen a busi ness career and was secretary to the chamber of commerce. M ountaineer ing was her avocation nnd she could Justly boast th at no man in the Colo rado Mountain d u b could outdo her. W alter Kiener Is a Swiss who hail established a reputation In the Alps before coming to Denver about two years ago. He has done much climb ing In the Colorado Rockies and had frequently been the companion of Miss Vaille. Agnes Vaille, Elinor Epplch and Klener left Denver Saturday, January 10. Sunday at 3 a. III. they reached Tiinherllne Cabin (11.300 feet up on the regular trail). At 9 a. m. the two climbers left for Chasm Lake and Miss Epplch returned to Tahosa Valley. D arkness found the two climbers only p art way up the East Face. A fter a favorable day th e therm om eter had dropped to 14 below and the wind had risen. They decided to climb up rath er than down. They reached the summit at 4 a. in. Monday. T here Is no shelter th ere; they had to keep moving. The regular trail down is on the west slope. They chose a shorter route down the north slope. Few have been over It, even In summer. They had both used It. T here is no trail. By 9:3(1 they had descended about 750 feet. At this point, the most difficult of this dangerous route. Miss Vaille lost her footing nnd slid down over rocks and snow for 150 feet. She assured Klener she was not hurt. But It wus found th at her feet nnd hands wpre partly frozen. With Kiener's help she went on a hundred feet or more. Then she was exhausted, though unbroken in courage. Kiener left her for help a t 10:90 n. in. He reached Tim berline Cabin nt 1 p. m. There he found a relief party of four m en: H erbert Sortlnnd. Jacob C hristian. Hugh Brown and his son, O scar Brown. Leaving Oscar Brown to keep the Are going. Klener led the others back tip the mountain. Ju st above tlmlierllne (11,500) Hugh Brown had to drop out. At ll.HUf feet H erbert Sortlnnd, twenty-three years of Rge, could not keep up and was sent back Kiener and Christian —he had glvpn up hope of returning alive—reached Agnes VHllle at 4:30. She was dead—and bad been for thereupon left everything he had planned to take, and added this note; "I would not for anything In the world E ither th e burglars In F ran ce have give you pain. But you must perm it exquisite sensibilities o r th e preas me to carry off some photographs. agents a re adepts at th e profeaslon. Your radiant beauty and your equal ’ 'onalder the case of a b u rg lar who goodneas of heart will forgive this broke Into a house, packed up all the petty larceny.” valuables ready to tak e away, and then found th a t the ten an t was no H e a v y In h e rita n c e T a x other than th e fam ous Mme. Duflous. Perhaps the oldest and certainly the a lady whom he had seen many times gyrating behind th e foollghts a t the most drastic of Inheritance tax laws In th eater. S tricken with rem orse, be tlie world Is th at of tb s Igorot tribes Master Craftsman hours. The two men got back alive to Tiinherllne Cabin at 7:30 p. m. Then nt Intervals struggled In men whom the d rifts and gale ami flying snow and bitter cold of the w inter 1 night could not keep back. Each had started as the news reached him th at Agnes Vaille was In danger on Longs Peak. By 10 o'clock had arrived Tom Allen, assistant superintendent of the park, nnd .luck Mootnaw and W aites Finn, park rangers. At 4:30 Tuesday morning Suiierlnlendent Roger W. Toll (cousin of Agnes Vaille) arrived from Denver, with Edmund Rogers. Gorge C. B arnard, William F. E r vln and Carl Blaurock, veteran in o u ta - taln eers of the Colorado Mountain club. Daylight found them all try. Ing to keep from freezing about a tire kept burning on top of the cabin stove. To recover Agnes Vaille's body was Impossible. At 9:30 all descent), ed to the valley. Then It was discovered th at H erbert Sortlnnd was missing. Volunteers— Casey Rockwell, John Sherman, E l Andrews, Jack Dillon, W arren R ut ledge and others—risked th eir lives in tlie vain search tliut wus made below timberline. Not until T hursday could Agnes Vaille's body lie reached. It lay at hu elevation of about 13,300 feet on the north slope, 200 feet back of the edge of the East Face, anti about 50 feet above th e perpetual suow drlft on the edge of Bouldertleld -w hich Is in plain sight from the valley, sug gests a flying bird, and is sometimes called "The Dove." Two skis were placed end to end and a third lashed Heroes the Joint. The body was strapped to these skis and carried with the aid of ski poles. Eight men carried the body across Bouldertleld, relays taking p art at frequent Inter vals. F u rth er down a toboggan could be used. At Tiinherllne Cabin fluttered the American Flag, worn nnd frayed from the w inter storms. Agnes Vaille had done patriotic service overseas dur ing the World War. They took down Old Glory and laid It across tier hotly. And so came back Agnes Vaille from Longs Peak to Tahosa Valley. W alter Klener, badly frost bitten and partly snow-blind, was driven to Denver for medical treatm en t; sev eral operations were found necessary. Agnes Vaille's fath er paid the tv*- pltal bills. The national park service gave him the lookout station. The body of W alter Hortland wns not found until February 2 5 - In the Valley, within a stone's throw of the main road and of shelter. Kiener's official gaze must puss over the spot several times a day. And he cannot i look at Longs I’eak without seeing ••’T'k.ei I knvp.” of the Philippines. When sn Ijfom« tribesm an dies, half his property Is sold off ami the proceeds used to de fray the cost of a canao or wake The cadaver being smoked Into a mummy In a burial chair, sits by snd views the orgy, one of wine snd feasting and u tter abandonment to the carnal plea»- 1|res—save alone abuse of virtue, w hich Is not known to the Ignrots and If per petrated would entail the death pen alty. American government 1» the sole uplifting Influence amongst these tribes. "How did you come to decide to bu, a six-cylinder car?" "Well, I heard the collector for this automobile concern drove a four- cylinder.” S h in g le F a c ts Canada and Alexiet P l a w t ii Elizabeth, N. J. Lunsing, Oxkbind, Cai. Toronto, Ont. O v e rh e a d Johnnie—W hat’s overheud expense^ Evidently H ad Not Absorbed "Business” Pn? A story Is being told of the engage ment of an additional chorus man for the musical production, "Rose M arie,” at Drury Lane theater. The male chorus in the show are mainly mounted police and frontiers men, for the action of "Rose Marie" lakes place In northwest Canada. Gut of the two hundred applicants for the position one was selected be cause of bis excellent voice. He wns I tlly brought before the "pow ers that be,” and promptly turned down as looking ''nothing like the part." The producer was keen to have hltn ami made Inquiries ns to Ills previous stage ex|>erience. Imagine bis surprise when the man replied, “ I haven't done much acting lately—I've spent my lust live years In the C anadian Northwest Mounted police!”— Vancouver l'rov- nce. The Cutioura Toilet Trio. Having cleured your skin keep It clear by making Cutlcuru your everyday :ollet preparations. T he Soap to cleanse and purify, the O intm ent to soothe and heal, the Talcum to pow der and per fume. No toilet table Is complete without them.—A dvertisement. 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I m U , l if e . e r u d d re s « N IK . r h a r m a r r -u t lc e l f b e m M Mass , formerly called B raintree. Wil M 9 E . K <'. M H c a K d I N Mt.. Ix>a A l g M f f c n a m p U fraau H is In c o m e liam Coddington built the original She—If I ever m arry It will he a bouse, which consisted of a large man whose Income hug at least four kitchen, a living room and two chlm neys. Coddington died shortly after ciphers In it. He—T h at's good, dear. My Income the erection of the house. Ills suc Is all ciphers—as many as you like.— cessor, the first Quincy, to occupy it, was the first of three Edmund I R EA JONA M t - H O M I U U I The Progressive Grocer. Qulncys'. In 1700, the third Edmund 1099 PIN E S T , SAD FRANCISCO added the present dining room, parlor W o rd M e a n in g T ro u b le and the cham bers over these rooms “Dad," said Clarence, "w hat's s L ater a study and bedroom were add P A R K E R ’S three-letter word meaning trouble?" H A IR B A L S A M ed. Among the many noted guests en “Yes," growled his father, who was FUmrffss f Mnttraff HCnpa fla ir irtiltag lertalned there were L afayette and K «attiras C a la r « a d wishing be had been struck dumb the Benjamin Franklin. The latter, after B a a o ty to G r a y e n d F « d a d lla ftr « i r « n tl l i W a l iK a a r l w t x dny he proposed. o ' ? ! H i« » .. , hem WM ' . I . u k w . N . T . a v'alt, sent a "F ranklin stove” as s return for hospitality offered him. H IN D E R C O R N S i u « n v - o « .. osa- loeaee. etc ., »Uip« a ll p a in , «nauraa o a n fta rt to U « M IL K IN G E N E R G Y feav, m A l o « a ia in tf • * * ? U a by m a ll o r a l I «vg* (la ta , l i la a n . GhatulaaJ WovSa. PaArW gis«. I t f . F ru its F ro m A b ro a d Argentina and A ustralia In the southern hem isphere are making ef W. N. U , 8sn Francisco, No S7-1925. forts to establish a regular trade In E lm s fo r D r y C lim a te fruit with the United S tates snd other The Chinese elm, native to northern countries In the northern hemisphere Chinn and M anchuria, succeeds well when fresh fru its are out of aeuaon. ns a simile tree In the American Ho title. To get rich a man has to th in k ; west, which Is too dry for our natlvn elms. and be has to think In time. MORTON H O S P IT A L C hildren C ry for "It's said the hand shaking done by a noted politician In W ashington be fore election would milk every cow in the country twice.” "You don't say ! And Just to think he has to use all that energy In order to milk the government." S tru c k O u t >1« s t r u c k a m a t c h t o g a s a U p o n h la « a a o l l n a —- N o m o r a h a 11 t r a v e l O n th e v illa t « < r««n. A N on eco no m ist "Blowltt b a t a rath er novel pbllo«» Ph 7 ” “W het Is It?" "H e says when s men works hard j to get money, why Impose upon him s e l f the further hardship of trying to save It?” — O f Course “Why were the Middle Ages know» as the dark ages?" "Because there w ere k n ig h ts”—W ashington Star. so many i W ind Colic and D iarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising there from , and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids th« assimilation o f Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Absolutely Harmless - No <'putes, P b /s itu u s everywhere recommend it.
