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Show 21 fight. Of course, Walter wouldn't. It was the custom there to fight all newcomers by joining in a free-for all. Walter was my escort, and he was a model one. I did not go out with the other boys there. "In July (1898) John wrote to me asking me to accompany him :.-. on a trip fo Fish Lake. I had never been there and an M. I. A.convention for three stakes was being held there. Walter, Mother and Jane went with us in our wagon with our team . . . . When we arrived back at Aurora, John hurried to catch the afternoon train for Joseph (some thirty or forty miles south), as he had a business deal on. He was to buy forty-five acres of improved farm land with two homes on from two brothers who were moving to Mexico. His brother, Henry, was in partnership with him; he took one home, a two-room yellow brick, and John took the other one, a two-room log house, plastered inside. "In September Aunt Jane George wrote asking me to help her with her hotel in Kanosh. That was a winter of rich experience to me. I met many people from far and near, going to and from California. John came to call on me soon after my arrival, it being Sunday, but he had a date with another girl and left to keep it. This put a chill on my feelings for him. We had a falling out, and he started courting a Miss Brown from Beaver. I started to go with Albert Anderson from Meadow, and I quite liked him. John tried to make up with me in November, but I wouldn't make up with him until Al went away. I was in love with John all the time, but wouldn't admit it for pride. After the holidays we made |
