Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-12-24

every mining camp for fifty miles
about, and more than one rich gallant
had laid his heart and his fortune at
her feet.
Mrs. Lanston, who had been wife
since her sixteenth year, would have
insisted on her daughters marriage at
this time, had not Frank Hobart in
duced the parents to send her for two
years to the best young ladies' semi
nary at Denver. .0.
Frank Hobart mout a-married that
gal, if he'd jest had the cheek to tell
her that he loved her, as he most sar-
tinly does; but, like blamed eejet, he
gets the Cap'n and Mrs. Lanston ter
side of the world. When she comes
back in two year, she won't know
Frank or no one else in the Glen, and
the chances is thousand ter one that
she'll be engaged to some dandy dude
or eastern tenderfoot."
This is what Sam Britton, the min
ing boss. said to his friends after Ella
had gone with her father and Frank to
Denver, and that is what all the MIN
ers believed.
Time flies fast with the aged and the
busy. 1t was Christmas eve, 1886, and
Lanston's Glen was in state of great
excitement. The ''sagebrush belle"
was coming over on the stage that
evening from Salt Lake City, and one
and all agreed to have ball at the
Grand Occidental hotel in honor of her
arrival.
During Elias absence Frank Hobart
had visited Denver once, but the camp
gossips were quite sure that he and the
young lady correspondent. ''But I'll
bet" Sam Britton would say, that
Frank amt never had the spunli to set
down in black and white the four
words; Ella, love you.' And Sam
was quite right
| Capt. Lanston went to Denver to
bring his daughter home, and it was
understood before he left that Howard
| Ford, the son of the president of the
mine, who lived in Colorado City and
at whose home Ella had been visitor,
would como back with them. Frank
Hobart brought, at his own expense, a
band from Salt Lake, to play at the
ball; and the day before Christmas eve
|
Chinese servant and cut evergreens to
decorate the dining and ball rooms.
When the stage drove up with Ella,
her father and young Howard Ford, it
was greeted with grand salute from
every gun and pistol in the glen. All
the miners were dressed in their best,
though this did not prevent a prcpon-
derance of red shirts; and, following
Sam Brittons lead, they gave three
cheers and tiger for the ''sagebrush
bclle!"
Ella had grown taller and more come
ly, if that were possible. Two years
of careful culture and intellectual asso-
citation had destroyed the somewhat
hoydenish expression of her face, and
so rather repelled her old admirers,
with whom heartiness aud q bolster
Gus recognition went hand in hand.
81 wouldn't give shucks for Frank
Hobart as lover" growled Sam Brit
ton, after Frank had lifted Ella from
the stage. why, he didn't even kiss
her, after these years and all he:
done; and now she comes back thi:
blessed Christmas eve with q dude
Jest as said she would, two year ago.
AS compared with the rough miners
in and about the hotel at the glen Mr.
, Howard Ford was Il fashionable exqui
site. Although under medium height
. and five years Frank Hobart's junior
, he was not bad looking, and, being thu
mine presidents son, he was at thi
moment the most important man a
: Lanston's Glen.
: There were tall, wholesome, bright
eyed girls by the score from the Glel
and the surrounding mountain settle
ments at the Grand Occidental hote