Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-10-10

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- have been treated as was
.a Coriolanus of old. | am a
MESSM victim Of the ingratitude OF
WI republics. as expressed in
TN p direct primary in Stevens
~ County, Iowa / am on my
N the great new West, where
We" shall seek to serve newer COM
titles where peridy may not
- ~ so ingrained in the nature
" tbe body polite. And | shall
.nn relations other than professional
-as with persons of youth, beauty.
O OSor and feminine gender. For by
80 am a sufferer. have with me
~ larI notes and to you is given the first
Saoring of my side of a case which
NAV become historic.
~Tbe contest Is unequal, says
rr,ctetus, between charming young
r;rl and a beginner in philosophy
- this be remembered when | am
NAMED for the havoc wrought upon
INV Dolitical educational career IN
ctovans County, Iowa, by Miss Ro-
Nnrt. Lee Frayn of Tennessee. Not
.bot am a. beginner in philosophy.
The man who, at my age, has been
.lncted county superintendent of
.chools is no mere tyro in the, field
vberein Epictetus so distinguished
himself But neither does the word
4cbarming" adequately describe Miss
Travn unless one trace back the word
scbarn" to its more diabolically sig
clHcant root. | expect to write this,
INV apologize, and leave the verdict to
pOsterity.
No citizen of Stevens County is like
" to be ignorant of the manner in
which Miss Frayn was deposited in
nv mothers rarmyard by the wreck
ing of a. railway train, or how her
grandfather. Colonel Kenton Yell
N Frayn. died there in her arms and
left the young girl penniless. Judge
Worthington, hereafter to be men,
toned, was on the train and doubtless
assisted in extricating Miss Ffayn
and her grandfather from the wreck
age, but | feel that my own efforts
were more effective than was reported.
We left the young woman in the care
Of my mother, and I took the judge
with me in my buggy.
He was much distraught as we rode
along. ! tried to say something IN
the way of furthering my candidacy
for the Office now hold; but he re-
pulsed me.
For Gods sake, Oscar" remember
him to have said, don't try to cleo
tiOneer ME until / can get out of my
mind the image of that poor young
girl and her dying grandfather"
do not care to criticize the judici-
airy, but will say that Judge Worthing-
tons early promotion to the bench and
his undeniable comeliness of person
have in a measure induced in him
certain arrogance.
was triumphantly elected. ! went
to Boston and won recognition so far
as to be placed on the subcommittee
for the investigation of Tone-Deafness
IN the rural schools, in the super1n-
tendents section of the National
Teachers Association.
Feeling the growing breadth and
tulness Of life I returned and as
sumed my Office. Then 1t was that the
FTayn episode may be said to have
begun, in a letter from my brother
Chester, which have here, and which
runs, using an undignified diminutive:
Dear DC:
We would like to see you. Mother and
all are well, and glad you pulled through,
even, If you did run behind the ticket so.
Am feeding three loads of steers. and
they are making fine gain. Middle
kauf's look rough, and all the feeders
think hess lose money on them. He paid
lour cents for them. This is about all
Inc news. Can't you appoint me your
ueputy down here to examine Miss F'rayn,
whose grandfather got killed in that
wreck? She wants to teach. She is
southerner but an awful nice lady and
JUST as smart as one of us. She breads to
90 10 Pacific City to be examined, as she
won won let ma get her hardly any clothes.
Sne Is very sensitive about money mat
.eFs and 1 had to lie to her about the
.lAuS TO bury her grandfather with, and
uleo to slip in $3.50 more, but she caught
.1e al 1t and cried. / will be strict and
make her write out the examination
poperiy; so send along the questions,
and the appointment
Yours truly, Chef.
r S.-Judge Worthington's office is so
, ns%I yours. you might leave the appoint
;rSnl and the questions in three. The
;s.use viii bring them down. He comes
t NV" quite often now, because he says
INA, maj the Boggses and the worthingtons
t,eu INTO Iowa in the same wagon
s ~"Ih IN an early day, and he thinks it
CoIst mat that accident that killed
tO'Unel Fayn should have brought the
Mia -.i, H together again. He thinks that
~ LIS FraEn will make a first-rate teacher,
anrs, ou need not be backward about the
'"''nent and the questions"
Not abating one jot or title of my
I l1ial Strictness, I informed Chester
er as MISS Frayn must appear and be
v aatu1ned as did others in the same sit
'oH' chester is an Ames man, and
49, Ane ludger and feeder of cattle, but
lo.. N'leo Tor responsibility in bellies
M, rioiessor Dustin, an elderly and
m n.Oplc educator and the author of a
oh sTSph on the CRUDE method, had
SAdrge Of the exapinotioy, whom Miss