Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17

family to Omaha so the children could 30 To
school, Helen was just out Of high school when
he died. She was only 20, but she undertook
to run the ranch.
IT only intended to stay six months On SO.
then sell out" she admits. But I'm still hereH
She bossed the ranch in person for q decade
and built up one of the finest herds Of cattls
and most valuable pieces Of property in tina
hills. Did she ever have trouble with the cow
boys? Never. They were too gallant.
ct used to think missing lot Of tha
fun in life" she muses., 'but took response
biIty and I've enjoyed it. These sand hills
like the desert. They fascinate you after you
live in them for while. And there's some
thing about ranching that makes you stick by
it,"
Another woman rancher is Mrs. Essie Davis
When her husband died, she leased the ranch
TO Denver commission company, but the lease
ran out this Spring and she came back from
the West Coast to rum the show herself.
NJ the ManningS, wealthy, prominent Hy,
- annis family, there have been four genera
tons of ranchers. Sid Manning came into the
sand hills from Colorado where he had been
toting six-shooter since he was IL years Old
helping his father drive cattle north from Mex
ieo He is still on the job directing big opera.
tions and his wife does her own housework yet.
There's Montgomery-Wa catalogue on their
living room table.
Sid Mannings son, George, lives next door.
If you call him on Sunday afternoon you'll
probably find him snoozing in big easy chair
before the fireplace with his fancy boots on.
Their son. Sidney, jr, lives out Of town q
ways but is conspicuous in 'the younger set"
He wears shirt with upper up the front in
place Of buttons He win invite you TO the next
branding at his place.
These brandings are held early In the Sum.
mer. All the ranchers and ranch hands fOR
miles around attend to help put brands on the
hosts calves. They work all forenoon, or %
long as the job takes, and then make whoopee
The food Is put out in dishpans.
The last branding at the Manning place
soul present, including the old folks got baUs
tiled from head to toe
One Of the biggest cattlemen Of all is Million.
aire G. J. Abbott
"Ranchmg," he says, els Just q matter of
working like hell and keeping on working like
hell"
A BBOTFS 15-year-old daughter, who looks
~ like q million dollars, attends the very
democratic Hyannis High School (the station
agent Is on the board Of education). You're
likely to see her any school day wearing an old
sweater walking across the tracks and up the
sandy lane 10 the school house.
Related to the Abbots are the Gentrys When
old J. n. MAC" Gentry, who has ridden out
and ropsd many wild gray wolf in his day,
sits IN the parlor to talk to friends, he pulls an
empty chair up in front of him and clinches
his legs around it as If he were astride horse
He tells, reluctantly at first but with growing
enthusiasm, about the great fire which once
swept the ranges, reaching forward like mon
strous hand with long, red fingers to grip
everything on the earth.
Hyannis is pretty wet and nobody cares ex-
cept PaTson J. e. Aschbacker, who holds forth
in the Congregational pulpit. He charges that
the town Is wide open, and reveals that one of
the few stills ever seized by the sheriff was
stolen right out Of the sheriff. keeping