Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-02

comes, and has made Mr. Doke agree in case
she should predecease him. as the lawyers
put It.
OF course Mrs. Doke, even in the begin
ming was never wholly paid in produce and
today. with much more money circulating in
the community, the business is mostly on a
cash-and-carry basis.
However. when those financial spasms
which seem to delight TO come just the in
terest on the mortgage and the premium are
due and the old man breaks his leg still make
1t a choice between letting a policy lapse or
accepting bag OF wool, a couple OF turks"
or few days labor one of her farms. II
is a safe bet that the policy will not lapse
Though overshadowed by his wife's fame,
Mr.. Doke is no mean salesman himself He
came to Ephraim during the first World War
to buy horses for the Government and fell in
love with the country He is still buying
selling and trading horses and there is no
smarter salesman. than horse-trader. unless
il Is his wife.
He, too. has prospered, and owns- many
sheep horses and cattle, two farms and the
only moving picture theatre in Ephraim
Getting the idea perhaps from some of
Alice's paid-up policies he made a rule that
any man woman was paid up far as his
theatre is. concerned, for the rest Of his life
upon reaching the age of 20. Youngsters see
ing these septuagenarans admitted free have
sometimes expressed a wish 10 skip the next
So TO 60 years, in order to get into this privi-
legged class
Alice's pioneer parents were Danes who
walked into Ephraim in 1862, with no real
estate agent TO sell them the idea. Such a
persons only talking points would have been
that the land was free and there were no
taxes.
Among the arguments against settling
in that community was the knowledge that
only two Winters before band of Indians
in war paint and armed with rifles mostly
stolen from plundered wagon trains Of other
pioneers. had raided the place
They killed most of the little settlements
inhabitants and drove the survivors 10 Salt
Lake City.
The redskins celebrated their triumph with
fire water and held the place unchallenged for
the rest of the Winter But in the Spring
came force Of Mormons from Salt Lake
City, armed with better rifles and a cannon
They drove the enemy up into the mountains
and there, the Lunns knew, they still were
awaiting opportunity to descend and scalp
them along with the others.
However, the Indians turned out to be the
least Of their worries. The first Winter they
lived in A cold cellar and almost froze. Next
Winter they had a house over 1t and thanked
heaven for their good fortune.
Next they staked everything on wheat
crop only to have IL killed by an untimely
frost and nearly starved to death.
But they stuck it out because they were
built that way, until finally fate, like the In
dams became discouraged with such iron
characters and let them slowly begin to
prosper.
A girl with Alice's background would
hardly have been stopped from selling insur.
ance, for lack of a trifle like money.
Il think neighbors bought my policies at
first because they were sorry for me-" Alice
said not long ago. They'd see me come into
their homes wet and hah-frozen, and they'd
figure that IL they bought policy maybe I'd
go home and get warm and dry and forget
about the life insurance business"
But she didn't forget about it, and before
long she was selling about 100000 worth Of
insurance annually.