Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1941 — Page 19

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THE QUILT

‘By GEORGE WADE

Helvetia Nelson' made the finest quilts that anybody in the neighborhood had ever seen, and this disrupted ‘the life of Qllie Kreitz.

Not a year went by that Helvetia 1 wasn’t awarded the first prize at|§

the County Fair for the best handmade comforter.

" A year and a half ago Ollie Kreitz |: a

and her husband, Frank, had driven Helvetia to the Fair, and on the way back Helvetia said to Ollie, “Don’t you ever sew anything? Don’t you have any hobbies?”

“No; she hasn’t,” Frank said. “All |! women can’t be as gifted as youl;

are.”

“I'd go simply crazy if my hands |:

were idle, for a single minute,” |'|*

Helvetia said, half closing her eyes and looking pious. Frank smiled at Helvetia through the rear view mirror and Ollie started -losing her temper. : “Some man’ll carry you off some day,” Frank said to Helvetia. “A woman with your gifts won't have to advertise for bidders.” “As I always say to my brothers— ‘the devil finds work for idle hands.’ ” : “My hands haven’t been ‘idle in 20 years,” Oilie said; “I don’t know how it would feel.” “Oh, I don't know,” Helvetia said disparagingly; “one can-always find time if one really wants to.” o ” 2

WHEN THEY STOPPED at the farm where: Helvetia lived, Frank got out of the car and helped Helvetia to alight with her quilt. “If I had an anvil under each arm, he

wouldn’t do that for me,” Ollie said|

to herself. A month passed before Ollie decided on what action to take. She was going through a rural magazine when she came across an advertisement: “Handmade quilts: to order; choice of design, color, and fabric, $50.00 She looked across the lamp-lighted table and: bit her lower lip in deep thought. After a long time she said, “Frank, T'm going to make a quilt. Each night I'm going to go into the spare room and work on it.” She went upstairs to the spare room and sat in a rocking chair. She was all alone behind the closed door. Although it ‘was quite dark, she didn't light the kerosene lamp that stood on a small table. She wanted to think. Fifty dollars! of money! every penny. Not that he was miserly, but with so small a farm... one couldn't blame him in the least. It was necessary to conserve

Fifty dollars! ° Gosh! But she'd find a way. Frank wouldn’t notice if the hens seemed to lay a couple.of eggs less than usual—she could cut in on that. Then there was .". . there was ... Well, she'd think of other things as time passed.

AND AS TIME passed, she did think of other things. She started paying cash for her groceries and supplies .in town, and so she took a nickel here; /a dime there, a quarter somewhere else. And each evening after dinner she'd go into the spare room and sit. Mostly, she read her Bible, but in spite of this she felt that she had lost all contact with God. She was living a lie—not just a little white lie, but a lie that consumed all of hes thoughts every moment of her e. Then came spring. Just two dollars and she would have enough money for the quilt. She drove with Frank to town for. a long list of things. Scarcely a word passed between them, and they avoided look« ing at each other. _ 1 It was the same way going home. -She felt the two dollars which she'd held out, and which she'd secreted in the pocket of her dress, and she hated feeling them. She 't care about the quilt at all . She'd built a wall between herself and her

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THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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he said. There was a look of complete resignation and despair about him, and his arms hung down limply. He sighed: “Danged if I see any

way out.” ; “What is it?” she asked. “What's wrong?” : $ : ase] on: the ‘tractor busted,” he said. ; “Can’t you get it fixed?” “What am I to use for money?” She took a step toward him. “Would 50 dollars help?” she said eagerly. “I mean if we had 50 dollars cash . : .”’ “Certainly,” he said testily. She hurried into the house and in: a few moments she came out wits a cigar box and handed it to

“Is it really 50?” He said. ” ' ” ” SHE NODDED. “I saved it,” she said. - “For. a year and a half I saved it.” : ? : He stood up and put his arm around her, but didn’t say anything, Perhaps he couldn't, ] _ A car went by o Sh fous and a womapn called a ges was

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HELD TO GRAND JURY IN STRIEFF SLAYING

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. P.) — A coroner's jury today held Jarvis Roosevelt Catoe, 36-yeat-old Negro

" {for “action by the grand jury” in

the sex-slaying of Betty Strieft, 23, War Department clerk from Des Moines, Ia. ; ! Catoe, according: to police announcements has confessed killing] Miss Strieff, two other white: women, and four women. i

The hearing the Strieff case

today took less than .one hour. Witnesses included detectives,

friends of Miss Strieff, and Esther|-

Hall, Negro gir] friend of Catoe. Miss Hall told the jury that Catoe gave her the umbrella that Miss Strieff, was carrying the day she disappeared as she was en route to a store for butter. . tive Aubrey Tolson read Ca-

‘|toe’s confession. Stanley LeBlanc, the slain girl's fiance, told of hunt-

ing for her. Miss Betty Stribling, owner of the umbrella, told of having loaned it to Miss Strieff.

The jury cousidered the evidence] } but a short time before finding Ca-| {toe was “responsible for the death”| iN =lof Miss Strieff. ¥

HAMPTON EXPANDS STUDY

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