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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1945)
J. ... It i'v 1 hi 2. 2l 2: 2) 0 Page Few VI THEN we took over the Amer 1 " lean House, we had inly one regular boarder. This was Mr. Martin Tnpley, who owned the dry goods store. Mr. Tapley was a bachelor, middle-aged and growing bald. He dressed very untidily. His teem were stained, and his skin was sallow. ("That's what comes from his smoking so many cigarets," people said, nod ding wisely.) But smoking wasn't the worst of it. . , . He had a good business people were careful to point out that he hud Inherited It but he took It lightly, seeming not to care whether his books showed a profit or loss. He seldom appeared In his dry goods store until noon, leaving everything to his two oftlcious clerks. ' - . 1. You could alwaVs count on Mr. Tapley to be contrary. He called nlmseii a socialist and Kept picture' of Eugene Debs In his office. - whenever the Censoring Committee of the library banned a book one by Henrik Ibsen or George Bernard Shaw or Upton Sinclair or Robert Ingersoll, for instance he sent away and bought a copy and then carried it around openly under his arm. Naturally,, mere was a lot ot talk about him. People didn't approve of his never going to church.? They didn't like the Idea of his selling his house It had been in the family for three gen erationsana moving into a no- tel. There was talk, too, about the way his family lot was kept. 'There wasn't evon a marker on his mother's grave, j ) Mr. Tapley's mother had been I a very Important person In the I Village. No project was ever be I gun without her approval or com pjeted without her zest. She. was superintendent of the Sunday School, president of the Thursday Circle, and founder of our branch of the W. C. T. U. . , - "What a blessing It is that she Isn't alive to see the way her ison has turned out," her friends aid, sighlna, Sew Them Yourself 5727 By MRS. ANNE CABOT Slip-covering Isn't half as diffi cult a jab as we've been taught to believe and now that you can't get un upholsterer for love or money, why not turn out a per fectly slick job yourself? Takes five yards for an upholstered chuir fifteen yards for a daven port. Measuring, fitting, seum ing and finishing instructions are given in the instructions. To obtain complete instructions on "How to Muke Slipcovers" (pattern No. 5727) send 15 cents I Weatherman HORIZONTAL 52 Cask top 1 Pictured chief4 A U. S. weoth- 63 Toward ermsn, Fran cis W. 66 Herdsman 88 Ibidem (ab.) 59 He works in ' the U. S. , 12 Upon 13 Former . French V province 14 Type measure 10 Egg (comb form) 18 Luminous phenomenon 19 Literury scraps "k 20 Novice V 22 Tiers 23 He predicts rain and 24 Rubidium VERTICAL 1 Plant part 2 Covet 3 Symbol for 1 calcium 4 Low murmur 5 At nil limes 0 Mother of Apollo 7 Pulled 8 Selves 9 Royal Naval Reserve (nb.) (symbol) 26 District of Columbia ' (ab.) 27 He is a former commander 0 Eradicate 34 Atsfry Titled 36 Native of southe.1t) Nigeria S7 Freshet 38 Hypothetical force 39 Electrical engineer (ab.) 40 Unclose 43 East Indian posts 47 Crushing blow (coll.) 51 Vase M . 10 Iron (symbol) 1 1 Nevada city r pFiT r.r ar rd ' 1 1 irtfjirr- 1 1 1 u p jw '0oi sr iLK 5T Y)?ri 35 " --is F- "JTu W 1) N4 HS hi sT ,i W !( 1 n fr- B m$r L-prju ; Mr. Tapley's drinking had be come almost a legend. Whisky was like water to him. Wha,t he drank regularly In a prokibiUoa state would Wave hejtt anyone else unconscious, so the story ran. Yet he boasted that no one had ever seen him drunk. Even tipsy.. TyTY mother was one of the few women In the village who had a good word to say for him. "I believe if that girl had stood by him . . ." she said one day long before we moved. , "Whot girl, Mama?" wo de manded. It seomed Impossible. : She was never one to gossip. "There is no point in digging up the past," she said firmly. "H was just thut he had a girl who dion't clare stand up against his mother. She married someone else." By this time we were ell ears. "Who was Bhe. Mama?" "Was she somoone from around here?" "How, now," she said. "I'm sorry that I ever brought It up, You just go and ploy some game." But it was too late. "Just tell us if she was someone from around here, Mama." ' "Just tell us if it was someone we know." My father couldn't stand teoe ing. "Tell them," he said. "Now that you have gone this far." well," she went on reluctantly. "But see that you don't repeat it to anyone." Wo promised. "It was Eunice Sawyer. She was Eunice Hinckley then." "tunlce sawyer," we gasped. Eunice Sawyer was a DlumD. hearty farm woman with a hus band half her size and three ro bust boys. They lived Ave miles out of the village, It was hard enough to believe any middle aged people we knew could have ever felt romantic love. But Mr. Tapley and Eunice Sawyer , , , "Oh, Mama," Sue said. "She was a real pretty girl." my mother insisted, "and I auess she makes a good wife, too." City News In Brief Ilnllis Solomon, Negro tran sient, last night was arrested by city police on a vagrancy churgc on complaint of Union Pacific railroud officials. He was placed in (he city jail pending a hear ing in the municipal court. Glenn Victor of The Dulles and his sister, Mrs. Beverly Pyles of Battlo Ground, Wash., returned to their homes lust night. They hud been culled to La Grande for the funeral of their brother, Ed die Victor. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wells of Pondosu, a brother-in-law nnd sister, have ulso returned to their homo. Another sister, Mrs. Gettu Diivenport of San Francisco, will remain hero with her parents, Mr. ami Mis. ft. L. Victor, for two weeks. Best-Seller Stow ' Comes to Liberty A film version of A. J. Cronin's best-seller, "The Koys of the Kingdom", will be the Liberty theater's offering beginning to morrow. Gregory Peck heads llio cast, which includes Roddy McDow ell, Peggy Ann Garner, Sir Ced ric Hardwicke and other well known film personalities. The story is that of a young rebel who speaks for everyone who ever dreamed ambitious dreams . . , and for everyone who fought to make them come true. in coin, plus J cent postage, your 1. nine, address, and the pattern number to Anne Cabot, La Grande Evening Observer, 709 Mission St., Sun Francisco, Calif. 15 Craw 41 Bow 17 Either 42 Half-cm 10 Any 43 Sudden 21 Public speech advance 23 Scratches 44 I'okcr stake .45 Gnarl 40 Serbian 48 I's 49 Operatic solo 50 Forbidden 52 Feline 53 Romanian coin 56 Father 57 Ho.lrond (ab ! 25 Mix 20 Thick 27 Pen point 28 Exist 29 Covered wagon 31 Wine vessel 32 Coterie 33 Dutch city 40 Not in AnNwtr in I'rrvloaa Paul THE (fTf'JE Saturday eveUHg late -lp May Julia and I wera titting on the steps of - the American House watching the farmers come in to trade. In one of the bug Sles that passed we recognized Luther Sawyer and Eunice, weighing down her end of the seat. We looked at each other, re membering. Then we looked back at her. She was still pretty in a heavy, faded way. Too pret ty, at least, we decided, for the little pinched man who tied the horse on the railing of the general store and without a word headed toward the barber shop. We watched her get out, pat the horse, pick up her basket, and start off. "Do you suppose she will go to hit store?" asked Julia. I had just been wondering that. We didn't take our eyes off her as she passed from one store to another. First the meat market, then the hardware, then the cob bler's, across the street again to read the notices on the Post Of fice. Then toward the lone: line of gray buildings where the dry goods storo was, Would she go in? one aian t go in. sne didn't even look in. Head up, eye straight ahead, she went on to the bakery. We watched the next Saturday. the next, and the next. She had gone into every store but his. Had they met face to face since their quarrel? We wondered. What would happen If they did? (To Be Continued) IWmy ! 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