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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1921)
American Woman Adopts a French Village Only a Summer Girl By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD l * - 0 . by Mc C lu re N e w a p u p e r S yn dic at e. 1 “ Dear Maida,” ran the note, “ I rather expected to cull on you this evening • for a last stroll on the beach as a flt- I ting end of our 'little affair,' but Cousin Sally has begged me to take her to the last hop nt the I ud . “ With regrets, “ RO B ERT W H IT N E Y .” Maida, sitting on the floor before n half-filled trunk, crumpled the paper In her hand und gazed with unseeing eyes at the chaos around her. What did It mean? He knew she had been expecting him. Hadn't he practically taken It for granted that he should see her almost every night for the Inst three weeks? And he had signed his The market place 1» llattonchatel, valley o f the Meuse, France, which village with Its 240 Inhabitants, has been name so formally— Robert Whitney, adopted by Miss Belle Skinner o f Holyoke, Mass., who Is shown at the left, with General Berthelet. Miss Skinner al instead o f the familiar "Bob." Malda's blue eyes overflowed nud ready has spent half a million frnncs on the town. she buried her face In her arms on the nearest support, which happened but next day halted at the entranc« to be a pile of freshly Ironed clothes. to Subtg Bay to land six stowaways rartlally filled packing boxes, bare who had secreted themselves on bookshelves and forlorn-looking couch board under the decidedly mistaken denuded of Its cover and pillows bore impression that they would be rapidly witness that this was Mnida’s last transported to the United States. night at the beach. Tomorrow morn R escu e Jap an ese Fisherm en. ing she and her mother would lock up A fe w days later the President the door o f the little cottage, hand Grant sighted a motor launch of about the key to the owner and take the 80 feet In length drifting helplessly trolley back to the city for the win ------------ I t - ------------------------------------- over the Pacific swells with a signal ter. o f distress hoisted. The transport It was true that except for an all The President Grant, Army and supplies the President Grant hove to and lowered a boat. The too brief two weeks In August, she steamed out on the Pacific crossing. men on the boat were Japanese fish Transport, Back in Brooklyn She swung out northward toward ermen, who said their fuel had given had had to go back and forth to the colder climes on the northern great out and they had drifted for five days. city every day. After Nine Months. But Maida had come to the beach circle route. Before she sighted land They were given enough gas to take she encountered three very heavy gales them back to Nippon and the Presi prepared to play a dangerous game, during which from ships all about dent Grant proceeded, reaching Karat- old as the hills and fraught with mis chief to the players. her she heard profane radio comments su August 10. A fte r five days of The fact that Malda's busy fingers on the weather which was forcing coaling the transport steamed toward them to lie to or steam off their Vladivostok, reaching the Russian were tapping busily at the keys of her Encountered Fire, Storm«, Death, courses. The President Grant, how port fo r the second time on August 18. typewriter hnd never prevented her little shell-like ears, half submerged Birth , and S tra n g e A d v e n tu re s in ever, was a liner and she kept right There 5,874 troops under command ahead on her eleven knot speed re o f Gen. St. Cecek, were embarked though they were In waves o f sunny Tropic«— Experienced E ve ry gardless of the big swells o f the mis and the President Grant headed hair, from absorbing the gossip which D a n g e r K n o w n to Sea. named Pacific. Tw ice she halted for Into the rough seas and southwest circulated among the girls of the of fice. She knew that such a one hnd New York.— Shore-staying people short periods fo r Chief Engineer monsoons o f the Sea o f Japan and been "engaged fo r the summer,” that who sadly wag their heads and say Brock’s men to make repairs in the the China sea. Hongkong was so-and-so had hnd an "affair” — In ut the romance and adventure o f the engine room. reached September 2 and Singapore short, that a flirtation in which both W hile fa r from land a fire, one of six days later through much rough as went out with the clipper ships knew that nothing serious was intend had better not express their views In those mysterious conflagrations which weather. Ceylon was touched once ed was a legitimate part o f every sum the presence o f any o f the officers or break out occasionally at sea, devel more and the Indian ocean. Red sea mer outing. men o f the army transport President oped In hold No. 1, forward. There and Suez canal passed without mis And Maida, who hnd nineteen unso was only a quantity o f life preservers hap. Grant. When Port Said was reached, phisticated affairless summers already For the President Grant, with her in this hold, but the dense smoke that October 6, the canal authorities or to her credit, decided that for once bottom full o f barnacles and her sides billowed out made things look bad. In I dered the ship moored in the African she would do as the other girls. Forti coated with green moss, recently tied fighting this fire Boson’s Mate Edison basin, against the protests of both fying her resolution, she even made up at P ier 2, Army Base, Brooklyn, was suffocated In the hold. Ordinary Captain Chambers and the American public her Intentions to the others, after a nine month voynge of some Seaman Ray went down through the consular ngent. When the tide fell who Jollied her and begged her to choking fumes In a gallant effort to 45,472 sen miles. In which all hands the big ship went aground nft. Cap compare notes with them. from Capt. John Chambers to the save him. Both men were stifled to tain Chambers ordered coaling stopped A few days after Mrs. Deering and smallest o f the Filipino boys got all death. The hold was flooded and the and water tnnks pumped out. The Maida were Installed In “ Seaview” voyage resumed. the adventure they desired, and then ship wns pulled ahead by Its anchors cottage, the boy next door invited C han ce to See S tra n ge Cities. some. And Capt. Chainbers may be Into deeper water. Fortunately the Maida to the weekly hop at the hotel. On March 17 the President Grant bottom o f the basin was soft and | said to be a good judge o f adventure, And there she met Bob Whitney— tall, for at 10 he went to sea In a clipper dropped anchor in Yokohama roads, the ship apparently suffered no dam browned, athletic, lively, everything to ship, sailed around the world nt 19 after crossing the Pacific in seventeen age. make him an Ideal figure In a summer as boson o f another sailing ship, and days, nine hours. There the liner lay A fte r two days at Port Said the girl’s eyes. has seen many strange things and twenty-one days discharging cargo and ship left for Trieste, reaching that Maida, a bit excited by the swinging here the crew received generous shore port October 13. tight squeaks In forty years at sea. This second voy music and gay compnny, had chatted It would be Impossible to sum up leave, as they did everywhere else age with troops was made novel by and laughed and danced In a way to the doings o f the President Grant and throughout the voyage, enabling them the presence on board of 600 Russian arouse any man’s Interest. There hnd her men on the iong voyage, equal to visit many cities and localities rare women, wives o f the Czecho-Slovak followed a call on Bob's part, an Invi soldiers, and a number o f babies. to almost twice the distance around ly seen by seamen. tation to Maida and her mother to go More cargo was discharged at Kobe, Three babies died on board and two 1 the globe, but they went through Are, sailing, and bids to other festivities storm, sudden death, births, arctic the next Japanese port o f call, where were born. which make up the life of a transient the ship stayed eight days. A fter pass H om e A g a in at Last. cold and tropic heat, men overboard, summer colony. A terrific storm arose while the parties, fights, black nights, tyflhoons, ing through Tsugara Straits In foggy Not that he allowed himself to be weather the ship came safely to Vladi transport was moored to a dock nt glassy sens and rescue at sea. come her exclusive property. Other vostok, arriving April 22. Trieste and fo r three days the ship j Off for Vladivostok. girls were sometimes the recipients of Here the President Grant took on wns held with great difficulty. Ten or All o f this started very prosaically— hls attentions, and recently he had to the men o f sea— when the President board 5,437 troops and sailed for eleven lines and eight mooring wires been going about n bit with his pretty held her snfely, but the mooring bitts Trieste, ploughing through tog and Grant warped out of her pier at Hobo second cousin, Sally Winters, who ken on the afternoon o f February 2 rain to Hongkong, where a stop wns on the port quarter cracked and one happened to be a stenographer in the last bound fo r Vladivostok, the Rus made fo r coal and supplies. Singapore o f the wires parted. office adjoining the city attorney’s. Then came the time the crew, and sian port on the Japan sea. There was reached May 12, and after skirt With Sally's advent, Maida hnd more particularly Chief Officer Jones, ing Sumatra and entering the Indian were 365 officers and men on board, In been forced to admit to herself that was looking forward to— casting off cluding 20 officers and men o f the ocenn, the President Grant stopped at tragedy had come of her meant-to-he- On October 23 the army, most o f whom were of the medi Colombo on the Island o f Ceylon. A on the last leg. Innocent plan— not tragedy to Bob, but President Grant, homeward bound, stny o f five days was made here. cal corps. The former liner is a vessel to herself. For Maida hnd fallen in snlled from Trieste with 2,000 Immi There was fine weather and glassy o f 18,072 tons and Is 599 feet long. love with her victim, madly In love, She passed ensily Before the ship was half way across seas on the trip across the Indian grants on board. und, she told herself, quite hopelessly. the Pacific the officers and crew were ocean, but In the Red sea the tempera through the Mediterranean, bucked a So this evening o f the day hls note to be thankful fo r every ton o f weight ture rose to 102 degrees and the uni storm Instlng four days In the Atlan hnd come she sat huddled In the tic, and dropped anchor at 1 a. in. and every foot o f length, but this Is form o f the day In the fire room was couch hammock on the dark porch. Sunday, November 20. The voyage anticipating the story. Captain Cham one pair o f light sandals. The one companion In whose compnny came to nn end officially when, at 10 A R id a on the Cam els. bers was on the bridge, the chief offi she had enjoyed these pleasures wns A t 10:25 a. m. on June 4, the ship a. m. Monday the big liner warped basking In the fnvor of another girl, cer, H. L. Jones, was busy straighten ing things out all over the ship for a entered the Suez Canal and reached Into Pier 2, army base, Brooklyn, tied utterly unmindful o f her loneliness. long voyage, and down In the engine Port Said on the Mediterranean sen up and slapped rat guards on her lines. Bob had beaten her at her own game. room Chief Engineer A. E. Brock was the next day. While In this part of But wasn't that a fam iliar step on grooming his 7,500 horse-power engines the globe members o f the crew had the boardwalk which ran behind the fo r the long and trying task ahead of an opportunity to try out the camel cottages? Mnldn sat up quickly. She “Certain Man” Answered as a means o f locomotion. In Cey him. would like, after all, to say good-by In Charge With 85 Yellowbacks Just by way o f showing that a sail lon they had tried elephants, .and in friendly fashion, even If everything or's life Is not always as perfect as China rickshaws, and at Venice, which was as nt end. At the closing session o f a re pictured. Chief Officer Jones was leav they visited after the ship reached The step drew nearer and as It ap vival meeting in Washington, N. ing behind his bride o f one month, Trieste, they tried gondolas. The ar proached Madia's heart heat corre C., an evangelist. Rev. B. F. l ie was happy that be had the moun rival at Trieste was on June 12, more spondingly faster. It wns Bob. McLendon, leaned over the pul tain o f work that falls to the execu than four months after the start of “ All alone?” he called guyly, as she pit and told his congregation tive officer o f a ship to take hls mind the voyage. rose to meet him. “ Didn’t know hut that a certain man, present at A t Trieste orders were waiting for off his troubles. I'd have to sit out the gang If I want the service, had not been true The primary purpose o f the voyage another shipment o f Czech soldiers, so ed to say good-by.” to his family, or hls religion, was to transport Czecho-Slovak troops after twelve days In port, the trans “ I thought you were going to the but that If he would deposit a from Vladivostok to Trieste, Italy, port steamed on the back trail. At dance with Sally," returned Maida, for $10 bill In the collection plate after their long, hard Russian cam Port Said she caught the United the life o f her unable to keep a note It would be taken as a token paign. The ship was not Idling on her States army transport Crook, Just sail of coolness from creeping into her o f hls repentance and nothing way over, however, for she had stowed ing fo r Trieste, and hastily transferred voice. further would be said, but that away In her after holds 5,000 tons of to her five stowaways who had crept "W ell, ye*,” admitted Bob, “ I was, if he refused, the evangelist steel rails, beams and plates, which on board at the Adriatic port. but she got a bid from a handsomer would publish hls name. Colombo was reached July 16, after she was carrying fo r the shipping man, and to tell the truth I wns glad The collection Included 85 passing through southwest monsoons board to Japanese ports. to tell her to go with him. Sally and ten-dollar bills and five notes Fine weather and smooth sens at and heavy sens In the Indian ocean. I are first-rate p«ls, but— well, I don't asking the evangelist to keep tended the first leg of the passage, On July 21, after five days at Colom Imagine, now that you're going, that quiet, and promising the $10 In bo for repairs to be made and sup down the American coast to Colon, at you are Interested any more,” he said, the morning. the entrance o f the Panama Canal. plies taken on, the ship steamed east meaningly. The port was reached after a run of ward, and five days later anchored Maida stood leaning against the eight days, and the big locomotives on a very dark night at the entrance porch railing, her hands plunged In K illin g Bee Spoile d palled the ship through the locks and to the narrow and crooked Singapore her sweater pockets. Next morning the ship pro Seymour, Ind.— Citizens o f this town out the other side In saven hours and straits. “ Let's go down to the beach," sug tw elve minutes. Eleveu days and ceeded toward Manila, hugging the had visions o f a killing bee with bank gested Bob. coasts o f Borneo and Palawan to robbers as victims, when the burglar eleven hours more o f steaming at the Maida hesitated, then decided that Manila was reached alarm went off at the Jackson conn she would see the game through no ship's regular gait, which was almost avoid typhoons. always between eleven and twelve August 1, with the crew all very busy ty bank. They surrounded the Insti matter wbat It cost her not to let him knots, brought her through the Golden painting and cleaning the ship In tution and waited five hours for the suspect. “ All right," she answered, Gate at Ran Francisco on Washing preparation fo r her next load o f pas yeggs. Then It was found that the listlessly. sengers. On August 5 the ship steam vault has been Improperly locked and ton'« birthday. February 22. A few minutes later and they were A fter five days here to take on coal , ed fo r Kara tsu. Japan, for coal, i the batteries did the rest seated on a huge bowlder at the base 45,472 MILES O N ONE VO YAG E OF BIG THRILLS SAILED IN MANY CLIMES of which beat the rtstless sea. High up was riding a delectable silvery moon. The silence, which had been un broken during the short walk, was ended suddenly by Bob, who spoke In a strange voice. From the words which followed the girl shrank— shrank until her face grew pale In the moonlight and her eyes looked wan and tired. “ You summer girls are maddening,” he said low and bitterly. “ You’re not the only one. But you are the first one who has affected me. Oh, I know I've no business to talk to you like this, but perhaps if I do it may save some other fellow from the torments I ’ve suffered ever since Sally told me.” “Told you what?” asked Maida. “ That one day when she was In your office for a minute she overheard you telling the girls how you were go ing to amuse yourself tills summer— that you knew It was all right when both sides understood. Sally told me, because I hnd been fool enough to let her see that I was getting to care for you. She thought she spoke In time, but she didn’t,” concluded Bob, grimly. “ I listened to you,” cried Maida in dignantly. “ You must listen to me. What you say is partly true. I did Intend to carry on like the other girls, but I didn’t know then that I would meet you, and I ’m sorry— ” Her voice faltered. Bob was gazing wistfully at her flushed face. “ Maida,” he said gently, “ you don’t mean— ” Maida lowered her lashes over her smudgy blue eyes, but not before Bob had seen the lovellght In them. Hardly yet comprehending, he held out hls arms. “ Come to me, Mulda, If It is to be for all time— not for a summer." And Maida w en t J Gladys George : + * * ........... * --------------------------- T h is c h arm in g “m ovie” sta r 1« a n ative of M a in « and ha« been on th« •tag« p ra c tic a lly a ll her life. Sh« played her first role at the age of three w ith a stock com apn y at W a . terbury, Conn., and since th at tim o h as appeared w ith m an y notable stag« •tars. -O - AIRPLANE SERVES THE CROOK L a w Officers Face a N e w and D ecide d ly D a n g e ro u s A id to E v a d e rs of Justice. Scotland Yard, which every Rrltlsh- er considers the world's highest organ ization for the capture o f criminals and the detection o f crime, and to which every British writer o f detec tive stories has given uustlnted praise for cleverness, has Just been outwit ted, according to London’s own confes sion, by a shrewd criminal who has brains enough to think of some other way than a land or water route of get ting out of England. The machinery of the great English detective organization was put Into op eration along all the old accepted lines; a close watch was kept on all trains nnd the passengers o f every out going bont were cnrefully scrutinized. The man for whom tills net wns spread did not attempt any o f the dis guises or subterfuges In which the writers of the modern Old Cap Collier stories greatly delight. He telephoned to the London nirport at Croydon, ask ing for a reservation on the plnne leav ing for Paris. When Informed that the afternoon ernft had nlrendy left, he went to the aviation ground nnd se cured a special plane. It required a liberal distribution o f money, but It paid him. He hopped over the top of the big police net and dropped safe ly on French soil. The report of the feat says this aeri al escape of a criminal “ was the first in the annals o f British crime.” But the whole history o f crime is full o f instances where the clever criminal has surprised the police by the employ ment of a new Invention or contriv ance which was never Intended for hls use. This exploit should prove not alone to Scotland Yard but to the po lice departments elsewhere the neces- Ity o f precautions that will make its recurrence Impossible. T H E R day I go veeslt Fat Stock 6how een one place but I no lika ver mooch. Ever seence one time when I loss tree hundrecd dolln I no gotta any use for da stock. Dat time I buy da fake stock and deesa kind ees fat stock—mebbe n<t deefrencc only leetle bit, I dunuo. Anyway ees plenta cows and sheeps and bulls een dat show when I go veesit. Some da time you could see da bull but mosta time you henra da bull. Seema like eese more bull en dat place as eeu congress or da Bul- shevikl. Dat place where I go ees calln Union Stock Y’ ards. Mebbe all da cattle be long weeth da union, I dunno. I feegure e e f union cnttle getta sama wages like a. union breeck layers ees no taka ver moocha time getta fat. Two, tree week steady work getta fat and rich same time. But I dunno somatlng botita cnttle. I aska one guy wot good ees da peeg for. H e say peeg maka pork chop, cow maka bcefastenk and da sheep maka lamb stew. I aska heera e ef da bull maka bullion and he says I was craze een da head. I no say somatlng, but ees one ting I no feegure out. Jusa between you and me and no fo r spreads round, I walkn all day een dat place looka fo r something. I wanta see wot da ani mal looka like whosa maka da ham and eggs. A ir Sa m p le s F rom C louds. Salt I.nke City has been laboring W ot you tlnk? ----------O---------- for some time under the handicap of a plague o f smoke nnd the authori ties hnve sought relief in many direc A LINE O’ CHEER tions without success, according to a writer in the Philadelphia Press. Re John K e n d ric k Bangs. cently the theory was advanced that the sulphur dioxide gas from the nu merous smelting plants In the vicinity T H E BANK OF CHEER. of the city were responsible for an upper air strata, which prevented I ’d start a Bank if so I could smoke from rising, so thnt It hung W hrrs I could store the things of good In a pall over the city. In order to That come Into my days; verify this theory some especially de The wealth of Love and joyous signed vacuum bottles were mnde nnd Cheer, carried aloft in airplanes and sam The Good W ill of my fellows here That drives away all sense of fear ples of the upper air taken at various That lurks along my ways. levels, and when the contents were analyzed there was not a trace of And when the coffer« all were full sulphur dioxide, so that some other Of Balances Delectable I ’d take my Check-Book out, cause will have to be found for the And send a good Right-Draft to all smoke cloud. Sun as a Sou rce of Pow er. O Who labored dully In the thrall And lay beneath the grimy pall. Of Hopelessness and Doubt, (Copyright.) In a recent paper on this oubject, C .1 I.cRoy Melslnger records that In cer tain subtropical regions, where coal I Is scarce, such ns Egypt, the Punjab,1 and the Karoo o f South Africa, teak- wood boxes, blackened within, fitted with glass tops and properly insulated, have been found to register from 240 to 275 degrees Fahrenheit In the mid die o f the day, and with the addition! H IG H H E E L S . of an auxiliary mirror to reach even] 320 degrees. Th<-se boxes are used j UEKN E LIZ A B E TH 'S reltfn start as ovens for cooking, as well as for ed the fashion o f high heels for many other purposes. — Scientific women’s shoes. The pair of her shoes American. whlrh is preserved to the present date must have made her three Inehes tall D ifficult Case. The heels “ I'm up again*« It," said the doctor. er when she wore them. "I have a patient suffering from sches were added to increase the height of nnd pains nnd I don't know what's the wearer to so make her more state- iy and Impressive. cansing the trouble.” (C opyrigh t.) “ Had hls teeth examined?" -------- O--------- “That’s the difficulty. I had all hls Haw Iti Started O Some A rtist. teeth extracted two years ago. I’ve Teacher—That’s the beat drnwlni cured many a man hy having a tooth or two pulled, but what are you going you have ever made. Btudent— Glad you like tt to do for him when he's run out of Teacher— I don’t.— Boys' Llf*. te e th r
