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About Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1914)
LOCAL AND PERSONAL j Items of Interest Gathered in and About Town J Mi h. H rm Atkins of Kel so, Wa-h., visit 1 her mother Mi. John Fluke the past week. Mrs. Mollie Allin visited friend in this city last week Don't let your uti lu i tell yon how good the Jubilee Concert was. Ti there and enjoy it yourself. Miss Kora Browne viiitee her parents in Lebanon over Sunday. Chae. Irvine and wife left for their home Wednesday after an extended visit here Mrs. Hugh Hauna wa a Dallas visitor several day last week. Mrs. J. G. McIntosh"n teitained the "Wednesday Afternoon" club Wednesday A numhtr of guobis were in vited and a delicioui lunch way served Guests were Mekdames Webber, Robert son, McLaughlin, Ireland. Younjr, Davidson and Mis? Dorothy Cooper. Wilson i ' off the job, Smith sells fruit trees and Tripp still !! real estate. 4-t Mrs. Gray spent a tew dayc in Portland the guest of her sister, returning Sunday. John C. Payne has a ba'd head. Hut listen, it wont b bald when he imperBoimte "Black Patti" at the Jubiib concert at the lei s Tuesday evening the 24th. Abstracts of Title made promptly carefully and at reasonable prices, Brown 6 Sibley, Attorney and At stractors, 610 Mill St. Dallas, Oregon The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet from page 5 u tnit you. Mr. Lester?" allied oies. "Yea." "This la Parks." and I suddenly real law) thnt bin voire wai unfamiliar be cause It wai hoarse nod quivering with emotion. "Could you come down to the bouse rlxht away, air?" "Why. yea." I snld. wonrteritiRly. "If It's Important Poen Nfr Vantine need me?" "We all need you!" said the volee and broke Into a dry itob. "For (Sod's ank. mme quick. Mr Lester!" Gray & Smith have been busy mending bop baskets. They have visited twelve hop yards up to date, and upejt to reach probably sixiy hop yards this year. Dr. II. Wyse Jones who has been holding a series of revival meetings at Indepen dence, spent last Saturday at his home here. He will re turn for another weeks woik at that plaoe, after which, with Mr. Blackstone, his singer, he will go to Mt. Vernon, Wash., to hold evan gelistic eervices. The meet ing at In lepi ndeiice'has been a auccessful one. After hold ing for two weeks there were about 40 additions by bap tism. McMinnville Tele phone Register. J. Wilson Cook of Inde pendence was in McMinn ville from Thursday until Sunday visiting his many friends, and on Saturday spent the day with the local grange. Mr. Cook report that his daughter in-law, Mrs. Dean Cook, who recent ly suffered a stroke of paraly sis, has not shown any re covery. MeMmnvillo Tele phone Register. j ! Art Ilosjan bought tW P ncus Laws alialfa roots this week, paying 75o perj HX'O. He contemplates grafting hops into these al- falfa roots and sell them to the trade. I "Look hr!" he erisd again. "All right," I aald without" furth.f parley, for evidently he had lust bla aelf control. "SonietlilnK baa happen ed down at Vautliie's," I added to Godfrey aa I hung up the receiver. "Shall I cuum. too?" nuked Godfrey. "I'erhnps you'd better It aouuded pretty w-rloiis." We went down together In tbe ele vator, nud three niluutea luter we bail hailed a tuxl and were spetMliui! east ward towaM the avenue. Aa we reached the avenue and turned dowu tuwu the driver pushed up bia apark Five nitnutea later we drew up lefore the Vantlue place. -Turks must have been on the front atepa looklnK for me, for he oame run Ding down them almost before the car had stopped. Flla face startled me. "la It you, Mr. Lester r he Rasped. "Steady, man." I aald. "Don't let yourself go to piece. Now what haa happened? "I'll abow yon, air," ha sold and ran np tbe atepa, along the hall, to the door of the anteroom where wa had found the Frenchman's body. "In there, sir!" be Bobbed. "In there!" The room waa ablaae with light, and for au Instant try eyea were ao das led that I could distinguish nothing Plnily I saw Godfrey spring forward and drop to hla knees. Then my eyea cleared, and 1 aaw. on the very sit w here IVAnrvIle had died, another body. I remember bend tug over and peering Into tbe face. It waa the face of Philip Vantlue. "He'a deait" aald Godfrey. Then there was an Instant'a silence "Ieater, look here!" cried Oodfrey'a Toloe, aharp. Insistent Godfrey waa kneeling there holding uinethlug toward m. "Look here."' ha cried again. It waa tbe dead man'a band h waa holding tbe rlht hand, a swollen and discolored baud and on the back of It ycrat above the knock!, wero two tlnv wtranda, troui men a rew orops of blood had trickled. And aa I stared at this ghastly slj;bt. ( scarce able to believe my eyes, 1 heard j a choking voice behind me saying over and over again: i "It was that woman done It! It was, that woman done It!" . I I have no very clear remembrance of what happened after that. The shock . waa ao great that 1 bad Just strength j enough to totter to a chair and drip into It and ait there staring vajruely at that dark splotch on the carpet. Two or three persona came into tiie room Parka and tbe other servants. I suppose. I heard Godfrey's voice giv ing ordera, and finally some one held glass to my llpa and commanded me to drtnlc Again, then, 1 saw Godfrey standing over me. "Feel better?" he asked. I nodded. "I don't wonder It knocked yon out," be went on "I'm feeling shuky my self. I bad them call Vantlne'a physi cian. But lie can't do anything." "Godfrey." 1 whispered, "whose voice waa tt onetliln Ko mm"'" Continued Next Issue trade) marliind copy nit ' uafnrd or no I fe. (tend tamkIH, nkt'tehrtt or phut or artrl de- M-rtption for FREE SEARCH nd rvport on patenUbHitr. JUiik ruferwnw. PATENTS BUILD FORTUNES for you. Our frw buokluU tell how, wbtt U invent and mtu you mom??. Writ today. D. 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