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TEE ONTARIO ARGUS, ONTARIO, OBEGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 5 1922 - tfceiety With tho arrival of cool even ings and the early arrival of dark ness which cuts off evening rides, Ontario folk aro turning to auction bridge as the means of diverting the ovenlng hours. Tho rago of brldgo seoms to bo growing apaco in tho cltv, which already has tho reputation of playing more bridge per person than any community in this section. This Increase Is mani fested in the formation of new clubs and tho extension of member ship In those formerly established. Tho first of the now clubs, which has not yet taken an official title was formed Monday ovenlng at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Clemo, and is composed of tho fol lowing couplea: Messrs and Mcs dames Clemo, Chelsey and Wllmer lloyor, C. F. Trow, Don Piatt, L. B. Cockrum Earl Blackaby and Geo. W. Hotcnkiss. ' On Tuesday ovenlng at tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Larue Blackaby another club Inaugurated tho seas on, this is a ro-organlzed group which extended its membership and will gathor overy Tuesday ovenlng. Thq. monibors include: Messrs. and Mosdames Laruo Blackaby, J. M. Mcouald, J. A. McFall, It. W. Swag lor, O. II. Graham, J. It. Fortlor, Elmo Pearson, It. W. Jones and E. W. Howland. Mr. McDonald was elected presldont of tho club at its initial gathering. Tho Imporlal club moots tonight with Mr. and Mrs. J. A, McFall. Tho first mooting of tho Woman's club was a uniquo In tho club's his tory. It bogan this noon with a luncheon at tho homo of tho Presi dent, Mrs. J. It. Blackaby, the mom bors bringing tho refreshments thoy thought appropriate without in forming each othor.,Tho only dupli cation wns a salad, and that Just proved enough to go round whllo tho resulting monu was nil that tho most exacting proarrafigomont cotiud havo conceived. Last Friday ovonlng Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Iloman woro tho hosts for tho first mooting of tho Imperial club. Mrs. G. It. Emlson entertained tho Tuesday bridge this wook and had for tho out of town guests, Mrs. C. E. Konyon and Mrs. II. C. Whit worth of Wolsor, former mombors. Tho Monday brldgo club hold its Initial gathorlng of tho soason at tho homo of Mrs. A. L. Cockrum this wook. Tho first mooting of tho Woduo3 day brldgo will bo hold noxt week. Tho Girls' club will gathor for its mooting noxt Tuosday at tho audi torium of tho library. (cMPlWnJARJ: ;! f! By MARY LOUI8E CORMIER ; LOCAL PERSONALS Tho Stato Tourist Bureau office having closed for tho yoar M. E. Bain has accepted a position with tho county road forco which Is In clmrgo of tho Nyssa-Jordan Vnlley highway work. J. A. Lakness, manager of tho Malheur Home Tolopnouo company and of tho Contral Orogon Tola- phono company, as woll, loft Mon day morning for Burns to look after business affairs connected with tho Contral Orogon organization. P. J. Gallagher loft Monday to nt tond tho term of court lit Harney county, and will go front thoro to tho Irrigation congress at Bend. V. P. McKonna of tho Portland Woolwarohouso company, spent tho wook hero looking aftor local In tqrosts, Mr. McKonna bought somo Hhoop for feeding ou tho company's ranch down on tho Columbia. County Agent L. R. Brolthaupt ro turuod Friday from John Day whore ho was tho judgo of agricultural products at tho fair held thoro. Mr.lnd Mrs. Joo Howory who havo spout tho summer near Ironside, woro in town this wook at the Mooro, Thoy loavo this wook for Crowley whoro thoy will Bpend tho wlutor. Martin Mooro loft this week tor Eugeuo to rosumo his law studios nt tho University. Adam Murray who registers front Juutura, was listed among tho guests at the Carter house Monday, Take Sabbatical Year. In C'Hitfe.iUu county uniluiltiiml agents have the rank of assistant pro feasors In tv stato milu-rhlty and arc entitled to nil the rights ami priv ileges of the resident teaclilnji force. Ono county ugout who lmt now sorml eight yours In Ills present po hltlon has beeti grunted biihlmtlcul lcuc, which he will bpvnd In Uurope studying rural co-operation. This t the llrst time In the history of (he work tliut such recount lion 1ms been given u county agent. Qlr I, Fourteen, It 8lx Feet Tall. Kathleen Clarke, fouiteen jcura old, and six feet In height, U tho tallest gill In Kugluiid. Medical men declare tho girl to bo perfectly uoruml In et cry roopect uud ure of the opinion that she will continue to grow uutll she U seventeen or eighteen. , 1922, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Milt Is tho champion liar of Merrl nine Mills. Ills superiority In this Hue bus never been challenged. There are other prevaricators in the town, but ranged beside the urban, accomplished Milt, they appear as so many lisping schoolboys. With Milt, lying Is an art. If not actually a profession. As a boy Milt would not attend school If he could possibly He his way out of It. "Later, when he cume to b'l employed In Illnckle's general store, his ability to evade tho truth proed useful In a number of different ways. For Instance, a crate of cold storago eggs would be purchased. Mllt would promptly advertise them as "strictly fresh" and levy his price accordingly. He would sell them all. Mllt had u sort of quick, crafty In telligence. Ho renllzed that women trusted him and It was through them that he must reach the men. When John Hlnckle dismissed him because of ii disci cpancy In tho cash register, Mllt swore that he would get even If It took htm the rest of his life and he etrnlglitwny began to lay his plans. On u certain May morning he strolled Into the general store. Mrs. Hlnckle. a thin, dark woman with n Jealous temper, was behind the counter. "Morning," said Mllt, in his soft dniwl. "Where's John?" He knew well enough that Hlnckle had left that morning for the wholesule house In Boston where he purchased supplies. "lie's gone to Boston," the woman replied, curtly. "Did you want to see him about n Job? If you did, there's nothing doing." A gentle laugh rippled out of Milt's upplo throat. "A Job?" he repeated, with a depre catory smile. "No thanks. Doing chores pays me well enough. Some weeks I malco as high as $00." That was a fallacy, of course. Mllt seldom averaged more than $20 when he worked and he did not work very often. "Whut did you want to see John nhmit, then?" persisted Mrs. Hlnckle. "Oh, it doesn't matter," Mllt re sponded, evasively. "Come to think, I see him getting on the train this morn ing. Thnt Blnke woman was with him." Mrs. Hlnckle stopped weighing n hag of brown sugar and her little black ejes sparkled dangerously. "How do you know she was with him?" Tho question enme ns a chal lenge tinrt Mllt answered It with an en joyment that was typical of him. "Well," he explained, carefully, "I heard her say to him when he was helping her onto the train, 'This Is the first trip wo've had together In ten years, John.' And she wns laughing, sort of happy-llkc, when she said It." "I don't hcllevo you," Mrs. Hlnckle Informed him coldly. Mllt smiled nnd shrugged hi shoulders. "I didn't expect you would," he mocked, ambling off. Aftor that Merrlmac Mills sneered nt Milt's "stories" and openly branded them for what thoy were. But Mllt was one of those curious beings who thrive on opposition. Thoro was a good deal of specula tion concerning Tlllle, Milt's young and still pretty wife. People won dered why sho had not left him long ago. "Tlllle's gone to spend tho week with my folks In Baltimore," he would elucidate, as he stood In the bunkroom of the flrehouso on a Friday evenlnp Watching a poker game. "I kinder thought the chnngo of air might do hei good. She'll hnvp nil the comforts of home, too. My folks the Baltimore Joneses, ou know are pretty well off Most likely, by now, Tlllle Is riding up from tho stntlon In their town enr " Through the blue Im.o of cigar smoke, the men would grin at each other over their cards ns If they were In secret understanding. They were All of them understood tacitly that Tlllle was, at that very moment, sit ting In her shoddy home across the river, mending Milt's socks. One raw night Ir. winter Mllt was awakened by Tlllle's low moaning. He found her condition to bo dangerous and hurriedly set out for Merrlmac Mills. Young Doctor Garret heard Milt's frantic knocking and thing open Ida bedroom window. "What Is It?" he called drowsily to tho restless, dark tlgure on the snow coM'red steps. Mllt explained. "Your wife Is lu Baltimore," tho doc tor answered coldly. "You told me so yourself this afternoon. And I don't propose to be dragged out of bed on n night like this for the snke of u practical Joke I" The window slammed down. Mllt stood there In the snow, quiver Ing w It li anger and despair. Desperate and half-crazed Mllt bor rowed n sleigh nnd drove to South Merrlmac, some three miles away, where he secured a doctor. But when, ufter their mad nice against time, tlie.v reached Milt's shack, Tlllle was past the need of medical science. It was many months before Merrl mac Mills saw Mllt again. Once foud of company, ho now sought Isolation. It whs een whispered about that Mllt was going to reform, But Mllt v;us 1 1 hi human for that. Another year found him back In the llrehouso and he wns ns glib and prevaricating of tongue ns ever. Now nnd then ho sits upart, this champion, and there, comes into his faded eyes an expression of bullied wlstfulncss. "I could tell the truth," ho mutters, half defensively, "hut nobod. will be lieve tue now. Nobody will believe." "S2S25E525E3 2Sn57.5-23HH2a25Z5SF2St WAYS OF FATE G D C Dy MILDRED WHITE J &SSB5i5S555Z5ZSZ5Z&SBShSbSZSte. '' Copyright. 1422, Western Newspaper Lf ,. The gill who wulkod down the vil lage stleet, passed the row of qu-'m old fashioned houses, to tutu ic ai u bungalow door. To this tiail gul whose health made country ilviun ti present necessity, Janey's home, and Janey's bright society, were a salva tion, and Indeed without them ltus.i llnd could not have stayed out hut designated time. The new quiet life was. very strange to the clti-lued young woman, whose natural gajeties perhaps, had been her disaster. "Who lives In the bungalow wltb the sun dial In the garden?" itusu llnd had asked her aunt the second day of her stay. "Oh jou mean Janey Pepper's place. We always cull her Janey Pepper." Itowilind met the mistress of tht pretty bungalow soon after. Passing the garden of the sun dial when Its nils ti ess wus there picking roses, that sweet-faced little lady Invited her In Itosnltnd became Immediately Inter ested lu Janey Pepper. "Fate Is the strangest thing," ie marked Itosallnd one day, "here am I, a lonely stranger In a strange place, carelessly passing a rose garden, i find you and am lonely no more." Janey Pepper bent over the silk cur tulu she wus sewing. "There's no understanding the wajE of fate," she said, and laughed. "Now take me, my dear, and the way I came to be man led; luul Just settled down checriully to single hless cdness when a bit of misfortune led mo straight to my husband and hap piness. That sounds contradictory I know, but let me tell you about It. I was living, at the time, In the little home my folks left to me. Then came tho hard whiter when my collie do; died and Black Be'iuty had to be sold, and I fell off u tall stool and twisted my back. I was standing on the stool to take down Undo Silas' old photo ginph that I'd got pretty tired, of see Ing there, mid after I fell there was no Black Beauty to carry me over to Doctor Hastings. So I put on a loose cape nnd walked, all twisted with pain, all the way to the doctor's olllcc. The doctor, himself, who had (lis charged an Impertinent chauffeur that morning and didn't know how he wus to be driven around, wns not vci.v sympathetic, being troubled with Iih own problem. Then Into the waiting room, where I was waiting to see lion I was to get back to my home, came James N. Hodges of the grand house on the hill. Every one spoke of him as James N. Hodges, thinking always of the man's aloof Importance. I re called, as he sat there In scowling im patience, that his lovely butterfly wife had died last spiing. I don't remember that James N. Hodges had ever no tlced me before; he spoke now, gruffly. "When will the doctor be at liber ty?" And, I Impatient with my pain, re plied, "I don't know anj thing about the doctor." James N. Hodges looked In sudden displeasure tit u person so mde. UN line ejes were leproachfully ques tionlng fl The doctor opened the door and he wns as crusty as either of us. "Jnne.v Pepper," ho said, "I can't take you home as I hoped to do. Don't know how I'm going to make the rounds in) self; but If jou had used n little common sense you would not be here with n lame back. Better have left your Uncle Silas picture hanging on the wall." "I can stand the lame back better than I could stand Uncle Silas pic tine," I letorted, and In a minute w were nil three laughing together James N. Hodges Jumped to his feet "My car Is at the door," he offered pleasantly. "I will be glad to drive you home, I can send It hack for your use later. Doctor Hastings." Janey smoothed thoughtfully the rose silk, "That's how fnte gave mo my hus band," she s.ild. "though Jim says his Is the gift. I do try to malco him happy. That's whj we left the gloomy old nncestral honie on the hill for this lovely sunny place. For I soon learned thnt my .11 in was not self Im portant nor aloof, as we supposed, but Just n man,' plain, lonesome for com mon happiness and love." Janey laughed. "I'll be bound If ho expected to find those blessings In old Doctor Has tings' office any more than I expected to find them falling off a stool." iiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 RADERS THE BIGGEST an t3 - !.- ' ' " ""' d THE BEST Merchandise from "Rader's" means more for your money. At "Rader's' people find that high quality mer chandise and low prices do go hand" in hand. They find that "Rader's" guarantee can be depended on always. In other words people find "Rader's" the place to trade. M oney Savin: Prices I For Friday and Saturday we have placed on sale a list of articles noted below at prices much below actual value. Read these descriptions and prices carefully and buy to save. H J mi mill WOMEN'S PHOENIX SILK HOSE $1.00 H ""Will aimii This is an offering that you should take advantage of. A complete line of sizes in the following shades: Black, brown, polo, beige and white. BED SPREADS $2.23 A special purchase brings this bar gain to you. Plain white. A reg ular $3.50 value. SERGE AND GRANITE CLOTH 75cYedr. Just the thing for school dresses, 36 inches wide, Navy, pin stripe and brown. Regular $1.25 value. Ill ,.iiiiiiiiiiimiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiih, m WOOL MIXED PLAIDS 75c per yd. Big value at this price. 36 inches mde, in blue, green and red plaids. CANVAS GLOVES, 2 pr. 25c This is the extra heavy weight. Regular 2 for 35c values any place. ION USI $145 SOX Haynes extra heavy derby ribbed. Regular $1.75 value. 2 pr," - 25c Men's medium weight cotton Sox. Black and brown, not seconds, but good quality. ELANNELEnE SHIRTS $1.95 See this shirt before bujung, as it is the best value of the season. ii? BLUE POINT HAVANA CIGARS Tplavor is what makes a cigar --- and flavor depends on tobacco. Only the Finest Havana -is used in the Blue Point Cigar. ' Two for Twenty-five Cents Boyer Bros. & Co., Ontario, Distributors J. F. Whitaker Cigar Co. $ NEEDS OF "YOUNG AMERICA" Early Rail Disaster. The first great railroad disaster In tho United States wus wlmt wns for yeitis referred to us tlio "Hiirllnston Accident." It occurred near Hurling ton, N. J., In 18."3, nnd niuscd the death nnd Injury of n grout nmuher of persons. Tho American public was horror btrlckcn at the cui-milty, and popular feeling rose so high thnt new regula tions In regard to the hacking of trains, signaling, etc., weie put Into effect In eery railway system In the country. Hev, Dr. llroadinan, n cele brated i'lilladelphlu clergjmun, prcucjied a fumous sermon on the subject. Not Missed. "Do you remember the good old dnys when a ennJIdute wus expected to hire a brass band and treat the crowd r "Those weren't food old dnys," re plied Senator Sorghum. "They Mmply promoted bad liquor, bad music iiuil bad politics." European Critic Thinks That Youth of Great Republic Suffers From Too Much Freedom. George Snntnyana, famous philoso pher and writer, in an article written especially In the Forum on "America's Toung Radicals," says : "I havo made a severe effort to dis cover as well as I may from a dis tance what these rebels want, I see what they are against they are against everything but what are they fort I have not boen able to discover It. This any be due to my lack of un derstanding or to their Incapacity to express themselves clearly, for their style Is something appalling. But per haps this scandalous failure In expres sion, when expression is what they yearn for nnd demand at all coats, may be a symptom of something deep er; of a radical mistake they have made In the direction of their efforts and aspirations. They think they need more freedom, more room, a chance to be more spontaneous. I suspect that they have had too much freedom, too much empty space, too much practice in bolng spontaneous when there was nothing in them to bubble out Their style Is a sign of this ; It la not merely that they have no mastery of the Eng lish language as hitherto spoken, no clear sense of the value of words, and no simplicity; that they are without the vocabulary or the Idiom of culti vated people. . . . No, It Is not more freedom that young America needs In order to be happy; It needs more discipline." FRUIT PICKERS WANTED AT MALHEUR LAND CO. ORCHARDS At Jamieson, Oregon Men Pickers - $3.25 Per day Women Pickers - $3.00 Per day Come at Once - Good Accommodations MALHEUR LAND COMPANY H. D. Elseman, Manager. WANTED to purchase, a horse power feed grinder, must be In in good condition and cheap. H. L. Smith, Brogan, Ore. FOUND Key ring with one key attached. Owner can get same at this office. Chamber maid wanted at Moore Hotel. His Recovery Complete. The Figaro tells of uu KnglUh sulloi named Mitchell who wus a past master at the art of tabling whisky In the' war he was asphyxiated and lost his sense of smell uud the use of speech Deprived of his culling, he became a boxer, Now, lu a certain bout In Loudou Mitchell recehed a formida ble blow under his none und another on his Jaw. Ten seconds later he wut knocked out. One of hit attendants rushed some fcplrlts to hlra. Then Mitchell miraculously recovered and declared, even before wetting his lips, "This stuff la ut least fifteen years old." FARM BUREAU AND COUNTY AGENT BUSY IN SEPTEJEBER (Continued from page 1)' know what It is worth. For in stance, HARD WHITE wheat Is worth 10 to 12 cents per bushel more than Soft Whlto. Some var ieties will grade Hard Whlto whon grown under certain condition's and Soft White under other conditions. Tho difference in value on 1000 bus hels might help considerably in pay ing tho taxes on tho farm. For fur ther informattion ask for tho hand book, "Oregon Grain, Hay, Onion and Potato Standards." The new tariff rates provide a duty of 4c on red clover seed, 4c on alfalfa, 3c on whlto clover, and 2c on sweet clover. Aa large quanti ties of such seeds nre imported those duties should help this sec- tion. The Idaho Seed Grower As- soclatlon to which many Malheur county seed growers belong, was In stumental In the adontion of theso k duties on seeds. ft