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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 29, 1912)
* I A B A R R IE R T O H A P P IN E S S Meals at all hours All Kinds of 1 Bv L U 3 L E BARKER A The Ghost Club Man s Story VALUABLE SA TC H EL Gy EDVIIN C SMITHSON By ROGER N. OLMSTEAD Copyright by American Ft»«« A mo elation, lull. p- ■ ■■ — w * Back to tho farm Is now (ho slogan, and the low COLONIST FARES Ä From tho Middle and Kantern IKirtioiiH o f tho United Staten To Oregon and the Northwest There lift'd In th« d ry of t'h ltefel "P u t a few thtnea la a hand bag at Though 1 - 0 phtn a wlilowor and his son who ware •nee." 1 .« id to my wife "1 Imre a "< “ " “ " “ V » “ « T " ,,°l A SUNSET \ , „ , . louiotlre engineer. I crawled up to always set>n together. T h e father was letter from n man in ». who saya he |m.sWlt ,M>H, „trough eVery Inter lOGOENdSHASTAl a little over forty, the son about twen will publish tny novel and give me 30 mediate puaitlou RO UTES / Uue wouldn’t »up prevailing daily ty-one. The two alw ays drv«sed alike, per cent o f the prtye o f the book.” i H»,, that « uiuu who had mude his talked alike, acted alike and had the “Oh, Ju st i i think It! n From way by work u r pruni, nl o u , Henry! m u » » . « u n i m m u of i m o m » ». u hard n n i w w i n i mid m u «» »»»' ,l' ‘T'lnloos on subject*. 1 hose a who poverty we will Jump right Into co n makeup would be a member of ihr over the them Intimately s|H)ke o f them j ort Ghost club, ns some persons call the . „ i , ...bey Cv Son. though their name "H 'm > |f the book «ell«.“ Society For 1‘aychlcal ttesearcli. lint was Hardwick. "Oh, mv goodress gracious!" I am. aud I'm gulag to tell you wlmt All went well between tho two till 1 "W h at's up now?" started me lu that Hue. is th * best m oans of ca rry in g it o u t.— F a r e s from the i]Ucstton of the so n s marriage "W e have only one bag. and I loaned Wln'ti I was a young fellow tuy fa CHICAGO »33.00 came up. Jlm tnle Hardw ick fell !■ ; that veatenlay to Maggie Jonew" ther wanted me to go to college, but 1 ST. LOUIS 32.00 love with a girl who had no means “ Well, wrap some things In paper, disgusted him by taking a position as whatever and If he married her had There's „ trunk store on the way to llremau ou a locomotive. I had Just OMAHA 25.00 not yi'K: lent fortune to keep up his tbf, s, a t|0n I'll stop and pick up o I earned enough about the m adilue to KANSAS CITY .... 25.00 poeitlou In I he ultra fashionable gold- ^ tc h e L " lake the throttle when the civil war ST. PAUL *5 .0 0 eu circle to which he possessed a birth- mlnntes later 1 kissed my wife broke out. and 1 enlisted. While Culonist Fares are West Bound only, but they can be prepaid from any right lu vain his fath er held up to nnd „tarted out with a light campaigning In the «until we captured point. I f you have friends or relatives in the East who desire to “ Get him the fa ct that If he made the« In- bt,.lrt ' [ blld worked two years on mv « hundred mill's of railroad, luclud- tended match the relations that had Vel and had aaed up all hut euough ‘“ K a good supply of rolling stock, o r back to the F a rm ," you can de|>u.'Ut the value o f the fare with your nearest existed 1-etween them must cease, the monev tl> ,„^0 uu> , 0 „ j bad 0(Tt>rcsI course there was a call for those of uh Iocs! agent and a ticket will be telegraphed to any address desired. Ca II on older man continuing In the sam e so- mv sfory tl) ton jid eren t publisher«. 'vho ***** railroad experience. ami I the undersigned for good instructive literature to send F ast. cl.il tie. the son dropping out. aU had ref,]!loa It. Here, at last. * * T* »“ “V n“ m‘’ “n onglmgfr. 1 Bath Tubs, Lavatories and Emily Sberbourn* was a very »enal- , naa n pub„ ab,»r who had had the lu- d,tl ,hnt because I was young and am all Lanitary fittings— Farm Me. practical young woman. She had | ,o|i'|^ n0e to discover its value. Hut bilious to run au re glue ers-W e carry a line o f no ambition to hobnob with mnltltull- ()(l ,mlst iM, a ¡(OOI. business man or he * whs given a machine nt once. This PORTLAND, OREGON ltoaaires. but she loved Jim m ie and WimlJ not have offered me 30 per cent wa* ulore *hnn 1 waBt,fd' for w* h“'1 pumps, leader water sys vvaa loath to give htni up. Indeed, she when I would have l>een glml to get 10. made some sixty tulles of forced tems. etc. Gasoline engines. did not propoae to give him up. I stopped In at the trunk store and marches, ndvnueiog every hour of the i he -ase dragged. |»oor Jlnitnlo loath fonud a bargain In a leather twig a night, before we had made the cnplurr. to give up the position In which he had man had ordered, saying that ho would The consequence was that we were all JACOB SPANIQL been born, especially since It would cnll for it. The hag was marked with dead tired, and ns for sleep we'd bad put a wedge between him a rd his fa his Initials, but he had not called. I hardly any for wverul day« We had come down ou a central point where ther. But one day J,,u Jim saw * HW sign« s,* n" that lu " 1 paid half price for It. tho vender agree ' ““ .......... ........................... — his father was himself contem plating . lug to erase tht, )nltlltlK ,,n mv rptoni th<* rw,,,n* *,lH* waM •‘•'l’1 ***** •« the Initials on my return matrimouy. None o f the widows or . I , 7 hud ... no ., time . , ..... .......... for him ... to do It then to enpture the terminals on our tlauk« young spinsters of society seemed to j Dumping my belongings Into It, I hur I w ii « ordered to pull n train loaded with a regiment o f 600 men on nu ex ; have attracted Mr. Hardwick's atten rted on to the station. tion. for Jim kept watch o f him when- i When I reached I». I met with a pedition to occupy the eastern termi ever they were "out.” and the older shook. The publisher who had made nal. and I wasn’t permitted to go to -Best of Guns and Targets ... . _ . . . „ . sleep for a few hours l<efore «tuning man’s attentions seemed to be general. me the liberal offer had done so for th ; Htb(.r j , o|d MaJor Twlll,ug< ,rb „ blld Confident that his fath er would not I reason that lie proposed when he got P R I Z E S GI VEN think o f marrying out of his set. Jliu me to » . to soak me for $S00 with been made superintendent, that he had better send a man with me In case Win th at $5 in Gold with the made up his mind that he had been which to get out a first edition of the went to , 1 « , |„ tbt, cab from s h e e r In- mistaken and there was nothing In It. best score. work Ilis letter whs an advertising a b ||l t y t„ keep awake. He «eut Bob Then he cone laded to make one more dodlJl, ,0 secure a customer for his Stew art. who was to shovel the coul CRO SS CU T SA W S F IL E D E »'is own prll]„ nK blls, 11P* * , K.,Trf b,m a p i « * in’on de 1 marriage FI« l.oreed Mr pr,n,,n* 1 alm n c nnd Is- randy to relievo me lu esse of Safety of your funds is not the only advantage ii..ended mnrrl..ge. He lugged Mr. ui IUy miud. hut what did It avail? nhtmlnte neeessl,» esslty Hanlwlck to call on hU lu-trothed, Nothl„K t starte(, for holne t0 break ,jr' tnis bank can offer. In addition to the un We started at dask to run through a hopi'ful that a view of her would so the sad npw, to m y w)fe A. S. DAVIE attract him that he would fall In with j w>8 3itt, uit ln th(, truln waltlnK for country, the |ie«ple of which were all questioned safety tfcat our strong directorate, the scheme. But the fath er said that ,t to start wUh m y eveH sUut and mv hostile to us and ready to throw us business-like management, and well chosen sé he hnd never made visits other than hat drawn down orer mv wtu.n off the track or fire Into us whenever an opportunity arose. It seems now within his own circle of acquaintances , on# sat down lue curités give to our depositors' money, this more than it did then a pretty risky and declined to make an exception ln “Fool!” he whispered. business to put a man who hadn't hnd is a pleasant place to do business. You'll like the this case. I started up and looked at him. as six hours' sleep In forty eight hours lu in an Interview with Miss Sher- tonished. way you are received if you bring your account charge of the live« of .U hi men Be- h" ;rne Jim told her o f his effort and • M bat do you mean by putting your a, d^ , waa ^ and volltIk, here, and we hope to see you do that soon. o f the suspicion be had had o f his fa in i ttlrls r l n 1g n n you * •/ » « » h o i » " ’ ho added u itilivl on bag?” persons require more sleep than older ther's attraction for some woman. Em “W hat do I mean?»' W e’il try to make the connection mutually helpful. ones For awhile the danger of run ily asked her lover If he had entirely “Yes. Are you crazy?" nlng Into obstructions was so terrible given up this suspicion, and when he I was on to something; that was evl- to me that 1 hnd no thought of sleep, said that he was still uncertain nbout d en t W hat i dldn't know I must but we hnd some seventy miles to go the m atter she advised Jim m ie to dissemble. before morning, nnd with the loud, the watch. Jim admitted that his father, “How did you know m e?" 1 asked condition of the rosd. the grades anil who was too aristocratic to use street “W hy. by the bag, o f course—‘R. L. cars, uow and again telephoned to a B .’ Beside*, you were described to me the locomotive of that dale we could stable where he got his livery, order a as a sawed off man with a bad eye. not do more than twenty miles un carriage and drive away, whither the mutton chop whiskers and a book honr. nnd the required stop« lessened that figure son did not know. nose.” We had got over «even eighths of “Why don’t you go, too?” asked E m This was not pleasant. My wife al the dlstnnce when the monotonous puff Now is the tim e to o rd e r ■ monument ily. ways told me that I was conshk-red W« con furnish of the engine began to tell on me nnd How can I do that?” more than ordinarily handsome am , | „ . ! “ I will give you a plan. The next “ Well, now you've got on to me. tell I looked nronnd for Boh He was not In the tender. Looking over the ten Marble, lirsnitc or Bronze tln,e your father orders a carnage go me what you want.” I said. der. I saw him lying on top of the next | to the stable and bribe the coachm an “ H alf." Thlnklug It Abo build Stone or Concrete Wails to to let you take his place.” “ When and where shall I turn It car back sound nsleep would lie better to let him get a little ‘!B u t fath er would recognize me.” •rder. Don't foil to get prices before over?” rest before calling him. I turned ngilln j “Does he always have the same ywu buy. “ You're going to A., aren't you?” coachman?” to the throttle. I w asn't, but I said I was. “No.” I must have gone several miles halt L. L THOMAS, “ Where do you put up?" .asleep At any rate. 1 was roused by “Very well, i f you wear a coach “ At the S." STAYTON. OREGON. man’s and sec that she has every livery nnd make up fo r a colored "Suppose I see yon at 8 o'clock to bullets spattering against the shies ot man your fath er will never dream that night.” the cah nnd hearing s fusillade which requisite for doing her you are his son.” Now. it was ns plain as the nose on was nnswered by men front the cars work the way you want “I have a mind to try It.” your fuce that there had been some ' ’callring that we hud struck a tie«t “Do so. It may be that your fath er sort of getaway with property by a enemies. I ptil'ed her wide open, it done. Don't blame her Is courting some one not o f his set. man whose initials were R. L. H. an'1 Kl'e «P M "* forward alMi i«*n«hl Jos. Sescak & Sons, Props. if you do not provide her If he is and you discover the fa c t he j t o(.currf.d to me that I might have stab le speed Anyway, we got away D u l t n In will no longer oppose your doing the ebanijo<i bags with him, but that from whoever were firing on us. Then with the proper cooking utensils. Everything she wants same thing." couldn't be. I had bought the hag thing* settled down to the same old Jog. fresh, Salt and Smoked •Tim made all his preparations, and empty, nnd it now contained my lie- The next thing 1 knew Bob shook for cooking purposes is here in reliable qualities at reason when he next heard his fa th e r order longings. I was sure of that, bemuse me nnd. taking the throttle out of my able prices. W e pride ourselves upon the neat make and a carriage be slipped out through a ten minutes liefore I had opened it. hand, told me to find n place P> get back door and went to the stable, j unj n wrjtpr 0 ( detective stories and *leep. I preferred to sit on (lie splendid we iring properties of all our kitchen and * other TOfhest Market Price Paid for Stock and where a burnt cork transform ed him alw sys looking for material. I was n °n *he other side of the cab. I Hides. hardware. Into an ebony Instead o f a white man. trifle discouraged by my late expe- f 1" ' - Bob running the engine, looking Then donning a livery he mounted the rlence. but once n mnn gets the liter n* wide nwnke as If he hadn’t been STAYTON. ORfGON box o f a coach and drove to his home. nry fever he can ’t get It out of his doing forced marching, nnd. reassured His father came out. opened th e door, system. I must follow the thing up. by the sight. I went to nleep. I was I gave the address and got ln. To meet the man that evening would awakened by a touch which I sup- When Jim m ie heard th a t address the ?>e rather quick work. But what mat- posed came from Boh. who wished to j expression on his face was not only * ter? I could have a police force ln nn be relieved. I didn't see Bob. hilt I I Stayton, Oregon. one of wonder, but o f astonishm ent, adjoining room to listen and If the saw that day was breaking. No one j His father bad ordered him to drive pb.„ ripened could arrest my man. So was nt the throttle. No one wits In to the house where dwelt Miss Em ily [ told him I would Ire ready for him. the cab or the tender. The lia iimo Sherboume. His first Impulse w as to The police came pretty near spoiling live'« speed hud been reduced to a min get down from the box end ask his the next detective story I wrote by Imum. parent what the dickens h " m eant; his arresting me ns I left the station. One Where wns Bob? 1 hnd seen him second was to drive on nnd see the of them, who was keeping n close nsleep on top of the car; then lie hnd m atter to the end. He followed the watch, saw the letters on my bag nnd relieved me. But where hrd he pone latter. On reaching his destination Mr. took me. Fortunately "my pal” had since, nnd how hnd lie come to leaie SATISFACTION GU AR AN TEED _ _ _ Hardwick got out and. ordering the given them the slip by craw ling nn- the engine without a guide? And who | Third S tre e t on* h alf block sonth Stay- f0 w ait> rang the bell a.id went | jpr a train and getting out another had awakened me If not he? „ ' nt0 tb e house. way. I was taken to the station. { We needed water, nnd as soon ns I Here was n pretty pass—the son sit- , where my hag was examined nnd u came to the next tank I pulled tip to ting on the box while his fa th e r was i nlghtsldrt. comb and brush nnfi tooth- take In some Colonel Fordlck. lu com Sij. Inside (Uftlng the girl he would not ' brush found, whereas they were look- nnind o f the troops! wa* hauling, runic comes from a p i p e of 1 consent to his offspring m arrying. It 1 j niI f or yooO.OOO In negotiable aecttrl forward to ask why we were getting ■ seemed to Jim that tho call w as inter ties. T he reward offered wn* <0 per on so slowly. I told him my story at. ; choice tobacco,and wc are . . sell ,, 5 minable. on . , h have a v e property l !t* 1 could lie going on? rent o f the amount recovered, asked him I I f f you property to to sell come come | ... . ------------------------------------- ------- - i offer ----- ----- to -- have a search inmlr P now offering our patrons in and list it with us, and we will P ,ie '• '» vk '" . hirr;=elf Into n fury, then , , j to divide all over $10,000, and the Bob. He did so. but no Bob ivn« fin j a buyer. We already have a K° l d'*'rn fri' m H»“ box, stalked up the offer was a t last accepted, sin e I lie found. J l»egnn to feel kind of the finest pipe tocacco that numlier of choice farm» listed. I f p, ,i?I>s and rang the bell. tl.refltensd to keep mum ou any other queer about the whole bn-dnes«. I was ever grown. It has a rich fragrance and great smok yon desire to make an investm ent R Mr Hardwick was sitting on the louldn’t stop thinking what had be it will pay to see us. L same sofa with Emily Sherbonm e ing qualities,smooth, cool and pleasant. T r y it once— you W ell, at 8 o’clock my man appeared, fame of my assistant and when or E when the tete-a-tete was Interrupted nnd by a lot of talk that I hnd been why he had left his post, endangerin'’ will smoke it always. We also carry a fine line of foreign W e Sell the Earth by a negro coachman with a whip in «onched In by the police 1 got him to the lives of a whole regiment give aw ay enough for them to get on We made the point we were going t h a u t p o m r f h l ,J l l nd " UndIn<?'« “ »c doorwuy. and domestic Cigars and Cigarettes, as well as a goodly as to the right man. I didn't go home to before sunrise, and when i look the 1 H U M A o & L L iL jj / ip y * d<>eS ,b h rno:iu’ P°PT" cried sortment of briar and meerschaum pipes, smokers' articles li» I had followed the matter up. It train back I had orders to look out for Office next to Stayton H o t e j ‘ m V Hardwick W ll paralyZfd with I was a quick Job, nnd when I did go Boh or his body on the way. We etc. WMCh astonishm ent and Miss Hherbourn«- home I hnd »17,300 In niy pocket. found the body where we had met ^ * ,ursl into a langh. "Oh, my, dear,” exclaimed my wife. with the firing. He hnd been shot » T T /"'( m T /~\ X T T ' P TV ' r ,’ V* a 11 n ,h<’ I “I thought you were never coming: ; dead nnd rolled off th» top of the car. A U C T I O N E E R T L r J r h ao'lu* ln tai!' * ; Did yon make a good contract?" ! He couldn’t have relieved me. and ^ ° h rn U o , vts'.’t hceer U V * drn™ I ” >**•'• I *"">■ from the time I supposed he did fill 30 years’ Experience. t ' r/ 7 Tn K,‘ The next morning it wns ln the dawn the locomotive hsd been with J. A. H E N D E R S H O T T , Proprietor GERMAN AND EN G LISH •I ' .' l ' ” '! " r newspapers that n detective story ont nn engineer. Nor could tic have t?ati«f«rticnG u aranteed Term s R eas- ” . . " ? Cd ^ * " VV° * < * « • * w riter h "1 . Mg haul, nnd I awakened me at least not In the S , ! „ , » i .. id r t v t Ql ^ t a “ Z CCr”" ’n" ' 1 t0 ,h received twenty-four offers from pub- flesh. onahle. Phone or wr.te ai <1 r> rv. Ut- wedding and the three gave up socle y Ushers for the book I h a J gone to B T h at’s what made me a nem b er of to sell. GEO. KOENEKE, Stayton, Oregon j i fo ’ be happy in their own home. the Gboat dub, Hoi Drinks Beef Tea, Tomato Flip, Coffee Oyster Cocktails b t i March I to April 1 5 /1 2 ì SOUTHERN PACIFIC U L L O M ’S U. & I. B A K ER Y t T n WORK and PLUMBING JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent Banking Here Is Shooting Gaiiery Pleasant and Safe F o r S a le BRICK, CEMENT, PLASTER W. A. Weddle m o TH E STAYTON STATE BANK MONUMENTS Take Care of the Cook City Meat Market MEATS H. C. Downing EXPERT WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING Streff Hardware Co. The Satisfying Smoke Real Estate The Gem Confectionery JO B W O R K IS O U R S P E C IA L T Y