BON TON By Telephone BAKERY and = RESTAURANT A Detective Banking Here I s ! Pleasant and Safe P r o b i em By OSCAR CO X Miss Helen Splugier enlls up Miry Baptist Yau? Preaching every Sunday at II a. ni Arnold: "Is that you. Moll? and at 7:ou p. m. by Rev. A. C. Kat Feeling » 1 -:, tills morning? I'm glad on. Sunday school at 10 a. m., A. J to hear It I'vs called you up to ask U Caldwell, supt. B Y P U at 6:30 p, m. you thluk I'd better trim my new pink Mrs. Eaton, president. silk with lace or some other material. Satin? Thluk that would look well? Lighter or darker shade? Oh. a con- Catholic tntstlug color. Maybe you're right i C t l f i n ' l l OK T I I K I MM A l ' l ’ I.ATK C o N O K f - Yes. I can call around and talk It oebr lion. Stavton; Rev. A Lai nek with you. Four o'clock? I can’t da priest. in charfie. High mass second that. I'm engaged” — fourth ami fifth S n n d iv . S:1W) a. ni., Interruption lu a man’s voice: "Drat Priest’s address: Sublimity, Oregon, these party wires! Glrla. can’t you ‘ t . Ito N ir A fs ’ a O a t h o u c C h u r c h . settle the matter and have done with Snbli o ily ; Rev A. I.ainck, rectorj It? There’s a man here met with an Low mass S a. m., high mass 10:30 uccldeut and bleeding to death.” Miss Mary Arnold gets the wire: ' ». in . tir«t and third Sundays in the m onth: Inch mass 10:30 a m., rec “ Did you hear that horrid man who In­ ml. fourth and tiilli Sundays. Yes terrupted you Just at the moment when you were telling me o f your engage­ i per« at eventide. ment? Robinson? What Robinson? Oh! lie ’s connected with Robinson's Christian department store. You haven't given Services will be held every Sunday me the name o f your fiance. Speak a little louder Everything you aay is Preaching at 11 a. m., and 8 p. Sunday school at 10 a. ni., Mrs. \V. H twisted lu with everything else you sav, and 1 cau’t hear any o f It on ac­ Hobson, superintendent. Y. P. S. C. E count o f that horrid buzzing. Louden? at • :30 p. m., Mrs. R. L. Dunn presi Oh. his name's Louden. Is It?” dent. Ladies Aid society meets eac Interruption In s man’s voles: “ La­ Wednesday at 2:30 p. m., Mrs. G. D dies permit ms to announce to you Thomas, president. R. L. Dunn Pastor. that the man for whom 1 wished to call a doctor Is dead While you were Indulging in your stupid talk he bled Methodist to death!” Methodist Episcopal Church, order o f A voice: “ Who’s bled to death?” services: Bible school at 10 a. m. Another voice: ” 1 wish it were that A. S. Pancoast. superintendent confounded Louden those two gossip­ Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m ing girls were talking about.” Miss Mary Arnold s|>eaks with Doro­ Midweek Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday’ , 7:S0 p. m. Epworth thy Twinkle. “ Is that you. Doll? Yes? Tlalner? League, Sunday, 6. p. m., Clark Can you hear me now? All right Mace, Pres. Ladies' Aid Society Have you heard o f the dreadful trouble Thursday afternoon, Mrs. J. R. Gard­ that has come upon poor Helen Sptng- ner, Pres. Pastor o f the church. E, ler? No? It’s perfectly dreadful She Sutton Mace. recently became engaged to a Mr. Br T. G ARNOl D “ John,” said my chlaf. "they want a man at Burnet station to Inveatlgats a trouble they're having there. Some one Is committing Inceinllagy acta, and they can't find out who la doiag IL Uo down there and eee If you can do anything for them.” I hadn’t been long In the detective business and was ambitions to show some ability In tbe case with a view to promotion to more Important raaee and better^ pay. 1 reached Burnet In the afternoon and met the geutlemen who had aent for a detective. They told me that the flree Invariably occurred In Stayton Hotel Dining Room at night, uever In the daytime. 1 aaked them why they hadn't eatablUhed a watch, aud they aakl the matter did not occur often enough to warrant their doing to, there having been only three or four cases during a year. There were only a few policemen In the town, not enough to light upon the Incendi­ ary ezeept by accident. 1 aaked them Tubs. lavatories and If the burnlnge were confined to Bur­ all Lanitary fittings— Farm- net, and they replied that a black smith e r s -W e carry a line o f shop during the time of tbelr occu r rence had been eet afire In the next pumps, leader water sys­ station below, Wharton. That was the tems. etc. Gasoline engines. only case they knew of No one waa suspected, no stranger had been area loitering about, and they didn't believe any one had come Into the town to do the damage. The case for me seemed hopeless. I could see no way to solve It except by keeping watch, and another outrage might not occur within two or three months If at alL Nevertheless 1 didn't like to go back to report that 1 hadu't made au effort, to I concluded to settle myself In the town for a week. The hotel was a very poor one. and one of the men. Mr. Aborn. who had sent for me offered to take me Into his home. I accepted and was In no hurry to get away, for his daughter. Alice, a girl of Louden or Loudlng or some such nineteen, took my fancy, and while pre­ name, and they hadn't been engaged tending to Investigate the Incendiary but a short time when he met with an case I was really dawdling about with accident. Cut an artery or something her. Mlsa Aborn, It la true, took a great and"— “Central! Central! Central! Can’t Interest In the mntter about which 1 you call off those long winded women? had come to BnrucU or, rather, the Now h the time to order a monument I'm due to catch a train at 3 o'clock detective feetnree pertaining to IL 1 We can furnish A picnic will be held under the and must get a cab and wench the sta­ was the first one o f the profesalon ah# had ever met. and I waa quite a cu­ BrOnZf ‘ auspices of the Kingston Public tion all within twenty minutes.” Miss Dorothy Twinkle to Sadie Good­ riosity to her. She wished to know ] School on Saturday, May 25. 1912 rich. "Oh. Sadie! Have yon heard my methods In the case 1 was sup­ Also build M ow or ( oncrete Walts to posed to be working on. but 1 told her •rder. Don'* fait to get prices before On the P P. Crabtree farm 1 1-2 what has happened to Eliot Louden? that detectives had no confidant« No? He Is dead? Not red-dead. Bled? you buy. At the end o f the week I returned miles southeast o f Kingston. Yes: he bled to death. And Just after to headquarters and reported no prog­ his engagement to that [wetty nelen L. L. T H O M A S . The pupils will be assisted by ress. Before leaving Burnet Alice Spingler. Isn't It aw ful? Yes. the Aborn told me that she was going a number o f others in rendering one yonr brother George has been at­ over to Wharton to visit a cousin for tentive to. I supposed I! would be a an interesting and entertaining match Is George very much cut up? a few weeks. To please her I told her she might try to find out some­ Hasn’t heard what—the engagement J. M . R i N ü U program. Everyone c thing about the fire that had occurred or the accident? "Well. I never” — there. She was delighted at the com­ enjoy the day by a visit with A cutoff. Undertaker a n d Embaimer mission and promised to do all she George Goodrich Is called by his sis­ your friends and neighbors, and could to find a clew ter and comes to the phone. “ Please Third and Marion Streets I hadn't been away from Burnet encourage the children by your give me 3084 W —yes. 3084 — W. Twin­ more than three or four days when I kle Is the name. No, not W in k le - S T A Y T O N . OREGON presence. received a telegram thnt another mya Twinkle. Neither Winkle nor Wrinkle, terlous fire had occurred nt Whnrton but Twinkle. Oh. never mind the I took n train for that point nt once name. Give me the number. and, entering the town Incog, began Is thnt you Miss Tw inkle? Yes? to snoop aroand for what 1 could find FARM AND CITY BARGAINS Subscribe for The Stayton Mail. Yon Sadie was talking with you about out. Rut my Incog didn’t last long, can’ t invest $1.50 to better advantage. something dreadful thnt lias happened for I met Alice Aborn on the street BU Y N O W — There will be when she was cut off. Would you 1 asked her If she had learned any­ a rapid increase in land val­ miud felling me the particulars? Thank thing. and she admitted she had not yon." Listens for some time intently. 1 wns not disappointed, for I had ex­ ues and now is the time to You say that Louden bled to death pected nothing from her B U Y . before a doctor could rent -h him? Two After a couple o f days spent nt brutal men monopolized the wire? Wharton without results I went over Nothing more safe on earth Physician and Surgeon Wouldn’t they give It up to save a to Rurnct on a train with Alice. She than earth itself. life? The monster»! Ho w does Helen told me she had thought so ranch STAYTO N . OREG ON Spingler take It? Ineonso lable? Dropb! alKiut the Incendiary cases thnt on J. T . K E A R N S I wouldn't trust her. S lie’ll have an­ several occasions she had dreamed she The Rea testate Man o f Stayton other fellow before th e year's out. had herself set fire to buildings. She's fickle as the vv|nd.‘ • When I asked her If these dreams had Helen Spingler speaks to Mary A r­ occurred about the time the Area had nold: “ Mary, wh.y didn’t you meet me taken place she said she didn't re­ yesterday nt R obinson's! I was there ' p h y s i c i a n a n d s u r g e o n promptly nD'j wafted an hour by the member. except In the Inst one that I: id Just passed. She bad one o f her clove counter. Didn't expect me? incendiary dreams on the very night Jos. Sestak & Sons, Props. You men’.j you didn’t hear the time this fire occurred. S ta yto n , O regon and plar e c f the apiioLntment? Wbat Duawr, hi A very remarkable suspicion enter alamf’ .y? fxiuden? W ho’a he? My ed ray bend Could Alice be uncon­ Banc-,, bled to death? What are you sciously the Incendiary? Fresh, Sait and Smoked Nonsense! Kir '.ng me?” Listens for some min- How could she get out o f bed In the 'it es “ Merciful goodness! And all middle o f the night uud. unseen, go M EATS f ate grew out o f my asking you to and set fire to a building? But I could A. M , M. 0. Niftiest Market Price Paid for Stock i P H Y S I C I A N a n d S U R G E O N speak louder and that horrid man not get her drenms out o f my bend hutting in! .lost think o f It! All over and the fact that a fire had occurred Hides. Office at tow n? Do try to stop It. By the bye. at Wharton Just when she was there. I’ ve settled on the trimming for my I asked her where she had been when SUBLIM ITY. OREGON STAYTON. OREGON dress I've decided on lace What ^------------ I the former fire had occurred there, and kind? Oh, some mother brought from after n little thought she said that on G. F. XORINEK, V. S, B. V. Sc. Brussels! Very expenslre She brought that occasion she had also been at It In when they used to pay the in­ Wharton. spectors *3 and get all the trunks pass­ From that moment there wns no Treats all domestic animals, also ed free Goodby. Be sure to correct doubt In my mind that while In some that ridiculous story about my engage- applies the Tuberculin test. abnormal condition Alice Aborn In her uient and the rest o f It.” sleep had succeeded In escaping from Telephone 3x7 “ O f course I will What miserable her home unknown to any one In It Office at Stayton Stables things these party wires are! Just aa and bad set fire to the buildings burn­ one settles for a nice little morning STAYTON . . . . OREGOf chat with a friend some one who has ed. As soon ns we reached Burnet I a t/wthnche must telephone his dentist had an Interview with her father, told SATISFACTION GUARANTEED him of my suspicions Hnd suggested Better let us do your printing you Sometimes be gets the wire: sometimes his setting a watch upon his daughter Iw, doesn't. Then another person will may find it cheaper than you expect. Third Street one half block south Stay- v ildl.v call on bis butcher for a dinner Then I took my lenve aud reported the ‘ iat has been delivered at the wrong case to my chief. ten State Bank. Tbreo months from that date 1 re­ uouse and a party o f guests waiting. ceived a letter from Mr. Attorn In­ How unreasonable people are When DR.WM.PruN DE R S any one else has die phone I am per­ forming me that during tbe previous «g t-tw a ta -re ó fectly willing to wait till he gets night his daughter had walked In her Sleep and had been atopped Just as she through Not she gets through be " A Tonic A l'e n tiv e n 4 to - ,’ v.nt. T he tvns about to act fire to an old stable George Goodrich «alls up Helen i S L 3 5 5 ? i i * Xidnc-yi, IJrrr and JlovrrK I f you have property to sell come „yfrfdtQ M c»H apten, hruptionm nd W a r d e n Spingler. "H elen? Yes. I'm George. She slept In s wing o f the house and in and list it with us, and we will o f the Skin. J-unfie» the Blood and rives Who perpetrated that confounded could get out o f her window on to a Tome, btreogth and Vigor to the entire » , stern! find buyer. We already have a story about .'".or liavfng been engaged shed and tbenre to the ground and re number o f choice farms listed. If After my suggestion her sister to Eliot Louden? It's nothing to laugh turn you desire to make an investment nt I was scared out o f my boot«. had slept with her nnd bad seen her it will pay to see us. m ô î S r T s Rhoiildn t. have believed It? Why not? get up and go ont o f tbe window The No fellow can fell when n girl Is go­ sister had called tbe father Alice hnd the Earth NEVER ing back on him This evening? been followed and awakened before FAILING What tlr.ie' Yes; I think I can i'll the Ore was lighted. _*v»uj*eet household salvi ’ Alice eventually recovered from her be nrourd als>ot 8 He sure f<> have Alk oneooitrs nave i t o r w ,u.o rra iN on n e o u tir A C C C P T NO S y O S T I T U T C S Office nertt to Stayton Hotel somnambulistic trteka and la now my your things on. Which do you prefer— f'r /c c SS Cenfs. , kkç . i v i * ■ -i’ ■, wife. a plaj or n comic ope rod All righ t" M e a ls a t a ll h o u rs C. Uiiom, Proprietor The best to eat at the handiest place to eat. Now TINWORK and PLUMBING Bath JACOB SPANiOL For Sale BRICK, CEMENT, PLASTER W. A. Weddle M ONU M EN TS, School Picnic Safety of your funds is not the only advantage tnis bank can offer. 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Every­ thing Clean, Bright and New. A PART OF YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED Bonnie Daiblo 45017 Trial 2:24,Saal Brown,15 1-2 hands high, weighs about 1050 lbs. License Certificate of PURE BRED STALLION St Dated at CorvaHia, Oregon, July 5, 1911. The jiedigreo o f the stallion Bon­ nie Diablo, American No. 46017, registered in the studbook o f American Trotting Register. Owned by George & Henry Smith, Fair Grounds, Ore­ gon. Bred by J. T. Wallace, Fair Grounds, Oregon. Described us follows: Brown, white hind foot. Pedigree: Diablo, 11404, sire. Bonnie, Vol. XVII, Dam. Charles Derby, 4907, Sire o f Sire. Bertha, Dam o f Sire. Fred Douglas, 1153, Sire o f Dam. Ella, Dam o f Dam. Standard Bred. Foaled in the year 1905. Has been [examined by the Stallion Registration Board o f Oregon, and it is hereby certified thnt the said stallion is o f PURE BREEDING, is registered in the studbook (hat ia recognized by the associations named in section nine o f an Act o f the Legislative Assembly o f the State o f Oregon providing for the licensing o f stallions, etc., filed in the office o f the Secretary o f State, February 23, 1911, and that the above named stallion has been examined by the veterinarian appointed by the Stallion Registration Board and is hereby re­ ported free from infectious, contagious or transmissible diseases or un­ soundness and is hereby licensed to stand for public service in the State o f Oregon. E. L. POTTER, S cc’y Stallion Registration Hoard. He will make the season of 1912 at Stayton every Wednesday. Terms $25.00 to insire, $20.00 for season. George Smith and Henry Smith, Owners POOL • BILLIARD PARLOR E. T . 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