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
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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
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business-like management, and well chosen sé
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way you are received if you bring your account
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We'll try to make the connection mutually helpful.
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C. H. BREWER, M. D.
C ity M e a t
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NEIL
H. C. Downing!
A. O
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Veterinarian
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~7T
Po I S O N OAK
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GEO. W A R F O R D , Proprietor
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treatment in our rooms. Every
thing Clean, Bright and New.
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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 . M A T T H IE U , Proprietor
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