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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1923)
,.ir LiiilMUGE PROBLEMS S Adele Garrison's Nw Pha.se of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Copyright! 1921, by Newspaper 'I t Feature. Service, Inc. ; ' If was Bot until the new car. with Dicky driving and Bess Dean sitting by his side, had disap peared down the road, that with a little start I recollected an im portant errand unfulfilled. The collection of mail " for the family was still In my hands. 4 i " -:. f Seeinx'my truest with me,' the others h4 waited my conrenlenee with a courtesy that spelled un usual self-restraints I hastened to the rear of the (rounds where the cabins win, made my apologies, distributed the mall and retired to my own veranda with the-epistles tor our immediate household. Dicky's professional mail, the let ter from, Alice Holcombe which I had read at the postoffice and the biggest and thickest of all, the missive from Dicky's mother.. - .' Mother Graham invariably writes three letters, one to Dicky, one to me and one to Junior, In closing each in a small envelope, suitably addressed, adds a collec tion of picture postals for Junior, then puts them all together In s tig manuscript envelope address ed to Dicky. She has some Intri cate system of reckoning by which she figures that she. saves stamps by this method. I had no compunction in opening " the - big envelope, even ; though addressed to Dicky, for his letter within was sealed. And after giving Junior's letter and the cards to him, with llaiion eager, to. ; read " them : to iia, X opened' my own letter from xuy mother-in-law, knowing 1 that til the household news,' . so im portant to the chatelaine of a home, would be forthcoming. I scanned Its first pages hastily, t my mother-in-law, like many 4rly women, never gets -down the real meat ot her letter xtil she has gone through a ser ies ot preliminary epistolary exer cises. Thus I read again, of the wonderful time Dicky's sister, I.llzabeth. and her cfiildren were having at the raTm--tlvey, fortun ately were able to -keep -Mother Graham from trettmg'during our absence because her heart did not permit a- mountain sojourn ot the nelghborliness of Mrs. Tlcet, and the good showing of milk and eggs made by the cow and hens, i . , - . .-'-. -f . . . A Distant Memory. ' J j , . Then after her usual Invective concerning Katie's - housekeeping faults, something which I never take seriously, knowing , that Mo ther Graham only means about one-tenth of what she says, I read with suddenly .acute interest and real dismay, these sentences: "Actually, Margaret, J think the girl Is going out of her mind. For nearly a week now she has gone around looking as if she just had received advance news ' of the Judgment Day. and Elizabeth and t have bad to wash the good china ourselves, for she breaks almost everything she . touches. I have asked her what Is the matter sev eral times, but she Just throws her apron-over, hear head," jocks to and fro and moans a little, then gives a sullen 'Votings and goes on about her work." . Like a lightning flash my mem ory went back to a timo long dis tant when Katie had. acted. In much the same manner as Mother Graham described. . But thai Crisis In her life had. proved ?3Jiave no reality save in her own fears. There was no possibility ' of any breath from that far distant ex perience blowing ; adversely upon her now. . With, an Involuntary, puzzled shake of my head I went back to my mother-in-law's letter. "But that Isn't the worst of It her screed ran on. "You know she always was a snooper; why you haven't cured her of it in all these years is -a mystery! to me! But now she's worse than ever. I find her In .- the " most curious places, where she has no business to be, and early in the morning before anyone Is up,' and at night after everyone, has .gone to bed, I hear her traveling over the house. She acts as if she were hunting something all the time. ' "Come Home,' if "It was bad enough before your father went away last week. I guess he wrote you that he had a telegram from that fool Allen Drake and started for Washing- i ton within an hour's time, but 77 ' . . v r Cuttinz Down, Seats and Slip Covers. " Phone 1665-7 1 'SYJpL end J. He McALVIN ; czcitl ibTirli and Uphbkteiiog : V Formerly 7ith Woods Auto .Top Shop l : - Cl3;N.'CImrch. St, '.-v 5 Salem, Oregon G FIGURES IN THE FATAL BATH BEACH FIRE TR AGEDY. ! I - y n ll: V""'v - : i '"-V "Ml .- yK W ' - TORO XSw If ' j n - : , i LVMCH, , ACCUSED 'XV.Hr , : f HEr MUROER. X. S&x I t.t t ARSON 5- .:,, MATERIAL: .- . . , ..." ; :.i I Y 7 witmess, shown here' . SS "S" - tW? - A itVSrsr ' "i : ' - t J y Xj I ' lilt The three men were arrested in connection. with a fire In Brooklyn re cently, believed to have been started to dispose of - Oeorger, Keim, a playwright.' Who'' was , . .. . one of sis victims who died In the disastrous Bath Beach fire. William a rord. -Anderson is said ty have declared, wanted , him to hit Kcla over the head, promising him as a reward all the money Keim would- have on his person at the time. An derson objected to the terms, and they planned on killing him accidentally. For weeks Anderson said ha toured through Bath Beach waiting for an oaorlsnlty to get Keio. - - V. RAYM&WD ANnERSQM,. MAOC ALLEGED CONFES5I0M, H ACCUS ETD MURDER. since your ,' father's departure, l after we threw some cold water Katie has talrlr haunted the vi- in,her c? Bhe ort of came to i .- ... ,'...! and said she was taken with a cinuy oi nis room.- one cieaueu it from top to bottom without wait ing for me to tell her to, and that ln' itself Is suspicious, for she usu ally isn't hunting extra work. And when she got through, she just -sat down and cried and howled like an animal, a regular hysterical fit. - n v - ' "Elisabeth and I thought we'd have to send for Dr. Pettit. But EXCEPTIONAL RIDINB COMFORT The new IDodge Brothers Touring Car is , j exceptionally comfortable to , ride in; it good looking; and It incorporates many -jl r important refinements of detaih , i . - . K The body !s longer and lower, elimiriating ( i ,j ride sway affording more leg room, and - v i . enhancing the beauty of the lines. . , . Deeper seats, long underslung rear springs V . " : Jnd longer front springs, give ample assur- , ' - v Lance that fcross country touring can be ; ' enjoyed without weariness or fatigue.' Yet with these . improvements, ; and many.; ' others, it is still furtdamentally the same car built on the same chassis and powered by the same sturdy engine. , .The price is $880 f. o. b. Detroit, $1060 Delivered - Bonesteele Motor Co. .. i o. 474 S. ComT. Phone 423 sudden pain, but I know better. She was just crazy about not find-i ing something she was looking for in your father's room. -. She's al ways been honest, I know, but she's the queerest acting 'thing 1 ever saw and has been for, the last week or two. ; "My private opinion is that she got all wrought up over Richard Second's disappearance -, and has been expecting somebody to kid nap her ever since. She's been terribly nervous ever since you left. ; Why, one night about two weeks ago she came running into the kitchen from outdoors, white as death and half fainting, and all we could get out of her was that she'd seen 'that man across the road. As he's safe in a pri son cell, of course she was mis taken, and we. finally proved it to her and she quieted down. But I'm almost afraid it has unhinged her brain It isn't any too strong, anyway. "I , do wish yon could come home and ' straighten . Katie out. She's too much for Elizabeth and ') t (To be continued) '. a LIGHTER AUTOS : COME TO FRONT Passenger and Commercial Car Users are Finding ! Economy to Reduce Mich., Oct. 27. the trend of eenti- J J " :Bri''J ' - ' DETROIT, How rapidly ment : is swinging toward the use of lighter motor car equipment, in order to more satisfactorily meet present day traffic conditions, is emphasized in the tremendous in crease in sales of the ford Motor company for the first three-quarters Of the present year.' An analysis of these sales shows that the sentiment is not alone amongr passenger car buyers but extends to commercial car pur chasers who are finding that the smaller motor haulage unit ef fects . more efficient, speedy and economical delivery service . S Sales of Ford cars and trucks In the .United 5 States f for the first nine months of the; year' totaled 1,334.020. it is just announced. This is an' Increase of 466.433 over the same months of 1922. i In September alone, 141,467 Ford cars and trucks were deli? ered at retail, a gainj of 35.029 over; September last year, while truck sales for the month were 15,947 or 4,589 more than in the same month a year ago. j '. ey This is not because of her de sire that the child " shall ' acquire learning, but to avoid paying; the truancy fine of fifteen cents. Chaplain W. U-jThompsoni U S N school soefJ:teadaitajrA hfij is endeavoring. to adapt the "jwork of education oh the i island fto the particular needs' of "the natives. The -Chamorros take readily to penmanship, mathematics, and all kinds of mechanics. The children frequently know American history more thoroughly than youngsters in the. United States of the same are..:. !'!" -" ; : - .7 .. ; - "We have standardized ! 7 the eight grammar, grades and addct a high school, which places the educational facilities of Guam nn a par with those In the j Philip pines and the United States." th superintendent says- s .f,s "The Industrial v classes, despite our limited funds and equipment. have been especially, successful. Lace making, basketry, and hemp weaving of various articles have reached a . high grade of perfec tion. The boys in their carpentry classes make the - furniture - and ..v.." .AAtn flttlnxa for t- school -The girls so readily take to dressmaking : that Am.. clothes are- gradually replacing the graceful costumes of the na tive women." - " . Ti for Yaa EQ) tovji suae SQUAte a ROUND 7?J? XiCier THAT'S 110. 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