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TUESDAY MORNING -OCTOBER ; S. 1926
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Breithaupt
fit Bargest Floral-Shop
Store at 512 Stale Street Provides Three Times Floor Space
' v , Occupied FprroeTlyMaking Firm Largest
in State
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9 : Opportunity. for realization of an ideal which he has cher
ished throughout nearly all of the period of over four years
during which he has operated a floral shop in Salem, was
seized by C.F. Breithaupt when he secured space in the new.
Uligh" building for a store which .thus becomes the largest
floral shop in Oregon. Si
'; Simply' but effectively decorated in blue with a unique
wall v design, thisstpre-at"12t State street, provides three
times the ground -floor space that.Breithaupt had in his for
mer4ocation on North liberiy;' in addition, to a large storage
space in -the basement.
As a result, Breithaupt's retail shop keeps pace in its ap
pointments with the greenhouses, comprising three-quarters
of an' acre under- glass, at 16th street and Gordon road, and
- witkUhe growing grounds for perennials, annual cut flowers,
shrubbery and bulbs, just how, being openedoni Wallace road.
f; In the store, Breithaupt will now be enabled to carry a
newjine of pottery,-as well as party favors, goldfish, a few
flower seeds and supplies in addition to his regular flower
. service.
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bme of Bliffh's Capitol
1 Is State House Replica
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t ' CConttoned from paga 1.)
to date in arrangement.
5 &The entire building was constructed of reenforced con
- creCe, with pressed brick and terra cotta- facing.
!;.f The general public, on the other hand, is especially
pleased with another feature which was the product of Mr.
Blip's planning; a permanently constructed marquee which
. extends out over the sidewalk all the way along both streets,
a welcome arrangement in view of Willamette valley humid
ity , - ' -'
, " ! i The general contract was awarded to Tranchelr& Pare
liuswho have had! charge of construction. Williams & Gib
sbntlwere given :-the' plumbing contract, and the Peninsula
Electric Co.-the wiring icontract. -Numerous sub-contractors
have had a part in erecting, the building. . '
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MAgGAgET CAjASftOtt
CHAPTER ELEVEN
G. (Pierr) BruetoH it an ami
able younf man witk a diverting habit
of awtting into atranga escapades -to
thediaromfort of hia Biff Business dad.
By sheer afaaaca he ia placed in a poai
tier to ba of aid to a apirited young
la4 Boberta. Bcott. Hr dad ia hold
is "eaptie her yooasor aister be
cause of a lore affair. , He threatens
ta spoil htr whole life iai hia misplaced
seal to "aave" her from 4ha krr ha
dicapproTes. a
Fifty and Roberta elude a detactire
who is followinj her a precaution of
Iter fathar'a and head for the Scott
country homo where the .slUer is held.
They so Pirry"a car. For safety's
sake, Roberta n disguised ia widow's
weeds. v ' .
t Roberta is disguised ia widow's
weeds. On the war. it develops that
Iwr father and Fiffxr a are business ri
vals. - Undismayed they emrryoa -to the
New' Hampshire country plate.
ad then several -things happen
Read oal
Deciding to arold New Hareo,
- where he was widely and more or
leas favorably . known among the
college men. Piggy chose the lon
ger, route Tia Danbury and Water
bury; and as automobiles were
much less ' numerous then than
now,' speed laws less drastic, and
traffic officers few and far be
tween, his progress along the
country, highways left a wake of
purple f nvectlre emanating from
indignant citizens who conceived
that they and their vehicles had
narrowly escaped , annihilation,
though he drove with circumspec
tion through the settlements.
They ; talked little, tince Ro
berta' Inquired whether he had any
plan for rescuing her sister, and
he answered that he was think
ing, it out. And once he asked
whether she could comfortably
wait for dinner until they reached
. Hartford, to which she agreed.
Waterbury had been left behind
, when he spoke again.
"What are the nearest towns to
this place we're going?"
'"Keene, ' Dublin, Peterborough,
Jaffrey."
."Hully gee! I know a lot of the
' crowd Who summer in that Mon
adnock country. I ought to have
got a wig! Well may- be they'll
have gone home now. Do they
know you in those towns?"
. . "Some of them might. . I spent
the - summer there three years
J . .
. "Isn't there some place, near by
where they would not?" .
; She meditated awhile. "There's
a village over on' the ..Tihchburg
road, but ' I can't remember the
name of it. It's Fits-something.
Fitsroy? No. FitxwiUIam. That's
It. put it's a long way from Birch
wood That's the natoeof father's
place 1 M" ' i'l
A So much the betterThey won't
' be looking for you -there. Suppose
we can find a furnished house for
rent?! - ' H
"A house!" '-V :t
i - Sure. We can't risk- a. hotel.
Small-town hotel-keepers are curi
' ou. and we may have to do some
queerish things. We ean't puU
this off In -a minute, you know,
and we've got to haye some base
that's fairly safe. You're Brs:
Rowena Smith, a broken-hearted
widow, looking for a lonesome
lodge in some vast . wilderness
where you can mourn and mourn
and mourn. I can stay at a hotel.
By the way, is there such a thing
in this burg you spoke of?"
"I'm not surer- I think so
"Well, I'll find some sort of
place. A common chauffeur like
me can bunk anywhere, but you've
got to retire from the world to
mourn properly. Gosh! :Why did
n't I think of that before? You
ought to have a maid."
"But we're not going to stay
up here."
"We're going to stay until we
pull it off and we dont want to
attract any more attention than we
have to. Women like you dont
have swagger chauffeurs and no
maids. We've got to do this right
or we'll fall down. If I'd thought
in time I'd have brought" Janet
I'll send for her. by jinks!"
"Who's Janet?" -
"An ex-housekeeper of ours.
Scotch, and a perfect old clam.
Lives with her sister in Brooklyn
now. She ran pur house for years.
and then dad pensioned her. Shell
do anything on earth for me and
never open her head about It. She
saved me many a licking when I
was a kid. We can tell her every
thing, or nothing- She'll scowl,
anyhow1,, but She'll see us
througtu" He chuckled delighted
ly. "She's so darn respectable.
too. We could commit murder
and get away with it, with Janet
behind us. How do you get to
this place by rail?"
They discussed several routes.
all involving one or more changes'
from one road to another, and at
last she suggested . that Janet
could take a through train from
New York to Greenfield, where
Piggy could meet her with the
car, as it was within easy driving
distance from their destination.
"That's better," he said; "I'll
wire her from Hartford.!
Accordingly, he drove to the
Hartford station,' found the ached
ule he sought, and telegraphed
Miss Janet McDougall to take - a
certain train the -next day for
Greenfield, where he wpuld meet
her-late in the afternoon. ' He
signed It Hemfte, which was what
she had always called him when
his offenses against decorum had
been particularly nagram. it is
a Scots word signifyiBJt fit for
hanging, and would be a. sufficient
warning to the experienced Janet
to keep her own counsel -regarding
her r sudden Journey. It would
also tell her that the case was ur
gent.. a -a ' ; '
Pleased with this happy device,
he was turning away from, the
telegraph desk when a heavy hand
smote him between the shoulders
and a heavy voice boomed jovial
ly: "Hello, Piggy! What you doing
here?".
Heilo,:Brick," he returned, in
wardly cursing as he shook hands
with a 1 former classmate. Same
to you. Off your beat, aren't
you?"
"No, my married sister ' lives
here. I thought I saw rthat red
devil-wagon of yours out&ide."
"Mine? Piggy opened innocent
eyes. "Guess again. I left it at
a - garage . to have the fan belt
fixed."
"Like fciell you did!' Brainerd
Melvin, a red-haired giant with
close-set. Inquisitive blue eyes,
poked him' in the ribs, chuckling.
"Who's the lady?"
"What l;dy?"
;"Oh, coiue off. Piggy! Your
car's out there with a woman in
it."
, -"Rats!" qtnoth young Mr. Braze
nose scornfully. "Women arent
in my line anvd you know it, you
crazy lunatic. I I'm off on a hunt
ing trip with another fellow."
"You don't stay!" Melvin looked
him over owllsfhly, and Piggy was
smitten with a ' consciousness that
his raiment, was more suggestive
of Fifth Avenuo than of the wild
wood. .'Were gqingto stop at a house
or two on thie way," he im
provised, "and 1 then maybe run
on up into Canada, if the weath
er's good."
; 'Who's your friend?" Melvin
asked, half convinced. . "Any
body 1 know?"
"No. He's an important custo
mer of ours from the West. Wait
ing for a train?"
"Yes. Jim Lamont's due in a
minute or two. Bri ug your friend
up to the bouse an we'll have a
game."
"Wih I could, but. we're due in
Springfield tonight. . Been there
now if it hadn't been for that darn
belt. I've got to hop along. Glad
I met you, Brick."
"Wait a minute and I'll drivtj
you uptown. Jim's train's due
now."
.. Unwilling to rearouge Melvin s
suspicions. Piggy waited. Later
the three men walked directly past
Roberta, who sat motionlens and
unrevealing, muffled in her black
veil.
"That's the car," Melvin said in
a low tone.
Piggy glanced at it critically.
"Same model as mine. But you
must have thought I was off on a
sobbing bee, Brick," he added, as
they passed on. "That woman's
covered with crepe."
Melvin laughed. "Well, you
never can tell. Where'd you leave
your devil-chaser? I'll drive you
around."
"I dunno. Some place near the
hotel. Didn't notice the name.
Drop me at a drug store, anyhow.
I've got to buy some stuff."
(To be continued.)
(Copyright by Margaret Cameron 'Lewis.
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into a narrow little-used 'country
lane overhung with trees and
there, sitting on a rag lit the low
of the headlights, they made their
frugal meal.
"Mind if I call you Bob?" he
asked. "I've never had much to
do with girls, and, there's no sense
in calling yoi Miss Scott, any
how. You seem just like another
fellow."
Her lips twitched at the corners,
but she replied: "I don't mind at
all. We're partners now, for a
little while. What shall I call
you?
"John." He rejoiced-that at last
a time had come when he could
assume, even temporally, a sens
ible solid-sounding name that a
man needn't be ashamed of.
"John Anderson."
"My Jo-John?" she flashed
tack, then bit her lip.
But Piggy, being neither musi
cal nor sentimental, was unfamil
iar with the words of the old bal
lad, and looked blanks "What's
that?"
"Nothing. Just a song. Hadn't
you better stick to your own Ini
tials? Aren't any of your things
marked?"
"Gee!" It's luck you thought of
that. Well, then, I'll be Peter G.
Brown, chauffeur for Mrs. John
Smith."
"Oh not iohn Smith! That's too
drab! Let's give hubby a high
sounding first name to make up
for the last one. Let's call him
Horatio, or Percival. How do you
like Sylvester? Or Roland?
think Horatio's best, don't you?
Mrs. Horatio Smith. Sounds all
right."
"Do you like giddy names like
that?" he asked uneasily.
"That depends, Smith calls for
something. What does P. G. stand
for?"
"Piggy." he gruffly returned.
wondering whether , she was going
to be like other girls, after all.
"But you weren't christened
Piggy, were you? Is it short for
Pygmalion? Don't' tell me it's
Pygmalion Galatea!"
Percival Galahad Brazenose ex
ploded "Oh good Lord! Havent
girls got any sense at all? Pyg
malion! Rats!"
"Well. Peter's a perfectly good
name." Perceiving that she had
unwittingly touched a sensitive
spot, she instantly veered away.
But curiosity waxes and grows
strong on prohibitions, and Rober
ta s mind ran rapidly through a
list of improbable Ps Plantag
anet. Phineaa, Philemon, Pere
grine. Philander wondering with
which he had been cursed. Piggy
changed the subject.
"Do you know how to dye
hair?"
"Good heavens, no!" Why?"
"I got some dye." He pulled
bottle from hi3 pocket. "Meeting
Brick Melvin threw a scare into
me. It would mess things up liko.
V. -3 t m .V
me. There isn't time to get a wig,
and anyhow it might be a give
away. You can' generally spot 'em
a block off. So I thought of dye
but I'm not sure I can put it on
myself. I. got a pencil to blacken
my eyebrows, too."
Chuckling over the brilliancy of
this idea, they studied the direc
tiqns in the glare frqm the road
lights. Piggy took off his coat
and collar and produced a comb
and brush from a bag. Roberta
contributed a towel for his shoal
ders, and then, slowly, carefully
she invested him with raven locks
afterward darkening his eyebrows
with the pencil.
No apprehension that the one
stain might be less easily remov
able than the other dimmed their
enthusiasm. Nor is it likely, even
had doubt entered their minds
centered as they were upon the
exigencies of the situation, that it
would have influenced their ac
tion. For. however they might en
liven life's., surface wj.th . persi
flage tle. divine insanity of noble
minds, and deep within their souls
each felt that they were bound
upon a sublime crusade. Not that
cither of them would have relish
sd hearing their expedition des
cribed in tnese term?. Were they
not modern? And above all else,
practical? Undeniably they were
young. -
(To be continued j
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CHAPTER TWELVE
Breathing more freely when his
friends left him, Piggy made cer
tain purchases, and. with these
under his arm And a:wary eye out
for acquaintances, returned to
Roberta.
' , "Sorry . to keep you waiting,"
he said, half under his breath,
"but I met a man I knew and had
to lie like a trooper. Guess I put
it over, though. Anyway, I'm
primed for 'em now, all right."
"How?"
Tell you later. Will sandwiches
and .doughnuts ' and fruit be
enough dinner for you? I've got a
thermos bottle of hot coffee and
some paper cups-But I'm afraid
to tackle a restaurant. I know too
darn many people in this neck o
woods,"
and they drove through obscure. I JStfff 9 d IS? ex'
deserted streets until the toTW$2≫
Kov. nais at me saiem variety Store,
juuea ouiaiae me city ne turnea Z95 North Commercial. (
-Fry's Drug Svore. -280 N. Com'l
the pioneer store. Everything for
everybody in the drug supply line
with standard goods and' quality
service always. ()
We wish to extend our
CONGRATULATIONS
l to Frank Bligh
upon the opening of
Bligh's Capitol Theajtre
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and tKe completion of the
New Bligh Building
A yqung man In a collegiate
suit with wide bottom trousers
said to a clerk in. a music store:
"What jazz tuno is that girl
playing in the back cf the store?"
"That ain't no tune," the girl
replied, ," that's one of the clerks
dustin" "of the piano."
A story about an. autocratic so
ciety leader of New York comes
from the. Riviera.
A multi-millionaire succeeaeu
in getting himself presented
Ciro's
to
the lady one day at Ciro's in
Monte Carlo, but she never recog
nized him thereafter. This anr
noyed the multi-millionaire very
much., and he got a young lady to
intercede for. him. ... .. ,
, VRe'aUy, Mrs.- V thus ran
thj5 young' lady's intercession, 'the
man is . really not such a . ba'J
sort. A diamond in the rough,
you know." .. .,
!Yes, I know," said the dow
ager. "That's why I'm cntting
him."
While awaiting her turn at the
Palace, Tessie. of Eddie and Tps
sit, novelty song and dance artists,
picked up an evening, paper.;tTes-
sies eye fell on aji,item which. Tin
der a glaring headline told of a
court decision f awarding damages
of $20,000 to t chorua girl for a ,
single ; kiss. jporrpwing- a- pencil,
she" hegan figuring, furiously.
CvWhat now?:' hr, father tc-;.
marked,.,-.,When he finished the
newspaper story :; hjp said, ."And
now. how much. does it cometq?"
."Exactly 164.745,' atrsered
Tessie. . : - " J - - 7
"At 1 2 0,0 0 0 a kiss I seT
VThat isn't what I'd ,mie. yqn
pobr dear. What do you think I
am? . That's what my Income tax
would be.'T S-Jz-.-'- ' '
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