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Local and Personal Miss Nancy Kimsey, who was injured by a fall which she took j in Salem some time ago and) which caused her to be detained . in the hospital there for a short j time, is home now and able to be j about by the aid of a crutch. The City Well. Work is again progressing on the city well. Sloper Brothers laid otf several days during the holidays. Drilling had proceeded to a depth of 2bT feet yesterday forenoon and Mr. Sloper expected to reach 270 feet by this morning. The drill has been passing through blue rock for more than ISO feet, but the sand pumpings yesterday showed a tendency toward red rock. Watch Party Tuesday Night. Tuesday e'eningseveral friends of Miss Gladys Parker gathered at her home to watch 1912 de part and 1913 come in. The even ing was very pleasantly spent in playing games and several musi cal numbers were rendered. The main feature of the evening was a taffy pull. After the new year was ushered in the guests de parted for their homes. Those present were: Misses Anna Wood, Florence Hill, Emma Parker, Nellie Peppers and Gladys Park er, Mrs. Lyman Parker and Messrs. Ranie Burkhead, Byron White, Clarence Hesseltine, Joe Clark, Lyman Parker and C. H. Parker. Monmouth Heights Dow-Hamar was a Dallas visitor one day last week. D. M. Calbreath was trading in Monmouth Thursday. Riley Rhoades made a pleasant visit to Oakdale Tuesday. Jim Riddell made a business trip to Texas and Utah last week. Roy Johnson spent Christmas with relatives at Toledo, return ing home Thursday.- Frank Clarke, of Monmouth, visited with Clay Guthridge and family the past week. Mrs. V. A. Fishback, of Lewis ville, visited with 'relatives here several days the past week. M. Pierson, of Oregon City, is spending the week with his sis ter, Mrs. Silas Clinton, and fam ily. Richard Osborne visited with his ffranH.mntlior Mra MneUa ! of Rickreall, Friday and Satur day. Mrs. Geo. Foster and son, Con ard, of Dayton, visited with her cousins, the Fishback children, from Thursday until Sunday. Eb. Marks and wife, of Rick reall, and Forest Barnes and family, of Corvallis, ate Christ mas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Allen Towns. Visits the Capitol City. Under direction and advice of Miss Minnette E. Harlan, a very large delegation of Monmouth people came to Salem for the Bispham concert Thursday night. This thriving town is showing a spirit of progress, especially in music. Not only was expressed the keenest appreciation of the high merit of the music, and the privilege of listening to Mr. Bis pham's magnificent voice, but an assurance was given that the ap pearance of Carrie Jacobs-Bond would bring to this city the same number of Monmouth people for the tenth of January. Salem Journal. Hair Switches made from combings. Enquire at this office. Postoffice Business Increasing. Postmaster Wolverton handed our reporter a statement of the gross receipts of the Monmouth postoffice for the month of De cember, which, compared with the receipts of the same month last year, shows a decided in crease in business. Gross receipts. Dec. liUl, $;!5f.24 1912. 400.39 Death Takes Three Christmas. While Christmas is a festival which usually brings joy, yet sometimes mourning comes in stead and Polk county was visited three times by the grim reaper. The first was John Taylor, of Independence, who died Christ mas morning from the wound he inflicted upon himself the pro ceeding evening and of which we made mention last week. William Edward Clark, of Rick reall, a pioneer, after a brief ill ness died at the age of 78 years. The other was John P. Morri son, who had walked to the home of his son and died very suddenly. He was past S3 years old. Subscription Offer. 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A Fool's Errand Or an Unexpected Turn of Affairs i By CLARISSA MACKIE f...!-. ; . -I-. -I-. ! . ! . -I---H Hal Marey watched his cousin from under lowering brows. Dick was standing iu the sunny window, his mouth net in grlru. obstinate lines. "Well?' repealed Ual coolly. "What is it?" growled I tick over his broad shoulder. "Are you going down to Scnrsflale after what I've told you? Why. Alice would only laugh in your face!" Dick turned sharply. "Oh. no, she wouldn't she"s not that sort! She might feel like laughing, but she would hide It well." he ended bitterly. "Why strain her courtesy, then?" persisted Ual. "May I ask whether this is my af fair or yours?" Dick Corning was white under tils tanned skin. . "It Is mine in a measure." was Hal's insolent reply. He leisurely drew out a cigarette case and scratched a match on a gold box. He spoke between puffs of blue smoke 'hut wreathed his dark, thin face: "You know-when yon mentioned yon- were-goiug down to Scarsdale toda.' I asked you tpuff) If you were going down to see Alice Wil son and you snapped out yes and I knew why by tho look of you there, there. Dicky, don't get hot. We all catch it sooner or later like measles and whooping cough. 1 had a good rea son for advising you not to go down there. It's a fool's errand for you, Dicky, my ltoyv" "You mean that somebody else" Dirk's voice choked Into silence. "It comes pretty netir being thiit," returned Hal somewhat vaguely. Then mtlier eomh'srendlngly be added. "I may as well drop you h hint. IMcky, boy-even though she may net be for you, you may be able to claim relation ship with h-r some day see?" j Dick Coming's eves blazed men.ic-! itigly, and his big haud- clinched tight-! ly. His lips wriihcd into n strange smile that was half a sneer "You mean that I may marry Alice's '. cousin May and thus become her cons- lu-in-la w?" he asked ' i Hal Marey winced. "No. I didn't i mean that, and you know It too. I ; meant that the relationship would be; on the other si le of the house " j "Oh. you menu that you expect to! marry May and we will be related to ; Alice Wilson In that manner. Shall 1 ' congratulate you. old man?" Dick's gray eyes pierced the veneer of good nature that had covered his cousin's attitude. "Quit your fooling. Dick." snarled Hal. tilug ng away his cigarette and preparing another. "I can tell yon one thing." "You have told me so many this morning I am tempted to forego any further infringement on your" "If you go down to see Alice Wilson today you'll be making I lie mistake of your life. You'll be making a foul or yourself. Helleve me that I have a good reason for saying this ,"- Dick picked up his hat. smoothed the creases In the soft lir.iti and settled it on his fair head. "You've butted Into my affairs iiday In an unpardonable manner I have simply to say that 1 am quite willing to Is'iir any mortifica tion that my harmless actions may bring upon me." As he closed the door he heard Hal's impatient voire sending after him: "Fool's errand " "I'll do It just the same." gritted Dick through his set teeth, and his keen eyes had a vision then of beautiful Alice Wilson telling him with tearful, pitying eyes that she loved hs cousin Hal Marey and that she would lie a cousin to him forever. Til be blanked If she will!" cried Dick as he drove through the crisp, cool air. "If she won't (and I know she won't have a duller like met I shall go around the world, and when I find a good place In which to forget her I'll stay there, only I know I'll never find such a place." he ended forlornly. He was fiercely Jealous of Hal Marey. Hal was several years his senior and of a dou.i ... . .i.i i character. Dick bad fallen decern teiy iu love with Alice Wilson the year before while Hal was in Kurope. but Hal hud suddenly returned three montiis ago and. with Ids customary overbearing manuer, had hustled his cousin off the field and immediately laid open siege to Alice's heart. Dick, astonished and quite diffident In the presence of an overpowering love, had allowed him self to be pushed aside until now he found It almost Impossible to regain the ground he had lost. Alice treated him with sweei friend liness that was maddening as well as disheartening. All the sweet, gay in timacy of their friendship was, gone. He seemed to be numbered among a host of unimportant admirers who worshiped Alice from afar, while the intrepid Hal vfrcy stepped boldly forward and openly admitted that there was un "understanding" between Alice Wilson and hltuself. To all hints and innuendoes the lovely Alice turned the point of her wit tu excellent ef i fect. Five weeks had elapsed since Dick had ventured near Scarsdale, where Alice lived. At his elaborately care less remark that he thought he would drive dowu that way his cousin had been quirk to sting him with the re mark that If bo was going down to see Miss Wilson his errand would be In vain. Hut Dick Coming's Hps were set In tlmt obstinate curve that few had ever seen and none had understood because there had been so few things In this world that he had had to tight for. Most everything had come to him easily, but now this greatest boon, the love of a good, fair woman, was to be denied him, She was to be Hal's, and Hal was a bounder. Dick was going to put the question to her just the same. Ills attentions to her had been so marked In the past that he felt that he owed it to her to ask the all Important question. That she won I1 refuse him he had not the nil:- lit est doubt. It would be done gently, but convincingly, with perhaps a hint at some cousinly relationship In the future, after she should be mar ried to Hal. He routed out n tims table, and. with one hand on the steer ing wheel of the car, he studied the trains from town and mentally coin pared the running time with the de parture of certain I'arllle liners due to sail from San Kranrlsm iu six days. "I'll get down there at It, drink tea nt -I and. If site Is alone, ask her! It will take her about ten minutes to turn me down. Including the cousinly advice and all that. Then I can run back to town by .V:iO. catch the 7:IH for the west and connect wllh the Kamkat sclia at San Krnnclsco on Saturday. No wedding bells for you. Dicky, my boy!"" Ills mind attuned to these gloomy re flections and with a drab future care fully outlined. Dirk Corning was some what taken aback at Alice Wilson's greeting. She was a Dresden chlmt sort of beauty, all pink and white, with soft blue eves ami hair the color of ripe corn sill;. She wore some little soft, clinging gown of pale blue with a pink rose tucked In her breast, ami all the pretty color faded from her cheeks ns her hand was lost Iu Dick's big. warm grasp, "Where Is Hal?" she asked, as she Fat down behind the tea table. ' Dick's face clouded slightly. "I sn pose he will be down later. I came by myself, on my own errand." he ended rrullly. lie accepted a cup of tea and dropped lump after lump of sugar Into Its pale depths before be realized what he was doing. "On your own errand?" repeated Alice, fussing nniotitr the teacups. "Yes. a fool's errand." returned Dick unhappily. "If It Is a fool's errand, why do you come?" A lice's voice shook slightly and her long lashes were laid against the shell pink of her c licek. "I had to- n fool and his errand are soon par'ed," Dick grinned mlserab'y and replaced bis untasteil tea on the table. He leaned across the slender legged table, menacing the fragile china. "Alice!" he rasped. "Well?" Iter eyes were do wncast, and her fingers in d ceased to flutter. She was very still and now very mil h like a sweet, snd little Dresden chlnn shepherdess. "I've got to say It. nnd then I'm going on a trip around the world. I love you. dear. I want to marry you. I know you won't have me. but I want to give you the chance to say no." stammered and stumbled unfortunate Dick, saying more limn he meant and meaning more than he said. "Yes?" murmured Alice softly. "That's all." assured Dick. "Yes; I'll marry you. Dick, the dear est and best boy in the world, only you did let Hal elbow you out of the way, and It served you right for awhile!" Alice's little hands found Dick's clumsy ones and crept Into their warm grasp. One or two fragile cups were crushed under the weight of Dick's arms. "What?" shouted Dick, unbelieving. "You asked me to marry you. I will only If you start on a trip around tie world I shall go, too!" whispered Alice In his startled ears. ' At (1 o'clock Dick brought his car be fore the curbstone, and he ran up the steps of the bachelor apartments, where both lie nnd his cousin had rooms. In the main corridor he ran Into Hal. Immaculate In evening dress, on his way to keep a dinner engage ment, Hnl smiled condescendingly up at his big cousin. "neen well trimmed, Dicky, boy?" he Insinuated craftily. ,"I suppose you've got yours now." , "You bet!" crowed Dick happily. "I've been on n fool's errand and re ceived a fool's reward!" High School Notes Alton McClollan, who whh chosen school gardener at a re cent meeting of the high school student body, has been curing for bulbs of dilVemit varieties that have been planted near the school lawn, lie has received instruc tions from Professor Livingston, tit Forest drove, concerning the flowers in the basement and the plants which were recently ee curetl for making beautiful the interior of the building. A number of the students of the high school went to Dallas Monday night to witness the drill of Company (3, O. N. (.1., and the basketball game between Ashland and Dallas high school, and to attend the high school banquet in the auditorium of the Dallas high school building. An attempt is being made to secure a number of prominent men to deliver lectures to tin; high school once a month, and Principal Livingston investigated the matter while in Portland on business. Preparations have been made for the high school to present, a program on the great women of the day. A portrait of Miss Jane Aildarns, of Chicago, was re ceived, ami the school has asked for information regarding a story of the life work of Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, of Portland. The committee from the high school on current events will hereafter clip the most important news of each week and place it on a special bulletin board se cured for that purpose. To the women of Monmouth who have given flowers, plants, bulbs, etc., to the high school since its opening in September, the school is exceedingly grate ful. In a short time tho high school expects to have a large reading table with all the best magazines and newspapers placed upon it, in order that the students may receive the benefit of the best stories, and be well informed upon the latest happenings. Professor Livingston, in a re cent talk to the students, stated that he hopes soon to find a con venient time to call a meeting of the people of this district, and set before them reasons why it is worth $10 a day to a student at tending high school who applies himself to the studies and takes an interest in the affairs of the school. School will start Monday, Jan uary G. Public Notice. Having leased the City Meat Market, I will say to the citizens of Monmouth that I have come among you to do business and be one of your number. I will conduct the business on the same lines taken by my pre decessor, and will do my best to merit your continued support. Yours respectfully, John Grimes. Mrs. Anna Boatman Dead. Mrs. L. D. Mulkey received a letter from a sister of M. K. Boatman, from Southern Cali fornia, a few days ago, bringing the intelligence that Mrs. Anna Boatman died there December 28th, having been sick only a short time. Mrs. Boatman, formerly Mrs. Anna Mulkey, was married to Mr. Boatman, at Portland, a few weeks ago. Zook the Painter, will hang your paper for you.