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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1915)
Why not trade with a Store that can fill ALL < our ordt-r The Jennie Brice We carry a full line of staple and fancy Groceries We are headquarters for Fre»h Fruits and Vegetables Fruit Jars Jar Tops Jar Rubbers JellyGiasses Look over our Dry Goods Department consisting of Dress Goods, Shoes, Sox Shirts, Overalls, Underwear, Mus lin, Sheeting, Thread, Hand kerchiefs and Notions. Feed Department Wheat Oats Corn Chick-food Bran Scratch-food Shorts Flour Grits Oyster-shell and Ground-bone Waterbury 4 Chapman . “The Quality Grocers’’ Rug Specials $7. to $18.75 9x12 Rugs Now $6. to $17 A good assortment to choose from. Matting Rugs $3.25 3.00 A good line of Summer Furniture. Call and look them over. A full line of Glassware still on display. Economy Jars pints 80c ” ” quarts 95c ” ” half-gal. $1.25 Assortment of Extra Caps Jelly Glasses, of all sorts Stamp book premiums will have to be arranged for in Portland. Estacada Furniture Co. U ndertakers $2. a day. $10. a week Hotel Estacada Modern Conveniences One of the most delightful Resorts on the Coast Local and Tourist Trade Solicited Rexall Corn Solvent helps remove corns far more effectively than by cutting, and without pain or danger. relieve or money back. Will 25 cents. Estacada Pharmacy T he R exall S tore " i m Dnngfv. but ft * not fo«>d i want. I want t«i s«»e her.' he said. I sat dowu across from him and tried to meud a tablecloth, but 1 could | not sew. 1 kept sedug those tw o young things, each sick fo r a sight o f the other, and. from wishing they vould have a minute together, 1 got to plauuiug it for them. "Perh aps.” 1 suid tinally. " i f you want it very mu«*h” — By “ Very much!* "A n d if you will sit quiet aud stop tapping your tinger* together uutil you j drive me crazy I might coutrive it tor I Copyrlflht. IBIS, b y the B obb>- you. For ttve minutes." | said. "N o t Merrill Compiny a se«*oud longer.1' H e came right over anti put his arms 1 around me. Continued from las’ issue | "W h o are you. anyhow?” he said. : "Y ou who turn to the world the frozen T h e defense was visibly shaken. mask o f a Union street boarding bouse They had not expected this, and 1 landlady, who are a geut le woman by thought even Mr. Ludley. whose calm every Instinct and trnltiiug aud a girl had continued unbroken, paled. at heart? W ho are you?" So lur ul.' hud gone well for the | " I ’ ll tell you what 1 am.” I suid. prosecution. They had proved a "I'm a rumanti«- old fool, aud you d crime, us nearly us cin umstautial evi- better let me do this quickly before 1 ■ deuce could prove a crime, uud they change my mind.” i had established a motive. Hut in the Me freed me at that, but be follow ed I identification o f the Imdy so fa r the} to the telephone a is I stood by while i | bad failed. T ile prosecution "rested, got I.lda. He was iu a |ier!ect frenzy j us the} say. although they Uidu t rest o f anxiety, turning rod aud white by much on the afteruoou o f the third turns, and in the middle o f the con- day. ' versatimi taking the n**elver bodily The defense culled, drat o f all. Eliza ! from me and holding it t«> his own eur. ShueiTer. She told of a woman an “ That’s curious!" he said. j She said she thought she could get sw ering the general description o f Jeu " I think w e’ ve got him. Mrs. P it aw ay: she spoke guardedly as if Alma nie Brice liuviug s|»eut tw o days at the ShaelTer farm at Horner. Being man." he said. "T h e Jury won’t even were near, but 1 gathered that she g o out o f th e I kjx .” would come as soon as she could, and. shown photographs of Jennie B ra e But further than that he would not from the w a y her voice broke. 1 knew she said she ihought it was the same He said he had u witness she was as excited as the boy be wntiiuu. but was not certain. She told explain | further o f the woman leaving uuex- locked in his room, and he'd he glad o f side me. She came, h eavily coated and veiled, j pectedly on Wednesday o f that week supper for him. ms they’d both <*ome And lie went out and at a quarter a fte r 10 that night, and 1 from Thurnville On cross exam ina a long way. bought some «»ysters and a bottle or took her buck to the dining room, tion heiug showu the small photo- U e did uot i graph which Mr. G ra ve« had shown tw o «if beer. Hut as fa r as I know he w’here he was waiting. ! kept him locked up all that ulght lu make a move toward her. but sussi j me. she identified the wouiuu id the i the se«oud story front rotun. i dou’t there with his very tips white, looking I group as being rhe woman In ipiestlou. j As the face was in shadow, knew it ; think the man knew ue was a prisoner, at her. And at tirst she did uot make j I went in to turn down the bed. and i more by the dress uud hat. She de- ; he was sitting by the window, reading u move either, but stood aud gazed at him. thin un i white, a wreck o f him | scrllied the black and white dress ami the evening patter's account or the j the hut with red trimming. ! trial—an elderly geutleman. rather pro- self. Then I " E ll!” she «Tied, and ran around the | T h e defense then called me. I had ! fesslonal looking. I to admit that the dress amt hat as I Mr Holcombe slept on tile lifijier table to him us he held out his anus The scboolteucber was out. I went ¡described were almost certainly the ! landing o f the hall that night, rolled ¡ones I bad seen on the bid in Jennie lu a blanket - not that I think'ills w it into the pan or Itedroom aud «u t in the B rice’s nsim the day liefore she dis ness even tnought o f escaplug. hut the I cozy corner iu the dark. I had done a appeared. I could not say detinltely little man was taking no chances. j wrong thing, and I was glad of it. ! whether the woman In the phot >gruph A t H o'cloc k that night the bell rung. | Aud. sittiu g there lu the darkuess. I i was Jennie Brice or not: under a mug- It W’as Mr. Howell. 1 admitted him went over my life again. A fte r ail it ju in ln v irhtsw thought it might t»e. m yself, uud he follow ed me back to the had beeu my uwu life: I bau lived it: Defense culled Jonathan Alexander. dining room. I had u«»t seen him for j no one else mid shaped It for me. And i « druggist who testified that on the several weeks, arai the change in him i if It wus cheerless and colorless uow H e was dressed careful ! It had had its big moments. night in question he had beeu roused startled in « Lite is at h alf past 3 by the prisoner, who I ly. but his eyes were sunken in Ills measured by big moments. had said his w ife was ill. uud had pur bead, and he lo«»ked as If he had not i f 1 let the tw o children iu the din chased a bottle o f proprietary remedy slept fo r da} s. ing room huve fifteen big moments In Mr. Reynolds had g«»ue upstairs, not stead o f Uve who can blame me': from him. Ills identification was ab Ending me socially Inclined solute. The uest duy wus the sensationul "Y ou haven’t been sick. Mr. Howell, one o f the trial. T h e defense called Jennie Brice’s We went through sister, and endeavored to prove that have y o u ?” i asked. every phase of conviction: Jennie Jennie Brice iutd had no such scar. I "Oh, no. I'm well enough. I’ve been Brice wus living. Jennie Brice was It was shown that she was on inti traveling about. Those Infernal sleep dead. T iie body lutimi at Se wick ley mate terms with her fam ily and would ing can»*'— could not l»e Jennie Brit e ’s. The body His voice trailed off. and 1 saw him hardly have concealed an operation o f looking at my number's picture, with futiud at Sew ickley was Jennie Brice's. CU.v gra vity from them. And so it went on. tile Jonquils heueutb The defense scored that day. They T h e defense tlid an unexpected thing ‘ T h a t’s carious!” he said, going I id shown that the prisoner had told closer. " I t It looks almost like I.lda In putting Mr. Ladiey on the stand the truth when he said he had gone to That day. for the first time, he «bow ed H arvey.” a pharmacy for medicine that night the wear ami teHr o f the «»ideal. He "M y m oth er” I su Id simply. for Ids wife, and they had shown that had no flow er in Ids buttonhole, and "H a ve .vail seen her lately?” a woman, answering the description the rims o f his eyes were red. But he "M y mother?” 1 asked, startled. o f Jennie Brice. *i»ent tw o days in a "N o . I.lda.” was quite «‘«M il His stage truining hud town «ailed Horner, ami had gone "1 saw her a few days ago ” taught him not only lo endure the eyes from there on Wednesday a fte r the "H e re ? ” of the crowd, but to find in its gaze a crime. And they hud showu that this "Y es : she came here. Mr. Howell, sort o f stimulant. He made a good woman w h s attired as Jennie Brice tw o weeks »go Mbe looks badly -as witness I must admit. had tieeu. If she U worrying. ’ He replied to the usual «piestlous That w’as the way things stood on “ N ot—about me?” be asked eagerly. easily, ^ fte r five minutes or so Mr the Afternoon o f the fourth day when “ Yes. about you. W hat possessed Llew ellyn got down to work. court adjourned. you to go aw ay us you did? When Mr. Reynolds was at borne when I DJy—bro—w’ h«*n her uncle accused you CH A P T E R XII. got there. H e had been very rnuco o f something you ran Hway Instead of subdued since the developments o f that facing things like a man ’ R. L A D L E Y . you have said first day o f the trial, sat mostly In his that your w ife was ill the "1 was tryin g to tind the <*ue pernou own room sod had tw ice Brought me ft uight o f March 4?" who could d e a r me. Mrs. l’i r o s a ' hunch o f Jonquils ss s peace offering "Yes.” H i sat back, with his eyes closed. He H e had the kettle boiling when 1 got "W h a t w ’ un the nature o f her lllueea?” looked ill enough to be lu tied. home. "She bud u functional heart trouble. "A n d you succeeded?” "Y ou have hud a number o f visitors.” uot serious.” "N o .” be said. "O u r young friend H ow ell "W ill you tell us fully the events of I thought perhaps he had not been bus been here, and Mr. Holcombe has that night?" eating, and I offered him foia!, as i arrived ami has a man in bis room.” had once tiefore. But Ue refused It Mr. Holcom be entue down a moment with the ghost o f his bovi-h smile. after, with bis face beaming. MARY ROBfRIS RINEHART It J Continued on page 4