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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1915)
W hy not trade with a Store that can fill A L L tour order We carry a full line o f staple and fancy Groceries We are headquarters for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Fruit Jars Jar Tops Jar Rubbers J e l l y G1 a s s e s Look over our Dry Goods Department consisting o f 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 & Chapman “ The Quality Grocers” Sleep Out of Doors These not summer nights. Dont bother to move your regular heavy beds around. Invest $ 3.50 in one of our latest Folding Cots with heavy mattress and double rein forced springs. Ideal for porch, tent or lawn. Specially adapted for couch during the day time. Folding Camp Stools 2 5 C eac^ Hammocks of all kinds Special canvas camper’s hammock with carrying bag Others from $1.75 to $2.25 Porch Rockers Big and Roomy $3. It you’ re traveling, inspect our line of Trunks, Suitcases or Bags Estacada Furniture Co. U n d e r tak e r s Purola Mosquito Cream Unsurpassed For Mosquito Bites, Sting o f Bees and other Insects, Poison Oak, etc. T a k e a tube with you on your vacation. For Sale by Estacada Pharmacy The S to re \ The Case~ofj ¡Jennie Brice j * ;; X $ * * By | j . MARY ROBERiS RINEHART V ters grave and curvet! •‘'rill we meet again" on it. I daresay the next flood will find It iu Molly Maguire's kitchen. Mr. Howell and Lida are married. Mr. Howell inherited some money. I believe, and what with that and Lida declaring she would either marry him iu a church or run off to Steubenville. O.. Alma had to consent. I went to the weddiug and stood near the door, while Alma swept in. iu lavender chif fon and rose point luce. She has not Improved with age. has Alma. But TJda-Lida — I wanted to run out and claim her, my more than child. I sat dowu and covered my face, and from the pew behind me some one leaned over und patted my shou der. “ Miss Bess." old Isaae said gently, “ don't tuke on. Miss Bess!” He came the next day and brought me some lilies from the bride's bou quet that she had sent me and a bottle of eliampugne from the wedding sup per I had not tasted champagne for twenty years! That Is ali of the story. On summer afternoons sometimes when the house «» <» C op yrigh t. IBIS, b y the Bobbs- “ M e r r ill Com pany Continued from last Issue i»ru Ovyoua tits reacb; of disposing or thf lieud near the -Seventh street bridge: of going to h drug store, us |>er the Howell instructions und of coming home ut 4 o’clock to find me ut the head of the stub's. Several points of confusion remain ed One had been caused by Temple Hope's refusal to admit that tile dress and hut that figured in the «use were to be used by her the next week at the theater Mr I-ad ley insisted that this was the ease and that on that Sun day afternoon his wife had re«juesttKl him to take them to Miss EIo|ie: that they had quarreled as to whether they should be parked in a box or in the browu valise, and that he had visited Alice Murray instead, it was on the way there that the idea of finally get ting rid of Jennie Brice rame to him. And a way using the black and white striped dress of the dispute. Another point of confusion had beeu tile dismantling of his room that Mon day night, some time between the visit o f Temple Hope and the return o f Mr. Holcombe This was to obtaiu the scrap of puper containing the list of clews us suggmted by Mr. Howell, a clew that might have brought about a premature discovery of the so called hoax To tile girl lie had told nothing of ids plan But lie laid told her she was to leave town on an early train the next morning, going as his wife; that be wished her to wear the black and white dress mul hat for reasons thut he would explain later and to lie veiled heavy: that to the young man who | would put her on tile train und who bad seen Jennie Brice only once she was to Is* Jeunie Brice; to say as littie as possible and not to raise her veil. Her further instructions were simple— to go to the place at Horner where Jennie Brice had planned to go. but to use the name of Bellows there. And after she had been there for u day or two to go as quietly as possible to New York. He gave her the address o f a boarding house where he could write fier and where lie would Join her luter. He reasoned In tills way: That as Alice Murray was to lui|>ersoiiate Jen nie Brice and Jennie Brice hiding from her husband she would naturally dis card her name. The name Bellows had been hers by a previous marriage, and she might easily resume It. Thus to establish his innocence lie bad not only the evidence of Howell and Bronson that the whole tiling was a gigantic hoax; lie hud the evidence of Howell that lie had started Jennie Brice to Horner thut Monday morning, that she hud reached Horner, had there assum ed an Incognito, us Mr. IMtinan would say. and had later dlsap|ieared from there, maliciously concealing herself to work his undoing. In all probability he would have gone free, the richer by $100 for each week of his Imprisonment but for two tilings. The flood, which had brought opportunity to his door, bad brought Mr. Holcombe to feed Peter, the dog And the same flood, which should have carried the beadlene body aa far as Cairo or even farther on down the Mlaaiasippl. had rejected It In aa eddy below a clay bluff at SewiclUey. Well, It Is all over now. Mr. Lad- ley Is dead, and Alice Murray, and even Peter lies iu the yard. Mr. Reynolds rnM.de a attmll wooden cross over pe W ater Snakes Found To Be Foe O f Trout That water snakes are doing more damage to young trout than any other agency, is the belief of Perry Kitzmiller, superintendent o f the Eagle Creek trout feeding station, who killed a reptile, cut it open and counted 42 inch and a half rainbow trout, weighing from eight to ten grains each. Kitzmiller saw the snake busily engaged in swimming around the feeding pond about 6 o’clock in the morning o f July 3, and con cluded to catch it. The destruc tion of the young fish prompted him to kill another, which, when opened, reaveled a four inch sil- verside salmon in the stomach. Kitzmiller has declared war on all water snakes and has issued a general call to arms, clubs, rocks or whatever is handy on the part of all fishermen in the state against the new and common enemy. A water snake will de stroy more trout in one morning, says Kitzmiller, than some fisher men will catch in a season. \ I j Road Signs Ready i | i H e W ee F r a n t ic W it h F e a r. Is hot 1 go to the r>srk ami alt. I used to take Peter, but now he is dead. I like to see Lida's little boy. The nurse knows me by sight and lets me tulk to tiie child. He can say “ Peter ’ quite plainly. But he d»H*s not call Alina “ grand mot her." The nurse says she does not like it. fie culls her “ Nana.** Lida does not forget me. The other day she brought me. with apologies, the chiffon gown her mother laid worn at her wedding. Anna hud never worn it but once, and now she was too stout for it I took it 1 am not proud, and I should like Molly Maguire to see It. Mr. Holcombe asked me last night to marry him. He suyg lie needs me. and that I need him. 1 a in a lonely woman and getting old. and I ’m tired of watching the gas meter, and liesldes. with Peter dead. I need a man in the house all the time. The flood district is none too orderly. Besides, when I have a wedding dress laid away and a Inittle o f good wine it seems a pity not to use them. I think I shall do Ik T IIE The newly made highway signs, reading ‘ ‘ESTACADA Miles and The Estacada Hotel” are now ready for installing along the county’s highways. Will the automobilists in this section help to place these guides where needed? There are plenty o f signs to cover all highways leading into Estacada for a radius of 25 iftiles, allowing one sign for every mile or two. Call at the Progress office or Estacada Lum ber & Produce Co.’s office for signs. When these useful ornaments j are in place, they will not only prove a valuable aid tp the trav eller and autoi9t, but will prove one of the best advertisements ever offered by Estacada and this part o f the county. END. Mr. and Mrs. John Dunseath and mother of Saint Paul arrived last week to take up their perma nent residence on their newly acquired ranch in Currinsville. • Me Wm. Stone of Chicago was a visitor at the home o f Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Seymour o f Estacada last week. He is on his way to San Francisco to accept a position as a wireless operator there. Trying to get more Fords J. W. Reed o f Estacada has been hustling around Portland for the past few days arranging to get another carload o f Ford automobiles to fill present and future orders. Mr. Reed has sold 22 cars this season, the latest purchaser being Wilbur Wade of Currinsvillle. It is likely that another carload of these popular cars will soon be delivered at the Estacada Garage. Popular Resort Filled Portland autoists and other connoisseurs o f exclusive high grade resorts have found the popular Log La Barre Garfield resort and are availing themselves o f its restful atmosphere ana beautiful surroundings. Manager H. A. LaBarre reports that the resort was filled to ca pacity over the 4th, including many well known Portland people.