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EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1927
OUR COMIC SECTION
Calamus T ea Was
Served
By MARTHA M WILLIAMS
(Copyright.)
HAT was Joe Bubson hello-iu’
about?”
Mrs. Muiu usked
Along the Concrete
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W . A. Heylman W m . W . Smith
ATTORN EYS-AT-YAW
We will take care of any legal
business you may have
Insurance, Loans and Collections
ESTACADA
Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Inc.
“ SO THE PEOPLE
eagerly.
DR. W . W . RHODES
OSTKOPIIATU
E\e Nelson tried to answer casu
M A Y TALK ”
ally: "(Hi! Nothin’ much I Just ask
PHYSICIAN ANI> SURGEON
in' If we had a stray red yearlln’ iu Office in Liehthorn Bldg.
Estacada
our pasture." But in spite 6f her
self her eyes fell.
DR. G. F. MIDFORD
Whereat Mrs. Main said: “ Humph!
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
You re a sleazy liar. He brung you
X-Ray Equipment, Glasses Fitted,
a somethin’ of some sort. WUut wus
Office and Residence Second and
it? Answer me straight!’’
Main Streets. Estacada, Oregon
” Xo{hin’ but a bunch of calamus-
Telephone Connections
root,” Eve stammered.
"Calamus!” Words cannot express
DR. CHAS. P. JOHNSON
Mrs. Main's scorn. “ Are ye goin' ter
DENTIST
learn ter chaw it? I’ll warn Sam
Evening Work by Appointment
Birdsong be better look sharp. With
Phones: Office 315. Residence 5051
this calamus-dope a-workln’, you might
Estacada, Oregon
say yes ter the wrong feller.”
Eve stiffened. “ You'll please let
Near Depot
me and my concerns be," she said.
O. D. EBY
"Remember, I’m your boarder—and
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
the best part of your livin'. Also,
Ladies’ and Children’s
General Practice. Confidential
1 don't have to stay on here any
Adviser.
llair Cutting a
longer than suits me. 1 can marry
Oregon City,
Oregon
Specialty
if I cboc.se, and I don't have to take
Sam Birdsong.”
S.
E.
WOOSTER
“ Ye cun, e h ! Of all the ougruti-
Hair Cut 35
Shave 15
Real Estate, Loans, Insurance
tude ever I heard tell of, you’re the
Rentals
beat," Sirs. Mann flung back. “ When
Farm Loans a Specially
you’d a-died in yer cradle, after yer
L. V. Van Slyke, Prop.
Telephone Estacada. Oregon
mamma went hadn't u-been 1 taken
and raised ye up ter real human size.”
“ Sure you did,” Eve scoffed. "Paid C. D., D. C. and E. C. Latourette
your rent that way. The place is
ATTORNEY’S
mine. You agreed to raise me right,
Practice in all Courts.
feed, cloth and school me, if 1 was let
First National Bank
stay until I married. And L didn't
Oregon City,
Oregon 11
know a word uliout it until a month
Pipes and Fittings
back—thought you paid money rent
(Jet our prices before you hny
and got it back and more for keepln’
Dryer Pipes Made to Order
GATES FUNERAL HOME
me.”
For Sheet Iron Work, re
(•resham 2171
“ How come you ter git so wise,
pairs, Soldering and plumb
missy?” Mrs. Main demanded angrily.
ED LINN AT LINN’S INN
ing, call at the
Eve tossed tier head. "1 went to
AGENT
Judge Johnson,” she said. “Told him
A M E S S H O P
how you nagged and complained of
Estacada, Oregon
Phone 543
MAIN STREET
my appetite, uud how I wore out
J. E. GATES
shoes, und asked him to find me am
other guardian. Then lie told mo
about the bargain—says he cuint go
buck on it—but the minute I show
him u husband worth havin' he’ll put
me in possession. Ilow'd you like
that?”
In answer came n volcanic eruption
—reproaches, appeals to high heaven,
torrents of abuse, at last violent hys
CONFECTIONERY AND
terics. Then Mrs. Main collapsed—
fell to the floor in a dead faint. Eve
LIGHT LUNCH
tried dashing cold water in the un
conscious face. Desperately she run
to the kitchen adjoining, and to her
joy found a teakettle boiling. Sudden
ly she struck something hard iu the
pocket of her house frock the despised
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calamus. In a wink she had a potful
brewing. Three minutes later she was
pouring tiny spoonfuls of it through 1
her patient's lips.
But an nngei
couldn't have been welcoiuer than
Billy Bellamy, who came iu without
ceremony after a glance through the
window. Billy was reading medicine
with old Doctor Ware. He wus also
an i MARCEL SALON
fathoms deeii in love wit it Eve. hut
had never until now hud the ghost of
STRICTLY SANITARY
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
a chance to say so.
Haircutting
35c
Shave 15c
“ The Lord sent you, I do believe,”
she said fervently to Billy. "I was
MASONIC BLDG., ESTACADA
ART SMITH, Prop.
scared poor Mammy Main would die
—with only me to help her."
"You’re doin’ Just the right thing,”
Billy assured her. “ Now we’ll lift her
to the lounge."
"Wait. I must do somethin' be
fore she comes lo," Eve said with half
DAILY TRIPS FROM
a giggle.
ESTACADA TO PORTLAND
¡She nodded. “ It’s only this: Pro
LEAVE ALL FREIGHT AT WAREHOUSE
pose to you—in dead earnest—while
In ordering your freight sent through us you receive personal service
I have the chance.”
both in Estacada and I’ortiaud that will save time and money
Billy all hut staggered. Perhaps
C. IL JOSSY
PHONE lH-1’2
t all und Deliver Service
that was why he had to prop himself
with both arms around Eve. Warned
by a groan, they sprang apart—and
spent the next half hour trying
breathlessly to do nil the things Mam
my Main insisted must be done at
once.
Municipal Terminal, Six’ h and Salmon Sts. Phone Main 7733.
The first was to bring forth black
LINN’S INN. Estacada, Oregon.—DAILY
berry cordial. Such a mission re
quired two for fulfillment. Even ut
A. M. P M. p M.
•A M. M PM P M. P M.
that it was tedious. At last Billy
2 : to « 20 L t . Estacada
8:00
1 30
Portland
4 : 30
found the right jug. Eve, peering be
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Eaftlc Cree■k 8:15
Cla< karnas
4 : 45
8:
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Barton
8:25
Carver
1
4 : 55
yond him, reached for something odd
3 :05 7 25
Carver
8:15
Barton
5 15 (j 15
—a cunvas-wrapped parcel so heu\y
3 11 7 35
ClackamaaI 8:55
Eagle Creek
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9
she could not move it with one hand.
3 30 7 M Ar. Portland
Ar Estacada
9:30
6 00 10: 00
Billy drew it to the light.
Both
•Daily except Sunday
scanned it narrowly, then laid it buck
SUNDAY—Leave Portland 10 a.
and hurried to Mrs. Main, trying bard
to look us though they bad not si cn it.
They found her shaky, but she
sniffed the pungent odor gratefully,
saying in h weak voice: "Eve I got
my come uppunce fer fer talkin’
T H E
mean ter you. 1 do believe I'd a died
hadn t of been fer that calamus tea.”
“ I won’t forget,” Billy said gaily.
"When I want to bring the dead to
life—try calamus tea. But here’s
somethin’ even better, handing her a
(Trapne-led continuously fer ten consecutive years.)
glass of the thick spicy peach brandy,
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at least twenty years old.
“ It does put heart in ye." Mrs. Main
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said almost dreaming, after a swig
delivery.
and several sips. Suddenly she looked
We sell orly what we produce ourselves, and since the supply is
hard at both the young folk - some
limited, suggest that orders be placed early. A good many orders are
thing in their faces stirred her strange
already in so do not delay. If you desire good delivery dates.
ly.
“ Did—did you find—anything
We specialise on large, white eggs of good shell texture. All eggs set
else?" she asked brokenly through
in our incubators weigh from 34 to 30 ounces to the dozen.
quivering pallid lips. Eve took her
band, patted it and said: “ Never
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mind If we did—we left things as we
ery and Breeders’ Co-operative Association (under the supervision of
found them.”
the Oregon Agricultural College.)
“ They taint stay so." Mrs. Main
cried, sitting up. “ I got to tell the
truth. In that leather bag. Insble the
THE MARQUAM POULTRY FARM
canvas, is money—my rent for nine
BREEDERS OF WHITE LEGHORNS
teen years. I chested you pinching
so to save It but I couldn't endure to
One. Nile East of Estacada, Oregon, on Garfield lload
go bare and empty-handed when I had
to leave."
"You are not going to leave.’’ Eve
said
1 1V. And Billy nodded asaeet
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only y e sterd ay his T eacher
tbLD ME T hat he was T h e
v m o s t responsive child
,
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