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F R ID A Y , FEBRUARY 16, 1934 The Beaverton Review H it Beaverton Review mmmummummmmmmmiuimmiuumnt ISSUED E V E R T F R ID A Y A T B E A VERTON, OREGON J. H. Hulett Editor noon occupied by Did Jim when he made hta Infrequent vlstta t<> Good Bye » a » waiting attd ready. CODE OF THE NORTH . . . Sr HAROLD TITUS . . . C H A PTE R III H r*t he B«roM TWe* TTT............................. .. Entered as second-class mall mat ter December 9. 1922, at the postoffice at Beaverton. Oregon, under the act of March 8, 1879. s iB s c R ir n o N r a t e s P er year (In advance!...................$1.50 2.00 N ot In advance * H U L E T T S ’ TR IP -a In going from Pontiac to Gar den City we followed along O r chard Lake road until coming to the outskirts of Farmington where we jogged east a mile, and then followed the Middle Belt road to its junction with Ford road. The Middle Belt road is fifteen miles as the crow flies west from the end o f the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. Ford road as it approaches the City of Detroit proper merges in to Michigan avenue. Cadillac Mo tor Co. plant. the Graham-Paige Co. plant, and the Lincoln Motor Co. plant all lie on this road. The main plant of the Ford Motor Co. lies about a mile south. One o f the peculiarities o f Mich igan roads is that they are straight, laid out for the most part on sec tion lines. The hills are not high enough to bother much, and one drives straight ahead mile after mile. This arrow-like feature is quite noticeable until ope gets in- ! to the down town section o f De- ' troit. Here the city was laid out j before the Government land survey I was made, and the streets are not 1 laid' out along the cardinal direc- tions. Never will I forget the first time I was in Detroit. I had been about 1 some, and was probably 33 or 34 years old. Always, heretofore, by going in one direction in a straight line, then making a right-angled turn and going a short distance, i then again a right angle turn and going as fa r as I had gone before ; the first turn, and then another j turn, I would be headed for the place I started from. But in De- « troit the streets are laid out as the radii o f a circle. I travelled four blocks in the direction I thought to be south, then making a left turn I went three blocks, ! then again a left turn fo r four blocks and I was back to where I started from. “ Hang it all,” I thought, “ I forgot or did not no- 1 tice when I made that last turn, j I ’ll try it again ’. I did, with the same result, but this time I was sure that I had turned left only twice. Then I inquired and they ■ told me that the streets led out like the spokes o f a wheel from Grand Circus Park, until one got some distance away, where then the streets were laid out in squares. But I passed across Jefferson street before I knew it. Maybe because I had never driven in down-town Detroit, but had always walked The distances are sure to seem long er if one walks. S Y N O PS IS Stephen Drake, w ith hi* fo u r y e a r- old »on, 1» r w o a r d fro m a b ll»*ar\l by Jim Flyn n , b l* tim b e r op e ra to r, whom Until* hit* robbed F lyn n th * fath er. until h i* dealh. lm - preenee on th * boy. S t*v *. Ih * deb t they o w e "O ld Jim " T w e n ty y e a r* Inter. S te ve m eet* “ T o u n a Jlta” Flyn n . hi* b e n e fa c to r'* eon. Sent by OM Jim. In cap acitated th ro u ch an acciden t In w h ich K nt*. hie d a u « li ter, '■ te m p o ra rily blinded, to ta h e c h a r « * o f th * c o m p a n y '»— th * I 'o - la r i»- - w o o d s o p e ra tto n a th * yon th le IndulR lna In a drunken epree. P o la r l» 1» In d ir » » t r n lt a *n d hop- in t to do »o m e t h ln « fo r (lid Jim , S teve h asten * to th » c om p a n y 's h ea d q u a rter». H e find* F ra n *, a *cou n dr*l. p lo t t ln « a «a ln a t th * F ly n n In te ro ta C H A P T E R I I — Continued ' I f ever w * get the chance, Sfevto . , He put out his hand to take that o f McNally. “ And l wasn’t," be began, “ any more than In time, was I Mac?" "W ell, w e ll!" murmured Wartlu, wlM) had been iqickcsiiiati for the discontented men. tnqidled to such mild expletive, probably, by shock. “ Well, w e ll!” He spat and griimed amiably. “ This, now, makes every thing look a little different, don’t It hoys? MoM>e we can get an an swer to the question we come to ask. now.** Drake let his ey<w run from one to the other and grinned again. lie was breathing easier, but he needed time, much time. He had, per- ha|>s, helped Old Jim for the Inter val ; If he was to carry through, to make that assistance more than an affair o f the moment, he must trade ou the admiration he hud set up In the hearts of the crew for n brief time, at least. “ Does everything happen that fast up here?“ he asked am) Ills Frans, and droased slowly. lie Inventoried the loom as he dothnt hltnm4f. A desk «food In one comer, map» hung on thu wall. A fireplace waa In one end with ■ iM-arakln, before I t ; and there was a photograph o f a girl. He took the print from Its place ou the mantel aud walked to the window. Holding It to the light a tingle ran through his body She wore high pars and riding breeches; s shirt was open at n slender throat. U glil. short hair crowned a face Hint he thought was the most lovely he had ever looked upon. She was smiling, showing small, even teeth. His pulses speril ed up a trifle and he turned aliarp ly. almost guiltily, as the door opened and McNally stepped In. '•.Mornlu'!" he cried. “ Up a'rendy ?” “ Morning," replied Stove, swal lowing. He was fairly caught now McNally had seen. “Oh, you found Kuty's picture eh? Our niece took that two year- ago wbeu she was up with youi dad. You sure got a fine lookin' si* ter, Young Jltu!" "Y-yea. Yes. you're right. She's not bud looking." He swnl lowed again, certain that hla confu sion would betray him and he did not know how far McNally might be trusted with the secret that he was only a pretender. "I sure hope her eyes are goln' to turn out all right 1" Steve recalled, then, what Young Jim's guide had told him yeater day 'W e're all hoping that 1" he re piled fervently. “ And 1-aFune got In after you went to tied. He brought the mall There's a letter from Katy to me. tellln me to open the letters that's piled up here for you If you don't show up soon. She's worried, not having heart! from you since you left Chicago." Now kere. thought Steve, was something else again. T o sit down deliberately and open and rend mall addressed to auother brought up a _ Drake Sto° d ° v . r Him Feet^W ld. point that for a moment ha (Tied hint. E‘ bo' ? Crooke<1' Br.ath McNally, however, helped with the solution. Loud ,n H it Throat 'T d figured If you didn't get here grin provoked sudden grins In the others. "W hy. 1 step Into camp and in a day or two I'd open that stnrk ; Kt.t „ chance to introduce of letters myself, on my own hook. myself I get knocked out from un- With the job in such a bail way and my hat and cuffed and slapped things cornin' up for a show down, and h— Prose with 1 Then, before I with our right-of-way blocked and get my hair slicked down and my the wood camp ready to go on cars pinned bark you come at me strike, danged If I wouldn't ‘ve for an answer to a matter I never o|n*nod Katy'a letters, Jim. to see If Drake stood over hltn. feet wide apart, elbows crooked, breath loud in bis throat Except for that sound the place was very still and the faces of the group reflected the thought that here Indeed was a man! lie had withstood the hard est blow Fniuz had at command, and with one of his own had floored his adversary. It simply was not possible that Ira n » would rise and carry on the fight “ Now," Steve said, "did l drive 'em all back? Those tllthy words about Old Jim Flynn?“ Frans did not answer, lie felt o f his swelling lipe aud looked up ward. In that look was hatred, cha- grin, perhaps a threat; but It was. first of all. a beaten look, and Steve hitched at his belt and turned to retrieve his hat well satisfied. As he turned he confronted Mc Nally, who stood ou the Inner edge o f the wide-eyed circle of men. He was holding Steve's new pack-sack which he had snatched up when the fight started. He had been staring at it : at the fiap with the black, five-pointed star branded on I t and the bold, black initials; "J. F. Jr.” He looked again at those letters ami once again at the man who had borne the pack into the place and his jaw dropped. “ *Y G— d !" he muttered, only half aloud. HU mustache twitched and a smite as of Incredible relief wreathed hi« face. - Y O - d ! la them Initials right? J. F. Junior! Is that so? Are you Young Jim?“ The one thing common to each o f the score of men in the place as McNally. finger on the letters, puc j bis question, was amazement. The thing was as nnexi>ected as a thun derclap on a clear day. sudden dra matically staged. But of them all Steve himself wus the most com heard about until I stepped through pletely dumbfounded. He, taken for that door! I ask you. lads, is that Yonng Jim Flynn ! the way you treat anybody who hap He stood there, feeling small and pens to come dropping In on this silly and wanting to find the word headquarters?" which would set McNally aright. A rumble of laughter greeted this. Bot oJd Mac did not wait. "W ell, likely It is a little fast," “ I might 'a' known!" he cried. “ I admitted Wartin. "A s for you might ‘s' known from what you said gettln knocked from under your about bein' just In time, and over Well, we seen how far hat . lookin', like you did. what he said Franz got with that, good as we about young Jim and seeming to know he is. I guess you can take think only about what he said about care o f yourself, Mr. Flynn. But Old Jim. . . . Yea. sir, I might you’re here now, and. I z'pose,"— ’a’ known I" serious again— “ we can bank on Steve looked from the eager Me- your listenin’ to us In. say, a day or Nally, whose eyes and voice and two." gestures attested to relief after long "I'm about the best listener you strain, to those others Moments ago they had been truculent, rebel ever told your troubles t o !" Wartin snapped his suspenders lious. But now, thinking that one with authority to meet their de and nodded. •*That'a reasonable. 1 guess we mands had come, thinking that he had oo his very entrance Into their can’t ask for any more tonight." A half-hour later, when the men lives established himself as out had all started their d rift back to standing, they had changed. A hot stinging Impulse welled up the wood camp ready fo r at least a within him. A voice seemed to float few days’ more work. McNally es to hfen, his father's voice, coming corted Steve from the store toward down through the years In memory: his dwelling where, he said, the On none o f our trips to De troit did we leave there direct for Hastings, but rather first went to Pontiac, and then across. That route takes one through Wixom and New Hudson where one gets the old Grand River state road, along the route o f stages between Detroit and Grand Rapids. It leaves Detroit | out Grand River Avenue. This road is now known as U. S. 16. It goes through Lansing and Howell. A t that place we leave it when going to Hastings and take Michigan 39 which goes through Grand Ledge. On one o f our trips from Tra- I drove into a farm yard belonging - C £ the 8®Bthr n .part o f to one o f my nieces, Mrs. Bessie . .. averse County it was Hudson. I got in all right but when starting to anow as we left Traverse r trjed to gvi out the snow had y' , ut ^ 'en sno.w ,s„ to be ex* got to such a depth that it came pected in that section However, as up hi>fher the Par axIe and ^ ii , - th!v. fa ,lnJcre* sei1’ so that member she- :,\ the xt-oT it stuck to the wind shield aiong until such a big quanity was and we could not see the road. We in front that the Dodge could no 0 ¡?e* ° “ t and c e.*r t^le snow longer shove hard enough to move away rom tlme to time as we along. To add to the predicament travelled along the old Houghton x goi out o f th€ travelled track -a e s ate r” a,f- T '* route took onto grass that was slippery as a us past Arbutus lake, one of the hiding place. The wheels spun a- f , ne inland summer resorts of that round merrily but the car did not sec ion. t the evergreens were budge. Some o f the niece’s boys oo eavi y laden with the white brought a shovel, and we dug the to mvite any loitering beneath snow away> x>len turned around their branches. I and finally got back to the gra- South o f Blackman school house veiled road bed where we were able m O JE , THE PRINTER’S DEVE. X T mor-mag Stave rose, a bit N E •Off from Ills encounter with * lJ° , f,.,r >°,,r Vou k,,ow' he I il - It u 1 embarrassed, nmlcirruucul "Iliom't'O lu utli what "there've been stories.” "About Yo— About me, you mean?" "Yup. No use beutin' around th’ bush. Nobody up here's even seen you and likely moat o f the rutnorn “ re l,M - llut nr,,u" ' 1 “ *»< U,# ol<J ma" '" hu,J to > o n r1” * “ tied for a long time account o f one thing or another. So when you didn't ahow up we all got to thlnkin' that tnebby . . . well . . . Yon know how it la.” Steve, lacing his paos, considered the problem o f the true Young Jim Flynn's proximity. Suppose some drunken whim should send blm In here today or tomorrow? What would men he talked with last night think o f the whisky sodden wreck he had seen yesterday? Could Young Jim, in his condition, persua«le men to work on? And If the one with true authority should appear and take charge . . . He shrugged that contingency off and went out to breakfast. (T O B 8 C O N T iN U B D .» Ada and I were grown up. and commended Wiat the railroad grant were going to parties together that be turned into the national forests, (¡us would hardly speak to me. hut that the "present l*asisM of pay Well, Gus la dead now. I hope he ments to the counties lie continued did not carry the grudge to the until the summer o f 1936. other side of the Great Divide. I Mott has Just introduced a bill never held towartla him any hard to provide that Lincoln county lie feelings. reimbursed for money lost by with Well, w«' visited the Gihbses drawal from the tax rolls o f lands ami had a most wonderful visit. and property of the Upited Slates 1-ec is managing a service station, Spruce Production corporation. This selling ( has. Rennie’s Sinclair gas would »mount to $108,000 in the and oils ami Ada has been post four years prior to 1923 No com mistress for yeara and years, first putation has been made for years at Fife latke, and now at Mance- i subsequent. Iona I was curious to know how they worked it thut ahe went from F E W E R C H IL D R E N IN one office to the other so quickly. C O U N T Y TH IS Y E A R Postmasters are aup|Mised to be appointed from the patrons o f the office where they are employed. There are fewer ch.ldr«n between She told me that for the first two the uges of 4 aud ‘J9 in Washing years ahe was carried as “ Acting ton county this year than there Postmaster” , and then she gut her were last, Mrs. Zola Morgan, as permanent commission. I-ee's assis sistant to fahe county »upermten- tant held down the business while dent of schools, announced follow we were there and the assistant ing completion of the achool cen postmaster had to run th" office sus. There are 4X62 boys and 4423 as long as we would stay. But it girls tinted this year. was getting coiner (tav by day, and we were beginning to think o f t.he milder climate of Tualatin DOG LIC E N S E NO TICE valley. The license fees for dogs over It was about this time that Mrs H months old, or for dogs owned Hulett discovered her need of med or kept over 30 days for the year ical attention, which resulted in an 1034 are: male dog, $1.00; female operation after she got back to dog, $1.50; spayed female dog, $1.00. where she could I h * placed under A fter March 1st, the penalty la Dr. C. E. Mason’s care. $1.00 for failure to procure license O f course they had to stage a for the dogs above stated. farewell party for us. It was held Purchasing from the recorder at the Geo. Drake home, a big places 80”, of fee collected Into house. Mrs. George Evelyn was Beaverton treasury. busy for days getting ready for the Pay licenses tu Homer L. Wilson, occasion, and the crowd seemed to Recorder-Treasurer. adv. have justified her efforts. M OTT’S B IL L SEEK S M O N E Y FOR C O U N T IE S Representative James W’ . Mott For Useful Garden Tools is preparing a bill to amend the or Hardware of any hind Stanfield act so that counties of the state hereafter may be paid W E P A Y CASH aume in lieu of taxes on Oregon and California lands by direct ap For I'aed Furniture propriation from the treasury. And I'stiful Tool* Payments to the counties were largely reduced this year under a Ijtwnmowers, Sewing ruling that disbursements could lie W’ e Repair made qply to the extent that funds Machines, and Bicycles Had accumulated in the special land grant fund. Trade at A fter this, with no m|.v market •TH E F R IE N D LY STORK” ing o f government timber, Mott says, there will be little or no Richey Hardware and thing for the counties. At the recent national forest con Furniture Company servation conference here it was r e Business Places To Patronize IN BEAVERTON! ■■■ ■ Spend Your Money in Beaverton m B E A C H ’S M A R K E T OPTOM ETRY Fruits, Vegetables and GlaaMea, Filled or Repaired Our Specialty DK. A. VI W ILSO N Beaverton Oregon Groceries W. E. UND ERTAKER PEGG AND EM BAUM ER Grange Building - - - - - - S T U D IO T H E SI M M E R S SH O P BARBER Beaverton SH O P F IR S T C LASS W O IIK to travel all right again. That was on the 14th of October as I remem ber the date. Rather early for snow to any extent in that section, that is, snow to any depth. O f course it soon melted away. Then was there a hurry to get the potatoes out and the com husked, and into the bams! It goes without saying that farmers put in their best efforts to get things ready fo r the winter which promised something o f what re cent news dispatches have been in dicating the past few days. Shortly after that experience we visited some old school mates and friends, Mr. and' Mrs. Lee Gibbs. Lee went to the Matohett sch<f>l, the next district to mine, but Ada TRADE Ypur Old Stoves and Furniture Beaverton Agency for Dave levin e. Ine. CLEANERS AND DYERS Mr». Mary Summer* Crystal Beauty Shop F R E D E R IC P E R M A N E N T S C O M P L E T E $2.50 All Lines o f Beauty W ork went to the Blackman school. She A T R E A S O N A R I.E P R IC E S lived on the road to school only E. I». Van M E T E R , Prop. A P P O IN T M E N T S N O T N E C E S S A R Y a mile nearer than Huiett’s place. I remember one time in coming home from school I had taken Ada’s Boyd’s Variety Store Beaverton Barber Shop dinner pail and hid it and Ada had gone home without her pail. N O V E LTIE S C. J. STKVENH , P R O P R IE T O R Her father waited on my father Beaverton'» Own Store and wanted him to give me a lick S A T IS F A C T IO N G U A R A N T E E D ing for taking her pail. In the in Beaverton Oregon terview Gus I'.arratt had indicated that if my father, John Hulett, did not give me the richly deserved BEER ON DRAUGHT thrashing, he, Gus, would attend G. A. CO BB to the matter. Then the war was and 10tf Glasses on. Well, I did not get the thrash Express O ffice Stage De|>ot ing, though I probably deserved it Attorney at Law Phone 10605 but the fathers did not recognize W estern Union g r e yh o u n d c o ffe e shop each other when they met for years H E D G E B U ILD IN G , B E A V E R T O N Beaverton Oregon ®ud years. It was not until both Roani Building Oh, UHI, That’s Different
