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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1915)
CEORGE AIDE FABLE SERIES Continued from first page by tlii' e manager—more applause —bunches of ro. es for Lila—cries of "Ain’t she grand?”—“Who’d ’a' thought it of her?" etc., etc. Lila’s lieu was made. The Morning Breeze and the Evening Gale each gave lier a Handsome Sendoff. The Rond to Fortune was paved with Gold for her. All she had to do to Collect was to locate it on the Map and pursue its Devious Course. At the Reception held in K. P. Hall after the Show, all the friends and neighbors told Lila that she was a Knockout and bettor than Billie Burke. Lila admitted the Fact. "and the Fishing for Them is very good." The theatrical producer Lila first de cided on to favor with an opportunity to purchase her Time, was not so Full of Enthusiasm as she had expected. He examined her certificate and then laid it Tenderly back in her lily white Lunch Hooks. As a climax, a verita ble Master Stroke. I.lla Countered to his jaw by delivering to him a copy of a locnl paper from her own Town in which Father was a Principal Adver tiser. The story told of the rising young Tragedienne’s Emotional Ren dition of “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” on the occasion of the fourth annual Volunteer Firemen’s Benefit at the Opry House. Gazing at her with Sadness Ooz.ing from every pore, the manager m urm ur ed “No. 1 don’t need any great actresses today. I have enough. Good day. lit tle Sunbeam." Lila choked indignantly, seized her Diploma and her Clipping and rushed headlong to the elevator. She was Left on Third in the Last Inning with no one to Bring her Home. Life Is sometimes Very Sad. Managers No. 2 and No. 3 and No. 4 all followed suit in giving Lila the icy Mitt. At last, however, she se cured an Engagement with n Number Four Company, rehearsing for One Night Stands with long Jumps on the Dog circuit. I.lla had been keeping company with a Boy who sold Gent’s Furnishing Goods. When Albert called he found her away Up-state. She refused to set tle down and keep House. She wanted to l*e a Great Actress—a Maudie Adams at the least “My fate has been I’reordained,” she announced Imperiously. “I am to be come a Virtuoso^ Artiste. Take back your ring. I am Now classed in a Hunch that’s way over your Undis tinguished head." Albert departed dejectedly from the poultry magnate's Hennery and Lila Lila had a Swell Part. She resumed her study of the volume on played-the Deaf and Dumb Lady “The stage—Ixow easy to conquer in who crosses the stage in the ten lessons." written by Professor second act and removes the Tea Spuds of the Inter-Educational corre Things from the Table. spondence college. Yes, Lila was getting on. She had the Bacillus Theatrleus gnawing in The Fly-by-Night Troupe went on every part of her System. She went the Rocks nt W histling Post in Penn to the Great City and consulted an sylvnnla. At which Catastrophe. I.lla Ex-tragedian who ran a Dramatic School. After two hours of real, Old Fash ioned impatient waiting in an ante room I.lla finally managed to Break in on the manager of the Itoyul School of Histrionic Art, situated on the top floor of an old loft building in the Metropolis which during the uncivil war had been used as a storehouse for oats for the Army Mules. The Aroma of the Mules has not departed. The manager who had made his fame by shifting Props for Lester Wallack told her. after she had recit ed “Curfew Shall not Bing Tonight," and paid him two hundred pieces of Father's Coin, that she was unusually Accomplished, for a Beginner, “all you need is Experience to make Jane Had ing at her best look like a Plugged nickel.” The Head Crimp of the Soubrettc j Factory Inter called on I.ila’s Parents , and said if they would put up enough ' money he would make her a Star In j theaters thnt charge Two Dollars a I Sent. Father kicked In with Five Hundred Dollars. In due time I.lla received a Certificate prov ing that she was a sure enough Actress. "V y D ear Chee-ild”— began to think fondly, even Humane ly of that once dear Albert. When the Con s tabu I e appeared at the railroad station and Pinched the trunks and scenery or tne show I.lla Broke Down completely. She could not join in the Gay Spirits of the Happy Party. The following telegram Penetrated the Pettijohn home In Maple Grove next morning: It was Graduation Day nt the Royal School when Lila was summoned to the manager's ottlco to receive her di ploma. She bowed appreciatively at the dulcet words of High Praise that were Swung Over on her. and dciwrt id proudly with her treasured rreden tlal of Genius. She merely needed a Play and a j W lu.nliiur Post. Pa.. Nov. 13. l?H l r n r v R. P ettijo h n . M aple G rove, I n . . Company, some S enerv and a Man To W l ire I am com ln r hom<— sger. a Press Arent and a Theater In i N otify A tii) ll'eri <:ulck. Prom your hom esick order to make a hit on Mas® Broad- ' L IL A way. In two days the World's Greet« r As she left the Manager’s office that Actress returned to the scene of her Worthy Instructor leaned lwick In his 1 Early Triumphs without the Toot of a chair and Chortled In his Olio. "A Horn. sucker Imrn every minute." he laughed. • “My dear chee-ild." sang her par ents as she Catapulted herself into their Loving Arms. And it was a Cinch that now the Boy that sold Neckwear nt the Three Corners Em porium was sure welcome at the Pet tijohn homestead. A Marriage license beats a Diploma any old time. ther’s Chicken Store.” Happy Albert! Glorious Fate! Albert could hardly speak, so im pressed was he by the Change in his life’s affairs. He snuggled all the closer to Lila. Then he started for ward and threw her Diploma into the Blazing Embers. MORAL. NEVER KID AN AMATEUR IT MAY START SOMETHING. It was twilight in the Front Parlor of the chicken seller’s Costly residen tial Edifice. The scene was one of a Pronounced Office Ground Floor BellfPhone 53-J Todd Hotel. P. O. Box 147 sentimental description. Albert was holding Lila against his throbbing Bosom and both watched the logs in W ith Rollie Watson the fireplace rise and fall. The Whlp- porwil! and the Nightingale sang so sweetly in the bushes around the near by Pig iron mill. The soothing sound of the gurgling waters of Mud Hollow Creek also reached them. “I never really meant to desert you for the stage," whispered Lila, “and I am so Gee-lorionsly happy to be back home, where of course with my Tal L. V. KBERHARD, Manager. ents. I can now be the Leader of So ciety in Maple Grove. Yes, Albert, and Complete Set of Abstracts of the Records I will introduce you to all the Best of Tillamook Countv, Oregon. People. And. some day, I am sure Abstracts on Short Notice by the PACIFIC ABSTRACT CO. S WITCH over to “Right-Cut”— the Real Tobacco Chew. 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