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CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY. OREGON. JANUARY 7, 1916
NO. 2 til
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of the 3’car. No need to come to the bank in person.
SECURITY A N D SERVICE our Motto
, by th e C e n tu r y Company.
Hall brought up the rear, walking
more deliberately and each carrying a
baby, comparing some sort o f white
tags o f sewing. Cousin Martha was
crossing the road in their wake with
her knitting bag and palm leaf fan.
One thing I am proud o f having ac­
complished this summer Is the estab­
lishing o f friendly relations with Aunt
Augusta. I made up my mind that
she probably needed to have some o f
my affection ladled out to her more
than anybody in Glendale, and I work­
ed on all the volatile fear and resent­
ment and dislike I had ever had for
her all my life, and I have succeeded
in liquefying it into a genuine liking
i for the martial old personality. I f
Aunt Augusta had been a man she
would have probably led a regiment
up San Juan hill, died in the trenches
and covered herself and family^ with
glory. She is the newest woman in
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the Harpeth valley, and. though sixty
years old. she Is lineally Sallie Cnr-
ruthers- own granddaughter.
"E velina." she began as soon as she
had mnrtialed her forces into rocking
chairs, though she had Jasper bring
her the stiffest and straightest hacked
one in the house, “ I have collected as
many women as I had time to and
have come up here to tell you and
them that the men in Glendale are so
lacking in sense and Judgment that
the time has come for women to stand
forth nnd assume th* responsibility o f
them and Glendale In general.
As
the w ife o f the poor decrepit mayor
I appoint myself chairman o f the
meeting pro tem. and ask you to take
the Orst minutes. I f disgrace is threat­
ening us we must at least face it in
an orderly and parliamentary way.
And I ” -
“ Oh, Mrs. Shelby, is it—is it small­
pox?" and as Sallie spoke she hugged
up the puppy baby, who happened to
be the twin In her arms, so that she
babbled and giggled, mistaking her
embraces for those o f frolicsome a f­
fection.
Mamie turned pale and held her baby
tight, and I could see that she was
having light spasms o f alarm, one for
each one o f the children and one for
Ned.
“ Smallpox, fiddlesticks—1 said dis­
grace, Sallie Carruthers, and the wrorst
kind o f disgrace—municipal disgrace.”
And as Aunt Augusta named the
plague that was to come upon us she
looked ns if she expected it to w ilt us
all ns into sear nnd dried leaves. And
in poiut o f fact we all did rustle.
C H A PTE R XII.
“ Are wo free women V ’
E L L us about It," said Nell,
with sparkling eyes and sit­
ting up In her low rocker as
straight as Aunt Augusta did
In her uncompromising sent. The rest
o f them just looked helpless and unde­
cided as to whether to be relieved or
not
“ Yes, municipal disgrace threatens
the town, and the women must rise in
their strength nnd avert i t ” she de­
claimed majestically with her dark
eyes snapping. “ Yesterday afternoon
James Hardin, who is the only patriot­
ic male in Glendale, put before the
town council u most reasonable and
pride bestirring proposition originated I
by Evelina Shelby, one o f Gleudul&s
lending citizens, though n woman. She
wants to offer the far lamed hospital­
ity o f Glendale—whleh Is th-oldest and
most aristocratic town in the Harpeth I
valley except perhaps Hillsboro, and
which is uot In the class with a \ul-l
gnrly rich, modern place like Bolivar,
that has a soap factory and street cars
and was a mud hole in tho landscape
when the first Shelby built this very
house—to the commission o f magnates
v ho are to come down about the rail­
road lines that are to ho laid near us.
James agrees with her nnd urges that
It Is fitting and dignified that, when
they are through with their vulgar traf­
ficking over at Insignificant Bolivar, [
they be asked to partake o f real south­
ern hospitality at Its fountain head, es-1
peeinlly as Evelina is obliged to Invite
two of them as personal friends. Do
you not see It in that light?” And
Aunt Augusta looked at us with the
martial mien o f a general commanding [
his army for a campaign.
“ It would be nice,” unswered Manila I
as she turned little Ned over on his
stomach across her knee und began to
sway him and trot him at the same
time, which was his signal to get off
into a nap. "But Ned said last night |
that he had lost so much in the bond
subscription that he didn't feel like |
spending any more money for un enter­
tainment that wouldn't do oue hit of |
good about the taxes or bonds or any­
thing. The baby was beginning to fret,
so 1 don't think 1 understood it ex­
actly.”
“ I don’t think you did,” unswered
Aunt Augustu wltberingly. “ That Is
uot the point at all, uud” —
“ But Mr. Greenfield said lust night
while he was discussing it with futher
that it would do no good whatever and
probably be an embarrassment to the
commission, our putting in a pitiful
bid like that. H e” — But Caroline got
no further with the feminine echo of
her masculine opinion former.
“ Peter Shelby put that objection
much more picturesquely than Lee
Greenfield.” Aunt Augustu snapped.
“ He said that licking those men’s
hands would turn his stomach after
swallowing that bond issue. However,
all this has nothing to do with the
case. I am trying to” —
“ Polk said last ulght that he thought
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