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Th*Aurora Observer
he was all apology, then he gave a lit­
tle laugh as be recognized the one he
had nearly bowled over: “Why,
Moore,” he said, “you in a hurry, too?”
Walter Moore laughed good na-
turedly : “Tying up Christmas gifts
with clumsy fingers takes time,” he
said. “Looks to me as if you had
been doing something of the kind your­
self, too? On your way home, are
you?”
“Just making it for the car when I
was so unfortunate—or rather fortu­
nate enough to bump into you.”
They pushed their way to the subur­
ban station two blocks ^distant. Since
John and Jean had moved out to
Meadowville six months before they
had been next-doòr neighbors to. the
Moores and had found in them a genu­
ine friendship and comradeship that
was very pleasant. Now, they talked
of many things on the homeward
journey and John confided inr Walter
about the present he was bringing
Jean, and Walter in turn told John
that he* too, had just the gift his wife
desired most, no matter now the why
òr wherefore of how he had come to
know. And all the while the pile of
Christmas packages lay on the seat
between them. So interesting was
their conversation, as it so often is
between men who have a* great deal in
common, that they almost forgot their
stop until they heard the conductor’s
voice calling out Meadowville. Then
hastily gathering up their packages
they made a hurried exit from the car,
anxious to get hoiqé.
The snow, which had beeil threat­
ening all day, was now coming down
in big, feathery flakes. | Lights
gleamed from the windows oil the lit­
tle homes they passed and shewed up
in relief the wreaths of hc&ly and
Christmas bells that hung in fee win­
dows. From somewhere afa| came
the shouts of a group of m err ^'young­
sters, and the sound was gobd ito hear.
Everywhere the spirit of Clfristmas
was In evidence—in the quiet* suburb
as well as * on the busy strq&t—and
John thought to himself that life was
indeed good and worth whili; as he
walked up the little path that led to
his home, where welcoming}) lights
gleamed from every window.
Entered as second class m atter March | j
28, 1911, a t the postoffice a t Aurora, j
Oregon, under the Act of March 3,TS79. |
Geo. E. Knapp. Editor and Publisher
EDITORIAL
Opinions of the
Observer
Recently the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company was ad­
vised by the United States District
Attorney that an employe had re­
ceived $3,000 for showing favorit­
ism in the special wire service de­
partment.
The matter was investigated, the
charge found to be correct, and
although the money was returned
by the employe, he was immediate­
ly discharged by the company.
This is modern public utility sei-
vice—- one price to all and special
privilege to none. Any other sys­
tem would disrupt and ruin a great
public service organization ju«t as
it would eventually ruin the best
system of government in the world.
Young Husband Comes
Forward W ith Advice
One year after marriage Is the mo­
ment when a man can talk the sound­
est sense on the vital subject of mar­
riage. Before that he does not know
enough. Afterwards he may know
too much and be unable to see the
wood for the trees, “A Happy Hus-
band” writes in the Continental Edi­
tion of the London Mail.
When I went to the altar last Sep­
tember it was with the old adage for
the proper handling of matrimonial
quarrels—“When you are in the wrong
apologize. When you are in the right
apologize i twice!”—ringing in my ears.
It was good advice and I have never
regretted following it.
Women are great hands at giving
new lamps for old. Make Uttle sacri­
fices for them, and they will make big
ones for you. “Remember a wife's
birthday, it has been wittily said, “and
the Remaining 364 days of the year
will look after themselves.“
Considering how careful women are
to study our little ways and peculiari­
ties, it seems a pity we do not take
more trouble to study theirs. They
are really so ridiculously easy to man­
age, if we only knew it. They do not
alter with the ages except on the sur­
face.
The woman of today prizes most
the same qualities , as «the woman of
*1924 B. C. did befoW her—chivalrous
instincts, first overtures to reconcili-
ations, ? the ready shouldering of re­
sponsibility and blame. They may not
comment on these things a t the time,
but they will remember them, and the
reward will be a hundredfold.
When you shut your mouth tight
and smother the clever retort which
springs to mind, they know they have
got a man: Sometimes they will de­
liberately do things to test a husband.
Lucky the man who successfully sur­
vives that te s t It is on him, and on
him alone, that the uttermost treas­
ures of a woman’s soul will one day be
lavished*.
Too Unlucky
A visitor in Kentucky came across
that rare specimen, an unmarried col­
ored man.
The negro was a quiet, elderly per­
son, not shiftless but quite industri­
ous, so the Northern man felt curious
and determined to find out why he had
remained single.
“Uncle Jim, how does It happen that
you are so opposed to matrimony?“
The old fellow looked up with a
grave face, but there was a twinkle In
his eye as he replied: “Me, suh? I
ain't erposed to matrimony.“
“Well, why is It you have never mar-
vried?"
his
inquisitor
continued.
“Haven’t you seen anyone you liked?"
“Lawdy! yessah—but you see it’s
thisaway; I couldn't resk my judg­
ment.”
“Aside From ThaF’
The rehearsal was over. Calling
one of the actors to the front the pro­
ducer said:
“I have been sitting in the fourth
row of the orchestra and I haven't
heard a single word you’ve been say­
ing. Your elocution is as monotonous
as the song of a bumble bee. You don’t
walk the stage—you waddle across it
like a duck. Your wig looks like a sec­
ond-hand hearthrug.
Your clothes
hang on you as they would on a hat
peg. You’ve so many pairs of hands
you don’t know what to do with them,
and if you take my advice you'll go
and stuff your feet In your pockets.”
“Otherwise—O. K.?“ queried the ac­
tor.
Doodad or Thingumbob?
Do other races show the same love
for indefinite names and the same re­
sourcefulness in coining them that is
shown by Americans?
Following Is a list of indefinite
names recently collected in the Cen­
tral W est: Thingumbob, thingumajig,
thingumadoodle, dingus, dingbat, doo-
funny, doodad, doodaddle, doogood,
dooflickus, doojohn, doohickey, doo-
bobbus, doobiddy, doowhackey, gadget,
fumadiddle, dinktum, jigger, fakus,
kadigin, thumadoodle, optriculum, ring-
umajig, hoopendaddy, dibble.—Ameri­
can Mercury.
(© , 1924,
Western Newspaper
U n ion .;
SHARP, chill wind
w a s blowing ‘ as
John Trenton
stepped out of the
big office building
that housed the
firm of Under­
wood & Under-
w o o d, architects
and engineers. It
was a little past
four o’clock in »he
afternoon and it was the day before
jChristmas. He stood a. moment or
two on the steps and looked up at the
¡lowering gray sky. Like a heavy cur-
¡tain it hung over the , endless sea of
•city roofs, holding within it the prom­
ise of a big snowfall by morning.
.Ever since John remembered he had
¡always loved a white Christmas and
he smiled now in anticipation of the
thrill it always brought.
’ Everywhere within view a surging
mass of humanity moved this way and
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¡"Why, Moore," He
Hurry,
Said,
Tco?"
“You in a
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[love for him that ordinarily would
•have sent him into the seventh heaven
I of delight, but which now only brought
It was with some consternation that
him a sense of misery.
one read in the newspapers that the
“But Jean,” he whispered tensely, gulf stream had been proved* a myth.
“didn’t you really want a cape instead If one of the sacred scientific trinity
¡of this fur. Wouldn’t you have liked had died, what was to become of the
¡it far better?”
! “Why, no, John,” she answered others—the nebular hypothesis and the.
sweetly/ all the while her fingers run- law of gravitation?
A closer reading, however, was reas­
¡niqg back and forth across the soft-
iner%s of the fur. “I was half afraid suring, remarks the New York Evening
that you might buy me a cape, from a Mail. It appears that M. Le Danois,
remark or two that I heard you make, a French savant, asserts that there is
but I might have known that you’d un­ no such thing as a gulf stream. What
derstand. That’s the very nicest thing is called by that name is a combina­
about you, John, you always seem tò tion of ocean tides.
¡understand without being told over
There are, he says, two kinds of
¡and over as so many other men have water in the North Atlantic, warm and
¡to be.”
cold. The warm moves in a north­
“But, Jean,” he answered, catching ward current to some undetermined
¡at a last straw, “didn’t you say that point and turns backward again. The
‘night outside Bolton’s store that the fluctuations, however, are*' tidal.
¡cape in the window was so beautiful—
One has a vague memory of reading
that it would make any woman happy something very like that in the physi­
j—and that you—”
cal geography book about twenty years
I “Yes, I know, dear, but I was going ago. Apparently the phenomena exist,
to add that it would be the last thing whether one explains them by the
¡that I would desire for' myself. You term gulf stream or as ocean tides.
know the one Aunt J'àné sent me That which we call a gulf stream by
some time ago is just about the same another name will smell as sweet to
shade, and then, too, my heart was so migratory herring and sardine and.
¡set on a fur like this th at I could not
¡think of wanting Anything else just happily, one can still paraphrase
now. So please quit worrying, Mr. “Romeo and JiJliet” regardless of
¡John Trenton, for you have brought whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote
¡me just the thing that I wished most it. And the warm Atlantic current
[for. In fact, to tell you the truth, if still saves Europe from a return to
you had brought me that cape I would the glacial period regardless of
have been fearfully disappointed, al­ whether one accept the nomenclature
though, of course," I would not have' of Franklin or that of M. Le Danois.
[told you so. But I am just happier
than I can say over the gift you
¡brought me, and also over your won­
Summons
derful news.”
John did not answer. He felt sick
¡with misery and disappointment. Every j N o _ 17260. v In the Circuit Court
word that Jean uttered made the
f the State of Oregon for Marion
telling of the thing ail the harder. ! f o u n ty
Department No. 2.
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Christmas morning dawned* bright
and clear—a perfect Christmas day,
John thought, as he lifted up the
Shades and looked without. The land­
scape which only yesterday Rooming
looked bare and ugly in all the’naked­
ness of winter, glistened with worn
drous beauty now as if some* magic
hand had passed over it through the
night. A carpet of snowy /whiteness
covered the earth—a delicate ftracery
•of snow and ice glistened oq every
tree and shrub—the whole . scene was
like the work of some master artist.
Dressing hastily, John ranf down­
stairs making his way-~to the lijtle den
at tile rear of the dining roèm^-his
own sacred sanctum. For thire, the
¡evening before, after he had #j?'a#ay
■ from within reach of Jean’s eyes>, he
had hidden the precious package,
Which was to give so much joy to her.
He handled it lovingly as he went up
the stairs again, all the while a "de­
ll icious feeling of happiness siirging
lover him ^s he thought how glad Jean
■would be when she saw it.
Tiptoeing softly across the room, he
¡stooped down slowly and .' kissed her
[cheek. “Merry Christmas, sweetest of
¡women !” he whispered softly as he
¡placed the decorated package in her
hands.'
Jean held it a while, her fingers
j ¡playing with the string that bound it.
Hit seemed as if she was almost loth to
[open it, preferring rather to linger in
'the delightful land of anticipation
I a while. Then she undid the box very
¡slowly. A cry of delight .came from
that, all with eager, intent faces—the
hurrying, nervous, yet gladsome crowd
(of last-minute Christinas shoppers.
(John’s progress was slow as he tried
.to elbow bis way along, and because
of the fact that a number of packages
¡nestledJ in the folds of his arms, all
of them bearing the hall-mark of
Christmas time. One in particular,
however, seemed to be singled out in
¡a special manner from the rest, in that
it reposed on that part of John’s oyer-
coat where his heart was Supposed to
be located and that every minute or
two he felt of it with the little of his
finger tips that were available. A
smile played about the corners of his
mouth as he thought of the moment-
that the package would be opened and
the little cry of delight that Jean
would surely give when sh% gazed on
its contents. For was there not re­
posing there the very gift that he
knew she wanted most-—had he not
heard her express the wish for it just
a week before as they /Stood \Vindow
shopping outside Bolton’s store:
“What, a beautiful cape,” she had ex­
claimed; “some woman will surely be
happy Christmas morning when she
receives it. But I—”
The rest of the sentence, howeyer,
had never .beeil finished because of’
some interruption from the street, but
John had heard enough to know that
the thing Jean desired most was the
beautiful cape that had been displayed
so prominently among the most desir­
able Christmas gifts in Bolton’s win­
dow—the cape that she said would
make any woman happy. And John,,
to whom the thought of her happiness
meant more than all else in the world,
had forthwith set out to secure the
g ift
His smile grew deeper as ho' thought
of the piece of good news he had to
tell Jean, too, that beginning the New
Year a substantial increase per month
was to be added to his salary. He
knew that Jean would rejoice—there
were so many things that they needed
yet for the pretty little home which
was theirs and of which they were
both so proud. John thought as they
went along that the first Christmas of
their married life would be a truly
happy one and his heart sang within
him as he pushed his way through the
surging crowd.
He smiled In ready sympathy as lie
looked a t the holiday shoppers—
young, middle-aged and old—all intent
upon the same purpose; to give hap-
1 piness to some one else. “What a
graiuj. old world this would be,” he
thought, “if we could only keep this
spirit in our hearts all through tho
year.”
So deeply did this thought take hold
of him 'that he almost collided with
a man who was ' coining but of a build­
ing on his way to the car. Instantly
Warm Current Exists,
No M atter How Called
iBut Walter Moore Got No Further
With His Explanation.
For he knew now how the awful blun­
der had happened. In the hurry of
'getting off the car the packages that
he and Walter Moore had carried had
¡been Exchanged. He remembered now
■Frnost R./Brundridge, plaintiff, vs.
j Lina Brundridge, defendant,
j To Lina Brundridge, the defend
! ant above named: In the Name
' of the State of Oregon, you are
hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint filed against
you in the above entitled cause
and Court within six' weeks from
the date of the first publication of
this summons against you, to-wit:
I within six weeks from Thursday,
! December 4, 1924, and if you fail
: to so appear and answer the plain­
tiff will apply to the Court for the
! relief prayed for in his complaint,
I to-wit: a decree forever dissolving
the marriage contract now existing
between you and plaintiff,
j This summons is published, for
j six consecutive Wéëks, in the Aurora
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circulation, printed and published
at Aurora, in Marion County, Ore­
gon, the date of thè first publica­
tion thereof being Thursday,
| December 4. 1924, and the date of
the last publication thereof being
Thursday, January 15, 1925.
All done in accordance with the
order of the Honorable L. H.
McMahan., Judge of the above en­
titled Court, which order is dated
| and entered of record in the above
entitled cause on November 28,
1924.
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¡how similar the packages had looked
that they had both come from Bol­
ton’s. At any /moment now Walter
jwould be coming over after thé fur
.and then he would have to tell Jean
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¡the truth—have to present her with a
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Christmas gift that he now knew she
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¡cared nothing for. Her Christmas
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.would be spoiled and he had meant it
¡to be such a happy day for both of
them. What a blundering fool he had
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been not to have found out what she
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been used successfully in' th e treatment
¡had really wanted!
of Catarrh.
He fidgeted from one foot to anoth­
H A L L ’S C A T A R R H M EDICINE con­
sists of an Ointment which Quickly
er, but Jean was taking no notice of
Relieves by local application, and the
¡him now. Instead she was still fin­
Internal'Medicine, a Tonic, which acts
gering the fur, a rapt look of happi­
through the Blood on the Mucous Sur­
faces, thus reducing: the inflammation.
ness upon her face. How could he
Sold by all druggists.
ever tell her that it really belonged
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
to Mrs. Moore—that her gift was the
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¡Cape that she did not want?
“Jean, Jean, I—I---- ” he stam­
DEALER IN
“ No Collection, No Charge”
mered—’
Delinquent accounts collected on a
At that moment there was a gentle
Marble and Granite
contingent basis. We do the work,
tapping at the side door. John’s
shoulder th.e expense and make no
heart stopped beating a moment, for IS Cleaning and Re-setting Mon-
charge unless collection is made.
well he knew who It was. Walter , / um entSj a n d In scrip tio n s C u t
$100,000.00 Bad Accounts Turned In­
Moore was outside, coming to get the
to Cash Since We Started. Jot down
.* on Monuments at the Grave.
I fur that Jean was now gazing enrap­ if
a trial list of bad ones and let us
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tured upon. The thing would have to *
turn them into actual money.
20 per cent Discount on
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be explained now—Jean would have §
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¡to know—
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;bnd time that morning, but now there
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was ho lightness in his step, and a J AURORA4
¡dull feeling of misery was gnawing at
his heart. Going to* the side door he
opened it slowly and Walter Moore
stepped in. In the weight of the dis­
appointment and depression that held
John he never noticed that Moore
was looking strangely white and that
his voice was tense and breathless as
he spoke:
“Trenton, I’m in a deuce of a fix,”
he was saying. “Woh’t you tell me
what in thunder to do. I just gave
Madge her Christmas gift, and what
do you think the package contained—
nothing more or less than your gift
to Jean. And the worst thing about it
is that before I could get a chance to
We have funds to supply your needs for
explain the mistake Madge was raving
about the cape and telling me that it
new buildings, land clearing, or new and ad­
was the very thing she wanted most.
I hadn’t the heart to tell her the truth
ditional equipment. , Or perhaps you have a
as yet, and came over here to you—”
But Walter Moore got no further
mortgage maturing in the near future.
with his explanation, for John Tren­
ton had taken hold of him and was
acting in a way that no sane n\fin of
We loan on first mortgage security ex­
thirty had ever acted before. And
his joy was so great that it was a mo­
clusively and will be glad to consider your
ment or two before he could explain
his strange actions to his neighbor.
application.
When he could do so It was an even
guess which was the happier of the
two.
A litile later John was bending over
We loan for three or five years at cur­
Jean and whispering softly in her ear:
“Isn’t Christmas just the loveliest time,
rent rates.
and aren’t we tw a the happiest of ¿11
the happy crowd today?”
Jean’s muffled “yes” came from the
| depths of the fur which she was
! now trying on—HER WONDERFUL
i CHRISTMAS GIFT.
I
“Why,
No,
John,” She
8weetly.
Answered
her lips as the beautiful gift/was un­
earthed from the many folds of tissue
paper that surrounded it.
“Oh, John! John it was really too
good of you to do this,” she mur­
mured. “How could you have known
that this beautiful fur was the thing
I wanted most. You dear, dear i^jan,
it was just too good of you. But how
could you have known it was just the
very thing I was wishing for?”
Then John told her the secret that
he kept from her for a whole week—
that beginning with the New Year
their income would be increased by a
good mar'gin, but there was no en­
thusiasm or happiness in his voice
now. His throat felt dry and husky,
and his voice sounded strangely un­
familiar even to himself. H e| was
gazing with wide-open eyes at the con­
sents of the packagd that he had given
Jean, and in his face was bewilder­
ment and consternation. For, instead
of the cape that he bad purchased
there lay a soft, beautiful fur, which'
Jean was caressing with loving touch.
And between breaths she was telling
him of the wonderful things they/bould
do with the addition to his salary. And
in her eyes there was a pride and a
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Mortgage Loan Co.
Office a t Aurora S tate Bank