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Friday, August 22, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER r Two-Thiril* Leaf "How many people work In the government office?" "About one-third of them. F arm VA os . H arry r © Me C lurl T opics S ao W.N.U.Service INSTALLMENT FOUR—The Story So Far The Maguire* ar* giving a dinner •ar the Newsum*. Shirley Maguire and Jaird Newsum ar* engaged but Mr*. Newsum would Uke to see her son marry Connie Mays, daughter of Coe- * * lngton's wealthleit citizen. Mik* Ma guire I* a happy-go-lucky editor and mayor of th* town. Kathleen, younger daughter, is furious at Mrs. Newsum'* patronizing airs. A stranger had helped * • camellia* on a bosom that was al ready overshelved. fix a flat tire for her and kisses her. He tell* her he is a newspaper man out of a Job. The first to arrive tor th* dinner are Laura's son. Tom. and hit wife. Mary Etta. POOR CUTTINi RUINS WOODLOT Carelessness Endangers New Stand, Profits. | dk issing l-l «hl V Dear Ma Well, 1 gess maybe I will be tossed Into Uie guard house again or *hot or put peeling more potatus land 1 don't know witch is wor*cr). I got one of them post cards from the Sen. Wheeler First . Committee and what I read tn the newspuper* about all the fuss being made about it makes me aw- ful nervous. I Only some good luck will save me. I wrote a note to the President like the Senator asked me to aaymg I was against getting into the European war. <! did not say positively though.) And I ex plained while 1 was against it I wood go peacefully if ordered. Kathleen slid out the door, At breakfast Laura had been impres "How do you do. Laura’ How very sive about th* solemn significance Mary Etta was already moving By EKED TRENK of the occasion. But Mike was just Into the living room. Laura put her pretty you look," murmured Mr. tlTvfension Furexrtr. L/mvaraHy of as likely as not to forget to come Slake Newsum while his wife stiff hand on Tom'* arm. She did not Wl«CO*Sf*J to dinner when there were guests. mean to detain him more than a ened. Not nil of the wreckage of war "Maude looks good enough to rut." It was not an auspicious opening But to her relief a* she came down minute. Mary Etta was suspicious to be found on the other side of the "He eurefulI They say she via- the hall Kathleen heard his voice as Laura knew. She wished the gen of private conversations between her water Rising log and lumber prices ploys artificial coloring matter." husband and hi* mother. She had tleman would keep his gallantry at at the rear. He usually came in have caused many farmer* to “cash been determined when she married home. But Jaird'* father was never the side door because there was a one to catch nuances. He beamed short cut across a vacant lot that in” with their marketable trees. not to be “mother-in-lawed.” Regardless of who does the cut on Shirley and from her to Jaird who saved time from his office. "Isn't business any better, Tom?” ting. there are two things any tim had taken Shirley's hand was look "Dadi ” she called imperiously. asked Laura. I ing down at her wih an expression "Don’t you realize you've only ten ber owner must bear in mind if he "Better I haven’t made enough has any hope of ever making a sec that for a moment made of her heart minutes to make yourself presenta this week to resole the shoes I've ond cut first, he has to keep all a delirious singing bird. ble’" worn ouL” livestock out so that young tree "Handsome couple.” murmured She jerked open the screen door "I'm sorry." seedling* and sprouts have a chance Mr. Newsum. "I always said so.” as she spoke. She meant to chase "But Mary Etta's raking it tn. so His wife gave him one of those Mike up the rear stair* a* quickly to grow; and second, the slash, or I should worry.” looks meant to drop a husband in as possible. Only it wasn't Mike limbs, tops and waste parts of tree* resulting from logging or wind dam Again Laura winced. But she said his tracks. And Laura nervously into whose arms she catapulted. age must not be allowed to burn in nothing. Because there was abso flung herself into the breach. niNriHt "Oh!” cried Kathleen. But even this was wrong and only one large, destructive fire. lutely nothing to say. And Mary "What a perfectly charming dress, "Exactly," | grinned the black- THPOU6H THE Woodland owners who fully under a letter I just got from Nellie Pe Etta was already glancing toward Bell«." headed man in I faultless white flan- stand timber values and who can tersen keeps me trom a nervus Uff. or «C/AW.E them with narrowed eyes. Accord “Do you think so?” murmured the nels. rypE estimate closely the volume of mer breakdown It seems I wrote a let ing to her philosophy, a man's moth lady, slightly mollified. ter to Nellie the same time I wrote "Kathleen." bcamed Mike Ma- piecokeeep By er made trouble between him and "Who could help It?” contributed guire, "this Is Ritchie Graham, a chantable timber on their land are to Washington, and by mistake I in a position to realize a larger re his wife if she could. Mary Etta Tom, back-stopping for Laura. JOHANN gentleman and a scholar after my turn through a lump sale of stand put Die letter about not getting into was exactly like a prickly cactus. MTÍH9ÍK6 Mrs. Newsum was making like a own heart” the war in Nellie's envelope and ing timber. However, unless they Ready to stab at the least excuse. IN 1454- ship in full sail for the love seat in Kathleen stared into the sardonic are fully protected by contract, sent to Mr. Roosevelt the letter 1 She was determined to have from one corner of the room. It was the meant for Nellie. life exactly what she demanded of most uncomfortable piece of furni gray eyes of the irritating young small trees, so essential to a future it And yet in spite of her clipped ture in the house and unless sat in man who had rescued her from the stand, are frequently sacrificed in This wood seem a good break 1 efficiency, Laura had occasionally at just the right angle it had a horri ditch and kissed her and laughed the jogging Job. There are means of selling timber gess but 1 am not two sure becuz glimpsed something in Mary Etta's fying trick, due to weak underpin about it The man she had most by which the selling price might be how will the President know? The defiant black eyes that resembled nings, of closing up under an occu ardently desired not to see again. "I’ve brought him to dinner," an increased, and the future productive letter he got Just began "My Darl panic, absurd as that seemed in con pant It realjy should have been rué (ferret way to treat ness of the land be protected. This ing Nellie" and what will he think nounced her father with triumph. nection with her. relegated to the dust heap week* COMSÍlfWtúN CUE ID LACK OF "I hope it is all right. Miss Ma is by having all trees of merchant of a private calling bis superior a She was private secretary to Har ago. only there just hadn't been any- PkWU? 'flUtK* IN THE PIET IS TO guire." murmured Ritchie Graham. able size measured for their con name like that’ In the very first vey Cobb Leigh, one of the most cottecr the cause of the sentence of the letter witch he has tents, and to have such trees powerful cogs in state politics. He He was grinning. He knew she TROUBLE WITH a peucious was also a contractor in a big way. was furious. So did Mike. And they "blazed" or marked so that a pur it says "Remember all your prom cereal , keuocc ' s , . And he accumulated money with both laughed. They were undoubted chaser would know definitely what ises to me my dear,” and what is AU: »HAM. ..EAT to keep him from thinking I am trees are to be cut and what are to very few scruples about honesty. ly soulmates, thought Kathleen with IT EVERY DAY Mary Etta had gone straight from helpless rage. Even though they did be left. Such a selection might be talking about the very promises MV ORMLfUMTY a business course in high school not look a lot alike. Mike was al on the basis of an arbitrary mini 'mentioned on that Wheeler post Of WATER. into his office. She had brains and most as tall and lank as his guest mum diameter of trees to be cut, card? He wifi nqt know I am Just she could keep her mouth shut Only he was fair. He had a thin, or it may provide for the removal talking about the promise* Nellie When she married Tom she was al clever, boyish face, blue eyes that of trees based on their present con Petersen made to me about not ready handling most of her employ were irrepressibly gay, and a droll dition. rate of growth and on their dancing with Sergeant Mooney no Establish a Standard er's private correspondence. mouth. His crisp russet hair was effect on other trees growing under more and about marrying me if I Let ua raise a standard to which ever get through kitchen police du or near them. lightly grizzled at the temple*. He Tom had not wanted her to go on the wise and honest can repair; ties was forty-five, but he carried off his working. Mary Etta had pointed out the rest is in the hands of God.— years as insouciantly as he did ev the folly of doing anything else. George Washington. I think that the letter witch 1 erything else. She was earning almost as much as sent to President Roosevelt by mis "I suppose both of you would go Tom in the big real estate agency take also says I am holding him This is sn excellent time to start into a decline if I said it isn't all where he was learning the business. to every promise he made last year right Like Ned you would.” a poultry breeding Improvement He planned to start for himself wh.it Ductor* do f<*r it Dr. W C. Thompson, witch means Nellie's promise* about growled Kathleen. "Do come in and program. eventually. But as Mary Etta said, DoetsM« lnw.w that gaa trapelai la l»w «* professor of poultry husbandry at always being true to me snd not ffxilUt may art lite* a hair - trigger «*«i th* hmrt lhary he lacked capital. She saw no rea stop cluttering up the door sill” •at tfwa frwa with tha faataM - arti»* maatUrOwa linuwn the President's campaign promises -U m faataat art litea «ha Ma*D-1naa In itali ana son why they should skimp along Mike sniggered. "Don’t mind the the New Jersey college of agricul but he will not know this I am Tattnto Try Hell a«« lodsy If the FIMJtT on next to nothing when she could kitten's claws,” he admonished his ture, Rutgers university, says that afraid. I think 1 closed this letter dnaea't pr-.v. lieti • ana better, return bottle tn na and rwavira DOUtiLfc nwmey harte. *•. at ail drug »t^sa. drag down a monthly salary check. companion. "She only scratches such a program should be quite eas- with a line like "I am very serious So she didn't resign. And she an those she loves. Come up to my ily established on many farm*. about this, honey bunch, and if you “After the pullets approach ma- nounced that she did not intend to room, my boy, while I slick down Ufa a Gift go back on your word and try to turity, select the superior individu until Tom’s earnings took a decided these old gray locks.” Whatever u man has, is in real two-time me in any way 1 will take turn for the better. Kathleen stood at the foot of the als. Use every bit of information no nonsense.*’ You can see what a ity only a gift.—Wieland. stairs and glared after them. How which may be available in this proc fix I am In, ma Unfortunately they traveled in the Every time I opposite direction. The depression on earth was she going to tell Laura ess. Place numbered aluminum leg see an officer coming my way I bands on the best 25 per cent House knocked the bottom out of the real that as usual. Mike had spoiled ev think General Marshall has sent for estate game early. From being on erything by one of his preposterous the remaining 75 per cent of the me. a fairly decent salary, Totn was re gestures in behalf of a perfectly oncoming flock in quarters where Mrs. Newsum was making like a duced to a strict commission basis. strange man who had no earthly they can be forced for maximum 1 am in bad with Nellie two on ship in full sail for the love seat. Cranky? R*«tl**s7 This during the past year had all business to have precipitated him safe egg yield. account of she docs not know what Can't aleop? Tire "House the best quarter of the to make of the but dwindled to a thin mist There thing to fill up the wall space. So self into an already overstrained ■ eaatly? llo< ui>« of flock separately and keep records letter witch she di. tree* of monthly was no longer any question of Mary Laura had trusted to luck and situation. funrtlnnal disturbances? Then try on them. Trapnesting for one got from me and Etta’s resigning her position. For pushed it back into the most inacces Lydia E. Pinkham'* Vegetable Com year, starting October 1, is highly witch months Tom had been coming to the sible corner. Only of course if there meant CHAPTER VI pound. desirable. point where he could contribute was any weakness in the enemy's for tiie President Pinkham’s Canpound 1» famous "As trapnesting records accumu She says that I nothing to their common expenses armor, Belle Newsum could be for relieving pain of Irregular ix-rioda As a matter of fact, the crisis and cranky nervouane»* due to null late, apply minimum standarda. It while Mary Etta’s salary continued trusted to discover it Laura had a resolved itself without fatalities. It am a louse for disturbance*. One of the moat effec to increase. Laura knew the situa horrible vision of Jaird’s mother be was exactly like Mike to sow drag is suggested that bands should be ever writing it in tive medicines you can buy today removed from individuals which the first place tion was blistering Tom’s sensitive for thia purpose — made ev’cciolly ing precipitated into the middle of ons' teeth and reap love apple*. Just /or women. WORTH TRYING I failed to lay 50 or more eggs between male pride. seen Nellie 1 Every time I have the floor and refusing to trust her as Kathleen was turning back to the October 1 and January 31. or which have told her I was every inch ■ "Oh. hello, Shirley,” murmured weight again to anything in the Ma living room the telephone rang. failed to average 25 eggs a month fighting man and that war held no Mary Etta as her husband’s older guire house. But Kathleen caught "Kathleen?” Alex was speaking for March, April and May; or which terrors for me, no matter whether Doing of Revenge sister appeared in the doorway. the storm signal and acted. and his voice was a trifle thick, a failed to show a persistent produc* it was on home grounds or where, Revenge converts a little right Mary Etta did not care for Shir "Dear Mrs. Newsum.” she ex bit inclined to run up the scale at ley. She bluntly said that she claimed rather breathlessly, "what the end of words. "Tell Mother I tion of at least 50 eggs between June so I look pretty foolish to her writ Into a great wrong. 1 and September 30." ing a letter to the President that thought Shirley belonged in the lav do you think of the plans for the can’t make it for dinner.” I am against any war that takes me ender and old lace school. But Kath June fete?” "Alec! How could you?” far away from home. leen got on better with her sister-in- Quite dexterously she interposed “Sure. I’m a rat to do the run- • • • law. Mary Etta held Kathleen at her slim self between the lady and out when she's staging a family arm's length as she did all her in the point of collapse. Mrs. Newsum, Come what may. ma. I am In a shindig. But that’s how it is. And laws. But she did not take it as a delighted to be allowed to tell about you can't do anything about it. So tough spot and I feel two worried to personal insult if Tom asked Kath the very important committee of write more now except to close say Does the motor of your tractor take the air.” leen to look them up when she was which she was a member, permitted ing I love you like always. overheat? If it does, G. W. Mc "I'm not talking about that. You in town. Mary Etta herself never herself to be ensconced in a sub Your loving son, Cuen, farm engineer, Ohio State know what I mean.” UE to dietary indiscre proffered such an invitation. Of stantial wing chair. And Laura Oscar. university, suggests checking to "Do I? What of it? You don’t need tions, change of drink course she worked and she and Tom sighed with exquisite relief while see if the fan belt is too loose, jf ing water or audden changes had only a one-room efficiency in an Kathleen winked at her over the to tattle to Mother, do you?” » Ima Dodo wants to do her part there is an accumulation of dirt "Don't worry. I shan’t. She still apartment hotel and took most of guest of honor’s elaborately mar in weather can tie quickly In the "V" campaign, so she is on the outside of the cooling fins thinks you are worth getting all their meals out But. as she bluntly celled head. relieved by Wakefield’s wearing a V-neck sweater. of the radiator, if the tubes in the hot and bothered about.” Kathleen explained, it wasn’t that Mary Etta Blackberry Balsam. For 94 • • • "Shirley,” whispered Jaird jn a radiator are clogged, or if the wa just did not propose to be used as a voice that was not quite steady, "do soberly replaced the receiver. She years a household remedy. ter jacket of the cylinders is bad TWEET! TWEET! convenience by her husband's fam you remember that you were wear and Alec had fought from the time Sold at all drug stores. ly limed. The St. George hotel at Bermuda they were both in romper*. There ily. ing blue the first night I kissed Be sure to ask for genuine Is now occupied by the U. S. engi If the tubes of the radiator are were less than two years between Kathleen, eyeing her brother’s you?” neers corps, the picturesque Inve partially clogged with slime, Mc their ages. To the casual observer wife, wondered as she had before Did she remember? Shirley looked rurie is occupied by the British Cuen advises this may be cleaned how Tom ever came to fall in love down at the soft clinging folds of they seemed always at the point of contraband control, the Bermudian out by filling the cooling system mayhem. Actually they were tre with anyone who made such an art her blue lace gown. She looked and Princess have been iaken over with a caustic solution such as mendously fond of each other. And of being thoroughly unpleasant. Pri stately and a little aloof. Like a girl by the censorship bureau and the half a can of lye in four to five Kathleen, although she had no in vately Kathleen thought Tom was in a painting. Very cool and re- Compound Elbow Beach hotel will soon be oc- gallons of water, or one pound of tention of telling Laura so, was getting fed up. And she didn’t blame mote. And not quite real, But in A cupicd by U. S. navy officials, sal soda to four or five gallons heartsick about Alec. He had been him. He looked as if he had been side she was a cauldron of seething Custom a Habit good regulation honeymoon in that of water. drinking. That was why he was not on a steady diet of cockleburr*. emotions. Did she remember? Her Custom is nlmost a second na country seems pretty difficult just showing up for dinner. That meant A safe way is to heat the solu "Hello, Kits. Gunning for big heart sobbed, It said all sorts of ture.—Plutarch. now. he had been somewhere with Myra tion and stir it. Then put the so frantic things, But her lips only • • game?” he asked with a grin. Boone. lution in the radiator cooling sys Kathleen made a face at him. "It smiled—very faintly. THE HONEYMOON IS OVER “Darn cradlesnatchers with bion- tem and thoroughly heat it up "Yes, I remember,” said Shirley ail depends on how you feel toward The two lovebirds dined hair and motheaten morals! ” by running the motor. This gen Mamma Newsum,” she said, then as if it did not matter. Are having words; muttered Kathleen under her erally takes about 15 minutes, Jaird looked white and baffled. squeezed his arm. "Sh! Here they No more you see ’em kissing; breath. after which the solution may be Laura, under the cover of Belle come. My sainted cow, doesn’t she She tried to cook drained and the cooling system She couldn ’ t see how Alec could Newsum’s tiresome monologue on look like Mrs. Astor’s pet horse?” Meals from a book , . . thoroughly flushed out before re go that sort of thing. It was such a her own prominent connection with The Newsums were just emerg And Page 14 was missing! filling with water. all prominent social functions in pity he had to finish school the year ing from their handsome closed car. —Merrill Chilcote. brand new electrical engineer* were Covington, managed to whisper to J*.rd gave his mother hi* arm. Shir- • • • a drug on the industrial market. Kathleen. lay. looking out the window, felt the LUCK L DUE TO GASTRIC HYPER »ACIDITYJ "Where on earth do you suppose Aiec was a bundle of nervous ener Rtfl* wayward jerk which the sight gy. He was better suited for any Luck and pluck go hand in hand, your father is?” v.m always gave her senses. He Lightning rods have an efficiency Pluck is Luck’s big brother; Kathleen spread her hands hope thing on earth than idleness. Mike 1 of 97 per cent if properly wm probably in no way extraordi- construct- Luck will never come along had tried to find him something to lessly. "Heaven alone knows. Want <7 tart he always seemed so to do on the newspaper. But Alec hated ed and installed. Unless you bring the other. obtained by thousands <»r J wtt Jaird with his clean-cut me to see if he can be located?” Inspection of rodded buildings it. He was created to make things —Gordon R. Higham. "He’s got to be,” groaned Laura. through tiaa of V«n't Pink * a 4 steady blue eye», yet he • a • which have been struck by lightning happen, not to write up the exploits Tablet* — without rigid “Hulda can't hold dinner forever.” all of heaven and hell generally uncover one or more of liquid diet! Simple home of others. With no outlet for his dy Simile by R. Roelofs Jr. As pa treatment. Learn ell ebout th Maguire. namic desire to make the wheels go several defects, the Board states. tient as a chairman of a chess tour- it. Write today — no obli* zi. ha H mv was mincing along in faster Alec was, or so it seemed to These include lack of grounding to nament. nation. 900,000 ueere. • • • Written Guarantee ae to permanent moisture, insufficient z po-v« that were a gize too Kathleen, cooking up a merry little BOOKIE T Â Money Beck. Bead out ,«....11 1.-4/ chiffon gown was k. A hell all his own, aided and abetted number of points, particularly at Jumpy Julia, the most nervous guarantee, eent with fro* booklet. Write to — * < v<tf • • could be depend- by the worldly Mrs. Boone, a chimneys, cupolas, gables and other guest at Ye Seaside Inn, hopes the ,v k kyx'l the effect of any wealthy divorcee thirteen years his elevations; points and connectiens gasoline economy drive begins with .,<z ■ t » jarring note, not electrically secure. senior. the outboard motor fanatics. 2«pMXj0j B .public Bld* , toottie, Wovk the huge pink (TO BE CONTINUED) CHAPTER V A errar. Select Breeding Hens Before Culling Layers INDIGESTION Nervous Restless Dirty Cooling System Causes Hot Motors DIARRHEA D Wakefield’s BLACKBERRY BALSAM (>/ fGi Lightning Rods A SELECTED STORY BY A GIFTED AUTHOR Stomac n Uke rs- RELIEF SEATTLE VON CO.