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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October 25, 1945 Iron Across length When ironing, press with tha length rather than across the width of fabric wherever possible. But tf a skirt, slip or nightgown is cut on the bias, then iron on a slant, along the grain or straight of the m ateri al. This w ill prevent the stretching and sagging which makes hems un even. cotta« uanaaga Tewel Lnnaderlag Most of the ginning damage to cotton occurs during the first threa to four weeks of the ginning sea son. Tho cotton Is "green" and damp because of the high moisture content of the seed. Increased use of towels means more frequent laundering. Hang towels straight on the line rather than by a comer, After using bath towels, spread them out on racks to dry Instead of folding or bunching them. Never pile wet towels on the floor or In a laundry bag Soggy towels can mildew overnight tn hot weather. Cotton Pickers The leaves of the cotton must bo whether there’s been a car stolen, have thought of that, Joe,” he said. and let me know.” But Dane retorted; “ We don't removed by chemicals In order for Keeps Mouth Shut P a lm W in e know the car's therel That's Just a picking machines to do the best When Quill was gone. Tope turned The reason a dog has so many Jobs. Cotton Is easily stained by Fermented palm wine is often to Adam. “Son, you know where stab In the d a rk ." friends is that his tail wags instead these quarries are?" * “ Why, that's righ t," Tope agreed green leaves and this makes dyeing used as a yeast substitute for of bis tongue. bread muking in Liberia. " I can find them ." readily enough, “ But I tried anoth of tho cotton difficult “Get Miss Dewain to drive you er stab," he continued. “Quill helped C sn n rd C a rp Garden Superstition up there," Tope directed. "That me on this too. I asked him to A Minnesota manufacturer is As late as 1740. people in New Eng way, you can enjoy yourself and find out whether any car had been help me too. Take a flshingline stolen around here. Well, there was land thought potatoes would shorten about to ran carp and market it. grated, tuna-style, under the name and a sinker and make some sound one, belonged to a man named Hol- men's lives and moke them un WEST MONROE. LA .—Mrs. Carl of “Lakrflsh " healthy ings—see if you can locate anything dom, has a summer place down near C. Allen of West Monroe, Louisi in the quarries that might be a car. Ridgcomb. It was taken Friday ana, has an interesting story to tell Look for tire tracks on the road." night, out of the garage. Nettie about how she discovered Fault “ I came up to get some fresh Pineyard — she’s Holdom's. house less Starch. Here is what she vegetables for dinner," Bee rem em keep er-says Mrs. Kell, the chauf wrote: bered. "Adam, come help me. Then feur’s wife, drove it aw ay.” "Last week .m y husband we can go." He hesitated; but no one spoke, CHAPTER V brought home a box of Fault So she and Adam departed toward and he went on: less Starch. I decided to use “Saturday morning, Holdoin tele the garden, and the Inspector and ''M rs. Priddy was busy Saturday, it, thinking that all starches Mrs. Tope got under way; at once phoned from New York to the po so 1 made the beds, changed the were about the same. You can he proposed: “ Now m a'am , we'll lice in Ridgcomb that the car had ■ linen. I smelled this same musky imagine my surprise when I drive down to Ledforge's summer been stoieir." He turned to Quill. smell on one of the pillowshps in place and see what they say th ere!" “Ned you go call up your friend, the egan ironing. My Iron fairly ; Little Bear. Oh, I ’m sure of it.” ew and I was finished in no She assented; but first he bade insurance man—see if he had insur "Who were they?" Cumberland her stop at the M ill; and he went ance on that car and whether Hoi- time. My clothes were so asked. to talk with Priddy for a while. dom reported the theft to him to«.” bright, with no rough starch “ I don’t know,” Bee confessed. blotches to mar their sleek Quill disappeared and Tope spoke " E a rl Priddy took them to the cab ness. 1 felt I just had to tell more softly: “ Didn’t want Quill to in. They came late F rid ay night you how wonderful your starch hear what I'm telling you now," he and left very early. I didn’t see is. My husband was just as said. “ But Mrs. Tope here saw Led- them at all. But I'm positive about proud as I when he saw his forge, the U tilities man that lives the sm ell." shirts. I wish all women could down below Ridgcomb, at a meeting Taere seemed no more to say. just try your product.” once, and she saw the dead man They moved out of doors again, and this morning. She thought he was Now there is a thoughtful hus Cumberland asked heavily: “ What Ledforge!” band. That box/ of Faultless did they do to him. Doc? How’d Cumberland leaned forward, and Starch really meant more to Mrs. they kiU him ?” Dane leaped to his feet. “ Ledforge!" Allen than a box of candy—and Doctor Medford said unsteadily: he whispered hoarsely. "By God here is why: “ I can stand most things all right; frey! Say, if that's so— ” His eyes SAVE 468 MINUTES A YEAR but this gets m e.” shone. Let's say it takes ten minutes to And he continued, without prompt But Tope said m ildly; “ W ait a make hot starch when you have to ing: “ It was more or less luck that minute. M r. Dane. I only said that cook it and stir it over a hot stove. I hit it so soon. I didn't find any Mrs. Tope thought the dead man But you can make hot Faultless wounds, knife, bullet, nothing like was Ledforge. But Ledforge is in Starch in a minute. That means that; so I went into the abdomen, New York. He was at a bank di you save nine minutes each time thinking of poison. I found the an rectors' meeting there this morn you make it. I f you wash only swer there.” ing." once a week, in one year you would He hesitated and Cumberland Dane made an exasperated ges save 468 minutes, or seven hours urged: “Go ahead, Doc." ture. “ Well, for heaven's sake, if and forty minutes. Would you The Doctor said grim ly: “ All it's not him, why set off a skyrocket rather have a box of candy or a right. I t ’s hard to believe; but this here?" box of starch that saved you bet man died of peritonitis, from a rup But then Quill returned. "Charley ter than seven hours a year? tured appendix. Rupture resulted Fay had the insurance on the from a gangrenous condition pro coupe.” he said. "But he hasn't any SAVE 26 HOURS A YEAR duced by a crease in the omentus report about its being stolen.” And that isn't all! Many people that bent a fold in an artery, the Tope nodded, and gently he dis tell us that Faultless Starch makes way you do a hose, and shut off the missed the trooper. "Y ou’ve been it possible to save half their iron blood supply. That's how he d ied!” a lot of help. N ed,” he said. “I ing time. Let’s be conservative wish you'd drop in at Dewain’s M ill For a moment no one spoke, till and say that Faultless Starch and see tf Adam's there. Tell him might save you half an hour each Cumberland muttered: I ’ll be there soon.” "Then it ’s not murder. Tope!" ironing day. In a year you would So Quill departed; and Tope looked T ie Inspector said im patiently: save twenty-six hours of hard iron at Cumberland. ‘T h e y tied him up. gagged him, left ing time! Which is best—a box of “Now. I want to do a little tele him half-smothered with a blanket candy or a box of Faultless Starch? phoning. M a t," he said. "M ind if I around his head when he was run Why go on starching and ironing use your name?" Cumberland as ning a tem perature and pretty sick "They put him under the bed the hard way when you can do it and needing a doctor quick. If that sented silently: and Tope put in a F a ra w a y .” the easy way with Faultless Starch. call for Police Headquarters in New wasn't murder, it was tile next thing Or, better still, ask your grocer When he returned to the car, there York. to i t ! ” ior a box today. You deserve While they waited, "There arc two “ Manslaughter, m aybe,” Cumber was a deep excitement in his eyes; Faultless Starch, too.—Adv. but he only said: “ All right, let’s or three things we ought to know," land admitted. “ W ell,” Tope suggested, “ suppose go along.” Not till they were on Tope explained. "K ell was at Hol- it was you that had fetched this man the road did he explain. Then he dom’s F rid ay night; but he left, and to F araw ay and left him there to told her: "Some one else is on this Mrs. Kell hasnZt been back since she drove the car away. I'd like to know die. Wouldn't you be worried for tra il we’re running.” where they are. And there's anoth “ Who?” fear some one had spotted you?” And Your Strength and ’It was d a rk ," Cumberland re “ Those two men last night. Whit er thing: There was a man named flected. “ I ’d have kept m y hat lock and Beal! Whitlock told Prid Whitlock at Dewain's M ill last Energy Is Below Par pulled down, m y collar turned up.” dy he was an insurance agent, said night, said he represented the insur It may be cauaed by disorder of kid ney function that permits poisonous “ How about the car? Wouldn’t you he was trying to trace a stolen car— ance people, trying to trace a sto waste to accumulate. For truly many people feel tired, weak and miserable be afraid Priddy might rem em ber a Chevalier coupe, pale gray with len car. The way he described it, it when the kidneys fail to remove excess the car?” Then, putting himself in blue trim . E a rl told him a car like was this car. But if Hoidom hasn't acids and other waste matter from the reported it to the insurance peo blood. the other man's place. Tope went that was here F rid ay night.” Y’ou may suffer nagging backache, “ Is that the one with the English ple— ” on: “O f course, maybe I ’d steal a rheumatic pains, headaches, dixxiness, "W here is Whitlock?” Dane de (Take no augar,no thortening!)- ttin | up nights, leg pains, swelling. car to do the job. M at, have you man?” me times frequent and scanty urina manded. "H e sounds fishy!” “ Y e s !” had any reports of a car being sto These delicious, new all - bran muffins two-thirds fall and bake In moderate tion with smarting and burning is an “He got away before I found out other sign that something is wrong with “ Did E a rl get the number of the len around here?” made with chopped dates will have a ly hot oven MOOT.) about 20 min the kidneys or bladder. what he was up to,” Tope confessed; big appeal for the "sweet toothers" In car?" “ I wouldn’t know about that,” utes. Makes 15 light, luscious muffins. There should be no doubt that prompt and Dane made a disgusted gesture. your family! They’re so moist. And treatment is wiser than neglect. Use Cumberland confessed. “ Ned Quill “ No. but he says it was a coupe, Doon's Pillt. It is better to rely on a Then the phone rang, and Tope took they're so tender—so good. That's be would, though. The State police get light gray. He didn’t see the man’s medicine that has won countrywide ap- cause KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN Is milled the instrument. Good Nutrition, tool roval than on something less favorably all those bulletins.” face, or the woman's. They drove in nown. Doon's have been tried and test extra-fine for golden softness. “Hello, Pat?” he said in friendly ed many years. Are at all drug stores. late, and Priddy had to get out of all - bran 1» made from t be v it a l outer “ Where is he?" 3 cups Kellogg’s 1 cup sifted flour tones. “Tope speaking. Tope! Tope, Get Doon s today. layers o f flneat wheal—contain» a "Asleep inside. He was up all bed. He took them tcF L ittle Bear. all - iram 1 teaspoon soda conerntration of the protective food you young whelp! How are you, night.” The man gave him the money for ' i cup molasses % teaspoon salt element« found In Pat? H aven't seen you in five years ' 1’.4 cups milk ’ a cup chopped "Well, send him out,” Tope di the cabin without getting out of the the whole grain. 1 egg . . . Sure, you heard right! I was dates One-half cup pro rected. The District Attorney went car, and Priddy went back to bed; m arried a year ago. Still on my vides over >4 your Add xzllogq ’ s all - bran to molasses into the house, and after a moment but he says the man was small, and d a lly m in im u m honeymoon.” and milk and allow to soak for 15 Ned Quill appeared, elaborately that he talked like an Englishman— need fo r Ir o n .i He became serious. “ But Pat, lis minutes. Beat egg and add to first Serve K e llo g g 's / whatever that means! And Priddy rubbing his eyes. mixture. Add sifted dry ingredients ten. I'm speaking from M at Cum a il - bran dally I RsHeved in 5 minutes or double money hack Tope spoke to him. “Get any rest, says the car had blown out an ex berland’s office. He's the D.A. up and fruit. F ill greased muffin pans When excess stomach acid causes painful, suf focal* haust gasket. He heard it puffing.” did you?” in s S>s. sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually here in Highland County. Massa prescribe the fastest*actins medicines kr.own fo r “ S ure!” the trooper told him He added: “ I had to go at Priddy chusetts, yes. North Madderson is symptomatic rehef — medicines like those in Bell-ans ea'sy, so he wouldn't realize I was Tablets. N o laxative. Bell ans bnnss com fort in a cheerfully. “ A good three hours!” the town. He wants some inform a jif f y or double your money y back on return o f bottle Tope nodded. “Quill, have the asking questions. T h a t’s what took tion. to us ZSe at a ll druggists O.K.? All right, take this me so long.” F or a while, then, State police had any reports of a down.” car being stolen around here, the he said no more. And he gave careful instructions: F or several hours the Topes were last few days?” To find out whether Ledforge wa« In busy . . . “Sure, cars are stolen all the The Baking Powder New York; to check his recent move tim e .” The District Attorney’s office was ments. What kind of hair-oil did he w ith the “ You go find out whether any cars in North Madderson, a dozen miles use? Was he in New York over the from Ridgcomb. Quill had preced have been reported stolen within fif week-end? Check up on Holonm, B A LA N C ED ed the Topes to announce their com Creomulsion relieves promptly be ty miles of here since F rid a y ." Tope ing. M a t Cumberland and another where he had been, where he was D o u b le A c t io n ' now. cause it goes right to the seat of the directed. “Or since Thursday, for man were here to greet them—a trouble to heli help loosen and expel that m atter.” “And Holdom’s plane crashed germ laden phlegm, and aid nature Quill assented. He started away; brisk young man, sure beyond his Saturday morning," Tope explained. to sot soothe and heal raw, tender, in but Tope detained him. “ W ait a years. “ Pilot, named Bob Flint, was killed. flamed bronchial m u co u s m e m “This is Joe Dane, Inspector,” Down on the Sound somewhere. Find branes. Tell your druggist to sell you m inute,” he said. “Something else. a bottle of Creomulsion with the un You know the country around Cumberland said. out what made tne plane fa ll." derstanding you must like the way it here?” “ Heard M at speak of you,” Tope He finished, hung up the receiver; quickly allays the cough or you are "Lived here all my life—up to now. said courteously, his hand extend Joe Dane started to speak, and Tope to have your money back. ed. "Says he couldn’t get along looked at the young man, ® certain *'We give this seal fo no one—the product has fo earn it/* Yes, I guess I do.” sympathy in his eyes. “ Well then,” Tope asked, “ sup without you.” says Good Housekeeping Magazine regarding this “Son," he said, " I kn^w just about for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis pose you had a car on your hands And he went on: “Late last Friday famous seal. Look for it on every Clabber Girl package. that you had to get rid of, some night, a little man who talked like how you feel—you’>-e itching to get where around here, where would you an Englishman, and who had a wom action. I'm ten old to run around an with him, drove up to Dewain's in circles; »Mt if you want a job, put it?” A The trooper considered. " I ’d run M ill in a gray Chevalier coupe with here's srerething you can do; it into the woods,” he decided. blue trim . They had this man that’s week a bp , Mrs. Kell drove down to “ There are a lot of old roads that dead now under the rumble seat. Middleford and met Ledforge at the nobody uses except to park in, on Priddy put them in the cottage train there. Where did they go? See moonlight nights; and nobody would called L ittle Bear. During the night if you can find out, Joe.” And he added: “W e'll know a lot notice one more car among so they carried this man down to F a r L y d ia E. P lnkham 's Vegetable C om pound Is la m o u t n o t only to relieve m any.” away and put him under the bed more when we hear from New York. periodic pain b u t also accom panying You know pretty near as much as Tope shook his head. “ That's not there.” nervous, tired, hlghstrung feelings— w hen due to fu n c tio n a l m o n th ly dis good enough! Some one might spot "How can you know that?" Dane I do, right now.” turbances. T a k e n regu larly— I t helps 1 it the first day. Is there any place Then the phone rang, and Joe demanded. b u ild up resistance against such sym p where a car could be sunk in deep tom s P in k ..am s Com pound helps n a “ Well, I ’m guaranteeing it," Tope Dane took the call. " I t ’s for you, tu r e / Fo llow label directions. T r y l t l I water?’ assured him m ildly; and he went Tope.” he said, surrendering the in strument. And they heard Tope say: “ Well, there are some old lim e on: £ (Pi/n&ha/ntii cohkxjno “ Hello . . . Oh, Adam . . . Good, stone quarries, above Ridgcomb. I “ They put him under the bed in haven’t been up there since I was a F araw ay, and sometime before glad you did . . . It's there, is it? Relieve your c h ild 's cough due to s cold with _______ COLDS' CHEST TIGHTNESS kid; but there’s always water in the daylight they pulled out. I figure Fine . . . Fine . . . Adam, did you quickly loosened by Penetro— Clessco.This famous remedy is specially prepared for chU- quarries, and It’s gray with lime, that they’d want to get rid of the notice whether there were heel G ra n d m a 's o ld -tim e m u tto n suet dreu, eases sensitive liltie throat», helps eliminate phlegm so you can’t see down into it.” car. I'v e a notion it’s in an old plates on his shoes? . . . Good.” id e a developed by m odern science and promotes healing of irritated membranes. Children He returned the receiver to the “ Any other place that would do intoaoounter-irritant.vapori»ing quarry Ned Quill here told me like its pleasant taste. Give your child the relief Dr. Drake’s aalva that brings quick, comfort- i the trick?” about. Adam Bruce has gone to hook. “The car’s in the quarry,” he has brought to millions. in g r e lie f. 35c. do ub le aise 35c. said. "Adam located It. You'll want “ N ary a one that I know of.” see.” Tope nodded. "A ll right,” he The District Attorney looked at to get it out, M a t.” •greed. “Now you go find out Joe Dane. “ You and me wouldn't (T O B E C O N T IN U E D ) MRS. ALLEN’S HUSBAND GIVES HER A SURPRISE T H E S TO R Y T H I S F A R : A dam B ruce. F B I o p erato r, sad Inspector and M rs. Tope m c l « h ila on va catlo a la N o rtk- r a t t e r a wild». Top« dlsco vtred tha body o l a m urdered m an a l the auto r a m p of Bee D ew a ln . a frlea d of B ru c e ’». He ra ile d B ru r« , who brought Slat« Trooper Quill. Vpoa the a r r iv a l of the D. A., N a t C um berland and D r. M edford, they derid ed to keep th« m u rd er a » e rr« t a» long a» poM lble. The body waa moved to the borne of A m a ia D ew a ln for fu rth er In v o tlg a U o n . M r». Tope told her hu»- band th at »be rero g n lied the body a» that of M r. I.edforge. brad of N ew E ng land u tilitie s. Bee stated that a m usky »m elt on m urdered m an'» h a ir rem inded her of someone. 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