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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
CONSTRUCTION WORK ON 'ANNUAL SCHOOL CENSUS
HIGHWAY UNIT COMPLETE
CHECK STARTED TODAY
Second unit oi the Wlllainett - high
Annual school census of Springfield
way above the Lowell bridge Is now started today, when two census takers
graded, according to reports nt the
each look a section of the city to
stale highway office In Eugene today.
Äy
make
a month s check of the children
Vonderhellcn and Pierson have com
pleted their contract on this section I of schisii age here
Mrs W. I* Tyson will canvass the
Washbiiiue and Hull, who have the
hrat unit, are nearly through with their west able und Mrs Vina McLean will
take the east aide of the town.
grading work, also, It was reported
U.LUSTRAT.JHS B y F.E.WATSQH
Kelly und Sullivan, who have the
The annual census must be com
Simon Juikl, amateur detective, and Meanwhile Judd has told the story woman," Brennan explained, "he I perhaps, the eye of a man who had contrail for Ills third unit, have sub pleted within a month, according to
provisions.
William Dart, an undertaker, are visit■ of his acquaintance with the actual might have a womnan'a usual Itkin,- held a grudge ngninst John lirune an I let several sect Iona of the Job.
mg John Drane, eccentric man o( John tirane in Riverbank.
for Jewels Suppose we see Mrs. Vln had come here to satisfy It. What no
wealth, at the Drane place. Suddenly NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
cent."
saw. If he could Judge, was the keen
the household is shocked to timi that
"No, nothing. He was uncle John's
Bob Carter volunteered to find Mrs eye of a man who was not such a fool
John Drane has been murdered. The , friend a long while—long before I ! Vincent and while he was on his way us he looked, the keen laughing eye of
dead man is first seen by Josie, the I came here." Amy said "They have Brennan lighted a cigarette.
He a man who, possibly was laughing at
maid, then by Amy Drane and Simon played cards together many even- leaned forward with his eltiows on the detective good mtturedly while
Judd. The latter faints.
ings."
his knees and looked out over the laughing to himself "This," Brennan
Police officers call and investiga
"Never quarreled?"
lawn.
said to himself, "Is a man who Is
tions begin. Dr. Blessington is called,
"No."
"You come pretty near bein' a first laughing at nte because he knows
and after seeing the murdered John
You've not noticed anything queer class detective, don t you?” Simon something I don't know!"
Drane makes the astounding revela about the servants’" Brennali asked Judd asked, hitching forward In his
“I whn'et be no more trouble to you
tion to Amy Drane that her "uncle" is after a moment.
' chair he filled to overflowing,
than need be,” Simon Judd said. "Only
not a man but a woman.
i "Do you mean that they were sick
"I'm not the worst in the world." thing Is It would be quite au •sport-
Brennan said. "There are better, ence to me to work hand In arm, so to
Dr Blessington discounts the theory ly?” Asked Amy.
“ Are they?*'
we're given credit gor being. We say, with a real detective like you
of suicide, saying that Drane was de
"Yes: I think they are all sickly. 1 York. Our men are a lot better than are.”
finitely murdored. Dr. Blessington
comments on the fact that all the don t know whY uncle John had such we're given cdredlt for being. We
I think we can manage It," Bren
servants in the household of Drane are sickly servants, unless he was so kin 1 have lots of crimes and we don't get nan said.
*
sick, and that Drane has never dis- hearted. Dr. Blessington Is here near 1 every crook, but it's a had mess over
'Black my cats, that's line!" yttmon
charged a servant for ill health. Dick l-v every day for one or another of there. 1 do well enough. It's not as
Judd exclaimed. "Amy, that Axes that
Brennan, the detective, arrives to in- them, some one of them is always in bad here as It Is In Manhattan."
fine! I'm goln' to pitch right In and
vestlgate the case.
hed. It makes It very had for Mrs.
"That's so; that's likely,” Simon work this thing until we get it all
Brennen questions the persons in Vincent, the housekeeper, but I in Judd agreed. "And we ain't got it near
cleaned up and the murderous person
the house, asking Amy if anyone had afraid she’s the sickest of any."
as bad out to Riverbank. If you was put right where he ought to be. Fine!
any reason to kill her "uncle."
"But aside from that you've not out there you wouldn't have much Now, first off, girl, you go up to my
Amy says no one has had any rea- noticed anything queer in them. Any- trouble at all. I reckon."
room and. If them officers has got
•on to kill her uncle. After further thin< -vou misht call crailness, any
"There are tough problems every through rummagin' In my buggugii.
questioning she Is asked about Dart. mania?"
Make up a list of the many things
where," Brennan said. "Any place fetch me down a note book I've got
,! “Oh. no, never anything like that may turn out a hard problem at uny in my valise up there. It's a blank
you need about the kitchen and then
"Oh no; never anything like that," time.”
one. Amy. without anything wrote In
“A STRIKE/“
I Amy said.
"That's how I think about It." Simon It yet. I didn't know whether real de
come and see how little it will cost
"You don't know of any enemies Judd said. "That's why I kept pester tective used note books or no^. but I
your uncle had?”
you to have them. You will un
in' them out there until they said ree Brennan does, and 1 want to do
"No; he never spoke of any."
they'd make me chief of police. 'Black this thing right. It's right down In the
doubtedly find many more that you
my cats!' I says to them; 'The' ain't bottom of the valise, Amy."
can use, all at little prices.
“He had business In New York, no tellin' when you’re goln' to need
The girl went Into the house and
hadn't
he? Amy
Had said,
an office
there?"
Yes,”
and told
him the f«8* class detective ability.' I guess,' Simon Judd looked after her. When
address, which Brennan Jotted down he chuckled. ‘ they don't thing overly he saw she was gone he drew closer
in his notebook. "He was a speculator, much of me at that! Think I'm some to Brennan
I think. He would wait and buy a sort of fat old fool, mostly. And I don't
"Now that you and me are In cn
great lot of some one kind of stocks know but what I am. Th«' ain't no hoots on this business, partner." he
and then they would go up and he j f°°l like an old fool. It the’? What
HARDWARE — FURNITURE — PAINT
tald. "we want to start off clean -ini
wpuld sell. I think he always made >'°u think? Am I a fool to go takin'
clear and on favors. Wliat I know
a great deal of money that way. I up detectin’ as a life work when I'm you want to know. If not nothin' Bo!,
don't really know much about that. along past seventy years old?”
good And there's somethin' wrong
“I'll reserve my opinion on that. Mr
They can tell you more at his office.
here right at the start."
56 S T O R E S
I His manager there Is Rufus Loder- Judd.” Brennan smiled. "I can't rem
“It being—?" Brennan asked.
mann. He Is quite an old man and he ember any man who took up investl-
“The girl. Amy. here," Simon Ju Id
i has been with uncle for a long while Kative work at that age, but I've
,.cu
...
, . ,
•ays
! I think.
known some men who took up crime
j(| .,
A STANDARD OIL PRODUCT
Brennan Joted down this name in a8 ol*l as that and did ulte well at It."
TO BE C O N T IN U E D
his notebuook.
I "A detective has to be slicker than
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IN T H E W E S T
“Who else is there? You don't know ? a driminla, that's the pest of It,"!
No matter—I can look, that up," the Simon Judd said. “And it's so blame l C O L IN V. P Y M E N T D IE S
Now Located in
605 - 609 Willamette St.
Eugene, Oregon
detective said; putting his book in his hard for them folks to take a fat man i IN H A Y W A R D , C A L IF O R N IA
Miner Building
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pocket again. “And I think that is ail 1 serious out there to home. Especially j
I have to ask you now. Mss Drane. a man that's mostly clung to Jobs | Colin V. Dyment, former dean of the
. unless you can tell me something ! where he could sleep most of the time. , college of literature, science and the
about the servants—who they are and hke llvery-stablln’.* I clung to livery- arts at the University of Oregon, an
ALL OVER THE WEST IN EVERY BREIER STORE
where they came from." ! stablin’ as long as I could, and that's
later managing editor of the Morning
This "$2,000,000 Sales Event”
“I think Mrs. Vincent, the house-1 a fact, but these her automobiles has j Register, died at his home In Hay-
MEN'S
WORK
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I keeper, can tell you more about that.' given the business a black eye, and If ward. California, last Saturday night
Our energy, thought
BLANKETS:
A
Good Quality Cotton Blanket, Standard
j Amy said. -'Tve not really paid much a man goes Into the garage business
He was publisher of u newspaper
Size, Only
q o
atention to that; I’ve always felt I he’s got to be lively and wide awake In the bay city where he went two
and ability is concen
wasn’t wanted to Interfere. Mrs. Vln-; all the time. Now, a detective—In a ! years ago.
WOOL MIXED BLANKET: A Good Grade
$ 4 .9 8
cent had been here qune a while when town Hke Riverbank, Iowa—'*
! During his lifetime he was active
trated in our optical
The most starling values of this event.
<tv-e a A
I came, and uncle was old and liked j “Can sleep most of the time," laugh- ! as a newspaper man before his «on
Values
to
$2
practice. Heed your
to have things as they were. He di.1-1
Brennan.
j nectlon with the Universities of To-
E very w om an a n d m iss sh o u ld be keenly interested In ibis
n't seem to want to have me do any-, "That's the Idee!” Simon Judd lonto, Washington and Oregon. Dur
eye needs.
i thing but enjoy myself.”
j chuckled. "Partlcluarly If he's not on Ing the war he was a colonel in the
Choice of T W O -P IE C E PAJAM AS
$1.00
; "But you were always ready to do the force. If he's Just a policeman American Red Cross service and ser
COMBIN' VNON W ITH B R A SS IE R T O P
$1.00
I your share If anything turned up, ’ he's got to be out and around, but If ved overseas during hostilities. Dur
Make Appointments
T
A
II
J»RED
TEDDIES
$1.00
said Brennan, smiling. "I can see the*, he's chief of police and detective he's ; lng the war he contracted amoebic
Whenever Possible
H IP H E M S U P . I I inch Hem
$1.00
M'ss Drane.”
! got to spend uite a lot of time In medl ' Infection front which he n e v e t
4St>\
“Of course.” Amy said. "It wasn't tatlon—sluin' in his office n a chair thorougly recovered. The Immediate
H IP IIE.M PETTICOAT
$1-00
‘ tipped back againa the wall with his cause of his death was Influenza. He
RUFFLED PRBNCH PA N TIES
$1-00
Dr. ^Herman W. IRoody that I didn’t want to.”
"Mr. Drane Just did not seem to eyes closed. Looked like a good Job Is survived by hlB widow, Dr. Bertha
VESTS
$1.00
O P T O M E T R IS T » EY ESIG HT S P E C IA L IS T
S U IT E 0 3 1 M I N E R DLOG. P H O N E 3 6 1
want you to bother with the servants , to me, so I got shut of my livery stable Stuart Dyment and a son. The body
BLOOMERS
$1.00
EAST BRO AD W AV
and the household affairs and so on; and pestered the life out of 'em until was placed In the hope Abbey Mau-
NIC ETC,OW NS
$100
E U G E N E -O R E .
that was it, wasn't It?”
I got me this Job, startin' Jaunary first »oleum at Eugene Tuesday.
"Yes; he never said much, but that next.”
was what I felt," she replied.
! "Good Job,” smiled Brennan.
Churàh Night 1« Held
“I'm trying not to be unpleasant, j “Yes, or I wouldn’t have wanted It,"
asking so many questions,” Brennan »aid Simon Judd. **But the main thing
An audience of more than 200 peo-
said, "but this whole thing Is queerlsh, when a man hammers down a Job like j pie attended the regular monthly
as you understand—John Drane being that is to be able to flang onto It, and ! church night program at the Spring
TiuXete?
a woman and being murdered this way ! that's why I flggered I'd come-Bast field Christian church last Friday
The name “ P u r e t e s t ’’
—and I have to get Into my head the . here and learn the detective business evening. The high school class pre
means literally ‘ Pure by
best picture of the household as It from A to Z. I says to myself 'If I can pared the program of music and read-
Test."
was, best picture I can. How was J Ket them slick New York detectives Ings and Jhe Friends class served
i your uncle about money?”
) to let me help hunt up some murderer light refreshments.
Amy wrinkled her brow trying to or something, I’ll learn a lot. and when
get the meaning of the question.
! I come back and catch a couple of
Three Playe Planned
BR/u. c-T/S
“Do you mean wltu me?” she asked, crooks right here in Riverbank the
^ A s p ir in '
j "He paid me an allowance, alw ays, folks ain’t ever goln’ to let anybody
Students of the high school will
Tablets s i
on the first of the month. It was fifty ; throw me out.”
present three one-act plays at the
i dollars while . was at school, but wh-n
"Brennan looked up at he old man's 'auditorium of the school on November
I came here he gave me a hundred ' fare suddenly, but all he saw was goo I 9. "Surprises," "Red Carnations” and
dollars a month. I haven't used near- , nature and smiling cheerfulness.
j "Who's a Coward,” are names of the
I wish to solicit the support of my Republican friends
And nowhere is that name
ly all of It. I asked him what I should
‘This murder occurred very oppor-! plays. Tryouts were held Tuesday
more true than on
for the office of Coroner. At the primaries I was se
do with the rest and he told me I tunely," Brennan said.
I evening.
Miss Maurlne Lombard,
conld put It In a savings bank, .and I ! 'That’s what I was going to say,” Miss Clara Wagner and Miss May
lected a s'th e Republican candidate. My Democratic
TimteleAtT
did. The house expenses he settled Simon Judd replied.” Just like It was Hewes, faculty members are In charge
with Mrs. Vincent—once a month, I made to order for me. It couldn't hate of the plays.
opponent seeks to masquerade as an Independent.
think
I’ve heard them going over been handler. So that fetches me to
the bills. He seemed particular about ! what I’m goln’ to say—what'd yon say RELIEF FROM CURSE
them.”
j if I was to go sort of partners with
OF CONSTIPATION
"He was a woman,” suggested Bren-1 you and the two of us together hunt
I feel that I am entitled to the support of all Repub
They are m a d e fr o m
nan, "and household bills were In his out who done this crime?”
A Battle Creek physician says, "Con
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licans and that I am deserving of re-election. My
j line, possibly. Did he keep much
"We’re always glad to have any as
stlpp.tlon Is responsible for more mis
grate promptly and give
; money in the house? Had he a safe sistance we can get from' any source
record In office Is my warrant and 1 ask the most care
ery than any other cause."
almost immediate relief.
here? Did he bring securities home, whatever,” Brennan told Judd.
Handy Metal Box of
do you know?”
But Immediate relief has been found.
ful scrutiny of my work both as to being well done,
"Yes, I reckon,” said the fat man.
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“No, nothing like that. He used "Only that ain't any Idee. I want you A tablet called ltexall Orderlies al
and as to saving the county money.
checks almost always.”
should say we’ll work at this case fract-8 water from the system Into the
25c
“No Jewelry to amount to any together, so’s I can get the Inside of lazy, dry, evacuating bowel called the
thing?”
how you fellers got at It. What sav colon. The water loosens the dry food '
waste and causes a gentle, thorough
“He never wore Jewelry at all; not to It?”
even a ring.”
Once more Brennan looked Simon movement without forming a habit or
“There was a scarf pin,” Brennan Judd In the face. What he sought ever increasing the dose.
reminded her.
was the eye of an Insane man—the
Stop suffering from constipation.
“Yes ‘hat was all the Jewelry ue eye of a man who might have come to Chew n Rexnll Orderlle at, night,. Next
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