HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1926.
PAGE FIVE
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W. L. Blakely, manager of Farmers
Warehouse at Lexington, was doing
business here on Saturday. He states
that his warehouse contains some
25,000 sacks of wheat yet, but this
is being gradually shipped out. The
Lexington country was blessed by a
good fall of snow the end of the week,
and this naturally makes the farmers
feel good. A bumper crop of wheat
for Lexington this coming season will
be the means of placing the most of
the farmers of that locality on their
feet again. We hope they get it.
While he is in the county on offi
cial business for several days, H. W.
Dobyns is enjoying short visits at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Olden of
Fairview, where his wife and family
will be until he is ready to return to
Portland at the end of the month.
His family will make their home in
Portland in the future after having
the summer and fall at Ukiah with the
parents of Mrs. Dobyns.
Word reaches Heppner that our
erstwhile citizen, Daniel Bice, was
this week married to Mrs. Emma Cum
mings, who has made her home in
Portland for a number of years past
and who formerly lived here. Mr.
Rice but recently went to Portland,
but did not make.known to his friends
here that he intended to commit mat
rimony. Fred Ashbaugh, who was in the city
Friday from his home near Hardman,
states that it was snowing pretty
heavily out that way when he left,
and he was looking for plenty of win
ter, hoping that the snow would con
tinue until the entire county was
heavily covered, as he believes this is
good crop insurance.
Harry French was in Saturday from
his ranch out south of Hardman. He
had just returned from a visit at Bit
ter Hot Springs, where he spent a
couple of weeks getting rid of a se
vere attack of rheumatism. Winter
is on the way out in the mountain
section, with a good snow fall.
Mrs. Jas. B. Cooley and Mrs. Wilson
Brock of Pendleton spent the week
end here, the former a guest at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Vawter
Crawford, and the latter at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Josie Jones. The
ladies returned home on Sunday.
George Hayden was in town Satur
day from his Hardman home. After
spending a couple of weeks at Port
land under treatment of a physician,
Mr. Hayden is now much improved in
health. He was very sick for a num
ber of weeks.
Tindal Bobison was expressing a
glad smile while in town Saturday
from his Eight Mile home. The good
covering of snow over the wheat fields
of his section was the cause.
Enoch's J$vl
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Old Paullny Dotson stood be
side the spring welling out from
between two bowlders in her yard
at the foot of Rig Laurel moun
tain, and sighed lugubriously:
"David's a-gnin' a-goln" soon."
"Where's Davy goln' J"
"I didn't know you was around,
Abagail Seal I" Paullny frowned
a bit resentfully. "You always did
have the softest steppln' pair of
feet for all the world like a
cat's !"
"Or a thief's," muttered the
hard-visnged old man sitting near
the' spring, mending a bridle.
The blooming young girl, looking
over the low stone fence, reddened
at this covert thrust
"Davys goln' to take his $200
railroad tie money and go to the
preacher college after Thanks
glvln. I thought he was goln' to
marry on It, hut he says he ain't,"
went on Paullny.
"Oh, Paullny, I wasn't meant for
David!" Abigail raised propitiat
ing eves to the old woman's cen
suring ones, then they deepened
and darkened solemnly. "Folks
has got a heap to think about be
sides marryin' these stlrrln' times,
Paullny." -
"David knows that," his grand
mother drawled defensively;
beln' lame Is all that's keepln' him
from enllHtin', but it wont hinder
his nrenchin'."
"Two hundred dollars is a lot of
money I wish I had the half, ob
served Ahhy wistfully. "Where
does Daw keen It. Paullny?"
"He's got It In my little beaded
snck a-hni)Eln' In the loft. He's
afraid of hnnks."
When the girl was gone the
bridle-mender, Cleophas, rebuked
Paullny.
"Laws," rntillny tossed her head
"Abby's honester than you, Cle
ophas. You are a-holdln' spite
foolishly. Ahy's got her woman's
right to prefer Enoch Dawn to our
Davyr ,
"Ahhy. walking with Unlit swift'
ness through the reddening woods,
stopped when she came to a dead
poplar that, destitute of llmhs and
punctured by woodpeckers and
antR. hung over the pntn.
"I'm goln' to ax that poplar I" A
cheerful voice sounded behind her,
and a sunburned young man lifted
her aside out of the way of the
leaning tree. "It shan't fall on my
irlrl while I'm nclitln'l Yes, I'm
goln', Ahby. Something in me
says : 'Enoch, don't stay here lakln'
It easy makln' excuse your mam'
niy's got but you.' " .
She raised glowing eyes. "Oh,
Enoch, I couldn't stand It If you
didn't want to go! But I oh,
Enoch, you might not come back."
Enoch kissed the paling cheek.
"There's worse things would hap
pen us, honey."
"I know," she whispered; "sin
brings folks the worst griefs."
"I'm not goln' to enlist until
Thanksglvln' day, three weeks
yet," the boy said presently; "I've
got to get the corn in and leave
things in shape for winter first for
mammy."
The next morning when Enoch
met Abby In the woodland path
and bent Joyously over her she
seemed scarcely to sense that he
was kissing her.
"My sliver breastpin yon gave
me Is gone," she told hlra nervous
ly. "I could not find it anywhere
this mornln. I'm afraid losln' it'll
bring us bad luck!"
"Let's walk as far as Cleophas
Dotson's and look for it," Enoch
suggested.
Paullny ran out to meet them,
her eyes wild with excitement.
"David's money's gone. Stolen !"
Enoch felt Abhy'B fingers sink
Into the flesh of his arm. Then
David came out, corroborating his
mother's story.
. "And nobody knew I kept the
money In the loft I" he observed
mournfully.
"Only Abby!" old Cleophas mut
tered. "Paullny told her but Jest
yesterday."
"Here's the ladder settln' outside
the window Just like It's been all
summer," David went on.
"Yes, and them that climbed that
ladder and stole that hard-earned
money ought to be made. to suffer,
be It man or woman !" Cleophas re
marked, and Enoch felt that he
knew what was In his suspicions
old brain. Then, In the grass at
"David's A-Goln A'Goln' Soonl"
the foot of the ladder, his troubled
eyes fell on Abhy's brooch. When
his heart begun to beat again, he
set a cautious foot over the pin,
and, unobserved, stooped and
transferred the trinket to his
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pocKet.
"I wish I could know where my
pin Is," she murmured on their way
home. Enoch's band, pressing his
breast pocket, felt the uncomfort
able roughness of the brooch with
in, but he grew cold at thought of
restoring it to ber. Had Abby
been tempted to take David's
money? He recalled that she had
been unaccountably disturbed and
troubled over the trivial loss of
the brooch, and she had not want
ed to go In the direction of Pau
llny's to look for It.
Enoch knew that once he was
gone, leaving Abby with no men
folks to defend her, old Cleophas
would not hesitate to accuse ber.
But If he stayed, the cowardly old
man would not make trouble.
Could he stop his ears to the call
of the flag and stay behind with
Abby 7
For three weeks Enoch worked
and suffered. Two days before
Thanksgiving day, the day he had
Raised Beseeching Eyes to the No
vember Sky.
set to present himself for enlist
ment, he met Bate Owens, a nelgh-
bor lad.
"Cleophas says be believes he
knows who got Davy's $200," he
remarked, "and wind and weather
permlttln', he's goin' uptown Sat
urday and notify the sheriff. Who
do you reckon the old cuss has fas
tened it on, Enoch?"
Enoch shook bis head, but when
Bate left him be sank on the fallen
leaves and raised beseeching eyes
to the November sky.
"Hear me, Lord!" he cried. "If
she If my girl never done that
wrong, send me a sign and for
give me for thlnkln' she might
have! And If she did sin, show
me what to do between now and
Thursday I"
A woodpecker, tapping on the
dead poplar, scolded fiercely as a
crow alighted on the top. Enoch
rose wearily and went to the Seal
place.
Bring me the ax, honey," he re
quested Abby. "I'm goln' to cut
the old poplar. I was about to
forget It, and I'm goln' day after
tomorrow at least I ought to.
Stand out of the way now."
Presently Enoch, examining the
fallen tree's top, gave a Joyous cry.
On the ground lay some red string,
a door key, a safety pin and Paul
lny Dotson's little red and yel
beaded pouch.
Enoch opened the bag and took
out David's four fifty-dollar bills.
"I saw a crow up there a tame
one, I reckon. It must have had
a habit of goln' In houses around
here, and he fancied the beads on
Pauliny's pocketbook."
Abby smiled In his radiant face.
"Your worried look's gone,
Enoch 1"
He threw his arms about her
and held her so close she could
scarcely breathe.
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"Oh, Abby," he cried, "that little
worry pressed me hard, but It's
gone now forever!"
When be was alone again in
the wood, he fell on his knees by
the felled dead tree.
"O God!" he cried out, "day
after tomorrow Is the world's
Thanksgiving day but today Is
mine, today Is mine, blessed God!"
UMATILLA HAS NEW CO. AGENT.
Walter A. Holt has been duly in
stalled as the new county agent for
Umatilla county. He has arrived at
Pendleton and takes over the duties of
his office at once. Mr. Holt is a
graduate of Washington State college
and was a classmate of Roger W.
Morse, our county agent. He has
been county agent of Clackamas coun
ty for the past six years and made an
enviable record there.
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