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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON PAGE FOUR Bryan’s Ghost VOTE By ARDEN X. PANGBORN © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. X 59 - Fred E. Schmidt FOLLOW // CROWDS MGRAND PENINO" VEN in his high, peaked nightcap E and his long white nightgown there was a certain dignity about Colonel CANDIDATE FOR Trigg as lie padded out to the door way. A certain dignity In the way he carried his stately head with its un tamed sea of silvery hair; in the way REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELECTION he held back his shoulders, which were still straight for all their sixty-eight years. A little sound of displeasure came from his thin throat and a frown of Mrs. D. R. Starkweather, Mrs. J. petty annoyance creased his forehead. “Clumsy," he muttered. "Clumsy V. Lane, Mrs. Frank Sloan, Mrs. C t STANFIELD NEWS t E. Greathouse and Mrs. Ila Wallace oversight No invitation yet.” By Sopbronia Rhea Back in his dressing room he peered were Pendleton visitors Friday af- at the watch which hung over the back Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Chapin are ternoon. the proud parents of a baby girl of his bed—the big, gold watch Wil Mrs. Horace Cronkite was a busi- born at their home early Wednes liam Jennings Bryan had given him in ness visitor in Portland over the gratitude for his speeches in the cam day morning. Miss Dorothy White is quite ill week end. paign of '96. with scarlet fever. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hoggard and Nine o'clock. Three hours before Miss Selma Kjontnedt spent the Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Greathouse mo- the President's arrival—and still no week end visiting friends in Pendle tored to Rufus, Ore., Sunday where Invitation. It was inconceivable that ton. they had not intended him to be one Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Smith they spent the day visiting friends. of the President’s reception committee. Mrs. Adolph Heyden and son Har and son Teddie of Portland visited Mrs. Smith's sister Mrs. Herbert Gil- lan spent last week visiting rela They were irritatingly careless some times, these younger men. He would landers last Sunday. tives in Portland. speak quite plainly to young Olmstead, The Rebekah lodge held its reg Mrs. Frank Sloan entertained at ular meeting in the lodge hall Mon a bridge party Monday afternoon at who had been made chairman of the committee. day evening. her home, honoring Mrs. Margaret The colonel dressed slowly, carefully. A group of young people from Laughary. Not even to himself would he have Hermiston and Stanfield charivari- Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Russell are admitted that bls pleated shirt was ed Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rhea at their visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Penney Just a trifle soiled from the Fourth of home Monday evening. July parade, nor that his white, pat this week. Miss Ethel Dunn and John Dunn Miss Marie Thorsen and Earl At- terned vest was frayed along the edges and their mother left Wednesday tebury, students of La Grande Nor and spotted from the wear of seasons for Halfway. Ore., their old home. mal, spent the week end in Stanfield past His high wing collar was fresh, Mrs. Frank Sloan was hostess to visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. at least ; and his black string tie was " the Ladies Aid on Thursday after- S. Thorsen and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. hardly worn. He found young Olmstead buzzing noon in the parlors at the church. Attebury. about central committee headquarters Special music was furnished by Miss Mrs. C. D. Connor of Pendleton with the self-importance of a newly Rose Hoosier and Mrs. Edgar Hoos- entertained the senior class at din hired head office boy. 1er. Rex and Mrs. Jesse Griffith ner at her home Friday evening. “Well, what of it?” Olmstead halted were present to give missionary Guests were T. C. Baker, Boyd Jack- long enough to bark In answer to the talks. Mrs. Mabel Richards read an son, Miss Selma KJonotnedt, Merle colonel's question, while he wiped the annual report of her work as mis- Hutton, Doris Greene. Mary Rhea. perspiration from his long thin nose. “What of it? The whole town can’t be sionary chairman. Bill Beebe and Leonard Connor. on the reception committee. There's Boyd Jackson spent the week end only the governor and the mayor and in La Grande with his mother. the president of the chamber and a Misses Billie Hedrick and Viola couple of others. If you wanted to Krause were in Stanfield Saturday be on the committee, why didn't you say so a month ago?” evening visiting their parents. “Say so? Sir, a gentleman . . But Olmstead interrupted, SHE MARRIED HER BOSS” “See Grimes. He’ll find a seat back IS ACE FILM FUN in the caravan some place.” And Olm- stead was gone. The problems of a private secre The colonel’s step was as majestic tary are briskly dealt with in Clau- as ever as he searched out Grimes, dette Colbert’s picture, “She Mar- the young man in charge. Members ried Her Boss,” which will be at the of the general committee would meet the President at his train, would es- Oasis theatre. Miss Colbert herself delightful; cort him up the river to the dam he was to dedicate. her inherent charm and vivacity Grimes paused but a moment. "Good have never been shown to better ad lord !” he exclaimed. “What do you vantage. As a very efficient secre expect? The seats were gone a week tary who carelessly (alls in love ago.” with her boss, she sees to it that “But I say . . ." began the col he takes time ott one day to buy onel In his best oratorical manner. her a wedding ring. That proves a Then his month closed suddenly, weak- costly mistake, for the marriage iy. His audience had departed. He fell turns out to be one of the maddest Ing. back, uncertain, almost unbeliev- A voice came to his ears from things one can imagine. the headquarters beyond. Olmstead's The tun continues fast and furi voice was loud. They were talking ous, with Miss Colbert as the storm of him. center. “That old codger!" he beard, and Edith Fellows as the bosses' pre there was no mistaking the scorn In Candidate for the cocious nine-year-old daughter; the words. "Of course not. He's liv Katherine Alexander as his nerve- ing forty years behind the times. Why, It’d be like dragging Bryan's ghost out Nomination for wracked sister; Raymond Walburn on the platform.” as a butler; Jean Dixon as Miss Col “Bryan's ghost . . . The words COUNTY SCHOOL bert’s crony; and Clara Kimball blurred In the colonel's brain. He Young In a small role are all splen Stood, scarcely moving, his long, bony SUPERINTENDENT did. fingers clutching the gold knob of his cane until the flesh went white nnd at the Primary Election the veins stood out upon his hands like blue cords. Bryan’s ghost . . . Yes, May 15, 1936 they were right. Just another old man clinging desperately to the past; an NON-PARTISAN TICKET old man suddenly broken In spirit, INCUMBENT tired. The trembled slightly. A mist came over his eyes. at The Hermiston Herald. Colonel Trigg did not remember very clearly what happened then. He had n vague recollection of a stuffy ex cursion train, of crowds and heat and noise. He had a recollection of soiled red plush, nnd of glimpses from a dusty window of the broad artery across which the dam had been stretched like WHAT DO YOU MEAN a tourniquet—the dam the President was to dedicate. THERE'S A SURE WAY Then he found himself In a swirling mass of humanity. He lacked the spir FOR ME TO GET THE it to fight back as he was flung from shoulder tn shoulder, hurried and RIGHT REFRIGERATOR? pushed and jostled. Presently the mill ing ceased nnd the President was being ushered to the speakers’ stand. Young Olmstead, smiling, self-Important, was at his side. Memories rushed hack to Colonel Trigg. There was the speech at the / MEAN JUST WHAT / Chicago convention in ‘D6, nnd the time he himself had introduced Bryan. But SAY/ BE SURE IT MEETS those days were gone nnd he was just an old man with drooping shoulders. an old nun i In a willed, slightly soiled high wing collar and bedraggled black string tie. He reali: d the President was speak- Ing. but It words did not register in the turmoil of his mind. There was something about a debt to the state, something about speeches. Then abruptly the crowd fell back around him and suddenly he under stood. Ills shoulders snapped back straight, his head rose high. There was dignity, almost majesty. 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