Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 19, 1936, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOURTEEN BEDFORD MAIL TRIBTJXE, rEDPORD, OREGON, VTEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. 1936. THE WORLD- SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYA5 WILLIAMS 1 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN H IX Tor farther proof address the author, Inclosing s tamped envelops for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pax. Oft. WITH A FENCE A New Novel by Marian Sitn$ RYNOPS18: Carol Torrance ha left Meredith, Ga., which ia her homo town, and gone to teach in the Aehboro, Ga high echooU It Wat a UTC'rcn IP pur Ttm ner iinv , but not to part from Meredith. 10 ah 9 haa event otto dav in Ash boro, and mane one friend: Mary v.llert Hands. Carol believes that a year of teaching may be possible, but the does not intend that it shall interem with a career (n other and blatter centers. The career is pretty . vague In Carol's mind, however. Chapter Sit ANOTHER DAY fiAROL waked next morning to a knock at her door. Someone. Mrs. O'Connor said through the door In a thin, pleased voles, wanted ber on the telephone. She slipped on a robe and went to answer the call. "Carol?" "Yes." "This Is Ben Tyler. Why In tho devil don't you let somebody know where you are? I been phoning Yerywhere." She gave an Instant to remember. Ing about Ben Tyler. The town bachelor, short and plump and In curanly romantic so long as the recipient of his attentions was rery sew. Bhe was warmly grateful tor Ms Interest because It re-ostablfshed ber as a woman Instead of ft teacher. "Darling, I hadn't bad time." That pLLEN was In the living-room wltb - ner nat on, experimenting wud the radio. "What church do you go to?" she asked. Carol shrugged. "I was born an Episcopalian. What about you V "Presbyterian." "Then we'll go there. It's closest" The rear half of the cburcb was well filled; the front half empty ex cept for a very old lady with an acoustlcon. The minister was an earnest young man wltb a mind as orderly and conventional as his ap pearance. Aided by his notes be preached a neat and orderly eer mon, pouncing at Intervals upon bis original premise with the vigor of a fat robin on a worm. At the last be tied all tho ends of his discourse into a neat and ornamental bow of rhetorio and tossed It to the congregation. The sermon was over, and the minister was pronouncing beautiful, singing words: "And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ rest and abide upon you all, and upon all God'a people everywhere. . . ." Mr. Hudson was at the door, beaming upon tho world. The min ister, . whose name was Mr. Wil liams, was beside him, waiting to exteud the rlgbt band of fellowship. He was delighted, he said, to wul- come Carol and Ellen .into his yfflia "What church do you go to7".asked Ellen. was the sort of thing Bon liked. "1 only lit ycslurduy afternoon, and last night I was received Into the fold. How are you?" "Novor felt bettor and bad loss. Whon'll I see you?" "I dont know. When?" "Well have you bad any break fast? If uot, you've missed It." Her watch said half past nine. "Oh, Lord, so I have I " "Get your clothes on then, and I'll take you to the Acropolis Cafo. poor thing, but our own and onl;. Ten o'clock 7" "Right." Ben Tyler was almost unchanged In four years. A Utile more stomach and a little leas hair, hut otherwise tho same. Ho squeezed her hand and beamed at her. "Younger and better looking than rer." Sho scowled. "When a gut jots to tha age w here you feel Impelled to comment on her )outhfuluess, don't do It Hen, It's grand to see you. It was. Ben seemed to bring with him the odor uf guy days when she was a Visiting Girl. He put her In his venerable roadster and clattered away. "The old gang held a Jubilee when we heard you were coming." "How are they all?" "Ob, Jogging along." They went In the Acropolis Cafe and sat at a marble-topped table. Carol ordered breakfast and Ben decided to have another cup of cof fee. Then she said: "Somothlng tells me (hat Jubilees will be out of my orbit. I've got the young mnnhood and womanhood of America looking to me," Ho grinned. "Thoy could show you things, honey. Besides, teaching's not that bad: all you have to do Is use modernllon and keep your mouth shut." That was a relief. "You cheer mo up. I've always made a practice of those, even when I didn't have to." He dropped bor at home a few minutes beforo eleven. "I love you. and all that, but 1 won't go to church with you. Wants play golf this afternoon?" She did, desperately. "Isn't It ver boten?" "I don t know. Try It once and see. About two-thirty?' church. He wondered, be said al most In the same breath, about Sun day school. There was a class of tocn-ago girls. , . . Carol throw up her hands. "Mr. Williams) Ws teach tlioso same girls all week long, and wo all need a rest from eacb other, for good ness' sake) bare a heart!" He looked surprised and rather pleased. It waa obviously tha drat time anybody had laughed Id bis face In church and begged blm to bava a heart and be enjoyed the sensation. He became almost arch. "1 hadn't thought of that. Since you put It up to me like that I'll leave you In peace." Wero thoy comfortably slluotod? Mr. Hudson asked solicitously. They said they wero, and made art es cape. A FAILING sun made long, thin shadows on I he. eighteenth fain way. Carol sat and watched tbe shadows, and swung her legs In the cleor green water or the swimming pool. "This pool Is a gift straight from boaven. You didn't have It four yeara ago: how'd you acquire It In a de pression?" Ben was lying on his stomach, ab sorbing the last rajs of the sun. He grimaced. "It was built right aftor you left, when they still railed the late iwipleaxantne.is a Temporary Hurry. Tho only reason we've still got It Is because it's practically Im possible to repossess a swimming pool, "Thank goodness for lhat." Sho stretched and got up reluctantly. 'Much as 1 halo It. I'll have to go. We cut supper at six o'clock." Oh, that's all right. We ll got a sandwich out here. Sit down and re lax and I'll get you a Tom Collins In a llltlo while." I'd better tread lightly, and to'se my dissipation In a move private place, thnnks. It's been heavenly, lien." He giuntcd and gut up. "Oh, all rliiht. And whllo I think of It there's a dunce Friday night Go with mo?" She nodded. "Of course." A dance ould be something to cling to dur ing this Hist crucial week. fCepwtcM. ty lfiHnn Sinn Cars h. tomorrow, nor flrtt bout with Mr,. Tov'or Grandpa, 94, Takes Dip In Raw While Offspring Watch BI AIR, Neb Aug. 10. (API rty or his k'rnmit-i.lldrrn look ed on while Burl King. 04, nave hlfi annual aquatic exhibition tu the nude Among his dives trr the JacK-kntfe, halt turn, whole turn, oup and a bait bnric joiner fault and -?iitnn-ay. To a photonvihT who wonted 10 take hla pt tur, hp siiid; "Takft all you want, If you want 'fin In the raw. I'm 04 today, 1 ain't new worn a bathing ault yet and I'm loo old to Mart now BUUSHELfi. Aug. 19,-(AIi-Co: Cbarlea A. Undborgh hn accepted an Invitation to addrew the first worm j.enc congrp(w. which mreU her Sep tember t to 0. Mae West Passes Secret Milestone HOLLYWOOD. Cnllf., Aug. 10. (Al'i Mup West has pasMxl another birthday and !a now (?,', ymra old, "I'm old enough to know fitter than to mention my she tvttd 'When they wero talking about tha Milwaukee marriaR-? Mult, they Hr urcd It out Mint I was just UUs tMde of seventy. Ho-hum," Hhe oined a bottle of ehnnvpttffn and proposed a toast; "Hen' fal pi in to my ham rrlrnd and rhampngne to my re' .'riends." FOIU'LANn. Aug IB VaPI-R. C. Plunder, secretary of the tax mi per- vlilng and ronservHtlon commute of Multnomah county. Mid the commia fcion, recently at ripped of power by a tme supreme court derlnion. would j eon -Unite to function for the a-vst-iaiioi of other buci;i-tmaUiig oodlw 1 La the couutj, , . fAURRAV Mason - , fW. rSLflHoR OF Trie -Se'VERE. -' f uartwe -surwe ftcroF la&o,' ff)Mois For i-te words i hiimn & NB&we are twitf FREE ANP INPBPENPENT AMP rtWe CgffTftlN INHERENT NhMew.iHe ejoweNToFjy ' life two liberty RftlWftV-S WERE OHCc OPEM ID U6E 8V ftMVoNE Yi0 FlTTEP TrtEt? VEHiaE WiTrA FI-RM6EP WrtEElA VMEEL W f?ElrMH (ft PiiC00lC COKTENr rtiTue-SS PiKCrt-HiTTER... PuTcrt RUETrlERVJIVS CHosEM ftS A plMCH-HflTER H-tiMM IN r-o.vACa... hHO in wot ah i'ii n nn in q., 'H Public Ibillwuvf. As run well be Imagined, tho con fusion cauod by the ruling alio wing anyone who ao doalred to umj railroad track on the early Pennsylvania line as thoroughfarea upon the payment of a fee, waa tremendotia. If In a stubborn mood, a farmer could put on an ox cart equipped with flanged wheels on a mil road track, creep along at a mile per hour. and hold the right-of-way In front of any train. Mutton vs. Motion. Author of the famous liberty-giving Bill of Rights, George, Mason (1725- 1702) wna atno one of tho leading alavery abolitionists of hla time. Htrange as It aoema, hla grandson. James Murray Mnson (1708-1871) wan a violent defender of tho slavery sya- teni and wna author of one of the moat aevero measured ever enacted against alnvce. In this, the "Fugitive Slave Act of 10A0." It was provided that fugitive slave could not testify in their own behalf; they wero not to be allowed trial by Jury: atrong penalties were Imposed upon anyone assisting In ; heir escape, and both the fart of the erenpt mid the Identity of the fugl- NARlGt-EV'S & A Good DE.FEN6E A6AINST DftV AMD DUSTY THROAT cTnHI 2 twj m.j.. tlvc were to be determined without Mny defense whatsoever being given for the accused I Hottled Wine. Through oxidization, wine turns sour and loses part of Ha alcoholic con ton t when exposed to air. To pre vent this, bottlod wine la stored lying on tta side, thus serving to keep the cork moist and the air out. Tomorrow: Tbe Truth About Quintuplets. A treatment for bolls which In cludes the Intravenous Injection of animal charcoal haa been reported by Drs, Duval Prey und John M. Poster. Jr.. of Denver. In Modern Medicine, WRIG LEY'S Tut DCDrcrT nWKA ' GUM ik, ' iii 11 i w . t M-n w r-m i r i ' j ' S-;lf TriCRE WAS CONSIDERABLE 60S5IP WHEN . THE MEMBERS 0F1tE BRID6E CLUB CAME ON FRED PERLEV CRRWL1N6 AROUND "THE LAWN 6R0WL)N-2 LIKE A BEPiR., FRED'S SMAU. HEPHEW HWIK6 ' WANDERED OFF AR0UND1r)E HOUSE! UNOBSERVED (Copyright, 1836, by Ths BeB Syndicate, Inc.) Sims WILLIAMS S MATTER POP- By C. M. PAYNB V-XKL H E A12 LVr i jjpGsft H at o w.1 aw )l .0 . hwqtlPTTtgllt, 1936, lay Th 11 BywIlctK, tne.) Jjj TAILSPIN TOMMY Skooter I Busplclous By HAL FORRES'S HOMMY PROM TUT" SKY PILOT. ..AND IS OH MIS WAY TO THMH POINT BY BUS... 6UT...SKtME-R IS STILL A CAPTIVt Of THt &ANDITJ IM AM ISOLATfrD PAtlCH. HIS lH WAS SPARtD, OtlLY BtCAUSe VIOLtT. THt 41RL tltMBU OP THt OAMO, WAftTtD HIM POP. A COOK . . . 5eo BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER WHEW "THE TWILIGHT DUEPEUED, OLD JOUTUDt -PLAMTATIOW BECAME THE GOAL OF MAMV PER'OIsl';- Swe ER THt S OKAY, -s I JUICE, MOPlt J 60096-66(5.') THE NEBBS You Can't Tie Ernie WaiflllT'".--- "cJ Kmmtr-Tl, ---fWnaj.tf Mni.ii Hung? 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