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Newspaper Page TextPAOE ETOHT MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEPFORH, OEEfiON. SUNDAY.- OCTOBER 30, 1938. DON'T , MARRY THE MAN By Jstnn Bowmen The Character! Kathleen Gregory: lounj, red haired member of the Gregory clan which owns The Golden Girl mine, traveling wett incognito. Bridget Rileyi her companion. Donmld MacDonald: owner of The Stubborn Boy mine, hates the Cregorys, Kathleen espe cially. Yesterday: Outside the town . of Neutrality Kathleen meet .. JtiarDonald for the first time and dtatety quarrel with him. Chapter Six Neutrality "CO YOU can't take it,"' ob served Bridget, then he started to laugh. '1 don't know what you're laughing at," spat Kathleen. "Just remembering a remark of yours. All you'd need would be propinquity. If you two had been my nearer there d been a combu' tlon they'd have heard In Spain." Kathleen relaxed and laughed with her. "I might as well give up," she said ruefully. "I haven't chance now." "Hmm," mused Bridget "Vapid flapper. Well, maybe you're right. However it would be too bad. you've made such an excellent be' ginning." "Excellent," echoed Kathleen. "Umhuhm. If MacDonald ever has a suspicion that you came out to vamp a right-of-way from him, he'll smother it He'll know you would never have started with a verbal club." Kathleen made no comment. They had topped a sharp rise and Neutrality lay below. Neutrality consisted of a single street straight at one end, at the other curving Into the distance. The straight end was evidently the business thoroughfare, one side at least. The left side was brightly lighted. Colored signs whirled be fore plate glass windows. A queue of people waited before the en trance of a motion picture theater. The lights on the right side were few ana far between. The shops looked drowsy, ill kept. Even the pavement was full of holes. Bridget, who had been reading signs, burst out with a sudden, "Cleo, tio you realize everything on the left side is MacDonald and on the right Gregory? Look at the signs." Kathleen groaned. She had been looking at signs; hotel signs. The MacDonald had a tiled front yellow lights and the windows of the grill room were steamy with the promise of warm food. The Gregory boasted only a blue globe above the entrance, a dim lobby beyond. A lunch counter with hlch stools opened onto it. Resolutely, Kathleen pulled up before the curb. Bridget followed her into the lobby, across a lino leum covered Moor, wnere a snlrt sleeved proprietor leaned across the desk, resignation in his eyes. "Two rooms with a connecting oatn," ordered Kathleen. "Sorry ma'am, but there ain't but one tub in the house and I don't know as you could get to it to night." ''Does The MacDonald have more than one tub?" she de manded. "Well, If you want to be known as one of them stiffnecks, it ain't no business of mine. Folks who ' come to Neutrality have to be one or the other. Can't straddle fences In these parts." He closed the register and sat back, mouth pleated into lines of displeasure. "You mean a person has to be a MacDonald or Gregory? What do the commercial men do?" "They stay on the side of the street they're sellm'. No Gregory would buy from a firm sellm the MacDonalds." "Would you mind telling me why they call this Neutrality?" begged Kathleen. Achlngly Tired "yELL, ma'am, It was this way. ' MacDonald and Old Angus Gregorv lived in a cabin up the hill. When they had their fight neither would give up to the other, so they divided that cabin In two and run their road down the hill, side of each other. Then when the miners started comln' in, they" took to buildin' along side of the road they was represcntln'. Then come the women folks. They didn't have many bonnets in those days and they got so all fired tired of havin' holes shot in 'em, while the MacDonald and Gregory miners were aflghtin', that they marked off a portion where they could shop in peace and quiet They called it the neutral zone and that's how the town got its name." Kathleen's eyes had been grow ing larger and brighter as the man talked. Why hadn't her people told her fascinating tales like these? "What started the feud?" she sked, eagerly. "Well now ma'am, don't know u I could say. Don't think I ever heard tell. It's fair to say 'twas By EXTENSION SERVICE SCHEDULED THIS WEEK Th nnuM recreation 1ntftut. held by the home economic exten sion ervlM of Jack ion county for re -iv tlon leaden, it scheduled for tl.'a week. Mlu Irola Jensen, extension npc iaMrt tn community aorta, onganlra tlon. will torn Instructor for tha train Ing school which haa been arranged by Mn Mabel c. Mack, noma dem onstration aent. Any organ. 7atlon, Interested In u nz (troup (Irwin, gmt and other forma of recreation in their com munity art urged, to anoint Itadcn some dastardly deed of a MacDon ald." Kathleen sighed wearily. Ro mance had died and she was cold and hungry and wanted a bath. Never in all of her years had she felt as grimy, as achingly tired. "To be loyal, or to be clean, that is the question." "Looks like you could do with a bath," confessed the proprietor as though ashamed of being traitot. Kathleen, at first Indignant laughed suddenly. 'Then we'd bet ter try the other hotel, and please explain to the Gregorys we'll patronize their hostelry when they indulge in some plumbing." " 'Twon't do a mite of good," sighed the man. "Not that they aren't the finest people in the world; my father worked for them before me, but they . . . well things didn't look so bad when Old Angus was livin' and before young Don ald took charge and started build- . Ing a new MacDonald side." Back at the wheel of the car, Kathleen looked at Bridget. "And to think I'm part owner of that wreck," she said in disgust. The MacDonald was clean, it was bright, it was warm and it was modern. A uniformed bellboy was at the curb by the time they had stopped. Before they could ask, he had assured them a garage man would call for their car im mediately, as the storm would strike any moment. The clerk was young ana ana ble. The suites were all occupied. "Would a room with twin beds suffice?" "With an adjoining bath, a hay mow would suffice," Kathleen in formed him fervently. The room did not resemble a haymow. After the sketchy tour ists cabins they had found along the way, it seemed luxurious. For getting her role, Kathleen tipped the bellhoD as though he were re sponsible for its comfort then, lay ing her purse on a aresser, tmerea a shrill laugh. Like the horn of the MacDonalef car, the laugh grew in intensity until it verged on hys teria. Catamount In Person ALARMED, Bridget whirled Kathleen away from the mir ror. "What are you laughing at?" . "I , , . I just learned what a cata mount looked like," confessed Kathleen, and as Bridget hurried away to draw the hot tub she hoped would quell hysterics, Kath leen aia not aaa. to mucn tor my dreams of blinding him with my beauty at first sight." Hall an hour later, enveloped in a camel's-hair robe the shade of her hair; that hair curled in tiny ringlets by the steam, her cheek pink, she curled up on the bed to relax in sensuous pleasure. The storm had struck, brie had spent a few moments at the win dow watching the pyrotechnical display of weird blue lights which revealed mountains t o w e r i n aDove them, ana now was con scious of rain flnying the windowi and of the radiator purring i soothing refrain. She smiled a little at her obser vance of such trivial things. Nevet had she been as keenly aware ol physical well being. Chilled and bone weary, the room and the bed warmed and cradled her. Dinnet had been ordered served in thi room and she was hungry as sha had never been hungry before. And she had become vitally in terested in the town of Neutrality Her grandfather had become some thing more than a beard and a bel lowing voice. She'd seen him onh once, his last visit East when sh was seven. He had lived at thi mine and marveled at his son'i preference of the East. He had even regretted sending young An gus bast to school ror he had nevei returned save for one visit. She must learn more about th early days, about the finding ol the gold . . . about the feud . . . She thought then of Donald MacDonald. Did one inherit ha treds? She had hated the man be fore she knew his identitv and hi certainly bore no love for her. H had been charming to Bridget Kathleen s eyes were narrowed Here was a challenge. A man who ' not only Ignored, but openly in sulted her must be reduced to hit proper place. And it was this Don ald MacDonald who had built this hotel was it? Well, she d build oni across the street that would make. this one look like a hovel. When Bridget came in from hei bath, Kathleen was at the desk. "Wiring for a rescue crew?" shi asked lightly. "No," murmured Kathleen. "I'm drawing plans for a new Gregory House. It s going to be a honey." A look of pride and tenderness came into the eyes of the Irish girl, but there was only flippancy in het voice. "Two baths to every room?" "And a free-for-all shower in the foyer," supplemented Kath leen. "Do I hear the rattle of dishes?" There was a busboy at the door, a waitress behind him. Kathleen looked up to And pale blue eyes focused on her in wide admira tion; the tray in the uplifted hand slanting at a perilous angft. (Cttrr'tU. I'll, Imnl Tomorrow: Sparks fly acalo- to attend the school. Leaders hare enrolled from the Jackson county Orangea. home extension unit, parent-teacher associations, 4-H clubs, community clubs and churches. Schedule for the three district achoola u aa follow: Medford dlatrtrt October SI and November 2., ft p. m.. court houat audi tori um. Upper Rogue district Notember 1 and 8, 8 p. m , Upper Rogue Clran hatl. Gold Hill district November 4 and 5, B p. m., Gold Hill Orange hall. Sea Storm lYnrnltiit A8TOHIA. Oct. 29. V) With storm warning; continuing to fly, the Coast mshermen'a union ordered 150 tun trollers to remain In port. Free lecture on Christian Science In Varsity theatre, Fast Main street, Ashland, Oregon, on Tuesdav eve. nlnt. Noember 1st. at 8 00 eclrvk. The public is cordially lnvitd t attend. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Bee. U. 8. Pat OS. PCRtiM, Persia, i Pnglown A great lover of anlmtls wu the young . conqueror. Alexander the Great. Strange as It seems, so sad dened was he on the death of a fa vorite dog that he built a city In its honor. Over the grave of Perttaa, the dog, grew the city of Peritaa, once an Im portant trade center in Persia. Itself named after the animal, which died In the year 333 B. C. while Its master was on hla Persian campaign. Similarly was born the city of Marrying Heiress Would Drop One OHICAOO, Oct. 39 (UP) Merry Pahrney, by court ruling wife or both an Itnllnn baron and a Rus sian count, moved today to relieve thta marital embarrassment through another court action. The mt-halred patent medicine heiress petitioned the Illinois appeal lato court for a rehearing on the cms which nullified her divorce from Arturo Berlinftelrl of Italy, her third husband, and made her fourth mar TAILSPIN TOMMY Ominous ABRIAL PIRATES, IN FANCY-DRE93 COSTUMES, SWOOPED OUT OP THE SKY AND BOARDED THE PAHTIAl. YCHT, SEA NYMPH, WHICH CAUHlES A CAP.SO OF SOCIETY AMD WEALTH. J.ATIMEH J TOEYMO0E, OWNER OB The VESSEL, HIS DAUGHTER, BERNICE, AND GUESTS Of- TREYMORE ARE MENACED BY THE SKY BUCCANEERS ' 'JoMMY, SKBETS ANO LT BARRY, OP THE COAST GUARD, HAVE OUST HEARD THE YACHTS S O S BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER FX mFiy "Kni m ".iwn, i kuni run 1 am mom ncrici 1 ruLiuncK RSXgL4rJif bui u Liaicn, dcNI Ir Y ocT ALL RI6HT. RUSTY. 1 f FOLLOW ME 1 1 HAS HEA0ED TOWAR0 THE JIPPEM FARM If ME EH? 01AV, PAL, VOU Wmf I WHERE'SI IN A THEATER FIVE I I'LL BITE- THE II My OLD k kra M0 N0W' JUST AS THE SUN C0MES Bl KIN SEE THE FUN, TOO! r II THE I MINUTES BEFORE THE 1 I ANSWER'S NO1 II CHILDHOOD P C5 M E H0R,Z0N' BEN AN0 BR1AR IN ap&Gtj54 II N? I NEWS REEL SOES ON, K WHAT THEN? M SaTE f . tL ALS0 ARE AT E BOUNDARy OF THE I iff -lV. I V00NT ASK FOR YOUR Ar? BOVHOOD Ls4 I THE NEBB8 Meet My Brother V-rZLrZ- ' jrrC , " 0 V come wece. 1 s coMve?seic yM i to meet vou, VLOOS EMOOOM UEVOLi J J ls MV &?OTMEC A. J -V 'VW C6. OU - r II 5TE.VE . MO. , " . Ul lor Mir t w., A inr- w ocrrr, cr IFCWSernj Clii IPI ; ' V LAY rtoted -tenor, fcN6 one I -T' X AT Mississippi', tertieAieiech, Holy Cross, m7h a 3rokbh ihmsthrokti -D?C.ll,l?2o- Bucknelt) VfctfMoMfe constitution was $MEd b1 A THUHDBR&bRM VtmNte, oh -rue point op Adjourning To fiertr fus sriTish , srwEpfo cornet m DOCUMENT WHEN TrltSToRM BRoKS ... Cry0 teuM Sjrtxbcurx xftf-- Bu:ephala. on the River Hydaspes In I India. This settlement was built over the grave of Bucephntus, favorite horse ol Alexander the Great, which died In 328 B. C. Alexander 'had bought the 'horse for 13 talents 5.000 and he alone was able to ride It. ThundenUnrm Constitution In the summer of 1777, a group of Vermont patriots met at Windsor to adopt a constitution for the new Mate, but was Interrupted by a mes senger from Colonel Seth Warner. riage, to Count Oleg Cnsalnl, an act of bigamy, , Plan Turkey Pool ROSEBURO, Ore., Oct. 30. (P) The first turkey pool of the season to be formed by the Oregon turkey growers was announced today for Nov. I to 14. Inclusive. Growers are notified In the announcement sent out from the local office, of the opening of scml-scnld and pre-cool-Ing systems at the Eugene and Can by recervlng stations. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. Silence The "Plot" Thicken, DCki AC uie v wi rvJ ia fdnncrr rsn rii icrw W W . .. W... ..U-JUMSSMi v 3m Mm i ill.Hi i lilSM ) IT General Burgoyne's British army was advancing on the western side of the state, the men were Informed. Despite the fact that a new constitu tion was undergoing a final reading. It was felt expeditit to break up the convention and take up arms. At this critical moment a thunder storm broke forth, and the delegates were forced to remain Indoors. During this time the constitution's reading was completed and the document adopted. It still remains the bulwark of Vermont's government. 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