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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
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Th nnuM recreation 1ntftut.
held by the home economic exten
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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.
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named after the animal, which died
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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
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adopt a constitution for the new
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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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For Two Thousand
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 39. (AP)
Evangelist Almee Semple Mcpher
son's libel suit against Look Maga
zine will be settled for $3,000. a
representative of the magazine aald
today.
Rev. Giles Knight, the evangelist's
business manager. In announcing
settlement of the 1.500 .000 action,
said Almee had been promised a
check for a "considerable amount."
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