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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SEVEN U I UK V lid U -i d.'h d tA I i 1 d Id MEDFORD MAIL TPTBUXE. MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1933. EUm flvur) M JO tint) pag Tou will probably find axactli the things you ba?a been look ins foi or k mi or trade (or unwed Articles you may Dave Search your actio cm to re -room you may find many thing other are seeking and be tble to realize immediate cash li what you want isn't nere. ad rertlse ror it Tribune Claa&l tied da are Inexpensive effective I RATES Per rttird first inaertlun... ..8c (Minimum Ac) Each additional insertion, per word -- -.1c (Minimum luc Per line per month without copy change , ...ll.ta GASH Or money order must ae curapany all mail order classified ads. LOST AND FOUND LOST Black. 6-ltnli dome cap. Find er return to Petruleum Heat and Burner Co.. 412 K. iinln. LOST II flog miMing. call 1816, WAITED MALE HELP WANTED Boys 14 or over, to sell newspapers after school. Apply Mall Tribune office. WANTED FEMALE HELP WANTED Middle-aged or elderly housekeeper. Good home. Small wagee. Call evenings. 330 Haven. W A N T E D Middle-ajed woman as sist with housework. Good home, wages. Phone 211 Central Point or Route 1, Bo 62. . WANTED Housekeeper, must be good cook. References required. Phone 349-W. WANTED SITUATIONS EXPERIENCED COOK wants work. Camp or cafe. Mary Kelty, Talent. Phone 374-R-8. WANTED Plowing and teaming. Phone 912-J or 1534-Y. DEPENDABLE young married man wishes steady position. Experienced In truck driving, service station, and steam pressing clothes. Cap able for most anything with future. Salary preferred no less than $15. weekly. Inquire Box 2699. Tribune. WANTED Miscellaneous GENTLEMAN wishes to meet Chrts tlsn lady. Box 2971, Tribune. WANTED 8 good milk cows, 26 barred rock pullets. See M. M. Yerex, Medford, Rt. 4. Box 66. WANTED TO BUY Dry dairy cows and heifers. Also beef. C. C. Hoover. Phone 437-R. WANTED Furnished or partly fur nished 6 or 6 room house with oU heat. Phone 877-H. WANTED Empty beet pulp bags. Davis Feed Store. 127 N. Riverside. LAUNDRY or plain sewing. Mrs. Huson. Phone 1345-M. WANTED Good fresh cow. CO, care Mall Tribune. WANTED Dead and worthless ani mals removed tree ot charge Phone (reverse charges) Southern Oregon By-Pruducts Co. WANTED Platform scsle. 1715 No Riverside WANTED Horses and cowa Eagle Point Pox Farm. Phono 37-X-7 HIOIlliST CASH PRICES PAID For Your Furniture .MEDFOHD BARGAIN HOUSE 37 N Grape St. Phone 1063 WELL DRILLING $1 .60 per ft first 50 ft., etc J M Dodge. 519 King WOOL - MOHAIR - HIDES And Pelts See us before you sell MEDFORD BARGAIN HOUSE 27 N Grape St. Phone 1062 RUDY'S LTIIOl.STEHIMl SHOP All Work finaranteed. Free estimates snytlme In connection with HOLBROOK & ANDREWS 6th and Front Call 647. HIGHEST PRICES PAID for Batteries Radiators Aluminum Brass, Cop per and other metals MEDFORD BARGAIN HOUSE 37 N Grape St Phone 1062 WANTED Radio batteries to re charge Only 85 cents each Phillips Radio Service. 919 N. Riverside. HE PAY MCIHK CASH For Youi Furniture lini.HRnOK & ANDREWS) th ?nd Front Phone 647 FOR RENT HOUSES 4-ROOM furnished house for rent. 703 Palm. Inquire F. F. Burk, Phone 448. FOR RENT 4-room furnished house, $23.50. 307 Beatty. FOR RENT 8 room furnished house. Inquire 57 N. Peach. FOR RENT Unfurnished 6-room upper flat, lnqlassed sun-porch, all modem, newly decorated. Electric range, heater. 122', Mistletoe Phone evenlnes 701-J. FOR RENT b-room lurnlshed house OU burner. 804 E. Main. FOR RENT 4-room furnished house, 1211 Locust. Key st 1216 Locust. OR RENT Clean, furnished duplex, close In. Also new modern apart ment, down sutrs 618 So. Oskdale. FOR RENT Small furnished house Key 146 So. Ivy. FOR RENT Newiy decorated smsll house some furniture. $18 60 616 So Oskdale. or Medford Stationery FOR RENT Small furnished house gas equipped. No dog. 334 Apple, FOB REDn--H0P8E8 FOR RENT 8 -room furnished house. 713 Pine 8t.. across Irom Llnooln school, ror appointment telephone Mrs. Carley, B14-W. UNFURNISHED Bouw for rent. 184 So. Ivy. FOR RE NT d- room modern furnteh ed house. Adults only. Phone 467-J FOR RENT APARTMENTS FOR RENT Apartment (12. 930 Beatty. FURNISHED One, two and three, room apt. 604 W. 10th. FOR RENT Apartment. 334 Apple. FOR RENT Two furnished apart ments, eleetrlclally equipped Adults. No pets. BOS W. 10th. CHOICE APT., newly decorated, heat, hot water. Electralux, and garage Berben Apt., 10 Quince St. OE BAUER APT8, 8th and Oakdals Modern, courtesy, all comforts By week or month, $36 to $4740. Phone 713-Y. FURNISHED apartment; hot and cold water, lights, private bath. Adults 012 8o Oskdale FOR RENT Furnished Rooms ROOM for rent. 103 Mistletoe. FOR RENT Nicely furnished sleep ing room for gentleman. 826 So Riverside. ATTRACTIVE ROOMS 404 S. Grape ROOM FOR RENT Private entrance, bath and shower, $2.60 week. 408 Edwards. COMFORTABLE room In private home 410 Beatty St Tel 1521 -V j I FOR RENT BOARD ROOM BOARD and ROOM. $1 a day at 716 E Mam. FOR RENT Miscellaneous FOR RENT Steam heated office room. Two atore buildings. See Roland Hubbard or AI Llttrell. LARGE OFFICE ROOM for rent 220 N Bnrtlett FOR SALE LIVESTOCK HEREFORD CATTLE AUCTION The ' CalOregon Hereford Associ ation will hold their Second An nual Sale of 60 head registered Hereford bulls and heifers at Fair grounds, south Medford, Oregon, Saturday, December 3rd, 1038, com mencing at 1:00 p. m. Fat steers from show will be sold prior to bull sale. Breeding cattle are con-' signed oy me prominent Hereiora Breeders of southern Oregon and northern California. Field Repre sentatives Bob Teale and Forrest Bassford for the Western Livestock Journal. Col. A. H. Dudley, auc tioneer. WEANER PIGS for sale. Charles Smith, half . mile north Central Point, former Mayfleld place. FOR SALE 2 registered Guernsey ! bulls about 6 months old. From ad vanced registered dams. Wing's Cloverdale Golden Guersney Dairy. FOR SALE Pinto saddle stallion, 4-years-old. James Miller, 478 Al lison. Ashland. Phone 325-L. FOR SALE PETS DOGS POMERANIAN crossed with Peking ese pups, for sale cheap. 515 No. Riverside. FOR SALE Beautiful Cocker Span iel puppies. Delightful Christmas preserts. Call after 6 p. m. 28 Washington street. Por Exchange Miscellaneous FOR SALE OR TRADE 1938 V-8 DELUXE COUPE. Will sell or trade $150 equity. Balance $534 terms. Mileage 8.900. Best of care. Good gas mileage, uses no oil. For particulars call 1066-R. Mervln L. Tlson, 916 East Main. FOR SALE OR TRADE for hay, 8 brood sows. Linn Ranch, mile west Jacksonville. TRADE good player piano; and stock trailer ror narawooa or stock, eui Hazel Street. Central Point. TO TRADE Repair work for wood. J'vllle Repair Shop. For Exchange Real Sstate WILL TRADE large Seattle home, with established Income, Capitol Hill district, for Medford property or surrounding district. My equity $6500. Address Owner. 604 Harvard Ave. North, Seattle, Wash. WILL TRADE: 280 acre Improved mountain ranch, clean of encum brance for house In Medford. Earl Tumy, 310 Liberty Bldg. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR TRADE Income prop erty with 40 acres of land suitable for summer resort. C. E. Carlson. Valandra tourist camp, Central Point. FOR SALE Modem 4-room house, nice lawn, enclosed back yard. In quire 717 West 14th. Close to Washington and high schools. Phone 289-Y. 4-ROOM modern house, nice yard, family orchard. $1700, terms. 23 Chestnut. MOST SELL THIS WEEK 6 room modern house, 6 room not modern house. Call 408, Boardman. EXTRA good Income property In Medford want farm a down pay ment, or what have you? Inquire 406 J St WHEN you thiol of real aetata think of BROWN e WHITE. HOUSES FOR SALE in Medford and surrounding towns Easy terms Jsekson County Federal Savings Loan Association OOOU HOME for sale cheap Would take small down payment oi what have you Inquire 406 J St SACRIFICE FOR QUICK SALE Du pies 4-room modem house and rsrsnt lots Box iww tribune FOR SALE AUTO MO B1LE8 FOR BALE OH TRADE Dodge pick up and trailer, also S-ton ratn hay, Jake Myers, Central Point. Be Mooern Buy CHRYSLER NOW ON DISPLAY HAIIN MOTORS 38 North River side FOR 8ALE Miscellaneous FOR SALE Coast red cedar posts. Feeds and seed grain. New and used machinery. Flnley Imp. Co. 804 Protein Dairy Feed, only $1 40 sack. Best for cold weather, Davis Feed Store. EQUITY In Piano Accordion for sale. 120 Bass, 6 months old; value, $27tt. Balance paid SB or S10 a month If desired Would make an excellent Chrlstmaa gift. Inquire Box 2608, Tribune. SHOP IN HOLLYWOOD through Cal ifornia Courtesy Service. Unique gifts from all over the world. 360 North Haywortb. Hollywood. Calif. FOR SALE Studio couch. 20: Seely coll spring mattress. S16 and other household goods. Chas. Burnslde, oo Hadley'a, 44 So. Central. FOR SALE OR TRADE A Sandusky model J tractor. John Dunlap. 6 miles northeast Medford, Delta Wa ters road. FOR SALE Dry body fir and hard wood. Telephone 1212-J. FOR SALE Guitar, like new. Cornet, also new. Corner cupboard. 701 No. Riverside. FOR SALE Davenport chair, bed davenport, buffet. Ivory chest, rug, hand-made quilts. 715 W. Jackson FOR SALE 1039 six-tube automntlc tuning General Electrlo radio, $2940. Phone 1555-R. 810 W. 11th St. HOUSE TRAILER for sale reasonable. Rear Hotel Valandra, Central Point, i EGGS Bring your fresh ranch eggs, oash or trade. Humphrey's Grocery, 634 E. Main. ALL KINDS of good seasoned wood, Phone 281. STEM punctured cornice. 50c per lug Brine vour own container. Ameri can Fruit Growera, Inc., South nr Street warehouse. FOR SALE 8-It. grain seed drill, horse disc, fresno. walking plow, buezsaw, 19 horses. Wayne Large, Williams, Oregon. FIRST CLASS BODY FIR. laurel or oak. 12-lnch and 16-Inch. Phone 1787. 1214 West 10th. Night or day. FOR SALE Miscellaneous FOR SALE: Dry applewood at Prink orchard. Phone tm-j-a. FOR SALE All kinds apples. Phone 1S3-J-2. FOR SALE 16-lnch dry body fir $2.00 per tier;; 16-lnch black oak $3.00 per tier, pnone oraers no. FOR SALE Newtown apples, 250 and 600 box. Myron Root Packing Houso. Bring boxes. BODY FIR. $1.75 tier. Ph 462-R-2 RAW FURS Eastern nrtcea for your furs, paid at home, ready cash Large stock of traps new and used. We also buy hides, pelts and wool. MEDFORD BARGAIN HOUSE 27 N. Grape St. Phone 1062 APPLE WOOD Stove and fireplace lengths. See Rogue River Orchards Co.. end North Central Ave. FOR SALE Window glass, all sizes Medford Bargain House. 27 N Grape St Phone 1062. WALL-PAPER at half-price during Lamport's Close-Out Sale. FOR SALE Bone dry body fir. best In valley Hawley Transfer, 118 N Riverside Phone 616. FOR SALE At a bargain, l',-karat diamond ring. Commercial Finance Corp. KLAMATH HAY Large or small lots 137 N Riverside Medford MISCELLANEOUS BAZAAR at First M. E. church begin ning Friday, Dec. 2 with dinner. Cooked food sale Saturday morning. FREE DELIVERY Phone orders re ceive personal attention. Hum phrey's Grocery, phone 462, 634 E. Main. PRESBYTERIAN BAZAAR opens at noon, Dec. 2, at the church. Come, do your Christmas shopping. Make reservations for southern dinner by calling 491-W or 1524-L, or 194. A BETTER roboro Job at a saving Phone Jacksonville 183. Frees' Oar age. SETTLE YOUR DIFFERENCES out of court, saving money, confidential Write Economy Service, room 433. Redwoods Hotel Ornnts Pass Ore BUSINESS CHANCES HARDWARE SACRIFICE account death. $8500 stock, $4,000 profit 1937. Requires cash, financial se curity. 419 Q St., Grsnts Pass, Ore. NEW AND WELL-EQUIPPED Service Statlun at Jacksonville for sals at a real bargain Will require ap proximately $1000 cash to handle If interested phone 952 Medford or writp P o Box 1074 BUSINESS DIRECTORY JACKSON COUNTY ABSTRACT CO. TITLE INSURANCE AltSTRACTS ESCROWS Dressmsklng. THE FASHION SHOP Dressmaking Fur Remodeling. Buttons and Buckles covered Koom sua. u. a Natl Bank Bldg Tel USD DRESSMAKINO. Tailoring. Ladles Coats and Suits Alterations Prices reasonable Mary M Coker era terian Bldg. The MO OES Shoppe Featuring Tail ortns Dressmaking Alterations fni msn and women Hemstttcntni buttons buckles 19 N Bartlett DRESS MAKINO Alternations, re. modeling of all kinds. Katherine Muse. Singer sewing macnine. n Ornr Lltvrtv BMP . Phn 7R2. Kailtalur Repairing HOOPER'S RADIATOR SERVICE S3 Silith Bsrtlett R00KINQ WE REPAIR or apply any type of roof Roll roofings and coating at mall order prices Paoco Pslnte sna Ronflna Ekerton Punt and n i.:,, fi, Bartlett. Tel, J 4 J. BUSINESS DIRECTORY expert tv n0u L'leanel LET JOB DO IT 111 1172 House cleaning, floot waxing, demothlng rugs upholsetry, cleaning MATTIIKS8 A UPHOLSTERY MATTRESS Upholstering. Furniture repalrlug, reflnlshlng. Rug & Dav enport cleaning. Fumigating Nu way Mattress At Uph. Co.. Phone 293. 209 W. 8th St. All work guar anteed. LOANS REFINANCE Your Heavy Installment Payments If your payments on your auto, fur niture or other purchases are prov ing burdensome, we will reduce them to an amount you can con venlently pay. Come In and talk It over we probably can arrange lower payments, and provide-some additional cash In case you need It OREGON FINANCE CO. Lie No. 8-211. M-917 Phone 139 45 So Central. MONEY TO LOAN on modern dwell ings of late construction $9 76 per month per thousand. Low Interest rate. BROWN ti WHITE. 104 W Main Painting COLORS BY NATURE PAINT8 BY PITTSBURGH Let us reoommend a reliable painter or paperhanger F H A. -loans for painting now available. Pittsburgh Paint Store 132 w. Main. rransiet DAVIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE Local and Long Distance Furniture Moving Bonded carriers Flrepruol storage Expert crating, packing and shipping service. "Davis for Service." Phone 644. EADS TRANSFER & STORAOE CO. Office 28 So Fir Phone 316. Prices rleht Service guaranteed LEGAL NOTICES Notice to Creditors In the County Court of the State of Oregon for the county of Jackson In the Matter of the Estate of J. L Wooldrldge. deceased. Notice Is hereby given that I have been duly and regularly appointed Administrator of the above entitled estate under and by virtue of an order or the county court ot Jack son County, Oregon, duly made, ren dered and entered upon October 21st. 1938. and all creditors having claims against saia aeceasea are nereoy no tlfled to present the same duly verl fled to me at the office of my attor neys, Roberts Se McAllister, Rooms 201-205 united States National Bank Building, Medford. Oregon, within six montns irom the date of this notice Dated at Medford. Oregon, thla 2nd day oi novemDer, ibhb. RAYMOND LATHROP Administrator of the Estate of J. L. Wooldrldge. deceased Notice of Final settlement In the County Court of the State ox Oregon tor the county of Jackson in tne Matter or we Estate oi Amelia S. Antle, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, R. F. Antle, haa tiled his final account as admlnlstra tor of the above estate with the County Court of the said Countv. and that the Court haa fixed the 22nd day of December. 1938, at the hour of 10:00 a. m. of said day, and tne county judges office in the County Courthvuse In Medford, Jack son County. Oregon, as the time and place respectively for the hearing of objections, If any there be, to the said final account, and you are here by notified to file objections, If any you have, to the said final account on or before the aald time fixed for hearing. uateo November -23, 1938, R. F. ANTLE, Administrator of the Estate of Amelia 8. Antle, deceased. Notice of Filing Final Account In the County Court of the state of Oregon for the county of Jackson. In the matter of the Estate of Louise Mail Tribune Oaily ACROSS t. Sorrowful 4. Pootllka i I T. Oil of roat petals I if. Silkworm i IS Southern eutft: abbr. 14 Shipping con ulnar 16. Action at law id. Divided IS. Ignoble id. Fashions 11. Domain ot n mptror 21. Knciuture (or bees IT. Llltle Mint Kooney's first name n. Catch sight ul SI. Russian vlllai community St Sea bird SI Frame of mind ? Preceding nlnht 17. Stripling 19 Kntjlisl. etty 10. Semiprecious tons is. Pill 14. Aiat1o palm Solution at Vtsttrday's Punl 'MlAlPlLjqdaiOlwnSIPIA ARE A La LT EST Q OC HI V EHD U E1ARR pieIgiaIr IeUeImiE 44 Fsll ti China tt Salutation 61. Foreign U. Thirsty 64. Mark aimed at In curling M. Leaven . II. City In Holland 19 Sea eagle I2 I3 WA4 I5 " Wi7 f " " fr m: WW1' S25"PP A- B W1 n55 m II 'MStm p ZZZZZWkI il III l l M I R. Parker, also known as Mrs. L. K. Parker, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVIN that the undersigned has filed his final account and report in the above en titled estate and that by order of the County Court of the State of Oregon for Jackson Ootmy a hearing upon the same has been set for Friday, Decem ber 30th, 1938, In the county court room In the Jackson County Court House In Medford, Oregon, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock A. M. AU persona having objections there to are hereby notified to preeent the same on or before such time, Date of first publication of this notice Is November 30, 1938. LUZERNE H. ROLISON. - Executor or the Estate of Louise R. Parker, also known as Mrs. L. R. Parker, deceased. Meteorological Report Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Rain tonight and Thursday, normal temperature. Oregon: Rain west and local rain or snow east portion tonight and creasing, southerly gala oft the coast. Local Data Temperature a year ago today! Highest, S3; lowest, 94. Total monthly preclpltotlon, 3. IS Inches. Deficiency for the month, .17 Thursday, normal temperature de- Inches. Total precipitation since Sept. 1. 1938, S.56 Inches. Deficiency for the season, .66 Inchea. Relative humidity at 6 p. m. yes terday, 63 per cent; S a. m. today, 47 per cent. Tomorrow: Sunrise, 7:20 A, m.; sunset, 4:41 p. m. Observations Taken at B ft. 130 Meridian Time. n at "5 8 Boise r 53 38 Clear Boston 49 38 Clear Chicago , 62 30 Cloudy Denver 58 33 Clear Eureka 88 52 .05 Rain Helena 88 16 Cloudy Los Angeles 6B 63 .01 Cloudy MEDFORD : 67 48 .03 Cloudy New York 43 30 Clear Omaha 68 30 Clear Phoenix 7 40 Clear Portland 62 44 .09 Rain Reno 80 34 .01 Clear Roseburg 40 50 T. Cloudy Salt Lake 48 ?3 Clear San Francisco- 63 46 .03 Clear Seattle '. 80 48 .97 Cloudy Spokane 38 32 T. Pt.Cldy, Wash., D. 0. 48 98 .. Clear Yakima 44 32 T. Rain The Grange Upper Rogue Grange In correction of the error made in the Installation data In last week's Upper Rogue Grange news, I wish to slate that the data of Installa tion of officers will be December 20. All Upper Roguers please note this change of date. Mrs. Al Bed lngfleld. 1 Smelt Come In ASTORIA, Ore., Nov. 80 ffV-Clat-skanla fishermen said yesterday De cember commercial aotlvltles probably would be dominated - by a snotty smelt run sighted In the Columbia river. Olllnetters hauled In 150 pounds and received fancy prices on the early market. Closing time for Too Lata to Clas sify Ads it 1:30 p. m. Cross-Word Puzzle $, Flavora t. 11" square rods of land s. Rubbish I. stake lac , CRownsp areTIhe ON OT D E A PgflGRET IclearT T AL L YOG EP I ATfV I sesdres I SDN EST 5Qw spC ML I EN tu usvoursa 11 Color It. Eipsrt II. Arabian ehleftala II Pars II, Bntreat If, Cotitsndei Hiunusra II. Monkeys it. Russiao river III. Shout II. Part at a coat 31 Recompense II. Period of tea years It, Fresh-waltr Sshss tl. cctilsh landholder (6 Hire 47 Above II. Reverse end at a hammer bead 41 Bs profitable t$. Leaf of the palmyra palm IL uons. narrow Inlet II American humorist 101A1PUE1S1 TIE) DOWN L Native of a Europeao oountry 8. Amount of surface I. One who dlsagrssa 4. Dance stsp I Quid resin THE ARMY POST MURDERS By Virginia Hanson 1 77ir girl across the aisle was Chapter One The Stranger's Face THE BOOK was dull. I dropped It, consulted my wrist watch to find that another hour must be killed somehow and turned to the train window. Cornfields were wheel ing monotonously past, miles upon miles of them, green gold under the violent sun, their patterned rows riffling like an interminably opening fan, their endless aisles leading from no where to nowhere across a fertile desert. An occasional black dirt road flashed by, innocent ot traV' elers, gash in the green landscape that the fields rushed backward to cover. My hypnotized eyes were begin ning to close when something drew them away from the window, back to the nearly empty car. The girl across the aisle was watching me again. She glanced quickly away, but not before I had seen that she was staring at' my ring the diamond-set miniature of his class ring that Charlie had given me the summer before. . . I studied her intently for a moment, trying again to solve the tantalizing familiarity that had bothered me when I first noticed her, just out of Chicago. She was older than I, near thirty, I thought; but it was difficult to Judge, for she looked ill, or in trou ble. She was thin and Dale, her hair and skin the same lifeless beige, her light blue eyes shadowed by dark circles. Her clothe ' were of good material, but poorly assem bled, as if they were a matter of indifference to their wearer. No, I decided, I did not know her. I had been misled by a chance re resemblance. She srew tenie under my scru tiny. I Turned back to the window, feeling vaguely sorry for her, won derlnn about that elusive rescm blance: wondering, too, what she knew about a West Point minia ture, or whether she had merely been thinking it an outlandish sort of an engagement ring. The cornfields were still circling nast like huge, fantastic merry-go rounds. I closed my eyes against the glare and yielded to the sopo rific rhvthm of the cllckety-clack, ellckety-clack that was going on under my feet. Some time later the porter shook me awake. We were pulling into a shabby town, as i stepped down to the nlatform I saw the girl again. She was ahead of me, fust disappearing Into the small station. T atiaataafl si f ff as Vi At asnia ! latttlnl strengthened that had seen her before. Charlie's Silence THEN I forgot the small puzzle a of Identity that was to loom so large in a tew nours, ror EUzaDem Wright was advancing sedately across the station platform alone. And suddenly It rushed over me that Charlie's silence over this proposed visit of mine might have been caused by something more serious than his careless letter writing habits. I had written him of Elizabeth's invitation and he had not answered the letter not by any means an unuiual oversight on his part, but one capable of two interpretations, as I saw now for the first time. It was Elizabeth's privilege to ask me to visit her; it was my privilege to accept. If for any reason Charlie were to And my f resenc on the post embarrassing, here was nothing; he could do about It and nothing was exactly what he had done. Nor had he found it convenient to meet my train. There are moments of Intelli gence thst defy sll rational ex planations of the workings of the human mind. I stepped off the train thst midsummer afternoon, saw the strange girl vanish into the waiting room, saw Elizabeth com ing to meet me alone; and com plete though formless advance skid Rills Lawyer SEATTLE. Nov. 80 OPr Attorney Oeorge I. M. Pratt, 84, dltd last nlht of Injuries received when his car skidded off Icy pavement near Is- I aaquah Saturday, on a return trip i from Yakima. His wife was out and krubied. staring at me again. She looked strangely familiar, but I couldn't place her. knowledge was given me of the horrors of the dreadful night ahead of us all. I halted, terrified by the silent urging of something for me to go back. Fort Ben Havens TpHE Impulse to heed that voice a was so strong that I half turned back to the waiting train. The por ter was picking up his step. "Lose something, miss?" "I no. It's nothing. . . ." He touched his cap, swung onto the slowly movina car. I stared after him hopelessly, badly shaken bv mv desire to run snouting along the piattorm, to race tne garner ing speed of the train, to be pulled aboard. What on earth would Elizabeth think of such a nerformance? I smiled involuntarily and turned to meet her Innocent answering smile. "I'm so glad you could come," she said warmly, taking determin ed possession of my suitcase with her lnvariaoie, insistent courtesy which is impossible to resist, and leading me to a shiny little black coupe that I had never seen before. "A birthday present," Bhe ex plained, showing It off to me with childlike pride. 'Tve had it for two weeics. rve already driven it to town several times alone, so I told Mr. Spencer not to bother about getting excused from duty so he could drive you out. The men are all so busy, with one thing and another," she sdded vaguely. The explanation was plausible and my moment of prescience had vanished, I settled myself In the car with the sensible reflection thst if Charlie were up to anything I might as well And it out now as later, For the next five miles my fore bodings took a new direction, At first I tried to chatter nonchalant ly, but Elizabeth's answers were monosyllables delivered from the corner of her mouth with such an air of painful concentration that I was glad to take the hint and turn my attention to the road. This, fortunately, was graveled and smooth, for wa attacked It with all tne furore of a terrier wor rying a lane snake. We rocked and Ducked, the road colled and straightened while we charged on ward, the hot, dry wind swirling bsckwerd the dust of our passage. Elizabeth sat painfully erect, her blue eyes boring ahead, both hands on the wheel, elbows well In. On her face was the look of Arm kindness I had seen when she was gentling a nervous horse. I swallowed a hysterical giggle and clutched the side of the car as we shied past a truck, one wheel kick ing at the rim of the ditch. A quarter of a mile farther on we turned on two wheels through the open gate, narrowly missing a deft-footed sentry, and entered the post, Fort Ben Havens Is one of those familiar rectangular communities that dot the prairies of the Middle West. The nearest passenger trains stop at the village Ave mllei dis tant and exccDt for a few scattered dwellings and a general store tht spiked iron fence shuts out only Acids and fields of nodding corn. In contrast to the surrounding country, the post Itself Is as sleek and groomed as a city park. We had entered at one end ot the rectangle. Ahead of us stretched the smooth turf of the psrade ground; facing it on the right was the long row of bsrrscks, on the left the offlcers' quarters; beyond, at the fsr end of the plain, the flag floated high above headquarters, Freak Fire ASTORIA, Ore., Hot. 80 P fifty acres of stump land near Benton ware burned yesterday by a freakish mid winter fire In bracken fern. Before It waa controlled It threatened to de stroy a school and several small dwellings. nucleus of a'little group of build ings that included the Officers' Club, the chapel, the Post Ex change and the Service Club. Sanctuary AN occasional khaki-clad figure crossed my field of vision, but otherwise the post seemed de serted. Elizabeth negotiated an abrupt turn, halted the car In its tracks, and the hush of the summer afternoon closed about us. Colonel Wright's quarters stood In malestic Isolation at the near end of the plain, facing the review ing stand where the band played lugubriously on Sunday after noons. The outlook was lovely, but the house itself was uncompromis ingly ugly. Built of red brick, like most of the buildings on the post, It was squarish and tall, with a broad veranda across the front and sides. Inside, the rooms were too large, the celling too high, the win dows big and ugly; and within the bare white walls were crowded the motley furnishings peculiar to army houses. There were plain, heavy mahogany pieces, tables of csrved ebony, black-and-white peacock chairs from the tropics side by side with deep and well- worn easy chairs. There were brass trays and countless uttie Drass boxes, ugly long bolo knives and a row of ivory elephants parading across tne goiaen oaK mantel oi the living room. The Chinese rugs were magnificent and overlapped each other on every rvallable inch of floor space. But in solte of its startling Jux tapositions, Its candid violation of the laws of good decoration, that Interior had Its own distinctive charm a charm that partook of the perfume of spices and myrrh, of the flavor of an unfamiliar world. Within those walls there was sanctuary from the humdrum. Elizabeth led tha way upstairs to a room I had occupied before. It was Immaculate and cool, and trees murmured outside the open windows. The smell of green grass was good after the city staienesa I hacf left behind. "We'll have some cold lunch when you're ready," she said, pausing in the doorway. "I told Annie to wait, because I don't like to eat alone, and Father left for Omaha early this morning." somewhere a clock struck two as her measured steps retreated down the stairs. I made haste with a sketchy toilet. There had been no diner on the train, as Elizabeth doubtless knew. It was like her to know. In the big dusky dining room I lunched hungrily, cheered on by middle-aged Annie, a Aery little daughter of Erin whose friendly chatter was Interrupted only by the swinging door into the kitchen tiirough which she vanished and reappeared with speed and gusto. "Sure and it does my heart good to see a young miss that's got the . good sense to eat her food and relish It and not be all the time banting and thinning and nibbling like a rabbit at two leaves of let tuce." "Thst will be all Annie," said Elizabeth. "As soon as you clear away you may go. You remember we'll be out for dinner." "Sure, and why else would I be feeding you up so hearty? It'll be hungry you are by morning, what with the cook In' oi that Bridget and dancin' all the night and what ever. But I'll be in by eleven, as usual, and I'll be leavin' you some sandwiches; I make no doubt you'll be havln' In some of them fancy young men thst throw their cigarette Duns in my Clean nnx. Well have a good time." And she flounced out. 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