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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1913)
AVOID THE LITTLE COOLNESS THE MAN WITH THE SUIT CASE A Story For Thanksgiving By MARTHA V. MONROE 11 m caused by imperfect heating. Get one of our stores and you can regulate the heat as you want it. Like the rest of our hardware our stoves arc much better than the price will buy elsewhere. Look the hardware over and you will probably be remind ed of something-you need but had forgotten. T. E. BERNARD "EVERYTHIXG IS HARDWARE AXD FARM IMPI.EMES'TS" LAKEVIEW, OREGON Send This Coupon Today It will bring you information as to how YOU and your entire family can visit the San Francisco Exposition in 1915 on the dollar-a-week plan. Not only that, but everything will be of the best, everything reserved and it will cost you less than if you pay when you go. CURTIS & UTLEY, LAKEVIEW, OREGON Agent for SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION TOUR CO. You may send me free literature about the San Francisco Exposition Tours. Name , Address HOTEL LAKEVIEW F. P. LIGHT MANAGER ERECTED IN WOO Sample Room for Commercial Traveler Modern Throughout. First Class Accommodations THE PALACE BAR O'CONNOR & DUGGAN - - PROPRIETORS A Gentlemen's Popular Resort PHONE 32 CHOICE BRAND WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS NEVADA-CALIFORNIA-OREGON RY. Daily Service Reno to LaReview Except Sundays No. 1 Arrives Lakeview at 8:40 P. M. No. 2 Leaves Lakeview at 6:40 A. M. Daily Except Sunday Pullman & liuflettBervice Between Lakeview and Keno C. W. CLASS, AGENT :: LAKEVIEW, OREGON GKJ A IUtDfrtr TA Dl CO halp block uiiiiniiitn j i iui.t.a r of CON BREEN, Proprietor COURT HQUSM Special Attention to Transient Stock Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month Always Open Phone 571 LAKEVIEW OREGON A WANT AD IN THE Lake County Examiner WILL BRING RESULTS "Jim. 1 board you are going to b married." "Where did you hear that?" "Oh. I beard It a month ago! 1 think It waa on Thanksgiving day. 1 dined with the Atwaters. They said Clara Webster was Just the girl for you. you being Impulsive, aha steady and cau tious." "Did they say that?" "Tes." "Listen. I have a little story to tell you. On the very day. Thanksgiving, that these persons were attributing these traits to us a little drama was being enacted. "My friend Hilly Stnlthson Invited Cinra and me to spend the Thanksgiv ing week end at his bouse In the coun try, which he opened for the occasion. The affair was got up to celebrate our i engagement, for Billy Is an old rhutu of mine, and his wife la an lutlmate friend of Clara's. "Clara and 1 were to go up on the i train together, but Just as I waa about ; to leave the office to call for ber a Job ! came Into the otnee which nobody but I could do, and 1 was obliged to re- , main over till the next day. I tele phoned ber to go on and I would ar- ' rive the nest day. I reached the bouse the next afternoon to find the guests gone out on an automobile ride Billy bad got up for them. There were three carloads, and they were not to return till 7 o'clock. About 6 I dressed for dinner and waa going downstairs when I met a man coming up with a suit case In bis band. Presuming be was one of the guests who bad Just arrived. 1 went on down Into the li brary, thinking no more about him and amusing myself till the auto party re turned. "This was the evening before Thanks giving. The next day we were getting ready for the feast when Clara took me off Into a quiet corner and said to me, "'Will. 1 have a very unpleasant communication to make. On returning from the aufo ride yesterday several of the girl guests missed articles of Jewelry. Several taxes In which the Jewels were kept were found In the closet in your room.' "Naturally I was a bit upset l.v this Information, but the principal muse was that Clarn d'.tln't s.iy tills with my hand in hers or Iter iirins around me. but sittiri a part, und instead of adding that sl:i frit just absolutely conriil-nt that I i;i not a llilef she looked Very Imnir, und wjiiti-d forme to say smiiHMn ""Clara." I said astounded, "do you mean to say that you liave the slight est suspicion that I stole these Jew els r "'It Is the botiuden duty of every one,' she replied, "to consider un ac cused person Innocent until proved guilty. And as your fiancee I feel obliged to do what I can to Influence the others to give you every opportu nity to clear yourself.' "It was not so much the portion In which I was placed that troubled me as the snapping of the cord that bound me to Clara. In a twinkling my feelings toward ber were changed from attraction to repulsion. And yet what fault could I find with ber? What right bad I to expect ber to believe me Innocent in face of such proof against me and before I bad brought forward any proof In my fa vor? She was simply acting on that trait In ber character for which those persons you have mentioned on that very day were giving ber credit "This change In my feelings toward her for awhile overrode every other. Then the gravity of my position rush ed upon me with fnll force. But what could I do,? Ignorant as I was of bow the Jewelry boxes got into my closet, I didn't see that I could do anything but leave the house. "I went to Billy, who begged me to stay, saying that there was some mys tery about the matter which be hoped would be cleared up, but I Judged that be didn't know what to make of the matter, and at last be agreed with me that I might as well go. On passing out. Sue Wentworth, who. since ber father's failure, baa been making her own liv ing by teaching school, came out of the drawing room Into the ball and said: " 'Mr. Tbruston. this Idea of your having stolen Jewels Is absurd. There are a hundred suppositions that can be made, each more likely than what appears on the surface. Borne one stole the Jewels, took tbem Into your room temporarily and threw the boxes down there. That's one' There was something in her hy pothesis that brought back the man I had seen going upstairs with the salt case, and It solved the problem for me, for It occurred to me that I bad not seen him since. But this waa noth ing to me compared with the comfort X derived from Miss Wentwortb'a faith n me. I Just put my arms about her and hugged ber. "She. backed by my atatement aa to the man with the suit case, changed everything- All came to me and beg ged me to remain. I did so and waa treated cordially by every one. Since then some of the Jewels have been re covered In possession of a thief, who confirmed my theory of their loss." "And bow about yonr engagement?" "Oh. I'm engaged, but not to Clara. She has too mncb caution for me. I don't tlilnk I need It, notwithstanding the opinion of your friends." IS I Buy at Home HY? U Because my interests are here. J Because the com munity that is good enough for me to live in is good enough for me to buy in. j Because I believe in transacting busi ness with my friends. fl Because I want to sec the goods. J Because I want to get what I buyAvhen I pay for it. JJ Be cause every dollar I spend at home stays at home and works for the welfare of the town. JI Because the man I buy from stands back of the goods. J Because I sell what I produce here at home. U Be cause the man I buy from pays his part of the town, county and state taxes. jj Be cause the man I buy from gives value received always. fl Because the man I buy from helps support my school, my church, my lodge, my home. fl Because when ill luck, misfortune or bereavement comes, the man I buy from is here with his kindly greeting, Jiis words of cheer, and his pocketbook if need be. Here I live and here I buy. buy at home. 'Do you? (Kai D ANA RIVER IRRIGATION PROJECT In Summer Lake, the Garden Valley of Central Oregon Land in this valley has sold for $125 an acre without water. It produces five tons of alfalfa, sixty bushels of barley, seven tons of potatoes, to the acre without irrigation. This is on the West Side. The land we propose to irrigate on the Kast Side is just as good. Elevation, 4,140 feet above the sea. Water Rights, $20 per acre-foot. $2 per acre cash, and the rest in $2 yearly payments on ten years' time, at ten per cent, in terest. No maintenance charge for ten years. The land is free. Later we will put up the price of water rights to $50. We are going to reclaim the bed of Summer Lake for its salts and turn the land into farms. You do not have to live on this land. Work started October 27th on Ana River dam. It will be completed and water turned in the ditches April 1, 1014, and we will furnish water for 20,000 acres next year. We will put 100 teams to work about December 1st, and we pay $5 for eight hours, man and team. The work is for those who take up land and buy water. If you have a team and are willing to work, come and we will help you make a home on a quarter section of land in Sum mer Lake, the Garden Valley of Central Oregon, famous for fifty years for its fruits and vegetables. MALLERY & SAIN ELLIS MALLERY C. M. SAIN C. H. KEITH, Supt. E. C. WOODWARD, V. B. BAKER, Foremen 4 To whom are you engaged V "To See Wentworth."