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MUTINY
OF THE
e* WYNDHAM
MARTYN“
COPVWI6HT IN THS U.S.
He stopped suddenly. Ills spare
form tautened.
Weariness had
given place to sudden, bewildering
tear.
He retreated stealthily,
noiselessly.
At the side of a rowboat, he
paused. His blanched face took on
something of Its normal color. The
Instinct to tlee was conquered.
There came yet more strongly to
him the desire to know by what
he was menaced. But his progres
sion to a woodshed show'ed no
abatement of Ids caution. From
che top of a closet lie took down n
shotgun. Into whose twin barrels
he put No. 4 cartridges.
He opened the door of his living
room so softly that Bettington did
not hear him. It was the cold gust
that made the painter look round.
He saw a tall, keen-eyed man nt
whose shoulder was the butt of a
twelve-bore.
"Don't move,” said the fisher
man.
Gibbs advanced slowly Into the
room. He had never, to his knowl
edge, set eyes on this stranger. But
he looked so senrchlngly and with
such obvious menace that Betting
ton broke the silence.
"I ought to apologize for this, 1
suppose.” he said, "but surely, on
a night like this n man may seek
shelter without being threatened
with a scattergun.”
“Who were the two men you
were with In the post office yester
day?" Gibbs demanded.
"I was not In any post office yes
terday,” said Bettington stiffly. "I
have not been In company with any
two men for a fortnight.”
Gibbs lowered his gut.. He tried
to assume a look of amiability, but
there was still anxiety written
plainly Bettington, watching, noted
that the gun was still tn such a
position ns to constitute a threat
“'Vhat are yon?” said G'bbs.
Bettington related his misadven
tures.
"A painter, eh?” said Gibbs. He
crossed the room, took down from
a shelf a pencil and a piece of pa
per. These lie handed to the other.
“Prove it,” he commanded. “Draw
something.”
Bettington hesitated for a mo
ment. He wits not a man who went
the better for being driven. But It
occurred to him that here was a
solitary who was mentally unbal
anced. He sketched In a few skill
ful strokes a portrait of the man
standing there, his gun balanced In
the crook of bls am.
Jonathan Gibbs looked at It In
silence.
“It Is good,” he said deliberately.
“Whatever else you may be you are
a draftsman.”
"Why should I be anything than
I pretend?”
“You’ve never seen me before?"
Gibbs demanded.
“Never.” Bettington said a little
Irritably, "and I shall pass a con
tented existence If I never see yon
agnln. What sort of a Maine fish
erman are you to behave like this?"
Gibbs put down his gun and as
sumed a more friendly air.
“I've been threatened,” ho said
rather vaguely. “I've made ene
mies hereabout. I have to he care-
ful. I was startled.”
“You certainly startled me,” said
the other. “I hoped to be able to
pass the night here and dry my
clothes.”
“You surely can,” said Jonathan
Gibbs. "I'll boll the water and
mnke you some coffee. I guess
you're hungry.”
It was after the meal that Bet
tington asked him. "Why should
anyone threaten you here?”
•• 'Jealousy,'
innt<m«y,” said Gibbs, after a
pause. ~ “I’m not a state of Maine
man and I don’t mix with anyone
They don't understand
around,
that.”
Plainly the man had something
to conccnl. After all. Bettington
told himself. It was none of his
business. He had often met queer.
Ingrown characters. He could not
go out into the black night, now
made doubly luipassnblo by the del
uge of rain. Gibbs made up the
fire by packing a huge armful of
wood Into It.
Bettington was awakened by the
aroma of coffee. Gibbs was hold
ing Bettlngten's shoes up.
“Dried stiff ns boards," he an
nounced.
“They’ll need to be
greased before you can get Into
'em, and your pants are torn pretty
bad. I'll lend you an outfit, and
you enn get grlmt you want down
to Blackport The sea's calm now
and you can row across the bay I d
hnlf nn hour.”
The summer sun hnd tanned Bet
tington to a rich brown. In his
aeaboots—the only ones Gibbs had
to lend—hla faded blue sweater
and khaki shirt, he looked the sort
of fishing type he had often
painted.
At the dock ho took a ten foot
rowboat and set out to the village.
He had gone, perhaps, half the dis
tance, when a fast motor boat
overhauled him. slackened speed as
It passed nnd then swung round
nnd waited In the path he was tak
ing.
There were two men In It One
was a vastly broad-chested man
with a trim sweater and white can
vas trousers, lie had the look of
a yacht snllor. The other, who was
steering the boat, hnd no physical
peculiarities other than that gen
eral air of following the sea.
"We’ve had an accident” said
the broad-chested man nnd pointed
to something at the bottom of the
launch.
Bettlngton clung to the side of
the drifting motor boat nnd stood
np. There, on the bottom of the
other craft, was a man lying Im
mobile. And as-the artist stooped
over him. the recumbent sailor
gave a tremendous half-arm Jab
which caught Bettington on tbe
point Of the Jaw. The other two
grablied him as his head fell for
ward and hauled him on board
whore unconscious, he took the
’„„ of bls assailant, who rose
grjbe broad-chested mao. who was
W.M.U SERVtce
called Sah>. dapped liim ou the
back In approval.
“Dandy." he cried. “And that
rock prevents anyone seeing us
from the village." Sam bent over
the unconscious form und neatly
trussed It up with rope. “The Boss
will be tickled to death over this.
Stove In that rowbout, one of you.”
A man with a boat hook smashed
In some bottom hoards nnd Jona
than Gibbs’ dinghy slowly filled
with water. Then the launch put
out of the hay, past the buoys, and
bended north for Bar Harbor.
Bettlngton luid recovered from the
knock-out within five minutes. He
could see from the brightly pol
ished brasswork and mahogany
that Im was In a yacht's launch.
He knew that tbe bum of the mo
tor would make any call for help
useless.
He had been neatly
knocked out and was now to be
expeditiously shanghaied. It was
Incredible. Then the real meaning
of the thing flashed on him. He
was mistaken for Jonathan Gibbs.
He was rowing Gibus' boat and
wearing Gibbs’ clothes. With a two
days’ growth of beard and a face
burned with the sun. he might easi
ly pass for the fisherman.
“This Is all a mistake.” he said,
addressing himself to Sam. “You
think I’m Jonathan Gibbs.”
“I kpow d—n well you’re not,”
said Sum, without animus.
The thing was Inexplicable. They
knew him for himself, nnd know
ing it, they were tarrying 1dm off,
bound with ropes, to the open sea.
There was seemingly no sort of
personal grudge In tills high-hand
ed matter. The three men were
currying out orders.
“Listen, bo." said Sam, “we’ve
got orders not to say n thing to you
till the Boss sees you. it won't do
you no good asking why we did It.
or who we are. We hnd to get you
alive and unharmed, nnd we did
the best we (¡new how.”
It was dark when the lights of
Bar Harbor came In sight. Bet
tington was carried tip the gang
way, acroes a deck nml then placed
In a small cabin lighted with a
single porthole.
Sam untied the knots nnd
wntclied the victim stretch Ills stiff
and ernniped limbs.
“Just a word of warning,” Snm
remarked. “You can’t get out of
that porthole nnd you can’t get out
of this cabin. If you did. It
wouldn't help you. If you're wise
you’ll wnlt till the Boss sends for
you.”
Snm turned the keys In the door
and left him prisoner. As he ex
amined his dungeon he heard the
throbbing of machinery. From the
porthole he could ace the bont was
■loving. He pulled off the heavy
sbn boots of Jonathan Gibbs and
flung himself On the berth. In many
adventures Bettington had lenrned
that fretting and fuming were han
dicaps that mon tn danger should
not taka open themselves.
Presently he fell asleep and was
awakened by Ram.
“You ain’t worrying.” sold Sam.
grinning. "They tell me you al
ways bad your nerve with you. You
won't be able to see the Boss to
night He's hitting the pl|>e and
It’s as much as a man's life Is
worth to go tn how. 1 haven't no
authority to let you out till he
gives tho word, so I'll bring you a
bite to eat here."
Sam waddled out. Bettington
was still puzzled by Ids apparent
friendliness. As a physical speci
men of humanity Sum did not
awaken confidence. On his broad,
flat face were written lust and
brute courage. He would be a bad
man to cross. But why should he
regard Howard Bettington, painter
of seascapes god mnn of Integrity,
with such an air of comradeship?
“Where ft re we bound for?" he
asked of Snm. when a tray of food
was brought In.
"Noo York.” sold Sam.
"Can't I go on deck?” Bettington
asked. "I can't escape.”
Ram shook his head.
"Not till the Boss gives the
word.”
"Who Is the Boss? The cap
tain r
"The captain?” There was scorn
In Sam's tons. "Him I H—I, no."
“Yon mean the owner?"
Sam's Scorn of the owner was
Just as emphatic.
“He may think he's the boss and
Capt'n Hnllet may think he Is. but
they don't know—yet." Snm rose
to go. “Just one bit of advice, bo,
don't make a noise. If yon do
you’ll go to Noo York gngged."
•
••••••
Bettington hnd not been gone on
his errand to Blackport a half hour,
when Jonathan Gibbs In his motor
dory went out to his lobster pots.
He was returning when he saw a
smaller boat. Its gunwales awash,
almost across his bow. He knew It
Instantly for his own. Investigation
showed that some of the plnnklng
hnd been staved In. He supposed
that one of the needle rocks must
have done It He blamed himself
for allowing the stranger to cross
the bny. Almost certain death
would await any man dressed as
Bettington had linen, In such cur
rents as these.
Gibbs went to Ids shack with an
uneasy mind. The whole eplsoile
spelled publicity to him, but he
cheered himself with the hope that
his guest might have been rescued.
In tnat case lie would soon be back
at the shack.
But by midnight Bettington did
not return nnd Gibbs went careful
ly through the things which were
In the torn coat. There was s gold
watch with the Initials H. B. on It.
A wallet contained almost four hun
dred dollars. There were no let
ters. But there was a reference on
a memorandum of repairs to the
skylight of ■ studio st a given ad
dress and ■ reedpt for the rental
of It to ths end of the current year.
And there was a bunch of keys
For almost an hour Gibbs sat mo-
tlonltwa. Then hp roes to his feet,
>«t a kettle on the oil stove and
presently shaved blmaeit carefully
and trimmed his hair. Tie rubbed
the grease which Bettington had
applied to hts shoes so carefully In
to the leather that It became at
length flexible nnd he was able to
put them on. Hasty repairs to the
torn trousers and coat enabled him
to wear them. With nn Iron which
had been little used of lute, he
pressed them Into something of
their former shape.
Dawn whs breaking when Jona
than Glbln. now n new man. bode
farewell to the shack he had In
habited for six years. None saw
him as he made his way Inland to
Westfield. A sleepy ticket agent
gave hltn a ticket to Portland nnd
forgot the occurrence Instantly.
In Portland be spent only a few
hours. New York received him with
n thousand others at tbe Grand
Central and he walked eigld blocks
down to a brownstone bouse oppo
cite an armory. Bettlngtou's name
i-.-ns on n plate over a letter box
A key on tbe bunch fitted It and he
drew out some mall and wulked.
having met not a soul, to the top of
the house. Then, ufter a moment’«
pause, be opened the studio door
and found Id inself In a haven so se
cure that he could hardly believe
It had been attained so easily. Ills
eyes brightened when he saw that
the former occupant had cans of
mlllr. soup and fish In abundance.
There were at least two pounds of
tea. Further search revealed sugar
and coffee. He could live fur a
week on what he found und never
venture outside the door. During
Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon '
Roy Nelson Wins
Sensational Bout
In Portland Ring
Roy (Swede) Nelson, promin
ent local welter weight, who last
week won a sensational fight
in less than two minutes in the
first round of a preliminary
boat at Portland, has been sign
et to fight the semi-windup next
week in the Portland card.
Nelson is gaining a good rep
utation in the ring throughout
(Oregon, and is being offered
several good matches.
Dave Marshall, a member of
the Vernonia boxing cornmis-
sion, believes that smokers will
not be held here until the first
half of April, thus allowing the
camps in this vicinity to be in
full swing.
Thursday, February 27, 1330
\
Reithner’s
Harold McEntire spent
week end in Forest Grove.
the
Percy Hewes spent the week
end in Portland.
The Pythian Sisters will spon
Mrs. A. C. Knauss and small
sor a cooked food sale Saturday
son returned home Sunday.
at Hoffman’s store.
New x-ray equipment is being
Mrs. S. Nelson, mother of
installed this week at the office
Dan Nelson, is visiting her son
of Dr. Marvin Eby.
for a short time.
Mrs. V. Powell returned Fri-
A. G. Greenburg o|T the Stan «
day from a visit of one week dard Oil company visited in I
with her mother.
Portland over the week end.
NEW SHOES
Something New
Every Day
Frank Hartwick, local manag-
Mr. and Mrs. M. E Moe and
er of the Gilby Motor company, daughter were Portland visitors
was a Portland visitor Monday. Saturday, returning to this city
in the evening.
C. C. Clay, local manager
4-H Club Leader»’
Mrs. D. C. Cason has been
the Standard Oil company, i
Conference March
turned to his duties Monday i
confined to her home with in
8 at St Helens . ter a vacation of two weeks. fluenza for the past two weeks
but is able to be out again.
Morris Bennett, who is a stu-
A 4-H Club leaders’ confer-
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rosa and
eace ! is being arranged by Geo. dent at the Oregon Normal Mr. and Mrs. Fest and daughter
A. 1 Nelson, county agent, and school, was home for the week spent the week end visiting
Mi°s Kathryn M. Didtel, home end.
friends in Cornelius and Port- 1
demonstration agent, for Satur
J. E. Tapp, Jos. Scott, Tom land.
day, March 8, at St. Helens. H.
C, Seymour, state club leader, Crawford, G. W. Ford and J. L.
T. A. White and son Harry
Timmons motored to Portland
and Miss Helen Cowgill, assist
of McMinnville were visitors in
Monday
evening
to
attend
a
ant state club leader, will be
this city Tuesday. Mr. White is
meeting of the Masonic lodge.
present at that time to assist
owner of the building which
I
with this school.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Willi- will be occupied by the Mac-
This is the first training quette and family, formerly of Marr store.
school of its kind to be held in this city, motored over from
Milton Sliter, factory repre-
county and all club leaders Rainier
Wednesday
to
visit sentative of the Meadows Manu
prospective club leaders friends.
facturing company, spent Friday
invited to be present.
in Vernonia consulting with the
Tom Crawford motored to
Hoffman
Hardware
company,
Portland today to bring back
Ostrich-size Eggs
local representative.
W. O. Porterfield, who lias re-
Layed by 10-Month-
covered sufficiently from his re-
Dave
attended the
Old Hen Near Here , pent illness of pneumonia to re- meeting Kramer
and banquet at the
| turn home.
Benson hotel Monday evening
A Nehalem valley hen, owned
of the managers
i
and assistant
by
Frank
Peterson,
pioneer I Mrs. O. D. Eby returned to' managers t of Miller Mercantile
farmer living several miles from her home in Oregon City Mon-' company. During the day a bus
this city, woke up the entire day
dav after snendine
spending ’ a week visit-
visit ' iness session was held in which
neighborhood several days ago, ing at the home of her son and details of the Miller program
with shrill cackles of mirth and family, Dr. Marvin Eby. Mrs.1 ! were discussed. Mrs. Kramer
■poa mvMti*atiag Mr. Peterson Marvin Eby and daughter Lois visited friends in the city dur-
fouad that th« proud hen had returned with Mrs. Eby for a ing the period Mr. Kramer at-
«dipped «ver a fast one on her visit in Oregon City.
| tended the conference.
sisters by doing two days work
in one, when she laid a monster
white leghorn egg, weighing four
ounces and measuring 7% by
t -J
6 H inches.
Williminea, the 10-month-oid
Further Search Revealed 8ug»r and hen, now holds the record of!
Coffee.
the upper Nehalem valley for
the day he must he careful not to laying the largest double-yolk
be «ee'n. But at night New York eggs.
was fits own. Those who bud known
Two of these large eggs were
WANTED
, OATS and VETCH hay for sale ¡HATCHING EGGS from Hen
FOR SALE
the dour, auspicious Halterman presented to the staff at the
—F. R, Hyland, 2 miles from I. Acres, pedigreed. Have new
would not have recognized in tbe Eagle.
INCOME PROPERTY for sale—
WANTED
—
To take lessons on
alert housebreaker the same nmn.
Good for $30 month. Lights, Vernonia on Timber road. 30,3* stock. Mrs. C. A. Scamman, tel.
piano. Teacher must furnish
Jonathan Gibbs was gone, dead
1
776.
302c
water, modern. Near Evangelical
piano. Write Mrs. A. J. Marks,
and burled. And this. too. In a Scappoose Library
church. $750, % 'down, balance PIANO to store—Left my $500
sense lie did not know. Other fish
Vernonia.
308*
almost new Kimball piano in
FOR
RENT
Receives
Donations
easy payments. A. C. Brown, 198 town. Would, like to sell for I
ermen had found bls waterlogged
A street.
301* about half of cost price and
rowboat. And when he was not
WANTED—Carpenter
work.
FOR RENT—Modern 4 room
seen In bls familiar haunts and had
Scappoose, Feb. 27—Scappoose
_ give terms to suit or store it house on first avenue. See J. All work guaranteed. Geo. Bell
not called at the village store to public library was presented NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT wi th respectable people until I
284*
23tf 1st avenue, House 41.
exchange bls eggs for groceries, a wnn
back next ..............
summer. ..
If inter- i C. Lindley at bank.
i
with six volumes “History oi
of i In the County Court of the' get
senreb was made. Ills home was the Oregon Country” by Mr.1 State of Oregon, for the Coun- ested to see the piano write Mrs.,
found unoccupied. Ills chickens fam and Mrs. Henry Collier, nine' ty of - Columbia.
. A- VW'r. P„estvater’ XcM2B™°n’| FOR RENT — 3-room modern WANTED — Woman to keep
house during illness of my
house, close in. J. C. Lindley,
ished Plainly, Jonathan Gibbs hnd
child
story
books
by
Mrs.
Geo.
I
In
the
matter
of
the
Estate
of
; ‘-1’1
‘___________________ ’ Bank of Vernonia.
been drowned mid bls body swirled
27tf wife. R. S. Downs, phone 112.
Nelson
and
books
of
fiction
bv
by
William
McMullen,
deceased.
__
out to sea tn the undertow.
301c
__ 2____
1.
Notice is hereby given that COMPLETE BED for sale—K. . FURNISHED
apartments
for
At first the New York Gibbs ven ~~
Mrs.
Lackey.
This brings _ '2..'
the
A. Olson, 1117 State street.
tured out only at sight within a total to 550 volumes for read- the undersigned P. Hill, Execu-
rent, $22. Phone 402, Moon
MISCELLANEOUS
302c light Apartments. ________ 13tf I
short radius of bls annetanry. There ing.
i tor of the estate of William
LOST
—
Last week, about town,
had been no mall. There had been
~ McMullen, deceased, has filed
no prying Jsaher
had atrnftt
pair ladies lined black leather
his final accoung^n
accoung^gn tbe
the Wounty
bounty R. I. RED setting eggs for sale—j Houses for rent, furnished in-
and
happy.
Cl
was
a
face
<>5"
which
four hundred dollars and almost
E. R. Treharne, Timber route, quire O. H. Drorbaugh, 992 2nd] driving gloves. Finder please re-'
tlie State of Oregon,
four months’ rent paid. He felt as had been graven the marks of vlo- Court of Hie
301*
294 avenue. __________________ 23 tf turn to 479 Rose avenue.
lent emotlons He was npmore than for the County of Columbia, Vernonia.
sured that Betting!<>u was dead.
feet eight Inches In height, but and that Tuesday, the 1st day
It was on the third evening of five
his occupancy tlMM »Ms ealai tad Ms ,-liPst was fi'.Ily forty-five Inches of April, 1930, at the hour of
plensnrnble optlmbua was swept io girth, A life of ease had turned 10 o’clock, A. M. of said day,
■way. ne bad gone te tbs snbwiw some of hts once steel muscles to at the Court House at St. Hel
entrance to buy an evening paper. fat, but be was still enormously ens, in said County and State,
As he stood on the steps before tlie Strong, A Out und bulbous nose.
front door feeling for bls latchkey, driven lato his face by some tre has been appointed as the time
For your convenience the following business and professional people are listed on
the .. hearing
of
he was conscious that a policeman mendous Impact, conspired to make and
, . place for ..
,
this page alphabetically. These men and women are known in Vernonia as reliable business
across the street by the armory was him rejmlidve. Esseutlnlly he was objections to said final account
and professional people.
looking at him. Although tt was of the sea. There was the sailor's 1 and the settlement thereof,
dark he felt stricken with the cer roll In Ids walk. A dangerous man 1 Date of 1st pub. Feb. 27, 1930.
tainty thnt the offleer looked at him In a physical combat. Bettington Date of last pub. Mar. 27, 1930,
alone.
decided Intellectually he was be
P. HILL,
BEAUTY SHOPS
From ths front windows af his low the normal. He was cleanly
Executor of the Estate of
Trucks for Local and
Dr. J. A. Hughe»
nnllghtsd rooms he had is miob- shaved and the shirt be wore was William McMullen, deceased.
Btnicted vlow. Tbe offleer was sow new.
ANNETTE
Long
Distance Hauling
GORDON
R.
WATT,
Attorney.
Phytician
and Surgeon
"Wondering what I’m all dolled
speaking to a «mailer ama. wh«
BEAUTY SHOP
QUICK SERVICE
seemed to bs pointing directly at np for?” tie deiunndcd. "I'll tell
Office Phone 663 Vernonia,
Shampoo, Marcelling, Finger
NOTICE OF BOND SALE
the windows through which Jona- yon. We’re going to bnve skirts
Phone 221
Res. Phone 664 •
Oregon
waving, Permanent Waving.
tluin Gibbs gazed. The eolnelilmi e aboard thia trip. Metzger told me.
Notice
is
hereby
given
that
waa food for eotnhor thought. As There's a lady’s maid, a secretary
Over Horseshoe Cafe.
sealed
bids
will
be
received
by
Curly
Buffmire
though concerting some plot aimed and tbe owner’s wife. Metzger’s
Phone 431
at Gibbs, the two slowly created the seen her pictures In the paper, lie’s the undersigned until the hour
TRANSFER
of two o’clock P. M. on the 1st
street. Then hit bell rang three crazy over her."
"Who’s Metzger?"
times. Gibbs opened the door to
day of March, 1930, and imme
the landing silently and listened.
“The chief engineer. Lucky for diately thereafter publicly open
He heard tho front door »pen and him he don't like ’em ns young ns I ed by the district school board Electrotherapy, Physiotherapy
HOTEL
steps advance along tivw flagged do. Me,” aald Snm airily, rolling
Local & long distance
DR. R. A. OLSON
passage. Then he heard the foot bls red eyes. "I’m nil for the chick of school district No. 47, Co-
Chiropractor
ens. Thia secretary Is some skirt j , lumbia county, Oregon, at the
steps begin the ascent.
HAULING
NEHALEM HOTEL
Washington school in the city of Tel. 671
Softly he locked the doer and from what I hear.”
1117 Sta* •'
Bettington was Incensed nt the Vernonia, Oregon, for an issue
stood a few feet back from H. Te
Phone 923
Vernonia, Ore
Vernonia*» Oldest and most
the knock he returned no snfiwor. bestial glee of the recumbent man. of bonds of said school district
up-to-date hotel.
Office in
"Do you suppose." he said, look in the amount of sixty thousand
He looked about htm wflrtty.
ing at Sara with a disfavor that dollars ($60,000), said bonds to
"Trapped I" he
«4. “After afi
Mr». Grace Scott, Manager
Workingmen
’s Store
CONTRACTORS
eentd be tell area hr die saflor.
these yeast »•
nsW"
"that any tsA.r. wwietnry M the be dated July 1, 1930, and to
Fear reused
traps tnaAWen.
Belong long they would hnret te the ownsr of this boat would have any mature serially in numerical or-
PLUMBING
door. Tlie fire ««scape et the rear thing to do with yon? How will yon der at the rate of fifteen thou
JOHN
A.
MILLER
waa his sole hops. It wax
re pitch have tbe ehance to apeak to the sand dollars ($15,0,00) per an
HOTEL HY-VAN
dark, but he dared risk ne
■>e fight or owner's guests? Don't be foolish, num on the first day of July
General
Contractor
make the descent slowly. Ori bad Bam."
in each of the years 1931 to
Modern
gone but half a flight when is trod
Ram looked at him ■ long tlmS 1934 inclusive; said bonds to
Baffcrd Brothers
Mason
Work,
Building
upon a flower pot placed there In In alienee.
Hot
and
cold water
“I ean are what you're driving bear interest at the rate of not
violation of all the etty'e fire ordi
in all rooms.
General Plumbing
nance«.' He Clutched about him at” said tbe sailor. “You want to to exceed six per cent (6%)
wildly and found only a piece of find out what sort of a trip this Is per annum, payable semiannual-
_ _______
2 1 interest
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rotting ropa. For a motaent R going to bo. Well, yon don’t getily> p_:
principal
and
pay-
STRAND & BERG
Vernonia
promised to ttay his fall; then fi « ■«»tilin’ out of me." He laughed |able at the office of the county
Contractors and Builder«
felt ths old strands ftvlng
long and loud at what seemed to, treagurer of Columbia county,
On all kinds of construc
The pared yard ft which ha him hts masterly discovery of the |
RESTAURANT
crashed waa fiRy feet Mlow. They other’s mot I res. Then he described . ure»
tion, estimates given with
be
unconditional
hts
way
of
life
and
love.
There
was
I
Bids
must
hnd not bore wrong In Blackport
out charge.
The Right Place to Eat
who assumed that tea man they something nauseating In It And and accompanied by a certified
Box 157, Vernonia
called Jonathan Gibbs waa «toad.
there was something frightening, check in the amount of $1,500.
Excellent Cooking
too How did Sam, who berthed
The approving legal opinion of
Mary Kato
and messed with the crew, come to
DENTISTS
CHAPTER IV
Imagine, without good grounds, Messrs. Teal, Winfree, McCul
that he would have tbe opportunity loch and Shuler will be furnish
P. HILL
An Amazing Adventure.
to come Intimately Into contact with ed the successful bidder.
POURING the long hours Betltng- the owner's guests?
M. D. COLE
The board reserves the right
Justice of the Peace
ton spent a prisoner, he
There was another disquieting to reject any and all bids.
thought over, nnd reject«! as im thought Snppose that he was kept
Dentist
W. W. WOLFF, Clerk.
practical. several schema« for cs- a prisoner here nntll the boat put
Notary Public
ca;>e. When all was said ami done, ont to sen again and so forced to
Address: Vernonia, Oregon.
Vernonia,
Oregon
Office:
875 Second St.
escape from his cabin tn the larger be a party to Indescribable acenes I
You’ll enjoy a bowl
prison of tlis ship at sea offered Escape was tmpoeslble. It was a Three Link Club
little betterment of Ills condition. steel built boat; tbe porthole was •
LAWYERS
of
delicious Chop
To Give Dance
He pondered over Sam « command small one and his only weapon ■
that he abould be quiet This pre safety razor blade.
Suey after the »how.
DR. W. H. HURLEY
supposed that there was some per
GORDON R. WATT
The Three Link club, com-
(Continued next week)
son, or grobp of persons, unaware
posed of members of the local
Denlittry
and
X-Ray
of bin detention. But whether a
Attorney-at-law
I. O. O. F. lodge, will give a
Gardea Pointer« Broadcast
SHINGLE MILL
dcclamttnn of bls presence would
dance Saturday, March 8, at
Hoffman Hdwe. Building
bring liberty was another matter.
Joy Theatre Building
Listening In on telephone gos ths Odd Fellows hall in this city.
The hours passed slowly. It was
Vernonia, Oregon
Vernonia, Orego«
Music will be furnished by
dusk when they dropped anchor at sip about stasonal garden topics
Re-Roof With
the foot of East Twenty fourth is one of the newly acquired Sundland’s orchestra or Mist.
street.
SHINGLES
Previous
dances
sponsored
by
PHYSICIANS
When Snm camo In with bls eve privileges of KOAC’i radio au
Three Links have proven
From
ning meal there was a safety razor dience each Thursday afternoon the
at 3:30 o'clock. At least such very luccessful and large crowds
outfit on the tray.
PASTIME
Marvin
R.
Eby,
M.
D.
have attended.
“Got to spruce up," said Sam
“OwnerV coming aboard tomorrow
CARDS AND
Clatskanie—Lower
Columbia
Physician and Surgeon
morning. The boss says for you to Cooperative Dairymen’s Assoc
About 2,000,000
Corvallis
look like ready money."
j iation will construct plant here baby chicks will be shipped out
LIGHT LUNCHES
Phone Hospital 931
Bettington looked at Sam and
Lloyd Baker, Prop.
wondered what made blm so serene at cost of between $50,000 and j from here within the next few
Town Office 891
VERNONIA
1
$60.000.
j.A |
months.
Keil Goose Shoes
O’Donnell Shoes
A New Line of Children’s
DRESSES
New Skirts anti Blouses
Silk and Colton Blouses
Just Opened a Beautiful
Line of Ladies Hats
Quality Lingers Long After
Price is forgotten
NEW DRESSES
Jhe
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Terminal Cafe
Chop Suey
Restaurant
Johnston & McGraw
Shingle Go.