Vernonia eagle., May 29, 1931, Page 3, Image 3

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
MONEY
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w. N.q.
SE.R.VICE.
A voice caine over the dicto­
graph again. Elmer was speaking.
"While dear Charley is wandering
In dreamland, Doris, suppose you
spill your bad news."
I
“My dear Elmer," the girl replied
In dulcet tones, “we didn’t come
here to spill any had news. All we
ted was nn explanation of your
ous and emharrasslng action In
ring payment stopped on your
•k.”
I’ve explained,” said Elmer I
e lly.
'.o you have, Elmer. But that
ted criminal record you allude
oesn’t prove my brother to he
iniinal. I know he Isn’t. And I
’m» 'n't heard you say you have a
ri' Inal record on me. If you
I Imagine you’d confront me
with It.”
“I haven't—but I have hopes.
The unknown friend who sent me the
information on Charley may de
velop additional Interest and send
me news of you.”
“You seem to forget that I am
your fiancee."
“You’re right—I do. I never was
your fiancee. I never asked you
to marry me."
"Well, you certainly gave me the
Itnpression that we were engaged
me letters you wrote me will tie
rather hard to explain, and I’m
here to tell you that no small town
sheik can treat me the way you've
treated me and get away with it.”
"Oh, 1 expected to be blackmailed
under threat of a suit of breach
of promise!’’
"Blackmail? I have said nothing
about blackmail. I am not here to
threaten you. Elmer. I came up to
talk the situation over sensibly.”
“That Isn’t possible. I'm one of
those fellows who will not ba black­
mailed, cajoled, threatened or per­
suaded. I know what you have in
mind and a rose by any other
name would smell as sweet. . . .
Hello, Charlie, did the little birdies
“While Dear Charley Is Wandering
In Dreamland, Doris, Suppose
You Spill the Bad News.”
•A
sing sweetly to you while you
were out? Pick yourself up off the
floor, you swine, and betake your­
self and your partner out of here.
On your way, both of you.”
“Come, Harvey," Doris urged
complacently. “I will ask Mr. Clarke
to explain to me at a more ap
proprlate time—say in tlie midst of
Ills campaign for mayor. You dirty
skunk,” she added, her fury gaining
control at last, “I’ll make you feel
as ridiculous as you've made me
feel. That much at least I can do,
and you watch me do it. I didn't
come here to blackmail you, but—’’
“Yes, yes, I know my letters to
you will look silly in the public
prints, but I'll be shot If I’ll buy
them back,” said Elmer Clarke.
"No?” The girl's voice rose
sneerlngly. “Evidently you've fon
gotten all the drippy things you
wrote me. I'll send you copies to
refresh your memory and Induce
a change of mind on your part, lit
tie boy friend.”
"How much do you want for
them?” Elmer demanded.
“Ah-hah I So you are interested,
aren't you? Well, Elmer, those let
ters will cost you tonight exactly
five thousand dollars In cash, and a
promissory note for one hundred
thousand secured by an asslgnmem
of an interest for that amount in
your Uncle Hiram's estate. You
come to Los Angeles and my law
yer will arrange the details.”
“But this Is blackmail," Elmer
protested.
“I dislike the word. Call It heart
balm.” the girl corrected him. “You
can give me your check for the
five thousand now. I'll take a
Square Deal
Service Station
chance on your not stopping pay­
ment tills time.”
“I am a high-priced writing man,
am I not?" Elmer retorted good-na
turedly. “Doris, dear one. I didn't
have the slightest Idea of capitu­
lating. I merely had a curiosity to
know what price you’d ask. Now
that I know It, I’m no longer Inter­
ested. Really, I wouldn't give you
a canceled postage stamp for all
those letters. Get out. and many
thanks to you for the extremely
cheap education you've lavished oy
me. You’re the first woman I’ve
ever made an ass of myself over.
Doris, and you'll he the last. The
next sweetheart I have Is going
to be a regular girl. Charley'
Don’t linger. Nlglity-nlght !”
There was the sound of a door
closing. Silence.
CHAPTER XII
In the garage Detective
Sergeants Fahey and Llpowsky
Se
O UT
exchanged glances. “1 thought
boy was goin' to spill the beans on
us, Lippy,” Fahey declared, “but at
the finish he sure came through
noble."
“No. thanks to him,” growled Lip-
owsky. “He was just kiddin’ them.
Well, we've got enough on them to
make the pinch as soon ns they get
back to Los Angeles. No use both­
erin’ ourselves with them now.
They got return tickets.”
“Women ain’t got no sense.”
Fahey declared. “Get ’em mad an’
tliey'il tell everything they know-
present company excepted,” be add
ed gallantly. “I don't suppose
you’re goln' to tell Elmer all you
know, are yuh?”
“Indeed not 1 That would only
embarrass him."
Llpowsky winked at Fahey.
“Don’t you think Elmer awfully
courageous?" Nellie pleaded.
"I dunno whether he’s courageous
or crnzy or a plain boob, but what­
ever makes him go the way he does.
I’m for him. Well, guess our job's
done—all except gettln’ that dicto­
graph out of the house."
“It's Jasper's day oft tomorrow,”
Nellie Informed him. “I’ll make El­
mer take me to luncheon and then
you can run over and get the dic­
tograph. If I were you I'd wind
up the wire as far as the back of
the house tonight; otherwise El­
mer might find it In the morning
You can coll it and conceal It tn the
grass."
Fahey winked at Llpowsky.
“Meanwhile," Nellie continued,
"I’m going home. I'll send Captain
Fitzgerald a copy of the tran­
script of my notes tomorrow. Why
do you not arrest those wretches
tonlght ?”
“We're out of our own jurisdic­
tion. Of course we can make the
pinch if you want us to, but we'll
have to call In the local dicks, and
then the news would be all over
town in the morning. Better let us
handle these birds in Los Angeles.
We might get their shyster luwyer,
too.”
"Go to the bead of the class, Mr.
Fahey. Thank you very much.
Good night."
She slipped noiselessly out of the
door into Hazel drive. On that
street, midway between C and B
streets, she could see a man and
a woman, the mail struggling along
under the burden of a suit case and
a bag. So Nellie crossed to the
other side of Hazel drive, in order
to place distance between herself
and Elmer should he chance to be
standing on his front porch, and
hurried away in pursuit of the
couple. She watched them turn
in at the principal garage.
"Going to hire a car and go on
to San Jose for the night,” she
thought. “I’ll find out.”
She followed boldly into the
garage, not thirty feet behind them,
and stood listening to Colorado
Charley bargaining with the night
manager for a closed car to take
himself and wife to San Jose. When
they started a few minutes later
Nellie Cathcart hired another
closed car and followed. At a
third-rate San Jose hotel—which
was, however, a first-class hotel In
comparson with the Palace hotel
In Pllarcitos—Colorado Charley
and his companion registered as Mr. i
a chance to even plant their gar­
Aunt Sally Writes
A. A. Schwab Family Are
den.
To Missouri Paper Yes, I do want to come to the
A year ago Aunt Sally Spencer Hartley Reunion this year. Mat
Enthusiastic 4-H Clubbers attended
a Hartley reunion in and Sid Blair and I talk about
and Mrs. Joseph Skidmore of Tx>s
Angeles, and retired for the night.
Nellie Immediately returned to
Pllarcitos and crept silently Into th»
Tully home at one o'clock a. m.
She did not go to bed Immediately,
however, but took down the tele­
phone receiver and called for Mr.
Last Sunday’s Oregonian, un- scholarship as the most outstand­
Fahey at the Palace hotel.
The detective got out of bed der the head of 4-H club notes, ing club member of Clatsop
and came downstairs to the tele­ contained the following iteu. county. This scholarship, in the
phone booth.
about the A. A. Schwab family amount of $100, will be paid him
"Fahey talkin’."
of Birkenfeld:
when he enters Oregon State
“This Is your female accomplice,
With three girls and one boy college.
Mr. Fahey. Please forgive me for already active and enthusiastic
getting you out of bed, but I have clubbers, and another boy wait­ I Melvin is also a leader. In
1930 he led a dairy club, and
news of Importance to communi­
year is local leader of
cate. I followed those people. They ing impatiently until he is a
year
older
so
that
he
too
can
hired a car at the Main Street
dairy and poultry clubs.
garage and Charley told Mr. Bass, enroll, the A. A. Schwab family
As a club member, Melvin is
the night manager, that he wanted of Clatsop county is decidedly also carrying
projects in pig,
to hire it for himself and his wife. “club-minded.”
dairy, poultry, handicraft, sheep,
Mark that. Himself and his wife.
Melvin, 18 years old, is the goat and camp cookery this year.
Go right down to see Mr. Bass and veteran of the family, having
remind him that be rented a car started when he was 10 years
Other clubbers in the family
tonight to a man and his wife and
see that he remembers It so well of age, with the pig and dairy are Geraldine, carrying projects
He now owns ten hogs in cooking, canning, pig, dairy,
that be will not be liable to forget projects. —
and four Guernsey females. He poultry and homemaking; Violet,
It.”
"That wife stuff Is good!”
has made an outstanding rec­ carrying cooking, canning, pig,
“Well, that couple are now asleep ord, having been a member of dairy, goat and poultry and Lu-
at the Garden City hotel, in Sau the stock judging team which dine, carrying the sheep project.
Jose, and registered us Mr. and Mrs. represented his eounty at the Pa­ Geraldine is 16 years old, is also
Joseph Skidmore, of Los Angeles." cific International in 1929, and local leader of a cooking club
"Naughty, naughty I”
She has
“This is a decent, respectable at the state fair in 1926 and of seven members.
county, Mr. Fahey. We believe in 1927. He has attended summer been in club work six years.
Shirley is the youngest mem­
conserving morals and protecting school at O. S. C. three times on
the home and we have no sympathy scholarships won by placing first ber of the family and must wait
for strungers who play fast and at the state fair,« and in 1930 he another year before beginning
loose with the reputations of our was awarded the Union Pacific his club career.
hotels. I’m scandalized."
“I’m blushin' like a rose myself,'*
That same quality is apparent
said Detective Sergeant Fahey.
I on the ranch which shows his in­
“Now, lemme get the straight of
dustry and that of his son
this. About nine o’clock tomor­
row mornln’ them two indiscreet
Charles, who now does most of
people will be boardin' the Shore
the active work.
It was no
Line Limited to return to Los An­
I easy task to take uncultivated hill
geles. Well, here’s where I miss a
| land and make it over into as well
whole lot more sleet». I suppose you
tilled and productive a ranch as
want me to drive up to San Jose,
have a confidential talk wit' the
What Some are Doing for can be found in the Nehalem wa­
tershed.
chief of police, at»' ask him, as a
the
The Nehalem Valley
courtesy to a brother chief, to pinch
Some, indeed, maintain that
Charley an' Mae on a charge of so­
the uplands hereabouts cannot
cial vagrancy, chuck 'ent into stir
be turned into profitable farm
AMBROSE SCHMIDLIN
an’ make the ball the limit.
land, but Mr. Schmidlin did it,
"That'll mean they'll have to stay
It’s a steep climb to Am­ getting rid not only of stumps
In stir until they can raise bail.
Maybe they can't. Maybe they ain’t brose Schmidlin’s place from the but of whole trees as well, when
got friends that can be reached in Beaver Creek road, but nothing there was no logging and no mill.
a hurry. Still, that lawyer of theirs like what it was some 50 years
Diversified farming is carried
might bail them out, but on the ago when he packed a stove and out on the ranch. There are 10
other hand he might not. He’ckprob- a sack of flour on his \ back to milch cows besides numerous oth­
ably get suspicious nn' figure your his new homestead. Then there er head of cattle, broad stretches
little boy friend had been too smart was no road of any kind from of pasture, a fine stand of alfalfa,
for him.
"Why, of course he’ll be suspi­ Vernonia, and it took a stout an acre or so of strawberries, but
cious an’ drop that case like It was pair of legs and a broad back to not so much orchard as formerly
a hot stove. I'll see to that myself.1 get anything to his ranch. In because of exposure to the wind.
I'll phone Fitzgerald an’ he’ll phone i fact, Columbia county was then
Times may be hard, Mr.
that lawyer an’ tell him, anon-' so poor and so notoriously back­ Schmidlin admits, but certainly no
ymously, that his clients have got ward in road construction that worse than when he spent a day
tangled up in a dictograph, compli­ Mr. Schmidlin and his neighbors
taking a 200-pound dressed hog
cated with the purity squad."
succeeded in getting the county
“You’re such a comfort, Mr. line re-established so that most into Forest Grove and got $5 for
it. Save all you can when times
Fahey,” Nellie cooed. “Of course
they won't have any defense, un­ of his 200 acre ranch is now in are good and you will not mind
less they can produce a marriage Washington county. Getting into the hard times, is his motto.
a Washington county road district
certificate—”
"I know they can’t do that, an’ hasn’t helped much, Mr. Schmid­
For results—try an Eagle clas­
If they do. their case against Elmer lin admits. However one can ride sified. It reaches the prospects.
is a wash-out. It's a wash-out any­ in a car to the Schmidlin front
way. Well, little partner, we can’t gate, and that beats the long hike
very well land 'em for attempted I
Vernonia.
blackmail without draggin’ your from
Mr. Schmidlin has always been
man into the case, so 1 guess we'll
have to wait till next time, but in a hard worker. When he needed
the meantime—’’ He paused signifi­ money he hired out. One season
he rose at 4 a. m., milked cows
cantly.
“Yes, yes, go on! You’re doing and then worked till dark in the
fine, Mr. Fahey. You were about hay field—all for 75 cents a day
to say?"
and board. At another time when
in need of funds he walked all
(Continued Next Week)
day to Portland and then worked
Eagle classifieds get results. all that night on one of the docks.
Dependable
Mechanics
Shop Work Guaranteed
Polk county, Missouri, where she going but Mat and Sis think it is
had not been for 51 years. From too early for them, but for me, I
the time of the reunion she has can go anytime unless sickness
written occasional letters to the and death prevents me, or some-
Fair Play Advocate, of Fair Play, one to accompany me.
Yet, Mr. Hartley, I have worn
Missouri. One of them, which
appears in the issue of May 7, many a lump of assafidity around
my neck lots of time. Mother
follows:
Vernonia, Oregon, April, 1931. used to make us chew on it, that
was what hurt, but times have
Dear Editor:
changed now.
I read in the old home paper
When you got sick and sent
another letter from Asa Hartley.
It made me homesick, so I de­ for a doctor, he usually carried
cided to write another letter to the drug store on his saddle-bags
let the old Missouri friends and and rolled the pills right in the
relatives know how I am. I am I homes. They would tell you to
gaining, but it seems slow. I guess get a bottle or vial to put the
I want to get well too quick medicine in and tell you how
and get around again for I am many drops to take instead of
losing out on so many good giving a prescription and sending
you to the drug store.
things that are going on.
Believe it or not, I am coming
Oregon, as well as Texas, has
had a bad spring. It rains and Í to the reunion if I possibly can.
freezes so that people don’t get
Aunt Sally Ann.
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Order of Eastern Star
A. F. & A. M.
Vernonia Lodge No. 184
Nehalom Chapter 153, O. E. S.
Regular commu­
A. F. & A. M. meets
nication first
at
Masonic
Temple,
and third Wed­
Stated
Communication
nesdays of each
First Thursday of each
month, at Ma­
month. Special called
sonic Temple.
All visiting sis­ i meetings on all other Thurs-
ters and broth­ i day nights 7:30 p.m. Visitors
ers welcome.
most cordially welcome.
Mrs. Leona McGraw, W. M. I E- G. Anderson, W. M.
Mrs. Alma Bell, Secretary.
W. E. Bell, Secretary.
4*
Mountain Heart
Rebekah Lodge No. 243
WOMENS RELIEF
CORPS
Meets third Thursday of each
No. 243, I.O.O.F., meets every
second and fourth Thursdays in month at the I.O.O.F. hall.
Mrs. Laura Samer, President.
I. O. 0. F. hall, Vernonia. Visit­
ors always welcome.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
Grace, Sunell, Noble Grand.
HARDING LODGE 11«
Helen Fogel, Secretary
Meets every Monday
night in the W.O.W.
hall. Visiting broth­
Pythian Sisters
ers welcome.
Vernonia Temple 61 meets
H. Mayfield, C. C.
every 2nd and 4th Wednesdays in
H. Culbertson, K R.S.
W.O.W. hall.
Isabel Culbertson, M. E. C.
Clara Kerns. M. or R. & C.
1. O. O. F.
American Legion
Vernonia
Vernonia Post
I.O.O.F.—Vernonia Lodge No.
119, American 246 meets every Tuesday night
I
at
8 o’clock, in I.O.O.F. hall. Vis­
Meets
Legion.
itors always welcome.
2nd and 4th
J. F. Jones, N. G.
Tuesdays
each
Chas. Holt, V. G.
month, 8. p. m.
John Glassner. Sec’y.
Dan Nelson, Ad­
Mike Miller, Treasurer.
K. C. Stanton, Fin. Sec’y.
jutant; P. Hughes, Commander.