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By Meredith Nicholson.
(CHAPTER IV—Continued.)
"Miss Dangerfleld, you may call me
anything you please, but I am not
quite the scoundrel you think me. It's
true that I was not in New Orleans,
and I never saw your father in my life.
I came to Raleigh on a mission that
has absolutely nothing to do with Mr.
Billings he did not know I was com
ing. On the way here a message in
tended for your father came into my
hands. It ,was thrown on the train at
Kildare last night. I had gone out on
the platform because the sleeper was
hot, and a warning to your father to
keep his hands off Appleweight was
given to me. Here it is. It seems to me
that there is immediate danger in this,
and I want to help you. I want to do
anything I can for you. I didn't come
here to pry into your family secrets,
Miss Dangerfleld, honestly I didn't."
She took the piece of paper into her
slim little hands and read it slowly
nodding her head, as if the words only
confirmed some earlier knowledge ol
the threat they contained. Then she
lifted her head, and her eyes were
bright with mirth as Ardmore's won
dering gaze met them.
"Did you get the jug?"
"I got two jugs, to tell the truth
but when they seemed dissatisfied and
howled for me to give one back, I
threw oft the buttermilk."
"You threw father's buttermilk to
the man who gave you the applejack
Oh! oh!"
Miss Jerry Dangerfleld sat down and
laughed and Ardmore, glad of an op
portunity to escape, found his hat and
rushed from the house.
CHAPTER V.
"She never did it Bhe never, never
did!"
Mr. Ardmore, from a bench in the
State House park, thus concluded a
long reverie.'It was late afternoon and
he had forgotten luncheon in his ab
sorption. There was no manner of use
in recurring again to that episode of
the lonely siding. He had found the
girl—(indutlably the girl)—but not
the wink! Miss Jerry Dangerfleld was
not the winking sort he was well sat
isfied on that point, and so thoroughly
ashamed into the bargain that he re
solved to lead a different life and be
very heedful of the cry of the poor in
the future. His emotions had never
been taxed as today, and he hoped
that he might never again suffer the
torture he had experienced as he
waited In the governor's drawing-room
for Miss Dangerfleld to appear. After
that agony it had been a positive re
lief to be ordered out of the house.
Her anger when she caught him lying'
about having met her father in New
Orleans was superior to any stimulat
ed rage he had ever seen on the stage,
and no girl with a winking eye would
be capable of it. He was not clever
he knew that but if he had had the
brains of a monkey he would not have
risked his foolish wits against those
of a girl like Geraldine Dangerfleld,
who had led him into an ambush and
then shot him to pieces.
"She threatened to have the ser
vants throw me out!" he"groaned. And
her slight, tense figure rose before
him, and her voice, still the voice of
young girlhood, rang in his ears. As
she read the threatening message
from Kildare he had noted the fine
ness of her hands, the curve of the
fair cheek, the wayward curls on her
forehead, and he remembered all those
things now, but more than anything
else her wrath, the tiny fists, the flash
ing eyes as she confronted him. As he
sat dejectedly on his park bench he
was unaware that Miss Geraldine
Dangerfleld, walking hurriedly
through the park on her wav from the
governor's mansion to the state house,
passed directly behind him. His atti
tude was so eloquent of despair that
it could not have failed to move a
much harder heart than that of Miss
Dangerfleld, yet she made no sign'
but a few minutes later the private
secretary came out on the steps of
the state house, and after a brief sur
vey of the landscape crossed the lawn
and called Ardmore by name.
"I beg your pardon, but Miss Dan
gerfleld wished me to say that she'd
like to see you for a minute. She's at
the governor's office."
A prisoner, sentenced to death, and
unexpectedly reprieved with the rope
already on his neck, could not ex
perience greater relief than that
•which brought Mr. Thomas Ardmore
to his feet.
"You are sure of it—that there's no
mistake?"
"Certainly not. Misj3 Dangerfleld
told me I was to bring you back."
Enthroned at the secretary's desk,
a mass of papers before her, Miss
Geraldine Dangerfleld awaited him. He
was ready to place his head on the
block in sheer contrition for his con
duct, but she herself took the initi
ative, and her tone was wholly ami
able.
"This morning, Mr. Ardmore—"
"Oh, please forget this morning'"
he pleaded.
"But I was rude to you I threaten
ed to have you thrown out of the
house and you had come to do us a
favor."
"Miss Dangerfleld, I can not lie to
you. You are one of the most difficult
persons to lie to that I have ever met.
I didn't come to Raleigh just to warn
your father that his life was threat
ened. I can't lie to you about that—"
"Then you are a spy?" and Miss
Dangerfleld started forward in her
chair so suddenly that Ardmore drop
ped his hat.
"No! I am not a spy! I don't care
anything about your father. I never
heard of him until yesterday."
"Well, I like that!" ejaculated Miss
Dangerfleld.
"Oh. I mean that I wasn't interested
The Little Brown Jug
at Kildare
Copyright 1908—The Bobbs-Merrill Comphay.
in him—why should I be? I don't know
anything about politics."
"Neither does father. That's why
he's governor. If he were a politician
he'd be a senator. But—" and she
folded her hands and eyed his search
ingly—"here's a lot of telegrams from
the sheriff of Dilwell county about
that jug. How on earth did you come
to get it?"
"Lied, of course. I allowed them to
think I was intimately associated in
business with the governor, and they
began passing me jugs. Then the
man who gave the jug with that mes
sage in the cork got suspicious and I
dropped the buttermilk Jug back to
him."
"You traded buttermilk for moon
shine?"
"I shouldn't exactly call it moon
shine. It's more like dynamite than
anything else. I've written a reply to
the note and put it back in the cork,
and I'm going to return it to Kildare."
"What answer did you make to that
infamous effort to intimidate my
father?" demanded Miss Dangerfleld.
"I told the Appleweight gang that
they are a lot of cowards, and that the
governor will have them all in jail or
hanged within ten days."
"Splendid! Perfectly splendid! Did
you really say that?"
"What else could I do?"I knew that
that's what the governor would say—
he'd have to say it—so I thought I'd
save him'the trouble."
"Where's the jug now, Mr. Ard
more?"
"In my room at the hotel. The gang
must have somebody on guard here.
A gentleman who seemed to be one
of them called on me this morning,
demanding the jug and if he's the
man I think he Is, he's stolen the lit
tle brown jug from nay room in the ho
tel by this time."
Miss Dangerfleld had picked up a
spool of red tape and was unwinding
it slowly in her fingers and rewinding
it. They were such nice little hands,
and so peaceful in their aimless tri
fling with the tape that he was sure
his eyes had betrayed him into imag
ining she had clenched them in the
quiet drawing-room at the mansion.
This office, now that its atmosphere
enveloped him, was almost as domes
tic as the house in which she lived.
The secretary had vanished, and a
Sabbath quiet was on the place. The
white inner shutters swung open, af
fording a charming prospect of the
trees, the lawn and the monument in
the park outside. And, pleasantest of
all, the most soothing to his' weary
senses, she was tolerating him now
she had even expressed approval of
something he had done. and he had
never hoped for this. She had rtot
even pressed him to disclose his real
purpose in visiting Raleigh, and he
prayed that she would not return to
this subject, for he had utterly lost
the conceit of his own lying gift. Miss
Dangerfleld threw down the spool of
tape and bent toward him gravely.
"Mr. Ardmore, can you keep a se
cret?"
"Nobody ever tried me with one,
but I think I can, Miss Dangerfleld,"
he murmured humbly.
"Then please stand up."
And Ardmore rose, a little sheepish
ly, like a schoolboy who fears blame
and praise alike. Miss Dangerfleld
lifted one of the adorable hands sol
emnly.
"I, acting governor of North Caro
lina, hereby appoint you my private
secretary, and may God have mercy
on your soul. You may now sit down,
Mr. Secretary."
"But I thought there was a secre
tary already. And besides, I don't
write a very good hand," Ardmore
stammered.
"I am just sending Mr. Bassford to
Atlanta to find papa. He's already
gone, or will be pretty soon."
"But I thought your father would be
home tonight."
Miss Dangerfleld looked out of the
open window upon the park, then into
the silent outer hall, to be sure she
was not overheard.
"Papa will not be home tonight, or
probably tomorrow night, or the night
afterward. I'm not sure we'll wait next
Christmas dinner for papa."
"But of course you know where he
is! It isn't possible—" and Ardmore
stared in astonishment into Miss
Dangerfield's tranquil blue eyes.
"It is possible. Papa is ducking his
official responsibilities. That's what's
the matter with papa! And I guess
they're enough to drive any fnah into
the woods. Just look at all this!"
Miss Dangerfleld rested one of thoa»
diminutive hands of hers on the pile
of documents, letters and telegrams
the secretary had left behind him
with a nod of the head she indicated
the governor's desk in the inner room,
and it, too, was piled high with docu
ments.
"I supposed," faltered Ardmore,
"that in the absence of the governor
the lieutenant governor would act. I
think I read that once."
"You must have read it wrong, Mr.
Ardmore. In North Carolina, in the ab
sence of the governor, I am the gov
ernor! Don't look so shocked! when I
say I, I mean I—me! Do you under
stand what I said?"
heard what you said, Miss Dan
gerfleld."
"I mean what I said, Mr. Ardmore.
I have taken you into my confidence
because I don't know you. I don't
know anything about you. I'd be
ashamed to ask anybody I know ,to
help me. The people of North Carolina
must never know that the governor is
absent during times of great public
peril. And if you are afraid, Mr. Ard
more, you had better not accept the
position."
"There's nothing I wouldn't do for
you," blurted Ardmore.
"I'm not asking you—I would not
ask you—to do anything for me. I am
asking you to do it for the Old North
State. Our relations, Mr. Ardmore,
will not be social, but purely official
Do you accept the terms?"
"I do and I warn you now that I
shall never resign."
"I have heard papa say that life is
short and t^e tenure of office uncer
tain. I can remove you at any time I
please. Now do you understand that
this Is a serious business? There's like
ly to be a lot of trouble, and no time
for asking questions, so when I say it's
so it's so.
"It's so," repeated Ardmore docilely.
"Now, here'B the sheriff at Kildare,
on our side of the line, who writes
to say that he Is powerless to catch
Appleweight. He's afraid of the dark,
that man. You see, the grand jury in
Dilwell county—that's Kildare, you
know—has Indicted Appleweight as a
common outlaw, but the grand jurors
were all friends of Appleweight and
the Indictment was onl yto satisfy law
and-order sentiment and appease the
Woman's Civic League of Raleigh.
Now papa doesn't—I mean I don't
want to offend these Appleweight peo
pie by meddling in this business. Papa
wants Governor Osborne to arrest Ap
ileweight in South Carolina but I
on't believe Governor Osborne will
dare to do anything about it. Now, Mr.
Ardmore, I am not going to have papa
called a coward by anybody, particu
larly by South Carolina people, after
what Governor Osborne said of our
state."
"Why, what did he say?"
"He said in a speech at Charleston
last winter that no people who fry
their meat can ever amount to any
thing, and he meant us! I can never
forgive him for that besides, his
daughter is the stuck-upest thing!
And I'd like Barbara Osborne to tell
me how she got into the Colonial
Dames, and what call Bhe has to be
inspector-general of the Granddaugh
ters of the Mexican War for I've
heard my grandfather Dangerfleld say
many a time that old Colonel Osborne
and his South Carolina regiment nev
er did go outside of Charleston until
the war was over and the American
army had come back home."
Only one tiny fist this time! Ard
more was sure of it. Her indignation
against the OSbornes was so sincere,
the pouting petulance to which it
diminished so like a child's, and the
gravity of the offense so novel in his
simple expenienceS, that Ardmore was
bound in chains before her speech was
finished. The little drawl with which
she concluded gave heightened signifi
cance to her last three words, so that
it seemed that all the veterans of the
war with Mexico trudged by, bearing
the flag of North Carolina and no oth
er banner.
"Governor Osborne is a contempti
ble ruffian," declared Ardmore with
deep feeling.
Miss Dangerfleld nodded judicial
approval, and settled back in her
chair the better to contemplate her
new secretary, and said:
"I'm a Daughter of the Confederacy
and a Colonial Dame. What are you?"
"I^suppose you'll never speak to me
again papa sent three expensive sub
stitutes to the Civil War."
"Three! Horrible!"
"Two of them deserted, and one fell
into the Potomac on his way south
and was drowned. I guess they didn't
do you folks much harm."
"We'll forgive you that but what
did your ancestors do in the Revolu
tion?"
"I'm ashamed to say that my great
grandfather was a poor guesser. Ho
died during Washington's second ad
ministration still believing the Revo
lution a failure."
"Do you speak of the war of 1861
as the Rebellion or as the war be
tween the states? I advise you to be
careful what you say," and Miss Jer
ry Dangerfleld was severe.
"I don't believe I ever mentioned
it either way, so I'm willing to take
your word for it."
"The second form is correct, Mr.
Ardmore. When well-bred Southern
people say Rebellion, they refer to
the uprising of 1776 against the Brit
ish oppressor."
"Good. I'm sure I shall never get
them mixed. Now that you are the
governor, what are you going to do
first about Appleweight?"
"I've written—that is to say, papa
wrote before he went away, a strong
letter to Governor Osborne, complain
ing that Appleweight was hiding in
Soiith Carolina and was running
across the state line to rob and mur
der people In North Carolina. Papa
told Governor Osborne that he' must
break up the Appleweight crowd or he
would do something about it himself.
It's a splendid letter you would think
that even a coward like Governor Os
borne would do something after get
ting such a letter."
"Did he answer the letter?"
"Answer it? He never got it! Papa
didn't send it that's the reason!
Papa's the kindest man in the world,
and he must have been afraid of hurt
ihg Governor Osborne's feelings. He
wrote the letter, expecting to send it,
but when he went off to New Orleans
he told Mr. Bassford to hold it till he
got back. He had even signed it—you
can read it if you like."
It was undoubtedly a vigorous epis
tle, and Ardmore felt the thrill of its
rhetorical sentences as he read. The
official letter paper on which it was
typewritten, and the signature of
William Dangerfleld, governor of
North Carolina, affixed in a bold hand,
were sobering in themselves. The dig
nity and authority of one of the sov
ereign American states was represent
ed here, and he handed the paper
back to Miss Dangerfleld as tenderly
as though it had been the original
draft of Magna Charta.
"It's a corker, all right."
"I don't much like the way it ends.
It says, right here"—ind she bent for
ward and pointed to the place under
criticism—"it says, 'Trusting to your
sense of equity, and relying upon a
continuance of the traditional friend
ship between your state and mine, I
am, sir. awaiting your reply, very re
spectfully, your obedient servant.'
Now, I wouldn't trust to his sense of
anything, and that traditional friend
ship business is just fluffy nonsense,
and I wouldn't be anybody's obedient
servant. I decided that when I wasn't
more tljan fifteen years old, with a lot
of other girls in our school, that when
we get married we'd never say obey,
OTTUMWA COURIER
and we never have, though only three
of our class are married yet, but
we're all engaged."
"Engaged?"
"Of course we're engaged. I'm en
gaged to Rutherford Gllllngwater, the
adjutant general of this state. You
couldn't be my private secretary If I
wasn't engaged it wouldn't be pro
per."
The earth was only a flying cinder
on which he strove for a foothold.
She had announced her engagement
to be married with a cool finality that
took his breath away and not real
izing the chaos Into which she had
flung him, she returned' demurely to
the matter of the letter.
"We can't change that letter, be
cause It's signed close to the 'obedi
ent servant' and there's no room. But
I'm going to put it into the typewriter
and add a postscript."
She had sat down before the ma
chine and inexpertly rolled the sheet
Into place then, with Ardmore help
ing her to find the keys, she whote:
I demand an imediate reply.
"Demand and Immediate are both
business words. Are you sure there's
only one in immediate? All right,
if you know. I reckon a postscript like
that doesn't need to be signed. I'll
just put 'W. D.' there with papa's stub
pen, so it will really look fierce. Now,
you're the secretary you copy it in
the copying press and I'll address the
envelope."
Don't you have to put the state
seal on it?" asked Ardmore.
"Of course not. You have to get
that from the secretary of state, and
I don't like him he has such funny
whiskers, and calls me little girl. Be
sides, you never put the seal on a let
ter it's only necessary for official
documents."
She bade him give the letter plenty
of time to copy, and talked cheerfully
while he waited. She spoke of her
friends, as Southern people have a
way of doing, as though every one
must of course know them—a habit
that is illuminative of that delightful
Southern nelghborliness that knits
the elect of a commonwealth into a
single family, that neither time and
tide nor sword and brand can destroy.
Ardmore's humility increased as the
names of the great and good of North
Carolina fell from her lips for they
were as strange to him as an Abysin
nian dynasty. It was perfectly clear
that he was not of her world, and that
his own was insignificant and undis
tinguished compared with hers. His
spirit was stayed somewhat by the
knowledge that he, and not the execra
ble Gillingwater, had been chosen as
her coadjutor in the present crisis.
His very ignorance of the royal fam
ilies of North Carolina, which she re
cited so glibly, and the fact that he
was unknown at the capital, had won
him official recognition, and it was for
him now to prove his worth. The po
litical plot into which he had most
willingly been drawn pleased him
greatly it was superior to his fondest
dream of adventure, and now, more
over, he had what he had never had
before, a definite purpose in life,
which was to be equal to the task to
which this intrepid girl assigned him.
"Well, that's done," said Miss Jerry
when the letter, still damp from the
copy-press, had been carefully sealed
and stamped. "Governor Osborne will
get It In the morning. I think maybe
we'd better telegraph him that it'3
coming."
I don't see much use in that,
when he'll get the letter first thing
tomorrow," Ardmore suggested. "It
costs money to telegraph and you
must have an economical administra
tion."
"The good of it would be to keep
him worried and make him very an
gry. And if he told Barbara Osborne
about it, it would make her angry,
too, and maybe she wouldn't sleep
any all night, the haughty thing! Hand
me one of those telegraph blanks."
The message, slowly thumped out
on the typewriter, and several times
altered and copied, finally read:
The Honorable Charles Osborne,
Governor of South Carolina,
Columbia, S. C.:
Have written by tonight's mail in
Appleweight matter. Your vacillating
course not understood.
William Dangerfleld,
Governor of North Carolina.
"I reckon that will make him take
notice," and Miss Jerry viewed her
work with approval. "And now, Mr.
Ardmore, here's a telegram from Mr.
Billings which I don't understand. See
if you know what it means."
Ardmore chuckled delightedly as he
read:
Can not understand your outrag
eous conduct in bond matter. If pay
pnent is not made June first your
state's credit is ruined. Where is Fos
ter? Answer to Atlanta.
George P. Billings.
"I don't see what's so funny about
that. Mr. Bassford was walking the
floor with that message when I came
to the office. He said papa and the
state were both going to be ruined.
There's a quarter of a million dollars
to be paid on bonds that are coming
due June first, and there' isn't any
money to pay them with. That's what
he said. And Mr. Foster is the state
treasurer, and he's gone fishing."
"Fishing?"
"He left word he had gone fishing.
Mr. Foster and papa don't- get along
together, and Mr. Bassford says he'.*
run off just to let those bonds default
and bring disgrace on papa and the
state."
Ardmore's grin broadened. The Ap
pleweight case was insignificant com
pared with this new business with
which he was confronted. He was
vaguely conscious that bonds have a
way of coming due, and that there is
such a thing as credit in the world,
and that it is something that must not
be trifled with but these considera
tions did not weigh heavily with him.
For the first time in his uneventful
life vengeance unsheathed her sword
in his tranquil soul. Billings had al
ways treated him with contempt, as
a negligible factor in the Ardmore mil
lions, and here at last was an oppor
tunity to balance accounts.
"I will show you how to fix Bil
lings. Just let me have one of .those
blanks."
And after much labor, and with oc
casional suggestions from Miss Jerry,
the following message was presently
ready for the wires:
Use Down to Here
Guarantee
every sack of Zephyr
Flour. It will satisfy you and
it a a
oaves of bread per sack
asany flour, oryour grocer
ill refund your Money
BOWERSOCK
IVlii_L'S & POWER CO
Your infamous imputation upon my
honor and that of the state shall meet
with the treatment it deserves, I defy
you to do your worst. If you come
into North Carolina or bring legal pro
ceedings for the collection of your
bonds I will fill you so full of buckshot
that forty men will not be strong
enough to carry you to your grave.
"Isn't that perfectly grand!" mur
mured Jerry admiringly. "But I
thought your family and the Bronx
Loan and Trust company were the
same thing. That's what Rutherford
Gillingwater told me once."
"You are quite right. Billings works
for us. Before I came of age he used
to make me ask his permission when
I wanted to buy a rfew necktie, and
when I was in college he was always
fussing over my bills, and humiliating
me when he could."
"But you musn't make him so mad
that he will cause papa trouble and
bring disgrace on our administration."
"Don't you worry about Billings. He
is used to having people get down on
their knees to him, and the change
will do him good. When he gets over
his first stroke of apoplexy he will
lock himself in a dark room and be
gin to think hard about what to do.
He usually does all the bluffing, and I
don't suppose anybody ever talked to
him like this telegram in all his life.
Where is this man Foster?"
"Just fishing that's what Mr. Bass
ford said, but he didn't know. Father
was going to call a special session of
the legislature to investigate him, and
he was so angry that he ran off so that
papa would have to look after the
bonds himself. Then this Appleweight
case came up, and that worried papa
a great deal. Herd's his call for the
special session. He told Mr. Bassford
to hold that, too, until he came back
from New Orleans."
Ardmore read Governor Danger
field's summons to the legislature with
profound Interest. It was signed, but
the space for the date on which the
law-makers were to assemble had
been left blank.
"It looks to me as though you had
the whole state in your hands, Miss
Dangerfleld. But I don't believe we
ought to call the special session just
yet. It would be sure to Injure the
state's credit, and it will be a lot
more fun to catch Foster. I wonder if
he took all that state money with
him."
"Mr. Bassford said he didn't know
and couldn't find out, for the clerks in
the treasurer's office wouldn't tell him
a single thing."
"One should never deal with subor
dinates," remarked Ardmore sagely.
"Deal with the principals—I heard a
banker say that once, and he was a
man who knew everything. Besides, it
will be more fun to attend to the
bonds ourselves."
(To be Continued.)
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carnations. Mrs. Joe Robinson gave
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the evening a Chinese wedding con
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Wheat—-extra rich in gluten.
And it gives you the best bread and pastry because it is
the product of 30 years' experience, and the latest milling proc-
ess.
guests were Misses Vina Sprague of
Kansas City, Mo., and Bertha Kelly
of Columbus Junction.
Miss Julia Johnson is visiting In
Oskaloosa with friends and relatives
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. N. I. Wilson leave to
night on No. 11 for a three weeks' trip
through Colorado, Kansas and Mis
souri.
The dance given Tuesday night by
the G. I. A. Ladles was well attended
and all present report a very enjoy
able evening.
Mrs. Joe Robinson will entertain the
Thimble club tomorrow afternoon at
her home.
Dr. H. E. Hurst of Fairfield spent a
few days this week in Eldon with
friends.
The Ladies of the Modern Macca
bees will give their vegetable masquer
ade dance, October 30. A prize will
be awarded for the best mask.
Mrs. Ralph Hendershott of Hebron,
Neb., returned home yesterday, after
a few days' visit at the }iqme of her
friend, Mrs. Omar Cresap on East Elm
street.
Frightened Into Fts
by fear of appendicitis, take Dr. Kind's
New Life Pills, and a^vay goes bowel
trouble Guaranteed. 25c F. B. Clark
& H. L. Swenson.
HIGHLAND CENTER.
Highland Center—Miss Cordie Em
ery and sister Mrs. Steven's visited in
I'ekin a short time ago.
Mrs. Ellen left the first of the week
to visit her mother in O'Brien county
also a sister at Waterloo.
D. McCormick and family spent the
day at Mr. Kedey's Saturday, where
they were threshing clover.
Mr. Elder's brother and wife and
daughter of Indiana who have been
visiting here left Friday for a visit in
Bloomfield on their way home.
No services were held at the M. E.
church Sunday.
Mrs. Curtis and daughter Myrtle
were Ottumwa. visitors Saturday.
Mr. Utterback and family moved on
Monday to make their future home in
Hayesville.
Mrs. Lentner from St. Paul, Minn.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lentner called
on their aunt Mrs. Kirkpatrick and
others Sunday afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid society is to -neet at
the home of Mrs. Dale Emery Wednes
day afternoon.
The new minister Rev. Pointer of the
M. E. church In the Farson circuit has
arrived and will fill regular appoint
ments,
EDDYVILLE.
Eddyville—Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Vance
and little daughter Esther departed 011
Tuc-sday for Chicago, where the doc
tor will attend a three days' session of
the American Association of Railroad
Surgeons. They will return home on
Saturday.
Horace Burns is attending the bien
nial convention of the Homesteaders
at Des Moines as a delegate of Wa
pello lodge No. 33 of the Homesteaders
at this place.
Abe Stuber is able to be about after
a few days' Illness.
Dr. R. F. Shahan returned Monday
evening from Albia where he was call
ed by the severe Illness of his father J.
V.'. Shahan.
J. J. Relnts arrived with his car of
household goods- from Greeley, Colo.,
tnis week to join his wife and make
thtir home on the parental B. B.
Beamer farm, on Bluff Creek.
C. C. Palmer is on the Chicago mar
ket with cattle this week.
Walter Roberts, south of town, de
parted Tuesday for LeBeau, South Da
kota, where he will enter the land
di 1 wing.
Fred Miller departed for Columbus,
Kansas, Monday to spend about
three weeks putting up a barn on his
".CP acre farm there.
Mrs. Fred Forness. who has been liv
ing at Ottumwa the past nine months,
and who has lately been visiting her
uncle, A. L. Cecil, departed Monday for
El Reno, Okla., to make her home
again. Miss Sadie Cecil accompanied
her as far as Ottumwa and made a
short visit there.
Mrs. G. E. Stephenson and her sis
iei, Miss Pearl Williams returned ou
You can obtain Zephyr Flour from the following: I
Reynolds & Son, Agency. la. B. L. Denny & Co. Highland ri»n
ter D. H. Thompson, Farson, la. M. H. Tullis, Ottumwa- A
Sweeney, Chillicothe E. E. Hllles, Eldon W. I. Peck South n»
tumwa Mrs. Kate Kedman, Ottumwa J. p. Dings' Ottumwn"
Stuber & Waugaman, Eddyville, la. tumwa,
i,
.ZEPHYR
iHKHMMNT
wUh^eirTotLrrt^Batevia8
Mrs A-a.utvia.
ler of Ottumwa is
•P- Anderson this
u*ui-"«r
I
couple of days' visit
at P~
Mrs. Marlon Miller
Mrs. J.
vi&ltlng
week.
v»nV
Brod?'lck
paralysit.
was called to Line-
sufCered a
second stroke of
PloymenTa* OUumV^ncfia^JuTj"
c'»-
J-
V.S1.S
M- Crossen, Misses Oracp
rind Blanche Crosson and Freda Chit
Fmott^f"
^„a,HekiOskaloosa
and Mrs.
ElMott an visited in
CSun-JJ
-J.
CHARITON.
Chariton—Home talent, under th-»
ausp ces of St. Andrew's Guild
ented the "Union Depot" at the Temnle
theatre on Monday and Tuesday even
nif crowded house witnesspd th°
evening. Each member of
KiaCqU themselves in a very
creditable manner. The play was verV
laughable, and the choruses were
Es­es
pecially pleasing.
Wfr!l0T,en»/1m,an
and
Mis's U*y
Moore
oT tL ", marriage at the home
ride sv parents, Mr. and Mrs.
nvfL thl6 Tuesday afternoon at 1
ed hv r»v wCer^ny
being
of the
\f
Perform-theof
ed by Rev. Hugh Moore, pastor
Baptist church. The couple were at-
tended by the bride's sister, Miss Ethel
Moore and Sam Matheney. At the
®1®s"
ceremony an elegant din
served. The groom Is employ-
ed with the Chariton Telephone Co
and Is a brother of Sheriff Lyman, with
Th"1hrWAyv,W lreEide
for the
P.," Hten
Present.
en&aged
as sales-
of the Iocal
stores. Both
aie highly regarded and will have the
Vnnt ,,K
of a host of
m? T1?appy
friends for a
and
prosperous wedded
life. They were given a tin shower on
luesday evening
Miss Joesie Swift returned Tuesday
from a seven months' visit with rela
tives in Walla Walla and Seattle,
W ash., and will resume her former po
sition with the Chariton Telephone Co.
Mrs. Mamie Pinneo Is spending a
few days with relatives and friends in
Ottumwa.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Voris .of Aurora,
Neb., returned home Tuesdav after a
VisH
hlB
brother. W. E. Douglass
of Whitebreast township.
Dr. John Starr of Pochontas, former-
of this
1
city- visited in Chariton on
luesday with Dr. A, L. Yocom.
Mr. and Mrs. John O. Coles left on
Tuesday for a visit in St. Charles
with their daughter Mrs. Lydia Ander
son.
Mrs. Thos. Gray departed Tuesday
for Exter, Neb., where she will make
an extended visit with her son Alvia
Gay.
Mrs. Wm. West of Lacona, is spend
ing the week in Chariton with hep
daughter, Mrs. Everett Nolen.
J. R. Clouse and daughter Stella left
Tuesday for a visit in Oklahoma with
her daughter ana sister Mrs. George
Croston.
Elmer Hasselquist. deputy post
master, left Tijesday (or a visit in
Houston, Texas, with Ralph Field
formerly of this place. His mother!
Mrs. R. A. Hasselquist, accompanied
him as far as Kansas City, where she
will visit her sister.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson of Os
ceola, visited in Chariton Tuesday with &
his sister-in-law Mrs. Sylvester John-
son.
Great Power Dam for Cedar River.
Vinton, Oct. 21.—Two sets Of engi
neers, representing two distinct inter
ests, are taking levels along the Ce
dar river with the avowed object of
perfecting plans looking toward the
building of a monster dam about six
miles east of Vinton.
Scarcely had one party entered the
field and commenced surveying than
another organized company hurried to
the scene with its engineers and after
acquiring title to a tract of land near
the site of the proposed dam began
condemnation proceedings which in
volves every tract of land in the river
bottom from a point six miles east of
town to a point three miles ncurthwaat
of town.
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