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THURSDAY, JAN. 12, 1939
CATTLE
KINGDOM
By
ALAN LEMAY
Alan LeMay
WNU Service
THE STORY
CHAPTER I Billy Wheeler, wealthy
young cattleman, arrives at the 94 ranch,
lummoned by his friend Horse Dunn, its
elderly and quick-tempered owner, because
of a mysterious muraer. Billy is in love
with Dunn’s niece Marian, whom he has not
seen for two years. She had rejected his
suit and is still aloof. Dunn’s ranch is sur
rounded by enemies, including Link Bender,
Pinto Halliday and Sam Caldwell, whom he
had defeated in his efforts to build a cattle
kingdom. Dunn directs his cow hands. Vai
Douglas, Tulare Callahan and others to
search for the killer’s horse. He explains
to Billy that the morning before he had
come upon bloodstained ground at Short
Creek and found the trail of a shod and un
shod horse. The shod horse's rider had been
killed. The body had disappeared and no
one was reported missing. Link Bender
had arrived at the scene and read the signs
the way he had. Dunn reveals that because
of a financial crisis the ranch may be in
jeopardy his enemies may make trouble
since Sheriff Walt Amos is friendly with
them. He says he has asked Old Man Cof
fee, the country's best trailer, to join them.
CHAPTER II—Dunn and Billy meet Amos,
Link Bender, his son "the Kid" and Cay
use Cayentano, an Indian trailer, at Short
Creek. Bender has found the slain man’s
horse, but the saddle is missing. Almost
supernaturally, cattle attracted to the scene
by the blood-stained ground, stamp out all
the traces. Dunn is angered when Amos
tells him not to leave the county. Following
an argument. Bender draws his gun, but
Dunn wounds him in the arm. Back at
the ranch Old Man Coffee arrives, with a
pack of hounds. Bill notices Marian is cold
to Dunn. Coffee goes in search of the dead
man's saddle. Dunn tells Bill that Marian
is incensed at him for trying to settle dis
putes by bloodshed. He reveals that the
ranch is really hers since she inherited it
from his brother also that he recently sold
his own ranch in Arizona and that his part
ner, Bob Flagg, is enroute with the money.
CHAPTER III—Billy accompanies Marian
on a ride to Short Creek. ‘\Kid" Bender,
dow
a deputy, rides up. They have an
argument, and by a trick Bender tries to
shoot him. Billy saves himself by plunging
against Bender a pony and "the Kid is
Injured.
CHAPTER IV—Coffoe returns to the ranch
with the saddle and reveals that Cayuse
Cayetano is on the trail for Sheriff Amos.
The saddle belonged to Lon Magoon, a
small-time cattle thief who, according to
range law, deserved such a fate. Billy
learns he is to be a-rested for assaulting
"Kid” Bender. Strangely, Marian says
she cannot testify for him.
CHAPTER V—On the sheriff's orders.
Billy and the ranchmen drive into Inspira
tion. On the way, Coffee tells him that the
murder victim was not shot by the man
riding with him, but by a third person.
CHAPTER VI—Billy Is disturbed when
Marian seems to be interested in Vai Doug
las. At a hearing before Justice Shafer, the
sheriff, aided by Dunn's enemies, tries to
incriminate Billy for attacking "Kid" Bend
er. When things look dark, Marian suddenly
demands to be heard and refutes their false
testimony. Suddenly word is received that
Cayuse Cayetano has been mysteriously
slain.
CHAPTER VII—Justice Shafer dismisses
the charges against Billy. Back at the
ranch, Dunn and Marian again have words.
Dunn is disturbed when Coffee tells him that
Lon Magoon was not the murder victim,
that another man was killed in his saddle.
CHAPTER VIII—Goaded by Dunn, Coffee
declares that perhaps someone at the ranch
knows more about the killings than he and
says he is through with the case. As he
leaves he tells Billy he is going to find the
murdered man and asks him to ride out
and meet him the next morning. That night
a mysterious shot from the bush almost
hits Marian. When Dunn tells Billy Magoon
was a short man, he measures the stirrups
on the saddle and finds they were lengthened
for a tall man. It occurs to him that Bob
Flagg may be the victim.
CHAPTER IX—Dunn deprecates the sug
gestion that Flagg may be the murdered
man. He says if it were not for Marian he
would give up the ranch and go to Argen
tina. Billy offers to throw in money to
save it. Dunn refuses and accuses Billy of
trying to buy Marian. He hotly denies it.
Next morning, Wheeler is amazed to find
Marian waiting for him. She says she over
heard the conversation the night before and
insists on accompanying him to Coffee.
CHAPTER X—After hours of tracking.
Coffee goes on ahead. He returns saying
the slain man was Bob Flagg. Back at the
ranch, Wheeler tells Dunn that Flagg was
slain by a shotgun. Dunn says some mys
terious person has been slinking aiound the
ranch. Sheriff Amos arrives, preoarmg to
take him into custody, when Callahan rides
up saying he has jujt seen Magoon in the
distance. Amos agrees to let Dunn have 30
hours to settle his affairs.
CHAPTER XI—Dunn, Billy and Callahan
set out in opposite directions to catch Ma
goon. Returning from a vain search at
sundown, Billy is told by Marian she had
sighted Magoon. They find the trail. Billy
rides toward an abandoned shack, figuring
It may be Magoon’s hideout. When Mar
ian insists on going, he suddenly kisses her.
certain she will now turn back. Upbraiding
him angrily, she rides with him. Soon she
sees a rider in the rocks above and a mo
ment later her horse is shot down.
CHAPTER XII—Searching the canyon,
Billy and Marian hear a pony snort and
find the ruined shanty. Here Billy discov
ers the body of Lon Magoon, killed by a
shotgun shell. Returning to the ranch they
tell Old Man Coffee, who is not surprised.
He reveals he has been on the trail of Bob
Flagg, had found he had come in a back
way to the ranch, met Magoon, got a cheap
horse from him and they had ridden away
together. Flagg had bummed his way from
Arizona.
CHAPTER XIII—Later that night, Billy
is joined by Marian. She tells him she is
going to stay with the ranch whatever hap
pens. Events have brought them closer to
gether and he now knows there is no barrier
between them. She confesses her love for
him. His mind now at rest, Billy suddenly
feels he has the answer to the mystery, and
talks again with Coffee. Soon he tells Mar
ian they must go to Inspiration.
(Now go on with the story)
CHAPTER XIV
The early sun was upon the broad
main street of Inspiration as Billy
Wheeler drove Horse Dunn’s tour
ing car into the little cow town. Old
Man Coffee was in the back seat,
this time without any of his dogs.
Marian, who had been dozing
against Billy’s shoulder, sat up and
looked at the vacant street with a
detached curiosity. It seemed
strange to see the street so empty
and silent, where last they had seen
it full of knotted groups of men. No
stealthy movement in doorways this
time, no eyes covertly watching
them from under ten-gallon hats—
nothing but clean horizontal sunlight
on quiet dust, as if nothing lived in
this place at all.
Marian said, “You still don’t
want to tell me what you’re going
to do?”
“It isn’t that I don’t want to tell
you. It’s just that it’s—it’s got to
come to you in another way.”
“This is a dramatic thing—rather
a terrible thing,” Marian said, “this
coming to the end of a killer’s
trail.”
“Don’t look at it that way. I
want you to think of this thing with
all the impartiality yoq can. You
know’now-Char our western code is
a different code. Not the six-gun
code of the old days, nor the wild
kind of thing some people have tried
to make out it is, such as never ex
isted here or any place else. But
just a kind of a way of going about
things that is bred into dry country
men—the way of each man making
his own right and wrong, each man
looking only to himself for approval
in the end. Maybe—you’re only go
ing to learn the story of a kind of—
a kind of private execution maybe
by a man who believed with all his
heart that he was in the right.”
She looked at him wonderingly for
a minute she had never heard him
talk in that way before. “Billy,
Billy, don’t you trust me to face out
anything, even yet? Don’t you think
I have any courage at all?”
I trust your courage more than
I’ve ever trusted anything in my
life. Or you wouldn’t be here now.”
Wheeler drove through the town
and turned up a side street to the
house where Sheriff Walt Amos
lived. Leaving Marian and Old Man
Coffee in the car he walked around
the little house to the back door
there was a smell of breakfast cook
ing here, and Walt Amos himself
was souzling water over his face
and hair at a wash bench beside a
pump. The young sheriff straight
ened up and stared at Wheeler for
a long moment through dripping wa
ter. “Hardly expected to see you
here.”
“I’ve come to make a deal with
you,” Wheeler said.
“Don’t hardly seem there’s any
deal to be made between you and
me. Horse Dunn isn’t going out on
bail. Get it out of your head.”
Amos began to dry his face and
hair.
“This is something else,” Wheel
er said. “You’ve wanted me out of
this picture. You’ve wanted me out
of it from the start. You know why,
and there’s no need for us to go into
why.”
“I got enough troubles on this
range,” Amos said, “without outside
capital pitching in to make things
worse for the common run of cow
men.”
“In short, you and your gang has
been afraid I’d help Dunn save the
94. You tried to railroad me, here
in Judge Shafer’s court—but you
didn’t get away with it. Maybe
you’ve got other things in mind to
try, to get me out of the way of
your plans. I don’t know anything
about that.”
“People from outside, that figure
to throw in against the best inter
ests of this range—” Amos began.
“All right. Now you’ve got a
chance to get rid of me. You give
me what I want and I’ll promise
you I’ll be out of this killing case
within 24 hours.”
“You haven’t got any official
standing in this case to begin with,”
Amos pointed out.
“You’d like to see me drag my
freight, just the same! And here’s
how you can get it done.”
“Well?”
“Old Man Coffee and Horse
Dunn’s niece are here with me. Give
us an hour to talk to Horse Dunn
alone. That’s the proposition and
all of the proposition.”
“And if I do that you’ll pull out
of here?”
“Within 24 hours. I’ll stay out
until the killing case against Horse
Dunn is cleared up, one way or
another. After that maybe I’ll come
back to the 94 and maybe I’ll help
it with its finance I don’t say one
way or the other. But if you want
me out of it for the time being,
here’s your chance.”
“There’s a hook in this some
place,” Amos said. “But I’ll take a
chance. Horse Dunn’s in the jail,
where he belongs. I’ll take you there
and I’ll give you an hour.”
The Inspiration jail was tiny, but
it was perhaps the most modern
thing in the town. It sat by itself
on a rise of ground 200 yards be
hind Walt Amos’ house, which was
the nearest dwelling.
In structure it was a 20-foot
square cube of concrete, with tiny
air holes near the roof, and an iron
door. Within was an inner cage of
steel bars, separated from the
outer shell, all the way around, by a
corridor four feet wide. The place
had no great capacity, but it would
have been a double job for a good
cracksman to make his way out.
Old Man Coffee was reluctant to
visit Horse Dunn here. “Don’t hard
ly seem fitting.”
“There's a special reason I want
you to come, for a minute or two.”
“Have it your own way.”
Sheriff Walt Amos swung wide the
outer door. “I’m putting you on
your honor not to try any funny
business,” he said. “But in case of
doubt—just remember how easy it
would be to cut loose on you from
the house!”
“You talk like a child,” said Cof
fee.
It seemed strange, Billy Wheeler
thought, that the old king of cattle,
the man who could not only dream a
cow kingdom but make it live, was
to be found standing here in a two
by-four jail. Yet, within the black
shadows of concrete and steel Horse
Dunn towered bigger than ever,
straighter than ever he seemed,
not an old man at the end of his
rope, but a young giant, easy in his
strength. The great sense of latent
power that radiated from Horse
Dunn made it seem that he only
waited here within these cramped
walls because he wilfully used his
own great body as a pawn, laid in
hazard while he awaited his ad
vantage.
But there were tears in Marian’s
eyes.
Horse Dunn grinned upward and
about him at the steel and concrete.
The walls could not shame him—it
was he who shamed ‘he walls. “A
thousand miles of re ,e have to be
held by money and cuws and men—
not by a little tin contrivance
palmed off on the county by some
hardware salesman. You think they
can hold me here an hour, once I
decide to move out?”
No one answered him. There
where the daylight could hardly en
ter, the silence had a way of de
scending sharply, like the closing of
iron doors. After a little of that
culet no .one .could ferret that a man
had been lounC aeaa tfe©
Sleep, and another at Ace Springs,
and still another at the head of a
gorge without a name.
Wheeler knew that Old Man Cof
fee’s eyes were watching him, wait
ing for him to speak. He drew a
deep breath and broke the silence.
“Horse,” he said, “the whole
works has been—kind of stood on its
head, since I saw you last.”
Horse Dunn's voice rumbled.
“Well, that’s good!”
Wheeler’s voice was very low he
found that he could hardly speak.
“No, Horse it isn’t good. This is
maybe the worst thing that any of
us have come to, ever, in all our
long trails.”
Held in that sharp, hard silence
that could clamp down so suddenly
here they could feel the chill of the
walls. Wheeler was seeking a way
to go on.
Marian was holding her uncle’s
hand against her cheek, and now
Horse drew his hand away. “Billy,”
he said and hesitated. Then,
“Speak out, man!” he said at last.
“Two-three different things have
happened,” Wheeler said. “Marian
and I found Lon Magoon dead, a lit-
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here, he went to Pahranagat—”
“How’d Magoon die?” Horse
Dunn asked.
Wheeler would not be turned
aside. “I guess that don’t so much
matter, Horse, in view of a couple
of other things. For one thing, Mar
ian had her horse shot out from
under her, in plain light, back in the
hills. I’ve been thinking a whole
lot, Horse,” he went on, “about how
anybody would ever come to take a
shot at her. Now—I think I know.”
“What are you coming to, boy?”
Horse Dunn said.
“Horse,” said Billy Wheeler—
“Horse—I know who killed Marian’s
pony last night and I know why.”
He saw Horse Dunn’s big shaggy
head sway and tip a little to one
side as the old man sought to peer
more closely into Wheeler’s eyes.
“If you know that—” he began.
Wheeler’s voice was flat and re
laxed with utter certainty. “You
know I do, Horse.”
Billy Wheeler could hear his own
blood beating in his ears, like a far
off Indian drum and this time the
silence was a terrible silence, un
endurable to those gathered there.
“Coffee,” Horse Dunn said in an
unnatural voice, “I’ll talk to this
boy alone.”
Perhaps some faint persistent
hope that he was wrong had lasted
somewhere in Billy Wheeler’s mind.
But when Horse Dunn told Old Man
Coffee to go out, Wheeler knew that
he had not been wrong, but that
they were at the end.
Old Man Coffee moved quickly,
with the smooth, sliding stride of
one of his own lion hounds. He
was glad to be out of there. For a
moment the young sun splashed
through the open door with the bril
liance of a powder flare-up then
the half-dark closed again as Coffee
let the door swing shut behind him.
They heard the crunch of his heels
in the dirt as he walked off down
the side of the hill.
“You go too, Marian,” Horse
Dunn said softly. “Billy and I want
“You want her to stay here,
Horse, I think.”
“Stay here?” The old man’s voice
was blurred by a strange and unac
customed uncertainty. “You want
her to stay here?”
“It’s you that needs her here,”
Wheeler told him. Then after a mo
ment he said, almost inaudibly—
“Tell her, Horse.”
An odd back light from one of the
high ventilators outlined Dunn’s big
shaggy head and the sweep of a
great shoulder, but his eyes they
could not see. As he spoke it seemed
that it was not the big old fighter
who stood there, but an old man as
vaguely bewildered as a child. “Tell
her?” he said dimly. “You want
me to tell her—”
Once more the silence descended,
brutal, complete it held on end
lessly, as if no one of them was ever
going to be able to break it again.
And still Horse Dunn did not speak
nor move, but stood like a frozen
man, a great shadowy figure just
beyond the bars. Billy Wheeler tried
to say something, anything, to break
that terrible taut stillness but he
could not.
Suddenly Marian Dunn stumbled
forward, against the bars. She
reached through, drew Horse
Dunn’s wrists through the barrier,
and hid her face in his two great
hands. Her voice came to them
choked and smothered.
“I didn’t know—I didn’t know—”
Horse Dunn’s words shuddered as
he cried out—“What—what didn’t
you know?”
“That you—could love me—so
much ...”
Wheeler saw the old fighter sway
but in a moment he was steady
again. He spoke across Marian’s
bent head, and his voice had a hard
edge, “You don’t know wfeat you’re
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talking about. Old ’Man 'Coffee Thas
been loading you, with— Look here:
is he in on this?”
“I’m virtually certain he knows,
though he figured it out different
than I did.”
“Figured out what? Spit it out,
man!”
“Horse,” said Wheeler with more
sadness in his voice than he had
ever known in the world before, “I
can name you every step of—”
Horse Dunn’s voice blazed up,
breaking restraint. “In God’s name,
how did you find out?”
“From something Marian said.
After the first shot at her, she said,
‘I’m glad it happened. I can’t tell
you why.’ I know now what she
meant by that. Those shots proved
to her that no one who loved her
was mixed up in the Short Crick
works. And today it suddenly came
to me that just to fix that idea in
her mind might have been reason
enough for dropping those shots
near her. Then I remembered the
night when you taped up your ankle
where it was skinned, and spoke of
straightening your spur. Of course,
a spur doesn’t skin a man’s ankle
bone. Some boot weapon would have
to do that and a derringer would
have fitted in—a derringer carrying
a shotgun shell. The shot in the
saddle fooled Coffee, for a while
it looked to him like it came from
farther away than the horses had
stood apart, and made him think
there was a third man. But I just
happened to think that the shot could
have come from a short, weak gun
with the same effect. Well—”
Wheeler finished—“Coffee has been
to Pahranagat he found out that
Flagg came through there like a
bum.”
“Dear God,” Horse Dunn whis
pered. “It’s—the end of the rope.”
He pulled his hands away, and be
gan to pace the two strides that the
cell permitted—back and forth,
back and forth.
“Marian,” Wheeler begged, “tell
him you see—”
Marian raised her face, surpris
ingly in command of herself again.
Her voice was steady. “I do see
it! I see it all!”
Dunn’s pacing stopped he raised
big shaking hands, pleading hands.
“And yet you—you ain’t—you don’t
think—”
Marian cried out to him—and
there was pain in her voice, but
there was glory in it, too—“I think
nobody ever loved anybody so much
as you have proved you love me!”
“I I can’t hardly believe”—
Horse Dunn sagged down onto the
bare steel cot within his cell. “Mar
ian, if you’re telling me that you—
you know—and yet you’re backing
me, still—”
The girl was pressed against the
bars that kept her from him. “I’m
telling you that I believe in you with
all my heart!”
Horse Dunn stood up slowly, like
a man in a dream.
The light within the concrete walls
had strengthened with the rising of
the sun—or perhaps it was only that
their eyes had become more ac
customed to the half-dark but now
they could see that into Horse
Dunn’s face had come a war-like
glory. Once more he looked like a
ybung man. The girl reached
through the bars and upward to
grasp his great shaggy head be
tween her hands.
He said, “How much have you
told her, boy?”
“She knows only what she’s
guessed, I think. The rest of the
story has to come from you.”
The boss of the 94 appeared to
consider for what seemed a long
time. “I—I don’t know as I can
make out to do that. Life hasn’t
gone easy, or smooth, with me.
Other times, long ago, I’ve faced
down other men, more men than
these. But I swear I never raised
gun to any man, without he got his
break! I stood with empty hands,
always, until their guns showed
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“She has to know it all,” Billy
insisted “from the very beginning.”
“I can’t hardly expect her to un
derstand how it come up. Those
shots I threw so close to her—that’s
the crazy part, that a man can’t
hardly explain. I couldn’t ever have
done it, if I didn’t know for certain
that I could put a slug into a two
bit piece at a hundred yards—ten
out of ten, easy as you’d put your
finger on a nail. It seems a wild
and crazy thing, even to me. But—
I tell you, never a man lived that
could throw the fear into me that
this kid has always been able to—
just on the scare that she’d quit
me. And I thought if there was one
thing she’d be sure of on earth, it
was that I’d give my life to save
the least hair of her head from
harm. And I took that way so that
she’d always be dead certain, what
ever might happen or be proved
later, that it couldn’t be true that it
was me killed Flagg.”
“Oh, Horse, Horse,” Marian said,
“how did it ever happen?”
“The shoot-out with Flagg, you
mean?”
He told them now, step by step
the story of an old gun-fighter, and
old ideals of justice and right. It
came out haltingly, as Horse Dunn
paced. But even told slowly, and
with an effort greater than they
could ever know, that story was
brief.
Until he met Bob Flagg on the
Red Sleep trail, Dunn had had no
advance word of his partner’s ar
rival. At that time he had already
been waiting for Flagg’s arrival for
weeks—the very existence of the 94
depended upon him and Dunn was
shocked and astonished to meet a
frayed-out man on a worthless horse
and a saddle borrowed from a rus
tler—and recognize this man as his
Arizona partner.
(To be Continued)
Pleasant Hill
Miss Rhea Scoles and Edward Alt
hauser called Sunday evening on
Mr. and Mrs. George Huber and son.
Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Jennings and
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Huber were Sun
day evening dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Jennings and family.
Mrs. Cora Huber spent Thursday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wine
gardner and son of Harrod.
The January clearance sale is on
at The Lape Co.
Past week callers of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Lugibihl and family were: Mrs.
Harley Amstutz, of Hollywood, Cal.
Mrs. Hiram Basinger and children,
of Pandora Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Am
stutz and daughter and Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Younkman and daughters.
Miss Dorothy Lugibihl spent
Thursday night with Miss Marilyn
Stratton.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stratton
and family called at the Russell
Huber home Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huber and
sons were guests in the John Huber
home in Lima, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Huber and
son called Sunday afternoon on Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Winegardner and son
of Harrod.
Mrs. Cloyce Hauenstein and Miss
Betty Hauenstein called on the
Obenour sisters Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. F. G. Younkman and family.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Klingler and
family called Sunday afternoon on
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Huber and
family.
The January clearance sale is on
at The Lape Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hess and
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family were Sunday dinner guests of
Mrs. Lily Fett and Nellie Huber.
Mrs. Howard Smith and Miss
Nellie Huber called Thursday after
noon on Mrs. Martha Huber of Co
lumbus Grove.
Monday evening callers of Mr. and
Mrs. Lyman Barnes and Arlene Cal
andar were: Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Welty and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Early and son Glen, Carl Davis, Mr.
and Mrs. Clint Moorehead and
daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Clate
Scoles and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Traucht call
ed Thursday evening on Mr. and
Mrs. Lyman Barnes.
Armorsville
Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Hartman took
Thursday dinner at the Bert Teeth
worth home near Hoytville and call
ed on Mrs. Mary Hartman and family
in the afternoon.
The January clearance sale is on
at The Lape Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery
and daughter Sue and Wayne Hauen
stein called Thursday evening at the
Levi Hauenstein home.
Sunday visitors at the Ray Guider
home were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mc
Cafferty and son Donald, Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Fleming and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Guider and daugh
ter.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grismore and
family spent Sunday at the O. P.
Hartman home.
Sunday callers of Mrs. Eva Mont
gomery were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hilty
and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn
Spellman and daughter.
Mrs. Lenore Montgomery and
daughter Sue called Sunday after
noon on Mrs. Catharine Welsh and
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mertz of Ada.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hartman and
son called Monday afternoon at the
O. P. Hartman home.
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Hilty and
daughter Rosann, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Ewing called Sunday after
noon on Mr. and Mrs. James Calahan
of Findlay.
Those that took Saturday dinner
with Mrs. Eva Montgomery were
Mrs. Schantz, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Schantz and son and Mrs. Fred Bat
tels.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Moore called
Sunday afternoon on Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Klingler.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hilty and
daughters spent Sunday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Montgomery and
family and on the way home Billy
Ann had the misfortune of falling
out of the car as she went to close
the door. She received a number of
cuts and bruises, but is getting along
nicely.
Miss Fern Hilty spent Sunday
afternoon with Misses Betty and
Roenna Solt of Rawson.
The January clearance sale is on
at The Lape Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Rawleigh Moser and
son spent Sunday at the Levi Hauen
stein home.
The Umbrella Bird
An umbrella bird is a South Amer
ican bird related to the bell birds
and cotingas. so named because of
its large umbrellalike crest which
droops forward and almost conceals
the bill. A feathered tuft several
inches long also hangs down from
the breast. The bird is about the
size of a crow with glossy black
plumage and builds a platformlike
nest in the tops of tall trees.
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Helvetia, Swiss Village
Helvetia is a Swiss village in the
mountains of West Virginia. It is
not on any of the main roads. The
village is located about 25 miles
southwest of Elkins. W. Va. It was
settled by Swiss immigrants, who
observe traditional customs and
who are engaged in wood carving
and cheese making.
Storage stocks of butter remain
high. Milk production on December
1 was about 5 per cent greater than
at the same time in 1937. The pro
portion of cows in milk as compared
with total numbers is higher than in
years preceding 1937.
Bad Breath and Body
Odor of Constipation
Makes Sidney Lady
Like Hermit
SAYS ELATED OVER
WORLD’S TONIC RELIEF
“I stayed at home so much be
cause of embarrassment about bad
breath and body odor that I was get
ting to be a regular hermit,” said
Mrs. Katherine Cathcart of 113*a
Brooklyn Ave., Sidney, Ohio. “I got
such help for this condition through
World’s Tonic constipation relief
that I’d like for all women, now em
barrassed as I had been, to know
about it. In the last few years I
had become a lot more constipated
and this brought on a lot of other
ailments besides the odor problem.
My skin was getting dull and sallow
and my eyes bloodshot and yellow
looking. Sometimes the back and
top of my head ached so much it
seemed it would split. I’d often
spend whole evenings with my hands
pressed against the back of my head
trying to ease the pains. The people
who came near irritated me and I
much preferred to be by myself. Of
course I had indigestion badly and
eating was another problem.
“Some older neighbor ladies told
me about World’s Tonic and I used
it to ease the terrific constipation
headaches. I hardly expected to
learn that constipation was in fact
the cause of all my suffering. The
first bottle practically convinced me
of this, however. I got splendid
elimination relief at once and when
I had finished the fourth bottle all
the frightful constipation results
were almost gone. The pains and
aches have left me and so has the
body odor. My indigestion is much
better and my breath feels sweet and
clean. I’m looking healthier all
around and feel more active than in
a long, long time. I’m more than
elated over World’s Tonic.”
World’s Tonic contains roots,
barks, herbs and leaves brought here
from various parts of the old world
although they grow in the United
States because many such ingredients
lack the medicinal values and are en
tirely different in content, action and
result of those growing in old world
climates. Thus we find in World’s
Tonic medicines made by nature be
fore science, yet taking their place
with modern medical science.
Get World’s Tonic at Sidney’s
Drug Shop and all other modern
Drug Stores. (F-3)—Adv.
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