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THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1941
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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I—Summoned to the ranch
in central Nevada, desert-wise Walt Gandy
is on his way to help his old range partner,
Bill Hollister. Riding through unfamiliar
country. Walt is stopped short by a girl—
who holds a rifle in firing position. She
knows nim. tells him how to get to the
ranch, and tells him that they will meet
again. Walt is allowed to ride on.
CHAPTER 11—Within a quarter of a mile
from his destination. Walt is stopped again.
This time by a grotesque, misshapen man
who tells him to get out and then tells him
the crew is in Emigrant, the closest
town, for an inquest. Someone has been
murdered.
CHAPTER III—Riding to the
Emigrant, Walt leaves his horse
ery stable. Before attending the
asks a few questions. Cash Cameron, owner
of the ranch, is in trouble. Z ‘J u
honest man, Cash has many
Gandy's eye is caught by a roan horse tied
near the doorway. It belongs to the girl
who stopped him earlier in the day.
inquest in
at the liv
inquest he
A hard but
enemies.
CHAPTER IV—Chino Drake, former cook
at the ranch, has been murdered and
Sheriff Ed Battle is trying to pin the blame
on Cash Cameron. The girl is called to the
stand. She is Helen Cameron, Cash's daugh
ter She seemingly faints and, as Gandy
rushes to her aid. slips something in his
hand. It is the bullet from Drake's body.
CHAPTER V—Walt rents a post office box
and leaves the bullet in it. Leaving the
post office he is accosted by a dark, swarthy
man who offers him a j’b. He draws the
man out. finds that he wants to usurp Cam
eron's public range land. Gandy then turns
him down in biting fashion. The man leaps
at Walt, who whips him after a hard battle.
The man is Pete Kelso, foreman of the 77
ranch, an outfit hostile to Cameron.
CHAPTER VI—Gandy is called to the
sheriff's office, where he meets Hollister
and Sheriff Battle. Hollister, this time, is
really glad to see him. Battle tells Hollis
ter that Cameron is through!
CHAPTER VII—Hollister and Gandy re
turn to the C. There they find Cash
Cameron and Bent La vic, the crippled man
who stopped Gandy on his previous visit.
Paul Champion, a young cowpuncher, is
with them. Later Gandy meets Horsethief
Fisher, another employee. Walt is still
unable to find the root of difficulties.
Neither Cameron nor Hollister will talk.
Hollister, however, borrows two hundred
dollars from Gandy.
CHAPTER VIII—That evening Walt meets
Helen Cameron in the kitchen. From the
first he has been drawn to her. Then she
tells him that Bill Hollister is one of the
finest men she has ever known. The words,
though he has known her thoughts before,
hurt him.
CHAPTER IX—The bawling of cattle that
night brought Walt out to investigate. He
thinks that bawling is caused by the smell
of blood! Curious, he steps into the saddle
shed. Then the shed door opens slowly. In
the darkness he smells perfume. It is
Helen. Angry, she leaves, but not until she
warns him to forget the C.
CHAPTER X—Walt tells Hollister that he
wants information. Hollister tells him that
Cash Cameron, thought to be worth a for
tune, is flat broke. The murder of Ci ino
Drake may be his finish. Gandy knows that
any one of three people may be responsible
for Drake’s death. He also points out to
Hollister that Ranger Powell, Cameron's
alibi for Drake's death, has disappeared.
CHAPTER XI—Riding the range Hol
lister and Gandy meet Pete Kelso and two
of his hired men. Hollister wants no gun
play, but in self defense, Gandy is forced to
shoot one of Kelso’s men.
(Now go on with the story)
CHAPTER XIII
BILL
HOLLISTER was the first to
take his eyes from the mutilat
ed, khaki-clad body of Ranger Pow
ell. Cash Cameron sat stunned. Hol
lister spoke quietly to Gandy: “Pull
off a little, will you, Walt?”
Gandy neck-reined his palomino
around and rode back among the
pine trunks out of hearing. Hollis
ter, he knew, had something to say
that was for the old man alone.
Too plainly in one blow all his
props had been struck away. There
was his alibi in the Chino Drake
killing, dead. More than that, there
was the federal ranger he had been
wrangling with over forest grass.
When Walt turned to look again,
Bill Hollister was coming through
the trees toward him, his face set
and bleak as granite, telling noth
ing.
“I’m going over the mountain,”
he said. “Taking Cash with me. This
puts him in an awful hole.”
“It sure does,” Gandy agreed.
“I’d hate to see Sheriff Battle or
any of the Emigrant hot-heads get
hold of him now!”
Hollister nodded. “That’s it. He’s
got to stay under cover, give us
time to work out something. I’ll
be back tonight, late.”
He seemed not to be considering
any hole that he too might be in.
Gandy watched him narrowly, of
fering, “Suppose I phone Battle
from the house? Let him think I
found the body. How’s that?”
The deep-set eyes stared out' in
their drilling look. “You believe
Cameron actually did this? Or I
did?”
“I’m doing my believing private,”
said Gandy. “Only it’s dead sure
something has got to be done. You
go on. I’ll ride in and call the sher
iff.” Under knee pressure his palo
mino was already sidestepping
away.
A twisted figure scuttled from the
kitchen door, as coming in by the
rear lot, he approached the ranch
home. Bent Lavic went dragging
down toward the bunk shacks. Gan
dy swung off on the stone step,
leaving the pony’s reins up. No one
was in the kitchen when he entered
a minute later.
Standing at the wall telephone, he
eranked for Emigrant, and when
the operator answered, said, “Sher
iff’s office.”
As the connection was made and
a thick voice rumbled in his ear, he
asked, “Battle?” Then, “This is
Gandy at the C. You’d better
come out here there’s been a body
found. Yes. Ranger Powell.”
He hung up, and was aware then
that by some miraculous means Hel
en Cameron had appeared behind
han. He pivoted, looking at her.
lead in the
during the 1
a six game
and North Enders teams.
Totals
at
She stood near a table but all
once, with the blood gone from her
face, she dropped upon a bench and
stared back at him, speechless.
She had overheard his telephone
conversation, yet even as Walt Gan
dy took a step toward the girl, he
realized that what he had told Sher
iff Battle was not news to
shock now registered upon
was something else.
her. The
her face
to prove
Her first words seemed
it, for she did
had happened.
tightening throat she asked. “Where
is my father?” And before he could
answer: “Why did you call Battle?
Why did you!”
lot question what
Hoarsely from a
Unanswering, Walt Gandy let
himself down upon a bench opposite.
He took off his hat and laid it at his
side. His weight creaked
boards, and there was a
spurs under the table as
shifted uneasily, he’d give
to have Helen Cameron out of this!
But she wasn’t.
the floor
clink of
his legs
anything
In a flat statement he said, “So
you knew Ranger Powell had been
killed. I suppose it isn’t any use
asking how you knew that?”
“No.” The girl’s slim straight
hands clenched on the table top.
“What have you done? Where is my
father?”
“He won’t be in for awhile.”
“But where is he? What
Her tone had risen, sharp and ring
ing. With a startled look she broke
off and sat rigid, staring at him but
somehow strangely through him.
And then her words began again,
quietly, with more self-control and
determination than he had
heard in a girl’s voices
(To be continued)
ever
BOWLING
their
bowlers widened
Hardwick bowling
last week, and now have
lead over Central Ohio
Triplett
league
The standing follows: Triplett,
won 25, lost 8 Central Ohio, won
19, lost 14 North Enders, won
lost 14 South Enders, won 16,
17 Radio club, won 16, lost
Bluffton Stone Co., won 16, lost
Post Office, won 14, lost
Dutch, won 9, lost 24.
CENTRAL
Totals
Totals
Cl
19,
lost
17
17
Old
19
Radio Club
M. Geiger -..... 136 103 145—384
J. Benroth _____ 112 137 165—414
D. Corson ...-..... 81 137 137—348
L. Coon ............ 144 127 132—403
I. Clements .....— .181 122 183—486
1
Totals ...... ....... ........2035
South Enders
E. Soash ............ 117 165 169—451
K. Marshall .178 192 152—532
C. Reams .......... 134 118 102—354
G. Mericle .......... 107 109 118—334
R. Diller............ .108 88 113—209
11 1 -11,1
Totals .............. 1880
Stone Company
R. Marshall ...... .180 170 123—473
H. Bracy .......— .129 189 167—495
H. Conrad ........ 106 74 83—268
C.
L.
Totals
146—488
182—480
188
139
Conrad 154
Coon ... .... —159
2004
Triplett
D. Berry .129 180 114—423
F. Reichenbach ....101 129 156—386
R. Augsburger 160 133 143—436
G. Schumacher ... 118 120 144—372
D. Coffin _____ 217 174 138—529
2141
0 HIO
Schumacher ........ 95 144 160—399
Harkness ____ 123 113 147—383
Clements ____ 181 136 132—449
M. Mumma ____ 155 159 113-427
Bechtol ............... 149 140 125—414
Totals 2192
Old Dutch
H. Stonehill ... 165 118 136-v419
L. Coon _____.... 180 141 172—493
C. Stonehill ... .... 162 119 153—434
B. Swank ..... .... 126 148 180—454
C. Steiner...... 148 148 119—415
2215
Post Office
E. Reichenbach .. 129 87 97—313
B. Anderson 148 106 153—407
H. Bogart .......... 174 136 111—421
J. Berry 155 139 162—456
G. Benroth .... 104 152 124—370
2041
North Enders
F. Swank ..... 207 140 177—514
H. Bracy ...... 136 168 123—427
Mumma ......114 114 180—408
E. Herrmann ......102 132 145—379
E. Schaublin ___ 149 133 141—423
Totals
.2161
Six Rows
How many horizontal rows of stars
are there? Most people will an
swer eight. The answer is six.
Bluffton cage teams will play four
games during the next week, with
the college crew bearing the brunt
of the schedule by appearing in three
contests.
Only one home game is on tap, a
tilt between the collegians and
State cagers of Angola, Ind.,
this Saturday night.
Bluffton High’s only assignment
the week will be against Carey
that place Friday.
Bluffton High and Bluffton college
eagers this year are building their
hopes for success on team scoring,
rather than depending on individual
point-getters for their attacks.. .This
facility is making it more difficult for
opponents to halt the scoring threats
of Bluffton crews....
Against Wilberforce last week, four
Bluffton college players shouldered
the brunt of the team’s attack
Heiks racked up 11 points Reichen
bach got 10 Ramseyer tallied nine
and Yoder Six
Six Bluffton
ed materially
played
week..
Fisher
High eagers contribut
in the three contests
Pirates during the last
assignments,
by the
..In the trio of
points, Cooney tallied 18 Howe,
Beidler, 15 and Rich Gratz 14.
Pleasant Hill
Miss Betty Jean Blosser was a
Monday evening dinner guest of Miss
Joanne Seigg. Mr. and Mrs. Blosser
and son Roy Dean called Monday
evening.
Mr. Dow Scoles and sons Gerald
and Allen and Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Thompson were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr. Norval Scoles
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huber
son called
and Mrs.
children.
THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
Bluffton College Cagers Trounce
Wilberforce, 43-31, In Fast Finish
Tri
here
take
Two out-of-town contests will
the Beavers to Findlay this Wednes
day and to Defiance next Monday.
of
at
Undefeated since the Christmas
holidays, the Bluffton college outfit
will face three severe tests. Find
lay and Defiance each have been
A whirlwind finish gave Bluffton
college cagers a 43 to 31 victory over
Wilberforce university’s veteran out
fit last Friday night on the
high school court.
College Will Play Three Games,
High School One During Next Week
local
poise
Wil
thru
Bluffton’s team exhibited its
and courage as it weathered a
berforce threat about midway
the final period, then went on to win
handily by a 12-point margin.
At halftime, the Beavers were out
in front, 17 to 12, but the lead of
the Burckymen was cut to one point
midway in the second half when the
count stood, 24 to 23.
Bluffton’s attack again began func
tioning at that stage, however, and
the Beavers gradually
commanding lead that
tory for them.
built up a
assured vic-
the brunt of
Four players carried
the well balanced Bluffton attack in
the tilt against the downstaters.
Heiks set the pace with 11 points
Reichenbach got 10 Ramseyer tal
lied nine and Yoder racked up six.
Team Standing
Team W Pts. Opts
Bluffton High ....7 2 378 282
Bluffton College ...2 4 215 259
and
and
Mr.
and
Saturday evening on
Paul Winegardner
Mrs. Ed. Althauser called
Mr. and
Sunday evening at the Homer Lung
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lugibihl and
family and Miss Lois Long were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Younkman and daugh
ters.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huber called
Tuesday
Miss
Howard
noon at
Mr. and
daughters called Friday evening.
at the Glen Huber home.
Nellie Huber and Mrs.
Smith called Friday after
the Wm. Lugibihl home,
Mrs. Wayne Lugibihl and
Sunday visitors in the Willard
Jennings home were: Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Gratz, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Binkley and daughters, Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Wingate, Mr. and Mrs. Clair
Huber and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Zimmerman and daughter. Mr. and
Mrs. Avery Watt called Monday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Montgomery
and son were Saturday visitors in
the Wm. Lugibihl home.
Mrs. Cora Huber spent last week
with her sister, Mrs. Arthur Yoakum
who has been ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Joy Huber called
Sunday afternoon on Mr. and Mrs.
David Holman.
Mrs. Paul Winegardner and son
called at the Mrs. Cora Huber home
Sunday evening.
playing stellar ball, and the outcome
of tilts between the two schools indi
cate they are of about the same
calibre.
At Findlay, Defiance beat the Oil
ers, 43 to 33, but last week on the
Defiance court Findlay turned the
tables by copping a 28 to 26 decision
from the Yellow Jackets.
Tri-State will bring an impressive
team here, and the Hoosier outfit al
ways plays ball on a par with that
expected of Indiana teams.
Bluffton High will find Carey a
strong foe. Last year. Carey had
one of the finest teams in this sec
tion and many veterans have been
retained from the squad that reached
the quarter-finals in the 1940 sec
tional tournament, won by Bluffton.
Milner was the star of Wilber
force play with 13 points.
Bluffton made 17 field goals and
nine free throws, as compared with
13 fielders and five charity tosses
scored by the visitors.
Last week’s game with Wilberforce
was the first Bluffton start since the
Christmas holidays.
In a fast preliminary, the Bluffton
reserves shaded a St.
pendent team, 34 to 33.
Bluffton
Ramseyer .. .........
Heiks
Reichenbach -............
Radulovich
Yoder
Holcomb .............
Truax ..........
Th utt ______
Lehman
Wenger
IjOganbill
Totals ....
Wilberforce
SHORT SPORTS
Mt. Cory is setting the pace in the
Hancock county cage league, with an
unblemished record in three games...
Against Arlington last week the Mt.
Cory crew had a tight squeeze by
emerging on the
28 to 27 count....
long end of
SIDE GLANCES
Cridersville’s Roger Phillips now
has scored 278 points in 12 games, an
average of 23 per game... .Last week
he got 31 points as Cridersville won
from Buckland, 72 to 34, the team’s
11th victory of the season... .Bluffton
High tried a new departure in scor
keeping Tuesday night against Wapa
koneta, with Miss Theola Steiner,
Women’s physical education director,
marking the points ..Findlay High
has won 14 straight games from Fos
toria, the last win coming last week
by a score of 41 to 19 Ottawa
Ihiblic last Friday walloped Columbus
Grove, 44 to 34 Findlay college
grabbed a 28 to 26 victory from De
fiance at Defiance .... They reversed
the tables on the Yellow Jackets who
earlier in the season had beaten
Findlay at Findlay, 43 to 33
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all the friends
and neighbors for their kindness and
sympathy extended in the illness and
death of our beloved brother, Wm.
Joseph Rayl also Rev. Kauffman,
who officiated and all those assist
ing in any way at the funeral, and
also those sending flowers.
Mary Jane and John C. Rayl
Not the Pattern
The stars and stripes in George
Washington’s coat of arms was not
the pattern for the first flag design.
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After losing two heart-breaking
contests by a total margin of five
points, Bluffton High cagers broke
back into the winning column Tues
day night by trouncing Wapakoneta,
46 to 34,at the local gymnasium.
In a rigorous week of play, the
Pirates lost their first decision of
the season, 39 to 42, at Celina last
Friday then were edged
shire, 36 to 34, here on
night
The Pirates evened the count in
circuit competition, however, by
crushing Wapakoneta, 46 to 34, after
a slow start.
Bluffton’s attack was sputtering
badly in the first quarter against the
Indians and the period ended with
Wapakoneta on the long end of a 12
to 5 score.
Better ball was played in the sec
ond stanza, and with only a minute
remaining the Dillermen went out in
front, 19 to 17. Before the quarter
was over, however, Wapakoneta came
at 19-all, then
to 19
back to knot the count
took the advantage 21
time.
Marys inde-
Honors were even at
intermission, 18-all.
In the third stanza,
sawed back
Bluffton High Wins One, Loses Two
In Rigorous Week Of Cage Competition
by Will
Saturday
was par
the local
Bluffton's loss to Celina
ticularly disappointing to
crew for in addition to representing
their first setback of the season it
also was the team’s initial Western
Buckeye league contest.
at half-
was
The third quarter
matched all the way, with
oneta out in front, 31 to 30, as the
gun sounded.
A whirlwind Bluffton assault in
the fourth period gave the Pirates a
decisive victory as they racked up
16 points while holding their foes tb
three, all of which were made on
free throws. In direct contrast all
of Bluffton’s scoring in the final
stanza was on field goals.
At Celina, two evenly matched
teams put on a thrilling show
left the final outcome in doubt
the final gun cracked, and
Dogs won, 42-39
Somewhat tired by a rigorous week
of cage play, Bluffton was unable to
match strength with Willshire Satur
day night, and the visitors exercised
their old jinx to win, 36 to 34.
In the contest the lead changed
hands five times, and the Pirates
threatened thruout the closing min
utes.
Willshire led 10 to 6 at the quar
ter, but Bluffton was out in front at
halftime, 20 to 18. A strong rally
by the visitors near the close of the
third quarter gave the team a 29 to
25 edge over Bluffton.
Bluffton’s fourth-stanza rally was
a real thriller. With Willshire lead
ing 31 to 25, the Pirates worked to
within two points, a 34 to 32 score.
The visitors then added a free throw
to lead 35 to 32, but Beidler’s field
goal—his third of the last quarter—
brought the Pirates to within one
point of tying the score. Bluffton’s
hopes were dashed in the final sec
onds, however, as Willshire added a
free throw, again widening the lead
to two points.
Bluffton
Russ Gratz 3
Beidler 3
Rich Gratz 2
Cooney 1
Clark 0
Fisher 2
Howe 2
Totals 14
Willshire 14
closely
Wapak-
Bluffton
Rus Gratz 2
Rich Gratz 2
Beidler 2
Clark 0
Cooney 1
Schmidt 0
Fisher „______ 4
Howe 2
Totals ............... 13
Celina ......... ......... 18
that
until
Bull
the
the lead see-
and forth, but Celina
held the edge at the close of the
quarter, 33 to 28.
Things appeared black in the ea-ly
minutes of the fourth quarter when
Celina went out in front, 33 to 28,
and again 37 to 29. Bluffton tallied
to pull up within three points 40 to
37 as playing time ticked away, but
Celina managed to hold to that ad
vantage thru the final minute of
play, andSrthe Pirates lost their first
game of the year.
Bluffton
Beidler .... ............... 1
Rich Gratz 2
Russ Gratz ................ 6
first
time,
thc
Bluffton set the pace in
quarter leading 8 to 2 at
and 8 to 6 at the close of the period.
the halftime
one
Cooney 4
Fisher ................ ......... 5
Clark ................. _____ 0
Herrmann 0
Totals 20
Wapakoneta 15
The two mistakes most liable to
cause inconvenience later which
made when farmsteads are wired
electricity is failure to provide
enough convenience outlets where
equipment can be attached and fail
ure to provide branch circuits which
will be needed when the amount of
equipment used is increased.
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PAGE
Earn Bluffton
High Grid Letters
Fourteen Bluffton High gridders
received letters Friday afternoon at
an assembly meeting in the school
auditorium.
Of the 14, seven were seniors and
seven were juniors. Bob Watkins,
senior backfield ace, was elected hon
orary captain by the team following
the close of the season.
Those receiving the emblems were:
Fisher, Watkins, Santschi, Stettler,
Newlan, Fett and Martin, seniors
Cooney, Schmidt, R. Gratz, Augs
burger, Deppler, Weiss and Howe,
juniors.
Presentation of the letters was
made by Faculty Manager Sidney C.
Stettler.
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