Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1932 Page: 3 of 8
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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
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Sweet Revenge
THE FEATHERHEADS
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*«V7' OU don’t say,” Miss Lexy ex-
* ploded. rising so quickly she
literally rained scissors, thread and
emery hag upon the carpet. ‘‘Did you
ever in all your life? I shorely nev-
er did.”
“No, sir,” said the Widow Lane,
chuckling. “That Copley boy has run
away with Damaris, one of the danc-
in’ Reeves twins, shore enough. I
just stopped by to tell his mother.
The Reeves girl’s stepfather is that
cut up he cried in the telling. Said
he got the blame, same as for the
stage-dancing, and him as innocent
as a babe unborn.”
‘‘Lying, as usual.” Miss Lexy com-
mented. ‘‘The twins would be
quietly at home if he hadn’t fooled
away the nice money Tom Reeves,
poor fellow, left his widow. She’s
one of those smart fools—I tried to
warn her against Jack Ross, being
a church-sister, but she paid no at-
tention. So she married him and he
used all her money, and it was sin-
ful hard on Damaris and Doris.
Course they took to dancin’. They
had to do something for their living.”
“Ain’t heard tell—yit. Let you
know when I do,” Widow Lane said
grumpily, whereat Miss Lexy coun-
tered. “Needn’t trouble, I’ll see that
child in about half a jiffy—”
“What for?” the widow demanded.
Miss Lexy, already bonneted,
nodded toward the door, with a
“Come on.” But outside, she slid
through the side gate, almost run-
ning towards the short cut leading
to the Ross home.
Sliding in ghost-like, instinct guid-
ed her to Doris—who had-found sanc-
tuary in the playroom, where in
front of a big clouded mirror, she was
essaying a new step.
“I’m glad you—know,” Doris told
her. “Dammy wanted to tell you—
but they had to hurry so, Mr. Ross
was simply dreadful—talked about
kidnaping. We are not of age—
won’t be for a year. We’ve been
paying him to leave us alone since we
went to work. Says now he means to
keep me here and save the cook’s
wages—”
“He cain’t!” Miss Lexy exclaimed.
Doris smijed wanly, gulped and re-
plied: “But he can. Mother made
him our guardian—I can’t get work
without his consent. Besides—I can’t
get away—he has locked up my danc-
ing, my jewels—three silver dollars
is all the money I have in the world.
Sid had so little I couldn’t let Dam-
my go to him empty-handed. So—I’ll
grit my teeth and bear it for the
year, rather than give him three parts
of what I earn—if I were free—”
“You’re goin’ to be free in short
order,” Miss Lexy interrupted. “Come
with me right now. Time somebody
took Mr. .Tack Ross in hand—and I’m
the person to do it—with a little help
from the good Lord, and Tommy
Woodley,” the last under her breath.
“C6me just as you are—fetch noth-
ing but your music,” Miss Lexy or-
dered very low, setting her back
against the door. She heard from
the front Jack Ross laying down the
law furiously to his weeping wife. In-
stantly she set her black hat upon
Doris’ golden head, huddled the girl
into her own prim jacket, and, walk-
ing in front of her, went to the back
door undiscovered. There she whis-
pered: “Run your best to my house.
You know the way. Here’s the key.
Lock up—tight—and open to nobody.”
Five minutes later she had gained
the highway. The first passing mo-
torist was glad to take her straight
to the country town. There she di-
vided an hour between the bank, the
courthouse and the law office of
Bryce & Woodley, whence she rode
home in a rather extravagant car,
with Tommy himself at the wheel.
Tommy talked but little and
chuckled a lot on the way home.
“Thinking over the case,” he ex-
plained to Aunt Lexy. “Puzzle? Not
a bit. There’s sevecal ways to win
it—question is—which is best?”
Tommy was sudden—after the man-
ner of youth. But he had the grace
to wait until after a late but lovely
dinner was out of the way before
saying anything startling. Then, in
the warmth, glow and perfume of a
June afternoon, he stepped behind
Doris’ chair, leaned over her, and
said, with the least touch of tremor:
“Honey, I’ve loved you nineteen years
at least—since I saw you first, you
know—so if only you can tolerate me
it will be a joy to look after you all
the rest of our lives.”
“But—Mr. Ross—my guardian?”
Doris stammered.
“Mr. Ross knows his danger—pris-
on if it were proved in court how he
had looted your father’s estate, of
which your mother had life-use, but
which he assumed to be hers in fee.
But we don’t want to send him tjiere
—no blots on the family record if we
can sidestep it."
“Is that really how it stands?” said
Doris wonderingly.
He smiled down at her, saying:
“Say you’ll marry me, darling—say
it right now, do it right now. We can
go get ^the license and find a parson
in an hour at the longest Aunt Lexy
shall be our bridesmaid and Judge
Bryce our best man. First thing after
that, we’ll serve notice to vacate to
Mr. Ross—tell him to go quickly
while the going is good. That will
leave nice quarters for Dammy and
Sid—they love country living as we
love town atmosphere. You’ll go with
us, of course. Aunt Lexy.”
“For a lad, you do talk right down
sensible,” Miss Lexy said with a
chuckle.
When Husbands Slip
THIS woman’s husband was run down, irri-
table, unhappy. She didn’t know what was the
matter with him. It worried her. She was
afraid he would lose his job.
Her mother-in-law suggested she buy
Fellows’ Syrup and see that her husband took
it regularly every day.
She saw it build up his vitality, ease the
nerve strain, pep up vigor and appetite. She
recommends it now to all her friends.
Ask for genuine Fellows’ Syrup at your
druggist.
FELLOWS’ SYRUP
Outlines Six Steps
for Land Use Plan
“Much lower prices for what he
sells, higher prices for what he buys,
and higher taxes—these are the up-
per and nether millstones which are
slowly grinding the life out of rural
America,” said Prof. M. L. Wilson of
Montana State College in a radio
address, over an NBC network in the
program of the National Advisory
Council on Radio in Education. “For-
tunately, there is a way out,” Wil-
son stated, “but the way demands a
reversal of the basic land policy of
the nation.”
The speaker presented six steps in
a program for land utilization.
First in the list of six fundamen-
tals suggested by Professor Wilson
is the repeal of the Homestead Act
and the enactment of a new national
land policy bill which, he pointed
out, is essential because there is no
more land in the public domain suit-
able fdr farming and home building.
“Secondly, each state should clas-
sify its lands, develop a state-wide
land use plan and institute a pro-
gram of action,’’ Professor Wilson
advised. The third step is that poor
land, as determined by land utiliza-
tion studies, should be taken out of
production.
Additional steps in the plan pre-
sented by Professor Wilson include
the modification of land' taxes and
reorganization of local government;
the withdrawal of poor lands from
production to solve the surplus prob-
lem. Suggesting how this might be
carried out, he explained the “Do-
mestic Allotment Plan” which calls
for the issuance of certain allotments
to farmers to grow the kinds of
crops they have been growing, the
farmer to receive tariff protection on
the alloted acres. Finally, Wilson
recommended part time farming and
the decentralization of industry.
To prevent men who are farming
unsuitable land from joining the
ranks of the unemployed, Professor
Wilson stated that industry must
adopt a new policy coupling industry
with small farm agriculture. Small
farms, located near industrial plants,
he said, would not produce the great
food staples of which there is a sur-
plus.
Radio Experts Not Needed
Anyone would be able to send dot
and dash code messages by radio or
telegraph by using an invention re-
ported perfected by Jacques Detrui-
seux, French inventor. Obviating the
need of a trained operator, a series
of knobs turned as on a radio receiv-
ing set would be turned to spell out
the messages. The letters are indi-
cated at points on the knot) and the
dot-dash transmission is automatic.
Mule on Snowshoes
To help him carry pack for his
owner who is a trapper 600 miles
north of the northern mining town
of Sherridon, Man., a mule owned by
W. Klonwick has been taught to use
snowshoes. The snowshoes are about
eighteen inches in diameter and the
mule refuses to walk in snow with-
out them.
Heard at a Party
“How old would you say Madge
Decolifay is?”
“She says she’s twenty-six, but I
imagine the age she gives is like her
gowns, cut as low as possible.”
Nobody spends in hard times, but
it is absolutely the time to build
yourself a home if you need one.
Old-Fashioned Remedy
for Economic Illness
Some old-fashioned remedies for
depression are being brought out in-
to the open by the long-suffering pub-
lic. Here’s one worth a place in the
Hall of Fame, contributed by Mrs.
Lydia 0. Larson of Knoxville, Tenn.,
to Collier’s Weekly:
“I am sick and tired,” snaps she,
“of hearing all our troubles blamed
on congress, Wall Street, tariffs, dis-
tribution system, etc. The germ of
our sickness is cultivated in our
homes by ourselves. A little more
cooking, scrubbing and sweeping, at
the sacrifice of a few hours of
bridge, won’t hurt any woman. A
little less gambling and some addi-
tional leg-work isn’t going to make
any man poorer, either. More back-
bone and less wishbone is what we
need. I will close now, as I have to
look for a washboard I discarded
about two years ago.”
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10 Concord Grape, $2.
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and bowels; safe, harmless. 25c a box
(stamps). Clayton Lab., Washington, D. C.
Veteran’s Manual, Information benefits,pen-
sions, compensation, insurance, etc. Gov.
positions & land rights explained.Endorsed
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Answer—What do you think this
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Watchful Waiting
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back?”
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Lane, Ella E.; Plageman, Cecile & Plageman, Annie Louise. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1932, newspaper, June 2, 1932; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1148280/m1/3/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.