The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1931 Page: 2 of 8
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Copyright By KATHLEEN NORRIS and MARY PILKFORD
FAIRBANKS.
TWELFTH INSTALLMENT
Everything all right?" Joe said
jy and i.
Maggie Johnson, daughter of a at Maggie.
letter-carrier, as a stock girl in The
Mack, a San Francisco Five-and-Ten,
falls in love with "Joe Grant," who
also works there. His real name is
Joseph Grant MacKenzie Merrill, son
of the owner of the store. He wants
to leant the business from the bot-
I anxiously and quickly, looking keenly
at
Thank you, yes. It was a mistake.
We're just goin' home."
"Quite a fam'ly party," said Chess
Rivers sneeringly, coming up.
And then the nightmare began
again—Maggie could never remem-
ber exactly how. 'Lizabeth tuned on
torn. Because he fears that Maggie; Chess and told him that never as
will be frightened by his wealth and long as she lived would she go out
social position, he does not reveal his
true identity, even when he proposes
to her.
Joe fir v i'y tells his father about
Maggie. She is invited to a dinner
at a fashionable restaurant, where
ahe discovers that Joe is not a poor
young man at all. She thinks that
ahe has been deliberately tricked. She
starts to leave in mortification when
again with a man who was a boot-
legger, and blamed it on the girls
who went with him, and Chess said
something quick and ugly about the
diced; there was a fat little bottle
of cream, and Maggie had left half
the mixture of an omelette waiting
in a yellow bowl.
'Lisabeth was the one who first
found time to pick up the newspaper,
and her involuntary horrified "Oh,
God!" caused her raotner, startled, to
join her at the stove. They read it
together.
It was all there. Joseph Merrill's
Eicture, on the front page, was em-
ellished, in a rococo border, with a
sketch representing two silhouetted
youths fighting in a courtroom, with
horrified women fleeing in every
direction.
"It'll just about kill Maggie!" said
'Lizabeth, aghast.
"Go on readin,' Liz."
" '. . . young Merrill, who, as far
as could be ascertained, has been
masquerading, since his departure
from college, as a day laborer, and
who, according to reports, has ac-
quired an enviable ecquaintance with
the city's' underworld, was detained
harder here."
Her shamed, hopeless voice died
away.
"So I guess I'd better do these
dishes," she said.
"He'll forget you before he's past
the Heads!" her mother predicted, in
the awful silence that followed.
"You can't depend on them rich
people, dearie," her father, sorrowful
and sympathetic, said timidly.
"Maggie, they just go him to say
he'd do that so's to break it off! '
'Lizabeth said indignantly.
Maggie looked at them all apetheti-
eally. "I know all that. I know he
loves me now, but that they're going
to kill it. if they can. I know his ship
pulls out in twenty minutes and that
Beer Turned Poet
Into Flutist
I'll never see him again," she said a good night's sleep."
STOMACH TROUBLES
HEADACHE AND
DIZZINESS
If your stomach is sick, you are
sick all over. If you can't digest your
food, you lose strength, get nervous san ANTONIO, March 12. (UP),
and feel as tired when you get up How wine and beer consumed at a
as when you went to bed.
For 10 yealrs Tanlac has restored
to health and activity many thou-
sands who suffered just as you do.
Mr. Daniel Vinciguerra, of 6200
Stiles St., Philadelphia, Pa., says: "I
have not had a dizzy spell or a head-
ache since taking Tanlac. My nerves
are in better shape and I can enjoy
Johnsons not being able to put on ; without bail and spent the night in but it doesn't seem to work, for me.
airs, with Maggie Johnson running j the city jail. At an early hour this If Jo<
simply. "But—" ahe glanced from
one to the other— "with things here
like they are," she said, "and Ma like
she is, and Pa like he is, and you like
you are, Liz—what can I do? I've
worked, I've tried to make myself
look good, and I've gone to night
school, and I've lived the ideal life—
around the way she did with
millionaire—Chess had recognized
Joe that very first day, at the cot-
tage, because he used to see Joe at
ahe sees her poorly dressed father ¡ the boxing matches.
and mother coming toward the . Then Chess was lying on the dirty
dinner party. marble floor, with blood on his
I ine cuy jan. ai an eariy nour mis n Joe had been what I thought he,
a morning, efforts to reach his father was, we could have climbed up ttv ,
at the country place at Elmingdale gether. But he wasn't, and 1 guess
were met with the' continued on page his mother's right—I guess the time
four column three . . " 'Lizabeth is coming when he'll think of me only
Let Tanlac help you, too. It cor-
rects the most obstinate digestive
troubles—relieves gas, pains in the
stomach and bowels, restores appe-
tite, vigor and sound sleep.
Tanlac is made of roots, harks and
herbs. Costs less than 2 cents a dose.
Get a bottle from your druggist to-
day. Your money back if it doesn't
help you. (adv.)
They explain that Maggie's sis-
ter. Liz, is at night court with her
friend, who has been arrested for
speeding.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY-
"You'll say nothing and you'll do
nothing," she said, in a voice that
silenced all five of her hearers.
"You've done enough, Joe Grant. We
aren't—your sort. We don't belong
cheek, and Joe was looking quite
tall and calm and proud, but a little
breathless, with two policemen hold-
ing him. And as Chess, still shout-
ing, got to his feet, Joe jerked loose
and sent him spinning again, and that
time the policemen gripped Joe again
and walked him away, and a third
policeman began to shove Chess
roughly out of the room. The clerk
took the Johnsons out through a bijr
Notice of Election
read rapidly. as a girl he knew whose mother It is ordered by the City Council
And suddenly, in their midst, was wasn't very strong, and whose father of the City of Caldwell, Texas, that
Pop. He had come home for his was a postman, and whose sister
early Saturday lunch; he was as ran with a bootlegger that got us all
shocked as themselves. pretty nearly into jail!"
"Where's Maggie?" he asked ap- She did not cry, she spoke evenly
prensively. "Did she see the paper ?" and gently, almost without ex-
"She's at the store, of course," Ma ; pression. But at the finish she
answered disapprovingly. j reached up suddenly to the shelf
"The store was closed to-day. above the sink, and snatched from _
They're puttin' in the automat. She its. position the ideal leaflet, with ¡:s for a period of two years
must—" Pa said vaguely—"she ¡ cryptic message: "The way to begin John D. Godby and Oscar Ellis are
must of went out!" ¡living the ideal lime is—to betrin." j hereby appointed presiding judges of
"Maggie wouldn't never do any- ¡ Maggie looked at it a minute, and ¡ said election, and they shall due re-
an election be held within and for said
City of Caldwell, on the first Tues-
day in April. A. D. 1931. the same
being the 7th day of April, for the
purpose of electing a City Secretary,
Tax Collector and Tax Assessor, a
City Marshal, a City Treasurer, a
City Attorney, and two Aldermen,
meeting of the German singing
society here in 1872 gave Sydney
Lanier, famous Southern poet, the in-
spiration that led him to become re-
nowned as a flute player was related
here at a dinner during which a tab-
let commemorating the poet's resi-
dence here was unveiled.
Mayor C. M. Chambers told the
story. Lanier went to the society
meeting as guest of Mayor W. C.
A Thielepape, a close friend. Lanier
was ambitious to play the flute but
hud practiced little.
When called upon to nlay, despite
his almost total ignorance of the
flute, Lanier arose and suddenly
found himself complete master of the
instrument, Mayor Chambers said.
The tablet commemorating the
poet's residence here in 1872 and 1873
was given the city by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
—here, in a room like this. And we ¡ Fe 8y swinging door, and they were ; thing—des-prit " 'Lizabeth was j her face worked oddly. Then, quite ! turn make thereof ás required by
do belong together. I'm not much ; m /r,® d81;*, street again. ! beginning, when Maggie herself came quietly and composedly, she tore it I law.
you've been laughing at me all this
time, and I guess anyone who under-
stood what was going on would
laugh at me!—but I wouldn't be any-
thing. I wouldn't even have a right
to try to be ideal—if I wouldn't stick
to my own folks— I don't care—"
Her eyes were blazing, her level, piti-
less voice bored through him—"I
don't care," said Maggie, trembling,
"what you thing of us! My father
and mother belong to me, and my
sister does, and I'm as glad, Joe,"
she ended passionately, tears spilling
from her eyes new, but her mouth
steady, "I'm as glad to be done with
you as you are with me!" She turned
to Mr. Merrill, who had sat with
a fan of bills open in his fingers,
watching her with a sort of breath-
less concentration. It was almost as
if he were afraid that she would not
dare say what she was so rapidly and
furiously saying, and as if he liked
to hear her.
She took three of the bills, folded
them, shut them into her flat worn
parse.
"That's thirty," she said to him
with a nod. "I owe you thirty. Thank
you. It won't be more than that.
Don't—" and, with a glance of utter
contempt toward Joe, she dropped
her voice to confidence—a confidence
that George Merrill, under the cir-
cumstances, found infinitely touch-
ing. between his humblest little em-
ployee and himself— "Don't let Joe
follow us, Mr. Merrill," said Maggie.
"I mean it. I'm never going to see
him again. I'm done I"
Blindly, swiftly, hugging her
father tightly to her on one side, hold-
Sher mother's hand tight on the
er, Maggie went with them from
the room. She reclaimed her shabby
coat, and the three went through
the foyer of the big hotel and out in-
to the cool evening darkness together.
Maggie signalled a taxicab, and they
all got in.
'N
All a nightmare. All a nightmare
And yet, as the endless night wore ; She came in quietly, through the
by, she began to be afraid she would kitchen door, and stood looking at
never wake up. them as if she were surprised to find
They got home, somehow—partly them all there together. Her plain
walking, partly in a street car. And little new suit was brushed and trim
they sat in the kitchen, and Maggie —the homespun upon whiah Maggie's
made tea. heart had been set for weeks before
"Maggie( for goodness' sake, how she really dared to spend the nec-
did you feel when you learned that essary dollars on it. Her cheeks were
Joe jerked loose and se nt him spinning again.
your friend was really Joe Merrill? I
never will get that straight," Baid
Liz.
"Oh, all right."
"Maggie, if you get him we're fix-
ed for life," said Liz eagerly.
"I won't," she assured her sister.
"Maggie—why do you act so funny
about it? As far as my shaming you
to-night goes, why, 1 didn't do any- j ,h ,nt,ther
thing that all the girls of his crowd : '"There wj
aren't doing every day!" Liz plead- j t f .
red. but her beautiful eyes looked
tired and were set in delicate
shadows.
"Fewen"s sakes, where've you
been? You had Ma and me worried,"
'Lizalietb said.
"Well," Masgie expanded quietly,
"I went to see Mrs. Merrill."
"What'j' do that for?" demanded
into tiny scraps and fluttered them
into the wet sink. And after that she
walked slowly from the room, and
they heard her bedroom door close
behind her.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
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Dr. N. B. McNutt
DENTIST
Office Over Harvey's
Garage
CALDWEI TEXAS
C. E. CROMARTIE.
Mayor, City oí Caldwell I
Attest: E. Morgan, City Secretary.
(4-3-adv.)
| Classified Ads get desired results.
Bible of Asa
Mitchell Added To
Rare Collection
Permanent Waves
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Finger Waves, Shampoos, and
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PHONE 187
as something I wanted to!
! talk to her about, Ma" Maggie said
"Now, it's all right. Ma," she said, j ed eageriy. "And if he makes that an her
in a breathless, light voice. ^\®Hlexcuse for breaking his engage •What'*' The auestion wn shut
get Liz out, and shell stop running iment j , 1 he q,Jtstl°n shot
with Chess .after this night's work,] ..f.ii 8U him" said Ma heavilv. ,? a .. u • , ,
you'll see, and may pick up some one i ..jj ¡n th¡M kitchen he sat la^t ' , girl said pimply And
who's worth something." Sunday ^emoon and tole me with ¿he *at Jow? at th? table and leaned
"Oh. dearie, I feel so awful that hiT own mouth " | her forehead wearily on her hand.
M. .nd me foUomi you! But I'm "'VoTd™?h... to .u, him!" Liz¡ *£ "Xní'n " Tbi>«h
' S"1' on«, .bout her. Un-, he,¡ J£L,2"""h """"
The nightmare went on and on. i:_a—.•— *_ t>_ ! "Oh, yes I did. I told her where
They were in a horrible smelly wide
place of benches and spittoons and
harsh lights, and her mother was. 'Lizabeth. Their topic
crying noisily, and Pop pale and dis-1 anal , and debate.
heveljed and very quiet, was asking M£8 j0hn80n and her 0]deBt daugh-
her, for God s sake, to stop. Maggie ^er sjept iate t¿,e next morning. They
was pleading with a clerk, asking | .cached the kitchen together at about
him to hurry a certain case, an I
good-naturedly enough, he did hurry
it, and almost immediately a little
door at the right opened, and
'Lizabeth and Chess Rivers and an-
other girl and man came out.
The instant she saw her daring,
pretty, independent sister frightened
and tearful and white-faced, Maggie's
heart seemed to turn liquid, and she
ran across the courtroom and held
out her arms, and 'Lizabeth caught
her, and they cried together. And
when the Judge looked down over his
desk, disapproving of this confusion,
Maggie, with her face wet and her
lips trembling and her little arm
linked tight in 'Lizabeth' , was look-
ing imploringly up. A policeman
ranging the prisoners, told Maggie
to go back and sit down, but Maggie
only burst out the more imploring-
ly:
"Oh, please—please let my sister
come home! She's never run with
this kind of a man before— she isn't
like you think—my father and
mothe'll die if my sister has to go
jail."
somebody rapped, and Maggie was
to jc
Sr,
silent, and the murmuring and glanc-
ing at papers went on between the
Judge and the clerk. And then, quite
suddenly, His Honor looked down
•gain at Maggie, unsmilingly but
very kindly, and Chess had to pay
one hundred dollars' bail, and no-
body else had to pay anything at all,
and the charge against Elizabeth
n was dismissed.
■missed!
, were blundering toward the
hall and the street, between the al-
most empty brown wood benches, and
d brown wood gates, and
ins, under the harsh lights,
suddenly Joe Grant—only he
Joe Grant anymore!—c<*me
with an important-look-
of police, and came up
together
ten o'clock, having had not more than
five hours of rest and begain at once
on the leisurely akfast that Mag-
gie, as usual, had left ready to heat.
There were cups on the table, and
coffee in the pot, and bread
mother and me talked it all over
"Maggie!" It was the older sister,
"Don't he like you any more?"
"He says he loves me," she said,
dully.
"Oh. Maffgie—fewen's sakes! Joe
Merrill!"
'"And because ne loves me," Mag-
gie said deliberately, "he's going to
said this morning for Japan. He sees
Saturday before Easter the
Brethren Ladies will hold a sale of
dressed chicken, sandwiches, cakes,
candy and other good eatables in Mr.
_ . , Charlie Jancik's store. Your patron-
*a# -Hat he'd only hurt ine and make it Hfre will be appreciated. 4 !-<• adv.)
AUSTIN. March 12. (UP)—The
old family Bible of Asa Mitchell, one
of the "Three Hundred" who accom-
panied Stephen F. Austin on his pil-
grimage to Texas, has been placed
in the University of Texas library.
The buckskin bound volume is the
fourth in a collection of Bibles
brought to Texas by the original
settlers.
They were collected by Mrs. Mattie
Austin Hatcher, library archivist.
The other Bibles belonged to William
Stafford, Josiah H. Bell and John
Little. Bell was in charge of the
colony while Austin went to Mexico
City.
Mitchell's Bible probably was
bound by that pioneer himself. He
established the first tannery in Texas
and Mrs. Hatcher thinks it possible
Mitchell may even have killed and
skinned the buck himself, as well as
dressed the hide which protects the
volume.
Mitchell's Bible may have been
read to Davy Crockett. Crockett and
¿2 other men spent the night at
Mitchell's home in Washington coun-
ty on his way io the hostoric battle
of the Alamo, where he became one
of Texas' Martyrs.
Asa Mitchell himself was a ^ijrner
of the Declaration of Independence,
a commissioner <«f safety for the te-
public, and later, president of the
vieilence committee to put down
Unionism in Texas. Nathan Mitchell,
a son, fought at San Jacinto, and
later was an interpreter in negotia-
tions with the Mexicans. William
Mitchell, another son. was killed in
the Mier Expedition.
Mitchell became (juite wealthy and
in his last years lived in Kan
Antonio. Mrs. John Pritchett of
Austin and San Marcos, a lineal
descendant deposited the Bible in the
library.
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m
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week, phone 62. We will
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gardener.
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