The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 2

tHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929 te ES - HUNDRED TILLERS [SE GLANS - - - - By George clark _||CHANGES IN ROADS iz BLAGK P IGEO (SINGING FIREMAN z GUESTS OFSERVICE | IMPROVE SPOTS IN| HR iae Tay NER Servic. ne. dg ANNE AUSTIN my)_| 9 HERE ON FINISH 7 OF 17,000-MILE TRIP Pictures of Dakota Beauty Program by Dropping Some sprawed bosieath the window ef | tiny Of ttn ef the tutte: Yee [ning between win and Siete, Waal) haba aie ee us Carte ee = i il sao MRS. BORDEN, Borden’s es- | speak to Mr. RicMann as soon as Tget Mrs. Pellow’s answer came prompt- ; RELINK Wo. 48 AT MANDAN) ov eaternaciT4 DUBOIS. | tng, sou wee inducing his ize uarway ar Dewan Seas oer MER betwoed O18 ee" : CLUB AT BIG DINNER WORST CONDITION THIS HAS HAPPENED she walked down the stairs and out of | terrupted. “And the time clock will Highway Commission Reroutes} Rura LESTER, his secretary, |mean! Why didn't I think of that |ing women, but a visitor in the build. | Melaney Drops in From Billings, McMANN, detective sergeant, | seen them a dozen times, at least.|finished her question breathlessly, — Melaney, the “singing fire. en Borden was infatuated; and | vestigation, young lady! Why not |9:25 Friday night.” | : 3 — ~ ae a a Rotary Gives Farmer Friends an Evening in the Realm of Pep. “HANDSOME HARRY” BOR- | the lobby at that time?” my words! Join in Revel of Song and See finds his body Monday morning before? ‘That's just when the Uttle|ing, come out of the stairway door! Where Schumann-Heink Stretches for Others questions the following suspects: | They're throygh work at nine. I'l] while her heart beat fast. chon tranged wife and mother of his | back to the office—” ly: “No, miss, I'd take my Bible/™an” of the Northern Pacific. spent TOLD OF DAIRY STATION fT ‘i JAC K HAYWARD, Ruth’s | make inquiries yourself? Mrs. Pellow, * * * Superintendent Watt of Federal By Tapping ne Trail fiance, whose office is across the |the grand old dowager in charge of} But. Ruth persisted, describing |! E fivante at’ Mandan Outside City Five Miles Are narrow airshaft from Borden's. the cleaning women, must be in the | Martha Manning accurately. Again xperiments a’ an a McMann’s belief in Jack’s guilt | building now. She comes in about/she received the same positive de- Gained Elsewhere is strengthened by his discovery | two o'clock, I think, and acts as ajnial. “There wasn't any such woman Advises Ice Wells sis that Jack’s Colt’s .38 is missing; | sort re ogepetir’ the aoe paar Friday night at the time by Jack’s own admission that he | cven before the c wom( . Although | chough roads already} P2,amed to the seventh floor Sat. [on. Let's have a go at her, darling.| “What about the stairs beside the have been designated to use up thc) uiday afternoon, and by the tes- | Now—eat every leaf of that salad, or | service elevator?” Jack thought to 7,500 miles which is the maximun:| {timony of elevator boys MICKY | Papa spank!” ask, and for a moment Ruth felt for the state highway system under| MORAN and OTTO PFLUGER. Ruth obeyed, but now and then a . at Mrs. Pellow's answer hope BILL COWAN, Jack's friend, un- | Puzzled frown knit her brows, and| But the present law, it is possible that , Jack’s 1» Pee hrocdline tlie epee HARRBOee ys Bah eles ices With a hundred farmers as its guests, the Rotary club put on one of its big events of the year, ‘ts Farm- ers’ night, at the Grand Pacific, Tuesday evening. ‘The farmers were brought in to be changes in existing routes will make} willingly tells McMann he heard : entertained by the club and keep up it possible for the highway depart-| Jack threaten Borden's life Sat- “What's the heavy thinking about, | way for a woman to get in or out of ment to add a few more miles wherc| Urday morning. honey?” Jack inquired at last. them stairs. The door’s kept locked acquaintance through social contact. More or less, members of the Rotary it is absolutely necessary. . McMann questions BENNY Ruth shook her head, as if to clear | after six, when the elevator man goes and the tillers, who were leaders in . At its recent meeting “tne highwa: SMITH, Borden’s office boy; |it of mists, “I—don't know. That's | off duty. No freight accepted after their communities, meet in the course fs q as commission approved changes in| ASHE, his manservant; MINNIE | the funny thing about it... . In fact, | six. of the year, but business is business i routes which will shorten them some-| CASSIDY and LETTY MILLER, | I'm not so much thinking as—listen-| When Ruth and Jack escaped from * and the club wanted a mingling to- what. Every time an existing road is} seventh floor scrubwomen, and | ing.’ \Mrs. Pellow’s own eager questions as gether in bulk and in a relaxed way. shortened one mile it becomes pos-| CLEO GILMAN, Borden’s dis- ** * to the progress of the investigation, * “The dinner was a frolicky sort of sible for the commission to add a| carded mistress, and JAKE eTistening?'” Spirit. messages?” Ruth said thoughtfully: “I think affair at the outset and between mile to a road somewhere elge with-| BAILEY, his bodyguard. dee te 4 iP ges?” that proves pretty conclusively; that | wood, San courses. Toy balloons and things of out exceeding the mileage fixed by] | MARTHAMANNING is brought | 78CK laughed, , Martha Manning was lying about Fri- i that sort had been placed at each law. into the case by Ruth’s clever de- “You needn't laugh!” Ruth pro-|day night, that she must have been | here. j plate and the farmers and business A saving of cight miles will be ef-| tective work. She swears she last | tested. “Dad did come to me in my|here Saturday afternoon instead—or | folks indulged in a spell of horseplay. fecteti_by dropping off that portion| saw Borden Friday night but ad- |dream last night and make me re- | how could her fingerprints have been floating these over the table, bom- of U. 8. highway No. 2, from Devils} mits phoning him three times | member the orchid-tinted letter. And | on the glass panel of the doors? { barding each other and now and then Lake to Churchs Ferry, and connect-| Saturday afternoon. When Mc- |I believe that letter is more impor-| “But if she was here Saturday how Fi puncturing some of the inflated ing Churchs Forry with No. 20, one] Mann pointblank accuses her of jtant than it seems now, or Daddy | could she have managed both her en- mile south of Webster. the murder she defies him to i trance and exit without being seen by - “The snoring in the air makes a feller sorta lazy.” wouldn’t have—” things with resultant loud reports asjing up herds. The idea is to help ‘2 + of gunfire. dairymen gradually, without great ex- A change in route No. 46, from] bring forward anyone who saw “It was your subconscious, getting | anyone? She's not a ghost, even if “If our kids did this,” said one route No. 9 through Enderlin to goon} her in the building Saturday. |in a chance to remind you of some- |she is almost as thin as one—oh!” and the county line one mile farther| Benny Smith bursts in upon them | thing you'd forgotten,” Jack explained |she broke off her spoken reflections pense. horny-handed tiller, “we'd tell em to} A second line of investigation is in ' roa And here we go and play like|crop and pasture expectation espe- north, will save one mile. - and hysterically confesses to the |casily. “But I'm glad, darling, that | with a sharp gasp. iy i ehildren ourselves.” cially in dairying. The ration pre- A saving of five miles will be made| murder. His confession is full of | you had your little visit with your| “Old subconscious working at last?” i “Yes, that’s so,” said his neighbor,|scribed for North Dakota in these ex- by changing the route of No. 48,| loopholes and they realize he is | father, even if it was only a dream. | Jack teased as the elevator door . also a farmer. “But it makes me fecl | periments is state-produced feeds, al- northwest from Mandan to connect} trying to shield Ruth, who he be- | He must have been a wonder—Colby | opened for them. 20 years younger.” falfa and silage, with oats, barley and | jwith U. S. No. 10 about four miles} lieves is to be arrested, Lester.” To Be Continued 4 : Forget Farm Relief corn and some bran and linseed oil} west of Mandan. As originally * ok OK “He was,” Ruth agreed. “But shut a Th abbas di sine’ d_ entertain- |°#Ke. planned it would have been a separ- NOW GONONERTEE maBianoee up now, Jack, and let my subcon-{ An idea at last. Don’t miss the ex- 3 eee nace. ee ene ‘ pe ae en ate route into the Morton county} 3} } s' scious work in . ‘That's what|citing ins! a ment went off in the spirit of 20 years Study Ice Well Possibilities eh CHAEVERESETE smn ee ting installment to follow. 7 younger. Time was turned back in its} The third activity of the station is 5 Ti Four miles would be saved by run-| “Well, darling,” Ruth said, after| ‘The girl frowned. Those poor, thin, q tide for the moment, the problems of |the construction and use of ice wells Each Employee's Time Must Be| _ Dour cures ‘ol ‘due north froma |she and Jack Hayward had deposited | tortured hands of Martha Mamalng's out : farm relief were forgotten for so long|for keeping cream sweet where not} Made Out in Detail, Show- | Sheyenne to route No. 57. lightly burdened trays upon a table}... What mute message had they her. 4 and the farmers cut loose in a care-|Teadily possible to make daily deliv- ¢ A saving of 10 miles would be ef- | in a-far corner of the cafeteria, “this | been trying, without Martha Man- thet : free mood. eries to the creamery. A hole eight! ing Work and Absence fected by extending route No. 21 west | has been a busy morning! Net result— | ning’s knowledge or consent, to get who was * ‘The dinner was built around a nice | feet square is sunk in the ground to to connect with Route 16 north of |a confession!” i across to her? And surely there had “boys” — tenderloin steak, with various other |® depth of 9% feet. Some pebbles are Signing the payroll will be more of | Marmarth, permitting route No. 39) “What!” Relief flared in the young | been something else—something she'd Pew in good things between the soup and! put on the botom and a double floor} = ee , to be dropped. insurance broker’s eyes. “Why didn’t |made a mental note of as Martha and coffee. While it was being disposed |covering is built over this. During ,@" important process in the state/ “Right miles would be saved by drop- | you tell me as soon as we met?” Manning talked, something appar- . Of, @ three-piece orchestra put on a|the cold spells of winter, several pails | highway department in the immediate | ping the routing of U. S. No. 2 from] Contrition sobered Ruth's vivid lit-| ently trivial. . program of standard selections and|0f water are poured into this when | future. Williston to a point west of Epping, |tle face. “Forgive me, darling! I've| “Come along, darling, if you want in between the gathering sang from bead is aged aa coed Efforts are being made to put into | and runing a a eth oe ae pra your hopes, just to dash them. | to see Mrs. Pellow!” Jack interrupted, a <isieAfepag aie ; y an 4 be gradually built up! vrroct at once the provisions of a bill to a connection wi — me ve it was just Benny—lying like the | just as Ruth felt she was on the verge} |. , & quartet composed of|to near the surface. In summer,; Lack of connections at the Can- darling ‘little ‘idiot~ that “he -is;be-}of receiving # clear, strong message | Visitors From Out of Town Be- accompanist: “Oh, what @ glorious voice! I wonder if that is George Humphreys, Art Arnot, Paul;}cream which must be kept on the | Passed by the recent legislative ses-| adian border would permit dropping | cause he thought McMann was going | from her subconscious mind. " j ‘Wright and Henry Halverson sang se-|dairy premises until convenient to! sion. It tells the highway, depart-|the routes from Crosby and Fortuna |to arrest me! I'll read you his whole| “Now it’s gone!” she reproached| fore Holiday Was Cut Off lections during the evening. deliver is put down on this ice in its ment how to keep its books with re-|to the Canadian line, making ® sav- |‘confession’—I took it down in short-|her future husband ambiguously, but Often | H Clell Gannon and Russell Reid|cans, after first allowing the animal|eard to paying its road employes and | ing of 14 miles. hand, at McMann’s request—when|she rose obediently. “Here's my fen Inconvenienced showed the gathering a lot of photo|heat to dissipate. _How long cream|@msking payments to contractors for] Twelve miles would be saved by | I've transcribed it. Of course Benny | check. You may as well get used to —_— slides of North Dakota scenery and| Will keep sweet in these ice wells Mr.|Work done on the roads. Since the | dropping the route from Bottineau to | was half delirious with fever, but I'll | paying for it, young man!” Mournful sounds heard in the state fauna. Some of these were snapped | Wait said he didn't know, as tests for bill carried an emergency clause and) Lake Metigoshe. ... never have a nobler compliment paid} It was good to breathe in deep capitol building these days may be ; around Bismarck, others.in the Bad|time had not been made, but # week |bccame effective as soon as it was} By'dropping the spur from route No. | me—” draughts of the sharp, cold air, to feel | ene of two things: é Lands, others around the Chalk |@nyhow. signed by the governor, the change is |9 to Manfred, four miles: would be} “you're a siren anda ctadie|the winter sunshine on their faces.| ‘They may be made by the March Buttes and some in the vicinities of| ‘The Mandan station was started in| being made as rapidly as possible. saved. snatcher,” Jack told her severely. It's | With mutual, unspoken consent, the | wind blowing aroui orne! Fargo and Minot. ‘The Roosevelt and!1927 said Supcrintendent Watt. ‘The{| The law requires that the records} Because of lack of further allowable | a good thing I'm going to marry you | two who had lived for two days under he outers Rethaenay be the the HT ranches were in the lot, also|first seeding was done on it in 1928.;Show the number of days worked by | mileage in the state system, the|/and withdraw you from circulation.|® dreadful shadow—a shadow which | moans and lamentations of capitol numerous scenes along the Little Mis-|Twelve Holstein cow: were brought in,|¢ach employe and the task at which | highway commission has been forced | Any other developments this morn- | might materialize into a prison cell| employes who recently were ordered i souri, some of them including George|one from Aberdeen, one from Ard-|he was engaged. Absences from duty |to reject five applications for state | ing?” for Jack Hayward—stood for two or urday afternoons. My Heart _ Will camping. *se) more, one from Ogden, Utah, and | 2150 must be noted on a permanent roads. These roads would be north) Smiling delightedly, the girl told | three minutes on the edge of the side- ‘one cies tnsued by Governor the mad~ € ‘Taylor Sets Wheels Going eight from Huntley, Montana, experi-|"ecord. Heretofore the highway de- | and south from Bishee, Towner coun- | ner sweetheart of Cleo Gilman's-stim- | walk, content npt-to talk, merely to | George F..Shafer after a conference more than a # 3.0. Tayh p t of the club,|™ent station. ‘There is one sire in partment has kept no record of this|ty, a road on’ the county line be-| ylating visit and its Mdictous effect | breathe cap with department heads. It wasn't ex- . C. Taylor, president of the club.|tnis herd. ‘The station started with a| Dature. tween Divide and ‘Williams counties,| upon dour old McMann. “I really| Micky Moran, the elevator operator pected to prove popular with the help Lonserlae started the proceedings. He rapped i .|_ Under the law, the payroll need not |a road south from Juanita in Foster i ” “ for order and made a little speech, ere Getecmaianconeaa be approved by the state auditing | county and proposed roads in Oliver Perea ell ela once spay une Sateen Tia Ms tao panei Miter io sateen) saying: was mde to buy a whole section to the 04rd and this will speed up the work | and McLean counties. most uppity of the Upper ‘Ten, that | “She's in her office on the second |who, in the past, have been unable “In behalf of the members of the| south, of handling the payroll. Instead of constructing @ road) our detective department’s shining floor—238. ‘Way at the back of the|to transact business with state de- Bismarck Rotary club, I greet you as se A more direct system of handling | south from Stanton this year, as had | tight would have tried to date her up.| building. I carried her up at two| partments on Saturday afternoon. ms guests, and we want you to know that CAN SELL OIL SHARES estimates to contractors also is being | originally been intended, the state | te may do it yet. But I wasn’t mak- | o'clock myself, and seen her go down| In the past it has been customary _, it is not. only @ great pleasure, but a Li to sel! 50,000 sh: planned and these will not go to the | highway department will construct a ing any idle boast last night when J'| toward her office.” to close the capitol offices on Sati the ‘ great privilege to have you meet with Rage ncngenig ss a of com- | state auditing board, with the excep- | road of equal length west.from Hazen. said I was going to take charge of| The head cleaning woman, or pos-|day afternoon earths the Paces r ¢ us tonight. eaten 4 pi ols » has been!tion of the final estimate. Expense | The change was made at‘the request |the murder investigation this morn-|sibly more accurately, the * shouse- months. Then the rule was modified i “The position of American agricul- | Sranted by the Securities com-| accounts and bills for purchases by | of the Mercer commissioners. ing.” And then she told him of her | keeper” of the Starbridge Building, |to permit closing each Saturday after: t ture is of vital concern to all the peo- nee enero Petroleum, Inc., of |the department will continue to be —_————_ visit to Mrs. Borden and to Minnie| was in her little cubby-hole of an| noon. @ ple of the United States, not only to-| ja. a e eae rhe company | checked by the auditing board. SHORT TALK BY A THOUGHTFUL | Cassidy, resulting in the discovery of | office, just as Micky had assured the| For’ obvious reasons, all capitol day but for the future as well. rasprge een ee yo which} The result of the change, accord- MOTHER the orchid-tinted letter in the secret | couple she would be. They found her | offices remained open’ on. Saturd “It involves the national security, as acquired near Shelby. ing to Secretary J. J. Ermatinger, will] An Indiana mother tells this: “We | drawer of Borden’s desk. at her small, cheap desk, talking over | afternoons during the legislative ied tably so one day at Miles City, ~ the racial character, the economic] pins rOR GRAVELING INVITED | °°,{2 Teduce by one half the work find nothing to compare with Foley’s| “Good work!” Jack applauded duti-| the telephone. She nodded, and went | sion. ‘The legislative session closed in| When @ lot of New Yorkers of the welfare and the social progress of our which the highway department causes | Honey and Tar Compound for coughs | fully, but Ruth was quick to see that | on with her conversation: the small hours of Saturday morning Bids on graveling work to be done! the auditing board and to speed up|and colds. My little lad had trouble a shadow settled in the eyes she xe & and ‘the: offices closed at noon that by the state highway department this | by as much as two weeks the handling | with his bronchial tubes from his|loyed, He acknowledged the shadow day. year on primary highways will be re- | of estimates presented for contractors. | third year, but since we started giv-| by adding, hesitatingly: “But I can't| “Yes, Mr. Feldblum! I understand.) This gave Governor Shafer cause ceived by the state highway commis- ———_——_ ing him Foley’s Honey and Tar Com- |help feeling sorry, sweet, that poor |-- - Yes, I'll ask Minnie if she saw | or sion on April 26. GAS LINE TO CROSS BRIDGE | pound we have been able to control | Martha Manning has to be dragged | the paper that’s missing, but all our | him ez Fed country today. Permission has been granted by the | {t. We know there is nothing to com- this. I’ y cleaning, women have strict orders} heads they thoug! “Legislation which will bring to ag-| After hanging in Thundersley| highway commission to the Red River | pare with Foley's Honey and Tar ey Soe ahr seen not to papers that are left out | The pleat Aes pei genes riculture all opportunity which can|(Essex) Church for 340 years, a) Power company of Grand Forks to|Compound.” The very name tells a| about that woman’that gets you—" | 0M desks. . . All right, Mr. Feldblum! | closing at noon Saturday. Of course I'm very sorry, but I’m sure |“ During his experience as Attorney come from legislation, without dis-|bell has been taken down and dis-| Construct a gas line across the bridge | story. Good also for croup (spas- x * * crimination patched for recasting to the same] Now being erected over the Red River | modic) and troublesome night coughs. — Oh!” she cried angrily, as she re- Shafer said, he sometimes legitimate ,| London firm which cast it in 1588. | at Grand Forks. Ask for it. Sold everywhere.—Adv. | “Jake Bailey, another of our morn-| placed the receiver on the hook. be working on Saturday after- ing callers, puts it a little differently,” |“Hung up on me, as if I was dirt Ruth retorted. “He says Miss Man-|under his feet! . . . It's Miss Lester, |ing to transect toainer oie ning ‘got’ Borden, but he doesn’t {isn’t it? And Mr. Hayward? Any departments which w mean exactly what you do.....I'm|news yet about poor Mr. Borden,| business. In some sorry, dear! I understand how you/ though a harder man to get along many miles from Bismarck. As a feel, for I’ve been feeling like a mali- | with— But I shouldn't say @ word, | result, Shafer came to the conclusion By Williams hy H cious meddling little beast myself, | seeing as how he’s dead—" that it was unfair to the visitors to G é ever since she told her whole, pitiful,| “No, nothing yet.” Ruth inter- NOSIR—THER NEVER CIN \ tragic story.” ‘i rupted the voluble flow of conversa- | ness far the ign da oo foaeg — BE COMPLETE HAPPINUSS vi “Don’t feel too badly,” Jack urged} tion, and smiled charmingly at the | ience. ped programs. IN A WORLD WITH THESE his hand closing over hers | stately, white-haired, white uniformed tions. wa 9 “ fm 0 “McMann would have got on 4 . Pellow, The are a dream to the WD KINDA SIDE WALKS. 5 \" ter tral within & few Gourk aaybor,| singing Siena. em three yeas \ MS} TLL BE WALKIN’ ALONG since there must be any number of cS be es Hin ran os aw pee 1 N i people who knew of her and Borden’s| ‘ More 1” Mrs, miles ‘erat of pat gy e , Billings, consid. erable PERFICKLY CONTENTID AN’ ; | | Jaftair. . . . But. what did McMann | Pellow raised her plump hands in re- SUODENTY GiT THINKIN. — \ get out of the poor thing, with his nC i : EB in ef [ A "7 bet ve WONDER IF SOMEBODY ( | SWEAR A CERTIN damnable third degree methods? from Dickinson to Glendive. Some- DIDN' OROP A CENT Down J, | CRACK Witt BE MY ener ay ‘detall of Martha ints Fa lakes a9. at: the oid job. [ year or 80 fired a train ae | ONE O THEM CRACKS-—ER, AN’ NEN T Manning's story, in the order in which ANICKEL-ER A DIME " McMann had extracted it. ERA Qm— NSS LIKE ‘d like to choke that bully!”. Jack ‘AT ANOTHER DAY interrupted fiercely, when Ruth told pt ge a 5 i cEEF itp a pee le $ i é ny F bes « ik E i nF i Ea® | ee ee ‘ F F g # i ge | 4 eB iH gE i E 3 £ i 3 E ge i age ERE é AF Fi Fe ri i af [Fi i f = F : Fi i : i: i fi i | et i af i tz # : : BF ER i an bt +