The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1931, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1981 The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper - THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Ee ean Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN , President and Publisner. ___. eminent | Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Pen Datly by carrier, per year.. 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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS « BREWER (Incorporated) HICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Beyond Our Knowledge Nothing flatters the race's vanity much more than the familiar and casual way in which astronomers speak of the appalling distances and emptinesses of the stars and the sky. ‘Thus, when Dr. Edwin Hubble tells an audience at Princeton that the “universe” which comprises the milky ‘way is 200 million light years in di- ‘ameter and is surrounded by an emp- ty, starless void half again as wide, our first reaction—after saying “Isn't nature grand?”—is a feeling that hu- man intelligence has advanced quite ® distance if it can find out things, like that. This pride, of course, is justifiable. ‘When Dr. Hubble peers through the Samous 100-inch telescope on Mount; ‘Wilson, in California, and discovers: mew universes incomprehensibly far off, he proves that the human mind can bean amazingly bright and keen- ly edged instrument. Yet the end of all this, when you! stop to think about it, is not pride ‘ut humility. For whatever may be the gulf that separates a man like Dr. Hubble from his predecessors, the star-gazers of ancient Chaldea, one thing is common to both; at the end of their discoveries there lies the self- Sante wall of mystery. The empty places in the sky put, @ limit to human knowledge now, just, as they did when Biblical Ur was the center of the world’s intelligence. ‘The limit has been pushed back an| incalculable distance, but it is still there. The “facts” by which the Chaldeans lived have turned out to be myths; but, basically, the things that puzzled the Chaldeans the most puzzle us quite as much, for all our! hhundred-inch telescopes and our talk of light-years and whirling nebulae. And this, perhaps, is a good thing to remember. For man’s achievs- ments in science during the past century have not, in some ways, been. altogether good for him. If they are helping him to a saner and more comfortable life, they also persuade him, now and then, that he is a smarter fellow than is really the case. We do not, after all, know quite as much as we like to suppose. At the pnd of the sky there is still mystery profound, abysmal, rather terrify- Sng. It was there 40 centuries ago! ‘and we have not lifted it. The Driver's Job When the’ city of New Haven,| Conn., succeeded in passing four con- Becutive months this year without a single fatal automobile accident, the Test of the country began to wonder thow it had been accomplished. The ‘|@nswer, it develops, lies chiefly in the fact that New Haven set to work fo educate its automobile drivers. And that, after all, lies at the bot- tom of the whole movement for safe- ‘ty in traffic. It all comes down to ‘the driver. Regulations, stop-streets, “traffic lights, police supervision—all pf these things will fail until each individual driver learns to realize the responsibility that rests on his shoul- ers. Traffic could always move pafely if the drivers willed it. Competition at Sea Executives of the recently merged American ocean steamship lines sre Said to be ready, when the time is ripe, to build giant liners as huge as those now under construction in Eur- opean shipyards. The competition for transatlantic passenger traffic is keen, and the public seems to be de- manding larger and faster steamers; | such steamers, we are assured, will Presently be seen under the American flag. All of this is more or less comfort- ing to national pride. Yet it is per- missible to wonder just why it needs to be done. An American merchant 00!he is 30. The older the driver, ac- but on the success or failure of the lowly, unpublicized cargo carriers. Things Are Commencing to Pop! Learning to Drive | The most hazardous age for auto- | mobile drivers, according to an analy- sis just conducted by an insurance company, is youth—the period before 120, A study of the records of 4,000,- 000 licensed drivers shows that the {percentage of drivers under 20 who are involved in personal injury acci- |dents is nearly 40 per cent above the average for the whole group. In fact, the survey indicates that jthe automobile driver docs not really reach an “age of discretion” until cording to these figures, the more careful he is; the safety factor rises groups, without interruption. All of this indicates that licensing boards might do well to consider the | age question more carefully than they jnow do. The old suspicion that a chap in his ’teens is out of place back of a steering wheel seems to be rather well established. i Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published without r to whether they agree or dis: with The Tribune's polici Of Great Courage (Grand Forks Herald) To those who knew the late Deai Roger W. Cooley well, especially in these later years, the characteristic of his life which impressed them most was his sturdy courage and unfailing cheerfulness in circumstances such as often bring despair and complaint. With him illness was something to be endured quietly and dismissed from one’s thinking in so far as that might be possible. Inquiries as to} his health invariably brought the re- Sponse that he was “doing well,” or “feeling fine,” and this attitude un- doubtedly aided him to recover strength and served to prolong his life. Informed within the past year or so that his failing sight must pres- ently develop into total blindness, he accepted that knowledge cheerfully, and he performed the remarkable feat for a man of his years of teach- ing himself within a few months to dispense with the use of his eyes and to substitute for them the senses of touch and hearing. In this way he was able to continue his reading, pur- sue his studies and instruct his, Classes. This tremendous and un- usual task was accepted and per- formed with the utmost good nature, as if it had been quite in the ordi- nary course of events. Dean Cooley’s life was assed quietly end unostentatiously. “with- out seeking public attention he had Performed much valuable work in itis Profession in addition to carrying on year by year the exacting work of his classroom. He accepted whatever the fates had in store for him and remained until his death superior to circumstance. New York, Nov. 12—It is 2 o'clock in the afternoon at the northern bor- der of Longacre Square. And+Longacre Square, happen to know, is that ccmbination of two triangles just beyond Times} Square. At the northern tip, a concrete fencelet, about a foot or so high, marks the boundary. Beneath, the subway groans its grinding dirge. It is the song of the Manhattan under- ground! Damp air trickles through the grating on hot days and there is even the slighest suggestion of lost greenery about the edges, But now it is unseasonably warm for late October, and this part of the nation’s amusement capital is clut- tered with derelicts. Just overhead, and slightly to the northward, the electric lady who swings from her tra- peze through the night, is resting. The lights that create her and an- nounce the name of a certain shaving cream become a formless mass of glass bulbs weathering te day’s dust. * * if you don't | A huge sign moves out from the front of a movie theater, like some il- luminated wave that threatens to swallow everyone within reach. But it blinks on and off in a monotonous- ly innocent fashion. Still, it seems about to leap from its corner. And, suddenly, one realizes that Broadway has its daylight bright lights as well as its night time display. Half’ the movie house marquees in the neigh- borhood are blinking ineffectually in the glaring sun. This is the gay capital of the amuse- ment world—and just after midday! ‘Women and girls, men and boys are | rushing to get to the theaters! Taxis! jam and shriek their whistles! The Palace Theater front is a study in hec- | tic congestion. Close to the curb stand | @ dozen out of work actors, talking to each other; talking to sympathetic | friends; talking .. . talking... In| the lobby there is that just-before- the-show excitement. * * * | But on the fencelet around Long- acre Square there is anticlimax. Packed in a bent triangle, are men: who do not even beg. They just sit. One by one, two by two, they drift up. They pick a newspaper from the street. The paper was left by the last man who ocupied his tiny space on the Uttle abutment. If there is no paper, they walk casually past the big fefuse can at the eastern corner and frisk about until a newspaper is dis- vered. Then they sit. The unseasonably ‘warm sun beats down. At least, they are warm. The show world is all about. People have traveled across aj} nation to look at the signs and sym- bols that hem them. But these men of Longacre Square do not look up. ‘Two hundred eyes look only at the pavements and at the papers that are marine is needed, undeniably; but the freight steamer is the of any merehant marine system, atid the “super liner” is just part of the Those who like to see the American| flying on all of the seven seas| ould remember that their hoves will stand or fall, not on the’ eon- \ptruction of gigantic floating palaces, one stops and talks to another. drawn by the megnet.... A roken down ooemas Would put on some sort of + He would talk and bluff and pretend. . .. These men have drifted in from Broadway's west- erly side... . Why they have picked this gay capital, not even they know! They are there . And the world steadily through the various age} Quotations | | ae woes F There is no more drinking amongst the members of the Legion than amongst ministers—Brigadier Gener- al John V. Clinin. * He # If they won't give it to us in wages, | | o—e e we must take it in taxes—President Green of the A. F. L. * Ok most the same dictatorial powers as/abiliiy to perform for humanity Stalin of Russia.—Senator Couzens, | President Hoover. ee % If all the women of China would | put a four-inch ruffle on the bottom jof their garments they would soon use up all the surplus cotton—Gov- rnor “Alfalfa Bill” Murray. * Oe x ‘The beginnings of human enter-|° | prises derive their significance from We have several bankers with al-|the service which time proves their en % Forty years ago artists were happy and treasured Beethoven instead of stocks.—Fritz Kreisler, BARBS _ The Duke of York, brother of the Prince of Wales, on a recent visit to} y. — Paris ordered chicken wings cooked jin champagne. Probably felt like | fluttering about. ee % Captain Hawks may try to break Jimmy Doolittle’s coast-to-coast rec- ord. He'll have to do more than Doo- | little. * * Ok Which recalls that it wasn’t somany years ago when real speed was “go- ing like sixty!” ee ® » Czecho-Slovakia recéntly celebrated the 13th anniversary of its independ- ence. Well, as a nation it can now Czech and double Czech. Trial and error won for Edison. Error and trial put Al Capone in the hoosegow. ‘gation were developed. Formerly such By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the Medical Association Preventive medicine sees to it that not only is the person himself free of germs, but also that the linens he used, the utensils from which he ate, and his environment generally is freed from infectious material. For this purpose disinfection and fumi- chemicals ag carbolic acid and for-) (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) | Moffit d By MRS. C. E. MOFFIT The Ladies’ Aid met at the home of Mrs. A. E. Clive Wednesday, Nov. 4. Two new members were added to the roll, The next meeting will be with Mrs. John Benz the first Wed- nesday in December. Mrs. Anna Hoeft and daughter,’ Billie Anne, left Wednesday for Flor- anne, All Canada. They were called there by the serious illness of Mrs. Hoeft’s sister-in-law. Born on Sunday, Nov. 1, to Mr. and Mrs. Armand McCarl, a daugh- ter. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Durfee and sons and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Baker expect to leave soon for their new home near Jamestown. Two fare- well parties were held for them, one: Friday night and one Saturday night. O. B,. Swanson, who has been ill at the Bismarck hospital for two weeks, is able to sit up. Miss Amanda Iwen and John Adams visited at the Eddie Olson home near McKenzie Sunday. Rev. Roe, new district superintend- ent, came to Moffit Tuesday to hold the first business meeting for the year. Rev. Roe came here from Dev- ils Lake. Burton Johnson, who entered the Bismarck hospital last Monday, un-' derwent an operation Friday for a carbuncle on his neck. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Pillsbury ai | sons visited at the George Maroney home in Bismarck Sunday. The: high school and intermediate teachers dismissed school Thursday jo Mary's br killed by a e: tigation. covers a racetrack crook THE fae whom Fo! enter, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY OWEN and Dirk followed Mary’s eyes and saw the newcomers, too, almost before she could tear her fascinating gaze from theirs, Although, strictly speaking, none of the three men were looking at her, but at the necklace gleaming like new blood against the snowy velvet of her evening jacket. She had drawn it about her swiftly but clumsily. The greater portion of the necklace swung outside, “Dont go now, it'll ‘look as if we're running,” Bowen said quietly, almost without moving his lips. They sat in petrified silence a few minutes, each with his own whirling thoughts, making half-' hearted conversation. The party at the opposite table ordered drinks, talked in low tones, and otherwise comported themselves in an ordi- nary manner, Mary sneaked glances at them out of the corners of her eyes. Was one of them the Fly? All three were dark; one quite handsome. He was the one who had jumped to his feet. Had they been in the small dining room and left, return- ing by the front door? They might be quite different men, perfectly harmless customers of the place, like themselves, Although “per- fectly harmless” was a strong desig- nation for any of Jack Shay’s cus- tomers, if the place was really the criminals’ hang-out Bowen had said. Adroitly she managed to push the necklace out of sight, covering it with the collar of her wrap. As the Party at the opposite table made no overt move, even failed to look in their direction again, Mary said restlessly: “We may as well go. They know We were about to leave, they saw me put my wrap on.” The waiter, who had been no- where in sight’ a few minutes be- fore, now stood leaning with arms crossed against a dilapidated side- board which stood against the back wall. His face was nearly without expression as such a sinister coun- tenance could manage to be. Al- though he kept his eyes fixed as- sidously on a spot halfway between their table and the strangers’ table, Bowen had the feeling that he was all attention, waiting to be sig- nalled for. Ho held up his finger, and Mike came swiftly forward, “Check, please!” Bowen said in a carrying voice. Mike fumbled for his pad. re he could find ft, Bowen whispered, “Put it on th cuff and I'l see you later. Tell Jack SUMerENy 8 payday, I'll be around,” “ Mido nodded wordlessly. Siete Dirk said, “I'll pay,” and reached Bowen held hi: goes by! (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, tae)! ‘}as I owe him money Jack will let “Let it lay,” he said, under his: breath. “I want to keep Welcome on the doormat here, and as long me in. I've got a hunch Jack is going to get one of his periodic mads on at newspapermen in.gen- eral, and me in particular, after tonight. Every once in a while he gets the notion that it’s the news- papermen that are to blame for all Mis troubles, and refuses to let one. on the premises. I don’t want that to happen right now.” Mike would have moved off, but Bowen detained him. “Is that him?” he asked softly. “Yes. Yes, I tell him. Thank you!” Mike answered, making sig- nificant facial contortions, and palming a coin Bowen handed him. He hurried away before any more could be said, . . s° one of those men was the Fly! Mary had become adept in read- ing Mike's peculiar form of sign- language, and no wonder, for his Pantomime was more exaggerated than subtle. As an actor, Mike was pretty much of a “mugger.” As long as he kept his back turned to the enemy, however, he was safe. Dirk said, “Ready?” Mary, pow- dering her nose, nodded. “All right, Gloria,” Bowen said meaningfully. They all got up and moved toward the door, Dirk lead- ing, Mary following, and Bowen bringing up the rear. Mike leaped into action with exaggerated ser- vility, coming forward to open the door and said, “Good night.” Once outside, Mary sagged against. Dirk's arm. But when he looked at her sharply, in quick fear that she was about to faint, he saw that she was shaking with silent laugh- ter. Hysterical! He gripped her arm tightly and snarled at Bowen, “I hope to God you're satisfied!” “Honey, I’m not having hysterics, honest!” Mary giggled. “It’s just the let-down. I never was s0 thrilled in my life! Wouldn't have missed it for anything!” “Perhaps it will amuse you to know there was nothing to miss,’ Dirk said sharply. “You don’t be lieve all this claptrap, do you? Three drummers from Terre Haute or some such place, making the rounds of the speakeasies, and you let this clown feed you a wild story about murderers and jewel-robbers. You've been reading too much Ed- gar Wallace, Bowen. Keep it to yourself after this, will you?” Bowen turned white, but whether with anger or shame, Mary could not tell. “Have ‘it your own way,” he said quietly. “Good night, Miss Hark- ness. If there's ever anything I can do—” He lifted his hat. Undecid- ed what to say or do, Mary kept discreetly silent, but her eyes plead- ed an apology. Dirk gripped Mary’s arm and led her to the curb where his coupe stood. Several car-lengths away stood Bowen’s rattletrap. He started to go toward it, then turned and came up to the coupe and leaned through the open window, “Got a gun?” he asked, Dirk snorted. ! “No, Al Capone, I have not,” he “And what of it?” ‘With a quick gesture Bowen drew | &n gutomatic out of his pocket and handed iia. the an aa is Dirk was touc isgon- minute. ‘Phen he satd een | What {f somebody does plug} ; Mme? You'll get a good story.” | | @ Bowen's temper gave way. “:a. <I don’t give a damo what hap-| ‘0 you,” he sald rough tm goodnatured pbateorzs | u've got & woman wi H member. Take this whether you want it or not.” 4 cee 5 HE shoved the gun into Dirk’s lap and swung off, As they moved down the strect, Bowen's little tin-can of a car began ‘to shiver and roar and give off explo- sions like a Fourth of July rocket. When they turned into Broadway, Mary looked out the back window and saw it turn, also, apparently following them. It was easily Picked out in the traffic, for its top was up—a flimsy “one-man” top which had apparently been added to its accoutrements since she rode in it. Its curtains were all drawn against the rain. Something about that grotesque equipage and its owner wrung Mary’s heart and anger flooded her. “I think you're a beast!” she said to Dirk. “You shouldn’t have talked to him like that! Maybe Mike lied to him, but I’m sure he didn’t mean to lie to us!” route to Temvik. Mrs. Reid formerly and Friday to attend the educational, was Miss Nellie al. maldehyde were used in this connec- tion. A More recently it has been found that thorough cleansing with soap) and boiling water, airing, and exposure to sunlight are suffi- cient for disinfection in most in- stances. Preventive medicine is likewise con- cerned with prevention of disease in the individual by raising his individ- ual immunity through the use of vac- cination, the injection of preventive serums. Thus a person who has suf- fered a wound in contact with the soil of a barnyard should have anti- tetanus antitoxin. The one who is likely to be ex- posed to the use of drinking water not thoroughly controlled from the Daily Health Service PREVENTIVE MEDICINE NOW USES VACCINATION, SERUMS Disinfection, Fumigation Free Environment of Germs eryone should be vaccinated against smallpox. Children particularly should receive toxoid or toxin-ariti- toxin against diphtheria, There are also available vaccines and serume for various other diseases, which are discussed under these headlines, Another example of preventive medicine is the giving of small doses of iodine for the prevention of sim- Ple goiter, particularly in areas such as the Great Lakes area where the water and the soil does not contain enough of this important element. The prevention of exhaustion and the Control of fatigue must be included also under preventive medicine, since Physical breakdown and particularly nerve exhaustion constitute our main sources of illness. Cancer nowadays is prevented in many from spreading to the Point of fatality by the use of early di and Te- surgical moval of the cancer while it is gfil localized in some one small point in the human body. Infection of the skin frequently fol- lows wounds, bruises or similar ex; sures and irritations. The use of an- tiseptic substances to destroy the germs with which they may be in point of view of sanitation should contact is a step in preventive medi- have anti-typhoid vaccination. Ev-'cine. meeting in Bismarck. Miss Iwen taught Thursday and dismissed school Friday to attend the meeting. Miss Helen Doehle, who teaches/ @ near Medina, spent the week-end at her home in Moffit. She also visited with her sister, Mrs. Leslie Clark, Saturday. Miss Grace Miller is working at the hotel while Mrs, Hoeft is absent. Mm. Burt Johnson, Mrs. C. E. Mof- fit and daughters, Harriet, Gladys and Wilhelmina, and Fred Doehle motored to Bismarck Sunday to see Mr. Johnson at the hospital. John Benz, Eddie Olson, Mrs. Ed Olson, Sr., Misses Evelyn Olson, Max- ine and Pauline Hoeft motored to. Bismarck Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Olson and sons visited with Mrs. V. Benz Sun- day. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Reid called on friends Monday in Moffit, while en The Misses Helen and Edna Doehle day callers at the Delmar McClellan home. rrr [—"“Haziggrove —} By MRS. RAY HAZLEGROVE John Sattler and Wallace Stewart were in.4own Monday. Frank Gray hauled hogs to Tut~ tle Monday. Dale and Ivan Goldsmith were in Tuttle Monday. Joe Goldsmith end sons were haui- ing hogs to Tuttle Monday and also hauled coal home. Elmer Drumm was a caller Tues- day forenoon at Hazlegrove's. Miss Delores Woods is a guest this week at the Vernol Goldsmith home. Mr. and Mrs. John Sattler called Tuesday night at the Jake Sattler home. Mr. and Mrs. John Sattler called Wednesday night at the Hazlegrove “Mike? Who's Mike?” Mary told him what she knew of Mike, and explained that he owed service to Bowen for favors done in the past. “You mean,” Dirk said slowly, meaningfully, “that all this so- called evidence he’s got that a man named the Fly,” (he grimaced and muttered, “more Edgar Wallace!”) “robbed that house, killed Mrs. Ju- piter and then ran your brother down presumably to keep him from telling, is the word of a double starred yegg like that waiter?” Put that way, it did sound rather thin. Mary was rebelliously silent. Her state of mind was hard to ex- plain, even to herself. She loved Dirk so much that just hYs physical Presence beside her in the car, the touch of his coat-sleeve, his casual glance, weakened all her forces of mind and body. He dominated her and she could not help herself. . . he was so calm, so utterly gure of himself and of the rightness of all he was and stood for. But some traitorous part of her- self persisted in believing that in his own way Bowen was right, also. Might there not be depths of lité of which the select and exclusive Ruythers had no knowledge? Might there not be truth even in a “yegg” like Mike, if the claims of friend- ship demanded it? And if she had ever been sure of anything in her life, she was posi- tive that none of those men had been a drummer from Terre Haute, or anything like it. What had hap- pened was clear endugh — Jack Shay, still mulling over the signifi- cance of that afternoon's taxi crash, had carried the name “Harkness” back to his friends in that room, and asked if it meant anything to any of them, . It had meant a good deal to the Fly, naturally. He and his two companions had slipped out the side door and came in again by the front for the purpose ‘of getting a Jook at her. It had been sheer bad luck that they had seen the neck- lace. But if Dirk hadn't said the room was empty, she wouldn’t have been so foolhardy, But was it hard luck after all? That was what Bowen had wanted—to give the Fly a flash of the necklace. After that, they wouldn't be able to shake It Bowen's he bim off, Pear grew in her. feasoning were true, t! might be following minute. Her hand more wl ipey. were in Jower Rroadway now, in the manufacturing dis- dark and comparatively de- street law office of Stephen Ruyther and Son. They were going along at about 45 miles an hour, but clinging tenaciously on their trail, about a block behind, was Bowen’s machine, its “one-man top” swaying perilous- ly in the breeze. Dirk ducked his head and looked in the windshield mirror, “Is that fool following us?” he asked disgustedly, “Seems to be,” was all she could say. Now, what was he doing that for? Was it possible that he, him- self—no, he couldn’t have had any- thing but the best of motives in mind, or he would not have given Dirk his revolver. Nassau street was dark and its narrowness seemed to close in on Mary like the walls of a prison as they came to a stop before the small office building in which three gen- erations of Ruythers had their offices, a “Cover that up,” Dirk told her curtly, as he turned the key in the switch and locked:the car. Holding the collar of her coat tightly across her throat with both hands, she got out and followed him into the building. The lobby was dark except for a dim light way at the back, which Proved to be a watch-light kept burning for. safeguard in a little hole-in-the-wall jewelry shop open- ing off the lobby. By its pale and ghostly radiance they found their way up the stairs—the elevator was a black, eppty cavern which Mary i ! seemed terribly funny. co] with the force of s crash in out, the Nassau (To Be Continued) eld or, the Nasa Mapes (zo. Pe Continued) 4 hurried past with averted eyes. Steps, steps, steps—arm in arm they went up, up, up, Marys fingers fairly pinching Dirk's arm, so tense was their pressure. The stair-well was pitch black, but each landing On one of these Dirk bent his head and kissed her, “Scared?” he asked. She could see well enough by this time to see that he was smiling fondly. She squeezed his arm tighter. “Aw- fully,” she said. They did not seem ‘to be in a hurry to go on. He held her against him for a breathless minute or two, and whis- Dered, “It’s been a long time. .” That was one their own par. ticular jokes; sometimes they even said it between kisses, and it It didn’t seem funny now, for it had been a long time... since last night, in fact. Two o'clock this morning, rather. Arms about each other, they went upstairs, ‘The blaze of light that followed when Dirk had opened the office door and punched the button was blinding. Mary threw up her bands to protect her eyes from it. Dirk went straight to the safe and began twirling the knob. Mary unfastened the ruby necklace, held it up for a last admiring glance, and put it into the soft leather bed he held out for it. He lald it away inside, shut the door and spun the knob. “Phew!” he said, getting up and dusting off his hands. “Thank God that’s done!” He made a pretense of mopping his fevered brow with a handkerchief. “Five more. min- utes with that thing on my mind, and I'd have buckled under the strain.” “ . Mary lifted fronical eyebrows. “What? Surely you don’t belicve in ruck nonsense as thieves and tl a: ‘ Ditk was about to reply, when the very windows ritarberal street outside. Pausing only long enough to pick up the gun Bowen had given him, Dirk rushed to one of the windows which faced Nassau .3 street, lifted it and looked home. \ teachers’ convention in Bismarck the latter part of the week. erly, of Bismarck and Ervin ville of Wing spent a few days this and Gladys Moffit were Bismartk shoppers Saturday. They returned home by way of the Leslie Clark farm and Miss Helen Doehle remained to visit with her sister, Mrs. Clark. ‘The Northern Pacific train was de- & 1 Florence Lake | By HELEN WITT _ Mrs. Raiph Halver spent Wednes- day afternoon visiting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Tees. Mr. and Mrs. John Witt were Wing shoppers Thursday. Henry Seilinger motored to Wing Thursday. Allan Frazier ground feed for Ralph Halver Tuesday. R. G. Marchant and daughter, Irene, and Mrs. Kate Plattner were Friday afternoon callers at the John Witt home. Mr. and Mrs, R. G. Marchant and son, LeRoy, and Mrs. Kate Plattner spent Wednesday evening at the Her- man Neiters home. Mr. and Mrs. William Witt spent Friday afternoon at the Adolph Deg- ner home. Herman Nieters, James Tees and Wenze Nogevik were Wing callers ‘Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Seilinger and family spent Friday evening at the jE. E. Glanville home. Mrs. John Witt spent Saturday aft- ‘ernoon with Mrs, Arthur Tees. , Wing shoppers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. McClellan spent. Saturday evening at the J. Witt home. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Marchant, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Marchant and son, Lloyd, and Mrs, Kate Plattner were Sunday callers at the Fred Smith Miss Opal Harvey attended the Mrs, Ben Boss and daughter, Bev- Gi week visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Emil Stroh was a business caller in Harvey Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Witt were Sun- Glanville. home. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stewart burned to the ground Thurs- day forenoon. The fire started in the attic. They were able to save most of the things on the first floor. ‘They have moved in with Mr. and Mrs. John Sattler for the present. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Drumm and daughter, Alice, and son, Raymond, and Miss Mary Cromwell and Mrs. Ed Pond were in Harvey Monday. STICKERS The long fraction shown above is formed by nine digits and the cipher. It is supposed to equal one-half, but is in- correct. In order to be right, the bottom meres bee mieeeinie top. you rearrange igures 60 eee ete rae > 13 FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: ‘When parents are obstinate, love flies out the window. THIS CURIOUS WORLD “ROCK-CHALK... JAYHAWK... KU.” epee ee ne