The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1931, Page 6

By SO OUR NEW NEIGHBOR 1S A FRIENDLY YEAR! I GAVE CLIFF STERRETT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1931 POLLY AND HER PAYLS HELLO THERE, NEIGHBOR/! HAVE HM A CIGAR YESTERDAY AN’ HE WAS TICKLED PINK. Mad ¥l ANOTHER CIGAR/ =4 N THE FIRST PLACE, I NEVER ACCEPT PRESENTS FROM THE PROLETARIAT - ~AND IN THE I NEVER BY JESSIE DOUGI.AS FOXm Wh:on Nora Lake going to live with the the dread of a longer clay with her Aunt Emily and roacing, Frances and Hallie, grips her. Though beiviendad by their houscheld, of which young Dr. Mor> is a part, her heart leaps with relief when Jenathon Thayer, brother of her late hucband, Nicholas, ro- pews the invitation. Her eag- : for a new life makes her islike of Damon, step-sister, and Jon's alocfne: Then, uncxpectedly, her father, Julian, appears, at ¢nce trying to berrow money frem Jen. The humiliated Nora warns Jon, who tells her he has az2greed to finance an cxhibition of Julian’s paint- ings, which she knows are werthlese, Their reculting bit- ter quarrel ends, ‘'however, in a lovers’ embrace. L Chapter 24 < HER LIFE MATTER? on ea mornings n and see the ho chestnut. tree outside her window, to hear the birds, was happiness encugh, Nora thought. She lay lis- tening to the household stirring. Those soft steps were Fran's run- ning down the stairs to put the children’s cereal on the stove, and she could hear Alice’s shrill sweet pipe; the milkman rattling around 10 the back door. The beginning of another day. And at th she would see Jon. Late that afterhoon as they were coming home together, Fran said: “You're happy, Nora?” “How did you know?" As though the secret did not shine from Nora's eyes and glow through her voice and lilt “Heart Action - - - OKAY—" Says DOC When the battery in your car fails . . . you go no place . . . 15 many have no doubt learn- od. Qood battery service elimi- nates many disappointments and often irksome and expensive de- lays. Promp® and regular bat- tery service is the policy which aas ntade our shop headquar- ters for motorists, If you have a good battery iniyour car give it the attention which it de- serves. Tell us to check on it segularly. 'We rebuild batter- les when parts justify such ac- tion. Let us add your name to our list of customers who en- trust the care of their batteries 2xclusively to us. Connors Motor Co. Chevrolet Agency in her | walk, Fran swering. “Julian told me he's going away | for a few but when he come: | back he's going to make our for- tun; Nor aid as an excuse for her rapture, “then -Aunt Em will never need to give another music {lesson and you and Fergus...” | Fran's face was more than ever | strained and thin these days. She | answered, “if things only came out that way. But I have a husband somewhere. And two children. | And there are hills and bills and I bills, and Fergus—makes enough to scrape along on.” | They had stopped in at the | grocer's and as they came out Fran began to cough. $She took her handkerchief away from her lips. She looked at it with sudden terror. Nora clutched her arm. “Fran, tell me!” “It’s nothing,” Fran whispered, |clinging to the railing. | “Fran—it was—" | Fran had the handkerchief con- vulsively clutched in her hand with thought without an- the terrible red blot on it. “Yes, it'’s that. Nora, you won't tell Mother? he said when she could speak again. “Oh, Fran!” Nora gasped. Her whole body was as weak as water. “I went to the doctor—not Fer- gus—I didn't dare let him know. And he said—he said,” Fran went on, still leaning against the railing, “that I must go away. To the mountains. He advised Arizona. He might as well have told me to go to the mountains of the moon.” They walked. on through the burning heat of the sultry July | afternoon. Brutal realitles poking their heads up through the wonder of her dreams. But this couldn’t hap- pan to Fran. Tt couldn't. “Fran, couldn't you go away? We could manage with the chil- dren. T could get home earlier, T think,” Nora was considering how she could scrimp and save. “And I'll ask old Dusenbury for more money. We can manage.” “But haven't you seen,” Frances asked with a quietness that was more desperate than anything she had yet said, “that Mother isn't as strong as she was? I don't know how much longer she'll be able to keep it up.” “But Hallie's writing now,” Nora cried, clutching at a straw. “Hallie’s last story came back.” They said nothing more the rest of the way home. The torrid sum- mer sunshine, the pavements that seemed to burn the soles of their feet, the little patches of grass in front of the houses on Dove Street seemed to blacken before Nora's discouraged eyes. ‘But there must be some way out, Fran!” Nora whispered. “There should be," Frances an- swered through pale lips, “but I can't find it.” Nora needed her father now to reassure her that their fortune would be made. But when she climbed to the attic room she found that he was out. And on his bureau was one of his pictures. A purple hill that seemed to topple toward an impossible blue river with a hot red house beside it. She could not bear to look at it. Julian thought he could sell pic- tures like this! But there must be some way out. There must be Jon . . . she long- ed to see him, to feel the reas- isurance of his gayety. Budweiser Barley-Malt Syrup in the big red can is America’s favorite )a(/u L E{ VAIT" of household package . . . Every drop real quality. Light or dark, rich in body, flavor just right. The others were sitting out un- der the horse chestnut tree when Nora went to Fergus' office. It was the first time she had over gone in of her own accord. She sat in the tiny waiting room with its hard wooden chairs against the, walls, staring at the bowl of pe- tunias thai Fran had doubtless picked for him. Nora's turn came at last. Fergus asked her to sit down and Nora felt here and now she would find the way out. He listened while she told him about Fran. His bent héad did not even move. But when at last he lifted his eyes she saw such anguish there, that her own lips quivered. “You will do something, won't you? You will save her?” He walked over to the window and looked down into the hot street. “I've been cudgelling my brainto find a way out,” he said at last “Fran has been getting so thin. I told her she must get away. But she wouldn't leave the children.” Nora was on her feet. She cried fiercely: “It’s all so horribly unjust. Your life, your very happiness, de- pends on money!” He turned about and began to walk up and down his office. He did not seem to hear her. ! “There’s a sanatorium up in the mountains, The doctor who runs it is a friend of mine. I think T could get Fran in there.” | ‘But the money—" “Well, I've been saving to go to Germany,” he told her. “Not that that matters. Not that anything matters. In all the time that she had known him, Nora had never seen Fergus anything but hopeful. How patient he had been when the baby was burned—faithful always! And now that Fran had to go away, he | SOOTHING REFRESHING BEAUTIFYING Spring is the season of the year when every woman should arrange for a series of beauty treatments. Enliven the skin and the hair. Glow with health and thrill with the joy of liv- ing. Our personal service rates are most reasonable—and our work is first-class ‘in every detail, Phone for appoinment. 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She forgot at that moment all the times they had laughed to- | gether and planned together, flung out their dreams, shared their dis- appointments. “Hallie won't be able to | this | No, she could not stay here now. Life was growing too bitter in the red brick house, Fergus stood there waiting for her answer, his velvety dark brows drawn together, his eyes on her claspad . | stop me.” But she must be free. It wa: life and she would not sacrif. had. Sacrifice was an out-worn id Rich. in. August! Hallie. After all what did she owe to them? | . thinks tomorrow . she’s made. They had taken her in when Aunt. Em’s. predittion. come came home, alone, but they true. .Nora takes fresh hope......... have taken in any stranger. e “You know what it will mean, don't you?” Fergus' voice was {harsh as he went relentlessly on driving in the truth. “You'll have to give up much that you have {now. Other friends perhaps. But T'll help you all I can.” “I can't do it,” she cried. “I can't! I don't care what you think of me. I know I'm selfish. But it's my life and I'm going to live it.” He smiled a little wistfully as he continued to look =t her. | “Your life®” he asked. “Does it matter 50 much?” “It matters to me. Dreadfully. | I won't be tied down. I won't be an FIREMEN sult SECOND PLACE, WILL HELP Assignee’s SALE NOW ON Must Close Out Immediately MIKE AVOIAN’S ENTIRE STOCK OF MERCHANDISE Prices 20% Off Wholesale Invoice Prices. Price Freight and Overhead Cuts Out S HERE ARE SOME OF THE ARTICLES AND PRICES: MEN’S FANCY HOSE, per pair ......................... 30c te 40¢ MEN’S NECKTIES, each ..............cccooooiiiiiomeie e, .50 SPORT SWEATERS, each ... iliiii .. 1.75 PURE WOOLEN SHIRTS, each ... ORI 3.60 STEESON ‘HARS eadh .. &L o ni . an 5.00 BEAVIER HATH: - . o i cad 5.00 and up MEN’S WORK PANTS, each ............. PR O I 2.50 MEN’S DRESS PANTS, each ..o 2.75 MEN’S BLAZERS, SWEATERS, SPORT SHIRTS and MACKINAWS ... ... . . i 2.00 up SCHOLL-WILL CAPS, each ... .80 Also HANDKERCHIEFS, SUSPENDERS, WORK SHIRTS, COLLARS, SHOE PACKb and OTHER MERCHANDISE. - All Good Stock. PLACE—Mike Avoian’s Stere, South Front Street. TIME—Thursdny, June 4, 1931. Daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 g.m. and from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. until en- tire stock i TERMS: CASH is sold. NO EXCHANGES Also SPECI}“&L-SIX STUDEBAKER SEDAN FOR SALE. IN FINE CONDITION AND RUNNING SHAPE. Can be seen at Juneau Motor Company Garage . . . $300.00 for cash. Alaska Personal Service Agents Assignee. J. K. CAMPBELL, Clerk. is it, that I'm going to « old maid in this old house, always remembering what I might have| It isn’t my fault, this all happened? be happy and nothing—nothing can (Copyright 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) DOUGLAS NEWS DOUGLAS FINANCIALLY | With a healthy treasury, the re-| TO TELEPHONE PATRONS i of recent successful dances, the Douglas Fire Department at | the regular meeting last night vot- ed to reheve the city of its monthly e experse payment to the department of $10 a month, for the present. To add to the fire protection on Ncb hill it was decided also to put a chemical cart there for the sum- mer months. EASTERN STAR PICNIC IS PLANNED FOR SUNDAY The annual picnic planned for Sunday by the Nugget Chapter No. 2, O. E. S, depends to a certain extent on the weather. If condi- tions by Saturday do not look at all promising for a good day, they may decide to postpone the outing to a later date. —eg o, “ROUGH ROMAICE” IS AT COLISEUM TONIGHT George O'Brien in “Rou{h Ro- mance” is the offering for this cvening at the Douglas Coliseum. Acts, Comedy and News reel will |be part of the program, e JULY FOURTH MEETING Following a special council mee- ting at 7 o'clock tonight, there will |be a Fourth of July mecting start- ing at 7:30 o'clock. All citizens are requested to at- tend the latter mecting in order that a discussion may be had regarding plans for a celebration on the Island. NATIVITY CLUB TO | In Parish Hall tonight, the Na- | tivity Club, composed of young peo- . ple of the Parish, will give a dance. | |For the occasion ‘“Smokey’s” Mel- ody orchestra has been secured to furnish the dance music. The floor is in excellent condition and | everything promises an enjoyable time for those who attend. The affair is open to the public. e, A new telephone directory is now | in course of preparation. Patrons contemplating change of address |or persons who wish to have tele-‘ |phones installed are requested to inotify the Telephone Company. | Telephone 420 before June 22nd. (adv.) t DOUGLAS COLISEUM Tonight and Sat. i GEORGE O’BRIEN {| in “ROUGH ROMANCE” Acts, Comedy, News Butler Mauro Drug Co. Sells l SHEAFFER PENS Tllustrated is black and pearl matched Balance® pen and pencil. TO PRIZE FOR A LIFETIME === So mechanically perfect that wear i: practically eliminated . . . Sheaffei loss. Try Sheaffer Lifetime® pensand pencils and you will appreciate why they outsell all others. S PENS-PENCILS-DESK SETS SKR . 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