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_POLLY AND HER PALS THE DAILY ALA_SKAWEMPIRE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932. Bv CLIFF STERRFTT SHOULD HEAR HOW THE WIDDER HENPECK BROKE UP THE SPIRITUALIST MEETIN' LAST NIGHT! KITTY by JANE : After a brief and | courtship, Garfield ! Erew marries Kitty Brandon, a | ¢pirited small-town girl and takes | her home “to mest his wealthy | pmmz Afthough Gar has just intiched college, #nd is essentially fond of a good time, Kitty be- Heves he i§ cerious about the buciness of being married as she is herzelf. Gars' heme in Winton they meet | Marge Crosby, who belongs to | Gat's erowd, and who is as pol- ished in manner and grooming as | Gar himself. Marge seems to be hurt and reproachful at the = of Gar's marriage. 3 Gar in excited conversa- about the deings of their tien crowd, pointedly excluding Kitty. |, | Phil. Gar humorcusly tells the wedding, saying that “the | bunch will get a great laugh | out of it,” and Kitty is ashamed | of his flippancy about something | that should matter deeply to them both. She feels suddenly frightened. Marge of | Chapter 2 A LONELY HOMECOMING | Bridgewater made no distinction | Jehn Brandon owned | general store which his | grandfather bhad established and which netted him just about | eneugh to support his family in | Gar swung Kitty into his arms and of the servant. the rambling old house his grand- | father had built but he ranked in | social prestige with James Corey, Bridegewater's banker and man of | affairs. | Kitty Brandon, because she was| a:Brandon and because she was pretty and blithe, had moved se- cugely in the young lifé*of the com- | munity. It never had mattered that she had little money to >pcndi on her clothes. Her friends were the friends of | her childhood, closest of these were | Sally Withers and Phil Corey. “Maybes ome of us will marry THE NEW Hu pmobile 8 IN TRUTH A CAR FOR A NEW AGE! Juneau Distributor b5 On the train going to | WAL, THE SPIRITUALIST HER, "MADAM, YOUR HUSBAND COMMANDS YOU TO GO ’ HOME"! YEAH! SO SHE HOLLERS | "FAKE! THAT AIN'T MY HUSBAND! FREW ABROTT, Yof ‘her hand, her hands were trem- jbling so. But Gar was intent on pointing out to her plac interest along |the way. Presently of they of 1 some n s d salq | Pretentious mans (1”1;. Sgle [0ar. Sl 1o sa‘d;linc and proportions, i i 4 | ““Here we are, Kit! Scme little Bou: tan! answer had |qump, jsn't it?” His voice baen prompt. “I'm going to METY | rankly proud. id not 4 man with dark hair and dark |inat Kitty made no a : € coming from away some- | e did not ang wi | the bell imp: what And then, one June day when | seemed to Kitty along intervalthe Kitty was twenty, Phil Corey had |dcor was opened by a white-haired come from c bringing Gar-|{man in sombre purple livery. with him. Within | Hello, Pound, how are you hour of his arrival he had taken ;is my wife. The mother in?” test over to the Brandops.! Kitty saw the man flash her found Kitty on the porch|look of friendly interest. He grin- ng over cherries for a ple, a /ned at Gar even while he touched apron tied over her flowered | his forehead in formal salute. her slim, bare armsand| “Mrs. Frew will see you at tea,at ained crimson, her 'hair!half past four, Mr. Gar, she said. den where the sun fell She said the—that you were to use blue eyes, a little bluer |your old room.” genuine delight at seeing matter with putting my wife inthe blue room?” Gar frowned though his brow cleared almost at once. The next day Gar was sprawled on the Brandon porch as if, like} Phil, he had lived next door to it|“Oh, well, shell fix us up later.| all his life. At the end of the week{ Come along, Pound, get this lug- he was telling ner that shewasthe|gage up.” Turning to Kifty he cnly girl he'd ever been crazy|swung her uncerimoniously into |, about, she was different, that was|his arms and ran up the winding it. He was fed up on the prom-|:tairway ahead of the servant. t Did Phil stand anywhere| He did not put her down until he with her? Well, then, she was his. During Gar’s whirlwind wooing Kitty had not thought of any ma- terial advanfages she might gainl! in marrying him. That he wasthe had mounted another {flight of stairs to the third floor Where in a wide room he deposited her in a deep leather chair. “Gar!” She dug her face in his Georgian noties | 2 This | “She did, did she? What's Lhe‘_ Nl W\Si’?k—fi: Z7 " BRILL MAKES FINAL APPEAL FOSHAY TRIAL Tells Jurors Government I Has Not Made Good ! on Charges Anglo-American Aliiance | | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 1 ‘\ In a ng the jury in fir iment yesterday afternoon, Jos- defense attorney, charg- nment failed to m a ¢ against W. B. Foshay a H. H. Henley, charg:d with us the mail to defraud in the pr: elling of securities in th < v enterprises. Attorney Brill asserted many of | of Special Prosecuto , made in his op:n- Attorney Brill contended the Gov- ernment failed to prove an alleged s given to Oregon offieial Foshay szecurities Testimony concerning this tran- S £ 5 ‘ saction was just one of the ear- ey blamed th: ation for the | ) | “RANGO” 1 . ,omce where I shall be glad to ;ceive my patients. [ adv. DOUGLAS NEWS PLAY TO BE PRESENTED BY FROSH CLASS | Next Wednesday evening, in the !High School assembly, the Fresh- | men will present a short play en- titled “A Sisterly Scheme.” Miss Pepoon, the Frosh class advisor, is directing the performance.: She will also show films taken while { abroad. Myrtle Feero and Bern Savikko have the leads as Flossie Belton and Mr. Morpeth.' Jessie Frasier is the older sister, Pauline Belton, rce is Mrs. Melby, and Vernon Rollins is Mr. Brown. Flossie schemes to win Mr. Mor- \peth away from her sister, who treats him with great scorn until ishe finds out that Mr. Morpeth is becoming attached to her younger | sister. ! This play is put on to raise | money for the annual Frosh Frolie, a hoat excursion to be held in | May, this year. s L LR LEAGUE TEA THURSDAY The regular tea of the Ladies League will be held tomorrow af- ternoon in the League rooms. Mes- | dames Fraser and Mills will be the hostesses. > AT THE COLISEUM A feature, said to be one of the sensations of 1931 in moviedom, is “Rango” the lion, which comes to the Decuglas Coliseum starting to- night. et NOTICE the my re- After several days spent in hospital have now returned to DR. GEO. L. BARTON. COLISEUM | good housekeeper.” Kitty had said !Park Avenue, Kit." | could do, Kittty knew. son of Dalton Frew, of Frew and|shoulder. She laughed, but her|collapse of the Foshay enterprise: Winters, grain merchants, mmnr}laugh was shaky. , I'm terribly s RS e ccared, coming h Maybe your ' angry. If you'd come home without me, she'd have been here| ) ) MRS. WINNIE DAVIS RETURNS TO JUNEAU Gar takes Kitty to meet his |© Mrs. Winnie Davis returned to mother, tomorrow. Mrs, Frew's |Juncau yesterday on the steam- antagenicm seems imminent. {ship Yukon from a trip to the! — e, ! She plans to remain in thi out @ month. Sh ‘TOOT-SHOOT, PRAGUE RULE of ‘M. and Mrs { — e PRAGUE t first, then shool”| pAIR TURKS BEAT 1-,“{":;‘ | were orders given to police of this |capital when small trumpets were added to their equipment. |public was told to * |you hear the trumpet. ANGORA—The wails of Turl The | women, deprived of their cosmetlcs tter when |hive demolished part of the TEr tariff wall and importation of powder and rouge, banned three months ago, is now allowed aga—n; 2 Bak /oL - A N - Lovely Chicago Countess to Marry Man She Shot * % % % ¥ (What Cupid Failed to Do With an Arrow, Countess de Janze, Armour Heiress, Performed With a Revolver Bullet. ran up the winding stairway ahead | nothing to her. She had not the ! vaguest idea just what grain mer- chants were. But of every detail ot | Gar's handsome features, his charm of manner, his carefully careless| collegiate attire she was ecstatically vare. He was the dark-haired, | dark-eyed lover of her girlish dreaming. : “Tll love keeping house, Gar.| Mother always said 1 was a very during their honeymoon on Pan- ther Mountain, “My wife isn't going to slave in |a kitchen.” | “But, Gar, we wouldn't want| anyone else around ls. How much | |will you earn, Gar?” | “Oh, I guess Dad will start me with at least seventy-five a week.” | And that had seemed a fortune to Kitty. She had calculated swift- ly; out of it they would save some- thing. “I don't intend to stick all my life in Dad's business. I'd like to! get into, the diplomatic service, Or | some big brokerage firm in New || York—we'd have an apartment on Counress DE JANZE 1y | f Whatever Gar wanted to do he’ On their last night at Panther Mn\};n-g}n they had sat on a pin- nacle of rock to watch the moon|! “Tomorrow at this time youll be % o in Winton, Kit. You'll Tke 1t CouNT and Countess DeJanze- Tim Countess i« Covrr @ “Tll like it anywhere with you, The announcement in London that Countess de Janze and Ray- Gar. She had put her head on | mond Vincent de Trafford, scion of a blue-blood English family, are soon to be married marks the climax of another scene in the hectic romance of the Chicago Countess, the former Alice Silverthorne, niece of J, Ogden Armour. e young man whom she will shortly ac- company to the altar is the same Mr. de Trafford who was taken from his shoulder, soberly contented in/ their closeness. It would be always | 'like this, she had thought, wher-| ever they were. And now, the.very next day, rid- | ing with Gar in the taxi from the station, she had lost something of | that beautiful contentment. H Gar's voice when he had talked to g She was thinking of that tone in | ¥ a train at the Gard du Nord in Paris after the Countess had put a bullet almost into the beart which she had failed to soften by her ‘appeals. Countess de Janze met the dashing young English Guards officer whils she was in' Africa with her nobleman husband, whom married in lna :& Lake Forest, lll., and immediately fell th him. The Count found out and took her back to Paris, he offered her a divorce to marry de Trafford. But the loyer shied at the altar and decided he'd return to England. The Countess went to the station to make a last’ 1 to her laggard lover and, on being repulsed, shot him and hersclf. The trial for the shooting caused a sensation in the French ézihl. as de Trafford insisted that ‘the affair was an accident. The. ntess was let off with a $4 fine. ‘Soon after she obtained a divorce and now she is to marry the ma whose heart she won with a pistol. marks used by the Government to have you jurors jump at conclus- ions,” Brill said. The defense attor: stock market depro £ A colorful ceremony marked this Arglo-American alliance in Londo. England, when Lieutenant-Commander Toson O. Summers, of the | U. S. Navy Medical Corps, married Miss Cynthia Peacock, of Burleigh, | Derbyshire. The bride and groom are shown leaving the fashionable | $t. Paul’s Church at Knightsbridge, under an arch of swords formed | Yy the groom’s brother officers, after the ceremony. Captain Arthur '« Bristol, naval attache at tii;e American Embassy in London, was | est man, ‘ NO IS THE TIME TO BUY RUGS and FURNITURE The QUALITY and STYLE is HIGHER while the PRICES are LOWER STARTING TONITE The Picture of 1000 Wonders “RANGO” Selected Shorts ! W i ! We have just received a shipment of the new patterns of Bigelow Sanford Rugs. Priced from $14.50 to $117.50 for the 9x12 size. Don’t Neglect Seeing Them Several new numbers in Overstuffed Suites in Mohair. 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