The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1933, Page 7

POOR SULLY - --WELL-~ SNOTHIN' MORE T CAN DO FOR HIM TODAY—- I'LL SKIN OVER TO THE HOTEL AN' SEE HOW MRS FINNEGAN'S GEYTING ALONG -~~~ KNOW MRS 1121933 Klne |mmm Syndica Babies Hall “Bonnet Lady” A prcmise made when her own baby was born 33 years ago has kept Mrs. Joseph Lee’s fingers busy making bonnets to send to babies all over the world. Hcre she is with many of the “thank you” Iciters that come to her Threc Oaks, Mich., home, the one erlarged having been tent by a lady-in-waiting to a queen, i THREE OAKS, Mich., Sept. 27.— Fifty-three years ago Mrs. Joseph Lee was too poor to pay a doc- tor when her son was born, and as a result made a promise to help other new-born babies. FORMER JUNEAU GIRL ARRIVES TO VISIT WITH Mrs. B. M. French, Mildred Morrison of this city, ar- Tcday she was an international rived on the steamer Alaska yes-) reputation as the ‘‘bonnet lady” terday to visit here for an indef- as a result of her hobby, and three inite time with her parents, Mr. scrap books are filled with ac- and Mrs. J. G. Morrison. knowledgements from the great, Mrs. French and her husband, the humble and the famous. who is engineer with the Bureau Since her son, Frank, wasborn, of Public Roads, were many thousands of yards of yarn here two years ago last month have raced through Mrs. Lee's deft when he was connected with the fingers in the making of her dain-' Juncau office of the Bureau. They ty baby bonnets. have been making their home in She’s Made “Several Hundred” ' Denver, Colo, and at the present Long ago Mrs. Lee lost count time Mr. French with the B. of the number of Moods she has P. R. in Yellowstone National Park. crocheted and sent to the parents, —_———ee— but she says there are “several g§CAR R. HART ARRIVES hundred.” ON STEAMER ALASKA She has three scrap books filled with letters and photographs from Oscar R. Hart, prominent mer- royalty, movie actors, statesmen chandise broker, arrived here on and other famous persons acknow- the steamer Alaska from the south. ledging .the gifts Last letter in On. the way to Juneau, Mr. Hart the book is from Senator and made business calls at Ketchikan, Mrs. Robert La Follette of Wiscon- wrangell and Petersburg. sin, who had not yet named their son when the hood was received. When Mrs. Lee was telling about her hobby she was busily engaged in ‘crocheting a tiny yarn hood for the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bing‘ P Q ¥ Crosby, ' of crooning fame. | 41 OLYMPIAN Letters Frcm Everywhere | ONLY Letters have come from Mrs 1 RAILROAD Harold Lloyd, of the movies; Arch- | duke Stefan of Hapsburg, and| Princess Ileana, of Rumania; Count ALL THE WAY ‘The OLYMPIAN—distinguished transcontinental trains by and Countess Ciano, the latter among' its electrified route—scenically Ttalian consul of Shanghai, whose| supreme. The Milwaukee Rofid-—- son is a grandson of Mussolini; former Secretary of War and Mrs. | only railroad ting all the way from P North Coast Patrick Hurley; and Mr. and Mrs. over its own rails. Joseph Zanclotte, of Washington, D. C., parents of 15 children. The Chicago Line Offers Low Trip Fares From two or three hours is re-| quired to make a bonnet, but wheni from SEATTLE-TACOMA 25 dly limit asked if the hobby is an expensive one, she replies: “I don't know. | Coaches and tourist sleeping cars Yo I am a tither, and my #, wr:hsei;oes toward making the‘ s soso '311 75 o1 48 day limit. Standarc bonnets. I never kept an aqcoum; of the cost. My fingers never get 'b-ah-hplue-nm tired, when I am crocheting bon-‘ ha eem— We have a special sleepin, \car propesition . nets. T think it is a better past-' time than playing thdge or smok- ing cigarettes.” Our ; tourist sl Re“‘? S SR it A. r(‘tw :::n:ounyundcmfm-hlg andlower berths individually . (14 Village By ROBERT lighted; decorations and appoint- MARSHALL is | + THERE IS ONLY ments pleasing and modern. And the rates are surprisingly low. — All expense economy tours of varying length Consult our travel experts. You'll find them well posted and courte- ous—representative of The Mil- waukee Road’s friendly service. ‘White Bldg., Fourth Ave. and Union St, fiutler Mauro We Deliver HILINE SYSTEM Groceries—Produce—Fresh and Smoked Meats Front Street, opposite Harris Hardware Co. CASH AND CARRY FAMILY HERE| iormerly | married | 1 WORLD'S FAIR : WELL-WELL, MR GOOGLE --- WE'VE BEEN TRVYING TO LOCATE ‘YOU - 1 SUPPOSE vou FINNEGAN'S BiLL \S OUERDUE - -==--=--WE UNDERSTOOD THAT YOU WERE, @ TO GUARANTEE HER \fl ACCOUNT----/ OrH == SURE -~ 1--1- GONNA BE OWKANY-~=--~ EVERYTHIN'S SYNOPSIS: A man, picked up on the shore after the wreck of the Alice Arvden, has bgen saken (rom the hospital by Nesta Riddell as her Lusband, Jimmy Riddell. He'{s at her brother Tom’s house i Lod-~ Tington. A few moments after Nesta and the man had léft, Caroline Leigh arrives at the hospital, searching for her distant’ cousin, Jim Randal. She is leaving, disap- pointed, when the nurse mentions a scrap of a letter she had Immd in her patient’s pocliet. with ¢ gignature “Cavoline.”, . 8o Ca line determines to continng her ap- parently hopeless searoh. Meait- while the man wakens, and Nesta tells him he is her husband. He declares he does not know her : or can he recall otlier events of the vast. Chapter Nine .« UNCOMPROMISING PAST E WOKE in the morning to the sound of TomWilliams clatter- ing down the stalrs and-being softly | hushed by Min. He was otit of bed 1’ in a minute and at the door. “I say. lend me a razor— a good chap!” friendly. The razor was produced, | and Min brought him hot water and oasked him timidly it he felt bstter en he sald, “1 don't feel Letter— | L toel well,” she looked pleased; but a cut-throat,” she colored and ran away. He ‘shaved, drcssed himiself, and | was relieved to find himseif no more | he discovered in a neat pile upon a shelf screened by a chintz curtain. | Tho suit ‘had been predscd, but it | still had a smell of sea-water | mended | e frowned at the clothes. They s0 ha supposed that they | | but hn couldn t remember ) | he sat down | ha e i 1 put his in his hands. It was just as if ack gulf of nothingness were ng him off : everything that % up till now. Cn of the gulf his mind ‘was g in a perfectly normal man- erday, for instance, was on of the sulf, and I'“ remem- e gulr he had only her state- nts to go by. ‘He wentover them h a sort of puzzled horror. r28 Jim Riddell, ried. ied Nesta Willl nt lm Grove Itoad reglstry office ¢ been on his way to Glas- gow when the Ali Arden camoe to guict. Ile had been min: to Glasgow to 2t off the map. He ran his hands through his hair and asked himselt wh)-:\nd why —and why? £ Why had he married a woman who hadn't the faintest atom of attrac- woman for her looks, or for money, or for ambition, or for purely animal reazons, or for pity, or because you happen to love her. Not a single one of these reasons applied to Nesta Riddell. She was mot ‘an object of pity; the Williams were' certainly not well-to-do; and thentally and physically she repelled him. “Over and above all this, he had a gengs’ of her strangeness. He could not belleve that he had held her in hfs'atms, that they had kissed. She wag stranger to him ‘than 'someone whom he had never met—far more deeply strange than any of the fort gotten people on the wrong side of the’ black gult which cut him off ('rom his past. E LEFT that. ; $ 7 Why had he been going to Glasgow? i Maéta had given'him the answer— to “get off the map.” “Why had he got to “get off tflc map?”’ +’Thé answer to that was somewhare on the other'side bt the gaif. - | /:He'went over etorything'thiét had hwoned yesterday down to the ‘lme ‘when he had fallen ngeep to |the’ faint sound 'of’ an® il h the partition wall. He had i ‘without waking, but not with- out dreaming. " “He'leaned his head on his hands, and knew that those sieeping-hours had not been spent ia unconsclous- He found Tom embarragsed but | when he added, “I expect 1 look like | | than just a little shaky. His clothes | it; one or two rents had beoa n2atly | tion for him? You may marry a‘ ness. The shadows of swift clashing events moved in them. They were like the shadows of fierce darting fish scen through waters veiled by fog, and a voice. His voice? Behind the fog, strange violent things, happening at an in- credible speed, flashing through his like beads of light, strung on a dark chain . .. like a kid's green beads. For an instant he saw a small brightly lighted picture. The light came from above, and sw lj\glng to and fro beneath it was a string of square green stones. They swung trom a man's hand. There were eight of them—big, square, green stones; a double chain of pearls between cvery two. He saw ‘he man’s hand, and tho and the pearls, down on them, The voice said, “Like a kid's green beads,” and everything went dark. Some time after this Nesta was at the door. He thanked heaven that Ite was up and dressed. If he had had to lie there whilst She sat on the cdge of his bed and talked, he might not be able to hide the violence of Women always bullied a en they had him at a disad- The l‘\rm"lll of yesterday set his oth on cdge. To-day they would mest on equal terms, and he would { try and remember that the situation | was a horrible one for her. For him- sclf 'it was ‘very nearly intolerable. He hadn't a job, and as far as he he hadn’t a penny in the What was he to do? Live on Nesta —borrow from Nesta? The situation not only nearly, but quite, intol- Thes2 thovrghts went to and fro in | his mind as they sat at breakfast in the small Lot kitchen. Tom Williams bolted a couple of . gulpad down his d was off, saying that he would | te late. The chug-chug of his motor- | eycia came back throush the thin walls of the little house. 16 \‘{'IT” recovercd confidence Min ¥ began to tell him how wonderiul Tom was3 at almest e “Why, he can cook as well as I can. An'l every bit of paper in this hcuse t relief to have Min's prattle to get them through the meal. She had shy smiles for ‘him now and no longer Lept her eye on the door. So | muel for a shave! | When breakfast was over, he spoke to Nosta directly. ' s thera somewhere where we can talk?" With no more than a nod sh2 the way inlo the parlor, with saddle-back suite in bright sh of red and blue, ils erimson A ster square, and its silver graph frames. Into this room, so new. so garish, zo commonplace, thera came these two angry, incongruous people; and at once its slight emptiness became charged with strain, pressure, re- sistance. Nesta waited for him to begin. She stood with her back to the window, leaning forward over one of the red and blue chairs in a would-be easy attitude. He walked to the woolly | mat in front of the hearth, and said what he had planned ‘to say. “This is a rotten deal for you. I want to tell ,you I'm Awlully sorry abon! I 7 "Heavens! How ificredibly dificult she made it! His words, his efforts to get her point of view, slipped turned towards him. It was like see- She was angry, hard, resenttul, cold. But there was something else. He could feel the pressure of her will. Why should she be putting out her will against him Ifke this? It got his back up. It made it too damned difficult to feel or say the decent thing. What was she to him after all, but a stranger whom he disliked? He said, “I really am sorry,” and the room filled again with her scorn- ful silence. Bbe stood there leaning over the back of the chair with bright close- frer 1ips. There was samething secret about that smile, said, “Take care—I can be even with you it 1 like.” was going to say. ““Why doyou look at me like that? What's behind all this?” “Ah!" said Nesta very softly. “Yow'd ke t6 kncw—wouldn't you?” (Copyright, 1933, J. B. Lippincott Co.) “Tomerrow Nesta talks “business” with Jim, { mist. Mist—foz. Fog came into it— mind too quickly to be grasped . . . { little CAREFUL -~ MEN- HE MAY TRY TO GET., HER BAGGAGE DOWN THE FIRE -ESCAPE--- DOUGLAS | DOUGLAS GETS NEW TRUCK T0 A1D OFFICIALS Ford V-8 Landed from, Steamer Alaska—Added to.City Equipment A new Ford, V-eight dump truck, equipped with dual wheels, came for Douglas on the steamer Alaska which docked here from the south early this morning. The last word in Ford vehicles of its kind new truck will greatly aid the city officials in their efforts to give the | residents better streets. In the past secondhand buys are all the 'city street work here and they have proven more or less a liability in the way of repairs necessary to keep them up. With the new truck, | cost of its maintenance should be for a considerable perio and with this and the uninterrupt ed service afforded thereby, more eccnomical service will be dered. A small tonnage of general freight for loecal firms also arrived on the Alaska. e Daily Emprre Want Ads Pay istopping off here a few days on the | has had to carry on| | ren- | l VISITOR LEAVES old-time resi- who has been Oliver Anderson, dent of Douglas, his way North, left this morning n the Alaska for his post with the Northern Commercial Company WEALTHY MANUFACTURER ON WAY ALASKA AND WIFE ARE WEST ABOARD C. T. Church, wealthy manu- facturer, of a well-known baking soda, and Mrs. Church were west- bound passengers on' the steamer Alaska. Mr, Church is on his way to Kenal Peninsula to spend- sev- eral weeks hunting for big game while Mrs. Church, who was shaken up in a plane accident on their| way West, will remain in An-j chorage. \ PREEI LIRS { SITKA MAYOR ARRIVES i FOR' VISIT ON' PLANE BARANOF YESTERDAY Peter Kostrometinoff, Mayor of Sitka, arrived in Juneau yesterday afterncon on the seaplane Baranof to spend a few days in this city. The prominent Sitkan is staying at the Gastineau Hotel X VPR ETAs & I Frank T. Patterson, 77, has been City Clerk at New Bern, N. C., for 25 _years. “and 1 || thought [ didn’t like Beer” in the North. Mr. Anderson has been stationed at varicus places in charge of N. C. stores but this winter he ex- pects to be at Teller, Alaska. Before leaving the visitor expressed his keen pleasure on being able to re- new old friendships here and in Juneau. | ———————— SCHOOL STUDENTS Mn# L_THY A ‘physical examiation of the pupils of the Douglas Public School was made yesterday by City Health Officer Dr. W. J. Pigg! Minor ail- ments were discovered in just a few cases but on the whole the boys and girls were found to be healthy. > NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Taxes are now due and will be- come delinquent after Saturday, Sept. 30. Ten per cent discount will be allowed if paid on or before \hm. date, at the Wharf Office* of {the City Clerk. Dog licenses are also past due and payable to the IClerk, or they will be reported to the City Marshal, for collection. FELIX GRAY, —adv. City Clerk. - l)ally Emph‘c Want Ads Pay. J. W SORRI | i | Woodworking Cabinet Making | Small Jobs a Specialty | Phone 349 85 Gastineau Ave. | U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Public Roads, September 22, 1933. Sealed bids will be re- | ceived at the office of the Bureau set eyes and just a hint of an angry | smile ‘breaking the straight line of | something that | He spoke before he knew what he | 11933, {rock or gravel top course. of Public Roads, 419 Federal & Territorial Bldg, Juneau, Alaska, until 9 o'clock A. M., for 5.148 miles of surfacing |on the Glacier Highway, Juneau- | Lemon Creek Section, in the Ton- gass National Forest, First Judicial Division, Territory of Alaska, in- | volving 8500 cubic yards crushed The at- | tention of the bidder is directed to | the special provisions covering sub- what he hung himselt.” It wos a | letting or assigning the contract, minimum wage rates and alternate to be submitted in case he may sire’ to offer any foreign articles, materials or supplies. Where plans |and specifications are requested, a | deposit of $5.00 will be required to |insure ‘tHeir return within thirty days after opening of bids. Checks |shall be made payable to Bureau of | Bldg., 'nomah Hotel, back from’ the lard surface she | ing a fly ‘slip on' & pane of glass. | Public Roads, Juneau, Alaska. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Bureau of Public Roads, Federal & Territorial Bldg., Juneau Alaska; Forest Service, Commercial Ketchikan, Alaska; Asso- ciated General Contractors, Mult- Portland, Oregon; ciated General Contractors, W. 515 First’ Ave., Spokane, Washing- ton; Associated General Contract- |ors, Arcade Bldg., Seattle, Wash- |ington; Pacific Builder & Engineer, | Scattle, Washington, and Western | Public Works Contractors’ Ass'n., | Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, ‘Washing- {ton. Bid blanks may be obtained at the office of the Bureau of Public Roads, Room 419 Federal & 'urrlmnnl Bldg., Juneau, Alaska. on October 26, | $§ ;HE NEW ROOFING? ‘MILLERIZED Completely aged — full 3.2 content—brewed from real hops and malt, not syrups— we could spend hours tell- ing you why Pabst is better. But Pabst “inside” convinces more than cold print out- side. AN’ we say—TRY IT! You'll like it. 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