Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-27

,ell you that we are soon going 10 De
gin an advertising campaign that VIII
wipe wheato OFF the market but you
don't understand business"
"Indeedr' ejaculated the girl.
"But you ran understand this
Hugh rushed on. You can under
stand me when l say love you. I've
loved you from the moment saw you,
and, no matter how you think of me
now, no matter what you say. I'm GO
Ing to make you love me and marry
me! Just as Pm going to be success
full in this fight against wheato, I'm
going TO win your
A deep. indignant flush suffused the
girls face. Then she laughed mock
ingly.
"Really. Mr.. Breakfast Food Man."
she cried. you can't make a girl mar
ry you hy the same tactics you would
employ In business campaign. III
your endeavors with wheatfiaka are no
more successful than your endeavors
will be to win me, 1t will certainly go
hard with you"
Naughty and stern, she stood with
averted face until Hugh, somewhat
abashed, climbed into his machine and
whirled down the road.
But Hugh's buoyant nature soon re-
asserted itself. He had never yet
failed in anything that he had under
taken. Why, then, should he fail when
n camo IN u,iuninO a vvifa9
Confident that when the time really
came the girl would capltulate, he
oigeonholed his courtship for future
attention and gave all his energies
into the prosecution of his campaign
against wheato.
For week or more the campaign
progressed in most satisfactory man
ner. Consumers and jObbers through
out the country responded In Il Won
derfully gratifying manner to Highs
aggressive advertising. Tie felt that
his efforts we're already crowned with
success. His statesmen everywhere re-
ported that the sales of wheato hao
greatly decreased.
Then suddenly out of clear sky
came a storm cloud. The wheatO
company in page advertisements in
many leading newspapers published a
complete report of the method by
which wheattiaka was manufactured.
In this report 1t was shown that three
times during the process the food was
touched by human hands.
The wheato company pointed out to
the public the danger of Centamination
and pollution of the food through this
! agency and further declared that
/ wheato was manufactured by the most
| cleanly process which could possibly
be used.
The effect of this advertising was tC
cut the sales of whea iaka IN half al
once. Hugh immediatc.y ordered the
entire process of manufacture changed
but he realized that it would be some
! time before the food recovered from
its slump.
For the time his campaign against
wheatO was abandoned. He was too
busy endeavoring to hold his own bust
ness together to bother much about the
enemy.
1t was rather discouraged Hugl
who came upon the girl for the secont
time as he plowed through the deeI
snow in his big car
Arrayed as before, she was standing
just inside the gate leading to he
home. The house where she and he
,,.;l I, cr,s &,
q half mile or SO down the road from
Hugh's home.
The girl actually smiled as she say
Hughs dlsconsolate and haggard face
''Why, it's the breakfast food man,
she laughed. 'IIave you come to maj
ry me, Mr.. Food?" she asked gayly.
''Not yet" replied the man doggedly
But I'm going to some day. Heavens
how l love you!" he cried as he gaze,
hungrily at her flushed face. 81 neve
knew what it was before to love. Now
when can't have you right when
want you my whole being cries alou
for you"
The girl, her face all aflame, laughe
again, this time rather constrainedly.
Really you are a very original lovel
Mr.. Food" she said. None of the otl
er men has ever said such things t
me so unconcernedly"
WHO are the other men?" demande
Hugh fiercely. Then he laughed a
himself. Pm hardly in a position no,
to ask" he went on. but Pm going (
win out I'm going to win at that fat
tory, and then I'll come and win YOU!
He terked the lever forward, and tn
great car shot away.
However, despite Hugh's confiden
prediction, he found it exceedingly di
ficult to win out in his fight agains
wheato. In fact, the campaign wer
80 severely against him that in sho,
time he found himself facing failure.
1t was then that the girl rose upper
most In his thought to the exclusio
even of his business worries. FINAL
doggedly he went to see the girl hel
self
She entered the room in her hom,
!. where he awaited her, with smile o