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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08

We've been real anxious about
you, Tubby. Amt week goes by,
when you're in health, that we
don't hear something of you"
Mr.. McGuirk muttered some
thing untier his breath, and the
men chuckled.
1T seems" Tom said. interpret
ing, that he doesn't like us much.
He doesn't like the food, and he
doesn't like the beds. He says
just when he got a good place
fixed up in the coal cellar, Flanni-
gan found it, and is asleep there
now, this minute"
Aunt Selma rose suddenly and
cleared her throat.
Am l to understand. she
asked severely, that from now
on we will have to add two news
paper reporters, three policemen
and a burglar to the occupants of
this quarantined house? Because.
If that is the case, l absolutely re-
fuse to feed them"
But one of the reporters
stepped forward and bowed cere-
moniously.
Madam" he said. 81 thank you
for your kind invitation, butt
will be impossible for us to accept.
l had intended to break the good
news earlier, but this little game
of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES prevented
me. The fact is. your Jap has
been discovered to have nothing
more serious than chicken-pox,
and-if you will forgive a poultry
yard joke, there is no longer any
necessity for your being cooped
up"
Then he retired, quite pleased
with himself.
One would have thought we had
exhausted our capacity for emo
ton, but Jim said a joyful emo
ton was so new that we hardly
knew how to receive it. Every
one shook hands with everyone
else, and even the nurse shared in
the excitement and gave Jim the
medicine she had prepared for
Tom.
Then we all sat down and had
some champagne, and while
they were waiting for the police
wagon, they gave some to poor
McGuirk. He was still quite shak-
en- from his experience when the
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and took a farewell glance at ne
Then he waved his hand to the po-
Ilicemen and reporters Who ....I
gathered around.
"Good-by, fellows" he called
febely. 81 amt sorry, amt.
Jailll be paradise after this"
And then we went to pack our
trunks.
Note from Max which came the
next day with its enclosures:
MY Dear Kit-The enclosed
trunk tag was used on my trunk,
evidently by mistake. Higgins
discovered it when he was unpack-
ing and returned 1t to me under
the misrepresentation that / had
written it. l wish l had. l sup
pose there must be something at
tractive about fellow who has
the courage to write a love letter
on the back of trunk tag, and
who doesn't give a tinker's damn
who finds it. But for my peace
of mind, ask him not to leave an
other enc around where will
come across it. MAX"
Written on the back of the
trunk tag:
Don't you know that I won't
see you until tomorrow? For
Heavens sake, get away from this
crowd and come into the den. If
you don't l will kiss you before
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08

ldumb-waiter stuck. The wine
lcheered him a little. and he told
his story. in a voice that was
creaky from disuse, while Tom
held my hand under the table.
He had had a dreadful week. he
said; he spent his days in a closet
in one of the maids rooms-the
one where we had put Jim. 1t
was Jim waking out of nap and
declaring that the closet door had
moved by itself and that some
thing had crawled under his bed
and out of the door, that had
reused the suspicious of the
men in the house-and he slept
at night on the coal in the cellar.
He was actually fearful when he
rubbed his hand over his scrubby
chin, and said he hadn't had a
shave for a week. He took some
body's razor, he said, but he
couldn't get hold of a portable
mirror, and every time he lathered
up and stood in front of the
glass in the dining-room side
board. someone came and he had
had to run and hide. He told,
too, of his attempts to escape. of
the board on the roof, of the home
made rope and the hole in the cell
lar, and he spoke feelingly of the
pearl collar and the struggle he
had made to hide it. He said that
for three days it was concealed in
the pocket of Jim's old smoking
coat In the studio.
We were all rather sorry for
him, but If we had made him un-
comfortable, think of what he
had done to us. And for him to
tell, as he did later in court, that
IL that was high society ne would
rather be a burglar. and that we
starved him, and that the women
had to dress each other because
they had no ady's-maids, and that
the whole lot of us were in love
with one man, it was downright
malicious.
The wagon came for him just as
he finished his story, and we all
went to the door. In the vesti-
bule Aunt Selma suddenly remem-
bered something, and she stepped
forward and caught the poor fell
low by the arm.
Young man." she said grimly,
q" thank you to return what you
took from me last Tuesday night"
McGuirk stared, then shuddered
and turned suddenly pale.
Good Lord" he calculated.
ION the stairs to the roof! You!"
They led him away then, quite
broken, with Aunt Selma staring
after him. She never did under
stand. / could have explained,
but it was too awful.
On the steps McGuirk turned
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and Leila Mercer told of the time
her grandfather had had a strug-
gle with an escaped lunatic.
In the midst of the excitement
Tom appeared in bath-robe, look
ing very pale, with bandage
around his head, and the nurse
at his heels threatening to leave
and carrying a bottle of medicine
and a spoon. He went Immediate
ly to the pantry, and soon we
could hear him giving orders and
the rest hurrying around to obey
them. The hammering ceased,
and the silence was even worse.
1t was more suggestive.
In about fifteen minutes there
was a thud, as if the cage had
fallen, and the sound of feet
rushing down the cellar stairs.
Then there were groans and loud
oaths, and everybody talking at
once, below, and the sound of
struggle. In the dining-room we
al sat bent forward, with strain
ing ears and quickened breath,
until we distinctly heard someone
laugh. chen we knew that, what
ever II was, it was over, and no
body was killed.
The sounds came closer, were
coming up the stairs and into the
pantry. Then the door swung
open, and Tom and a policeman
appeared in the doorway, with
the others crowding behind. Be-
tween them they supported a.
grimy, unshaven object, covered
with whitewash from the wall of
the shaft. an object that had its
hands fastened together with
handcuffs, and that leered at us
with pair of the most vilainous-
ly crossed eyes l have ever seen.
None of us had ever seen him
before.
Mr.. Lawrence McGuirk, better
known as 'Tubby,'" Tom said
cheerfully. "A celebrity in his
particular line, which is second
story man and all-round rascal. AL
victim of the quarantine, like our
selves"
We've missed him for a week"
one of the guards said with a grin.
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his oh like this the Il
funny OLE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08

MONTESANO, Wash, Aug. s.
This city has more pretty gir.s to
the square inch than any other
place in the country. 1t is an adj
mitted fact. Now the young men
are exceedingly wrought up over
rumors of an anti-marriage CLUB.
which Dame Gossip says has ncen
organized among the younger set
OF town.
According to the story going the
rounds, whenever a man proposes
to member of the club his name
is given to the assembled members
who in turn vote on his fitness to
become a benedict. If they reject
him he is placed on the clab' u
blacklist.
And it is this blacklist thing that
has caused the trouble. The mar
riageable men object to beng
treated like an employee of a cor
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poration but this hasn't wrought
any appreciable change in the atti-
tude of the young women.
Miss Margaret Strowbridge,
leader of bevy of the young set
of Montesano, strenuously denies
reports of an anti-marriage cub.
She says If there is such club she
knows nothing of 1t.
Back fence conversation Is rc-
Isponsible for the story that several
SWANS. known to have proposed
to more than one girl, have already
been placed on the black list and
that several others are to follcw
shortly Less proposals and more
marriages in proportion to said
proposals are expected in Monte
sano in the future and the male
flirt is destined to NEE rapid
death, IL the club continues in ex-
istence.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08
AT THE TACOMA.
Margaret Anglin Saturday

Margaret Anglin, who comes to
the Tacoma next Saturday, made
her first hit in New York few
wears ago when at the Garden
theater she appeared quite I'M
known as the creator of the role
Of Roxane, the leading female
character in "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac," Rostand's masterpiece.
This was with the late Richard
Mansfield. The morning after her
appearance the leading New York
newspapers headline concerning
the play read ''Miss Anglin will
make this morning famous"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08

visit the DonneIIy Pool Han. a.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08
BY Mary Roberts RineH1art
(oopyright, 1ooe The Bobbs-Merrn Company

Just then from the lower part
of the house came a pandemonium
of noises: women screaming, men
shouting, and the sound of
Ratchet strokes and splintering
wood. l seized Betty by the arm,
and together we rushed down the
stairs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08
ire you coming?

everybody. Are you coming?
T."
Written below:
mo indeed. X"
This was scratched out and be-
meath:
Coming"
(THE ENID
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-08
AT THE PANTAGES.

"a Hot Time in Dogville" is the
big thing at the Pantages in the
bill starting today. The Barnold
dogs are famous for the exhibit
ton they give and they promise
to attract a big business.
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AT THE GRAND.

Dorothy DeSchelle and her COM
pany will be the feature at the
Grand this week in Sewell Collins
sldt, Thirty Dollars" The play
is full of humor.
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Visit the Donnelly Pool Hall. 80
20 PER CENT DEE

20 PER CENT OFF
Plume work. Old plumes made
new for little money For the next
20 days we will allow special
discount OF 20 per cent on all plume
work. Old hats reblocked and
cleaned 80 per cent discount on all
trimmed hats.
MODEL MILLINERY PARLORs
522 ProVident Bldg. Pac. ave.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06

John Is. Adams moved his family
on yesterday To WoodIawn. 40 miles
east OF ASheViiie. y. c., where he
VIII make his home for while.
job" b. and his brother, T. T..
Adams. of Richmond, have n twenty
thousand acre tract of fine timber
there which they will cut, begin
ming sometime mis- fall.
John believes in corn. He has
about 2oO acres out in different paris
OF The country, one hundred acres of
Which is in North Carolina, the best
in Scntt, Wise. and i'm the valley
OF Virginia. Mr. Adams SAYS the
ONLY way he can make any money
is in raising corn.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06

The sunrise and the sunset, but the
Gold Medal Flour is here to stay.
Cost sou 50. 80 per barrel, every par
rel guaranteed, or your money refund
ed. Costs no more than any other
high grade flour. Send your order
by phone or letter.
The Tazewell Supply Co.
Mrs. Il Il Howell continues i'll at
her home on Main street. 1t is fear
ell that Mrs. Howell has appendicitis
and will have To undergo an opera
ton.
Ed Rosenbaum will leave on Mon
day for Northfork, where he will 90
To take charge of a branch sales sta
bic of Geo. W.Iewis and Company.
Mr.. Fred w. Pendleton has re-
ceived handsome offer to take
charge of an insurance agency AT
Welsh, and has the matter under
consideration.
Ii + Lewis happened with quite
"A serious accident yesterday, getting
mixed up in "A wagon, and bruising
himself up right badly lie is con-
fined To his bed nursing the bruises
The box supper Mt Gravely Hill
will be on May l4th, at o'clock.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06

Mrs. Robert Branscom and little
son, Carl, and baby, Ruth, of Gary,
are on visit 10 her aunt, Mrs.
Frank Edwards, and her uncle,
Samuel Williams at North Taze-
we'll.
Mr. Robert Neal, of Asberry. was
here ON Wednesday attending the
show. as was also William Walk,
of Thompson Valley, who was glad
it rained, SO that he could not plant
corn.
Liggett'S candies just received at
) ..oN>iu'>.
:-fNr.d 'lmors have been current
in ID" cH.Hlnunity recently that "A
teach.. oi 'ausic for the High School
had been secured for the coming ses-
sion, but SO far the board has taken
no definite action.
Special attention is called To the
advertisements of the corn shelter
and grist mills, 10y y II Patch, and
of the telephone advertisement of
the Charleston Electrical SurpIv
Co. This phone al may interest you.
Alabastine-the kind you have
been buying at 5Oc, our price, 45c.
f, The Tazewell Supply co.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
BOUGHT FINE farm
IN LOUDON COUNTY
Mr.. w. o. Whitman Gets a
Good Piece Of Land in
Northern Virginia-John
b. Adams Timber Deal

Mr.. w. O. Whitman, who re-
Gently sold his farm in TazewelI 10
the Euston RrotheS, has bought an
other farm in London county near
Bluemont, of three hundred acres.
paying in The neighborhoud of
500 for it. Mr.. Whitman return-
Ell with his sun, from Loudon conn
~ on Wednesday, where they had
been 10 closa The deal. Mr.. Whitman
says the opinion was freely EXPRESS
ed by the people Of Loudon whom
he saw on his tlip that the farm is
one at the best in that whole country
being especially adapted to corn and
wheat. Mr.. Whitman will not get
poss''~i"H of his new property until
lhe Est of next January. His farm
Is only about Sky lies from Wash
lngto city.
The people generally in the conn
~ VIII regret To lose Mr.. whitman
and his family
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
Broad Statements

We've made some pretty
broad statements i'm oul ad-
Nertlsing concerning our ready
To wear department. If they
aren't true the public ought
TO know il; if they are true,
the public should know this
also. There's only one way
TO find outcome and see.
We are willing TO leave the
truth OF our claims to your
own individual experience
Witness the following:
TalIetta dresses with lace
yoke, in grey aud white. blue
and white stripe, black and
white check and =
solid black. 5000. | :. >
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
Do You Trust
to Luck?

Some folks put The savings of wear.
INTO home and they rely on their
luck TO avoid fire. Other folks in.
vest their entire assets in store OF
factory and take chances on havino
them wiped out over night. DO youa
We insure all classes of property
and will take pleasure in writing =
policy for you, no matter how small
or how large.
We have the facilities.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
local MeWs
Guitars at cost ut Pobst's.
Some nice values at Pobst S.

Some nice values at Pobst's
Rev. GIN. Dickinson, the colored
minister of Tazeweli, is holding a
meeting i'm Winston Salem, y. G..
assisting the pastor, Rev. Il. l.. Pet
erS.
Hammocks AID croquet sets at
Pobst's.
r you want nice salad bowl nj
cost, call at Pobst's.
Mr.. Thos. Bourne, the Grafton
esquire" was here ON Monday. and
reports the prospect good for fruit
in his section, Notwithstanding the
cold snaps.
Canned tomatoes, hand picked, full
weight, three 3-pound cans for 25c.
The Tazewell supply co.
The X. p. banquet, advertised for
the 18th, next Thursday evening, has
been changed to the evening of the
10th, Tuesday night. Let all the boys
take notice.
Just received, cars fertilizer, with
land plaster filler. The TazeweIl
Supply Co.
a. J. Copenhaver, OF the west
end of the county, was i'm the city
on yesterday on business.
Gold Medal Flour, per barrel, S5.95
3 bu. bags salt, 90
Pure middlings, per sack, II 1T
The farewell Supply co.
Miss Selfe, of Wilcoe, is the
guest of Mrs. w. G. O'Bricn, on
Mechanics avenue.
Tomorrow is the last day ON
which poll taxes can be pale i'm or
der to register for the fall elections
Keen Kutter sheep shears, II. I'll
point galvanized barb wire, .O3
Wire nails, per keg-basis, -. 5u
The Tazewell Supply Co.
II is said that society women i'm
New York care more for their pet
dogs than for their hair, but its
false. -Charleston News and Courier
still have two 1901 piece dinner
sets which will be sold at cost
Pobst.
Lots OF nice things At Pobsts L.
be sold at and below cost.
Colonel and Mrs. J. Il. Bower left
yesterday To attend the ceremonies
incident to the visit OF the Governor
OF Connecticut and other prominent
men TO Richmond. Several banquets
will be given and the affair will be
one of the most brilliant OF Governor
Mann's administration.
Now is the time to spray vour
trees. We have the Borlean Mix
ture in one galI)n cans. one gallon
makes 30. Also spray pumps. The
TazeweIl Supply Co.
Colonel William G. Pendleton
has returned from Richmond. where
he took his daughter, Miss Sallic.
for an operation for appendicitis.
The operation was performed last
week, AMI Miss PenIleton las been
getting along nicely since.
There is nothing finer i'm chocolates
on the market than Liggelt's, try
them. At Jacson's.
DIR w. l. Hall has returned from
Richmond, where he went To TAX,
his daughter, Kate, for an operation
Tor appendicitis, which was per
formed last week.
Mr.. ) IL Hurt, one of the good
looking Wittens Mills boys, was in
the city on yesterday. lie has been
in Buchanan for sometime with the
Ritter Lumber Co.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
{ H0PHaN'S.

DR. Luther Copenhaver the dentist
returned from a professional visit
to buchanan county on Wednesday.
lie reports that Mr.. T.. II. Wilten
has sold his large mercantile bust
ness AT Grundy To Mr.. Charles. of
the same town.
Mr.. Wilson, of Graham, a repre-
sentative OF the Carr, Hunter Lum-
her company, passed through town
on Wednesday enroute To- Poor Val
ley, 10 load three cars of lumber
which he had bought from Neal
Brothers. The shipment consists of
one car each of poplar, chestnut and
oak.
Master George Harris, Pounding
Mill, came up on Wednesday to take
I'm the show. and remained over
with his aunt Mag until yesterday.
lie Is general manager and minister
plenlpotentiary on his grand moth
er's farm, Mrs Williams, at Pound
ing Mill, and will attempt a hummer
acre of corn this year
Miss Louise Eanes, one of The
bright and attractive young lady
teachers of the High School, in COM
pany with several youngsters, went
fishing on Saturday, and il is report-
ed caught two mulIheads, " of I'M
certain size. The "big fish" must
have been on vacation and out of
town. If such a Fisherman" cant
catch 'em, why, then, there's some
thing wrong with the fish, that's all.
Arch Rudd, son of James +. Rudd. /
OF McComas, w. Va, is desperately
Ill at the home of his sister here
Mrs. Charley Moore. Rudd has
and it is feared he can
not live. His sister, the widow of the
ate Charley Moore, the painter. is
N needy circumstances, the hurden l.
u the care of her brother faIlino
heavily upon her. Any contributions
~ maui Gull NC stII at his
'ilce, and we will see that proper
md necessary things are provided.
Dr. Jackson has returned from {
<ichmond, where be attended
meeting of the State Board of Phar-
macy as member of the board. {
mere were over eighty applicants {
Or pharmacists and assistant phaI-
nacists, but only about fifty per
ent of-the would-be pill rollers Sc
nred the necessary papers. Ten of
he applicants were colored a major
" OF whom secured either first or
econd grade certificates.
Ligeett's chocolates are the finest
n the market. Fresh shipment at
ackson's,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06

There's a Difference.
Vol. I. No. 7.

There's no need 10 tell you
how much difference there is
in millinery in the material.
in the styles, yes. and IN the
prices. You have noticed all
these points, no doubt.
In our shop we want you
to feel at homc-as though
you knew your needs were
being catered To- and your sat
isfaction sought, fully as
much as your money. Want
you to feel that we'd rather
miss seliitg you a hat this
season entirely and take
chances on next. than for you
To have what, in the end.
would fail 10 please.
the Store That Sets the Pace.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
Wreck Last Might

Freight train No. 50, eastbomnd,
was wrecked about 6 o'clock yestcr-
day afternoon, about one mile " est
OF The station, about ten cars of coal
and one of lumber being almost en-
tirely demolished. The wreck WAS
Just I'm front OF the residence Of NJ l.
feery, in deep cut, and caused the
annuiment OF the eastbound passen-
ger train, and other traffic on the
Clinch Valley No one was hurt in
the wreck
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06

Well fitted lingerie is es-
sential TO smart effects in
gowning. The combination
suit is growing more popular
every day.
The above cut represents
corset cover and skirt COM
oined. Price, $1.75
EOthcr numbers at $3.50.
$500, and $500.
CH1PH.1NS
Tazewell, Virginia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
Young Man

Throw away that old Har-
ness Buckle you've b @ e n
wearing and put on one OF
Chapman's Easy Belts. They
are CLASSY" indced-5Oc, zoe,
S1.00.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
Just received large consignment:
of triumph corn planters, at 40 each.
The Tazeweli Supply Co.
Registration Day

The third Tuesday i'm this month,
May 18th, is regular registration day.
See the registrar, AIR. Duak, and
have your name enrolled.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
The Register

Mr.. A. q. Russell, the manager
fot the Faraday interests in the coun-
ty' was unusually happy and de-
lighted on last Monday morning
over the arrival the night before Of
fine baby boy at his home. Mrs.
Russell is doing nicely.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
A Few Little Things.
Worthy Of special notice for
next weeks selling
AT Chapman'S.

-
Evening shades in Lisle
hose, soc.
Pastel Shades i'm ShkHose.
Sl.25.
Irish Lace Collars. $1.O0.
Another invoice OF Washable
Stocks, 25c.
Ball-bearing barettcs guar
.anteed not TO break, 25c.
"Shuclean" for cleaning
white gloves, 15c.
Swedine Powder for Swede
slippers, 25c.
Shoe Soap, recommended
Cor preserving all bright
feathers, Zoe.
Old fashioned flax towels,
kind grandmother used. 2Jc.
Hand-embroidered linen
towels, hemstitched ends. l.75
New patterns silkaline, l2lc
10 pieces FlaXon in small
checks, 25c.
Linen driving coats, SO
inches, - 80.
Shantung coats. full length,
natural piped in red, SD. 80
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-05-06
ClInCh Valley Insur-
anCe Agency, inc.

Successors to J. F. Hurt Insur-
ance Agency and Tazewell In
surance Agency.