Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11
The Daughter of David Kerr
By HARRY KING TOOTLE
Copyr:sh, By a. c. HcClars < Co.. I01z

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! cut giving property owners or the ei[y
adequate compensation for running or
confiscating their property. call that
pretty raw"
Well. it's our best and certainly
our cheapest way if Kerr viii put
through a franchise for Us" Kendall
/ maintained stubbornIy I'll come back
next week. and take The matter up
/ again. III the meantime you can talk
/ it over thoroughly with Kerr He may
have something to say by that time.
1t hardly seems likely He seldom
j changes his mind"
| He may this time. I've got to get
away now and go by the hotel before
/ go to the train. Let's go back TO
the drawing where l can have
few more words with Wright. We
may be able TO win him over
That's what I'm going to try to
( do, replied Judge Gilbert, as they
rose to rejoin Mrs. Gilbert and her
| guests.
The attorneys entered the drawing
room to find d discussion regarding
/ newspapers just drawing to a close
with victory still uncertain on which
standard 10 perch.
You just missed hearing DR.. Hayes
/ pay his respects to newspapers, Judge
/ Gilbert, said Joe Wright with d smile.
! The layman's opinions always inter
est and usually amuse a journalist.
What's the matter? Have you told
! him you won't publish the box scores
OF the ball games this year,"
I'll do that for him, and gladly"
Then there's no occasion to kick
| That's the only thing that can trouble
fat man"
This time I was speaking general
! ly," explained Hayes. L don't like
some Of the ways reporters have"
That's only small part of the
business" laughed Wright IF you
complain only about that l shall have
you for staunch adherent"
! Mrs. Hayes saw that Kendall was
at loss TO understand the drift OF
| the conversation, and accordingly
| said, DIR. Hayes is coroner, Mr.. Ken
{ udIl, anu iIlc DSu4lSI tIl6b Calls Us Il y
at most unearthly hours"
/ The Belmont Banner was the morn
| ing paper, and It's editor, Deacon
| Jerry WithrOw. was always at the
| beck and call Of the boss. Kerr let
| him think that he had something to
! do with directing the affairs OF the
| city This was harmless delusion.
~;v rs II In
him consider suggestion let fall by
| the boss as a scheme which he him
! self had Matched.
| Il think it is dreadful for nice men
/ to be mixed up in politics., said Mrs
| Gilbert
Perhaps it was no more dreadful
| than was the lack of knowledge of
of Belmont. This would have been
| difficult to impress upon Mrs. Gilbert.
She knew well enough that her nus
| band was consulted by that odious
| David Kerr, but that was in a legal
way and Kerr paid well for the ad-
vice he received. Even the tone in
which she spoke showed how thank
! LUZ oAAS "Go iACI lluSDoliO W 90 MT III
politics. Mrs. Hayes was quick to say
/ what she thought along the same line
| by adding:
And Dr. Hayes doesn't have to al
all, you know. He says he does it for
the good of the party"
This would have been all very in
! teresting to Kendall if he had had the
I entire evening to spend in such pleas
ant company. Time was pressing,
| however and in the few minutes still
at his disposal he wished to sound
Wright at greater length about the
| Belmont News.
| Kendall looked closely at the young
man whom he had already set down
as an opponent. Physically Wright
seemed no shirker of combat. His
| shoulders were broad and his body
we'll developed. Led to believe from
his knowledge Of the reformer type
| that he would find Joe Wright a long
| haired theorist and Utopian dreamer,
| the lawyer found instead a self-pos-
sessed, welI-balanced young man. The
| newspaper owners manner, even in
repose. was judicial To Kendall
thinking he had the air of man who
! would not be swayed by prejudice or
| liking. 1t was his part, however, as