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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-07
These Are the Favored
Dress Goods Weaves
for Spring.

GABARDINES-AII wOOI-cOTTect Shades
OF Navy and Belgian Blue, Sand. Russian
Green, Battleship Gray and Black, CSC to S195.
Black and white shepherd checks, in every
size and variety OF checks-50c TO $3.50.
Palm Beach suitings. several styles, some
with colorcd stripes, yard 75c
Atwood sponged and shrunk storm serges,
80 inches wide. per yard 85c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-07
Golconda Diamond Rings

NOAOOlAd 1'1ol1Olid NAASo'
Demonstration viii close; only few more
days in which purchase them.
The value Of these beautiful diamond cut. pure
crystal white gems not be appreciated until worn
They excel al other stones cut color and hardness
and are worn with the genuine diamonds daily with
out detection
THURSDAY SPECIALS s>NEpzz
Women's $50 Tiffany rings S125. sHSsE
Women's s1.25 Tiffany rings. 500. A
81 100 La Walters, special. $3.50. -
s. 50 Ia ysiIIeres. special. $500. 1
81 30 Ear Screws. special SIPS. III
Main aisle. Srd avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-07

Tn~ s.ous~ ART waist ey.
hfbtt "a our west window fs
verify - geur iaspectioa-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-07
Thousands of
Yards of
White and
Colored Wash
Goods.

come into the April Sales.
Continued cool weather
throughout the month OF
March has oCcasioned over
stocked cOnverters and Job
bers to make liberal price
concessions for quick dispOs-
al of their wash goods stocks.
We share with YOU the
many good things that
have come our way at the
same liberal savings at
which we secured them
Printed Plisse Crepes-a great
variety of beautiful printings,
yard Tie.
Seeo silks in plain colors,
usually 25c, per yard f5e,
4o-inch Printed VolIes and
French organizes. per yard 25c.
Hand Woven Japanese Crepes.
direct from Japan. all coIors
and an width stripes, per yard
25c.
White Plisse Crepes for IN
der and outer wear, yard 12He.
A vast assortment of white
waistings and dress novelties,
at Toe, 12I2c, 15c to 25c and soc.
The extremely popular white
lingerie lace cloths, 25c per
yard and up.
A special lot of 40-inch. black
and white striped voiles, usual
" sell for 25c, these per yard
1sc
$50 p. m. Thursday and
Friday, pretty new patterns
of cotton dress challies in
limited quality, per yard
BIC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-07

MecoNocHE COMMITTEE
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12

assisting in the election of candidates
for Office. One election official, an in
telligent gentleman of acknowledged
business ability, testified that he was
satisfied that several of the voters in
the precinct where he presided were
not entitled to vote, but their names
were on the register and he consider
ed the registration officer responsible
II the ballot box is not to be safe
guarded why have election officials at
all? In the face of such evidence
and no one can have the slightest idea
to what extent fraudulent voting was
carried in this county, as only a few
persons were called to testify-it
would seem that there is something
radically wrong in the enforcement OF
election laws. Some means should be
taken to correct this evil.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12
WON THE BROOM

The Oroville high school basket ball
team won the championship of the
county for the season of 191415. The
honor was fairly and squarely earned,
and by scores over which there can
be no quibbling. Oroville has defeat
ed Republic twice, Riverside, Omak
Brewster and Conconully each once
and has made a clean record. The
team is made up of Beverley Powell
VIM. and Chas Cole, Ray Vincent, Ben
Prince and Aubrey McMahan. The
boys played together last year, and
although they did well they fell be-
hind in the champion race. They have
greatly improved this year. They have
sacrificed individual records for team
work, wherein is their great strength
While praising the boys for the rec
ord they made, we can not overlooF
an individual through whose untirins
efforts the making of that record was
possible. That person is S. B. Star.
rett, trainer and coach. Mr.. Starrett
is college man, and takes great in.
terest in school sports. He was Sc
lected as coach last fall, and he whip
ped the foot ball team into a formid
able machine. His coaching of the
basket ball team has been earnest and
insistent, but he had an object in view
and no one is prouder than he is that
that object has been attained The
boys look upon him as a friend and
companion, as we'll as an advisor and
instructor, and they have submitted
patiently to every rule laid down. Be
sides his success as coach Mr.. Star
rett has won the respect and esteem
o. all contending teams by his abso
lutte fairness and business. He is al
ways Jealous of the rights of his owl
team, but he comedies the rights OF
others in a spirit of sportsmanlike
generosity. His aim has been to keer
school sports up to the highest stand.
ard, free of all questionable methods
and in doing so has built up a team
that would make a creditable show.
ing against any basket bali aggrega.
ton in the state.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12

AS was expected the $4,000 voted by
the commissioners for the Oroville-
Nighthawk road was pulled down in
response to the shrieks of protest that
emanated from the third district. The
commissioners could not stand the
strain, and as it has become a custom
to ignore the north end of the county,
anyhow, they did not have the nerve to
stand the acid test. The money will
be applied to road work in the first
district, but not near Oroville, of
course not. At no stage of the pro-
ceedings did this paper ever really ex-
pect that any part of that $4,000, or
any other road money for that matter,
would be placed on roads near OrO-
vile. Oroville is expected to pay the
shot, and let other portions of the
county revel in the luxury of better
roads. 1t has been the custom so long
that really any change would be a
painful breaking up of pleasant mo-
notony. Yet having met both Mr..
Green and Mr.. Miller, and sizing them
up as the right sort, we did think that
they would have at least permitted us
t. kiss that roll fond farewell. From
Mr.. Nixon nothing more was expected
He has got so used to barring out the
Oroville district that he certainly
would die of enlargement of the heart
If any of the side meat was by acct
dent diverted this way.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12

The air is fairly surcharged with
the possibility of good things for Oro-
Vile during the new year that pro-
terds advancement and corresponding
prosperity for the residents. The pull
sation of better feeling is creating
more optimistic sentiment among the
people, an effort to accomplish is be-
ing put forth, and the citizens as
mass show more unification in dis
position to aid in fostering any move
ment that may tend to the betterment
of the place. Tangible results prom
Use to grow out of the newly awakened
spirit of civic endeavor. Men gain
confidence in the consciousness OF the
powerful influence If united action,
and in launching enterprises with the
collective good as the objective con-
fidence is more than half the battle.
Within the past few days a CONNER
cial Club of large and earnest mem
bership has been organized. This or
ganization was perfected amidst feel
ing of fellowship, and the key note OF
the meeting was union and push. AL
ways push and union. 1t looks for
once as though Commercial Club
has formed that would stick together
and do things. AS a valuable work
ing auxiliary to the Commercial Club,
although a separate and distinct Or
ganization, is a mining association
that will perform it's part in attracting
attention to one of the most important
industries tributary to CrOville. So the
ball has started rolling that in its
evolution will contribute very largely
to the upbuilding of the town and
country. More material than simple
organization is the work being done
with hopeful prospects of something
growing out of it, in the interests OF
the big irrigation project, which is sc
vitality important to the entire valley
The district officials are working many
leads, and are hopeful of eventually
securing the necessary backing for
carrying out the long delayed enter
prise. Accompanying these efforts is
a movement that assures for the town
large new modern hospital. Other
lines are out with the aim of attracting
gainful advantage for Oroville, and
every means will be taken to keep up
the campaign of get there in the mat
ter of advantageous additions to the
town and country adjacent. After a
rather lethargic winter everything
now points to activity and progress
for the spring and summer, and if all
signs do not fail the year 1915 will be
marked by greater advancement than
any year since the railroad reached
OrOville.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12

The hearing of the contest case of
Mitchell VS.. Green last week, brought
out one thing very conspicuously, and
that is the looseness of our election
laws, or at least the careless disregard
OF the election laws. The evidence
showed that men voted who were so
ignorant that they could not read a
single name on the tickets. Possibly
take the state over and there are hun
dreds Of such cases. And these voters
having little idea of how they are vot-
ing, aid through the initiative in pass
ing or defeating proposed laws to gov
ern the body polite, to say nothing of
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12
OROvILLE ORCHARD TRACTS

Mrs. A. w. Mitchell has been acting
as night nurse for the little Russell
girl for some time.
w. H. Philpot has been faithfully
carrying the Orchard Tracts people
to and from the late revival services
az the Methodist church.
We must have that cannery
Mrs. A. A. Spencer and her family
are the proud owners of thorough
bred Shetland pony, buggy and har-
ness to match, the present of friend
Orchard pruning is now in order.
ROXY
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12
CARD OF THANKS

(This notice was handed in to this
office some time ago, but unintention-
ally was overlooked by the editor.)
The undersigned desires to take
this means of expressing his heartfelt
thanks to the many neighbors and
friends who so kindly extended aid,
comfort and sympathy to him at the
time of his late aff1iction in the loss
OF devoted wife.
S. F. MCDONALD.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. G. Fl. Severance. Vicar

Rev. G. H. Severance, Vicar
Holy Communion and sermon at
IL; Sunday school at ~; evening
prayer and sermon at 1880. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend these
services.
Episcopal services will be held in
LOomis by the Rev. G.. H. Severance
on Tuesday evening, Feb. 16.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12

-, NOTICE IS hereby given that the (
Okanogan, Valley Irrigation District,
costs of this publication and that vi
prior prior to the 26th day of February,
day of February, 1915, to satisfy sal,
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-02-12

an assessments
- ' WIN COSTS penalties and costs oeA " II" VI -
County okanogan County Wa1ha
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
SYNOPSIS.

Kenneth Griswold, an unsuccessful
writer because of socialistic tendencies,
holds up Andrew Galbraith president OF
the Bayou State Securities, in the presi-
dents private office and escapes with $780,
900 In cash. BY original methods he es-
capes the hue and cry and goes aboard
the Belle Julie as a deckhand. Charlotte
Farnham of Wahaska, Mimi, who had
seen him cash Galbraith's check In the
bank, recognizes him, and sends letter
OF betrayal to Galbraith anonymously.
<srtswold is arrested on the arrival of TIE
boat at st. Louis, but escapes from his
captors. He decides on Wahaska Mimi,
as hiding place. and after Quitting
himself properly. takes the train. Girls
void falls Ill on the sleeper and Is cared
for and taken to her home in Wahaska
BY Margery Grierson daughter of Jasper
Grierson, the financial magnate OF Wa
haska. Margery finds the stolen money
IN Griswolds suitcase. Broffin, detective,
takes the trail. Margery asks her father
20 get Edward Raymer into financial hot
water and then help him out of it. Girls
void RECEIVERS to find the stolen money
gone. He meets MargerJ's social circle
and forms friendship with Raymer, the
iron manufacture. Broffin comes to Wa
naska In search of the woman who wrote
the anonymous letter to Galbraith. Mar
gerry takes Griswold to the safety deposit
vault and turns the stolen money over to
him. Charlotte bluffs out Broffin and
Margery begins to watch him Griswold
puts his money in Raymer's plant and
commences to rewrite his book Griswold
goes to dinner at Doctor Farnham's and
Is not sure that Charlotte has not reeog-
ntzed him
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
CHAPTER xvllI-contInued.

1T was mamie was looking in
at the window" she returned in low
tones. 81 thought l saw him once be-
fore; but this time l am certaini'
Griswold sprang from his chair, and
moment later was letting himself out
noiselessly through the hall door.
There was nothing stirring on the
porch. He was still cropping among
the bushes, and Miss Farnham had
come to the front door, when the doc
tors buggy appeared under the street
lights and was halted at the home
hitching post.
Hello, Mr.. Griswold; is that your"
called the CHEEKY one, when hes saw
bareheaded man beating the covers
in his front yard.
Griswold met his host at the gate
and walked up the path with him.
Miss Charlotte thought she saw
someone at one of the front windows"
he explained; and a moment after
ward the daughter was telling it for
herself.
Il saw him twice." she insisted;
"once while we were at dinner, and
again just now. The first time 1
thought | might be mistaken, but this
time"
Griswold was laughing silently and
inwardly deriding his gifts when, un-
der cover of the doctors return, he
made decent acknowledgements for
benefits bestowed and took his de-
parture. On the pleasant summer
night walk to Upper Shawnee street
he was congratulating himself upon
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70 be presumed that much, II not all.
OF the eomplacency would have van
lshed If he could have been an unseen
listener In the Farnham sitting-room,
dating from the time when little Miss
Gilman battered off to bed, leaving
the father and daughter sitting to-
gether under the reading lamp.
At first their talk was entirely OF
the window apparition. the daughter
insisting upon its reality. and the ia
Their trying to push it over into the
limbo of things imagined. Driven
finally to give all the reasons for her
belief in the realities, Charlotte related
the incident Of the afternoon.
By this time the good Doctor BERTHE
had become the indignant Doctor Ber-
tie.
I'VE can't have that ct ALL" he said
incisively. you did your whole duty
in that bank matter; and 1t was q
good deal more than most young wom-
en- would have done. I'm not going
to have you prosecuted and harassed-
AOI OhC AtAuutcs WuSAS ID ILLS ACA-
low stopping?"
The daughter shook her head. Il
don't know. He gave me his card, but
it has the New Orleans address only"
Give it to me and I'll look him up
tomorrow"
The card changed hands, and for
few minutes neither of them spoke.
Then the daughter began again.
I've had another shock this eve
ming, toe" she said, speaking this time
in low tones and with eyes downcast.
This Mr. Griswold-did l understand
you to say that he had lost all of his
money!"
yes; practically all OF It," said the
father, without losing his hold upon
what certain great London physician
Tas saying through the columns Of the
English medical journal.
But afterward, long after Charlotte
had gone up to her room, he remem-
bered, with curious little start of
half-awakened puzzlement, that some
one, no longer ago than yesterday. had
told him that young Griswold was
rich-or II not rich. at least well
fixed"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
oriswold looked ana was reasonably

oriswold looked ana was reasonably
sure that he could make out the
shadowy figure OF a man leaning
against one Of the trees.
That is my shadow" she said, low
ering her voice; 'Mr. Matthew Brof.
nm OF the Colburne Detective agency,
IN New Orleans. He has foolish idea
that am in communication with the
man he is searching for. and he was
brutal enough to tell me so. What he
expects to accomplish by keeping an
absurd watch upon our house and dog
ging everybody who comes and goes, /
can't imagine"
You have told your father?" said
Grtswold anxious to learn how far this
new alarm fire had spread.
Certainly; and he has made his pro-
test. But 1t doesn't do any good; the
man keeps on spying. as you see. But
we have wandered a long way from
your book. I've been trying to prove
to you that am not fit to criticize it,
No; you mustn't mistake me. I
haven't been coming to you for criti.
cism,' was Griswold's rather incoher-
ent reply; and when the talk threat
ened to lapse into the commonplace,
he took his leave. Oddly enough, as he
thought. when he was unlatching the
gate and had shifted one of the newly
purchased automatic pistols from his
hip pocket to an outside pocket OF the
light top-coat he was wearing, the
shadowy figure under the lakeashading
trees had disappeared
1t was only few minutes after the
lingering dinner guest had gone when
the doctor came out on the porch,
bringing his long-stemmed pipe for q
bedtime Whit in the open air.
You are losing your beauty sleep,
little girl" he said, dropping into the
chair lately occupied by the guest did
you find out anything more tonight?'
The daughter did not reply at once,
and when she did there was note of
freshly summoned hardihood In her
voice.
I'VE were both mistaken" she az.
firmed. Condolences are always
likely to be misleading. l am sorry
told you about them. He has certain.
ly been present help in time of need
to Edward"
AS before, the good little doctor mad
recourse to his pipe, and 1t was not un,
til his daughter got up to go In that
he said gently: zone other word. Char
lie, girl: are you altogether sure that
the wish isn't father to the thought
about Griswold?"
Don't be absurd. papal" she said
scornfully. passing swiftly behind his
chair to reach the door; and with that
answer he was obliged to be content
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

the now quite complete fulfillment of
the wishing prophecy. Miss Farnham
vas going to prove to be all that the
most critical maker of studies from
life could ask In a model; a supremely
perfect original for the character Of
Ffdelia in the book. Moreover, she
would be his touchstone for the truths
and Yerities; even as Margery Grier-
son nigh, If she were forgiving
enough tc let bygones be bygones. hold
the mirror up to nature and the pure
humanities. Moreover, again, what
ever slight danger there might have
been In a possibility of recognition
was a danger outlived. II the first
meeting had not stirred the sleeping
memories in Miss Farnham, subse.
quent ones would serve only to widen
the gulf between forgetfulness and rec
objection by Just such distances as the
Wahaska Griswold should traverse In
leaving behind him the deckhand OF
the Belle Julie.
How much this might have been
modified If he had known that the man
whose face Miss Farnham had seen at
the window was silently tracking him
through the tree-shadowed streets is
matter for conjecture. Also, it is
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15

I'm coming to that. This escape
we read about happened on certain
day In April. 1t was the very day on
which poppa met me on my way back
from Florida. and we took the eleven
thirty train north that night. You
haven't forgotten that Mr.. Griswold
was a passenger on that same train 2"
but, goodness gracious. Miss Mar
gerry! any number Of people were pas
sengers on that train. You surely
wouldn't"
"Hush" she said, and through the
lace window hangings Broffin saw her
lift warning finger What l am
telling you, Mr.. Raymer. Is in the
strictest confidence; we mustn't let a
breath OF it get out. But that wasn't
all Mr. Griswold was dreadfuly sick
and, Of course, he couldn't tell us any.
thing about himself. But while he was
delirious he was always muttering
something about money, money; mon
ey that he had lost and couldn't find or
money that he had found and couldn't
lose. Then when we thought he
couldn't possibly get well. Doctor Ber-
tie and | ransacked his suiteases for
cards or letters or something that
would tell us who he was and here
he came from. There wasn't he lit
tlest thing"
CTc bE CoRTntuED3
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-10-15
CHAPTER XIX
Pitfalls.

FlkIdtSs
Within a week from the day when
Raymer, angrily jubilant, had rescued
his imperiled stock, it was pretty gen
orally known that Kenneth Griswold
the writing man, had become the
fourth member In the close corpora.
ton of the Raymer Foundry and Ma
chine works, and Wahaska was ca
gerly discussing the business affair in
all its possible and probable bearings
upon the Raymers, the Griersons and
and the newly elected directory of the
Pineboro railroad.
OF all this buzzing of the gossip bees
the person most acutely concerned
heard little or nothing. Digging deeply
in the inspiration field, Griswold speed.
lily became oblivious to most of his en-
compassments; to all of them, indeed,
save those which bore directly upon
the beloved task. Among these, he
counted the frequent afternoon visits
to Mereside, and the scarcely less fire.
quent evenings spent In the Farnham
home. He was using each of the
young women as a foil for the other
in the outworking of his plot; and he
welcomed it as sign OF growth that
the story in its new form was acquir-
ing verisimilitude and becoming CRATE
fully, and at times, he persuaded him
self, quite wildly, human.
When he got well into the swing of
it and was turning out chapter every
tf4ee or four days, he fell easily into
the habit of slipping the last install
ment into his pocket when he went to
Mereside Margery Grierson was add
ing generously to his immense obliga-
ton to her; hoping only to find a
friendly listener, he found a helpful
collaboration More than once, when
his own imagination was at fault, she
was able to open new vistas in the
humanities for him, apparently draw
ing upon a reserve of intuitive con-
illusions compared with which his own
hard-bought store of experimental
knowledge was almost puerile.
81 wish you would tell me the secret
Of your marvellous cleverness." he ex-
claimed, on one of the June afternoons
when he had been reading to her In
the cool half-shadows of the Mereside
library. You are only a child in
years; how can you know with such
miraculous certainty what other
people would think and do under con-
ditions about which you can't possibly
know anything experimentally? It's
beyond mel"
There are many things beyond you
yet, dear boy; many, many things,
was her laughing rejoinder; from
which 1t will be inferred that the cpl
sode In the Farmers and Merchants
burglar-proof had become an episode
forgotten-or at least forgiven. You
know men-a little; but when 1t comes
to the women well, II didn't
keep continually nagging at you, your
two heroines-with neither Of whom
you are really In love-would degen-
crate into rag dolls. They would, ac-
tually."
That's true; can see 1t clearly
enough when you point it out" he adj
mitted. putting bis craftsman pride