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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-12-26
wALTON.PRATHER

Otto C. Prather, aged %, and Miss
Graham Walton, aged 81, both of
Fleming county, were married here
Christmas day by Rev A. F. Stahl.
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Miss Florence Dodson. OF Lexington,
is spending the holidays with her par
euts. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Dodson,
Of Fourth street
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-12-26

The City Health Department reports
two new cases of typhoid fever in the
city this morning.
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sTRAUsBAUGH.ETHERIDGE

Mr.. Charles o. Etheridge, of Fair
field, ILL.,, and Miss Mary L. Strauss
Nbaugh, of Moransburg, were married
on Chistmas eve by Rev. A f. Stahl.
of the Christian Church $500 4-.sa &,
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Mr.. and Mrs. Bushfield. of New York,
are the guests of Mrs. Bushfield's
grandmother, Mrs. d. Hechinger, of
Front street
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-12-26
FOR SALE

10 share Of Stock in King Midas Oil
Company price 800 per share. In
quire at Ledger Office 24-3t
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-12-26

Lud Mills, who is now located in
New York Camp is spending holiday
furlough with relatives here.
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"The Best Christmas Gift after All".
A wonderful Crystola Phonograph.
Plays any record correctly. THE
RICHARD SPANIARD PIANO COM
PANY, 141 p. Third Street. 22-6t
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05
CHAPTER xxv-coutuued.


ssTnrf makes no difference" Daphne
G10rnzrx. already converted to the
shop rezigiOn- Customers must not
End the door shut. Run open it at
nce Suppose Mrs RomiIly dropped
En- We'd lose her-unIess this no
tSrFety drives her, away" A little
blush of shame fickered in Daphne's
pale cheeks a moment and went out.
she sighed: IL suppose Mr.. Duane
mas stopped that check, too-if he ever
scat it. Oh, dearI"
Then a nurse knocked; brought in
"a card growing in 81 large little aza
lea tree. Daphne scanned it "Mr.
Thomas Varick Duane!" She peered
closer at the penciIings and read
aloud: ~9 just learned. Tn heart
ibroksn- Isn't there anything 1 can
SdoT~
Daphne felt as If outraged society
had forgiven her.
isn't he a darIingF' she murmured.
Mrs Chivvis begrudged a stingy,
swell, of course" She had the poor
FOLKS, conscientious scruples against
Fgastfng praise on the rich. <YouIl
Vpant to see him. L presume"
Bat Daphne had had enough of evil
appearance. "See him here? Never! I"
She gFared at poor Mrs. Chivvis with
a repEoOf that was ~excruciating to ac-
@cept, and ordered her to go down and
7uaeet Mr. Duane and incidentally learn
about the check. Business is bust
mess she said.
Mr. Chivvis descended i'm all the
~c0nf1SiOn of a Puritan wife meeting
a Cavalier beau. She came back later
10 say that Mr.. Duane was really very
mice. and spoke beautifully and had
sent the check and would send an
ether if Daphne wished it, and would
amake old Mrs. RomiIly go on with the
order, and would she like some spe-
'cfaI fruits or soups or something? He
WIS really very nice.
Daphne eyed her with ironic horror
and said, you've been flirting with
Aimg &zM me so helpless herew
~ESaph meet! Kip!!" Mrs. Chiv.
7vis screamed. The only couhter-thrust
she could think OF was, "And what
e6Ses BAR. Wimburn sayT"
This Sobered Daphne. Why had
Clay sent DO word9 Everybody else
in town had see the papers. Clay
read the papers. Surely he was not
,Gapaasle of such monstrous pique
When your worst enemy gets badly
hHrt you've just got to forgive-i1
you're human
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05

nounced that he intended to settle
down on his farm near here and try to
obtain a degree as a lawyer. He mar
ried, and when a son was born he
named him Roosevelt.
However, not long afterward, in
1909, Starr was arrested in Colorado
and convicted of the A~mityville bank
robbery of a year before. Again he
was imprisoned and again he became
a model prisoner and eventually won
a parole.
1t was In the double bank robbery by
the Starr gang at Stroud, Okla, in
1915, that the outlaw leader reap
peared. A boy with a sawed-off shot
gun shot him and he was captured. A
25-year sentence followed his plea Of
guilty.
Stars recent parole was obtained
through the efforts of his wife, who
has supported herself by teaching
school, and those Of his son, and a for
mer United States marshal.
A quiet, notwithstanding man of
forty-five, Starr looks out on life with
less fire than he did IS years ago, his
friends say, but with a philosophy that
can only mean success.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05
THE END.
The Hottest civ.

The city Of Hyderabad, on the great
Sind desert of India, has the reputa-
ton Of being the hottest place in the
world, having a shade temperature Of
127 degrees during the summer
months! Even the natives find it hot
and that is saying something.
In order tocool their houses as much
as possible, the people make use of
curious ventilators very much like
those on s~hipboard, setting" them so
as to convey a breeze to the jewellers
In the hot rooms below. Every resi-
Dental building has several Of these
queer airshafts leading down to the
principal living rooms, and especially
to the bedrooms. Even so, IT is prac-
tically impossible, during the terrible
heat Of summer, to get to sleep until
two or three o'clock in the morning,
and then n only gets a couple Of
hours rest, as the rays of the Indian
sui r specially strong early In the
morning, and soon raise the tempera.
ture again to an unbearable extent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05
CHAPTER XVII.

In the course of a few wretched
days Clay picked up some of the facts
about Daphne's presence in Wether-
ellis fatal car. He was more furious
at her than ever and more incapable
of hating her.
He saw Bayard often, but Bayard
knew little and said less. One after
moor he invited Clay to ride with him
to the hospital, whence Leila was to
graduate. He warned Clay not to be-
tray how shocked he would be at Lei
las appearance, which, he said, was
a wonderful Improvement on what 1t
had been.
She was, indeed, a mere shell, and
Clay was not entirely successful with
his compliments.
Leila sighed: "Much obliged for
your good intentions. I'm a mere
sack of bones, but I'm going to get
well. The doctors say that if 1 take
care Of myself every minute and go
to a lot of specialists and go to Bar
Harbor in the hot weather and to
Palm Beach in the cold and spend
about a million dollars I'll be myself
some day. That's not much, but it's
all I've got to work for. Poor Bydie!
He didn't know he was endowing a
hospital when he married me-"
"What do / care, honeyw Bayard
L orind Vuffh nnrfont 0hfxv01nxy tfTIhn
money is rolling in and I'd rather
spend it on you than on anybody else"
"The moneys rolling out just as
fast as it rolls in" Leila sighed. "The
Lord seems to provide a new expense
for every streak Of luck. And that's
my middle name-Expense."
She had actually learned one lesson.
That was a hopeful sign.
Clay sought Daphne in her odi0us
Ito him) place Of business. She asked
him what she could sell him. He said
he would wait till the shop CLOSED,
She raised her eyebrows impudently
and gave him a chair in q corner. He
sat there feeling as out of place as o
strange man in a harem.
Eventually the last garrulons Gus
toner talked herself dumb; the las
sewing woman went. Mrs. Chivvis
pulled down the curtains in the show
window and at the door and babe goot
night.
Then Daphne locked the door
dropped YEARLY into a chair, ant
sighed, well, ClayY'
II want to know why you don't Civ,
up Tom Duane"
She shrugged her excellent shoul
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05
BANDIT PAROLED
FOR THIRD Time
Henry Starr. Oklahoma Highway.
man, Is Freed From
Prison.
WIFE GETS HIM OUT
Notorious indian Desperate Of South.
west Gains Freedom Through In
firing Efforts of His Mate-Is
Changed Man.

Tulsa, 0kla-Henry Starr, Oklaho-
mas notorious Indian bandit, has been
released from the state ~penitentiary
after serving four years of a 25-year
sentence.
Twice before the prison doors have
swung open before the term of the
Cherokee highwayman was over, but
each time he drifted back into old
lanes.
STAIRS parents were law-abiding
members of the Cherokee nation, his
father a half-blood and his mother
quarter Indian. The boy attended
Cherokee school until he was eleven.
His father died and his mother mar
ried again when he was thirteen.
Young Starr disagreed with his step
father and left home. That was the
start of his trouble.
Slew an Officer.
In 1902, the express Office at Nowata
was robbed. One of the robbers rode
into a wire fence and was thrown. The
horse was found with a saddle which
Henry Starr had borrowed from a
friend. A few weeks later Starr re-
turned to Nowata. When Floyd Will
son, deputy marshal, attempted to ar
rest him, the young Cherokee shot and
killed the officer.
He escaped, but was caught later
and taken to Fort Smith, Ark, tried
and sentenced to be hanged, but was
given a new trial. After nearly two
years he was sentenced to Is years in
the federal penitentiary at Column
bus, o.
When Starr had served eight of the
thirteen years of his sentence he was
pardoned by President Roosevelt.
During the eight years Incarceration
Starr devoted himself to reading, spe-
cializing particularly in law. He an
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05
CHAPTER XVI

Leila was determined to endure
everything that might be necessary to
regain her beauty. She would go
through Sny ordeal of knives or plas-
ter casts Nr splints or medicines for
that She WINS quite grim about it.
Her resolution extended to the spend
ing OF as much OF Bayard's money as
might be necessary on surgeons fees
>NHd GOctYrs' bills. IL she hankrupted
Bzyzrd it would be with the tenderest
motives.
Five fines she went to the operat-
fang table, made that internal journey
into etlerland, knowing what after
: angufzkles waited her, what retching
and earning and bleeding. She braved
death again and again, took long
chances with covering bravade. And
+. all far Bayard's sake
One morning when Bayard reached
I h7s Office after a narrowing all-aight
wigif at Leila's side he was just falling
asleep over the first mail when his
s~eieEEa@ae snarled- He reached for 1t
with CHARM A voice doomed in his
lear:
"Ah YOU thahT'
yes"
@Eeep the line, please. Now, You all
Through STRIP
Tlzsn II growl replaced the boom, a
3grOwI that made the receiver rattle:
HAh gou thah, Mr.. Kip? This is
. CeT0Dal M&rchm0nt- I dare say you
remember our conversation about
isi10ae 9iaInned contracts with Weth-
ueEeK- A little farther discussion
xM1sgSt INST be amiss-if you could
pnraGts M perfectly convenient to drop
sSvvah at say, a quawtah pahSt fab!
-esoodi j shall expect you at that
oh"
y Nsayard pondered. What new per.
sEeeuti0n was fate preparing? AS he
WgS1t to the Office, he bought an eve
ming paper. A heavily headed cable
Eram announced that the laborers in
The British munitz0n works were strik
ing or threatening to strike. A CLEAN
of understanding came into Bayard's
eye When he reached the desk Of
sCxaEsreI Marchm0nt ne looked I'm
snbashed into the revolver muzzle Of
xthe old "a horses n eye.
WItfout any preliminary eourtesie'
-rr softening of bis previous ton'
Che eD8nnel snorted: 'Those devilisl
Constructs you made with Wetherell-
Tie poor fellow Is no longer alive
m0re's the pity, but Well, I'm afrait
- = III oavoro uuffh var 7 fonn,
we might see our way to renewing
ffzase contracts Mt . reasonable fgur'
say at n 20 per cent reduction iron
fete terms y0u quoted"
Bayard smiled and shook his head
ne bluffed the buffer. 'aThe prices W
4aeteh included only : fair profit
cc0EaneI- Since then materials hav
gfseen going up In price every minute
.saslng to the damsn& Ernm abroad
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05

so long you might have, though.
Where've you been, Clay? But wait
you can tell me on the way over to
the new shop"
When she led him into her new en-
porium the graceful fabrics displayed
were all red rags to him. He was q
bull in a crimson shop.
Daphne made Clay sit down and
asked him if it were not all perfectly
lovely. He waited until. Mrs. Chivvis
went on to the workroom. He had q
glimpse of a number of girls and
womel on sewing bent. They were
laughing and chattering.
He answered, "It's perfectly loath.
some"
Instead of resenting this insult
Daphne laughed till she fell against
the counter. The worst of it was that
her eyes were so tender.
"Where did you get all the capital
for all this stockT Clay demanded
with sudden suspicion.
"Oh, part of it we bought on credit
and part of it on borrowed money
Borrowed from whom?"
"From Mr.. Duane"
This was too much of too much
Clay stormed: 'TTl get himw
"Oh, no, you WON'T"
"Oh, yes, / will"
II won't have you assaulting the
best friend I've got in the world"
He groaned aloud at this, not no.
ticing how she used the word .afriend.'
She ran on. She had not talked tc
him for Sc long that she was a perfect
chatterbox.
HE lent me five hundred dollars
when / didn't know where else to gel
it. And it nailed our first real con.
tract-a big commission from old Mrs
Romilly. We paid back Mr.. Duane's
five hundred and then" She giggle6
in advance at what was coming tc
Clay. "And then | borrowed a thou
sand from him. We owe him thai
now"
Clay was as wroth as she ha6
wished. He took out a little book
swell, I'll give you a check for that
amount-or more. And you can pay
Duane off with interest. I won't
have you owing him money"
"You won't havei" Daphne Knocked
"You won't have? Since when did
you become senior partner here?"
"Senior partner!" Clay rallied. SIN
no partner in this business! I hate
this business. It makes me sick to
see you in it."
"Then step out on the walk" said
Daphne. you're soaring away Gus.
toners and using up the time Of the
firm. The boudoir is no place for you,
anyway"
A young woman with a bridal eye
walked in and Daphne left Clay to
blunder out sheepishly. He did moi
see that she cast sleeps eyes after
him. He was a most bewildered
young man. He had made a pile OF
money and still he was not happy!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05
TYPHUs SPREADS IN EAST
eMenacing In Poland, Russia, Serbia
and Macedonia, Red Cross
Learns.

Cannes.-Grave reports relative to
the progress Of typhus fever in east
ern Poland, Russia. Serbia and Mace
donia were received at the Red Cross
conference here from Red Cross agents
In those countries. Experts on typhus
who were present formed a committee
to advise the organization as to means
for combating the disease, ~fcrecnsting
a new organization within the Red
Cross.
Reports from agents gave experts
the impression that the situation was
even more serious than was stated In
messages received, but that proper
measures would probably prevent the
disease from spreading to Italy.
France. England and America.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05

And the home market is booming. We
can sell all our product here, and
more, too, than we can make"
Colonel Marchmont squirmed, but
he was a soldier and loved a good
counter-attack. He smiled as he
squirmed. Wetherell was avenged
when his successor signed new con-
tracts at a higher price than he had
made. The changing times changed
everything; yesterdays exorbitance
was today's bargain.
Bayard departed with a wallet full
Fof business. He got back to his office
on feet f1edged with Mercurial wings.
His feet were beautiful on the rug of
the presidents office.
Bayard felt so kindly to all the
world that he hurried +, the hospital
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05

ders again, but she did not smile.
She spoke instead: 81 don't ask you
to give up your stenographer."
"Oh, It's like that, Ell? Well, then,
why won't you let me lend you money
instead of Tom DuaneY
Her answer astounded him with its
feminine logic: II can borrow of Mr..
Duane because 1 don't love him and
never did and he knows it. I can't
borrow of you because"
He leaped at the implication: "Be-
cause you love met"
Because I used to-"
"Don't you any more?" he groaned.
"How can / tell? It's been months
and months since I saw the Clay
Wimburn that came out to Cleveland
and lured me on to New York. The
only Clay Wimburn I've seen for
| some time has been a horribly pros
porous, domineering snob who is toe
proud to be seer with a working
woman. He wants to marry a lady
1 never was one and don't want to
be one. I'm a business woman and
I love it."
"And you wouldn't give up your
shop for met"
Certainly not"
He looked at her with bafled emo.
lions. She was so delectable and SO
obstinate, so right-hearted and SO
wrong-headed. 1t was intolerable that
she should keep a shop. He spoke
after a long delay:
"May I come and see you once in
a while?"
eff you want to-"
"Where you living now?"
"Still at the Chivvises'."
"You ought to take better care of
yourself than that. Surely you can
afford q better home"
II suppose so, but it would be
lonely anywhere else. 1t has beer
safe there-since you quit calling on
me. It doesn't cost me much"
But you're making SO much
money"
"Not so very much--yet, but it's
all my own and I made every cent of
it, and-gollyl how l love to watch
it grow"
"You miser."
maybe. I guess that's the only
way to ave money-to make a pas
sion out of it and get a kind Of vor
luptuous feeling from it. But l really
| think that it's the fun Of making il
that interests me most. 1t certainly
keeps me out of mischief and out OF
loneliness. oh, there's no freedom
like having a job and a little reserve
in the bank. It's the only life, Clay
sand you wouldn't give up your
freedom al you call it, even for 8
man you loved? Couldn't you love 6
man enough to do thatY
II could love a man too much tC
do that. For where's the love in
woman's sitting around the house al
day and waiting. for a man to come
home and listen to the gossip of hel
empty brain? That isn't loving, that's
loafing."
Clay was not at all persuaded
"But there's no comfort or home life
in marrying a business woman"
"How do you know? You know
plenty of unsuccessful wives who arr
not business women"
Il want a housekeeper, not a shop
keeper"
"Go get one, then, I say. If a won
an can't earn enough outside to hire {
housekeeper let her do her own house
work. But If she a earn enough t.
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Wetherell Was Avenged When His
Successor Signed New Contracts at
a Higher Price Than He Had Made.

to scatter good news like flowers over
Leila's couch. She was in that humor
when anybody else's good fortune was
an added grief to her.
"Tm no use to you now," she walled.
II never was much. But at least I
dressed and kept looking fit. And you
said / was pretty. 2 But now oh,
Bayard, Bayard! You used to call me
beautiful, and I tried to be beautiful
for you. But now To be ugly and
useless both-it's too much!"
Wise pathfinders say that when you
are wandering in strange country you
should turn every now and then and
look back at the way you came. 1t
wears a different aspect entirely from
its look. as you approached, and you
will need to know how it will look
when you return.
From childhood on, Leila had been
warned against extravagance-as Bay
ard had, as have we all. But only
now that she was looking backward
could she realize the wisdom, the in
tolerable truth of the adage, "Waste
not, want not"
Meanwhile Daphne was having SO
different a history that she felt
ashamed. 1t seemed unfair to her to
get well quickly and with no blemish
except a scar or two that would not
show, while Leila hung between death
and deformity.
But seeing Bayard alone and hear
ing Leila fret, she felt confirmed in
her, belief that she had done the whole
some thing when she Joined the labor
ing classes. There were Discourage
ments without cease, yet Daphne was
learning what a remedy for how many
troubles there is in work. 1t seemed
to be almost p%anacea. 1t was exciting,
fatiguing, alarming, but it was objec-
tive. She was on her way at last to
that fifty thousand a year she had
dreamed of. She was uncertain yet of
earning a thousand a year, but she
was on the road.
Clay Wimburn, seeking chances in
the West, did not see the New York
papers OF any other record of Daph-
mes accident. When he got back to
New York, his pockets full of con
tracts, Bayard, equally successful,
greeted him enthusiastically. Then he
learned of the accident and the fact
that Daphne was sin trade" He was
indignant at the news and wanted to
see her at once
Bayard gave him the address, and
Clay wasted no time asking further
questions. He made haste to the sub
way, tuning; left the train at the
Grand Central station and climbed VI
to a taxicab.
Then he found Daphne.
She led him into q little shop empty
of everything but the debris of re
mOval.
"Where are wei" said Clay.
"This was my shop"
whats the matter? Busted al
ready?" Clay asked, with a not unfiat
tering cheerfulness.
"Not In the least" Daphne ex
planned. "We've expanded so fast W,
had to move. We sublet and move,
across the street.
"You remember Mrs. Chiyvis, don
you? Mrs. Chivvis. you haven't for
sotten Mr.. Wimburn. He's kept ava,
= EEa
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05

When a tank car filled with 5000
gallons Of molasses was upset near
Telford, Pa, and the molasses began
to run out, people came by scores, on
foot, in carriages and by automobiles.
and salvaged some hundreds Of gal
Ions Of molasses before the raiIruaa
men plugged the opening and left
dozens Of disappointed ones waiting
to get at the outflow.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-05

hire a hundred housekeepers why
should she stick to the kitchen? In my
home, IL | ever get one. the cook will
not be the star. Besides, it enlarges
life 8 I. Instead Of two living on the
wages of one two will live on the earn
ings Of two. 1t seems to me it
couldn't help being a better and a hap
pier way of living
Clay blushed vigorously as he num-
bled whats your business woman
going TO DO when thezthe babies
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-18
Rockford College
to Open New Course
for the Coming Yea1

A feature of Rockford college for
the coming year will be a Training
School for Social Workers. Its ann
will be to prepare young women to
go into the various phases of mu-
";cipal and rural welfare work,
thereby answering a great need in
the middle west and putting Rock
ford to the front as center OF
t'o~c timely activities. The college
will seek to cooperate with the
various splendidly organized agen-
cies already in this city.
Unusual opportunities for social
contacts and the development of a
sane technique will be offered by
specialists through courses in
psychology, mental hygiene, sociol-
ogy, community service, social medi-
cine, child welfare, etc. An expert
director of this work has been found
i'll Professor Seba Eldridge, now a
professor and an assistant to tie
director of the Smith college school
for social workers, Northampton,
Mass, a graduate in sociology OF
Columbia university, and former
agent of the United Charities of
New York City. Mr.. Eldridge is a
thorough student of social problem.
and is expected. therefore, to con-
tribute much to community service.