The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-02-02
WE'LL SAY SO

Sign In an H. Madison Vt realty
dealers window; Furnished piano
water Eas $50"
Yep. pretty nearly everyone Ia
complaining about the telephone
service again. It's pretty bad, In
fact it's fierce,
It's so strangely and uniquely
had that q ~ rather mysterious In
the way It works
For instnace. why ~ Il that when
/ you want Jim Jones FOR tho purpose
OF Arranging nice little poker
| game, you always set the police nta.
ton and a guilty conscienccf
And why rs " that when you
want 20 get tho police station for
the purpose OF complaining about
tho next door nciEhbors who are al.
ways throwing empty tomato cans
over tho hack fence into your yard.
that YOU get the butcher the baker.
or tho undertaken
- " because Central" az the
/ particular moment you called. was
more interested IA extracting wad
of sum from ia resting place behind
/ her lcf; ear than shc was In your
CALF or was II because Fate moves
Ia mysterious way her wonders
10 pcrformf Perhaps Il was tho
latter but most folks. being praeti
cal. every day sort OF people. viii
DO a lot more apt 20 attribute the
reason TO gum than 60 fate.
It's mighty. mighty mysterious.
tho. how oddly tho phone service
works Ia lot Of Instances where
you aro especially anxious 90 have
Il work right.
There's the evening hour when
you call 80 your best particular
swectic You never get tho right
number az once. You have TO mako
at least ten different attempts be.
fore her Silvery voice rewards your
efforts. Then. when you ask her
" she cares for you In tho aanne old
way. nhs'ii reply. what did you
uayf Your voice sounds 80 far
away ! can't hear YOU" Finally.
when you've had the connection
Htraivhienej out and she's told sou
that she hasn't changed In her al.
titudo toward sou muco morning.
you bceomo quite sentimental and
say kiss me. aweetir- And then
some hlK boob. with a voice like
foEhorn with cold. hu,ta right In
and ycll.. 'oh. mother. call the doc.
tor--f'm nickF'
Why l. 10 that something like this
ALWAYS happens when you're
phoning 10 your swceticr That's
the most mysterious part about tho
prcsent-day telephone service.
Something like Il ALWAYS. AL
WAYS happenal
Listen and yoaTI learn how
everybody In Clay Centers got
rich.
The getting rich began about
year ago.
Before then only a few were rich.
the banker. two retired farmers. and
the owner Of the blue Front store.
Most OF tho Clay cenieregr owned
their own homes. cottages. converna.
tionaliy valued nj around $4,000. but
marked down 20 considerable less
when tho tax assessor hove into
sight.
nIu Black started Il by offering
Hank Brown $4,000 for his dwelling.
u Hank would take BINS house At
the same valuations. Hank did Blil
did
Cleaned IN a cool ss0or joyfuily
exclaimed Hill. Hank Joyluliy ex
claimed the same.
Their nelghbors got the fever
Never before had they seen any one
clean zap hundreds that rapidly. |
Why. some Of them had worked 20 |
years saving as mich.
Tom White paid Dave Green s. 600 1
for his house. and Dave went out I
and paid Biil Black 81 900 for his
$500 place Alex q Gray sold his /
house for $4,000 and bought Tom |
Whites new place at $4,000.
The second mortgage business
picked up. And they hired an
other clerk In the abstract office.
VIII Dark sold his place 20 Andy |
Light and bought Hank Browns at
$4,000.
Doubled my wealth In six |
months'' smiled Hank Brown. and |
Immediately plnstered his collection 4
oc dollars and second mortgages on /
Tom Whites house for which he /
paid the new high water price, 10.
wit, 5000
Dave Green sold his $4,000 house
to Tom White for $500. setting a
new wealth mark. and bringing the
Tom Whites 10 tho fore as the
wealthiest family.
And the moving people bought
new auto truck, and hired nm
extra man TO keep up with the
moving villagers. n somebody
wasn't moving out of his house
he was thinking Of doing 10 soon.
Alex Gray sold his place to Hank
Brown for $1,000
And tho Clay Centors Herald pre-.
dicted that In the near future Clay 1
Centers would boast Of several fam. |
lies worth 10000. which Ia Just the |
same as saying of Wall st cap. |
italist that he Is a multi-millionaire |
There wasn't a house in Clay
Centers that didn't have "a first
and second mortgage and Hank
Browns had third.
Andy Light bought WIN Dnrk's I
house for $1,000
This thing has been going on right
along. by the time this il read. prop
crty In Clay Ccutcrs will DO selling
around tho $4,000 figure. and there
dosn't appear TO be any stopping It
as long rs the paper holds out.
They'll need the paper TO write
second mortgages on.
Now every Clay Centerer f. rich
When once the average family
wealth was about $1,000. II has in.