The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-08
CHAPTER VIII (COnt1nued.) Mobilization on All Fronts.

Mobilization on All Fronts. GIauson grinned, allowing MT Bur- gess to infer what "quite some'' might indicate.
 Moreover" went on the farmer, there's lot of trade from up our way goin' to Sadler Brothers. They're bondholders. If the's any forNcIosin' did, Sadlers loses my trade and some
 others I could mention"
 But don't you think the bondhold- CTS have some rights -"
 Not so muCh's the stockholders The bondholders can wait. When MT Wi1ton's I-'ian is carried out, we fell eers is goin' to make b'ilin' O. money out of our stock. You bondhoIders think you'll have to be contented with five per cent. no matter how much the road earns. So you're caF1atin' to grab the property. Us stockh olders ain't goin' to stand it.''
 ''But you realize the bondhoiders are now losing their interest,"
 'It'n he paid" said Bill, reassur- lngly. Wilton says so, an he'd ought to know. Smarest railroad man in this state, femme tell ye Cs stocx- holders is with him. and if the bond holders thinks they can afford to an- tagon1ze pretty nigh a thousand of us, let 'em try it. You s'pose Lishe Cor don d ever go back to state leg sla- ture if he got us down on i'm? He's bondholder. We know it. If h1m and the rest starts to skin us stock holders out of our investment he a snokeless powder dog chasin' a cast iron cat through -
 Don't you consider that the bond holders would act for the best inter ests of all concerned? Suppose they should come forward with a feasible plan to save the road from bank ruptcy. put it on it's feet and protect the stockholders as well-''
 Rats! Wouldn't trust ye. Mr Wilton says you fellers'n grab the prop'ty an take it away f'm us, an then when you got your cluchtes onto it an we're friz out you'll develop into a money-maker fir y'rseIves, instead of us! He's foxy; you can't fool that feller none. He's a reg'lar raiiroader, too. and us stockholders is right behind him. So you bond holders better not start nothin'."
 MT. Burgess felt that Glauson was a spokesman for great many people, and that his warning was not to be lightly disregarded
 I'll tell you what we'll do, then,' said Clarke Pollard. Let the com mittee of bondh hoIders send out mo- open to every one. Get the farmers and their friends to come to town on a certain day to attend the meeting. Make it a special holiday, and hold merchants will be tickled to death to have the streets crowded with wis itors. The Review will boost the plan. And then we'll have Wilton ge. up and tell his story and we'll tell ours and we'll let the people judge who's acting for the best in terests of all concerned, not only the bondholders and stockholders but for the whole of West Gap County
 The conservative Burgess had to think that over and call a meeting the thing was thoroughly threshed out Burgess reported his tilt with Bill Glauson and estimated it's sig nificanee, And then. young Clarke Do rnT n ,I words as follows and to wit:
 You men remember me as a little shaver aroundtown with the other kids; and then as skinny young thought West Gap wasn't big enough for me. Well, let me tell you some 3hjpg 4dPser elss; tbsn tbe im ret pe more o New brought my wife here to settle and be a West Gapper if you'd accept us.
 NOW, I'm not a banker either. fired for small error in banking judgment. I cashed a check for an uniden ified person MT Burgess is 9 banker, and he knows that's se- rious matter. l made up the amount out of my own pocket and still have the check l cashed-wel1, -.dt's an other story. When I left the bank I thought I was we'll fixed, because I owned the bonds father left me these bonds of the w c. and R. B. Right then I was notified that the interest was defaulted. So I came out here to see if I could save my fortune-the little my good old dad left me. You knew what kind of a man he was"
 ''SalS of the earth,'' said Dorsey Regent, husband of the society leader with the missing brooch
 The paper has been playing me up as big gun. I let it go at that, but I'm not a four-fiusher. gentle men: I don't want to be. I want to be a West Gapper. and help make l the town better because I came here and brought my wife
 ''Now you'rT talkin'," remarked Olaf Erickson proprietor of Brick | sons drugstore and inventor of the l famous Eniment that bears his name. | My wife says she's yIlst sweetest | ting ever ban come to Wes' Cop. |
 Now here's the plan I have in ] mind" went on Clarke. sPresident