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The Monett times., 1922-01-13
. ROOMS FOR RENT

FOR RENT: Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping Ill modern
home, sos Sixth street. 160tf
For Rent: Two furnished rooms at
1908 Sixth St., to small family. 56t12s
FOR RENT: Front bed room with
furnace heat. 401 Sixth street, phone
ABB. 57t6
Rooms wit. bo,rd, 217 Seventh and
Bond streets. 57t6H
FOR RINT: Two unfurnished
rooms at 1867 Broadway. No chill
dren. 34tt
FOR RENT: Bedrooms for women
with kitchen privilege. Steam heat.
Bertha Jeffries, 5O4 Third street.
Phone 694J or 1876.
FOR RENTING sleeping rooms
with meals if desired. 305 End st.
15Otf
FOR RENT: Two modern light
housekeeping rooms, no children.
Apply 3O5 'Nfth street. 133tf
FOR Ri Rooms for light
housekeeping at 7O2 Fourth st. 4O-tf
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE OR TRADE

for land near Monett, Spring River
bottom farm 10 miles northwest of
Carthage, No., 100 acres in fine state
of cultivation and 40 acres of timber
No rocks. 100 acres now in growing
wheat balance for Spring crops. A
good house, good shade, good water
and all necessary improvements. On
gravel road two miles from small rail-
road town. This place has long time
at 6 per cent. Owner wants smaller
place within 6 or miles of Monett.
See VIM. Smerdon over Tutt & Os-
horns store. 139tf
FOR SALE: 40 acre farm, all new
improvements. Mrs. w. w. Earnhart
r. F. d. 8. 6Otm"
FOR SALE: Modern 7 room house
with furnace heat. Furnished or un-
furnished. Priced to sell. Terms.
Phone 95. 59ff
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THE TIMES WANT ADS
HOUSES FOR RENT

FOR RENT: ) room house. See
Mrs. Ida B. Adams over State Bank.
135tf
FOR RENT:-Modern four room
furnished house. Call at 800 Sixth
street or phone 626. i40tf
FOR RENT Groom furnished
house. See Mrs. JAS. AMBER, 908
Third street or phone AZ. A3if
FOR Rents room modern resi-
dence on Fifth street, 2l2 blocks from
Broadway. Will be vacant January
Is, 1922. Phone 462. 49-tf
FOR RENT 5-room modern
apartment. DR.. NJ. r. Trumbower.
149tf
FOR RENT: Furnished seven room
house, North Seventh street, vacant
January Is. Mrs. ]. f. Campbell,
Picher. Okla. 96tf
The Monett times., 1922-01-13
LONG-MCRACKEN

A marriage of interest to many in
Monet took place at s o'clock Thurs
day evening when Miss Gladys Nc
Cracken, third daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. P. McCracken, No. 200 Lincoln
avenue, became the bride of Mr..
Archie Long, Frisco night station
master. The marriage service was
read by Dr. ]. D. Shaddrick, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church. The
ring service was used. The only at
tendants at the wedding were Miss
Mae Moore and Finis McCracken.
Mr. and Mrs. Long will reside at 407
Euclid. A wedding dinner will be
served Sunday at the McCracken
home, at which only the relatives win
be present.
The Monett times., 1922-01-13
COUNCIL HOLDS
MONTHLY SESSION

The city council met in the regular
monthly session Tuesday afternoon.
The bills for current expenses were
allowed and the officers filed their
monthly reports.
Applications to operate pool rooms
were presented by Joe A. Martin, two
billiard and four pool tables; w. A.
Johnson, six pool tables and J. A.
Livesay five pool tables. The coun-
ell granted the licenses and the city
eler.: va instracted to iss;e same.
J. H. Wagner, fire chief, reported
three calls to fires during the month
Al one on'v was water thrown. which
was at Landon Cox's residence, 505
Third street. The other calls We're
for burning flues and no water was
thrown
The police officers, R. A. Gardner
CITY marshal and j. L. Hobbs, police
Judge, reported eight arrests IN she
CITY court. OF these five we're for IN
toxication. two for disturbing the
peace and one for petit larceny.
Edgar Masoner. city light and wat
er superintendent, reported that the
department had replaced eleven lights
during December, had added six new
light services, had put in transform
er for an electric stove at 500 Thru
street and had tested number o.
meters. The water department finish
ed the laying Of 1886 feet of six inch
main on County street and $50 feet OF
4 inch main on North Lincoln avenue,
with all services and laterals con-
t,fbuting 10 that section transferred
and cut into the new mains. They
repaired several breaks, cleaned the
reservoir and flushed the fire by
,lraniS,
The power was off three times dur
ing the month with a total Of one
hour and ten minutes. The power
was off only one Saturday night m
1921. The total time the power was
off during the year 1921 was Is hours
and 10 minutes.
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BRIDGE PARTY

Mrs. Earl Galloway, No. 600 frls-
co avenue, was hostess at a Bndge
party on Wednesday evening. Prizes
went to Miss Fern Hepburn and MISS
Lucille Wagner. A delicious two
course lunch was served during the
evening, Mrs. Galloway being assist
ed in serving by Miss Mildred Gala
way. The guests included Misses
Fern Hepburn, Lucille Wagner, Rose
Smith. Bess Dewine, Winnifred Tay-
lor. Mildred Galloway, Mrs. George
Morrow Mrs. Mary Wightman, Mrs
w. w. Lehnhard and Mrs. Floyd Lowe
of Neodesha, Kansas.
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LEANN

Miss Flossie Suttles has resumed
work at the Aurora Shoe factory
after a two weeks vacation.
Grandpa Altman is in very poor
health again.
Albert Hilton and Miss Lula Clev-
enger were married Sunday.
Miss Opal Long was the dinner
guest of Miss Telecy Altman. Sunday.
Mrs. Flossie Nay and little son Ed
ward, of Aurora, visited relatives near
Leann Wednesday.
Doris Long thinks he has a very
fortunate dog it went out hunting
alone the other day and caught red
fox.
Mrs, T. c. Zinn is slowly improv-
ling.
The Monett times., 1922-01-13
SIZER & GARDNER FILE
FOUR DAMAGE SUITS

Sizer & Gardner Thursday filed
suit in the Circuit court at Nevada
for $4,000 against the Missouri Paci-
fic for Mrs. Dollie Wagner, of Wich-
ita, Kans., whose husband, Mont
Wagner, was killed when he fell
from the vestibule of a passenger
train at Wichita.
Suit was also filed against the Mis-
souri, Pacific for $20,700 for Albert
Bastion of Ft. Scott, who was struck
and injured at a public road crossing
near Arma, Kansas, by the caboose
of a backing train. Bastain, together
with two companions was driving
over the crossing in the night time
and the caboose was kicked back over
the crossing without any lights or
anyone on the rear of the train to
give warning.
The car was demolished, and Bas-
ton severely bruised and injured.
These attorneys also filed suit for
w. H. Johnson against the Frisco for
$4,000. johnson resides at Sapulpa,
and was an employee of the Frisco.
While wheeling wheelborrow of
brick across the machine shop in Sa-
pulpa, the metal wheelbarrow came in
contact with live wire which ran
along on the concrete floor, and he
was electrocuted and badly injured.
This suit was filed at Ozark in
Christian County, and will be tried
the latter part of this month.
They also filed suit for Claud
Farmer of Springfield at Ozark,
against the Frisco for S30,OO0.O0 on
account of personal injuries sustained
at Springfield Farmer fell while
walking on a defective platform
which gave way with him, he struck
his back across a railroad railing and
sustained severe injuries. This case
will also be heard at Ozark the latter
part of January.
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pETERsoN-RYKER WEDDING

Miss Josie Peterson and W. ..
Ryker were married at the Christian
parsonage at Verona at Z o'clock Mon
day evening by the Rev. James Will
son of that place.
The bride has had charge OF the
culinary department of the OZARK
Hospital since it was opened and is
an accomplished housekeeper. Inc
groom is employed as mechanic by
the Bredouw-Leekinzy Motor CO.. ano
is a native of Aurora. me many
friends Of the bride and groom extend
hearty congratulations and well wisn-
Advertiser
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FOR sALE--MIsCELLANEOUs

FOR SALE: At bargain some
choice White Orpington hens, pullets,
cocks and cockerels. w. 7. Wilson, 3
blocks north of East Sycamore street
Phone 434J. 59toT
FOR SALE: Is tons good clover
hay. DR.. S. j. Robertson, Mcdowell,
Mo. 5stm7
FOR SALE: Ivory reed baby car
riage, first class condition. Phone
463. 5ot6
FOR SALE: Az acres improved,
plenty Of fruit $500. Good terms.
Two blocks north of nigh school H.
e. Ellis, R. F. D. 9. d56t6w19t2"
FOR SALE OR TRADE for city
property: Forty acres Of timber land
31k miles from Monet. Good land.
Well located. Dan B. Meador. l2stl
The Monett times., 1922-01-13
wICHITA's BEST

We are the distributors for this
most excellent flour. Ask your
grocer for WICHITA'S BEST It
he hasn't it phone 70 and a sack Will
be sent up. Whitlock-Lines, 57tG
The Monett times., 1922-01-13
YOUNG MATRONs CLUB MEETS

YOUNG MATRONS CLUB MEETS
The Young Matron's club met at
the home of Mrs. w. E. Cochran, 405
Cleveland avenue Friday afternoon.
The amusement for the afternoon was
the game of 500. Mrs. o. W. Black
shear held high score. The hostess
served one course luncheon.
Those present were Mrs. Floyd
Huffman, Mrs. Frank Conley, Mrs.
Chas. Wilhelm. Mrs. Carl Counts,
Mrs. Sherman Neill, Mrs. r. A.
Monroe, Mrs. Earl Aulgur, Mrs. Ken
meth Guinney, Mrs. o. E. Davis, Mrs,
O. W. Blackshear, Mrs. 1. A. Manley,
Mrs. Sidney James, Mrs. Gilbert Will
liams, Mrs. Glen Douglas, Mrs. r e
English, of Chicago.
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BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

A THE WAY TO FREEDoM:
~S -Ye shall know the truth
~ and the truth shall make
you free.-John S:32.
The Monett times., 1922-01-13

Miss NOveta Brown went e a.0s l J
saturday morning, where she pas :
music class.
The Monett times., 1922-01-13

You will avoid the man who offers
you glasses at reduced prices-for
YOU are the sufferer Of this false
economy.
Proper examination takes time and
skill-and the properly equipped, first
class optometrist cannot give perfect
service (the only safe kind) at our
rates.
The glasses you obtain HERE are
the PERFECT ones glasses that
win give your defective vision the
maximum aid.
You're CERTAIN Of perfect service
when you come HERE.
DIR. WIN. WRIGHT
Optametrist
And Eyesisht Speeiakst
williams Bldg. Phone z<s
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VA eHINcS WANTED: Leave
,,.o,,I M ..t T,a,as office. 6Otf
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J. NJ. KING
Furniture Undertaking
BILIOUS HEADACHE

When you have severe headache,
disordered stomach and constipation
take three of Chamberlain's Tablets.
They viii correct the disorders of the
liver and bowels, effectually curing
the headache.
The Monett times., 1922-01-13

Times Want Ads bring results.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05

Along the fOur-fOOt space be- tween the end of the bed and the opposite wall the girl walked, crooning to the sick. child she car ried. As they watched, the low song died away, her shoulder rub bed heavily against the boarding, her eyeIids dropped and she stood sound asleep. The next hard-drawn breath of the baby reused her and she stumbled on, crOOning a luIla- by.
 Smith clutched the younger mans shoulder. God, HiIIas, look where she's marked the wall rub ping against it! Do you suppose she's been walking that way for three days and nights? Why, she's only a chiId-no older than my own aughter"
 HiIlas nodded.
 Where are her people? Where's her husband?"
 Down in YanktOn, Dan told you, working for the winter. Got to have the money to live"
 ''WheTe's the dOCtOr2'
 Nearest ones in Haney-fOur days trip away by stage"
 The traveller stared, frOwningly.
 Dan was looking about the room again and after prOdding the gay set in the corner lifted the cover and picked up a folded blanket, shaking out the erstwhiIe padded cushion. He hung the blanket over the back of a chair.
 Mis- Clark, there's nothing but steam will touch membreenOus croup. We saved my baby that way last year. Set here and I'll fix things"
 He put the steaming lard-Dail on the floor beside the mother and lifted the blanket over the baby's head. She put up her hand.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05

a horrible something Its the membranet Shes too weak-Iet me have her!"
 Dan snatched the child and turned it face downward. The blue faced baby fought in a supreme ef- fort-again the horrible something then Dan laid the child, white and motionIess. in her mothers arms She held the limp body close. her eyes wide with fear.
 Dan, is-is sine"
 4 faint sobblug breath futtered the pale lips that moved in the merest ghost of a smile. The heavy eyeIids haIf-lifted, the child nestled against its mothers breast. The girl swayed, shaking with sObs. 'Baby-baby."
 She struggled for seIf-control and stood up straight and pale. Dan, I ought to tell you. When it began to get dark with the storm and time to put up the lantern, I was afraid to leave the baby. If she strangIed when was gone with no one to help her-she would die!"
 Her lips qufvered as she drew the child closer T didn't go right away butt did-at last. I prop ped her up in bed and ran. If I hadn't" Her eyes were wide with the shadowy edge of horror, If hadn't-yOu'd have been lost in the bIizzard- and-my baby would have died!"
 She stood before the men as if for judgment, her face wet with unchecked tears. Dan patted her shoulder dumbIy and touched a fresh. Iivid bruise that ran from the curling hair on her temple down across o-eek and chin. Did you get this then?" She nodded. The storm threw
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05

She's so little, Dan, and weak. How am I going to know if she if she-''
 Dan re-arranged tho blanket tent. Jest get under with her yourself, Mis- Clark. then you'll know all that's happening" yITH the pincers he picked ASg up 9 bit of hot iron and
 dropped it hissing into the pail, which he pushed beneath the tent. The room vas progressively quiet, walled in by the thick sod from the storm. The blanket muf- fled the sound of the chiId's breath ing and the girl no longer stum- bIed against the wall.
 Dan lifted the corner of the blanket and another bit of iron hissed as it struck the water. The older man leaned toward the younger.
 'Stove-fre?" with a gesture of protest against the inadequate oil blaze.
 HiIIas whispered, Cant afford it. Coal is $500 in Haney, $18.00 here"
 They sat with heads thrust for ward, listening in the intOlerable silence. Dan lifted the blanket, hearkened a moment, then 'pst, another bit of iron fell into the pail. Dan stopped to the tool chest for a reserve supply when a strangling cough made him spring to his feet and hurriedly lift the blanket
 The child was beating the air with tiny fists, fighting for breath. The mother stood rigid, arms out.
 Turn her this wayi" Dan shifted the struggling child, face out. Now watch out for the-'' The strangIing cough broke and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05

and fell panting against the side of the room.
 The stage-driver recovered first, pulled off his mittens, examined his fingers and felt quickly of nose. ears, and chin. He looked sharply at HiIlas and nodded. UnceremOn- iOusly they stripped off the strang g. CTS gloves; reached for pan, opened the door. dipped it into the drift and plunged Smiths fingers down in the snow.
 'Your nose is white, too. Thaw it out"
 Abruptly Dan indicated bench against the wall where the two men seated would take up less space.
 Pm The strangers voice was unsteady. 'I-," but Dan had turned his back and his attention to the homesteader.
 The eight by ten room consti- tuted the entire home. A shed roof sIanted from eight feet high on the door and window side to a bit more than i've on the other. 4 bed in one corner took up most of the space, and the remaining neces- sities were bestowed with the com pactness of a ships cabin. The rough boards of the roof and walls had been hidden by a covering of newspapers, with a row of iIlustra- |tions pasted picture high. Cushions and curtains of turkey-red calico frightened the hOmeIy shack.
 
 rwvHE driver had slipped off his
 q buffalo coat and was bending over a baby eXhaustedly fight ing for breath that whistled shrilly through closing throat. The mother, scarcely more than a girl, held her in tenseIy extended arms
 How longs she been this way?''
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She began to choke up day be- fore yesterday, just after you passed on the down trip"
 The driver laid big finger tips on the restless wrist.
 she always has the cIoup when she cuts 2, tooth, Dan, but this is different I've used all the medi- Cines I have-nOthing relieves the choking"
 The girl lifted heavy eyelids above blue semicircles of fatigue and the compelling terror back of her eyes forced a question through dry lips.
 Dan, do you know what mem branous croup is like? It this it?"
 The stage-driver picked up the lamp and held it close to the child's face, bringing out with dis dressing cIearness the blue-veined paIlOr. sunken eyes, and effort of impeded breathing. He drowned, putting the lamp back quickly.
 "Mebbe it is, Mis- Clark, but don't you be scared. We'll help you a spell"
 Dan lifted the red curtain from the cupboard, found an emptied lard-pail. half filled it with wat 1T and placed it on an Oil-stOve that stood in the center of the room. He looked questioningly about the four walls, discovered a cleveTly contriveI tooI-bOX beneath the cup board shelves sorted out a pair of pincers and bits of iron, laying the latter in a row over the oil blaze He took down a can of condensed milk, poured spoonful of the thick stuff into a cup of water and made room for it near the bits of heating iron.
 He turned to the girl, opened his lips as if to speak witF a face full Of OitV
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05

~LOWLy they struggled ahead, S the cold growing more in N-' tense; two steps, and the mounting fury or the blizzaTC reached it's zenith. The blurs swayed like battered leaves on a vine that the wind tore in two at last and flung the living beings wide. Dan, clinging to the broken rope, rolled over and found Hillas with the frayed end of the line iu his hand, reaching about through the black drifts for the stranger. Dan crept closer, his mouth at HiIIa-s's ear, shouting, Quick. Right behind me if we're to live through it!'
 The next moment Hillas let go the rope. Dan reached madly. Boy. you cant find him-it'n only be two instead of one! Hillas! Hillas."
 The storm screamed louder than the pIainsman and began heaping the snow over three Instructions in it's path. two that groped slowly and one that lay still. Dan fum- bIed at his belt, unfastened it, slip ped the rope through the buckle. knotted it and crept it's full length back toward the boy. A snow covered something moved forward guiding another, one arm gTOping in blind search, reached and touched the man clinging to the belt
 Beaten and bureted by the ceaseless fury that no longer gave quarter, they slowly fought their way hand-over-hand along the rope, Dan now crawling last. After a frozen eternity they reached the end of the line fastened man-high against a second haven of wall. Hillas pushed open the unlocked door, the three men staggered in
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05

stopped abruptly as the winded leaders leaned against a wall in terpOsed between themselves and insatiable fury.
 Dan stepped over the dashboard, groped his way along the tongue between the wheel-hOrses and reached the Ieeway of shadowy square. Its the shed, Hillas. Help get the team in" The exhausted animals crowded into the narrow space without protest.
 Find the guide-rope to the house, Dan?"
 'On the other side. toward the shack. Where's -Smith?"
 Here, by the she'd"
 Dan turned toward the strang- CTS voice.
 Were going 'rounI to the bliz- zard-line tied from shed to shack. Take hold of it and don't let go. If you do yOu'I freeze before we can find you. When the wind comes, turn your back and wait. Go on when it dies down and never let go the rope. Ready? The winds dropped. Here, Hillas, next to me"
 Three bIurs hugged the sod walls around to the northeast cor ner. The forward shadow reached upward to a swaying rope, lifted the hand of the second who guided the third.
 Hang on to my belt, too, Hillas Ready-Smith? Got the roper"
 They crawled forward, three barely visible figures, six, eight, ten steps. With a shriek the wind tore at them, beat the breath from their bodies, cut them with sting ing needle-points and threw them aside. Dan reached back to make sure of Hillas who fumbled through -hn darknasa for the strangar
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05

ance of luxury. He looked about the room, picked up the gray kit ten sleeping contentedly on the floor and settled it on the red cushion with anxious attention to comfort.
 He examined with curiosity the few books carefully covered in corner shelf, took dCNa an old hand-t0Cie volume sG3 lifted his eyebrows aL the ancient coat of arms on the book plate. He tip tCed across iO fGe bench and pointed to the script beneath the plate. Edward Winlow (7) to his dear daughter. Alice tS)."
 He mOtiOned toward the bed. Her name?"
 HiIlas nodded. Smith grinned. "Dan's right. Blood will tell, even to damntng the rest of us"
 He sat down on the bench. 'T understand more than I did, Hillas since-you crawled back after ms out there. But how can you stand it here? I know you and the Clarks are people of education and, oh, all the rest; you could make your way anywhere"
 Hillas spoke slowly. 1T think ' OI IEEN C lO IlA e uGIt lO hIlOWa IL means something to be a pioneer. You can't be one if you've got it 1n you to be a quitter. The country will be all right some day" He reached for his greatcoat. bring ing out a brown-paper parcel He smiled at it oddly and went on as if talking to himself.
 l When the drought and the hot winds come in the summer and l burn the buffalo grass to a finder and the mOnOtony of the plains 1 weighs on you as it does now. | there's a common, Iow-growing | cactus scattered over the prairie that blooms into the gayest red flower you ever saw.
 Tt wouldn't count for much anywhere else, bur the pluck of it., without rain for months, dew even. It's the 'cOIOrs of courage lie turned the torn parcel. show
 ing the bright red within, and looked at the cupboard and win dow with shining, tired eyes.
 Up and down the frontier in these sh&cks, homes, youu find
 things made of turkey-red calico, cheap, common elsewhere" He fingered the three-cornered flap.
 Its our 'coIors.' He put the 1 parcel back in his pocket. q
 bought two yards yesterday after I-I got a letter at Haney."
 Smith sat looking art the gay cur
 tain before him. The fury Of the
 storm was dying down into itful i gust. Dan stirred. looked quickly toward the bed, then the window.
 and got up quietly
 I'll hitch up. We'll stop al 1 Peterson's and tell her to come i over" He closed the door noise
 Iessly-
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me against the pole when I hoisted the lantern. l thought Pd-neveI get bacIz!''
 It was Smith who translated Dams look of appeal for the cup of warm milk and held it to the girls lips.
 Drink it. Mis- Clark, you need it"
 She made heroic attempts to swallow, her head dropped lower over the cup and fell against the drivers rough sleeve. Poor kid. dead asleep!"
 Dan guided her tumbIing feet toward the bed that the traveJeT sprang to open She guarded the baby in the protecting angle of her arm into safety upon the pillow, then fell like q log beside her. Dan off the felt boots, lifted her feet to the bed and softly drew covers over mother and child.
 Poor kid, but she's grit, clear throughI'