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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
HAM|L TON COUNTY
CELEBRATES ITS
TOOTH BIRTHDAY
Two-Day Festival Opens With
Booming of Cannon at
Sunrise.
BIZ United Press

NOBLESvILLE, Ind, Oct 81
Many thousands paid honor to Ham
ilton County today on the Tooth am
niversary Of its organization.
Battery B. 139th Indiana field ar
tillery fired a centennial salute of 101
guns at sunrise to announce the open
ming of a two-day celebration. From
the time of the salute until the last
event on the program is completed
tomorrow evening, Noblesville will be
crowded with huge throngs. ceIe-
brating in richly decorated streets.
The crowd at It's height will reach
80, 900 persons, according to the esti-
mate of Mayor Horace Brown and his
committee.
Prof. L. N. Hines, president Of the
State normal school at Terre Ha.ute,
and Prof J. F. Haines, Of Indianapo-
lis, were the principal speakers at
homecoming exercises this morning.
Amonster parade scheduled for this
afternoon included 900 floats. 1t will
take several hours for 1t to complete
the route which has been mapped out
through the city.
Three hundred persons will VAN
part in a pageant tonight portras
the high spots in the history of Ham,
ilton County. The author is the Rev.
Fred Wolff, pastor Of the Christian
Church at Sheridan.
A free dinner, served on the streets.
will be one of the features of Thurs
days program, which ends with fire.
works Thursday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
DRIVER IGNORES
BOY TRAFFICCOP
Get Out of My Way School
officer Is Told.

Many drivers still Sail to heed or
ders of schoolboy traffic officers.
Albert Owens, officer at School No.
AZ, RAIDER and Thirty-Fifth ST.,
charged in a letter to the police acct
dent prevention bureau that the driver
OF an ice wagon drove past the
school rapidly at dismissal time, and
almost ran over me and some other
children. He was heard to remark:
Get out OF my way; / haven't time
to fool with you
The driver told Trafficmen Paul and
Owens he did not know about the
school traffic system and thought the
boy officer wanted some ice.
Officers at School As, Twenty Third
ST., and Park Ave, can be recognized
by gold felt arm bands with AS"
sewed on in black felt. Police badges
will be worn soon by all school offl-
GERS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
BOYS WELFARE
ROTARY PROGRAM
New President, w, {. HenkIe,
Announces Policy.

Boys welfare work and ennobling
business ethics, are to be the en-
phasized points Of Rotary for the COM
ing year, William z. Henkle, elected
president Of the club Tuesday night,
said today
arch Grossman. retiring president
began work in these fields, and it will
be my purpose to carry on the policies
he outlined" Henkle said.
Henkle was elected on the Hubs
ticket, which carried off almost all
honors. La Monte Daniels, was
elected first vice president; George o.
Wildhack, vice president and di-
doctor; Charles Z. Rush, secretary and
director; Gwynn z. Patterson. a
Spokes candidate, treasurer; Joseph A
Mines. sergeant-at-arms, and Pierce j.
Landers, A. Dallas Hitz and Henry +.
Woessner, directors.
c. ROltare Eggleston. Keith's man
ager, secured Fagan's orchestra for
the entertainment in the Riley room
before the election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
KARL A. ZIEGLER
HEAD OF SUNDAY
SCHOOL COUNCIL
Annual Convention of County
Religious Education Work.
erS Closes Session.

Karl A Ziegler was elected presi-
dent Of the Marion County Sunday
School Council of Religious Education
at the closing session of the annual
convention Of the council at Roberts
Park NJ. E Church, N. Delaware and
Vermont SITS, Tuesday night Ed
ward r. DirlIs was elected vice presi-
dent F. NJ Dickerman, reelected
treasurer, and Mrs. Charles E. Smith,
secretary.
The following executive committee
was elected: c.. S. Dearborn. First
Baptist Church; E Caffyn. Tuxedo
Baptist Church; G. G.. Bunlop, First
Lowry, Central Christian Church; the
Rev. c. Howard Taylor, Broadway
NJ E. Church; the Rev. c. Howard
Taylor, Broadway NJ. E. Church: the
Rev. w. 0. Trueblood, First Friends
Church; the Rev F. r. DIARIES. lions
Evangelical Church; the Rev Mat
thew F. Smith, First Presbyterian
Church; L. E. Waterbury, First
Evan gelical Church: the Rev. C. H.
Winders, Emerson Ave. Baptist
Church. and J. E. Keller, Second Pres
byterian Church.
E. T. Albertson, executive secre-
tary of the council. said he would
announce the divisional superinten-
dents later.
Mrs. Margaret L. String, national
children's division superintendent Of
the Reformed Church. spoke at the
closing session on rs 1t Worth
While7"
Charles W. Brewbaker, national
leader of the United Brethren Church,
talked on 1.-THE Claims of Our Young
People Upon the Church.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Shaft Raised
for Vets Who
Inscribed It
By Times Special

By Times Special
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Oct. a.
A monument in honor of Iowans
killed in the World War, which
will bear inscriptions written by
the heroes themselves, is to be
unveiled Sunday at Patterson.
The inscriptions read:
Jesse r. Salisbury, killed in
France"
"Joe Downs, shot?"
The words were scratched into
a piece of wet concrete on the
day the young men enlisted.
When the war ended Salisbury
and Downs failed to return.
Salisbury and Downs, boyhood
companions, served in Company
A, 16Sth Infantry, and died to-
gether in Lorraine May 81, 1893.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
MISSION MEETING
OPENS BY RALLY
Methodist Society Meets al
Roberts Park Church.

The serniannual district convention
of the Women's Home Missionary So
ciety, Methodist Episcopal Church,
will convene with a. young peoples
rally tonight at Roberts Park NJ. e.
Church, Delaware and Vermont SITS.
A business session will be held at
$50 q. m. Thursday.
Committee on arrangements: Mrs.
Richard Griffith Mrs. Joseph II. Smi-
ley and Mrs. w c. Fischer, reception;
Mrs. Rose Coleman, Mrs. II. s. Dan
iels and Mrs. Z. z. Steger. time and
place; Mrs. Harry Andrews king. Mrs.
J. S. Bates and Mrs. Frank Bowers.
resolutions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03

Goodness, isn't that thing
heavy?" remarked Mrs. Catherine
Highly. 1880 Holiday st., as she
held the enormous beet she raised
In her little garden in the rear OF
her home. The beet measured five
feet from tip TO top and weighed
eight pounds three ounces.
Mrs. Highly will be 80 years old in
three months and is keeping her
youth by cultivating her garden.
Times certainly have changed"
said Mrs. Highly. II remember in
the sixties when Morgan's raiders
attacked Versailles, Ind. We stood
on the hill and watched the battle.
You couldn't do that now. The guns
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL
JAILER Is CONFESSED
Transfer to Reformatory Interrupt
Plans of Youthful Bandits.

BIZ United Press
BRAZIL, Ind, Oct. 3.-An alleged
plot by two youthful auto bandits to
kill the jatlor of the Clay County Jail
if necessary to make their escape was
discovered here today when two COM
panions are said to have confessed
the plot to Sheriff Weber.
The two bandits, Harold Singhaus,
II, Canton, Ohio, and Vernon Jones,
16, Cleveland, were transferred from
the local jail to the Indiana Re-
formatory, before they were able to
attempt their escape.
George Granger, 16, and Sam De
Maria 16,-both of Cleveland, ar
rested with Singhaus and Jones, told
Weber the plot was to have been
carried out last night, but the trans
fer of the prisoners interrupted their
plans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
SOUND TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE

showing the power Of Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound over tue Ills
Of women is constantly being published
in this paper. The strongest recon-
mendation any article can have is that
borne by the persons who use 1t. Once
Ill with ailments that caused suffering
and despair, but now restored to the joys
of health, from a grateful heart multi
tudes Of women write letters Of appre-
citation to the Lydia E. Pinkham Mcdi-
cine Co. OF Lynn, Macs. Such evidence
Of the power of Lydia r Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound over the Ills of women
should induce every suffering woman
20 try m.-Advertisement
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
MOTHER AND GIRL
MISSING 3 DAYS
Going Downtown Daughter
Tells J. {. CraSk,

Were going downtown, daddy"
His daughters words fingered in
the memory Of ]. e. Crask, 512 n.
East St, today, as he searched in
vain for the downtown" to which
his wife and daughter had gone.
Mrs. Crask and her daughter, La
venia, Z, left home at $3.50 p. m. Sat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
SHANK INVITED TO SPEAK
Winchester Club Convention Here Oct
and 10.

Mayor Shank has been invited to
speak at the annual convention of the
Winchester Club of Indiana, at the
Claypool, Oct. 8 and 10.
The club is an organization of bust
ness men to exchange ideas on bust
ness methods. W. e. Van Talge, presi-
dent OF the Indianapolis Winchester
Club, will speak on advertising
Officers: Thomas F1anegin, Logans.
port, president e. Barrott, Lawrence
burg, vice president; w. E. Van Talge,
Indianapolis. second vice president;
Harry K. Thomas, Churubusco, third
vice president. and H. E. Magee, Win
chester, secretary treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
EXCHANGE CLUB
PLANS CAMP IGN
Guy K, Jeffriesr President,
Outlines Program.

a membership program is to be one
OF the principal detectives of the In
ternational Exchange Clubs, Guy X.
Jefries. general superintendent of the
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern
Traction Company. last week elected
international president, said today,
The Exchange Club is now repre-
sented in every State in the Union, d"
JeffT1es said. There were ADJ clubs
represented at the convention held In
Springfield, Mass. It is our aim to
double the number"
A conference Of international Of.
ficers Is to be held Saturday at Toledo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03

urday. Since then, no trace has been
found Of them. Crask today expressed
fear that harm had come to the
woman and child.
My wife had only Sc or 81 with
her" he said today. "She took no
extra clothes. She said nothing to
lead me to believe she intended to
leave"
The Crasks came to Indianapolis
June Is from Evansville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
FROM FAR AND NEAR

F7eeced out Of s45, 900 In 1919, J.
Frank Nprf1eet of Hale Center, Texas.
has caused arrest of seventy-five al
legged confidence men, including the
six who fieeced him.
Using fifty members Of the State
police and fifty Federal agents, Gov
ernor Pinchot ordered raids on more
than 1900 Philadelphia saloons and
ordered them out of business.
..
A two-day mail service between
New York and London will be in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Couple Held as FugItives

Joe Lewis. 80, and his wife Anna,
colored, of 1917 Park Ave. rear, were
arrested as fugitives. According to
Sheriff William New, Greenfield, Ind,
Mrs. Lewis is wanted on fraudulent
check charge and the man on a speed
ing charge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
.eWhat He Doesn't KNOW,

Ernest Cohn of the Homer Mckee
Advertising Company Will speak to
the Advertising Club at the Chamber
OF Commerce Thursday noon on
What 1 Don't Know About Advertis-
ing" Cohn is a past president Of the
club, and has taught four years In the
Indiana Extension University.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Falls Eight Floors, Killed

FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dot. s.-Car.
ence Byers, a workman, was killed
and Cecil Metz was seriously hurt In
an unexplained fall from the eighth
floor of the new First National Bank
Bldg. where they were employed
Metz is expected to die.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03

augrated when the dirigtble ZR-3,
now being built for the United States
in Germany is completed. Rear Ad-
miral Mofatt has announced.
fractional warfare between union
and non-union laundry wagon drivers
in Chicago is blamed for probable IA,
tai shooting Of Roger Comporeto. 10.
non-union driver.
Approximately 5000 members of the
Order Of Eastern Star Of Illinois are
opening their forty-ninth annual con.
vention at Springfield Tuesday.
Twenty-three princes, eight baron.
esses, six barons, and two counts
arrived at New York today They
were Russian refugees.
Borty-nine soldiers OF the Mexican
war are receiving pensions. Widow
pensions of the same war total 1855.
Say, they ought to put sheep on
this lawn to make 1t look moro like
home."' Senator Magnus Johnson,
Minnesota, declared on arrival at the
Capitol grounds at Washington.
Realty value Of New York City is
now s11,275, $4,000. This Is an In.
crease over 1928 Of s1.10s. 900, 622.
David Lamar, "the wolf of Wall
Street" has been deported from
Mexico, and Is en- route to FL Paso,
Texas. Lamar jumped $4,000 bail
and escaped into Mexico.
-Four armed bandits held up the
cashier of the Western Union Tel.
egraph Company at Seattle Tuesday
and escaped with $4,000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Suspect of $50 Theft Is Held

George Schave. 2197 Cushing ST.,
is being held under high vagrancy
bond, pending investigation. of reports
by Babe Newnier, manager of the
Newmier Hardware Company, 275s
Roosevelt Ave-. that $40 was taken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
SEWALL COUNCIL
OPENS CONCLAVE
Bloomington EnteftainS Dele
gates,

The May Wright Sewall Council of
Women opened the second semi-an-
nual conference of the year today at
Bloomington. Ind, tho home OF Mrs.
T. ]. Louden. president.
Organizations affiliated with the
Council: The. Indianapolis Local
Council, Bloomington Local Council.
Huntington Local Council, Anderson
Local Council. Kokomo Municipal
Aid. Indiana War Mothers, Indiana
Indorsers OF Photoplays, Indiana Fed
Grafton of Patriotic Societies. Indiana
Woman Relief Corps, Indiana Sons
OF Veterans Auxiliary, Indiana Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary. Indiana Society
Daughters of Veterans, Thirty eighth
Division Auxiliary, United Spanish
War Veterans Auxiliary and the In
dian Parent-Teacher Association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
SOUP BEAN In NOSTRIL
Police and Hospital Aides Are Called
by Child's Mother.

Police and attendants of the city
hospital extracted soup bean from
the nostril of the 2-year-old daughter
of Mrs. Mary Ingram, 90 e. McCarty
ST., Tuesday. The child was playing
with beans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
FOX HOUND is STOLEN

Welfare Loan Society Car Is Robbed
of Tire.
David McMichael, 2018 N. Olney
St., missed a fox hound valued at
$35 from the rear of his home.
The Welfare Loan Society, ITO E.
Market ST.. had a tire, valued at $23
stolen from a machine parked at 2511
Bellefontaine st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Huntington Carpenter KILLED

BIZ TIMES bDecIdE
HUNTINGTON, Ind, Oct. 5.-Wil-
liam Robb, Sc. a carpenter, died at
the hospital here Tuesday from in
juries received when his automobile
was struck by an tnterurban car. A
widow and six children survive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
H. T. D. A. HOLD MEET

300 Delegates Are Attending Sessions
at Columbus.
BY Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Oct, 3.-Approx-
irpately 300 delegates are attending tho
convention Of the National Horse
Thief Detective Association in session
here.
Most of the delegates here are from
Indiana, though there are several from
Ohio. Michigan and Illinois, the other
States covered by the organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Gone, but Not Forgotten

from:
Seig Joseph, 20S w. Washington
ST., from Pennsylvania and Wabash
SITS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03

would tear you to pieces.
People are different They are
-well-wicked. And girls didn't
cut their hair like boys, and paint
their faces and act like they do
now, when 1 was a girl"
Did you ever ride in an air
rlane?" Mrs. Highly was asked.
"Oh, for goodness sake. no." she
replied But 1 would like to hear
one Of those radio concerts"
Mrs. Highly said she voted once.
but never again" The Republican
ticket was her choice. she said.
IT read The Times thoroughly
every day and know about every
thing going on" she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Dance

N0ltAC
101e-My Sweetie Went
Away
Annabelle
102S-Cut Yourself a
Piece of Cake
Hi Lee, HI LO
101S-When You Walked
Out, Someone
Else Walked In
Ala Moana
9O0-Aunt Hagars
Blues
Ivy
o20-Farewell Blues
Liza
930-Wonderful You
Bambalina
933--Carolina Nanny
By the Shalimar
934-Wet Yo' Thumb
Snakes Hips
971--Blue Hoosier Blues
Swinging Down
the Lane
973-Lovin'
You Tell Her, /
SHUTTER
9S2-Barney Google
Don't Cry
Swanee
997-Louisville Lou
My Virginia
S93-Whoal Tillie
-Four O'Clock
Blues
s92-One Night In
June
Down in Mary
land
S39-Sweet Indiana
Home
Why Should 1 Cry
Over You?
SSS-Great White way
Blues
Railroad Man
887-Save the Last
Waltz for Me
Loves Lament
SS5-Porcelain Maid
Crinoline Days
S84-Journey's End
When Hearts Are
Young
SS3-Runnin' Wild
Loose Feet
S7S-When the Rain
Turns into Snow
Who'll Drive
Your Blues
Away
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Back Home Again

An automobile stolen from J. M.
Lubin, Terre Haute, Ind, was found
at Indiana Ave. and Ohio st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Vocal

967-Bsside a Bah bling
Brook
When WIN the
Sun Shine for
Me
Se4-Down by the Old
Apple Tree
limbo Jambo
S76-Carolina In the
Morning
Down in Maryland
S70-That Da Da
Strain
Taint Nobody's
Biz-ness If I Do
S6S-A Picture Without
a Frame
In a Corner of the
World
S54-Three O'Clock in
the Morning
All Over Nothing
at All
5S6-Abide With Me
Shall We Gather
at the River
e92-I Need Thee
Every Hour
One Sweetly Sol
emn Thought
7S9-When l Look In
His Face
Come Unto Nc I
GOETHE Palms
The Resurrectioi1
090-Somewhere i
Voice Is Calling
"Cerehoero lon
tana Terra"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
They Play on Any Photograph
Dance

Dance
66EGeel But l Hate
TO Go Home
Alone
Cow Bells
s63-Georgia Cabin
Door
All Muddled Up
s60-Cockle Doodle Do
Teddy Bear
Blues
S5S-Lovin' Sam
Lost
S55-Stop Your Kid
ding
he MaN~Be Your
Man
S43-When All Your
Castles Come
Fumbii1g Down
Just as Long as
You'll Have Me
S40-Carolina in the
Morning
Where the Barn.
boo Babies Grow
Slim Going to
Plant Myself In
My Old planta-
ton Home
loot, loot,
Tootsie
62S-I'll Build a Stair
way to Para
disc
I Found a Four
Leaf Glover
S26-Tomorrow
Away Down South
S25--I Wish l Could
Shimmy Like
Sister Kate
Got to Cool Ny
Doggies Now
s12-Clover Blossom
Blues
Chicago
S06-Don't Bring Me
Posles
Call Me Back, Pal
O'Mine
791-Thres O'Clock in
the Morning
Smilin' Through
TS0-Parads of the
Wooden Sol
diers
Are You Playing
Fair
77S-It's Up to You
Haunting Blues
Vocal
1007-Indiana Moon
Morning Will
Come male
Trio)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03
Instrumental

Instrumental
940-Lights Out
Up the Street
(Bandl
942-Valse Erica
Silver Threads
Among the Gold
(SaxophOne)
S34--Flower of Hawaii
Thru the Night
(Hawaiian)
72S-Rio Nights
o-Na-Lu
(Hawafian)
100--Caprice Viennois
Valse Bluette
(Violin)
096-Mignon Gayotte
Love Sends q LII
tie Gift Of
Roses
(ViOlinl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03

Paper was first made from rags
in A d. 1000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-03

Down In Maryland
Blue
Lost a Wonderful Girl
I've Got the Yes, We
Have No Bananas
Blues
Lovin' Sam (The Sheik
of AlabamO
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-04-19
He WAS TAKING NO CHANCES
stu There Waa Something H,ob,s
humorous in Youth seconding Hls
Own Nomination.

Inns happened when the man of
whom it is told, now an Indianapo-
us resident, was a high school pupil
at Columbus, Ind.
tie was senior in high school
then, and the time for electing class
day officers had arrived. The high
school political directors in his class
had decided before the day of the
election that he should be chosen
historian. He learned of this and
was much elated.
The day for the election arrived,
and the information of the car
rangement" proved to be true. His
name was the only one placed be-
lore the class for historian. AS soon
as ne had been nominated he was
much worried for fear that by some
chance Clark horse" might be in
Jected into the race. However, this
was not the wish of the politicians"
Tor one introduced a motion that
the nominations for historian be
closed. The principal of the high
school, who presided at the meet
ing, recognized the motion and
asked whether there were a second.
AT this point the nominees anx-
iety broke all restraint, and, spring
ing to his feet, he shouted:
81 second the nomination.
He was elected Indianapolis
News.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-04-19
SPANISH GOLD IN CRUISER

The old cruiser Yorktown, one OF
the vessels of the United States
navy that saw service in the Spanish
war, has yielded small fortune in
gold Spanish coins to the crew that
is wrecking it at the Crowley ship
yards, Oakland, Calf.
Spanish gold pieces, estimated !, TO
be worth $4,000 to $4,000 in all
have been found by the wreckers IN
drainpipes, in bilge tanks and !, IN
other inaccessible sections OF the
vessel. 1t is believed the goidpleees
belonged to members Of the YORK
towns crew during the Spanish war
and were lost.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-04-19
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me road; the sun was shining and
there We're plenty of worms and hpgs
10 be found, and though the sky d,d
look dark once in while Mr.. Drake
assured him that the wearher waS
sure to keep fine, so Mr.. Rooster went
along where Mr.. Drake led him
The first thing he knew he was IN
the woods and the rain was patterlne
on the leaves. Guess | better RIM
home, he said.
"Oh, this Is fine weather. said Mr.
Drake. Don't be frightened nv a
little rain. You rest under this tree
and ! will take swim on tbe pond
90 love a swim when 1t is raining"
SO Off went Mr.. Drake, leaving Mr..
Rooster all dripping wet under the
tree and feeling very unhappy. and
he wished very much he had listened
to his wife and stayed near the barn
yard.
BY and by the lightning flashed and
the thunder rolled and down came the
rain as if poured from a pail
Mr.. Rooster started for home soaked
to the skin, and when he crept under
the barnyard gate his wife, who was
peeking out from under some bushes.
saw him. ''What did tell you?" she
said. Il knew just how it would be.
Now you come right into the house
and dry those wet clothes and get into
bed.
III put your feet In hot water and
give you ginger tea and wrap you up
in blanket and the next time Mr..
Drake wants TO go on an excursion
tell him to take some one that likes
wet weather." and she gave him
sharp peck to let him know she
meant it,
Biddy talked so fast that Mr. Roos-
ter could not get in word edgeways,
and he didn't have anything to say
anyway, so he meekly obeyed, and that
was how he became henpecked hus-
band, for after that when Mr.. Rooster
started to do anything his wife did
not like she had only to say, "Remem-
Der your trip with Mr.. Drake" and |
give him a peck with her bill and the |
question was settled the way Mrs. |
Biddy wanted it,
10. 1928, by Mcclure Newspaper syndicats.S