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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

The Olympic Peninsula Development
league, composed OF Port Angeles, Port
Townsend, Olympia. shelton, 3Ioquiam
and Aberdeen. met in Olympia Friday
to launch steps for legislative action
squirting completion OF the Olympic
highway loop Nearly so miles Of
this road remain unfinished.
Notable gains were made last week
by mIlls reporting to the West Coast
Lumbermer's association In rroduc
tion. new orders booked and shipments
made Production last week totaled
1O9.Si2,6i6 feet, new orders we're book.
cd for 114.is74s6 feet and shipments
made totaled i10.gsOs75 feet
Captain Steve Kullura and crew Of
seven men OF The purse SEEMING boat
Purse Seine are under arrest at South
Bend and the bout libelod for purse
seInlng for salmon two miles OF Ocean
Park, violating a law passed by The
last legislature forblddlng purse sein
ing within three miles OF shore
Members Of tho Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation OF Clark
county will be paid 3is cents a pound
on delivery at the corporation pack
ing plant OF prmes running 80 to tho
pound and iareer and cents "a pound
on smaller sizes The rate Of payment
was decided on at a meeting OF direo
tors.
al joint meeting Of the Lewis
county commissioners, Chehalis city
commission members aud citizens
club trustees with Captain Tyler ct
the Pacific AIR Transport company.
arrangements were closed Cor imme
diate installation OF q beacon light on
the root Of ths new Lewis county court
house which is nearing completion.
Directors Of the Ilecla silver lead
mine of Burke, Idaho. meetine in spo.
kane. declared a g5oO.0oo quarterly
dividend to De paid September Is &c
stockholders OF record ON August Is
a dividend Of 80 cents for each OF
the 100000 shares was declared
bringing the total for the year TO ST.
500.000 and the total dividends 90 The
mine TO S15.e05000
Three Tacoma youths. Ray Mann
Charles Walters and Carl Arthur were
turned over TO Tacoma officers ar
Eueusburg after having admitted. &c
coriing to Prcsecutug Attorney
Arthur Mcclure Of Kittiias county. &C.
the theft Of 90 automobiles since Jui5
% They we're arrested iH Cia Eluu
for speeding. and q check raveai-d tAl
car lad been stolen.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20
THE MERRY WIDOW"

Five hundred extras were used
n the Ambassador Ball scenes Of
erich Won Stronheim S modernized
lin version of the famous light
opera "The Merry Widow" the
Metro-Go ldwyn-Mayer picture at
the Vashon Theatre Saturday
night. AT the ball every country
Of the world was represented by
IL plenipotentiary extraordinary in
full regalia. The King, Queen,
Crown Prince and Prince Danilo
of the story are patterned after the
royal family of Balkan kingdom
that does not exist any more. Mae
Murray and John Gilbert are CO.
starred in the picture.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

Mrs Smoek S mother. Mrs. C. c.
Lias, accompanied by grand
daughter Margaret Rogers, drove
over from Payctte, Idaho arriving
Monday morning They came
with distan: relative. G. r. Che
ney, of Bellevue. Iowa, and Mr.
Cheney viii locate IN Seattle.
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Vashon Lutheran Church

Services (English) LIST Sunday
of every month.
Norwegian every Bird Sunday.
Sunday School 10 a. IN.
Morning Worship II a. IN.
Ladies Aid Society meets every
Bird Wednesday of the month.
p. Skartvedt, Pastor.
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entertained Mr.. and Mrs, Jack
Wood at dinner ON Tuesday even
ing in honor of Mr.. Woods birth
day and Mr. and Mrs, Menees S
wedding anniversary,
Mrs. Simonsen and daughter,
attic at the home of Mrs. Simon
sens mother.
daughter Mary Of Tacoma were
visiting last week at the home of
Mrs. Wise of vashon Heights.
Mrs. Hendricl1son and son Yer
home.
Earl Hendrickson had his arm
broken crauking his car. The
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

morning at 10 O'Clock. All men
are cordially invited. Open forum
discussion of the life of Paul the
Apostle to the Gentiles and present
day topics presented by the Text.
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Burton Baptist Church

Services next Sunday as fol
lows:
10 a. m. Bible School.
II a. m. Theme,
7:30 p. m. Young Peoples meet
ing. Topic, "The Lone Star Be
All are invited.
7. S. Fretz, Pastor.
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Presbyterian Church

Services next Lords Day,
Sunday School 1000 II. M.
Morning worship II m.
Endeayor Meeting 7 100 p. m,
Topic, Bible preachings about
Prayer
Choir rehearsal Thursday even
ing at s o'clock.
All are invited to attend these
services. Strangers in the Com
munity always welcome,
Hugh Armstrong, Minister
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

FOUND-Automobile lisccnse No.
1924. Owner call and get
same by paying fer this adv.
$3.50. Ramquist, the Tailor.
ALL WOOL worsted School Suits
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CARD OF THANKS

We, the relatives wish 10 thaal
Ill who 50 kindly, assisted during
che brief illness aud death of ouI
beloved cousin, Mrs. Belle NJ. Al
drich, also for the beautiful flow
.rS
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Chistian Science Society of
Vashon-Maurv Island

Services every Sunday at Center
Sunday School at 9;45 a. m.
Sunday Morning Services II a. m.
Reading room open Saturday af-
ternoons from l 80 until 4 p. m.
where Christian Science literature
may be read, borrowed or purchas.
ed.
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vashon M. f. Church

VashOn NJ +, ChnrCh
Sunday School at 1000 a. m.
Mr.. A. Larsen Supt.
Morning Worship at IL 100 a. m
Epworth League at 7 100 p, IN
No evening service this week.
II. Il. Andersen, Pastor
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

ALL WOOL worstcd School Suit.
$3.50. Rnm1uisl the Failor
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

Fishing is good these days in
the Sound. The table of the edi-
tor has been supplied with salmon
trout as result, the most coming
from the skillful hands of our two
modern Coolidg as-P. II. CARRIER
and Fred Bridgman.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

Our next County Auditor,
George A. Grant and his family are
spending a few weeks resting on
yashon island and are happily en-
seonsed at the McClintock home
stead at Ellisp0rt.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

Miss Anna Koontz, librarian at
Chehalis, is here fer a fortnight
as the guest of her friend, Miss
Lulu Needs.
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CENTER NEWS

'(Mrs. Dunlap and Mrs. Hearst)
=
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stake nets. The use of all other forms of fishing gear is prohibited.
 Commercial fishing for salmon with stake nets shail be limited to beach areas between high and low water marks and shall be confined to the following places: (a) Nushagak Bay; (b) along the beach in front of Kog- giung Indian village on Kvichak Bay; (c) along the beach on the east and west side of Egegik near the Indian village: (d) along the beach on Ugash- ic Bay near the Indian village below the Alaska Packers Association can nery.
 The total aggregate length of stake nets used by any individual shall not exceed 75 fathoms measured on the cork line.
 Regulation No. 10 (a) is amended to read as follows: All commercial fish ing for salmon is prohibited as fol- lows: Nushagak Bay: All waters north of 59 degrees north latitude, except that stake nets limited to beach areas between high and low water marks vii be permitted north of 59 degrees north latitude to the old prohibitive markers located at Snag Point.
 Alaska Peninsula Area
 Herring fishery-1. Commercial fish ing for herring is prohibited in the pe- riod from January 1 to May 31, both dates inclusive, and from December 1 to December 31, both dates inclusive, in each calendar year.
 g. During the period from June l to October 1, both dates inclusive, commercial fishing for herring is pro- hibited in all waters closed turnout the year to salmon fishing.
 g. The closed season herein speci- fled for herring fishing shall not ap- ply to any boat taking not to exceed 60 barrels of herring in any calendar week in waters otherwise open to fishing
 f. Gill nets used in catching herring shall not be of smaller mesh than 3 inches stretched measure.
 5. No one shall place, or cause to be placed, across the entrance of any lagoon or bay any net or other device which will prevent the free passage at all times of herring in and out of said lagoon.
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ADDITIONAL ALASKA
 FISH REGULATIONS
 FUR THIS DISTRICT
AREAS NEW RULINGS EFFECT ARE BRISTOL BAY AND
 ALASKA PENINSULA

The regulations for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska published in Department of Commerce circular No. 251, twelfth edition, issued under date of December 5, 1925, together with subsequent regulations, are here by amended by the following regula- tions:
 Bristol Bay Area
 Salmon fishery-Regulation No. 1, is amended to read as follows: Com mercial fishing for salmon shall be conducted solely by drift gill nets and
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Fresh Candies just in on Admiral Evans. s.-Schallerers' Alaska Shop. If.
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NOEL SMITH DUE TONlTE

Noel w. Smith, general manager of the Alaska Railroad, is expected to arrive in Seward this evening on an official visit.
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cut the Department for good and
settled down to my iIfe's ambi-
sion-a little poultry-farm near
New Rochelle.
My interests are now consigned
to orpingtons. Rhode Island Reds.
and the 25O-egg strain Of Long
Island ducks. / cut up my uni.
form for a roofing felt to the
coops and looked forward to a
time of real happiness"
Detective Quinn sighed.
81 didn't find it. Jill Seaton's
face haunts me. In fact, now
feel certain that the murderer OF
Parker has never been arrested
but is still at large, UNPUBLISHED,
and. as far ais the police are con-
cerned, unsupported.
"And that" added Quinn,
quietly, ''is not only what be.
lieve-it Is what / am convinced
Of If I am wrong, or IL no such
evidence IL to be found-then,
Miss Seaton, there il no chance
for your sister. AS you know.
there has already been an appeal;
dismissed Tor want of any new
evidence. Her sentence was the
lightest the law could inflict."
understand, said Diana
quickly. And will the police re-
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; no more expression IN them than
there is in the wide-open eyes OF
sleep walker.
Her lips opened and closed
forming mute words.
Peggy Ranny exclaimed,
half-rising form his wheel chair,
you don't want to do this thing!'
Peggy Hides Her Feelings
Then he stopped and looked be.
yond her at the doorway, where
Lolly and Mother Phelps, laden
with bundles of all shapes and
sizes, had appeared suddenly.
We'll, for cryin' in low!" cried
Lolly when she saw Peggy.
What is this? A family coun-
ell. or what? Are mother and
I in the way?"
mo indeedp' Peggy answered.
more quickly than was necessary
as she jumped down from the
foot Of the bed. "I was just
telling Ranny what you people
know already"
It would be over in an instant.
Just a couple Of crisp, short sem
fences, and then she would never
have to go through this exquisite
agony Of seeing him again so long
as she lived. Yes. that was the
way to do it. she made UP her
mind.
II she stopped to talk 1t over,
she was sure she would break
down and cry. She had all but
burst into tears a while ago when
he had told her that he knew
she didn't want a divorce.
1t seemed like hours until
Mother Phelps began to show the
first signs OF going.
But finally, with fluttering
of plumes. a jingling of bracelets
and a rustling Of silk, she drew
her furs around her broad shout
ders and got up.
Ready to Go?
"Well, girlies! Ready to go?"
she asked, brightly. It was like
Mother Phelps to pretend that
there was nothing wrong between
Peggy and Ranny.
If she had been caught on top
OF Mt. Vesuvius during an erup.
ton she would have pretended
to admire the fireworks. That
was the kind of woman she was.
She smiled first into LoIly's
little painted face, and then into
Peggy's white. tragic one. "Shall
take you home with me, dear?"
she asked Peggy, "or do you
want to visit little longer with
Ranny?"
mo, I'll go with you, If you
don't mind" Peggy answered.
ITS raining cats and dogs out
side"
LET me tell you something,
blond sheik," she said, looking
down at him. "Now that you're
losing Peggy ! want to go on
record as saying soberly that I
think she's worth a dozen of you.
A bakers dozen" And with an
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said anything before. as far back
as she could remember.
He cleared his throat and told
her what had happened to him
that day.
"I was lying there In the wreck.
age. and I guess ] was just about
as near death as q man can be
and still i've" he said. you
know, they say that when a per-
sons dying his whole life flashes
back to him.
"Well, that's what happened to
me. Memories came back to me,
and they were all memories OF
you. Things I thought I'd for
gotten-the way you push your
hair out of your eyes when you're
driving; tie way your eyes smile
when you're happy, and the way.
you looked the day our bs4by
died."
He laid his thin hand on
Peggy's and she didn't draw It
away.
"Two or three feet away from
me Babs was moaning. thought
she was dying and l was terribly
sorry for her. But knew I
didn't love her. ! knew there
never was anybody who mattered
a tinker's dam to me but you.
I remember saying to myself, II
/ ever get out of this alive, I'm
going back to Peggy
face was blurred and far away
through her tears.
Beyond him, through the open
all nf
and wet earth. The unforget-
table smell of springtime.
It brought back to Peggy the
most unhappy recollection OF her
whole life. The park had smelled
like this on another rainy after
noon just four years ago, when
Ranny had met her there to tell
her he didn't love her and didn't
want to marry her.
And at that memory the old
hurt and pain stirred and moved
in her heart like a knife being
twisted in an old wound.
Beginning with that time, he
had hurt and wounded her at
He had dragged her pride in
the dust.
He had never been true to her.
Time after time he had been
unfaithful to her.
There came to her mind a
whole procession of women who
had caught his eye and held it
held it for a little while. Fay
Shirley, little Puss March, Jane
Bracket, Elsie Leopold, Babs
Delano and others that she had
never seen--but had heard about.
One after another they had come
and gone.
They had gone. and here she
was still. He said he loved her
still.
mo one but you," he was say.
ing now in a thick, husky voice.
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TT f. r NJ 4 N By BEATRICE BURTON

"No one but you. WIN you take
me back? You know / love you"
She knew that he did. She
knew that in her own way he
really did care for her.
What he was offering her
wasn't the strong, sweet thing
his. first love had been. But
was love always sweet? Was 1t?
Couldn't 1t be as bitter as the
salt tears she had shetland stu
be love? She knew that It could
What did 1t matter, after all,
that he had broken her heart and
broken her pride, and lied to her,
and cheated her, and robbed her
Of her happiness?
What did anything in the world
matter so long as he still wanted
her? So long as he was still her
Ranny?
She knew that nothing else did
matter, or ever would.
"Ranny," she said, and her
voice broke on q dry sob.
She put her arms around him
with that beautiful, maternal
has only for the man who be-
longs to her through thick and
thin, through fire and water-"for
better, for worse; for richer. for
poorer. Til death do us part.
But does it part us, after all?
Does it?
"TiIl Death Do Us Part"
Forty miles away in Buchanan
Park the spring rain was still
pelting down in silver sheets
just as it had pelted down on
that other afternoon four years
before.
But Peggy had put that un.
happy memory behind her, along
with some others that were al.
most as unhappy.
She was sure that q new life
as new as the springtime itself -
was opening before her and Ranny.
can hour ago I wouldn't have
believed that life could be so
lovely for you and me again"
she said, with her wet cheek
pressed against his.
There was a pause, and then
Ranny gave chuckle.
"I should be feeling sentimen-
tai. but / can't help thinking
about Aunt Agony" he laughed.
"I'd give a farm to know what
she'll have to say when she
hears you've come back to me-"
II can tell you exactly what
she'll sayg' Peggy cried. "Shell
say: All right. Go back to him,
II you want to. But he'll only
ruin your life again. A leopard
never changes it's spots, you
know That's what she'll say.
But she'll be all wrong. She'll
be all wrong" And she kissed
him again to prove 1t.
THE END.
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Doggy had steeled herself for
this last meeting with Ranny,
armed herself with indifference.
She was sure that he had sent
for her to ask her il she was
going ahead with her divorce. and
she was going to answer his ques-
lions as tersely as possible and get
away.
Inwarcly she was praying:
''Oh, God, help me not to cry.
Don't let me cry. no matter what
happens"
She didn't want Ranny to have
his last memory of her an un-
happy one. She didn't want him
to know that, in giving him his
freedom, she was breaking her
own heart. She wanted to do the
thing az bravely as possible.
about your divorce"- she
began. and stopped to try to force
back the lump that kept rising
to her throat.
Somehow the sight of Ranny
sitting in that wheel chair, with
the sun on his close-cropped blond
hair and in his eyes, was making it
awfully hard for her to go on.
For mis- illness had made him
thin, and he looked absurdly
young and boyish, sitting there,
with the collar of his bathrobe
turned down like the collar Of the
tennis shirts he used to wear years
ago.
He seemed suddenly like the
old Ranny-not the one who had
married her and forsaken her time
after time. but the one who had
wooed her. The one who used to
lie with his head in her lap one
sumner afternoon and tell her that
she was the prettiest thing this
side OF Kingdom Come.
The one who used to kiss her
until size was dewy-eyed and
breathless, and tell her that he
was going to marry her and make
her the happiest woman in the
world.
She shut her eyes for an in.
slant, and shut out the old memo
ries from her inner eye at the
same time.
She Can't Go On
When she opened them again
she saw Ranny as the man he
was--the man who had left her
for Barbara Delano. The man
who had run away from her,
after he had told her he would
never live with her again il she
was the last woman on earth.
"I've been to see a lawyer
about getting q divorce. just as
YOU want me to-" she began
again. And again she couldn't go
on
She clasped and unclasped her
hands on the foot of Ranny's bed
but beyond that she showed no
emotion. She seemed only to be
slowly choosing her words.
The dark blue dress that she
wore made her eyes more deeply
Yialet than usual. But there was
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the brim, that would Immediately
indicate to the man who likes the
Ianguid, clinging, soft, feminine
women best that here was one II
just that sort!
There were girls with close
cropped boyish hobs. merry twink
ling eyes and tanned compilations
that in a smart sport suit told of
their love for outdoor sports.
Though she stood there still and
attentive, one could picture her
astride a horse, swinging tennis
racquet, at home on the golf
course, or In the sea wavesl
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, first learned how to coax things
from her father that Mother
Phelps couldn't get from him by
threats, seedlings or tears. She
could never forgive Lolly for
having Father Phelps completely
under her thumb. as she did have
him, beyond all argument.
Half way to the stairs Peggy
turned back.
want to tell Ranny some.
thing" she called over her shouI.
der. "Go on, I'll be with you in
q minute"
She found him standing just
inside the door Of the little hos.
pital room, holding on to the foot
of the bed for support. Beads of
sweat stood out on his forehead
with the effort Of trying to walk.
''Sit down." he said, breathing
heavily. "Sit down. was just
going to call you
He himself, collapsed on the
edge of the bed. as IL his feet
refused to hold him up a second
longer.
about this divorce" he said,
weakly. why are you getting
it?"
Peggy opened her shadowy blue
eyes, why, Ranny-it was you
who wanted me to get itv she
reminded him, sharply.
From her purse she took the
note he had left at the l.. -,e
White House for her and handed
1t to him. Without looking at it,
he crumpled 1t up in his palm
and tossed it into the waste
basket beside the bed.
LET me tell you something
that happened to me the day that
train Babs and / were on went
off the track" he said to her,
more seriously than he had ever
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Others were decked out In the
brilliant coIors OF the Orient, with
bright bracelets and golden neck
beads, looking for worlds lika
illustrations from some Persian
poem come to life and ningling
with modern affairs!
Tall, slender, reed,like, pale
beauties. with long earrings, puff
ing away at cigarettes In
fashion of sophistication, stood be.
side dear, plump, pretty, whole
some girls who felt 50 much at
ease in their homemade frocks
and would have q great appeal to
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emphatic toss of her frivolous
little head and a flash of the
highest heels on the market she
was out Of the room.
well, Randall, dear" his
mother said, completely ignoring
Lolly. as she usually did, "I'l
come here tomorrow for you,
about this time, and take you
home with me, eh?" She bent
to give him a powder and per-
= fume-scented kiss, and the tears
stood in her handsome black eyes
as she hurried away.
She knew Ranny's weaknesses
just as well as Peggy herself
knew them.
But no matter what he did. or
what he was, he remained the
most precious and wonderful hui
man being In the world to her.
Peggy followed her into the
narrow hall, waving good-by to
Ranny as she went, but saying
not a word. The troublesome
lump had come back into her
throat. and it stayed there. Her
eyelids pricked along the edges
with the tears she kept forcing
back:
Don't you suppose Ranny
knows that Barbara Delano IL
dead? He never says a word
about her." Mother Phelps gave
Lolly a whitening look. "They
wouldn't dare tell him the truth
about her, now, when he's so
weak. The shock might kill him.
When he asked about her they
told him that she had left the
hospital and gone home. How
ridiculous you are sometimes.
Lollyw
The mother and daughter feud
that existed between Lolly and
her mother was still on. It had
started years ago, when Lolly