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building automobiles. 1t was operat-
ed day and night.
The flames were first discovered IN
the repair shop and in few minutes
the entire place was mass of flames.
But for the corrugated iron con-
struction of the garage it is likely
that the home of William I. Ennis,
who with his brother John R. Ennis,
are joint owners of the garage, would
have caught fire. The iron construc-
tion kept the flames confined within
the building
William I. Ennis was eating break
fast when the fire was discovered. He
hurried to the garage next door to his
home and with the night man and
other employees, who had just arrived
to begin the days work, they man
aged to save a dozen or more stored
automobiles and the office equipment.
Freezing temperatures of the past
week had frozen the water mains and
pipes in Odessa and there was little
or no water with which to combat the
flames.
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FIRE DESTROYS BIG GARAGE
OF ENNIS BROTHERS At ODESSA
GARAGE AND REPAID SHOP OF
MACHINERY HAS $4,000 LOSS
Cold, Freezing Weather Wednesday
Morning, Freezes Water Main and
Firemen Fight Under Difficulties

Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Ennis Garage on the DUPONT
Boulevard at Odessa, at 7.30 o'clock
Wednesday morning, entailing loss
Of between $4,000 and $4,000, par
TALLY covered by insuronce The home
Of William 4. Ennis, a few feet from
the garage, was endangered for a
time, but it was saved by fremen of
the Odessa and MiddIetown fire com
panies, who pumped chemicals upon
it. Frozen water pipes made the
pump-engines of the two fire compan-
les useless, and by the time the en-
gines arrived, the corrugated iron and
frame structure 10 feet by 80 feet
was mass of flames. It was burn
ed to the ground in less than two
hours after the flames were discover
ed by the night man in the repair
shop in the rear Of the garage.
Three cars, all of them secondhand
machines, were destroyed as well as
valuable machinery in the repair shop
AT least II automobiles were saved
when they were hurriedly taken from
the building a few minutes after the
fire was discovered The Office equip
ment, including filing cabinets, was
also saved.
The garage is one of the largest on
the dupont Boulevard, south Of Will
mington and was equipped with mod
ern machinery for repairing and re-
Smyrna times., 1928-01-11
HIGHFIELD HEADS SHRINERS
Lu Lu Temple Again HOnOrs w. ].
Highfield of Wilmington With Office

Lu Lu Temple, Mystic Shrine, again
honored William J. Highfeld, of Will
mington, with election as illustrious
potentate the highest Office in the or
der at the annual meeting of the Tenn
pie in the Metropolitan Opera House,
Philadelphia, the mosque of the Tenn
pie, Wednesday. 1t is his third term
as potentate In addition to his re-
election as potentate, Mr.. Highfeld
was reelected a representative to the
Imperial Council. Mr.. Highfeld is
one of the foremost Masons of this
State. He is a past grand master Of
the Grand Lodge of Delaware, A. F..
and A. M. an active member of all the
Masonic bodies in Wilmington, and
conducts the William J. Highfeld
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FURs WANTED

Muskrat, CoOns, Opossun, and es-
pecially brown weasels. We pay
highest cash prices. Let US have
them or we will call for them.
J.E. LOVEGRoVE G. CO.,
residence near Bayview
Phone f54 r 80 p. o. Smyrna, Del.
1I-30 13t
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even one sandwich, she began to
pass around little ''jiggers'' of the
punch just as fast as Jack East.
man could pour them.
Have glass of punch?" she
asked. poking the tray under
Lily's nose for an instant. "Oh,
no. I forgot. You never drink,
do your
Lily stopped her and took =
glass.
"oh, yes dor she cried, and
downed 1t. Then she took another.
She never cared for drink.
really. But Pat thought It was
dreadful and shocking for a
woman to drink, and so It gave
her a thrill of freedom and salts
faction to drink the "jiggers" of
punch. She felt as IL she were
getting even with him. somehow,
as she emptied the second glass
and set it down.
mo, thank you, never drink,
you know" she heard Ann Barney
say coldly, when the tray was
passed to her for the third time.
Lily laughed aloud. That's
right-you don't, she gurgIed.
I'D forgotten that you're so
pure, Ann. You should have mar
ried into my husbands family
Then she turned to Staley and
laughed at him weakly. Perhaps
I ought not to mention that !
have a husband when I'm out
with you" she said to him, sway
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stomachs after a night OF hard
drinlyinor

stomachs after a night OF hard
drinking.
She was standing at the bottom
of the stairs when Lily came down,
and she had one of the "jiggers"
in her hand. Here. down this
and stop singing grief" she sang
out. "Staley's waiting for you
overathere in the doorway.
Lily saw him. He had a "jigger"
in his hand. too, but he was not
drinking it. While Lily watched
him he set the glass down upon
the top of a high French desk near
him and turned to wait for her.
In the center of the arch above
the door hung a great bunch of
mist1etoe, tied with bright scarlet
ribbon. Lily did not see it as she
stopped under it, to tuck her arm
into Staley's arm.
Lets find a quiet corner" she
was beginning to say. when he
suddenly caught her in his arms
and kissed her violently and
squareIy upon the mouth. AS Lily
struggled to get away from him,
he kissed her again. Then. just as
suddenly he let her go.
There was laugh in the room
beyond, where whole group or
people had turned to watch him.
People always looked at,
Staley Drummond. Not because
he was handsome. for he was not.
Not because he was extremely in
teresting, for he was not always
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that. But simply because he was
Staley Drummond, one of the
richest bachelors In town.
HE was just wild about this
Mrs. France-little Lily Lexing-
ton. she was. and great friend
OF my daughter" Lily heard Mrs.
Cain explaining later to an out
of.toWn guest of the Barney fam
lily. Then she married her
mothers chauffeur-just a wild
chiId's fancy. suppose. But the
marriage seems to have gone on
the rocks, and everything seems
to be smooth sailing for Staley
Drummond again. He kissed her
as il he meant 1t, didn't he?
And they both laughed pleasantly.
Lily was very quiet all the rest
of the day. and answered Staley
in little, soft sentences when he
spoke to her, as they sat side by
side in a dim corner Of the Gains
library.
"You shouldn't have. kissed me,
she said once, and looking at her.
Staley saw that she was rubbing
her lips with her handkerchief.
'tYou know I'm still married to
Pat--it's not right"
You told me. yourself, that a
man who'd ask for kiss didn't
deserve one" Staley interrupted.
$50 just took you at your word. !"
Lily nodded absently. She was
back in the France family's par
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lor for q minute and she was lis.
tening to Pats mother scolding
Roy Jefferson for having kissed
the bride on the day when she
married Pat.
1T may be an old custom, az
you say" she had told Roy. Sc
verely, but the way I look at 1T
is that when a woman's married
her lips belong to her husband
even on her wedding day"
Lily kept thinking of her, and
then of Sues mother-and of the
way she had laughed when she
said: He kissed her as II he
meant, it, didn't he2" The kiss
had been good joke TO her.
For the first time since she had
met Pats mother seven months
before. Lily found herself agree
ing with her
CHAPTER XLVIII
BY 10 that Christmas night all
the older people had left the
Gains big. beautiful house, and
the yonng foIks--the young
soaks," az Sue called them--l1ad
1T to themselves.
They gathered together in the
dining room, where the cut.glass
punch bowl was still half filled
with pale gold fruit punch.
Shall We make a flock Of
sandwiches" Sue asked, finding
three dried-up ones on a silver
plate.
And then, instead Of making
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lobby. "a night club that is giddy
but not dressy. interesting but
not extravagant. A night club
where the three lowly five dollar
bills that repose in my jeans at
the moment will enable us to do
more than pay the cover charge
sand walk out again-Eureka!
know the very place. Taxip'
'The very place" was the Club
Swanee River A long mar
row room perched at the top of
steep narrow stairs. A negro
orchestra in overalls and gay
bingham shirts, seated informally
on what purported to be the bank
Of the river painted on the wall
at their backs. Three other wells
representing cotton fields in, as
Nick put it, full cotton"
A dance floor not as large as
half a tennis court, bordered by
tiny tables with red plaid table
cloths. A cabaret consisting of
a small vanilla darby who did
the Charleston, a large choco-
late darby who did the Charles
ton, quartet of assorted darkies
who sang Charleston Back to
Charleston and a cafe au lait
maiden who Charlestoned.
Something" Nick declared,
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CONTINUED from Local Page
ticket?' He: mo, no
ticket She: How did you
get in, sir7' He: I know
the doorman. And what is
vastly more, the doorman
knows me. -
All this in the undertone
necessitated by the surround
ings and with great, good
humor the blue eyes twin
king nicely at Dolly.
Dolly twinkled back. "He
WINS" she said. 81 guess
I'll have to let you stay"
If he had exhibited the slightest
interest in the show or any indica-
ton of a desire to return his at
tention to it, she would then have
left him forthwith But he was
regarding her as though he found
her the only thing in the play
house worth looking at, and the
temptation to continue their con-
versation was strong. She said
dutifully, Don't you want to sit
down? ! think there's a vacant
seat in the last row, II you'd like
it." and was gratified to hear him
reply in the negative.
I'm just waiting till the end
of the act" he explained. Then
I'm going back to talk to" He
nodded toward the comedian, now
capering in the center OF the
stage and called him by name.
'Is he friend of yours?"
asked Dolly. impressed.
81 don't know as you'd call it
that. quite. We don't exchange
Christmas cards or anything. I've
met him a couple of times
which fact he will of course
have wiped from memory's slate
ere this"
Maybe he won't see you. He's
supposed to be quite tempera-
mental"
Hell see me all right" laconi-
cally. Hell see any newspaper
man. any time. They all will"
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LITTLE SINS-:- By Katherine Brush

"has got to be done to check the
spread of that thing. Four out of
five have 1t. The fifth is taking
lessons"
1t developed that he did not
dance at all. 'Chiropodists' Of
fees are damned with the women
who've tried to teach me-" ne
said. So they remained for two
hours at their table, talking, ex-
changing opinions and experiences
availing themselves happily of
this first opportunity to give their
friendship solid foundation.
Over a steaming cold Welsh
rarebit Nick observed suddenly,
You're being very devilish. you
know. Trotting out to night clubs
with married mem"
Dolly dropped her fork and sat
back. looking startled. "Who,
your"
None other"
"Are you really"
ct am, really"
'But-why didn't you tell me,
Nick?"
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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"oh, so you're a newspaper
man.
But don't hold it against me-"
he begged hurriedly.
'I won't" Dolly assured him.
"I like newspaper men. That Is.
l like the idea Of them. don't
really know any"
That" he said. should be
rectified. And will be. Permit
me to present an humble one
Nick tandish, of the Star.
II read 1t every day" cried
Dolly.
'Hurrah." said standish
gravely. well. now that is a
coincidence, isn't it? We ought
to be very good friends"
And they were.
He formed the habit of drop
ping into the theater once or
twice a week to talk to her for
ten minutes at a time. Presently
they began to go out together.
The first of these tete-a,tetes
took place one evening in April.
when he presented himself at
the Gotham just at the close OF
the performance and said with
out any preamble. "C'mon and
eat"
q"
Certainly. Have to eat. Every
body ought to eat now and then.
Keeps the jaws Timber"
II never do go out after the
show" said Dolly hesitantly. Il
ho tn IN at =
might as we'll stay up" said
standish. Get your bonnet. III
wait here"
When she rejoined him dressed
for the street, he demanded to be
told where she wished to be
taken. rs it food you want?
Or frivolity?"
ITS food you want"
"But frivOlity you want. L
see it in each sapphire orb. very
well, small change. Wen frivol."
lie had many names for her.
Small change" "urchin," "cub"
-names of different school in
deed from that to which Jerry
adhered.
"A night club" Nick ruminated
aloud as they went through the
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ing little as the liquor began to
make her feel dizzy and languid
and weak.
She leaned against Staley and
her third glass Of the gin punch.
Sta1ey was saying something to
her that she did not hear.
She was watching Ann Barney.
Ann was not having a good time
tonight. As q matter Of tact, she
was having a very rotten time.
and she did not care who knew 1t.
She walked over to Sue and
said goodnight. Thanks for a
lovely evening. Susy." she said.
with her quick smile that made
her almost beautiful for a mo-
ment. You know I'd love to
stay, but I don't drink And
with another smile, she turned
away from Sue. who had, barely
noticed her. Sue had had about
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The same old chatter! Unimpor-
tant and trivial, it nevertheless
had . delightful sound In Lily
Frances ears that afternoon. Oh,
It was good to be hack among
these people who didn't think you
were doing wrong If you smoked
O cigaret or took a drink or
painted your mouth with indelible
lip stick. These people. who knew
how to dress as Sadye Jefferson
never would know how to dress
II she lived to be three-score-and-
ten.
She went into the empty dress
ing room, just off Sues big bed
room. And just as she was TAX
ing off her cape, Sue. herself,
came running in from the hall.
Her eyes were bright with wei.
come, and she was smiling from
ear to ear.
"Staley told me you were here"
she cried. ooh, Lily, it's so good
to see you againi Are you back
10 stay? What's happened? /
never saw anybody look SO happy
rs Staley Drummond"
Lily carefully rubbed rouge on
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q pint more Of the punch than
she could carry.
s'Ann thinks were terrible, Lily
observed to Staley. "Sl1e's always
been so narrow-minded that slle
couldn't part her hair in the mid.
die. She makes ms III.
Staley put his arm around her.
You're shalxy. dear he said.
want to go hoane?''
Lily shook her head
Indeed she did not want 10 80
home. She wanted 20 stay hers
where the lights were 80 bright
and the people all saying these
awfu1ly funny things ana the
drinks were 50 good.
She tried to tell all this 10
staIey, but she forgot what She
wanted TO say while she was
thinking up the words.
All she could do was to laugh.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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NolO Go On With The Story.

the soft lobes OF her ears. 1T
reckon I am back to stay. Sue"
she said. I've been trying to
make up my mind to come back
home ever since the day of that
bridge party you asked me to.
Do you remember? 1t changed
my whole life--that day"
She looked bored. ''Yes?" she
asked. "Well, dent take 1t so
hard. Honey. Come on downstairs
and I'll give you a jigger Of some
thing to cheer you up!' And she
flew out of the room.
Sues parties always were sue
cesses, partly because of the little
'jiggers" of gin or Scotch or Bour-
bon that she was always advising
everyone to have. And. Sue knew
that they were successes becau use
people were always passing out OF
the picture at them, and having
to be taken home and put to bed.
And they always wound up with a
tray of glasses filled with cold
cooked tomato juice. which was
wonderful, so Sue said, for making
people sober and settling their
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Love in a MilliOnaire's Mansion or In a
Poor Mans Flat Is Lily's
Problem Of Future
Read This First:

LEXINGTON, spoiled CYRUS LEXING
TONS. js DaUMMONn bachelor older than
their wedding, to
chauffeur Her friends her
his sister,
FLORENCE their little house their
his fTiend
ROY JEFFERSON they intend
wife, SADYE whom
flat of their
hating OF
is
the JettersOn's house, accident.
One day Lily and
sine herO a party. clothes,
to He
all their meetings being
Pat finds watch
that
Christmas
by the time
of
the house.
Christmas day
in She
just reaches the phone it rings.
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Telling the Real from, False by Temperature

colder imitation and the
best detect this difference temperature IS to touch the
with Sapphires emradS rub garnets and
other precious stones be tested in this
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What DO You KnOW?
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST
Questions on Editorial Page

/. which Moses received the Ten Com
mandmens q Apennines 3, Voga; ST. Thomas Aquinas g.
Caban g. The metals charcoal EARTH water, human body T.
European fishing GoOdby; Confectionery; TO-
herring split, sailed and smoked; H. Leading lady singer
Oliver Goldsmith H. William Shakespeare; 49, Charles Dickens;
Is, John Howard Payne II, Mark Twain.
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A ViIIaoe Run 81 Electricity

TlanuchlIyn claims that upo-dats village
wales Tor Il Il entirely by electricity Every cottage pro-
vded with electric light cookers and laborsavmg ceyess
power station = small wooden hut the mountalnsioa
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-28
SECTIONAL CONFERENCES WILL BE
FEATURE OF HIGHWAY COMMISSION
OFFICIALS MEETING HERE FRIDAY

tings on earth grading contracts ;
methods Of rating contractors; cx-
change Of contractors rating data
between the states: methods Of
handling various types Of construc-
ton; requirements for final accept
ance Of construction work; allowable
variations from plans and spccifica-
tions: organization of the engineer
ing division and its contact with
other departments and the use of
various kinds Of culverts.
Snow fence and snow removal will
be leading items for discussion by
maintenance engineers. These will
trade information on methods of
using snow fence, its specifications.
erection, posts, right Of way and
storage and methods Of snow remov-
al by caterpillar tractors, trucks,
,ower patrols and patrolmen.
Other items for consideration are !:
gravel and earth road maintenance
from the standpoint Of economical
operation and the surface treatment
Of graveled roads with oil and tar.
For Bridge Engineers
Bridge engineers will talk about
methods Of testing for bridge foun-
dations and determining the length
Of the piles required; bridge inspcc-
ton and maintenance; maximum
safe distance between expansion
points for various types of bridges E;
live loads for various spans and road
way widths; ice pressure to assume
in designing piers and other tech
nical details.
Road designing experts will con-
slider the proper design of n road
to prevent it from being blocked by
snow; limitations as to curvature;
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North and South Dakota, Min.
nesota, Saskatchewan, Man.
itoba and Perhaps Montana
Will Be Represented-Full
Program Has Been Outlined

Sectional conferences in which ex-
perts from various states will com.
pare notes on all phases Of state
highway construction and admins
tration will feature the meeting of
highway officials from the Dakotas,
Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
and possibly Montana which will
open here Friday. The conference,
called by the North Dakota highway
commission, will last two days.
Minnesota will send its highway
commissioners and an engineering
staff, South Dakota will send its
highway commissioners and Ell.
gineers and the other states and the
Canadian provinces will send en-
cheering delegations. according to
advices to the North Dakota depart
ment.
The administrative officers group
will discuss rights Of way and their
proper width for both primary and
secondary highways; railroad grade
crossings and the best grade separ-
alton policy; uniformity ir maps
and traffic information; the system
Of state purchase Of materials as
against material purchases by pri-
vate contractors: the portion of high
way finances which should come
from direct taxation of motor
vehicles and the proportion of high
way revenue which should be return
ed to the counties or smaller govern
mental subdivisions; qualifications Of
contractors; the use Of the electro
magnet for removing nails and scrap
metal from highways; the classi-
fication Of employees with regard to
rank and pay; policies with regard
to the award and execution of con-
tracts, with special attention being
given to the matters Of the proposal
bond, bidders bond and contract
bond; and the best policy with regard
to tho operation Of highway conf
mission automobiles or payment of
motor transportation costs of high
way department officials or en-
ployes.
For Construction Engineers
The construction engineers group
will face heavy program. Major
items to be considered are: Thc
value Of oiling earth subgrade for
gravel and other types Of roads;
treatment of gravel roads by oil or
tarvia mix; subgradc preparation
and general construction methods;
sand-clay surfacing; scoria surfac-
ing; general specifications; labora-
tory and field tests of surfacng
materials; methods Of handling let
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Credit Rating Bureau
Will Sell Contracts

Permission to sell . service con-
tract in North Dakota has been
given by the state securities COM
mission to the Credit Rating Bu-
reau of Fargo. The company plans
to aid merchants in determining the
credit risks on individuals and to
aid in collections, the commission
was told.
Application by the Bankers Pur-
chasing association of Minneapolis
to sell service contract in the
state was denied as being against
public policy" The company pro-
posed to cooperate with banking
houses in purchasing supplies, the
banking house to pay for the priv.
ilege Of receiving such service.
Permission to sell $1,000 in capt.
tai stock was granted to Keller's
Home Flour Mill. Inc, Of Bismarck.
The company plans to manufacture
q small machine which can be used
by farmers to grind wheat into
flour on the farms. Tests of the
machine have proved that it is prac-
ticable, the commission was told.
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form and content Of periodic reports
and the relation of the accounting
division to other divisions Of high
way departments.
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HENDERSHOT'S
ONLY ANSWER
Is TT WORKS
Inventor of 'Fuelless' Plane
Insists His Motor Is Not
a Generator

Pittsburgh. Pa, Feb. 26.-R-
Although his "fuelless" motor has
been characterized as impractical
and mot motor at all" but a gen.
orator. Lester ]. Hendershot, Of
West Elizabeth, Pa, today stood by
his assertion that it works.
The motor, described by the 90
year-old inventor as deriving its
power from the magnetic fields Of
the earth, was said by F. w. Hoch-
stetter, Of the Hochstetter research
laboratories here, to be = genera
tor and not q motor at ALL" obtain
ing "its electricity from concealed
carbon pencil battery"
HOchstetter exhibited models OF
what he said were early phases of
the Henderson, motor, declaring
that the current was supplied from
cells. He said. he had negotiated
with Henderson, some time ago on
what appeared from newspaper
reports to have been the same thing
he IS now trying to promote"
When informed of the statements
of Hochstetter, Hendershot said he
had used carbon pencil cells while
experimenting in an effort to take
electricity from the air. but that
the present motor utilized 1.-THE
magnetic field set up by the earth"
and no other power.
II didn't build the motor that was
demonstrated at Detroit" the in
ventor said. "That was built by
army men under orders from Major
Lanphier and under my direction.
didn't even so much as wind the mo-
tor--they built the motor, and it
works. That's my answer to all
critics-my motor works."