Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-10-17
By
William Dudley Peney

| ouiyered. mo more money I make
she said raggedly. Last month eighty
Won dollars she steals from me alretty.'
We went over the figures scrawled
on the paper.
perhaps we'd better hunt up Judge
Wright" i finally said when theft was
irrefutable. You can swear out q
warrant for Josie's arrest"
Zach. mol" cried Mrs. Krule. Der
mother of children she is. l give her
der money dot from me she steals
But you tell her no more she
comes here TO work.
l saw that Josie's spleen had SO bull
lied the Dutch m that Mother
Krule feared discharge might be i'm
possible-that Josie mightnt accept it.
had wished Josie on her. / must
take her of.
Which l did. With relish.
We'll, I can tell you one thing,
Josie famed in my office before slam
ming my door, she's made a first
class enemy Of me and she'll live to
rue IL"
Benny Sibley avenged his mother in
q manner more drastic. Getting his
gang together, they congregated
across the street from the bakeShop.
Waiting till walks were empty OF
pedestrians, they sent a volley Of bricks
at Mrs. Krule's shop front. Both win
dows crashed with q roar like sharp
thunder. Speeding through an alley
the gang disappeared.
The hapless Dutch Oven had to close
for a week. The shops merchandise,
fraught with slivered glass, was q pass
ing loss. One Of the gang" squealed
on Benny. who was taken into custody
The case was squared by the widow
paving the cost Of new windows and
the boy turned loose with stern judi
cial reprlmand.
But Josie Sibley was a smoldering
fury. Her turn would come" she gave
out publicly, though why she felt her.
self entitled to q turn" was something
that Paris could not quite decipher
The result Of the episode vas to swing
community sentiment over to the
Oven thrice stronger than ever.
And Abe Hoadley was SO hard hit
that he sold the Elite to three Greeks
from Springfield.
Josephine Sibley went to work fol-
those Greeks.
For two years and a half after COM
ing to Paris, Mother Krule ran the
Dutch Oven in Cross street, working
hard, giving honest values, accumulat-
ing enough to buy a little cottage
house up on Putney street extension
One of her own nieces, Hulda Wander
burg, had grown big enough to succeed
Josie Sibley and a Dutchman named
Van Moot came up from North Adams
to shoulder the kitchen work.
And the Greeks in the Elite, doubt
less goaded by Josie, at length saw 6
chance to annihilate competition. Try
as they would, their purchase was
loss. They would set up a monopoly
on Vermonttown bakestuffs.
The week following Americas Off
cial entry into the war, a sWarthy
young stranger appeared in the Oven
While Hulda went back to fetch ir
fresh rolls he produced a small car
with a perforated top.
Over two luscious displays Of cream
puffs he criminally sifted a pint OF
powdered arsenic.
We know, because the can was later
found, the case against him proven
and the mar at this moment is con.
fined in Windsor prison.
Paris went insane. Sixteen people
were lowering 'twixt life and death
next day. Then serpentine rumor lifted
its head. The Ovens proprietress
wasn't Dutch, but PrusSian.
The wal had reached Vermont.
CTO be Continued