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The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03

1t was TIE testimony Of the late
James oliver Curwood that there
was more fact than ficticn in this
novel: that the heroine, Marie An
toinette Tonteur, and her fierce old
father lived and loved as described
in the story; that Catherine Bulain
and her valiant son were flesh and
blood OF their day; that Tiaoga,
Shindas, Silver Heels and several
other of the more important char
acters were not creatures of fancy:
that THE Plains of Abraham" like
his other tale, The Black Hunter"
to which it is closely related. is
largely a romance Of life as it was
lived and not as il might have been
lived.
The author also asserted that the
gathering of the material had been
the most thrilling adventure of his
life; the travelling foot by foot over
the hallowed ground, the reading
of letters written by hands dead a
hundred and fifty years or more,
the dreaming over yellow manu-
scripts written by priests and mar
tyrs and, lastly. the unveiling of
loves and hates and tragedies and
happiness of the almost forgotten
period embracing the very birth Of
both the American and Canadian
peoples, and weighted with happen
ings that shook the foremost ma
tions OF the earth and largely made
them what they are today.
The story passes through ro-
mances, adventures and other stir
ring phases of life In the Cham
plain and Richelieu regions and
reaches it's finale on the Plains of
Abraham at Quebec, in that historic
struggle which curbed the ambi-
tions of the French, established the
ascendency of the English and drew
the first crude boundaries of the
future United States and Canada.
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This Woman In 4 Weeks
Lost II Pounds of Fat

May all large people, both men
and women, who want to reduce In
an easy way, give Kruschen Salts
fair trial. I am sure it will convince
anyone.
A bottle of Kruschen Salts that
lasts four weeks costs but S5c at
any drugstore in America. Take one
half teaspoon in a glass of hot wa
ter before breakfast every morning.
To help reduce swiftly cut out pastry
and fatty meats and go light on po-
tatoes, butter, cream and sugar.
The Kruschen way is the safe way
to reduce-Try one bottle and IL not
joyfully satisf1ed-money back.-Adv.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03

of a monster log that had fallen
hundred years before. Odd
crOuched at his side with his muz-
zle level with the top of the log.
Thus a minute passed, and after
that another, and more on top of
them, yet Odd gave no sign of dis
couragement, nor did Jeems. He
watched the far side of the clear
ing on line as straight as a die
with the pointing of odds nose.
Another minute of this ruStling
stiffness, and a magnificent tur-
key cock strutted majestically out
into the sun. He weighed twenty
pounds If an ounce, thought Jeems,
proud and immaculate bird, defy
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ing all the world in the empty open.
In this moment Jeems thought
again of Paul Tache, for the Quebec
boy was like this turkey cock, al
ways Haunting his clothes and dis
porting himself with the Importance
of man.
Slowly Jeems withdrew the long
barreled gun from the top of the log
and tautened the string Of his bow.
He waited until the big bird stood
less than eighty yards away. An inch
at a time he rose higher on his
knees. and odds body grew sitter
with his movement. A choking
sound came from the dogs throat
as the long bow was bent. The
twang of the string was like the
ring of a steel tuning fork, and
across the open sped a grayish
flash. There followed a mellow
sound, a great commOtion, q leap
ing of gorgeous color high into the
air. Paul Tache, the turkey cock,
was down and dying.
A moment later, Jeems and Odd
stood looking down on the turkey
cock, and gladness leapt once more
into the boys face and eyes-for
here was not only splendid dinner
for tomorrow, but also, in his i'm
agination, the first blow struck
against his enemy.
The wild hot pride of youth and
achievement possessed the lad as
his father and mother came toward
him. Here was triumph, and the
boys eyes lighted up when he saw
his mothers interest in what he had
done, and the unfeigned amazement
in his fathers face as he dropped
his milled corn to the ground and
looked down upon the magnificent
turkey cock with the feathered ar
row transfixing it.
Catherine regarded her boy un-
observed by the two whose hunt
ing instinct drew their eyes to the
fallen game. Her own eyes were
shining, and after a moment Henri
saw what she was seeing and think
ing and placed one of his big hands
tenderly on his sons slim shoulder.
Yes, Jeems was like his mother ex-
cept for his blond hair and gray
eyes, and in these two things he
resembled his mothers brother, that
worthless, wandering, always fight
ing and forever lovable vagabond,
HepSibah Adams. HenriS heart was
happier at his wife's proud contem-
platiOn of her son, and he burst
forth in praise of the lads exploit.
"What a shot !" he cried, bending
low to examine the bird and the
arrow. straight through from wing
to wing as clean as a bullet-and
right up to the shaft of the feath-
ers I'd swear you did not have
the strength in your arm. lad! Yet
the arrow was sped from back there
at the edge of the open. you say. l
scarce believe it! 1t is a shot for
Captain Pipe and White Eyes and
Big Cat and not for you"
These three were the Caughna-
waga Indian friends who had
taught Jeems to shoot, and it was
Captain Pipe who had made his
w" VI NLOlCc S6dSOHeu stSH.
They went on as the sun was set
ting behind the wilderness and the
golden pools of light grew DINNER
| about them and shadows grew heav-
ier and more velvety dark among
the trees. Through the woods,
though the trail was narrow, Cath
crime walked with her hand in
Henrfs, and for half an hour they
spoke no word except in whis-
pers, and at last the four saw their
home.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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so Tonteur was half right In
thinking of him as a wreck Of q
dog, but in one other thing he was
wrong. The dog did have a soul
a soul that belonged to the boy, his
master. That soul had great scar
scared upon it by hunger and abuse
in an Indian camp where Henri Bu-
lain had found him four years be-
fore, and from which, out of pity
for a dying creature, he had taken
him home to JeemS. 1t was a scar
cut deep by clubs and kicks. a
wound that had never healed and
that made the dog what he was-a
tireless and suspicious hunter of
scents and sounds in the woods.
OF the four who were filing west
ward, he seemed to be the only one
who watched and listened for dan
ger to come out of the beauty and
stiffness of the world about them.
Now and then he glanced up at his
master. Trouble lay in the boys
face and eyes. and the dog sensed
ii after a little and whined in q
questioning way in his throat.
Daniel James Bulain was the
boys name, but from babyhOOd his
mother had called him Jeems. He
was twelve and weighed twenty
pounds more than his dog. Odds
and-Ends, called Odd for short,
weighed sixty, if the scales In Ton
teur's gristmill were right. One
would have known the dog and the
boy belonged together even had
they been in a crowd, for if Odd
was a battered old warrior, the boy,
on the other hand, gave every evi-
dence Of an ambition to achieve a
similar physical condition.
why, he's dressed up like a bold,
bad pirate come to abduct my little
girl and hold her for ransom" Ton
teur had rOared, down in the val
ley, and Jeems' father had joined
the baron in his laughter; then. to
make the thing worse, TOnteur had
turned him round and round. slowly
and appraisingly. with lovely little
Marie Antoinette looking on, her
dainty nose upturned in patrician
disdain-and with Paul Tache. her
detestable cousin from the great
city of Quebec, openly leering and
grimacing at him from behind her
back. And this after he had pre-
pared himself with painstaking care
for Marie AntOinette'S eyes should
she happen to see him. That was
the tragedy of it. He had put on
his new doeskin suit. He carried a
gun which was two inches longer
than himself. A big pOwderhorn
swung at his waist, in his belt was
knife, and over his shoulder hung
the most treasured of his posses
sions, a slim ash bow and a culver
filled with arrows. He had worn
his coonskin cap of fur in spite of
the warmth of the day, because 1t
looked better than the lighter one,
which was striped, and in this cap
was a long turkey feather. Odd,
the dog, was proud of his martial
looking master, but he could not
understand the change that had
come over the boy or why he was
going home with such a strangely
set aud solemn face.
From her position behind the dog,
the boy. and the man, Catherine
Bulain looked upon her world with
a joyous and unafraid pride. No
boy, in her opinion, could equal
Jeems, and no man her husband
One could see and feel her happi-
ness, and as TOnteur secretly built
up the fire Of his yearning when he
was alone, so she loved to exult in
her own possessions when her men
folk were ahead and could not see
all that came and went in her face.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03
Gold Mixture

Green gold consists Of gold, sill
yer and cadmium, and sometimes
copper is also added. The degree
of the green color depends upon the
percentage of the metals used with
the gold.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03

ne MAN ShOuId rave MarCheo AT
the Head of His Precious Column.
This desire to hold within herself
some small and sacred part of her
rejoicing was because she was Eng
liSh and not French. That was why
Daniel James had an English name,
inherited from her father, who had
been New England schoolmaster
and afterward an agent of the
PennS down in Pennsylvania. 1t
was on the frontier of that far
province tnat Henri had found and
married her.
IOnteur was aware, possibly even
more than Henri Bulain, that Cath
crimes alteration of her men folk
and of everything that went with
them, even to the primitive discom-
forts of the wilderness life which
had claimed her, was built up
against background of something
more than merely being the mate
of man and the mother of a son.
Culture and learning and broadness
of vision and thought. nurtured IN
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poet just before the time scheduled
for the lecture.
After carefully putting the bank
notes in his wallet and storing them
in an inside pocket the great Mr. Ar
mold, radiating sweetness and light,
strolled out on the platform before
his waiting and enthusiastic audience
and began his lecture on 1.-The Re
grettable Tendency Toward Material
ism in America. Pathfinder Maya
zine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03

Here's a letter written October q,
1928, by Mrs. Fred Barringer OF
Lewistown, Montana, that ought to
De read by every overweight woman
in America.
Gentlemen: / started taking Krus-
chen every morning as directed as
was very much overweight and want
ed to reduce.
I had tried going on a diet but
would get so hungry that my diet
would not last long. so 1 decided to
give "Kruschen Salts" a fair trial.
The day / started to take them l
weighed 256 lbs. and at present,
which has been just four weeks.
weigh 239 lbs. And 1 must say, 1 feel
better in every way. besides looking
much better.
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tenn so prevalent these days is in
even greater favor as family med
icine than in your grandmothers
day.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03
GdrfieIdTed
Was Your
GrandmOfher'S Remedy

For every stOm.
ach and intestinal
i'll. This good old
fashioned herb
home remedy for
C ons tipa tion,
sstomach ills and
OF n er derange-
ments Of the SyS-
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03

Many a man thinks how good he
would be to friend if he only had
one.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03

DR.. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
laxative-three for a cathartic.-Adv.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03
Something Heavy

OOmGlHIHB I1GdVy
Mrs Black heard something fall.
Little Dan came in crying and hold
ing his head.
"What fell on your head, DAM"
she asked.
Il did" he sObbed.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-04-03
BoIdness of Tongue

Every recreant who proved his
timidity in the hours of danger was
afterward boldest in words and
tongue.-Tacitus.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26

f. Davis. Claire Strobe has been Sc
lected by the membership as the
club leader. and the parents of the
boys and girls listed above are deep
ly interested in making of the club
one of the best sheep clubs in the
state.
The Pennsville-W Westland sheep
club, with John Benjamin as lead
er, will be organized soon with a
membership as follows: Frank Will
liams, Russell Best, Conrad Pier
point, Lawrence Best, Dean Ben
jamin and Dalton Dougan.
The Morgan sheep club with Del
mar Glenn as leader and Chester
Strong as advisor, will soon organ
ize with the following membership
Alva Hall, Delmar Dewitt, Donald
Barkhurst, Dale Strong. Robert Par
miter, Harry Reed, Robert Ham
mond, Russell and Harry Richardson
Arthur Cotton and Charles Hall.
Total membership in sheep club
work is thus % boys and girls,
which is the largest number enroll
ed in All sheep club work ever at
tanned in the county. The clubs
show at the county and state fairs
this year will be the largest ever
and will continue to effectively adj
vertise the splendid pure bred sheep
of which Morgan county may we'll
be proud.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26
East Windsor

Raymond Hughes and wife of
Marietta spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Frank Graham and
family. They were accompanied
home by Hazel Graham who will
visit for week with relatives.
Frank Montgomery and son Will
liam spent Monday in GAINESVILLE.
VIM. Harrington of Marietta spent
Friday with Frank Graham's
Ralph Sells, wife and son Duane
spent Sunday with Earl Phillips and
family.
Flava Ash will hold meeting Sat.
urday night, Sunday afternoon and
Sunday night at Fairview.
Clyde Rollison and family are
moving in with his father w. w.
Rollison.
Clarence Phillis, wife and son Roy
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Arthur Ball and family.
Edgar Mummey, wife and son
were callers in the Twin Cities Mon
day.
Frank Montgomery is at Cabin
Creek, w Va.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26

to go back, saying he knew it was
there for he had put it there 40
years before. Mrs Roberts just
called saying Mr. Roberts had
thought of one more who had lived
in the village. II. F. Brewing who
lived just outside the village, who
was also school teacher. He was
living in Dayton the last Mr. Rob
erts knew of him. If this falls in
the hands of any of these men or
any who know about them, won't
you write and tell us about them:
Mr.. Talley spent his last days with
his daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson Evans of GAINESVILLE,
where his death occurred and where
he was buried The graves are in
pasture field along the line between
the old Talley farm and the farm
now owned by Jacob Perry, known
to former residents as the Argo
farm. The graves are protected by
a fence on one side or rather at the
head only, and stock pasture over
them. good sized tree has grown
on one of the graves, under which
groundhogs have made their home
over the ashes of the wife and
children of perhaps the richest man
of the country roundabout in his
day, AS to the family of these pio-
neers we know little Once when
we had employment in GAINESVILLE,
we remember the ice wagon had
John F.. Talley on it's side. Wheth-
er this was some of this family we
can't say. In our Bristol history We
have written more about the village
and people. So long, until we walk
again and discover some more of
the wonders of our country. past or
present
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26

For Plaster and Plaster Board
Standard Supply Co.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26
Triadelphia

Mrs. w. A. Torbert is spending
some time at Columbus with her son
Lawrence Torbert and family.
Mr.. Chas. United of Frazeysburg
and Mr.. and Mrs. James McCutcheon
of GAINESVILLE came to spend few
days with John Maier and wife.
Mrs. Harry Maxwell has been at
Shelby, helping care for her new
granddaughter Glenna Fay, born
March Is, to Robert Maxwell and
wife.
Otis Loughman and family of
Akron spent the week end with his
parents, w. f. Loughman and wife.
Clell Maxwell and wife of Crooks
vile, were Sunday guests at the
home of Mrs. Nora Maxwell, and
son Harley Maxwell
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Edgell are
both in very poor health
Mrs. Henry CampbeH and Mrs.
Geo. Bankes spent few days last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Campbell of Stovertown.
ID. L. Maxwell and wife, P. E.
Carpenter, Leslie Tlmberman and
c. f. Nelson were at Columbus,
Monday. on business.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26
Rowland

Sunday school and preaching ser
vices at Mt Carmel. Sunday after
noon, March 20. Byron Ray OF
Meigs was calling in this locality
Thursday Mrs. Robert Miller OF
McConnelsville spent Saturday night
and Sunday with her son Oran, and
family. The chickenpox is making
its rounds in this neighborhood. (.
Everett Thorla and Fred Downing
attended sale near Stockport, last
Thursday. Frank Downing and
wife spent last Wednesday at G. M
Garrett s.. The proctracted meeting
at Mt. Carmel is scheduled to begin
some time in May. Richard Nyburg
of Michigan, a noted evangelist sing
er, will assist in the services. Mrs
John Wilson is in poor health.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26
Poplar Ridge

Mrs. G. V. Weeden who recently
was called to Ashtubla, by the i'll
ness of her daughter, Mrs. Guy
Lamb, found her greatly improved.
Harold Garvin is suffering from a
severe attack of jaundice
Charles Copeland, Paul Massey,
Harold Gam, Frank and Robert
Porter attended the Masonic bene-
fit entertainment in Malta, Thurs
day evening. All of these except
Mr.. Copeland, who is member,
We're guests.
Harry Anderson of McConnels
Vile is moving into the Brooks farm
house. He is employed on the
county road work
VIM. Eddleblute has vacated the
Palmer cottage on Poplar Ridge
hill, and Russell Geiger now has
leased it,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Massey enter
near relatives, Sunday The guests
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Vain
wright of McConnelsville, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. 0. Wainwright, and Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Cougar, of near Stockport.
0. B. Eddleblute who has had the
residence on the bank farm leased
the past winter, expects to continue
there, and is planning for crop
raising.
Mrs. Ebert Mawell and son John,
of Deerfeld, were recent callers at
the P. j. Massey nome. Sunday
evening their grandchildren, Mr..
and Mrs. James Harvey of Zanes-
Vile visited them
Rev. and Mrs. Argenbright OF
Deavertown recently were guests at
the A. c. Warren home.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26
AGRICULTURE NEWS NOTES
(By H. f. Eaton, County Agent)
Warning To Farmers


1 There is an usually large amount
of low grade agricultural seeds be-
ing sold in Ohio this year. In most
cases the dealers comply with the
law as to labelling, purity and ger
mination, but many buyers never
read the analysis tags, buying at
! price alone. 1t is very important to
read the analysis tags and note care
fully the purity and noxious weed
content, as well as the termination
test, and especially the date of the
termination test
With farmers trying to buy at re-
! duced prices this spring, more than
in any recent years, it creates a CON
dition for the seed 'scalpers" to
work to advantage in ADVERTISING
low prices. For instance, a lot of
seed sold at $3.50 per bushel, in
Ohio labeled red clover seed mix
ture: pure seed 73.76%; crop seed
20. "a %-alsike, timothy, sweet
| clover; insert matter 3.40eo; weed
seed 2.30 %o-buckhorn, dock, fox
tail, red sorrel termination S5% %.
Upon examination in the state seed
laboratory this seed was found as
follows: Pure red clover seed 30
500; sweet clover 61.65eo; insert
matter 5.1O%; weed seed 375@o-
wild carrot, dock, curled leaf, blank
seeded plantain, buckhorn; germi-
nation red clover 75.5@o; sweet clo-
yer 46% %.
grow in this supposedly red clover
seed sold at $3.50 per bushel, was
1870 of 1870 of 60 lbs. or 1926 lb.
of red clover which at the low price
of $3.50 per bushel actually cost
the farmer at the rate of $3S.40 per
bushel for the red clover and 17.19
lb. of viable sweet clover thrown in,
in addition to 2 IA lbs. of noXious
weed seed, the damage from which
will no doubt be much greater than
the worth of the seed, especially in
the years to come.
New All Sheep Club Organizes
Marion township, one of the lead
ing sheep townships in the county,
now possesses new pure bred
sheep club. Membership in the
club is as follows: Frank and Ray
mond Hambel, Dorothy, Alice, Isabel
and George Newburn, Mary Edith
Bowman, yerdun Kirkbride. Blaine
Hart, Ray Mendenhall and Herbert
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-26
Manchester Grange

Manchester grange met in regular
session March IA, with Miner Fow-
Ter Master pro tenn. After attending
to business matters, the literary
program was rendered. Lettle NC
Donald was appointed legislative
agent to meet with delegates from
other oranges of the county at Nc
Connelsville, Saturday March 21, at
/ O'Clock, to discuss matters pertain
ing to the enactment of some laws
now being considered.
Following is the program for
March 28 Roll call, little duties
often neglect; What effect in the
value of real estate has the improv-
ed road, Miner Fowler; Needs of
our township roads, Ross Marshall;
Is the $4,000 mile road pay
ing investment, Henry Combs; mu-
sic; Ways of improving our meadows
and pastures, VIM. Hastings; Some
good books to read, Maggie Combs !;
readings, Nora Fowler, Emma Bell,
Laura Hastings and Bertha Can
non.-Lettie Mcdonald, Lecturer.