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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-07-09
TUCKERDALE w. Nj. u. HELD
MEETING LAST FRIDAY

The w. M. U. of the Tucker
dale Baptist church met at the
home of Mrs. F. B. Tucker last
Friday when plans were discuss
ed for the building program for
the church. The society is max:
ing an attractive quilt for which
they are collecting ten cents per
name to be worked on the quilt,
in the patriotic colors of red,
white and blue.
The Tuckerdale w. M. U. was
organized by the w. M. U. of the
,Phenix Baptist church. The Of
ficers are: Mrs. Lester Eller, ures-
ident; Mrs. M. D. Hart, clerk;
Mrs. F. B. Tucker, treasurer.
The next meeting will be-. held
at the church, Saturday after the
regular meeting time, at 200 P
M.
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Carter, Lansing, treatment; w. N.
Dolinger, Grassy Creek, operative;
baby Joseph c. Francis, Helton,
treatment; Mrs. Robert Ashby and
infant, Warrnesville; Mrs. Thomas
Scott and infant, Jefferson; Elmer
r we, Tuckerdale, treatment;
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"a BREAK Al @ 0' I!;)!.| !
W1U ( N RNE7 Il
NM e: U.s., sGt1es

toned like"
Cali right. When did this trav-
cling salesman leave the hotel?"
Most soon's she did"
Jerry fought down an unmanly
emotion.
with her, do you mean?"
ooh, MOI" The waitress tossed
her head.
"But he followed herr"
Gle went up the road, same's
she done. But not foller'n her"
This was getting better.
'How do you know that?"
"Cause know her."
Loyalty above logic, perhaps,
but none the less satisfactory.
about three o'clock, I sup
pose?"
"Someveres there"
Listen" Glidden pulled at a
pocket. ''That all you know a.
bout this afternoon" Another
dollar gone.
The waitress glanced at her
palms new contents and blushed
scarlet. Nothing can better de-
scribe the isolation of Ironburg
than the mere statement that the
local hotel employees were still
on distant terms with tips.
well, there's just this, an I
guess I oughtn't fer to've done it..
But fore he started out-Mr.
Twombley, I mean-he asst me
who you was an what fer you
was here, an I toll him I didn't
know missing, but how you'd asst
me yet about them old dead
Twombleys an said-you know
you did when you heard his name
you used to know Twombley
in Troy"
Glidden studied the ceiling.
"You talk too much. Still, it's a
common disease. So do I. Keep
the money"
She was going to! 'I'm that
sorry eff I told him anysing I had
MT ought have"
did you tell him I showed
this Twombley interest entirely
after he came into the hotel?"
''Why, that's the way it was"
It wasn't. It was half other
wise. But he wouldn't correct
her mistake for worlds.
tits all right, Miss-whatever
your name is. Not guilty, but
don't do it again, see?"
She nodded fervent vows of o.
bedience.
They might still laugh at him in
the office; but he was going to
write them the facts ascertained
so far.
He went into the public room
and wrote. The light was bad, his
fountain-pen needed filling, and
the quality of host Hasler's free
ink wasn't hundred plus. More
over, as he wrote, his array of
FACTS" began to look like string
of broken condolences pieced out
by unsupported guesses.
Yet he had to unburden him
self. He tore up his failures; he
wrote Mcdowell:
Dear Mart:
Thanks. I'll not forget, but
you'll have to wait while. That
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Partially releasing him she
led him across the road, where
low grassy; bank provided a, rest
ing place.
''it down here, I'm going to
make you talk" ~
what" he inquired, do you
want me to tell you"
"The truth, if you know how"
He mustn't. He guessed too
little of it, and until he had guess
ed more, he owed it to his chanc-
es with the P. L. I. to keep what
he did guess from her, however
innocent she undoubtedly was.
"No, I mustn't" he said.
Strategically, it had been bet
ter to invent a subterfuge. Quick
ly she bent toward him. BY the
starlight, he saw her brows con-
tract. It was she who now sus-
pected.
"What's that?" Her voice fell
several notes in the scale. why
mustn't you?"
"I've-Well, I've got other PEG
pie to think about. I'm only an
agent, and not real one"
Audibly she took breath. $50
that's it. That's why you were
so interested in the name OF
Twombley! Just what were you
doing out at the mine today? And
why did you take trouble to look
up whether it could be drained
or not?"
But here was relief; here he
could follow her! He laughed
aloud in his emancipation. "Why
do you suppose-except because
it was yours? AS for that, what's
YOUR interest in Twombley?"
In his turn, Jerry won. The
readiest of tears may be some
times suspect. But there is no
counterfeiting VIII o e hearted
laughter. She echoed him with
that throaty laughter of hers.
"Oh," she admitted, maybe I'm
silly. I said I'd never have any
thing to do with Break O'Day
Iron. But I guess it's in my
blood. Here I've been for two
or three years dealing in sugar
and canned goods-in five and
ten dollar accounts; is it any mar
vel if go off my head when
somebody talks to me. in land
and thousands?"
Jerry sat bold upright. docs
Twombley?"
She nodded.
"You didn't know him before?''
"Never. And now he wants to
buy all that waste land from me
around the old mine. Says he
represents a syndicate with pa
tent process to make such land
arabic"
"He-" Jerry could have sung
to the stars. ''He bids for that?
And that includes the mine? I'll
bet you anything you like it
does!"
NATURALLY it does. But of
course the mine itself's no good.
I only mentioned it to you because
if it hadn't been where it is, I'd
never have owned the land a
round it. I'm not a bit sentiment
tai about it; it's brought enough
bad luck to my family; but I do
think that now if it indirectly"
Glidden made a rude interrupt
ton.
"And there's where our fifty
thou is going!"
"Your what?"
Nothing"
''He only offered me five thou
sand-Twombley did. But that's
a lot more than it's worth"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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SEVERAL PATIENTS
IN ASHE HOSPITAL


Patients now in the Ashe county
hospital include Wayne Hartsog,
Clifton, treatment; Earl Snyder,
Tamerac, operative; Ebert Nc
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CHAPTER TX
Synopsis

A man identified as Joseph
Slim is found drowned in the
Hudson river near Albany, N. Y.
Slim was insured by the PrOtec-
tive Life Insurance company, and
his beneficiary is a man named B.
B. TwOmbley who lives in Troy.
The cOmpany's Albany agent,
Carlin, identifies the body, and
the insurance money is paid to
TWOmbley. But Jerry Glidden,
suSpecting that Slim was murder
ed, has gone to IrOnburg, a little
mining town in Pennsylvania, to
see an "Angela Slinn." She turns
out to be an ugly recluse of a
woman who lives in a shack near
the abandoned "Break O'Day"
iron mine. She denies knowing
Joseph Slim. Rose Walker,
granddaughter Of the owner of
the mine, runs the local store and
post office. When a man regist-
ers at the hotel as B. b. Twombley
of Portland, Maine, Jerry wires
Mart Mcdowell at Troy for in
formation about Twombley. He
sees Twombley talking to Rose,
and later he sees him again at
Angela'S shack He returns to
the post office for the reply to
his wire, which confirms his
bunch that this Twombley is
Sims beneficiary. AS he looks
up after reading the telegram, he
sees Angela Slim watching him
from the doorway. TwOmbley,
however, has not yet returned
when Jerry sat down to dinner
alone in the hotel dining room.
With the second cup of alleged
coffee, possible explanation oc-
CURED to the solitary diner. Jerry
asked the waitress for Roses ad-
dress.
She smiled knowingly. LAS
house on your left
Between here and that old
mine?"
''Yeh. All the strange gents as
comes here asts where she lives.
But it's no goot; Miss Rose don't
take up Wis nopody. She amt
soft, she amt"
Gidden heartily agreed. But
he wondered if Twombley hadn't,
anyhow, called there on his way
back from Angles. Jerry re-
membered the house, a neat one,
fronted by lawn and flower gar
den.
what time did Mr.. Twombley
leave the hotel this afternoon"
''This after? Why, him and
Miss Rose wos on the porch to-
gesser for a while and then :.
But they was taikin" business,
Mr.. Glidden. Missing else, they
wasn't"
what makes you think that?"
The waitress flushed.
"Cause I know Miss Rose" she
loyalty protested, land cause
she less readily concluded-"I
had to pass close to 'em, couple
O times, an I heard dollars men
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The Summer looks out from her
brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.
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Robert Reeves, Grassy Greek.
operative; Mrs. Ruby Goodman.
Patrick, operative.
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birds trying to get something for
nothing, and I'm trying to get
something for something. If I
win, there'll be beat for you.
But don't spill line till I wire
again.
Yours truly,
Jerry"
Not what he had meant to do.
Not half what he wanted to say.
But he was afraid that, if he
wrote the Office, stupid Steinhardt
would make some pacifistic move
calculated to drive the quarry to
cover, while Lightner laughed
and he was afraid, too, that, ad-
dressed to Mcdowell, a full mar
rative of existing suspicious might
tempt the temporary journalist
into too precipitate print. The
result he stamped. He addressed
it.
''Mr. Twombley not back yet,
Mr.. Hassler?"
mo, he amt, an I'm now be-
ginnin' to git some worriet my
self"
I'm going for a stroll before !
turn in. I'll keep an eye open.
Where's the nearest mail box?"
"Ain't but one. Offer there on
the porch post of the store"
Thither Jerry went. The moon
hadn't yet risen, but there were
many stars. He found the box
dropped his report into it.
Hello, Jerryw said knocking
voice near by.
"Hello!"
That return to her greeting
leaped forth spontaneously; then
he bit his upper lip. Rose was
leaning out of a window, her
arms extended or seizure of its
shutters; an appealing pose for
a painting. Jerry wished with all
his heart that he did not mis-
trust her part in whatever plot
Twombley was pursuing.
I'm just shutting up shop for
the night" she said.
Jerry'ss regard was a gaze as
answering as his emotion would
permit.
"How did you get hold of my
first name?"
There's a register even in l.
ronburg's hotel"
eyes, heard you'd been there"
His tone betrayed him. Her
face clouded.
What of it?"
Well, what? How could his
rights extend to interference with
her actions? He owed her his
life and was duly grateful. Yet,
like most people in the wrong,
Jerry became belligerent.
what were you talking to that
man Twombley about?"
"Business."
''What businesS?"
mime"
She banked those shutters. Jer-
ry knew that, if his doubts were
justified, he had prematurely
shown them-supposing Twomb-
ley, or perhaps Angela, hadn't
already revealed them. On the
other hand, if they weren't justi-
fled, he had merely increased the
girls annoyance with him. He
ought to 90 but he wanted to
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opened. She stood at it with that
smile of the modern young wo-
man which, impudenltly trans
forms an insult, into a peace Of
fering. ,
you're still here? It was nice
of you to wait. Now you may
walk as far as my house with me.
They walked under the stars,
up the silver ribbon of the turn
pike. There was no other person
promenading Ironburg's sole
thoroughfare. Woodland scents
fell sweetly from the hills. .
Something inside Jerry babe
him abandon his sulking. He
fought it. Anyhow, she would
have to speak first.
Silence.
She would have to!
The village possessed no street.
lamps, and most of its houses
were dark. Through the fan
light above the entrance to one
of them, however, a tardy luster
showed, and when these strollers
reached it, the girl seized his
shoulders and brought him. about
so that he had to look her in the
face.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"That's what I want to find
out" she answered. "And if
you won't tell me, I've got to
look for it."
She studied him as she would
some staple of her stores wares
gone oddly wrong.
Perhaps it was this apparent
sincereity-perhaps her touch on
his shoulders-but Immediately
his doubts fell away. He was
ashamed of them! An unreason-
able change of front-complete,
though.
AS he returned her level look,
he could not a minute longer mis-
trust her.
That frank face! Surely its
dark eyes hid nothing discredit-
able. The kindly mockery of its
smile could be directed only a.
gainst his disordered fancies.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Eum Of Gle
Elum visited in Kennewick with
friends and relatives last Sunday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Mayor Urges Cooperation
With Poppy Sale Effort

Full support and cooperation of
the public in the annual Poppy Day
sale here next Saturday is request
ed by Mayor A. @. Anon in a proc
lamation.
Whereas: The American Legion
Auxiliary and the Veterans of For
eign Wars have annually conducted
q poppy sale commemorating the
heroism Of our World War heroes,
and . ...-..-n. f ..s.. @.~. 80
Whereas: Proceeds from the sale
Of the little red flowers is used for
the relief Of disabled veterans and
their families, and 9
Whereas: Honorable Arthur B.
Langlie, governor of the State Of
washington, has proclaimed this
as the date for the annual Poppy
Day sale. --~,
Now, Therefore, Alfred g. Anon,
mayor of Kennewck, do urge full
support and cooperation Of the pub
lie in buying peoples and thus carry
ing out the objectives of the above
organizations. s.. e.... .
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
TOShOw How to
Use Less Sugar

Food Preservation with Less Su-
gar" will be the topic of the demon
stration to be given Thursday, May
%, at 1870 in the AAA assembly
room above the J. c. Penney store.
Canning, freezing and drying
foods will be demonstrated and dis
cuSsed. Bulletins will be distributed
TO homemakers for further helps in
carrying out the very important
task of adequate home storage Of
food for the year. The present crisis
makes 1t imperative that home
makers preserve adequate food sup
plies and waste nothing.
The Kennewick Nutrition Com
mittee, under the Craftsmanship of
Mrs. p. o. Stone, is sponsoring the
demonstration TO be given by Miss
Berry, assistant agent in home econ
omics. "..
Everyone interested is invited to
attend. % l5s "a. H@
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
All Must Have
Ration Cards to
Use Gas June |
Ordinary user limited
to Is gallons per month
register May 2S-29-30

Gas rationing will start in
Washington the first of next month
and the rationing cards will be is
sued May q. % and 30 locally at
the gym of the grade school.
As in other sections. the ration
cards will be Of several different
types. depending upon the use re-
quired of the owners car. A-type
cards will carry five units. each
good for three gallons of gas. This
may be purchased at one time or
on separate occasions. The card
will be good for the entire month
only.
The B-l cards will carry seven
units, emitting the holder to pur-
chase 81 gallons during the month.
3D. cards will carry nine units,
etc up to the x-type which is good
for unlimited amounts during the
month. People who can prove use
are granted such cards, doctors,
nurses, ministers, etc.
The B-type cards will also be
issued to those defense workers who
need transportation of more than
three miles to their work, and for
other legitimate uses.
Everyone who uses gasoline must
have a ration card before he will
be permitted to purchase gas. The
actual rationing will be done by
volunteer women between the
hours OF 10 to IL in the morning
and 2:30 to 9 in the evenings.
No rationing cards will be issued
without car registration certifi-
cate. .-.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Irrigation Institute to
Meet Here i'm December

Because of local housing condi-
ions, the chamber of commerce vot-
ed last week to cancel the invita-
ton to the Washington Irrigation
Institute to meet here for their win
ter session. E. j. Brand. manager
of the Kennewick Irrigation District
who attended the committee meet
ing last week in Grandview re-
ported to the chamber this noon
that the committee had cancelled
the cancellation of the invitation.
The group decided to accept
Kennewick's previous invitation in
spite Of crowded conditions which
might prevail at that time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Only One New Passenger
Tire RatiOned by Board

The local tire rationing board
issued permits last Monday night
to Margaret Fletcher for a new
tire, c. G. Walk got a permit for
a truck tire and the Twin City
Creamery and L. L. Krat7er got
two truck tires each.
J. F. Leasure got a passenger re-
tread, as also Mrs. Fred Markham,
Mrs. Louise Walker, r. @. Mac
nnahon, F. S. Bolton, G, J. Adams,
Clifford Fahnholz, v. G. Booth and
Ed Supplee. Truck retreads were
granted to Ernest Eckstein, Glen
Snyder, "A. 7. Smith and s. G.
Lewrence.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Single Bills

The Roxy theatre has a single
feature 'NCharley's Aunt" coming on
Sunday and Monday of this week.
This is the result of a poll conduct
ed in their foyer as to whether or not
the public wanted single features and
short subjects. The final count ON
this poll was 300 votes for double
features and 2O3 votes for single fea-
lures. Although this Is a second run
picture, the short subjects are of a
first class run. If the single fea-
lures work out, in the future first
run pictures may he obtained part
of the time. ..........r -.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Time Short to
Arrange for Wheat
Storage Facilities
Need rating to secure
materials; must be up
to specifications

Time is short to save a third to a
half of WaShington's wheat crop,
which will be homeless at harvest
unless preparations are begun now,
Fred Wilson, chairman of the Ben
tom County U. S. ID. A. war board
warned this week. *. .-.> 80.
The farmer who does not have
grain bags now, or who does not
have assurance from his elevator OPP
orator that there will be room for
his wheat, has only a few weeks re-
manning in which to provide storage
facilities for his own grain.
These are the things a grower
should do who must build storage
ON the farm:
1. If their project will cost more
than $1,000, they should apply at
once for a project rating on War
Production Board form PD-20O,
which can he obtained from the
county USDA. War Board.
2. Even though the project will
cost less than $1,000, the farmer
should apply for a preference rating
for the purchase of nails. If his u.
|SD.A. War Board cannot supply the
necessary form, he should write to
the War Production Board (226
Henry Building, Seatle) asking for
from Al
8. He should tell his building sup
ply dealer what nails he will need
and make immediate arrangement
to get his lumber in time to start
construction promptly.
Grain storage to be eligible for
government loan must be weather
and rodent proof.
Information about types of stor-
age that will qualify under Com
modify Credit Corporation farm
storage regulations may be obtained
from county Agricultural Adjust
ment Agency committeeman.
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EARLY PAPER

On account of the memorial day
holiday next weekend, the COur-
Ter will be put to bed" day
earlier than usual. Advertisers and
correspondents are requested to
get their copy in to the office
as early as possible on this ac-
count. Stores and business houses
will be closed all day Saturday,
May 80, Memorial Lay. ITO
gram for the day will be in the
hands of the local American Lee
giOn Post.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Golfers to Play in
Intercity Tournament

The annual golf tournament with
Walla Walla will be held Sunday. A
team composed of Twin City play
ers will play with teams from
Waitsburg and Dayton and Walla
Walla, one player from each town
being in each foursome. Kennewick
players will leave Bricks corner at
eight o'clock. Anyone wanting to
enter the tournament, please notify
DR.. P. O..Stone by Saturday night.
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Disabled Veterans
Get Money From.
Sales on Poppy Day
Saturday set for ma
tional veteran benefit !;
need greater this year

Poppies of patriotic remembrance
will bloom in Kennewick on Satur-
day, May %, Mrs. c.. S. Hughes,
poppy chairman of Robt. Ely unit of
the American Legion Auxiliary, an
nounced today.
Every man, woman and child in
the city will be asked to wear a poppy
ON that day in honor of the men
who have given their lives for Am
erica. The peoples will be distribut-
ed by volunteer workers from the
Auxiliary, Camp Fire Girls and
Juniors, and the coins contributed
for them will be used in Legion and
Auxiliary work for the war disabled,
their families and the families of the
dead.
The peoples which will be distrib-
uted here have been made by dis
abled veterans at u. s. Veterans
hospital, Walla Walla:.- Making the
little red flowers has given many
veterans employment during the
winter and spring monhs. The
work IS limited to men receiving
little or no government compensa-
ton and those with families to sup
port. x
Contributions received for the pop
pies on Poppy Day are principal
source of support for the vast well
fare work carried out by the Legion
and Auxiliary among the disabled
men and dependent families. With
the new war adding to Americas list
of war victims, there will be greatly
increased needs for funds during the
coming year.
Poppy Day has been observed by
the Legion and Auxiliary annually
for the past twenty years. With the
nation again at war, the poppy has
new significance this year and will
be worn as symbol of patriotism by
millions of Americans throughout
the country.
More bhan 100000 of the flow
ers have been made by disabled vet
Grams for the Auxiliary, the largest
number since the observance of Pop
py Day was begun twenty years ago.
Orders for peoples from Auxiliary
Units everywhere have been increas-
ed this year in anticipation of great
ly increased demand for the flowers
Of patriotic remembrance.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Big Business

This week has seen the biggest
total of business in the local post
office in its history. Tuesday the
local office wrote a total of $1486 in
money orders and Tuesday this
amount was raised to $2056. Local
retail stores are also reporting an
unprecedented business during the
current week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Man Stricken With Heart
Failure on Highway

The body of man about 20 years
old was found beside the highway
near Campbell's Cabin camp Tues
day night. Deputy Sheriff Harry
Cochran said the man had evil
IDENTIFY died of heart failure. He was
a stranger here and carried no
Identification paper other than an
application for old age pension I'M
der the name of Youst.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21

MIR. and, Mrs. Richard Mouncey
and Miss Jean Trautman of Seat
tie visited Mrs. Mounsey's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Hoadley and sis
ter, Mrs. Martin Garger and fam
lily, over the weekend. Wayne Gar
Der who has been attending the u.
of w. accompanied them home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Campaign Successful

The recent campaign ito pledge
the purchase Of bonds and savings
stamps was "a very effective one, APP
2arently, for the sale of war stamps
and bonds has more than doubled in
the past week. Both the stores, post
office and the local bank report an
exceptionally brisk sale.