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FOR SALE OR TRADE One reps-
Will consider bankable paper or work!
horses or any aged mules. Z7-30p
FOR SALE Alliance property, well
located with pood income. Free of all
incumbrance. Will sell reasonable.'or
trade for ranch property within rea
sonable distance of Alliance. See F.
McCOY, at 928 Laramie Ave. 16-tf
FOR SALE Cash register worth $100,
for quick sale priced at $40: large
sire causage grinder and lard press,
cheaD if taken at once. See F. E. .
MELVIN, 603 Box Butte Ave. ,26-p
FOR SALE Two good milch cows.'
Pall of Hohrnslrn T.nnrl -i(Tiro or BP
G. G. Nelson on Wells place. 23-2Gp !
COLUMBIA HATCHERY.
P. 0. Box 1102, Denver, Colo.
We can supply you with any quan
tity of Baby Chicks. Capacity 10,00f
weekly. 17 varieties. Live deliverj
guaranteed. Parcel Post prepaid
Write for prices and full particulars.
19-tr
FOR SALE Registered Herefords.
Chief Repeater at head of herd. Six
horned and two polled bulls; some
polled heifers; ages ten months to two
years. Place one mile south of Girard.
Write H. O. CRANE, Hemingford, Ne
braska. 17-27
FOR SALE Good used cars. A. H.
JONES Co., 3rd and Cheyenne, tf
FOR RENT
FOR RENT Roomy housekeeping
apartment, furnished. Reasonable
rent. Phone 654. 23-tf
FOR RENT Splendid reom. Mrs.
Oscar O'Bannon. 20-tf
WANTED
WANTED Housework; elderly fam
ily preferred; have one more week in
present position. Phone 818F15. 27-8
WANTED Family washings, 222
Toluca. 26-27
WANTED To buy from two to five
dozen Buff Orpington pullets: send
price in first letter. W. A. LESTER,
G23 East 1st St., Casper, Wyo. 25-26p
LOST
LOST Between Bones and McVick
er8. man's new black pocket book
containing $19.75 in bills and silver.
Finder return to Herald Office. 25-tf
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate of Nellie M. Covalt, deceased,
In County Court of Box Butte County,
Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, ss: Credi
tors of said estate will take notice that
the time limited for presentation and
filing of claims against said estate is
June 19th, 1922, and for payment of
debts is February 8th, 1923; that I
wUl sit at the county court room in
said county, on June 20th, 1922, at two
o'clock P. M. to receive, examine, hear,
allow, or adjust all claims and objec
tions duly filed.
Dated February Rth, 101:2.
IRA E. TASFT.
(Seal) Comity Judge
BURTON & REDDISH, Attys.
Feb.l0-Marchl0-inc.
NOTICE OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE
SALE.
Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of a chattel mortgage! dated Aug
vst 8, 1921 and duly filed in the office
of the County Clerk of Box Butte
County, Nebraska on August 17, 1921
and evecuted by C. C. Whitnack and
R. E. Bessey to A. H. Jones Company,
a corporation, to secure the payment
of $325.00 with interest at ten per
cent per annum upon which there is
now due the sum of $236.96, default
having been made in the payment f
said sum and no su't or other proceed
ing at law having been instituted to
recover said debt or any part thoreof,
we will sell the property therein de
scribed, to-wit: one Ford Touring Car
No. 3,209,347 with winter top at pub
lic auction at the northwest corner cf
the intersection of Third Street and
Cheyenne Avenue in the city of Alli
ance, Box Butte County, Nebraska, tin
March 1, 1922 at 2 o'clock p. in.
Dated February 7. 1922.
A. H JONES COMPANY,
A Corporation, Mortgagee.
BOYD. METZ & MEYER, Attorneys.
Feb.7-Feb.28-Inc
Wanted to Buy Your
fat hogs or ship them on
commission. O'Bannon
& Neuswanger. 17-tf
That Anker-Holth Cream Separator
at Rhein's is a revelation. 26-27
There is a type of financier now
who was a profiteer until he grabbed
off so much that he could afford to be
honest.
How can those people who are now
seeing "the first robin of spring" be
certain that it is not the last robin of
autumn?
Papering a house in Russia ia sot
nineaalve. One can buy 110,000 paper
Ever Ever
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Ooarrtital liM. a Ta. Wbwiw Sindieata. 1m.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
Miss Lola Lala'iy, whom her vaude
ville partner, Al Delano, "Stormy
King" with the "Forty Thieves Corn-
any, extravaganza artists, calls "a
ittle flirt and a little devil." have
quarreled because Lola has been flirt
ing with the stage manager, Mr.
Charles Lee. Just a night or two ago,
Lola, while engaged in making eyes at
Lee, has been a fraction of an inch
slow in throwing Al the bar for his
daredevil leap. Al has told her of the
beauties of the sleepy little town of
Adalai, and urged her to stay there
with him always. He has a friend
there, Ben Collings, mayor and big
man, who will help him get a start.
Lola, however, isn't attracted by the
opportunity to spend her life in the
pretty little town, and, in order to get
on in her profession encourages Lee to
make love to her, with splendid suc
cess. At the Adalai performance, Lola is
again careless in throwing the bar to
Al and he falls from the springboard
in the wings and breaks his back. In
an agony of remorse, Lola marries Al,
and the two stay in the little town,
despite Lee's urging for her to leave
h'm and come with the show. Mayor
Ben is a real friend, and has taken a
great interest in the invalid "Storm
King," and his wife.
The box-like bedroom, hedged in be
tween the kitchen and front room,
might have been the builder's after
thought. A white pine bed and white
nine table, Improvised to a dressing
stand, left an area between them the
size of .i door mat. Jammed between
the bed and the wall, a black galva
nized trunk crowded out the room's
sole aisle.
The drone of mid-afternoon de
scended. A million motes swam In a
bar of sunshine which slanted
through the windows and lay across
the black trunk. The two-ten accom
modation pulled out of the nearby sta
tion with a great clanging and after a
time whistled back twice from out over
the greenlike prairie. A child throb
bing with freedom rattled his lunch
bucket along the picket fence.
Mrs. Delano tidied the dressing
stand top and. with a handkerchief
rubbed a speck from the mirror until
It squeaked. Then she fumbled In a
drawer among a Utter of keys, un
hooked a small one from its ring and,
spreading herself beside the trunk In
the cross-limbed attitude of a shah,
flung open the lid.
The musty odors of the theater.
hloh are as Ingratiating as the fumes
of Circe's cup, rose Immediately like
steam. Her Hps parted and she delved.
A red gold wig of spring-tight curls
lay first and beside It a Pierrette's
pointed Yap, crushed and soiled anil
with two black pom-poms dangling by
a thread. Farther down a crumpled
rag of Pierrette's dress, pom-poms also
dangling, lay crushed beneath a
Jeweled crown. Next a make-up box,
daubed over with many colors, ex
uded the grease paint sceut of a
thousnnd memories.
Some cotton daisies gazed up at her
with Innocept eyes from the bottom
of a battered pasteboty d box. She lift
ed one and held It against her hair,
her throat throbbing. She even
strained over, still on her knees, to
gazo Into the little mirror, the daisy
held at a cocky angle above her left
ear. Suddenly she danced to her feet,
hopped about the tiny floor space In
the line frenzy of unhooking her dress
up the back. Reflected In the mirror,
her face could scarcely contain one
expression for breaking Into smiles,
quirks, flushes. She then pinned the
cotton dulsy above her left eur and
like a flash slipped Into the ballet
dress of captivating Pierrette, her
arms outstretched In a well-remembered
attitude of the dance and the
sap of spring rising In her veins.
It was as If something cheeped with
in her and her heurt took flight, soar
ing backward through resilient time
and space into yesterdays. Fatigue
vanished as rage before Abracadabra
and Oh-la-la was her song.
"Oh-h-hh Lo-o !"
She paused, poised on her toes, her
arms tlung in a circle over her head
and the quick color draining out of her
face paused in this tableau vlvunt as
if caught In a paralysis.
"Lo-o !"
For a frozen Instant she glanced
about her, dragged ut the bed covering
aa a cloak for her nncry, but it clung
to its moorings and. abandoning It In
her frenzy, she burst through the
door Into the darkened front room.
"All" She caught at his hand which
lay atop the rug. It was limp and
strangely cold.
a a
At six o'clock Adalai finished Its
day with a bleating of factory whistle
and a sonorous booming of the First
Presbyterian chimes. Main street
closed Its shop doors and white arc
lights sprang out before twa claesMto.
THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 281922.
Ice Cream parlor and the Red Trunk
Five and Ten-cent store open eve
rings. At six-ten the Prairie Flyer thun
dered Into the station, with n row of
porters swaying on lt n-ah steps,
stools In hand. Beside the station.
Frank Gill's All-Mght lunch room
placed a dish of fried halibut and a
platter of red chopped meat, sur
mounted with a circle of onion, on Its
open air counter.
The "Forty Thieves" theatrical
troupe rallied round to a man.
At seven-thirty grilling arc-lights
sprang out before the Opera house
and at that same moment Mr. Charley
Lee bounded up the front steps of a
cottage on the hill. A light burned
through a crack In the blind and
through that same crack he could see
the linnd painted swinging lamp burn
ing softly.
He knocked, then stood for a mo
ment In the cocked attitude of listen
ing, his bend Inclined, and four
knuckles poised. Knocked again and
the door swung back on silent binges
and In the wavering brown shadows
a small black figure peered outwurd.
"LoP
"Wh who "
Her hand flew to her breast and lay
there white against black!
"Who"
"Don't you know me, klddo? It's
me j howdy, Lo. Gee, you look so
little and black. I couldn't see you
first. Don't you know me, klddo? It's
rae."
"Lee!" ' '"T'V it ': '?
"That's me."
"If It ain't Lee I Come In, Lee!"
Her voice was faint as a tinkling bell.
He entered, exhaling loudly and
with a great ado of rubbing his bunds
together In a dry wash.
"Well well well!"
"I come right In, Lee. Gee. gee,
but you're a sight for sore eyes. How's
things? The girls? Sit down In that
rocker, Lee. Here, lemme take your
stick. I gee, ain't you a sight for
sore eyes. Gee I"
She was fluttering and full of small
ways. Dragged the rocker a bit farth
er beneath the swinging lamp; leaned
his slender cane In a corner; lowered
a shade. Pink, as delicate as peach
bloom, rose In her wnn little face.
"Sit down, Lee. I sure, 1 knew
the show was playing Adalai tonight,
but but gee, you look right slick.
Lee. I low's the show how's the
gang?"
He seated himself rather gingerly
on the edge of the seat, the rocker
tilting forward with the weight of his
body, his shoes firmly planted and his
hat cocked backward.
"So this Is the home-sweet-home you
wrote the girls about, Is it? Some
neat little shack I Some neat little
rest cure l"
He glanced about with quick ap
praisal, then back to her rose-ptnk
face.
"Some little rest cure."
"It It's such a sight now after-
after '
Her voice died In her throat and she
glanced away from him.
He leaned forward, his own voice
carefully shrouded in a croaking
whisper.
"How is he, Lo? Won't he ever
walk? Is he nailed for good?"
"Oh, Lee, don't you know "
"I beat It while the company was In
Hue for wardrobe so you wouldu't
think the gang was forgetting. We
got In Just In time for make-up and
we're out for Principle on the 'leven
seven. The girls squeuled for time to
come and see you both, but It's all
we can do to run the show off and
beat It out on the 'leven-seven. Is he
nailed for good?"
Teurs ruined down her cheeks and
splashed to her black dress.
"Don't you know, I.e? Ain't you
heard? Don't you know?"
"Know what?"
He could see her shoulders heav
ing. "A a week ago today, Lee, he
he last Monday, I "
A flash of understanding shocked
him halfway to his feet and his hand
shot to his hat retlexly.
"Blinked I Aw, now whatta whatta
you know about that? Ain't I the
dub? Sure, Lo, we never beard.
Blinked! Aw Aw, Lol Poor guy I
Poor guy !"
He was strangely Inarticulate and
they sat for a uiomeiit in a lead
heavy silence.
Presently she raised her tear
daubed face.
"He was game through up up to
the end. Lee. It It came so sudden
like I he never let us know but he
must have known he knew all the
time but but he never let out a
complaint or let u know he knew.
He was the real stuff, Lee, If If ever
a fellow was. lie was! He. was!"
He twirled his hat.
"lie was was the real thing, Lee,
!ie "
"You was, too, klddo. Nobody con
say you didn't stick. And It wasn't
your fault, neither. Al was always a
great one for keeping his own props
und the next ili.y Ed found there was
a screw gone from tils springboard.
It wasn't your fuult; the gang all
wiows that."
Her teurs welled afresh.
"No, no, no. He wus always saving
that. toe. But yon can't tell roe noth
ing about that. Nobody can. Nobody
cVr."
"It was a grand thing you done, Lo.
You oughtta seen the space we got
about it We had a headline In every
town this side of Oklahoma City. It'll
be good press stuff for the future, Lo.
Sticking to a guy like that when
when he was sailed, and marrying
him lo a hospital. Some press stuff
Uatl"
It's fast like Ben says ahaot him.
wss too good to live."
"Naw, naw, quit crying, Lo. Cry
ing ain't going to help. P.rlneys never
salted down anybody's troubles."
She dried her eyes.
"Ain't I the silly? Only, when I
get started about Mm and what he
was ai.d all I I just can't keep 'em
"Blinked I Aw, Now, Whatta Whatta
You Know About That!"
back. Lemme get you some cider, Lee.
Ben sent us up the press and we
made It right here ourselves. Lemme
get you some."
"No, I gotta make a dash for the
opry house. We gotta ring up prompt
If we wauna make the 'leven-seven
getaway."
"How's the girls and all of them,
Lee? Gee, ain't we sat here winter
night after winter night and talked
about you all ! We used to follow the
route '1st snowy evenings and laff and
Ian thinking about the girls kicking
and nagging among themselves about
the hotels and tanks."
"That gang would kick In a canoe.
I nearly canned them all In Lawrence
vllle, Kansas. We close In Sedalla
next Sa.urday, and there ain't ten of
them would get another Job out of me
with a pair of pinchers. Mack's meet
ing me In Trenton, and then I hike
back to the big town with him."
"Mack !"
"Yes, I told yon I'd land that Am
sterdam Roof show of his, didn't I?" ,
"Broadway for sure, Lee! Say,
you'll be giving Belasco lessons next."
He ran a finger along the top of
his tall collar.
"I'm going to put on the biggest girl
show that town ever seen."
"Gee, but but I'm glad for you,
Lee."
He glanced at her sldewlse.
"What you going to do, sister
stick around this dump?"
"I I dunno."
"Fine place for a murder or a deaf
and dumb school."
"It It ain't so bnd, Lee, when you
get used to It; the neighbors and
friends they "
"M-m-m-m. Live spot for a klddo
with your face."
"It ain't like I was without any
friends, Lee. There's Ben and "
"Ben?"
"You know, Al's friend."
"The guy that owns the town?"
"Yeh, he owns this cottage and
everything else, Lee. We we don't
even pay rent for It. He's the fellow
that gave us the chair you're sitting
on and the lamp you're seeing with.
There never wus a friend like him,
l.ee. Where would the money have
come from all the months after the op
erations and all tf If he hadn't been
sent to help us Just like out of heaven,
(rlvtn and glvln' us so we wouldn't
know it. Helpln' us so we couldn't
see It, keeping up Al's nerve, helpln'
him to- "
"Ben Collings?"
"Yeh. Gee, don't I wish you could
meet him, Lee. After the aldermen's
meeting tonight he'll be stopping In.
I Just wish you could see him for your
self, Lee. honest I do. You never met
a fellow like htm, honest, you never
did."
He regarded her through a film of
abstraction as If her words only half
filtered to him. Ills glance was for
her white throat where It rose above
the black and the limber easy line of
her silhouette.
"Honest, Lo, you're better looking.
Kind of filled out and toned down a
bit. Country air, eh? Some little
looker 1"
"Aw, Lee."
He shifted his cold cigar.
"Guess you'll be pulling up stakes
around here pretty soon, eh?"
"I why, I dunno, Lee."
"There ain't many girl-shows being
booked for summer. Me and Mack's
got the first grab at 'em, too."
"The Amsterdam Roof Is sure the
lwellest on Broadway. Lee."
"You think I forgot n.y promise
to you, klddo, iy)w -now that you'rt
out In the swim again, don't you? Too
think I've forgot?"
"What?"
"You think I forgot that I prom
ised you last fall that there's a forty-dollar
Job waiting for you In that
show."
She grasped the arms of her chair.
"Oh. Lee. 1 "
"You on?"
"I oh I I gotta stick around here
for awhile, Lee. 81nce everything hap
pened, It ft just seems Uk I cant
it's Just like my brain hurts."
"All you got to do is to say the
word, klddo, and you can tag on the
'leven-seven tonight with the show and
transportation back to New York
thrown In."
"Lee I"
"That's the kind of a sport I am.
You don't wanna hang around here
llvln' off this guy, do you, or may-
"Lee !"
"The house Is his. ain't It? You said
so yourself. It's the easiest getaway
you can make, klddo; leven-seven to
night." "No, no, Lee, I I can't."
He made a grandiose bow.
"Excuse met Excuse me and no
harm meant. Far be It from me to In
terfere between any lady and her gen
tlemen friends. Excuse me, klddo, and
no harm meant."
She was on her feet and quivering.
"You I You I Ain't you ashamed,
you? A a boy like Ben. You and
your rotten crowd with your rotten
thoughts. Gawd, I dare you to stop
In and see for yourself when he stops
In here for a minute tonight that
there's something besides rottenness In
this world, that there are men can
live In this world without wallowing
In the mud. Y'ou whatta you and
your gang know about boys like Ben?
You ftnd your kind don't know I"
"It's soft fur you, klddo. I ain't
blaming yoa."
"Y'ou and your gang! Gee, If you
was Invited to a saint's supper, you'd
wbUii your overcoat. Whatta you all
know about a man who can look at
the sun without squinting, you and
your gang?"
He rose, expostulating:
"Gee, ain't you a little spitfire! Get
ting me wrong like that. I never said
nothing against him. Sure he's a real
guy. I seen him once with Al, a
great big fellow with a mouth full
of teeth and a smile as catching as
measles. Say, if this way of going
on suits you, klddo, Uawd knows it
ain't my rest cure you're taking. Sure,
I remember the fellow, and his five
inch smile."
"Smile I Gee. right after the paral
ysis set In and I was stark raving
crazy with the scare, it was that smile
steered and "
"Sure, sure. Say, all of this ain't
none of my butt-In."
Ills Incertitude might have been a
cabal of opinion Inveighed against her.
A wall cf fog rose up sheer, dimming
her eyex
"I honest, you got me so upset
so upset I I Just don't know what to
do I dunno. You could make a ruler
look crooked you and your your
crooked way of tblnklu'."
"I ain't butting in no more, klddo.
All I done was to throw out a friendly
hint, but the first time I opened my
mouth I got my foot In It."
"No, no, Lee; I didn't mean noth
ing." He would not be placated, his lips
quirking curiously upward.
"Let a fellow like me try to do a
gtrl a turn aad watch hlin gat stung
every time."
She held out an arm, faintly re
monstratlve. "But, Lee. you you got me so upset
it it all come so sudden-llke. Sure I
gotta get out and hustle, sure I only
I I can't catch the leven-seven no
more tonight, Lee. Sure, you're right.
I I can't stay living off him like this.
Sure I gotta hustle, but I not so soon 1
Not so atl of a sudden."
He was stayed, but sullen.
"Say. you ain't doing me no favor.
But your luggage Is all on you. ain't
It? Didn't you say so yourself noth
ing here ain't yours?"
"Y-yes." ;
"Then what's hurting?"
"I I'm all out of step, too, Lee."
He turned to her, conciliatory.
"But you ain't lost your looks, klddo.
I got to hand It to you there. You
ain't lost your looks."
"I couldn't go without telling hira
Ben."
"Tell him you're on your Job again
like a self-respect 'ng girl, and he'll
think more of you."
"But sometimes It's nearly twelve
when he passes from the Monday
night meetings and and the train's off
at 'leven-seven."
"Write him. Gee, a fellow don't
need a brick opry house to fall on
him. But don't let me butt In, If "
"I'm all out of step. Lee."
But lights were burning In her eyes.
He smiled down at her and patted
her shoulder.
J!You're all right. Lvr. JRutwalt
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NOTICE OF PETITION.
Estate of Frank E. Reddish, De
ceased, in County Court of Box Butte
County, Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons interested in said estate, take
notice, that a petition has been filed
for the appointment of Robert O. Red
dish and Howard E. Reddish, as Ad
ministrators of said estate, which has
been set for hearing herein, on March
8th, 1922, at 10 o'clock A. M.
Dated February 14th, 1922.
IRA E. TASH,
(Seal) County Judge
Feb.l4-March7-Ine.
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