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r SNOW-BIRD By L. MAE POOLE. (fiX 12). by McCluro Newspaper Syndicate.) Unrbara Jewell Craven, nllns Hob, Aunt "Bobwa," etc., wus spending the week end with her married slslor In one of the suburbs Just outHlde of Hoh (on. That Is, she slept and ate at Annn'8, but she pent mos.t of her tl.tue tumbling and rollicking with two ador able kiddles, ICtitli Anna, with spun gold curls and two dimpled cheeks and a not-to-bc-mlstnken lisp, who called her Aunt "Uobwa," and Lester, Jr. otherwise "Buster," who called her any thin;: from Auntie to Auntie Hob. When one gels to the "Aunt" stage, although said aunt is far from being a "bachelor girl," one Is very apt to feel Bort of old but not so Barbara I And anyway, who could feel old nt twenty two? As Barbara told her sister. "You know we are only as old as we feel and I'm about eighteen, mostly 1" The "glorious week-end" this time, as you may guess, wns In the midst of coasting; and If one has n good mem oryone Is "mostly eighteen." what more need be said? "Curls outside, please, Teddy Henri" Between punctuations of hugs and kisses Barbara managed toet "Uuf fle" encased In an old blue "Teddy Hear" suit. "Muvver thed," the adorable one be gan "Muvver thed thun'd steal gold out my curls 1" and she shook, her lit tle head. "Hun along, quickly, Buster Aunt Bob will leave you If you don't hurry 1" A chubby little mouth puckered for mother's kiss, and then, he toddled along as fast as his legglned feet would carry him to Aunt Bob, who wns lifting Ituth Anna onto ".Snow bird." Depositing him In the back of "llullle," with the admonition to "hold tight," she climbed the long, smooth hill a couple of minutes' walk from the house. "Oh, Isn't this glorious I" throwing back her head to drink In the clear, crisp air. It made one feel so alive I Barbara was always 100 per cent ajlve In college never missing an outdoor port If possible; her cheeks being her , testimonials. She was as keen for In door sports, too; basket ball and all. "What's the use of living your iI2 years, If you can't live them to the fullest?" she used to chide her room mate, who dldil't care for skating, coasting, etc. they were too strenuous. The first ride down was Just enough to plant pink rosebuds In each of their cheeks, and make wiyr for the gales of laughter to come as each ride grew twlfter and swifter. Once or twice, In turning out for a bump or a rough spot, they all hut landed In a heap, which brought forth excited little gasps and n peal of laughter from tlie pilot. From the living room window Anna watched rather longingly, wishing she had the courage the life to do the hundred and one things Barbara did. And coasting was mich sport! Every few uiliiuteschubby hands would wave uh they Hew past, and she would smile and wave In return; every now and then calling her husband to share In the fun. Not a few pairs of eyes were watch ing behind Inco curtained windows. Some in smiling approval and some not so. "Voting ladles . . . twenty-two years old . . . all college was good fori" .One pnlr of eyes In particular, very deep and' very clear, watched behind a draped window and approved. A! bo, like Anna, wished her same wish cverytlme little squeals of delight and a very healthy laugh were heard. Be sides, lio had cuught a tiny glimpse of n beautiful pnlr of eyes as Barbara time and again made the ascent. "Some sport not afraid of cold tocx and n red nosol" And then, "foolish thought red noses aren't found with cheeks the color of hers. Ileal honest-to-goodness color." Ills heart thump ed a little too fast to bo normal, and a warm little sensation stole over him. We have heard that much abused word "fate" time and eternal but call It what you will. Somewhere, some how, ".Snow-bird" hit a bumii or It 'may have been that Barbara heard, sub-consciously, thnt heart heat be hind the draped wndow. Theodore Waring lie of the clear eyes and deep, homo from the coast after four years of "seeing things," -minus hat or top coat, started the thread of that "something" by picking up n soft bundle In his arms. A bun dle, from which "nature's own" had lied. She looked very white, as led by Anna and with heart skipping sev ernl beats ho entered the houso and placed her on the divan; "Hufllo" and "BiiBter" In their wake, frightened, but very much unhurt. Barbara's Indisposition was of Hhort duration, however, merely n sprained ankle and a sovero shaking up. In fact, It was much too short, according to one "Ted." Not that ho wanted his "lady of tho hill" to bo sick but It served as a good excuso to send red roses every day (roses which mateltod the color of her cheeks before "Snow-bird" went rampaging), and bo uoar her. "Ted's" trip to Europo was Indefin itely postponed and collego missed Unrbnrn. However, this was Barbara's' lost year, ami Europe an Ideal place 'for honeymoons Ono evening as Barbara lay snug gled closo to her hero, she managed to gasp, "Fainting In arms . . . tliat was coasting In arms", And Ted blessed "Snow-bird" devoutly for the mad tlushl TRIXIE'S STORY By AGNES Q. BROGAN (Copyright, 1V20, Wetrn Newspaper Union.) I sat on the doorstep waiting for our guests to arrive, and I was not In an enviable mood, I can tell you. My family had left tho welcoming of the dean and professor In fnther's uni versity to me. And after living with father all my young life, anil knowing his absorption to studious thought Just when you want to talk to him about something elKo or need shoes, maybe, and don't dare broach the (lis- ! turblng subject well, after living witli father, who Is also a profowor, natu rally I hate all others. And so ought Leila; but she doesn't. Leila Is my older sister; father called us char acters out of books and I am Beatrix. But I can get away from that by being Trlxle. Leila can't. She Just has to stay poetical all the time, but It sort of suits her. Only of lute, she's been too drenmy for anything. Almost as bad ns father. When 1 ask a question Leila usually comes to, with a start, us If she'd been ptt to the North Hole or some place "in her thoughts. She attends father's uulverslty. I'm not old enough yet, thank goodness I And after all her experience In a professor's household, Leila started right In having a pro fessor come nfter her evenings to take her places. And you never can tell, when you get to going about wltji a person but that you may marry him even If he's a professor. I never saw Professor Bliss. I knew that she had gone twice to lectures with the denn, but I never dreamed that mere "intellectuality" could so win over my sister. This was the first time that father had Invited the men to dinner. Father was to be detained at the university, and Leila, coming downstairs, pretty and Hushed at the last moment, told me that she must hurry away to see about some little fancy cakes which had not come, and would I plea.se make it pleasant for the dean and professor when they arrived. And as I sat scowling down the pnth, a tall, nice looking man enme walking up It, and I changed my frown to a smile. "How do you do?" I greeted, "I am Trlxle Burrows. Won't you sit down?" Tho nice looking man did sit down on the slop beside me. "Where," he asked, with unflattering promptness "is your sister?" "Oh I she'll be buck In a little while," I told Ii tin, "but If I were you, I wouldn't be so terribly keen about her. It's no use; ,she likes the dean. And when Leila likes a person even n dry old dean, you can't chnngo her." The nice man stared. "Good heaven I" he exclaimed, "how do you know' that?" "She told me," I went on calmly. If Leila is my sister, she has caused quite a few young men misery, and I liked this Professor Bliss right uway, and wanted him to know Just wjiere he stood. "She told you that she liked the dean?" he repeated slowly; It seemed he couldn't get over it. "She said," 1 breathlessly answered, "that the dean was the finest man In the world, but he Just wouldn't go with her pay her attention, you know -mid Professor . Bliss would keep on doing It. How Leila can care for a tiresome dean," I added to com fort him, "Is more tluui I can see.' "Perhaps," the man replied, "the denn may have felt that way about It, himself." "Where did you say your sister had gone?" he asked. "I might run my ear out and bring her back." So 1 told him; and right on his departing heels, as It were, another young fnan In a white flannel suit camo up Ihe .Walk. He bowed. "I am Harry Hllss," tho white-" suited man announced, "nnd I'm sure from the resemblance to your sister that you must be Miss Beatrix. Is Miss Leila at homo?" I snt thero and stared at htm. "Not Professor Bliss?" I asked weakly. '.'You couldn't bo him?" "I have tho courage to be," the young man calmly replied, and he sat down on the step where that o(lier Professor Bliss had been, "What," I asked suddenly, "does Dean Stanford look like aside from tho graying hair at tho temples?" This young man laughed. "Aside from tho slightly graying hnlr," ho replied, "the dean has a thick quantity brushed straight back from a smooth forehead, Ho ha gray, humoroua eyes, which neverthe less can glnnco keenly. Ho Is tall, good looking, llkewiso ratheg young." "Ho was here," I whispered. "1 talked to him." "Well?" Professor Bliss smiled. . "I told him," I went on, "that Leila likes him." Tho young man on tho step looked directly Into my eyes. "And does she?" lie nsled. I nodded. Professor Bliss laughed; It was a queer sounding laugh. "Dean would never havo found it out If you had not told him," ho said. "Ho is comuiendnbly unawnro of his own attraction. And I was not help ing him to tho. discovery. Shall wo try a little tennis, you and I, bofore tho others come?" Wo woro at our game whon Dean Stanford's car drove up to tho door and Leila stepped down from it, look ing prettier nnd rosier than ever. But when I rnn to take tho llftlo fancy cakes from her, I found that Leila hnd forgotten them. LS VI I rv tfv yV Fierce Heat Low Flame for Slow Cooking The "II cil Star" oil range will develop a heat much more intense than you have ever thought possible from an oil burning stove. 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SHAFFER, Osteopathic Physician Bolton Bldg. North Platte, Neb Phono for Appointments. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estnto No. 17C4 of E. It. Raworth, Deceased, In tho County Court of Lin coln County, Nebraska. Tho Stato of Nobroskn, ss: Credit tors of said estnto will toko notice that tho tlmo limited for presenta tion nnd filing of claims against said ostato is July 29th,1020, and for set tlement of said estnto la March 2Gth, 1921, that I will sit at tho county court room In snl(i county on April 29th, 1920, at 10 o'clock n. m. nnd on July 29th, 1920, at 10 o'clock a.m., to rocolvo, examine, hear, allow, or adjust nil claims and objections duly illod. W. H. C. WOODIIURST. ui30-4 County Judgo. ' NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estnto No. 1737 of Goorgo W. Tromhly, Deceased In tho County Court of Lincoln County, Nobroskn. Tho Stato of Nobrnska, ss: Credi tors of said ostato will tnko notico that tho tlmo limited for prosontntlon and filing of clalniB against said ostnto is July, 30, 1920, nnd for sottlomont of said ostato is March 2G, 1921; that I will sit at tho county court room In sold county, on April 30, 1920, at 9 o'clock A. M. and on July 30, 1920, at 9 o'clock A. M., to rocolvo, oxamlno. hear, allow, or ndjust all claims and objections duly filed. WM. u. v. wuumiuusr, M30-4 County Judgo. Fast Vapor Oil StoVe only, stove to operate on all : Oil Ull; j aid of' entirely without the R. MALONEY CO. i i IUt. REDFIELD Physician, Obstotrictnn Surireon, X-Ray Cnlls Promptly Answered Night or Day Phono Office 012 Residence G7fi ALBERT A. LANE, Dentist Roomi l Mid 2 Belton Building North Platto, Nebrash. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notico is heroby given that sealed bids will bo received at tho office of tho City Clerk of North Platto, Nob., up to 8 o'clock p. m. April 20th. 1920. for tho construction of Sower Latoral "C15" In Blocks 2, 3, S nnd 9. South Park Addition in said city, according to plans nnd specifications on filo in tho offlco of tho city clerk of said city. Said bids to cover completo costruc tlon of 10 inch sowor 12S0 feet in length, ono Hush tank, ono man liolo and ono lnmp holo complote. Corti lled check for $50 paynblo to tho city trcasuror of said city to accompany tho bid. Said city reserves tho right to reject any or nil bids. aC-2 O. E. ELDER, City Clork. NOTICE OF PETITION. Estnto No. 1750 of Mary Norrls, Do coascd, in tho County Court of Lin coln County, Nobrnska. Tho Stato of Nobraskn. to all por sons Interested In said Estnto: Talte notico that a potltiou hns been filed for tho probato of an Instrument pur porting to bo tho last will and tosta mont of said docoasod and tho op polntmont of William Norris as ex ecutor of said ostato, which has boon set for hearing horeln on April 30th, 1920. at 9 o'clock a. m. 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Estato No. 1751 of David Jones, Do ceased, in the County Court of Lincoln County, Nebraska. Tho Stato of Nobraskn, to all por sons interested in said Estnto: Take notice, that a potltlon has been Mod for the appointment of Henrietta Jones as administratrix of said estato, which has boon set for honring hero in on April 30th, 1920, nt 9 o'clock a. m. Dated April 5, 1920. WM. H. C. WOODIIURST, n-3 County Judgo. NOTICE. To Elslo S. Hoy, Harry A. Hoy, Doris Hoy. his wlfo: Rubortn E. Vnn Gootz and Victor Von Gootz, her husb Gootz and Victor Von Gootz, her hus band: Alta II. Eastman and flinrlon TT Eastman her husband; William A. Hoy; and Loreta I. Hoy a minor nnd Elslo S Hoy, mother and natural For I guardian of Loreta I. Hoy, a mfor land all ntllPl tUinnnn In. . - . 1 estato of Frank P. Hoy, deceased" iou and each of you, are henv 7 tT i u u,Hinc- Jourt in hd for Lincoln County, Nebraska, bjk. Fr-rP eTecuto,r ot te estateof I'rank p. Hoy, deceased, a cerlin petition, tho object and prayor of wfch t.hatan ordcr b0 lsued by ho District Court of Lincoln County. Nb raska, authorizing A. E. JaredL executor of tho ostato of FrankF Hoy, deceased, to oxecute his corfin good and sufficient deed of convoydce convoying to ono Lester II. Joy bo fee simple titlo to tho east half (&,) of tho North west quarter (NW1) and tho east half (E&) of tho Scth West nmiptor iBwii V" i V-ii - j vi oeciioniy. and the east half (E&) of tho scth .1U.1U anu lots 3 at 4 all In SOcHnn IS nil I- in ...T-.- North of Rango 20 "Wost of tho 6th? Lincoln County.Nobraska, uhii ..." ,.,.. lo mm oy tno said Laer f Jy. of tho sum of $2800.00 ith interest thereon at tho rate of B e cent from March 1st, 1920 belnAo balancn ilim in o ..' "u - ... uvwiuuilLO withJio provisions and terms of a certain Tn tract of salo executed by tho Ud Frank P Mnv V.- Pu i I mu,j"k ma mo mo nnd in accordance with tho prayd of .nVBa,d I"0 "a'beSet ..uu.iuK uy oruor or the Dls'Ict Grimes, Judgo of tho District Cirt Of Lincoln rvu..t.. t.i . tJf( iuuru8Ka, atthe Court house in tho city of North P Lincoln County, Nobraskn. at wk-, tlmo. VOU nnil onnl, ' 1 1 ., , ui juu, may ami prVyod. U grantq ai A. E. JARE), Executor nf n, .i.i. UT' . PTT ------ v..vi toiuiu U finii Hoy. deceased. By Beolor, Crosby & Basking His Attornoys. MSM7