ONE OF OURS
By W1LL& FATHER.
Famous Xrliraaka Author.
(Continued from YeMerdaj-.)
B.t W II.I.A C'ATHT.B.
Hj iviiiu-.
I lande «heeler, living on a Nebraska
rnnrh with Ida parents and a jnunrrr
brother, Ralph, has to quit Temple voi
les*- a small denominational school at
I Inrnln. at the eml nf his third jear to
take rare of thr home plane while hia
father. Nat Wheeler, and Ralph aprnd
moat of their time on Iheir t olora.lc
innrh. < Inode'S older brother, Bavllla,
inns an Implement store at. Frankfort.
While in I'lnroln, Claude has become a
■ lose frlrnd of the Frllrli fnmll). Mrs.
t.rllrli, a motherly widow with fire sons,
having made the nhy ho.v feel at home
on hia nliinerniis vUtts.
ttontlnuod frntn Vesterday )
CHAPTER XVII.
It had been Mr. Wheelesis inten
tion to stay at homo until spring, but
Italpli wrote that lie was having
trouble with ills foreman, so ills fa
ther went out to the ranch in Febru
ary. A few days after his departure
Here was a. storm which gave people
something to talk about for a year to
tome.
The snow began to fall about noon
on St. Valentine's day. a soft, thick,
wet snow that came down in billows
and stuck to everything. Later in
the afternoon the wind rose, and
wherever there was a shed, a tree,
a hedge, or even a clump of tall
weeds, drifts began to pile up. Mrs.
Wheeler, looking anxiously out from
i he sitting-room windows, could see
noting but driving waves of soft
white, which cut the tall house off
from the rest of the world.
Claude and Dan. down in the corral,
where they were provisioning the
cattle against had weather, found the
air so thick that they could scarcely
breathe: their ears and mouths and
nostrils wore full of snow, their faces
plastered with it. It melted con
stantly upon their clothing, and yet
they were white from their boots to )
tlieir caps as they worked.—there was
Mo shaking it off. The air was not
cold, only a littie below freezing.
"When they fame in for supper, the -
drifts had piled against the bouse un j
til they covered the lower sashes of i
the kitchen windows, and as they
opened the door, a frail wall of snow j
fell in behind them. Mahailey. came |
running w ith her broom and pail to '
sweep it^up. I
"Ain't it a tumble storm, Mr. |
•Maude? I reckon poor Mr. Krm -t.
won't git over tonight, will lie? Tc
never mind, honey: I'll wipe up thet
water. Run along and git dry clot hr r
on you. an' take a bath, or you o '
ketch cold. Th' ole tank's full o'
hot water for you." Exceptions',
weather of any Kind always delighted
Mahailey. j
Mrs. Wheeler met Claude at the
head of the stairs. "There’s no
danger of the steers getting snowed !
under along the creek, is there?" she
asked anxiously. ,
"No, I thought of that. We've
driven them all into the littie cor •!
on the level, and shut the gates, ft’a
over my head down in the cree*.
- bottom. 1 haven't a dry stitch C”
Ine. I guess I'll follow Mahailey “.
advice and get in the tub, if you can
wait supper for me."
"Pot your clothes outside tiie bath
room door, and I'll see to drying them
for you.”
■ Yea. please. 1 II need them to
morrow. 1 don't want to spoil my
new corduroys. And, mother, see if
you can make Dan change. He's
too wet and steamy to sit at the table
with. Tell him if anybody has to go
out after supper, I'll go."
Mrs. Wheeler hurried down stairs.
Dan. she knew, would rather sit all
evening in wet riothes than take thr
trouble to put on dry ones. He tried ,
to sneak past her to his own quar !
leis behind the wash-room, and looked
aggrieved when lie heard her message. I
"I ain't got no other outside i
clothes, except my Sunday ones.” he
objected.
"Well, Claude says he'll go out if
anybody has to. I guess you'll have
to change for once. Dan. or go to bed
without your supper." She laughed
quietly at his dejected expression as
he slunk away.
"Mrs. Wheeler." Mahailey whis
pored, "can't I run down to the cellar
an' git some of them nice straw
berry preserves? Mr. Claude, h* loves
'em on his hot biscuit. He don t eat
1 he honey no more; he's got tired of
it."
“Very w«ll. T'll make the coffee
good and strong; that will please him
more than anything."
Claude rame down feeling clean and
warm and hungry. As he opened the
stab- door lie sniffed the coffee and
frying ham. and when Mahailey bent
over the oven the warm smell of
browning biscuit rushed out with Cue
heat. These combined odors some
what disposed Dans gloom when-he
came back in squeaky Sunday shoe,
and a bunglesome rut away coat
'the latter was not required of him
but he swore it for revenge.
During supper Mrs. \t heeler told
th-in once again how, long ago when
she was first married, th»re were no
loads or fences west of Frankfort
0ns winter night she sat on tiie roof
of their first dugout nearly all night,
holding up a lantern tied lo a. pole
to guide Mr. Wheeler home through
s snowstorm like this.
Mahalley, moving about the stove
watched n"v»r the group at the table.
She liked to see the men fill them
yc.veq with food—though she did not
count Dan a man, by any mean*—
and she looked out to see that Mrs.
Wheeler did not forget to eat alto
gether. as she was apt to do when
ahe fell to remembering things that
had happened long ago. Mahalley
was In a happy frame of mind be
cause her weather predictions had
• nine true; only yesterday she had
told Mr*. Wheeler there would be
• now, because she had seen snow
birds. Hhe regarded suppe.r as more
•ban usually Important when Claude
put on his “velvet close," as she
-ailed hla brown corduroys.
After supper Claude lay on the
•ouch In the sitting room, while his
mother read aloud to him from ' Bleak
I louse,"-—one of the few novels she
loved. Poor Jo was drawing toward
his end when Claude suddenly sat
up. “Mother, I believe I'm too sleepy.
I ll have to turn In. Do you sup
pose it's stilt snowing?"
He rose and went to look out. but
the west windows were so plastered
"with snow that they were opaque.
Kven from the one on the vout.h he
could see nothing for a moment;
tnen Mahalley must have carried her
lamp to lh<- kitchen window beneath,
for all at pnee a broad yellow beam
shone ouT Into tho choked air, and
'1
WfATtW *fjTfjnMji J
flown it millions of snowflakes hur
ried like an unceasing pro
gression, moving ns close as they
rould without forming a solid mass.
t'laudo struck the frozen window
frame with his fist, lifted the lower
sash, and thrusting out his h^ad •
tried to look abroad into the engulfed
night. There was a solemnity about
a storm of such magnitude; it gave
one a feeling of infinity. The myriads
of white particles that crossed- "the
rays of lamplight seemed to have a
outer nurpose. t«> be hurrying toward
a definite end. A faint purity like a
tcugrunce almost too fine for human 1
senses, exhaled from them as they
clustered about his head and siiou.- i
SATURN?"
SUNDAY <
SPECIAL^
iftlRMO NTS*^
ICECREAM^
fSATUROAY
) SUNDAY
^SreCIAL
MONTROSE
—that means “Mountain Rose,” and the Ice Cream
Special of this name has that fine Royal Turin
flavor and is full of candied fruits. It’s a joy to the
eye and a delight to the palate.
Fairmont’s Im Cream Is made the Better War in Omaha, Crete, Grand Island
and Bloat City.4 Take It home In buik—or in pint or quart sealed packages.
rlers. His member, looking under Ms
lifted arm. strained her eyes to /s°e
out into that swarming movement,
and murmured seftly in her quavering
voice:
Kver depeer, deeper, deeper,
Froze the ice on lake and river;
Kver deeperfl deeper, deeper.
Fell the snow «>*• nil the landscape.”
(To be Continued.)
Doan. College Member of
1 uivesitics Association
Special Itinpatih In The Omntm flee.
(.*1 ole. Neb., March 23.—Donne col
lege has been admitted to membership
n the American Association of Uni-,
versities, according to a letter re
j ceived by President J. N. Bennett
Vhere o» loawi I
Are moulded in i
A modern btJtery «jjj
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VICTOR//^///'
Contain* all the qualities demanded by both the large and email
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the big machine equipped shop. It “drinks the water”—high
#fcif absorption. VICTOR gives the velvety tex
. s fof^yjrK . ture so essential to good bread—above all,
V it gjves your bread that delicious taste that
/ calls for another slice.
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The most modern
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Capacity 2000 barrela dally.
THE CRETE MILL5S
There is no other food so delightful
. . . nor is there a more healthful food.
Roberts’ Cottage Cheese is a “Pride”.
Product. Order your supply Saturday
lOO Good Grocers
and 40 Roberts Retail Wagons
Sell It
I
from the s*rtalaiy of the a oration
Thin the standard organization
of first rlass schools of higher educa
tion. hast year the University of
Nebraska teas tile only institution In
the state a member of tit is association.
The association makes a special
point of the number of graduates
from its collegi s who go on to take
postgraduate w i red of the record
made by them Jioane has inspired
27 per cent of its last 10 graduating
classes to undertake postgraduate ;
work. Authorities h"re assume that
they owe their admission in part to
this condition. i
l,ggs Sold Iiy ^ ard.
Norway, ("onr . Mur'd IS.—"How
many eggs in a yard of eggs? '
CJiarlea Griffith, local grocer. Invites
mis trade to call and see. He is ad
vertiaing "a yard of eggs for *1
cents" and lets his customers meu
sure them. They get 18 eggs.
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ADA ETC CALIFORNIA NAVELS, 3SC
\J Medium Size—Dozen,
TOMATOES' I2V2C
BUTTER s,c.HNurElpb., 50c
PURITAN SS11 59c
HEAD LETTUCESEMOc
CABBAGE 7%c
JAP ROSE SOAP ea4. 27c
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-Four Busy Markets
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4903 S. 24th Street 634 W. Broadway, Co. Bluffs
Mail and E xpress Orders Filled Promptly
Tempting meats at prices f Aim
I QUALITY EOftToiKS WHO CARE^
Native Steer
Chuck
Roaat
12c
Special
Small Lean
Pork Shoulders
10c
Choic*
Small Lean
Pork Loins
14c
CHoice
F r#*h
Spirtribi
9c
Prime Native
Beef Rib Roast
t Rolled )
18c
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Cudahy’s Puritan Skinned Hams .
— — ■■ ' '
Cudahy s Breakfast Bacon, lg or whole sides. /
Armour's Star Skinned Hams . ,,- _
"■ . . etlC
Armour's Star Breakfast Bacon. or whole sides . 32r
Morris Supreme Skinned Hems . *>4<*
Morris Supreme Breakfast Bacon, 1, or whole side.t.. 32o
Dold s Niagara Skinned Ham, 10-lh. average, special at ..
BEEF CUTS
Choice Boiling Beef. ►«*
Choice Beef Pol Roatl .
f reah Hamburger St#«k. |
Choice Porterhouse St*«k .20 g
Choice Round Steak . lNf*
Choice Sirloin Steak.20t*
Freth Beef Hearta . t^g*
. .. ‘ >
Choice Leaf Lard... | 2g*
Strictly Freah F.gga ., . . 2,"^
Choice Lamb Forequartera.1 2g*
Choice Lamb Chope .... . 20g*
Short Cut Lega of Mutton. aor
SMOKED MEATS
Choice Picnic Hama .vl 2'1 g*
Choice Strip Bacon . 1 ISg*
Fancy Lean Rreakfaat Bacon .22g*
Fancy Lean Strip Bacon 2«»g*
Sugar Cured Skinned Ham 22g*
SPECIAL SALE ON BUTTERINE
F.eerguod Liberty Nut 1 fig*
i udahy'a Rea IRg*
F.yergood Huttrrine, 2-lb. carton . log'
F.rergood Butterinr 5-lb tartan 91.10
lanuh Pioneer Creamery Butler J»2g'
VEAL CUTS
Choice V’eel Shoulder Roast . UrP
Choic* Veal Stew . lip
Choice Veal Breast* . 1 *2 '
Choice Veal Chop* .,.ISf
Pure Rendered Lard . 15^
SPECIALS ON CANNED GOODS
Fancy Sweet Corn. 3 can* .:u><*
Fancy Tomatoes. 3 can*.
F'ancy Early June Pea*. 3 can* . . JLSf*
Monarch Pork and Beans, 3 can* ....
Fancy Yellow Cling Peaches . 120<*
Fancy Sardine* in Oil, 5 can* 12r*C
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Ruehler Bio* Royal Brand , I0<*
Buehler Bro* Peaherry Coffee at ?t0<*
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Chou* Fresh Neck Rih*. ti lh» UTsf'
Choic* Fr**h Pig Feet. 4 |h* 12T*F
Choic* Fr**h Pig Fieart*. 4 lb* liTyf*
1 hoicr Firth Pi* Ear*. 4 lb* wOp
Choice f reth Pig Snout*, 4 lb* ujVf
Choir* I ean Boston Butts ]