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PAGE FOUK THE J0TTS3TAI, PLATTSMOTTTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, MAY 10, 1943 Greenwood Special Journal Correspondence Mrs. Ray Rouse spent Wednesday with Mrs. Harold Oleson. Miss Betty Stradley is helping in the E. L. McDonald store evenings after school and Saturdays. Mrs. Jim Brown, who has been ill for some time, was taken . to the University hospital in Omaha Mon day afternoon. The Woman's club will meet Tues day afternoon May 11, with Mrs. Frank Hurlburt. CHAPTER VI SYNOPSIS Timothy Hulme, principal of a good but impoverished Vermont academy, lives a studious bachelor's existence with only his Aunt Lavinia for com pany. Timothy makes friends with a new teacher. Susan Barney, and her . younger sister. Delia. Now Timothy has received a letter from a disagree able trustee of the academy, Mr. Wheaton, calling him to New York. While Timothy is In New York he meets a Mrs. Bernstein, who proposes her son Jules for a student. Although Jules had flunked in all his examina tions, Timothy decides to give him a trial. When he keeps his appointment with Mr. Wheaton he is told that he has made a big mistake in admitting a Jew ish boy as a student. Timothy said, through his teeth, "There is nothing we offer our country young people more valu able to them than those two courses. I'd rather cut out Latin and higher Algebra." Mr. Wheaton brought his wrin kled old hand down on the table. "You're crazy, man! You couldn't prepare for college with those gone." "A good many of our Clifford young people don't go to college." "That's just the point, T. C, that is just the point I'm always making. There's a layout there that no new school could duplicate. Why, I love that school! It's got at mosphere, genuine atmosphere! It's got history! I could make it into one of the places with a wait ing list years long, every name on it from a good family. Cut out the girls, of course. You'll never get gentlemen's sons to go to the same school with girls. Make your cur riculum over cut out everything, but athletics and what's needed for college entrance tighten up on the entrance requirements, exclude for eigners, raise the fees, make it hard as the dickens to get into. Ex clusiveness! That's the secret of prestige, T. C, exclusiveness! Keep people out and everybody wants to get in! If the Academy could just cash in on its assets it's got wonderful assets old-American New England tradition, a hun dred and forty years of experi ence. ..." Timothy closed his lips over the correcting "hundred and seven teen" and let it go. The inter view was over. The secretary aco lyte, her skirts wafting incense, showed him out. The Gothic ele vator dropped him twenty-four stories to the entrance halL Not till the June Trustee meeting would he need to hear Mr. Wheaton's voice again. After the right number of street crossings he mechanically made the turn at the right corner, but striding gloomily ahead, hypno tized by the dark chaos around him, he passed the entrance to his hotel without seeing it. When he saw his mistake he turned back in a temper, pushed open the swing ing door and stepped into the small dingy lobby. A girl was sitting there. She was rather pale and looked a lit tle anxious, and she wore a last year's hat. She sat nervously far forward, and kept her eyes fixed on the door. When she saw him, she sprang up and went quickly to meet him, saying his name in a deep, shaken note, "Oh, Mr. Hulme!" she cried, as if she were astonished to know that be still lived. He took both her hands In his, looking down at her in relief and astonishment as great as hers. "Susan!" he cried. "Why, Susan!" Delia, short, broad-shouldered, sturdy-legged, appeared from a door at the side, her hat in her hand, her surly dark hair freshly combed, her browneyes snapping. "Hello there, Mr. Hulme. Are you as nearly dead with tiredness as Susan? Not me! I'm crazy about this town. Here's where I'm going to live, you watch me! What are we going to do this evening?" They went to a restaurant and ate fish in a white gravy with oysters, and for dessert had thin, thin pancakes but not with maple syrup; with another kind of syrup that the waiter touched a match to and it actually burned for a while. After a movie, Timothy took them up Broadway, its myriad electric lights resonant as bugles. The most unexpected event of the winter was the solving of the old problem of how to get the basketball teams and their sup porters transported to the towns up and down the valley where their out of Clifford matches were played. Selling that gadget for carburetors, Eli Kemp had learned a good deal about cars and he had come to know several of the mechanics in various garages. One of them was Bill Peck, a rough spoken older workingman employed in a garage in Ashley. Peck had a brother working in St. Johnsbury who happened to write him that the oW bus line there was about to "replace its two battered . an cient buses with new ones. When Eli heard this news he was The Deal-A-Deck club met Thurs day afternoon with Mrs. Luella Berg er. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rouse of Lin coln were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rouse Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Elton Keller, Jan ice and Lary Lee, were Sunday sup per guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyles. Jack Gribble has purchased the D-X service station from Mr. M. L. Shupe. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Wright, mov ed from the Rex Peters house to the house vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Dud ley Clause. SEASONED) r w.N.u- DOROTHY CANFIELD cofeatures They went to a restaurant and ate awed to feel, blowing from it as from the Delphian pit, the authen tic wind of inspiration. Dizzy, but agonizingly in earnest, he told Peck that if those two old cars could be had as a bargain he was sure some thing could be made out of them at the Academy. Peck was a pool-playing old bachelor with no wife to restrain him from follies; he withdrew a few hundred dollars from his savings account, borrowed a little more for insurance, and went into the bus business, he driving one and Eli the other. The engines were still in fair shape, but the bodies and seats were disreputable. The older man was willing to put the first profits Into paint and denim, and Eli got up eagerly at dawn, day after day, to scrape, mend, paint and patch. Even at their worst, the two rickety buses were more comfortable, en closed as they were, than the open pulpwood trucks in which, stand ing up on zero nights, the teams and a few hardy backers had for merly ridden to out of town games. With Professor Hulme to help him Eli worked out a season ticket plan. It was just before the beginning of the midwinter vacation, which that year was the first week in March. Susan was to spend it with Delia who had come on from Boston to join her. They were to visit some of their father's over-the-mountain kinsfolk. Aunt La vinia had asked the girls to spend the evening before they left at the principal's house and had stayed downstairs till they arrived, warm ing her knees before the fire. Timothy had waited in the hall corner for the callers, his day-old New York newspaper in his hand, but at the sound of the knocker on the front door he had flung his pa per to the floor. "Come on in -here by the fire, Delia," called Aunt Lavinia. Timothy hastened to draw near him a chair for Susan "Do you know, I positively hate to go away even for a week! I've had such a wonderful winter you can't imagine what you've done for me." From the room beyond them, "Susan!" called Aunt Lavinia im periously. "Come here a minute." She went when Aunt Lavinia called what else could anyone do? But, sheltered from other eyes in the angle of the hall corner, she gave Timothy, with shrugging shoulders and a fond smiling grim ace, the assurance she left him un willingly, that here with him was where she fain would be. Glowing and confident, Timothy held up his newspaper to hide the broadness of his answering smile and felt a chilling inner wind blowing, as from Arctic ice fields. He saw that he was a fatuous fool to assume that the frankly loving ardor in the gray eyes meant that Susan was a woman opening her heart to the man with whom she was falling in love. Although his pulse was still ham mering in the after effects of shock, his lace was composed enough to make it safe for him to lay down the shield of his newspaper, light a cigarette and sit listening to the dialogue in the next room, once in a while glancing up at the mirror. It showed a reflected Delia, ab sorbed in a book, and Aunt La vinia sitting weightily before the fire, her skirts folded back to ex pose her knobby wool-stockinged knees to the heat, occasionally an swering over her shoulder a ques tion asked by Susan, who was wan dering here and there in the room. The girl he saw in the mirror, turned to one side, lifted her head and glanced at a faded photograph in an oval frame. Timothy had forgotten that photograph hung there. He started. Good heavens! Suppose she asked about that! What a way for her to learn how could he not have told her himself long ago about Ellie the little there was to tell? If she asked now, what careless wounding bluntness might Aunt Lavinia put into her an swer, which he could not spring to correct, separated from Susan as he was by those alien presences in the room. Light casual airy, the - young . Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mavolf re ceived word from their son, Wayne, that he had passed his physical ex amination for flying cadet at Santa Ana, Calif. The M. W, M. circle met Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cope. Pinochle was played. A lovely lunch was served by Mrs. Cope. Dorothy Cameron and Norma McNurlin were guests.' Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Gray took Mr. and Mrs. Harnard to their home to care for them. Mr. Harnard is having trouble with his feet. Perly Clymer, who is in a hos pital in Lincoln, was reported not so well Thursday afternoon. fish in white gravy with oysters. voice asked. "Who's the Invalid looking girl in the oval frame?" "That's Ellie. She was an in valid. She was Timothy's wife." Wild scarlet flooded the girl's face a burning reflection of it in stantly on that of the man who watched her. "His . . . wife . . .?" Susan's startled voice faltered self-consciously over the word, was struck into silence by it. She put a hand up to her flaming cheek, and hung her head. Timothy was at the door. He flung it open. Till he could see her alone . . . till he could tell her . . . The sword thrust of the zero night made him reach mechani cally for a coat, a cap. Aunt Lavinia was saying, "Ellie was a connection on his father's side. An orphan, she was, brought up by one of the clerical cousins. Very frail in health. I myself al ways thought that the Hulmes didn't . . ." The door to the Principal's house fell shut behind a young man who plunged down the steps and off at random, anywhere his feet took him. He had rushed out of the house and gone tearing off, not knowing where, because the prosy presence of those others suffocated him. He had been stooped by wooden bars across the road in a country lane, just beyond a small low stone house. His house now, her house, their home. His faithful knowing feet had brought him home. He felt for a match, found that his hands, bare to the Arctic cold, were almost too stiff to bend, struck a match, looked at his watch and saw that it was long past ten. He could not believe his eyes. It was not possible! A car stood on the curve of the driveway, he saw now. The license was a Wisconsin one. Wisconsin! He stood gaping. The car was small and battered. The door of his house was flung open, a man's figure stood in the oblong of light, a voice cried, "Well, Uncle Tim, welcome to our city." Timothy started stiffly up the steps. A tall, loose-jointed man ran down to meet him. His cold hand was taken into warm flexible muscular fingers, a gay voice be gan facetiously, "Aunt Lavinia and I were thinking of starting the fire department and the sheriff out after you . . ." The grip of his fingers tightened, the light voice deepened to affection incredulous, astonished at itself "You haven't changed a hair! Why, gosh. Uncle Tim! You look just the same!" "Can!" he cried, his eyes search ing the ugly, attractive, bulldog face. "Why, Canby Hunter, how in the Lord's world did you ever get here!" "Well, Uncle Tim, where in heck have you been? Here, let me take your coat." "Oh, I . . . why, I . . . just stepped out for a walk. But see here, you can't leave your car out all night with the thermometer where it is. You take it right around to the put your coat on! . back of the Academy next to the furnace room, there's a . . .' "What the heck, Uncle Tim! You don't need to tell me where to put a car for the night here. I'll be back in a jiff." Bent over the fire, Timothy lis tened to an explanation of Canby's appearance from Aunt Lavinia. "I'd gone to bed well, not to bed, my light was on. That was why he knocked. If he hadn't seen a light he'd have gone on down to the tav ern a the depot. He says he's left Wisconsin and the bank for good because of the girl he was en gaged to. And he said it was by an accident that he came here at all. He just happened to think cf us on his way to New York to take his ship." "His shipl" "For one of those round-the-world cruises. I asked him if he had money enough for anything so expensive and. be laughed and said he certainly had . not. But if be hasn't, how can he?" (TO BP. CONTINVmi Pvt. Sanford Curtis, of Camp Alex andria, La.,1 Ordnance corps, visited his sister, Mrs. Earl Stradley and family this last week. Mrs. Ersy McNurlin was in Lin coln Tuesday. Mrs. Harold Mason and Clark, of Cailfornia, went to Friend to spend the week with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Wallace and family. Weeping Water Forty-seven women took advantage of the canning demonstration giv en at the Auditorium kitchen Thurs day atternoon and evening, when Miss Jessie Baldwin demonstrated the preparation and canning oi asparagus, and rhubarb, told how to prepare foods for freezing, after a lesson on equipment needed, the cart of the pressure cooker, the different types of jar lids, laying special em phasis on the fact that when syrup is used in canning- that the syri'j? should be cooked longer, and using one-fourth cup of sugar and one tablespoon of syrup to a pint of rhu barb. Questions were asked by the class. One was, does it make any dif ference if iodized salt is usea. Her answer was 'So." Another yuestion was, is there any difference between cane and beet sugar for canning: Her answer to this was also "No". Many similar questions were asked and answered. When asked if pres sure cookers are available this year, she said that application would have to be made if one was needed. There were women present with many years of experience at canning, aud there were young women, new to the pressure cooker method and especial ly interested in the careful steriliz ing and preparation of the food for canning. All had a chance to learn something new, to remember, wneu taking care of their fruit and vege tables for home consumption tins year. Arriving Wednesday, from Wash ington, D. C, were Mr. and Mrs. E:!d Bobbit and daughter Grace. They will visit relatives here for ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hubbard of Taylor, Nebr., were called here last week by -the serious illness of Mrs. Hubbard's mother, Mrs. Wm.Jame sen, who makes her home with her son, Bert Jamesen. They found Mrs. Jameeen better when they arrived but since that time she has not been so well. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard lelt for home Friday, but expect to re turn soon again. Sgt. Edwin J. Steckley will leave today for Fort Washington, Md., at attend Officers Training school. Accompanying him was his wife, who expects to remain in the east while Sgt. Steckley is there. Mrs. Anna Earl, of Eagle visited her daughter, Mrs. George Hoffmeis ter, Tuesday of last week. Mrs. Harold C. Elliott and small daughter visited in Nebraska c.t. several days last week. Harold D. Wilson of Lincoln, State Executive Director, Allied Dry For ces of Nebraska, declared that in toxicating liquors are the chief fifth columnists of America, in his address at the Methodist Church, Thursday evening. Facts against the liquor traffic, he said, must be sold in a sane and reasonable manner, not as fanatics or prohibitionists, but as citizens interested in the welfare of the entire public. He spoke es pecially of the millions of dollars being spent annually in advertising by the liquor dealers, while other business is curtailed during the war, huge distilleries are all over the land, with every facility of trans portation at their command. He said "Alcohol is all right as an outside cleanser, but poison, when taken in side," and it is the thrifty, honest people who pay for the accidents caused by those who use the liquor. Miss Lina Lineback spent the week end at Lincoln visiting her sister, Mrs. Josephine Graham. She ac companied Miss Gladys Graham, who teaches in the Louisville schools. Mrs. Robert Ewart, wife of Judge Robert Ewart, of Wahoo, and their son, Cpl. David M. Ewart, who is at home on a 10-day furlough from Camp Stimson, Tex., to which he was returned recently, after five weeks of training on the western coast, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Weeping Water visiting .old friends. While here they were the guests of Mrs. Joan Carter, at the Laurel Hotel. Wednesday at noon they were the guests of Mrs. Thomas Murtey at a luncheon served in the hew annex- to . JJac's Cafe. Other fuests were Wrsv. Joaij Carter and Mrs. John Domingo. IV Journal Field Representative Young Soldier Home Corporal Jack McCorigan,-located in a west coast army camp, arrived in Murdock for a visit with his wife the former Miss Dorothy Gorthy. He also visited his relatives at Palisade, Nebraska, for a time. He has now returned to camp.. Here From West Coast Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schewe, of Los Angeles, are here to visit with the relatives and friends. They have made their home on the west coast for the past two years. Receives Deferment Everett Lindall, engaged in the garage business deemed as essential has been granted a deferment until June 18th from army service. Hurt In Euna way Fred Stock, residing two miles, north of Murdock, suffered a frac tured leg a few days ago. He had shelled corn and was engaged in hauling the ,cobs away when the team he was driving became fright ened and ran away. He suffered the fracture of a leg and is laid up from his farm work for some time. Have Son Word was received in Murdock Monday of the birth to Lieutenant and Mrs. Clark Miller of a fine son. The little one and the mother, for merly Miss Loretta Ruge, are report, ed as doing well. Lieutenant Miller is now on duty at an army camp and the wife has been with him for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Gust Ruge are the grandparents. Mrs. II. V. McDonald has been visiting for the past month or more in the north and west with relatives and friends, with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Eastman and family of Ster ling, Colorado, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gillespie, of North Loup, Ne braska. Mrs. H. R.. Schmidt who has been visiting with her daughter, Mrs. William Winkler at Lincoln, return ed home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Zabel were en joying a visit over the week end at the home of their daughter, Mr3. Vernon Rikli, at Beatrice. Mumps have taken their toll of the students in the Murdock schools in the past week, one being taken ill as another recovers. Mrs. William Stock who has been visiting in Chicago, at the home of her son.Marion and family, returned home Saturday night. The Junior-Senior banquet of the Murdock high school will be held at the school building on May 16th, the ladies aid of Murdock will do the serving. ' E. E. Ganaway, the shoe man, was at Plattsmouth Sunday to visit with a cousin, E. G. Ganaway and family who have recently moved to that city. Peter Lenhardt and wife, who have been living near Ashland, have purchased the residence property of Henry Reichman and expect to move soon. Edward Nelson of Avoca was in Murdock on Tuesday to have his car looked after by Mr. Lindall at the garage. To Pick Committeewoman Scottsbluff, Nebr., May 8. (UP) The Nebraska State Republican central committee will meet at Grand Island Tuesday, May 18, to nomin ate a successor to Mrs. Minnie Fried Watson, Lincoln, who resigned this week as Nebraska's national commit teewoman, Chairman A. T. 'Bm" Howard announced here today. Howard said that the republican national committee will meet at Chi cago May 20 and will be able to act on Nebraska's nomination at that time. He issued a call for the meet ing to be held at 2 p. m., and said proxies would be recognized if prop erly executed and acknowledged. Mrs. Rex Gribble, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Philpot, for the past week, left Thursday for Stevens Point, Wise., where she will remain as long as her husband is there in training as an air corps cadet. Bide-A-WTee Club met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Paul Peterson, with one visitor, Mrs. Floyd Hite. The afternoon was spent visit ing and while visiting their fingers were busy kntting afghans for sol dier? in the hospitals. They have completed tfcetf first one and are wording 9 the second. AIvo Nevis Special Journal Correspondence Ross Fairfield underwent an op eration for hernia at the Bryan Me morial hospital Thursday morning He is getting along very well. Mr. and Mrs. Fairfield and Mrs. Alben and Mrs. E. Fairfield and Mrs. Alb. Ross Sunday afternoon and found Ross to be getting along very well. Mrs. Albert Fairfield and little son of Illinois are at Albert's par ents. Albert is working in a defense plant in Detroit, and could find only poor housing so Albert is going to attempt to get into defense work in Omaha. Mrs. Marie Rehmeier left for Oma ha Monday where she will work. Fred and Frank will spend part time with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor until school closes. Frank is consider ing spending the summer at the Tay lors and perhaps Fred will go to Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Morrill Skinner moved into Mrs. Marie Rehmeier's home Sunday. They had been resid ing in the property of Mrs. J. L. Dimmitt. Mr. and Mis. Elmer Hawes and Mrs. Wolfe of Linclon were Sun day afternoon visitors at the L. D. Mullen home. Mr. Wesley Morey, son of Rev. and Mrs. George Morey, who is en gaged by the Pan American Airways, spent a few days visiting his parents here at Alvo this week. Wesley has covered thousands of miles in trans port planes and has been in several different countries on one trip in particular he flew to six countries on two different continents. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Rogers of Omaha were visiting their parents Sunday. Canning Demonstration After the business meeting of the W.S.C.S. the ladies attended a can ning demonstration in the church basement. Mrs. Backemeier and Mrs. Leroy Cook were in charge of the demonstration. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards, who has a pressure cook er assisted with the demonstrating of the use atid operation of pressure cooker. The ladies canned asparagus and rhubarb. A large crowd attended. : Graduation Thursday evening, May 13th, the senior class will hold their gradua tion exercises. The Junior class members were hosts to the faculty and Senior class members Friday evening when they entertained at a banquet at the American Cafe in Lincoln. The school folks enjoyed the usual good' time of such an occasion. Save Eat Buy nr A C CALIFORNIA FRESH lElAO GREEN, FULL POD . CELERY felxadeolel-ea.ched---.- su,k 25 ft A XWVQ FLORIDA SEALDSWEET fcE tlKAnllliV) VALENCIA 200-216 SIZE Dozen 33 150-176 Size I .EMONS f X?aTLARCE ONION PLANTS BUY QUALITY MEATS AT HINKY-D1NKY 7 K1PINK SALMON - tt CHUIH SALMON - 1- Can 21 10 Pl" BEETS CUT CREST 10' 11 ?lu,'V-8 COCKTAIL 29 5 Blue Points , 18-oz Can V-8 Cocktail -- 15 GRAPES SWEET SPH3ED Tall Can 15 FLOUR SuKNKY 22 1.73 ?. .... 93 PICKLES sr8 19 SOAP GRAINS -adwav --l Good Housekeepers t?ssSe 4Re,'10 FUttswotfh PricWto thisd Effective through May subject only to mkej cta in Fresh Fruits Vegetjble We reserve the right td Um;t uantmes. ho s.cs td d.s. Move Adjournment Nearer Lincoln, Nebr., May 8., (UP) Only . 13 bills were erased from the general file calendar In the Nebras ka legislature in sharp contrast to the 63 moved up the week before, but stumbling blocks to adjournment were moved aside during the week. The legislature now has advanc ed nearly all of the non-controversial measures and this week dispos ed of the two power bills In one-two time. ' One was the Omaha Power Com mission bill and the other affected the public power and irrigation dis tricts, especally the Consumers. Oth er power issues remained but they likely will prove less controversial now that the main measure LB-204 and 286 have moved on to select file. Sixty bills remain on general file contrasted to only 20 at the session two years ago on the 86th day. The session lags in the number of meas ures killed 147 to 297 in 1941. In bills passed, it holds a slight lead 135 to 133. Swedes Hope Invasion Stockholm, May 7. (UP) (De layed) Kato Hambro, 31, sea of the former president of the Norwe gian Parliament arriving in Sweden after two weeks of dodging the axis, revealed tonight that his country men are praying desperately for an allied invasion of the continent. Norwegians, Hambro said, are near the breaking point after ruth less persecution lack of food, and forced labor moblilzation which Is breaking up families and whole communities. Hambro hopes to get to the Unit ed States where his father, Carl J. Hambro, fled early in the war. Confer Over Poles London, May 8. (UP) Sir Archi bald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Moscow, has conferred with Pre mier Joseph Stalin and Foreign Com misar Viacheslav M. Moltow, pre sumably in connection with the wid ening breach in soviet Polisi rela tions, it was desclosed today. The conference was reported by the Mos cow radio without elaboration. Hower Garden Club Members of the Flower Club met with Mrs. Frank Taylor for a cov ered dish luncheon at her home Tuesday of last week. A large crowd attended. Mrs. J. B. Banning, the new club president was in charge of the meeting. The ladies discussed what they would like to have in their gardens. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Dinges. Mrs. John Woods of Elmwood was a guest. PEIP- UIP Blue Points and Thrive! Plenty of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Them at Hinky - Dinky 2 Lbs. 25 dozen 45 DcenSS v"cr,e. Bundle of 100 10 1 V A