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X PAGE FOUH THE JOTOKAI, TLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA President to Broadcast "Washington, June 5, U.P. President Roosevelt will address delegates of the forty four nations who have just concluded delibera tions at the Hot Springs Virginia Food Conference at 4:15 P.M. c.w.t. Monday, the White House announc ed today. The speech was expect ed to deal with conference recom mendations and food planning. It will be broadcast to the nation. Buy War Bonds Weeping Water G. It. Binger, Mr. and Mrs. John Bolze and son Ttoger,' and Mrs. S. D. Litton were at Wilbur on Memor ial day. Mrs. Litton remained there for a longer visit with relatves. Mrs. F. A. Hacker (Gertrude Cole) visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cole, on Memorial Sunday. Mrs. Julia Johnson was a week end visitor at Omaha with friends. Word of the death of Charles Beach, 77, at Lincoln, Tuesday, came as a shock to the pioneers of this community, who had known the members of the family when they lived in Cass county, first on a farm near Wabash, then later they moved to Weeping Water. The sympathy of friends in this community is extended to the widow in her saddest hour. The Dorcas Circle, of the Christ ian Church, held one of their well known Birthday Luncheons, today (Thursday) at the home of Mrs. John Reike. IS SEASONED) DOROTHY TOMIBE W.N.O. CANFIELD eo FEATURES Owifeli CHAPTER IX SYNOPSIS i t 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. When he keeps his appointment with Mr. Wheaton he is told that he has made a big mistake in admitting a Jewish boy as a student Timothy meets his nephew. Canby Hunter, who gives him some suggestions about developing the Acad emy. Canby goes on a skiing party in bad weather. They run across an auto accident in the mountains in which Susan was badly injured. He brings her to Dr. Anson Craft for medical attention. His silence broke the spell which had held the others, leaning to his harshly whispered words, their faces blank white. They straight ened themselves stiffly, took their eyes from the narrator for the first time, and looked at each other un seeingly. The door behind them opened, closed, noiselessly. Doctor Craft was there to issue commands: abso lute quiet in the house tonight, his wife would stay with the case till the roads were sanded and he could get another nurse down from the Ashley hospitaL "Yes, yes. she has a chance. She's lost an awful lot of blood. Maybe a transfusion tomorrow say, you, whatever your name is," he said roughly to Can by, sprawled forward in his chair to listen, "you go home and get to bed. You're just about all in your self." He went out the door, clos ing it with infinite care behind him. Back of them, Timothy Hulme leaned faintly against the wall, and then let himself down into a chair because the droning in his ears made him too dizzy to stand up. Miss Peck had been the first to collect herself enough to speak. "The doctor doesn't allow anyone with her, Mrs. Washburn. He even had the nurse sit out in the living room with the door ajar. It's not only her eyes, you know. Nor the loss of blood. It's the results of shock. The doctor . . ." "Oh, did he? Well all right. I'll do what the nurse did then. If the door's ajar, I can sit close to it and talk through the crack. I'm just a useless old woman, you know. I've nothing else to do." Timothy heard again the raw in solent rudeness of Canbys voice. "Say, that's a swell idea of yours, Mrs. Washburn! Too good for you to keep to yourself, by heck! I'll stay with you on that, I'll sit there, too. I'm just a useless young man, you know. I haven't got anything else to do either, see? Any more'n you have. Skiing's over for this year." Timothy once more saw Canby's impudent grin, as he looked around the table, careless of mak ing a fool of himself. And because he was there, al ways there, Canby was the one who welcomed her as Susan groped her way back to health. Leaden-limbed, impotent, incredulous, Timothy had watched the current getting away from him, faster and faster. The moment had passed when had it gone by him? No, no, it had never been there when, risking all on one stroke, he might have given Canby the peremptory order to drag the old woman away bodily, and leave him alone with Susan. Mr. Dewey now stood up and picked his way along the rock to the other fire. "Moon's due to rise in three-four minutes," he said. Timothy got to his feet and stepped with the old man from one to an other of the sleeping boys, giving each shoulder a shake, saying clearly in their ears, "The moon will soon be up. If you want to see the moon rise, now's the time." They grunted, nodded, and sat up, or propped themselves unsteadily on one elbow and looked around sleepily. Presently Timothy's professional conscience, reaching him on a re flex of habit, bade him make sure that all was well with those en trusted to his protection. He turned his head to look and saw that, as he had thought, the boys had col lapsed again into sound sleep. No, one of them was stirring. Bending his eyes more intently, Timothy saw that the blanketed form near est him was stirring. He rose to his feet, he took the two or three steps that brought him to the boy, stooped, put his hand on his shoul der. It was Jules. Wide awake. he lay looking out over the silvered UDland pasture and across the val ley brimming with white. Timothy asked, "bomeining me matter, ' Jules?" The boy clutched at Timothy's arm and sat up. "Oh, Professor Hulme, I can't stand it!" He pulled the teacher down to sit beside him "It's like that swell place in the Kxeutzer w-where the octaves . . ." he choked and rubbed his sleeve hack and form over tus nose. Tim cthy pulled out bis handkerchief gad passed it to the boy, who blew "Sounds to me as if you were dreaming rather a nice dream. his nose, handed back the hand kerchief and pointing to a straggly small bush near him said, his voice cracking grotesquely from treble to bass and back again. "Profes sor Hulme, maybe I'm crazy, but when that bush came out of the darkness it c-came singing! Hon est! Do you think I'm crazy? Oh, gosh, I wish my darned voice would stop changing." "You probably weren't quite waked up, Jules," suggested the teacher clamly. "Sounds to me as if you were dreaming. Rather a nice dream." Timothy looked at the fire. Night was no more. The new day began. The day wind woke. The column of smoke slowly, gently, bowed itself to the rising sun. "So be it," said Timothy Hulme, and got stiffly up to go on with his teacher's work of arousing those who sleep. Renewed like eagles by long dreamless sleep, the troop of youth clattered up the trail. From time to time they looked back over their shoulders at the old and middle-aged men soberly bringing up the rear. They crossed the top of Dowling Hollow. This meant that they were halfway to Hawley Pond. "What say we get our breaths?" suggest ed Mr. Dewey, sinking down on the huge trunk of an old fallen yel low birch. Then he fell to talking about Mr. Wheton's health, said not to be very good of late. "How old is he?" asked Timothy. "Not old at alL Can't be more'n seventy." He got stiffly to his feet, and snapped his fingers at the old col lie. The boys scrambled up and started on along the trail which here, following the old wood road, was wide enough for several of them to walk abreast Jules be gan to sing the Academy song, and the others joined in. Mr. Dewey hummed the air un der his breath. The boys van ished around a turn of the road. The two men walked soberly side by side. Mr. Dewey's thoughts went back to the question of Mr. Wheaton's health, and he asked, "D'you s'pose he'll remember the Academy in his will? You'd think he might, to hear him go on about how much he thinks of it and all." He asked as if Timothy could know, "D'you suppose he might think of leaving as much as ten thousand?" Mr. Dewey, walking more and more slowly, looking down at the green and gray carpet of moss lichen,, thrusting out his lips thoughtfully, finally halted Timothy, laying a hand on his arm. "Say, T. C, why ain't this as good a time as any" he looked around the empty forest "to tell you that I've made my will to leave what I've got to the Academy? Tain't much. It comes, to take it all in all, woodlots and mill and savings bank books, to about ten thousand. That's what made me, I guess, think of that much as maybe com ing from Wheaton, too." There was no breath left over for more than an occasional brief question and answer during the long climb down. With a pang of alarm for himself, Timothy noted that Mr. Dewey looked very old as well as entirely exhausted. "Don't you want me to step ahead and get my car out, and take you home?" he asked, his solicitude too audible. "No, I do not," said the haggard old man, nettled and belligerent. "I'm a-goin to the office to see if there's a letter from Wheaton come in." They limped on in dogged silence then, footsore, unshaven, their coats over their arms, their faded shapeless clothes stained brown and green by damp earth and moss. They climbed slowly up the ' worn marble steps into the echoing cor ridor with its musty smell of age and chalk dust and mice, into the high-ceilinged, dingy room that was the Principal's office. A good deal of mail was heaped on the Principal's desk. Mr. Dewey dropped his hat on the floor and sank heavily into a chair; Timothy put out his hand to sort the let ters. The one they were looking for was at once visible to Mr. . Dewey. Timothy handed it across the table to the old man. Timothy was still looking down at a letter from Delia Barney when Mr. Dewey said surprisingly, "Well, the dirty skunk," and laid the let ter on the table. "Read it. Read it, T. C," he murmured, dropping his head wearily back and closing his eyes till Timothy had finished. It did not take long; the words, entirely legible in very black let ters on white, leaped out to say that Mr. Wheaton had long ago and more than once told Hulme to get rid of that incompetent old janitor, Melville Griffith, and now was the time to dp it. Anybody could see that he was the one who had left the faucet turned on. Here was the talking point for dismissing him which Mr. Wheaton had long been waiting. "Look around and locate a family man with young children who's been out of a job for some time there must be lots of them in Ashley since the shutting down of the chair factory you could prob ably get him actually for less wages than Griffith. He wouldn't dare hold out for more anyhow, no matter what he had been earning." The two men looked at each oth er in a long silence. Finally Mr. Dewey remarked in a conversa tional tone. "Wa-al. I guess mebbe I could get a couple o'hundred for the oak on the Tyler lot 'T'aint really big enough to cut yet, but . . ." "Oh, never mind. I've got nearly two hundred and fifty in the bank I could spare," said Timothy. He laid the letter down. Mr. Dewey silently reached for it and dropped it into the wastepaper bas ket. As he turned his head to do this, he caught sight through the open window of someone on the far corner of the level ground in front of the Academy, and looked to Bee who it was. Timothy followed the direction of his eyes and saw a tall,' red-headed boy pushing a bicycle up the hill from the village. The boy left his bicycle collapsed in a tangle of glittering wires and started across the empty tennis court. He had a white envelope and a yellow one in his hand. He appeared at the open door of the Principal's office and handed the two envelopes to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. "Wait a minute, Burt," said Tim othy. "Maybe there's an answer. Here, I'll sign for that special de livery." Mr. Dewey had roused himself enough from his limp exhaustion to lean a little forward in his chair as he took the two envelopes from the messenger. He tore open the yellow one first, looked at it blank ly, said, "What d'you s'pose that means?" and passed it on to Tim othy. It read, "Sending important letter to you special delivery mail today. Gilbert W. Paine." Mr. Dewey tore open the letter, began to read, turned very white, and handing the letter to Timothy, said, "Here, you tell me what's in thart." They had forgotten the Academy senior standing back ol them. Timothy began to read aloud con nectedly, but by the end of the first sentence he was wildly snatching only at the salient word in each phrase, flinging them out without connection as if he were reading aloud a telegram, "George Clar ence Wheaton found dead apoplexy will leave Academy one million dollars for endowment two hun dred thousand for buildings on condition name be changed Wheat on Preparatory School also exclu sion all Jewish students Jewish defined as person with any relative of Hebrew blood codicil prescribes also that tuition be ..." Mr. Dewey was on his feet risen to his full height "What do you say to that, Timothy Hulme?" he asked, his face dark as thunder. "I say it's infamous. What did you think I'd say?" shouted Tim othy, crushing the letter together and flinging it down. . , , (TO BE CONTINUED). ;2jJ Mrs. Fred Hike and three child ren, were visitors at the Clifford Cooper home, Friday. How about that garden? We have been asked several times lately I be lieve that I have never explained that this garden plot was flooded so badly, last summer that it was thought to be ruined forever. That is why everyone is so interested in its welfare. When the paving was laid on Eldora Avenue, dirt was filled in north of the garden, leaving a waterway which runs diagonally through this garden, washing out the asparagus bed, the rhubarb bed, and everything else in its path. Three fruit trees were taken, also, leaving a deep hole in the north side. The man who has it this sum mer was told all this. He has roll ed stones down from the huge pile of dirt which was filled in, and dug deep trenches, hoping to carry off future floods. Just row after row of peas are in bloom, Carrots, onions, spinach, lettuce, beets, are on level ground. Tomatoes are staked and are growing rapidly. Sweet potatoes are ditched so as to hold all water at their roots. Cab bage is sprayed, and Flowers are planted along the edges. The west end of the garden slopes upward. There beans are planted on contour rows, to hold the rain, and back of them are several rows of glads. There are no weeds in this garden, and every plant is kept sprayed. It is a beautiful sight, and will be much more beautiful when plants have grown larger. It is now a question of whether, or not, the newly built dam will hold if a heavy rain comes. It is hard to believe our eyes when we view the picture there today, after viewing the wreck of last summer, which was the benefit which we derived? from the paving. Mrs. John Domingo was hostess to a group of seven women at the Woman's Club breakfast Tuesday morning. Her guests were Mrs. Fred Gorder, Mrs. S. Ray Smith, Mrs. Clarence Pool, Mrs. W. W, Jamesen, J. L. Wiles, Mrs. Homer Jamesen and Mrs. Thomas Murtey. Mrs. Ray Norris, county Red Cross chairman, announces that the Cass County annual Red Cross meeting will be held July 21 at eight thirty, at the Weepipg Water Methodist church'. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Brandt visited Elmwood and Unadilla, on Decora tion Day. I Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jacobson and family returned home rom San Anselmo, California, Monday. Mr. Jacobsen has been in California for the past seventeen months. His family joined him there several months ago. Their daughter Thel ma remained at San Anselmo until the close of the" school year, when she will also return. Mrs. Keith Saunders is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiles. Mr. Saunders left Thursday of last week to join the Navy. Mrs. Arthur Wiles spent four days last week at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Uffelman, at Syracuse. They brought her home Sundy and remained to spend the day. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ruby of Nebraska City visited with Mr. Ruby's parents, the E. M. Rubys from Wednesday until Saturday, last week. Bernard has received his call to report for his physical examination next Monday, for en trance into the Army. Virgil Rhodes had what might have been a serious accident, Mon day evening when he was repairing the track for his hay fork. In some way he caught his hand in, the pulley and was suspended about thirty feet above the ground, and hanging by one hand, caught in the pulley. Some of his neighbors had to be called to get him down from his perilous position. Mrs. Leone Swisher, of Lincoln, was a Weeping Water visitor, Deco ration Day. Mrs. Swisher teaches in the Lincoln schools. When school closes she expects to leave for Los Angeles to spend the summer with her daughter, Miss Dorothy Swisher. Mrs. Raymond Norris, of Eagle, visited Mis. Clifford Cooper, Tues day. Friday evening the Coopers entertained Mrs. Coopers parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Ruby, and her George Olive and Jack Herman have enrolled for work at the sum mer term at the State University, at Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Parson and family spent Memorial Sunday with Mrs. Parson's mother, Mrs. F. M. Hall, at Bennett. Their daughter, Donna, remained for a longer visit with her grandmother. brother, Bernard Ruby, and wife at! Raymond Snow, of Phoenix, Ariz., visited his parents, Rev. and Airs. Frank Snow last week, ' before he reported for duty in the army. a chicken dinner The Jolly Homemakers entertain ed at a party Wednesday afternoon for a former member, who is visit ing here this weeek, Mrs. Owen Runyon, of St. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tankersley left Wednesday morning for a visit with their two daughters, one at Salem, Oregon, and one at Portland, Oregon. Before returning home they I will also visit their son Keith, at i Mr. and Mrs. Chas Philpot and two children are visiting Charles' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Philpot. He has a thirty day leave of ab sence from hi3 work in South Ameri ca. The wife and children have been making their home at Onawa, Iowa, since he went south. Mrs. Oscar Zink, of Lincoln, was Camp Kerns, Utah. The were ac- j a Memorial day visitor at the home companied by their daughter Shir- 01 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ratnour. ley, and their son Larry. Ray Tan- T . . t . . -r . , , I Mrs. Leo Christensen informs us kersley, Jr., is already on the west- ,h!lf tu n .that John McCune, son-in-law of em coast. , . the late II. P. Christensen, who was The annual picnic dinner of the badly injured in an automobile ac Congregational Church, will be held'cIdent while enroute to his father Sunday, after the morning church ! in-law's funeral, is better, and has service, on the lawn of the Ray j Deen removed from the oxygen tent. Norris home. This is an event ' Mrs. Roscoe Sill, who was also in- which is looked forward to, withjured was taken to her home Fri great pleasure, by those who attend. Miss Eloise Pool came home Fri day, from Peru, where she is an instructor, to spend a weeks vaca tion with her parents, Mr. and Mrs day. They have been at the Luther an hospital in Omaha. We believe that we told you that Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tankersley and their family left Wednesday for the Clarence E. Pool. She came as far western coast, iney am get as iar as Weeping Water, with Dr. Thelma as Omaha, and were unable to get Komig, who went on to Schyler for a visit before going east. Miss Haz el Pool, of Geneva, also arrived here Friday and remained until Sunday evening, and all enjoyed a fine visit. One of the happiest events for the members of the Weeping Water j Woman's Club, each year, is their; annual June breakfast, and instal lation of officers for the coming year, luseday morning this break fast was served by Mrs. McDonald, in the new annex to Mac's Cafe, with members and guests all seat ed at one large table, in the shape of a double T. large bowls of peon ies, oriental poppies, and pyrethum, adorned the table, and nut cups in the shape of small baskets, holding small flowers were used for favors. At nine thirty a breakfast consist ing of a mixed fruit compote, bacon, goldenrod eggs on toast, hot baking powder biscuits, butter, jelly, and coffee was served after which a short business meeting presided over by Mrs. John Norris, when the decision was made to meet twice each month next year, one day for study and the other to assist in mak ing surgical dressings at the Red Cross rooms. The first meeting to be held on the third Tuesday in September. Mrs. Frank Marshall, a past presi dent, conducted the installation services, for Mrs. John Norris as president; Miss Esther Tefft, vice president; Mrs. Homer Jamesen, Secretary; and Mrs. Floyd Hite, Trfeasurer. Mrs. Clarence Tefft conducted the devotionals. Mrs. Floyd Hite was chairman of the committee in charge of the break fast. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Simmons re ceived a letter from their son Eu gene this last week, from North Af rica. As this was their first word from him since in Aprl, they were made very happy by its receipt. Kenneth Faux, son of Mrs. Earl Powers, was fishing along the creek Thursday evening, when he fell on a jagged pece of cement, cutting his leg badly. He was taken to Bryan Memorial hospital, where twenty four stitches had to be taken. His mother reports that he will probably have to remain at the hospital for a week, but that he is recovering nicely. A WEDNESDAY SPECIAL Clean & Press Mens Suits and Top Coats and Spring Coats Plain Dresses and Mannish Suits Heavy Coats and White Garments Not Included! Men's Felt HaU Cleaned and Reblocked like new Beg. Price 75c-fSave a Third Same high quality work as at our regular prices. No one day service. Cash and Carry! Lugsch Gleaners 429 Main St ,, Phone 166 onto the train. With about one hundred other people who failed to get onto the train, they decided to return home and make another at tempt at a later date. Mrs. J. S. Shrauger and son, Jackie, returned Thursday morning from a two weeks visit at Muskoge, Okla., with Major and Mrs. Peter sen, formerly of Weeping Water. Helmar and Walter Christensen, sons of the late H. P. Christensen, are here visiting relatives. Botff men live at Long Beach, Calif. Mrs. Theo C. Harms and daughter, Marilyn, went to Springfield on Decoration Day and accompanied Mrs. Carne's mother, Mrs. Norma Marks, and her sister, Miss Blanche Marks, to Ashland, for Memorial services. While there they visited another sister, Mrs. George New sham. Friendly Farm ladies held their last meeting for this season, Wed nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Marion Spangler, with Mrs. Ed Steinkamp, as assistant hostess. Newly elected officers for the com ing year are Mrs. Renos Anderson, president; Mrs. Thor Hansen, vice president; Mrs. Alvin Groesser, sec retary. Their meetings will he con tinued in September. Mrs. 0. C. Hinds returned home Friday morning from a months visit with her son. Major Harold Hinds and her daughter, Miss Betty Hinds, in Arizona and with relatives in California. Accompanying her home was Mrs. Harold Hinds, who will remain here, and in Lincoln, for a months visit- Miss Leona Simmons left Thurs day for Pomona, Calif., after a months visit with her parents. Her wedding to Carl Martin, of Pomona, will take place June 12. Week end visitors at the' home of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Elgaard were their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Kracht, of Omaha. Other guests at their home, Sunday, were another son-in-law and dau ghter, Mr. and Mrs. Don" Philpot, and family. " Danish Ladies Aid society met Thursday afternoon at the home of" Mr. and Mrs. Chris Rasmussen, when Red Cross knitting kept the ladies busy during the afternoon. Mrs. Ellis Lallue and Miss Kath arine Ellie were at Peru last week, when Mrs. La Rue made arrange ments to attend summer school at the state Teacher's College. The Colbert family annual picnic was held at Lincoln, at Antelope Park . Marion and Gertrude Stutt, dau ghters of Mr. and Mrs. Aden Stutt, left last week for San Francisco, where they have work in a defense plant. Mrs. Clarence Perrigue arrived here the first part of last week for a visit with her mother, Mrs. James McNamee, and her sister, Mrs. Hen ry Rugha. She expects to return home Tuesday. Mrs. E. J. DeWolf returned home last week from Wichita, Kans., where she spent the winter with a daughter. Mrs. Joe John has returned from a two weeks visit with her daughter at Spencer, Neb., Mr. and Mrs. Chas Gibson and Mrs. LaVern Hayes were in Lincoln Sunday at a family gathering at the S. A. Jackman home, honoring Lt. Philip Gregory and wife, of Roswell, New Mexico, a nephew of Mrs. Gibson. Correction: Mrs. Jack Jorgensen, who left for Wilmington, N. C, will make the ac quaintance of her new grand-daughter, the daughter of Lieutenant and Mrs. Gerald Jorgensen. 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