Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1916 — Page 2

THE GIDL ANDB THE GAME H A ffW®IF ffIDTOMS MMW LflCfE 6EPANK HSPEAPNAN ♦ AUTHOR OF "WHISPERING SMITH,” "THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE." “STRATEGY OF GREAT RAILROAD/." ETC. NOVELIZED FROM THE MOVING PICTURE PLAY OWHE SAME NAME. PRODUCED BY THE SIGNAL FILM CORPORATION. cowont

SYNOPSIS. Little Helen Holmes, daughter of General Hoinvs, railroad man. Is rescued from imminent danger on a scenic railroad, by George Storm, a newsboy. Grown to young womanhood Helen makes a spectacular double rescue of Storm, now a freight tin man, and of In r father and his friends. Aim s Rhinelander, financier, and Robert Ft agrue, promoter, from a threatened collision between a passenger train and a runaway freight. Safebreakers employed by Seagrue and Capelie, his lawyer, interrupted by Helen while stealing General Holmes’ survey plans of the cut-off line for the Tidewater, fatally wound General Holmes und escape. Storm and Helen cliksc the murderers on a light engine and capture them. Spike has hidden the plans und manages to inform Seagrue where tiiev are cached. Her father’s estate badlv Involved by his death, Helen goes to work on the Tidewater. Seagrue helps Spike to break jail and uses him to set lire to a powder train hauled by Storm’s engine. Helen saves Storm from a horrible death. Helen recovers the survey plans from Se.tgrue. and though th£y are talo n rfrom her, finds an accidentally made proof of the survey blue print. FIFTH INSTALLMENT THE FIGHT AT SIGNAL STATION The operator at Signal station could hardly have been more peacefully engag’d than she was at the moment George Storm threw open the office door and paused on the threshold. “What are you doing over here this morning?” demanded Helen.

"Looking for a job.” "You might take mine,” suggested Helen, lifting her eyebrows in a profession of sympathy, ‘‘Whereabouts is that man Rhinelander?” asked Storm lazily. ‘‘Hasn’t he got some kind of a construction camp around this joint?” "Why. how stupid of me not to have ; thousrht of Uncle Amos myself," ex- ' claimed Helen. “Os course he has. : And he’s sure to have a job for you." , "He is sure,” drawled Storm, “either to have a job for me or the best chance he ever had in his life to get licked —1 give him his choice.” “Kind of you,” retorted Helen; “he wouldn't mind getting ‘licked,’ of course, but he is short of men—l hap-1 pen to know that.” . J “Maybe I’d better go over and give him a chance tc hire me.” "Suppose I go with you.” Helen and Storm found Rhinelander hard at work. It was the first time he had seen Storm since the night on > the launch and he greeted his Visitors with a hearty laugh. ‘“Licked?*” He echoed, after Helen had repeated her companion’s threats. “Why, George, I could whip my weight in wildcats this morning. I’ll have steel half way up the pass if I can get hold of a few cars of ties this week. And something always happens when I feel this way. I’ll tell you right now.” he pointed a stubby finger at Storm, “it!s up to you, BSWBOO J • f. /if'it I®||| Ji,*- ’ MW- a BIK Ml Hei n Attached Her Instrument and Sent a Hurry-Up Message. young fellow. Either go to work here, or take a dressing down yourself.” “My hands are up,” said Storm. “I’ll go to work. What have you got?” Rhinelander turned to his foreman. They took only a minute to confer. “Wood has a job for you right now,” announced Rhinelander to Storm. “You arc assistant foreman. Get busy.”, That particular day was to prove a x busy on<? for the whole camp. Helen returned to the station and Storm went out with Wood—himself a veteran engineman. The mailman came in presently with a letter for Rhinelander, advising him that a bid he had made for a large quantity of ties had been acI

, cepted. The first shipment was prom- ' ised for Thursday. Rhinelander called in Wood to hear the news. “Have the fly;. gang here tomorrow early, to the L.st man lack," directed Rhinelander. "New t we’ve got a chance, let's make a kiliui o .’ Wood summoned Storm “Put up the bulletin. Georgie," directed Wood. At Oceanside, the directors of the road were in session. Capolie, representative of Seagrue, leader of the enemy camp in the cut-off race, learned from them that morning of the new construction credits granted to Rhinelander. In the directors' room there had been a stormy scene when Capello denounced the action they had taken. But his angry protest came too late and he was forced to carry his wrath and the bad news out to Seagrue. Storm lost no time in posting the bulletin. While he wrote it out men gathered about and one. in especial, read the announcement with keen, snaky eyes: “Fly will be at Signal tlon at 9 a. m. to unload ties.” This one was Spike, Seagrue's spy in the Rhinelander camp. Restless, conscienceless, teeming with crooked instincts, as devoted to mischief as the devil to men, Spike printed the substance cf the bulletin on his mem-I

ory, and turning from the men around him left the scene. By a circuitous route which he habitually used in sneaking from one camp to the other, i Spike made his way to Seagrue’s hut, and reported what he had just read on the bulletin board. Seagrue regarded him with amuse ment. “There are no more ties coming to Rhinelander," he explained patiently. “His supplies are cut off.’’ Before Seagrue could say more there.was a knock at the door and his foreman, Bill Delaney, appeared with Capelie. Seagrue lost no time in asking the news and Capelle, with the best face he could summon, told him how they had lost out on stopping Rhinelander’s credit. Men that h£d known Seagrue a long time could never remember seeing him as angry as he was at that moment. “Why wasn’t the credit stopped?" he demanded furiously, "as you said it was?” Capelle answered bluntly: “Rhinelander's new credit was granted during my absence.” No explanation served to allay Sea- I grue’s rage. He pointed wrathfully at Spike. “Tell him what you saw about, ties.” While Capelle, humiliated, listened. Spike repeated once more the bulletin board message. "Had you followed my instructions,” cried Seagrue, regarding Capelle ! scornfully, “the ties would not have been furnished.” Capelle turned sullenly away, refusing to talk further. “I did the best I could,” was all he would say. i Seagrue, himself, was in no mood to listen to excuses had there been' any more to offer. Paying no more attention to Capelie's presence he whirled angrily on Spike. Few words) were ever needed or exchanged between these two men. “Those ties”— Seagrue looked significantly at his tool I —“must never reach Rhinelander.” ’ z | With a great deal of thought and very brief expressions, the two conferred apart. What they worked out no one knew. But* a few moments later Seagrue gave Spike a liberal sup ply of money and Spike left the hut. Calling to Capelle, Seagrue resumed his abuse. Spike, without delay, hastened to ■ Signal station, bought a ticket from Helen and took the local passenger train for Oceanside. He had the day and the night before him to figure out schemes to prevent the delivery of the ties to Rhinelander, and by morning he had more than one ready. The easiest one he tried first, and I he might have been seen in the morn- 1 ing, early, in the out-freight yards at Oceanside watching the make-up of the freight train that was to take the ! four cars of ties to Signal. He kept in the background every moment, but had continually within his eye the: preparations to get the train underl way. When at length tho brakeman entered the caboose to place the waybills on the desk, Spike watched him closely, only taking care to get away before he was observed himself. Sneaking up toward the head end he caught sight of the conductor, and to avoid him dodged in between two box cars. But the conductor had seen him and scenting a knave summoned a yard policeman. The two descended on Spike with scant ceremony. '’’The de- ' tective dragged him from his hiding i place, questioned him, warned hiffi, i and marching him off shot him out of ; the yards on a goose step, put Spike, . as strong for resources as a cat for - lives, had only begun to work when - he was ordered to “beat it.” He did • beat it, but to such good purpose that . he got down to the bridge ahead of the

| T- -n. when the trnn drew I | .1: ,’. hs'iui’v . .ouriti u. the hoy 4 > Home moments later the hind-end | ' I vrakeman. sitting on the caboose, saw j I I t tramp •:> th door of a box car. The I I brakert: -’."d forward to Invest!-1 gats and had h ■ b< . We to soe all > 1 ' I Ing to thd side of a car < f li.-s removing Rbinidanilcr's :,... ■« fr. tn tintid.lInf; card and substituting therefor the name of Seagrue. One after another of thn billing cards i ’ '.he i ir • j ; >i iMated in the b:iwo v.::y. in the meat- | time the two braknra n, one of whom j had caught a glimpse t.’ him, were 1 consulting as to how to r t him. But I by tho time they had made their plans . and were ready £or a Eoreibio laying on of bunds Spike’s work was done. Watching the trainmen walk forward, I he dropped, lightly from the last car • and ivaiting for the caboer •••', which was empty, swung up try the hand rail f and went inside the ear. He grabbed - j tho waybills from thy rack box and examined them. Finding thoso for the ! [ cars of ties, he carefully erased RhinoI lender's name from each of thorn and ’ ■ taking bls time inserted Seagrue’s. • I Having done v bat struck him as an >I artistic job on these, ho replaced tho ’ i bills and climbing into tb.o cupola : . locked outside. I 1 It vso tl'f nby gor'd fortune that the ’: conductor .and ono of the two brake■l :.cn spotted him. To got bark quick ' iicy I*tho engineer—the train 1 •?> gQing at a pretty food clip—and ■ farted lor the si-io. 1, it this suited ' I ?p!kc's O’.tt game, fcr as the train I i'Ok; d ho drop; d ?fL sr/l the crew, I :'.linking themselves well rid of a > | rJKULce. signaled their engineman ■ i The train vs" running not far from I "camnu !a:> Spike leu it. and slink- ! ! ng into the woods adjoining the right .' x v;ay Ijc? nzad? bis wry ar fast ' ..• con’:! op to <he Beaman telegraph i

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I Seagrue: Changed ths two ties you thought 1 RhlnelandCr for two that suit ) Seagrue. i “Say, where’s the nearest livery stable in this p;ace, mister," Spike asked i I the agent. < He hardly waited to hear the answer ) given him before io was on his way ) out of tho ofiice. And without losing I a minuto he got a horse where he | ! had been directed for one and. rode i hastily away on it. Helen, a so b 1 3 ‘ * ) she handed it to Lyons ho said he ■ would deliver it. Blueing the dupli- ) | cute on tile, Helen resumed her cro-1 | chet work. Passing the'Tidowatar cm -P, Lyons I , saw Rhinelander. Storm in ‘V.’oc : i;. I conference over unload.ag the enpset- ; ed ties. “You don't need me over at the sta- ) tion,” said Weed to Eld . I?:. . 1 .: r. “I'll : send Storm with the men to look after ) the unloading. I'll stay’ hero with i these lazy griders.” Seagrue htmeslf lock the r,s ,ge from Lyons. Ho read it with secret satisfaction. The it Lyo: s had i left, Seagrue called Delaney, his foreman, told him to get the gang together "Xo unload four cars cf tleo tho instant ) tho local freight pulled in. I , But in th§ Interval the Tidewater I camp leaders, Rhinelander ana Storm, I were not losing any time in Irckinj, liter the shipment th we reives, and ) they appeared together at the r.u im». Ito geirvack of it. L> , in riwputse i to Rhinolandor’;; inquiries, said ho did : not know whaj. the local freight was carrying. "You find o-t, will you. I .-.i?‘ i eeiked Itniur’iLn-ler. A;: ; ar t-j r. :d< i the request ho nlioved J... iii.; Icti-v •| id vising him thentes -..ould.be on the ■ I local. ; While Rhin.tdnnrler, Storm. Halen 1! and Lyons wc. e thus cug- d, Sea- .! grue ami his foreman, DWaoey, eni lei (( u tiie c? ■ .1 at II his best, very affable and friendly with A werybddy anti ’ as soon at* ing qvrs -i ticns as to what ties were coming for ;j him. that morning. Helen took his in- , | jufrics and Rlihielauoc:, overhearing. fi explained that the ties coming in on . tho local freight train that morning r [ were tor the Tidewater work, not for 11 Sfeagpue. Seagrue declared him mls--1 taken. A dispute Cared up, which in a t tuament involved practically everyJ I - I

I bony pt tho room, of these, the op- | petition bosses for tho unloading jobs, I D'Maney and Storm, became the most I heated and seemed i bout to come to I blows. Put Rbtnelnnrb'r, cheeking I Storm's indignation, advised restraint and referred tin wide thing to Halon, asking her to find the real fact out j from the dispatcher. sent a | hurry-up ny a igc and the answer came from the »>i.- catcher's office within a few min nt on: "Local will set out four cars ties at Signal for Rhinelander’s construction gang. H. C. W.” Lyons, without comment, passed the mt age to Rhinelander. w4io rea(j it : and showed it triumphantly to Seagme. Beagrne entered an emphatic dissent. "I don't »care what those • boobs at Opeanslde say,” he snapped. "Those ties are for me and you'll find out I knew what I'm talking about." Fast werda followed. Storm and Delaney again eyed each other fiercely. Thon the sound of a freight train pulling in started everybody in the room out for the platform. The moment the train stopped the disputants crowded forward, each side eager to reach the conductor first. The conductor, a man of peace, listened unmoved to the violent contentions addressed to him. At length he produced the waybills for the property in dispute. Seagrue got hold of them first. To his delight ho saw that, as expected, they read to him as consignee, and he showed them with an injured air to Lyons. Rhinelander, reading the doctored bills over Lyons' shoulder, was confounded. Seagrue meant to let nothing of his advantage slip for lack of action. He whirled on Delaney. “Get our ties off those cars, Bill, and do it quick.” Storm took r hand in. He. felt his side was beaten, but would not quit. “Hold on,” he said grijffly. “Not yet. This thing is in dispute. Take your time," he added to Delaney, and a significant look lent strength to his words. Again Rhinelander quieted Storm down. Delaney began giving orders to

guarded eye on them, suspicious of some counter-move, Rhinelander and Storm accompanied Lyons and Helen into the station. Seagrue’s men, crowding after their i triumphant foreman, gave the laugh I to the Tidewater gang, who stood with th. ir hands in their pockets, and started alter the ties. inside the office a perplexed and . ru.:> ! ::l group gathered aro’J||d i Helen. She .showed the dispatcher's I message to the conductor. Seagrue, ! not to be outfaced, came inside to ) watch the proceedings and demanded i to know again of the puzzled couducj tor whether the ties were not plainly 1 enough for him. In the face of the ’ cc-il' i tii:g evidence the conductor did ) not knew what to decide. "Fight it out yourselves, boys! I give it up.” was all that could be got out of nim. And Seagrue, declaring he would unload the ties anyway, left the office. Once outside, he again spurfed Delaney lo haste. Stn 'ii followed Seagrue from the office and once outside and awa-wfrom Helen he protected vigorously. Rhinelander, behind him, told Storm to keep | cool. zi.t that moment Delaney, break-) iii ; i in, almost precipitated a riot. “Get, out of this thing,” he bellowed at 'Storm, “and keep out! Do you get i that? You're talking too much.” With the words, he pushed Storm tack. It was the wrong moment to lay ‘ hands on the stalwart young engineman, now. greatly wrought up. His arm phot out and his fist caught Deli vey on the jaw. The big foreman staggered. Seagpie, glad enougb to find himself outsid the center of the brawl, walked away only to encounter Spike as the latter, dashing in from the highway, sprang from his horse and hurriedly beckoned Seagrue to him. ' The two conferred in quick undertones together and Rhinelander, who stood with Helen and Lyons, watching them, saw them run to the tie cars, remove the billing cards and bring them back. Seagrue, with the air of a man aggrieved, showed the cards to Rhinelander. “What do_yeu say to this?” he demanded, in the confirmation of his claims. “Call off your men. They’re starting a riot hare to keep me from ■ i taking possession of my own prop- •' erty.” : Rhinelander, as near angry as he • > ever got, stamped his foot. “I tell you I'' ' l

~ - I I tnds<!"ties don't belong to you. it s ■ some trickery and thievery your gang ; > has put up on us. This way, Lyons! Accompanied by the ngent, Helen following. Rhinelander entered the station. Helen went to her desk to wire t for a confirmation of the dispatcher’s > i message. As she did this, her eyes • fell on the clip on which had been filed ' . the duplicate of Spike's message to I Seagrue. Across it she had thrown i her crochet work and her eye was now i met by the words of the cipher message as Spike had meant the secret > I message to be read by Seagrue: t “Changed ties Rhinelander to Sea- j . 1 grue.” - Startled, she called to Rhinelander, j With Lyons, the latter read the massage as she now pointed it out to them. I The two men saw the import at once, i Bat outside the station Spike and Sea-. . ! grue were listening. “You see you re ' , i caught," muttered Seagrue to Spike. . I "They’ll wire for confirmation and i j help. We're in for trouble." ' i ■ “No trouble at all,” declared Spike l coolly. "I’ll save them the work of i ' wiring.’ i j “How?” ■. “By clipping their wire. Just keep . | cool. Seagrue. I'll get you through. ■ I Spike, without delay, climbed a pole . and with a pair of clippers made good i ( his threat. i Helen, sitting at the instrument, was trying to call. She stopped. "The wires are cut,” she exclaimed. Seagrue and Spike on the platform passed the window. Storm, at this Juncture, ran in from the field of battle. “There's too many of them,” he said in disgust. "Every time you knock one dago down, two Greeks come in fb take his place. The way to wind this thing up. Mr. Rhinelander. quick and clean, is to capture Seagrue and lock him up. We can do it. Stick him in the freighthouse here and pile a couple of dozen bags of cement on him. No? I say, yes!!! Something’s got to be done.” Can't you get a message through somehow?” asked Rhinelander of Helen in agitation. “Yes," she answered, unhesitatingly, “I can. I'll get one through for you.” ~ t i,.

So saying, she caught up an extra instrument. ran out Qn the platform and climbed the pole Spike had climbed, to cut in with her pony above the break. Storm called into ccnference the handiest of his men —men who cared neither for the law nor the devil—and giving brief and hurried instructions, ran from the station at the moment that Seagrue with his outfif were rushing the outnumbered Tidewater gang. * Pushing straight through his own demoralized forces to the thick the scrimmage, knocking men right and left when he had to and dodging in between when he could, ‘ Storm, his two trusties at his eibows, struck, shoved and jumped his way straight to wherq Suagrue was .urging his fighting men or.. 'The latter, busy with t!ie main encounter, saw Storm too late. The engineman catching him by the collar whirled him unceremoniously around, pinioned him before a blow could be struck and with his helpers dragged him victoriously eft'-. • Bedlam was let loose. Seagrue s men, seeing the trick too late, ran in with a yell to rescue him. . Back and forth the fight swayed, while Helen, above at the depot, attached her instrument and sent to the dis patcher her hurry-up message. “Seagrue has the ties. Send Help, H.” But whoever had the ties, Storm had Seagrue, and his tpen were now easily standing off the onslaughts of Seagrue’s men on the platform. The latter, needing help, sent for re-en- I forcements, and a moment later the 1 entire gang, leaving the unloading of the tie cars ran down the track to join in the fight. The train was left deserted. Storm, seeing this, turned his pr .ter over to his men and chose a moment when he could break away to run tc the engine. Gaining the cab, he immediately started to back the train up to Rhinelander’S camp, where the main body of their men still were. As the' train drew past the station. Helen, having finished, sprang recklessly from the pole to tb,e top of a box ear ai.d running 1 forward met Storm, who had started back, and :wed him a message from tho dispatcher'“Wil! send sheriff to Signal.” While tho men were still -fighting | in ..front of tho station, Spike ma-' aged :.o tear himself loose from the ; fray in time to see the freight train backing up the hill. He knew what this meant and realized the | must be stopped. Running to his , horse he mounted and spurred after the receding train. But his intervention had turned the fighting in favor of Seagrue’s men, and they were fast beating Rhinelander’s gang off. By a midden rubh on the freighthouse they fven recaptured and released Seagrue himself. The latter, covering the situation at. a glance, ;. as Spike had seen, tiie rti.il ■ tejcSto ■: in wi. sion of the Wf. was running away v. ith d ' !,i ."A, ttieti, . ;ruo : -?i ; . fast, orertakin: trA’ . > Running hra horse close to the moving train, Spike sprangSrom the cardie to <l»e engine itseli and started b-.ck. A-: ho came over the top ol the cab. Storm on the tender fronted him and the two grappled Helen had at once taken the throttle but Spike, fighting Storm back into the ccal quickly put him at a disad vantage. He was, in f- c t, overpiwer ing him when Helen came t 0 the res . cue and rapped the convict over the heid. She jumped back to .•

the engineer's seat in time ’ : train opposite Rhinelander ’ without losing a moment she rni ' to headquarters, where she K alarm to Woo.l and 'o awry the remainder of the co ■ gang over to the train before th should be stolen again by rut ] ior I enemies. Wood, who would ratirnr ' fight than eat, responded like a ' d wind, and heading his men, them across the fields on th the kidnaped train. ~A nnp(l a Storm had. roeantlme, droned rope around Spike’s neck. He t e | him to the engine cab just as ■ with her re-enforcements, reached i ill I f " Jll Sprang From the Saddle to the En-

fline. the tie cars and the men hurriedly began the unloading. They were not to have an easy time j of it. Seagrue, with his rioters, had j already climbed the hill and was urg- i ing them forward. Not a soul on the engine had a weapon, and as Seagrue's men came on it looked as if I the train would be taken then and there by force of numbers. Helen, however, was not without reserves. “Give them the live steam. Geo-ge. and a lot of it, quick,” she cried. | "Don’t let them capture us." Storm needed no more than the , [ hint. Turning on the valve he let | loose a hat cloud that drove Seagrue I ■ and his gang gasping from the engine I ■ The foremost of the men caught in ' i the white fog were glad to get away unhurt, and halting at a safe distance rallied for orders. Delaney, whose fighting blood was just getting warmed up. saw a further chance and called to his men to follow him around the cut. The gang divided and Delaney's part of it. starting over the hill, met Rhinelander’s men. For a time there was a hot mix-up. As the enemy came on in ever increasing numbers. Wood and his men were soon getting the worst of it, but frosh shouts were heard down the hill and at the moment the sheriff’s posse—now arrived -running ■ in, took the side of Rhinelander's men and helped them beat Seagrue’s gang back. Outnumbered, driven from their vantage ground and disheartened at the unexpected diversion of the" enoi my, Seagrue s men sullenly gave waw ;even Bill Delaney’s fiercest efforts failed to rally them, it was only a i few minutes before the sheriff's men I wore making prisoners right and loft I rounding up the stragglers and march.mg them down the cut. The hill had I been won and lost, but the ties had hfU aad were Khmelander s possession. Ihe moment the light was decided Storm, with Helen, went back to the (engine to get their personal prisoner redoubtabk Spike. They took him ■ack to where the sheriff was giving his orders for the disposition of those under arrest. Helen explained to the had ri done.'' y “■•Veil." demanded the official jc-m---lyly, “what'll we do with him’ suing Uta up right here in a box car’” exclaimed Helen, indignantly You can do better than that " SIP pointed to Seaerim , b arrest “P,o ° W also uniJ er unloading these"^l^o“^- 1 ‘ They are the ringleaders in tlm wS : Make them work, sheriff T’ last thing that pair want to do ’’ Ri < * ■ lander came up with his ™ finished. w ' !n as el'e "You're right,” declared th- ' good humored over th ’ Blle *’ff. ST.« Kl* *'’•”« tie is unloaded.” tte last Suppose they refuse m suggested a deputy. to ‘ lg uly e^U “lf fhuj r ß * lllsav ' •l»_ work ~,4 fa. But Seagrue and Sniko .v., When Helen, Rhinelander ‘eft the scene the two, ’ = <..... B . al „ s (TO BE CONTINUED.)

PUBLIC SALE. We, the undersigned, will offer th, following property at public auction ■ <>n tho A. J- Smith farm. 1 mile north of Deeatnr. on the Fort Wayne Springfield traction line, on Wedtiej. day, February 23, sale beginning at ■' 10 o’clock a. m. Four Head of Mule,. One span. 6 years old. weight 2Foospan, 6 and 7 years old. weight 3000 Twenty-three Hoad of Horses; p av mare, weight 1500; roan mare, 4 y Wu . s old. weight 1375; black mare. 8 year, old, weight 1250; black mare, 7 year, old. in foal, weight 1660; bay driving horse, weight 1100; sorrel driving marc, weight 1200; bay draft wlt coming 2 years old; black colt, com' ing 3 years old broke; suckling co| t . bay mare, « years old, in foal, weight 1600; brown mare, 3 years oW, weight 1400; match pair 4 year old roan mares, weight 3000; 6 year old ibay mare, in foal, weight 1500; match pair sorrel mares, 4 years old. weight 3200; black colt, 3 years old, weight 1450; general purpose blue roan horse, 4 years old. weight 1200. Thirteen Head of Cattle: Black cow, 4 i cars old. was fresh in November; 4 year old cow, calf by her side; roas w. fresh April 1; Jersey cow, fresh April 1; 2 yearling steers, yearling heifer; 6 year old cow. fresh Marrf. 1; 5 year old roan cow. fresh March 15; red cow, fresh, calf by side; JerI sey cow, calf by side; Jersey heifer, Jfresh in March; Jersey cow. 6 years old. fresh in March. Farming Impfe. ments: One 15-30 Rumley tractor, with 6 bottoms, automatic lift, good conditions; 2 Spaulding deep tiller? by using these tillers Messrs. Smith and Wilson got the largest yield O s wheat in the state, averaging 48 bt p°r acre; Belle City ensilage cutter. New Holland feed grinder with elen tor. 5 2-horse wagons, good condition: set hay ladders, 240 gal. galvanized tank, 3 to 6 hp. Ellis gasoline engine. 100 gal. feed cooker, hay tedder S bbl. galvanized tank, 2 bbl. galvuhed tank. Black Hawk com planter,

with fertilizer attachment; McCormick corn binder, with elevator; Thomas side delivery hay tack, good as new; I disc drill. 10 hoe; double disc roller, spading disc, iron roller. 3 Gale ildmf | cultivators, Gale 2-row cultivator. I spring tooth barrow. flexible harrow. I sections; combination -wagon boi. Osborn loader, good as new; small Belle City feed cutter. 7-ft. Milwaukee binder, Milwaukee mower, clover bum 11 r, harrow cart. Gale breaking I plow, goon condition; Oliver breaking | plow, good condition; 3 Gale 1 horse 1,1-tooth cultivators, new; 30 in. saw with stand; set dump boards. 3 trip- . pie wagon boxes, Corn King manure ) preader, International feed grinder, e I end gate broad cast seeder, top budr. surrey, spring wagon, -grind stone, i end gate scoop boards, 3 sets double harness, without breeching; 2 sets double harness, with breeching; set single harness, Pet aluminum incute tor, 126 egg; Olds.cream separator: also household goods and numerous other articles. Terms:—All sums of J 5.00 and under, cash; over $5.00 a credit of 1! months will be given, first. n mtwithout interest; second 6 mdt hs per cent interest. RurcWW tc g- = his note with approved sccuitC’ <1 ent discount for cash. No goods re moved until settled for. SMITH & WILSON. 0. A. Dugan and C. D. Kunkle, clerks Bunn and Baumgartner, Ancts The Fort Wayne & Springfield rail way company will run a free speeh' ■ar which will leave for th<j far 1 at J :3O. During the day all ca.-< wli : >top at the farm. The Concord Ladies’ Aid arc mat ng effort to furnish a fine Wnch M lay of sale. / PUBLIC SALg’. I will offer for sale at my residence on the Kauffman farm. 3%- miles -outheast of Willshire, and 2 miles ■■•’.St of Salem, on Tuesday, February -9, 1916, beginning at 10 o'clock harp, the following property, to-wit: Ten Head of Horses: Black mare. 10 J cars old, in foal; bay horse, 11 year‘ld. black horse ,about 12 years old; bay horse. 4 years old; bay mare, " old; bay colt, 2 years id .‘lack mare colt, 1 year old; bay oh ■' months old; horse colt,’ 10 mr it >‘<l; black mare, 8 years old. w" gh about 1.275. Eight Head Os. Cattle; Jersey cow, 6 yeast old. With calf by ier side; Jersey cow, 5 years old. will ■ )e flesh by day of sale; 2 milch cows, vill he fresh on or before day of s::le; heifers, coming 2 years old; 3 year ,mgs. Sixteen Head of Hogs: Duro, brood sow, farrow April 1; 15 head 0 ■fioats, weighing from 75 to 90 lbs ‘”Th. Poultry: 100 chickens; 3 tur2 hens and 1 gobbler. Farming niplcments: Two 2-horse wagons, ohn Deere breaking plow, O-iborr sc harrow, spring tooth harrow, Os ‘ ic hay used one season, '-coring mower, hay rake, bob sled, "‘J ladder, top buggy, Sharpless c.r> ar ' Parator, log chains and stirrups and na.i,. other articles not mentioned. lerins of Sale:—All sums of Hld unU er. cash in hand; over ss.o< credit of 9 months will be given •urchaber giving a bankable note; • i>er cent discount for cash. No prop rem oved until settled for. , JAMES RHOADES. Jeff Liechty, Auct M - A, Ripley, Clerk.