Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1926 — Page 6

HARVEST HANDS NEEDED IN WEST Texas, Oklahoma And Kan* sas Have Record Wheat Crops This Year The three winter wheat states, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, should harvest a total of 17,013,000 acres this year or 4,224,000 acres more than went into harvest in 1925. Estimates of crop statisticians of the Department of Agriculture indicate a production more than double that of last year. This means many thousands more harvest hands will be required this year in these three states in spite of increased use of combines in many sections. Should present conditions prevail until harvest these three states will need 30,C00 more outside harvest hands than were needed last year and 20,000 more than are required in the average year. It is believed t obe a conservative statement to say that 70,000 men will hace to be brought in from the outside in addition to those available within the wheat districts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Last year Texas harvested 819,000 acres; this year conditions point to a harvested acreage of 1,789,000. The harvested acreage of Oklahoma last year was 3.449.000 acres; this year it promises to harvest 4,545,000 acres. Kansas last year harvested 8.521.000 acres; this month's reports predict that 10,688,000 acres will be harvested. These three states are the beginning of the real harvest. Supplying these states with sufficient labor is no small task and goes a long way toward solving the harvest labor problem of the states to the north and west. Upon an adequate supply of labor and the harvest of the small grain crops rests not only the wellbeing of producers but of business in general. Shortage of labor means loss. The wheat crops of Texas? Oklahoma and Kansas were considerably below normal last year. This year they give promise of being about 40% higher than the average of the past ten years. There are conflicting reports on the wheat crops of the early states of the Big Wheat Belt. Each year labor needs are exaggerated or underestimated many times before harvest starts. Conflicting stories destroy confidence and interfere seriously with harvest labor plans, confuse harvest hands and may result in surpluses or shortages and prevent orderly movement of men and their equitable distribution. There is no occasion to become panicky this year but. there is reason to make an extra effort to recruit and direct needed outside hands to the wheat fields. If the harvest breaks simultaneously over a large area as USEDCXo. •J Your neighbor rides and you can too. Look over this list of good used cars and then come in and choose the one you want. j 1924— 4 door Ford Sedan 1925— Ford Touring, equipped with balloon tires. 1921—Essex Six Coach. This car is being completely rebuilt; will be sold with a guarantee; ready for delivery in about 10 days. 1923—Essex 4 Coach 1923—Ford Coupe 1921—Ford Coupe 2 1921—Ford Touring Cars Ford Ton Truck 2, 1923—Chevrolet Tourings 2, 1924—Star Tourings 2, 1923—Star Coupes 1921—Ford Delivery Truck with panel body, starter and demountable rims. 1925—Star Touring Car, looks and runs like new. Balloon tires and will be sold with new car guarantee; used as demonstrator. | Any legitimate offer will buy any of these cars. Terms can be arranged. P. KIRSCH & SON Opposite Interurban Station, j

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, Thursday. May 27, 1926.

Judith of Blue Lake I Ranch |i By Jackson Gregory | c,i gtt by Cbar.oo £.r:br.or ■ Sou* ’Tfk Shorty, Bud I He's mine I" But Shorty was no man's yet. At bls back was a window ; it was closed and the shade was drawn, but to Shorty it spelled safety. Head first be went through it, tearing the green shade down, crashing through the glass, leaving discussion behind him. With a bellow of rage Carson went after him, forgetful in the instaht that there was another matter on hand tonight. Shorty, consigned to Carson’s care and the grainhuuqe, had slipped, away and had laughed at him. Ever since. Carson had been yearning for the chance to get his two hands on Shorty’s fat throat. Before the smash and tinkle of falling glass had died away Carson, plunging as Shorty had plunged, was lost to the bulging eyes which sought to follow him. gone head first into the darkness without. Lee kept his eyes hard on Quinnlon's. He moved a little, so that the wall was at his back. His coat was unbuttoned; his left hand was in bls pocket, his arm holding back his coat a little on that side. The right hand was lax at his side, like Quinnlon’s. He had seen the other men, though his eyes had seemed to see only one man. One of them he knew; the oth-' era he had seen. They were the sort to be found in Quinnlon's company. They were the nucleus of what was spoken of as Quinnlon's crowd. "Qulnnion." said Lee quietly, “you are a d —d dirty-mouthed liar.” The words came like little slaps in the face. Os the four men still in the room with Quinnlon three of them moved swiftly to one side, their eyes on_their leader’s face, which showed

nothing of what might lie in bls dflud. | "I have taken the trouble," went on Lee coolly, when Quinnlon, leering back at him, made no reply, "to ride forty miles tonight for a little talk with you. You are a crook and u card-cheat. I told you that once before. You have been telling men that lam a coward and a four flusher. For I that I am going to run you out of town tonight. Or kill you." Then Quinnlon laughed at htin. "Just for that?" he jeered. ' "Or because'l’ve been tellln’ a true story about you an —” He didn't get her name out. Perhaps he hadn't expected to. His eyes had been watchful. Now, as he threw himself to one side, he whipped out Lis gun, dropping to one knee, his body partly concealed by the table/ At the same second Bud Lee's right hand, no longer lax, sped to the revolver gripped under the coat at his left armpit. It was a situation by no means new to the four walls of the Jailbird nor to the men concerned. It was a twoman fight, with as yet no call for the four friends of Qulnnion to Interfere. It would take the spit and snarl of a revolver, the flash of flame, the acrid smell of burning ponder to switch their sympathetic watching Into actual participation. No new situation certainly for Chris Qulnnion who took quick stock of the table with its heavy top and screened his body with It. no new situation for Steve, the big bartender who was at the shattered door almost as Bud Lee sent ttj rocking drunkenly. Since a fight like this In a small i room may end In three seconds and yet remain a fight for men to talk of at street corners for many a day thereafter, It Is surely a struggle baffling adequate description. For while you speak of It, It Is done; while a clock ticks, two £uns may carry hot lead, and cut in two two threads of life, i Quinnlon was down and shooting, with but ten steps or less between him and the man whom lie sought to kill; Bud Lee was standing, tall and straight, buck to wall, his first bullet ripping Into the boards of the table, sending a flying splinter to stick In Quinnlon’s face, close to a squinting. slltted eye; and as the two guns spoke like one, a third from the open barroom shattered the lamp swinging from the celling between Lee and Quinnlon. Steve, the bartender, had taken a hand. The curd room was plunged In darkness so thick that Lee’s frowning eyes could no longer make out Quinnlon's head above the table, so black that to Quinnlon's eyes the tall form of Lee against the wall was lost In shadow. As Steve fired his shot Into the

lamp. Bud l ee TinHerstootl Just wliat _ would be Steve’s next play; the bar- | tender had given his friends brief res- I plte from the deadly fire of the Blue I Lake wan, ami now would turn his I second shot through the flimsy wall I , itself on the man standing there. Lee I did not hesitate now, but with one I I leup was across the room, avoiding I the table, seeking to come to close I quarters with Quinnlon and have tha I thing over und dune with, in the bit- I tertlMS still gnawing at his heart, he I told himself again that it would be I no calamity to the world If the two I ; tuen who had Insulted Judith Sanford I went down together. i Again Steve fired. His bujlet ripped I Into the wall, tearing a hole through I the partition where a brief Instunt ago I Lee hud stood. The light out in the I barroom was extinguished. In the, I card route It was utterly, impenetrably; I dark now, only a vague square of les- I ser darkness telling where was the I window through which Shorty had I fled. I A red flare of flame from where I Quinnlon crouched, and Lee stood I very stftl, refusing the temptation te I fire back. For Quinnlon's bullet had I sped wide of the murk, striking the wall u full yard to Lee’s left. Quinnlon’s eyes had not found him, would I not find him soon If he stood quite motionless. The fight was still to be made, Quinnlon's friends would be | taking a hand now, Steve had already | Joined Issue. There were six of them ■ against him and witli one shot fired I from his heavy Colt there were but | five left. No shot to be wusted. I A little creaking of a floor board, I *a vague, misty blur almost at ids side, and still Lee saved Ills fire. Quickly he lifted the big revolver, held welded to a grip of steel, throwing it high above ills bead und striking downward. There was almost no sound; Just the thudding -blow as the thick barrel struck a heavy mat of hair, and with no outcry a man went down to lie still. At the same moment the dins square of the window showed a form slipping through; one man was seeking safety from a quarrel not hl? own, -V>d as he went, there came again a soft thudding blow and Carson’s dry voice outside, saying calmly: ! "Shorty got away, but you don’t, pardner. Give ’em h--l, Bud. I'm In; the play again.” "Two men down.” grunted Lap to himself with grim satisfaction. “And old Carson back on the Job. Only two to our one now.” (To nr: coxtisi ed) To have beautiful clear white clothes | use Russ Bleaching Blue. Your grocer ' sells it. TT I

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