Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Page 7

(SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918

SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—J. Montague Smith, Lawpencevllle bank cashier and society man, receives two letters. One warns him that a note which he has O. K-’d with consent O t Watrous Dunham, the bank’s president, is worthless. The other is a summons from Dunham. He breaks an appointment with Vera Richlander, daughter of the local millionaire, and meets Dunham alone at night in the bank. CHAPTER ll—Dunham threatens Smith with the police. Smith becomes aggressive. Dunham draws a pistol and is floored by a blow that apparently kills him. Smith escapes on an outgoing freight train. CHAPTER Hl—Near Brewster, Colo., Dexter Baldwin, president of the Timanyoni Ditch company, gets Smith an office Job at the big dam the company is building. CHAPTER IV—'Williams, chief engineer, finds the hobo Smith used to money In big chunks and to making it work. The company is fighting concealed opposition and is ruin. Smith is Jokingly ■Urgested as a financial doctor. CHAPTER V—Williams talks business to Smith, who will tell nothing of his past. Smith pushes a stalled auto away from an oncoming train and saves the •olonel’s daughter Corona. CHAPTER VT—While Corona looks on he drives off three bogus mining right elalmants from the company’s land. CHAPTER Vll—The colonel takes Smith to his home and persuades him, In Spite of Smith’s warning, to undertake financial salvation of the company. CHAPTER VHl—Crawford Stanton, I hired by eastern Interests to kill off the j ditch company, sets his spies to work to I find out who Smith is. CHAPTER IX—Smith reorganizes the company and gets a loan from Kinzle, the local banker. CHAPTER X—ln the midst of a “mira-cle-working" campaign Corona asks Smith alarming questions. He reads that Dunham, still living, has doubled the reprard for his capture. CHAPTER Xl—Smith gets encouragement in his fight from Corona, but realises that he must stay away from her. Vera Richlander and her father come to Brewster. CHAPTER Xll—Smith tells Corona of pin danger. He hears the Richlanders have gone up to the mines. He hires a new stenographer, Shaw, who is a spy of Stanton’s. CHAPTER XIII—He meets Vera, who has not gone away with her father. She exacts almost constant attendance from him as the price of her silence. CHAPTER XlV—Stanton and his wife «fii to learn about Smith- from Vera. Stanton Tn«.k«« some night visits and is trailed. CHAPTER XV—Smith tells Starbuch of the time limit on the dam. Starbuck cautions him about Vera and. tells him of a plot to kill him or blow up the dam. They catch Shaw listening, but he escapes. - . CHAPTER XVl—Rumors that the dam |a unsafe cause a stock-selling panic. Smith tells the colonel of his entanglement with Vera and the colonel wants to set her talk if she wants to. She tells Smith that Tucker Jibbey, another suitor, yrho knows Smith, is coming to visit her. CHAPTER XVII—An abandoned railroad right-of-way is claimed across the dam, and Smith prepares for actual fighting. He buys options on all offered stock and stops the panic. CHAPTER XVIII—He tells Corona he bas locked up Jibbey in an old mine until the fight is over. She calls him a coward.

CHAPTER XIX. A Little Leaven. The snmmer-night stars served only to make the darkness visible along the road down the Timanyoni river and across to the mining camp of Red j Butte. Smith twisted the gray road- ; eter sharply to the left out of the road, j and four miles from the turn, shut off the power and got down to continue ■ his journey afoot. The mine workings l were tunnel-driven in the mountain- j side, and a crooked ore track led out to them. Smith followed the ore track until he came to the entrance, and to the lock of a small door framed in the bulkheading he applied a key. It was pitch dark beyond the door, and the silence was like that of the grave. Smith had brought a candle on his food-carrying visit of the day be- ; fore, and, groping in its hiding place just outside of the door, he found and lighted it. There was no sign of occupancy save Jibbey’s suitcase lying where it had been flung on the night of the assisted disappearance. Smith stumbled forward into the black depths and the chill of the place laid hold upon him and shook him like the premonitory shiver of an approaching ague.. Insensibly he quickened his pace until he was hastening blindly through a maze of tunnels and cross driftings, deeper and still deeper into the bowels of the mountain. Coming suddenly at the last into the chamber of the dripping water, he found what he was searching for, and again the ague chill shook him. There were no apparent signs of life in the sodden, muck-begrimed figure lying in a crumpled heap among the water pools. “Jibbey I” he called: and then again, Ignoring the unnerving, awe-inspiring echoes rustling like flying bats in the cavernous overspaces: “Jibbey!” The sodden heap bestirred itself slowly and became a man sitting up to blink helplessly at the light and supporting himself on one hand. “Is that you, Monty?” said a voice tremulous and broken; and then: **l can see. The light blinds me. Hava you come to fi-finish the job?” “I have come to take you out of this; to take you back with me to Bfcwster. Get up and come on.” The victim of Smith’s ruthlessness

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struggled stiffly to his feet. Never much more than a physical weakling, and with his natural strength wasted by a life of dissipation, the blow on the head with the pistol butt and the forty-eight hours of sharp hardship and privation had cut deeply into his scanty reserves. “Did —did Verda send you to do it?” he queried. “No; she doesn’t know where you are. She thinks you stopped over somewhere on .your way west: Come along, if you want to go back with me.” Jibbey stumbled away a step or two and flattened himself against the cavern wall. His eyes were still staring and his lips were drawn back to show his teeth. “Hold on a minute,” he jerked out. “You’re not —not going to wipe it all out as easy as that. You’ve taken my gun away from me, but I’ve got my two hands yet. Stick that candle in a hole in the wall and look out for yourself. I’m telling you, right now, that one or the other of us is going to stay, here—and stay dead!” “Don’t be a fool!” Smith broke in. <‘l didn’t come here to scrap with you.” “You’d better—and you’d better make a job of it while you’re about It I” shrieked the castaway, lost now to everything save the biting sense of his wrongs. “You’ve put it all over me —knocked my chances with Verda Richlander and shut me up here in this hell-hole to go mad-dog crazy! If you let me get put of here alive I’ll pay you back, if it’s the last thing I ever i do! You’ll go back to Lawrenceville 1 with the bracelets on! You’ll —” red rage’ could go no farther in mere words and he flung himself in feeble fierceness upon Smith, clutching and struggling and waking the grewsome echoes again with frantic, meaningless maledictions. j Smith did not strike back; wrapping the madman in a pinioning grip, he held him helpless. When it was over,

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and Jibbey had been released, gasping ; and sobbing, to stagger back against the tunnel wall, Smith groped for the candle and found and relighted it. “Tucker,” he said gently, “you. are | more of a man than I took you to be — a good bit more. Now that you’re giving me a chance to say it, I can tell you that Verda Richlander doesn’t fig- j ure in this at all. I’m not going to | | marry her, and she didn’t come out here in the expectation of finding me.” “Then what does figure in it?” was the dry-lipped query, j “It was merely a matter of self-pres- 1 ervation. There are men in Brewster who would pay high for the information you might give them about me.” “You might have given me a hint and a chance, Monty. I’m not all dog.” “That’s all past and gone. I didn’t give you your chance, but I’m going to give it to you now. Let’s go—if you’re fit to try it.” “Wait a minute. If you think, because you didn’t pull your gun now and drop me and leave ,me to rot in this hole, if you think that squares the deal —” “I’m not making any conditions,” Smith interposed. “There are a number of telegraph offices in Brewster, and for at least two days longer I shall always be within easy reach.”. Jibbey’s anger flared up once more. “You think I won’t do it? You j think I’ll be so glad to get to some 1 place where they sell whisky that I’ll forget all about it and let you off? Don’l you make any mistake, Monty Smith! You can’t knock me on the head and lock me up as if I were a yellow dog. I’ll fix you!” I Smith made no reply. Linking his J free arm in Jibbey’s, he led the way through the mazes, stopping at the tunnel mouth to blow out the candle . and to pick up Jibbey’s suitcase. In I the open air the freed captive tramped In sober silence at Smith’s heels until they reached the automobile. At the crossing of the railroad main track and the turn into the highway, the river.

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Dassooning deep-toned among Its bowlders, was near at hand, and Jibbey spoke for the first time since they left the mine mouth. I ‘Tm horribly thirsty, Monty. That water In the (nine had copper or something in It, and I couldn’t drink It. i You didn’t know thnt, did you—when you put me In there, I mean? Won’t yon stop the car and let me go and stick my face In that river?” The car was brought tcf a stand and Jibbey got out to scramble down the river bank in the stnrlight. Obeying some inner prompting which he did not stop to analyze, Smith left his seat behind the wheel and walked over to the edge of the embankment where Jibbey had descended. With the glare of the roadster’s acetylenes turned the other way, Smith could see Jibbey at the foot of the slope lowering himself face downward on his propped arms to roach the w:*er. Then, in that instant, Jibbey, careless in his thirst, lost his balance and went headlong into the torrent. A battling eon had passed before Smith, battered, beaten and halfstrangled, succeeded in landing the unconscious thirst-quencher on a shelving bank three hundred yards below tlje stopped automobile. After that there was another eon in which he completely forgot his own brulsings while he worked desperately over the drowned man, raising and lowering the limp arms while he strove to recall more of the resuscitative directions given in the Lawrenceville Athletic club’s first-aid drills. In good time, after an interval so long that it seemed endless to the despairing first-aider, the breath cpme back into the reluctant lungs. Jibbey coughed, choked, gasped and sat up. His teeth were chattering, and he was chilled to the bone by the sudden plunge into the cold snow-water, but he was unmistakably alive. “What —what happened to me, Monty?” he shuddered. “Did I tumble in?” “You did, for a fact.” “And you went in after me?” “Of course.” - ' "No, by gad! Tt wasn’t ‘of course’ — Met by a long shot! All you had to do w’as to let me go, and the score — your score —would have been wiped out for good and all. Why didn’t you do it?” “Because I promised somebody that I would bring you back to Brewster tonight, alive and well, and able to send a telegram.” Jibbey tried to get upon his feet, couldn’t quite compass It, and sat down again. “I don’t believe a word of It,” he mumbled, loose-lipped. “You did it because you’re not so danged tough and hard-hearted as you thought you were.” And then: “Give me a lift, Monty, and get me into the auto. I guess—l’m about —all In.” Smith half led, half carried his charge up to the road. A final heave lifted him into his place, and it Is safe to say that Colonel Dexter Baldwin’s roadster never made better time than it did on the race which finally brought the"glow of the Brewster town lights reddening against the eastern sky. At the hotel Smith helped his dripping passenger out of the car, made a quick rush with him to an elevator, and so up to his own rooms on the fourth floor.

“Strip!” he commanded; “get out of those wet rags and tumble into the bath. Make it as hot as you can stand it. I’ll go down and register you and have your trunk sent up from the station. You have a trunk, haven’t you?” Jibbey fished a soaked card baggage check out of his pocket and passed it over. “You’re as bad off as I am, Monty,” he protested. “Wait and get some dry things on before you go.” “I’ll be up again before you’re out of the tub. I suppose you’d like to put yourself outside of a big drink of whisky, just about now, but that’s one thing I won’t buy for you. How would a pot of hot coffee from the case strike you?” “You could make it baby food and I’d drink it if you said so,” chattered the drowned one from the inside of the wet undershirt he was trying to pull off over his head. Smith did his various errands quickly. When he reached the fourth-floor suite again, Jibbey was out of the bath; was sitting on the edge of the bed wrapped in blankets, with the steaming pot of coffee sent up on Smith’s hurry order beside him on a tray. “It’s your turn at the tub,” he bubbled cheerfully. “I didn’t have any glad rags to put on, so I swiped some of your bedclothes. Go to it, old man, before you catch cold.” Smith was already pointing for the bath. “Your trunk will be up,in a few minutes, and’ I’ve told them to send it here,” he said. “When you want to quit me, you’ll find your rooms five doors to the right in this same corridor: suite number four-sixteen.” It was a long half-hour before Smith emerged from his bathroom once more clothed and in his right mind. In the interval the reclaimed trunk had been sent up, and Jibbey was also clothed. He had found one of Smith’s pipes and some tobacco and was smoking with the luxurious enjoyment of one who had suffered the pangs imposed by two days of total abstinence. “Just hangln’ around to say goodnight,” he began, when Smith showed himself in the sitting room. Then he j-eturned the borrowed pipe to its place on the mantel and said his small say to the definite end. “After all that’s happened to us two tonight, Monty, I hope you’re going to forget my crazy yappings and not lose any sleep about that Lawrenceville business. I’m seventeen different kinds of a rotten failure ; there’s no manner of doubt about that; and once In a while —Just once in a while —I’ve got sense enough to

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know it. You saved my life when It would have been all to the good for you to let me go. I guess the world wouldn’t have been much of a loser If I had gone, and you knew that, too. Will you—er —would you shake hands with me, Monty?” lit) ill. CONTINUED.)

Ml IE MIES BIG PUBLIC SALK As the undersigned is going to retire from the farm and move to town, he will sell at public auction at hig farm, 3 miles west and 3 miles south of Remington, 5 miles east and 2% miles south of Goodland, 3 miles east and li£ miles north of Wadena, on MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918, beginning at 10:30 a. m., the following described property: 15 Hoad of Horses and Colts—l gray team of mares, 8 and 9 years old, wt 2600, in foal; 1 black mare, 4 years old, wt 1300, in foal; 1 black mare, 4 years old, wt 1300, in foal; 1 bay mare, 4 years old, wt 1 400, in foal; 1 black mare, 6 years old, wt 1300, in foal; 1 black mare, 4 years old, wt 1250, In foal. These mares all in 'foal to George Knockel’s hig black stallion. I gray horse, 4 years old, wt 1300; 1 gray gray mare colt, coming 3 years old; 1 black horse colt, coming 3 years old; 1 bay horse colt, coming 3 years old; 1 brown horse colt, coming 3 years old; 1 black horse colt, coming 3 years old; 1 roan mare colt, coming 2 years old; 1 brown mare colt, mining 2 years old. 7 Hem! of Cattle—l red milk cow, 8 years old, fresh by April; 1 red cow, 9 years old, fresh the last of March; 1 Shorthorn milk cow, 6 years old, fresh in February; 1 Shorthorn milk cow, 6 years old, giving milk; 3 spring calves —-2 heifers, 1 steer. Implements—l Weber wagon, good as new; 1 narrow tire wagon with new Peter Schuttler box; 8-ft Deering binder, in good condition; 1 2-row Janesville cultivator, with gopher attachment; 1 Tower gopher; 1 riding cultivator, nearly new; 1 new 6-ft McCor.mick mower; 1 4section. harrow; 1 8-ft full-wheel disc; 1 7-ft spader, l 7-ft roller disc, 1 Sure Drop Gale corn planter with 160 rods of wire, 1 hand corn sheller, 1 low-down International manure spreader, 1 Peoria end-gate seeder, 1 gang plow, 1 walking plow; 1 garden plow, 1 44ft Farmer’s Friend grain dump. 1 hay rack, 1 gravel bed, 1 buggy, 1 30-gal kettle, 1 Foos gasoline engine with washing machine, 1 pump jack, 2 55-gal barrels, 2 new 20-ft ladders, scoops, forks, hoes, etc. Harness—4 sets of work 'harness, 2 sets single harness, 12 collars, 17 leather halters in good condition. Household Goods —1 DeLaval cream separator, 2 good incubators line stove, 1 yard swing, 1 lard press, half dozen galvanized chicken coops, many other things too numerous to mention. Seed Com—lo bushels Yellow Dent seed corn. Terms—-All sums df $lO or under cash in hand; otver $lO a credit of 12 months will he given, with 5 per cent interest from date if paid at maturity; if not paid at maturity 8 per cent will be charged, purchaser giving note with approved security; 3 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. No property to.be removed until terms of sale are complied with. FRANK KUBOSKE. Harvey Williams, Auctioneer. Ellis Jones,’ Clerk. Hot lunch served on the ground. Sale will he held in large tent if the weather is bad.

BIG PUBLIC SALK The undersigned will sell at public auction on the Dave Wesner farm, 3-4 mile east and 1-2 mile north of Kersey, Indiana, the following property, commencing at 10:30 a. m., on TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1918 7 Head! of Horses —Consisting of 1 bay horse, 9 years old, wt 1150; 1 gray mare, 10 years old, wt 1200; 1 bay mare, 8 years old, wt 1200; 1 black solt, 3 years old, wt 1050; 1 dun imare, 12 years old, wt 1300; 1 yearling colt. One Good Milk Cow. 37 Head of Hogs—l O. T. C. boar; 10 brood sows, wt about 200 [>unu: . Id farrow Id April; 20 shoats, wt about 80 pounds each. Implements, Etc.—Consisting of 1 good top buggy, 1 light spring wagon, 1 Superior disc grain drill, 1 Wood binder, 1 /3-section wood harrow, 2 sulky plows, 1 walking plow, 2 good riding cultivators, 2 Studebaker wagons with boxes, 1 wagon and rack, 1 good John Deere corn planter, 1 hay rake, 1 endgate seeder, 3 sets double work harness, 1 set single harness, forks, hoes, 1 cook stove, 1 heating stove, and numerous other articles not mentioned. 1 Ford Automobile, 1014 Model. Terms —$10 and under cash in hand; on sums over $lO a credit of 10 months will be given, purchaser executing note with approved security bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due; if not paid when due, 8 per cent interest from date; 2 per cent off for cash when entitled to credit. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. IRA CLARK. Horace M. Clark, Auctioneer. H. W. Marble. Clerk. Hot lunch on the grounds. BIG PUBLIC SALE vhe undersigned is going to quit "arming and will offer at public

sale at his residence on the Sol Guth farm, 7 miles southeast of Rensselaer, 2 miles south of Crockett cemetery, 2 miles west and 8 miles north of Wolcott, 1 mile north of Queen City school house, commencing at 10 a. m., on FRIDAY, JANUARY 25. 1918 13 Head of Horses, Colts and Mules—-Consisting of 1 span brown horse mules, 7 years old, weight 2500, well broke and good ones; 1 bay horse, 7 years old, wt 1200; 1 sorrel horse. 7 years old. wt 1106; 1 black horse, 7 years old, wt 1160; 1 brown mare, 9 years old, wt 1306; 1 hay mare, 10 years old, wt 1250; 1 dark brown mare, 8 years old, wt 1300; these three mares are all in foal and good ones;-i hay driving horse, lady broke, wt 1000; 1 gray lidtse, 3 years old, wt 1100; 1 black mare, 2 years old, wt 1000; 1 gray mare, 1% years old: 1 black mare colt, coming yearling. 8 Head of Cattle—s good milk cows, all good milkers and some of them are heavy springers; 3 good heifer calves. 7 Head of Hogs—Weight about 175 lbs each: three young brood sows in this lot. Implements, Kto.— Consisting of 1 16-foot Deering binder with truck, 1 new Champion mower, 1 new Champion 12-foot hay rake, 2 16inch sulky plows, 4 good riding cultivators, 1 20-foot revolving harrow, 1 good disc, 3 wagons with boxes, 1 carriage, l top buggy, 1 Klondyke, 1 set hay ladders, 2 sets gravel boards, 1 iron kettle with stand, 3 sets work harness, 1 set double driving harness, 1 set single driving harness, l endgate seeder with box, 3 hives of bees. 2 scoop hoards, some good dry wood and a few pieces of househild furniture, besides many other articles too numerous to mention. This stuff is all in good shape. Terms—slo and under cash; on su ms over $lO a credit of 11 months will be given, purchaser giving approved note bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due, if not paid when due notes to draw 8 per cent interest from date; 2 per cent, off for cash when entitled to credit. No property to be removed until settled for. L. A. WARREN. E. L. Wright, A uct ' oneer - C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch on the grounds.

PUBLIC SALK As I am moving to town, I will sell at public auction at my residence, 1 % miles south and 2 3-4 miles west of Remington, on the county line; 1 % mal.es south and 4% miles east of Goodland, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 26. 1918, beginning at 10 a. m., the following described property. H Head of Horses—l team bay geldings, one 8 years old and one smooth- mouth, wt 3100; 1 black mare, 7 years old, wt 1600; 1 gray gelding, 9 years old, wt 1300; 1 coming 3-year-old, wt 1100; 1 sorrel horse, general purpose, broke to all harness, 10 years old, wt 1600; 1 gray mare, smooth mouth; 1 yearling colt. 24 Head of Cattle- Two good heifers, fresh about March 1; 1 good malk cow, 3 years old. fresh in March; i heifer giving milk; 1 heifer with calf by side; 2 2-year-old steers; 1 coming 2-year-old Shorthorn bull; 2 full-blood Shorthorn bulls, 8 months old; 5 heifers, coming yearlings; 4 steers, coming yearlings; 5 head df calves. 23 Head of Hogs Oonsisiting of 1 full-blood Poland China boar and 22 fall pigs, good ones. Implements—l triple bed wagon with wide tires; 1 single buggy; 1 double carriage; 1 Case 2-row cultivator; 1 Tower gopher; 1 Avery cultivator; 1 mowing machine, 7-ft cut; 1 14-ft low-down seeder; l Goodenough sulky plow; 1 20th Century manure spreader; 1 endgate seeder cart; 1 20-ft flexible harrow; 1 Clean Sweep hay loader; 1 8-ft, cutaway disc; 1 set double harness; 2 sets single harness. Household Goods— Consisting of leather couch, library table, dining room table, kitchen cabinet and table, chairs, bed steads, stoves, and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms—ll months time will he given with 5 per cent interest, if paid when due; if not paid when due then 8 per cent from date. 3 per cent 6ff for cash on accounts entitled to credit. Purchaser giving note with approved security. $lO and under cash in hand. No property to be removed until settled for. EDWARD BELLOWS. Harvey Williams, Auctioneer. John Phelps, Olerk. Hot lunch by Hascall. Sale in big tent if weather is bad. T,.

BIG PUBLIC SALK As I am going to move to Porter county I will sell at public sale at my residence 6 3-4 miles north of Rensselaer, ft mile south of Aix, commencing at IQ a. m., on THURSDAY, JANUARY 31. 1918 5 Head of Horses and Mules. — Consisting of 1 team of work inules; 2 coming 2-year-old horse colts, good ones; 1 coming yearling horse colt. IO Head of Cattle.—Consisting of 6 cows ranging in age from 3 to 7 years, 2 fresh a few weeks ago, 2 fresh in March, 2 giving good flow JRa of milk, fresh In June; 1 2-year-old full blood Polled Durham hull; 2 calves, 1 steer and 1 heifer; 1 yearl- ! ing steer. 5 Shotes weighing about 60 or

70 pounds. About .5 tons of timothy hay, 9 or 3 tons of cow hay, alfalfa a»4 mixture. Hog house, 1 shed, chicken coop*, baseburner, some potatoes in crate** onions and onion sets. Terms—slo and under cash Ifi hand; on Bums over $lO a credit es 10 months will be given, purchaser executing note with approved security bearing 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due; if not paid when dpe, 8 per cent intere»t from date; 2 per cent off for cask when entitled to credit. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. WM. O. WILLIAMS. W. A. McCurtain, Auctioneer. R. D. Thompson, Clerk. PUBLIC SALE Having rented his 'farm and going to quit farming, the undersigned will hold a public sale at hie residence, 1 mile east of Knimsn* 6 miles southwest of Wheatfleld, beginning at 10 a. on FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1918 the following property: 5 Head of Horses- —1 gray mare, 6 years old. wt 1300; 1 gray horse. 6 years old, wt 1 350; 1 sorrel mare, 5 years old, wt 1300; 1 coming 3-year-old black miare, wt 1200; 1 sorrel horse colt, coming yearling. 18 Head of Cattle-r-1 2-year-old Shorthorn bull; 1 roan cow, coming 7 years old, fresh in March; 2 yearling heifers: 9 spring calves; 1 full-blood Jersey, 3 years old, giving milk; V full-blood Jersey, S years old, giving milk; 1 6-year-old roan cow; 2 red cows, 8 years old. = 12 Head of Hogs—4 fat hogs, wt 250 ; 2 Du roc brood sows; 6 head of shotes, wt 40 pounds. 400 bushels nice seed oats. 2 dozen Plymouth Rock chickens. Farm Implements—B ft. Osborn* disc, good as new; 8 ft Superior grain drill with fertilizer and grass seed attachment, good qs new; good walking plow; 16-inch John Deere sulky plow; 1 Sure Drop corn planter with 160 rods wire; Avery cultivator with gopher attachment; 1 new hay rack, never been used; 1 low down Superior seeder; 3 3section harrows; 1 Studebtker wagon with triple box, good as new; 1 rubber tired Studebaker buggy; 3 sets good work harness; 1 Osborne ntower; 1 McCormick rake; 1 John Deere corn planter, with fertilizer attachment and 160 rods wire; 1 Dutch Uncle riding cultivator. Terms—A credit of 11 months will be given on all sums over $lO, notes to draw 6 per cent from dat* if paid when due; if not paid when due notes to draw 8 per cent. 2 per cent discount for cash. JUDSON R. MICHAL. W. A. McCurtain, Auctioneer. H. W. Marble, Clerk. Hot lunch by Kniman Ladies’ Aid. The Pyrenees mountains are rich in waterfalls and minerals, but their exploitation Is rendered difficult by lack of roads. With th* water power there latent the mining possibilities could readily be developed.

jjp» * tfjl w. a. Mccurtain AUCTIONEER. A Real Live Livestock Auctioneer. Five years successful experience. Have a wide acquaintance among the buyers. It pleases me to please everybody. Terms 1 per cent. Call Rensselaer 92 6-R for dates. Write Fair Oaks, R-2. KALE BATES February 1, Judson Allchal, west of Kniman. General sale. February 4, Emmet Fidler, 3 miles east of Rensselaer. General sale. '■ v--. February 5, John Lesli. 1 miles east of Rensselaer. >»■ ‘•ml sale. February 6, Harry Feldman, 2ft miles northeast of Demotte. February 8, Paul Sanuielson, ft mile east of Gifford. General sale. February 11, Fred Schultz, 7 miles north and 2 miles west ok Rensselaer. February 12, Parm Wiseman, 3 miles southwest of Roselawn General sale. . February 13, Ernest Asher, 4 miles southeast of General sale. February 14, O. P. Braddock, 1 mile west and 4 miles north of Gifford. General sale. February 15, J. A Taylor, Union township. Gener ! sale. Feb. 18. A. B. Lowman. near. Hebron. General sale. . „ February 19, H. E. Gifford, 3ft miles east of Aix. General sale. February 20 John R Lewis. Hampshire hog sale. February 21, Roorda and Otis, Ift miles north of Fair Oaks. February 22, Russell Lesh, 8 miles north and 2 miles west of Rensselaer. February 25, Clarence Garrlott, ; 3 miles east and 7 miles north of i Rensselaer. ~ February 26, James Barber, 10 1 miles north of Rensselaer. February 27, B. T. Lanham. ! southeast of Rensselaer. General ■ale. February 28, John Faris. Gen«m| sale.

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