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THE RICHMOND PAL1AD1UM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUG. 31, 1916

NEW MADISON TAKES AWARDS AT COUNTY FAIR

NEW MADISON, Ohio, Aug. SI In the school exhibit at the county fair last week, New Madison schools made a commendable showing, having been awarded the sweepstakes prize of $3.00 for best display of any school lr the county. in high school exhibit there were twvuy entries In the Arts department and twelve first and five second prizes were awarded. In the agricultural department thirteen entries were made and eleven first and three second prizes won, one entry having received both first and second. There were a total of thirty-three entries and awards of thirty-one prizes. In grammar department, seventh and eighth grades, there were fourteen entries in the Arts department with four first and three second prizes. Agricultural department, five entries, and three first and one -third prize. Total of nineteen entries and eleven prizes. In the Intermediate department, fourth, fifth and sixth grades, there were eleven entries in tne Arts department with awards of four first and five second prizes. In the Agricultur al department there were three entries with two second prizes. Total or rour teen entries and thirteen prizes. The Primary department, first sea ond and third grades had six entries in the primary department with a winning of two first prizes. The exhibit was one that attracted a great deal of interest. The total value of all prizes amounted to ?4d.jt. REMODLtS OLD HOUSE ECONOMY, Ind., Aug. 31. Lon Edwards. C. Mendenhall, Nate Edwards and Miss Grace Garrison were shop ping at Richmond and transacting legal business Monday afternoon. .. .J. Seward Beard was at Richmond Monday John Manning Is having his country home remodled. Tint Rooms E. Fraiser and Joe Cain are tinting the rooms of the Mendenhall home.. ..Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Replogle and children returned from Cambridge, has returned to Economy after a short visit with Webster relatives. Philomath Events By Gertrude McCfchland. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. McCashland called on their daughter, Murlie Clevenger, Friday afternoon. .. .Mr. and Mrs. Ora Hendrix and daughter,- Thelma and Mr. Ross Hendrix of Richmond were Sunday guests of their parents Mr. and Mrs John Hendrix.. . .Mcssers. M. B. McCashland and Samuel Fisher attended the speaking at Arlington Monday afternoon by Hon. John Adair. TYLES FOR THE Woman's Eye An all satin afternoon suit Is no doubt practical and smart, for of late so many occasions demand just such an outfit. A dainty lace or crepe bodice worn in combination with a navy satin suit is undoubtedly a smart combination. Here seal fur outlines the cape collar and a touch of hand embroidery affords suitable trimming. WATER WAS SPIKED BRAZIL, Ind., Aug. 31. Water run through a whisky barrel filled with ice caused a number of older men to declare 'that the wated had been "spiked" by some boys. The flavor is still present, although the barrel (was thoroughly washed, but none suffered any unusual effects.

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. Read this story in the Palladium and see It at the Palace. "In othof words, monsieur, what we propose to do is to set a trap, and when this Iron Claw is about to gather in his prey, he himself will be gathered in." "You propose to set a trap repeated the incredulous Manley, "and you also calmly propose to take this unprotected young girl and use her as the bait for that trap!" "On the contrary, monsieur, she will not be unprotected. Many duly appointed officers of the law will be there. And, as I have already explained to her, I also will be there. And Miss Golden, I think, knows that I would readily give up my life for the sake of keeping her from harm!" "Is that the way you feel about it?" demanded Manley, swinging about to the slightly frowning girl. "Count Da Espares and I will carry out this plan, and we will carry it out, I hope, quite as successfully as we may carry out still other plans. And in the count's hands I shall always feel that I am fully protected!" David Manley, thus dismissed, had the dubious satisfaction of knowing that he had once more made a mess of things. Yet he did not remain altogether inactive. He watched his chance and quietly installed a dictaphone in the room, attaching the transmitter-disk to the underside of the desk ledge where Da Espares did most of his talking, and running his well-hidden wires down through the floor to a linen closet, which the ever-dependable Wilson threw open for him. There Manley made the discovery that police headquarters had actually been communicated with and that the feint for Legar's capture, however its end, was intended to carry every sign of sincerity. Before another hour slipped by, however, Manley made two further discoveries. The first was that the appointed time for the coup had been suddenly changed to an hour earlier. The second was that the trap for Legar was not to be set along the wooded road leading up to the clubhouse of the Greenoch golf links, as first decided upon. But Margery Golden was to motor alone to the west end of the turnpike bridge and there encounter her old-time enemy of the Iron Claw. And the police, Da Espares assured her, had been duly warned as to the change of location. Manley, on overhearing that declaration, promptly called up headquarters and made the startling discovery that no such message had gone in to the authorities there. In five minutes he was In his own car, hastening to a conference with central office itself. In another five minutes, on learning from Wilson over the wire that Da Espares and Margery had already left the house In the limousine, Manley had his car filled with armed plain-clothes men from the central office and was speeding out through the city as fast as a motor could carry him. As they swept up the dusty approach to the bridge they even saw that they were none too soon. For already, in the bright afternoon sunlight, they could make out a glimmering limousine as it came to a stop at the end of the bridge. They could see a somewhat hesitating and whitefaced girl step from this limousine at the same moment that they caught sight of a group of men emerge quickly from the shrubbery at the end of the bridge itself. These men, spreading out fanlike, swept past the limousine in which Da Espares and the chauffeur were 6till seated. Four of them, rounding the car, cut off the girl's avenue of retreat Another four advanced on her from the bridge-end. at the same time that a fifth man leaped to the running board and started to struggle with the chauffeur. Even as he stared at that quickly shifting scene Manley could make out the figure of Legar himself. He could see the Iron Claw reach out for the startled figure of the girl, crouched back against the bridge railing, even as his own car-wheels leaped from the approach to the bridge timbers themselves. He could also make out Da Espares' sudden leap from the waiting limousine. Manley, on beholding this, gave a cry of warning to tne plainclothes men about him. for he could plainly see the glint of a revolver in Da Espares hand. But Da Espares, as that car of deliverance thundered on across the bridge, did not turn to face it. Instead, he fought his way through the circle of burly figures surrounding Margery Golden. He fought and shouldered his way through to the side of the girl even as Legar reached for her shrinking body. He struck blindly at that outstretched arm, struck still again at Legar's face, at the same moment that Mauley's car shuddered to a stop and the armed men from its tonneau leaped into the fight It was a brief fight, but a bitter one, and much of it escaped Manley's attention. The one thing that held him transfixed was the .sudden vision of Da Espares dodging through the iron girders In sudden pursuit of Legar, as the latter, breaking free from his enemies, ran to the opposite side of the bridge. There, seeing retreat on either Quarter already cut off, thai mas is that she trying ordeal of

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ter criminal nimbly mounted tne iron railing and gave one glance towards the water below him. Yet as he poised there, ready to leap. Da Espares leveled nis weapon and fired, Hanley could hear the shrill scream of the girl, and the shouts of the startied men, the great splash of the tumbling hody as it catapulted down in the black-running water. The next moment the captain and his uniformed squad from the Greenock clubhouse were charging across the bridge, joining in with their plainclothes colleagues already foreing the last of Legar's adherents to flight And as Manley made his way toward the glimmering limousine and Margery Golden he could hear the latter's nervous sobs as she leaned weakly against the bridge railing and wept "Did you kill him?" she asked with a voice tremulous with horror as Da Espares stepped to her side. "Your enemy is dead!" was the latter's quiet-toned reply. "He sank at once. And this time he will never return." The Unbidden Guest. The gallant Count Luigi Da Espares, in view of his much-talked-of victory on the Turnpike bridge, found himself forced into the not uncongenial role of a hero. If that discreet nobleman took advantage of the high esteem in which he momentarily stood to push through to completion certain arrangements for the coBtume ball on which he seemed to have set bis heart. Knowing what he knew, the secretary still regarded that impending function as a danger in disguise. Just as he still nursed very substantial doubts as to the actual death of Legar. . So fixed was Manley in his suspicions, however, that he insisted on a conference' with Enoch Golden himself. From that conference he wrung small consolation for his' suspicions. Manley, In fact, had given up any hope of further argument on the question, when a trivial yet disquieting incident occurred, and in occurring brought about a slight change in Enoch Golden's attitude. This incident involved the receipt of a strange missive bearing the signature of that elusive interloper in the affairs of the house of Golden known as the Laughing Mask. It read as follows: Count Luigi Da Espares is. not only an Impostor, but also your enemy. And as a friend I herewith warn you that he Is not to be trusted. Even this epistle, which bore only the emblem of a Laughing Mask for signature, might have been accepted as of no great importance, had not Enoch Golden been the recipient of still another communication. This time it was a telephone message from a stranger, acknowledging himself to be an active colleague of the Iron Claw's. .. . .. v., "Legar may be gone," said this unknown voice over the wire, "but his work is going to go on, and don't you forget it! You still hold that chart If the chief didn't get his chart, before he cashed in, I'm the guy who's going to get it!" "All right." was Golden's shouted response. "You come up here and get It! And at the same time you'll get what you deserve!" Then, having slammed down the receiver, the deliverer of that ultimatum promptly sent for bis secretary. "I want extra guards put around this house!" was Golden's command. "And I want nobody to come into it who can't be accounted for." "Tonight will be a hard time, I'm afraid, to put that order into execution," explained Manley. "What d'you mean by that?" "You can't give a masked ball and put every guest on a microscope-slide as he comes in!" "Manley. how are we to know just who or what those guests are, if they're coming into this house with all sorts of make-up on?" "That's exactly what I've been trying to make you see for the last four days!" was Manley's reply. "And it's exactly what that man Da Espares has been maneuvering for, or I lose my one last bet! And if this man Legar is still alive, all we've been doing is putting a strip of red carpet down for him to walk in on!" "Well, 111 be at the other end of that carpet waiting for him!" was the old fighter's thunderous retort "That's exactly what I want you to do, what I ask you to do. That's our one chance, If what I suspect proves to be "the case! You can disguise faces, in an affair like this tonight but you can't disguise a lost hand." Golden stood slowly shaking his head up and down in comprehension. "And if our Iron Claw Is there, Davy, we'll give him a welcome that he's going to remember!" Two hours later, as Enoch Golden stood with his . daughter at his side receiving their guests, it would have

taken a particular penetrating eye to detect any darker undercurrent of intrigue to that rippling tide of color and mirth which eddied about them. So punctilious was Golden in his hearty hand-grasp to each of those incoming visitors, that Margery herself made note of this newer phase in her fathers, character. To Be Continued. By an electrical refining process a plant in Norway is -producing 50,000 tons of zinc annually. : ' ST Boat an. 7pteroo&

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Copyright, 1916, oy the McClure PRITZIE SQUIRREL AND TONY ' FOX.-. Fritzie Squirrel and Tony Fox were two mischievous little fellows as you ever heard of. They ran through the forest looking for things to do that plague all the grown-ups and some of the young ones, too. But Mrs. Bear was their especial thought and whether they bad any one else in view they never, by any chance, let Mr. Bear pass a day without bearing from them. Mr. Bear was very good natured about all the pranks they played upon him, for be remembered when he was a young fellow, and how he played tricks on the grown-ups. ' One day Fritsie Squirrel told bis friend, Tony Fox, that he bad thought of a great Joke to play on old Mr. Bear, and off they ran where no one would see them to talk it over. "I know where there are some very large nuts." said Fritzie, "and also I know where there is a jar of honey." "But old Mr. Bear likes honey, and that will not be any joke if we give him what he likes." said Tony. "Wait, my Tony; wait and hear my plan," said Fritzie, jumping about like a jumping jack as he talked. "What we want to do is to give Mr. Bear the jar of honey and get him to sit under a tree to eat it, and just as he gets ready we will drop the big hard nuts on him and break the jar. Won't that be a joke on him?" said Fritzie. It would be, Fritzie, if the nuts would break the jar, but they won't. They may be hard and big. but what we need are stones. Then we shall be sure of breaking the jar, and that will be a joke on old Mr. Bear, but I can not climb a tree, you know, so you will have to do it all alone." "O, yes, I have thought of all that," said Fritzie Squirrel, hopping and jumping about, "and this is the way we will work it: . "I will get up in a tree with the stones and you are to go to old Mr. Bear's house and tell him you know where there is a Jar of honey. Of course, he knows you do not care for honey, and he will not think you are trying to play a joke on him because I will not be along. Then you must bring him to the tree where I am hiding and show him the honey and I will do the rest. You will have just as much fun laughing at him as I will, but won't have to work so hard, you see!" Tony Fox thought it would be great V; 66 1115 MAIN

Newspaper Syndicate, New YorK. fun. so off they went for the honey, and when they had brought it to the tree where Fritzie was to hide they covered it with leaves. Tony helped Fritzie find the stones and he climbed into the tree and hid under the leaves. Off ran Tony Fox to Mr. Bear's house. "Oh! Mr. Bear, you like honey, don't you?" he asked. Mr. Bear was reading his paper sitting on the doorsteps, but be said be did like loney very, very much. ; "I know where someone has hidden a jar of it under a tree; why don't you go and get it, Mr. Bear?" said Tony. "Well it is worth looking into," said Mr. Bear. "But if you are fooling me, young fellow, beware!" Off ran Tony to the tree where Fritzie Squirrel was hiding, and Mr. Bear trotted after him. "There! Did 1 fool you this time, Mr. Bear?" a6ked Tony, uncovering the jar of honey. Mr. Bear was smiling all over his face, for he knew honey when he saw it, and down he sat under the tree to eat it. "Bang!" came the first stone, but it did not hit the Jar, and Mr. Bear did not move, for he had taken just one taste and was too much occupied getting another. "Bang, crash!" came the second stone, and the jar broke in Mr. Bear's paws and the honey ran all over him. "Ha, ha!" laughed Tony Fox. "Mr. Bear has lost bis honey.. Oh! Mr. Bear got fooled, didn't you; ha, ha!" "Ha, ha!' laughed Fritzie Squirrel from the limb over Mr. Bear, and Mr. Bear looked up. "So!" he said, "you did play a trick on me, did you, after all?" and with one spring he reached Tony Fox, who was laughing bo he did not htink of Mr. Bear chasing him. "Now, we will see who has the laugh!" eald Mr. Bear, holding Tony

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Fox with one sticky paw and reaching for a stick with the other. "Oh! Mr. Bear, don't whip me, I didn't do it," said Tony, "It was Fritzie who threw the stone." "Yes, but I cannot reach Fritzie. and I did catch you," said Mr. Bear, laying on the "stick good and hard, while Tony screamed and wriggled to get away. Tony was pretty well covered with honey when Mr. Bear threw away the stick, and Just as he was about to let Tony go Mr. Bear said: "You look pretty sweet to me for the first time; I cannot let you go with all that honey." And then Tony Fox thought he had played his last trick on Mr. Bear, for Mr. Bear held him op to his mouth and put out his tongue and Tony felt it on his face and bead. "Oh, oh, oh!" screamed Tony. "He is going to eat me.".' . When Mr. Bear bad. licked off all the honey he sat Tony on the ground, and it did not take a second for him to run and be out of sight. "You said I was to have as much fun as you." wailed Tony, rubbing his back and talking to Fritzie. "Well, didn't you?" said Fritzie.

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HAOERSTOWN. Ind., Aug. 31-A majority of the local troupe of Boy Scouts of America and the scoutmaster are in camp north of Ablngton about a mile. They went Tuesday morning of this week and will break camp Saturday morning at 7:30 and march to Richmond to attend the Chautauqua there Saturday. Saturday is to be Boy Scouts day at the Cbautauqua. Scoutmaster. Merton W. Grills, is a lover of nature and the out-of-doors. The country to which be has taken the boys is as good Scout country as there is in the state, be says, and the boys are sure to have a good time and learn much. It will not be a "tennis and golf" outing with 'flannels" and the "inconveniences of civilization" but a genuine "time" with plenty to see, hear and think about an expedition that will be remembered as long as members live. Hongkong reports a shortage in carbonic acid gas. COLLAR With starched band ' and fine, soft pique toP l5ctccK6t9(k Cluett Peabody & CoTlacI' Makers When You Need Your Suit Cleaned and Pressed and Want it Dene Right Just Call Carl C. Young Phone 2675. No. 1 Palladium Bldg. Work Called for and Delivered 99 Flint y

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