Walkerton Independent, Volume 48, Number 47, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 April 1923 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by TILE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTV NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH CO. WEEKLIES Clem DeCondree, Business Manager Charles M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ons Tear ILB* €lx Months..9o Thre- M0ntha......................... AO TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office st Walkarton. jlnd., as second-class matter. [indiana] \ STATE ‘HEU'S ; Greensburg.—New directors elected by the Greensburg Chamber of Commerce were: Charles L. Hyatt, Will C. Pulse, C. F. Grouleff, E. J. Hancock, Harry L. Gaines and Lemuel Dobyns. The holdover directors are: George W. Magee, C. W. Woodfill, Albon Woods, Ira Wonn, Dan Linegar and J. H. Christian. Robert St. John was elected vice president. C. H. Thomson, who was recommended by a nominating committee for re-election as president, declined to accept another term and the committee will make another nomination at the next meeting. The secretary will be chosen by the board of directors. Laporte.—Hascall Rosenthal, presi-

dent of the Chamber of Commerce, was elected president of the Mutual Loan and Savings company at the annual meeting of the stockholders. Other officers elected were A. G. Tamlin, vice president; F. E. Osborn, attorney, and H. F. McCormick, secretary-treasurer. Hascall Rosenthal, A. G. Tamlin, Harry C. Henrechs, F. E. Osborn, Charles Mack, S. A. Lambert, E. C. Howe and H. F. McCormick, directors. Columbia City.—A movement is on foot to have the farmers residing along the Tip Top trail from Huntington to Columbia City, to Albion and the Michigan state line, sign pledges to give sufficient lands on either side of the road tc make the right of way 50 feet wide. If the farmers refuse to give the right of way, it is said that the road will not be taken over as a state highway. Monticello.—Miss Julia McCuaig has been elected president of the University Extension club, a member of the State Federation of Clubs, tc succeed Mrs. S. O. Anderson, who has filled that office for the last twc years. Mrs. Murray Gardiner was elected vice president. Miss Ora Daugherty secretary, Miss Ora Orton treasurer and Miss Nora Gardiner federation secretary. Indianapolis.—Judge A. B. Anderson in Federal court set April 28 as the date for hearing the suit filed by the Jacques Manufacturing company of Wilmington, Del., against the Lexington Motor company of Connersville, asking the appointment of a receiver for the motor company. Insolvency of the defendant company Is alleged by the plaintiff. Noblesville. —Mrs. Emily Wedgewood, president of the state assembly of the Daughters of the Rebekahs at the meeting of the Rebekah lodges of the Ninth Indiana district, announced that the new hospital, recently completed at the Odd Fellows home at Greensburg, had been dedicated to William E. Longley, and in the future it will be known as the Longley hospital. Huntington.—Mr. and Mrs. George Lutz and seven children, with a son-in-law, narrowly escaped serious injuries when the autjibobile in which they were returning to Huntington from a visit with Mr. Lutz’s parents in Lancaster township turned over in a ditch near Furray. Aurora.—The hoard of Dearborn county commissioners granted the contract for the construction of a free gravel road in Lawrenceburg township to the Mclntyre, Hopping & Riniger Contracting company of Cleveland, O. The company bid $57,356.50, the lowest of the five bids filed. South Bend.—The woman believed to he the oldest in the United States lives In St. Joseph county. She Is Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mayo and is 108 years old. Corn bread and milk have been Mrs. Mayo’s principal food throughout her life. Knox. —Henry F. Schricker, cashier of the Starke County Trust and Savings bank here, will serve as Starke county cnairman for the campaign f< r the Riley hospital for children. Mr. Schricker is perfecting an organization for the active campaign. Shoals. —An affidavit was filed In Circuit court charging Frank Souerdike with assault. The affiant is Eva May Fry. The defendant is in jail, being held to answer a charge cf kid- I naping a girl named Harbison. Lebanon.—The contract has been let I to W. R. Danaan & Son of Flora for | the construction of a nurses’ home as ; an addition to the Witham Memorial I <’ounty hospital here, the general con- . tract bid being $16,550. Anderson. —Rebbers who looted the safe in the office of Judge William A. Kittinger accidentally dropped vain- | hide jewels. The jewels were hidden I hi a baby’s stocking that had belonged to Judge Kittinger’s grandchild. Anderson. — The Indiana Masonic home at Franklin will get $15,000 as a result of a bequest in rhe will of the late Solomon Thomas, merchant. Petersburg. —W. rk in the Alias mines was resumed, following a brief ! strike of the machine operators, which I was settled by arbitration. Shelbyville.—Primary adoption of a group Os resolutions by the city enni- < il provide for the oiling of 29 streets in this city. Lafayette.—J. William Kern, Jr., a ' freshman at Purdue university, received word that he had been appointed to a cadetship at the United States Military academy at West Point, on the recommendation of Wilt R. Wood, rep- I resentative in congress from the Tenth | Indiana district. Indianapolis.—Governor McCray no- ■ titled Edgar M. Blessing and Glenn VanAuken, members of the public service commission, that he has reappointed them to four-year terms on the commission, beginning May 1, when their terms expire.

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“GOOD BY!” SYNOPSlS.—Cruising with his friend. Sir William Skelton, on the yacht Dryad, on the Bahama bank. Bobby Ratcliffe, wealthy, twenty-two and impressionable, becomes dissatisfied with conditions on board. The arrival of a small fishing: boat attracts his attention and he visits her, finding the vessel is the Sarah Tyler, owned and sailed by Satan Tyler and his sister Jude, the latter in the costume and having the manners and appearance of a boy. Ratcliffe is strongly attracted by Satan and Jude and envies their adventurous life. CHAPTER ll—Continued. “I.ook here, Skelly!” said Ratcliffe. “I’m most awfully sorry If I have jumped on your corns, and I’ll apologize as much as you want, but the fact of the matter is we don’t seem to hit it off exactly, do we? We want to be mixed up in a big party more, you and I, If we want to get on together.” “I told you before we started I disliked crowds,” said Skelton. “I am dependent on no one for society." “I believe you would have been happier alone.’’ “Perhaps.” said Skelton with tight lips. “Well, then, shove me ashore, somewhere.” “That is talking nonsense!” said Skelton. Ratcliffe had risen and was leaning over the rail beside the other. His eyes were fixed on the Sarah Tyler, the disreputable Sarah, and as he looked at her Jude and Satan suddenly seemed to him real live free human beings and Skelton as being not entirely alive nor, for all Ids wealth, free. “It’s not talking nonsense a bit.” said he, “and. If you can trundle along the rest of the cruise alone. I’ll drop you here.” "Drop you on this Island?” “No—l’d like to go for a cruise with those chaps—l mean that chap In the mud barge over there. He asked me, any time 1 wanted to.” "Are you in earnest?” “Os course I am. It would be no end of a picnic and I want to hove round these seas. 1 can get a boat back from Havana." Skelton was. under his courteousness as a host, heartily sick of Ratcliffe and his ways and outlook. A solitary by inclination, he would not nt all h^ve objected so finishing this cruise by himself. All the same, he strongly objected to the idea just put before him. What made him object As as he insulted that the Dryad should be turned down in favor of the frowzy, disreputabh’-looking Sarah Tyler, that the companionship of the Tylerltes should be preferred to his? Di<l some vague instinct tell him they were the better people to be with if one wanted to have a good time? Who knows? But he bitterly and strongly objected. And how and in what words did lie show his objection and anger? “Then go, my dear fellow, go!” said he as though with all the good will in the world. “Right!” said Ratcliffe. “But are I you sure you don’t mind?" “Mind! Why should I mind?” “One suitcase full of stuff will do me,” said Ratcliffe, “and I have nearly a hundred and fifty In ready money and a letter of credit on the Lyonnaise at Havana for five hundred. ^3 n • > I X I\ / --“ y “Well, Then, Shove Me Ashore, Somewhere—” I’ll trundle my stuff over if you’ll lend me a boat, and be back for luncheon. You’ll be off this evening, I suppose, and I can stay aboard here till you get the anchor up. It’s possible I might pick you up at Havana on the way back; but don’t worry about that. Os course all this depends on whether that fellow will take me. I’ll take the suitcase with me and ask.” “Now, I want to be quite clear with you, Ratcliffe,” said Skelton. “If you leave my ship like that —for nothing—at a whim and for disreputable chance acquaintances—absolute scowbankers—the -worst sort —I want to be clear with you—quite, absolutely

definite—l must ask you not to come back.” “Well, I’m hanged !” said Ratcliffe, suddenly’ blazing out. “First you say go and then you say don’t! 1 think we had better stop tlds. I’m going! If I don’t see you again, I’ll say good-by.” “And please understand,” said the other, who was rather white about the mouth, “please understand —” “Oh, I know," said Ratcliffe. “Goodby !” He dived below to the saloon and rang for his bedroom steward. Burning with anger and irritation and a feeling that he had been sat upon by Skelton, snubbed, sneered at. and altogether outrageously used, he could not trust himself to do his own packing. He sat on Ids bunkside , while the steward stuffed a suitcase I with necessaries, and as he sat the , thought came to him of what would happen were Tyler to refuse to take Idm. He would have to take refuge on Palm Island. It was a comic opera sort of Idea ; yet. such was the state of his mind, he actually entertained It. Skelton was no longer “Skelly." but "that lieast Skelton." Then he tipped the steward and the chief steward, telling them that ho was going for a cruise In that “yawl over there." Qn deck he met Norton and Simmons nnd told them the same tale. Skelton hail vanished to bls enbin. He told the first and second officers that he had said giHsl-by to his host and asked for a boat to be lowered. “I’ll pick yoq up most likely at Havana," sai.l he to glaze the matter over. “I expect I’ll have a good time, but rather rough. I want to do some ' fishing." Simmons directed the lowering of n ■ boat. The companionwny Was down. The baggage was put tn, and Simsons. seated by Ratcliffe In the stern seats, took the yoke lines. Not i sign i of Skelton, not even a fm’e at <1 porthole! “Give way!" shoute<! Siminons. As they drew up to the Sarah Tyler. Rati Uffe saw Satan leaning over the rail nnd watching them. Jude was nowhere visible. “Hullo!” said Ratcliffe as they came alongside. “I’ve come back.” “I was hnlfexptstiu’ you," said | Satan with a grin. "Will you take me for that cruise right off?” “Sure!” Satan stepped to the cabin compaDl ionway and shouted down It. "Jude!" “Hullo!" came Jude’s voice. "He’s come back!" As Jude came on deck the suitcase ' was being hoisted on board. Ratcliffe : passed down a five-pound note to the boat’s crew, and then stood, waving to Simmons as the boat put away. Then, turning to Satan, he tried to discuss terms, but was instantl. silenced by Jude and Satan. They would hear nothing of money. Used to sea changes and strange happenings, they seemed to think nothing of the business, and after the first words fell to talking together. The trend of their talk induced in Ratcliffe a vaguely uncanny feeling. It was as though they had already discussed Ids coming on board and the I storage of himself and his baggage, | as though they had known by instinct that lie would return. The size of the suitcase affected Jude. "You can't keep that.” said Jude. “It's a long sight too big. Say, what have you got in it?” “Clothes.” Jude tilted back the old panama she was wearing and took her seat on tile suitcase. Iler feet were bare, and she twisted her toes in thought as she I I sat for a moment turning matters over = in her mind. “You can stick the things in the I spare locker,” said she at last. “You gonna have a gay old time if you keep this in the cabin, tumblin’ over it. Better empty her here an’ cart i the stuff below.” Ratcliffe opened the suitcase. The steward of the Dryad was an expert: i in a past existence he had probably been a pack rat. In any given space he could have tucked away half as i much as any other ordinary mortal. But he certainly had no imagination, or perhaps lie had been too busy to i cast his eye overboard and see the ‘ manner of craft Ratcliffe was joining, j and Ratcliffe had been far too much

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exercised in his mind about Skelton I to notice what was being packed. Jude on her knees helped. “What’s this?” asked Jude, coming on a black satin lining. “Confound the fool!” said Ratcliffe. “He needn’t have packed that: it’s a dinner jacket.” “Mean to say you sit down to your dinner in a jacket?” Jude choked and snorted while Ratcliffe hurriedly, on his knees, hauled out the trousers and waistcoats that went with the garments. “That’s the lining—it’s worn the other way about —I know It’s tomfoolery. Stick ’em all in one bundle— Lord! look at the shirts he's packed!” “They’ve got tucks in them,” said Jude, looking at the plaited fronts. “I know. They go with that tomfool dinner suit. You can't knock sense into the head of a bedroom steward. Come along and let’s get them down below.” "Say,” said Jude, when they had finished, “what are you when you’re ashore, anyway?” “I'm one of the idle rich,” said Ratcliffe, lighting his pipe. “Well, you won’t be idle aboard here,” said Jude definitely. “What j was your dad?” “He was a ship owner.” “How many sldps did he own?” "About forty.” She turned to see if he were guy- j ing her. “There was another man In the business,” said Ratcliffe, “a partner; Ratcliffe & Holt was the name of the firm. The governor died without A /j rwwi j a ] A “Do You Mean to Say You Hold Up Steamers?” Asked Ratcliffe. | making n will, and his money was divided up between my tw<^ brothers I and me." "How much did you get?” “Over a hundred thousand.” “Dollars?” “No pounds four hundred thousand dollars." i “Got ’em still?’ “V es." • “In the bank?” “Some; the rest Is invested.” She seemed to lose interest in the i money business and hung for a moimnt over the rail, whistling almost noiselessly between her teeth and kicking up a bare heel. “Well,” she said suddenly, as if ! waking from a reverie, “this won’t . boil potatoes —I've got to get dinner . ready. Come 'long and help, if you're willin'.” There was half a sack of potatoes in the galley. She set the stove going, and then, on her knees before the open sack, she sent him to fetch half | a bucket of water from overboard. He found the bucket with a rope at- i tached, brought the water, and filled the potato kettle, then he brought more water for the washing of the potatoes. “Where did you get them from?” asked Ratcliffe. “Get which?” "The potatoes.” “Bought them,” said Jude; then, as though suddenly smitten by rectitude, “No. we didn’t, nuther: we kidooled them out of a fruiter.” “What’s a fruiter?” “Fruit steamer. Satan fixed her.” “How did he fix her?" “Well,"’ said Jude, “it’s no harm to hold up a packet if you don’t throw her off her course —much. It’s the I owners pays, and they can stand the racket. The crew likes it. and if j there’s passengers aboard they just i love it.” “Do you mean to say you hold up i steamers?” asked Ratcliffe. “Yep.” “But how do you do it?” “Oh, it’s only now and then. What’s easier than to lay in her course with the flag at half-mast? Then she heaves to.” “And you board her and ajk for potatoes, or whatever you want?” “It’s an old ship sunk south o’ Rum Key,” cried Jude. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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