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THS HATTY BANNSS, rTREBNCA'STEE, INDIANA'. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25,1931.

imm !9mmiSmSJ3m'Chriatm*8 trees and the like which ;'f ; countj bidders ^rf su>> the^riace^nf^ beginning^

ii-^.sioners for comparisiu!i i of the northwest quari wls purchased when the | twelve (12> said

i ved and checked in

AFTER CHRISTMAS

SALE OF COATS

Snlurdn )vr

i r j

(►IlfM nui comnlrlc stork

ot l d<lies' ( odls ;il

a indicate the holiday. Here it is in^.dicated by anti God placards and more

cessful. and count \ coin: with the k

same are

the east half

of i

quarter

township and range,

Cum-

V' e would advise early selection as our sizos and colors are

atheist lecture-

the county usMuni. U ILIMS E cJILL,

To draw workers, and especially the County .Auduor Putnam t’ountv. in

i 11 diana •

lying north of the center of the Cumberland Hoad (now U. S. Road No. 10) i

Com- 1

HE \l. |

3 youtii away from the churches, spec

theatrical preformances, and other aumims i ih i

gathering's t' k place on Christmas , \u11c• is by ci -n that the un-

d^rsigned. Otto F 1 >akin, as adniinIstrator of the estate of Clement C.

A, usual the inmial Russian drama Hurst, dece d by order of the Put-

itiimi Circuit ri. of Putnnui i otiut>. |

g of worshippers inside t;ie churches , indlann. will '(ter for sale, at private i ..a „i , ;,i„ i..,rn,l H,,e 1 K ale. at th. I w office of Hays and 1 [3 and mockers out.-ide was staged. i yjnrphy, ou sid> of public square. , unlike several years ago. the mock-' i' Hi.j city ■ ‘ii encustie, Indiana, sit | ing was not done noisily at church 1 ‘ ’u - w ’.f.\NP \ RV i•.<:!:.•

'doors. The wot hippere were not d,-' *

^•turhed |tn»e in Pm in County. Indian i to-

. i

The religious elements, especially TKACT NO. 1

and described as follows, to-wit: mencing at the northwest corner of

.'Us J said half tjuartur and running thence

I south 2 chains and 35 links to the cenof the said Cumberland Road;

ter

thence northeastwardly with tin center of said road to the north line of said half quarter; thence west with the north line of said half quarter 12 chains and 2ri 1-2 links to the place of beginning, containing 1 1-2 acres. Said tract containing 79 and ninety hundredths of an acre, more or less, and being all of the east half of the southwest quarter of section 1, and the east halt of tli** northwest quarter of section 12. all in township 13 north, range 4 west, north of said U. S. Road No.

| Merry Christmas! Final Times This Ku’ihnir * ‘MANSI All GUT |;j>-

Claudette Colbert

j|j|i!i tlie country, are blamed for every||l thing that y os wrong. They are ^ branded as henchmen or dupes of ang ti-Soviet group-. The anti-religious s 1 propaganda, therefore, has a serious [3'political importance. It is directed 2} j not qnlv against priests ami deacons, g but against ill those who in am way I ,oppose the policies of the Soviet re-

dj gime.

M»IH E TO HIHUEHs EHH *1 PPMO

EOII rol I \ \ | | q

Notice is hereby gi\*ti that bids will Ik lecdvetl .a the offic* mi the .inmfy nudlfoi of i , .11,i Count> up to ) ’ o'clock noon on Monday. Junuar' 4.

1932, for the furnishing of su

said County ending Man

Th* easi I

I ter of K'-rti

teen i I 3 1 tii'ii id .1 Iso all of 11'i not One ( 1), tuv. and descrlb

ginning

.aid half

of the northwest qnar- • ne < I >. township thlr

* range four t4) west.

it part of the west half

west quarter of section

hip and range afort said, fo 1 • t t.- tS !* it*northwest cortuw of liter and running the

qi, n ter and rum tl north line th<

TK VCT NO 3

A part of the southeast quarter of .section one <l> township thirteen (13) north, range four (4» west, and described as follows, towit: Beginning at the northwest corner (if said southeast quarter and running thence south on the west Hue of aid quartei ' ■ 38 chains to an Iron pin: thence east I 33 chains to an iron pin;_ thence south i _ degrees east 10.Th chains to a point in the (enter of the National Road (now I S Road No. 10) thence with the center of said road north 6K d( grees east 1.55 chains; thence north 65 1-2 degrees east 25 chains; thence nortl 65 degrees east l i 11 1 chains t<* a nt on the east line of said quart*

Showing Saturday

Mariner and Night

F ffdhir

n nly 10c 4 2» j

ng thence

with tl Mtq'th line thereof to the northeast cor • r (*f said half quarter; thenee sout* with the east line of said half quitter to the southeast corner thereoi thence west with the

y«.nt line iid half quarter to a point on the east line of >.iid (juarter; stake on th* est hank of Deer Creek, j thence north on the last li; » <»r said at low wat- nark; thence northward quarter 23.75 chains to the northeast with .iid k to the west line of | corner of said quarter theme west on id half qi i section, thence north the north line of said quarter 3'' *0

line to the place of i chains to the place of beginning, conhundred 1 taining 107.47 meres, more or less Said

' tiact of

• irh tin* s l •v inning, fifty « 1 5 0)

(|iiar -

hip thir4) west,

ANA ( OA 1, ONi: TII1KI) OFF

( oiae liarly

PHI.VO COMPAN

approved !»y All blanks

ig of supplies for .Inin for tin quartei 1932, as dlrc ted and

dup the

j btpI t ted in list h* f l h• 1 1

licate "ii blanks t»* he furnished county auditor, and must comply with the l.tw in ever'. Particular Bidder 1 - an i ♦•qulr**d m furnish samples. said samples to he the property

ataining one *:.■ more or less TRACT NO. 2

The east : of the southw

ter of secti ui one (1) townshi lien '13) nuth, range four

except sixty - in iiundtedths • of an acre lying :t!i of the center of the •' i ih.aland 1 i«i (now I * s Road No. 40), and de . ihed as follows, to-wit:

the southeast corner of ter and running thence aid *6 links to the cenjad; thence south weste center of said road to of said half quarter; chains and 20 links to

107.4 7 ajeres.

land belt

mg all of the southeast

arter section lying north of the Na-

u. s.

q Hi tio

mil Road

Road No 40, ex-

A-yC '

t-pting the land owned by the Defend-

ing Kenneth D Ashworth.

....M ' ^

oinnomcin^ said half q rorth I cha ter of said Wiirdly will f ' 1 * south thence east

ant.

TERMS; One-third cash, one-third in six and one-third in twelve months deferred payments to be.u six p»i • '-nt int»*rest from date of sale and secured by a mortgage on said real estate. Purchaser to have the privilege of paying all cash. (Triii |\ KA KIN. ADMINISTRATOR OF CLEMENT C HI RST, DECEASED Ha j i i m . 11

s. <:

"•yjpippppr-jrfsraj

W \'?HINt.TON VI

1 BLN 11 in

1 deterin

nod to

he free, so lie went

about

he ta>k

of wim ing a victory

IVtjr-n ( A ' r

re Wash

ii^to ni:i I led

whi' would i new the determination

his 2,4h0 old

Inniff rv

;ind tire.l i i^--

with w

lieh th--

war wag first under-

g(d ‘'I'ntit l luu

• ,l ' th

•ounh •( •' and

t a ken.

snow - if i 'hi i'

tmas niu

h!, 177(’), cross-

The

Best (H

ance lay at Trenton

ed the D'liw

i ?‘f ri\ci

with them in

which

u.e; fr;i

bv Hi sian!

p colic; t ion of

small ho

ats and ban r es.

ineieen;

del ' ■ ommand of i

flit’ll ill . v> h':

Iw ind a!'

ack that would

( s o!onel

Rahl.

1 Li'. in " i o idea that 1

net be (jcnic !

killed o

r . iptureil the

the fo

acros

tin Delaware river

entire Bi ' i Ii

n - '*)i risoii

at 1 rent on h* 1

would

vant to

fi" during he fe.--

headed ;•! » \ |

doit which alone would

live ('ll

ristmas

season, the (iennansj

ha VP brt || -qf

fieient ti

establish him

forgot

he war

:ind i *de!>! ;U(»d. Rahl 1

as a milit.ii v-

endor of

the first tank.

so con

Ipletely

unde* i timated the !

I ho ] Toi ! i .mni’» i - i

rv, we are in-

mettle

of his a

h y that Ik' re-

forme! Iiy tin

United

States George

fused e

veil to

let foilifieatii n> of

ic- tenni

il commission.

any sot

Hu th ot or hand, Wash-

of til) 1 brittle

if Trent

on, ('ominv on !

in-ton

took th.

eoiii-.-t measure of

tho cvc of tho

n iti- n w

ide celebi it ion

R 1 .

ten he d

1 id. to attack Tien-

mm i

of thp 200 h ington'- l>ii t 11 ^11 A nirrican which homt' point of the i

The hop 1

tionfs -olcli. r

emshert during the irin'er of I77fi.

t roups , i j * I time, .'nid • most of then end of thr isitig condit Washington men iv odd he mean! the h mest valuaid. What ma.

v of Wash-

tum- the thought of towairi that event, ve called the turning j

volution.

i I pirit- of Washing had heen considerahly

utumn and early The continental 1 for only a short iod of service for Id expire with the Under the unpromthen prevailing, that few of the

Ming to reel

1st

That d and

ton. Ih' caught the ll< -i.an- unawares in the midst of their revelries. The Amerii an victery wa a certainty an'l it took only a few minutes of actual I fighting to i nvii, . the enemy of this

fact.

I he heroism of Washington's men has been memoiiali/ed in countless I tributt . an .very American i- familiar with the detail- of that march in the December hlizzaid and the da;igeron. crossing of the . filled Dela ware. \T! II ,IS I S IIOI J) YULETIDE DRIVE

-itui

ene't. ral ll<>

M( St OW, Dec mas, like Easter, for the Socict \' , 'lining o; an

and I'uch

Ih kne

2.. (UP)-—Christ-i. the busy season r Uodless which is nti ii- tve campaign

.against the holiday celebrations. A:heist Un an had two Christ-ina-e.. one on De a- the rest of the Chri-tiai) 'orld, and the other 13 da> a later, on .ian. 7, in accordance w ith fireek Orth' h x calendar. Both da.' will he utilized by the Society of '•odh to to,lily a t in i ■ ma mong the

masses.

Imleel. the principal urn of Christma i the O' a mnu of atheist activities. hi I aw he re it mav tn'

j&k*m

Hospital still hr aiang ■•vidence. in the form of sorgn-a! dre-sinm. of hu accident. rtie Bnti Ii d plomat is in the United State* for a

*1+ f

by Sidney UJa»*unck„/

•y I‘III King Fi-iturov fr It,’..

READ THIS FIRST PLANS Katharine Faring granddaughter Martel) of a Russian prince, is the rightful tae key t

owner of the missing Czarina rubies I rank Sio of sinister fame and fabulous value .1 been r Trying fo recover them for her, Paul t ourt an Federoff is murdered at Monksilver, Mill. I ha a vacant country house, and Frank, mote tonic Severn is kidnaped and carried there And in a unconscious. His servant, Creyke, hr. plan. t« murdered. "tjood i Jim Wynter, friend of Severn ing to let and of Katharine, tries to rescue oiil man Severn, is injured and drugged and you’d mn

! of mystery affecting his friend, but

deep in this—Martcll’s all unexpectedly to find Katharine all the my liter v about 1 again—and Katharine free.

tain Mar*

neered from Beggar’s ’ tell will be thinking hard, wonderon . . • , ma trading a a plan for finding out 1 Martin on the ’phone—and it won’t

be altogether surprising it he makes

riel whisper he outlined a near gue.-s. 1 remarked Bill Gtayg, i nodded. j son. as they drove back that night v jgh Only I’m not go- from PenMiolt to Beggar's Court. m go back there alone. | "Jim. it might be just as well to l ord knows what Rouble'keep one s weather rye open Be- ■ ur head into without me | cause. unle-« we re unduly flattering

awakens in thr home of mysterious tie le to l< i .liter von! Be-ides, (

Dr. Martell Recovering, he takes Katharine and his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Grayson, to Severn’* country home, Beggar's Court. There a search reveals a concealed stairway and a locked door in the rums of an ancient chapel The stub of one of Dr. Martell s cigarets lies on the stairs. Sant. Severn's lawyer, reluctantly agrees that the door be forced and goes to engage a blacksmith Wyn ter and Grayson encounter in a neat bv village a man Grayson recognizes ae a former Sing Sing convict. Returning to Beggar's Court they find a wall of the rum collapsed and the secret stairway boned. A little later Wynter sees Dr. Martell s profile in shadow on a wall near Beggars Court. Later, Wvnter phones Martell, saying he is Martin of Beggar s Court. Martell asks him it the coast

is clear.

him by this suspicion of yours ije can he pretty dangerous.” “Ves—and that s putting it mMdly.” And Jim laughed a little grimly "Well, perhaps we can b» pretty

dangerous too!”

dun t warn to he left out ot any fun i going!” j Jim had i"iei ted Hun with his own eagerness. \ rudd u, ainiost boyish excitement lowed m the clear-cut. de\er fate His Rained legal mind

wa^ in its • tii'uit in the task of DARKNESS

endeavoring to unravel tin* tangled It »as a dark night There was

■. mi and th ct that the missing no n oi • - n I

tiiaii was one , ms oldest friend? that should be all in tavor of that made Bill lira m ke ner -till to put plan that was taking them back se-

his energies

vice.

"But it’s not n added, "much > Rons yet Halt p be soon enough ■ yours, eh ” And ment. " Chat's a make it Q o'clock t t ourt and here - hunting!”

kill at Jims scr-.crctly to Beggar's Court. ! it still wanted a few minutes to 9

■ alter fi yet, he | when Jim Wynter, avoiding the main >’ toi opeia- gates of the lonely house, made h a t 8 or () would way very quietly through the little tins scheme ot used gate that led fiom a side road

mi nodded agree- into the grounds.

. then We 111 He was alone Bill Grayson had ’ eht at Beggar’s; dropped in at the Cross Keys, osung ou good lensibly tor a drink, on the chance

>t picking up some information about

hours to kill | the man whom Jim had seen at that

Willi nearly three

I V e< - 'bee got into the ar and re-i upper window—who he was and if , ( suiued their journe I hen stopped lie were connected with the inn. As

CHAPTER XXXIV 'at Pen-holt, some ' tv miles fur- i stranger Bill could show himself Martell, the kindly Hood >amari-| trvr on the road to London, to dine there, where Inn W ynter would have tan of two nights ago—deep in tins at one ot the hotel there. After'heen recognized. Bill was to follow sinister mystery of the man w ho had dinner Bill Grayson and Inn pro-i in the car to the side gate, when two vanished! What else could it mean? po ed to motor bark to Beggar s hoots of his horn would'signal h:s One thing it meant, as an instinct i Court. arrival. Until he came the plan they

I hat it I here was a quick ra- way service i had in view must wait,

like a certainty told Jim:

had not been just a mere accident ot i to tow n from Pensholt and Milly

chance that had brough' him to Dr, Martell s house alter he had been driven away drugged and unconscious from Monksilver. Martell’s account of his coming had sounded plausible enough to have disarmed any suspicion—and really it could only have been all part of a cunning

ruse.

and Katharine had absented checrf Uy to the suggestion that they

bad train to 1

pool street, where the Grayson's chauffeur would he instructed by

'■ ire to meet them.

"Sci i

REVELATION

Those men he had disturbed at Monksilver had not wanted hint out of their clutches until they had satisfied themselves that he had seen nothing there, could tell nothing that would be dangerous to them

He remembered now with a new 1 Oh. but. Bill sigmhcance how closely Martell had testinglv

questioned him. How wa- it he had r .u ..c.„i . , . ot state fur thf mnmen*

chanred to stumble on that crime at ,11 v 0 \j triinK

.’er? ^Mirrlv time* 1 e *

No dog barked as Jim made hif way very cautiously across the grounds at the back of the rambling old house, strolling off in the direction of the ruins. The watchdog, poisoned on the night Frank Severn had been overpowered in his

but you see something un-' own house, had nut yet been re-

rpected's happened that makes it placed.

■t'uer urgent Jim and I should go j Hah way across the grounds Jim Uegga’ r t ourt tonight,” | Wynter's steps were arrested abruptexplained vaguely "Jim'ly. No sound had broken the dead on ,|1C telephone just now at quiet of the night He could not lavnc, „ud—well. 1 wont go into, hare said what made him glance • ai s now I’round quickly with that sudden odd

- s--

'■'R ( ,'icci and t he k*at in u*

dark!

ill had

•■e began *:o

up lor our return

,( . ,

news for you.”

he sa d "B it sit and v ou. too. Miss ma have sorne

IMPETUOUS

At dinner she talked eagerly anon 1

there the day altci tomorrow ar latcm if not tomorrow. Milly alv ae?

did everything in a hum

Von .an he ready by then, Kath aimer 1 he house is all ready toi occupation, <o why noi " Milly'-,ml When Mi. Sant iried to throw cob! water on it, lie didn't know what good liiii.- we re going to have down

there-!’’

Monksilver? Surely he ntu-t have seen someone there, or at lea-t have some clue to the identitv oi these men? Questions that had sounded natural enough then, as if prompted merely bv friendly interem but Uni enter knew now how anxiously

Martell must have waited tor his an- | .A.-™ 1 and her

swer to those questions.

Had Martell been one of the men actually in Monksilver that night . And the whistling man of the ( ross Key? had he been none other than his unseen a??aiiant in that dark liouvcr \\ ould tiiat be -o improbable a coincidence alter all? He went hack to the liou>e agent), where Bill had just signed the agreement to take Manorway*. Milly (ame out, looking ay happy -as a child w ho has been given a new tov "And now that's settled, well drive back to town to dinner to cele-

brate the occasion,” she cued.

° Jim had draw n his iriend aside. Bill, he said, "I'm not motoring to Izjndon with you. I'm going back

to Beggar * Court tonight."

Bill staled at him in surprise. He saw the suppressed excitement m the

other's face. I me suuie

What A the great ,dea ’ he de "‘>1’ Vl! have a good tune "T ^ * right—in spite o. Siu. , roid wat. Ifrteny Jim told Him of that tele-1 he said very conten*dly

phone conversation with the Cross! Queer. I

ome back

"tou aren't afraid of being borer ?iiff. Katharine a ,ed Jim, remcm

her.iig >ant'« words. She laughed back » If you d seen h snatched at Milly -

tvouldn' lot vvard

sense whispering a warning in Ins brarn. that he was bcini, watched by unseen e.. cs. He stopped dead, staling into the darkness, d hi? nerves suddenly

taut.

V\ as that a dur of shadow- moving stealthily in the dark ambush ot the ruins? Or wa? it iust a trick of the starlight it that dim. ghostly p uce? He tool a quirk suspicion* step nearer, watching and listening intently, still with that odd insistent

plan* toi g 0;il<i j “mtccountable feeling

No sound except that somewhere in the darkne an ow I hooted—and .l' In laughed ai him-elf or the start into which it betrayed him He told himself w,.|, sudden impatience mat he' wa? merely imagining tilings as he turned and walked on. \nd almost in the same moment ,'s -'• ves ' vt ’ re ai r e-ted by something iat was not mere imagination. A gleam liar) flashed through the

almost as hi« fcs ;one again A light

'hat had come Iron, the direction of :.ie eituary to whi, , ,h„ ( ground , S.oped—and. un.- . [i m \\ ■ !U or \.- dS

lai out of his rr . l

• rom

tw greedily inv tation v i

larkncss, .aught it

that

Milly glanced

havi to asl I Mi ’ ’ ' . it un i i| '

- u 'o- at Inn and

! knew Iroiu his late as In* eyes Katharines what Ins thought

I the subject were.

\\ liat

was *1110

i light .- Too manv ’ happened and «■ on,,, ~-- t ourt if.

meaning oi Matter tiun

! Beggar'

! scruples in the n <th 1 with a little sin velvc-t-iooted *M I erci-ed more . at hr softly lie stole

that

% had

happening at 11 1 J have anv He reflected not even the 11 '. h I hav* e \.

# |imm«d«tely into this dark labyrinth. llot)r

i Un a? inic.i \

very •niiH* < -i lj

-.m

- k "l 4c TH(' COK0

CL paramount picture

with

iiicliard Ariuu

and U.U WRA V

8#$f t»nuir ** WII-HCt «

To All Our IT inui, | J.C.PENNEYCQ y sSanla Clair* Hasn I rhniF On iis!

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We also wish you a ‘T’ Merry ChristniasS HL Clievrolei: Sales w

• t. VV. Holhtwell,

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