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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1937-11-18, Page 7THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1937 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN Duplicate Monthly Statements We can save you money on Bill ant Charge Forms, standard sizesto it ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples Also best quality Metal Hinged Se:- tional Post Binders and Index, he Seaf,l:rth News Phoney 84 py—e.a *I --"m _r ----'>' -.�.,, mem-..-°a,--..•t, „-.--.• e 1 LI 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 THE CHASE • "Alt things considered," said the old freighter, 'lArhansas John," "I never was quiteso:beaten: in a man as whoa T was running •betw'een End -of -track, on the Elkhorn road, and the mines around Deadwood. tlnd I'd 'been in business a good many years, too. I thought I could size up a stranger as quick as the next man "It was this way. My men and 'I had 'loaded up oar eighteen Wagons, and were hooking up to pull out from the railroad siding, when there came out to us a short, .stocky young man, with a 'bti•stliug. sandy mustache and a j'o'lly energetic manner, lugging 'his gripsaok. 'lHe struck straight for me, and be- gan with his story. Had a 'letter, from his smother that his father had been injured in a aline at Whitewood, and wanted him to come on at once. He'd been working on the railroad—had just twenty dollars. He offered ,his money in one hand and the -letter from his mother in the .other. Said he must get :through--tvoulct give all he'd got fcir-a passage with me, or 'he'd. work his way through if I had any- thing he could do. '1 looked him over'and refused both his money and the letter. I told him to go. buy a post -office order and send to his mother, and then to come on and pile into a wagon. "He vas tickled enough; gripped my Mind, while tears •filled his eyes fat a way that certainly looked right to all df us. die was back in time for the start, and at our first camp made him- self useful, and, was so chock -,Full of jokes that everybody. 'cottoned' to him in 110 time. "He gave his name as .Jcslum J. Wil- liams, and my men quickly christened him ''OVh=herjoyful,' and the name stuck ---for a few days. He proved himself a good cools and a ;better night -herder; and as my wrangler was really the 'hest cook among xis, the IT. ,P„ and the next .morning, at clay - stranger took esliarge 'of his herd afterlight. landed at ,Ogallala, having made the second night. a journey of some 'five hundred miles "'Phut was a mark of confidence --fifty on foot, seventy on 'horseback, I'd shown hut ,few sten on so short an acquaintance. 'There wasn't a man 10 my 'outfit but would have guaran- teed the squareness of Oh -be -joyful. "It was five days after 'he took charge of the 'herd that we woke up one morning minus males and •riding- stoc•'k--found ottrie'1ve: stranded in the midst of the 'Nebraska sandhiils, all afoot, and fifty miles from the nearest.habitation that we knew any- thing about! At 'firs't we thought some of the stock musthave strayed and that Wil- liams was hunting for them; then, as we still heard no bells and began to circle out an the 'lookout. one of the hien discovered a straight-away trail leading off to the south, with the tracks of three pony -riders driving., the herd. "Then we knew that we'd done h, •the ground by our joke. making friend. He'd had confederates follow- ing to 'help do the job of relieving us of aur stock. As for me. I :could have chewed tenpenny nails with a relish. Ogallala was. I knew. nearly straight south. '-It was also the near- est point where' the mules could be sold, and toward that point I felt cer- tain my .tock was being driven. 'Chis. station .was, 'I believer!, not more than one .hundred miles distant. just a stiff two days' drive for loose stock; and my choice lot of eighty odd mules could not fail of 'being taken on sight at a fair price. "The outlook for recovery was any- thing but •pronusing, but I dost not a minute iu ,giving chase I was a bet- ter foot -traveller than any maxi I had, and fearing there might be a double plot to capture :both mules and freight, i left all any sten in 'charge of the wagons, with instructions to 'keep their guns strapped on. "Then, with a day's ,provision. I tit out for 1Entl-of-track. which was ,time nearest telegraph -station that I roupd he certain of reaching with any help along the road. I ran at a dog- trot .most of the time, from seven a.m, to five p.m., when 1 struck a small cattle ranch where the mien knew me. "I'd covered nearly fifty miles, and had need of the horse I readily secur- ed. I was now seventy miles from the railroad, but d knew wayside farmers and ranchmen all along the trail. I was able to change horses at reason- able intervals, and with but a half- hour's delay at longest.At three that ':twould have taken a ,good deal o'clock on the next morning 3 was .at of energy 10 10111 'cru up. 'How!' 1 .%:zed -of -track and busy 'With an a wak saki to the sitter. when I carte up ta meed telegraph operator. him. He grunted civilly and looked at 'I had two hours' s'•leep before a nu with an inquiring eyes slippOse t'he.,e 111511''' ar'e' for mired train went south. An hour later I caught a regular passenger. That ire's' l queried, at a venture. afternoon 'I reached Fremont on the "he said `sur man's got quick etiom--yo•n met him down the 'trail?' r' '1 save him,' .1 admitted. ' 'Are you a .buyer?' he asked, "'Well,' I said. kind of hestitatin•g, I'd like to look this hunch overt and nearly four hundred by rail. "1 aroused •a town ,marshal, who seemed eyn•ly sleepily interested in tiny story, but promised help at the right time, I discovered that the agent for the chief mule -buyer was at another itaton, and that my telegram had not been delivered. Thin; didn't look •pr+smising fit any dire_ t„ our and yet I believed that niy mule herd was at that moment within three or four hours' ride, on its way to 'Ogallala. I managed to rout out 0 barber, who. gave hues a close shave and ran a clipper through my long hail He assisted ed 10, tt rousing a dry-gmids man and I b u ht and. donned a sore stilt of clothes, hat and hoe;. "When I looked in a glass at the hate! I didn't 'know myself, e rmana; ed to get au early breakfast and a mount; and hi loss than forty-eight hours .from the time I had left tom_ camp 1 •,tis, riding north from the town of 5).tallala air a AC015111 .- pe-dition! -1 followed a rough wagon road. which ran through a scattered settle- ment e nent of small fieldnew frame hous- es a n ,-e. ,tn,l so -1 shanties. Wherever 1 coulee mount a height and get a view of the surrounding country :1 did so. It was in this way, :ebout eight o'clock. that 1 elisrortretl a'horseman on asection- line road a anile to the east, riding at a good gut toward town. I ern ed over and took the road 1e had :leen travelling and in less ban a ,half-hour my .sanitise that lie was the forerunner of my stolen herd., ii hiswayto-pros;pect for buyer` roved correct. kt' "1 came upon them in 0 creek val- ley. close by the roadside, sty whole notch 01 .:tock strung °mitt . on the creek -bank and busy munching new corn, which had evidently 'peen pur- diased from a settle across time rotal. '.l rode out toward the uncles. and discovered a man sitting on the creek- >anlc mending a 'addle -girth with au awl and some w'hang leather, which no doubt he'd got ;front a settler.. 1st fore "coning near enough, however, to notice these particulars, I -saw on this;Sands of the Creel:, near the bank Where he sat, two other fellows lying u1 their backs. dead in sleep, One of hent was Oh.be-,to: fur Williams. 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"My horse went donna killed in its . track and 1 rolled heels over head in the dirt: I got 50 my fret with mouth and eyes filler, ani waved niy un in an almost sightless attempt. to bring it to hear. k11vc1.r 1 over and disarmed ix t tniukul,. i,sl when i trle,al,:d; 01 H1, Wines 4'„ lsiropraetor Electra' Therapist — Massage 51:7 Commercial Hotel Hums—bion, and Thur;. after moons and .by appointme>.tt FOOT CORRECTION by manipula+ton—Sus-ray treat- ment Phone 227. meeyesenough t ._r, i,nib;, 1:11:7T 1 Weather Expert Predicts— 1)1.1 over me. in telompli. the tzar-: !oro Green, an Indian, from Cape ehall ,f Ogallala and three citizens 11 raker. returns each fall' to a bush in whore he'd sworn . for the' .•!a_ ,,'u55100:11 l'o suslmip near. Winghana doings! trs rut ti„od for the wibter months.. '•I had hard , ,rk in e 11Vmcine the feast ;year lie hast brokee into promi- uric: er of my i 1 -mtity. and when I'd i 11101 by 1,1s weather predictions. lone sb yam. count have 1 ne>Ckerl nnnl I :1st year he predicted snow, steady down i11, tvrut , t,rh m iNib'tlmh, 1irvitat ..atail er- 1 maat(011+fro1 its predictionovenerd isaso a)ecefailure,er Un - 215 x k' u1 ✓ it 111, 500it 'riek'.Idatmttd, ohw ever. he ,tate; that this }'ort see, .att•r , 'eft ole this tr.orn-r.t,t wilt f>' mild "We will have Tittle it , I get t 1.0113k1”.111,6:""I !e t r -snow ' ,fl 111 atter Christmas, because u, 4d"i111% `="11';'. I wake' n a , of thunderstorm.,' he say n, adding e✓ttp.e of the boy.. these af[erT the mechanism of his "fu-- and tells 'ern - t,t b., cm the 1., ,loom ter :trays like. pretty soon on m comes to my .office, and descrii,es a man, just as .you look now, minus the dirt, who. he said, lid.. c„the to the hotel in Inc niglitr« art had just rid aw ay'itn the north 111 a eay il'e. '.`11 took it that was one )f the t11011' 151 was after. and so ,addles up rml'fosllows with a sore. When we sighted yon tearing Moog with Your ht ttrl>. and yon wouldn't stop for no gnnls; we lit in after y---ort--results as von see. '. ''01, yes, I looked for you first.— before we started, --'but I couldn't trait you. I night havesavvier' Your trick, and I'm feeliu' conn, disreput- able because I didn't.' "\\'ell, I was the only stampeder caught! The rest escaped, every man lack of therm: but I was glad enough to .nit my mules back, and no jolly rustler has ever sung 015 to sleep .ince.” that's if you've time to show 'ern and :au tell something about the indii'id- ell stock.' "'l'here ain't much to tell.' he said indifferently. 'You can see from here a choice lot + 'n fellow.; hitt .one on. tmall. an let's see if you knee. good stockwhen yon set it.' `,He got up, and I dismounted from my Caynse. dropped time pony's ,ridle-rein on the ground, and follow- ed. '"The felloii had a glib tollgate and rascally imagination. He soon be - .11n on the Merit,of the 'animals, awhich he pointed out one after an- other. till he fairly waxed enthusias- tic with fictitious details. "I- was a heap amused, hut 1 had 0 'cut it short soot&. and presently, .ashen he turned his hack to 1117 to pick out a new subject, I pulled mi fun from a hip pocket and whacked hien alongside the jaw. He went dawn in a heap, out of business all Halite "I :lid over to my Mr. pony. picked up my own nip,}>,.ncrder's whip, which lay near the num's sad- dle, and mounted. I thaw ohne to get that brunch of stock going with as little fuss as possible. "'There was no one in sight across the road but a little girl in the set- tler's yard, ari in a minute or less, I had niy whole herd of stook out of pistol -range of the creek. '1I didn't know what might be hap- pening behind me, and_'I didn't look to see. Though my stock was travel - worn, I pushed them to the limit for two miles or more; then, of a sudden, reaming over a rise on my right, I ,aw four horsemen heading for tete and waving their :artmms. "t felt in that minute that I was beaten; that probably my last hour had come. The settler or settlers had seen my capture had w eked up the thieves, and must have had horses close at hand for their Inounting. I was time thief now, : n,l must .get tw'ay o•rfi.ght to a :finish. "Across a plowed .field on my left was a farmhouse w•itti a .;small barn and yards. I wheeled' my hunch on to. khat field and made a run for those premises. I hoped to get some of nmy- stock into the yards and to gain fi;ght- ing.cover at the same tine. It was my only hope, For my cayuse was not a t•'alcer, .and inthe dust we would tl{re-a,et"r," on which !tis predictions supposedly are male, After Christmas is a long time to ;predict accurately, .,,1. t • t , 'e will be''heav a fecl.s that there Y snow during fnt,uary and:February. The 'future -meter" is a bn>v-like ap- `paratu . with hands on a home-made dial.Ins,idt' :11,07 is a conglomeration of wires 11 1,ich do not turn the hands because Ile had to adjust them him- self. "r just feel," fie state?, "ani: then the weather makes rine turn it to the right .place. I can tell pretty good for three months, but I'm not so sure after drat." The pre -coaling and proper hand- ling of poultry killed on the farm or at a packing plant is particularly important because the bloom will be quickly 10-,t if the ,birds are not pre cooled wl:'hout delay and also handled properly. Poultry killed on the farm and sold dressed through local buyers or poul- try pools where no pre -cooling facil- ities are available frequently lose their bloom. with the consequent deprecia= tion in the sales appearance of the birds and the failure to get :the best price on the market. 'Poultry meat is a perishable'prod- uct which will deteriorate rapidly un- less properly handled. The market de- mand is for properly packed : poultry with good bloom and briigiht appear- ance.. Good bloom is first secured by nroper finishing hut is 'held after kill- ing by proper handling and holding in correct temperature. Some of the chief essentials handling dressed poultry are; 1. See that all birds are bled- and plucked properly and that the feet and 5111 mouth are washed. clean. 2. Birds should be hung up by hath feet and allowed to :pre -cool for twen- ty-four hoursThe temperature for pre -cooling shotdd he as close o ,13. degrees aspossible, 13. The temperatures ttoiild he checked frequently with a thermome- ter -1. 111 transporting nb.t'try ` a:;- sentblinq orsellingp,nnts it should be Heir a1 :the 05 111,` 72mpe•rature a, which it was prercooled. General ob,creation d rrr:tg the cut- ting. and harvesting of the corn crop of 'Kent and Essex Co,nmtie7s has shown that an ;'arming increase in the number 71 torn borer; has on.ur- red. according to Dr. 1;, M. Stirrett, in , t u =e of the dominion entom)hb.gi- al iib >ratorm at Chatham. "I: i, apparent that tile infestation is as severe as in the years 1927 and 111?8said 'DrStirritt "Greater ap plicauou 01 dein-up methods 'will be required of farmers to ins•ure'sticeess� TES'T'ED RECIPES Cheese for the Party 'Particularly appropriate on the an- niversary of National Cheese Week and the beginning of the fall and win- ter party -giving season. the following recipes suggested by the Milk Utiliz- ation Senvice..Dtmry and Cold Storage Branch, Dominion Department of Asi- ricultnre, may be f,.nn,l 11.efnl in serv- ing cheese iii the attractive ways des- cribed. Cheese Squares Cut ,fruit hroa,1 11 squares (about l?i ittchesl. 111,71,1 together ;;rated cheddar eltecse vitt sufficient butter to ,cake a ,,it mixture. Spread the four .sides and t.>71 of the bread squad's with the 111151 a mixture. Sprinkle with ttiir'kt. Bake e 10 11 hot oven or under bailee until cheese be- gins to melt. Serve host Cheese Muffins 2 elms flour 3. tea.',xunts i> cv+.; •mnw•der • teaspoon ?alt te.apnon grated clteeise 2 •tah'c.•i'.'n. ',titter. melted 1e.a 1 ;pm milk MGs end' stiltsoaether floar, bakin_ •,owder anti silt. \.11 ;rate1 rh ee'e, \tic In mills and bteeen egg. then add bntter..Pill tiny 'vt'rrrod muffin tins shout one-third full of batter. 1)n this drop a little marmalade or jelly- Cos - er with batter, filling tins about two- elaitpls dull Fake in 0 moderate otum +1 degrees di.) about I5 minutes. Serve hot. Cheese Sandwiches Cat bread, three-quarters inch brick into- s:mall '.11117. or round:. Rutter and pile with cream cheese, mixed with salad dressing. Sprinkle with finely chopped »its, olives, green pep- per, pimento or watercress. C'om'bine one 3 -ounce package cream cheese with 2 cups minced ham and "; clip el:•,pped watercress. 'Add salad dressing to moisten Spread gen- erously on whole wheat bread. l'ut in fingers. Cheese Shortbread 2(1 cups flour 1:• Teaspoon salt 1r, cup butter it1 1 small bar creast cheese (yetlow1 Sift together'flour and alt. Cut in Mutter. Blend in .:oft cheese. and work Mao a compact dough. Chill Roll thin. Cut w t', cookie , cutter. Bake in .a moderate oven 317.5 degrees If.,.from 5 h+ 10 minutes. When AerrinT, nett 1o• Beth: r with maerit dade or red cur. rant jelly. ll 'h i•, sninnin,. • ties yarn as ntt[t trsi'velers :an, said; "Prom. the. horst -tm;i river :.looked a°rte •,vith gladiators." ,\ m,• -.it , , in; 11,teeer ;,,ked "•My dear Age, .alligators is what yon mean. D.sn't yntt .know gladiators are flowers?" to next year'. crop." Weather conditions were favorable to increase of hovers this year. .Abun- dance of moisture during ,planting was a feature noted during- the heavy in- festations of n-festations;of ten years ago, and simil- ar condutio'ns were prevalent this year. Essex, it is said, was particular- ly hard hit. both by the borer and poor 'wreathe' for growing. • u ,bust Actor—"I can't get into my Second Actor—"\'''!marl Feet swell- ed tan?" "Mother, isn't it funny that hats cost tnore'than autos?" \1otlfer— 'Batt they don't dear. What stakes you think so?" \\ ell!, a sign in a window hack there said, 'Hat.,, $19 up,' and we just passed 0tmther window with a -44'1 chat says. 'Autos. $10 down," iahn--'.\zed yott .ay .that Jones remade ,his nte,ney in oil?" Tonm--"Yes, he lead .a barber slum on @he ede off 1 college campus." .A 11101-11151 114 ,d1114500'5 t> trace 51 +rte tog cashier, called' in a detective, and, when asked for a 'description of the man, replied: "He is about five feet five inches tall and about $5900 'short."