The Coalgate Courier (Coalgate, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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THE COALCATE COURIER
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Mr STARR’S HEART SINKS
WHEN HE DISCOVERS
JERROLD HARMER AND
PRUDENCE EXCHANGING
TENDER GLANCES AND
SOFT WORDS
Ur Starr widower Methodist
minister at Mount Mark la has
five charming daughters Pru-
dence the eldest keeps house for
him Fairy is a college freshman
Carol and hark twins are In
high school Constance Is the
“baby” The activities of the
girls — Prudence’s work Fairy’s
school affairs the youngsters’
' pranks— and the family perplexi
ties make the storj It is simply
' a recital of homely Incidents
glorified by affection The pre-
ceding Installment described an
accident which ' Prudence suf-
fered during an early-morning bi-
cycle ride and her rescue by a
strange and fascinating young
man
v CHAPTER IX— Continued
— -1 2—
He went upstairs to obey with de-
spair In his heart But to the girls
there was nothing strange In this exr
actness on the part of Prudence Jer-
' rold Harmer was the hero of the ro-
mance and they must unite to do him
honor He was probably a prince In
disguise Jerrold Harmer was a per-
fectly thrilling name It was really a
shame that America allows no titles —
Lord Jerrold did sound so noble and
Lady Prudence was very effective too
N He and Prudence were married and
had a family of four children named
for the various Starrs before one hour
had passed
“I’ll begin my book right away”
Lark was saying She and Carol were
'In the dining room madly polishing
their Sunday shoes what time they
were not performing the marriage cer-
emony of their sister and the hero
“Yes dot But for goodness’ sake
don't run her Into a mule! Seems to
me even Prudence could have done bet-
ter than that”
"I’ll have his automobile break down
In the middle of the road and Pru-
dence con run Into It The carburetor
came off and of course the car
wouldn’t run an Inch without It”
“Yes that's' good” said Carol ap-
provingly “It must be a sixty-cylinder
eight horse power— er — tonneau
or something real big and costly”
“Twins 1 You won’t be ready”
warned Prudence and this dire possi-
bility sent-them flying upstairs In a
panic i
While the girls bubbling over with
excitement were dressing for the great
event Mr Starr went downstairs to
- pit with Prudence Carol called to him
on his way down and he paused on
the staircase looking up at her '
“Lark and I are going to use some
of Fairy's powder father” she said
“We feel that we simply must on an
occasion like this And for goodness'
sake don't mention It before him 1 It
doesn’t happen very often you know
but today we simply must Now don’t
you say anything about falling In the
flour barrel or turning pale all of a
sudden whatever else you do We’d
be so mortified father”
Mr Starr was concerned with
weightier matters and went on down
to Prudence with never so much as a
reproving shake of the bead for the
worldly-minded young twins
"Father” began Prudence her eyes
on the lace coverlet “do you think It
would be all right for me to wear that
silk dressing gown of mother’s? I
need something over my nightgown
and my old flannel kimono Is so ugly
You know mother said I was to have
It and — I’m twedty now Do you think
It would be all right? But If you do
' not want me to wear It — ”
“I do want you to” was the prompt
reply “Yes It Is quite time you were
bearing It I’ll get it out of the trunk
myself and send Fairy down to help
you” Then as he turned toward the
door he asked carelessly “Is he very
good-looking Prudence?”
' And Prudence with a crimson face
answered quickly “Oh I really didn’t
notice father”
He went on upstairs then and pres-
ently Fairy came down with the dainty
silk gown trimmed w(th fine' soft lace
‘1 brought my lavender ribbon for your
hair Prudence It will match the
gown so nicely Oh you do look sweet
dearest 1 pity Jerrold Harmer I can
tell you that Now I must hurry and
finish my own dressing”
But with her foot on the bottom
stair she paused Her sister was call-
ing after her “Send father down here
quick Fairy”
1 Father ran down quickly and Pru-
dence catching hold of his hands
whispered wretchedly “Oh father he
—he Is good-looking I — I did notice
It I didn’t really mean to lie to you”
“There now Prudence” he said
kissing her tenderly “you mustn’t get
excited again Pm afraid you are too
nervous to have callers You must lie
very quietly until he comes That was
no lie child You are so upset you do
not know what you are saying today
Be quiet now Prudence It’s nearly
time for hlnp to come”
“You are a dear good father” she
cried kissing his hands passionately
“but it was a Ue I did know what I
was saying I did It on purpose”
And Mr Starr’s heart was heavy for
he knew that his fears were realized
CHAPTER X
Roused From Her Slumber
At twenty minutes to four the par-
sonage family clustered excitedly in
the sitting room which the sunshine
flooded cheerily They were waiting
for the hero of Prudence’s romance
“Oh Larkle will you run upstairs
and bring my lace handkerchief?
Would you keep these pearls on
Fairy or would you take them off?”-
“I would keep them on Prue You
do look so sweet but your face Is very
flushed I am afraid you are feverUh
Maybe we had better not let him see
Prue today father”
“Fairy!’’ exclaimed Prudence “Lis-
ten listen girls I Look Fairy and see
If that Is he I Yes it is I know — I
can tell by his walk” Warm rich
color dyed her face and throat and
she clasped her hands over her heart
wondering If Connie beside her cquld
hear Its tumult
“I’ll go to the door” said Father
Starr and Prudence looked at him
beseechingly '
“I — I am sure he Is all right father
I — you will be nice to him won’t you?”
Without answering Mr Starr left
the room He could not trust his voice
“Listen girls I want to hear” whis-
pered Prudence And she smiled as
she heard her father’s cordial voice
“You are Mr Harmer aren’t you?
I am Prudence’s father Come right
In The whole family Is assembled to
do you honor The girls have already
made you a prince in disguise Come
back this way Prudence Is resting
very nicely”’
When the two men stepped into the
sitting room Prudence for once quite
overlopked her father She -lifted her
eyes to Jerrold Harmer’s face and
waited breathless Nor was he long
In finding her among the bevy of girls
He walked at once to the bed and
took her hand
“My little Comrade of the road” he
said gayly but with tenderness “I’m
afraid you are not feeling well enough
for callers today”
“Oh yes I am” protested Prudence
with strange shyness
He turned to the other girls and
greeted them easily He was entirely
self-possessed “Miss Starr told me so
much about you that I know you all to
begin with” He smiled at Fairy as
he added “In fact she predicted that
I am to fall In love with you And so
very likely I should If I hadn’t met
your sister first”
They all laughed at that and then
he walked back and stood by Prudence
once more “Was It a bad sprain?
Does It pain you very badly? You
look tired I am afraid It was an Im-
position for me to come this after-
noon” 4
“Oh don’t worry about that” put In
Connie anxiously “She wanted you
to come She’s been getting us ready
for you ever since the doctor left I
think It was kind of silly for pie to
wear my blue Just for one caller”
The twins glared at her realizing
that she was discrediting the parson-
age but Jerrold Harmer laughed and
Prudence joined him
“It Is quite true” she admitted
frankly “The mule and I disgraced
the parsonage this morning and I
wanted the rest of you to redeem 'It
this afternoon" She looked at him
Inquiringly “Then you had another
coat?”
“No I didn’t I saw this one In a
window this morning and couldn't re-
sist It Was the ride' very hard on
your ankle?”
Mr Starr was puzzled Evidently It
was not lack of funds which brought
this man on foot from Des Moines to
Mount Mark half-way across the
state I He did not look like a man
fleeing from justice What then was
the explanation?
“You must have found It rather a
long walk” he began tentatively his
eyes on the young man’s face
“Yes I think ray feet are a little
blistered I huve walked farther than
that many times but I am out of prac-
tice now Sometimes however walk-
ing is a painful necessity”
“How long did It take you coming
frotn Des Moines to Mount Mark?” In-
quired Carol In a subdued and res ect-
ful voice and curious withal
“From Des Moines” he gasped
“Good heavens 1 I did not walk from
Des Moines 1 Did you—” He turned
to Prudence questlonlngly “Did you
think I walked clear from Des
Moines?”
VYes” And added hastily “But I
did not care If you did It did not
make any difference bow you came”
For a moment he was puzzled Then
he burst out laughing “I am afraid
we had too much to talk about this
morning I thought I had explained
my situation but evidently I did not
I drove from Des Moines In the car
and — ”
“The automobile” gasped Carol
with a triumphant look at Lark
“Yes just so I stopped at several
places on business as I came through
I drove from Burlington this morning
but I got off the road The car broke
down on me and I couldn’t fix it —
broke an axle So I had to walk In
That is what I was seeing aoout to-
day sending a man out for the car
and arranging about the repalrsk” He
smiled again “What In the world did
you think I would walk from Des
Moines for?” he asked Prudence more
Inquisitive than grammatical
“I did not think anything about It
until they asked and — I did not know
about the car You did not mention
It"
“No I remember now We were
talking of other things all the time”
He turned frankly to Mr Starr “Per-
haps you have heard of the Harmer
Automobile company of Des Moines
My father was Harvey Harmer Two
years ago when I was running around
in Europe he died It was his desire
that I should personally take charge
of the business So I hurried home
and have had charge of the company
since then We are establishing sales
agencies here and in Burlington and
several other towns I came out for
a little trip and took advantage of the
opportunity to discuss the business
with our new men That’s what
brought me to Mount Mark”
For the first time in her life Pru-
dence distinctly triumphed over her
father She flashed him the glance of
a conqueror and he nodded under-
standlngly He liked Jerrold Harmer
as much as he could like any man who
stepped seriously Into the life of Pru-
dence He was glad that things were
well But — they would excuse him he
must look after his Sunday’s sermons
A little later the twins and Connie
grew restless and finally Connie blurt-
ed out “Say Prue don’t you think
we’ve upheld the parsonage long
enough? I want to get some fresh
air” The twins would never have
been guilty of such social Indiscretion
"My Little Comrade of the Road”
as this but they gladly availed them-
selves of Connie's “break” and fol-
lowed her out-of-doors Then Fairy
got up laughing “I have done my
share too I think we’ll leave the
parsonage In your hands now Prue
I want to write to Aunt Grace I’ll be
Just at the head of the stairs and If
Prudence wants me you will call
won’t you Mr Harmer? And won’t
you stay for dinner with us? I’m sure
to disgrace the parsonage again for
I am no cook but you can get along
for once surely We spend more time
laughing when the food Is bad and
laughter Is very healthful You will
stay won’t you?”
- Jerrold Harmer looked very eager
and yet he looked somewhat doubtfully
at Prudence Her eyes were eloquent
with entreaties Finally he laughed
and said “I should certainly like to
stay but you see I want to come back
tomorrow Now will I dare to come
back tomorrow If I stay for dinner to-
night? Wouldn't Connie say that was
disgracing the parsonage?”
Fairy laughed delightedly “That Is
very good” she said “Then you will
stay I’ll try to fix It up with Connie
to save the reputation of the house”
No they did not quote poetry they
did not discuss the psychological In-
tricacies of spontaneous attraction
they did not say anything deep or
wise or learned 'But they smiled at
each other with pleased investigating
eyes He put his hand on the cover-
let Just near enough to touch the lace
on the sleeve of her silk dressing gown
And together they found paradise In
the shabby sitting room of the yold
Methodist parsonage that afternoon
Do you believe In long engage-
ments between lovers? Aren’t
engaged couples able to beoome
well enough acquainted after six
montha to marry and make ae
much of a auccess of thq partner-
ship ae if they had waited two
or three years?
(TO BE CONTINUED)
V
shadow OF COMING EVENTS
May 10-12 — Horae Show Tulsa
Claremore wants to abolish Its pot
halls t '
A fire 'damaged the Oklahoma Clt)
Jiall so seriously that It will have t
be torn down v
A wave of enthusiasm for pure bre(
cattle Is sweeping over the farmeri
and stockmen of Pontotoc county
William J Creekmore fallen kini
of Oklahoma bootleggers Is makint
clothes in the Leavenworth peniten
tiary
Jiel Walden of Shawnee 64 yeart
old drank two quarts of Haynei
whisky then shot himself In the heart
with a shotgun
All the civic organizations in Okla-
homa City are engaged strenuously
in conversational gardening and a few
people have planted gardens
Plans are now being considered by
the Enid board of education for sub-
mitting a 150000 bond issue for the
purpose of constructing an addition
to the $25000 high school
fhe First State bank of Bliss has
been sold by R H Robinson and J
H Ledbetter to H E Roberts of tbe
Oklahoma State bank at Ponca City
the consideration being $10000
D W Hobbs discussing tbe subject
“Patriotism Versus Liquor" won the
sixth oratorical contest neid by the
Intercollegiate Prohibition association
in the Methodist University at Guth-
rie Claremore Is assured of the erection
of a Carnegie library building within
a very short time The appropriation
of $10000 for a Claremore library has
been approved by tbe Carnegie cor
poratlon
Jake Gooden negro farmer was
convicted In the district court at Ok-
mulgee bn a charge of murdering his
wife last October and sentenced to
life imprisonment In tbe state pen-
itentiary Carl Creek a rig bulder in the oil
fields who is on trial in the District
court at Ogmulgee on a charge of mur-
dering Earl Kelly at Morris In March
1915 Is pleading the unwritten law as
his defense
Sheep raisers in the vicinity of
Hammon who have about 2000 sheep
altogether and expect a clip of about
14000 pounds of wool this spring
have organized a protective and co-
operative association
Edward J Kelley of Waurlka has
donated to the city of Waurlka two
blocks of land adjoining tbe park to
be used for park purposes The city
Is arranging to spend $5J)00 to $10000
In improving tbe park
A reward of $100 was offered by
Governor R L Williams for the arrest
and conviction of each of the parties
who took part In the refbbery of tbe
Farmers State Bank of Park Hill
Cherokee county on March 5
- D Haydn Lfnebaugh U S district
attorney for the east side has re-
signed and is succeeded by W P Mc-
Ginnis of Muskogee Mr Linebaugh
becomes a special government attor-
ney in tbe river bed litigation
After having served several years
In the state national guard Georg
Peterson a young German of Tulsa
discovered that he was still a subject
of Germany He hurriedly went to
Muskogee and ' took out citizenship
papers
Rev A G Safer a graduate of
Phillips University now taking a post-
graduate course has accepted a call
to the pastorate of the Christian
church at Clinton The former pas-
tor Rev Emmett Davidson has re-
turned to Missouri
The broomcorn Idea has spread Into
Love county Farmers of the commu-
nity of Love’s Valley discussed tbe
advisability of experimenting ’ this
year with the new crop and adjourned
after each man present had agreed
to plant as much as ten acres
Owen Wood prominent Tahlequah
citizen was killed In a duel and
George Wofford Is under arrest Wof-
ford the police say admitted that he
did the shooting but declared that
Wood had shot him first and that he
fired In self-defense There were no
witnesses to the affair and the cause
of the duel Is unknown (
Oklahoma Agricultural and Me-
chanical College carried off the prize
mone: In the shorthorn class at the
Second Annual Southwest American
Livestock show at Oklahoma City
when Beanie Dale a fine bull was ad-
judged the best Individual of his
breed on exhibit among the $500000
worth of fine cattle sheep hogs and
horses In the show The decision was
arrived at by Judges Frank Tomson
and J C Burns after a number of fine
animals bad been examined
Alex Richardson a successful stock-
man and farmer of Stephens county
has ottered to lend pioney to worthy
boys of that county with which to buy
thoroughbred sow pigs to be grown
under rules of the county demonstra-
tion agent
A meeting of thd Osage Indian
council will be called to he held In
Washington within a few days to dis-
cuss with tbe secretary of tbe Interior
the question of opening for oil and
gas leasing lands approximately 1220
000 acres of valuable land In tbe
Osage Indian Nation
ACTRESS IS IIOG
QUEEN OF WEST
Quits the Footlights to Manage
2500-Acre Ranch in
Oregon
HAPPY IN HER WORK
Rides 57 Miles on Horseback to Get
Points From an Expert In Turkey
Raising— Wears Overalls
' While at Work
Portland Ore — To be a “hog queen
of the West’’ rather than a toasted and
much sought Broadway actress is the
ambition now realized by Mary Carr
owner and manager of a 2500-acre
ranch near Fossil Ore
Mrs Carr has sipped at Fame’s
fountain and found Its apparently
sparkling waters not to her taste She
has played with Maude Adams In
“Pefer Pan” with Frances Starr in
“The Rose of the Rancho” and with
John Mason in “The Witching Hour”
but stepped from the footlights to be-
come a breeder of live- stock
“I haven’t any thrilling story to
tell” she said when asked about her
life’s work “I am just living my
life — yes living for the first time a
free wholesome life for In the old
days my first thought on awakening
was ‘how can I get through another
day?’-
'Had a Struggle
“When I went to New York with-
out a name without relatives and
without a ’pull’ you may b8 sure I
had a struggle but I was determined
and finally succeeded yes I succeed-
ed Just as far as ary woman can on
the New York stage and stay straight
“When I gave up the stage and
came West my sister and I took up a
section of land eighteen miles from
Fossil Later my mother joined us
and we took up other sections of land
until now we have twenty-five hundred
acres I am growing a large number
of turkeys and hogs but eventually I
shall stock the ranch with cattle and
sheep also Last year I raised one
hundred hogs and this year I will have
two hundred and fifty hogs
“Last year I raised three hundred
and fifty turkeys and this year I hope
to raise fifteen hundred The raising
“Last Year I Raised One Hundred
Hogs”
of turkeys Is no Joke You know they
are part wild and part tame and I had
a hard time until oue day I determined
to interview a man who raised turkeys
successfully
“I had to ride fifty-seven miles on
horseback and I asked him so many
questions that I have since been
known In that part of the country as
the human question mark”
Just a Rancher
Mrs Carr modestly says she Is just
' manager of the ranch or “just a
rancher” as she puts It She wears
high-topped boots overalls and a
dark woolen 'shirt She rises at four
o’clock in the morning and climbs
around among the hogpens until her
mother gets In a panic believing
her daughter will be killed by some
Irate porker Last summer Mrs Carr
harvested 100 tons of hay and hauled
70 tons of It herself She said:
“Last winter one of my most excit-
ing experiences was carrying a tweqty-tour-pound
gobbler under my arm on
horseback from Fossil to the ranch-
eighteen miles I knew If the turkey
icratched the horse the animal would
run away and while that In itBelf
would have been a calamity It would
lave been far worse to have lost the
gobbler” '
Mrs Carr spent several days In
Portland recently but she declared
the happiest moment of her stay was
when she boarded a train for Condon
whence she took a stage for 20 miles
to Fossil From there the remaining
18' miles was covered on horseback
Somnambulist 7$ Is Frozen
Brazil Ind— James B Lane seventy-five
years and a veteran of tbe
Civil war Is In a critical condition as
result of walking out-of-doors Id
his sleep while scnntl'y clothed
170UAN COULD
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Restored to Health by Lydia
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receive no benefit
when so many have
proved that Lydia
E Pinkham’s Vege-
table Compound
will make them
well? For over a
year I suffered so
from female weak-
ness I could hardly
stand and was
afraid to go on the
street alone Doc-
tors said medicines
were useless and only an operation
would help me but Lydia E Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound has proved it
otherwise I am now perfectly well
and can do any kind of work” — Mrs
Nellie Phelps care of R A Rider
R F D No 6 Fulton N Y
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles nervousness
backache or the blues could see the let-
ters written by women made well by Ly-
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If you have bad symptoms and do not
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Don’t tell all you know Keep a lit
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Always look on the bright side ol
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your coin therein look on both sides
High Praise for (
Kidney Medicine
We are so thoroughly well pleased with
Dr Kilmer's Swamp-Root that we recom
nend it to our trade feeling that it is -t
preparation containing real merit as a
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3wamp-Root for probably twenty years
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Dot 26 1916 Terrell Tex
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itor — Adv
SPREAD OF AMERICAN TRADE
Far Corners of the World Look to the
United States for Expert Aid
and Advice '
American genius Is triumphant Gi-
rard writes In the Philadelphia Pub-
lic Ledger A United States firm has
arranged to light the office of the
president of China with Indirect elec-
tric light
Australia has sent for 40 expert
American workers to teach the men
in kangaroo land how to make glass
The first motortruck ever seen In
northern Honduras was recently sent
there by an American firm
A Boston manufacturer was Induced
to go Into Canada to instruct our
northern neighbors how to make toys
I am reliably Informed of an extraor-
dinary nse being made of the Ameri-
can malls by a New York factory This
concern had contracted for a largo
number of rallroalll lanterns for Rus-
sia To save time' all these lanterns
are sent to ' San Francisco by pastel
post
These are merely a few samples to
show that If Europe does- not snatch
from us our world trade after the
war Europe at least will know that It
has been In a fight for It
Nobody ever ran a successful cor- -ner
In happiness
Don’t prolong a quarrel Make one
hard fight and then quit t
ft ’
Foods Are
Increasing’
In Price
But you can still buy
Grape-Nuts
at the same price
This staple cereal in
its air-tight wax-protected
package will
keep indefinitely yet
is ready to eat at a
moment's notice
Grape-Nuta is full of
' compact nourishment
with a delightful
wheat and barley
flavor
The Most Economical of
Prepared Cereals
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