The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1922 Page: 3 of 4
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Editors traveled hundreds of
miles to get to Vea?fejittmann-
ink sing free to cut down the
liirh cost - of Ringing- !
When they arrived Schuman-
teink had a bad cold and can
died all her engagements for
month and there was U S
Russel Pete Duffy and Lesilie
STiblack anxious and willing to
ns? but singers -in their own
ibuntry
The Arapaho' Citizen announces
is a die in a ditch for Republican
rinciple last week and wants
Yank Young for sheriff and R H
JPilon for governor After that
he Republicans have what they
an catch That brother-in-law
f ours is very much like the
'rish man’s gander
Last Thursday evening Miss
orena King entertained the
uniors Seniors and Arapaho
’acuity The house was tasteful
lecorated in the Senior Jass col-
irs th£ same color scheme being
arried out in a very unique way
hroughout the refreshments
demory Booklet decorated with
ie Orch id recalling their school
ays and the most interesting
vent during their schools lives
vere cherished as souvenirs
i The delightful evening will sl-
ays he recalled with great pleas-
ire so fittingly did it celebrate an
ivening for the class of 1922
A Salvation Army fellow came
ere His cap was battered and
is uniform looked like he had
lept in it He had held big
leetfngs and converted the hard-
oiled by the 100’s
Our toughs told him he should
ome here The plan met with
ivor Then the practical jokers
ot him toy electioneea Bob Wads-
orth and Bob made fun of him
Ralph 1 ohnson was in Tuesday j
nd will locate his radio shop in
jrapaho He is a genius along
ectrical lines and will put" the
unty seat in touch with this
ew invention "that is sweeping
country
A J Harmon was down to at-i
ind tfie convention snd see how
any G A R boys will attend
Des Moines this fall His
fum is still at Des Moines and
goes to see it once more
Candidates for state office
ist file by June 2’ Custer
unty is already loaded with
ididates for lieut governor i
unty candidates must file by
ly 1 t
M’ C‘ Main J has bought the
rs T J Nance property in
inton
Capt S J Dyer H A Gweri
d Joel Cokely are the three re-
aming old Soldiers in Arapaho
4! Ashton was down to at-
d the convention He is from
io and knows Harding to be all
ht i ' 1
of S P Babb and wife de-
rted Wednesday morning for
landler 1 Clyde Thomas accom-
nied them on the trip -
1 '
TC' Render was " down from
omas several days this week
i his political eye open to 'see
io had fileed as candidates
Ennis Bros ' cleaned up the
intry of not only- coyotes but
wks northwest of Arapaho this
iter The hawks got caught in
traps trying to get' the bait
eir catch' of hides - which ' in-
ded many skunks netted them
cut $250
Charles Peterson and Dan Rou-
called Saturday evening
jThese big farmers have time for
little politics1 yt After a little
suasion of thiiigs in general the
ijectof Sweet Clover was men-
led We were proud of the
t that we sat In ?ntriivthe circle
hpth answered and asked'
: Dian Roulet had
h e b ' of seed this year
i Onr‘t y Pierson said HsttV
senior
r ‘’mi when these hlluaf
su - ' mi s x
i " 1 wiRfleft at !phUc- Auctiqau ftfcv
the very near future? a car load
of thejbk’r Hplstein cowj -that
has been shipped to Custer Coufl
-ty or itsrbsurounding counties
Watch 'for -my - sale bills' ‘ For
any information concerning this
car of cows and heifers address
me at Custer City 2t
A E Phillips Owner
Bob Grant - one of the old
political wheel ‘ horses was here
last Saturday and listened to
and believed every word said
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Today — a leader
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A sweeping verdict for QUALITY
j ’ V fUi1'- ri-Xtm tijyy lit IJC'Ua'UO £! r t’i’J'
iiTTTTHEN “Just Dvld’!lway pubUhed 'i vw
i ) readers thouht It thfe' inofit adorable
‘ a story bf a child ever written then'vI
appeared “ Pollyannayby the ame authoress v
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’and It took the country -by storm r now she
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has given us “Mary
1 1— than either -—
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i ri This wonderful child
i'lrnlSo? vctt tdl ""vi t-i
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:i bookish serious minded father To her viva-ij n iii
j clous laughter-loving mother she was Meric j - j-i
' r ' to jthay tuaned her Mary Miiitli And ' £6 keep
i ! peace la the family ghf
In - wltt
lJius new-fanlera5JC)ealers
Association has fajiie jlt gtart:
ei out to raise mQiipns "’mill-"
ions of money and control the
markets of the" wo'ridr ‘7‘ 1
Their intentions were to benefit
the farmer: But the producer
can’t alway j be trusted to control
the market ' For he like every
one of us thinks - his profits too
small :
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J W Heise and wife were at
the farm and had their son down
to see his first Republican conven-
tions - ' i : -
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cigarettes
Riarle1 which is better 1
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w8 Mary to her itaidr
ihe Inst of it too? All nroui:il us tvero
flowera Wrtis unL vAi
many lovely tliln-s ' lint lie never said
a word uo-jt lieiiu llo just talked—
because lie’d tto talld' I knew It
and It made me lauli Inside' tWumh
all the while It muuu me sort of want
to cry too Funny wasn't It?
After u tii- he didn't talk any more
but Just walked on and on and hy and I
by we came home j
Of course It wasn't awfully jolly —
that walk wasn’t nnd I jtuess l-'utlier
didn't think It wus either Anyhow
pe hasn’t asked me to o aaaln this
week and lie looked tired nnd worried
and sort of discouraged when he cot
back from that one t ' r
I’ut lie’s asked me to do other
things The next day after the walk
he asked n-e to jilay to him Yes he
asked me ty and he went Into the
parlor and' sat down on one of the
ehnlrs and listened white 1 played
three pieces of course 1 didn't play
loud ones nor very fast ines and 1
was so scared I’m afraid I didn’t piny
them very well lint he was very po-
lite and said "Thank ’you Mary" and
“That 'wa very nice” then he stood
up und said ‘‘Thank you" amdn nnd
went away into the library very po-
lite but stiff like company
The next evening he took me out to
the observatory to see the stars That
was lovely Honestly I laid a perfect-
ly beautiful time und I think Father
did too He wasn’t stiff and polite
one hit 1 Oh I don’t mean that he was
Impolite nr rude -It’s Just tlm he
wasn't stlfT as if I was company And
he was so hnppy with Ids -stars and
his telescope and so dad to show
them to me — oh I had a beautiful
time and I told him so and he looked
reul pleased Hut AunJune nime for
me before I’d hail half enough and I
had to go to bed
The next morning I thought he’d he
different somehow been use we’d hud
such a lovely time together the night
before But he wasn't He Just said
“Good morning Mary” and began to
read his paper And he read his pa-
per all through breukfust without say-
ing unother word to me Then he got
up and went Into the library and I
never saw ’him again til! dry except
ot dinner-time and supper-time and
then he didn't talk to me
Hut lifter supper he took me out
again to see the stars nnd he was
jtist us nice and friendly as eould he
Not a hit like a mnn that's only a
futlier by order of the court But the
next day — !
AVell — nnd that’s the way it’s been
all the week And that’s why 1 say
he’s been so ipierr line minute he'll
he Just as nice and folksy as you
could ask anybody to he nnd the very
next lie's looking right through you
as If he didh’t see you at all and you '
wonder and wonder what's the mat-
ter and If you’ve done anything to
displease him
Sometimes he seems almost glad nnd
happy and then he’ll look so sorry
und sail I- ’ 1 '
I Just can’t understand iny father
at nil t
ANOTHER WEEK LATER
' I’m so excited I don't know what to
do The most wonderful thing has
happened I eun't hardly believe it
yet myself Yet’ It's so My trunk is
all packed and I’m to go home tomor-
row Tomorrow !
This Is the way It happened:
Mother wrote Aunt lane and asked
If I might not he allowed to come
home for the opening of school in
September She said she understood
quite v-ell that she had no right to
ask this and of course if they saw
tit they were entirely within their
rights to refuse to show me to go un-
til the allotted time' But that she'
could not help asking it for my sake
on aecoupt of the benefit io he derived
from being there at the opening of
the school year’
Of course I didn't know Mother was
going to w rite this But she kne--all
about the school here nnd how I
camt? out undf everything I’ve always
told Mother everything that has hap-
pened Oh of course I haven’t writ-
ten “every few gilnutes” as she asked
me to’1 (Thnt was a Joke ’anyway of
course) But I have written every few
days Hnd as I said before I told her
everything ti -
Well when the letter came I took it
to Aunt Jane myself and I was crazy
to know what -was In It for I recog-
nlzed tbe writlog of course But Aunt
Jane didn’t ted me She opened It
read It kind of Hushed up nnd suld
“Humph I The idea ! under her breath
and put the letter In-her pocket
Marie wanted to make a scene and
insist on knowing what 'was' in her
own mother's letter but Mary con-1
tented herself with looking superb and
haughtjf and disdainful' and marching
out f lhe Tooin ’without giving Aunt
Jane the satisfaction of even being
atked what Was In that letter
' ( But ! at the i table that boon Aunt
Jane fend It to Father out loud go
that’s how I came to know Just what
was In It ' She started first to hand It
lover to him to read? but at he put eat ’
IdA hand to take It I guess be saw
the handwriting for he drew back
quickly 'looking red and queer '
i "From Mrs Anderson to you?" he
askedi’’ And when Aunt Jane nodded j
her head he set still farther back In j
his chair and said with little wava '
of his hund ' “I never1 egre to read— ’
other people’s letters’)
A tint Jane said "Stuff and nonsense 1
Charles'- don’t he silly 1“ But she
milled buck’ tliej letter and read It--'
alter giving a' kind ‘ot nn creasy
gtnnso w mytfilreetlen'J'iv " '
i Father never locked rH m- white
ehe was reading It 'Be kept hi eyet
plait aadjjftKlhptgjl X— hhtit
r&ff&usQtfMaHst
o Man that waa
be had gyt pslfTPHej JUid vln-n I
found out wEmV-II -wtfi 'of course 1
1 was Just crazy I wanted to go -at-So
1 iftcinatFaute to see If
he was guing t to j let i me fgo But I
couldn’t’ make - outf ' t ' couldn’t make
out at all - It i changed— oh yes It
chungcd a great deal as site read hut
I couldn’t mako ’yut wfiut- kind of a
change It was at all
Aunt June finished the letter and
began to fold It up I could see she
was welting for Father to speak: but
he never said n word rffaTkept right
on— oulJtigi'fceuhfC fj t" f‘
Therf'Anut-Jane-cleared her throat
und spoke
“You will not let her go of course
Ghurh-s hut naturally I hnd to read
the letter to you I will write to Mrs
Ahderson tonight"
Father looked up then
“Yes" he said quietly “und ’ you
may tell her pleuse that Mary will
go"
“Charles!’’
Aunt Jane ssld that But I — I al-
most run arouml the table and hugged
him (Oh how I wish he was the kind
of u father you eould do that to!)
“Charles!" said Aunt June again
“Surely you aren’t going to give lti so
tamely as tldso that child and her
mother !" '
"I’m not giving In at nil Jane” said
Father very quietly again “I am con-
sulting my own wi-jhesin tly matter
I prefer to have lu?r go” :
I ’most cried out then Some way
It hurt' to have' him say It like that
right out— that he wanted me to go
Y’ou see I’d begun to think he was
getting so lie didn’t mind so very much
having me herei AH the last-two
weeks he’d been different really dif-
ferent But more of that anon I’ll
go on with what happened nt the table
And as I said I did feel had to have
him speak like that And I can re-
member now Just hqw the lump came
right up In my throat
Then Aunt Jane spoke stiff and dig-
nified “Oh very well of course If you put
It that way flq-nn quite well under-
stand that you would want her $ go —
for your sake But I thought thnt
under the circumstances ymi- would
manage somehow to put up with the
noise and—”
“Jane!” Just like that he Interrupt-
ed and he thundered too go tha
Aunt -June actually Jumped And I
gness I did too He hnd sprung to
his feet “June let us close this mat-
'ter once for all I ant not letting the
child go for niy snke I am letting
her go for her own So fur as I am
concerned' If I consulted no one’s
wishes hut my own I should — keep
her here always"
With that he turned nnd strode from
the room leaving Aunt Jane and me
just storing after Jilm
But only for a minute did I stare
It eune to me then whut he hnd said
— that he would like to keep me here
uluays For I hnd heard it even If he
hud said the last word very low and
In a queer Indistinct voice I wu
sure -I had heard it nnd I suddenly
realized wITat it meant So I ran after
him und thut time if I had found
him I think I would hnve hugged him
But I didn’t find him He must have
gone quite away from the house He
wasn’t even out to the observatory I
went out to see
He didn’t come In all the afternoon
I watched for that too And when he
did come — well I wouldn't have dared
to hug him then He hail Ids very
sternest 1-um-not-thluking-ot-you-nt-uU
air and he Just came in to supper and
then went Into the library without say-
ing hardly anything Yet some way
the look on his face made me cry I
don't know why
The next day he was more as he has
been since we had that talk in the
parlor And he lias been different
since then you know He really lias
1U- hus talked quite u lot with me us
I have said and I think he’s been try-
ing part of the time to find something
I’ll he Interested In Honestly I think
lie’s been trying to make up for Carrie
Heywood und Stella Mnyhew and
Charlie Smith and Mr Livingstone I
think that's why he took me to walk
that day In the woods and why he
took me out to the observatory to see
the stars quite n number of times
Twice he's asked me to play to him
aud once he asked me if Mary wasn't
about ready to dress up In Marie's
clothes ugutn But he wag joking
then I knew for Aunt Jane wns right
there In the house Besides I saw the
twinkle in his eyes that I've seen there
once or twice hefot-e I Just love that
twinkle In Father's eyes I
But that hasn't come any since
Mother’s letter to Aunt Jane arrived
He's been the same In one way yet
different In another Honestly If It
didn’t seem too wildly nbsurd for any-
thing I should say be was actually
sorry to have me go Hut of course
that Isn't possible Oh yes I know he
suld that day at the dinner table that
he should like to keep me always But
I don’t think he really meant It He
hasn’t acted a mite like that since and
I guess he said It just-to hush up Aunt
Jane and make her ftop arguing the
matter
1 Auy way' I’m going tomorrow And
I’m ao excited I ran hhrtjly breathe -
CHAPTER VI L
When I Am Beth Together
Borrow AGAIN
Well I came laat night ' Mother and
Orandfather and Annt ‘Hattie and
Baby Leater all met me at the station
And my I woaa’t I (lad to aoo thomt
Veil I Just gam I trail '
-1 was apodall f lad am ocooaat at
having surtr dratCtl ttasa art IB m
ther that vot-qk ! I m
f bound Wpoetatlf taoaaotM Ond Bom
eicfc and not bOagtaaiadliQst ut-
In oa tt vn thla way t rd hoQ
sort of hoping I know that at the las
when I cuuie-to really go Father
get back tiitr—mmrrstii tiding
smile and the twinkle and show that
be really did cure for me uad wu
sorry 4o 'have ’me go’"' BuLdfar t
he never was so stern "-und Sol-
emn and you're-my-daufhter-onlyrby-tlie-ordev-of-the-oourt
sotfv-of way aa
j he- was thut uiuyulng- i
He never even spoke rat thb brCak-fnst-taiile
Ole "wasn’t (there hardly
long enough to speak anyway and he
never ate a thing only Ills coffee — I
mean he’ drank it) Tlu-iY he pushed
his - chair hack- from the table and
stalked out of the room
lie went to the station with me
hut lie didn’t tulle there much only to
usk if I was sure I hadn't forgotten
anything and was 'I warmly clad
Win-tidy chid: Indeed! And there It
was still August and hot as it could
he! But-that only goes to show how
absent-minded lib was and how little
he was really thinking of me!
Well of course he got my ticket and
rheckcd my trunk and did all those
proper neeessiiry things then we sat
down to wait for the train But did
he stay with me and talk to me and
tell me how glad he had been to have
me with him nnd how sorry he was
to hnve me go nnd all the other nice
polite things 'most everybody thinks
they've got to say when a visitor goes
away? He did not IIi -asked me
ugliiu If I was sure I liud not left any-
thing nnd was 1 warmly clad then he
took out his nowspaper and begun to
read That Is he pretended to read
but I don't believe he read much for
he never turned 'the sheet once and
twice when I looked at him he was
looking fixedly ut me as If he was
thinking of something So I guess It
wns Just pretending to read so I
wouldn’t have to talk to me
But he didn’t even do that long f
he got up undMent over and looked
n map hanging on the wall opposite
and at a big tlme-tuhle near the other
corner Then he looked at his wutcli
again with a ( won't-thiit-train-ever-dime?
air und walked back to me und
sat down
And how do you suppose I felt to
have him act like that before all tlioso
people — td sIiom- so (dainty thnt he was
just longing to' linYe me go? I guess b
wasn't any more anxious for that train
to come than I waa ’ And It did seem
as If it never: M ould cotne too And
It didn't come for ages It was ten
minutes late
Oh I did so hope he wouldn’t go
doM-n to the Junction It’a so hard to
he taken care of “because it's my iaty
you know !" But he M-ent- I told him
he needn’t Mhen he was getting on
the train with me I told him I Just
knew I eould do It beautifully till by
myself ulmoRt-n-y’oung lady like me
But he only put his lips together l ard
and said cold like ice “Are ypu 'lien
so eager to he rid of nte?"' Just s If
I Mas the one that was eager to get
rid of Somebody ! ' -
Well us 1 said he went But !
wasn't much better on the train than
he had been In the station’ He was as
nervous und fidgety as a Mitch and he
acted us if lie did so wish it M'ould be
over and over quick But tit the
Junction — at the Junction a funny thing
happened He prtt me on the train
Just as Mother hail done nnd spoke tjs
the conductor (How I liuted to lie
him do that! Why I’m six vU
months older 'most than I was wIV
I M-ent up there!) And then m!
he’d put me In my seat (Father
mean not the conductor) all of n sod-
den he leuned over ’nnd kissed me
kissed me — Father! Then before I
could speuk or even look al hlm be
was gone nnd I didn't see blta again
though it must have' been ft vij whole
minutes before thut tralu went
I had n nice trip down to- Boston
though nothing much happened This
conductor miis ndl nenr'so nice aud
polite ns the one I hud coming op
ntid there wasn’t any indy with a
baby to play with nor any nice young
gentleman to loan me magazines or
buyt candy for me But It wasn't a very
long ride from the Junction to Boston
anyway So I didn’t mind Besides
I knew I hnd Mother Malting for me
And wasn't I glad to get there?
Well I Just guess 1 Mas! And -they
acted as If they were glad to see me —
Mother Grandfather Aunt lluttle aud'
even Baby Lester He knew me and
remembered me He'd grown a lot
too And they said I hnd und thnt I
looked very nice (I forgot to say that
of course I had put on- the Mario
clothes-to come home In — though' I
honestly think Aunt Jane wanted to
send me home in Mary's blue gingham
und calfskin shoes As if I'd have ap-
peared in Boston In that rig!)
My but it miis good to get into i
automobile ngulu and just go ! And It
wus so good to have folks around y
dressed In something besides don't-ca
bluek ulpiicii and stiff collurs And 1
Bald so And "Mother -seemed 4
pleased
“You did want to eotn'e bnck to naq
darling didn't you?'' she cried glvtpg
me a little hug And she looked am
happy when I told her all over again
how good It aectued to he Marie again
and have her and Boston and automp-
blles und pretty dressea aud fvdfcn
aud noise ugaln
She didn't say anything about
then but later when we were up lot
my pretty room alone and I was tak-
ing off tny things abe made me hfl
bar that Father hadn't won tny lew
away from her and that I didn’t loo
him better than I did her and that
I wouldn’t rather stay with him ttiapa
with her : : v
Then aha asked me a lot of queettoam
what I did thorn and Annt Jn
how aha looked and Father aa
ho aa fend of atan aa ovar (though
MM laaat havo known araat everythtiwb
Xiaaa I'd already written tt but hw
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