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The Columbia Missourian Thursday August 17 1939 of the Madonna 1 jf Hamilton who has been a gleaming eyes stared out from the portrait on weeks is improving In and Near Boone County LIGHTS I Drink The Columbia Missourian heard the gorgeous the loitering pedes Oriental turned fixed his eyes upon r'i 1re ivo onH ritar'hpd himself from Offers to its Headers WING TO A Copy of the New Testament lapper anny Notice! USE THIS COUPON Col Mo Name Street City oupuy visit their son Barnel is In a camp THE GUIDE HEADLAMP TEST ER aelentificaliy tests your head lamps Drive In for a free test Joday We will gladly explain this important safety service to yon Because of the necessary repair work to be done in our Wash Room Department we will be unable to do Laundry work Saturday Aug 19lh Since this shortens our week one day we would appreciate that our Customers advance sending their regular laundry one day in order to help us out Information Bureau rederic Haskin Director Washington This will not affect in any way our Dry Clean ing Service 4 5 6 11 12 13 18 19 20 25 26 27 to return Miss Mazie Bledsoe private stenog rapher of Congressman Nel son has just returned from Wash ington to spend her annual vacation here with her parents Mr and Mrs Bledsoe Lester Tremain son of Mr and Mrs Tremain will be ordain ed as a Baptist mnlster Sunday Aug 20 at the Hartsburg Baptist Church by the Rev Cheavens pastor Mr Clifford Nahlor spent the past week in st Louis with his sis ter Mrs Ralph Zeller and hus band Mr and Mrs Hy orbte and son and Dorothy Marue spent Wednes day and Monday with James Bry ant and family Mr and Mrs Paul Zelder and daughters and Mrs Arthur Zeller motored to Boonville riday 4 REO PAT at Tattc Invite Another Garth Ave for service Very truly yours HAMILTON 8 If you do not have a copy of the New Testament with the words of the Saviour printed In red you should send for this edition This book contains 254 pages printed on thin Bible paper and is bound in a flexible black cover In addition to a mass of supple mentary material such as the harmony of the gospels the Prayer great periods of Bible history it has a specially prepared section giving the names of trees waters mountains musical instruments and birds that are named In the the longest book and shortest verse and many other Interesting facts Any reader can secure a copy for the mere cost and handling charge of 20 cents Order your copy today The Rev wintermeyer his wife and daughter of Granite City Ill who were here spending their annual vacation were called to St Louis riday hy the illness of Mrs father Dale Lee Irons of Avington HL Is visiting his grandparents Mr and Mrs John Irons Miss Geraldine Bolton visited with Mr and Mrs Harold Burnett of Ash land last week Chas Goslin Mattresses Sterilized and Rebuilt Phone 6012 Tom Garage 704 Cherry Phone 4338 Columbia Window Cleaning Co AH Household Cleaning Experienced Workers ree Estimates Dial 3579 (C9 14) Zelen Mgr a 1 SA'iS Of Entirtlu Ntu Kbuf Wu East lexing S4mI Make Thin Gillette Blixte or Easier Sharing Dom Cloney Laundry Dry Cleaning Co Dial 3114 Like a description torn from the novel Grapes of Wrath" is this scene at a migratory camp near Visalia Calif With the baby held to her breast a woman cooks a meal at her Th tie stove The mother 30 years old moved to California from Oklahoma Of six children one other baby died I enclose herewith TWENTY CENTS in coin (carefully wrapped in paper) for a copy of the NEW TESTAMENT Hartsburg Miss Julia Ann Coonce of Cedar Creek spent the past week here with her aunt Mrs John Nahlor and family Mrs Megee Mrs Busch and daughter and the Misses Martha Jane Bryant and Helen New som were Jefferson City visitors Wednesday The Rev Brune and family of Reading are spending their annual vacation here Mr and Mrs George Sapp and family motored to Washington la Tuesday to Sapp who there The Rev had a stheir guests Thursday night and riday Mr and Mrs Ted Wal lace of Kansas City down to it by a ramp at The was frugally with an easel a camp at the rear on the beach 9 bench some eight feet long having a slab of concrete for a top The place had apaprently taken a beating from dampness and frost for the walls were cracked and crumb ling and someone had recently mended the top of the bench and the floor about it with fresh cement Into which Christines heel sank and stuck Mr Wilmut coming to her rescue was nervously apologetic "Im so sorry Miss Thorenson I had to do some Christine got out her sketching SERIAL STORY Murder on the Boardwalk by elinore COWAN STONE OR you men who want really good looking comfortable shaves at a big saving the best news in years You can shave with a genuine Gillette Blade precision made to fit your razor exactly and pay only 10c for 41 The new Thin Gillette is made of easy flexing steel hard enough to cut glass more it has edges of an entirely new kind that stand up for one swell shave after an other Buy package of Thin Gillettes from your dealer today and protect your face from smart and bum caused by misfit blades HEATING BYGAS NOTICE To all local arm Mu tual Automobile Insurance policyholders and other Inter ested persons: During my absence until Sep tember 1st please call my brother A Hamilton 1619 Bass Ave or Harrelson 413 CAST CHARACTERS 1 CHRISTINE THORENSON 1 came to visit her cousin found mystery BILL had a reson for watching Christine GEORGE employed Christine as a Boardwalk artist looked into the and into the past Yesterday: Unable to locate her cousin Christine moves to the hotel named in her myster ious telephone conversation Al most down to her last cent Christine accepts offer agrees to do sketches at his Boardwalk concession Christine hurried back to the hotel to assemble her sketching materials She was to meet her new employer by the Twentieth Century Pier The new employer's name she had teamed was George Wilmet When "it had come to giving her own name Christine had hesitated with an unprecedented reticence almost as if someone eles had spoken she heard herself blurt ing out Grace Hurrying along the crowded Board walk avoiding the omni present td hAl I trians and the pigeons that swarmed under foot eager to rthe grain thrown them from the benches that lined the promenade Christine tried to explain her squeamishness about giv ing her name Eventually she ex cused it on the grounds that Cousin Emma would be embarrassed to find that a Thorenson was working on the Surf City Boardwalk She found her workshop to be a small booth next door to the Twentieth Century one of the nolsest amusement centers along the Boardwalk It was several feet be low the level of the walk and you went one side furnished stool and side with Low Week End Rates VIA WABASH $350 ST LOUIS AND RETURN $400 KANSAS CITY AND RETURN TICKETS SOLD OR ALL TRAINS AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST TiftVofa will hn Leave St Louis not later than 11:45 first Monday following date of sale Leave Kansas City not later than 11:55 first Monday following date of sale and Mrs Lehman Clark Mr and Mrs Rowland Co lumbia Mr and Mrs Perley WUlla were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Leonard and sons Irvin and Orville Mr and Mrs Roy I Brysom had as their guests Mr and Mrs Wesley Bein and sons of Iowa: Bute Mr and Mrs Walter Brysom Mr and Mrs Marvin Ball and son and Mr and Mrs Vernon Brooks Mr and Mrs A Brooks and daughter left Bunday for a visit with relatives near Newark Mo Miss Verda Vance of Illinois spent Tuesday night and Wednesday with Mr and Mrs Vernon Brooks Mrs Denver Wheeler died at her home near Clark Monday Aug 7 A short funeral service was held at 8 o'clock In her home on Wednesday morning It was conducted by the Rev Searcy White after which the body was taken to Newtown where the regular funeral service was held Burial was In the Newtown ceme tery Mrs Wheeler Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Doalln of Newtown Mo She is survived by her hus band and five year old son Mrs Zeta Whiles and son are vis iting her grandmother Mrs Minnie Gulick patient at McCormick Hospital for several Mr and Mrs John Reynolds were Saturday night and Sunday guests of Mrs Ersie Wright and her grand daughter Virginia May Crouch BETTER ARM INSURANCE OR LESS MONEY Serving Since 1874 Bv joining 1400 other Boone County fanners you can save on your insurance too ire Tornado cyclone windstorm and hail Home Mutual Insurance Company JOHN STAPEL Secretary ROY TODD Agent 10 Hitt St voiumuiu gleaming eyes stared out from the portrait on Christine a easel They seemed to pierce the unknown to look beyind The swami was pleased with the completed work HOUSECLEANING We specialize in washing painted walls and woodwork cleaning and waxing floors cleaning wallpaper and washing windows Work done by experienced workmen or Dee esti 1 mates dial 4225 University House cleaning Co (W 8 30) little really growing up she swipes my perfume but still lets my soap alone Spade Work for Hitler Wl Thin Gillette Blades Are Produced V' a A vl By ihe MaKer wr me amous Zr7ifte 5for25f Your ace Looks Better And eels Better WhenYouShaveWithThisNew At Price I 4 Tickets good in chair cars or coaches only Ask Wabash Ticket Agent for Particulars State (Mall to Washington DC) 4 i olks who call a spade a spade declare Danxlg is rapidly becoming militarized in open defiance of the treaty prohibition against It Above a Nasi labor detachment with shouldered spakes Is pictured marching through the ree City i on a side street and having already committed herself as "Grace she registered under that name and I hurried back to the Crestview to retrieve her belongings and see if Cousin Emma had not sent some message But there was no message Chris tine went upstairs puzzled and un 1 easy She tow nerseii inai iv was this uneasiness wmen account wr her strange feeling that something was amiss in her room She had unpacked very little the night before Getting ready to move should not take long Neverthe less she sat down a frown between her brows The maid had finished her work here before she had returned from breakfast There was no reason why anyone should have entered the room afterwards Nor why the bags should have been disturbed on their rack Yet they had been When Christine made an inven tary of her few possessions they were all in their places: yet her uneasiness persisted Descending In the crowded eleva tor she was startled out of her preoccupation by murmuring con versation behind her: "It have happened It Emma Talbert had been been fighting this merger tooth and and she owned enough shares to lick it single hand ed Why in name do you sup DLtetJ MIC vkzjsw 4 WMia nlv Tne murmurs aucuu to uneasiness Even if Cousin Emma did not take her re sponsibility as hostess In a life and death way it was out of character for her to play truant when money was concerned Once established In her new lodg ingsr Christine's restlessness made the Indoors unendurable Going down to the street she turned with out conscious volition toward the brilliant lights of the Boardwalk climbed the stairway that led from the street and came out near the Twentieth Century Pier The blare of a band and the shrieks of the crowd told her the show must be in full swing A little fdrlomly are stepped down Into her own booth next door to listen to the band The booth was in almost total darkness but a gleam of white caught attention It proved to be a sheet of paper fasten ed to her easel Carrying a sheet or papr fastened to her easel Carry ing it to the lighted Boardwalk she read: you are if you are i consult Chandra ree i public readings at the Temple of Truth every evening at Christine crossed me and sauntered along A doorman resplendent as a rear admiral stood in front of the hotel just opposite her booth Then came a shooting so poorly patronized that the pro lorietor had leisure to follow Chris BTTBST'w L11LV I wards: the window of the fans Smarth Shop featuring one jade green hat and a cluster of violets a small glass enclosed stage on which tiny mechanized mannequins dis played the fabrics of a manufacturer of synthetic cloth a cosmeticians exhibit in Chinese red and silver jars a bowling alley: an auction room an window with a grotesquely animated replica of a pal rot human eyes5 At last she came to an entrance that looked like the facade of an Oriental temple Over this concession Christine read the words of (To be Continued) I State Skeet Shoot to Be Here Sept 22 23 24 Mr Green president of the Columbia Gun Club announced yes terday that the Missouri State Championship Skeet Shoot will be held here Sept 22 23 and 24 The Columbia Gun Club has add ed a fourth field for this meet The shooting will be 100 targets down the line shooting Over sixty trophies will be given away Some of these will be awarded to non residents The largest of the trophies will be given jy the Chamber of Commerceu in Via tVirttA Haxt ehnnt til me uiuor ui mv The contest is being sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce the Ju nior Chamber of Commerce and Co lumbia merchants materials and prayed for a chance to use them When after 15 minutes no cus tomers appeared Christine suggested "Nothing draws a crowd like the sight of someone working at an easel Why I begin with the Maharajah of or what ever his name She indicated a figure that stood by one of the pillars of the pier He was as Christine Intimated a magnificent spectacle his warm Drown sKin sei oh uy a some rich Oriental macord through tine with an appraising stare After which was thrust an exquisitely chased dagger About the head of the was drapped a turban of bright silk fastened with a single gem and his slender brown feet were laced into jeweled sandals He stood like a statue his arms majestically folded gazing with brooding brows out to sea Already Christine was at work and almost Immediately a curious crowd began to gather along the rail Ing of the Boardwalk above As she sxetenea sne neaiu wure one say drawing you the Indian swami over there As if he had Christine and detached himself from his pillar Although he was not a tall man mere was in nu ueaims an air of authority before which the crowd fell back He moved to the railing and stood looking down His eyes Christine was surprised to find were not dark but a tawny brown with lurking yellow lights At length the extended a hand and said in a voice astonish ingly deep and resonant "It Is good I will take When Christine passed the sketch to him over the railing he slipped a bill into hVr hand and turned away Christine called have said that it Is good" he returned and strode away A woman said "Of course that was staged These Boardwalk people ad vertise each other" It did prove to be good advertising Soon Christine was busy or a while Mr Wilmut hovered on the outskirts of the booth: but eventually he melted away into the crowd and Christine did not see him again that day He had been surprisingly generous about her commission Although sh had worked only a little over a half dav it wnnlri almost $4 She must however look for cheaper quarters She found ft room 7 £1 irral 'W 'A dtfWllV dr PAI 1' ijSrs safe ESuBMmmMIbk IsHaT Kt vdMk 1 to Bl '4v I I I I wi fl fi 'V '7 i 'V fV Vv Sti ninedMi THE A "'w cJ ir' I 111 ill WlfcKj I vB 1 I In I Ira I i 1 38 I 4 4 1 1 1 A li 0 4 i i I 4 4 rt 4 JajSj 1 4 1 4 1st 1 i '1 4 4 i 3i I I 1 I I III 11 I II: rf' I I h' II Al 41 7 I A 5 jtalww MLMrewiWMliwmii'wu'wi4 i a.