Show JIM DANDY DAY By F. F L L. Rowley M MONDAY ae again Curl Curly Ellis detested de tested Monda Mondays On the first business da day of each week Hill HIU crests crest Main Street looked like Uke the tho setting for a Ii town ghost movie Today as usual nothing stirred Curly this chu In band hand stared dreamily dream ily ib through the big shoe fringed window of Bens Ben's Boot Shop where be he worked This Mondays Monday was goIng go- go lug Ing to run true to form It seemed Curly would make his customary fifteen Meen per cent of nothing Then a strange sight met Curlys Curly's eyes yes e. e Mr dt Mrs Mr Williams strode through the marble framed doorway door wa way of the Hillcrest Hotel followed b by seventeen freshly scrubbed chil chU children dren dren all an theirs their Curly smiled The Williams William family was known throughout through out the county as a. being belne an enterprising enter group He wondered what the they were up to now Five II minutes later he be knew the they had come to town to buy shoes hoe Curly bad had to rub his bis eyes ee when the noisy group filed Into the little tittle shoe hoe store filled all aU twelve of the j jred red leather chairs chair and overflowed into the stockroom I Now said aId Curly beaming and rubbing his hands band as al he be bad had seen leen i iBen Ben do who wants a pair of hoes Everybody bellowed Burt WI Wll- Wll I llama sr r Give em all aD shoes hoel Only be lie aUr sure sure they're JIM DANDY SHOES That's That our our brand Curly curly- JIM DANDIES or nothing v Curly was wa delighted to discover that BeD had bad stocked up on JIM JW DANDIES He e wasn't concerned with sizes the Williams clan Just passed palled shoes aboe around until some ome member claimed a pair Curly busied himself with lacing the shoes and making notes according to his figures aure fifteen per cent commission com com- commission mission would net him eighteen dollars or more So youre you're aU all shoe shod are you out 4 loud voice boomed t through the open door CUrl Curly turned to see a abig abig big red faced man Who Wb are are you t Me Met screamed the bl big f fellow apparently offended by CUrly Curly's Ignorance Mr Williams here tell teU you roo about me met Im I'm paying for this party my mr boy These good 1 people have agreed to swear by br JIM DANDY shoes shoe in return for free samples of our merchandise Their picture will wW appear In every paper and magazine Free samples cried Curly Ina In Ina ina a shrill voice Tut Tut the bI big man purred reassuringly Ill IU make a check checkout checkout checkout out for the full tun amount What is the bill wholesale bill wholesale price that Is Wholesale groaned Curly His Hla visions of commission went out the window With a heavy heart he made out the bill took the check from the bl big man and watched his customers cross croll the street to the Hillcrest Hotel As A. Curly was tucking the check into the cash box a few minutes later he glanced lanc d at the signature denature John Smith A feeling of uneasiness nets ness crept over him Had he be been taker in Curly dashed for the telephone tele tele- phone Forty five minutes later Sheriff Sherif Giles GUe Mr Williams and the man who called himself John Smith entered en t red Bens Ben's Boot soot Shop Glad you OU called me Curly burly said laId the sheriff This bounder had almost talked Mr Williams into in to parting with another fifty dollars for pictures picture He Heis is fa wanted in four tour states stat on oa coa confidence dence charges chare How did cUd you know he be was wu a phoney I didn't said IBId i Curly scowling at the big bIa man but when he be beat me out of my mr rightful commission I 1 was wa mad so 10 I padded the billand bUland bill billand bill bUl- and he be didn't know the difference A rf real al shoe man would know Well I Mend Mondays Monday's always my bad day 3 I Iwonder wonder what DeV Bea Ben will wOl say 87 Hell HeU la say like me that youre you're a 00 good 1 shoe hoe salesman aleman Curly said aId Mr Williams extending his hi hand band and since were we're already wearing these thee shoes Ill I'll buy them all only all only please dont don't pad the bill bm On the contrary said laid Curly grinning Im going to knock oft off ten temper per cent has been a e JIM DANDY day |