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Show PAGE FOUR Thursday, Decern!), 1 ALONE WITH HE TIRE-ON 1NEW y f ? - li 111 mm, TV AY I" grumbled John Martin, ' and pulled tlia bedclothes closer around him. Partly visible in tha curtained room, tha lit tered dressing table, tumbled bed .and carelessly discarded clothing bespoke be-spoke a late and hurried retirement Beside the bed, in the deepest shadow, stood his wife, half-clothed. She shook i him gently. "Come, dear, wake up," she urged. "It's nearly noon, and you promised to take us out to see Father today. See, it's broad daylight," and she drew back the curtains. Tha hard glare of a midwinter morning focused on the waking man. "There I That's better." "Darn shame," her husband com plained, as he rose. "Up all night cele brating, and then can't even sleep on New Year's morning." Evelyn Martin smiled, but It was several minutes before she spoke again. "You don't really mind going out to Father's today, dj you, dear J I wouldn't insist, but we didn't got out Christmas, and I mustn't let the season sea-son go by without seeing him at all. I have the presents all ready, and we can drive out in no time." "That's all right Always did like the old gentleman. Lot of useless trouble, though. No reason on earth why he shouldn't live here with us." "I know, but he is so used to the old home. He says he is more lonely here with us, and I think I can understand. under-stand. I'm home so little, anyhow, and there he knows every nook and cranny, and that housekeeper is just a Jewel.' I'm going out there more often, too, this year, m make that New Year's resolution, John. Now that the children are older and, by the way, I'm dropping the Woman's club this year I'll have more time to spare." She surveyed herself in the mirror approvingly. ''Wei J, I'll go down. Hurry, so we can start early." In what had once been the well-to-do section of a neighboring town stood the "old home" of Evelyn's childhood. Changes Lad been made inside the rambling house, too, but they consisted con-sisted of the modern mod-ern comforts and conveniences with which a .wealthy daughter chose to honor her father. Only the parlor par-lor remained tin- changed, with the old portraits on tha walls, the roses painted on tha celling, and In one corner the music box that that had once baen (and still was) its chief pride. , Its sole window, which overlooked the neglected neg-lected yard, was enclosed by reddish-brown reddish-brown portieres. . A grate fire added to the dim light ' and spread a red glow over the two figures just entering the door. The one, a feeble, gray-bearded man, was , leaning on the strong arm of a kindly-looking kindly-looking and interesting young woman. "See, sir," she remarked. "I've built you a nice, warm fire thai: will burn all afternoon. Now wwhlle I fix your chair for you." "Thank you, Marie," the old man, answered, leaning heavily on his cane for a moment Then, as he settled Into his chair before the grate : "Now go and have a pleasant New Year's Day with your people. Everything will be all right" - fx a 'L- '" " J Mb' K x ... - X "It's not that I want to leave you. sir" "Marie, I have told you to go. Have friends while you are young and can enjoy them. We grow old quickly enough." "You are sure you will not be lonely?" "I shall not be lonely. I am used to loneliness." T.eaTIy, sir, I had rather stay. I shan't enjoy myself for thinking of you here alone." ' "Nonsense, Marie I Here I have this nice, warm fire. I do not mind. Perhaps my daughter and her family will come to see me. They said Christmas that they would try to get down on Nsw Year's." - "Perhaps they will, sir. I shouldn't be surprised." She carefully adjusted adjust-ed a lap robe about film. "Good-by, then, sir. And a happy New Year." "A happy New Year, Marie." The door closed behind her, and the master mas-ter of the house was left alone. ' For a long time he sat brooding, his mind repeating over and over the final words. "Perhaps my daughter will come I shouldn't be surprised a happy New Year, Marie a happy New Year " Tha fire crackled, and a spark shot out on the hearthstone, hearth-stone, but the old man still sat engrossed en-grossed In his thoughts. Memories Mem-ories of his youth adventures romance ro-mance pressed upon him. Finally Fi-nally his mind went back to his daughter. There , was her picture on the mantel. Ha knew It was there, even though his falling eyes could barely discern its shape. Perhaps if he could touch it he would not be so lonely. She looked so like her mother. Holding tightly to the chair, and resting his weight on his cane, the old man rose, balanced himself, and took a few steps forward. Now he could reach the picture. He stretched out his arms, a little higher. His fingers touched the frame, but in that moment mo-ment he lost his balance. To his dizzy senses it seemed the room wheeled around; he clutched at objects that always eluded his grasp. He half turned toward his chair, and in so doing he fell "Evelyn," he called, the pitiful cry of helplessness. "Evelyn !" The fire sputtered, and cast an un-felt un-felt warmth upon the prostrate man. Beneath his head the crumpled lap-robe lap-robe absorbed the thin trickle of blood. In his hand was clasped a picture pic-ture of the woman who looked like her mother. But the man himself had entered upon The happiest TTew Tear fall. A car drew tip at tha curb outside and Evelyn Martin, bar arms filled with presents, tripped daintily along tha walk. She stepped upon tha porch and shifted her bundles to open the door. "Yoo-hoo, Dadd7l Happy New Yearl" She entered tha flrellt room. (ffl. 1917, Western Xwnpapw Union.) THE I.KIII SDN, I.hlll. '"' 1 . 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Experience and knowledge is back of real repair service together with honest advice for the car owner. - ' We give our customers the right kind of service service we would expect to get ourselves. our-selves. CAR REPAIRING BATTERY REPAIRING State Street Garage KELLY Telephone 44 Lehi GUY ome Qhvistmas by 'YD.'PeTwypackef "Most of, us " remarked one of the travelers, after he was comfortably settled and the train was well out ! from the , yard limits, "still have strong ties in the old East" "It Is true, Indeed," replied the man sitting beside him. "I love the West I admire its freshness and big ness, its grain fields, its many diversified interests, inter-ests, and the fact that its possibilities possibil-ities for further development are still apparently limitless. I, too, am bound for the old fireplace In the city of my birth, but I can never expect the old metropolis to appeal to me as It once did. There are too many Ihlgh walls, too narrow streets and too little opportunity for growth such as we know on the prairie lands, to appeal to me. And the people are not as frank and friendly as they ought to be." V The other acquiesced. Most persons who have lived In the West any length of time feel this way. The men were not patrons of the pullman though both were well-dressed well-dressed , and appeared reasonably prosperous. ' "I wouldn't miss the opportunity of riding in a day coach at this time of the year and studying my fellow passengers," pass-engers," ventured the first speaker. Most every seat was occupied, and there were Na number of babes and children among the passengers. Two seats before them sat an attractive at-tractive young mother with a babe Just able- to walk. In spite of Its zigzag zig-zag journey and the lurching of the train as It negotiated numerous curves, the youngster persisted In walking up and down the aisle, at tracting a great deal of attention and getting in the way of brakemen and passengers who had to pass to and fro. Across the aisle was a child of about three, quite amiable, but swing ing in his small hands a half-eaten banana with Its golden envelope dangling dang-ling about it, to the evident annoyance annoy-ance oft an eldeiiy semi-invalid and her dignified daughter who sat nearby. - But the holiday season was approaching ap-proaching and no one was "crabby" enough to complain. Old maids and confirmed bachelors, if there were any in the car, either enjoyed the baby or kept their thoughts to themselves. Passengers moved about frequently, as is quite common on a long journey, and some of the more restless ones, it is safe to say, occupied nearly every seat in the car before they reached their Journey's end. . Near the front of the car sat a .woman whose only child was a song canary, and who divided her time about equally between coaxing the bird to "sing for mother, pretty," asking the Negro brakeman questions. climbing up to get something from her suit case, or changing about from seat to seat It was merely the restlessness of the usual traveler, but the two men were Interested. Between their eager observance of this restlessness and their notation of the almost limitless amount of fruit ice cream cones and confections con sumed, they wondered what would come next But candy, and restlessness and travel have little noticeable effect At last the train was drawing Into its eastern terminal. As It crawled past a multitude of switches everyone was emectant There ' was the usual climbing or reaching for hand lug gage In the upper racks, the assembling assem-bling of hats and outer garments, and a general effort to be ready to leave the train quickly. The wheels stopped. Brakemen announced "All out!" In less than a minute there was a mad rush through the waiting room and towards the taxi stand. 'Ilelio, there, I've been looking for vou." cried a man in a friendly voice, as he laid his hand on the stranger's shoulder and inquired: in-quired: "You Just came in from the West on that B :15 train, did you not?" "I did," ha re-piled re-piled with a degree de-gree of wonderment. wonder-ment. "Whyr "Yon left this envelope in your seat It looks important im-portant I won-dered won-dered how I would find you." "Gosh I It Is Important 1 There could be no Christmas for the kid dles without it I don't know how it got out of my hand bag probably "when I removed my time table to study it Well, you're a friend of mine and the kiddies, I am snre. 'I heard you remark that eastern ers were not friendly," said the new arrival composedly. I'm a New Tork City man, just come 15" from a short business trip. What's your name?" The two men withdrew to a corner and exchanged cards. "Come out with me," said the new-made new-made friend to the westerner-by- adontlon. "My car will be waiting just around the corner and I can take you part way to your destination." The offer was accepted. The men became warm friends. But the enyelope? you ask. What of the finding of that big white envelope. It was that, that made Christmas I (, J91T. Western Newspaper Union.) Like American Corks tortv sold in South AM American firm shipping each year 4QTV m ioss. or one-third of the total con-gumption con-gumption there. . Or ; Oldest Hens a .i,w .f .Tasuer. Ala- has two of the oldest hens on record in that section of the country, both being eighteen years old. They have missed laying only three times ounus u tire summer. The hens were purchased pur-chased from a neighbor In 1908 when they were two years old. Mtxaio BY Florence e Harris E Wells ARIAN CLARK and her father sat "listening in." It was Christmas Eve and" they were alone. It was the first Christmas without the mother, who had passed on the previous summer. Marian had not gone back to college In the fall. She had not been able to make herself feel it was right to leave her father alone on .the farm. Be cause she was always cheerful and gay, Mr. Clark hadn't fully compre hended the sacrifice Marian had "made, nor how much it had meant to her to drop out her last year. Even though she might go back later, it wouldn't be her class. Marian had prevailed upon heir fa ther to get the radio a few weeks be fore. They called It their Christmas present to each other. Neither of them particularly enthused over the radio; yet it gave them a contact with the outside world. Tonight the Christmas carols were wakening tender memories in Mr. Clark's mind; so that even while he heard them, his thoughts were far away, living over Christmas days of the past Marian's thoughts, too, were busy, but she was thinking of a letter that had come that day, reminding re-minding her of the extra credits she had accumulated while in college, and suggesting that if she came back the next semester, by taking a few more than the required number of hours, she could still graduate with her class. It was a temptation. Marian allowed herself to dwell on every phaso of it ; then she sat up1 very straight. She would not permit her self to think of it again, with the long cold winter stealing in about them. She couldn't leave her father alone with no one of his own to talk to or understand. Suddenly Marian realized that the carols had ended and a voice was asking: "Albert Clark, are you listening in? Tour sister wants to get in touch with you." Marian Jumped up, astonished. She shook her father now nodding In his chair: "Father, listen! It may be you i The voice went on: "You were two orphans. You were adopted by a family called Clark, and your sister by people named Gibbons. She has never seen nor heard of yon since. That was forty years ago, Ton are fifty-one years old. Your sister is forty-seven, and lives in Coloma, Mich. She wants to get In touch with you." "Father, isn't that you?" Marian was staring in amazed incredulity, but the voice was repeating: ; , "Albert Clark, are you listening in?" Three times It gave the mes sage and at the end explained that this was the last night it would be broadcast . Albert Clark was not listening to the explanation Coloma was only fifty miles away. There wasn't much Uses of Poverty Pnrertv has nlaved fairy godmother to many a man ; not by changing htm In the twinkling of an eye to some-thine some-thine else, but by teaching him slowly and silently the lessons of Industry and patience nnd courage and hope, until he found himself nt last, oniy half-realizing how, a rich man In all that counts most Youth's Cora-in Cora-in n I on. tjiuveu u tiuc a. m. oi said it P Front Door of the City and'''? .tiunaing, situate m Provo r County, State of Utah, all ll h title, claim and interest, 0f ?8 "ft named defendants, of, in anT following described real ttZ wit: ""wrt Lots Two (2) and Six (6) ofe Eighteen (18) and Lot One mK tlon Nineteen (19) iU TowneM1 (6) South of Range One (i? 7 the Salt Lake Meridian, Utah f lng One Hundred Three .4Cot Hundredths acres. r Purchase price payable h' , money of the United States jjaiea hi rrovo viiy, Utan tv,i . day of December, 1927. ' " J.D. BOYD, Sheriff of Utah W State of By ELI AS A. GEE, Deputy sZ: CLAWSON and ELSMORE 1 Attorneys for Plaintiff, 508 Deseret Bank Building sail lase uiij, utan. First Publication Decembfii- a i.. Last Publication December 29 m! NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Fourth Judicial District Court, in and for Utah County, State of Utah. In the Matter of ,the Estate of A. M. Davis, Deceased. Notice -to Creditors. I Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at his home, 485 North, 2nd West, Lehi, Utah, on or before the 10th day oi April, 1928. W. E. DAVIS, Administrator. A. J. EVANS, Attorney for Administrator. First Publication December 8, 1927. Last Publication December 29, 1927. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY In The Fourth- Judicial District Court of the State of Utah, in and for Utah County. State Bank of Lehi, a corporation. Plaintiff vs. Mark Hopkins and Ella Hopkins, his wife, and the National Copper Bank of Salt Lake " City, a corporation. Defendants. To be sold at Sheriff's Sale on Tues day the 3rd day of January, 1928, at SUMMONS In the District Court of tha juaiciat uisirict, atate of Utah I tine- In and for TTtot, n,.-. ' " w vvuiuy, Samuel I. Goodwin, Plaintiff iaau uuuuniu, 1119 UBlfS, eXeplttw. administrators, creditors, devise lotra food an A no of cm a I.--. iv0wvvvu uwuibuij A.J1UYYI1 Of tin IfrirtMJTi flflfQtiflQtita Hfl' The State of Utah to the Defenduii You are hereby summoned t t pear within twenty days after run ui iu'S suuiuiuua Upon you. i' served within the county in m this action is brought; others within thirty days after vice, and defend the above entitle" action; and in case of your tallies to do, judgement will be render? against you according to tha dm) lot the complaint, which within aays aiter service oi tnig gummas upon you, will be filed with the cte of said court This action Is brought to ren: judgement quieting platntifTs title u :the land described in said complaint A. J. EVANS. Plaintiff's Attorctj .Post Office Address: 482 North 2nd West Street, Lehi City, Utah County, State ofTM First Publication December 1, 1927. Last Publication December 29, 1927. & s t I S 1 S si 3 Happy, Prosperous New Year We wish our many customers and friends the most Happy and Prosperous year during dur-ing 1928 they have ever experienced. If we can be of service to you during the next twelve months with our Gas, Oil, Accessories and Confection business it will delight us to serve you. Park Service WILFORD KUSSON, Prop. snow, and autos were still running easily. They could start at once, and start they did, and Aunt Marian came back with them the next morning and everything was settled happily, as in fairy tales. "Radio wasn't such a poor present after all, was it daughter?" Farmer Clark questioned laughingly as they finished their bountiful Christmas dinner din-ner and rose to go into the living room where Christmas carols were again "coming In." T should say not" Marian retorted gaily. "It brought me the best Christmas Christ-mas present Tve ever had." "And me, too her Aunt Marian chimed in. Tour father and I will have great times listening in' these long whiter evenings when you're away poring over dry old school books. "I had them broadcast that half in fun with scarce a flicker of hope that it would bring any results. But Tm glad I chose the Christmas time because be-cause we're all such fine Christmas presents for each other." (& 15 !7. Wti Hswapaptr TTaloa.) Has This Been Your Experience? Did you ever ask your grocer for a high-grade, standard brand' of canned product and have him recommend something some-thing to you, which, in his opinion, was much better? You had , never heard of that particular brand, but you had the utmost confidence in him and took him at his word. You opened the can and found it contained a very inferior product. You were keenly disappointed, your confidence confid-ence in "your grorer weakened considerably, consider-ably, didn't it! You decided you would never accept his judgment again. You felt as though he must have known he Mas selling you something inferior, didn't did-n't you! YOU TAKE NO CHANCES You take n0 sucn chances at an O. P. Haggs System store. No one recommends recom-mends any brand to you. They are all before your very eyes and you select v hat you want. There are no chances to be taken. Every can is the product of a migh-gnade. well-known, reliable manufacturer. manu-facturer. You are always assured of entire en-tire satisfaction when vou select your own foods at an 0. P.'Skasgs S'stem store.' , F00DitSii?.s ; Thurst Pub Mr. i erican oi Mr. Mr. ing la spend Miss ing scl the b Emma Mr. Blanct son at Lake ! Mr. a i childr I Fork i Mrs. I Mr. Carl day f days i Mrs. relate Lira T 15tl 12, IT C4tl 17, roui : c Age sen Fin I W Ci G u I an i i i l i r 4 |