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Show comm vnHsLit tnzx BEAvcn IS'jSSHMB.1 " , MDWSBD "KHAKI". By MliS RUTH K. BURNHAM. u alio laughed aoftiy at aba glanced ' around the little camp bedroom surely It bad been familiar enough a year ago. Ehe aat up and reached for ber watch aa she looked out of the window o'clock and a beautiful morning. She would take the canoe, ahe thought, paddle around to the little coTe and dream until breakfast time. Bar hotteaa would understand. ' Tan minutes later she softly closed the door of the acreened-lporch and stood on th little float The canoe was gone! Perhaps Dick, the husband af ber hostess, had gone on an early errand and would be back soon. She , aat down to watt. It was all so familiar, the float, the little camp with the screened-l- n porch, the beautiful lake ! How many good times and happy days she had ipent there last season, sitting quietly on ; the plana, paddling on the lake, stroll-in- g along the country roads ! The pictures crowded through her memory, and always beside her in them all was tall figure In khaki camping clothes a lasy figure, content to do her bid ding, with apparently no other aim In lift than the pleasure at hand. It had an been very pl&isant and happy, and then he had proposed. At a chum and playmate he had fitted admirably. but for a husband she wanted a man. a cotnrtent, commanding man, she had told him, not an Indolent hoy In khaki trousers and flannel shirt- - So It bad ended. Ber friendship with his later had remained unbroken, but the good tines had ceased, and now after winter of hard work, she had been glad to accept Sylvia's kind Invitation for the week-enwith the tacit understanding that the fellow In khaki camping clothes should be absent Then rudely her dream was broken. A canoe came gliding Into view, and there was something familiar both In the craft and the straight figure pad dling. "Stephen!" ahe cried as the canoe craped the landing. g The tall, figure In the khaki uniform of Uncle Sam's army looked squarely Into her eyes nntll her lathes dropped. Then he steadied the canoe with a hand on the float and held out the other hand. "Get In !" he said, and there was nothing Indolent either about voice or : n THE OSTRICH FARM. "Of cows "What do I admit It," said tb you admit r Miss Maud Smith has been quits sick but is improving the last day or two. ; A'- .K ,r ? -- asked anoth '4 Miss Kate Mathews was In town "I admit that I'm jor," said the from their South Creek camp over first ostrich. 8unday. "Then X suppose yoa think I'm queer, tooP asked th second ostrich. Bill Adams of Cedar, spent a few Tm yary much Ilk yoa, and If you're last week with his sister, Mrs. days queer i man be," "Well, that doesnt always follow,' Walter Mackerell. aid th first ostrich. "Thar are many creature alike, but tm If. one hapMr, and' Mrs. Murray Bohn of pened to cay he was queer another Long Beach, California, ar vlsitng wouldn't wish It said of him that he Mr. and Mrs. Rastus Bohn. was queer, too." r ostrich. "Oh, If you're queer, X dont mind rf I am ton," th cood ostrich ;r aid. "Ton wouldn't have to b queer Just because X was," mid th first ostrich. "Ton might be vary nlc and I might b very Now, queer to b cross, Iv beard. N on gets any fan ot of tt at all; no, they get very tanhappy. So It must b queer t b eta. Mrs. Haddock who was very III for weeks at th horn of her mother, Mrs. Jeddie Deal, is able to be about again. in Miss Ladle Frankl of the Bry-- a " net Junior high school In Salt Lake, Joined her sister and mother her on Wednesday and will remain that what yoa meant when yoa two or three week. aid yon were queerP naked th first ostrich. T dont know If I Ilk that Miss Fannie Carlton has returned a much. I was quit wtlling to b queer along with yoa If tt was Just from a trip to her former horn at ordinary qnesrnese but not eroe. Rlverside and other points In Califorand will visit her parent before "I float bUm yoa In th toast" said nia going east again. th first ostrich. "Won, what did yoa mean by say Mrs. Stanley Tattersall entertain- lag yoa were queer! Tbr are many ways of being qneer, It seems to m,' ed a few friends at tea Tuesday afaid the second ostrich. ternoon for Miss Kendall .Frankl, "Tea, there are," said th first at who Is abl to get out again after trlcb. Til tell yoa what IH do," h Illness. a long aid. "If yoa dont mind my btn queer, which la really th way your Miss Laura Shepherd and Mrs. queer, too ; I'd Eks you to be my mata Carrie Stony ar la Idaho, rutting Mrs. L. A. Shepherd. Elsa Shepherd was expected home from overseas while they ar there. la -- good-lookin- There lr a fin picture la last San day's Salt Lake Tribune of Mr. Seth Sknlth and his kiew Moon oar of which h appears Justly proud. It la a beauty and somewhat similar to Mrs. Griffith's car at Mlnersvllle. saanner She stepped squarely Into the center of the canoe, settled among the cushions, and he paddled off with a steady, clean stroke. Not a word was uttered until they reached a little cove which abut o3 the view of the cot hi gee. Then he stopped and looked at her until she could feel the color dye her cheeks. "Where did you .come from?" she stammered, to eover her confusion. "Bad a few hours leave from camp. Cam en the last train last night" he ' '. replied. Did yon know" I was htreT she asked quickly. "Ifo, I didn't" Stephen replied, just as quickly; "but I should have come Just the same If I had. I had made up my mind to go to Boston next week, anyway, Just to see you. I'm going to France soon, very soon." He heard her catch her breath sharply ; then he went on very quietly: "You told ma last summer yon wanted a man for a husband, not a lasy boy, and It struck deep. Uncle Sam has been frying his best to make a man out of me, and I'm doing my best to help him. They say that 'absence makes the heart grow arranger for someone nesrer home, but It hasn't my heart Jerry P Bis eyee held hers until It seemed they looked Into each other's hearts. "Too 4 love me," he said as he leaned yars old. which la th -- right time for been Identified with Red Cross work UUle younger," 14r. Ostrich said po litely. Th second ostrich moved her head to at coyly as coyly to on side-t- hat an ostrich could. Td lor to b your mate." ah aald. "And I will always b your mat, Just aa yoa wm alwaya M mine." "We are queer all of th ostrich family every ostrich on this great on tnch farm every ostrich vi "We ar all queer," conttmrnd Mr. Ostrich, "becans w ar feathered Bk birds and yet w cannot 'fly. W run instead, and wer good runnera. But It's queer to be dressed Bk a bird and act Bk no animal." "It la qur," said lira. Ostrich, rot I dont mind such queerneea." , "Not la th least," aald Mr. Ostrich. "I dont aappos any ostrich minds. We're all so need to such queerneea." "They say," Mrs. Ostrich remarked, "that our feathers ar very valuable. They've even aald that Soto ostriches snake any amount of money for their owners. I suppose yoa were first plucked when yoa war Bin) months old and when yoa were about six feet an. and his bold young, msn la bright." fore nsP asked Sylvia. "Toure- Era, Ostrich, and I "Be was dreaming then; he's awake was put In right a little yard and my fee thsaid ah held his now,." ant at which vara an ready were clipped Jerry as tighter. off. Well, I for one, am glad that they ' "Tea, but the real difference Is la make us of oar feathers, for wot the khaki," explained Stephen. "My well treated on this farm." camping clothes were to play around "Oh, yea," said Mrs. Ostrich, "If s ha and enjoy myself, and I did, too; fine to be so useful and to decorate th bat Uncle Sam's uniform makes yon hats of beautiful ladles," forget yourself. It's a khaki milt for " fin.-aald "Ifs "to. Ostrtcl.'lnd a man who has hard work to do and X approve of it, tor It never hurts as must be ever on the Job,' and with it a and your goal before you, you Just In th least bit to have oar feathers It gives no pain, properly plucked. have to g forward to victory." no and la does it hart as. Bat way love or warr laughed his some ladles," and Ur. Ostrich looked , very sad, "car so much about all The soldier smiled tenderly dowa kinds of feathers that they will va Into his sweetheart's eyes. wear th feathers of little birds sthJch tCoprrteat mi, by MeClure Newspaper have to b kfiled, and of som mothradicate.) er birds which hare to be killed Just when th little ones ar aeedlng her Nlsh an Important Town. Among Serbian cities the little town so much." "I cant believe It," gasped Bra. Osf Nlsh. which has been recaptured by the Serbians, Is only surpassed In trich. "When they can have feathers strategic Importance by the capital of from creature Uk as and when w arent hurt by It to think of using U country. Belgrade. It Ilea at feathers from birds which have to where several of the highpoint great b kllledH I cant understand folks road of the Balkan peninsula verge, and It is at Nlsh that the line who car for fashion and feathers for Baloolkl branches off from the above th live of birds and abev be- . . sis-to- r. -- I .1 A.'Ut- main railway between Belrntde and Constantinople." Before the war It was the custom of the king and his court to spend three months of the year at the little city on the banks of the ftlshflva, and It was to Nlsh that the Serbian government retired when BeV (ride had been flnall ArranlaS hi iSm rstaroa of iSlS. .Quite a surprise was perpetrated upon young Orrace . Murdoch on Wednesday evening his 14th birthday, by taking him to drive and landing In th canyon with supper (all prepared. 14 were in th party. party. . . . The bees cultivated by the company are of the "Btingless" variety, or ar as near to It a can be approached, and they do not appear to molest any one. In addition to this, it Is the verdict of all agronomists that bees ar a poaitiv benefit to nearly all kinds of growing crops which pro due blossoms, as they distribute th polen and fertllix th seeds. On the. day of our visit th wheels wer spinning merrily and constant stream of the "saccharine product was being pumped into th two-to-n container, which bad been more than half filled before noon. The value of this product at present prices is near-l- y 250. Within little more than a stont r throw of the extracting plant. Just out of th'. way of all travel, are several hundred stands of th bees, end like colonies ar located near the fields rf 1 early every town in th irlon occupied. upri3tendonl Anderson discoursed on. the habits very-;.errt:t'gl- FARMERS AND STOCKGROWERS COMPANY extrser:;'3 He told of tb functions of the queen bee, th drones and the work- and explained many interesting ls, tacts not known by th laity. leaving the plant we were presented with a pail of delicious hon-ley In th comb to sample the pro On duct Mr. Anderson and the members of his company are to be congratulated upon th success they have attained Mr. Anderson quoted th passage of Scripture, "Can any hood come out of Naiereth?" end said some people of this section might doubt If any band. From Provo they went to good could come from Beaver,' but their fiom In Big Pine, California. that they must, give Beaver cithent credit for conceiving and developBert Wynaught and family return ing this successful enterprise Iron ed Sunday from a trip to Puffer's County Record... Lak. leave about the first of August tor a month's visit in Salt Lake and Brigham City. Mr and Mrs. Ezra Barton left Fti day morning In their car for a month's vacation. They will visit Mr. Barton's sister In Butte, MonUna. T E. F. Puffer and family, Isadora M3LFORD NOTES and also will visit relatives in ShelLeasing and Umlly, Ren Bowen and ly Twin Falls, Idaho, and possibly Mrs. Wm. Noyes of Beaver spent family. La Bowen, Warren Neil will go to Yellowstone park before Tuesday at the home of Mr. and sen and Miss Ethel Nowors cams home. returning Mrs, David Atkln. down from Beaver last Thursday evening to meet Ross 8toney who reThe Gold Crown strike or again Born Friday July 25 to Mr. and turned that night from Franco. on the 400 foot level, and are shipMrs. Lester , Carter of Mlnersvllle, a car this week. The company a girl Misses Gladys and Grace Yardley ping now has or on all levels and will of Bearer, visited Mrs. Wm. Cllne Ben Davis of Beaver waa a visi- and attended th celebration last continue sinking besides doing some tor In MHford Tuesday. developing along some nlc fissures Thursday. s, they have crossed. Mr. George Mr. and Mrs. A W. Clyde wer Mr. and Mra. Scott Tanner returnmining engineer, who was here over from Beaver Monday. ed Tuesday from Beaver, where Ust week, was very much enthused they have cold their house and have and will be her again in a few Pat Barrett was down from Bea- been movlngthe rest of their fur- days to spend foar or flv days ver Monday; patrollng th Beaver-MUfor- d niture to Mllford. Mrs. Tanner will looking over the property. Ag-mi- power line. Mis of week : II IMMII IIIIMIMM of Thora Rich to Percy Beeson, which win Uk place at foar o'clock Th Shopmen's ball team went to August 4, 1119 at th home of her Las Vegas Nevada, last Sunday and was defeated by th team there by a parents at Wellington, Utah. scor of I to S. MIsa Jan Ogden was In town part Born Tuesday. July to Bishop of Tuesday, mingling with admir ' Mrs. Wm. and son. a Burns, ing acquaintances, having gotten back from a week's trip to Fish Lake Mr. and Mrs. E. Murdock, Eloise Th fishing party waa chaperoned Prior and Sim Murdock of MlnersMr. Mrs. and Griffiths of Minersby vllle wer MHford visitors last it vlll. Thursday. Mis Virginia1 Clyd entertained Miss Idonna Whit will Uk Miss Ic cream Wednesday afternoon. Alt Edward's plac at th telephone and caka and punch wer served. 14 switchboard, wha th former leaves girls wer present Gamea and mu est week. Miss Bernic Levi will sic mad up th afternoon's pleas- Uk Mis Whtto's plac. Miss Alio Bohn returned last week from an extensive trip all thro the northern part of Idaho, visiting at St Anthony Drigjrs and Idaho Fatti and apent som little time In th southern part of Wyoming, She ears sh had a lovely time and saw many beautiful sights, but says jt seems dreadful to see the dried and parched fields of Idaho. That they estimate th loss at 140.000.000. Th only crops th people wftl have ar thos Irrigated and nov aav for wat , or la very scare. - o v Ralsh Lemmon and Mflea White took a horseback rid up through th pas ta th storm Sunday night, to And what caused the trouble' on th power Iln. Frd Levi and family wer dowa from Beaver Friday night to meet his soa. Mont Lsvi, who was re turning from army serrle. Clyd Tanner went to Greenville on Monday to visit Mrs. Tat. They wer accompanied home by Master Julian Tat,' who had been spending a few days tn Mtlford. For Bale The Umber which was used la the dance pavilion on th N. B. Nielton and Billy Hodges squax Is now offered for sale at a went to Salt Lake Tuesday night reasonable discount The flooring after som new tracks., has been kept dry. Goes to th first bidder, tnquire D. W. Glbeon. Sam Clin and E. B. Jorgensen returned Wednesdav from a business A baby baggy. Wicker trip to Ksuab. For Sal klniaMm."rersri lblt.body .and. toav Lrr- - tM Muse Eth! Aahworth and Myr som rubber wheels. wfll know la good condition. tle Woolsy of Beaver visited Mrs. "Perhaps day they better," said Mr. Ostrich. "We ar Call on Mrs. Carrie Bakes. Wilson Moor th latter part of last glad to be of as to people for w week. can do oar work easily, bat oh. I Elbert Peaches will b ta two rip Mrs. Woodhous. who has been hop that fewer and fewer wild birds will be token and used for thos whs weeks I am sow taking orders visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry Dlehl ar slaves to fashion, C .Mardock. at Beaver, waa la Mflford Sunday on Tl?phon ' Jr. her way to Provo. to visit her hue-- I rctis4ttS"tfrottro characteristics and peculiarities of hi. worked away, thebefamlly industriously, removing the frames of honey from th teeless hives, and with a long keen knife, shaved the capping from the cells which had been completed and sealed over by th Industrious little insects for their winter's use, before ' passing them over to the man operating the Rath Harmon who spent last Invitations are being received at th X. Tanner horns, re"Tea, go on," said lira. Ostrich. the announcement of th marriage turned to Salt Lake Saturday "This la Try mtrsttng," . night - , guest wbera" forward. "Tea," said Jerry softly. She had found her commanding man. Bom two hours later 8ylvta saw theaa land at the float and pull up the Their faces told the story as they cam int the cottage, and ah congratulated them warmly. "Sat what really la the difference, Jerry, between the lary boy of last la XX.. has a young ostrich to think of getting st Fort Douglas for several months. himself a mat, and I would Judge yoa and who Is well known here. Is a were about that aga, too, possibly a at th W. F. Knox homo. ' ;;' summer m Ostrich Could. X" xx ' Miss Gertrude Holmes who never leave yoa. I am tow Aa Coyly a I Would ; ' Miss Thelma Robinson returned home paturday filter visiting two weeks with, Mr. Uriel Paxton of Kanosn and at Fllmor with two ' of her school friends. V ; . . IMPORTANT INDUSTRY last Wedseadsy tensions to the industry. The Misses Warby from Summit spent a few days th past week with ' Miss Thelma Huntington. a! Jerry slowly opened her eyes, and for a moment lb startled, thee Treasurer Smith and Attorney par sons wer in Nad on county business. -- 4ioorg - MHFORD SHOE & HARNESS REPAIR COMPANY MHford, Utah New Stock Shoe and Harness Supplies SPECIAL ATTENTION TO PARCEL POST ORDERS Modern Equipment FKCLASS WORK i Peter Weidner, Prop. itfttttf |