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Show ?8 1930 Triday. e December 19, 1930 V IU1 duct. . Win itedbj l wnie lent a: ert Rosy! ted byf RutJ Wa-hin- gt eou.-.nisslr-- Silver Lining Only two passengers had survived the shipwreck, a woman front and a man from Aberdeen. By the end of their second week on the desert Lie their clothing was in tatters, their provisions were exhausted, and the monkeys had even ceased tossing d rocoanuts at them from ihe trees. The outlook was black. Oh, it just couldnt be worse," moaned the womun. Ah, but it could!" the Scat contradicted. I miiht ha bought a return ticket." n. dis-.-olve- d. f , Clara ttgee nays ToeiJ ncheoij which Der HFRBCV imu URA BRADON halted In almost superstitious amaze- JarrisJ ment Owen r she gasped. here It's hapMaria I pened again 1 Bertha dropped the letters she was sorting and hurried to the door. I five I her tone expressed swed Laura thial unbelief. Are you sure?" 0. W. "Perfectly. Aren't your ill be Bertha's eyes narrowed reflectively. ill be Bertha Irwin 1 God-- Come 1 1 1 ed. Teal" For a moment the two stared at d silence. Inch other in Did you see tnyone when you came to work?" , Not a Bertha shook her head. wuL The building waa locked." If It weren't so near Christmas and the whole force working overtime. It would be easier to Imagine." From her brown curia and sparkling ryes to her allm ankles Laura waa beautiful and genuine: Because she never posed she wasn't That may have been her charm, and why In spite of her youth Culver had elected her postmistress. Imagine n young girl running s post officer some said. But immediately they added, Laura can do it If anybody can I" And Laura had been doing She bad to. Aunt Juley had left her only a small annuity and the nse of the old residence for five years, at which time it went to some charity. That about It that Laura's nerves tightened. I'm going to find out about this," she determined. When Bob waited as be always did to stroll the seven blocks to her corner, he exclaimed: Laura, you're pale I Ton ought to get more help during Christmas week. I'd help free of diarge " Ita agln the law,' Bob: Thanks anyway." Laura smiled Into his seri- ous eyes. Bob was tall and straight and good looking. He'd been practicing law In tight-lippe- was all No, It wasn't quite alL nd strangethis ly task, this legacy to another, was apparently censing all the trouble. Even the office mystery had begun at about the time of the disappearance of the grandfather dock. Laura loved that dock. It recalled childhood as goclatlons. Uaybe that was why per verse old Annt Juley. dying, had made her promise to repair it for an Ernest Hamilton, the soiof Annt Jnley's girlhood chum. The boy was always good to me when I visited his mother," Annt Jnley explained. Restoring It wonld cost unbelievably. Annt Jnley hadnt provided for that, and Laura was saving every toward it But by Christmas she'd have enough to send to Ernest Hamilton, a total stranger, the most expensive present she had ever bought With my first of December check Tm going to send It to the she told Berths and Bob, her two best friends. But one morning Just before that Laura had missed the old clock I It was an awful feeling. She couldn't believe It Neither could Mrs. Adams, the caretaker's wife. "It's spirits. Miss Bradonl" Mrs. Tour (lead ain't Adams gasped. penny dock-makers- ," ft 1 cavation; 304.000 cubic yards of rock excavation; 163.000 cubic yards of unclassified borrow; 803.000 station cubic yards of over- haul; 287.000 cubic yards of long haul unclassified borrow loaded into hauling equipment"; 705.000 yard-milof hauling and spreading long haul unclassified es 29.000 cubic Robert Howard! Youl Common Thief!" A tion; Culver for almost a year and Culvet last there's people were saying,-Aa fellow good enough for Laura only its fnnny hed settle here All our boys with any git, go to the city." A lawyer's got to start In a small place," Bob explained to Laura. But Bob never intimated that she was more to him than a very good friend. And Laura tried to mako her self regard him In as calm a light Three nights, without telling either Bob or Bertha, Lanra had hidden In her office Then It had happened. The light burning over the safe had thrown everything Into grotesque shadow. Great heaps of Christmas packages became vague ghosts. Into that silence, a sound I Laura drew back. The door had opened I Slowly a circle of light advanced. Behind it a shadow. It reached her desk. Lanra suppressed a scream. She switched on a light In horror and amazement the two He faced each other speechless. dropped his flashlight Laura's Ups trembled from a sudden deep hnrt A So, Robert Howard! Ion! t common ... ' dock. thief I" Laura!" "Tell me. now, about my Youre the only person' The man befora her All right" hla Jaw. tightened How did yon get In? That night yon left your pane In I had keys copied after my car. . I rm really Earnest . . yours. Hamilton. Lanra gasped. "Then why steal tt- -r After you'd told me how yon were saving, and I saw how determined yon were to keep yonr promise, I thought I'd get It restored, pay the bill, and return It without yonr ever knowing I couldn't bear to have who'd done yon spend yonr money that way. . But I Yon said, once, the old description of the clock was In yonr desk. Its all done now, but one detaiL I was trying to find It for the man.'" Unbelief and relieved hope played If you're Ernest over Laura's face: to Cnlver as come Hamilton, why Resolutely the young man reached Yon never saw yonr Into his pocket will." aunt's No. The lawyer said she asked that it be shown to no one for a it "It'a Bradonl" Adama Gasped. Spirits, gonna see Mias Mrs. that, clock leave the family I Past week Ive had a feelin Laura didnt listen to Mrs. Adams' sincere but terrifying theories. It mnst have been stolen. But, by whom? A stranger couldn't slip unnoticed Into Culver where everybody knows everybody else. And," Bob Masoned as he and Laura talked It over the next day, Culver people don't go In for antiques." Then, too, Laura added, there wasn't a sign of breaking In. In the winter Mix Adams locks everything. And everything was still locked this morning." Looks like Inside Bob whistled. work." Bat Laura had known the Adamses too long not to be certain they were guiltless. Bob'a eyes held more concern for the slim wonderful girl than fur the clock. Don't yon worrj." he admonished. I'm going to trace this Please." lie pleaded, don't worry." Because Laura didn't want Hob to think her foolish: she hadnt, spoken about the mystery In the office But that Tor days shed had a feeling at hnd things hands arranged strange her desk. She warn I pns!tle st t!rt There wua sumi'tliing so strange EARLY WORK ON HOOVER DAM IS PROSPECT NOW and approximate quantities involved . are as follows: 115.000 cubic yards of common ex- So, or" year Heres why a copy He nodded. were stubborn. said She you of It if Ernest . Laura read. Hamilton will marry my niece before the year Is out my entire estate will go to them Instead of to charities. T wanted to see yon. And after 1 had, and knew yon for yourself. I couldn't" tenderness moved In bis eyes, I couldn't even ask yon until that year was np. I wanted yon to know that I didn't" Again Laura's heart sang. The radiance which returns to youth so easily reflected In her eyes Bob!" her heart spoke the name. I'll be busy Chrisimaa, but what plans have yon for the Sunday before New Years?" Why. none. . . . I" She threw back her head and smiled Neither a happy eager smile. have I!" Ernest llauilltoii stood bewildered for a moment Then over his serious, handsome face nmved the comprehenHe opened sion of a great dear!" Laura, arms. his And It was Ida heait. too, which spoke. ivuini Xmctptf I'alai.) iC !: milk-fille- r (Continued from page 1) self-consclo- it y Their fortitude, not only under the common hardships incident to a militury life, but also under the additional sufferings to which the peculiar situation of these states haj exposed them, clearly provea them worthy of the enviable privilege of contending for the rights of human nature, the freedom of independence of their country. The recent instance of uncomplaining putience during the scauity of provisions in cainp,inis a an fresh proof that they possess eminent degree the spirit of soldiers and the magnanimity of patriots. tern for the organization und permanence of his forces. In his reports to congress he kept insisting that his officers must have bettor provisions, The Saddest Yet Most Glorious C hapter in Our National for they had begun to resign, saying in effort: You must appeal to their History Should Always He Kemenibered. interest as well us to their patriotism, and aiul you must give them half-paOne of the saudost, and yet most of t!u Y'ou .irir.y ha Ken a wtvk without lull pay in proer histi-rglorious dramas in the of the any k.r.-- of fksh, and the rest three must follow the same policy with the Ahtvi irtn Revolution began l.2 years or four This letter followed men; you must have done with short days." ago this month, when, on Dviv'.iibu a pivuous communication to congress, enlistments." IK, 1777, General Washington estabwhen, un December 23, 1777, Wash-ii.gL- n There is no doubt but that through lished hi winter camp at Valley mote: the misery and suffering of that n This inf nation :s contained torgi. "1 am convinced beyond a doubt, wretchod in a statement o, toe division of winter, Washington felt that, unless some great and capital supremely sure of securing victory and publication if the charge suddenly takes place in that and independence. Had it not been ii Bicentennial Ccoige lino (the commissary department) for his strenuou:! labor and fervent this army must inevitably be reduced appeals, his army would have Owing chiefly to the inefficiency of to one or other of these three things: He held it together and slow congress, the organization of supply starve-or dissolve, disperse in order ly improved it. That he appreciated broke down. Washingtons soldiers, to obtain subsistence in the best man- the hardships suffered by his soldiers steadily dwindling in numbers, mark- ner t!s y can." is borne out by the following in Wn:.h ed their road to Valley Forge by the blood from their naked feet. They Notwithstanding this deplorable ington's orderly book of March 1, wvie destitute and in rags. Napoleon condition of the army, the iennsyl-- v 177S: an ia remonstrated The conunandcr-in-chic- f legislature takes ocBonapartes statement that "An army moves on its belly" was known, ag.'.nt the army going into winter casion to return his warmest thanks through bitter experience, by Wash- quarters, expecting Washington to to the virtuous officers and soldiery ington more than 25 years before the keep to the open field, and even to of this army, for that perserving fi"Little Corporal" made his famous attack the British, with his starving, delity and zeal which they have uniragged army, in all the severity of formly manifested in all their con remark. In a letter to Governor Clinton, of a northern winter. At this time, the whole number of men in camp was New York, the commander-in-chie- f wrote from Valley Forge; For some 11,093. of whom 2,898 were unlit for days past, there has been little less duty because they were barefoot and ihan a famine in the camp. A part otherwise naked. In making this statement to congress, and alluding to the remonstrance of the Pennsylvania legisla- That Winter at Valley Forge Pete: ttrac. Ptep. tha y held '' 7 THE OGDEN POST U,. 'I At. yards of tunnel excava- 200 M feet h. m. nel timbering; 800 cubic yards of permanent tun- of structure exca- vation, common; 1.200 cubic yards of structure ex- cavation, rock; 6.000 cubic yards of back fill; 220 cubic yards of concrete; 16.000 pounds of reinforcement steel; 2.100 cubic yards of rock riprap; 2.600 cubic yards of concrete crib- wall; corru1.600 linear feet of 21-in- gated pipe; 120 linear feet of pipe; 180 linear feet of Gilt Suggestions ture, Washington said: I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without even clothes or blankets. However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, 1 feel suberabundantly for them, and, from my soul, I pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent. General LaFayette, who had joined Washington's staff, reported that the unfortunate soldiers were in want of everything; they had neither coats, hats, shirts, nor shoes; that their feet and legs froze until they became black, and it was often necessary to amputate them. From want of money they could neither obtain provisions, nor any means of trans port; the colonials were often reduced to two rations, and sometimes even one. The army frequently remained whole days without provisions, and the patient endurance of both soldiers and officers was a miracle which each moment served to renew." Even while struggling against cold and hunger and destitution, General Washington was devising a new sys the Auto Owner Car Heaters (Hot Air or Hot Water), Tires, a Set of Chains, or Other Accessories! What gift to the motorist could be more appropriate than a gift of some useful accessory to the car? This is a year of practical gifts GIVE SOMETHING USEFUL! Store Your Car llorc While Shopping! Phone 601 2141 Garage Kiesel Avc. OGDEN, UTAH ch 30-in- ch corrugated 36-in- ch corrugated Christmas Adventure pipe; of linear feet of corrugatpipe; 200 linear feet of corrugated pipe; 600 linear feet of corrugated pipe; 30 M feet b. m. of bridge or trestle timbering; 200 pounds of rail stringers in rail 280 ot Merit lor 42-in- ch ed 48-in- ch Mickey the Mouse CO-in- ch top trestle; 2.000 linear feet of piling; 80 shoes; 22,800 cubic yards of ballasting; pile-poi- 7 and nt miles of laying track (tie plated); 10 miles of laying track (not tie plated). Specifications have been completed and bids will be opened January 7 for the construction of a highway from Boulder City to the Hoover dam. The highway will be about eight miles long and will involve a large amount of solid rock excavation. The principal items and the approximate quantities involved are as follows: 113.000 cubic yards of common excavation; ' 266.000 cubic yards of rock excavation; 40.000 cubic yards of unclassified borrow; 250.000 station cubic yards of overhaul; 6.000 cubic yards of tunnel excavation; 30 M feet b. m. of tunnel timbering; 1.200 cubic yards of structure excavation, common ; 600 cubic yards of structure excavation, rock; 2.100 cubic yards of back fill; 170 cubic yards of concrete; 8.500 pounds of reinforcement steel; 2.500 cubic yards of riprap; '5.000 cubic yards of concrete crib- wall; conu 140 linear feet of gated metal culverts; corru 1,380 linear feet of metal culverts; gated corru 720 linear feet of metal culverts; gated corru1.100 linear feet of metal culverts; gated 970 linear feet of corrugat ed metal culverts; 420 linear feet of corrugated metal culverts; 60 M feet b. m. of bridge timbering; 40.000 cubic yards of gravel surfacing placed; 80.000 station cubic yards of gravel surfacing in stock piles; 8.6 miles of highway treated with oil; and 2,700 linear feet of guard rail. Prospective bidders may obtain copies of the above described specifications from the office of the bureau of reclamation, Washington D. C.; Denver, Colo.; or Las Vegas, Nev. Plans and specifications are being prepared for the construction of the water works, sewer system, lighting system, administration building, residences for government employes and other buildings of a public nature for the Boulder City town site. Invitations for bids will be issued as soon as the plans and specifications ran be completed. WAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring but Mickey the Mouse. And he was inspecting the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. And well he might wonder, and well he might fear, For Saint Nick had come down through the chimney last year All covered with soot, and strangling with smoke, And he swore in a rage between every choke: "Its a pity they couldnt give welcome to me When they asked me to fiU up the stockings and tree! I've a good mind no longer appointments to keep. But to turn my job over to some chimney sweep!" Now, wee Mickey Mouse had just finished a round Of Mouse Golf with one of his friends when the sound Of St. Nicholas swearing broke in on the . game, And they had to admit that it sure waa a 18-in- ch shame The way that good Santa Claus found himself treated. Would you like with soot and smoke to be greeted? But down through the chimney came old Nick himself. As happy as could be, the merry old elf I 24-in- ch 36-in- ch 48-in- ch 60-in- ch 72-in- ch There wasnt a d of soot on old Nick, And he coughed not a cough, but he cried, "Tell me quick! What la it has happened to clean up this house Of smoke and of soot say, wee Micky Mouse!" Then Mickey spoke up and told what he knew, mat the dirt, and the smoke, and the soot were taboo In all the clean houses throughout the great pin-hea- west Since Natural Gas has been found of all fuels the best. So Nick warmed his hands at the glowing gas grate. And laughted, "Hoi IIo! Ho! I sure predate The t, of this home. And now I will show it before I must roam." So he left better presents than ever before, And stuffed all the stockings till none would hold more. lie said, as he left, "When Im pleased, then no-dir- no-so- ot no-smo- ke, . I please!" And he stretched Mickeys soak with a large hunk of cheese. Now, listen, dear children, and tell all the folks That dirt, smoke and soot are no longer jokes If all people healthy would be every day. Cook with gas, heat with gas, use gas every way. And the town will be smokeless, and dean every house, Take advice from old Santa and Mickey the mouse. Natural (BAXiZ? GIFT SUGGESTIONS Natural Natural Natural Natural Gas Gas Gas Gas Range Water Heater Refrigerator Fireplace Heater Natural Natural Natural Natural Gas Gas Gas Gas Kitchen Heater Bathroom Heater Circulating Heater Furnace . 4. A few dollars down places any one of these appliances in your home before Christmas. (CDodkBim 414 c Twenty-fourt- h (Cos Comrapouuoj) Street Phone 174 |