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ppEBBt' ^Bmm: | \j Charley Gano favorite comedian wi Friday night, November 26. UPIRPCQ TO SO MILLION FOUND ON OHIO FARM Waverly, 0. ?An old woman opened the door of the tiny wooden house perched on the side of an Ohio hill. She stood with her weather beaten age, furrowed face and peering from beneath a voluminous sunbonnet. Her hands, stiffened nervously against her bent body. "Be you from the city?" she asked. The visitor answered, "Yes. Are = jumunu tiiiMiiaiiKiutiiiJHiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiuiiuumimuiaiiuiiMiuMMUiitiiiiuuKimimiuiiiww ii 1 il Apron Gingh; ?Best 30c va II 5E .? = = Ii 11 Formerly Hot H A! S 5 J| SEARCH LIGHT MATC * II c I -1 II : : ! II II ? r>. l>Uc Dress uingiuun&, o< 32 inches wide, pei J^est grade Apron Ging! ue at per yard . .. Boys' good quality Uni< value for Best Grade Bed-room S Best quality Outing in li i ors. nice assortmen stripes, 45c value Hood quality Outing in i per yard S| 38c Dress Ginghams, ne ? II _ per j ui u iOc Embroidery Cloth, 5 going at per yard Men's heavy wool Shirts worth up to .$4.50, n< | Small lot Madras, prettj Dress Shirts, 90c v Small lot girls Union Si lor Men's Undershirts and heavy fleeced, $1.50 Men's Sox in tan, black, per pair ten's Work Shirts, Bli $1.50 value E r ? j) Men's Overalls, best qui value for - ii 5 in -i in mmmmmtmm I tl b V V rr . V . W - .... sv . i " ? V?? * j jj r th Coburns Minstrel Opero House, ai hs ai you Mrs. Richardson?" , ra "That's me," the old woman replied. "I'm Aunt Mary." Her voice W dropped to a whisper as her watery ft eyes looked through the automobile 1 ? I tl waiting in the dusty road. sc "Have you brung the million dollars?" she asked. w A horse's neigh filled the tiny in house. Standing with its' nose press- ? ed against the kitchen door was a ? white mare. Found After 60-Year Search cn The visitor explained he had hi brought no million, but had come to j T< :IUIItlMtUHlUUllMUMIUIMMIt?UUIIJUilUUIUUUIIIUIIIIUtlUIIIIIMIIMMlllllU4ilinHlllUI(U IHHIUHIIIIIIUimui ams 1 rc . i lue 15 ? / ustler Racket WAYS ON HES, per box . . . lies or Redfern, OQr yard hams, 30c val- |gc Ladie; ( 3n Suits, $1.25 Ladiei liDDers for Ladies s $1.98 to 52-48 ight or dark col- 0(*r Middy it of checks and "mJV at per yd. ... solid colors at 19c L? !WfaUpallerns 25c Clot 36 inches wide. . $39.50 1 ?DC or doub i, well made, ?rr brown,J ow at .... ?P?.IJ ?ther y< 924 r patterns for r A Men?s B alue at per yd. ?JUv $37.50 ' lits, 75c value Other 1 Drawers, extra QA^ Boy's al ^Wll" 017DC im value wv value fo gray and blue, JQC ?oy,g Sl je Ghambray, 98c Hoy's Su ality, $3.50 J2 ^ Boy's Si ilk to Mrs. Richardson about her eing the daughter and heiress of [enry W. Putnam, San Francisco lillionaire. The story the visitor had heard as that Aunt Mary was the long >st daughter of Henry W. Putnam, ho died in San Francisco in 1915, saving an estate estimated at 50 lillion dollars. The estate had ac iimulated from the royalties on ire inventions?a safety pin, a bote fastener and a score of other sue* jssful devices. He also was said yto ave been one of the builders of rooklyn's elevated road. In 1&49,-Putnam, heading West to lake his fortune, had left his fourear-old daughter, Mary, and her vin sister in an orphanage in New rleans. He had taken his son, Hen* |T, Jr., with him. Instead of hunting old along with the California "for* r-niners," Putnam bought two >rings and supplied water to the tizens of San Francisco, laying the jundation of his fortune. Family Wat Scattered Crown rich, his fortune increasing aily the inventor started his hunt )r his daughters. Mary had been iopted by a family named Lewis nd disappeared. Her twin sister Kaonmo Mrs flilhert Wallace id had died. The son had become enry W. Putnam, Jt., New York ulti-millionaire. After the inventor's death Mrs. Wallace's grandchildren moved om Redondo Beach, Cal., to Ohio, y coincidence they established lemselves near Mrs. Mary Richard>n's tiny farm. Aunt Mary's relaonship was thus established. And ord finally came from Henry, Jr., i New York, that he was coming to ill upon his sister, whom he hadn't A Persian carpet wasiin use for rer two hundred years in the main ill of the palace of the Shah in sheran. t nilNIIMIUHIUHtMlh.lHIMIMIimHtMIUHmBUIItHMIIIHUWMIWmMmMWIIWIimiWIIIIIIWIWIIWI uiraMHMiiHiumimiMMMMiiMiuiiiiiHMMiiimiiiMiiunumNmimtmi-miiiMmtitisitmtttiiitNiti kDA DEPARTMI ? THE JOI V Palm Olive Soap, thre Coats - Dre s' Goats made of all-wool Ve dollar, new Shades, $25.00 v Other Ladies' Coats s' Dresses made of nice qual style, $20.00 value for.. Other Ladies' Silk or Wool Suits, wool, blue Serge, siz Others $4.98 hing Specials young men's Suits, single le breasted, latest style, in tan and bli^e $31.50 . oung men's Suits, $18.95, L50 and $29.50. lue Serge Suits, all wool, value, now . , . ... $29.50 Men's Conservative Suits ?14.85 to ?39.95. 1 wool Blue Serge Suits, to 18, new style, $13.50 r $9.98 lits, size 8 to 11 $7.98 to $12.95 lits, size 12 to 18 $9.98 to $23.50 lits, size 3 to 9 $3.98 to $7.98 | seen for 70 years, to share his father's estate with her. Aunt Mary laughed and began apologizing for her work clothes and the condition of her ragged little cninl* anH cnan narlftf Good Fortune "Up*et" Her "I'm that upset," she went on. "Last week Idy Gregg, that's my niece by marriage, got the letter, saying I was heir to one million dollars, and my long lost brother was coming to see me, and the lawyer from Syracuse was going to bring! the money. My father was Mr. Putnam ,the great inventor, you know." Aunt Mary's eyes blinked with I tears. | "It's all God's doings, every bit of . it. And I said to Idy, "to think that your Aunt Mary is the daughter of the man who invented the safety pin ; and me buying them all my life for ray three children, dead these thirty i years, and for fixing the curtails in i the parlor and never knowin'?and I here I been workin* for . seventy I years, ever since I was taken out of j the orphanage in New Orleans by ; Maw Lewis. And here I been workin' J away till my old bones are tired out ! and my feet heavy, 6nd all the j I while Mr. Putnam, the great in- j ventor, was my fatner, and the mii-jj lions of dollars pourin' in from all j the safety pins that were sold belong to me." COLGATE LEAVES FORTUNE New York, Nov. 23.?Nearly $6,000,000 was left by Richard M. Colgate at his death in Orange, N. J., in | j September of last year, it was j learned today when the result of the official appraisal of the toilet ar(tide manufacturer's estate was j placed on fi]e by the deputy state I comptroller. The bulk of the legacy j was willed in equal shares to his j wife, Mrs. Margaret A. Colgate; his J j son, Henry A., and his daughter,!! Muriel Colgate. JR'S NT STORE * J?SELLS 1 e for 25c = :sses - Suits lour, new style, large ? J] alue for $10?3 $7.60 to $27.50. * ity Tricotine, beautiful $13.9 Dresse s $7.45 to $29.95 es 14 to 22 worth (Q fl $12.50 for to $19.50. Shoe Bargain m i i 1 able Worth up to $10. all kinds styles for men, women and chil now $2.98 to $ Infant Shoes 98c to $ Boys' Shoes ...... $1.98 to $ Girls' Shoes ..... $2.98 to $ Ladies' Fine Shoes, new style $4.95 to $ Men's Shoes in black or tan. I lish or Blutcher, formerly i or $?.uu, now $ Complete line Rubber Shoes Men or Women .... 98c to $ RHMM4UIMMMMMM MM NMINIMt MUMtMIWIMt llll Uk WtllllimilWWIUIIIItWilll WIWIIMt Will IIIIIIIWWIIU Willi MMMNMMMtMMMHMIMMIUMMatlMMMUUUIUilUUilUIWraWllllUIIIMIttHUWIIIIIlUIIIIIIIUWIUIlUIIIWIIII 780 CASES OF TYPHOID IN CITY OF LESS THAN 10,( Salem, 0., Nov. 20.?Seven hi rlred and eighty persons, were toe suffering from typhoid fever in t little city of less than 10,000 peo Four emergency hospitals establi ed' within the last few weeks w< filled with patients, and the situat: according to R. A. Lamont, chj man of the citizens l'elief commit was said to be desperate. "We have not yet reached the p? of the epidemic,' said Mr. La^nont, Several weeks ago the first ci of typhoid appeared in Salem a J , MiiiiiNtiiiiMHiHiiiiiiitiiiiiiiitHiiiNMiiiiHiitMiinminiiiiitiiiiHtHiMniHinmiittiiiiiiiimim is * \ 1 11I j ^hone' I I Pork Chops and Ham Steak 9 Stew Meat Pure Pork Sausage . . 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Undershirts s $1.50 value for . 9.95 Art Square, 0 by 12 ? ii r?_ sold Best grade, yard \vid< 6.95 25c value at per ya for Complete line Rubber. 1.50 for men or women III llll I i Hill N Mil till Ittllll lllltl IIII lllllllltlllMllllllllllt III HIHIlim llll IIIIIIIIIIHIIIMIIIt llll Nllllllll luiiMfciiiiiiiimiMiiuiiiimiiimMmmmimiiuiitiMUMiuiiuiiimiiiiHiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiim j was followed so ' quickly by others 0 that alarm was felt. Local physicians traced the cause to the city unlay wa*er system, it was said, and the his I itatc health authorities were notified, pie The proper steps were taken to purish fy the water supply but the number fre of cases continued t^grow until tol?n day a total of 780 were reported. lir"| Eleven persons have died since the ^ee j pidemic started. I Many cf the victims are workmen !a^ employed in the town factories and 1 their families and it was necessary to ase open emergency hospitals in order to md give them proper medical attention. 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