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His outstanding performance took place in New York city when he swallowed, at one time, 14 swords up to their hilts. > 'Buffalo Bill' William F. Cody was born in Scott county, Iowa, in 1846, and when he was only 14 he was appointed as a rider of the pony express. This service took him into the Western wilderness, and it was as a scout and guide that he learned the buffalo trails in the Great Plains. In 1867 he made use of this knowledge to contract Jvith the Kansas Pacific railroad to furnish its employees with buffalo meat, thereby earning* thef familiar nickname "Buffalo Bill." Subscribe for The Plaindealer! Kathleen Norris Says: When You Call the Tune r:>T,: i' ^ rptzy- L o o k ! L i s t e n ! ¥ m Li ve -•v \ • 1 •• :K HJvery month an average of 702 freight trains, moat of them carrying vital war goods, are delayed an average of 460 hours because of carelessness by the men and women who drive automobiles. The grade crossing accident illustrated here is an example: At 1:32 a.m. (more than 1,900 grade crossing accidents occurred at night last year) a freight train passed through a city in accordance with the speed limit. The locomotive's headlight gleamed through the. darkness and the regulation whistle warnings were sounded. r The engineman saw a gasoline tank truck crossing immediately In front of the engine and, realizing the Imminence of the accident, applied the air brakes, but was unable to stop in time. The impact tore the gasoline tank open. Gasoline Ignited and exploded, killing the engineman, fireman and a brakeman, as well as the oil truck driver. The locomotive and 27 freight ear* and their contents were damaged by flames. Three homes nearby caught Are and burned, aa well as two parked automobiles and one express truck. 21m National Safety Council is r B*ll Syndicate--WNu Feature#. r/ Ml ^MnM *•$>£«"' »:v CHURCH SERVICES - conducting a apodal campaign to stop theae grade croasing accidents, which every day delay an average of 88 trains a total of 88 hours--a aerious drain on the nap tion's war transportation effort. Vftm MsHmmm Is tt* of almost all grade crossing aoetdeaita, according to the Council. To help win the war, to save yourself and others needless suffering, the Council asks you to be sure the track is Clear before you start FLYING COLORS- By John Mi Jenks GOLD mm STAft*, IN BLUE CANTON, BUFF FIELD... A COLORED RGGIMENT FOUGHT WITH DISTINCTION IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR* AND IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR VALOR, JOHN HANCOCK PRESENTED THEM WITH THIf "8UCK$ Of AMERICA " FLASr/ HE THEORY THAT 3e.T$Y ROfZ DESIGNED THE «SnAR£ AND STRIPES WA^ ORIGINATED BY HER GRANDSON NEABIX ZOO years Afnr&tm. flag wvadopted 39. Ledger Synditett zo/ Iflloi bagged him to help her get a divorce from Harry and legitimise her present potUion. Dick, newly made a lieutenant commander, would not hear of it. it thight break into a scandal that would injure hu career. i\ <t: ' J •• •- By KATHLEEN NORRIS HE story of Helen van Dyne is a most unusual one. Like all the rest of us she has carefully made her own troubles; built herself the cross she has to carry. But in her case it wasn't the ignorance, stupidity or mere laziness that some of us can claim as an excuse; Helen deliberately broke the law, and now she has to gay for it. Eighteen years ago she was a beautiful woman of 22, married to the wrong man. There wasn't any question of his being the wrong man; he did not provide for her, he drank, he annoyed and humiliated her with what seemed actual pleasure, and he openly said he didn't like her. She had been married three years when she met the man who, under happier circumstances, would have been the ideal husband for her. Dick had everything. Charm, gentleness, manner, intelligence, success. He had been a young naval officer in the last war, but had afterward resumed law studies and was a judge in a remarkably short time. Helen suffered all the agonies of frustrated love for a while, and then she and Dick left town, established themselves in a western state and prospered. They now have a boy of 16 and a girl two years younger. When an occasional old friend encountered her, Helen always said that she had divorced Harry and married Dick, but as a matter of fact there was no marriage. When she asked for it, Harry flatly refused to consent to a divorce, and as Helen had already left him and gone to place herself under Dick's protection, she couldn t with any dignity insist upon it. Happy Home and Children. Dick and Helen have a lovely home, friends, a prominent position In the small town where they live. The children go to high school and are preparing for college. Richard Junior happens to be a proud and dignified boy; he has literary ambitions and likes to refer to his ancestry, his good blood, his Americanism. Pamela is frail, fine, sensitive and both are devoted passionately to their parents. Last February Dick quite suddenly rejoined the navy, and was sent Overseas. Helen had little time to argue the situation with him before he left, but she did beg him to help her get a divorce from Harry, and legitimize her present position. Dick, newly made a lieutenant commander, would not hear of it. It might break into a scandal that would injure his career. Rumors would reach their own town and, aBove all, it would "hurt "the children. The only thing to do was to go on as they were, until some day Harry died, when they could quietly be married. Helen hsTs not heard from Dick since early in September. He is missing, perhaps dead, and if he doesn't come back her affairs will -be hopelessly complicated. For there is a rich pld grandmother, as proud as Richard Junior, who is presently going to leave a good deal of money to Dick's children. But Helen is still Harry's wife under the law. Should Harry turn up he could wreck their lives. Helen knows it and agonizes over it. "I have not had one moment's peace of mind for months," she writes. "We had drifted along comfortably for so long without ever suspecting ^that anything would bring up this old trouble; no man PAYING PIPER The "Helen van Dyne" of this letter called the tune 18 years ago, and now she is protesting against the terrible price she must pay the piper. For he will collect, whether she likes it or not . . . It's easy to say you are ulilling to take the consequences of an unconventional act. It's not quite so simple as all that, because you can't decide what the consequences are to be and when you are to be confronted with them. Sometimes they threaten the very happiness for which you once risked all. and woman ever felt themselves so truly man and wife as we did. We never thought of the irregularity of our relationship; we had decided once and for all that ours was a truer marriage than hundreds that are approved every day. I suppose we always intended to straighten it out, but the years went so fast and were so happy that nothing seemed to be missing. Divorce Too Late. "Now, to go back to the old town, hunt up Harry, and make arrangements for a divorce without the children suspecting that something extraordinary was going on, is utterly out of the question. And even if 1 did, what would it accomplish since Dick is not within reach? The slightest suspicion of it would break Pam's heart, and shame my proud, handsome, confident boy. They would lose faith in their mother forever. "When Dick and I first decided to take this step 18 years ago," the letter goes on, "we faced the consequences -- or thought we did, squarely. We even spoke of a possible child, and I remember saying that if we had one he or she would be a little gipsy who wouldn't worry about conventional oversights. We felt that we were strong enough to rise above the law, and to us both it seemed preposterous that an irresponsible, idle, impecunious and improvident man like Harry should have any power over our lives. "But Dick Junior is NOT an unconventional gipsy type of boy, and my little Pamela is the clinging getft tie type, and I don't dare think of what the truth would mean to them. What is the right way out, one that will save us all?" I'm not answering this letter, because as far as I can see/there is no answer. When and if Dick Senior comes home after months, it might be possible for Helen to persuade him to make things as right as they can be made now. If he doesn't come back, perhaps Helen could confide in her mother-in-law, ask the old lady to make the children of her son her heirs. Husband Always a Threat. To find Harry now wouldn't do much good because Helen, even if divorced, couldn't be married to Dick until Dick returns, and unless Harry has somewhat improved. he might seriously threaten her peace of mind, and betray her to her children. So that the only thing to do is go on this way for the present, and hope that time--time that brings about so many unexpect d solutions to our human mistakes and problems-- will offer an opportunity sooner or later to straighten out all this. It is one thing to call the tune at *22, and feel quite willing to tace the consequences, and it is another to pay the piper when he comes around with his bill. Real consequences have a maddening way of being much more complicated. - St. Mary's Catholic Chareh _ Ifasses: . . . . Sunday: 7:00, 8:30, 10:30.: "Holy Days: 6:00; 8:00; 10:0(11; = f Week Days: 6:45 and 8:00. > JlPirst Friday: 6:30 and 8:00. . Confessions: Saturdays: 3:00 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. Thursday before First Friday-- After 8:00 Mass on Thursday; 8:00 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. ' ' Ifsgr. C. S. Nix, Pastor. 8t Patrick's Catholic Chuch Masses: Sunday: 8:00, 10:00. Weekdays: 7:80. , •'* t ^ First Fridays: 7:30. - On First Friday, Communion distributed at 6:30, 7:00 and befor* and during the 7:30 Mass. Confessions: Saturdays: 4:00 to 5:00 p. m. Mid 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday) before Firpt Friday . 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and 7n)ift tt 8t9G Rev. Wm. A. OHourire, pasto/*. St. John's Catholic Chnreh, Joknsbarg Masses: Sunday, 8:00, 10:00. Holy Days: 7:00 and : Weekdays: 8:00. First Friday: 8:00. 'V-3 Confessions: Saturdays: 2:30 and 7:30. Thursday before First Friday: t 'M and 7:30. Rev. A. J. Neidert, pastor. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Charch Divine Service -- Nine o'clock. Sunday School -- Ten o'clock. Rev. R. T. Eisfeldt, Pastor. Community Church Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Worship Service: 11:00 a.m. Junior League: 6:80 p. m. Bpworth^League: 8:00 p.m. Rev. J. Heber Miller, pastor. St Peter's Catholic Charch.: Spring Grove Masses: r Sundays: 8:00 and 10: Holy Days: 6:30 and 9? Weekdays: 8:00. First Friday: 4:00. Confessions; « Sstturdays: 2:80 aad 7:1& Thursday before First Friday: S:80 and 7:15. Rev. John L. Daleirfen, Pastor. Wonder Lake Ev. Luth. Church (Missouri Synod) Sunday school--10:00 a. m. Divine services--3:00 p. m. M. L. FFOTENHAUER, Pastor Volo Bible School Volo School House \ Sunday School--10:30 a. m. Worship Service--11:30 a. m. * Preaching by itr. Jevne. McHENRY LODGE A.F. ft A.M. 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