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THE DALLAS POST. FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938
"WELLS FARGO"
CHAPTER 1
The jerk that stopped the little train all
but hurled young Ramsay McKay through
the open door of the baggage car. Before
he had recovered balance he was yelling
his urge for speed across the heads of the
crowd.
“Hi, Bart! Hurry up with that ice.”
And, by the time Bart had the pair of
horses and spring wagon alongside the
car, Ramsay had rolled a dozen kegs to
the doorway, ready for transfer.
“What in tarnation would Ramsay Mc-
Kay be wantin’ with a wagonload of ice?”
one bystander asked another. “And,
what’s his danged hurry?”
“Dunno about the ice,” the other ans-
wered, “but he’s workin’ for Henry Wells
and Will Fargo and hurry’s what them
fellows aim to do.”
There were plenty of onlookers—men,
women and children—to share curiosity
over Ramsay McKay's activity that morn-
ing. For, in the Fall of 1843, arrival of
the daily train in the hustling village of
Batavia was still the sight of the century,
and high moment in the lives of upstate
New Yorkers who gathered to marvel at
the snorting wood-burner locomotive with
its towering stack and array of mysterious
levers in the open cab. The newtangled
contraption, it was said, could speed at
forty miles an hour when unencumbered
with a load, and had been known to make
twelve miles an hour when hauling the
baggage car and two passenger coaches.
Some day the railroad would build
through to Buffalo but as long as Batavia
was its Western terminal, local citizenry
regarded it as a personal possession and
trouped by scores to view its performance.
Furthermore, at least one day each week
brought young Ramsay McKay with letters
and packages for ‘the villagers and the
larger consignments which he transferred
to wagons and hauled by team to the city
of Buffalo.
As: the two expressmen labored over
the kegs, Ramsay continued to urge great-
er speed.
“Got to make Buffalo by one o'clock,”
he reminded his helper.
“That'll be movin’,” Bart commented.
“When did you leave New York?”
“Tuesday,” Ramsay replied. “Boat to
Albany, trains to Schenectady, Utica, Sy-
racuse and Auburn; wagon to Geneva.
Cleveland Wrecking Company
Closing Office—Warehouse and
+ Yards Feb. 1, 1938
ALL BUILDING MAERIALS
NEW AND USED
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By
where I caught this hojack, and here I
“Je—hos—e—phat! Four hundred and
fifty miles in four days!”
“I've set a record, I guess,”
admitted with a degree of pride.
Meanwhile attention of the onlookers
had been attracted by activities of two
of their better known fellow citizens.
“What's the postmaster and the mar-
shall arguin’ about?” one asked the station
agent.
“Postmaster wants Ramsay arrested,”
that worthy replied. ‘Claims he’s usur-
pin’ gov'ment rights and competin’ with
the United States mail.”
“That don’t make sense. 'Twasn’t un-
til Henry Wells began to bring letters
through here we ever got any the same
year they were written, and he only
charges six cents where the gov'ment
charges twenty-five. Yup, there goes the
marshall, but I'll bet it's what's in them
kegs that's the trouble. What is in ‘em,
anyway?”
“Don’t know,
”
»
the agent answered.
STUART
N. LAKE
| Ramsay McKay now left to Bart the
| further stowing of the Buffalo consign-
| ments and jumped to the ground with his
[letters and packages for Batavia delivery.
| sight and could call by name, and as his
{better than six feet of handsome young
{manhood rose well above the crowd he
lost little time in making his deliveries and
| collecting the fees for service. From the
running fire of greetings and comments
it was evident that Ramsay was a prime
favorite in Batavia.
“That's all today, folks,” he concluded.
“Anyone got anything for Buffalo?”
Ramsay was in the driver's seat of his
wagon when the postmaster and marshall
stepped up beside the wheel.
“Come down from there, Ramsay Mc-
Kay,” the postmaster ordered. ‘you're
under arrest.” \
“What for,” Ramsay demanded. “And
by whose authority.”
“My authority,” the postmaster answer-
ed testily. “I'm supposed to be postmas-
ter of this town. But, here you come in
lwith a couple of dozen letters and collect
|for ‘em, while I only get three. You're
| competin’ with the gov'ment mail service;
| that’s what for!”
| The postmaster turned on the hesitant
{marshall
| “You goin’ to do your duty?” he in
sisted. 5
| “Better come down, Ramsay,” the re.
|luctant peace officer suggested, and put a
{foot on the wheel-hub.
| “No passengers,” Ramsay warned him.
[“And they're waitin’ for these kegs in
| Buffalo.”
| As the marshall reached for the hand-
Ramsay | Most of the consignees Ramsay knew by |rail Ramsay chirruped to his horses and
|cracked the whiplash above their ears. The
{wagon was off down the road and the
marshall tumbled into the dust.
Twenty miles out of Batavia, Ramsay
checked his watch against a landmark to
discover that his unusually heavy load had
slowed him below schedule time. His team
was in good shape; the last five miles into
Buffalo was level goin, so he'd let them
run for it.
Just two men in the world, he thought,
knew how important it was that he reach
Buffalo before one o'clock. The two were
himself and Henry Wells, and Henry
Wells was in Buffalo waiting.
In the light of subsequent events, how-
ever, it is doubtful that even Henry Wells
could have suspected the extent to which
la broken wheel, just around a bend in
ithe road, was to shift the course of des-
tiny.
PHOTO-FLA
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Ruff Gets Pubr¥
Post For Anniversary
Rev. G. Elson Rug, pastor of the Luth-
eran Church at Schuylkill Haven and for-
mer pastor of St. Paul's Church, Shaver-
town, has been appointed chairman of
publicity for the nation-wide anniversary
appeal of the church. A former news-
paperman, Rev. Mr. Ruff has been draft-
ed frequently to take charge of various
publicity programs.
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Sordoni Buys Cow
From Col. Reynolds
A purebred Guernsey ciw, Goodleigh
Larabel Hulda 368705, was sold recently
by Col. Dorrance Reynolds of Goodleigh
Farm to Senator A. J. Sordoni for his
farm at Alderson. Goodleigh also sold re-
cently another purebred Guernsey, Good-
leigh Commander Huldin 253668, to D.
P. Everline of Wellersburg. Colonel Rey-
nolds’ herd is one of the finest in the
state and has high ranking in the Ameri-
can Guernsey Cattle Club.
As Ramsay's team took a turn on the
dead run, headon in front of him was a
disabled carriage down on a rear axle.
Beside the wreck stood a coachman. In
the carriage two women stood up and
screamed in horrified helplessness before
Ramsay's onrushing horses.
PAGE THREE
HAVE LONG RECORD
Several bull associations in Pennsyl-
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for 10 to 15 years. The cooperative use
of sires in bull associations has been prov-
ed practical and sound, according to Penn
State dairymen. Similar results may be
expected by other dairymen planning to
improve their herds in this way.
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—GQGoliath Messiah, 71 years old and
a native of Persia, as he started on
a S5-mile walk in Bronx Park, N. Y.
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY—JAN. 21-22 |
1938, at 10:30 A. M. (Rain
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WAREHOUSE AND YARDS
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Future Streamlined Liner—A design
for a funnel-less liner which would
be 1,350 feet long and whose speed
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Vice-Chancellor
er's business is
normally.
Rules On Strikes—Trenton, N. =
who recently ruled that a strike is
terminated when the places of the
strikers are filled and the employ-
Maia Leon Berry,
PULCHRITUDE
ON
DISPLAY
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(Left) Miss Los Angeles,
1937 Model — Miss Claire |
James of Los Angeles, who
represented that city in
the annual Mardi Gras at
Venice, Calif. where she
competed
for 1938.
being conducted
JI
Getting a Winter Sun
Tan—Glendale, Calif.—
These ‘bathing beauties
basking on the beach
speed up the work of
Old Sol with the aid of
a spray sun-tan solution.
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sional
sings
Honors Industry—Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, associate
editor and director of the Consumer Division of the Wo-
man's Home Companion, who states that American busi-
ness, all the way from farm to factory to retail store, has
made the United States the best country on earth. in
which to live She gives American industrial research,
which protects the consumer and develops new and im-
proved products, a large share of the credit for our for-
tunate’ position as compared with other nations.
Scrubbin’
Slingin’ Sam Bcugh, profes-
ward-passed the Washington
Redskins to victory over the
Chicago Bears recently,
mother
good lathering.
grapher
picture.
snaps
Zoo Greetinas — This
African Wild Cat
shows strong disap-
proval as the photo-
his
fornia.” (Right) Miss Mitzi Jehlein, in
a striking pose as a modern Diana,
displays the latest in beach wear
for the title of "Miss Cali- || =
Murder in the Tropics—That's
considered, remarkable.
World's Smallest Violin—And
tually plays! This remarkable violin,
made by a celebrated manufacturer
of Vienna is only two and a half inches
in length. It has a perfect tone and
is identical in every way to a normal
sized violin. Its trueness of sound is
it ac-
boring Dominican Republic. He
dence of attacks.
Slingin’
Sam —
football star who for-
tub as his
his back «a
in the
gives
1937.
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on
laxes
linen.
navy
Simone Simon re-
piece play suit of
and white.
in a two-
striped. in
A few rows of lacy crochet worked
and you have a new and delightful
accessory. The crochet is done in
tatting cotton and will give many a
dress new character
to the edge’ of: this neck-kerchief
above, associate editor of Collier's reports is going on ' .
Haiti where he went as the first American reporter to RA
vestigate rumors of wholesale slaughter He charges that;
10,000 Haitians have been killed by soldiers of the neigh-
—A tear-jar us
nicians in 1000 B.C. to express
sorrow on the duath of a close
friend or relative was found
in the catacombs of the om-
what Quentin Reynolds, !
is shown examining evi-
i Milkman Now Cream of Pro Pitchers |B
—Jim Turner,
recently named as
League's most effective hurler for
“rookie, !
National :
31-year-old
the
Discovers An-
cient Tear - Jar
ed by the Phoe-
cient city of Raljst on the |
Island of Mala by Albert Murs-
cat of Detroit, Mich. 55°