of this City have been presentde with the
present of a new Cat by Geo. the man employeD by Balf & CO. This
cat is perfectly baeutiful and still quit young.

Miss Julia Atwater of this City is visiting friends in the Soth.
The family have had many letters from her that are read by each and
all of the famild.

Mr. Noble Dill of this City is in business with his Father.

There was quite a wind storm Thursday doing damage to shade trees
in many parts of our beautiful City.

From Letters to the family Miss Julia Atwater of this City is
enjoying her visit in the south a greadeal.

Miss Patty Fairchild of the 7 A of this City, will probably not
pass in ARithmetiC--unless great improvement takes place before
Examination.

Miss Julia Atwater of this City wrote a letter to the family
stating while visiting in the SOuth she has made an engagement to
be married to MR. Crum of that City. The family do not know who
this MR. Crum is but It is said he is a widower though he has been
diVorced with a great many children.

The new ditch of the MR. Henry D. Vance, backyard of this City is
about through now as little remain to be done and it is thought the
beighborhood will son look better. Subscribe NOW 25c. Per Year Adv.
45c. up. Atwater & Co. Newspaper Building 25 Cents Per Years.

It may be assumed that the last of the news items was wasted upon Noble
Dill and that he never knew of the neighbourhood improvement believed to
be imminent as a result of the final touches to the ditch of the Mr.
Henry D. Vance backyard.

CHAPTER TWENTY

Throughout that afternoon adult members of the Atwater family connection
made futile efforts to secure all the copies of the week's edition of
_The North End Daily Oriole_. It could not be done.

It was a trying time for "the family." Great Aunt Carrie said that she
had the "worst afternoon of any of 'em," because young Newland Sanders
came to her house at two and did not leave until five; all the time
counting over, one by one, the hours he'd spent with Julia since she was
seventeen and turned out, unfortunately, to be a Beauty. Newland had not
restrained himself, Aunt Carrie said, and long before he left she wished
Julia had never been born--and as for Herbert Illingsworth Atwater,
Junior, the only thing to do with him was to send him to some strict
Military School.

Florence's father telephoned t