FAMOUS BAKERY

| A. SMOLENBERG & SON, Proprietors
WHOLESALE and RETAIL

FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP

Light Lunches
WE SPECIALIZE IN GRILLED STEAKS

Everything in Baking

very best materials.

Quality and Service
Our Baking is Under the Most Sanitary Conditions with the

“The Only Way to Win the Day Is to Keep Smiling”

WILLIAMS LAKE, B. C.

“WE SERVE ONLY THE BEST”

Ice Cream and Fountain Service |
Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobaccos |

Phone 18-R-3

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

LADIES’ AND MEN’S SUITS
TO MEASURE

BRYAN’S TAILOR SHOP

CLEANING and PRESSING
e

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

DOG CREEK STAGE

C. R. PLACE, Proprietor

General Freight Hauling — Williams Lake
to Dog Creek
*

Williams Lake, B..C.

WITH COMPLIMENTS

C. H. DODWELL & CO.

(R. Beauchamp)
NOTARY PUBLIC
REAL ESTATE

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

INSURANCE

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T. B. WILLIAMS

ACCOUNTING
Books Opened at Reasonable Rates
P. O. Box 26

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

DRY GOODS and
READY-TO-WEAR

Miss A. R. Burley

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Page One Hundred and Twenty-eight

THE LAST SAGs

Dees

PATROLMAN TOM BROGAN was
slowly treading his beat in the suburbs.
It was a crisp fall evening with the promise
of an early winter. There were very few
people about and he had tried all the doors
in the small suburban shopping area of
which he was the sole protector from eleven
at night till seven in the morning. His meas-

-ured stride beat the pavement with the reg-

ularity of a metronome.

A church bell sounded sonorously twelve
times. “Seven more hours and home again,”
mused Brogan. His thoughts wandered to
the little flat occupied by his son Jimmy and
himself. No woman’s touch here, as Mrs.
Brogan had died three years before, leaving
him alone with his seventeen-year-old son.
Well, he had done the best he could with
the lad. Seen him through high school and
the boy had done well. Got himself a job
with Cramers steel plant on the night shift.
Maintenance work, he said, and the pay
was good for a boy of his age. Yes, Jimmy
was a good boy. They would leave the flat
every night at the same time after supper.
Jimmy to his factory and Brogan to his
beat. Before leaving they would always
wash the dishes, so that the apartment
would be tidy for which ever one arrived
home first in the morning.

A car came around a corner, and Brogan
automatically checked on the license num-
ber, but it did not correspond to the list
he had in his pocket which the desk ser-
geant had given him over the patrol box
‘phone. Brogan went back to his musing.
Twenty-two years on the force and still a
patrolman. He had been just a year on the
force when he met and married Mary. A
year later Jimmy had come to stay with
them. Mary had always been afraid of the
hazards of her husband’s profession, and
pleaded with him to stay in the safer sub-
urban beats when he had argued that he
would have to ask for a transfer to a down-
town section if he were ever to win pro-

ry

motion. Brogan had given in to her a
stayed in the “sticks.” Nothing ever h
pened here, and how could you show yc
superiors you were worthy of promotion
you lacked the opportunity to distingu
yourself? He had been nineteen years in t
suburbs when Mary died, and he had ¢
in for a transfer to a beat where he mig
get more action. But he was told he y
getting too old, and that he had better st
out in the “sticks.” Too old at forty-five.
only he could show them. Jimmy and heh
often discussed his ambition and Jimmy h
always been proud of his dad, and had co
forted him by saying that some day
would get a break.

A break? Little did Jimmy know th

there was a wave of warehouse robber

PALM COFFEE SHOP

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ayres, Proprietors

Light Lunches, Full Course Meals
Fountain Service _

The Best 50c Meal in the Cariboo
ASHCROFT, B.C.

“Gateway to the Great North Country”

New Ashcroft Hotel

Established 1883
E. Bergeron & J. Reuter, Proprietors

Headquarters for
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS,
TOURISTS AND MINERS

Fully Licensed

Rooms With Running Hot and
Cold Water

ASHCROFT, B.C.

THE SHOULDER STRA