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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-07-02, Page 3THE EXETER TJMES-APVOCATE •.11* I t ROWfNA JHWJ w* RUMBlt,■ p’ - h*i’l pl COPYfiMGJfT 1951 1 BY THE AUTHOR FIRST INSTALMENT The whole trouble lay with peter* 4-—Peter Blande.—He was the fly in the ointment, the blot on the es­ cutcheon, the carbon knock in the motor. Things just couldn’t possibly have worked out mor© to Rowena’s fancy, except for the persistent pres- , mice of Peter. And there was ab­ solutely no hope of getting rid of Rim—he was too deeply mixed up in -everything. To tell the trqtli, it was Peter’s project in the first place. Rowena herself only got into it at the last minute in answer to an advertise­ ment in the morning paper. It was Pete who put the ad Im Peter was a commercial artist one of those thrice unfortunates with a soul for art, a talent for paint and a need for more ready money, He sipent his days painting trees, rocks and Tunning' brooks, dotted here and * there with pretty girls, Algonquin anglers and Broadway golfers, as a background for the Rackruff Road­ ster, 1931 model, comprising fully lialf the picture. It was Peter who conceived the ^exquisite idea of a Rackruff motor tour across country with the well- 3kn»own artist,’ Peter Blande, at the wlieel. He figured—and converted Mr. Rack, President, and Mr. Ruff, Secretary and Treasurer, to his fig­ ures—that it would be the pinnacle of publicity to conduct such a tour, with pauses at all points of prime interest for him to paint a picture of the. Rackruff roadster poised on the brink of a precipice, pulling its way pluckily out of a volcano, skidding securely off a racing .glacier, or de­ fying the sands of the desert. Peter said—and Messrs, ltaek and Ruff agreed with him—it would be good business to take a copy-writer .along in the car to feature the high lights of the trip and apply the proper adjectives both to landscape and motor in this way insuring ■ a maximum of newspaper publicity that would establish the new road­ ster once and for all in the motor mind of America. So Peter advertised for a copy- •jsrriter. “Wanted:” read the advertise­ ment in the morning papers. “A pretty woman who can write. One who has had some experience and met with reasonable success. Must be free to leave to city. Expenses paid and moderate salary. Must be good-looking. Apply Rackruff Salesrooms‘'to-day.” Rowena Rostand women who read over her breakfast wasn’t much of a wena’s case, for she was extremely hard up. She had given up a news­ paper position in Ohio in order to be an New York.. It was eighth-thirty that she saw the advertisement. By nine o’clock she was ready to set out for the Rackfuff salesrooms. Surveying her­ self in the mirror she was obliged to admit fairly that in spite of the little thinning of her face, in spite of the dark circles with which anxiety had shadowed her eyes-, she was still un- ■deniablj’- good-looking. Her black and white ensemble was freshly sponged and pressed'—Ro­ wena herself had seen to that—her ruffled white blouse was smart in spite of the worn spots hei-e and there. Her black and white shoes were spotless, the fingers of her gloves neatly mended. The. collar of her silk ’coat shone from countless ■pressings. “Pick out the best-looking one,” Mr. Rack began when the secretary announced the applicants were out­ ride. , I “Don’t you think’," interposed Peter neatly, in his mild ingratiat* ing drawl," that you had better look them over yourself?" After all, no­ body can visualize lovely face and figure behind the wheel of a Rack- Tuff roadster as you can, you know.” ' Mr.. Rack thought that was a par­ ticularly good idea. He called in Mr. wRuf.f to assist, allowing Peter also t'o sit by, and had the secretary usher them in one at a time. And he and * Mr. Ruff l’rowfied over them, and asked Afbout their literary efforts and noticed their eyes and ankles and complexions, jotting down' in­ decipherable comments on. their memorandum pads. Tim secretary, having some notion ‘of dramatic sequence, saved Rowena for the last. Rowena was so lovely that at first they1 would not believe nlie was a waiter at all, and she had to show them a copy of her book and some of hei? sighed stories in magazines. Rowena’s hair was a curious chameleon’s shimmer of gold and bronze and brown, Her eyes were limpid pools of light that swam mnw bine, now green, and in gentle moments softened to hazel( . “I’m Rowena Rostand,” she said Joking at them straightforwardly, > g Pho.s.; Ruhm's Phps.; 0-12-1'5 and 2*12*6. It is the desire of the Department of chemistry apd your Agricultural Representative who assisted in. the location of these tests, that you visit one or more of these during th© growing season and study for your­ selves results, that Where tests were conducted year tion suits from was applied last year. The tests have been carefully laid out by representatives of the De­ partment of chemistry, and the plots are all numbered and treatments are printed on the stakes, so that visit­ ors can get the facts quickly. Stu­ dents and alumni of the O.A.C. will be specially interested in these de­ monstrations, 'Set aside a few hours to visit the tests in your own County. The time will be well spent. bwm holidays Elorrle never missed home so much as on a holiday. When every* one else was happy, a peculiar lone­ liness descended upon her. Then a friend told her what comfort she got from talking to her family over Long Distance. Florrie tried it, and dis­ covered that it was a real "blues” cure. She no longer dreads holidays. REPORT JS, S. NO. & MAY Tbe following is a list of -the jhn?* motions: Jr. IV to Sr. IV—'Gordon Bieber. Jr. HI to Sr. Ill—Gerald Camp* bell; Carrie Bieber,, Alvin Rowe. 2nd to jr. m—Milford Prouty, John. Keys, Verda Bieber. 1st to 2nd—BObby Keys. ■’ ' Pr. to 1st-—iTeddy prouty, Llpyd Campbell, Doreen Campbell, Jean Triebner, Melvin Grab, Donald Case, Ruby Munson, teacher are apparent, last rule, no further fertiliza- beeu added, so that re- you see" here are entirely hangover effect of what as a have that the REPORT S. S. NO. 11, BLACKBUSH “I am twenty-five years old. I have had one book published and it was so good that practically nobody read it. I worked on a newspaper for three years and I’ve had eleven stories published in first-class maga­ zines, And you may not think I'm so very gop'd looking, but lots of people do,” Rackruff Motors, Inc., in the per­ sons of Messrs. Rack and Ruff, thought so, too. Even Peters nodded his approval. And, so Rackruff Motors, Inc. bound itself by written agreement to finance a motor tour for a party consisting solely of a beautiful young writer twenty-five years old and a commercial artist of thirty years and the opposite sex. Rowena and Peter were called in for a 'conference early -the. next morning, and Mr. Rack, ably sec­ onded by Mr. Ruff, put it up to them- squarely, Somebody had blundered, everybody had blundered, if it came to that. An insurmountable difficul­ ty had been encountered. “There are no insurmountable dif­ ficulties,” Rowena said sweetly. The whole enter.prised was dead­ locked, plans were checkmated, con­ tracts were cancelled. The way Mr. Rack put it, with the full accord of Mr. Ruff, it semed pretty hopeless Peter quite wilted under the deadly finality of it all. “Unless,” he suggested tentatively “we advertise again and get an older author, maybe a married one-^I sup­ pose a little less good-looking would be better under’ the circumstances— would attract less attention.” “But you signed me,” protested Rowena quickly. “I^you try to put any one else in my place, I”ll get out an. injunction and tie up everything,” Rowena’s eyes at that moment •were a clear, cold, business blue. Not one of them doubted for a moment tha,t she would do just as she threat­ ened. Mr. Rack threw out his hands despairingly. “Well, it’s off, that's all,” he declared. And. Mr. Ruff nodded his head. Peter seemed cowed into acquies­ cence. But Rowena was never one to be cowed into acquiescence, She laughed brightly. AWhy, my dears,” she said, “it doesn’t make the least bit of differ­ ence. .This is a. business- trip. I-am a professional writer. Mr. Blande is a professional artist. We are thrown, together in a purely business ca­ pacity, and our -ages and sexes have nothing whatsoever to do with it. Nobody thinks anything of a man spending eight hours a day lockeu into four walls with his stenographer Certainly an author and an artist rid­ ing the public highways, in an open car are far safer.” Unfortunately for Rowena, how­ ever, Messrs. Rack and Ruff contin­ ued to object. Even Peter did. They« made all due allowance for Rowena’s purity of purpose and nobility of na­ ture, but Rackruff Motors, Inc., said Mr. Rack stood, firm for the conven­ tions. “Of course, if you feel like that," Rowena said ’cheerfully, “Mr. Blande and I will be guided entirely by your wishes. We will have to get a chap­ eron; that’s all.” “We wouldn’t care about paying said Was was one of ‘many the advertisment that morning. It breakfast in Ro­ the expenses of a third party.” Mr. Ruff quickly.—Mr. Ruff treasurer of the company. “It will pot be necessary,” Rowena. “We will take a lady us who will be glad to make the for her transportation, paying own living expenses en route. ‘‘Can you find such a person?” asked Mr. Rack. “Certainly”, said Rowena brightly “Leave everything to me.” ‘What are you going to do?” asked Peter. ‘The same thing you did. Adver­ tise!” So they went down the street to the nearest Child’s and figured out an advertisement that seemed to suit their purpose. “Wanted: Young woman to serve as companion on extensive motor tour of the United States. Trans­ portation provided, ;but must pay own living'expenses.” Peter wanted to put in something about a pleasant disposition being an assest, but Rowena said it would be useless-*-said all women thought they had good dispositions. “You advertised for a good-look­ ing author, didn’t you? And you see the mob that answered?—We’ll have to trust her disposition to luck. Be­ sides, she’ll be in the rumble se,at—• we won’t see much of .her,” They received a great many an­ swers to the advertisement and Peter went down to her snug, one-room apartment to assist in making the selection. This proved not difficult. The letter chosen was written on plain cteamy paper of very fine quality. “I am tweiity-three years, old, a' said with tour her very deluxe scale, I any time and stay as like, The only thing interested in is to go once. I enclose refer* college graduate, and can own expenses unless you travel on a can start at long as you I um really —and go at ences.” The name was Roberta Lowell. The references were good so Rowena got the number on the tele­ phone with Peter standing interest­ edly by, and talked to Roberta Lowell, “She has a nice voice,” she whi.s- ered to Peter, Miss Lowell said she could start on Monday morning, that she could get all of her travelling equipment in one suitcase and a small travelling bag, and that she had ap allowance of twenty-five dollars a week. “Wait a minute.” Rowena put her hand over the transmitter. “She can spend twenty-five a week,” she said to Peter. “Well, that ought to be enough," said Peter. “Except for the 'car, I’m hoping to get along on less.” i Miss Lowell said she would meet them, bag and baggage, at the Rack­ ruff show-room at ten o’clock Mon­ day morning without fail, and ^he thought it was .going to be great fun “Oli, by the way, Miss Lowell—” “.Oh, please don’t call me Miss Lowell. Call me Bobby, Everybody calls me Bobby. Miss Lowell is so stiff." ' “Well, by the way, Bobby Luxyell,” went on Rowena, “you’ll,have to ride in the rumble seat.” “I don’t care was the brave retort “I’ll be willing to ride a cowcatcher to get out of New York and get out quick.” Now Rowena did not like artists. She said they were so abstract. Rowena herself was extremely con­ crete. She felt, <in her heart of hearts, that is was a shame that such a heav­ enly oppotunity to go places, see things meet people—and best of all make money doing it!—had to be ajl messed up with an artist like Peter. Even Rowena, however could see that she couldn’t very well get rid of him—not under the circumstances. If only she and the Roberta girl could go alone now—ah, there would be a’ travel tale worth the telling. And how they would photograph, the two of them, in the snappy 19t3,1 Rackruff roadster! The' publicity? they would get! Mindful that there would be pho­ tographers to record their depart­ ure from the Rackruff Salesrooms— the Publicity Department’ was tak­ ing care of all that!—Rowena took extreme pains with Iler appearance that.. Monday morning, and that was an unusual thing with Rowena. When she presented herself at the Rackruff show-room at ten o’clock on Monday morning, Messrs. Rack and Ruff had good reasons to con­ gratulate themselves on their choice of author. Photographers and re­ porters were alike enchanted. A girl like that, now, swinging along the Rocky Mountains in a roadster—all, there was publicity made to your order. And it was all Peter’s idea, too. (Continued next week.) Rackruff FERTILITY DEMONSTRATIONS ANSWER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS •For the past three years the De­ partment of Chemistry, O.A.C., has been locating fertility demonstra­ tion tests on farms in various parts of the province. It is felt that farm-v ers place much more faith in tests which, are conducted on their own farms than they do in figures gath­ ered from tests made at a distance. The farmers of Huron County Will be interested to learn the location of the tests now in. progress and those which were conducted last year in their county. They are as follows: This year’s tests—F. Wood, Blyth, pasture 3-10*5. D. McIntosh, Sea­ forth, fall wheat 0-14-6; 2-12-6. J. Mustard, Kippen, fall wheat, 2-12-6; 2- 8-10. Jas. Stirling, Bayfield, ap­ ples, Nitrate; 4-8-10. Mrs. I. Sloan, Bayfield, apples Nitrate; 4-8-10. A. J. Penhale, Exeter, corn, 2-12*6; 3- 18-9; 0-14-6. R. Proctor, Brussels, oats, 0-14-6; 2-12-6. Eph. 'Snell, Clinton, alfalfa, 2-12-6; 0-12-15. S. J. RoibinsOn, FordWich, turnips, 0- 12-15; 2-12-6. Theo. LaPorte, Zur­ ich, beans, 2-12-j6; 4-8-6; 0-14-6. Last year’s tests W. L< Young Goderich, barley 3-10-5; 0-14*6. Chas. Clifton, Kippen, mixed, 3-10- 5; 0-14-6. ,S. wich, turnips. J. Penhaleu Eieter. 12*15. Thos. LaPorte, 3- 1045; 0-14-6. W. Hehsall, beans 3*10-5, MacMillan, Seaforth, pasture. 5. J. R. Sterling, Bayfield, apples, 3*10-5. Mrs. I. Sloan, Bayfield, ap­ ples 3*10*5; Nitrate. Gordon Rich­ ardson, Brticefleld, fall wheat, A. J. Robinson, Ford- 2-12-6; 0-14-6. A. corn 3-10h5; 0- Zurich, beaus R. Dougall, 0-14-6. TliOs. 3-10- STRAIGHT ROAD 28 MILES (Stratford Beacon-Herald) The Clinton News-Record says that when the strip of pavement is open­ ed between that town and Clande- boye it- will be the of pavement in the out a turn in it, a miles. We imagine the must’have good authority for mak­ ing such a claim. That is quite a distinction, if that strip of road runs for 28 miles without a turn. Not many of oui’ highways have that ha­ bit, and it is a fact too that a good many of them which are shown on the maps have a number of jogs and twists. One map of the province showing highways, which hangs on the wall of this office, shows No. 8- as running in a straight line from Stratford to Clinton. Those who drive it know well that there are four distinct and decided turns be­ tween here and Mitchell,, and then on the other side of Seaforth there is quite a wide bend in the highway. If it is a fact that tlie new high­ way between Clinton and Clandeiboye is laid out in a straight line without a curve or a jog for 2S miles that feature should be made widely known. People might come to say they had driven over this unique section of Ontario’s King’s Highway. 1-ongest stretch province distance Clinton with- of 28 paper Th&following is, the result of the promotion examinations held in S. S. No, 11, Blackbush, The pupils1’ names are arranged in their respec­ tive classes for term beginning Sept. 1, 1991. Those whose pames are marked, p were promoted, while the names marked R were not promoted. Sr, IV—Hugh Morenz R. Jr. IV—Eugene Dietrich R, Thel­ ma Vincent R;$ Bruce Gardner1 P; Ila Mason P; Verna Disjardine P; Trellis Disjardine P; Veva Adams P. •Sr. IIJ—Merle Dietrich P; Roy Morenz P. Jr. Ill—-Louis Dietrich R; Ira Vin­ cent R. ■Sr. II—Eileen Disjardine P; Reta Dietrich P; Elva Adams P; Henry Ziler P; Lome Devine P; Earl Gard­ ner P. Jr. II—Earl Dietrich P; Sylva Vin­ cent P; Viola Vincent P. Glass I—Aldene Preeter' p; Evel­ yn French P; Tresia Ziler P; Verna Vincent P. Pr.—Chesteh Disjardine, Wilmer Disjardine, Leonard Dietrich, Peter Ziler. Number on roll 34; average at­ tendance 28. L. M. Snell, teacher SILLS-r-ECKERT A pretty wedding was solemnized in St. James' Catholic church, Sea* fprth, when Lucy Therese Eckert, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. C. J. Eek* ert, was united n marriage to Chhs. Pearsall Bills, second son of Mr, and. Mrs. George A, Sills, Rev, Q, L. Blonde officiated. High nuptial Mass was celebated by Rev, J. M» Eckert, uncle of the bride. Mr, and- Mrs. sills left on a motor trip to Montreal and Ottawa and on their return they will reside in Seafo.rth. Pneumonia Left a Weak Heart Couldn’t Regain Strength Miss Mabel Webb, Grand. Bend, Ont., writes:— “About three years ago I had pneumonia and it left me with a weak heart, and I was so run down it just seemed as if I would never regain my strength again. I read about Milburn's Heart and Nerve. Pills, so got a box'and before I had finished it I was feeling some better, t so I kept on taking them and in about three months I was able to go back to my work again. ” ■ # Price 50c. a box at all druggists and dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milbum Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Signalling Trains Through New Quebec Tunnel