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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15th, 1342
ANNE LAURIE is operating a
four-horse stable for her ailing fa
ther, TIM LAURIE. After dismiss?
ing her trainer, she is unable to find
one, OLD DQC BURGESS, veterin
arian who likes his bottle, and CE-
PHUS LINCOLN, aged Negro stable
boy, help. her. Anne is interested
in PAT BARNES, reporter, and al
so likes RUSTY WALTON, who
seems to be interested in wealthy
BRENDA V-AN EVERS. Rusty^s
best horse breaks its leg and he is
forced to shoot it, He then accepts
a job as trainer for the Van Evers’
stables and moves away from ‘pov
erty row’ where he was Anne's
neighbor. DICK COUNT, a friend
of some crooks, moves in with four
horses. Poc Burgess disappears
and Anne receives a wire telling her
that Tim had a relapse. On a hunch
she calls the sanatarium and finds
that her father is all right and that
no wire has been sent from there.
Anne’s horse, Moon Jade, ready for
a big race, is mysteriously listed
on a $3,500 claimer -race, Anne
storms to the steward’s office, finds
Doc Burgess has
Up to the day
Rusty 'and Anne
to find Doc, the
help them get Moon Jade out of
the race in which Anne may lose
the horse. Moon Jade twins and is
claimed by a man named MacPher-
son and returns to Dick Count’s
stables, Count claiming ‘to have
bought the horse’from the claimer.
Doc returns, explaining that thugs
had locked him up, kept him sup
plied- with liquor, and forced him
to sign what he thought was a note
for $500.
Now Read On
oL
as
entered the horse,
of the race both
have been unable
only man who can
Rusty slipped him the dope
he was looking for me. It
make much sense for me to
out I’d signed that entry
was up
(CHAPTER XXIV
“You know what you signed,
don’t you?” Anne asked.
“Sure, I know now,” Doc Bur
gess answered. “I stopped in at
Joe’s this morning, and he told me
all about you losing Moon Jade.
Guess
when
didn’t
^figure
blank instead of a note.
“I’m so sick, Anne, I could go
right out and shoot myself if it
would do any good. This is the
first time in my life that my drink
ing has-<. ever got anyone else into
a- jam besides myself.”
“I knew it must- be something
like that, Doc,” Anne said, kindly.
“I knew you wouldn’t sell me out.”
• “I’d have cut off my right arm
rather than do a thing like that if
. I’d have known what they
to.’> c
“Have you any idea who the men
were? Did you ever get
look at them?"
“They never took their masks off
in the room and I didn’t recognize
their voices. It was no one I’d ever
seen or heard before.”
“How did you finally get away?”
Not Locked
“Early this morning, I woke up
and tried the door and it opened
just as niae as you please. Wasn't
locked at ’all. So I walked out. It
was a cheap hotel down in San, Pedro
on the Waterfront.
“I asked the bum in the office
about the guys who -had been taking
care of me, and he said he didn’t
know anything about it. He’d just
come to work last night.”
“Ricco and Shore were back of‘
it. Dick Count, our neighbor, has
Moon -Jade now
a .good
We have piles of them on hand.
They are No. 1-XXXXX Best
. Grade.
THE PRICE IS RIGHT. ’
We expect a tar load of High
land CEDAR POSTS this week.
A. J. CLATWORTHY
Granton
“I’ll go over to the steward’s
flee and tell him what happened
soon as I get brushed up a bit.”
“It’s useless, Hoc, I’ve been
through that. But the question
what do we do now? It would kill
Tim if he found out we’d lost Moon
Jade.
“We’ve got just two horses left
—Countess Q. and Kpkoa, and some
one is sure to claim the Countess
before long. Mister Pound may
be in shape pretty soon, but we
can’t rely oh him and that will leave
us with
“It’s
out the
another
speed and stamina.”
“Isn’t there any possible
cure him of his habit?” •
“Tim tried* every trick
bag, Anne. Kokoa might eventually
get over it when he gets used to
the crowds in the stands, but now
he runs right toward ’em just as
soon as he hits the straightaway.
Some horses are screwy that way,
you know.”
, Like Persons
“They're just like persons. Some
have a queer streak, 'and some
don’t. My streak is that I can’t let
liquor alone, while Kokoa’s is his
crazy idea
stands,”
‘‘‘Does he
same place,
“Always,
with paint
lug out every time he’s in, a race
within two feet of that mark.”
The girl got a large piece of paper
from the tack room and a pencil,
and drew a plan of the track, mark
ing the various distance poles.
“Now show me where he does
little "trick on this diagram.”
Marks Point t „Burgess carefully examined
drawing through his thick glasses,
and then took a pencil and marked
the point right where the track
curved into the straightaway.
“That’s the place,” he 'said. “But
what good is this going to do?”
“I don’t know,” Anne confessed.
“I’ve got a hundred vague ideas
chasing around inside my head.
One of them might jell, and I want
to know all the'* dope possible on
Kokoa in case it does.”* H. *
As Anne’s 'luck got worse, Rusty’s
seemed to get proportionately bet
ter. The first day he started two
of Van Evers’ horses they won at
good prices and Brenda’s father was
elated. -v
At his daughter’s suggestion, he
turned the purses over to the' train
er as a bonus.
“Sure, why not?” .he demanded
when Rusty protested against such
generosity. “I bet a hundred on the
first one and parlayed it right back
on the second. Picked up around
$8,00'0, so* why can’t I afford to be
generous? Take the money, son,
and welcome.”
Walton wasn’t a man to look 'a
gift horse in-the mouth too closely,
and he. pocketed the cash with
thanks.
“If this keeps up,” he told Bren
da, “I’ll be back, in business for my
self some of these days with a real
string of thoroughbreds.” _ -
Rhumba Lesson
“You don’t need- -to worry about
that, darling,” the girl answered.
“Come on, it’s time for your rhum
ba lesson.” She dragged him • off
to- the tack room and started the
1 phonograph.
Even Rusty’s own platers seem
ed to respond to the more aristo
cratic atmosphere and started to
run like handicap horses. Noah
hooked up with Count’s Buazer Boy
and with Anne yelling like a Com-
manche Indian, he lasted long enough
to trim the gambler’s entry by half
a length.
It was music -to her ears, later,
when she heard Count cursing out
the horse in its stall and she laugh
ed out loud w-hen Doc Burgess told
her later, that the gambler had lost a
big bet on Buzzer Boy.
“You don’t see me shedding any
tears, either,” Doc grinned.
CHAPTER XXV
glad -to see Rusty get
even if I don’t seem to be
mtich success myself/’ Arnie.
The old veterinarian
ail
is,
just Kokoa,”.
a crying shame he lugs
way he does. He could be
War Admiral. He’s got the
way to
in the
of running into the
always - lug out at the
Doc?” Anne asked.
You can mark the spot
on the fence and he’ll
his
the
Phone 12
We Deliver
Chairman of
Committee in
Victory Loan
C. Attndge
the Payroll Savings
Huron County in the
drive.
commented,
know—I like him
And you know
him I thought he
He acted like a
aren’t yon?” lie
“Well, I don’t
pretty well, yes.
when I first met
was insufferable,
smart aleck, and if there’s anything
in the world I can’t stand that’s it,”
""“He’s a good boy. I told you that
the first day you met him, but you
seemed to have other ideas. If only
I had been able to save Red Cloud
for him——” ,
“It would have made a difference,
wouldn’t if? Rusty would have stay
ed on Poverty Row, and-—”
“And he wouldn’t be spending
so much time with that Brenda gal.
She kinda gets under your hide a
bit, doesn’t she?”
“Well—” Anne hesitated. “I don’t
think she’s the right girl fo’r Rusty,
if that’s what you mean. AU of
this—” she waved her hands —/‘is
just a novelty to her. Pretty soon,
she'll be interested in something
else, and you know as well as I
do tjiat Rusty's only interested in
horses.”
Bit Flighty
think maybe you’re
Anne,” Burgess said,
“I think
She
wrong;
seri-
she’s really fallen
may be a bit on1
but all you’ve got-
the way she looks
I’ve taken
far, and it looks like the
yet to qome.”
me, lassie, you’re really
Rusty, isn’t that it?”
a“I’m
break,
having
told Burgess,
glanced at her from under his shag
gy brows.
“You’re pretty strong for the lad.
Pa#* T
family of Mr. and Mrs, John
of Munro, were guests at a
on Thursday noon at the
of Mr. and Mrs. Melhurn
a mantel clock
the afternoon
from Atwood,
Hamilton, Exe-
RONCHITIS
think Kokoa could beat him if he
ran straight? That would really be
something if I could trim Count and
those other crooks.”
“Why ask me, when you know
that already? You’ve worked ’em*
both and know what they can do.”
“How about Rusty and me? I’ll
admit that Kokoa might have a
chance in a million and I’m- going
It’s our
figure
chance
to keep working with him, .
only chance. But I can’t
where I stand, a ghost of a
in the Romance Stakes,”
Weakness
“You’ve got me there,
not women .has been my weakness.
The only thing I know is that a
thoroughbred never quits—and I
know your breeding.
MUNRO COUPLE MARK
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
The
Leary,
dinner
home
Greenwood in honor of Mr. and Mrs.
Leary’s fortieth wedding anniver
sary. After the delicious dinner had
been enjoyed the guests of honor
were presented with
by the family. In
guests were present
Mitchell, Russ el dale,
ter and Centralia and many beauti
ful gifts were presented. A large
number of cards of congratulations
were received from friends not able
to be present. A buffet luncheon
was served, the table being centred
with flowers presented by the grand
children.'
Mr. Leary is the son of the late
Mr, and Brs, George Leary, of
Cromarty. Mrs. Leary was former
ly Laura Hicks, daughter of the
late Mr, and Mrs. Stephen Hicks, of
Hibbert.
After their marriage in 1902, Mr,
and Mrs. Leary farmed near Crom
arty and in 1920 moved to a farm
near1 Staffa -where they resided
until two years ago when they re
tired to Munro. The union
blessed with three children,
Melhorn Greenwood, Munro;
Iva Leary, of the Willow (
Creamery office staff, Mitchell and
one son, Howard Leary, Ottawa.
Mrs. Joseph May, of town, is
sister of Mrs. Leary.
l was
Mrs.
Miss
Grove
a
Liquor
about being
funny thing
Given good
“I
there,
ously.
for Rusty,
the flighty side,
■to do is to see
at him to know she ain’t fooling
about, that. It’s tough luck for
you.”
“I guess I can take it.
a lot so
worst is
“Tells
gone on
“Well, I guess I am, but a lot, of
good it does me. He’s fallen for
B.renda and that lets me out. She’s
got everything I' haven’t got—mon
ey, position, background. My back
ground is a stable.”
“It could be a lot worse than
that, too,” Doc said, stoutly. “Th'ere’s ;
some pretty fine people connected
with racing—some -of the finest
you’d ever care to meet.”’
“Sure, I know, but what's the
use of talking about it? I know
when I’m outclassed. Looks to me
like Rusty might win the stake with
Van Evers’ Sky. Writer and that
Brenda^ is going to walk off with
him.”
“Maybe so, maybe- not.” .
“What do you mean?”
“There’s an old racetrack saying
-—a favorite of Tim’s, by the way
—that you’re never licked till the
numbers go up on the board.”
“But what possible chance have
I?”
“You’re sound of wind and limb
and you’ve got a horse entered, in
the big race,haven’t you?”
“You mean Kokoa/'of course.”
“Sure—why not? You know
he’s the fastest bangtail on the
track. If we can keep1 him out of
the grandstand he’ll murder Sky
Writer and those other dogs.”
“But—”
“I know what you’re going to
say, but there must be some other
way to beat this -thing. There
nearly always is.
A pal of mine had a horse he
knew was fast, but he couldn’t get
him to break from the barrier.
“When the other nags Were, a
■hundred yards doWn the track he’d
suddenly get the idea that maybe
he ought to gallop, too. He’d run
his heart out but with that handicap
..he just couldn’t get in the money.
“Well, this bird sits down , one
day and really puts his mind to
the problem and do you know what
he came up with?”
“No, -what?” Anhe was interest
ed now.
“A paper, bag.”
“A paper bag How in the world
could that cure a balky horse?”
“He put water in the bag, and
worked him out, breaking from- the
■gate, half a dozen times a day. Just
as he tripped the barrier, -the boy
on the horse’s back would lean for
ward and crash the paper bag right
between the horse’s ears.
“It would pop and the water
down into "his. eyes, and
that nag got
would run
believe me
in a hurry.
Eitger
this Up for
the horse
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“You said something
outclassed. Class is a
around a race track,
legs and a sound body and the guts
to put up a-fight, I’ve seen many a
selling platfer
stake horse,
instance.
“He was
start with
him into a
•ard thought the horse had something
and grabbed him, even though a lot
■of smart guys called him a fool.
“You- know who got the last
laugh there. Howard knew Sea-
biscuit had a great fighting heart
and with proper treatment' and
training he might have .possibilities
: of greatness.
“All he needed was a chance, and
he proved he had., the stuff. Well,
■ you’ve got ymt#'(mah.ee and it’s up
to you to prove you’ve got the,stuff.”
" CHAPTER XXVI
• Anne impulsively put out her
hand and patted the old man’s arm.
“Thanks, Doc. It sounds good,
even if it isn’t possible. You know
I wouldn’t mind if you treated your
self to a drink—just one, mind
because I need you from now
“Nothing doing. If I -take
drink it means a dozen, and
means—well, I don’t have to
you. I’m drinking nothing,hut
er from now on.
She dropped him at his rooming
house, and went home to a lonely
/dinner. It needn’t have been lone
ly, as Pat had urged her to go out
with him, in fact had insisted, but
she had made an excuse. She didn’t
feel like stepping out.
Vile Mood
A miserable evening devoted to
thinking over her troubles left her
in a vile mood ahd she wasn’t a's
cordial as she mi£ht have been
when Brenda strolled over to her
barn and sat down to talk’next day.
Sorry "you’ve had such lousjy
lighting a
she held a
hand, and
of
Town Hall, Cre-
the 5 th day of
p.m. All mem-
The minutes of
out of there
a couple Of
got so the
him at the
boy reach up
poll With his
swung open.
aS the paper
he
put
out
and
“He kept
weeks, and
boy could hardly hold
gate he Was so eager to get going;
“So my friend discontinued the
bag and pust had the
and touch the horse’s
hand when tlm gate
That worked as' well
bag, for by then he was so shy of
anything touching him there
Was ready to fly.”
“What happened when he
him into a race?”
“Say, he beat every haybumer
of that gate by half a block
won the race so easy it was a
crime.
And ho was permanently cured,
too. You see, there are things -that
can be done. *
“All. you got to do is use you
imagination, There’s some way to
straighten but Kokoa, but the big
job is to find what it is.”
“How about Moon Jade—‘■do you
knock
Take
pretty
the spots off a
Seabiscuit,, for
a
and his
claimer.
cheap trick to
owner dropped
Charlie How-
you,
on.”
one
that
tell
wat-
STEPHEN COUNCIL
’ The Council of the Township
Stephen met in the
diton, on Monday,
October, 1942, at 1
bers were present.
the regular meeting held . on the
(8th of September and the special
meeting held on the 19th of the
same month were read and adopted
on motion of Thomas Love, second
ed by Arthur Amy.
Moved by Thomas Love, seconded
by Nelson Schenk: That By-law No.
575 to amend By-law No. 561 to
increase the salary of the tax col
lector having been read three times
... a
luefc, Aline/’ she said,
cigaret. She smiled as
'jeweled lighter in her
then -passed it over to the other girl.
“Isn’t that keen? Rusty gave it to
me last night.”
“Nice,” Anne commented, hand
ing it back. “Expensive, too, I im
agine.”
“I suppose so. Rusty told me how
you happened to lose Moon Jade. It’s
a rotten shame. You’d have been
better off to take Dad’s offer,
wouldn't you?”
“I-didn’t want to sell.”
“That leaves you sort of—well,
Up against it,
“Oh, I’ve got
left.”
“How about
With Dad this
willing to go as
him.”
“He’s not for sale, thanks.”
“I thought—” Brenda hesitated,
and then went on “we thought that
since losing Moon Jade, you might
be looking for a way out. I inean
that you might want to quit, you
know'”
The way Brenda’ emphasized .the
“we” and the slightly patronizing
tone that had crept into her voice,
brought a flash of bad tempet as
Anne demanded to know whom she
meant by "we”.
She could have bitten her tongue
moment the words were out of
mouth, but they "were said and
answer didn’t tend to soothe
feelings.
- “Well, Rusty ahd L We were
talking about you last night and
he thought you might be ready to
give up/’
(To be Continued)
doesn’t it?”
a couple of horses
I talked
and he’s
Kokoa?
morning
high as $5,*000 for
the
hex’
the
her
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the assessment of
according to the
roll. Carried.
Ratz, seconded by
that a . grant of
be passed and signed by the reeve
and clerk and the seal of the cor
poration attached thereto. Carried.
Moved by Arthur Amy, seconded
by Nelson Schenk; That the reeve
and clerk be authorized to sign the
application for a Government sub
sidy of $2,858.16, being one mill
on the dollar on
the municipality
19 42 assessment
Moved by Roy
Thomas Love,
$35.00 be made to the Exeter Agri
cultural Society. Carried,
Pursuant to notice to contractors,
the clerk handed the reeve the ten
ders he had received for the crush
ing and hauling of 1,200 yards of
gravel more or less from William
Moodie’s pit in the Township of
Usborne for roads in the Township
of Stephen from- concession 1 to
concession 10, inclusive. The ten
ders submitted were: Sim Ireland,
78 cents per cubic yard; W. F. Jen-
nison, 80 cents per cubic yard,
was moved by Arthur
ed by Nelson Schenk
tract be
Carried.
Messrs.
Canadian
Council with the idea of soliciting a
grant to establish quarters in Exe-
ter for the use of men and women
in Active Service as well aft veter
ans. The Council expressed their
approval of the idea and in the
meantime" the matter was laid over
for further consideration.
, Moved by Nelson Schenk, second
ed by Roy Ratz, that pay sheet No.
awarded to
It
Amy, second-
that the con-
Sim. Ireland.
Clark of thePooley and
Legion interviewed the
10, amounting to $172.99 and the
following orders be passed: Alex
McFalls, allowance, Centralia drain,
$5.00; IF, J. Wickwire,
drain, $30.00; Wm
tralia drain, $30.'0'0;
liott, Centralia drain)
Neil, Centralia drain,
Colwill
$2.8,00;
drain
Centralia.
■Colwill, Cen-
D. Murray El-
$36.00; James
$36,00; Frank
Estate, Centralia
William Colwill, Centralia
drain, $28,00; George Godbolt, Cen
tralia drain, $30.00; Sandford Law-
son, Centralia drain, $30*00; Coo
per D. McCurdy, Centralia drain,
$3 2,<0'0
drain,
speeding Centralia’ drain;
Frank Hudson, clerk’s fees and by*
law, Biddulph, $30.00; Dominion of
Canada General Insurance Co.
mium on tax, collector’s
$30.00; provincial
sulin account, $1,19
merce, cashing road
Exeter
grant,
account,
Carried.
The Council
again in the town hall, Crediton, on
Monday, the 2nd of November, 19^2,
at 1 p.m-, H. K. Eilber, Clerk
Nelson Sinclair, Centralia
$30.00; George Either, in-
$10,00;
, pre
bond,
Treasurer, in
Bank of Com-
cheques, $1.10;
Society, 1942Agricultural
Elmer Pickering,
inspector, $30.0'0,
$35.00;
weed
adjourned to meet
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