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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-11-15, Page 7CHAPTER V THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15th, 1945 VAeGIRL 7i-on '^DOUBLE 1 BY BETTY BLOCKLINGER Whenwar, his I......., . . ,.r . in charge of the ranch, Soon blade, market operators got busy and slaughter some of her cattle. She called Ladue pecker, a neighboring rancher, to come over, but he laugh ed at the idea of gangsters and pro posed* to her. Rusty turned him down. While ranch vigilantes were toeing organized at Rusty’ place, a report came over the telephone that Decker’s ranch had just beep raid ed, The ranchers left for Decker’s at once, and ?Rusty called Dr. Herb Westmore, a veterinarian whom she greatly admired, to tell him the news.5 Dr. Westmore, she thought, acted rather tstrangely. Ralph Rowland wont to sister, “Rusty,” was, left A short meeting was held after supper. Each ranch appointed some one to represent it at another meet ing to be held Sunday afternoon, with the sheriff presiding, for, much to Uncle Jed’s disgust, they decided to work with the law. “Start out with our hands tied right at the beginning,” he com plained to Rusty later. “Cain’t do this and cain’t do that ’cause it ain’t in the statutes. How’s a man to catch criminals effen he don’t git himself down to their level?" , “Their level might be dead level and the lot of you dead, if you tried to play their game,” Rusty com forted him.“Sooner be laid out, decent, than livin’ a sucker to city slickers,” the old fellow grunted. “Goin’ t’ .in. Night, Rusty?’ “Good night, Uncle.” Rusty made her way to brooder pen with’ food for her kitten. Fatso ate, then stood up on her hind legs, inviting Rusty to pick- her up. “Oh well,” Rusty decided, “come •on. I really need someone I can talk to?’ ‘ ' In her room, she placed the kit ten. on the floor, but Fatso jumped to the bed to await her new mis- "Lx*oss» < 0 “I wish,” Rusty told her, “that you could talk. You lived around the Westmores long enough* to pick up a few facts, didn’t you?” ■Fungi poisoning. Just why had Miss Westmore given her that lec ture on that pecliliar phase of ptomaine-poisoning? To fool who ever was listening in from the hos pital? But why should she want to deceive anyone? And why had Her.b Westmore ordered her not to an- swei- the door? Had they expected someone other than' Deckei* and his men? “I’m right back where I started,” ■ she complained, “.and too tired to figure it out?’ In the morning, when Rusty went downstairs, she found her mother standing in the center of the living room, .looking perplexed. “Now what?” inquired Rusty. “Just trying to think,” said mother. “This house was built so many, and so few are left.” “Muz, look here, why don’t shut off everything downstairs schedule up, Right 'now—■*” ■ | Rusty interposed, “What about next, winter when they’re going to need more than they do now? Sup pose all of us sell our young stock for immediate slaughter? Where will you get your supply in the fall and winter? There won’t be any.” “Miss Rusty"'--vthe man took a new line—“you want to save this ranch. Now we know the rustlers have marked it as free game be cause there’s a kid-—beg pardon, a young girl running it. Who's your beef feeding when it’s killed? And when the war’s over, what will your brother find -— p. ranch sunk into debt or riding free? We can’t offer you more than th® ceiling price, but there are such things as a bonus for immediate delivery, or say—•” “I’m sorry,” Rusty interrupted, “I appreciate your offer, but I can’t accept it. It won’t help anyone to burn the bridges ahead. That’s what selling young stock would be doing. As for losing the Double R—- well, my grandfather and his father fought through the reconstruction .period after the Civil War. They had ‘slim pickings’ but they pulled through. My own father fought through the reconstruction period after the First World War, the de pression, and he pulled through. Surely, I can fight through the pres ent war to give Ralph something to ■f come home to over?’ Rusty found when the war is turn the new Rusty found Uncle Jed ing a new line of fencing. vul~h,” he fumed, that I’d live to oversee- as she see the her for we ___ _ . . _ _ ex cept the living room and kitchen? We could eat in the kitchen; plenty of/ people do.” “Standards—” protested Mrs. Rowland faintly. “Standards don’t hold in war,” Rusty spent most of the morning in the house, devising ways and means of cutting actual living chores to a minimum. Shortly before noon, a cai’ drove up to the house, and two men came to the door. Rusty recognized them as dealers from the city’s largest packing house. “Young Mr. Ralph said you'd have the final say,” one said, “so we’re putting it up to you, Miss Rowland, There in our city, we’ve thousands of war workers to feed and no meat to feed them. Under stand you’ll • have eight hundred head ready in two weeks and you’re sending them to the feeder’s. Why not switch them to us? We’ll pay you ceiling, price.” “So will the feeder,” remarked Rusty, . “It’s your patriotic--duty, Miss Rowland,” said the second dealer. “You’ve got to realize the men building planes and tanks need pro- - teins keep their production THE PICK OF TOBACCO It DOES taste goad in a pipe . “To think," rode up,' “th«.u A ** — — day we got to keep our cattle safe from highway ridin’ rustlers! What brings you out?”When Rusty was through with her story, Jed raged. “You up and throw away a chance like that! Suppose the feed ers go out o’ business like they’re threatening to do and we have to do the fattening.” * “Let’s worry_about_ that when it' happens." “When—” roared the old man. “Heckr girl, it has happened. The price feed is, feeders can’t afford to hold cattle till the price gets up to where they kin break even. And the packers ain’t goin’ to relieve1 them by payin’ more than they kin get, or are allowed to get. You’ve got to make up your mind to use the methods forced on us.” “Unc,” said Rusty, “it seems to me the problem’s bigger than the Double R. Our part in it is to pro duce as much beef as we can. ‘As much’ means weight. If the feed ers can’t handle our young stock, we will?’“We will!” he roared. “How?” “You know that branch of the Big Sandy which runs underground on a stony stretch. We’ve kept it i clear of cattle because we were i “afraid they’d bog in a freshet. I’ve a hunch we can grow our own win ter feed on that.” “You’re crazy as a—■” “Loon,” supplied Rusty. “But it’s worth trying. ’Bye, now.” Red Star was off, but now Rusty had caught his rhythm and sat se cure, confident, her mind whirling with pictures. • There’d been a time when the Double R had been self-supporting, when nothing but coffee and spices and calico had been brought in from the town. If only her mother would agree— She told the outline of her plan, to her mother, and Mrs. Rowland listened with interest. ■ “We had to do that in Virginia after the Civil War,” she said. Rusty rode into the late after noon, .went on across the fields until she found the barely decipherable trail which led mp the Nopocos. i Somehow she thought better when she was up above things. Red Star snorted impatiently as Rusty led him in over the shale Which marked the beginning of the incline. His mighty muscles scorned a slow pace oh-the upward trail. The -prairie was a sea of amber light. Rusty dropped rein, and Red Stai* grazed contentedly. At' the edge of the ledge one could catch a fairly comprehensive panorama of the spread of the Double R. Rusty pulled Ralph’s last letter from her pocket and read it.' “When you realize what an infin itesimal part of the armed forces are here at this camp," he wrote, “and yet- what ah amazing amount of food it takes to keep the men in prime form, you realize how impor tant every ranch, every farm, even every backyard garden can be. “,I’ve talked to some boys who’ve served overseas. Rusty, if you could know what food can mean to a man fighting, -yOu 'would appreciate the weapon you are producing there at the Double R. DolVt sell out, kid. Even if we lose the ranch, we’ve Won, if we’ve provided fight ing food for the boys ‘who need it." Red Star came up to give Rusty’s shoulder an impatient nudge. The swift, twilight c Southern plains was falling, Do You Suffer From Headaches? It is hard to struggle along with a head that aches and pains all the time. A headache need not be ah illness in itself, but it may be a warning symptom that there is intestinal sluggishness within. 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Then, she saw that the rider was Herb Westmore, “Misg Rusty,” he called, as he neared her, “your mother said I’d find you here , . . Why, what’s wrong?” Rusty was staring at him, realiz ing suddenly she had seen another man ride as he did, “Your sister,” she said automat ically, “said you’d been deferred from active service. Once, when I was “fourteen, a man rode in ask ing for work. My father watched him ride and then took him to the Fort. He was a deserter. Only cav alrymen ride the way you do.” “Go on — say it,” Westmore’s voice was bitter. “My brother, who managed this ranch which could provide thou sands of pounds of fighting food for fighting men, could not be deferred. The horses, unmindful of the way in which a man rode, as long as he proved himself master, touched noses, then swung together to start back to that yellow-starred mound of twilighY-purpIed buildings where there would-be food. Rusty glanced at the man riding beside her, who cocked a red eye brow at her. “Suspicioning, always suspicion- ing,” he accused her, “I know; it was like that at home. Foreigners came in, men who spoke with a dif ferent accent, walked with a dif ferent gait—” They rode on. Rusty, far from satisfied, pondered. “You brought Babe with you?" “No. She’s fine, but I thought we owed her a few more ddys in the straw. I way.” Rusty, cided to the open. “Last night on the phone, your sister gave me a lecture on fungi poisoning. I didn’t know why. I did overhear someone, 'I presume in your office, asking you to treat a bullet wound—not suffered by an animal.” “Whereupon,” up her thoughts, was treating some black rustler who was afraid to legitimate surgeon.” I “Yes,” conceded Rusty. He swung in his saddle, starlight revealed the intentness of his gaze. , “You do question me,”_he said. “I do,” she returned. Westmore sat stiffly in his sad dle. “That’s too bad. I’ve yet to see the person, male or female, to Whom I felt I had to account. I still contend there is an under ground river of understanding which unites those who think along the same channel. I’ve .had the mis fortune of banking on your being in that channel.” Rusty waited only to say, “I’ve . never had any faith in things un derground.” Then she dug her heels into Red ‘Star and shot ahead of her guest. Fatso sat on the iback terrace awaiting her. She wound herself about "Rusty’s boots “and purred. “You,” stated Rusty, lifting her, “are an ingratiating wretch. You’ve the mark'of the Westmore kennels on you. You make one like you in spite of yourself.” She went on into the kitchen. “Where is the young .man?” quired Mrs. Rowland. “Will mind sitting at a kitchen table? seem'ed such a gentleman.” “Rusty,” barked Uncle a few more days in the had business out despising subterfuge, bring her questions ■ r ■ Page 7 this de- into Westmore picked “you decided I •market go to a and the in- he He -------- ------ Jed, “about 'the underground channel of the Big Sandy—" Rusty stood arrested. She had planned on using that underground stream to feed the roots of the crop she was going to plant; yet she’d told Westmore she’d never “had any faith in things underground.” “Yes,” she questioned her uncle. (TO BE -CONTINUED) A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE Mr. Henry Hodgins, Of Saints- Was agreeably surprisedbury, _ _ __ When his sisters gathered at his home to honor him on the occasion of -his 70 th birthday. The evening was spent playing games. The prizes were won iby Mr. Henry Hodgins, Mrs. Bernice Davis, and Mr. James Turner. The times and events of fifty and sixty years ago were dis missed at considerable length. A very Sumptuoug lunch provided by the visitors was enjoyed by all. The evening came to a close by the change of hearty good Wishes tween host and hostess and Visitors, WOODHAM MOTORIST FINED Rdy Shier,, of Woodham. ex- be- the Huron County to Have Deer Season November 19 to 24 Stephen Council to Present Certificates to Men Serving Overseas Shotgun-toting hunters in seven Western Ontario counties will be allowed four to six days, depend ing on location, to bag a deer right in their own county this year. Open seasons for three other Southern Ontario nounced. First firing in this district will get under way on November 19 in Huron, Bruce and Grey counties. Regulation hunting license is all that is required to hunt in these three counties where the open sea son runs from November 19 to No vember 24, inclusive. Dundas Coun ty in Eastern Ontario is also gov erned by the same dates. In Erin Township only, of Wel lington, the hunt starts November 21 and runs to November 24. For the townships of Ellice, Logan and North Easthope, in Perth County, Blandford and Blenheim in Oxford County, and for Wilmot Township in Waterloo, the dates are No vember 27 to November 30. Certain restrictions and require ments govern the hunt. No dogs will be allowed and hunters must use shotguns with either buckshot or S#.S.G. shells for ammunition. Each hunter may take one deer, either male or female, over the age of one year. With the excep tion ’ of Huron, counties, licenses __ obtain a special license which will be issued by the township clerk. Persons Who . in 1945 previously hunted deer Jjwrther parts of Ontario will TioT^ ^“eligible for ’the shoot. No hunting is permitted on crown game perserves in the town ships in- which open seasons will be held. counties were" also an- . 4, Grey and Bruce where regular hunting are valid, hunters must The regular monthly meeting of the Council of th© Township of Stephen was held in th© Council Chambers, Crediton, on Monday, November 5th, 1945 at one o’clock with the following ■members1'' pres ent: Alonzo McCann, Reeve; Thos. Love, Deputy-Reeve; and Council lors a. J. Amy, Nelson Schenk, and Ed. Lippert. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted on. motion of Thos, Love. and seconded by Nelson Schenk.; Carried, Moved by Nelson Schenk, second ed by Ed. Lipert; that the Council of the Township of stephen give each man who served overseas a $30.00 War Savings Certificate, and to each man Who seryed in Canada only, a $15.00 War Savings Certifi cate, A presentation will be held in the Township Hall at a later date which will be announced- Only those who were resident in Stephen Township at the time of enlistment will be eligible. Carried, **' Moved -by Thos, Love, seconded by A. Amy: that By-law No. 623 be passed this Sth day of November which is a By-law authorizing the Treasure!’ to rebate the surplus money above the cost of the repaii* of the Gaiser drain to owners of land in connection with said drain. Carried, Moved by A. Amy, seconded by N. Schenk: that By-law No. 624 he passed this Sth day of November, which is a By-law authorizing the Treasurer to rebate the surplus money above the cost of the repair of the Webb drain to owners of land in connection with said Drain. [Carried. Moved by Ed. Lippert, seconded by Thos. Love: that By-law No. 625 be passed this 5th day of November, which is a By-law authorizing the Treasurer to rebate the surplus money above the cost of the repair of the Ryan drain to owners of land in connection with said drain. Car ried. Moved by Thos, Love, seconded by Nelson Schenk: that the peti tion of John Flynn and adjoining land owners for drainage work be received and that the Engineer, Mr. S. W. Archibald be asked to make an examination and report on the said drain which is pair. Carried. Moved by Nelson ed by Thos. Love: Accounts be paid to the amount of $2,437.66; Township of Stephen Bend P.V, 238.76,$3,198.90, Grand $2,437,66, Moved by Ed. by A, J. Amy: Accounts be paid $279.94 as followsAlonzo McCann, selecting jurors $4.00; M. C- Sweitzer, selecting jurors 4,60; L. B. Hodgson, selecting jurors 4.00; IL>. B. Hodgson, applications for O. A. P. and Mothers’ Allowance 24.00; Times-Advocate, advertising and printing Voters’ Lists 108.14; H. K, EUher, burglarly insurance for tax collector, G. E, Faist 12,50; County Clerk, hospitalization. 50.60; G. A. Love, relief 12,00; Dashwood Planing MRl, engineer’s stakes 6,00; Geo. Eilber, work on Shipka Drain 5.00; Ross Love, work on Shipka Drain 14.40; M, C. Sweitzer, work on Shipka Drain 35.30; $279.94. Rebate on Gaiser Drain $209.09; Rebate on Ryan Drain 219.77; Re bate on Webb Drain 288,30; $717.- 16, Council then adjourned to meet on Monday, December 3rd, 1945, at 1 o’clock. L. B. Hodgson, Clerk, Lippert, seconded that the General to the amount of Caven Congregational Circle Mrs, Rose Russell was hostess Tuesday afternoon for the October meeting of the Caven Congrega tional Gircle. The president, Mrs. Russell, presided. The meeting op- lened with singing hymn 770 fol- I lowed by devotional exercises and prayer by Miss Jeckell. Business was then discussed and reports •given by various secretaries. The program convened by Mrs. J. Kydd and Misg Dorothy Kydd with Mrs. -Sanders .giving a followed by two piano solos June Bierling. An auction various articles was held conclusion of the meeting, meeting closed with the National Anthem and prayer. Refreshments were served. The next meeting will Mrs.be held at the home Edbton. *■ in need of re- g.J0 A />/ FAST * SERVICE ■ OH 4 M’S recaps! 98 fc/t / sVs? % For 100% satisfaction have your tires recapped by experts . s men who use Goodyear factory- approved methods and —- materials Otbz exclusively. V?) JSsHSSsSL v-J -ft z £ 1 opened reading by Miss sale of at the The of your- would you acted like Mother—“Now you behave self when you’re home. What your teachei’ say if that at school?” Sonny — “She’d yourself. Remember, home now’.” BILL HASKETT Phone 18 EXETER ONTARIO Listen: TUESDAY EVENINGS to GOODYEAR’S “Parade of Song” Roy Shier,, of Woodham, was fined $25 and OOstS In*-police Court London, on a charge of dangerous driving arising from an accident on November 3 in which two sol diers were injured and damage es timated at $5061 inflicted Oil the two cars. Shier struck a parked car, owned by Frank Ruck, R.R. 1, while driving north on Wharn- cliffe road, the erowii evidence disclosed. FBIE'NDS HONOR SOLDIER AT STAFFA GATHERING A welcome-home party was held in Staffa township hall on Thurs day evening of last week in honor of Pte. 'Kenneth J. Burns, recently returned from overseas, A large group of friends and neighbors was present to honor Pte. Burns. An address of welcome was read by Gordon Docking and presentation of a purse of money was by Lome Elliott. The honored guest express ed his thanks and his pleasure at being home again. A social evening of dancing followed, music being provided by the Howe-McKaig or chestra. A bounteous lunch was served by a group' of volunteers. SHIPKA Word has been received Miss Nola 'Sweitzer, R.N., who has spent the past year in Bermuda has arrived in (New York and is -expected home this week. Mrs,-Emerson Badden and fam ily have returned to their home in Windsor after two* weeks vacation with her,parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ratz. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Parkhill, Miss Olive London, were Sunday relatives. The Sunday School Christmas entertainment Thurs. ev ening, December 20|th. The children are beginning to practice this week with Mrs. Geo. Love in charge. Please remember the W.A. An niversary in Shipka United Church on Sunday evening next. November 18th at 7.30 p.m. Rev. Reba Hern, of Vjarna, will be the guest speaker. There will be special music. Every body welcome. Regular service is in the morning at 10'.30 with Rev. A. >S. Trueblood in charge and S.S. Will follow. Shower for Bride-Elect About 30 ladies of the commun ity gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs. Milt RatZ on Friday even ing last in honor of Miss Jean Me Kenzie, R.N., bride-elect of this Week. The evening was spent in contests conducted by Mrs. Jacob Ratz' and Miss Ruth Ratz. Humor ous readings were given by MisS Elsie Gaiser and Mrs. Earl Ratz after which Jean, the guest of hon or, was called Upon to sit in a prettily decorated chair of pink and White in the archway. Miss Heart Keys read a well-worded address and Miss Margaret Ratz presented her With a beautiful wall mirror, jean replied in a few well-chosen words after Which all sdng “Foi‘ She's a" Jolly Good Fellow.” A del icious lunch was seryed with Mrs, Roy Ratz and Mrs. Matt. Sweitzer pouring tea. The remainder of the evening was spent fn gingjng old- time songs. Sheppard,, of Sheppard, of visitors with are having a say, “Behave you’re not at Schenk, second- that the Road