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THE TJMES.ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 21st, 1946
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A New Serial Stary . , . .
NICE GUY”
The story thus far: Hippy Whit* es up. with we? Or Tigers’ hench-
more is wanted by the North Side J men? Every day I am getting more
gang, because 'Paunchy Pilher, gang sold on this honest system, and
leader, learned that Rippy wanted ; more scared a lead period is going
'to end it. And if I get bumped this
Midget frill-*—for all I cannot stand
women—-maybe will starve to death*
And Runt!
“Rippy/-’ he mentions, one morn*
ing rattling down to work — be*
cause by the end of that first week
we have engaged ourselves a cai“
on the somthing-down-more-maybe
scheme—.“it is a shame,"
I follow up.
and lie
the ‘Bolton bank right
to quit “bank-cracking” and go
straight?, The South Side gang also
wanted him, because they errone
ously believed that he murdered
Tiger Dellaway, their leader, be
cause of unrequited love for Madge,
Tiger’s daughter, Rippy has escap
ed with Runt, his pal, to a small
town where both have landed jobs
a store. En route to Bolton in a
boxcar, the men met Midget, a
good- looking girl. She insisted on
becoming the platonic third mem
ber of the group; so now she keeps
house for the men just across the
street from the Bolton town bank.
"MfaAe yocvt nwie cofawt^cd, wctA
by
Ahlene Fitch'SCARFE’S VARN-O LAC 4-HOUR ENAMELRev, Charles H. MacPonald, of
Lucknow, was nominated as mod
erator of the general assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in Canada
as the Presbytery of Huron-Mait
land met In Clinton,
Rev, C. M» Scott, of Kincardine,
was nominated as moderator of the
Synod of Hamilton and London
due to meet in Kincardine during
the last week of April.
Commissioners to the general es-
sembiy were appointed as follows:
Rev. Charles^ H. MacDonald, Luck
now
rich;
Induction Planned
The report of the historical com
mittee was given by Henry Strang,
of Exeter, who urged Presbytery to
do all in its power to encourage the
smaller congregations.
Rev. A. Ninuno, of Wingham,
who is the interim moderator of
Bluevale and Belmore reported that
he had reason to believe that the
Rev.‘ Leland C, Jorenson, of Dal-
housie. N.’B., would accept the call
ana would , likely 'be inducted at
Bluevale about the first of April,
Rev, A. H, Wilson reported for
the budget committee and showed
a considerable increase over last
year,. Ten congregations in the
Presbytery went over their alloca
tions,
A delegation from Molesworth
and Corrie Requested of Presbytery
that their student minister, C. A.
McCarroll,
other six
agreed to
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it is flypaper. And he moves like
a guy in a trance, so that if I 40
not spring up and yank a rocker
out of his path, maybe he is lying
in bed fox' months "with a busted
leg.
“Hey!” I beller at him./“Screw
down in a corner with them fun*
,nies and stop perambulating. You
{will bust something.”
“Dead.” murmurs Runt, fixing a
glassy lamp on me, like maybe J,
also, an; overcome by the situation,
“Most of them dead
of them up for life/
“Very unexpected/
highly caustic, “Maybe you would
cai’e to mention what you have got
iq. jnind—if any!”
Right here Rupt snaps back to
life and in nothing flat he has the
paper under my nose and is index
ing out the headlines.
“South Side Gang Wiped 'Out!”
In one zip I have that paper out
of Runt’s embrace and I am tear
ing through
enough, the
/The coppers
whole south
“With their leader, Tiger Pell
away, murdered,’ I read for Runt,
‘the morale of the south side gang
was gone. The capture of the entire
outfit was a comparatively easy
mattei’ for the city squadron. How
ever, they were compelled to shoot
down over half of the gang mem
bers before completing the capture.
Life sentences for the remaining
■members are inevitable.
“Them coppers,” admits Runt,
“had ns guys all beat stiff. They
got technique.”
“And tune in on this,” I ask
him, reading a line out of an ed-
' itorial. “ ‘The entire police force
1 should now turn its attention to the
north side gang in one final drive
1 to rid our fair city of mobsters/
! “Umm,” thinks Runt. “So them
’ dirty south siders finally got' it.”
Rev. Richard Stewart, ’Gode-
Dr* Janies Shortt, Kincardine.
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Vthe situation.
And the rest V
“What is a shame?
“It is goiug_to waste,
thumbs
across from us.
“They seem to
conies my backfire.
“Yesterday I was
the mental menace,
200 grand in that can."
Reining in our limosine out in
front of Billings' emporium,
on Runt.
“One more crack out
about taking on this Bolton bank,
I rumble,
up into ---------- —{customers. Why, screw loose,
we take on
are we?"
“Where?’
“We are _ .
a Jot of useless hot kale in our
jeans, and a swell ticket u*p the
river, and our good honest jobs
shot to blazes. And plus which,"
I bring in, not that if is really the
slightest concern to me, “Midget
gets hep to we are* ex-pete blowers,
and not nice straight Boston busi
ness men gone bust like she be
lieves now, and her heart is smash
ed.”
“Maybe," hopes Runt, “she is in
terested in something different like
a first-class safecracker.”
“If she ever gets wise to the
facts,” I hiss at him. “she will have
to be interested in me ^nly, be
cause you are going to get dolled
be using it,
told,” floats on
“that they gotCHAPTER IX
“Mr. Billings/? I mention the
first morning, once I am done up in
white bib and professional manner,
“grocery sellin’ is right up my
alley. But this meat cutting I am
a little weak in, Maybe/’
offhand, “you better give jne
few lessons?"
“Lessons?"
know. “On
when I stop
Billings’ eye
this hog-severing, majjbe he has
got legal right to that puzzled pan.
“Well,” I counter, "I am a Welsh
man. And us Welsh guys, Mr. Bil
lings — well, in our country we got
a strange way of hacking up the
cow.”
“Welsh?" ponders Billings. Then
he cracks the good old smile, and,
believe me, it looks like sunshine
when the clouds are rattling. “Ah,
yo. Welsh. So is why the speech
is—you would say, a little cock
eyed.”
'.Personally, if this guy thinks my
speech is cockeyed, I wonder what
he thinks he is using for English.
But I let if pass, because, after all,
I am, still (Billings’ ace-number-one
butcher.
“Ah, ya," T agree, for I am going
to show this baby right here and __
now that with me he’s always right. | sweet home and start marathoning
I suggest
a
(Billings wants
meat cutting?”
to
And
to remember that in
I am a professional at
Ct majjbe he has
And so that day Billings spends
considerable time 'brushing me up
on my meat-cutting knowledge.
“Maybe,” Billings pants the sec
ond day, “we better have a whole
quarter of beef yet for practice this
morning. The brushup yesterday
iss not so good.”
’ And so the second day “Billings
and I tussle with one-fourth
portion.
“Maybe,” suggests Billings
third day, “it is better I cut
meat and you sell groceries.”
And so in three (lays flat I am so
good I am graduated to specialty
cow
the.
the
I turn
of you
“and we are working you
hamburger for Billings’
. h once
this Bolton bank where
pleads Runt, hopeful,
again on the lam, with
I sling back;
the story. And, sure
headlines are correct,
have cancelled out the
side gang!
cause you ai*e going to get dolled He i00^s up at me questioningly;
up in a wooden kxmona, decorated I‘sivinybe you ain't a murderer any
with fishworms.”
When that evening I park our
gasoline huggy out in front of home
up' the pavement, there is some
thing slightly wrong. /And it does
not take me- the length of two
brain waves to work out what it is.
Midget is not waiting by the front
glass, ■
“I’ll go by the back,” Runt speaks
up, his words tying with my minor
discovery, “and gather in the eve
ning' rag.” ’ .
The newsy always sticks the eve
ning sheet in on the back porch,
and Runt and me are plenty eager
every p.m. to eye it. It is put out
back in the big town, and 'maybe
some day we are going to read
work and I kiss goodby to, the old I how the coppers have closed in on
meat block. And the crack Billings.! Paunchy’s outfit. And perhaps Runt
lets Slip about the “Welsh” meatj Is going to turn - on the faucets
cutters I let'pass, because a Welsh about it, but his salt-spray is go- meat cutter more or less is nothing in& to be wiped out plenty quick
to me, my parents having raised me by the sunshine of my smile.
( “Mirlp-Af-1J T wnnnn ns xT 1Scotch-Irish.
Any guy who hankers to get a
line on how I am feeling at the end
of that first week in Bolton has got
to stir together a mixture of Water
loo and paradise and then season
with hades. The Waterloo I am
just telling about, and it is this job
of butcher. But when that is off
my ’brain cells, me being promoted
to grocery clerk and at the same
salary, I am left only the paradise
ana' the hades.
The paradise is that furnished
dump we are renting. iMaybe that
blaek-eVed dame is still cluttering
up the scenery,. I admit; but it
seems that some place she has
learned to cook, and she is not
scared to do it. And what is more,
she swings a mean iron and dust
mop, and if there is one spot of dirt
in that abode I never contact it.
Unless, of course, you count Runt.
When I come home at might she
is at the window watching for me.
And the hades part of it!. Most
ly, the hades section is inside pxy
personal think-box. What, I cannot
forget to wonder, if Paunchy catch-
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"Midget!”'!I whoop as I breeze
into the hallway, because maybe she
has 'blew and left us in peace at
last. “Midget!” Nobody , whoops
back to me, and an iron band starts
closing in around my heart—you
know, like maybe it -is too good to
be true that she has gone.
Then from the dining-room there
floats a “sniff, sniff” ether wave,
and I toe right in to lamp the
source. And there is Midget, all
five feet of her stretched out on
the davenport, and iboo-hooing like
her heart is smashed!
Fifty times I stretch open my
kisser, and I am a fluent guy, too;
but in the English book I took out
of there yrasn’t no speeches to use
on weeping dames. So I button
down my kisser again, and work
on something better.
“What the heck," at last comes
my masterpiece,
makes not one
and the faucets
full blast. ,
“Look here!”
insert a corner of me onto the spare
davenport. “Can’t * you spill what
is wrong?” i
AT, this she finally boosts herself
sixty degrees off the davenport and
tries to mop Up a bucket of mois
ture with a square inch of tidy.
“My brother," she sobs. “I’m so
—so worried about him. Maybe—*
maybe he’s dying! Oh, 1’11 never
get the money to Send to lxinf. Nov
er! Never!” And now she is back
down flat again, and if she Was
weeping before, this time she is
vying with the good old Pacific.
This new glacier takes about five
minutes to check, and how I do it
I am never sure. But I know Mid
get is setting up and mopping off
with my handkerchief When Runt
moves in from the back porch
the evening edition.
RUht is holdiiig
out in froiiv of him
and both his orbs is
A FINISH FOR EVERY SURFACE
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■be continued foi’ an-
months term. Presbytery
the request,
A committee including Rev, A.
H. Wilson, Rev. Dr. W. O. Rhoad
and two elders was appointed to
give leadership to the advance for
Christ movement throughout the
'Presbytery.
Rev.
pointed
tery at
cardine
John
to petition the Ontario and Domin
ion Dovernmeut to see that the
Canada Temperance Act is enforc
ed in Huron County.
The Huron Presbyterial of the
W.M.S. sent in its report’ which was
read at the Presbytery meeting
showing small decrease in member
ship 'but a considerable increase in
contributions. Membership in all
organizations of the Presbyterial
reached 672 and contributions
all purposes exceeded $3,400.
C’. H. MacDonald was ap-
to represent the Presiby-
the Synod meeting in Kin
in April.
A. iPerrie urged Presbytery
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Hay Council Gives Permission for Bingo
The Council of the Township of • Hay met in the Township Hall, Zur-1
ich, on 'March 4th at 1.30 p,m., as a
Court of Revision to consider ap
peals on the Forrest Drain and the
Tuckey Drain By-laws. There were
two appeals entered on the Forrest
Drain, first by Wm. and Edison I
Forrest, error in acreage, and the 1
second by Wm. Alexander, error in
acreage. Each person presented his
case personally.
There were no appeals entered
against the Tuckey Drajn, so the
Council then deliberated in private {
session and the “following motions
were then passed:
‘ That the appeal on the Forrest
Drain as handed in by Edison For
rest be allowed and error changed
to read lot 24, 'Con. 3, 45 ac
res and lot (25,. Con. 3, 50 ac
res. And William -Alexander’s ap
peal, that the assessment on N%
Lot 25, -Con. 2, be cancelled, and
that the area on lot 26, Con. 3, be
described as 20 acres. Said changes
to be made in By-law to be adopted,
and Court of Revision to 'be closed
subject to appeal to Judge.
That since no appeals were receiv
ed on the Tuckey Drain, the Tuckey
Drain By-law be so considered read
a third time and that Court of Re
vision be closed.
That the offer of $28.00 for pur
chase of trees and cutting of brush
on roadway between Concession 4
and 5 of Hay Township, and situ
ated between the lots 15 and 20 as
Stated in the Advertisement, and re
ceived from Lloyd Mousseau be ac
cepted, By-law to be passed to con
firm the sale.
That two notices be inserted in
the Zurich Herald and in the Strat
ford (Beacon Herald advertising for
tenders to crush and haul gravel on
Hay Township Roads per cubic yard
per mile, also on a flat rate (4000
cubic yards), contractor to supply
crusher and power, Township to
supply one truck.
That the Council of Hay hereby
grant St. Peter’s Parish of the
French Settlement permission to
hold s or 10 games of bingo a year,
providing the laws of the Criminal
Code are complied with.
That the Township of Usborne be
requested to clean out the filled-in
portion of the Down Drain
the C.N.R. Railway tracks.
Township.
That payinents be made
following as per voucher:
■Hay. Munic. Telephone System—
H. G. Hess $235.65; H. W. Broken
shire 129.40; Tutomatic Electric
40.95
Hoffman 414*68
203.95
Hay Twt». Roads-
• Advocate 3.72,
2.53; L. A. Prang & Son 1.00;
Masse 47.60: Herb Neeb 3/2.-50
W Brokenshire 10.00
69.60; Louis Zimmer 11.90; (
Municipal Tel. System 1.15; F.
Kalbfleisch & Son 5.25; Henry
cker 5.00; Eldon Ortwein 2.55;
phonse Masse 7*8.30*
Relief—-Mrs. John Suplat 25
«A. Heideman, rent 3.00; Edith
{Mason 5.00; Emma Basso w 8.90;
Vernon Schatz, food 5.00.
Hay Twp. General Accounts—A.
G. Hess 89 0L80; Brov. Treas., insul
in 6.26/; H. W. Brokenshire, salary
etc. 219.35: L. Schilbe & Son 21.26;
Municipal World 9.00; Treas. of
County of Huron 2*3.60; Hydro
Electric of Ont. 5.82; Hay Munic.
Tel. System, loan $500.
Motion, that the meeting be ad
journed to meet again on Monday,
lApril 1st, at 1.30 p.m.
H. W. Brokenshire, Clerk,
W. H. Haugh, Reeve.
I more now, Rippy.”
One icey look I shoot at him,
which means as plain as if I am
saying it, “Button your lip, you
dumb yokel!” Then I swing around
to Midget,.because if she has caught
that murderer pun maybe I have
got to do something about it.
There is a crash. Before -j can
reach her Midget has folded up in
a dead faint on the. floor.
“Water!” I w.hip out at Runt,
“Cold water!" Slipping a wing in
under ’ ‘ "
boost her back up onto the cush
ions.
which. Runt pitchers out for me I
frantically start wetting her down.
“It’s—it’s all right,” pleads Mid
get a few minutes later, weakly
hoisting herself up to a right an
gle. ‘Tm—rm quite all right. It’s
—just too warm in here, I guess.”
; She draws a small white mitt across
her pale forehead.
“She ought to be took for a walk
in the night air,” suggests Runt,
tripping an orb around the room
for his hat?
“She ought to,” ;I agree, “and I
will attend to it pronto.” ,
“Do you feel -fit to walk?” I in
quire in a tone which might even
be tender if I was not such a tough
guv.
“Oh, yes," she- smiles back up
at me. “I’m quite all right now.”
Then the smile sinks 'back in out
of sight and even almost myself I
could cry; because I see she is
once again holding wake over that
poor sick brother.
“Midget,” J commence when we
are about halfway down to the lake
outside of town where we afe head-
ingr “did you get that crack which
Runt made at me just before you
did a flicker9”
“What crack?” Midget wants to
know, putting on the brakes until
we are hardly in motion.
“Maybe,” I retreat, “we will just
skip it."
“No, please/’ she insists, and
now she is not moving any at all,
and so neither am I. “Tell me/’
“Runt cracked wise about maybe
now I am not a , murderer, any
mote/’
“Oh!" murmurs Midget,
“Did you hear hirix?" I
know.
“No. Maybe that was
fainted.”
“Maybe," I agree. “But, in case
you had heard it I wanted to ma/lie
positive you didn’t get no dumb
notions. Because Rippy Whitmore
lias never yet put no guy under the
daisies, and that is the gospel about
it."
“Of—-of course,” agrees Midget,
like why the heck would she think
ahy thing else? Then that little
white mitt flutters up to her. curly
crown again. “Rippy,” she breathes,
“I’m going—to—-faint—again.”
With, a dart .1 hiake a pass for
hAf. and juSt as she Is starting to
sink I gather her Up in my arms.
Then I hold her close against me
and stai’e for a minute down at them cute black cttrls of hers and
that soft red mouth.
Like a flash then the truth hits
me, and hits me/hard, Almost I am
too weak to hold onto this helpless
little girl in my embrace. Because
I see that at last Rippy Whitmore,
xyorld woman hater No. 1, has fallen
in love with a dame.
(Continued Next Week)
Next Week: Rippy’s admission
that he, had fallen in love leads
him to make a i'ash promise io Mid*
got, aftoi* she makes an nnreasoh*
able donmnd.
the unconscious dame, I
Then with the cold water
“is wrong?” She
whiff of a reply,
are still running
I shove out, and
with
Rage
fiStS,
the front
with both
glufed to it like
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Lutheran 'Church, London,
Elda Mary, daughter of Mr
Mrs. Edward Stire, of .Dashwood,
became the bride of John Eraser
Barr, son of* Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Barr, Balmoral; Man. The bride
wore white organza and a short
veil and carried snapdragons, and
carnations. She was attended by
her sister, Miss Alice Stire, dressed
in blue sheer and carrying spring
flowers. The groom was attended by
his brother, 'George Barr, of Bal
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at the home of the bride’s parents.
The couple will reside in (London.
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MRS. EDWARD REICHERT
DIED AT ZURICH
Mrs. Edward Reichert (nee Mary
Lissetta Neuschwanger) diod at her
hoihe ih Zurich, Tuesday, March 12,
after a lengthy illness, in her -58th
year. Mrs. Reichert whs born in
Stephen Township but spent most
of her life in Hay Township, where
she and her husband operated a
farm until aboqt five years ago
when they moved to Zurich. Surviv
ing are her husband and a daughter,
Mrs. P. Willert, of Hay; a brother,
Peter Neuschwanger, Hay, and four
sisters, Amelia, of London; Frieda,
Mrs. Jacob Deichort and' Mrs. Jono*
than Rader, all of Hay Township.
A private funeral service was held
at the home on Thursday followed
by a public service nt st. Peter’s
Lutheran Church, of which deceased
was a member. Interment was at
St. Teter’s Imtheraa Cemetery with
ReV. E, Heimrich officiating.
Buf Employers and Workers Must Assist
give full asfiisfancO to the com-
✓
of the Local Office of the National
During the war organization of manpower
was made possible through co-operation of
employers and workers.
This co-operation is no less necessary to
assist in organizing the employment market
during the present critical period.
Some manpower controls still remain.
These are still law. They are aimed at assisting
in organizing the employment market.
Remaining controls are designed to help
employers and workers—and actually require
only minor assistance from the public.
YOU ARE URGED TO COMPLY WITH
THE FOUR CONTROLS WHICH REMAIN:
1— Employers MUST notify the National Employ
ment Office of any need for workers, as soon
as that need is known.
2— Where employers engage workers outside the
National Employment Service they MUST
notify the nearest NES Office within three
days, that an employee has been engaged.
(Form NSS 312 is provided for this purpose.)
3— —Unemployed workers seeking employment
MUST register with the National Employment
Office if unemployed for seven consecutive
days.
4— Generally speaking, any employer or em
ployee MUST give seven days' notice to the
other party of any intention to terminate
employment. (Form NSS 120 is still required.)
Exceptions may be learned from the nearest
NES Office.
The partners to industry —employers and
employees—should help the National Employ
ment Service to prorhote a high level of employ
men tby complying with these simple rules.
Only with public support can an employ
ment service give full assistance to the com
munity.
Make full use
Employment Service. It is there to serve your
needs, and those of the entire Community.
HUMPHREY MITCHELL
Minister of Labour
NXS, 4
A. MACNAMARA
Deputy Minister J