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THERE/S71
THURS., JAN., 20th, 1944
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noon the chances were that she would her 49th year.
have to drive' back in the dark. Mrs. Cockerill had been
health 'for the past two years,
B JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE.
CHAPTER X , every-oee was too comfortable. Why; 'Waters acquisitive mind.
Big` -hearted Sarah Daffodil acts in even the 'boys in camp had it far
better then their daddies had—they
every -capacity for the four -family did a heap less mar1iing for instance:
house in Garset after here husband's A nieehanized army never would real-
death. The frugal, elderly Mr. and ize what the infantry units in the last
Mrs. Peppercorn anti the newly -wee war had endured, King told himself.
Andrew and 'Candace Thane occupy a, .he let himself into his apartment.
the two top -floor apartments. and be: "In the kitchen!" his wife celled.
low them middle-aged Bert Fitts and TIe set down his burden with a
bis wife—who is too engrossed in war''
She hadabandoned her needle-
work, although she ' still bought
thread and yarn against the day
when she should resume her com-
plicated patterns. The girdles she,
so eagerly purchased would prob-
ably never be worn since She went
without corsets in the house and for
the street preferred old, comfortable
and shapeless foundations. with train-
.ed curves. ' Her shelves of cosmetics.
might have kept a beauty shop going
ifor six months, but she bought lip-
sticks' and rouge as in a
frenzy and saw her own'madness re-
1 peated in the behavios of other wo-
men, Mrs. Waters was not coo-
pietely indifferent to public opine
and the thought that she might
unfavorably criticized occasional
rankled.
activities to care for her Dome—and
Icing Waters, veteran of World War
1, and his wife 'Emma, a devotee of
fine crocheting. King Waters, who
is expecting to sign up for making
speeches before young men's. organi-
sigh of relief. Three dozen cans of
pineapple'. juice were all he .had been
able to buy. "The grocery manager
made a fuss 'about giving me that
much. Saicl he'd. have more in next
week. I said, 'If that's the -case,
Pll take these now without feel'
nations to raise the morale, discusses that I'ni stripping. you.'"
Andy Thane's draft status with Mrs.
Waters. Mrs. Waters frowned. She had not
been able to get the brand of can-
ned peas they liked. All the best
Ennna Waters said ,with unpre- canned •stuff, she asserted, was go -
meditated brutality, "How could you ing to England! "If we starve, that's
raise morale?"
«Young men would Iisten to me be-
cause my record shows that I didn't
shirk. my duty in the last war. If I
had a son I could look him in the face
today and say, 'My boy, I didn't hesi-
tate—why should you?' "
"They say it's almost impossible
mg
all right. Or if we try to put aside a
few cans of our- own to use, that's
hoarding. I'm going to buy tomato'
juice tomorrow, because I read
they're sending that to England to
take the place of the oranges they
can't get."
"We can't take all this stuff up in
to get any more bobby pins." Mrs. one trim" her husband• objected, ey-
ing the bags and boxes and tins on
slide from her brown corduroy robe the kitchen table and in the opened
to the floor. "That reminds me—I cupboards,
must- get up to the cottage and look
at our things. You never did get nee
those locks you promised, Ring."
He said that he would get them
the next day. "I've been intending
to pick up two or three secondhand
She knew, Mrs, Waters sighed.
"But I have to buy, when I can. The
clerks are getting nastier all the
time. That's because a flock of
jealous cats have been complaining.
People like the Peppercorns and
padlocks from old Peppercorn. He Thanes have no place to store sup -
has a drawer full of locks and keys, plies' so
naturally they hate to see
He may have sold them all. to that (°telex people stocking' up."
junkman friend of his, though—the The Thanes wouldn't butt in, .King
two of them are as thick .as thieves. Iclissented, the Peppercorns might,
Mrs. Waters pushed hopelessly at I though as a rule they attended to
her .hair which needed to be set. If their own business: "But let 'em talk
they bad followed her peau when they if they do talk. Ws nothing to 'be
had first moved into the building, ashamed of—we're' putting money' in-
had
would have been better off to Ito circulation Besides IV 11 stuff
a
day, she complained, It had always ;that , we'd buy eventually, anyway,
This way web
HAROLD JACKSON
Licensed Auctioneer
'Specialist in Farm and Household
Sales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth
Counties. Prices reasonable; -sates-
'
faction guaranteed.
Per information etc. write or phone
.aroId Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth,
I,hone 14-661. 06-012
DR. G. S. ELLIOTT
Veterinary Surgeon
been her policy not to know any of ' cY more at one time,
the families in the apartment house all."
!
Sarah
where they might live and until they ; Daffodil did not view the
took this place, they'd not had even
a situation, quite as charitably as that,
nodding acquaintance with their nideod `she .confined that is raised
neighbors. "Now everyone knows our her blood pressure to observe the
business, or would if I didn't use lily loading of the Waters' car every i
head. You can't buy an extra pound Saturday morning, "They have a
of sugar that someone in the house shack about ten miles otit and the
doesn't eoinment on it. And since walls must be buldging now—I swear
Pearl event into factory work, I've they've carted ,up enough stuff to
thought of having Zither—she works feet) a garrison fora years seize,
for Mi•s. Thane, yon now, But I don't And her apartment here is cram -
dare. It was bad enough with Pearl cram-
med to the gills with girdles, nail-
foi' she told Toni Fitts everything she polish, cold cream, soap, metal curl -
Phone 203 • Clinton Ont could, With Zither if she saw an
•
ers and God knows what all."
extra bar of soap or a box of candles,; The shack in the country which
or a dozen pairs of stockings pat Emma Waters had brought with the
away, the .news would be all over the few hundred dollars left her by a
house in fifteen minutes. I've got to sentimental aunt, was a two-roon
get a perfectly strange girl and run cabin without conveniences and
the 'risk of her stealing everything originally designed for a hunter's
she can lay her hands on.' hideout. It had been the aunt's ex
ERNEST W. HUNTER
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
57 Bloor Ste. W. Toronto Ont.
'THE McXILLOP MUTUAL
Jfire Insurance Company
Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
'OFFICERS—President, Alex McEw-
ing, Blyth Ont; Vice President, W. R.
.Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and
Secretary Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Sea -
forth, Ont.
DIRECTORS — AIex McEwing;'
Blyth, Ont„ W. R. Archibald, Sea -
;forth, Ont., Alex Broadfoot, Sea
forth, Ont., Chris Leonhardt, Born-
holm, Ont., E. J. Trewartha, Clinton,
Ont., Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, Ont.,
Prank McGregor, Clinton, Ont„ Hugh
Alexander, Walton, Ont., George
Leitch, Clinton, Ont.
AGENTS --John E. Pepper, Bruce -
;field, Ont., R. F. McKercher, Dublin,
tOnt., 3. F, Prueter, Brodhagen, Ont.,
George A. Watt, Blyth, Ont.
Any money to be paid may be paid
to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of
Commerce,, Seaforth, or at Calvin
Cutt's Grocery, Goderich.
Parties desiring to effect insur-
ante or transact other business will
be promptly attended to on applica-
tion to any of the above officers ad-
dressed to their respective post offi-
ces. Losses inspected by the director
CANADIAN'
TIME TABLE
`Trains will arrive at and depart
;from(Cliaton as follows:
!Toronto. and Goderich Division
(Going east, depart ..... 6.43 'a.m.
(Going East, depart - 3.03 ,p.sn.
Going West, depart . , , ... 12.04 p.m.
',Going' West, depart 11.1D p.nx.
London and. Clinton Division
Coining North, arrive 11.20 a.m.
Going South, leave 3.10 p.m.
JICOBJC
Pipe Toiiacco
FOR A MILD, COOL,•SMOKE,
King Waters slid expertly away. Pressed wish that her niece buy
Evidently he ryas heading for the something "in the nature of a mein -
grocery store, He said to a man held anal, a Perpetual reminder of ire.
up with hien at the curb, "A few 1 love Inc her." Mrs. Waters had eon-.
m
privations, more or less, mean little veed herself that a little place in
to Inc. I served in the last war and I the country was an ideal memorial,
we did without practically every- The furnishings were scanty aro
thing at the front. A sugar shortage 'Primitive, oil -lamps the only ilium
can't down a man who's been with- illation and a two -burner oil stove
out drinking water forty hours at a the only cooking convenience. But
stretch." ' since -the declaration of war and tli.
The whole trouble now, King Wat- subsequent rumors of shortages and
ers thought, shifting his heavy restrictions, the value of the place M
package to ease the weight, was that as a storehouse had risen in rs.
U. Se Bombers;
Smash Rumanian Oilfields
Ori 1. 8. 43 U. S. Liberators carried staations,
plants,andd boiler
houses.
out a mass low-level attack on the Picture Shows: During the attack on
Rumanian oilfields and refineries the Picesti oil refineries—Liberators
which are one of the major sources sweep in low against a blackcloth of
Of supply for the German war ma smoke and flames.
chine Direct hits were scored on in
The road all the way to; Coatsvilie
was in fair condition but ' at that
hamlet Mrs. Waters was obliged to
turn left and continue along a dirt
road, badly rutted and bordered by
second -growth scrub into which all
the dirt and . trash of uncounted
winters had been blown by tidy winds.
There were only two houses between
Coatsville and her' cabin and neither
of these had ever tempted- Mrs.
Waters to stop and snake the acquain-
tance ofher neighbors. She glanced.
now at the sagging farmhouse, set
far back in' the stubble of the corn
field she was passing. Each time she
saw this house'a few more bricks had
fallen from the chimney and more
rags had been substituted for mis-
sing windowpanes.
Her own place didn't look much
on better, she admitted to herself when
by I she drove into the yard through a
ly wide gap' in the disreputable picket
fence. Mrs. Waters shivered as she
stepped out of the ear and fumbled
e in her purse for the key to the pad-
lock. .
e She opened .the heavy, scarred
to door and stepped into the room
✓ which was a combination : of living
• and dining room, kitchen and store-
s room. For a moment her eyes blink-
ed then they became adjusted to the
en trim light.
g- ' "Why—why for heaven's sake!"
- she cried. aloud.
e
Something dark and swift ran
across the floor and leaped to the
t ,rafters overhead. She -made a bar-
sh gain with herself not to look around
ng until she had her fire built and had
o brought in the supplies from the car
1 The inside shutters' were not closed,
I as she had left them, but swung
ep tipsily open. The clutter of dishes
and pans on the rough hewn table
ren
• she had never seen before. The cup-
board doors were unlatched --but
there would be time enough to con-
sider these things when she had a
good fire going. It was not until
she discovered• that the ashes in the
fireplace were still warm that the
possibility of someone hiding in the
next room occurred to her.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
v
Once she' remarked to Carideo
Thane that she liked to think that
she would be in a position to shelte
her friends who might happen to b
bombed. out. "People don't stop
think that you can't feed a dozen o
two emergency guests, unless yo
have made previous preparations,
she reasoned. -
"But could ' you get : two doz
people in a two -room cabin?" sug
• Candace. "If you had blan
kets, they could sleep out, I suppos
—but it might rain."
Candace asked Andy ±1 -he though
that: Mrs. Waters did her lave
shopping with the -thought of taki
tare of the more unfortunate wh
were not in position to hoard.
mean those who can't stock up.
hate to be uncharitable, but I ke
remembering het six girdles."
She might be planning to re
them out, Andy offered amiably.
"In the days when there are no girdl-
es,a woman may be glad to rent one
by the hour or week. About the food
I'm suspicious. What 1 really think
our neighbors intend to do is to set
up a Black Market over here,"
I suppose it helps her to feel se-
cure, to have all those things at
hand," Candace admitted. "We all
want security, but we don't all seem
to spell it the same way. It's "safer
don't yon think, Andy, not to set up
things as your symbols of security?"
"Like canned salmon?" She, smiled
and understanding quickened between
thein. Andy ran his • fingers through
her hair, pulling the soft pompadour
of her new hairdo down to her eyes.
"The heck with canned salmon! It
reminds nee too much, of Mr. Waters
and his favorite war."
Had they only known it, canned
salmon held something of the same
association for the boy at the cash
grocery store and tl:e slim young
cashier who presided over the money
cage. A case of the tinned fish, to
be opened and the cans arranged in
place on the shelves, had been th-
morning task alloted to Hervey, the
boy, as an occupation Inc him in the
absence of the manager.
"Him and. his goidfisl.!" the cash-
ier said scornfully. "Maybe I'M not
tired of his stories.'
The lad grinned, "They must have.
a stock as `large as ours, by this
,'
time.
Kitty, from her cage, thought it
likely. But she was growing tined
she declared, of Mrs. Waters' com-
plaints about the fresh vegetables.
'She conies in,. nearly every day to
tell Mr. Locke that the stuff is wilt-
ed, or:speckled, or just a plain mess.
Why, don't you give het a break once
n a while?"
"Where do you suppose she puts
all the food?" asked the boy. \
The Cashier decided that the Wat-
ers ate the 'limp; lettuce and the
wrinkled carrots. The canned goods
and the dry staples they could hoard.
"I hear they have a place, a hidea-
way, up: the line. Lots of people -have
got a' bomb shelter -or something-..
in 'the country, Hervey, which they're
busy stocking with ripe olives, lob-
ster 'paste, imported sauterne and
other delicacies supposed to keep up
e's
onstrength under fire." •
"Add sugar, tea and good. Scotch,"
Hervey suggested. "Speaking of the
devil -isn't that King Waters' car,
across . tete street?"
They both peered oat, through the
towers of cracker, boxes piled in the
window, at the small' car parked be-
fore the opposite drugstore.. Present-
ly Mrs..Waters canny out, the drug
clerk trailing after her with a pack-
age. He stowed it underr the seat and
to'Kitty and Hervey the car appeared'
to
be loaded to the roof with parcels:
Across the street Mrs. Waters hes-
itated,,considered the grocery, chang-
ed her mind about buying annother
box' of bacon, She was already late,
if she didn't get up to, the' cabin by
91 Years
Congratulations and best wishes are
extended' to Mrs. Donald MacKenzie,
who on Sunday last celebrated her 91
st birthday at her home on South Main
Street. Mrs, MacKenzie has been an
esteemed resident of Seaforth for 65
years, but is still young in everything
but years. During the Christmas sea-
son she .did her own shopping, on
Main Street, and on Sunday morning,
as is her custom, attended the service
in Egmondviiie Church. In the after-
noon and evening inany friends in
town and district called at her home
to extend congratulations. Mrs. Mac
Kenzie's fancily of three sons and
two daughters, Councillor J. C. Mac
' Isenzie, of town; Mr, A. R. MacKen-
a,!e, of Oriilia; Mr. R. E. MacKenzie,
of Toronto; Mrs. Montgomery •'at tick
of Tuckersmith, and Miss Rena Mac-
Kenzie, of Stratford, were all hone to
celebrate the occasion with her, .
—Huron Expositor.
V
Funeral of Mrs. J. Riley
The funeral of Mrs, .fames Riley,
who died in Vancouver on New
Year's Day, was held from the home
of her father, ,Tames Fulton, Mitch-
ell east, Monday afternoon at 2.00
o'clock. Rev. Norman MacKay .of:
Knox Presbyterian church officiated.
B. H. Jeal presided at the piano for
the singing of two hymns, "The Lord
Is My Shepherd," and "Rock of Ages."
The pallbearers were three brother-
in-law, Joseph Flynn, Clinton; John
Hazelwood, Londesboro; Bert Hog-
garth, Londesboro; and J. Wright,
Albert Baker, Albert Hudson, all of
Seaforth. The beautiful and numer-
ous floral tributes were borne by
nieces and nephews, Lois Hazelwood,
Jean Flynn, Enema Riley, John Flynn,
Reggie Hazlewood. The body was
accompanied from Vancouver by her
husband and three ;children. Friends -
and relatives attended 'the funeral
from. Brussels,..Londesboro, Walton,
West Monkton, Seaforth, ' Dublin,
Cromarty, Kitchener, Stratford, At-
wood,. Sebringville and Timmins. In
ternient was made in Maitland ceme-
tery, Seaforth.
Clinton Native Dies hi
San Francisco .
Mrs. Alice Fawcett, Blyth, received
the sad news this Wednesday that her
slaughter, Mrs. William Cockerill
formerly Elva 'Fawcett, had .passed.
away in San Francisco, California, in
n 111
Born in Clinton, deceased cane to
Blyth as a child, where she spent her
early life. She,nsarried Peter Cock-
erill while in Toronto, and twenty
years ago took up residence in the
United States. -
Besides hey husband, she leaves to
mourn, two daughters, and twosons,
one of them serving Overseas; also
two grand -children. Also surviving
are her mother, Mrs. A-, Fawcett,
Blyth; five sisters, Mrs. Milton Lowe
of Brussels; Mrs. Bert Potter, Cleve-
land; Mays. Loughre, Mrs. Cuthbert
and Miss Gladys all of Toronto; and
one brother, Lance -Corporal Fred
Fawcett, Overseas.
Funeral arrangements were not
known here as this is written. Blyth
Standard,
CALENDAR,
January snowy,
February fiowy,
March blowy.
April showery,
May flowery,
June bowery.
July moppy,
August croppy,
September poppy.
October breezy, a
November_ wheezy,
December freezy.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I SHALL
We saki goodbye to our son last night,
Our boy of the yesterday
Who used to come toddling up to us
To kiss his hurt away.
I; was shaken a bit when he stooped
down Iow
And kissed his mother's tear,
But I gripped his hand and smiled at
him
And he didn't guess my fear;
"You'll take good care of her, won't
you Dad?
She's precious to me you know;
It's mothers, sweethearts, and homes
we love
That makes us want to go;"
I was proud of my soldier son last
night,
And thousands of others too
Who have pledged themselves in the
spring of life
To see the battle through;
And 1 swore by the flag that I
honour
And by our God Divine
I shall produce for Victory
Eaeis working hour of imine.
This emblem I'm wearing so proudly,
Burns deeply—a symbol bright,
Keep 'the faith with those men of
ours,
Leading them through the night!
If I should falter; if I should fail;
Who knows but the bitter cost
May mean a plane, or a ship at sea,
Or a hard fought battle lost!
The blood of a thousand men and one
May mean a plane, or a ship at sea,
I must give MORE than my "Nearly
All"
That Mankind may be free!
Harold Wood—Canadian Poet.
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The Steady Subscribers
I3ow dear to my heart isthe steady
subscriber,
Who 'pays in advance at the birth
of each year—
Who lays down the money, and does
it quite gladly,
And casts' round the office a halo
of cheer.
She never says: "Stop it; 1 cannot
afford it;
I'm getting- more papers than now
I can read;"
But always says: "Send it; our
people all like at;
In fact, we all -think it a help and
a need.",
How welcome hes' cheque when it
reaches our sanctum!
How it makes our pulse throb! .
how it makes our .heart dance!.
We outwardly thank her; we in-
wardly bless her—
The steady subscriber . who pays
in advance.
—The Living Message.
THE GRADE TEACHER.
The teacher in high school works
hard, we all know,
But the poor elementary teacher
--ole, oil
She must know how to sing . and
toain'
and
t
p to dance,
To make` a good bookcase 'and to
raise lovely plants,
To weave a good basket and make
things of. clay,
Po write a fair poem, to put on a
DR. THOMAS. H. HOGG
Chairman and chief engineer of
The Hydro -Electric Power Commis-
sion of Ontario, who has been named
a member of 'the Public Utilities Com-
mittee set up by the Combined Pro-
duction and Resources Board of the
United Nations. Britain " and the
United States are also represented
on this committee which will survey.
utility needs .of allied nations and
liberated countries.
play,
To umpire a ball game, to run
track meet,
To be yard police, a regular beat,
She must see that each ` pupil is
healthy and fed, '
And examine for vermin each un-
tidy head,
And of course she must teach
them to read and to spell,
To figure a little—they wouldn't
do well
At these humdrum tasks, no need
do .them at all
If they'd rather draw pictures or
fresco the wall.
She must know every subject
tinder the sun
And then she'll discover she has
only begun.
For where children's interest lead,
who can tell?
They may want to learn Hindu in-
stead of to spell.
With all arts, crafts, and skills in
one addled pate
The madhouse at last is the
grade teacher's fate.
V
KISKA
The following poem was written by
one of the Canadian troops a short
time ago.
Maybe God was tired
When He made this little isle,
So He grabbed the things left over
And put them in a pile.
He dropped diem in the ocean
And paused there for a spell,
Then He said, "I'll call it Kiska,
The earth shall have a Hell."
And what a Hell this Kiska is,
So mighty damp and drear;
There's nothing grows upon the soil
For there is no sunshine here.
Where the fog rolls up the valley
And the clouds drop o'er .the hill;
Where the rain comes down in tor-
rents
And the wind is never still.
Wherein your daily duties
You flounder in the mud;
Where the whirling', sweeping will-
a-wa's
Coagulates your blood.
Where the dampness pentrates you
To the marrow of your bones,
Where you wake up 10 the mornings
With aches and pains and groans,
Whet•e in the dead of summer
You shiver IA the cold,
And the hardships -that you suffer
Turn young men into old.
Where there is no entertainment,
No music, joy, os' Mirth.
Oh what a place this Kiska is—
It's really Hellon earth.
Wheat, for Export
It i5 harl,est time in Argentina and
Australia and current estimates of
the combined wheat crop total 388
million bushels, :or approximately the
amount produced by these two coun-
tries a year ago. The exportable
surplus from such a crop would be
225 million bushels and this must be
added to the carryover of old wheat
which amounts to 153 million bushels
in Australia and 122 million bushels
in Argentina. This -makes a surplus
over normal" domestic requirements'
01r .
app oxnmately 600 millions bushels
available for export in 1944. When
the surplus of Canada is added, the
supply available for export exceeds one billion bushels in three of four'
major exporting countries.