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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 1944-06-29, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD The Clinton New -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advancer to Gan- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every •sub- emiption is paid is denoted on the label. . .1-,11" .ADVERTISING RATES — Transient advertising 12c per count line 'for. first insertion. 8e for each subse- quent insertion, Heading counts 2( lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as"Wanted," -"Lost' , "Strayed", etc., inserted' once for . 35c, ealch' subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising made known .on application. Communications intended for Pub- lication must,as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name e of the writer. G E HALL P'rearietoe V ictorg CHAPTER VII Dr. 'Warner upon meeting the post- man offers to deliver two lettere to. Mrs. lVlatnrin, owner of the Pole Star House: One of these letters is from 'the British government ordering het• to holds herself ready to take eare of evacuees, unless she prefers to take carve of dependent. relatives. Mrs. Mat urin: is reu4h upset over these orders, For Lome by Pamela Wynne and it's early closing." "Thanks." And then John b!ad gone- home again. And as he leaned forward tolet hs the clutch 'he re- membered the joy with which he had almost run down the steep hill. Back to an excellent lunch. John Wynter smiled as. he . and Odette steered round the corner into' the golden shafts of the setting sun. "Whore shall we go? 'Somewhere but dutifully snails an advertise- `vhere'we can get a' meal of Some ment to the London Times °leerin o four people "in 'k!ndt Do you know anywhere?" accommodations for P P There's "a very nice hotel at a a hotel far from military objectives p• lace .called Beaufort. I once dined' Jghn Wynter reads the ad arid:decid with u5," ; ui aml I•.• i i there and it was. very good:' i es to go to Pole Star House. He tells "With' whom?" j "Staying with you?" Then thµt ar suppose'I"iay'that it a' 1.. his .chief. about it and deP ts.:•,ki?rs. ,} .was a man .had licca., the man who had said Manvers -Pollock, a guest at Pole , y n "pardon" that'night when she had with -'whom I am in love, p pushed' past him on her way back from Star Beach. was thumping his gray tweed back. "I shall be all right in a minute," gasped Jelin, fumbling for his hand- kerchief, and blowing his nose resonantly and then wiping the tears from his eyes, "How , loud you blow your nose." "Don't you like it?" "I`Io.•" "What a bother. But I'll' alter, I'll copy Monsieur. 'IIe does it most perfectly," said' John shakily, "Re- ticence personified." "Who is Monsieur?" "A• Frenchman who is staying Star House believes that signaling is „ going on at the hotel. She 'tells Wyn I You shall say that I dont believe ,, IL TRANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Representing -14. Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.O. Sloan Bloc& .... — .... Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR r Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner •- Offices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdiyi and Fridays. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Stleet, (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours --Wed and Set., and b7 appointment FOOT CORRECTION by Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed • in Huron . and Perth Counties. 'Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write' or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, gone 14-661. • • . 06-012 DR. G.' S. ELLIOTT Veterinary. •Surgeon Phone 203 Clinton, Ont. ter and he notes 'a tiny winking sig -I "It seems, to me, that you're fright- nal—dot, dash, dot, dash.' fully inquisitive,". she said. "I know I am. But I" can't help that. Come on, now, get it over. "Yes, I'm ready. I ' only looked Don't ,let's: spoil a nice evening by out to see who it was. You see, I your being obstinate." have to open my own front door, so I think twice before I come down I "I dined at Beaufort with my the stairs." Odette's heart sang. father," said Odette simply. "He A heavenly evening ahead of her. and my mother were home on leave And there had been nothing to dread from Switzerland. He ie. a British in the letter at all. Fergus was Chaplain at Geneva. And he took satisfied; her last bit of information I me there the evening before they about the airdrome had been vale, went back; timelier had` gone on first ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Moor Str. W. Toronto Ont. able, and she had been a, good girl to.get it off by the evening post, and the code had been changed so she would not be hearing from •him for a day or :two. Alan was well, and was soon going to be appointed to a position of authority in Oflag 97. "Well, where shall we go?" John reached across, and unlatched the door. He did not intend to give that curious little group too good a look at him. Fraser had put him wise about the gossip in Battle Point that morning, Odette was euspeot, unmistakably so. Her correspond- ence was all being opened, but so far without success. Her principal THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. OFFICERS— President W. R. Archibald, Seaforth, Vice -President Frank McGregor, Clinton, Manager Secy-Treas. M. A. Reid, Seaforth. to London." "I see." Taking his .brown hand from the steering wheel, •he laid it on her slender hands clasped in her lap., "Good girl," he said. "And is your father there now? And your mother?" "Yes." Odette's voice was small like the voice of a child. "And didn't you say something about a brother?" A mercy that the road was straight, thought John. "Yes, he is a prisoner in Ger- many." "Hard luck.' Was by taken at Dunkirk?" „Yes." correspondent, one Fergus Leiter, "Do you ever get news of him?" was also suspect, but it was fright- Haw •tall and dark the trees were on fully difficult to find out anything rather side of the white road. Like definite about him. He was a keen sentinels with their arms out - Home Guardsman, his parents (both stretched. Heil Hitler. Heil Prince dead) ,were British, he had been of Dankness. John's thoughts were educated at Heidelberg, but so had fantastic. a great many other Englishmen, "My father does." Odette's voice and hisoccupation before ,the war jw'as quiet and steady. "But I had been that of a broker. He had don't" a small, private income. of his own) "Oh, hard luck." John spoke sym on whichhe was, presumably, living Pathetically. But in that'•brief little as business on the Stock Exchange Conversation he had done well. con- wasBur- .practically at a standstill. He wash, the postman, was in the was a:man in the early forties. fidence of the police, correspond - "So that's that." In the gloomy once was an easy enough thing to little sitting room behind the cob- check up. "Haven't you even heard bier's • sloop, John sat •back in his once?" Omit and watched, the tall thin man with the damaged foot replace the little black exercise book under the hearthrug. "Yes, it doesn't take . us much further, does it, sir?" "No, not at the moment. Oh yes, of course, - I thought, I'd forgotten something. Signaling? Is there any going on here? I thought I saw something the other night down on the beach below our house." "Signaling, sir?" A slow smile dawned on Fraser's cadaverous face, "That young devil's at it I again! -I've warned him twice. 'Not tonight, not tonight, not tonight.' Was that it?" DIRECTORS— W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris Leonhardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewar- the, Clinton; John L. Malone, Seaforth Alex. McEwing, Blyth; Hugh Alexan- der, Walton; George Leitch, Clinton. AGENTS— John E. Pepper, Bruce - "Yes." `That's young ' Alfred Cummins, from the Point Hotel. He signals his young lady, housemaid up at one of the Houses en the cliff." "I see." ]Something within • John gavea great shout of joy. So, it hadnot been •she! "But there has been • signaling here?" He spoke Yield; R. F. McKercher, Dublin; J. F. again. Pruetor, Brodhagen; George A. Watt, "Undoubtedly there has been, sir. Blyth. !0,4 But where from? That's the point." THURS., JUNE 29th, 1944 ai he did so. heard the scream that no one else Helpful Information on, Eating .an excellent breakfast' heard. Monsieur always on the John Wynter smiled pleasantly at alert had lowered his paper a little, Farm Fence Posts lVlrs, •Manvors-Pollock. IIe ,could but had concluded that it was e sea - almost have smiled at Ribbentrop; gull. ' he decided, n•emember.•ing the night "Oh, sly, oh!" Dreadful stifled before, He would go into the draw- choking yells came from .between ing room with Mrs. Manvers- PoI- John's viselike fingers. Alfred Cum - lock 'that evening. If he watched mins, who carried the coal at .the from his bedroom window there was Point Hotel, gave himself tip for always the chance that one of the lost. They had got him at last, one servants would come in. He would of them parashoot:troops that Hitler sit with the old girl and try to be was going to send over. And as nice to her. Alfred was a fairly hefty youthi he began to fight. "Are you really coming in?" Mrs. Manvers -Pollock was pathetically "Heil Hitler," said John, feeling eager, that he had now . no opportunity of "Of course I am," said John. Ho really finding out: asked her to keep a secret. "I'm going to look out and see if there is any signaling," he said. "You were the first to put me on to it and so I want' you to help me," • "I will do all in my power to help you," said Mrs. Manvers -Pollack solemnly. "Yes, he's Here • on holiday." "Free French?" asked Odette, crusliing out the , end of her ciga- rette. A Frenchman, one of them in Fergus's pay? Hideous, devase taring thought. - "Well, he's loose so we'll conclude he is," said John Cheerfully. "Now then, we must get along;' he said. "Ready." "Yes." But the joy had gone from ..Odette's voice. Back again, behind her, the rhadoe that quenched all her joy. "What a sad little voice." "It wasn't meant to be." "It won't be when I've given it something .to think about." Swiftly he took her fare between his hands again. One, 'turf, three; he pressed the words one her mouth with his lips. - "Oh ." "I thought that would cheer you .1, ' said Joho, leaning forward to let in the clutch again, and laughing vers-Pollock's straining ears had "Oh, yes, I think I did once." Qdette's. -thoughts were beating themselves against one another like seagulls fighting in mid-air for crusts of bread. What had she said or what hadn't she said? What had Fergus told ber to say about Alan if she was asked? She sat there speechless. "Don't let's talk about the war," he said. "I'm sorry I started it. Forgive and forget." "It's all right," Odette spoke shakily. "But I'd much rather not, if you don't mind," . "02 course 'I ' don't mind. Look here, what do you think about short pause and a cigarette? Under these trees, don't you think?" "Excellent." The engine throbbed for a. second or two before John switoh:ed it off, Above them • the trees rustled. confidentially. Taking his hand from the (wheel, John laid it on hers. "Want& light?" Looking 'down into her upturned eyes he flicked the lighter into life, "I must mind I don't burn your eyelashes." "You flatter me. Are they as long as that? I "Nearly. I really can't risk it. Give me your cigarette for a minute. I'll do it another way," Meekly she did as she was told, Laying the two cigarettes on the chromium ash tray, he appeared to reflect. And then he turned round again. "I've thought •af a way," be said, "Hold yours face up a little, sweetest thing." He breathed the words to 114r lips. "That isn't lighting a •cigarette.' But Odette ' didnot move! She, too, breathed. the words with shut eyes'. With her colt face between, his hands John :fait himself jubilant as a boy. She was his. . . forever. Not yet: but sone time. Many things had to happen first—some of them horrible things. But in the end . . all would be well; he knew it. Suddenly .he had a revulsion' of feeling so acute in its intensity that .he caught its breath on +the smoke in his throat and coughed and coughed again. "Oh, dear!" Distractedly Odette. Parties desiring to effect insur- "Well"—John got up out of his ansa or transact other business will chair I m here o find out what's be promptly attended to on applica- wrong, although it may take me tion to any of the above officers ad- some time. And if it seems to you dressed to their respective post offi--that_I'm going a strange way about ces. Losses inspected by the director. it, keep your mouth shut, and if you hear any gossip try to silence it by leading them in the wrong direction. And you've got it clear? E.4, I,7?'! "Yes,- sir. And; I'll let you out of the side door. 'It's, gone one now, INAINIU Mona R MS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart front Clinton as follows: Toronto and Goderich Division Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart 3.03 p.m. Going West, depart ...I12.04 p.m. Going West, depart.....;.: 11.10 p.m. London and Clinton Division Coming North, arrive 11,20 a.m. Going South, leave ..,... ... 3.10 p.m. For many years, studies in testing materials for preserving Home-grown fence posts for farms have been carried out at the Dominion Forest Nursery Station, Indian 'Bead, Sask. Tee methods of treatment are of practical application on any farm, the more commonly known wood pre- servatives creosote, zinc chloride, and copper .sulphate (bluestone) being among the materials used. Over. 800 treated and untreated posts of locally grown trees of different species have been under test, the results of which "Heil Hitler be . " with his and the proper . treatment of the gasping Alfred swore frightfully. Various species have been noted by' In.spite of himself John ]au had John Walker, Superintendent and' out loud . "I'll Heil Hitler you. Wait of Chas' A. Edthe Station. in the forest engineer i till I get at you." Alfred, helpless in the grasp of steel, •began to aplut- It hes been established, they say, ter and to sob. "Stop tet," John that superficial •treatment of posts, spoke sharply. "You won't get hurt such es dipping for a few minutes if you keep quiet and answer a few or applying the preservative with a questions. Pre no more German brush, is not effective in preventing than you are. Going to keep still decay, but if preservatives are prop - i£ I let go of you?" erly used some measure of preserve- . tion sir." tion can be effected. The durability of untreated .posts is governed more Now then, tell' me what vow were by the period of seasoning before signaling for?" being set out. Slow seasoning is very ' important. The time of cutting the posts also affects durability. Winter is' the best time to cut posts because the seasoning process is there well advanced before • decay -producing fungi become active in the summer. Untreated posts, if thoroughly sea- soned before being placed in the ground, will last years longer than posts of partly seasoned or green cut wood. The recent drought decade . also prolonged the service life of prairie farm fence posts, which under normal weather conditions would have required replacing in that period. With a return of normal moisture .conditions, say the experts, r ca very heavy demand for new fence posts may be expected. "Just sit where you are and go on .with your knitting," said John. "And •12 anyone comes in talk to them only don't be too interesting or they will never go away again and then I Shall have to spend the whole even- ing vening behind the curtains. "Ready?" "Quite ready," ,said Mrs. Man- vers -Pollock, watching the tall, slim figure walk across, the soft carpet and slip behind the curtains. it emerged almost f!nmrediately. "Someone is. signaling," John whispered. "I'm off to find out what it is. I'll crone back to tell you what happens." He bolted out .of the room and let himself out the front door. He moved like, a cat, first over the lovely springy turf and then hand over hand over the great jutting rocks. His descent accom- plished, he stood on the hard sands. Ah! There . it was, a short, stoeky figure with its back turned to him. A. figure in an overcoat and with a cap, on its head. A few minutes later Mss. Man - BAD MANNERS? , Teacher (reading) Then came the great dragon belching forth . 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