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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-09-08, Page 2PAGE 2 ClintonNews=Record With which', is Ineorperated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription—$2,00 per' year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses; $2.50 to the U.S. or 'oth- er foreign countries. No ' paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the caption of the publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted an the label. Advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12e per count -line for first insertion. 8c far each .subsequcni insertion. I•Ieading! counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 85c, each subsequent in- sertion 15e. Rates for display ad-• vertising' made known on appliea $icor. .Communications intended for pub lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the •name of the writer. G, 'E. HALL, . M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor, H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire .In- surance Agent. 'Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court -Office, Clinton. 'Frank Fingland, D.A., LLB. Barrister, Solicitor,' Notary Public, Successes to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block — . Clinton, On • CHARLES D. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug" Store CLINTON, ONT. D. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire Wind, Sickness and Accident, Antn- mobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.O. Telephone 57. DR. J. C. GANDIER Office Hours: -1.30 to 3.30 p.m., 6.30 to 8.00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 pin. Other hours by appointment only. Office and Residence — Victoria St, DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west of Angli')an Church, Phone 1.72 Eyes Examined and Glasses fitted DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and Residence: Huron Street — Clinton, Ont. Phone 69 (Formerly occupied by the late Dr C. W. Thompson) Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, 89, D. II. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist Masseur Office: Huron St. (Few doors west of Royal Bank). Hours—Tues., Thurs. and Sat., all day. Other hours oy appointment Hensail Office—Mon., Wed. and Fri forenoons. Seaforth Office—Mott., Wed. and Friday afternoons. Phone, 207. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for' the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be !nade for Sales Date at The News -Record_ Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate . and Satisfactior Guaranteed THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire InsuranceCompany Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J. Bennewies, Brodheg• en, vice-president, James Connelly. Goderich. See. -treasurer, D. F. Mc- Gregor, Seaforth. Directors: Thomas Moylan, R. R. No. 5, Seaforth; James Shoeldice. Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Robt. Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, '.Brucefield; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; G. R. McCartney, Seaforth. Agents: W. J. Yeo,• R.R. No. 3, Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchley) :Seaforth. ' Any money, to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, qr at "Calvin 'Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or -transact other business will 'be promptly attended to on appliea, tion to any of the 'above officers •addressed to their respective post or - 'flees. Losses inspected .by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. TIME. TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from • Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. ';Hing East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East depart 3.00 ,p.n. 'Going West, r d epart 12,07 Going West, depart 9,39p,nl. London, Huron & Bruce Gering South) • 3.08' p.in, Geheg' North 11.50 a.rn. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD SYNOPSIS: Johnny Breen, 16 years ;cid, who has ,spent •all his life aboard. a Hudson river tugboat plying near New Yoi•k City, is made motherless by an explosion whicla sinks the tug and tosses him' into the rive;. He swims and crawls' ashore where stens n new and strange life. e- He is ignorant, can- not'read, and knows ,nothing of life in a great city.. , Beaten and chas- dby toughs he is rescued by a Jew- ish, family living off the bowery in the rear of their second-hand cloth- ing store, .. Here he is openly courted by the young daughter. Breen fights bullies in self-defense . and soon is picked up by an unscrupulous neanagr who cheats him—until "Pug" Malaise at the sal - eon -fight, attracted to the boy, takes him under his wing. , . On the other side of the picture are the wealthy Van Horns of Fifth Av- enue. There is a Gilbert Van Hcrn, last of the great family, a bachelor, in whose life is a hidden chapter, with his mother's maid—hvho leaves .the home—to be lost in the city life When Gilbert is accused. was reported the maid married an old captain of a river tug ... rath- er than return home—end was soon a mother. . ..Under Malone's guar- dianshin young Breen develops fast. . .. "Pug" discovers the boy cannot read—;starts him to night school and the world commences to open for Johnny Breen. . Malone. an old- timer, is backed in a health farm. venture -taking Breen with him. There they meet and come to know Gilbert Van Horn, John attracts Van Horn, who learns of Breen's mother, named Harriet. Learning John's de- sire for an engineering course of Columbia University—he advances the money, John comes to know Jos- ephine, Van Horn's ward. At schools Breen grinds so hard .he verge: on a nervous breakdown. Van Hern steps in again to help save him. NOW GO ON WITII THE STORY "Mr. Gilbert is coming back to town and is bringing Mr. Breen." Jules announced to Josephine, in bed with her toast and coffee. John had been at the Van Horn home for ten clays. He looked re- markably well. Hie lounge suit. ated ti ffle just as it started moving swiftly' northward, . Jesephino way thrown egainst John. His arin, Steadied her. Her_ long glove wan off; he caught her hand 'as the tar stappe•d She rested against him, her cloak open at the throat • her bard shoulder 'beneath his eyes, in the pale light from: the are lamps acrose the avenue. Neither Spoke. _.Their breathing was intense.' An impulse held theist, the wild melody et .the moment before' seemed to reverber- ate through their minds. The scent of her' hair, the 'compelling thrill of contact, swayedthem on a crest oil emotion. John pressed her to him with sudden rudeness, kissing her. Josephine, her eyes closed,. did more than just receive the imprint of his lips, The car slid to stop before the house in the middle Fifties, They sat bolt upright. Both were wiser than before. • Back in the dormitory John ar- ranged his work in a methodical way. looked thiwugh his hooks as if coining back to old friends, filled his favrrite pipe from his dry tobacco in the humidor. looked out of the windcw over the roofs of Harlem, looked at himself in the mirror and smiled, Well, after all, he had a great prize ahead of hien in the mighty City of New York. On his chiffonier was the likeness of Jiise• tihine; in deccllete and with a ros- in her hair. Visitors to his scion' would glance at it approvingly. Ma- lone and Harboard were there. "A kick gees further than a kits. when you're erguin' with a jackass." Malone sewing a polished boot, one leg over the study table in'John's room. Harboard was in the bili drab by the window and Jahn sat no the couch. "That lcid there needed r kick, an' you give it to him, gooci.an' hard," Tiley were holdiug a post mortem over John's breakdown and his almost immediate recovery. Thr, city had simply ficor'ed him Inc'a few count; and be was again on his feet better than ever. "What John needs ire strong medicine. I've trained tended bar 'long side cf him seen him dive in after leernin', seen him follow it like a •bloodhound; yet an' stick, Harboard, stick at it nigh' from Van Horn's tailor, fitted hint as clothes had never fitted him before, "You can pay me back when you get out on the job.” Van Horn ar- ranged the matter easily. John Breen, apparently without an effor' or a thought about the matter, slipped into the stood of his new environment. He was perfectly nat- ural, natural in a way Hien are natural and simple behind the bar of a Bowery saloon, • John,without knowing it, practiced the ultimate in correct behaviour; lie was 'completely at his ease, as he saw no reason to bo otherwise. Josep.hine'after John evidenced no , awkward eigns of stage fright, and seemed endowed with an inherent gentleness, went to remarkable lengths in the process of his further education. He held her naturally, skillfully, and picked tip the latest lance steps with astonishing facility.; She took him to the exclusive Des; demoua Dances at the St. Botolphi John was '.accepted everywhere everywh:ere through the introduction of Van horn. • i r 1 Johns period of rest had come, to a close. His last day had been strange- ly quiet. His nerves were no longer on edge, but in the depth. of his be) i ing he felt a sinking sensation ear' loss. • OI course Jahn Breen was r more than merely inteeested'in Jose- I phine I Returning • ficin Payliacci' alone with. Josephine one evening the car' jolted as they swung across Forty. 1 second . Street, and Josephine uttered a startled "Oh!" , as they ,skidded oh ' the slippery street when brought tri a, sudden stop behind. a jam, a bus having' Welted the !crazy; un regul-' after night, diggin' on courses an statist himself with grammar, his - fry, an' rithmetick, an' readin' the. guts out of big becks, like he wail trying to find out somethin' irregu- lar, Ilis trouble (larboard, is goin' the whole hog, or none, He damn near killed himself when he loarnes to read, expected he could start right in an' find out evetythin' there was. IIe was afraid there was not enough for him to learn. Pug looked at John, smiling. He liked a fighter and John was certain- ly that. "If the women ever get hold Of him=Gawd help him, an' them." John blushed furiously-, Malone enc an oar Oo ee a eae n a ei Both glanced at Josephine's picture en the chiffonier; nothing had been said about it. At Iast, in the spring; John gradu- ated. C. E. Civil Engineer! John Breen C.E. John wrote his name again and again, airways adding the significant letters for which he had struggled during four years that once seerne1 so long and then lay behind him lilce a sudden dream. It had been a fight it was always- a fight in the greater city, • Re kept looking at his .sheepskin, an elaborate parchment citiaintly stating' that he was entitled .to r`all the rights, privileges, and iinmunit•I ies thereunto appertainling." He went to Greenbough . carrying the precious screed clutched hi his flat, Here was something to show to Pug. to prove that his studies had not been entirely in vain, Behind him ,the last days of the commencement kept recurring, brilliant flashes, in -I termingled with his dreams of what was to come, with thoughts of , Jose- phine .-and. comfortable interesting problems he w'ovild discust with Gil- bert Van ;Horn, Never .had . the campus been so afire with the spirit of- youth. , 'Gilbert Van Horn returned to fowl.- and owsand, spent a week with John and Pug at Gceenbough.• IIe had kept .away from the coimnencement. "Not feel- ingany too fit," In fact Gilbert was getting very close to the, point where he would .-have to make, a clean breast of things and take his chances with John—but always hoping against ,hope . that something would turn up. "in a natural way." IIe kept leis thoughts to himself and devoted 'a large apart • of his time, to watching Josephine. Gerrit Rantoul, so ' he began to realize, was making re- markable progresswith his' ward, Rantoul was a romantic figure, a man with a past shrouded in the 11'lamour of adventure, of South Am- erican and African enternrisca, man glossed with the polish of an international experience. But Rantoul was a good chap, ar Gilbert' had to admit. He secured an arpointment for John Breen as As- sistant Engineer on the great -Cats kill Aqueduct. "Subject, of course; to confirming examination." "Mighty decent of him, John," Van (lorn remarked. IIe felt a bit piqued that Rantoul should have done it. If he had thought, he could have managel it him -alit; but it was a compliment to John, and any one who helped John, helped hint. "Jo sends her congratulations, John. You'll be seeing her soon. Then this winter, when you get started on your work, we'll all be in the city together. Think of it, you might have gone west, or to 'Brazil on that railroad, or up to Alaska on that survey." "No, Gil. I'm set• on the city. Big. w,ramsrs,crmxxnmcta teteft==== THURS.,: SEPT. 8. 1932. , gest engineering problem in the world. I expect to be here all my life." ".'Well, t`he Van Horns have always etuck to New Yot'lc." ; Gilbert looked at the boy, closely, . 'as he said it. John Breen' was thinking of other things, not of the Van Horns. John catno 'down to the city ion a Friclay, Reliozatecl'at Division Head- quarters, saw huge offices, filled men working, at clrafting boards, or engaged in .calculations. Other. Hien rough; with. mud-slnalitei•ed boots, some carrying tunnel Lamps, came in from a dented.. ear .just hauled up at the curb. The wero executive en- gineers; members of .the field -force, . The'tvalls were covered with pro files,, with progress neerl ings. A contagious air of intense activity held sway. It seemed to John that he was on the edge of a great field Of battle, lot life• and sudden death, ofvastconstructions. John knew what thirst was, knew the sickly trickle of the lukewarm Croton -wat- er, running brackish and ,yellow in the deep honeycomb of the city. here Were men `working clay and night to bring the water clown, the clear„cold 'suarkling water of the old hills where Rip Van Winkle slept' and dreamed. Men were (kitting and sinking shafts were tunneling and mining under the broad Hudson, and nowthe bilge final bore, beneath Manhattan, was to be accomplished, the last deep drift four hundred and more feet in the solid reek of the parching, steaming city. It was a magnificent enterprise, a cause, a crusade,a di- rect reply to those who give scant honer to the engineer: . His appointment had been accom- plished, in a' moment. These nnepl wasted. no time. "Report Section Five, Shaft Eleven, to engineer Hurl; burl:, Monday, eight a.m," The Div- ision Engineer, named Wild, shook his hand. "Keep your eyes open and good luck." John was on the street and entering the new Subwya at 181st Street. "Why did he wish me good luck?" he wondered. A man sitting next tct John held a paper, he saw the head, line. Ten Men Killed on Aqueduct Siphon. It was printed in red and further clown was listed a long re- cord of other casualties and deaths. an extra room in a small'apartmetei neap the' work. "Sure, 'coupe in, it's handy'hoee and; you can't 'hear:' all the, blasts if you're a sound sleeper." James Mailing, °C.E , had already been.pn important work, driving the Pennsylvania tubes: IIe had the un- healthy .pallor o1 the menwho have worked in 'shields, , under' pressure. "Came up here for arty health. Rath- er get gunned than doubled with the bends. Take my tip, Breen, keep out of air." Ile spoke with the assurance of a man of immense experience... Everywhere_ an earnest ,activity Pprevailed, ` the palaverers were not there;these ' men were doers. They 'were . assembling the machinery for sinking a ,shaft in 14forningside,Parlc, A swearing boss driver was ragging a gang of sullen Polack workmen; sing location prints, and Mailing, in charge of a new transit; was direct- ing some youths:'carrying a"silvery' tape ° and a plumb boli. He beckon- ed to John. "Don't report until Monday," .he advised. "They run this ,job like a war," he added with a certain pride. "Yon got your orders, see hlurbeet at eight,, sharp', ;bine Mouclay, end then pronto, pronto, pronto! "Hey you" he bent to the eye -piece of the telescope and bawled at his assis- tants. "Left, .l'lalitmit, . Pett. Don't you fellows know the signals'?" Male' - ling straightenied himself witha smile of important disgust. (Continued Next Week.) The advertisements are printed for your convenience.They inform and several engineets stood about discus -save ypur time, energy and money. Princess Weilds trowel John stopped at the field house ROYALTY OFFICIATES marked -Shaft XI, He met the gang, IIer yHn, the Dk ates h Mailing, a Penn. ratan, and Barrow the corneRorstonealighforessthe noteuchess Kent andofYor• Sussexofficihos italat atte Turnbridlayingo£ e of Boston, Tech. These felows had Veno, p g fl,124/PPEZWArPS.6.4.4.2.r. „.,,,,m,,,,,,::: v NI % 1 How Many Sajies'Trasaction 'r o You Need? An Advertisement address- ed to our Local Retailers It is possible for v. retailer to caleulate the number of sales transactions required by his business each day, week, month, year. Here's how the calculation can be made; 1. Stun up the estimated operating expenses for the year -the 'amounts required for rent, wages, delivery, supplies of various sorts, insurance, repairs, losses. Add, also, the net profit which one should have to reward his capital and enterprise. 2. 3. Divide this total by the untidier of working days ill the year --say 305, in order to get the average daily cost of operating one's 'business. Ascertain the amount of the average sales transactions. (The daily records of individ- ual sales, over a period of a month or ac, will enable one to make this calculation). 4. Reckon .the amount of gross profit earned on an average sales transaction -20--25— . 30 per cent. 5. Divide the total average daily expenses by the profit on an average sales transaction. Thus onegets the number oS sales tr'ansac- tions'required daily to recover the costs of do- ing business. ILLUSTRATION Suppose that you find that your annual ex- penses, including a 'desired' net profit, total 01000, or, say, .$13,11 per day; that your aver- age sales transaction is 56 cents, en -which the average gross profit, at 25 per cent, would be 14 cents. Then your required number of salee, transactions per day would be 813.11 divided by 14, or 04. CI Now, to assure an average of 1)4 Fates transactions per day, rain or shine, will require you to be extraordinarily diligent in the flatter of attracting customers. Your windows should be made alluring. Your service should be cour- teous, prompt and pleasing, so as to make cus- tomers willing "repeaters." Your range of mer- chandi;e should be good, and your prices should be competitive. But these alone won't suffice to assure 94 sales transactions every day, on an average. You'll have to do a whole lot of inviting. Week .by week your invitations to buyers ought to be 'published in this newspaper. IF YOU FAIL TO ISSUE CORDIAL INVITA- TIONS, W1IIIK BY WEEK, THEN YOUR BUSINESS IS IN A STATE OF PERIL. ALB. .B. Tho accompanying illustrative example make; it clear\that a retailer can chock up his progress daily. Without a daily measuring of achievement against requirement leo business management can be called safe. fLs 4a