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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1932-12-22, Page 2(Clinton News -Record With which Is Ineorperated THE NEW ERA germs of Subscription ----$2.00 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses; 82.50 to the U.S or nth- er foreign countries. .No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher, The date to which every 'subscription is paid is denoted on the label, Advertising Rates -Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first. .insertion. .8c for each subsequent' insertion: Treading counts•2 lines.' Small advertisements, not to ex- eeed one inch, such . as "Wanted", "Lost;" `SStrayed," etc., inserted .once for 35c, each subsequent,in- sertion 15c. _Rates for display ad= vertsing made known on , applica- tien. • e +Communications d intended for pub - !Meatiest must, as a guarantee of coed daith, be accompanied by the name ,of the writer. E. E. HALL, M R. CLARK; Proprietor. Editor. 1L T. 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Directors: Thomas Moylan, R. R. No. 5, Seaforth; James Shouldice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Robt. Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, Brumfield; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth;. G. R. McCartney, Seaforth. Agents: W. J. Yea, R.R. No. 3, , Clinton.; Jahn Murray, Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinehtey, .Seaforth. Any money to be paid may paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton;Bank of -Commerce, Seaforth, et' at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderioh. ' Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business Will 'be promptly attended to on applica. Mien to any of the above officers :addressed to their reapeetive post of- fices. Losses inspected by the direc-. +•tor who lives nearest the scene. ANA®IAN_NATiONAI. , AILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going 117ast depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 pan. 'Going West, depart 9.58 p.m. London. Huron & Bruce ' Going -South , 3.08 n.m. ,Going North, ar. 11.54. Iva. 12.10 a.m. SECOND INSTALLMENT' SYNOPSIS Pauline, sentimental, .trustful, sin- cere and loving love, becomes en- gaged and marries Dennis O'Hara in the belief that ,their blissful happi- ness will continue unchanged through the years. On her wedding morning she awakens with a strange premon- ition that maybe love does chana'e, a thought buried in . her mind by a letter front her closest friend, Bar- bara, the night ,before. ,Pauline a- dored Barbara who. had been mar- ried, was the mother of a , child which died. bat now divorced and living a life 'which some of her friends could .not understand, Be- tween Dennis and Barbara is a seeming wall of nersonai dislike by both. Six months after • Pauline's wedding, Barbara comes for a short stay. ` NOW GO ON WITH •THE STORY. • of Pauline hung up the' receiver slowly and turned away from the. telephone. "Dennis. ];n't coming home till late," she said.. Barbara Stark blew a cloud, of cigarette smoke into the pair, turned a page of the magizine she was reading, then glanced up. "Oh! Business?" she asked casu- ally. "IIe didn't say." There was a little silence, Pauline. went hack to her chair and took up the work she had been engaged .upon so happily a moment ago. • "I should give that up if I were you," Barbara said in her lazy, musi- cal voice. "How long have you .been at it?" "Ever since I was engaged." Paul- ine spread the cloth across her knee and regarded it critically. "Time flies, doesn't it? You've been married —t how long —. Six months?" asked Barbara, musingly. "Nearly," Pauline's blue eyes sought her friend's face rather som- berly. "It seems longer—sometimes," she admitted. Barbara laughed, "Not very com- plimentary to Dennis." "Dennis is a darling," Pauline gathered up the elaborate cloth, "He's a perfect darling," she said with enthusiasm. Barbara stifled another yawn and turned another page of the imam. sine. "And they lived happily ever af- ter," she quoted rather cynically. Pauline leaned forward, her chin resting in the cup of her band. "I want to ask you something," she said, suddenly, "May I?" "My lamb, why not?" Barbara's dark brows lifted in mild amaze- ment. "What is it? I promise to answer to the best of my. limited el- oquence." Pauline slipped to her knees beside her friend. "I think I'm just beginning ' to learn that life isn't the simple thing I thought it was," she said slowly. If it were we would find it dull and uninteresting," Barbara declar- ed. "IV; the uncertainty that keeps us going at al, What is the import- ant question " Pauline looked down at her new wedding ring and twisted it thought- fully; then suddenly she raised her eyes. "Why don't you like Dennis?" she asked. Barbara was lighting yet another cigarette—her white slender fingers paused in their task; then she an- swered evenly: "But I do like him. I like him immensely," Pauline shook her fair head. "It's nice of you to say so, but somehow I don't quite believe you. There's a Sort of feeling of antagonism when- ever you and he ai'e in the same room." Barbara interrupted calmly: "Isn't it rather he who doesn't like rue, don't you. think And isn't it perhaps because I ant here that he has suddenly decided not to come in to dinner tonight?" Pauline sat back on her heels and looked up at her friend. She admit. ed Barbara immensely, and yet no- body hail ever called Barbara beauti.. ful. ' "Striking 1ookingt" had been. Dennis O'Hirra's reluctant admis- sion. "The sort of woman a man looks at because he's not quite euro what she is." ' It was a true if not a very lucid description. Barbara was tall and slim but she rather affected a droop, and she had queer nondes�crict eyes. that were sometimes dark and some- times pale, and a beautiful mouth, and hair of real leaf brown. She wore 'clothes that were like nobody else's. "God knows where' she gets 'em," Dennis grumbled. She seemed to he a perpetual source of grievance to grim, "She gets them at quite ordinary shops," Pauline said, ever on the defensive for her friend. But yon see she designs them herself, and she's so original." Barbara certainly. looked "origin- al" enough now, as she stood with one hand on. her hip looking doom at Pauline with 'an 'indulgent smile.. She were a frock of the brightest jade' green girdled With a` banciof:, dull 'orange, a`nd her long diogpingl ear -rings were jade and her' cigar- ette holder was jade also. "Why should he disapprove of you?'" Pauline asked, .realizing why, even as she asked •the question. Dennis liked '"womanly women" — the description was .his own. "Bar- 'tiara looks like a eross between an Egyptian queen and a fihri .vannp," he had protested only last . night. "Why on earth can't she wean frocks like this " and he had, -pinched a soft fold' of 'his wife's between finger and thumb. Pauline had flushed with pleasure "Now if Barbara wore what I call 'fluffy' clothes," he went on, floun- dering amidst ekplanajhions, 'some: thing .blue --with some lace—" • "She'd look frightful!" Pauline told him. "Why should he disapproye of you?" she urged, as her friend did net reply. "Men," said Barbara, "ahvays ,dis- approve of things they don't under- stand." "Oh," said Pauline. She was not quite sure what Barbara meant, but it sounded profound., and then she asked the question which for months she had longed to ask. "Barbara did you love your husband when you married him?" The answer came -without hesita- tion. "I thought I did, but we had been married exactly—I think one hour -when I knew I did not." "How dreadful!" Barbara laughed. "It was rather. but I've got .over it, and it was an experience I don't regret." "And you've never loved anyone since?" "Yes." Ire been fon) enough for that" • "Oh!" Pauline scrambled to her feet. "Who was he? Do tell me " Barbara moved away to the win- dow. "It wouldn't interest you,' she said, "Everything' about you interests spa" Pauline pleaded. Barbara turned. smiling a little "This wouldn't. It's nothing roman- tic." Rut Pauline would not he denied. "Didn't he love you. Oh, but he must have," she insisted. "I never asked him. One doesn't P'n abont provesing to men who don't show the slightest interest in. one. you know." "I knew. but—' Barbara. petted Pauline's cheek. "I said I'd answer one nnestion. and Pm sure I've answered half a dozen," she protested. "What- are we {ming to dc with ourselves this ev- ening?" "Petorkin's coming to dinner." Barbara raised her brows. "Poor Peterkin!" "What do you mean?" "Why, by coming here to cep you." "Why shouldn't he? He's my cousin" "I know—a cousin who adores the ground you walk on. Now that'.S a man whose love I believe in, Pauline. you're the only woman in his life. You ought to have married him—1 consider you are admirably suited," "Barbara! I don't care for mind in that way at all." "I know you don't, but all the Fare yon are admirably srlited to him, You're both sentimental. where- as Dennis—" She stopped, but Paul- in', naught her un quickly, "What about Dennis?" "Nothing, except that ternnera- m"»tally he's your exact ounosite." "Then we must have been made for each other," Pauline ln;isted, "'Lake attracts unlike,' they say, don't they " "Attracts, yes:, and then so if re- nr"tting: the word, Barbara laughed, "Why do you lead me on to talk such nonsense? Oughtn't we to dress? Peterkin will be here direct- ly," When she was upstairs in her room Pauline made no attempt to dress. She sat down on the side of the bed and stared at the roan-netterened carpet with eyes that suddenly seem- ed to see a great deal, She had 'been married "'a +tion+ho, —happy months, yes, decidedly 'hap- py months and yet . . . "Temperamentally Dennis is your exnct opposite." tiarharp,'C word; cr".,e. back to her with insistent truth. Dennis was not in the least •sontianental-he hated what he called "slosh." Now Pauline came to think of it, he hardly ever used any terms of endearment when he. spoke to her. 'Pauline si rhed. It was the little things of life that were so disan- pointing, she decided. Only last night, for instance, he had come home earlier than usnnl from the Pity and bad gone straight down to the garage -aid had tinkered about with the, caro. 'When they were first married his first' thought would have been for her—or—wouldn't it? Pauline ':submitted ihteuself to a stiff cross-examina%ion. ; P'drhaps she had ,been unwise. It was ' a mistake to show youwere too fond of a man—Barbara had always said that—Barbara who was so cynically wiorldly,wise,' :. .But even Barbara admitted to be- ing in • Iove! Pauline wondered who the man could be, and decided that it was •probably the married man 'with whom she had. lately been going about. • A bell pinged through the house, and she chnged hurriedly and went downtsairs. Peterkin. was alone in the drawing room --,Barbara had not yet'. appeared—land Pauline went up to him with an unconscious little sigh of relief'. "It's nice to see you, Peterkin" "Glad to see me?" he asked jerk- ily. He lookedd own at her, but he kept his hands firmly clasped behind his back. Pauline nodded. "You're a bit of my old life, and you're so safe," she said comfortably. Ile laughed rather grimly. "Is that a compliment? — and where's Den- nis?" "Out on business." . "Already?" There was an, unkind little note in the question, and PauI- ine drew away from him offendedly. "And you're still quite happy?" She met his eyes serenely. "Per- fectl3r." Ile let her go at that. "Weil—are we dining atone?" "No, Benham is here." His eyes brightened. "Is she? I like that woman—she's a fascinating devil. 1 wonder she hasn't got mar- ried again." • "I wish she would. There is—" Pauline broke, off, realizing site had been about to break a confidence by speaking of the man whom Barbara bad admitted loving, and in the next moment Barbara was in the room. They had quite a cheery dinner in spite of Dennis' empty chair;, before which Pauline insisted on placing 0 vase of rosesand a glass of wine "for luck." "Still so romantic!" Barbara teas- ed her, "And always will be, I hope," Pauline answered: She was rather quiet during dinner — afterward. when she was in bed and lying a- wake listening for Dennis she real- ized there had not been much neces, sity for her to talk. Then she hearer Dennis' step up the Little garden and the sound of his key in the door. She flew out of bed and down the stairs, barefooted as she was, and when he opened the door she -flung herself into his arms, "Haw late you are! It's been so lonely. Are you all right? I'm always so afraid you'll get run over or some- thing when you're out so late." O'Hara laughed and kissed her flushed cheek. "Do you think I want a nurse .or a keeper?" he asked. He put her gently from him. "You'll take cold —no slippers or dressing gown." "I'm quite warm," She hung a- round him as he took off his coati and she followed him 'into the din- ing room, talking all the time. "Have you had dinner?" Continued Next Week , K.IPPEN It is rerettable but nevertheless a fact, that our old C.N.R. station, which has stood to acconrrnodate the public for nearly 05 years, will close permanently, December 31st. While this will be a great incon- venience to the general nubile yet our present business system will help to fill the blank in a great measure. We will lose Mr. Bruce Field and family from the commun- ity and this too, will be another general loss. As we have had many and splendid agents in past years but Bruce was not only a good ser- vant to the G.N.R., but an excellent man in public and social affairs. Mrs. Field and children will also leave a warm spot in all our hearts and will be sorely missed byus ail in Kippen and around the ,commsn- ity. . Judging by present appearances Santa will eb able to can on the wee folks, if snow is necessary as if a little bit more falls, cars will be parked and Dubbin will be called in- to his rightful place. ;Our S., S. pupils and trainers are - gating no trouble or labor to make a grand successful Christmas concert on the 22nd: A pantomaine, solos and readings will be the main fea- tures of this event. Mr. and NA's. E. Stafford of St. Thomas were guests at the home of W. l£. Hollis for, the past week. 1drs. Clark of I•Iensall was visit-' • ing-her sister, Mrs. W. Anderson this week. Mr. and Tars. Robt. Green of Lon don were• calling on Mrs. Green's mother, Mrs. J. Dayman, one day Mast week. Wo are glad to be able to report an improvement' in our sick' in this comieunity. Mr, L Jarrott is gain- ing slowly, bIr. J.' Workman is yet confined to his bed, but ost the mend; Mr, Win. Harvey is able to' again be at the wheel of 'his trucl;, yhilo Mr. French, whose hand was injured in ; the machinery of the grain elevator, is again able to _smiler Mr. Root. Elgie is holding his own `and 114,r. W. Love, who had the misfortune to get kicked by his rdiver, is up and about. his work again. We trust all these good gentlemen will he able to eat a hearty Christmas dinner. Mr. Wm. Butt of Seaforth was cal- ling on and giving his old friends a genial'. smile and hand shake this - week. Mr. Butt likes to get out a- mong his old -:time friends and they like to see him. The W. M. S. of the United church is busily engaged preparing quilts and packing clothing to send to the Friendship home in London to ` help a little, those less fortunate ones Who, through lack of jobs, are suf- fering for sufficient 'clothing. . This is a splendid work and let's .all get together and help to make the oth- er fellow happy. We are 'glad to see Mr, Wm. • bios kenzie about again after his arecent accident. r,. IMealoteitsMA It is foolish and futile for us to rebel against paying municipal taxes. They are our own. We made them. We promoted, or a majority of ' us endorsed, the expenditures which made the taxes necessary. So let's pay them and resolve that, if we ever get over this, we'll never do it again. The "lame duck" session now be- ing held at Washington could not happen in any other country with parliamentary institutions. Thb "lame ducks" are there aplenty. Though defeated in the November elections, they continue to play their; part as though elected. There are others who, though not defeated, were not elected, for the very good reason that they did not run. Still others are there, sitting in Congress, although recently .elected to the Senate. to A Washington newspaper serious- ly suggests that Britain pay a por- tion of the debt in cruisers., John Bull speaking: "Hands across the Sea" was once a slogan fair 'twixt Sam and me. Now Sam is looking to a time when Britain hands across the sea." One ofthe reforms introduced in- to Italy by Mussolini compels pris, oners who can afford to do so to pay their way while in jail. Another re- form graduates fines according tc, the ability to pay. The two might be, adapted in Canada. The prin- ciple 1!rnbodied in'Else latter one map however, have been copyrighted by specialists. Times must, indeed, be hard in Detroit. A young man from that city was paying a brief visit to .his Irish parents in Canada. One of his teeth was prominently missing and his mother suggested he go to a den* tis, and get an artificial one. "No, mother," he said, "I have enough teeth left—for all the work they have to do in Detroit. A recent exchange of notes be, tween the British government and bfoscow suggests the advisability of being certain of an apology before asking for one. bL� The Canadian minister at Wash- ington intimates that if coastguards persist in seizing British vessels Canada may lift the ban err export of liquor to .the United States. 'Un- afraid and undismayed, Uncle Sam- . will proabbly go et. That :'threat' has in it some of the elements of .promise. A newspaper says'.that in Russia women aro en. a complete , equality with, men. Women in Canada would never stand for any such condition as that. - Mar. Wloodswortb's �crittgism jot Soviet rule and his rebuke of Com monists shows the sobering effect of responsibility.. The leader, of any party. in such times as these, is a Potential prime minister, and it be- hooves him not, to start fires which' it may be his duty to quench. After the riots caused by John Wilkes were over, that agitator had an au- dience with George III., in which he told the king that he, Wilkes, had never been a Wilkesite. It was prob- ably true enough, that the flames had spread farther than he expected or wished. tet. John D. Rockerfeller, Jr. has been coaching canvassers for subscriptions ort, how to approach a prospect and. among other things, he tells them to inform their prospect how much he is expected to give and•how Misch other persons in his class have given,,. He says that he 'himself likes to • have that information. If so, he is unlike many others who resent 'the first item as an impertinence and the second is implying that the pros- pect is one of those who like to keep up with the Joneses, and know- ing what the Joneses have done, go them one better. One of the oldest hotels in Toron- to, the Prince, George, formerly the Rossin House, has gone into liquida- tion and the second largest hotel, the King Edward, is in the hands of a receiver. This is the result of the building of the Royal York hotel, which cost the C.P.R. 'Co. millions of dollars, out of which there will never be a net return. In Halifax, Char- lottetown, Winnipeg, Brandon, Re- gina, Saskatoon and Vancouver the C.N.R. policy of building palatial hotels has had the same affect. No one has profited by it except those who made money out of the con- struction. A SPECIA.L Wit The Clinton News -Record In an Effort to Conform to the Stringency of the Times and Share with its Subscribers, has Decided to Reduce its Subscription price to .50 U. S. A. $2.00 All Renewals and New Subscriptions will be accepted at the above Price, Anyone Having Paid for 1933 will have the Subscription Marked on for Three Months,