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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-05-25, Page 2, °i N 1 TI'0N'dL i 1 rivii 'AGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription' `— $1.50 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S.. or 'oth- 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 Brat insertion. 8c for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," "Strayer," etc., inserted 'once for 36c, each subsequent in - I sertion 15c. Rates for display ad, vertising made known on applica tion. • Communications intended for pub - Reston must, as a guarantee of good with, 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 Offiee, Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K•C.• Sloan Blocic Clinton, Ont, 'CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. Office over J. 11.' Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Pira Wind, Sickness and Accident, Ante - mobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.O. Telephone 57. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., MAY 25, 1933 EIGHTH INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS The Story so far: Joyce Ashton, poor stenographer, in a skidding, taxicab accident in Chicago, 'suffered loss of memory. Two years later she woke one Morning after a fall from her horse to find herself, un- der the name :of Frills, married to Neil Packard, rich California fruit packer. From letters in her desk she learned something about her life in the two-year interval, and realiz- ed that she had been a heartless, reckless young woman and that she is seriously involved in an affair with a man named Maitland. She decided that ab all costs she would end it, but she found Maitland hard to manage. , Her troubles were fur- ther complicated when she read a Ietter referring to a baby—was it hers?—that the writer, Sophie; thought Frills ought to have with her. Much to the surprise of Sam, in her husband's employ, she asked for a dog and he got her one. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY c-1t� Shortly after ten o'clock Sam brought the ear to the front door and stowed away her two suitcases. The bank teller at the bank greet- ed her with a friendly smile. "Good morning, Mrs. Packard. Say, that was some little tumble you took. How do you feel after it?" 'Oh, I'm alright," replied Joyce hastily. She pushed her check in air him and stood on tiptoe with breath- less impatience while he deliberately counted out the money. Then she seized it, thanked him abruptly and almost ran out to the car again. When they were well out of the town, humming swiftly along the smooth roads, Joyce felt her nervous fear evaporate ander the stimulus of an irresistibly mounting spirit of adventure. This was going to be fun, she reflected happily. They reached` San Francisco about noon and Joyce parted from Sam with mingled feelings of relief and regret. As soon as she was installed in her clean little room at the Y. W. C. A. building she proceeded imme- diately to carry out her plan of ac- tion. The days passed rapidly. In the morning Joyce went out for her in- structions in driving a car. In these drives, much to her surprise, she en his knee, and wrote in it, slowly. had little trouble in learning to meticulously; waved it about with handle a machine. maddening deliberation to blot the ink; then handed it to her, closed. "Good-bye, Miss--.?" "Joyce Ashton," she said without thought. He raised his bat and was gone. Joyce was frankly disappointed. "He might have said he'd like to see me again," she thought. then ad- ded, "But, oh, dear, I've no right to go about being charmed by strange hien! Why, oh why, did I have to NORMAN W. MILLER ISSUER OF CAR LICENSES Agent for E. D. Snaith Nursery Stock Office Isaac Street, Clinton, Pohne 62w. DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. •One door west of Anglinan Church. Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses Pitted 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. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION -by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 ita men!' She stared at him, frank- ly curious. He was much taller and looked al- most as young as Neil. She guessed his age aa about thirty-one or two. A splendid physique; undoubtedly, GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence prhtnptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior Guaranteed as at least intelligent enough to talk to. .. • It had been such a reilef to shed the mantle of Frills Packard and diserss with frankness the things that she, Joyce Ashton,' was inter - with wide shoulders and strong' ested in, that she knew she had arms. As for his face,' the details been unusually vivacious and lacking of it impressed themselves on Joyce so strongly in the first few minutes' of their meeting that she felt she would never lose the picture. "I'm afraid I'm not altruistic e- nough to give the book to yOU," laughed Joyce. "Robert Ainsworth is one of my favorite authors and I've wanted to get hold of this book for years but never could. It's out of print, you know—" The little Chinese waitress, subt- ly 'smiling, approached. "Some tea?" she asked. Joyce rose hastily. "No, no, I must goy—" "Then I'll go with you," he said at once, thrusting a bill in the hand of the little Chinese girl, and fol- lowing Joyce, who was a little be- wildered but glowing with pleasure. They walked for over an hour, and Joyce discovered that her new friend had read nearly every book that had been written, and that his enthusi- asms were largely hers. He agreed eagerly with her opinions of Robert Ainsworth, whom, he said, he "rev- ered above all other moderns," He praised Ainsworth so lavishly in fact, that Joyce had a sudden sense that be was making fun of her, and for the first time she felt a slight hostility toward him. She could not bear her admiration for Ainsworth; whom she cosidered so gifted a writer, to be slighted. Hastily gathering her bearings, she discovered that they had gone in a circle and were again near the Y. W. C. A. and she therefore led their steps in that direction. "Good-bye," she said "and it's been great fun talking with you. Ihn only sorry you don't—quite—feel as I do about Robert Ainsworth. Un- der the circumstances, I shall have no compunctions about claiming my book!" "Oh, but I do share your onthusi- THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, George McCartney, R.R. No. 3, Seaforth; vice-president, Jas. Connolly, Goderich; Sec. -treasurer, Martin A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Thomas Moylan, R. R. No. 5, Seaforth; Jaynes S'houldice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Robt. Perris, Blyth; John Pepper, Brucefield; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; George L'einhardt, Brodhagen. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 8, 'Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth; lames Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchley, Seaforth. 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 incur- once or transact other business will to promptly attended to on. applica- tien to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post of- fices. Losses inspected by the direr-. -tor who lives nearest the scene. with a broad, eager smile on his face and bent oyer her. Joyce fore - ed herself to lift her face obediently for his kiss, but moved away hastily to prevent a second. "You were lucky to get even one," she said lightly, but her heart thumped so hard it made her breath come short, "Look, who's here! Dickie, speak to the gent!" "So that's your new dog, is it? Hullo, feller, you're a cute cuss, all right. 'Cone here, boy!" Dickie was quite ready to sake friends, for he appeared to regard every mam in the light of a potential playmate. He began now 'a little eager whining interspersed with short barks. "That means he wants you to throw a stick for him," she explain- ed, "he has one great passion in life, and that's to be given something to worry and run away and play tug- of-war with." Her voice faltered a little at the end when she looked up and met the puzzled expression on Packard's face. "Dinner's almost ready," she went on hastily, abandoning Dickie as a topic of conversation, "you haven't had any, have you?" "No, and I'm hungry as a bear. Hope Marcia's got something good for us Who's here tonight?" in shyness. Apparently, however; Ainsworth had been no more than casually interested. He had left her without protest, and he had made no effort to see her again. Ire had not despised her intelligence, but he had been indifferent to her femininity! All at once Joyce found this some- what bitter. Days went by and Joyce drifted on until one day she drew hes thoughts up sharply. She had allow= ed herself to grow forgetful of her situation, to visualize Frills Packard as a separate person, and to consider herself as detached from Neil and Mart and the whole life in Manzan- ita. Little as she had grown used to it, Frills was herself! Frills' hus- band was her husband! Neil Packard: her husband. Neil whom she had no more than barely spoken to, but on whose bounty she had been so lavishly living: here was problem enough to occupy her. More and more the subject . of his return grew on her as a formidable reality or walking a single victim off a plank, The ocacsion was a week's Jamboree of Boy Scouts of the var- ious islands of the British West In- dies and British Guiana, celebrating the21stanniversary of scouting in, Trinidad. Joyce had time during these two weeks to wonder about the friends site had left in the East. Did they ever think about her? She had been secretary to one of the members of the Lyman-Warde firm of advertis- ing agents. Mr. John K. Lyman was an elderly, impersonal gentleman who had never appeared to recog- nize the fact that she might have a life outside of the office. At the end of three years of this sort of existence Joyce was deathly sick of the city and the monotonous routine of her days, from the early morning scramble for her turn in the bath- room to the evening crush in the crowded, stuffy trolley cars. Joyce had made a sudden desper- ate decision. to get out of it all and asnl" He bowed somewhat mock- try some other part of the country. ingly, and held up the book. "But Recklessly she gave up her position, vou will let me sign the little Sold her few Liberty Bonds, bought :ketch?" Ire propped the book up a ticket for San Francisco with stop- over privileges at Chicago and Den- ver, said good-bye to her friends. and started out for the West of which she had, to be frank, 'only the vaguest general knowledge. As she lay in her bed in the Y. W. C. A. Joyce smiled and frowned al- ternately at the thought of how her plan had turned out. Thirteen days after she had left Manzanita, Joyce received the word that ended her solitary campaign to fit herself for taking the position of Frills Packard again. The morning nail enclosed a laconic telegram from Neil; "Arrive Manzanita Mon- day evening." This was Monday morning. Joyce immediately got Saar on long distanee and asked hint to drive to the city for her. On the way hone she questioned him with forced interest about all that had happened during her ab- sence. Sant imparted what news he could think up; Dickie had won the love of both Roxie and Marcia, Ro- sita was in fine condition; Sant had exercised her a little every hay bst site was r'aring to go and Mrs. Pack- ard would find her full of pep; there had been a small fire at the packing plant but almost no damage had been done; and so on, a list of triv- ial items to which Joyce listened with an interest that grew in spite of herself. She spent the afternoons riding in beautiful Golden Gate park. Her first timidity vanishing very quick• ly, she made gratifying progress and everyday looked forward to her ride with greater. pleasure. One day she overheard some girls in the Y. W. cafeteria talking about the Chinese restaurants, and, her interest aroused. she set out to ex - pore these exotic places. meet so vital and intelligent a ratan One evening she went there foe '—' it'll only make life harder for dinner, pleasantly weary after a clay ate!' of riding and driving the car. She opened the book, too upset in TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and. Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. 'Going East depart 8.00 p.m. `+Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart 9.58 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce going North, ar.. 11.34. ave. 11.54 a.m. Claming South , . 8.0.8 p,m, Dreamy and contented, she pres- ently wandered out of the restaur- ant, to reaelize a moment later that she had lest her book on the table. She retraced her steps. A man was sitting at the table she had occupied, and she was discon- certed to find that he had picked up her book, "I say, is this yours?" He was or his feet in an instant. 'Please sit down. I want to talk to you about it. This is really very extraordin- ary---" Joyce sat down, her :embarrass- ment vanishing. She felt at home with this man, as if she already hint, she would have been tongue knew him well enough to be casual tied, covered with the confusion of about the meeting. Why should she awe. Even looking back on their feel that with a man she'd never conversation, she blushed to think seen before? He grinned at her with how boldly she had advanced her such informal friendliness that Joyce opinions before him! At the same thought he must, surely, be a friend time, she glowed with the realize - of Frills Packard. And yet — and tion that she had been absolutely. yet — he wee so unlike the Manzan- herself and that he had regarded her her thoughts ab first to grasp what she saw. Beneath the sketch was written, in an exceedingly beautiful hand- writing, "Robert Ainsworth!" * ., It was inevitable that Joyce should think a great deal about Robert Ainsworth in the days that followed She was an emotional girl, of rearm, staunch enthusiasms and Robert Ainsworth won her unbounded ad- niiration, That she should ever meet him had not entered her wildest dreams. In fact, had she been introduced to GODIfRICH: Characterizing the action as "unfair," the Town Coun- cil last Saturday night lodged a protest with the Bank 'of 1Vlontreal against its action in reducing inter- est on savings accounts by one-half of 'one per eent, and at the same time reducing interest charged on the municipal loan one-quarter of one per cent. Mayor Lee and Chair- man Brown of the finance .committee were delegated to interview bank of- ficials, •" SEAFORTEI: Rev. David H. Mar- shall, 112.A., of St. Andrew's church, Guelph, one of the outstanding prea- chers of the Presbyterian •church.de- livered inspiring see:W ns at the an- niversary services held in First Presbyterian chhrch on Sunday, to large audiences. Fine music was provided by the ctoir under the lead- ership of, M. R. Rennie, The music included a trio by Mrs. J. A. Minn, J. T. Scott, and M. R. Rennie; an- thems by the choir with Mrs. W. A! Wright and Miss Ilarriet Murray as soloists and an effectively rendered solo by James T. Scott. JIGSAWMANIA A fool there was and a night .; he spent, Even as you and I, On a job that didn't net hios a cent, Even as you and I, A fool who sat as the hours went by, With throbbing head and glassy eye, Piecing together a jigsaw sky, Even as you and I, For a piece he didn't think was there, Even as you and I, When came the dawning, clear and cool; He gazed in rapture, deluded fool, At a couple of cows beside a pool.,I , write again. It was great to get Even as you and I. that letter from you." He came up (Continued next week) DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD C'—JI Prairie Kiddies Assured Toys for , Next Christmas Twenty per Gent. of the receipts of the big Montreal Boy Scout spring display was earmarked for paying postage next Christlnas on Scout Christmas Toy Shop parcels to the children of needy . settlers in the Prairie provinces. A Vocation Finding Street Fair No less than 82 Scout badge study subjects, aimed to help discover vo- cation, were portrayed in booths by Montreal Cubs, Scouts and Rovers at an indoor street fair, or Scout Display, that occupied•an entire floor of the big Eaton block. Working demonstrations included the building of a full-size canoe, tending sick in the horse, caring for bees and chick- ens, repairing shoes, binding books, operating radio, etc. The display was opened by His Excellency the Governor General. If They Ran To. Pick Up Someone At the Same Time! "Two of Great Britain's fastest railway locomotives have been named Boy Scout and Girl Guide. Here's hoping they never try to do a good deed at the same spot at the same tune."—Border Cities Star. occupied bird houses to its credit' during 1933 (sparrows excepted.) An Eastern Service at Peace Portal Clergy of various denominations and Canadian and U. S. Boy Scouts took part in the third annual Inter- national Easter Sunrise Service at "Peace Portal," on the border be- tween Washington state and British Columbia. out`s Modern Venturers of the Spanish Main .. Ghosts of Captain Kid and other roaring adventurers of the Spanish Main must have pulled their beards and shivered their timbers in puzzle- ment at the recent spectacle at Port of Spain, Trinidad, of modern boy- hood venturers having the time of their lives without scuttling a ship Dickie was at the gate to meet them and his joyous welcome filled Joyce with a quite disproportionate sense of pleasure of coming home. But when she entered the big luxur- ious bedroom she was struck for the first time by the dismaying real- ization that soon she would be un- able mable to flee to it for refuge and es- cape. She unpacked hurriedly and had a bath, careful to take a negligee in with her and to lock the bathroom door. It was horrible to feel that at any' moment a strange man might enter that 'bedroom, and that :she could not order him out! ..Suppose' 'he came before she finished dressing! In a panic she jumped out of the bathtub and dried herself hastily. ,She dressed in the huge closet, thankful that its size made this pos- sible, and was completely ready be- fore seven -thirty. Dickie followed her downstairs and they went through the front door to- gether. Just as they stepped out- side a big blue touring car. came up the driveway. Joyce felt a curious tightening in her throat as she re cognized Neil Packard. "Hullo there, darling, how've you - been?" cried Packard, jumping out of the car. "I was hoping you'd eC,Ga Scouts and Livingstone Memorial 'One, of the panels of the "Room of Adventures" in the Livingstone Mem- orial at. Blantyre, Scotland, is being 'contributed- to by the Scottish Boy Scouts Association. The panel, painted by Haswell Miller, will de- pict the great missionary's perilous voyage from Africa to Bombay in the little ship the Lady Nyasa. European Politics Do Not Prevent Scotts Fraternising , Unsettled conditions in Germany did not disturb the Easter tour plans of Kent (England) Scouts. The tour included Nurnberg, Munich, the Gar- minch Mountains, Ettal and Ober- ammergau. At all of these places they were stet by •German Scouts, and at Munich and Ettal took part in Scout rallies. Kent County Scouts each year tour some part of the Continent. Let's Help the Boys to Camp! Family circumstances will this year make it difficult or impossible for many boys to attend a summer camp, the dream of every normal Cana- dian boy. The alternative is knocking round town all summer, with perhaps se rankling grievance against things in general added to the ordinary op- portunities for mischief. Here is a field in which service clubs and other organizations may be able to help importantly, and not in -a financial way only. In attics and cellars there may be tents which car be loaned. There may be hunting and fishing cabins, and unused summer cottages which could be placed at the * the disposal of groups of boys under * dependable leaders. Special camp fund entertainments could be given by musical and dra- matic societies. A number of these were put on here and there during the past winter for the benefit of Boy Scout troops. Let's help the boys to camp! SHARE ALIKE Smith got married. T,he evening of his first pay -clay he gave his bride $14 of the $15 salary and kept only a dollar for himself. But the second pay-day Smith gave his wife $1 and kept $14 him- self. "Why, John," she cried in injured tones. "How .on earth do you think I can manage for a whole week on a paltry dollar?" "Darned if I know," he answered. "I had a rotten time myself Iest week. Its your turn now." C==C=D A Trophy For Occupied Bird Houses The Department of Lands and For- ests of Nova Scotia has offered for Boy Scout competition a silver trophy, to be awarded the Scout * troop having the largest number of * * * # * * * * * * ', * * * * * * * * * * * REGULAR.." IF NOT, * s THE NEWS -RECORD THE NEW -RECORD IS AN ALL-AROUND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, WITH SOME- THING OF INTEREST FOE EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER. WHY NOT? THE NEWS -RECORD VIS- ITS Y 0 U REGULARLY EACH WEEK OF THE FIF- TY-TWO IN THE YEAR AND COSTS LESS THAN THREE CENTS PER WEEK. YOU CANNOT GET MORE FOR YOUR I'ZONEY ANY- WHERE. 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