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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-07-13, Page 23PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TFIUR1Si., JULY 13, 1933 'Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription --. $1.$0 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.Q0 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. 4dvertising Rates -Transient adver- tising 12c; per count line for first insertion. Se for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex - teed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," ',Strayed," etc.,ihsertea once for 85c, each subsequent in- sertion 15c. Rates for display ad/ vertising made known on. applica- tion, '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. IL T. RANCE 'Notary Public, Conveyancer 'Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- ,suranco Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies, Division Court Office, Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A.; LL.B. 'Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Publics Successce to W. Brydone, K.O. Sloan Block - Clinton, Ont. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc: 'Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire Wind, Sickness and Accident, Antee mobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage 'Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.O. Telephone 57. NORMAN W. MILLER ISSUER OF CAR LICENSES Agent for E. D. Smith Nursery Stock Office Isaac Street, Clinton.. Pohne 62w. DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street - Clinton, Ont. One door west of Anglican Church. Phone 172 +!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 GEORGE ELLIOTT !Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate and Satisfaetior Guaranteed THE McEILLOP 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; James Shouldice, Watton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; 'Robt. Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, Brucefield; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; 'George Leinhardt, Brodhagen. 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, cg at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderieh. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will 1 be promptly attended to on appliea, 'tion to any of the above officers .addressed to their respective post of- fices. Losses inspected by the direc- rtor who lives nearest the scene. MO RAILWAYS TIME TABLE ermine will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div, s -Going East, depart 7.08 + Going East" depart 8.00 'Going West; depart 11.60 Going Wast, depart 9,58 London. Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.8i1. lye. 11:54 a.m. Going South 8.08 p.pi 'There's something in the adver- tisements today to interest you. Read e thent pan. lent .,SYNOPSIS: Synopsis: Joyce- Ashton, poor stenographer, suffered loss of mem- my in •a skidding taxicab accident.in Chicago, •One morning ' two yeare later she woke, -after a fall from her horse, her, memory restored, to find herself, as Frills; the wife of N'eil Packard, rich' California fruit packer. She determined to tell nobody of her predicament but set about learning• What she couldof her life in the in- terval. Prom the conversation of her friends and letters in her desk she gathered that she had been a heartless, pleasure -loving young wo- man. One letter that troubled her was from a woman signing herself Sophie, blaming Frills for not giv- ing a home to a baby Sophie was caring for. Could it be her baby, Frills wondered! She also found 'herself involved in an affair with a man named 'Maitland. In San Fran- cisco, 'where she went while her hus- band was away on business, she met Robert Ainsworth, a poet whose work she had always admired. When Soyce returned home, she decided to be pleasanter to Neil than Frills had been. But this line was dan- gerous, too, for Neil was patheti- cally anxious to win back Frill's love. At his request they call upon Neil's mother, whom Joyce finds adorable. Later, she met the poet, Robert Ainsworth, and several times stop- ped for lunch. at his 'cabin when she was horseback riding. One day he started to make Iove to her. ce=tb NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ' "Do you know, dear,' I haven't had a ride with you in a dog's age. I think 1'11 cut out the golf today and go with you. Take nie on, will you?" Neil spoke with smiling careless- ness but the look in his eyes gave him away. "0f course what time will you get here?" She spoke casually. Neil would never guess the turmoil or =happiness under that calm. Did men ever divine things the way wo- men did? One man perhaps .. . Robert? as the name stabbed her she turned away quickly, scarcely hearing Neil's answer, "I'll come home to lunch, I think. Then we'll have the whole afternoon together." Even in her pain Joyce heard the change in Neil's voice. That last word was spoken with so touchingly confident and happy a note. "All right. I'll be ready. Good - .bye," and she ran upstairs and shut herself in her room. There she sat clown on the edge of the couch -bed and clenched her hands, staring dry-eyed out of the big window to the distant mountains. Joyce was wrapped in a mood of warm compassion for Neil. She felt eral expression matched the friend- ly casualness of her voice. •"l: said I'd like to get ridof her,niyself but I'd !have to consult you about the matter. I hate the •sight'of the •damn brute after what she nearly did to. you, dear." A flash of amusement curled the corners of Joyce's Ipouth for mo- ment as she remarked; "Yoti need- n't consult me. I'm quite satisfied with Rosita, thank you." "Really? Gosh, that's great. Sure relieves my 'mind." ' A little later they dismounted and satdown on a slope overlooking the valley to eat the package of sand- wiches and fruit Joyce had brought. To her relief Neil, talked about Man- zanita topics, his mother's condition, Paul's departure, Sam's progress in the correspondence course, plans for the new subdivision' north of Man- zaznita, and so on, He .finally stretched out • on the ground and put his head in her lap. Joyce had just stroked back a lock of hair from his forehead, thinking absently that Neil ought to be do- ing something about in 'increasing thinness of his hair, when the thud of a horse's hoofs in the distance caught her ear. She stiffened and glanced up with an apprehensive fear clutching at her heart and stopping its beat for a moment. There, in an opening between clumps of oak trees about sixty yards away, on the trail they had just left rode Robert Ainsworth! He did not see her at first. Then his icley roving glance turned to the couple on the ground. His eyes met Joyce's, and a quick smile of recog- nition spread over his face. Then his look dropped to the figure of Neil lying with his head in her lap. A quizzical shade passed over his face. "Hello ,Joyce!" he shouted. IIis horse leaped forward under the spur of his heel and they galloped up the slope. Before Neil could stumble to his feet Ainsworth was drawing rein nearly upon thein. "This precise situation," he said easily, "demands a galloping retreat on my part, but I'm too inquisitive to be so gallant. I prefer to advance and see what happens instead!" Joyce's self-possession left her entirely. She stared numbly at the two men, miserably aware that they were both looking at her for an explanation, and even more mis- erably aware that she knew not how to begin. Neil was the first to come to Joyce's rescue, "I beg your pardon," he said, courteously, "you seem td know my wife?" The quizzical smile deepened on she could not add another unkind- ness to the many that Frills had in- flicted upon him. His eyes !haunted her, and she felt more utterly mis- erable than she had at' any time since she had awakened to find ,her- self occupying another woman's shoes. She could not contemplate failing Neil and his mother that way. Riding off with Joyce that after- noon Neil was in high spirits, with an elation in his manner that filled' Joyce 'with shame. She rode in si- lence, hardly answering his ques- tions, and not looking at him. Neil soon fell in with her • mood, as they rode along and no longer bothereda her with conversation. Gradually then she began to feel re- morse, and wished she could be less surly with Neil. He tried so hard to please her in everything to adapt himself to her moods. It struck Joycesuddenly how much of that sort of thing he must !have been do- ing in bis married life. "Sant says McBready has , a new lot of horses in," remarked Joyce, "did he tell you there's a man froin. Salinas who would like to buy Fire Queen?" • "Yeah," replied Neil, eyeing her sidewise; perhapi to see if her gen- Robert's face. "No, I seem rather to have made a mistake—" he be- gan. A new, almost insolent note in his voice whipped Joyce into an- ger. All at once she knew what her course must be. It mattered little to her what the outcome of this meeting was; she was determined not to be led into further deceptions, "No mistake at all," she said quietly. "Neil, he's lying if he says he doesn't know me attitude were a cloak 'for his hurt feelings, Joyce thought swiftly, it' was a less lovely one than Neil's. • These valuations 'passed through Joyce's 'mind in ere galloping se- cond, while she stood there helpless- ly, wondering where to begin, , "May I have, the pleasure of meet- ing your husband?" Robert asked smiling. Joyce looked at him. "Get off your horse, please," • she answered "There's a lot to be straightened out and it'll take some time ... Robert Ainsworth this is Neil Packard, my husband:.."' The men acknowledged 'the intro- duction, Neil curtly, Robert with the same hard amusement that so offend- ed Joyce. "Charmed," said Ainsworth light- ly.. ightly. "Oh, don't talk that way!" Joyce cried. "I don't . know you at all in this mood you're making it terribly hard for mei " Robert threw back his head and Laughed. "Think Joyce, what a lot I'm going to learn from this meeting! Think of the value of it all to a'nove- list! Why, I wouldn't be, 'missing it for anything! I only wish I had the pen of an Elinor Glyn to write it up adequately-" . Netl drew forward.. "I don't think my wife and I have time to atop and listen to that sort of damn drivel from you—" he began hotly, when Joyce interposed. ," "Oh, this is all so fantastic. Please please, don't begin a fight over • it, when neither of you really know u bit what it's a'.I about ... Neil; I've been trying to make up my mind to tell you -.Robert, there's a good deal clue to you, too! I hadn't expected to , tel'. you both et once, but since it's happened that way, for Heaven's sake don't make it so difficult for me!, I want to tell both of you the troth!" She turned to her husband, "Neil, yea never heard of Joyce Ashton, did you? Answer me that, Neil?" "You don't mean Joyce Abbot, do you Frills?" 'No, no, I don't . , , TelI me this, Neil, what was my 'name before you married ore? . . Don't look at me as if I were crazy! What was my name before you married me?" "Why, Frills, this is nonsense! Don't you know your own name? It was Florence Hilton, of course. 'What's that got to do with-" She Hooked from one to the other of the 'men. Neil's expression was that of the same partly -repressed hurt that he had shown when Mait- land's name had been mentioned. She knew at once that he thought Robert had taken Maitland's place in /'rill's life,' but that his value of de- cency and dignity was holding him in cheek. Neil's immediate uncon- clous reaction to this situation did not surprise her; he was showing no reversal of his personality. Robert; however, had suddenly be- egme a stranger to her. Was this her "perfect companion," was this the mars 'il'hose subtlety -and sym- pathy she had so deliriously counted. Dr?' He 'sat on his horse coolly and looked down see them with an ex- pression, of amused; cynicism. If this had taken possession of my body DOINGS IN THE while I was an amnesia victim. I found out that as well, as having got4 ten Joyce Ashton a good husband and a beautiful home, she had made that husband desperately unhappy, been a cross little beaet."' Neil looked up, "Do you mean to tell me ;you don't remember having married me?" "Yes, Neil, just that. I'm trying to tell you that I renzeinbee nothing between the time of the taxi accident in Chicago two years ;:ago, and the recent accident on Fire Queen!" "Humph." Neil looked closely at his wife, as if trying to fathom some hidden reason she might have for, Malting a fool of him. haven't you . noticed that I've been different lately? Look back at your return •from Chicago that 'last trip: Haven't. I been less reckless, less troublesome generally, than the Frills you 'married?" (Continued next week) "Oh, will you please let ine tell you? Sit down, both of you, this is going to take a long time. Please don't begin by thinking I'm crazy. You've both heard of amnesia vic- tims, of course? Did you know you'd married one, Neil? Did you know that Florence Hilton was a girl with- out a past, without a life? You've got to help me tell this story, Neil, because l remember nothing before the morning after Fire Queen threw inc on my head!" Neil was staring at her damb- founded, You're not serious, Frills? Why--what-when-'-' Robert Ainsworth said, "Lord! Tele us what you're driving at; Joyce.!" Joyce suddenly found it possible to talk to these two men. It was as if her mind had for emir c time been preparing the story it had to tell, so that the words eamo swiftly, tensely; dramatically. She told thein of be- ing born Joyce Ashton, of her early life in. New England, of her aunt and uncle, 'of her work in Philadelphia and then of her start toward the Coast in search of adventure. "I remember getting into the taxi- cab in Chicago in the snow - that sort of light snow when the streets still aren't quite wet, but the dile makes them sticky. The taxi skidded violently -there was a crash -and When I woke up I was in a bed, on a sleeping porch, looking out at a tree on which oranges were growing. A man came onto the• porch and asked me how I'feit! That was you, Neil. whom I in my first appalled state fancied to have been my kidnapper!" "Wiry on earth -tray, how on earth have you kept this all to yourself ? Ilow long\ ago was all this, Joyce?" It was 'Ainsworth speaking. Neil seemed too stunned to take in the significance !of it all. . , "I dont know just ;how I have kept it all. Of, course at first I' was so terrified I couldn't think, much less act. Then I've always .been awfully reticent -hated seenes-ancl I usualh! found the line of least resistance. Neil was just leaving to go on a beei- ness trip to Chicago. He kissed ore good-bye while ,L was still in` that paralyzed' state, and I was left It figure things out for myself! It was all terrible, ofcourse, but in some ways it was fascinating. Yoini house, .Neil, is to lovely, and the out- doorness appealed to me it all was see different from the pinched,. dark, Meagre life I'd beep leading in the. Philadelphia boarding-house ., that I hung greedily on.... And then 'el course,'I found out about Frills. . "Peelle was the vicious imp that THE BOY WHO DIDN'T PASS • A: sad -£aced little fellow sits shone in deep disgrace: There's a lump arising in his throat and tears drop down his face, • He wandered from its playmates, for the doesn't want to hear. Their shouts of merry laughter since the world has lost its cheer. He has sipped the cup of sorrow, he has dripped the bitter glass, And his heart is fairly breaking -he's ' the boy who didn't pass. In the apple tree the robins sing a cheery little song, But he doesn't seen to hear it, show- ing plainly something's, wrong; Comes his faithful little spaniel for a romp and bit of play, But the troubled little fellow bids hint sternly go away. And alone he sits in sorrow, with his hair a tangled mass, And his eyes are red with weeping he's the boy who didn't pass. Oh, you who boast a laughing son, and speak of him as bright, And you who love a little girl who comes to you at night With shining eyes and dancing feet, with honors from her school, Turn to that lonely little lad who thinks lie is a fool, And take hint kindly by the hand, the dullest of his class, IIe is the one who most needs love- the boy who didn't pass. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE "See here," writes a man from Glasgow, "if you print any more jokes about Scotuhmen as you did Last month, I,ll stop borrowing your journal." +Raihvay Employee Journal, W'O'RLD SCOUT No less than ninety-seven 17nglish public schools, including Egon, Rugby and Harrow, have taken up Scouting. Follett Rovers Oppose :Duelling " Anti -duelling and antiealcohol. movements are strongly supported in the Polish universities by Polish Rov- er overScouts. Aussie Scouts Guide German Sailors During a visit to Australia ief the German cruiser, . Kola, Australian Rover Scouts- acted as guides for touring parties of German seamen. ' C9LZ Sweden's Crown Prince a Boy Scout Participating as a Scout, Crown Prince Adolf of Sweden took part in the celebration of the 25th anniver- sary of the founding of the 'Scout Movement in Sweden. Scout Sportsmanship When preparing for an annual Aus- tralian Scouting event, the Easter eamperaft competition at Gembj'ook, near 11feebourne, the 9th Malvern Troop, famous for its camp cooking (a 100 -point feature of the test), of- fered and loaned a camp cook instruc- tor to the 1st Wesley College Troop, one of its chief competitors. Another Scout Water Rescue The summer's second reported in- stance of a Boy Scout reviving an apparently drowned person came from Calgary, June 13. Patrol Lead- er Watts of the Sea Scout Patrol of the 10th Calgary Troop rescued n small boy who had been submerged some time, and by continued artifi- cial respiration brought back con- sciousness and ultimate recovery. Silver Buffalo for Vincent Massey In resognition of his "distinguished service to boyhood," the Hon. Vincent Massey, former Canadian Minister to Washington was given the de- coration of the Silver Buffalo at the annual meeting sof the National Coun- cil of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Massey was one of the guest speakers at the banquet, and carried the greetings of the Canadian Gen- eral Council of the Boy Scouts As- sociation. RAILWAY' COACH EXCURSIONS POPULARIZE', TRAIN TRAVEL • L .A train of coaches. nearly ' 50 miles in length would be required to handle' the throng !of passengers handled by the two principal Cana- dian 'railways, on their low -rate. week-ehd excursions since these cheap trips were resumed' in. Z'eb- ruary, 1932, it was stated recently by A. A. Gardiner, Assistant Gener- al' Passenger Agent • of the Canadian 'r' National Railways. • The Iocb-rate excursion, ,taken up somewhat timorously by the Cana- dian railways in February 1932, had resulted in bringing large numbers "y•. of people back to train travel.' The Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways had operated in all 467 excursions between points in Canada between February 1982 and the end of May 1983 and the fare for these journeys had been one cent a mile and even less for , long 'dis- tances. ,Between them the railways had •handled more Ihan 330,000 pas- sengers on these, excursions with a , combined revenue' amounting to. something like $900,000. Between Montreal and Toronto ten excursions had carried some 35,000 excursionists during the period. c The railways' experiments demon- strated that the public would travel by train under favorab'.e conditions and the low -rate excursions had brought the railways !many thous- ands of 'passengers who were not likely to have travelled otherwise. The operating of excursions had provided :tvork for train crews and other railway employees and it was found that the majority of travellers were those going to stay with friends, rather than strangers going to another city to stay at hotels, Lunch counter cars where meals were served at low prices on long journeys and the faeility of renting pillows from the newsagents for ov- er -night coach trips ,all helped to popularize the excursions and the attempt was to create the urge to travel rather than to carry business men and other "regulars" on these excursions at the expense of regular train traffic. CHURCHILL NOW INVITES TOURISTS ChurchiIl, on Hudson Bay, now in- vites tourists and other travellers without restriction. Heretofore it has been necessary to obtain a per- mit to go to Churchill but this re- striction has now been withdrawn and Canadian National Railways Oft fioials advise that tickets to Chu - chill may be purchased at raiRvay stations in the ordinary way. If Everybody did It! Think for a moment what would happen if, even for one week, everybody in town were to shop elsewhere -either in a neighboring town or by mail! Would it not cause eonsternation, and would not all business houses be very: Much concerned? They certainly would and with good. reason. Some o This Regularly —And what is the result? Every dollar sent to distant business houses is gene for good so far as that particular district is concern- ed, and merely serves to build up and, maintain some distant town. The local business men are robbed of that circulation of money which .during its ramblings might help dozens along the way. How About Printig? All .business 'houses need more or less printed matter, all of which is within the possibilities of the local printer. Yet how prone many are to, pass ,up the home printer and letthe orders go to city offices which have no interest whatever in rural Communities except to get printing* :,,o ders and the cash paid for them. ,Business men, re- ! Vie.' tee meelbel tthe the hone paper is constantly promoting the:interests of 'the1 ome bominunity and you ewe it to yourself and ypur local pa,pet to back ip these efforts by at least having your printed mat- ter direaoeally, THE CLINT:'RrN EWS-RECO A FINE -MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING -REAL) ADS. IN�y THS. ISSUH „ Leer J.i 'u".11rarthltl.11',i PHONE 4