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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-07-20, Page 2!":AGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which Is Incorporated THE NEW ERA tams' of Subscription --,$1.50 per year in advance; to Caadian ad- •elresses $2.00` to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper eliscontinued until all arrears are ' paid unless at the option of the .publisher. The date to -w rich every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. 'Advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12e per !count linefor first insertion. 8c foe each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," `5Strayed," etc., inserted once for 35c, each subsequent in- t <oertion 15e. Rates for display ad, j 'vertising made known on applica- ' Ben. Communications intended for pub- sication must, as a guarantee of good .6laitb, be accompanied by the name .of the writer. rO. E. HALL, ' M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. IL T. 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Phone, Office, 21; house, 89. 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 Satisfactior Guaranteed. THE CUNTON NEWS -RECORD SYNOPSIS: .Synopsis: Joyce Ashton, poor stenographer, suffered loss of meth- cry in a skidding taxicab accident in Chicago. One morning two years later she woke, after a fall from her horse, her 'memory restored, to find herself, as Frills, the wife of Neil Packard, rich California fruit packer. She determined to tell nobody of her predicament but set about learning What she ,could of her life in the in- terval. From 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 , lean named Maitland.' In San Fran- cisco, where she went while her hus- i band was away en business, she met ' Robert Ainsworth, a poet whose work she had always admired. When Joyce 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, wham 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 snake love to her. Later, Joyce makes full confession—her loss •of memory and its restoration. When Neil accuses Joyce and Ain- sworth of being in love Ainsworth makes a graceless exit and leaves Joyce to explain. NOW GO ON WITII THE STORY "That's true all right, and you had me guessing too. But of course Frills wasn't wild and reckless when I married her—you—:say, I don't know who I did marry!" "That's what I've got to find out, Neil! It's been driving tee nearly crazy, and now at last I've had the 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; James Shouldice, Walton; Win. Knox, Londesboro; Robt, Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, Erucefield; A. Broadfcot, Seaforth; George L'einhardt, Brodhagen. Agents; W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3, Clinton; Sohn Murray, Seaforth; -James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchleys 'Seaforth. Any 'money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, er at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica, Kinn to any of the above officers iaddreseed to their respective post of •'lices. Losses inspected by the direr- %tor who lives nearest the scene. 144.1. 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 3.00 p.m. (Poing West, depart 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart 9:58 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34. ]ve.11,54 a,m. Going South 3.08 p.m. There's something In .the adver- 'v'iisements today to interest you. Read .dhenl. met her and Joe a number of 'times in rManzanite and they'd always told me to look :them, up if I was ever in Chicago. It struck me tc do it one time: I called them up and Joe .invited pre out to dinner that night, throwing out a lot .of dark hints about a swell girl who was staying with them. 1 'went, and it was you I met Florence Hilton was the name. I took a terrible tumble and in a couple of weeks we were engaged. "I kept stringing out the business in Chicago, and finally -- I remem- ber now that it was your own sug- gestion! —, we were married right away, •before we Ieft town, and you came back to Manzanita as Mrs. Neil Packard!" Joyce had been held spellbound by Neil's recital. It was all so queer and unreal, and she felt her head swimming by the strangeness of it. "Didn't you ask me anything about who S was and all that, when you wanted to marry me? Iiow did I act? Was I like the Frills I've heard about, or more like Joyce?" "Well, you see, every one treated you with kid gloves, so to speak, on account of this accident" said Neil. "It was understood that you'd had a great shock, and that you mustn't be pressed. The doctor kept saying, just leave her alone and she'd come around all right. All this mystery was very exciting, you understand --eve all got a great kick out of it . . I remember I wanted to ask you a lot of things when we were first engaged, but you said to me, "Neil, you've got to trust me. There are some things I can't tell you, and you must'nt ask nye about who I am and all that. There's nothing I'm ashamed of, and some clay I expect I'll tell you all there is ,to tell," A shade passed over Neil's fate. I al- ways thought you would tell me, but you never did Joyce watched hint excitedly. The strange story gripped therm so that realities were seen through a haze. "Oh, Neil, I think I see it all now, courage to tell the truth, so far as I know it. Wil! you tell me, Neil how you met Frills and all that?" "Why, at Joe and Maisie Turner's, of course! Don't you really roniem ber, !''rills--er, I mean Joyce? Gosh this gets my goat, 1 feel as though we'd all gone absolutely nutty----" "I felt that way when I first woke up and found myself Mrs. Packard," she said gently, but I've Lived with the idea so long that I've gotten a bit used to it. Tell me about the Turners." "Why, it was their car that ran into your taxi in Chicago. Joe was running for some political office at the time, and he was very anxious to keep out of the papers in any way that inight bring him any un- pleasant publicity, se he gave the police a tip, I suppose, and got them to allow you to be taken to his house instead of to a hospital, You were unconscious a couple of days, and when you woke up you were in a dazed condition. I remember Maisie saying they thought you never would say a word, and bow queer it made them feel, having some one lying there conscious, but just looking at the walls without saying anything." "Fancy! That was me, and I don't remember any more about it than if it had never happened!" "Joe and Maisie had a time find- ing out who you were. The doctor said just leave you alone and you'd cone around all right. And, sure enough, that was what hap• mined, or what everybody thought had happened. "The Turners were lively, enter- taiiied a lot,'plenty .of money and all that, and as soon as you were web they introduced you around to their friends. You made a hit with every one, and that tickled thein. My cousin Lawton Packard's wife was a great friend of 'Maisie, and I'd THURS., JULY 2p-1933 less I'm decenty dressed. Of course I won't take any of Frills' jewelry or anything of real value.. " Roxie met her at the foot of the stairs. "Excuse me, ma'am, but Mr. Neil he said you'd be waking up af- ter a time and we should have your dinner ready." "Very well, Rorie, just serve it quickly in the dining -room, please, And tell Sam I want to speak to him, asked Neil petulantly. "I don't want. to crab, Joyce, but wasn't it a bit thick, letting him hear all 'this'?" "Robert. Ainsworth is the great novelist, Neil. Haven't you ever heard of him?" Neil shook his head. "Never," he said. "What does he do besides write? And once more how does, he come into all this?" "He comes into this, Neil; :because. I happened to have met him since- since the accident •on Tire' Queen, and because I happened to like him rather more than ordinarily." Neil fixed his gaze on a distant pine tree "Do you mean that you are in love with him, Frills?" Instead of answering . his ques- tion, Joyce said sharply, "I, wish you'd make up your mind 'whether you want to call me "Joyce" or "Frills," Neil!" she regretted her ill temper at once, however and went on .more agreeably, "Oh, Neil, I don't know anything any more." "You are free, if ,you want to be, Joyce," said Neil, drawing his lips together in the attitude of severe restraint that he assumed when Frills bad especially hurt hien. "What about Ainsworth?" He turn- ed to the other man. Did you and Frills fix this all up between you?" Before Robert could answer, Joyce broke in, "Oh, no, no, Neil, please I wasn't quite so beastly as all that. Nothing had been fixed up— we had simply, well, fallen in love, and there the matter stood. She looked at Robert and was hurt to find an amused smile lingering about his eyes. Joyce felt a profound shame creep over her. Neil had just told her she was free, and yet Robert sat quietly, saying nothing, tensely digging holes in the soft ground with his riding crop. Her husband was, in a sense, offering her to her lover— who was making no move to claim her. Was she being rejected by both men? Her nerves, strung tautly under the strain of the entire morn- ing, collapsed utterly, and elle felt that she would grow hysterical if she sat there another moment. She sprang to her feet. "Well, now I've unmasked before both of you!" she cried her voice trembling close to tears, "Goodbyes" Neil was after her in a moment "Here, clear, I'll go back with you don't you? Fri Is just couldn't re- member back! She was trying tc remember all the time, and' she couldn't. It must have been awful for her, nusn't it? When did she change, when did she get reckless and wild?" "I guess that came gradually," Neil answered with puckered brow, "I can't remember any special time when it began. First she took to drinking more than I liked; that really worried me a lot. Then it seemed as if she couldn't do stunts reckless enough, as if she were al- most trying to kill herself! $he drove her car at a breakneck speed,. and got the wildest horse she could find to ride! And then there was Maitland. . Joyce made a quick movement, "Yes," she said softly, don't go in- to that, Neil I know; and I'll never forget it—+-: "But — but — Joyce, you are Frills!" It was Robert Ainsworth speaking, and Joyce and Neil turn=- ed to him with a start. In their absorbing interest in piecing to- gether the mystery of Frills, they had almost forgotten that he was there. "Would you mind telling me," Neil asked Joyce politely, "just where he comes into this?", Joyce looked at Robert thought- fully, The air of rather superior in- solence with which he had approach- ed them was gone now, and she saw. again the Robert Ainsvlorth she knew. He noel her gaze frankly, Once Joyce had decided to leave she felt she could not go quickly enough. She could not endure looking about Neil Packard's house, and reflecting that she would probably. never see it again. Her only salva- tion was in acting at once. She was grateful for the nonchalance with which .Sam received her orders, and for the lack of demonstration 1OTI the part of. Roxie, (Continued next week) "No, no, please don't. Please leave me alone. For Heaven's salte. Neil. Let me be for just a little while—" Ile fell back, struck by the vehem- ence of her tone, and she sprang lightly in the saddle and galloped off, Once in her room, Joyce locked the door and flung herself down on a couch. She felt crushed and hurt as she had at no time since she had found heself Frills Packard. Her disillusionment about Robert Ains- worth was so profound that she felt she had lost all faith in humanity. Every one seemed less noble, all life tack on a menacing and ruth- less form. Where could she go to find beauty, to find truth, to find fineness if not in this man whom she had so ardently worshipped? That he would have regarded the situation at first as one to be treat- ed with cynical levity was a fault that seemed to her graver than the grave. She did not . , , want , . , Robert Ainsworth. When she awoke it was a cool evening and she was shivering. As she collected her thoughts she no- ticed an envelope lying on the floor under her door. It contained a note from Neil, and she read "Dear Joyce:— "When I got back I found a mes- sage to go and see Mother. She'o not seriously ill, but feeling badly and wanted to see me. I can't tell her anything about us of course. We must talk everything over, I thought 'it might be better if I'd camp out somewhere else tonight. Pleasego to bed and get a good rest. P11 see you tomorrow. "Neil" Joyce read this over several times, almost. uncomprehending. At last, however, she knew what she 'must do. She knew she must go away— Vint it was theonly thing for her to do. "I've, been wrong to stick it out this long," she thought, "No wonder I've gotten things into such a mess!" It did her good to have some definite work to do. In less than with disarming friendliness. an hour she had • bathed, dressed, "I'm sorry Joyce," he said, I" and packed two bags with Frills' didn't understand. Will you forgive simplest clothes and belongings. ire?" He cause over and held out "It seems like stealingto be tak- his 'hand, smiling charmingly, Ile ing them," she thought worriedly, was like a little boy who, having "yet what can I do? Neil doesn't shown his ,temper unreasonably, want Frills' clothes—they won't do makes arrogant claim of a loving him any good if I leave them. I'll parent for pardon. . havd to find some sort of work right "Who the devil are you, anyway?" away and I can't apply for it un- DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Uplifting India's Criminal Tribes A recent development of Scouting hi India has been that among the tribes of professional criminals. Most promising results already have been secured. nstme Canny Scot Scouts Camp in Iceland Of the Old Country Scout troops camping in other countries this summer, a Socttish troop, anticipat- ing a hot August, has made a canny selection. They're going to Iceland where, they hear, camp ice is free. oemitierehe Breaking Down India's Caste System The significant part that Scouting is playing in India has its latest il- lustration in a camp near Lahore at- tended by Scouts representing every caste, creed and community in north- west India. Included were 300 boys from the Criminal Tribes Settlement. Flowers For London's Shut -Ins On a recent Shut -Ins' Flower Day at Landon, Ont, some 3500 bouquets of flowers were distributed among invalids and the blind in h'om'es, hos- pitals and other institutions. A uni- formed Boy Scout or Girl Guide ac- companied each distributing car, and delivered the flowers. t Canada at the World Scout Jamboree Canada will be represented at the 4th World Scout Jamboree, to open August 2 at Godollo, Hungary, by five Scouts and two IScoutei's,—{one from Saskatchewan, one from New Brunswick and five from Ontario. The party sails by the Duchess of Richmond from 1VIontreal July 21, to. join the Empire contingent in Lon- don. Admission, One Can of Soup A Scout Circus, "admission one can of soup," was the successful ev- ent with which Hamilton Scouts woundup six months' active work in support of the Kiwanis Kitchen for SOME/ 900 single unemployed. "Scout Relief Barrels" in over seventy stores, with placards inviting contri butions, produced many tone of call ned and other foodstuffs which were regularly collected by the Scouts. ORPHAN OF FOREST RESCUED BY ENGINEER The good Samaritan was emulated near Quebec recently by a Canadian National freighter engineer who stopped his train, inbound from Ohs- coutimi, to investigate a mysterious move cid, in a wayside 'bush. Ile found an abandoned young moose a- bout two weeks old. The moose calf was promptly taken aboard the train, after attempts to locate signs of the mother had failed, and presented to the Zoological Garden et Charles- bourg, several miles north of Quebec. The moose was nourished success- fully with a bottle and nipple and is now feeding independently along with several other moose and other inhabitants of the zoo. An Editor's Farewell the future with a helpmate who has a large task before her in converting an erstwhile carefree bachelor into a useful husband, The task is•one which is at trines likely to become irksome and will require the groati est diplomacy on the part of the "better half," but the writer is con- fident that his 'home life will be all that a good wife can snake it. With this issue we desert the ranks of bachelorhood, and our hope is that we may be better able to serve Petz olia and community in the new role. (Petrone Advertiser -Topic) Before this issue reaches the hands of many of its readers, the editor will have taken what is likely to be the greatest step in his journey through this life. The marriage vows will have been taken and a solemn promise made to "love, honor and cherish through i]£e" one of God's noblest creatures. Looking back over 35 years of a life that has carried the writer through many experiences in busi- ness and pleasure, in peace and war, we can think 'of no step to which we look forward with greater anticipa- tion than 'marriage. The wedding trip, will soon be ov- er, but it marks the beginning of a. changed mode of living, is shoulder- ing of new responsibilities in creat - ink a home which, we hope, will be worthy of the name and a sharing of SEAFORTH WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN HER HOUSE SATURDAY Discovery Made on Forcing Entrance To House The death occurred at her home en Centre street, Seaforth, of Miss Jen- nie McBride, a highly esteemed resi- dent. Neighbors becoming anxious and alarmed at net seeing her around. forced an entrance into the house on Saturday afternoon and found Miss McBride dead en the couch. Coroner Dr. P. J. Burrows was summoned and said that she hacl been dead fox a week, An inquest was not consid- ered necessary, as death was the re- sult of natural causes. Miss McBride, who was a daugh- ter of the late Joseph McBride, was born in Seaforth, where she spent her life and engaged in dressmaking Deceased was a member 'of Northside United Church and also of the choir and Women's Missionary Society. HALF AND HALF "Can I help you in any way?" asked the courteous motorist who had pulled up alongside. She was standing beside her roadster with a worried look on her face. "It's the gasoline indicator," re- plied the damsel. "It's past the half- way mark but for the life of me I can't remember whether it's half full or half empty." L. & N. EXETER: The July meeting of the Main Street United W. M. S. was held Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Cole presiding. Mrs. Pearce read the devotional leaflet on the subject, "Ruth." Mrs. Bessie Yell land also read a leaflet. The suggest- ed program for the most part was on "Temperance." The president, Mrs. Wickwire, conducted an open discus -a sion on the devotional leaflet, Mrs. A. Hackney favored with a solo, play- ing her own accompanident. If Everybody id It! Think for a moment what would happen if, even for one week, everybody in town were to shop elsewhere -wither in a neighboring town or by mail! Would it not cause consternation, and would not all business houses be very much concerned? They certainly would and with good reason, Some Do This legularly ,----1And what is the result? Every dollar sent to distant business houses is gone 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 daring its ramblings might help dozens along the way. ow Abut ti g? .. All business houses need more or less printed matter, all of which is within the 1possibilitiesof the local printer. Yet how prone many are to pass up the home printbr and let the orders go to city offices which have no interest whatever in rural ,communities except to get Printing orders and time cash paid for them. Business men, re- member that the home paper is constantly promoting the interests of the 'hone community and you •owe it to yourself and your local paper to back up these efforts by at least having your printed mat- ter done locally. THE CLINTON NEWS-RECOR A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ADS. IN THIS IS SUE PHONE 4