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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-08-24, Page 2PAGE 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. re.dvertising Rates -Transient adver- tising 120 per count line for first insertion. 8c far each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. .; Small advertisements, not to ex- ' teed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," "Strayed,'" etc., inserted once for 35c, each subsequent'in- eertien 15c. Rates for display ad., vertising made known on applies - Communications intended for pub- tlication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. Kr. E. }TALL, M. B. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. } H. T. MANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire .Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. •Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Publie Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block - Clinton, Ont CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc: rOffi0e over J. E. I•Iovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. .4 B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire Wind, Sickness and Accident, Arita- mobile. rummobile. 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. ?ohne 62w. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD SYNOPSIS Rath Warren, living in the East, comes into possession of three-quar- ter interest in' an Arizona ranch, left to her in the will of her brother, re parted to have died while on business in Mexico. With her ailing husband and small child she ,goes to Arizona to take 'possession, thinking the cli- mate may prove ' beneficial to her husband's weakened lungs. Arriving at the nearest town, she learns that the ranch, "Dead Lantern," is 85 miles across the desert. ' Charley Thane; old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take thein to "Dead Lantern" gate.' NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY •r iG=a Neither the girl nor her husband seemed anxious to start up the road. It was when this fact became plain to them both that Ruth cried, "It'll be sundown before longrcve simply can't stay here." Warren nodded. "We'd better start, I guess." . Ruth looked back toward the gate, Beyond, her eyes sought the occas- ional stretches of dusty highway as it wound up the valley , , eighty- five miles to the first thing which could be called civilization, eighty- five miles to a policeman. She shiv- ered but turned to her husband with a smile which was meant to be brave. "All right, dear; let's go. If we get shot ave'1l just get shot --hue can't stay here and we certainly can't go back. DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street - Clinton, Ont, One door west of Angli,ian 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 pramptiy 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 McKILLOP MUTUAL `Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont, President, George McCartney, R.R. `No. 3, Seaforth; vice-president, Jas. , innnolly„ Goderich; Sec, -treasurer, Martin A, Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Thomas Moylan, R. R. 'No. 5, Seaforth; James Shouldiee,. 'Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; ' Robt. Ferris, 'Myth; John Pepper, Tliracefieid; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; • George Leinhardt, Brodhagen. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3, • Clinton; Jehn Murray, �Seaforthl James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinehley, -Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth; ar at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich: Parties desiring to effect incur :ante or transact other business will 'be promptly attended to on applica. °tign to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post of- fices. ffices. Losses inspected by the direc- 'tor who lives nearest the scene, oiiU' '1 LONA l AiCWAYS; TIME TABLE Trains 'will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows; Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a,m. eSoing .East depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 a,nt. Going West, depart `° 9.58 p.m. London., Huron & Bruce •Going North, ar. 11.34. Ive,11.54 a,m. Gcdng South 3.08 p.m; There's something in the adver- tisements today tointerest, you. Read •them. C7C-=e3, "Ken --l" Ruth screamed the ward. The man and woman clutched each other, staring wildly. • The gulch was stili barren, nothing moved, not a rabbit could have, been hidden. Yet the hollow whisper came aagin, at their very ear's, "do -back. You-. must--ger-•back! • Co," Like wild things, the mean and wo- man ran blindly forward. Immediate- ly the whisper was lost, dying away on a single word. Thetwo stopped again and clung together, trembling. The darkness was conning quickly- already the banded walls of the gulch had taken on wierd mystery . from the light. With terror=wideued eyes the man and girl looked from one bank of the gulch to the ether, con- scious of no thought or plan. Then Ruth caught her breath in an hysterical sob, another followed Warren gripped her shoulder with the agony of the sudden cough which presently was flecking his white lips with red. , . . A dog barked friendily. Some dis- tance ahead the gulch turned to the right and the road rose out of by another incline. At the bottom of this cut in the bank sat a small black deg. For two long, hot, dusty hours they walked on with never a sign of human things., That awesome si- lence envgloped thein, penetrated them, until their very thoughts seemed like small independent voices. They felt watchd by a grim, thous- and -eyed spirit. The occasional rab- bit or •coyote which ran before them lucked back furtively, then went on to give news of their coming. When rarely they spoke, the words passed between them in a low frightened voice, as though speech were for- bidden. They cane among the lower foot- ings of the mountains. No longer parallel paths through the dead grass for nny distance. Constantly, the road dipped into ravines, skirted low hills, crossed gulches and arroyos covered with coarse gray sand, The man's lips were bluish -white, his breathing rasped, short and quick. The girl plodded doggedly in the dust red d face, sweat -grimed. The sun winked from behind a jagged peak and was gone. The roan and woman stared at the mann- tains-dun-colored and desolate. Da- vid clutched his mother tightly at the sound of her voice. "Where are we--" she moaned. "Oh, Kenneth, where are rue?" Ile' shook his head, but could not afford breath for speech. The girl picked up her son and In the shadow of the rock stood the most gigantic woman they bad ever seen. started forward desperately. At the bottom of the next arroyo well filled with live eat trees - the wheel marks of the Indian's wa- gon turned to the right and disap- peared np the river of sand. It was strange hew they missed those fresh wheel tracks. Beyond this arroyo the road rose to descend presently into a deep gulch.' The banks' on either side fell .sheet' to the bottom of coarse, bare sand -a great channel plowed by cloud -bursts fit the mountains. A distance ahead a large .'brown bowl - der thrust its bulk through the sand, The young men and girl kept their eyes upon this rock ---pan oasis, a place to sit for a moment, a place to emp- ty their shoe!;. The road, too, bent slightly to'pass the rcik. They Tested a moment until the deepening dusk, the awful silence :forced thein to their feet. They took but one step then froze to statues, terror leapedinto their faces; a voice .]ow, intimate, whispered into "Dog!" announced David, squirm- ing about in his mother's arms. As far as be was concerned, all was a- gain rvriI with the world. Some- thing of this feeling •came to the par, ents. With a backward glance, Which new held wonder instead of blind fear, they went forward with quickened step. When , they -were quite near, the dog, -one of whose Iancestors had undoubtedly been part Spaniel -moved oat of sight at the side of the incline. A few more strides again brought•the man and girl to a rigid halt. In the shadow of the bank stood the most gigantic woman they had ever seen. Nearly six and a half feet in height, het huge arms folded across her breast. she stood as straight as the sheer bank behind her. T•Ier face, hawk - nosed, bad the dignity of an Indian chief's and the color of a southern negro. "Where you -all think yore gain'"" elle demanded, her voice a deep ominous rumble. It was a moment •before the girl eould snake a sound; then the words pbured themselves out shrilly. "I'm Mrs, Warren, the sister of Harry Grey -I own three-quarters of this ranch -take us to Jep Snavely at once -at once- at once!" The giantess bent her bead slight- ly, unfolded her arms, and turning, started up the incline, the little dog frisking before her. Warren took an uncertain step for- ward, tottered, and fell in a heap, "help us!" cried the girl, dropping beside her husband. The huge woman came slowly down to them. She stooped and lifted 'Warren in her arms. "Came," she rumbled, and strode out of the gulch. carrying the man more easily than , the girl carried the child. At the top of the gulch the girl saw the ranch house and buildings. She also saw a man leave the barn and walk swiftly toward thein. He had a bucket in his hand -a bucket of milk. "Who are you?" The man stopped close to the girl. His tall, wiry body was tense, sinuously alert. His pale blue eyes, almost white against the dark tan of his clean-shaven face, shifted constantly with small quick movements as though focused in tw'n upon every point of het face. "Ans- wer me!" Iiis voice was imperious, high -pitched --"What are you dein' here?" q The girl caught her breath sharp- ly. "I am Ruth Warren and this is my husband--." She indicated War - ran who was now standing, support- ed by the giant woman. "My hus- band must have rest at once -a bed." "That don't mean nothin' to me- what're you din' here?" "Wh-1 ant the sister of Harty Grey." "What!" he throat his face with- in a hand's breadth of the girl's. "You liet Grey tor' me his own self he didn't have no folks!" Ruth tools a step backward. "Bat I am Harry Grey's sister. He willed me his interest hi this ranch.. My husband and I have come here to see about it." "You - come here -, to take this ranch-" His words faltered. At length, with an effort, 'he spoke, his voice in a softer key. "You - Got--- your ot-your documents?" "Y'es, Alt. Warren has the will in his pocket. Please -can't we go up to the house? My husband and lit- tle boy must rest, We walked all the way from the mail box." "Let's see -7. -the will." '-Warren was able to step forward and give Snavely the paper. The man read it slowly and completely. At last he lifted his eyes to the girl, "Why didn't your brother tell 'me about this?". The girl hesitated. "Itis teal mother is dead and Harry and I Harry beeame estranged - from his father before he came West. Per- haps that was. what he meant." . "Huh. Maybe. You seen .a lawyer about this, I reckon?" There was a perceptible pause be- fore Ruth .replied, "Yes," she saki firmly, "and my lawyer has. the oth- ev copy. Now please, take us to the house --can't you understand? My husband is not well." For a long moment Snavely looked at the girl. At last his eyes shifted to the• giantess and he nodded slight- ly toward the house. Without a word the woman picked Warren from his feet and strode on. Ruth held out her hand, and Snav- ely, with a sharp glance into her eyes, slowly gave her back the will, He 'walked beside her during the time it took to cover the .distance to the house -nearly two hundred yards ---in complete silence. Nothing he could have done would have served better to put the girl in a more fran- tic state of mind. She felt that he was thinking, ,planning, feverishly and craftily. And as she neared the small house with its whitewashed walls and red roof of corrugated iron, Ruth War- ren became aware of another dissat- isfaction. A hundred feet west of "I'm, sure I• don't know." f "He tol' rite - he didn't have no their ears, "Go -back, • Goy --back." folks," k,- Snavely's face returned in a little jump to the girl. "Just what are you alining to do here?" DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Latest census reports show Poland to ,,have 56,807 Scouts, Rovers, .Sea Scouts and leaders, 4�7iT..�4 Egyptian Government Approves' Scouts • The Scout Association of Egypt has been formally recognized in a decree signed by His Majesty' ICing 1 wad. Crown Prince Farouk re- cently was made .Chief Scout f or Egypt. • the house stood a huge abnrc ruin. It had character, this ruin. Conpar'ed to the one-story .ranch house with its almost flat roof, the ruin had been a palace, Grim, mutilated, forgotten, the old building frowned upon the ranch hoose. The girl had a queer fancy which made her shiver. It seemed to her that the ruin wanted the house to come closer -very close -for just a moment. The giant woman arrived at the porch of the ranch house first. Car- rying Warren to a rawhide cot she laid hint upon it. Warren promptly sat up, grinning at his wife as she and Snavely ar- rived. "Great Scott, Ruth, but I've certainly been carried! She's the strangest thing 1 ever met in my life." The giantess opened the screen door and handed a pillow to the girl. After she had arranged her husband comfortably upon the cot, the girl left him with Snavely and took her son into the house. Snavely spoke no word to Warren. When the girl re- turned she gave Warren a glass of milk and some crisp tortillas, For the first time since returning the will to the girl, Snavely spoke "When did you get in?" he asked suddenly. "You mean when did we arrive in town? Only this morning. You see," continued the girl, "we wrote you about a fortnight ago -abut we got here' as soon as the letter -we didn't know about your once -a -week deliv- ery.,, "You seen your lawyer this morn - in'?" "I don't understand what law- yer?" "There roust have been a lawyer to send you the will when your brother died." ' "Oh, No, Harry sent us the will himself -at was some time ago, about three months after he went into this ranch." "Huh." Theme was quite a pause. "But you just said your lawyer had a copy of it." "There are plenty of attorneys to the East," replied the girl sweetly. "I reckon." .i Snavely considered a corner of the whitewashed wall. Sounds from within indicated that the giantess was getting. supper, • • •Snavely's eyes returned in a lit- tle jump to the girl. '.rust what are' you airein' to do here?" "Well, since I have this interest in the ranch, I suppose I'm in the same position .that Harry was. I can't be the partner he was, but I'll try to do my share." 'A definite plan shotyn in his pale eyes: "Oh, sure. Well, now I'. get, •CellaCt An Old Cththes Sunday in Morocco Boy .Scouts of other lands, as in Canada, have been finding ways to help the depression needy. 'At Cas- ablanca, Morocco, the Scouts held an "old clothes Sunday," and secured clothing for 200 needy men. 714 Scouting Helpful to Young Lepers A Boy .Scout troop in the tepee Colony of British Guiana is credited with bringing new interest and hap- piness into the lives of its members, There are a number of Scout troops in the leper colonies of Africg and India. Tents In Iceland To many readers tents in Iceland still will suggest igloos. Reminding that real tents may be used, and that Boy Scouts camp out as in Can- ada, the Iceland government has made a gift ?f tents to the Icelandic Scouts, in recognition of public ser- vice. THURS., AUGUST 24,;1933 received at Dominion Scout Bead: ming „pool in London's latest camp-, quarters,: The exchange of flags was site for'tity Scouts at Downe,:'by made through bit. D. H. Ross, Can, taking the, first plunge. The .Chief ad/an Trade 'Commissipner at Mel- nominated a small Scout in, bathing bourne. costume to substitute for him, and shaking his hand, said, "I am glad to meet you, Lord Baden-Powell. Will Snr'all Seottt Sabstitutes. Por B. -P. i you plunge in and open the bath?" N eedless to say the ,srnall Scout The always original B, -P. was not proudly and pronptly'obiiged, to the stuck when asked to open a swim- cheers of the spectators, eamsanao Australian Flag for • Canadian II. Q. In exchange for a Canadian En- sign now flying at the New South Wales Scout leaders' training camp. a "Blue" Australian flag has been you -.yes, sir." Snavely seemed on the verge of becoming pleasant. "I've got an ideas you an'ine is to go on jest like as if you was your brother. Is that it?" "Why, yes. I have the sane in- terest in the ranch that he bad.". "You sure have." There was a long silence. • "1 suppose," said the girl, "that there will be some legal technicalities or something, won't there? I thought we'd leave it until we could see a- bout it together, you know." (Continued next week) ftexammiroasnasavalia The Village of Zurich Threatened by Flames Monday Afternoon. Fire, supposed to be started from cigarettes, started in a lavatory of a garage in Zurich late Monday after- noon, when the village was threaten• ed with complete destruction. The :fire had gained considerable headway before being discovered and soon 1got out of control. Help was called for and firefight- ers responded from Hensall, Exeter, Clinton and Dashwood and, together with hastily formed bucket brigades, worked several hours before the Barnes could be controlled, Buildings totally destroyed were: Hoist Block, containing Everett Hoist's confectionery store and bake- shop, and living quarters of Mr. and Mrs. Hoist. Butcher shop of Harry Youngblutt & Sons. Flour, feed and coal store of Louie Schilbe, and living quarters of Mr, and Mrs. Schilbe. • Buildings damaged were: Residence of Dr. H, H, Cowen (partially destroyed). William Wagner's confectionery store (roof damaged by sparks). Louis.Prang's house (smoke and water•), Kruger's barber shop. Charles Pritz's shoe store (awn- inge burned), Reith's bakeshop (roof damaged by sparks), Town hail (roof damaged by sparks). Massey -Harris agency, operated by Oscar Kropp (roof damaged by sparks). Gordon Howard's residence (roof damaged by sparks). Mrs. Schwalm's house (slight roof damage), With the exception of Dr. Cowen's residence, which was adjacent to the Hoist Block, none of the buildings suffered any great loss. Sparks flew in a1I directions and some of the buildings damaged were a considerable distance from the ori. groat course, while buildings imme- diately adjacent were saved. Most of the furniture was removed from adjacent residences itnd the pretty village presented a sorry appearance before bhe fiend was finally routed A. young man had a leg broken when he fell from the fire truck; another man fractured his wrist in a 'fall and a boy was run over by a wagon. The wagon used in sprinkling 'the streets fell a prey to the flames, as it was too hot to be moved before being noticed. OUT-PARASITING THE PARASITE Another of the strange shipments which the Canadian National Express conveys from tune to time left Eng- land recently in the form of the pine moth borer, known in scientific cir- cles as Rhyacionia Buoliana Schiff - mailer. There were 44 boxes of thein, all in the cocoon stage. In the ordinary way, the larvae of this moth bore into and feed on the leader shoots of pine trees, retarding growth preventing straight poles and largely reducing the trees' value and beauty. For this reason, this Wroth is one oil • the greatest enemies of re-forestra- tion, being known to infect as many as 80 per cent of young trees. The cocoons in this shipment, however, are all unknown to themselves, the victims of a little trick which has been played len them by the Imperial Institute of Entomology at Farnham Royal, England, for they have all been infected by a parasite of their own, which they will communicate in due course to their Canadian rela- tives, to the detriment of the latter and the benefit of pine trees in the Dominion. Unquestionably the world's great- est collection of guns, pistols, etc. will be seen at the Canadian Nation- al Exhibition this year. It is the Charles Noe Daly collection showing the evolution of the firearm over a period of four hundred years. Thereat are 1,100 pieces in this ineomparableg, display gathered in all parts of the world. N You Ever Stop to Think —Just what a ten dollar bill which a farmer spends in his home town may accomplish? Let us follow it around. Probably the dry goods merchant gets it first. He passes it on to the hardware merchant in payment of an ncenunt. The hardware merchant pays it in wages to one of his employees. This employee pays it to his landlady, who pays a grocery bill with It. The grocer can then pay his butcher. The butcher pastes this on tohis produce mer- chant, and this produce nier'chant, buying largely from the fanner, passes this ten cliilars back to the farmer, from whom it originally came, Thus it has, in its ramblings among the home town people, served many useful purposes and yet it is still in the community to again serve. 11 Sent Away To Distant Merchants -That ten dollar hill is gone for goal. It may serve to build up the large city elsewhere. But so far as the home community is concerned its usefulness is at an end, and the community has been drained of just that Hatch working capital. hen in Need of Priding ----Remember that orders left with your home town printer will serve to pay wages of workmen who in turn spend this money with local business houses, thus serving to mnittlain that round of busi- ness which. is necessary 'in order that: rural towns throughout l'gttadat may flourish and prosper, THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD .A FINE ItIEDIUM POR .ADVER'PlS111(1 •-.RR.\t) MIS, IN Tills IS SDH PHONE 4