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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-11-23, Page 2PAGE 2 ilimonmisonnowsrams THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Clinton News -Record With which is Incorp-rated THE' NEW ERA Terms of Subscription — $1.50 per year in ridvance, to Canadian ad - 'dresses $2.00 to the. U.S. or oth- • or foreigncountries. No paper discontinued until all arrears aro 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 12e per 'count line for first insertion. Se for` eaeh 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 - section 15c. Rates for display ado vertising made known en applies - '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. CLARA, Proprietor, Editor. H. T. 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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, or at Calvin 'Cutt's Grocery, Goderieh. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies, time to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post et - flees, Losses inspected by the diree- +tor who lives nearest the scene. TIME TABLE famine 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. 11.34.1ve. 11.54 aan. 'ding .-South 0,Q8„8m. SYNOPSIS Ruth 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- ported -to have died 'while on business in Mexico. With her ailing husband and small child • she goes to Arizona to take posseehion, thinking the ell= mate may prove beneficial to her husband's weakened lungs., Arriving, at the nearest town, she learns that. the ranch, , "Dead Lanterpi,” • is 85 miles across the ' desert. Charley Thane, old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take them to "Dead Lantern" gate, which was 5 miles from the ranch house. As they wearily walked .past a huge over- shadowing boulder in a gulch in coming to the ranch house, a voice whispered "Go back, Go back!" At the ranch house they are greeted suspiciously by the gaunt rancher, partner, Snavely, and Indian Ann, a herculean woman of mixed. negro and Indian bleed. Snavely is diffi- cult to understand but regardless. Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust their three lives to the ranch and its developinent. Kenneth, Ruth's husband, caught ill chilling rain eon - tracts pneumonia and passes away before• a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She is not encouraged by Snavely in plans to try and stock the ranch or improve it. She writes to her father in the East asking for a Ioan with which to buy cattle. She receives no reply. Will Thane comes honie to visit his father ... and Ruth meets him, A rancher nearby decides to retire and offers to sell Ruth and Snavely his live stock on credit. Snavely tries to balk the, deal but Ruth buys to the limit of her three-quarter interest in Dead Lantern ranch. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY eetzene "Might lie a good idea," said Snavely slowly, as they rode up to the remains of the cow which lay at the mouth of the gully. Snavely dismounted and examined the cow. Ruth sat, on her .horse watching. "Say!" he said in a sur- prised voice, "it night be—no. Nev, er heard of that in this country.' He carte toward the horses, shaking his head in perplexity, "What do you think it might be?' "I ain't saying yet -have to see another one or two. But if it's what it looks like TIm m." Snavely laps- ed into silence as he and Ruth rode on. Finally the girl said, "Don't be so mysterious—,please, if you think you know what's wrong tet me!" "Well, I ain't saying yet, but if it's what it looks to be it's a lucky It ,si i.as sn' "There are buzzards circling all along the foothill gullies." thing I'm here. I reckon I'm the only man in this country that's had to do with that sickness. 'Liver fever,' I've heard it called in Texas—, nobody knows what it is. Very un- Mr. Snavely's worst suspicions were confirmed after the next ex- amination. He looked up. "It's liv- er fever, sure enoug0 " "What shall we do — will the whole herd get it " "I've got the cure for it, We're mighty lucky to find out about it so soon. It's easy, dead easy, to cure, but if we letit•go it'll clean out eve ery animal on this ranch an' out of this section of the country, It's a vary.rare an' uncommon sickness, liv- er fever' is,'bhrt I can titre it." Snav- ely's eyes glinted eagerly. "I had occasion in Texas with a herd that near died of it -nobody, no vetinary, nor smart man could do a thing. Just when things was worst an oid nigger man came into camp an' said ltd 11 could cure all .them as was left. He the water .they 'drum,, that's all. I got five. pounds of that :medicine for a dollar a pound an' I still got it. I can put that medicine in the water an' there won't be na more deaths." "Whet is the medicine?" aT don't know. Oid Jake wouldn't' tell, an' it don't make no difference what it is. You come back •to the barn with me, an' we'll start right in doctorin' the water." At the barn Snavely rummaged among the litter of the medicine shelf and produced a Quaker Oats box nearly full of a dirty white pow- der. owder. "Here she is.",He smiled broadly. "The• very sme stuff. A good big cupful in each represa'il stop the sickness—nary a cow'll die from tonight 011." Ruth was plainly skeptical. . "If you're sure it will help, Mr. Soave- ,ly, we'll certainly put it in the wa- ter. But at the same time we'll get a veterinary.? • "There ain't a bit of use in gettin a vet., Mrs. Warren. This stuff certain. All knowledge ain't luck i the vest pocket of scientific folk Why, that old nigger claimed th was discovered in Africa the onl place they have liver fever comma -an' for nobody knows how man years the savages have used th same medicine. A thing that's be used by people for a thousand yea an' found to work, don't need n doctors to help it none." "Well, we'll try it tonight, if yo like, but I wish you'd leave for to in the morning—you know we ha to have supplies anyway." g is n s. is n 3' is en .5 0 u ve of n¢ e d. s. 11 d tc r0 n tie s 0' e g', 0 ed r w. e I 0 Snavely rode away with his box medicine and returned about ni that evening. After he had eaten h came to 'Ruth's door and knocice I've put some in every repress, Mr Warren, and in the corral trough and in the troughs by the spring— Ruth opened her door and steppe outside, for David bad just gone sleep. "Have you seen Franciscc and Alfredo? They found seve more dead this afternoon—there n buzzards circling all along the foo hill gullies. Please start to tow early—if any machines pass, you a. them to send out a veterinary a soon as they reach town." "Mrs. Warren!" Snavely fixed he with narrowed eyes. "I know th medicine will stop the sickness!" Th momentary steadiness of his eye gave way to their customary jerkin and he walked toward bis room. Ruth did not quit know what t do. "Mrs, Warren"—Snavely stepp at his own door and his nnn111e softened—"I know how you're livor vied an' if I didn't know the dange was over, I'd start for town no Now listen here --if we find one fres dead cow after tonight, I'll get you veterinary. I'm saying this 'cans I know the sickness will stop, an' ain't goin" afoggin' into town for n vet'inary who couldn't do nothin' of ter be got here. Ruth stood thinking. She wet not at that moment so very afraid of Snavely, Still . , . anyway, she had his word; ono more dead animal. And in three days Old Charley wouid be going into town. If need be, she could ask hint to send out a veterin- c ary. The following any five more dead animals were found but none recent- ly dead. Ruth tallied the •bulls and , found only one. Number Six, mis- sing, ,She crossed his number from her list, So far she had lost eight- een head, about one thousand dollars. For. all she knew, that thousand dol- lars might mean the failure to meet her note. Certainly, if many more cattle died she could not meet it. But no more cattle ,died, For a week every one anxiously watched for buzzards but the great birds hat, grown more scarce and not a single new death was reported. Ruth's relief was unbounded ant' Snavely,'s eye glinted triumphantly The day carne when Snavely was setting' out for town. Ruth spoke to hint just as he was leaving. "I wish you'd take some of that medi- cine with you and see if you can't get it analyred--,go to a druggist and if he can tell what it is, get some more." (Snavely nodded "That's a good ,dear—I'll sure do it. We ain't got much left; but I don't ,think we'll. have any more trouble. I'm justa mite worried' about the stockin the north pasture—they feed along the foothills a heap an' you know it was foothill feeders that got took bad. We ain't found no sickness on the meadows. I'll take a little of that powder into town but' maybe you'd better put some in the spring troughs --S ain'tdone that lately. Better put. some in tonight—there's a lot of foothill grazers watering at thein troughs."• That evening Ruth reached tip to done •it --mot a single animal died af- the medicine shelf, found the partly ter .old Jake doctored them,' filled cardboard box •and poured a o "How?" smallamount in a cup. At the h "lie just put a little medicine to troughs she turned the water off so that the medicine would not be di, luted" during the night, poured in the powder and returned to the !barn for her Spanish' lesson: She hoped fer- vently that ;Snavely could obtain' more of the, medicine and, if not, de- cided that she would send a sample toWill-,surely" some laboratory in Los Angeles would analyze it. As she rand David and Alfredo were leaving the: next morning for day's riding, they chanced to go into the pastime lby way of the spring troughs. It was early, and the ad- vance guard of the herd was just Coming oyer a distant hill for their first drink of the day, when the riders reached the troughs. Only three cows, two calves, and a yearling steer had already water- ed. The six animals lay within e hundred feet of the troughs. All but the steer were dead. For the next five hours, Ruth, Ann and the two Mexicans labored vainly with the dying steer. It is neither. easy nor pleasant to treat animals for poisoning; for according to the actions of the steer and the •Cattle Breeder's Guide it had been poisoned. When the steer was dead, Ruth went to the medicine shelf. Standing on a sack of rolled barley which lifted her eyes to the level of the shelf, she Ile was going to pay his would be neighbor n call. discovered that there were two Qua• ker Oats boxes, each containing r whitish powder. On the outside of one box was scrawled it pencil, "for liver fever"; the other box bad a poison label "Cyanide," Ruth held a box in each hand, looking from one to the other—for the life of her, she could not tell which she had taken from the shelf the evening before. e Old Charley sat • upon his horse, leaning slightly forward, bis bellig- erent eyes on a thin thread of smoke which name from a clump of oak and mesquite, half a mile beyond the eas- tern boundary of his ranch, Ile hatl just noticed that thread of smoke, The oldman rode to the top' of a small hill, over which the fent passed, dismounted arid, kicking off his chaps, studied a mesquite tree which served as a post in the fence Then, with much grunting and many scandalous remarks regarding thorns he hauled his heavy body part way up the tree. From his new position he could see the origin of the smoke. One look told him much and his re- marks increased in volume and tem- perature as he deseneded, The land from which the thread of smoke arose was free land — government homestead land. it join- ed the Thane Tench on the west and the Dead Lantern property on the north, extending eastward as far as the highway. Since Will had been a boy, Old Charley Thane had planned for him to use his homestead rights to acquire this' excellent piece of property. It would . make a wonder - fut pasture --deep in grass and shade and having several natural sites for watering places. But when Will had come of age he was in college. And when he finished college ho went in- to business—mover did Will have six continuous months during which he could live on this property, make the required . improvements, and so become the owner 'of ;it. . And now it appeared that some confounded foreigner was intent on, taking this property away from Will! Old Charley dropped • his horse's reins over. a post and crawled thrqugh the fence. Ile was going to pay his would-be neighbor a call. He stopped about fifty feet from the shack. The setting sun theew. deep shadows under the oak trees. The single window was open, but the old man could see nothing within. From the crazy chimney of stow pipe on the roof came a thin column £• smoke, Neat the door stood a box olding a washbasin.. There was a. splash' of water on the side of the DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD, Every tb'oy1,of Scout age in Hud- son, Ont., is a member of the local Boy Scout Troop. China's Boy Scout Movement China has its Boy Scout. Movement, although not yet sufficiently estab-, lished to qualify for recognition by the International Scout 'Bureau.Grams! Blackfoot Indian Boy Foobaliers • ,Defeat Palefaces A soccer team of Blackfoot Indian Boy Scouts of the Old Sun School Scout Troop played the Gleichen, Al- *, white troop team, and bested ! f box. "Hello, neighbor!" called old Charley. A frying pan dropped to the floor with a clatter, but no other re- sponse carte from the house, Then, as he was about to call again, a cloth curtain dropped behind the win- dow, as though released by the jerk of a string, Old Charley frowned and wen' toward the shack. He banged on:•the door. "Say, in there, I've got a message for you —from a friend." "I ain't got no friend sendin' me no messages!" The voice behind the door rasped roughly. "What d'yuh want, stranger?" 01d Charley almost abandoned the moonshiner sypothesis — moon.. shiners are more inquisitive about messages from friends. However, he tried again, The 01d man frowned. "My name's Thane --'I own the ranch, here, and I thought I'd see who's living in this shack." "Like hell you own this land! I'm ownin' it myself, come another five months! I done paid my visit to the land office, Mister, and I don't feel like openin' no door. Don't like to talk noways—fat people don't agree with toe." "What! Why you low—" "Yeah," interrupted the voice, "and besides, I'm gettin' my supper so why don't you be a nice little fat man an' get th' heli off my property —huh ?" Old Charley's face was the color of a well.doee hang. He hit the door with a tremendous blow of his fist. "Open this!" (Continued next week) THURS., NOV. 23, 1933 their paleface brother Scouts by a score of 3 to 0. Regina Mayor's Tribute to B. -p.. "One of the greatest contributions to the progress of humanity was made by Lord Baden-Powell when he developed the Boy Scout Move, tnont," declared Mayor James McAra of Regina, addressing a conference of Saskatchewan •Raver (older) Scouts. ottleaeo Wild West Stuff on Toronto Street •That Scout lariat spinning may have practical value was demonstrat- ed by Scout .Vincent Donohue of To- ronto when a stray wild steer ap- peared on his street, He ran for his lariat, roped the ; animal western fashion, and held it until the pollee arrived. • Scouts to. Cruise Mediterranean As a result of the success of the international friendship cruise of Lord. and. Lady Baden-Powell and six hundred British Scout and Girl Guide Ieaders to the Bettie ports last sons mer, a second cruise is planned to the Mediterran, can. It will take place next Easter aboard the White. Star liner Adriatic. League of Nations and Boy Scouts That the Boy Scout Movement was helping the League of Nations carry out one of its principal aims,— "ac, customing the rising generation to consider international oe-operation as the ordinary means of eondutcing the 'affairs of the world,"—was a re- cent declaration of the. Secretary of the League of Nations. The Little Dream House It was a darling house. White frame shining through the glossy green of tree leaves. A Iliac bush, sending love -making potions through the dusky spring air for strolling young sweethearts to breathe. A gloriously wide yard out in neat paths and springy grass carpets. Grand for a child to play in. And on the ample Trent porch, smothered by concealing vines, wick- er chairs, table, scattered magazines. flowers. Also, rocking in the twi- light, the loneliest serson in Dalton. Miss Amanda Cummings, middle-ag- ed spinster, All Dalton knew Amanda's story --,how her Tom twenty years before had lost his life to saving the little girl whose parents lived acmes the railroad tracks,' On the eve of thou wedding, it was. How Anpaitdi sprightly, merry -eyed, loving ever baby in Dalton,had altered into a austere, money -making, silent of maid who avoided children'religiout ly-thereafter, How her efficiency as• stenograph er had made.her a coveted employ of Dalton's business concerns, .Ho' her parsimonious years had bee spent in .a cheap board-hous. until at 45 she had suddenly bui; this adorable little cottage. Everybody seemed amazed, Go; sip curled, conjectures flew. Wh had Amanda done it? Only on person knew, 1 Stella Marsden, childhood friend, invited to see th interior a month after completion. Stella dropping in with, her grand, child, apologized timidly as .she not iced Amanda's hospitable smile alts into a frown at the sight of the fa blue-eyed girl on her arm. "Sorry," said Stella meekly, "m daughter Jane left baby in my car I— I had to bring her." Stella, walking ' slightly in fron could not notice the little gestu Amanda was malting toward the co ing baby over her shoulder. "It's it's wonderful," ejaculat Stella, staring enviously at the litt footstools, big stout armchairs—th paintings, "Why --why you've a picture — a child," she gasped foolishly, pain Mg to the little girl raptly gazing a bird. "A--ia famous reproduction 'slight belligerence in Amanda's vote it gave way to eagerness—the sh subtle appeal for appreciation, a proval. It seemed to say, "Don laugh at what I ant going to you—or show you"' A new rare Ai arida, thought .Stella, big -eyed, ious. "Here's the kitchen," leading way through a small hall. "Oh, Amanda," speechless, Stel leaned against the jamb. If the li ing room was demure, the kitel was frivolous, honeymoonish, youn 'Silken flower drapes at small doors, rakish cushions on the rocki chair—and straight ones. Geraniun bleeding-hearts on the sill. And gainst the scarlet satin pillow on t floor a porcelain black pussy. "Abe -- you going to live h alone?" queried Stella. "No," breathed Amanda, and voice had the effect of long, taiited running. "Dere—ltere's deer to my secret. But first let hold the baby!" Like a person grabbing foodke days of starvation, that crazy n Amanda was snatching Jane's be Hugging her, kissing her, crone: (Continued on page 3) here ide ilio p rev i1 1 A Canadian citizen touring certain sections of the United States a few years ago, reported on his return that he had passed through several good-sized towns where absolutely ideal business conditions •obtained. It had there been possible to so establish 'a spirit of co operation and good will, not only among the business and profession. al men, but also between these and the general public, with the re- sult that the most harmonious relations pervaded these towns, The business men were eontent to live and let live, to refrain from adopt- ing unfair and unethical business methods, to lend a helping hand to each other in trouble and adversity, and to extend to one another such business patronage as lay in their powor. Thus the carpet- bagger invariably got the "cold shoulder," for it was firmly estab- lished and acknowledged that every order which could be placed in the home town, but which was sent ,elsewhere, simply drained that community of legitimate revenue, and served but to enrich some oth- er locality. Business left in the home town helps everybody in such town. 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