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The Clinton News Record, 1931-12-03, Page 2-.Page 2 Clinton News -Record r=101:::=0 With which is Incorporated 0 THE NEW ERA 0 Terms of Subscription—$2.00 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- ah•esses; $2.50 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are ' paid unless at the pption of the, publisher. The date to wealth every subscription is paid is denoted on' the label. Advertising Rates—Transient advcre tieing 12e per count line for first insertion. 8e fete each subsequent insertion.' Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex- ' ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", i "Lost," 'Strayed," etc., . inserted once for 35c, each subsequent in sertion 15c. Rates for display ado vertising made known on applica- j tigm. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be - accompanied by the name of the writer. 'G. E. HALL, M. Rt CLARK, Proprietor. • Editor. M. D McTAGGART Banker IA; general Banking Business transacted. Notes Discount- =ed. Drafts Issued. Interest Allowed on Deposits. Sale Notes Purchased. B. T. RANCE. 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 Public ,Sueeessnr to W. Brydone, K.C, Sloan Block Clinton, Ont. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. • JB. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Piro Wind, Sickness and Accident, Ante - mobile, Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.U. Telephone 57. DR. 3. C. GANDIER Office Hours: -1,30 to 3.30 part, '8.30 to 8.00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 pm. Other hours by appointment only. 'Office and Residence — Victoria St :DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: 'Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west cif Anglian Church Phone 172 'Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and kesldence; :Huron Street — Clinton, Ont. - Phone 69 'e (Formerly occupied by the late Dr C. W. Thompson) Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. IL A. MCINTYRE DENTIST EXTRACTION A. SPECIALTY 'Office over Canadian National Ex, press, Clinton, Ont. Phone 21 D, H. MCINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist Masseur Office: Huron St. (Pew doors west of Royal Bank), Hours—Tues., Thurs. and Sat., all day. Other hours ay appointment Hensel' Office—Mon., Wed. and Fri. forenoons. Seaforth Office—Mon., Wed. and Friday _afternoons. 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. CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as .follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div, 'Going tea, depart 6,58 am Going.East depart 3.05 p.m, 'Going West, depart. 11.55 non. er u.._ ." 9.44 p.m. London, Huron er Bruce .• 'Geeing South 3.08 p.in 'Going North 11.58 .i nt., THE 'CLINTON' NEWS -RECORD THE p. TULE MARSH MUROER STORY OF .A-MISSING'CTRESS AND THE6 TAXING OF WITS TO EXPLAIN HER o O .., . , 0 IJ� I+AT7C, BY NANCY BARR MAVITY "191:20 0 =e o (0 o1 acre-- • SYNOPSIS none of his business. A month ago act- no cnow any of them, unless nr. Sheila O'Shay's frequently published st . photograph in ,rotogravure sections has and news pages constituted acquain- tone.. Yet here he was, losing sleep ter, forgetting meals, working uncounted hours of "overtime" in the attempt gs' to find out ' who lead killed Sheila ()Shay and why ore ft was partly sheer human curios- ity and pride, an unwillingness to is confess' himself baffled;. partly the ara desire, not only that a solution be s' "found, but that the "Herald" have a dla hand in finding it—and partly the need of setting Barbara somewhere tee. in clear sunlight, and knellingare aside from her, always, anxiety • and o e doubt and `trouble and folly. It was because he cared so much ch for Barbara that Orme must have •a Don Ellsworth's wife, formerly rose `Sheila O'Shay, disappears. Cavanaugh, erininal psyeholog'i learns that their married lafe been unhappy, Peter Piper, a Herald - repor while trying to see Dr, Oavanau meets Barbara Cavanaugh and 11 she was engaged to EIlsworth bef his marriage. A body found in the tale marshidentified as that of 'Sheila. Barb faints when she hears this. Mr Kane, Sheila's staid, is arrested an admits that Ellsworth married ,She under threat of breach, of pram' The breach of 'promise papers not in Sheila's safe, 'but Cavanau and Peter find : a threatening n signed "David Ormie." Peter runs h down at a' tourists' camp . and Cavanaugh agrees to examine Dr'. fair show, There must be no line hint.' •geeing shadows, no thrusting of guilt upon a possibly innocent man. If there were any chance of that, Bar- bara, he knew as surely as if he had ee known her all her Iife, would throw e_ caution to the winds, even to her Ile own -mortal hurt. nth -And she had need of caution—that en- much was abundantly clear. It flash- e- ed upon Peter with the force of com- ae ae plete conviction that though Barbara he might conceivably have killed Mrs. Ellsworth because anyone• might CHAPTER XXXIV. Peter closed Dr. Cavanaugh's offi door ;behind him in a state of una customed mental 'turbulence. loafed along the hedgebordered p which led from the separate side trance of the office to the front driv way, chewing e twig which he b absent -windedly Idul;ked lfeom t closely -woven leaves of box. There was something intimidath to ordinary folk about the detach'm of science, the impersonal elarity knowledge. Peter no longer thoug of the doctor merely as an expert a field which interested Peter only a source of copy on occasion. Td psychiatrist loomed before •his distor ed mental vision as' a marionet piaster pulling a hundred invisih wires. There had been a disturbin quality in his laughter—somethii Olympian and aloof, as if he alone knew what hidden paths they were following, as if they were all acting out.a plot with the involutary jerks of puppets while he sat behind the screen and held the script that gave meaning to their actions --held it by the power that came from unders standing of the mysterious springs of human conduct. • Peter shook his head impatiently and tossed the twig away... "I'd better go to bed and get a- bout forty-eight hours of sleep," 'he muttered. "The pursuit of crime is beginning to tell on me." Nevertheless, he continued to loiter by the side of the hedge. Were all the people in they world more or less "cracked," needing only a past to knock thein off the narrow wall -of normality, like Huntpty Dnmpty? True, Ornie might have killed Sheila O'Shay without being insane— and he might, on the other ]rand, be unbalanced without having killed Sheila O'Shay. They were no near, er to finding out why he had writs ten that threatening letter, why he had changed his name and fled, why that flight had been so inconclusive. en easily abandoned, than they had been on the night when the letter was first found, And whatever Orine's relations with the dead we. ran might have been, they did not explain 'Ellsworth's unwillingness to ave her disappearance made public is purloining of the evidence of.the ontenrplated breath of seromise suit, or ilIas, Kane's effort to prevent identification of the body. espite weeks of headlines and nt page stories, thousands of 'de thrown into type and out again estigationl,and suspicions, the tule rah mystery was as much a mysi y as on the day when Jimmy t dubbed it "the best 'murder of year," otive! • The doctor was, right. hout understanding what pulled wires in people's heads, -slues o nothing bat a meaningless eum- And motives themselves were a' er rr xture—even Peter's awn. What these people did and why - did it was, strictly speaking, est haps by a fatal accident in circler-114of stances that would not bear explana, ht tion—she eateld °not have taken that in body to the marsh and burned it. as • With a sigh of audible relief Peter '10.e• seized fdrmtly'on the supposition that t_ she was protecting someone else to with her quixotic loyalty. She might le even have known, or suspected, what g was going to happen. But in either case, neither quixoticism nor loyalty n h h e n the D fro woe 111v ma ter firs the M t the wer ble. que they THE McHILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J. Beneewies, Brodhag• en, vice-president, James Connolly, Goderieh, Sec, -treasurer, D. F. Me, Gregor, Seaforth. ire eetors: dames Evans, Beech- wood; James Shouldice, Walton; Win. Knox, Londesbon'c,; Rabt. Perris, Irul- lett; John Peppery Brucefield; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; G. F. •MeCart- nay, Seaforth. Agents: W. J. Yeo; R.R. No. 3, Clinton; Jelin Murray, .Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; E. Pinchley, Seaforth. Any.mroney to be paidmay be paid, to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, co" ` at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderieh: Parties desiring to effect insur- anceor transact other business` will be promptly attended to on applica, tion to` any : of the above officers addressed to their respective post or - would wipe out the ugly, hard leg- ality of the phrase, "accessory to the •feet." Peter's ,whirring thoughts stopped short, as suddently as the cutting off of a motor. He had drifted to the corner where the side path joined the main driveway, and saw Barbara her, self at the curb, getting out of her car. He stood and watched her with sheer unthinking delight— delight in the sunshine that made of her hair a gleaming cap on her bare head; de, light in the childlike unconsciousness' and swift, agile grace of her move- ments. He smiled as he noted that she had evidently forgotten her hand- bag. She leaned far forward into the cat•, poised with one foot on the curb, and groped in the crevice bei tween the seat cushion and'the back upholstery. Slowly she withdrew her hand and stood staring with bent head—hot at a handbag, but at something that gleamed and flashed with a row of tiny green lights that caught the sun. It was a large amber comb of the Spanish type, flaring .fan -shaped to the double row of emeralds that curved, fully six inches from end to end, across the top. Peter thought that he had cried out, that he hest run toward her; but there was only a slight choking sound in his throat, and his hand reached out autolnatioaIly and clutch- ed the hedge for suppos't. That comb was famous film a hundred descriptions, familiar from a hundred photographs. The story had been reprinted times without nutnher—how a headstrong Balkan prince had stolen it tram ,his fain- ily's royal deflection for a woman's whim,' and had been sequestered un- der guard for three years to keep hint out of reach of his enchantress when the theft and its motive were discovered; how the woman had' worn it triuliiphantly ip her tawny, unbabbecl hair ever since, declaring that if they wouldn't let her• have the prince, she'd at least have the emeralds,_ and leaving the royal re latives to sputter, 'helplessly. It was the emerald comb of Sheila O'Shay. Barbara ,held the huge, glittering ornament in her hand for a moment. her head drooping lower • and Imola Then her gaze lifted. Peter. saw her gaze dart from side to side, up 'and down the deserted, sun -drenched street, .• Ile had never ,seen .such utter, trapped termor aha human eounten, tante, Her fingers wrenched flan- tically' at the comer, breaking it tooth by tooth. jewel by jewel into frag- ments. Some of them dropped to the pavement, but she stooped to pick them up. Then she ran, her two laden ihand�; 'pressed tighe 'a- gainst het breast, to the sewer open. at the, corner. "Dbn'tt" Peter cried out hoarsely, but she did not hear him. He .could not himself have told whether he was, protesting against her net el`, against the whole world in which enol• things oou)cl be, art instinctive, iter- led ,denial of his sensor. He saw her kneel in the dry rub - oh of the gutter and` thrust' her rif fices. Losses inspected by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. bi hands through the .storm grating that covered' the entrance to the sewer: pipe. When she withdrew them they were empty She turned then and ran back to the house as swiftly asshe had comae. Her skirt and her light colored, stockings. Were streaked with grime from the getter, but she made no effort to brush 'off the dust; she did not even look down. With that white tortured face, star- ing straight ahead, she fled up the driveway, passed within three feet of Peter without seeing him, and dashed into the house. CHAPTER XXXV. Sheila O'Shay's body had been driven to the marsh in Barbara's car—the one thing Peter had: held to Ire inconceivable had happened'. He say the jaunty littlesports come, nos- ing its way through the night with its burden of death. Barbara's white face of terror above the wheel. Had she searched with frenzied fine gers for the missing comb, not date ing to strike a light'? Had she, in the horror of those darks hours, not even noticed that it had slipped from the g'eam'ing' copper of Sheila's hair perhaps net even known that it had ever been there? A groan broke from Peter's lips. Ile was .dully aware that something was pressing sharply against his fore- head,. The ,pain brought him slowly from the cluteh of that imagined scene to a consciousness of his sur- roundings, like one who has plunged into the deep water and rises, by no effort of his own, to the surface. He found that he was leaning $gainst the trunk of a tree, `Itis face pressed close to its rough bark. His breath cane in sobbing gasps, as if he had been running to the point of ex, haustion. And then, as suddenly as the turn- ing on of a light in a dark room; he was roused from the numbness of nightmare ghtma byflash a of'arsolute certitude. Barbara's hand night have held a knife or jerked a trig- ger; but Barbara could not have flung the body of Sheila O'Shay in to the marsh and set fire to the grass. She could not have done it, simply because she Was Barbara. If he had seen with his own eyes her figure at the wheel with that other huddled figure beside it, he would still have known that ` she did not do it—because she was Barbara. � He had believed without evidence that this one thing she could not do. The physically inopossible—•or what looked like it --was often enough ac compli8hed, brut there were impos- sibilities, that struck deeper. He had the evidence now, and:.'he defied it. Evidence was as nothing, because- no ecauseno outer facts could give the lie to the central fact that was Barbara. (TO BE CONTIN'U'ED.) Children Left Alan. In r littts house' in' a'A/sok street two ohlldren are *Wilting Mother's and•Ded:a riturn: They are. being helped. by. ariendly. Organlcation but there can be no home for them until their parents come back: Where are the•paronta!? 8'or many months they have,beenstrna,Iffirr for lost health and strength in this Toronto Hospital for-Coneurnpttvea: They.have..beneated greatly, 0.4so many' hundreds do, front the quiet - nese fresh atm kindly nursing and medical attention, Abdire dining -room s a dlnow"le prOad boast of the husband and rather. But a short time ago he could oofonbwedA w monthsfrom who known, he may be back again tak- in up the .burden. of the home. Such work as this has great econ- conic value- to the • community` as - *ell as openings the only way from misery and deepalr to hundreds- of the coneumptive poor, The hospital glenst'ey endnee saycur heap, Wni you Ames, 225 College Bt., Tto oronto bK1 NGANEWS C01.1 -1u hClar "°It's uphill work," says President "Pure ignorance, Madam, pure Cosgrove, "to govern this country ignorance," said Dr. Johnson when a under present conditions." Troth, and lady asked him show he eame• to it's more than that Ter Anter, It's give a wrong definition to the word up hill and down Dale, so it is, sot. A farmer out on the 2nd eenees- sion says that the difference .be- tween :farmers and the unemployed is that fanners have to work. Wouldn't you naturally think the Chinamen would be able to iron out their differences? Don't be misled by a woad. It sometimes happens that a man who could not be elected in any other way gets there by "acclamation," "postern" in his first dictionary. A correspondent calls attention to a recent reference in this column to "Lord Huntington," It was written "Lord Hartiugton," but poor pen.e manship is a poorer excuse than pure ignorance. - Whether or not a newspaper should publish police court news is a ques- tion that is engaging theattention el some country town editors. One says that when an offender is fined or imprisoned he has paid the penal- ty and should not be further penal- ized 'by publicity. Another takes the opposite view. "We don't make the news," he says, "but it is our busi- ness to publish it." .Moat editor:, adopt this as their practice, but the editor has not yet been born who did Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborne, di- not make exceptions. This goes for rector emeritus of the American) was Museum of Natural History, told tryeditors weekliesof.city It willdailiesas alwaysolf becoun- so until personality is displaced entirely by mechanisan and robots sit he edi- torial ehairs. If news was written and edited automatically, as the pres- ses are run and fed, it would be hard on reputations that now enjoy the shelter of friendship or influence. Some places are asking to have Hon. Jas. Murdock, vice-president Remembrance Day and Thanksgiving of tate Brotherhood of Railway Day combined, which is all right Trainmen,told the Railway Invest - for those who are able to remember gation Board that railway sten, by a and be thankful at the same time. cut in wages, should not be burdened • with the obligations undertaken in "the great outlays foil hotels, golf Extract from the next annual ea- links, pleasure resorts, steamships port of railway companies: "'four and so .on," And who should? He company is pleased to record a grati- surely does riot expect those who fying decrease in the .number of made the burdens to carry them. deaths and accidents at level •cross. Alas, they must be borne by the dear, Ings during the past year," good public. the Academy of .Science that his measurements of teeth enanue prove that the Piltdown man discovered in a gravel pit is 1,125,000 years old. Now, who'd have thought they had statute labor so long ago as that? . According to General Seeley's new book, King 'George saw General'Sii Sam Hughes and General Bergen having a fisticuff fight in England during the war. General Sam had said that a Canadian sandier was as good as twenty South Africans and of course, General Berger couldn't stand for that. And that reminds; During the war, John Webster, their M.P. for Brockville, and afterwards senator; went to sea the war minis- ter. . One word led to another and all• led to Sam's declaration that one man from Lindsey (his own home town) was as good ' as two from Brockville. The challenge was tak- en, man for man. The .general couldn't find his boxing gloves, so they agreed to wrestle instead. They were both up in years but both hue ky and strong and the battle which began in fun ended h earnest, Sam`s battery of stenographers.watohing a conflict that was equal in intensity to the epic combat between Pita lames and Roderick Dhu. The match part of the House of Lords contains over, it was agreed to hush. it up a goodly number of members who. but the -story leaked. A reporter had previously denounced the senate interviewed the Broekv4ll'e man. "Not as 'obsolescent, :but who think better a word of truth in it," he said. "But," of it now. "It hath a pleasant seat," said the reporter, "Sam says it's true as Duncan said before Mraebeth's and: that he licked you." -"He's a castle, but, unlike that castle, the liar," said the Broeltvillien, "I got aspect is more cheerful from the hint down," inside looking out. ' :Gandhi expressed his disgust at the bare backs of ladies he saw in London in evening dress. It was coming to thein, because they talked behind his baek about his bare legs and loin cloth. Viscount' Snowden is being' assail- ed by former friends because he takes a seat in the .Mouse of Lords which he used to curse, If he,wants precedents he can find many of them. Scmo of Gladstone's followers who cried "Down with the Lords" went lip to the Lords; his own son being one of them, ;Some of those who limehoused against the Lords with Lloyd George' were elevated to, the peerage by Lloyd George, but' he himself remained in the atmosphere that better fans his Celtic.fire. As- quith was raised to the peerage on the recommendation of a political op- ponent, but Asquith never joined very heartily hi condemnation of that body. The Canadian counter - Doings in the Scout World An old jail leasedfrom the coup- ty council ,is now headquarters for the Boy Scouts of .Cloverdale, B.C..' Next World Gathering of Boys Further word as to the next inter- national. Scout Jaitilroree, in Hun, gary in 1933, states that the world gathering' of boyhood will occur In the, latter part of ably and early part ,at' August. - Once Cannibals, Now Scouts According to Sir Hubert Murray, Governor of Papua, .the Scout,Move; extent has been a most helpful influ- ence in the civilizing of the young Papuans, who formerly were canni- bals. • Boy Pilgrims at Roosevelt Grave 4,000 American boys took part in the 12th annual pilgrimage of Boy Scouts to the grave of Theodore Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, L.I. The Scouts were from New York, New .Terser, •Connecticut, ' Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Scouting Aids the Handicapped In England there are 16 Scout troops of blind bays, 87 troops, Cult peeks and Rover crews for crippled boys, 23 units for the deaf and 33 in institutions for the mentally defic- ient, In all cases the training and atmosphere has been found distinct- ly beneficial. Visit of the French Boy Choir The French boy choir, "Young Singers of the Wooden Cross," whose recent tour of eastern Canada was a notable musical event, was made up entirely of Cubs, Scouts and Rovers of the 20th and 21st Scout Groups -of Paris. In keeping with the statement of the director, the Abbe lIlaillet, that the boys were "first and foremost Boy Scouts," the French lads wore Scout uniform throughout, except when rendering liturgical numbers. In this the French Semite carried out the Arae, Mice of the Westminster Abbey Scout choly which toured Canada in 1927. tor Lepers Become Scouts A Boy Scout troop has been organa ized at an asylum for lepers near Colombo, Ceylon. There are several leper colony troops in Wrest Africa, Oxford University Rovers During the summer's hop picking in Kent, Oxford University Rover Scouts erected a temporary chapel, surgery and canteen, and staffed them for the benefit of the pickers. Old Country Invites our Scouts In connection with the next world gathering of Troy Scouts, to be held in Hungary in 1933, a cordial invi- tation has been extended all Dom- inion contingents to visit the Old Country before or after the Jambor- ee. Flocked to See Indian Scout A member of the Canadian con - THURSDAY, DECEMBER .3, 1931 tingont to the ,great world gathering of Scouts in England in 1929 who at, traded dmu ch attention passed d i n the death of Scout Bob Grey of British Columbia. As a "genuine red Indian and\son of a chief," many English boys sought the Canadian .camp. to meet Scout •Grey and take his Pie - tete. : Grey led the Indian dances which were a popular feature.. of the display given by the Canadians in the great amphitheatre ' His death was learned with great regret by 'ether mern'bees of the Canadian con- tingent. Awards for Boy Heroism So far this year 2$ awards for Life saving have; been made to Boy Scouts and leaders, 1 Bronze Cross, fot heroism in .face of very grave danger; 7 Silver Crosses, for rescue at serious personal risk, and 9 Gilt Crosses, 8 Certificates of Merit and 3 Letters of Commendation for cour- age and ovalness with lesser degree of risk. One Commendation was give en for saving a -horse from ill -,treat- ment, notwithstanding rough hand- ling of the boy by the owner. The Bronze Cross was awarded Assis- tant Scoutmaster Robert Talbot of Hamilton, Out, for a double res- cue from drowning during a heavy - storm on Lake Erie, BENM•ILLER: The funeral of Thomas Good, . a familiar figure as f'enmiller for the past 40 years, took place Saturday, Rev, Mr. Patton, of the 'United Church, conducting the service, interment was made_ in Col- borne Township Cemetery. Deceased who was in his 86th year, farmed and worked as a (laborer all his Iife until he retired to live with his daughter at Bemnilier. His wife pre- deceased rum 12 years ago. A sera resides near Hamilton. ASHFIELD: John Parrish, nom- inated as reeve for Ashfield Town- ship in opposition to John A. Mc- Kenzie, and Samuel Swan, proposed as deputy reeve, withdrew their names on Saturday and therewill be no election in Ashfield township. The council for 1932 was elected by acceantation as follows: Council: Reeve, John A. NIeXenzie; deputy reeve, Murdock Matheson; councillors Richard Johnston, John A. John- ston, Samuel Sherwood. The latter two were not in the 1981 Council. Boost Your Business Boost' your business, Don't be late, Start in early, Consentrate. Boost your business, Wear a smile, Cheerfulness Is well worthwhile Boost your business, Do not shirk, Knuckle down To earnest work. Boost your business, Just be wise Bring in buyers, Advertise. Boost your business, Hustle, praise; Optimism Always pays. Boost your business, Don't complain, Help to bring, Good times again! Grenville Kleiner. Listen in on the `blue coal' hour 5.30 to 6.30 every Sunday afternoon, over Station C.F,R,B., Toronto. Now you can positively identify your favorite D. L. & W. Scranton Anthracite (hard coal) before you burn it. It's trade -marked (tinted blue) for your protection. Order from your !leader I1OW— and know what 'blue coal, • Comfort means TFE COLOR G.aU o IfiRANTEES THE'QlJALiT' FOR SAUE BY J. B. Mustard C ,d al Co. OLIN sT,,IN WEAV uct FOR SALE Y W. J. Miller&So CLINTON