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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-09-03, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD BLACK DAWN CHAPTER VI SYNOPSIS by Victor Rousseau Dave Bruce, out of a jab, arrives at Wilbur Ferris' Cross- Bar ranch. Curran, the foreman, promises him .a 'db if he can break a horse called' Black Dawn. When he succeeds, he The fA11itOIl .1‘1eWS-idec0l d with which- is •Incorporated THE NEW ITRA TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S, or other foreign !countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING.RATEI"$ — Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subse- quent insertion, Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted onee�. for 35e, each subsequent insertion 15c. 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No. 1; J. F. Preutor, Brodhagen. • Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cubes' Grocery, Goderlch. • Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post off i- • es. Losses inspected by the director, CetA'c 01.4, Ni 3Iga1 4i, EaltAL6NS TIME TABLE Trail will arrive at and depart from CIlntoe as follows: Batfsk and Goderiek Div. Going Inset, depart 6.43 air. Gong East depart 3.00 p.m. Going Wart, depart 11.46 wan. Going West, depart ..-. . 11.l4 pee. !Gainer wadi 'ar.'L e, eerier* &AA pea. discovers Curran expected the horse !like that. Think you'll be gettin'a to kill him. A girl named Lois rides better one, huh?I'll see yuh at.the up, ' angry with Dave for breaking "her" horse. She refuses to speak to Dave even when he uses his savings to pay off the morgage on the small ranchshe shares with her foster father, a man named Hooker. When Hooker is killed by .a shot fired through the window, Lois has him arrested for murder. Faced with al- most certain hanging, Dave is 'wait- ing his trial when ,Curran goes to call. on Lois. •; "Well ,Miss Lois, this shore is bad news," Ourran said, and Lois could' see that his face was blackened and and hie lip 'swollen • from the beating that Dave had given him the day before. "`Iit doesn't make any difference now." said Lois gravely. "Hookers dead. I guess you fellows are going to hang Dave Bruce." "You betcha we are!" she Curran. "We don't aim to have dirty murderers livin' and fatte the jail at the expense of, town, and saddlin' us with the cost a jury trial at'Hampton. We alw acted on that principal, and w always goin' to do so. There's g to be some fun. tonight, Miss Lois "I'Il be there," said! Lois. "Meanie' yuh want to see feller dance?" hangin', and P11 be couiin' back here for my answer scan." Lois watched him rice away. She felt perfectly seeu}ae. A whistle r from he' would have brought the herd' running headlong with Black Dawn leading,a fighting tearing, kicking, crunchingfury. "1 hate him," ohs said to herself "You're bad medicine, Mr. Ourran, I'm glad that you_ got beaten up yesterday," Suddenly, to her astonishment, she, felt tears upon her, cheeks, It was years since she had shed tears, She had learned to take everything phil- osophically. Life wasn't meant . for happiness. At least, Lois had had no happiness in hers, save for rare talks with lfookcr when he was sober. She tried to search her mind to find out what she was crying •about. The discovery came to her as a shock. uted "Suppose he didn't do it" •..she 11.° whispered to herself. "Suppose Dave enin' Bruce is innocent. Suppose PPose it waste-- .of Lonergan!" i • aye She was thinking of Dave against we her will. She was remembering there oin' had been something different about the way he had looked at her and spoken to her --different from the the way of all the other men she had known except Hooker and Sherrif Coggswell. "I wouldn't like himto be hung if he didn't do it," Lois whispered. As the afternoon wore on, 'the knots of men in the main street of Mescal became thicker. Once Dave was recognized as he stood tiptoe at the window. He heard shouts raised, and saw fists shaken in'his; tlfreetion. It was a little before sundown when Sheriff Coggswell brought him another meal, and a pack of cige eettes that he himself had bought for him. "Well, how yuh feelin' Bruce?" the sheriff asked gruffly. "Might be worse, I suppose," an- swered Dave. "When's the coro- ner's jury goin' to sit?" "Tomorrow morn"'. Yuh'll be wanted there to give yore story—. if yo're .lucky. I may as well tell yuh, Bruce, the Cross- Bar bunch is a l sort . of worked up over Hooker's ng kinin ." to- "Friends of his, was they?" asked Dave, "You mean Curran's id worked up over that beetle' I gave d him yesterday. Well, he sere' got nn- what he . had coming to him, after tryin' to get me trampled by that e outlaw stallion:" • e, Coggswell fingered hes clipped. n mustache. "I ain't got_nothin' to , de with Curran's motives," he re - O plied. "I'm thinkin' of my repute - tion. •I been sheriff here two years e now, since Mr. Brown died, and n' there's been nary lynchin' bee since I took hold. I don't aim to have any record spoiled," I "Well, 1 ain't goin' to try to spoil e that record of yours, sheriff," an swered Dave, lighting a cigarette. "So that's the idea?" "Yep, Iyns goin' to do my "best to purteet you, Bruce. Meanwhile, I'm tellin, yuh straight, the' Cross -Bar is a tough bunch to handle. So if yuis got anything to leave, yuh might as well make out yore will, and I'll have Sims and myself wit- ness it. And if yuh got any money yuh: want sent anybody, I'll take care of it. Tha's how serious it looks to me." Dave opened .his wallet and drew out the partnership agreement he had make with Hooker, He .handed it to Coggswell. "You tear that up, sheriff," he said. That'll give Miss Lois the ownership of the valuable property I bought a share in yesterday. And you can see that the duplicate that. Hooker had is 'torn up. too. That's all I got to leave except a dollar or two, which'll buy drinks for the lynchin' party." Sheriff Coggswell 'stared at the document fir his hand. "r11 hold it," he, announced. Dein, it, it's hard for to believe a feller' like you would shoot an old -man asleep, Bruce. But that ain't here nor there. If they git you, they'll have to git me Lois nodded. Curran looked at her curiously at first; then, as his eyes took in the lines of her slender body, his face flushed, lie took another step toward her and stood looking down at her.'She hardly reached to his shoulders, . "What yuh aimin' to do now yore dad's dead?" he asked, as the sheriff had' done. "I haven't made my plans," Lois answered. "I reckon 2 know how to "rind n y- business, Mr. Curran," Curran flushed. "Why the Mis- ter?" he asked. "And how cone you call yore dad Hooker?" "Maybe you ecu tell as well as I can," answered Lois. That was Curran's first intima- tion that, she knew Hooker had not been her father. He had sense enough not to pursue the subject, but it acted like the fuse -cap on stick of dynamite, clinch! his resolution, "You never acted very warn ward me, did yuh?" he asked. "I don't know why I should," as Lois. "You were never a splendi friend oe mine, as far as I renter ber." "Maybe I could be," said th foreman. "Maybe I've tried to b Listen. I guess you know I stand i purty well with Mr. Ferris. Fact is he couldn't git rid of the even if h wanted to. It ain't no secret to yo that Lonergan's got the mortgage o the Cross -Bar, and put me fn to ru it?" Lois was silent, and Curran eon tinued. "I shouldn't be s'prisedif was to be the owner one of thes days, Half -owner, any -ways. And that time ain't so far away: I been watchin' you fora good while, Miss Lois. You're growed up to be a woman now. It ain't fair to yore - self, livin' up here in the hills and runnin' as wild as a scrub pony. And now Hooker's gone, yuh can't go on livin° here alone." "What d'you want me to do about it?" "I'll tell you what I been think - in'," answered the foreman, su- premely confident. , "How about you and me gittin' hitched? . You'll find yoreself livin' like a queen, com- pared to this." "That's sure some picture you're drawl"', Mr. Curran," answered, Lois, "Only it don't seem to regis- ter somehow I'd rather have my brones." Curran glared at her, a sell -pos- sessed little figure. standing erect iii her chaps and stained overalls, With one hand he could have swung her into the air. Desire and. thwart- ed will united in the resolve to -over- come her, to break her, as Dave Bruce had broken Black Dawn , He seized her in his arms and tried to peas his lips to hers, A resounding slap .reddened the foreman's cheek. Lois broke away, confronting him with fists clenched and heaving breast. You try that trick again, Mr. Curran, 'and I'll' set the herd on you," she said. Curran's glare had something of fear in it. He had seen enough of Lois'. strange power over the wild irons. lie turned away, went slowly back to where he had left his horse, climbed into the saddle. You think over what I said," he called. "You'd be crazy to turn doyen a proposition first." He left the cell room, slaming'the door behind himself. "That fella's white", Dane said to himself. "I sure would like to have a gun in my hand, 'though, if it comes, to a showdown." - ,. The, sunlightfaded abruptly out of the cell, Dave finished his meal, and resumed his station at the win-,. dove. Light . sprang up on the street,' And• now the dull murmur of voices that had, donee to his. :ears all the afternoon through the barred, closed ., window ba�'an' ,to' clmarxge to' a ttoarso nen'acing undertone. The crowd in- the Streets were growing thicker. ' The silhouettes, surged backward and forward about the jail. Then of a sudden there sounded the hoofbeats bf ` horses and a body of :mien rode yipping down the middle of the street, scat- tering the crowd. Curran and his Ciross-liar outfit had reacted- upon the scene, well, primed with whisky for the jobthat they had set themselves. The sudden outburst of yelling that ensued left no doubt' as to their intentions. Sdueezing his head against one of the window bars, Dave was able to see what was taking place. In front of the jail Sheriff Coggs- well and Sims, his deputy, ,were standing at the head, of the three stone steps. Coggswell seemed to be addressing- ' the crowd, but his words words were inaudible ' drowned in the yells of the crowd. Suddenly there came a rush for- ward,. Dave saw the sheriff's hand go up and a gun was in it. Before he had time to even level it, a. piece of fence -rail wielded by someone in the crowd', struck the sheriff upon the head. He staggered, reeled, and next moment he and Sims were both down and being trampled "upon by the infuriated mob. Coggswell, unconscious had been tossed 'to one side, and men were searching in his pockets for the jail keys. But the mob was already battering against the door, two men each wielding too heavy logs that thudded with a force that shook the. building. The door- cracked, splin- tered went down, and: the crowd came_ streaming through the ante -room and into the cell room. At the sight of Dave savage shouts of triumph broke from their throats. They spat at him through the. bars, and some were already leveling guns wheel Curran forced his way to the front, the keys in his hand. "Bold yore fire!" he shouted. "We ain't aimin' to give this mur- derer an easy death. He's goin' to dance." He inserted the keys in the look, and the door of the cage clicked open. With roars of execration the "rob laid hands on Dave and hustled hien out. Mauled, manhandled; beaten and kicked unmercifully. Dave instinc. tively put up what resistance he was capable of. Hee drove his fiste right and left into the savage faces of the mob, but i s was only for a few seconds that he was .able to baffle. their efforts to drag him from the roone He felt a revolver butt descend, upon the back of his head, and his knees began to buckle under him. The room became a dark void, lit by the pin -point flame of the dancing lamp. "Ice's out," he heard Curran say. "Handle him gentle, boys: When he comes to be touched off, We want him to know about it" Incapable of further resistance, Dave was dragged through the ante- room and down the steps of the jail into the sreet, where his arrival was greeted with another outburst of of savage execration from the assembled crowd. A little distance beyond the Way- side Rest stood a tall cottonwood, with a limb projecting some twelve feet above the ground'. About this mare' members of the "rob were gathered, some on foot others' on horseback. And then Dave's' heart thumped, and his wits came back' to him with a rush. For alonost Mimed - lately beneath the tree, seated bare- back on Black Dawn, he saw Lois, (TO BE CONTINUER?) FOLLOW THE LEADER One who did not mean to teepee. age the efforts of men and women in Cate& now giving leadership in this country during wartime declare ed recently. "Canada's true leaders are the boys, in uniform who are fighting on the seas and overseas." Few will argue against that opinion Good leadership •embraces the ability to inspire a people to higher achieve- ment. and there is nothing so inspira- tional as a good example. In all the selfl-denial and hard work required from us at home, we are inspired by our gallant leaders who scour the ocean to protect our troops and war materials, who sweeps the skies' to shelter our homes and industries and those who dash intq enemy territory to crush the heart- less wretches who plunged the world CANADA THURS., SEPT. 3; 1942 NATIONAL SELECTIVE SERVICE REGULATION5 . EFFECTIVE: SEPTEMMEER- 1, 1942 * THOSE AFFECTED ONE GROUP of regulst'ions (A) applies to all workers, male and female, and their employers, except any persons employed:— As female domestic servants in homes where there is not more than one servant employed; By a provincial government; As ministers, priests or clergymen; As professionalengineers or science workers under the Wartime Bureau of Technical Personnel; In part-time subsidiary employment which is not a regular occupation; In agriculture, hunting, fishing, trapping; As teachers; As nurses and proba- tioners; In casual labour; As students at work after school or on holidays other than long summer vacation. The other Group (B) applies to all workers. * THE REGULATIONS GROUP (A) 1, No worker may quit his job without giving his employer seven clays' notice in writing. 2. No employer may lay-off or discharge any worker without seven days' notice in writing. 3. No employer may interview or engage any worker unless such worker has a , permit to seek employment. 4. Permits to seek employment may be obtained from National Selective Service officers in Selective Service offices, formerly the local officesofthe Unemployment Insurance Commission. GROUP (8) 5. A National Selective Service officer has the power: (a) to order any person to report for an interview at the local office; (b) to order any person who has been unemployed seven days to take any suitable work; and (c) to order any partially employed person to take any suitable full-time work. 6. No person ordered by a National Selective Service officer to take a job may quit such job without permission of the officer. 7. When a worker has to travel to a distant job, the National Selective Service officer may pay the cost of transportation and certain other special allow- ances. 9. If a worker at the request of the National Selective Service officer changes from less to more essential work, he may claim re -instatement in his former job when the more essential work is finished. 9„ Any employer, employee or ether person who violates any provision of the regulations or any order made under them is liable to a fine not exceeding $500 or a jail terra of not more than 12 months or both. Notes—Agricultural workers may take seasonal or temporary employment outside agriculture with the consent of Selective Service Officers when such work will not interfere with farm production and by taking such work they will not lose their night to postponement of military service, * EMPLOYERS Read the orders -in -council setting up the regulations and the Explanation of National Selective Service Regulations which can be obtained from Selective Service offices. * EMPLOYEES Read the orders -in -council setting up the regulations and the Workers' Handbook which can be obtained from Selective Service offices or offices of trade unions. ELLIOTT M. LITTLE, Director National Selective Service HUMPHREY MITCHELL, Minister of Labour SS43 into war. Each of those Canadian leaders ov; es'seas.has voluntarily offered to stop Belem ii neeessar'y, that we may live. Melt has turned his back on chesterfields and pillows and the joy of doing What he likes. Each hes for- gotten the ease of an eight or ten hour day and the weekly pay envel- ope that peunitted him to buy a new suit or a .shirt or to take the girl oat to a dance. Each will work twenty- four hours at a stretch when called to do so. No Canadian soldier punts a limits - tion on the extent of his services. He is truly going all out for victory. With such leaders, Canadians will not fail in any task ahead. What Canadian father would drophis tools and slow up war production needed by his fighting son overseas.? ' How many Canadians will deliberately spend money for comfort and amuse- ment, when that money is needed so desperately to give our soldier lead- ere overseas, the last bit of equipment they need to Conquer the enemy? As we read the names of scores of young men who suffered and died on the beaches of Dieppe, how precious few of us will want to withdraw our money from the war chest 1n order to have a goal. time ,with it or to: spend It en 'osk ;that .wilt ;Ina* .our own lives 'more comfortable! PROFIT FROM FERTILIZERS ON WHEAT Very few wheat growers in Huron County attempt to grow winter wheat without fertilizers any more, but it is well•. to draw to their attention that the use of fertilizers on wheat is based on the profitableness of the practice, provided the fend is well prepared and that good seed has been used. This was borne out in the test just completed on the farm of Wilfred Shortreed, Walton. The soil on which the wheat was grown is London loam, whieh is brown loam over greyish mottled stony loam and clay. et is alkaline in reaction, low in nitrogen and very low in phos- phoric acid and potash, but has a medium supply of calcium. In the spring, Mar. Shortreed report- ed that the crops had come' 'through the winter exceptionally well, with ne winterki ping. At that time he some see no difference in the plots but at harvest time when the wheat was cut, the 2-12-10 yielded 33.8 bushels per acre while the unfertilized yields ed 29.2 Ilene there was a clean' gain of 4.6 bushels per acrefrom fertiliz- ing, 2-12-10 was quoted at $37.00 cash and Mr. Shortreed applied fer- tilizer at epproximmately 200 lbs per acre which would' represent an in- vestment "of 0.70. With wheat at 1,00 per bushel there was stil room It should be noted that the plats where the wheat was grown were ill an especially rich section of the farm hence the difference between the ter - Veiled and unfertilized was much less than would be looked for on the aver- age wheat field. 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