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The Clinton News Record, 1942-12-03, Page 2PAGE 2 tl'tle 'Uiinton +_News -Record 'with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TEES OF SUBSORiIPTION 181.50 per year in advance, to Can- +adian addresses; 82.00 to the U.S. or ether foreign countries. No paper discontinued mutii 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 RATES Transient advertising 12e . 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 once for 35c, ealch subsequent inserltiom 15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications' intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name. of the writer. G. E. HALL - - Proprietor IL T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance. Companies Division Court Office, Clinton . Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Biydone, K.C. Sloan Block .. — .. Clinton, Ont. DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 — Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Praetor in A•drniralty. Notary Public and Commissioner Offices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. 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 HAROLD; JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seafotth, phone 14-661. 06-012 ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Bloor Str. W. Toronto Ont. TIIE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire insurance Company Bead Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A. W. MeEwing, Blyth; Viee-President, W. It. Archi- bald, Seaforth;' Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Breadfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; •Tires Moylan, Seaforth; W, It. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex II/aw- ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor,, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: J. Watt, Blyth; J .E. Pepper, Bruce - field, R.R. No, 1; R F. Mclisrcher, Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen. Any 'money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Oommea+oei Seaforth, or at Calvin ' utt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effeet 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 offi.; ces. Losses inspected] by the director. C. NAUiA 4 'ATO : ;,ALWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from. Clinton as follows: Toronto and Goderieh• Division Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart 3.05 p.m. Going West, depart . 11.50' a.m. 'Going West, depart 10.35 p.m. London and Clinton Div. 'Gaming North, arrive, ,11.15 a.m. Going South, leave 3.10 p.m. Husband (whose chances As eandi- 'date had seemed poor): "Darling, I ,have been successful in the election:" THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Dark Lightuing by Helen Topping \Miller CHAPTER VI SYNOPSIS Gary Tallman, a young petroleums engineer on his way to a job in Mex- ico, gets as fel. as Texas, where he is given, a ride by lViona Lee Mason. They have an accident, and Gary is' seriously injured. Mona ;Lee takes him to her home. Before he has re- covered • sufficiently to leave, Gary finds evidence of oil on the Mason. ranch and tells Harvey. Mason, Mona Lee's husband. Harvey describes his plans to Oliver Kimball, his son-in- law, 'on in- law, whose business includes selling oil leases, Now Gary and Adelaide Mason are trying to find a crew to put down a well. "Now we have to look for a well that's just been finished," Gary said, "where there's an outfit standing waiting'to be moved. And then, after we find an outfit, we have to persuade them to move twenty miles or more. on to a wildcat job, and that will be a selling , • job too, for mostly they don't like wildcat's very much." "How can you tell a well that's finished?"• "There's one over there, See that derrick with the red mud piled around under it and all the machinery still standing? Well, it's down and eased in and the Christmas tree's set up ---so I know it's finished." "I don't see any. Christmas tree You're crazy, Gary." "See that contraption of pipe and wheels and stuff sticking up out of the hole in the floor? That's what oil men call a Christmas tree!" A rickety trailer was parked un- der a tree, and beyond lay an un- shaven man of middle age, with his hat dragged down over his eyes and a small white dog curled up in a sleepy knot on his chest. The dog sprang awake and came charging, yapping, as they approached, and the man sat up. "Know who owns this drilling out- fit?" Gary asked. "Sure I know Hynnie Starr owns it, Go up yonder and talk to Jinn Hickey. Up in that shanty with the red trent on•it;, just beyond that machine shop, towards the stripper. Jim's a good driller—good as there is." Jim Hickey talked glibly and easily He would so he promised, get a well down quicker and cheaper than any other man around. Adelaide sat patiently on the run- ning board of an old car while Gary and the toothless Jim prowled around a yard full of ponderous machinery. Then Gary came back and said, "Let's go. His stuff is old. He has -Ito n't the money to have it overhauled. e We'll look somewhere else." ly W. N. U. FEATURES And' then that door opened and Mina Lee came out and' came around to her seat, getting' in beside him without a word. Gary did not ask questions, and the silence lasted. till .they] were almost back at the ranch. Then Mona Lee slowed the car and drew a. deep weary breath and sighed, patiently; - "When they're little," she said, "you keep thinking that your troubles will be over when they grow up and stop eating all kinds of things and falling out of trees and having disea- ses and, teeth straightened and tonsils and all that. And then they grow up• and you think now maybe you can re- lax a little —and then it's the same thing, except that now the things that happen to them are worse. Grace and Oliver have had some sort of a fight --and she says it's about her father's oil well, but she doesn't dare tell me what it is. And Oliver's gone off and never even said good-bye." Gary said, "Too bad to worry you like this, and then not tell you, what it's all about, so you can help." "It's all a gamble anyway :and just talking about it hasn't been good for • any of us. Harvey Junior paying two thousand dollars for a car—and his father letting him do it, and Adel- aide making all ]cinds of crazy plans as if her father were a millionaire already,,, "They'll settle down" Gary tried to be comforting. "I wouldn't wor- ry too much" Harvey Mason went off to Austin, looking strange and dressed up in his Sunday clothes, his saddle -colored face very dark above a shining' white collar, He had fumed because Mona Lee forbade hint to' wear his boots or his big cowman's hat, "If you're going to be an oil man you'd better look Iike one," stated Mona Lee firmly, "and not Iike sone old cow wacidy. I suppose you'd Iike to wear a couple of six -gums on your belt?" "Wouldn't be such a • bad idea, when I get turned loose among all those politicians," grinned Harvey, You keep Gary on the job, now, get- ting that equipment lined up. "Gary keeps himself on the job. He's got a lot of good hard sense for a young man. I wish—" • "You wish I had a lot of good hard sense? Was that what you're too polite to say?" "No, it wasn't. I was thinking about Adelaide—and Junior," she added, "I was hoping we wonldn' ever be sorry about any of this," "Well, if I leave my kids well fixed I've done my part," Ile folded the 'g'rimy paper on which Jim Hickey had estimated his M drilling costs, and put it in his pocket, A "I'11 show this to your father, but he ha probably won't want to risk Hickey on the job." at It was dark when they turned back toward • the ranch. Gary sat alone with Mona Lee ]a for a while, listening to the radio, la then went upstairs to his room to write letters—to oil men that he , knew, asking for a job. em He had finished the third epistle ha when he heard Mona Lee coming up the stairs. She Stopped outside his door and said, "I thought you'd gone ar to bed. Gary, would you go over to go Grace's place with me? She telephone dr ed—and it's late, and Harvey doesn't ei• like it if I drive alone at night." Gary got up quickly. "Of course. Is someone sick?" - a to Mona Lee •hesitated, looking war- go tied and unhappy. "No, I guess it's m just one of Oliver's sprees, Grace was crying, and she said she had to ge talk to me and Oliver had left the car kis in town, so,I told her lid come:" - • pu They locked alt the doors and left the key in the asparagus -fen. box tutro for Adelaide, and Gary held the flash- th light while Mona Lee backed, the car bow out of the garage. • ha The Kimball house was a new, Yo smart white bungalow on the edge of M the little town and as they drove in, ba every window was lighted. "Oliver's, not - home," Mona Lee "M said. "Grace is scared when she's R alone and she turns on every light m You wait here, Gary, till I find out I ye what she wants to talk about.. You we ones that have fairly nice houses and most of them don't. They have little,; dreadful- places, stuck around under derricks . , " "That's where well be stuck I suppose," sighed Mona Lee, "Ad- die, Marie:baked'a'cake. Why don't you telephone Marshall's for some ice cream' and call up: some of the young people and asst them out?" "O -h, Mother,; what would they do after, they got here? We couldn't dance -all our records are so old and corny!" "Well, go get some' new -ones." "All right, darling, Pll go and get some, records—and I might as Well get the ice cream, toe.: But I'd better telephone–the bunch. first." "Bring Grace bade with you," Mona Lee instructed her. "She's all alone and sort •of upset-Oliver's gone to Corpus Ohristr." I "I should • think she would be up- set, living with that drip! Do you want to go along?" she asked Gary somewhat stiffly. "Thanks, no I'd better clean up a little." He went up stairs. "He's all soured] up, just because I asked him why he didn't get a job in a bank or sem, place." Adelaide glared after his departing back, "We had a lovely Behr', Dinner was a hurried, meal on the breakfast table, with Adelaide stiff and abstracted and Mona Lee jump- ing up every few minutes to give directions to'Marie. Grace, who. had come out with Adelaide, ate a lettuce sandwich and half a grapefruit and insisted on coffee without cream or. sugar, When Mona Lee and Adelaide had gone to dress, Grace sat sipping her coffee. "So father's going ahead with his wildcat proposition?" she said. "I've tried to persuade him against it," Gary said, "but with no. success. So I've decided to stay on and try to keep him .from toa much grief." "If he insists on doing it-- and he will, he has always been terribly hard-headed—he really should have someone with experience ... 1 sup- pose you've worked in oil, but you are quite young--. I'd feel better about it if he would hire an exper- ienced man.'' Gary got up and lighted a ciga- rette. "I know you haven't much confidence in me, Mrs. Kimball, but I do know oil." "Oh, undoubtedly, But working on a rigging crew'—.you did that didn't you? --isn't a, lott.of •preparation for a big oil venture like this. So• you gave up going to Mexico?" "I had to, or appear definitely un- grateful, It isn't a ,happy situation for me; Mrs. Kimball, and not one I would have chosen for myself, However, I'm in it—we are all in it -and t there's nothing to do but Carry on." He bowed himself out as grace- fully as he could, but his skin was tingling and anger tasted like cop- per on his tongue. He was thank- ful when the party was over, "You haven't done your part un - ss you raise then` to have sense I to take care of money after ou make it," said Mona Lee terse - "Well, that's partly your job, other. You could get busy on ddie, for a start. Buying three is—when sine can't wear but one. a time!" "How many hats have you got, my tell? A big one hanging on er'y hook in the house—and every st one of then costing thirty dol- ts .00' more!" "I'm out in the weather. I need. Addie buys a whole herd of is and then goes tearing around reheaded, That's another thing the way she bats that . ca- ound: " "Oh, for goodness' sake, Harvey, on to Austin! And Pll bet you ive seventy-five miles an hour •ev- y inch of the way. You. see—I told you—I don't get an co-operation. Ever time I try make these kids do ,right, you've t some kind of a comebaek about e." "That's because you're the,•big- st kid on this place." Mona Lee sed him in front of the ear and shed, him out of the room. At dusk Gary and Adelaide re- ed from another trip over into e oil fields, and Mona Lee noted sober. Gary's face ,was. He nded her .a sheaf of paper, "Will u put these away carefully, :Mrs. asen, till Mr. Mason comes ok?" Mona Lee looked at the figures. y gracious, Gary, does an oil e11 cost as much as that? That's re than Harvey makes in a • ari,r. `Think how much, hell make when 'ct oil, g Mother," Adelaide ' ar do said, `If he gets oil," Gary added. `Still croaking are. you?" -remark - Adelaide coldly, "But' I can't me any. oil man for having a nasty position.. `If you'd see the way y have to live, Mother ---even the Harvey Mason came back, very jubilant, with his drilling permit in his pocket. "Had to'finagle some of those guys," he admitted. "Raiload Commission thinks there are too many wells down now—but I got around 'em." "I'll bet you paid somebody Plen- ty." Mona Lee dashed his exuber- ance. "Just paid my lawyer. Permit didn't cost anything." "Hadn't we better see about the. water before we go any further?" Gary asked. "There's no use mov- ing drillers on to this job, till we're r sure about the water." "Ought not to have any trouble about 'that." Harvey was bland. "I've loaned old roan - harper plen- ty—got a chattel 'mortgage on all I is stock and tools now. Mortgage ain't due till August -.but he can't pay it and he knows it." (TO BE CONTINUED) can tut 0 n n the 1 ad o �i r -- Z' guess rt works:" A lighted door opened and she dis- appeared inside" so Gary leaned back Cdr Wife (incredulously): "Hones'tly?" and snapped buttons and tried to 131a interest himself in a dance band and die Husband: "Oh, why bring that ups?"then in a news broadeast. the YOUR Estate is Different. from every other. Many prob- lems are involved -- family. and .. finonel:l conditions, requirements and objectives are different. Na one person could be expected to effectively deal with the Many • duties required of an executer. The Sterling Trusts Corporation brings to theseproblems the combined experience -of a• -staff fully qualifiedto,admInister your estate promptly and efficient',. 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