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The Clinton News Record, 1942-12-24, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD The Llin'ton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50; per year in advance, to Can- :adieu addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or 'other foreign countries. No paper •diseontinued ` until all arrears are ~paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher'. The date to which every sub- scription ispaid is denoted) on the labek " ADVEIRTISING RATELS. — Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion.,, 8e for each 'subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," 'Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once or 35c, each subsequent inseiiti)n 15c. slates for display advertising wade known' on application: Communioationa intended for .pub- lication must, ubiication.ntust, as a guarantee of good- faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - - .Proprietor H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC :Fire Insurance Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Dark Lightning by Helen Topping Driller CHAPTER IX SYNOPSIS Gary Tallman, a young petroleu engineer on his way to a jab in M ico, gets as far as Texas, where he given a ride by Mona Lee ,Mas They have an accident, and Gary seriously injured. Mona .Lee tal him to her home. There he fi two reasons for not going on to Me ica=Mona Lee's daughter; Adelai and evidence,of •oil •on the Mas ranch. Harvey . Mason, Mona Le husband, is going ahead with his fora, well despite Gary's protest t they' may may not find oil. Tro ble has turned up in the form Mason's son-in-law, Oliver Klmb who has kept Mason from getti except by piping it out f1. the town and who is waiting for Ma on now as Mona Lee urges Gary Companies join them. Division Court' Office, Clinton m e is on. is ces ids x- de, on e's an hat u- of ai11, ng. nen s - drank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barristor, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, 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 Proctor in Admiralty. 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 l,y 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 Seaforth, phone 14-661. 06-012 ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 /Moor Str. W. Toronto Ont. 'THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A, W. McEwing, Blyth; Vice -President, W. R. Archi- bald, Seaforth; Manager and See. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox,; Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; 'Alex McEw- 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. Mclhnyrcher, Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. PreCu'ter&,' Brodhagen. {j� litelk Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, 'Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effectinsur- anee or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ads 1 dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director. "Please, Mrs. Mason—" But she had walked away quie ly to the living room door. "H vey, Gary's here, if you want him she said. Harvey got . to his feet, and It face was red. "Come on in her Gary. You know Oliver—and •tlr is Mr. Paterson --Tallman's bossin this oil job for me." Paterson was a type he kn Suave, lawyer turned salesman. "I don't think you need any ou side help to get at the bottom this proposition, Harvey," OIi said. "You're not going to lose cent by accepting Paterson's prop sition. On the other hand, you ata to lose plenty if you refuse te ten." "Mind, stating ` the pr Gary asked politely. Oliver bristled a little see why we should. We'ver made perfectly- clear to Harvey. "Perhaps I can make 1 plain i a few words, Mr. Tallman." Pater son was blandly' agreeable pen to represent the own the refinery near Mason's project. We do time wish to buy any more oil. How ever, the people I represent are wil ing to take over the lea property—mineral rights ou understand—and hold it development." to k- ar- ," is e, is g ew. t - of ver a o- s - Jt. s -t ' it n 0 r. s 1- s re )position? "I don "I hap people wh est to M n't at tlli se on thi only, y for futu "You figured this out, did you? Gary said to Oliver, smiling coolly "Very clever job." "It's a holdup. I don't care who figured it out!" shouted Harvey. "You're quite certain then, Mr. Mason, that you don't wish to pro- tect yourself by coming in with us?" Paterson rose. "Your well is only spudded in now. Plenty of trouble can happen before you hit the sand. We could save you from all that, you know." "I can save myself," snapped Har- vey "Good day, gentlemen." "They aren't telling all they know Gary said when Oliver's car had back- ed viciously out of the drive. "Some- thing's stirring=and may not be pretty." Vet?y early next morning Gary saw the man in the brown suit walking across the field. "Ouch!" he said to Hickey. "I knew it. Here he. comes." "That feller?" drawled Hickey. "He's a lawyer. Slide Ellis, from up. in town." "Might as well slog along down there and :see what he wants," Harvey and the lawyer walked to- ward the house, and Gary went back to the slush pit, but unease made him prickly. He went to the house an hour later, heard loud voices barking at each other in the living room, and slipped upstairs unobtru- sively, He heard the front door close while he was shaving, and then the sharp slam of the back door as Harvey went out. Then Ellis' car went snar- ing out of the drive -and, when Gary went down again, Mona Lee was lingering in the hall "Gary, Slide Ellis was here," 'ehe be at once. "There's some kind trouble. -I could hear from up- airs—part of it. It's something out this place." "This place? But you own it. ou've owned it for years," "We haven't owned all of it for ars. We started with this : hun- ed acres along the road and- year year we . bought more. Harvey aded for some sof it and then he ught sotn:m g p Some:mortgages and foire- osed when he knew the people didn't ve any intention of paying them ff„ Don't worry till you have to. If s serious, we'll hear about it soon oegit—and until then, we won't' rry." Gary gave her a filial hug. `.You're a big comfort, Gary,"she 'hed. Gary Went back to the, derrick, tmd Harvey Standing there glaring „ TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Toronto and Goderich 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. CoiningNorth, nth arrive e , 11.15 a.m. !'Going South, leave 3.10 p.m. b o£ st Y ye dr by tr bo c1 ha 0 it' en wo sig fot W. N. U. FEATURES on the tool box, watching, too. Gary went and leaned on the box beside her "Lord, I wish she was down," he said, Under the flaring lights, the great behemoth labored and grunted on. "Make a swell mural, wouldn't it?. If some artists could) catch those lights and the glow from the boiler." ; IIe jumped as the rumbling machinery was suddenly silenced, and at it. ' a yell came from the men; on, the der - "Well, it's begun,' he snapped. rick floor. "That was Slide Ellis. He says he's Gary ran swiftly and Adelaide loll - going to get out an injunction to keep owed, jumping lightly over planks me from putting down this well. It's' and puddles. "What is it?" she gasp- all a cooked -up mess,and 01 Kimball's' ed as she climbed up and looked at the. at the bottom of it. 'I found out he'd grim -faced group of men surrounding been to considerable expense,rtraveling Gary. around, rseeing,„the big oil fellows. "No water. ,Somebody has cut our "Just how is this, fellow Ellis going line. Get your ear, quick," Gary r about stopping• you on this we]1?;' ordered. "We'll have to find the break Gary asked: 'and fix' it." "He thinks he's turned up a flaw in ,The rumble of the boilers died'as the this title—title to that piece of past- fine was extinguished. Menhammer ure out there that I bought from ed in the slabe of wood that held, the Elihu Plummer, bank in '28. Slide says bevy joint steady in the casing. he represents one of Plummer's minor heirs." Hickey, who had sidled nearer arid was, frankly listening, spat disgust- edly. "How could -old man Plumm- er have a minor heir?" he demanded. Hickey lit his pipe and sat down on the tool box, but Gary and, Adelaide, ran, stumbling and panting in the dark to the garage. "Maybe we can get it fixed with- out telling . Dad." Adelaide said bre- "Plummer wasn't never married to athlessly, as they dragged the doors nobody" open. "He's had so much trouble eady"Slide. Ellis claims there's a boy al 'Take'it easy," cautioned Gary, as she backed out with a roar and he jumped aboard., seventeen years old that he can prove was Elihu's son—and that the boy's property. rights in this land were violated when Elihu sold out to me." "Shut up and quit grabbing things. "A, holdup," said Gary. "Old stuff I'll get you there." But he may be able to get an injunct- They found the break mile down ion, you know." . the road. The pipe had parted clean, "I won't, compromise with a low as from an ax blow, and enc end of heel like Slide Ellis -nor with that it stuck up, threshing around wildly, crummy son-in-law •of mine, either. spouting water like a fire hose. An I'm going ahead with this well, if irate man with a hoe was dancing I' have to fight the whole state of around it, trying to lead the water Texas to do it." off into little ditches before it flood - "I'd advise you to see your own ed his yard. lawyer, at any rate," Gary said. "And I worked hard on those pan - "I'11 go and see him the first thing sies— in the morning. And I'll let those "Every pansy will be replaced," birds know they're in a fight." Gary insisted. "You haven't a phone "The thing to do now," Gary told here, have you, mister?" Hickey, "is to rush this well down "No. But there's one down at as fast as we can, safely, before some- Ripley's filling station." body comes along to stops. us." "Go there, Adelaide. Telephone "O.K., young feller," Hickey said. the water company and ask them to "We'll jam bet down till they come send out'sornebody to turn the water out with the papers." off on this line; and then call your Gary stayed out late that night, fatherandtell him to send Hickey watching the drilling, and Adelaide down with a couple of men and some came out with a flashlight and perch -wrenches and two-inch pipe- one resNApSI-JoT GUILD CHRISTMAS PICTURES Make this Christmas memorable with easy -to -make indoor snapshots. CEASONS play a big role in the S lives of amateur photographers who keep up-to-date with their pic- ture making, and in just a few days we're going to run right into the biggest and brightest of all seasons —Christmas. There's something about Christ- mas which makes picture making more than just a pleasant pastime. I like to think of it as an extra pleasant duty—a duty to record tate memorable events of the day and the happiness we all feel. And, let me tell you it's a thrilling moment when you capture the real Christ- mas spirit in your snapshots. If you're aiming for that this year —and you couldn't have anybetter objective—try to cover Christmas just as thoroughly as a photogra- pher for one of the big imagazines might cover the. Christmas activi- ties in your hone. He'd begin with the pre -Christmas activities, wouldn't he? Well, t you can dothe sante. Show the youngsters writing and mailing their letters to Santa. Peck—pictorially-into the Christ - Tines shopping, gift wrapping, and mailing. Don't overlook the deco- ration of the tree, and, for goodness sake, get a'fine pieture,of the babies hanging up their stockings by the fireplace. • Everything connected with Christ - "mar will make a good picture. On Christmas morning you may have to get up mighty early, but if you can be downgby the tree before the children burst into•the'toom, you'll be all set for perhaps the grandest pictures of all. Unwrapping the gifts is the high spot of activities —and you don't want to miss it photographically. Then there's the matter of test- ing those gifts; trying out the new toys. That's good picture material too—and so is the Christmas dinner. To get pictures of the day's high spots will be easy, you'll find, if you shnply adhere to the principlcs of good indoor snapshot'technique. You don't need any fancy equip- ment. Your own camera, a couple of flood lights and some handy cardboard reflectors, and several. :rolls of extra fast"pan" type film will make indoor snapshots possible even with box cameras. If you haven't t tried any of this Y before Your favorite supply drop• can pro- vide you with a free folder on in- door lighting—with some suggested lighting set-ups—and full direc- tions for making swell indoor pic- tures. Why not prepare for. your Christ- mas pictures today? Plan your'pic- turo making now, and you'll avoid disappointments later. Good shoot- ing—and a very Merry Christmas. 412 John van Guilder THURS, DEC. 24, 1942 length of it. Can you remember all that?" Gary ,squatted on his heels in the dark, hearing the precious water wasting away in the gutter, knowing that that was Harvey Mason's money running away down there. , Then, after about twenty minutes, the flow of water stopped. He drew a deep breath of :relief, went down to straight -en the pipe and wait for Hickey. An old truck with two men in it had slowed' to a stop, dimly visible in the dusk, and one man gat, out and lifted the hood and stood fiddling with something about the motor. Gary sensed thatthis was a'stail, that the man who still sat in the truck was watching him, and not his partner. He was certain of this when a car Whirred by, honking, and the 'flare of the headlights Showed briefly,.a brand new ax lying in the back of the truck. He walked boldly out to the truok. "You fellows want something?" he asked. The man at the hood let it downs with a bump. "Ain't hitting right," he mumbled. "What up? Got trouble en your water line?" "You knew about that, did you?" "No, we didn't know nothing about it. Just seen you standing there-" "You saw me standing there and you knew that something was wrong with our line. You'd better get go- ing—the sheriff's on his way out here now." They swore at him, and the truck tore away, but not before Gary, had noted the license number. At one in the morning a break had been repaired, the boilers and pump were going again, and in a short time the drill was turning. But Gary and Harvey still sat on the tool box, and Adelaide insisted on staying with them. "Well, maybe nothing mare will blow up .before morning. Son," Har- vey scrutinized a piece of paper in his hand, by the light of a snatch, "I've seen this license number you got off that truck before. I'm try- ing to remember where." "You can find out from the tax re- cords who owns that car," Gary said. "But we can't prove that they act- uaIly cut the line. The thing we have to do now is to see that it isn't tam pered with again." "Could put it underground —but we won't need it long 'enough for, that," Harvey said. "How far down is she now?" "Twelve hundred feet. But this is going to be a deep. wen, Mr. Mason. Iiicicey says so, too," "I don't care how deep she goes, if we hit oil. But time is what we need." "And' time, unless I'm very much mistaken, is exactly what they're not going to give you." With morning, a carload of dull- faced men arrived very promptly. and though Harvey went into rage he had to accept service on the doc- uments. I "But het me tell you something, Chad Wingate," he fumed at the deputy. "Just as soon as I get my well going, I'm going to see we get some honest officers in the county. T :have influence enough and I pay taxes enough to do it," "Look here, Harvey, I'm just a hired hand' of this county, and when they hand me them things, I'm sworn to see they git into the hands of the men whose names are writ on 'em." "We gotta leave a man here to see that you obey thi'b here order of the court," Chad Wingate re- minded Harvey. "And if you want to go to town, Haryey, you can ride. in along with ane." "I don't want to ride with you!" roared Harvey. "I'm fighting mad, and before I'm through, somebody is going to get busted wide open." "O.K.,". drawled Wingate, "but all this ain't doing you any good, you know." Harvey stalked away, and Hickey shouted an order. Wheels were turn- ed, water was shut off, the rotary slowedto a rumble and then halted, the crew hauled up the gear and made it fast, then jumped down from the derrick floor and wandered off to a grassy bank where they stretched out and smoked. And presently. Harvey came out of the house, bristling all over like an angry mastiff, his Sun- day suit on, and drove off to consult his lawyer. (To be continued) V MERRY CHRISTMAS Heap on more wood!—the wind is chill; But let is whistle .as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. HIGH PRAISE?, A gentleman' lately dismissed a clee ver but dishonest gardener, For the sake of his wife and family he gave him a character, and this is how he worded it: `,`1 hereby certify that Mr. Pinch - um has been my gai'tiner for over three years, and during that time he has got more oat' of mygarden than any man I ever employed." A CHRISTMAS WISHi 1 et "Puddings steaming candles gleaming g s g urg ing, !Branches Weighted down. Christmas on the farms. and ranches! Christmas in the town! Christmas on the mountain .ridges'. Christmas on the sea. May your Christmas Day be merry Wheresoe'er you be." CATTLE IN THE STALL (By Nina Moore Jamieson) 1 hold 'no place; of high import, Where roars the thronging mart— One of the little ones •on earth I do my humble part 'With fork andpail and stable broom, As evening shadows fall in common tasks, I. tend for Him The cattle in the stall. 1 love the knotted dark along The heavy rough -beamed roof, Thecleanly crackle of the straw Beneath the shifted hoof; The woven chorus of content That drones from wall to wall Because I love for His dear sake The cattle in the stall. For since o'f old a stable knew That wondrous Baby's birth, Methinks Ise loves the cattle best Of all the beasts on earth, Their kind eyes gave him welcome there— They beard His first faint call•— Oh,proud am I to to tend for Him The cattle in the stall. • New comes once more the glorious night, The Christmas of the year! They watch in reverence and awe. The miracle raw near. The child Divine is born again— His love is over all- It rests in benediction on The cattle in the stall! War Saving stamp Free DON'T i''IISS YOUR NAME! The Plan in Each week there will appear in an advertisement on this page, the name and address of someone residing in Clinton or district. WATKIN'S Service Station Huron St. Phone .18 Sunoco Products Goodrich Batteries Lubrication. A -Z Mrs. W. Merrill, R. R. No. 1 Brucefield Garage WM. H. DALRYMPLE Sunoco, Gas—Oil—Grease General Repairs to All Makes of Cars, Acetylene and Electric Welding, Machinist and Mill- wright. Phone Clinton 6181.4 Brucefield, Ont. H. F. BERRY TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS. AND FRIENDS We express our thanks and ap- preciation for your business dur- ing the closing year and extend to all our cordial good wishes, for a Happy Christmas and a Pros - Porous, New Year. Phones Seaforth Clinton 23-659 23-618 Brucefield, Ont.' A Nutshell. 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