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The Clinton News Record, 1942-12-31, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE. NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.Q0 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrearsare aid unless` at the option of the pub- lisher. 'paid date to, which eve , sub- . fisher: The a e every scription is paid is denoted on the. label- 'ADVER.TI'SING RATES —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 once for 35c, catelh', subsequent insertion 15c, Rates for display advertising - made known on application. ..Communioationw intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer, G. E. HALL - - Proprietor 11[ 7. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Reprcoseating 14 Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton' - Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, 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 by Manipulation Sun-Rdy 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 Blear Str. W. Toronto Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A. W. Mewing, Blyth; Vice•1'resident, W, R. Archi- bald, Seaforth; Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors Wni. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broaddoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex llicEw- 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. Melia -cher, Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen. 14 Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bath,Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's'Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any a, the above officers ads dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected, by the director. AN�OIAI� MOW. " A flays 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. Coining North, arrive :.;11.15 a.m. Going South, leave . , ,,, 3.10 p.m. Dark Lighining by Helen Topping Miller CHAPTER X SYNOPSIS Gary Tallman, a young petroleum engineer on his way to a job in Mex- ico, gets as far as Texas, where he is given a ride by 'Mona, Lee Mason. They have an accident, and Gary 4s seriously injured. Mona Lee takes him to her home. There he finds two reasons for not going on to Mexico-- Mona exico-Mona Lee's daughter, •Adelaide, and; evidence of oil on Mason ranch. Har- vey Mason, Mona's husband, is going ahead with his plans for a well des- pite Gary's protest that they may not find oil. Meanwhile, their troubles have begun with Oliver Kimball,. Ma- son's son-in-law, who has kept Mason from getting water except by piping it out from town. And now Slide Ellis, a lawyer, has announced that the title to the Mason ranch is not clear. Harvey, bristling with rage, has driven off to see his lawyer. In the house Mona Lee served 'a belated breakfast. Opposite her Gary sat gloomily and Adelaide picked at bits 'of bacon and crumbled her toast. "It seems quiet, doesn't it?" Mona remarked, amiably. "It seems sort of pleasant." "Pleasant?" Adelaide demanded, almost in tears. "It seems as if someone had died. Gary, let's go somewhere. P11 go crazy!" Gary shook his head. "I don't want to leave. I don't like the looks of that deputy specially, Those fellows can be got at. We don't want any more sabotage—emery dust in the gears, or some -other cute stunt." "But Hickey will .take care of everything, won't he? He ought to He owns it." "Hickey's gone. He was up all night, remember? He left a man on the derrick, but we don't know a whole lot about him. I'll stick a- round." "All right. There are plenty of people who would be glad to go places with me, Mr. Gary 'Tall- man." "Have a good time," said Gary calmly. "Oh, shut up! You nialce me so mad!" But But she did not go. She went out to the well and sat disconsolately on the tool box most of the day. "Here comes old Hughey Father - Gary," Adelaide said. "Hd11o, Hughey;" greeted the driller. "Well, she's shut down, You can quit your croaking." Hughey shambled' near. "How come she's shut down?" he demande- ed. "Law suit," said the driller. "Sho." Hughey sidled up to the derrick and. leaned his shoulder against the steel. "I didn't think anybody would figure out to sue Harvey." "Something about old Elihu Plum -II mar," Gary explained, Seems he! left a connnon-law wife and she's starting some kind of contest against the title of this, land." Old Hughey stiffened and squeak-, ed, "My gosh, is Harvey letting 'em get away with that? Why didn't he come she's shut down?" he demnand- Plummer. Lived with him off and on for sixteen year. Elihu, Plum- mer never had no common-law. wife,. He was scared to death of women. Who's this woman claims she was his' common-law wife? Where's she live at?" "We don't know," Gary got up briskly. "But we'll find out." "Just goes to show," mourned Hughey. "People don't asic me nothing. Know more about oil than most any man round this country, .but nobody don't ask me advice about anything:" Wait for me, Gary!" shrieked Adelaide, .ripping her skirt as -she slid 'off the tool box. "Where are we going now?" "To 'town. You're going to take • me. I want to look at those papers.. And then I want' a look at that wom- an and her common-law son. I've got a kind of hunch on this business."' When Adelaide came down, Gary; was. ,already in the car. "I've thought of something," he said. "Let's take old Ilughey along, Well find out where this woman lives, anll it might be that- old Hughey would I know her. We'll stick him in the rumble," ' "Go to Ellis' office first," direct- ed Gary. "I want a look at his pow- er of attorney." They had to stop, and consult a telephone .book to locate Slide El- lis' office, but, they found it in the best .bank building, with tall gilt letters on the glass of the door.. A rodent -faced girl sat behind a desk ,and regarded them with faint hospitality. "Mr. Ellis 'is in court," she said, "I'm afraid he'll be there W. N. U. FEATURES all day." ' "I'm Harvey •Mason's field super- intendent," : Gary said. "I want to see the papers on the' case against Mason -injunction case." ' "Sorry," the girl was cool arid lofty. "I'm not .allowed to discuss .cases with anyone. If youwant to wait, you can sit in the other: room." Adelaide fairly danced with an - gen "If you think we're going to sit around here all day, waiting- for a crook—" ."Take it• easy," whispered: Gary, .taking herelbow and steering her out. "Fight guile with guile. Who's your father's lawyer?" "Dan Hobson. 1 suppose Dad's there now. .Shall we go over there?" "As fast as we can go." Harvey Mason was not in Hob - son's office. Neither was Hobson, but an obliging young law partner produced the papers. "What we want is the name and address of this woman, the mother of this plaintiff," Gary said, "Her name is Maggie Williams," the young man discovered, "and she Iives away down in the south end of the county." "If Hobson comes back, tell ,him to stall along till we find out what there is to know, will you?" They explained nothing to old Hughey. He was sound- asleep in the rumble. The car bounced and skidded over ruts, and in places the road was so narrow that bushed rasped at fen- ders and the top. They made inquiry, • and were re- garded with half hostile suspicion by 'a lanky man in faded dungarees. "What you want to see Maggie fur?" he demanded harshly. "We're from the government," lied Gary , cheerfully. "We might have some money for her. Which is her house?" "Go down the road, about a mile, and you can't miss it, It's got a chimney made out of oil cans." They found, the place at last. "And there's Maggie," Gary said, as they slowed in the sand •out -side a leaning, two -wire fence. "She has been to town all right. She bought herself a new green , calico dress.; You wait here, and I'll talk to her." He got down and carefully un- fastened the gate. The woman iii the yard advanced toward him sus- piciously, a broom in her hand, She was a narrow -faced 'creature with a cold bine eye. "Howdy," she said, sullenly. "Is your narne Maggie Wit - liars?" Gary asked politely, "Yessir. What you want?" "I'in from Mr. Ellis' office," Gary prevaricated glibly, keeping a bland smile, "Mr. Ellis sent me out here with a paper for you tc, sign you and your son." The woman did not answer. In- stead she turned and raised a whoop so ear -piercing that Gary jumped. "Purdy! Come h'yere!" From the door of the house a youth appeared, also shoeless' and like Maggie, attired in new raiment —a stiff pair of blue overalls, "How do you do, Purdy," Gary said, "I'm from your lawyer's of- fice. . ." f-fice..." t Prucly glared, kept his, hands 'i C his pocket. "Me and Ma—we ain't signin' nothin'," he announced be- ligerently, "Ellis told us. not to." ' "And he toad us not to talk to nobody but him," added Maggie," with vicious emphasis. "Ellis is in coma today," Gary persisted, using, all his best wiles. 'But the people you are suing are trying to prove that you didn't sign the papers that Ellis has. So I. came down to get a duplicate of your signatures, on his card." "Ellis knows I can't write— nor Purdy, neither," snapped Maggie. "We made our mark to them pa- pers, and he knows it. Ellis didn't send you young feller—it was that skunk, Harvey Mason." She made a menacing advance with the .broom, followed him to the gate and there, suddenly, she seemed to spring two feet in the air and, making a dive .toward the car, she uttered and eerie screech. Simultan- eously, old Hughey, who had waken- ed, gave one look and ,e yell of hor- ror. • "Gil her away from me! She'll kill me! She done tried' it a couple of times!" "You know this woman, Hugh?" Gary shouted. • "Know her?" squeaked Hughey. It was an odd group arranged in Slide Ellis' office a little after five, Harvey Mason was' there, grinning. Gary held tight to old Hughey Fothergill's arm. Gary had bought, him a bright blue shirt and. the most brill rant' pais' of red suspenders' to be found in the Own, abut the suspenders still supported, old Hughey's ancient and, lanky pants, , He had refused to go farther in the work, of modern- izing, odert-izing, 'after his hair was trimmed and his :beard tamed somewhat. Hobson did ..the talking, "Yon weren't :quite slick • enough, Ellis," he said blandly. "You can take your case against Mason into court if you want to—but when you do, Hughey Fothergill. here, will go into court and swear that Maggie Wil- liams is 'still his legal `:wife, Hk married her in 1917; he Was never divorced from her. Here's a photo- static copy of the marriage record. And this boy, Purdy •Williams, whom: you claim to represent, was born in wedlock, no matter whose sonhe may be—in law' he's Hughey Fother- gill's son, - and consequently can have no legal'claini whatever to any estate left by Elihu Pluininer. We're giving you till nine o'clock tomorrow morning, Ellis, to get your clients together and get this junction re. moved from Mason's drilling oper- ations." They laughed all the way home. Harvey went sound asleep at din- ner. Adelaide same around tire ta- ble and squeezed Gary's hand. "Oh, Gary—we did it! And it, was such fun!" Gary got up impulsively, and put his arm around her.• He kissed her swiftly on the forehead. And, then he walked away, .quickly, his face very red and confused. He lay awake a long time that night, won- deringif she were furious, ' The next morning they sat together on the tool box and watched the slobbering of the cuttings into the slush pit. "It looks lovely, doesn't it?" sighed Adelaide. ' Then, she looked off toward the horizon and flushed a little "Gary" she began. Gary jerked alert, "About last night," he said, abruptly, "I'm sor- ry—I'll try to remember who I am —and who you are. . " "And who am I?" she' demanded furiously, ."I'ni a rancher's daugh- ter.' aughter. " Gary had lunch with the drill crew and at dusk reluctantly start- ed toward the house, wishing ,him- self far, far away. A car was parked in the 'drive and he took himself upstairs the back way, deciding that if there was com- pany'for supper he would ask Maria for something on a tray. He was splashing in the shower when some- one tapped' at his door. He wrapped himself in a bath- robe and opened the door a crack. Mona Lee stood there, looking wor- ried: "Gary, come ;,down as soon as you're dressed... Gary, Oliver's here -and Grace." "Gosh—what now?" Gary thought as he squirmed into a shirt and jerk- ed a necktie through his collar. He smacked his hair flat and went down quickly. The Mason family were all sitting in the living room Iooking solemn. Oliver was walking up and down, looking pompous and injured and belligerent. "I came out' here, Tall- man, because I've been hearing these ridiculous stories, that have been going around out here about me." he said in his sneering voice. "Did you work for the Republic peo- ple last winter?" he asked. "Certainly I worked for them. I was a rigger on their pay roll for a while." "It's the Republic people who've been after me—so Oliver says," Harvey said dully. "This," said Gary grimly, "puts me in a spot where it's going to be necessary for me to prove something —as you probably realize, Kimball. And if I happen to establish some- thing that isn't creditable. to you- well, you started this business, please remember." He walked, .out of . the . room with his head up and his face, tingling with wild, angry blood. (TO BE CONTINUED) V British Railwaymen Welcome Canadians According to a cablegram received by R. C. Vaughan, Chairman and Pre- sident of the Canadian National Rail- ways, the four British mainline rail- ways and the. London Passenger Transport Board will open a Club in London, England, for officers of the Canadian Army now in Great Britain who, prior to the war were employed by Canadian transportation services. The cablegram received ,by Mr. Vau- ghan terminates: "They are asstued of a hearty welcome." Mr. Vaughan replied by cable ex- pressing appreciation of this goner oils gesture towards Canadian rail- waymen in the active services, A. Briton's Tribute to Canada Britain's, Minrster'`of Labor, Ernest Bevin, stated in part at a press con- ference in October' "I would like to' say that the Bri- tish Government • are very anxious that the Press should do proper jus- tice to Canada for the effort she is making in the war. She came 'in on the first day of the war 'and threw in her all and 'I can tela you, from the manpower side and from the produc- tion side, what it very gratifying is that Canada moves very quickly on the basis of rationalizaiton of arms production; that is to say, we get a quick and cooperative response wheth- er it is in shipbuilding, aircraft, or anything else, to fit in with the pro- blems we have in this country. "In discussion that goes on between the Minister of Labor in Canada and myself, and betweenCaptain Oliver Lyttleton and his apposite member, Mr. Ilowe, in Canada,. we are all four of us working very closely together, and now that we are in a tight corner for manpower in England it is a great advantage to us to be able to. make the necessary adaptations so that Canada in the design of her warr out- put fits in and dovetails in so well with the strategy of the war that we can get a good deal of relief by the use of manpower on the other side.. "I do not think there has ever been a case in which the labor force, the productive effort, of two countries has been more complementary and more helpful. Our relationships are so good; it is not a question of our tell- ing them or they telling us, but imm- ediately we have to make changes and to go in tor this type or that type of production we are able to. marry the Canadian effort with our own in such a practical way that it is a tre- mendous help to the total war ef- fort., "It is not only 'volume, but it is types, and the quick adaptation of types and as the strategy of the war changes and fresh demands are made upon us, the facility with which Can- ada cooperates with us in a tremen- dous asset in this war. I do not want it it be measured merely- in terms of volume. You may get a lot of things you cannot use. The essential thing in this business is to get the things you can use and use quickly and to supplement and build up the output of your own arsenal at home. In the contacts we have had with Cana- dian Ministers through Mr. Vincent• Massey, who has been a tower of strength to this country in the war effort, we have met with ready co- operation and I am very anxious that the proper place should be given to Canada and her contribution to this tremendous struggle. "In that critical period when we did. not have very many friends, at least active friends, from 1940 onwards,. the weight. of the Canadian output and their resilience and turnover to production during that period player a very big part in enabling us to equip the Middle East Army and equip the Forces in this country at a speed much greater than would have been possible if we had not had, not merely the volume, but willing adap- tation to the kind of weapons and ma- terials we wanted. Now, With the loss of a great many of our raw materials particularly certain types of metals, Canada means salvation to us. 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