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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-01-07, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD °L a (.glutton News -Record 'with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Tl7RMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ;p1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper diiscontinued until all ,arrears are paid unless at the option of thepub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES Transient advertising 12e per count line for fust insertion. Se for each subse- quent insertion. Headang counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceedoneinch, such as "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 85c, eaich subsequent insertion 35e. 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 H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LLB. 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 TOOT 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 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 Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadifoot, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dubl]n; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. R, Archibald, Seaforth; Alex McEtv- ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: . J. Watt, Blyth; J .E. Pepper, Brute- field, R.R. No. 1; R F, Mcllisrcher, Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen. 1,1? Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin 'Mutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- anee or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ad.- dressed ddressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director. CANADIAN ;NATIONAL RA LwAYs 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. Coming North, arrive 11.15 a.m. Going South, leave 3.10 p.m. SWEET CAPORAL "IRE PUREST FORM IN WHICH TOBACCO CAN BE SMOKED." Dark Lihtning by Helen Topping Miller CHAPTER XI Synopsis Gary Tallman, a young petroleum entgineei• 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 Garr is seriously injured. ?Mona Lee takes him to ;her: home., There he finds two reasons fbr not going on to Mex- ico—Mona Lee's daughter, Adelaide, and evidence of oil on the Mason reach. Harvey Mason, Mona Lee's husband, is going ahead with his plans for a well despite Gary's pro- test that they" may not find oil and the ` efforts of Mason's son-in-law, OIiver. Kimball, to keep Mason's crew from getting a well down. Now, just as things are going better for Mason, Garyhas run into difficulties. Kim- ball has told Mason that he is an agent working for Republic, a large oil company. Gary leaves with the warning that he will get to the bot- tom of the story regardless of who has to suffer for it. Mona Lee's eyes had followed ]tint and he had seen loyalty in them and unbelief. She was not standing with Oliver. But 'Adelaide had sat silent W N. U. FEATURES "Got men on the payroll and have to keep 'em working. But, between you and grandpa, I think they're pretty sure they've got oil. If you work with; me, I can save you a little on that shoulder." "I don't like Grice-Morgan .very much Bill:" "Neither do I. But I like pay checks," Bill said. "I've got a truck outside. 11 told • Mitchel—he's the boss—I'd get another hand." On the Harper lease he could work and watclMason's well going down, too. And at lunch time he walked up that way and was a little gratified when he saw old .Hickey walking down toward the line fence to meet him. They shook Bands across the wire' like old friends who had not seen each other in a year. "Hello, Hickey. I-Iow's she turn- ing?" "Down twenty-five hundred feet. Into chalk now. What you fellers fixing to do?" "We're rigging a. well—to get oil. Ever hear of oil, Hickey?" "Heard about it one time," grinned Hickey. ;At,dusk, just as the rigging crew were knocking off, Gary noted some excitement around the Mason well. Bill saw it too. "Reckon those guys —and Harvey had kept his eyes have got oil?" he asked, staring averted and had not said a word. that way. Tingling with wild anger, Gary "They're getting ready to case went up to his roma He began down—no, they're not. Something's throwing things into his suitcase, and busted. Think I'll drift up there. If then stopped long enough to sit down Hickey's in trouble he may need at the desk and dash off a letter to `help." the Republic Oil Company. Forton -1 "All right; Witless, I'll go too," ately, he remembered the name of Bill said. the man who had hired hint last fall.) Hickey was not on the derrick He stated his case bluntly and asked floor. The driller stood mopping for a collect telegram in reply, 're- his forehead with his sleeve. "Stuck," fitting Oliver's absurd •accusations, he said, as Gary and Bill came up, Harvey, Gary suspected, was a "Stuck in anhydrite." little too sensible to believe Oliver! • "Hickey's luck was too good to entirely—and yet, he was . not going last," Gary said. to accept anything now till it was! • "Sent a man to call Hickey," the definitely proven, He snapped his driller said. "Don't know does he suitcase shut, fastened it, and start -want to drill past the bit, or what." ed downstairs. On the landing Mona I Harvey came tramping, red-faced, Lee was waiting for hint. She laid looked embarrassed when he saw a detaining hand on his arm' and her j Gary, who said quietly„ "Good motherly face was troubled and aux='evening, Mr. Mason." ions. . "Nothing good about this;" grunt, "I'll take bled Harvey. "How you going to you to town myself," get her loose?" he asked the driller. she announced crisply. "And I "She's loose now," yelled. the rough - know a good place for you to stay— necks. the woman is' a friend of mine., If But after length on length of pipe you're bound to go, coma along." ,had come up, a broken, jagged end None of the others appeared when came slobbering out of the welt the car was backed out, and Gary "Lost your bit," Gary said. Now flung his suitcase into it and climbed you've got a fishing job on your in. He did not calm down enough'' hands. to facer his situation until he was in I A truck came roaring up, and the room Mona Lee had found for Hickey fell out of it, "Hook a the HIe went out to a drugstore, h grappler,"broken he shout- eptly, spent some of is cress "G when heh saw the broken stem. precious'"Got. to fish that bit out." capital for a sandwich, a drink and some stamps. And .until midnight he wrote letters—to every oil eon - cern and rigging outfit that he knew about, asking for a job. He -was wakened early by his landlady, who tapped apologetically at the door and when he opened, it a crack and blink- ed dazedly at her, said, "So sorry to wake you, Mr. Tallman; but there's a young man . here who insists on back,. though it was not easy to do. seeing you." Harvey had looked worried and sick. IIe did not see Adelaide. The young man pushed past her. "Well, fellow, you gave 'em the Hello, Lug," greeted Bill Grant. back of your heels," Bill said. "But Gary was definate]y glad to see Mason was trying to make up his Bill- . mind to ask you to stay," What the heck bust'?'', demanded "Which would have done hien no Bill, sitting on the bed. "I went to good at alI," .said Gary grimly. Mason's, and there was the darned He hated the job on the Grice- well going dawn—and they told me Morgan derrick. But it meant mon- you'd quit Gary told hiin, not withholdingley that e make it farrle for anything: him to leave - for some place 'Where gray eyes and tawny hair "Goes to show," Bill stated, "that would cease to haunt him. what you've got to be is a son-in-law.l At night, when Bill carte to his This morning when I saw her, I room he asked abruptly, , "No con thought she didn't look any too ;room, between Republic and Grice- bagpy. Morgan, is there, ,Bili?" "Did she say anything—Adelaide, „ I mean?" Gary tried not to sound Couldn't be. They're conipeti- eager. �tive developers," Bill said. Why?" "Because if Grice-Morgan are at "I asked her foil a date, and site the bottom of this scheme to bust said she was sorry—she was pretty Mason, it doesn't look good forme well written up for some time to to be working for them, Bill." conte, Have you found out who eutj "That's tough --.tough you feel the water line and set this snide'that way, because they're going to lawyer to sue?" • ,put up two more derricks. Means a "No, but I intend to. In the mean- few more days' work for, you and time, I've got to have a job. Know little Willie;'' any oil company that needs the ,ser-, vice of a bright young man right now?" "That's what I came to talk about. Though maybe you don't want a job slinging up steel?" • "What's the job?" "Putting up steel down on old man Harper's land. You can go to work today if you want to. How's your heated shoulder?" "It flinches a little—but I think it's all right. - Yea mean Grice- Mor- gan are going -to spud in on that Harper lease? Funny they • don't wait till Mason gets his well down —find out whether there is oil down there or not." "Broke at twenty-eight, fifteen," said a roughneck. "You could may- be shoot it out—" "Not with that shale 'above it," Gary reminded Hickey. "Pull your whole well in. All right, Bill, let's be shoving off. Good night—and good luck." • He walked away without looking There was a knock on the door. Gary opened' it and saw three people standing• in the hall outside, One was a 'messenger. The other two were Harvey Mason and Adelaide. "Oh, good evening," Gary stam- mered awkardly. "Sign here, buddy--nunvber 10," instructed the boy. "Let us in, Gary, we want to talk to you." Adelaide had ]ler -same peremptory little manner. "Oh,; of - course—come in." He scribbled his name on the yellow slip but did not open the message. Bill jumped to his. feet, said apol- ogetically, "There's only one chair, Adelaide—mind sitting on the bed, THURS., JAN ! 1048{ Mr. Mason?" "Haven't got time to sit down." Flarvey 'was brusquer "I—Gary' you'll have to come back," "Sorry, Mr. Mason, I can't possibly come back. Not till everything Tis. entirely cleared up)" "Gary." Adelaide was almost tear- ful. "Dad has to leave on the next train. It's .Junior. He's in jail." "Ran over a kid with that new car ofy his, up in Virginia," said Har- vey. ,his, the kid dies, it's man- slaughter, and money won't get him out," he added' bitterly. "You'll come back, Gary)?" Ade- laid begged. "Oh, Gary, we apolo- gize and everything, Surely you wouldn't leave us in a terrible hole like this?" "All right—" Gary said slowly, but a .trifle loftily, "I'll :conte back. What do you you want me to do, Mr. Mason?', "Get ' the well down," -, ordered' Harvey. "Get it down before it busts me. You come along out to- night, Gary—and when I get back "Better open your telegram first, hadn't you?" reminded Bill, "It might be a job." "Yes — excuse me." Gary slit the yeller,# envelope. "No, it's not a job," he said, "But you may be interested in what it says, Mr, Ma- son." Ile handed over the message. It read: NEVER HEARD OF MASON Olt HIS WI'LDGA.T WELL. WE HAVE NO INTEREST IN SMALL DEVEL- OPMENT. DON'T REMIIB BER YOU. WHEN DID YO•U WORK FOR US? ARMSTRONG REPUB- LLC OIL. Gary laughed ruefully. "Looks as if neither of us is so important as we thought, Mr. Mason," he said. "That's not important now—none of it," Mason said. "The chief thing is—I've got to leave and that well has to go down." The core drills went down next day and came up again, bringing from deep secret places the long gray cylinders of rock and earth that logged the structure of the world's heart, so far below. When the gray columns, the size of a child's stun, were laid out on the ground, Hickey and Gary stud- ied them anxiously, "No showing yet," Gary said, sighing, "Nothing to do but go on down." "Don't reclean' We could have pas- sed thein sands?" Hickey debated, at lunch time. "I've got a good notion to run Schlumberger on her anyway." "Have to case down farther, then," Gary reminded hint, "anis easing. costs money. So do electrical tests. I'd better talk to Mrs. Mason about it." Mona Lee was frankly upset, "I wish Harvey hadn'tgone off and left me so much, respolnsibility. You don't really think this is wise, do you, Gary?" she went on. "Well, I wish we could have a chance to talk: to a geoghysieist first. I'm satisfied that if there is oil structure out there, it lies very deep. Wells have been drilled past the oil sand, but not often. But of course if we go on drilling, and then fail ... well, we'll be sure if we run the test" All right, you calk ,up the right people. So the next day the Schumberger test went down, and tautly they all watched the pointing hand, the ca- ble paying out; as the magical cyl- inder went seeking down. The roughnecks relaxed, and went to sleep on the derrick floor. The shaft of the kelly joint rested, inactive in the rat hole. Gary saw Mona Lee's face tighten and whiten as the in- dicatbr moved and cable fell, and still there was no sign of oil, Then the test runner straightened up briskly. "No indications. Looks like you'll have to go on down. Anyway, you haven't Mt it yet." "All right, Hickey," Gary said. "Go on- down." (TO BE CONTINUED) V FOR YOUR LIVER! You can't foe completely well if your liver isn't well. Your liver is the largest organ in your body and most important to your health. It pours out bile to digest food, gets rid of waste, supplies• new energy, allows proper nourishment fo reach your blood. When your liver gets out of order food decomposes in your intestines. Yon become constipated, stomach and kidneys can't work properly. You feel `rotten"— headachy, backachy, dizzy, dragged out all the time. Thousands have won prompt relief with "Fant atives." So can you NOW. Try "Fant a•tives" Canada's largest selling liver tablets. They must be good. 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