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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-05-20, Page 2PAGE 2 The Clinton News -record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ;$1.50 per year in advance, to Gan - radian addresses; *2.00to the U.S. or ;Zither foreign countries. No paper .discontinued until all arrears are =paid unless at the option of `the pub'- lisher. The date to which every sub- sieription is paid is denoted on the: label. ADVERTISING RATES — Transient advertising 12e per (Dunt line for first insertion. Se :for each subse- zjuent insertion. Heading counts 2 lilies. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," .''Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35c,each subsequent insertion 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 H. 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. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block . , , . — .... Clinton, Ont, DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 — Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEM Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of, the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner Tffices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesday. 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- f faction guaranteed. 1 Far information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14-661. 06-012 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD my mother had pneumonia and died." 8leasotied "When you were only fourteen lib ;years old!" she sant slowly, lien young by Dorothy Canfield W. N. U. FEATURES CIIAPTER IV SYNOPSIS Timothy Reline, principal ,,of a good but impoverished Vermont •acad- emy, lives' a studious bachelor exis- tence with only this Aunt Lavinia for company. They take their meals at Miss Peck's. Timothy makes friends with a new teacher, Susan, Blarney, and her younger ;sister, Delia, and Aunt Lavinia invites the girls to tea. Finally the two girls :said good by, they'd liad a wonderful time, thank you so much—they were :gone. Re- membering that he had not yet so much .es opened the day's avail piled on his desk, Mr. Rulme stepped out and walked briskly along the gravel driveway toward his office in the Academy building. " Some one was coming towards him. He looked around to see Susan Barney. ' She .had taken off her hat, and as she walked was swinging it in one ungloved :hand. Her forward motion set her hair stirring and lift- ing around her face like a cloud. Mr. Hulme thought cooly of something he must be sure to say to her before he forgot it, and called, "Oh, Susan, wait a minute." He took off his hat, looked down at her, and said -with kindness, "You know I told you yesterday that I seldom could make any hind of guess about what young people are like? Well, as far as your sister Delia goes, I was mistaken. I had a little talk with her this afternoon while you and any aunt were in the kitchen, and I was struck with her brains. Slie's an unusually bright girl," Sussan cried his name, turning • it into an exclamation of delight. "Oh, Mr. Hulme!" she said: fervently. She gave him, out of her beautiful gray eyes, the long, melting, intimate look which once before (sad so deeply moved him; but now it was gut short by a rush of Happy tears, It was well toward the middle of November when Timothy Hulme sat down next to the old man one even- ing, instead of by Mrs. Washburn to whom as a penance he had been pointedly kind• for four or five weeks. 'Is it really true," he cast out his ine towards Mr, Dewey with a care- fully baited hook, "that as neany as ifteen er twenty families used to ive up on the Crandall Pitch," Curious, isn't it, a whole community evaporating titat way? Hcw'd they ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT +57 Blear Str. W. Toronto Ont. 'THE McKILLOP MUTUAL .Fire Insurance Company Bead Office, Seaforth, Ont. 'Officers: President A. W. McEwing, :Blyth; Vice -President, W. R. Arch=. bald, Seaforth; Manager and Seo. 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 McBw- ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor., Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: J. Watt, Blyth; J .E. Pepper, Bruce- R.R. No. 1; R F. Melkrcher, Dublin, E.P. No. 1; •J. F. Preuter, iBrodhagen., Any money'to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton;, Bank of !Commerce, Seaforth, or at Galvin 'Cat's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will ibe promptly attended to on applica- 'Mon to any of the above officers ad - , •dressed to their respective post efti- •ees. Losses inspected by the director. it' f A'I: A'YS 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. Ging South, leave . . . 3.10 p.m.. "Susan! Listen to this., Conte here a minute," ' But they were disappointed by her reaction to the news. She only said, "You. `don't -say so. Well. ..1 •and reached for the empty pie plate ..in front of Miss Peolc. What Mr, Hulme was thinking as he helped Aunt Lavine on with her cloak was, "Why riot? After all, why not?" "You must tell me," .said , Tim- ethy Hulme to Susan, Iooking around the low -ceiling. room, "how it was when 'you lived eei'e. That'll give me a notion of how to make it look as if 3 really belonged." "But it does look as it used to. :Only fresher. Grandfather l=ever had money. The yellow paint on these' walls is like .sunshine," "Do ye know what I'd like?" said Aunt Lavinia, from the armchair where she had been 'half -dozing. "I'd like my tea. Brut I suppose ye have na' tea things up here yet, Tim?" "Would I be asking Lavinia Coul- ton to any place that hadna' tea thing's?" said Timothy. "Susan come along, will you, and help me get the tea?" , After she had had her tea, Aunt Lavinia's eyes began to droop .again, "Well, go along, Tim and have Susan show you all over the place," she said sleepily. They went out of the back door in- to the dark limbo of the woodshed, and emerged from that into the sweet pale 'sunshine of November. They struck diagonally across, the uptilted oblong of the hill pasture. After a few steps., "Do you know what I'd like?" she said, using Aunt Lavinia's turn of phrase. "I'd like awfully—if you`wouldn't mind telling nue—to know some more about—Mrs, Henry." +• The' other male had trembled so obviously on her tongue that Tim- othy could say, quite naturally, "Call' her Aunt Lavinia,. She'd like that." They were standing by an out- cropping of rock. "Let's sit down for a while," suggested. Susan, "Let yourself go—don't be afraid of falling," thought Timothy Hulme, and in a dreamy murmur began .with the first words that came into his head, "When my brother and I were little, Aunt Lavinia and my mother !used to tell us that the reason Aunt Lavinia followed my father and ,mother was because my mother's alto voice couldn't get along' without her soprano: That was lit,. them, The !real reason was they they loved each other. They all sang, Father played ever happen to settle so far away?" the cello and Mother the violin. Aunt "Far away from what?" Mr, Dewey Lavinia was a professional pianist— flung himself unsuspectingly upon you should have heard her play before the bait. "They settled there because 'the arthritis stiffened her fingers." they has sense enough to know it was After a -silence, "Where did you a good place to live. Why, let me live?" she murmured. "Oh, all around New York. In what used to be suburbs. Aunt La- vinia had a music studio in the city where she gave her lessons, so it didn't make any difference to her where sho lived, so long as "little Margaret' was there. Margaret was niy mother. We were really very happy." "What was your father's work?" "Ile had a position in a publishing house. He had gone straight from Oxford to a firm of publishers in London. And after a while their American branch offered -hien a bet- ter position in. New York." He had cone to the end of what could be told lounging on this warm rock in tepid sunshine. What was now to be said stood up threatening- ly before hips, and his muscles, tight- ening, brought him to his feet to face it. "Yes, I suppose we'd better go on," said Susan. Leaning against the steepness of the field, they began eli'mbing again, and soon, as if to keep, up with the nervous haste of tthe narrator, climb- ing rapidly, "My little . brother Downer was --how olcl was he? --ten —before we were wakened from our good dream." • He reflected, and said nt dryly, "AuLavinia fell in love then and married and went away with 'her husband to Australia, She -had, always said she could not live without her Iittle sister. Yet she left diet' to go to the other side of the globe. She was thirty-seven years old and, although she was -a lovely creature, she had never_ cared for any man before,"' "What kind .of man?" asked Susan, her breath Doming' quickly -with the swiftness of their pace. "I never knew much about Min. I was only thirteen years old then. All I know was that Father and „T tell yott T. C., that's one of the best pieces of land in this town. Not a sour square inch in it. And up high that way, between the two mountains, they'd get a full hour more sunshine both ends of the day than anywhere else in Clifford. Far away nothing!" Miss Lane asked, "I've always wendered, l,Ir. Dewey, why they did leave the Pitch?" Mr. Dewey looked unsmilingly back into the past. "All hinds of reasons. Women -folks mostly, 3 guess, They wanted to be where they could do their tradin' any ‘time they took a notion to." "I've heard my grandmother say," Miss Lane added reasonably, "that when the Academy was started down here... " "We -e-11, yes, that was another thing," Mr. Dewey admitted. As Susan Barney stood up and be- gan to gather the dishes together to caa•ry out to the kitchen, Mr. Hulme said to Mr. Dewey, loudly enough to be heard by everybody, "Well I now have a personal interest in the Cran- dall Pitch. I've just bought a house up on the road that used to go to it. Tlioug+ht it was time I had a place of my own like the rest iof you. The last house on the road. Right -grand side as you go up." He turned his head from one to another as he spoke, looping stead- ily at them although he was inten- sely conscious -of Susan behind them standing silent at the door • of .the kitchen, a pile of plates in leer hand. But now he could control his eyes no longer, looked past his questioners at her—and could not look away. She was smiling at .him, smiling as if they were alone in the room. The Manual Training teacher had an idea. "But isn't that the house where Miss Barney's grandfather— where she was brought up?" "Why, so. 'tis!"' Mr. Dewey was str'nek by this.: "Susan!" he roared outer couldn't endure 'him." In the same harsh voice he now Said rapidly, "And, six or, seven months after that, voice rich with compassion. With an appeased, sigh he turned to climb again, slowly now, plodding step by step ‘as. the dark words drop- ped,one by ens, "And then my rather went to pieces. He took to chrinking. Ile let his work go. And then one morning' when I got up, 1 found Father Iying,at the foot of the stairs. He wasn't unconscious, but he didn't know me, He died in the hospital the next day." "oh!' What" did you do?" cried the girl.. "I got a job. I had to take care of Downer, He had to be put through high school." "W=hat bind of a job? A boy: of fifteen!" "Boy's jobs. One after another. Sweeping •out. a grocery store. SelI- ing neckties in a cheap haberdash- ery. Delivering packages fora but- cher." • ' "How did you live?" "In a hall bedrooms. We found one with a' double bed. We cooked on the gas jet. We didn't know how to take care of ourselves, or our clothes, how to get the right food, Downer was sick a good deal—sore throats. Aunt Lavinia wrote me, all this time, begging me to say just how we boys were living, and if Fa- ther had left us money enough. I never answered her very exactly, ex- cept to say that we were all right, getting on. . And then on a black zero, stormy -Winter evening, when I got back from work frozen and pushed open the door to that room— there, was Auna Lavinia! She was sitting en our frowsy bed., talking to Downer, stroking his head with her strong, white musician's hand that was exactly like my mother's," His listener dashed her hand across her eyes, and said in a trembling voice, "But I thought you said you hadn't told 'her." "I hadn't. She had guessed. From what I hadn't put into my letters, I suppose. Well, she held the door open, and I went through the kind of life my mother meant me to have to college, to decent living, to music, to a home. Aunt Lavinia taught • music again, had another church choir to"manage, got a little appartment, made a circle of civiliz- ed people for us to know," "Well, she saw use through Colum- bia and into a position as teacher in a city school, and got Downer into a job as salesman that interested him! where he was doing well. And then she went back to Australia to her husband. I was astounded when after I'd left Newv York and come to Clif- ford to teach, a letter came to say she thought she would like to make me a visit, I went down to meet her ship, And when I saw her, .." Through clenched teeth he said in a chocked voice, "He'd paid her out for leaving hips! I don't know what he'd done to her! She'd gone a little insane. 1 think. On the dock she was saying ever and over, 'I've come bake to see do you still need nue, Tim?, If you don't let nue die.' " The girl=s lips were trembling. A tear brimmed over and ran down 'her cheek. He smiled at her with a confident tenderness. "Well, now you know. about Aunt Lavine," he said "and you're .the only person in the world who does." She turned- uponIden the full thril- ling ardent look that had made two Other 'talks with her unforgettable, Just after Christmas, when Tim- othy's short winter vacation was beginning, he had a summons from Mr, Wheaton to go at once to New York for a tal=c about the Academy finances. "It's •absurd!" be exclaim- ed to Mr. Dewey. "There's nothing in the world he has to say that he couldn't write just as well:" (TO BE CONTINUJED) V MILLPEEDS AND OILCAKE The .heavy. produetion of wheat flour by the entire Canadian milling industry is producing millfeeds in much larger quantities than was an- ticipated earlier in the 'season, but in spite of this many parts of the coun- try report difficulty in obtaining their full requirements, states the Current Review of Agricultural Conditions in Canada. Export restriction has' been Placed en millfeed, .and less than 10 per cent of the production is leaving the country, comparedwith about 36 per cent exported in the calender year. 1941. The supplies of linseed oilcake andmeal and. soybean oileake and meal are more plentiful .than they were a .year ago but continue to fall short cif current demand. The lack of processing machinery both in Caeeadd and the United States is largely re- sponsible for this, situation as the quantity .of seed and beans in both dountries i;i substantially g're'ater than it was in 1942. THURS., MAY, 0, 1943 Vaccinate Now to Prevent Blackleg Now that the time has arrived'when cattle are being turned out to pasture Dr, M. Barker, Acting Veterinary Director: General of Canada, calls at- tention to the need for prevention of blackleg, a serious disease, which is essentially a malady of young cattle between the ages of four months: and. two years. Immunity may be brought about by inoculation with vaccine or aggression, but it is important that the cattle 'should be vaccinated two weeks before burning' out to pasture, beeause resistance is lowered for e short time immediately following vac- cination. I3uman beings, hokses, dogs, cats, and poultry appear to be im- mune from the disease. The cause of infection is the micro- organism "Blackleg Bacillus" which is present in the soil and may be on the feed, while the node of infection is through wounds or cuts in the skin or mouth. Symptoms .appear in about three days after infection and death usually follows in from 24 to 48 hours. The disease states, Dr. Barker is characterized ,by local swelling and lameness. The swellings contain gas and crackle on pressure. The infected animals have high, temperatures, Jag' boured breathing and extreme weak- ness. The mortality is very high, and treatment is seldom satisfactory. Any, animal dying from blackleg should be buried as soon as possible without. being skinned or any of the swellings opened. All contact material should be burned or buried with the carcass and covered with lime. This is nec- eysary to . prevent release of organ- isms which would infect the premises and spread infection. V Bome Produced Protein For Chicks Where prepared commercial feeds or concentrates are not available in sufficient quantities as chick starters home mixed feeds should be used, state poultry officials of Dominion Department of Agriculture. There is an ample supply of suitable feed grains, and chicks can be success fully started on ground grains supple- mented by 'house produced protein feeds. Hard boiled infertile eggs mixed with bread crumbs or ground grains have given a start to many fine broils of chicks, Sour milk curd treat ed in the same may makes an excel- lent feed and even where the supply of milk is too limited to permit mak- ing curd, the milk may be used to moisten the grains and a supply kept at hand for chicks to drink. Ani- mal or fish offal may be boiled and the soup and solids may be mixed with ground gains to carry the chicks over the starter period after which they can get along on grains and good green range. When it is necessary to follow thee& methods, care should be to feed only what the chicks can eat in ,. short time; any feed left after half an hour's feeding should be removed. With this method of feeding, chicks should be fed four to six tines daily. Chicks should be allowed outside where they can get all the green feed and sunshine possible. Early in the season vitamin fish oil should be in- cluded. V To Provide Animals With Horse Meat Horse meat will be playing a more important role in the lives of Cana. diens when meat rationing becomes effective. Anticipating the .problem of feeding their pets, people are look- ing for a new source of supply. In London last week, permis- sion was granted by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board' to A, E. Swanwick to open a butcher shop and deal only lin horse meat. The meat may be sold only for the use of pets. The local office of the WPTB has been handling numerous enquiries about meat rationing .since the an- nouncement that it would go into ef- fect this month. Eight per cent of the calls were front pet -owners want- ing to know where they could turn for food for their animals. ' , In view of the demand, recommen- dation was. sent to Ottawa for Swan- wick to open the store. He will have to follow all Board of Health rules. Sheep are very ,sensitive to damp- ness.. Any barn which does not keep the feet and coats of sheep dry will prove a failure. Light is just as im- portant. As a rule, one square foot of window for each 20 square feet of floor space is sufficient. According to researcie work carried out by Professor T. K. Pavlychenko, University of Saskatchewan, peren- nial weeds are eradicated by chemical herbicides,' not by direct destruction of the roots, but by indirectly produc, ing a disable sterility of the top soil: •' whid1e prevents growth above ground until the underground• parts not in contact with the chemical per- ish of suffocation and starvation. STRIKING AT AXIS BASES IN NORTH AFRICA — THE BRITISH • "BLENIiEIM V" BOMBER The R,A.F.'s Bristol "Blenheim V" —Sometimes called the "Bisley" — is .one of .the types of British medium bomber keeping .up a strenuous and pulverising attack on Axis supply bases in North Africa. This aircraft is the most recent of 'the famous. Bris- tol family, ,which includes the "Beau- fort," the "Beaufighter" and the "Blenheim", Sheis powered with two Mercury engines. Profit for Farmer When Feed Marketed Through Live Stock The feed situation always has a de- finite effect on the production of live stock and live stock products. Ex- perience has shown that when feed ratios stay above the average, live- stock production increases, while if they fall below average for any pro- tracted period, production decreases, states H. K. Leckie, Economics Div- ision, Dominion Department of Agri- culture. The hog -barley' ratio. is probably the best known of the ratio barometers. It simply indicates the number of bushels of barley equal in value to 100 pounds of live bacon hog, as at Winnipeg. Over a number of years, this ratio has averaged 17.4 or in other words 100 pounds of hogs is worth a lttle over 17 bushels of bar- ley. The experience of past years has indicated that, if this ratio falls much below 20.0 hog production is liable to decrease with a year or so. In Febru- ary, 1943, the hog -barley ratio stood at 21.5, compared with 21.4 in Janu- ary, and an average of 20.9 in 1942. During the present war to date, the highest point reached by the hog - barley ratio was 32.2 in August 1940, and lowest point 17.6 in March, 1941. In March, 1943, hog prices reached the highest levels in over a decade but grain prices have also advanced, and as a result the ratio is not as highly favourable as would be suspec- ted, However, the Government feed grain freight assistanclt policy as well as certain other Dominion and Provincial subsidies and bonuses, all of which -do not show un in hog and barley price quotations, tend to make feeding of live stock a little .more profitable than indicated by the ra- tio. Similar ratios can be worked out in the case of eggs, dairy products, and beef. At present all these feeding ratios are favourable to the producer who, is protected against unfavourable changes in the feed ratios by the ceiling prices for grains and commer- cial feeds. Live -stock prices are likely to be strongly maintained because the demand for meat, dairy products, and eggs in all probabilitiy will re- main strong for some time. To pro- vide further for the continuance of a favourable feed situation, the 1943 production program calls for increas- ed planting of coarse grains, with the payment of certain benefits to the farmers of Western Canada for diverting acreage from wheat to feed crops. In this way, with comparatively good returns now going to producers of meat animals, dairy products, poul- try and eggs, farmers who market the feed they produce though live stock willnot only be turning their resources into most profitable clean- nels, but will be making a valuable: contribution to the food supply of the United Nations. V To preserve rubbers and galoshes now being out away for the summer months, the Wartime Prices and Trade Board suggests that they be cleaned and stuffed with paper. Rubber foot- wear should be kept clean with soap and water. Tar, oil and grease should be removed promptly. Dry cleaning fluids weaken the rubber and may cause the seams to pull apart. ' Viotoxy Bonds acre this week's biggest casts • and carry bargain in every part of Canada. • MRS. A. J. SCHWARTZ discovered whet the real trouble was. Continual backaches, getting up nights and constipation came from an inactive liver. Fruit -actives quickly made her feel foe—no pain.' sleeps well, always regular. Buck up YOUR liver with Fmit-a-tives, Canada's,,Largest Selling Liver Tablets. TRAINING PARATROOPS: VOLUNTEER TROOPS OF BRITAIN'S AIR- BORNE FORCES Parachute Troops constitute a power- ful surprise factor and are, usually employed in conjunction with airborne or mechanised troops in the main ground effort or in rear of the enemy lines. They are armed for :their spec- ific task with weapons and equip- ment chopped on their landing area. Paratroop training by R.A.F. instruc- ters of Army Co-operation Col -Ennead, a highly specialised undertaking, is done first by synthetic ground ap- paratus and later from static balloons and planes. Special P. T. courses en- sure all round physical fitness, co- ordination and mental alertness. Picture Shows: - Paratroops with Bien and Sten guns defending their colleagues while arms are being taken from the container dropped with! them,