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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-06-17, Page 2PAGE 2 s;r:B) THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THHURS., JUNE, 17, 1943 'The Clinton 1Vews-!record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.60 per year in advance, to Can- 'adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or. +other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub acription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING 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, eaich subsequent inset-tide15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Cemenunicatioms 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. Wednesday morning after Aunt In the middle of the night T]mo- Harristor, Solicitor, Notary Public Lavinia, who had apparently slept thy opened his eyes wide on the Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. in her clothes and certainly had not thought, "Pm an idiot! P don't have Sloan 1 lock .... — .... Clinton, Ont. combed her hair since Susan had to wait till Sunday! She's not five gone, had returned to.her, room, Can- !tours' drive from rue. I'll go over by said casually, stretching and yawn toniorreiv!" Then he fell asleep se DR. G. S. ELLIOTT ing like a young dog at ease, "Say, soundly that he awoke only to the Uncle Tim, do you know what you shriek of the morning train at Lath - Veterinary Surgeon ought to do? You ean't possibly go'Top's Crossing, Nine o'clock! He Phone 203 Clinton, Ont on taking care of Aunt Lavinia all Seasoned Tirnber by Dorothy Canfield CHAPTER VIII SYNOPSIS Timothy Hulme, principal but impoverished Vermont lives a studious bachelor's with only his Apnt Lavinia pany. Timothy makes friends with a new teacher, Susan Barney, and her, younger sister, Delia. Now Timothy has received a letter from a disagree- able trustee of the academy, Mr. Wheaton, calling him to New York. When he keeps his appointment with Mr. Wheaton' he is told' that he had made a - big- mistake in .admitting a .Jewish boy as a student Timothy meets his nephew, Canby Hunter, who gives hint some suggestions about developing the Academy. On the first Tuesday in March the town meeting convenes. Presiding officer is old Mr. Dewey. W. N. U. FEATURES Ile saw Canby, noting the dryness 'of histone, give him an inquiring, !speculative look, thought fiercely, of a good.,."No you.den't, young man! Not a se - academy, Gond time!" hunched on. his overcoat, existence reached for his hat and was gone.' for eoan-1 Timot'iy was panting when he reached the darkened Academybuild- ing,ibut he ran up the steps unlocked the door and walked at top speed through the echoing corridor, with its musty smell of age and rubber over- shoes and nice behind the walls. He opened the door to his office and went in, Without 1turning on a light he took off his ,hat, dropped it on his desk, felt forr his chair and, still standing, gripped the back of it hard with both hands. ' "Now," he asked himself, "I am jealous of Canby, yes. Does that mean I am to send him away before Susan comes back? Does it mean that I am to 'decide, not Sit- san, whom she is to see, to know? Does it? Does it?" II. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner Offices in Bank of Montreal Withal 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 ete, write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14-661. 06-012 ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Bloat.Str. W. Toronto Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire. Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. OFFICERS—President, Alex Maw- ing, Blyth Ont; Vice President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Secretary Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Sea - forth, Ont. DIRECTORS — Alex McLwing, Blyth, Ont., W. R. Archibald, Sea - forth, Ont,, Alex Broadfoot, Sea - forth, Ont., Chris Leonhardt, Born- holm, Ont., E. J. Trewartha, Clinton, Ont,, Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, Ont., Frank McGregor, Clinton, Ont,, Hugh Alexander, Walton, Ont., George Leitch, Clinton, Ont. AGENTS -John E. Pepper, Bruce - field, Ont., R. F. McKereher, Dublin, Ont, J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen, Ont., George A. Watt, Blyth, Ont. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton;; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or .et Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur-) ante or transact other business will! be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ad-' dreased to their respective post offi-I ccs. Losses inspected by the director. by yourself as she gets crankier and queerer. Which • she certainly is. You ought to get anarried. Timothy froze, and waited. Can- by struck a match, lighted his' pipe, threw his match at the fireplace, gealeth bacon, Timothy found Canby missed it, said, "Now that teacher had long since gone out for an all- that takes her meals at Miss Peck's, da? skiing expedition. the dietitian, Miss Long-=," "Canby's crazy," remarked Tim- othy casually to Aunt Lavinia. "You ,"Miss Lane," said .Timothy. can't ski in the rainy' "Miss Lane, Now she's swell. She'd Aunt Lavinia did not say as any - make a swell wife for anybody -so one else would have said, "But this comfortable and sensible. The kind rani may be sown on the mountains," that'd stand by and keep things going She said instead, "I wish I could find no natter what. She's nice looking'a decent accompanist for Jules. You too, I think. If I were old enougls can't imagine the comfort that boy to, I wouldn't mind, a bit marrying . is to me. The °first soul with musical her, And I bet you a nickel she'd sense I've ever seen in this benighted know how to manage Aunt Lavinia. itown.". I been watching her, and if she He did not know the name or ad- idoesn't think a. good deal of you, I dress of the over -the -mountain Bar - miss qty..; .'..Chancing to catch Tim ley .,kinfolk. Susan 'and, Delia, had othy's eye, he was. stricken speech- gone•to visit. But this troubled him less by its cold fury, and faltering not at all. Miss Peck must know. He like a scared schoolboy looked, wild- drove to her house to ask, so careless ly for a way out, "Of course I know of what anyone might surmise front it's none of my—I didn't mean to ibis wishing to know where to find excuse me. Uncle Tim—gosh! I ! Susan Barney that his natural easy certainly do beg your pardon!"manner suggested to Miss Peck only Timothy drew a long breath. He [the idea that he wished, as superin- was reassured by Canby's collapse. I tendert,' to send her as teacher, some It would be simple to propel hint out notice about her school work, of the house when it seemed advis- It was only when he drove his car able. A single look 'would be enough to the garage .for gas and oil that when the time came to do it. He one man lounging there called out slowly ground out his cigarette stub, Did I hear you say you Were took his time about what to say, and startin to drive to Averfield, Profes- sor Holm? stretched, yawned, rolled slowly out of bed and went to close the window. In front of it there was a pool o water. It was raining. Pourin The first time since November, 0 going down to cold coffee and con f g• n getting up to go, demolished what was was left by Canby by a cool, `'I "You might phone up to Barton think I'll leave Miss Lane to you, Corners and ask," suggested the Canby.', proprietor of the garage. "Nelson Supper was a 'success. There Ellsworth's house is the last one be - was oyster soup,; made as Miss Peck fore you start over the mountain. ' made it with milk that was almost The; voice at the other end of the cream, hot, well peppered, the.oysters wire said complacently it should plum and ruffled. "Oh,boy!" rather think tele road over the moue - plump y. groan- tain was closed. ed the always -famished Canby in • Mr, Dewey's opinion was that the ecstasy. young men would not try to get back For desert there were peaches, at all that night, but would not. try Miss Peck's ragged, ,luscious home to get back at all that night, but preserved peaches. And fruit cake, would make themselves a camp with Miss Lane, said, "lVIy, Miss Peck! a big bonfire and take turns sleep - It -takes you for fruit cake." ing around it. "What was that? Did Miss Peek disclaimed merit. "Susan you hear something? Seems as if I Barney trade this." heard the front door open." They all The words flowed in at Thnothy's ,tltrned their heads toward the hall, outer ear. Before they had penetrat- and distinctly heard the front door ed to his inner, he was bathed in a ,carefully closed. ' warm light brightness of relief after I Quick light steps hurrying with a pain, as if a hard headache had just sinister softness ` clown the hall left him. By the time he knew what' 'brought melodrama into decent self it was Miss Peck had said, Mr, Deweycontained into decent self- contained and Canby had each asked a question lives-- "Is ives:"Is Susan back?" Who's Susan?"I: Anson. Craft, Dr. Anson, towered They spoke at the same time, their over them as they sat at the table, words clashing gaping up, stricken to paralysis by Then Canby remembered and an- his words, by his nervous energetic severed 'himself, "Oh, yes, she'sthe gesture commanding silence. He lean - one with the peppy younger sister."., ed over the table, speaking in a low Miss Peck answered Mr. Dewey's voice ."An accident;" �he'toid them. question, "She made, it in Novem-� "Oar tipped over on the -mountain. ber." The girl that wor•ks here is hurt. Bad - Miss Lane added the explanation IY. No getting her to the hospital, the he needed, "Fruit cake has -•to stand 'roads are so iey)" He looked to- and season .before it is fit to eat,' wards the hail and said, "This way" you know." 'Turning ,back to Miss Peck, "Is that "Olt, God!" groaner] Timothy to the door to your bedroom? Don't Stir—leave it just as it is. My wife has come to take charge of the case. She'Il do anything that's needed in the room." Mrs. Craft was there, swift, noise- less,, slipping out of her wraps as she crossed to• the door of Miss Peck's bedroohi. "Here," she said in her said to Canby, .,"Will you drive her controlled nurse's voice to the' man home,. please? I've got something to who came shuffling in from the hall work out in the office this evening. a woman in his arms, her head rest - It array take the rather a long time," ing on his shoulder. It was turban- "I'll drop you there, as we go by." ed with white bandages, crisscrossed. "I'd rather walk. Thanks." 'over the face. C.4MI'17.km N o.'�•lIn1I-l5. RAM:WAYS 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 ......,:,, 8.10 p.nf. CYou Roll Them Beffer With! 0 Go i 9 FINE asAk CU.T rG.':/b8A{r'Ci ®r'• himself in an astounded revulsion from the bland interlude of grati- fied vanity into which Canby had tricked .him. "Well, anyhow, this is only Wednesday night. There's still. plenty of time." ' The meal was over. He stood up, hauled Aunt Lavinia to. her feet with a mechanical gesture, Canby, setting one foot before the other with trancelike carefullness, walked slowly across the room, in through the open door and came out. without his burden, h!s face broken and quivering. Doctor Craft went in, turned to lay a 'stern finger 00 his lip. 1, Canby burst out in a hoarse whis- per, "Gimme a' drink somebody. For God's sake, I want a drink." He 'had lost 'his glasses. A dark smear of blood crossed' his forehead andran down one cheek. It did not take long for them to learn what had happened. At about noon Canby rand' the three Academy seniors with him had just finished their sand with lunch. They were starting the trip back, but in the wild smother of snow they did not keep to their cour- se very well. It had stopped snowing —when, after a long quiet, gliding along a traverse course through the woods, they saw that, some distance before them, the road, crossed their their course, and that farther up, half covered with snow, a car lay on its side in the ditch. They called to each other, pointed it • out, took for granted it had been abandoned and were about to turn •and track back along the slope they were on, when near it they saw something moving. With a tush they started up the hill, poling themselves as fast as, they could, .but slowly at that,' for the elope was steep. As they climbed they could see a recurrent stir near the car. A woman, her head wrapped around with bloody ;bandages, was trying to raise the car with the jack "She'd get up on her knees for a min- ute, work the lever three or four times? and fall down in the snow." Then they had raced to reach her, and heard from her that a man was under the car. "I thought then of course it must be her father, or husband, or something—that's all I knew!—" snatched her away from the jack and all heaving together lifted the car up enough to ' pull out from under it—"what do you think? A little old French Canuck, with frizzled gray hair. She'd never laid eyes on him before that day. It see- med he was somebody's hired man that lived neighbor to her folks over where she'd been visiting. Mr. Dewey asked . if the man un- der the car had been killed. No, still breathing, Canby said, but uncon- scious, internally -hurt probably. Well, what could be done there in the heaped-up snow, with two people badly injured? Impossible to get the car back in the roar!. It 4vas the girl who had asked if the skis couldn't be lashed together to make a narrow sled, a cilshioned seat from the car tied on it, and the ratan placed on .that and pulled down the hill over the drifts to a house and and a telephone. The man and girl left behind had waited there in the snow for hours, years, ages—he did not know how long—until first, the boy on skis came back with whiskey and blan- kets, and then the slow woodsled, the horses wallowing in the drifts, with Doctor Craft poised impatient- ly oh the side, "I kept her warm all the time, anyhow. I got out the other cushion from the car and made her lie down on it. I grabbed out the lining of the top of the car and put that over her, and built a fire. I ;just had to sit there trying to warm her hands, watching her get whiter -- I'd listen to see whether she was still breathing or not -and I'd climb up into the road to see if there was anybody coining -and I'd go back to rub her hands and listen to her Rea- thing—anybody inea-thing.anybody but me would have thought of 'something to do—but I didn't dare touch that bandage. You see she'd torn up a nightgown or something she got out of her little suitcase—think of the .nerve of her, cut up the way she was, crawling out from under the wreck and getting her head tied up somehow, and then trying toe• -g -get that darned car jacked up!"' Canby flung his arms out on the table and dropped his head on them,. (TO BE CONTINUED) V Canada's`B-1 Bread Classed Best Scientific studies by experts of the British Ministry of Food in compara- tive tests between. Canadian, United States and British bread "have re- sulted in a discovery that may well prove one of the milestones in the history of Fleur and: bread;" states Dr, J. C. Drummond, Professor of Bio- chemistry at the University of Lon- don, England, and scientifie advisor to the British Ministry of Food. This discovery, as a result of the tests is that the Vitamin B. bread now approved by the Canadian Gov- ernment, rather than the reinforced loaf of the United States, or the whole wheat bread" of Great Britain is the prototype of'the bread of the future. In the tests Canadian Vitamin B bread Was classed best. LP PRODUCE FOOD FOR VICTORY LAN to spend half a day, a day, or several evenings a • week on local farms during the haying and harvesting seasons this summer. Join the thousands of Farm Com- mandos who "close up shop" or lay down their tools to make "raids" into the country and help farmers take their crops from the land. Farm Commando Brigades are springing up in Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, Service Clubs, Churches ;f^ and other men's organizations all over Ontario. Townsmen are getting together to make a direct, patriotic contribution # to the War Effort by helping to save the crops. ti Parm Commandos are paid a minimum of twenty-five cents oars an hour, and many Commandos contribute these earnings to favourite war charities. If there is no Parm Commando Brigade forming in your locality, take it up with your own men's organization and get your local Brigade started at once. Every possible man-hour must be put in during harvesting to prevent irreplaceable loss of food that is essential to the Allied War Effort and to Canada herself! Your help is needed—NOW! Volunteer in a Farm Commando Brigade and be ready to help when harvest emergencies arise. For full information, r` forms, etc., write to Ontario Farm Service Force, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, at once. . !s TUNE IN "HELP WANTED" A enc p"..nfatlon productd who ih• co- ep.mlien of 1h. Onln/lo Farm S.rv4. .,en, EVERY WEDNESDAY 1.30 P.M. CBC NETWORK CIAL • COMMITTEE C►14 FAR CULTURE-LABOUR—SRU- ATiSJI CLINTON FARM COMMANDO HEADQUARTERS Agriculture Representative, Ont. Department of Agric., Phone, Clinton 47 CANADIAN PACIFIC GOES ALL OUT IN WAR.. Thephases of the Canadian Pacific Railway's war effort are manifold and far-reaching. On Iand, on sea and in the air, the company is making a vast contribution toward ultimate victory. Trains- haul untold tons of vital war materials across the country, and carry and feed troops on the move to and from training centres and to embarkation points. Company passenger and cargo ships, garbed in drab war paint, are on Admiralty service, plying - es the perilous waters of the seven seas. Many of . the company's vessels have been lost by enemy, action; chief casualty being the famed luxury liner, Empress of Britain. Canadian Pacific Air Lines, besides flying passengers, freight and mail, also operates six alb observer schools and one elementary flying training school in conjunction with the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Scheme to make a major contribution to the Empire's fighting air power. At company shops,the sinews of war are manufactured? at one big shop, Valentine tanks were P Y made; at another, naval guns are being turned out. More than 14,000 members of the company's peacetime personnel are now on active service and to help fill the gaps thus created at Home women workers are coining increasingly to the fore in taking men's places. They serve as car -checkers and call -boys and some have already invaded the sound-house—a once -exclusively male ^territory—as engine wipers, and some even nurse ambitions to drive engines one day. And employees ake steadfastly upholding the home -front end with all-out support' of Victofy Loan campaigns, Red Cross drives, war relief measures, blood donations,- and by the work of !, woman's service organizations within the company,.