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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-07-22, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION le1.50 per year in advance; to Can- radian 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- ecription is paid is denoted on the Isbell ADVERTISING RAMS — Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subse- quent insertion, ubse-quent'insertion, Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not td exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted .once for 35c, each subsequent insertion 15e. ' Bates for display advertising evade known on application.. ' ' Communications intended for pub- lication must,, as a guarantee of geed 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. Beydone, 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.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 informations etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14-661. 06-012 ERNEST W. HUNTER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 57 Bloor Str. W. Toronto Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. OFFICERS --President, .Alex MoEw- ing, Blyth Ont; Vice President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager - and Secretary Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Sea - forth, Ont. DIRECTORS — Alex McE.'wing, 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, flint., Prank MpGregor, Clinton, Ont., Hgh u Alexander, Walton, Ont., George Leitch, Clinton, Ont. AGENTS—John E. Pepper, Bruce- -field, Ont., R. F. McKercher, 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 at Calvin toutt's Grocery,' Goderich. .Parties desiring to effect insur- :once or transact other business will 'be ;promptly attended to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ,ces, Losses inspected by the director. ANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE THURS., JULY 22, 1943 `` ' Peak of (hatter Production Seasoned Timber Has Now Been Passed • p Reports received from Creamery in Dorothy Canfield Ontario ,Department of Agriculture indicate that the peak of butter pro- duction throughout the Province was by structors of the Dairy Branch of the CHAPTER XIII (This is the final installment). • The ,Academy opened its doors. Not only was there the crowd of rus- tic freshmen disgorged every morn- ing from Eli's buses, and thirty- five new students- from out -of the state scattered through the four classes, bat there were three new resident teachers and three part-time: teachers It seemed to the older teachers that everything was to be organized anew. The old stone building, full to the' eaves now, gave fortis an ;Al- most audible humming. The disorder and uncertainties of the first of the terns, which usually lasted three or four days, stretched out tlirough the first three or four weeks, full of mis- takes, false •starts, failures, although everybody was extended to the limit of his powers. But those weeks had more in them than failures. They were flushed with promise. • Poie all the reason in the world Timothy was thienkful to have such difficulties' in the opening months of the new term, when .Susan and Canby still came once in a while to spend an hour or two in Clifford. People said to each other, said to Canby' and Susan, "My! Professor Hulme's got his nose to the grind- stone this fall! With all those new students, and the new teachers to look out for, a person can't hardly get a word out of him, about anything but the 'cademy." Once a strange thought flew into his ,mind and alighted for a moment, looking at him out of alien eyes, the thought that Susan was after all, only a very nice Clifford girl. But he could make nothing of it and it flew away at once, back into the unknown country whence it had come. The back toad on which Eli Kemp had been Morn and brought up be- came impassable in winter. He con- sulted Timothy about getting a lodg- ing. Timothy had suggested with hesitation, on account of Aunt Lavin- ia, his sleeping inthe slant-ceilinged room across the hall from his study, and having breakfast with them. Peering cine of Aunt Lavinia's et- plosions, Timothy thought of various ways to break the news to her; or to forewarn Eli, of breakers ahead. But. in the end, when Eli brought his new pasteboard suitcase' in through the front door, he said only, "Hello Eli— oh, yes, I remember. This was the day you were to come." And, "Aunt La- vinia, this is Eli Kemp, who's run- ning the new student bus service. He's going to use that extra room on the third floor this winter." Apparently this offhand introduct- ion was the best. The two strangely assorted housenuetes settled down with no fire works under the same roof. December brought a welter of snow, The town plows kept only the most necessary thoroughfares open. Eli's buses could not getup the steep back hills, but waited for his pas- sengers below at the junction of the side roads with the highways. Eli, on his way to bed in his third storey room, hesitated once in a while as he passed the door of the study and went in, if Timothy looked np welcomingly, and said "Have a chair„Eli.” In the first weeks their chat was plain and factual. But as Edi grew used to the house he some- times talked about his half formu- lated hopes for success. "Mr. Hulme, you • know those two extra bus trips a day --well, sir they're turning out pretty nearly velvet. I bet a regular bus line straight across this part of the state would make money. Real money." One afternoon in January, Timothy was stopped on the street by Bill Peek, . Eli's middle-aged partner "Say, Professor Hulme, do you know that Eli Kemp is somebody -darned 'f he's not! I just bet"that kid'll tern out to be one of the money-makers.' One •evening when they had. wan - cloud into reminiscence of the cam paign-.by far the most exciting ev ent in Eli's life so far—the boy asked "Say, what kind of a man was tha Mr.' Wheaton, anyhow?" Timoth told the story of Wheaton't' early lif —not like Eli's, he thought, and,dreuv' a portrait of Mr. Wheaton's charact er, ending "A Stone Age man linin in the Twentieth century, Just be cause Mr• Wheaton was extra clere at money, people kept putting hint in positions where his say-so helpe decide' what pictures should hang i museums, and what subjects shoul be taught in schools. It's very bad for a person's character to be con stantly passing judgment on what h doen't understand, I wonder Why—' Timothy went on musingly—"I real ly do wonder why business is so dif- ferent froth- everything, else modern men. do? Why should time man with a Trains will arrive at and depart Iron Clinton as follows: Toronto and•Goderich 'Division Going . East, depart ... 6,43 a.m. 'Going East, depart 8.03. p.m. Going West, depart 12.04 p.m. Going West, depart 11.10 p.m. London and Clinton Division Coming North, arrive 11.20 a.m. Going South, leave ... . ,. 3,10 p.m. CUT COARSE POR THE PIPS CUT FINE FOR CIGARETTES W. N. U. FEATURES. gift for businese be the only human who expects to get paid for the use. of .his 'brains jdst all 'he can extract from the people who can't get along without it?" 'But Mr. Hulme, he can't get more' than just so much—competition keeps that down." Bo there was talk, very, . simple talk short words, about competition compared to 'co-operation, A few days later at breakfast Eli said, `Say, Professor Hulme, you know that idea of yours about not just getting all the profit there is for yourself is a good business plan?" "It's not exactly my idea, Eli. It's pretty common ,nowadays." Timothy- had not meant to drive over the mountain to Drury. When he slid down the long straight-de- scent traight de -scent from the top of The Wall into the Drury valley and went past the marker showing that he had come in- to Drury' township, he still had no in- tension of stopping there. But he took his foot from the accelerator and slowed the ear, loot- ing from side to side, at one white clapboard house after another. He knew now what had brought him there. A longing to see Susan that was desperation. When he came to a house with a litter of building ma- terials around it and a scaffolding up around a half rebuilt chimnney, he slipped his clutch, set his brake, stopped the engine and got out. Across a wide stretch of April - tender grass, Susan' turned from where she stood under a young apple tree. She held a rake in her hand. t Y e g r d n: d e reached 'during the third week of June, caul that a decline in production may now be expected, although this is not likely to be substantial. All. sections of the Province report that. the•peak has now been passed, al- though with pasture in excellent con- dition,'the decline is not expected to be continuous. An interesting feature of the .re- port is that the appeal to producers to aim at higher testing cream •hasp brought excellent results, A state- ment front one creamery shows that from tests of 15 patrons' cream, taken at random, the average butter- fat test was 27.5' per cent before the appeal and 34.9 per cent after its distribution. Despite the one excep- tionally hot week in June and the gathering of cream three times in two weeks instead of the former twice a week pickup, the quality of cream received at the creameries showed a slight improvement com- pared with the same month a year ago. The report for the Toronto Group states that with the butter market holding more or less steady, there has been no change in cream prices during the rnonth of June. Indica- tions are that more outlying cream- eries are shipping their second grade cream to the larger creameries for churning. There is very little demand for undergrade butter. She saw hint now, she saw who it was. She dropped her rake and with a cry of passionate welcome, "Oh, Uncle Tim! Dear, dear Uncle Tim!" •she tried to run to hini. When he. moved to meet her, she flung heel arms around his neck, kissing him with all her heart, "Oh, Uncle Tim, how glad I ant you've come!" There were tears in his own middle-aged eyes as he held her tenderly to hint, feeling with a strange turmoil' the pressure against him of her mis- shapen body. He let her go, he wiped his eyes, he said the firstsimple words that came into his mind— Well, Susan—well! How are you? And how is Canby?" Canby was there, a hammer in one hand, the other one outstretched. "WeII, here you arel Susan and I were just saying this very morning that if you didn't get over this way soon—" He forgot what he was saying, shaking Timothy's hand up and down, up and down. "Stay for lunch," cried Susan. "I'll make a chocolate souffle. Miss Peek• showed me just how you like it" "Come on in for the love of Mike and let me show you what I'm doing to the house," said Canby. They went in through the walls of the house, anywhere, stepping be- tween the open uprights, and began to lay a table standing in a litter of sawdust and shavings. Canby trans- ferred a pile of flooring boards to make room for the third chair. There he sat, Timothy sharing the food that Susan had prepared for Canby. "We certainly have missed you all this winter," Susan told him. A tapping of hammers began at the back of the house. Canby let down the front legs of his chair to the floor, leaned across the table and asked seriously, "Say, Uncle Tim, I wish you'd tell me whether you honest -to -goodness think we're on the right track with this funny business I've cooked up. It's darned ' different from what most folks seem to want. This is the third house Susan's kept house in, it less than a 'year. It's kind of a funny way to live, isn't it— for Susan?" • "I love it! I simply love it!" cried Susan. "All the seine," Canby murmured, "all the same," There are times when camping out is not so heal' To himself Timothy said, "Let yourself go! Don't stiffen up!" To Canby • and Susan he spoke easily, naturally. "See here -I have an idea. What you young people need is one permanent.` place to go back to be- tween campings out. Well, I hardly, ever use•tlat old house I bought up on the Crandall Pitch road. Why don't you, g0, there for your between -times Jiving? It just stands empty. How about it?" They gazed at him, their faces blank, their eyes wide, and then. Can- by cried bringing his fist down on the table, "Why, Uncle, Tint, that's one swell idea! Susan can go there when she comes out from the hospital in May, and have the nurse with her for a while, Thiele Tim, you're sweIl!" Susan rennet] across the table and for an instant took timothy's hand silently in "Miers with a long beau - tifuI look of gratitude, the deep look that came from her heart. She was thanking him for provid- ing a home for Canby's child. So strange a turmoil shook Timothy to dizziness that he closed his eyes as if he were• falling, and clenched his hands hard on the nem of his chair. He could not have said for `his life what he was feeling. * * a. * Working steed!ly down through the pile of letters on his desk, Timothy came on an envelope sprawlingly ad- dresed to him in pencil. It was from Canby, scribbled in the Ashley hos- pital, to tell him that the baby was there 0. It. too—a boy—that Susan was 0. X. too—that the boy was to be named Timothy Hulme Hunter, if Uncle Tim did not object. He sat trying to think what it would be like to have a child named for him. But .he could not imagine it. He had had no experience with little children •and could not con- ceive that a new baby meant a new human being. ' But when, after Susan's return from the hospital, he first went up to the stone house that had been his and was not ndw, and first saw his namesake in the flesh, he realized that he need give himself no concern about anything he was to say or do. Susan would not notice. She could hear, she could see, nothing but the roll of pink blanket in the small basket set on the bench under the maple trees. With the baby in her arms Susan fell into a long, brood- ing silence. Thee, dreamily, "You can't think how nice it is to be beck in the stone house," she told him. "It seems so safe 'for the baby." "Yes, it is safe," agreed Timothy. A woman in a white uniform came to the door of the house and said professionally, "All ready, Mrs. `Hun- ter." Susan turned her bead, nodded, put the baby back in the basket. She stopped low over it, put her cheeks against the round blooming one with- in, and was gone. Left alone on the bench, Timothy, with a long breath,leaned back, took off his hat and laid it beside him. The sun shone warmly on his head, He thought of frustration and all that he had taken, as proof of its inevita- )mility. - And after reflecting on this for a time, asked himself tentatively, "Can what seems like frustration be -sometimes--only the resisting of growth ?" At this his mind, conditioned to the acrid taste of doubt, leaped up sus- piciously to ' examine the idea for sentimentality. "Growth? A fine- sounding name for dying! To accept all this for I've accepted it or .I wouldn't be here. To let. it happ„ep, for I've let it happen. I can call that accepting growth: • -But it really is a tame acceptance of death.". He leaned forward to look into the basket. The smooth bland face had not stirred. Wrapped en his cocoon of sleep, the baby lay breathing lightly, glowilig with life as the morning star glows with light. - Timothy sank back on the bench. "Oh well, what do we all do every day but die to what we leave be- hind?" he asked himself, his eyes dreaMily fixed on a life that had jutst,. begun:' THE END BENSON W. TUCKEY Liberal Candidate Respectfully solicits your suppo IN THE RIDING OF HURON in the forthcoming Provincial Election,Wednesday, August 4tld. ' WE ARE THE DEAD Can you not watch with us one 'hal- • lowed day. And bow a tender momeht at the cross? 'Twos only yesterday we went away. You dare not count our lives a tragic loss. We gave ourselves that you might still be free, We serried youth and hope with- in our heart. We 'went to foreign lands,—across the sea, We paid in full, we did not keep a pant. If you: forget, we've surely died in vain, - We had a soulful right to love and live. But shells of hate and poison gas of shame/ Made us your dead and dead inen can't forgive. Slow down your noisy, whirling wheels of trade,. Keep tryst with us just for a sac- red hour, The garden of the past, don't let it • fade, Please pluck at least one crimson, broken flower. Do not forget. Maybe now your care• fur choice. To bind the b'Ieeding, broken ties again, To hear the music of a silent voice. And tell us that our death was not in vain. W. H, Colclough MY PRAYER O Lord, I come to Thee in Prayer once more, But pardon if I do not kneel before Thy gracious presence, for my knees are sore. With so much walking, In my chair instead. I'll sit at ease and humbly' bow my head. I've labored in Thy vineyard Thou dost know; I've sold ten tickets to the minstrel show; I've called on fifteen strangers in our town. Their contributions to our church put down; I've baked a pot of beans for.Satur- day's spree, And old-time supper it is going to be; I've dressed three dolls, too, for our annual fair. And made a cake which we must raffle there. Now, with Thy boundless wisdom so sublime, Thou knowest that these duties all take time. I have no time to fight my spirit's foes, I have no time to mend my husband's clothes;, My children roam the streets from morn till night. I have no time to teach them to do right; But Thou, 0 Lord, considering all my cares. Wilt count them righteous, also heed my prayers. Bless the bean supper and the min- strel show. And put it in the hearts of all to go, Induce the visitors to patronize The men who in our program adver- tise. Because I've chased these merchants kill they hid Whene'er they saw me coming —yes, they did. Increase the contributions to our fair. And bless the people who assemble there; Bless Thoq-the grab-bag and the gip- sy tent. ,4 The flower table and the cake that's sent; May our whist club be to our service blest, The dancing party gayer than the rest. And when Thou hast bestowed these blessings then, We pray that Thou wilt bless our souls.—Amen. —Author Unknown. wed Ita44 eur eite ?a,eee These Liberal Policies which Advance Agri- culture Benefit Every Town n and Village: , ON AUGUST 4th to ensure postwar progress for your community and your own prosperity KEEP ONTARIO PROSPEROUS ▪ . Over $7,000,000 in bonuses paid to Ontario farmers to encourage the production of pork and cheese. ▪ . In co-operation with the Federal Government a bonus of 4¢ per pound is being paid for clean wool. ▪ A subsidy of 550 per ton to sugar beet growers. ... A subsidy on Western grains fed in the province. • • • Marketing legislation has enabled fruit and vegetable growers to get higherprices for their produce. • .. The Liberal Government rn Ontario reduced interest rates on farm loans from 5% to 4%. — provides loans on flax and other farm co-operatives including cold storage plants. —Re -opened Demonstration Farms at New Liskeard and Hearst. —Instiituted County Agricultural War Committees. —Reduced interest rates on Drainage Loans from 5% to 3%.. --Dispensed with collection of tax or; gas for tractor use. — Doubled rural Hydro lines. -Reduced rural Hydro rates by $1,250,000 per year and bonused rural Hydro lines by $10,400,000. ELECT THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE