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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1943-12-23, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD r 'he Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW GRA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ." 1,ii0 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 ,ipaicl unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- seription is paid is denoted on the label. .ADVERTISING RAE — Transient .advertising 12e per count- line for afirst:insertion. 8e for each subse- Aquent hrsertiop. Heading counts 2 dines. SmaI1 advertisements not to .exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," '"Lost","Strayed", etc., inserted once for 85c, each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising. made known on application. Communioatione intended for pub- ilieation must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by . the name sof the writer. -G. B. HALL - Proprietor IL T. RANCE • NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Representing 14' Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. ,Barristor, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block . , . — .... 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 oy Manipulation Sim -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 DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary. Surgeon Phone 203 Clinton, Ont. IERNEST W. HUNTER • CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT "!'Ire ought to shut down on making Leila put down her cigarette to our living room a tourist cabin," he accept her glass, "Gee, what luck, '557 Bloor Str. W. Toronto Out. countered. "The next time we're mar- Halsey! Here's looping at you, Andy tied, we won't buy a couch that pulls —and I hope you'll be twenty-eight out—that's r before ' By JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE. CHAPTER VI with courteous interest, but, he con- Bd Big-hearted Sarah Daffodil acts in1tributed almost nothing to the genera gal conversation. He had a delightful every capacity for the four -family smile and a slow, hesitant planner house in Garset after her husband's that was rather engaging. None of death. The :frugal, elderly Me. and Leila's friends quite knew what she Mrs, Peppercorn and the newly-wed saw in him, but they'would have saici. Andrew and Candace Thane . occupy that of any man whom she consistent_ the two top -floor apartments and be- ly dated., low them middle-aged Bert Fitts and Two • other couples, in addition to h' if 1 is o eng osse in war Kurt and Leila, had dropped in o activities' to care for her home—and their way home from movies. They King Waters, veteran of World War had thoughtfully brought , a huge I, and his wife Emma, a devotee of bag •of prepared food,' cheese and hard fine 'crocheting, The Peppercorns. wish front, beer, cold cuts, haat, chicken to, help a destitute family fonT'd by potato salad, pickles and pretzels, the landed on our shores?" No one was Surprised when Leila I „ stood up. There wouldn't: he wars, if th eordinary people used their heads," she said. "No one wants war. How can I hate" the German's when I know' Kurt?" "So What?" Patty put down her beer glass -with a thud. Leila flung. op her head, her hands i gripped,the table edge. "What I'm trying to tell you dopes is that everyone would get along peaceably --•Geranan's, Italians, everybody- if ,eaeh,enehad enough. There shouldn't be any very poor, or very rich." Hen the junkman, sheltered under his visual .random selection of man let scrap metal. Mos. Peppercorn calls on Loose in the garden of the delicatessen. Mrs. Fitts to ask her aid but Mrs. Coles Arnold tulabashedly confessed Fitts is not interested. Candace and that it was his ambition in' life to run Andy discuss the possibilities of thea de luxe delicatessen shop. - passage of a bill exempting .men of Leila put together a double-deek- 28 and over.' er sandwich for Kurt, Patty insisted She lay'against his heart without Ion hunting up a wooden spoon for speaking, Nothing is permanent but the salad. • this, she thought. The men and girls I "I saw Diele Mason the other night" she and Andy knew had stopped plan- Minnie Davis, who was more than ing, many of them, and were waiting half -engaged to the good looking tall listlessly for someone or something to Halsey Kenneth never far from her, give them a definite signal. Andy a shower of pickles into a paper cup.. and I can't be sure we're right, but at Coles said interestedly, "Ts he least we've moved forward to meet 1 up on leave?" Life. Candace reflected, listening to At the stove where she was melting the strong, steady beats of her bus. band's for Andy, who liked gooey band's heart. She diel not believe that snaeksj C ttxlace turned "Dyes he the age exemption depressed Andy. know about the exemption for men They had their pattren, the design t+venty-eight and over?" might be altered, but it could not be i "Leila's ready for the usual fight" destroyed. Aloud she said gently, Patty Bailey said, licking her fingers "How much money have we in the daintily baby's envelope, Papa?" I Andy wished for a moment that They counted it together—eighty they would all go hone and leave this dollars thriftily set aside since they lciichen, with the blue gingham check !tad begun to poo] their salaries. i curtains, the silver and gray and "We could save eight dollars more black fittings that Candace loved, to a month, if it weren't for Zither," his wife and to him. Then the swift Candace sighed, "but T suppose site recolleetion that none of these people needs the money, too. i was as happy as he and Candace, urg- No hospitable tninded people be- ed hint to be kind. All of them were grudged a few friends a night's lodg-' young, most of them were poor; and ing, Candace, putting away clean lin.young, of them, with the exception of en a few evening later. said. But what Leila asked enough of life. if they hard a limited supply of J "What about Dick Mason?" Can - sheets? Idace prompted now. "What did he say "It's no trouble to do the washing," about the exemption 'tail; Minnie?" she fibbed smoothly, "the laundry in Dick had been in uniform, Minnie the basement is completely equipped, answeiled. '•lie's tickled pink, of even to a mangle, It's really fun to course. He was twenty-eight last Ap- work in such`a light, dry place, Zither til." is positively fascinated by all the ma-; "nrhen'll they release him?" Coles ehinery," Arnold put mustard on Swiss cheese. "I've found yon washh k twice in In November. Minnie thought, "But the late afternoon without, Zither." he says the officers are telling the Andy tabulated. sternly. Chis Sat- boys that they'll be recalled. None of urday and Sunday tavern -keeping has the regular Army men like the ruling got to sop,' because they lose Mellows they've just With the Fitts and the Waters got trained. I'1 bet they won't be call - away for week -end. Sarah Daffo- ed back—that's just to make them un- dil didn't care, Candace assured him. eas e "Mrs. Peppercorn amus T do extra wash "They'll be recalled all right," Andy ing evr..ry now and then, We ought 1 began to open cans of beer --"You're to buy more sheets, Andy." twenty-eight aren't you, Halsey?" .THE McKILLOP MUTUAL .I+'.h'e Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. 'OFFIOERS—President, Alex McEw- ang, Blyth Ont; Vice President, W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Manager and Secretary Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Sea - forth, Ont. DIRECTORS — Alex McEwing, 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. McKercher, Dublin, 'Ont., J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen, Ont., I George A, Watt, Blytll, Ont. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderieh. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance 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 ' ees.Losses inspected by the director. i 4N A0 NATKINAL ALMS TIME TABLE -Trains will arrive at and depart llrom:Ciinton as follows: .Toronto and Goderieh Division t Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. tGoing 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. Pipe: Tobacco FOR A MILD, COOL, SiVIOKE. o where we made our nus your number s called. take," Patty Bailey shrugged. She was "Leila telephoned, She left wont a plump, bustling and bossy girl, but - with Sarah," Candace reported to An- toned tightly into a block frock that dy one July night when, warm and fitted her like the casing on a saus- tirecl, he reached hone half an hour, age. "If I had a brother, I'd be glad late, to see him off to training camp," she "This is Thursday. They know they announced. "What's the natter with can't spend the night, Leila may be you guys, anyway? A year in milt - able to sit up till three in the morn- tarry camp' would be the making of ing and go to business the next day, every one of you." but we need our sleep. And I will not "I don't see yvhy, you think mill - double up with Kurt of the conch tory training is all to the good." Lel- when its as hot as this." la • always plunged into conversation They might be able to get to bed as if into an army attack. "It every -- early, Candace offered none too hope. one lived in the country and just went fully. "I can't head them off -they're hunting and skiiing and raised dogs, somewhere on the road. Anylvay, if it no one would need to be built tip or makes Leila happy to sit around and talk to us, we can't be mean. Leila talked, as she did everything else, incessantly and tensely. Watch- ing herr that evening, Andy ,wondered as he had before whether Kurt Her- ulamt ever opened his mouth en 0-a- long hrlong motoring trips he and 'Leila took together. The young German was not made over. "Kurt would like to live in the country. In Germany his people live on a large farm, an estate. Beside her Kurt smiled into the eyes that turned to him, but he' did not speak. • Patty maintained that military training was primarily for defense. "What would your skiing enthusiasts unresponsive, he obviously iiienzd and canoe trippers do, if the enemy 41. i The Thaues' visitors kuvariabh- gravitated to theattractive kitchen Boo*, K;rK t4c4t. aceAri - •Minnie Davis, leaning against Hal- sey as she mocked, said lazily that Gomunist propaganda didn't fool her, 1 "You're like all the rest of the fuss- :buttons, Leila; -you paint a rosy pic- ture of the world as you'd like it to 1be. It doesn't follow that it is what I want. Yeti can't even be sure that it's the kind of world Kurt wants." But if the majority of people wan- ted it, Leila urged hotly, they were entitled to have it, "To live in the country, to fish and swim and not try to make a lot of money—that kind 'of life would please most people. 1 What ails the world is that the petty selfish, grubby ambitions of the few are set up as something to strive for, I don't want to be rich—ever"- • I They assured her that the danger .was remote, but Leila could not smile. ,She sat down and resumed her furious smoking, shoulder to shoulder with Kurt. "A hundred years from now it will be all the same" said Soles Arnold, a little more aggressively than usual because he had had two cans of beer. 1"None of us little yeasty specks mat- ters in the scheme of things. Why, do you know how this feeble planet eall- ed earth compares with some of really brilliant heavenly bodies?" Elbows on table, chin in hands, Candace said serenely, "I think ev- ery 0130 of us is more important than any star." ' I{art's square hand rested on the 'table and Leila picked up one of the the blunt -tipped fingers, let it fall, !"But we can't do anything, really. You can give your life to getting some - !thing you want and if it's in the canis ihiit' you'rst not to have it—well, you're just out of luck." I "Yes, and then again yon may get it and died before you have a chance , to enjoy it." Coles peered regretfully into the empty beer can, "That's why I hesitate about saving up to buy my delicatessen," he murmured. Givee a delicatessen shop he'd die all right from overeating, Andy in- formed him, I"Oh, but what you want must be important, you see." Candae 's voice I her clear, soft words, were an answer to the unhappiness in Leila's beseech- ing eyes. If you ask for something really worth while, won't it, be worth whatever it costs you?" Leila asked tensely. "You mean whether one gets it or not?" "Yea. You have to face the possib- ility of losing, of course. But it seems to me that if your pattern is fine enough—or perhaps I mean if you are —the chancee of winning is.worth the risk of loss, You can lase without be ' ing defeated, you ).drew." When, an hour later, Candace and Leila made up the sofa bed 'for Andy and Kurt who still washed dishes In the kitchen, Leila murmured. wistfully indon't really care whether we're rich or poor, I just want to be mar - sled to Kurt." She pulled a clean white case over the plumpest pillow and dropped in on the side she hoped Kurt would choose, ei not unpatriotic. It's merely that Pin intelligent enough to know there is no difference in any of the count- ries—nationalism makes all the trou- ble between the different races, Yon take the English—don't you honestly think they have a lot of faults?" " Ithinlc you're in love with a Ger- man," Candace said. "I thinly its' a good sign when two people can be happy together without having others around- don't you?" Leila said, There were times when she could dispense with other people herself, Candace decided one morning a week or two tater. To find Mrs. Waters then, dressed for the street and ob- viously waiting for her in the first floor hail at eight -thirty of a hot Atigust morning was, Candace felt, more that: she had agreed to endure. "I waited :for you. 7 go downtown so seldom that I won't know how to act when I do get in a store," said Emma Waters, The morning air, as they stepped in- to the :street, lay heavily on the city, a pressure thick and still. "I suppose they're all going down after the stine thing." Mrs. Waters surveyed the mill nig group at the bus corner gloomily, The size of the waiting crowd puzzled Candace, who had taken the eight - thirty imus for five months and usually saw the same faces, morning after morning. "We ivon'lr get a seat, wilt we?" Mrs, Waters dug_ a sharp el- bow into the ribs of a whitehaired woman who was jockeying for a place on the curb, ' (TO BE CONTINUED) Receives His Wings and Commission On Friday of last week Pilot Officer Ray Pryde graduated as a navigator from No. 4 Air Observer School at Crumlin and at the sante time re- ceived his eomiiiission. Among those present for the ceremony were his parents, Flight Lieutenant .Thomas Pryde of Toronto and Mrs. Pryde of. Exeter, LAC J. Ti.•Pryde, of the Fin- gal Bombing and Gunnery School Ina Mrs. Prycle of Exeter; AC2 Douglas Pryde of Manning Pool, Toronto, and Bob of London, Pilot Officer Pryde was posted at Lachine and I.T.S. No, 6 Toronto, before going to Crumlin. His many friends will extend congrat- ulations._Exter 'Times Advocate. Nine Freighters to Winter at Goderieh Three arrivals this week closed the navigation season at Goderieh. The Hastings reached port of Sunday from the head of the Lakes with 110,- 000 bus oats and wheat for the ele- vator and the A. A. Hudson came in 'Wednesday afternoon after a fast run from the lake -!lead with a storage cargo, also for the elevator. The Fort Wildoe arrived Monday morning to join the winter fleet with a cargo of wheat for the mill. _ Late Thursday afternoon a, boom was thrown across the gap at the harbor after the package freighter A. A. Hudson (Capt. Dalton Hudson) had passed through to take up her winter berth here, She was the last vessel of the season, docking on the last day of navigation and she com- pleted the winter fleet of nine boats. The Hudson left the head of the Lakes on Sunday evening after waiting out the storm of Friday and Saturday. She made the trip to Goderieh in a little over thirty hours which is about the regular time for the Hudson, She encountered considerable ice on the way down anti her hulk was coated with ice on her arrival here. The crew reported a large field of ice about a mile off this port and the harbor it- self is filled with ice blown in from the lake, . The boom was thrown across the gap by the tug John K. Stover, to pre- vent further ice from entering tit, harbor. There are nine freighters in. the lumber; Sinrcoe, A. A. Hudson, Elgin Prescott, Soodoe, Fort Wildoe, Win - doe, Wni. Sehupp, all with storage cargoes, and the Hastings. Of the eight storage cargoes four are for this Western Canada Flour Mills, This means a busy milling season this +ven Altoter,gether there is about 1 3-4 mil- lion bushels of grain afloat here. This is its addition to the three million bushels in the elevator and 600,000 bushels at the flour mill. Storage of Western feed grains is very heavy this winter owing to the local crop failure this year, However, the de- mand continues very heavy and much more will have to be brought in by rail, Evidence that a mix on the high sea, has been and still is in progress, but that the U-boat menace is passing 18 to IT o.een in the four ships painted battleship gray, three of the mount-. three -pound gums on the after- decks. The ships which have been in ocean service are the Scluipp, Sinrcoe, Elgin and Hastings. The Sehupp has been ten months of salt water service ply- ing between Norfolk, Va., and New- foundland, carrying coal. Of her orig- inal creta who left fresh water nine- teen months ago only one, Bob Muir,, an oiler remained 011 her when she put into Goderiehharbor for the win- ter. , In all his experience Bob never saw a submarine, nor was there so much as a scare. He did see, however, plenty of damaged -and wrecked ships that had been struck by torpedoes from the U -Boats. These lake freighters are no longer needed on the ocean, but they and their crews dict valiant service and a fine job as pinch hitters. Captain Ed. Robinson, commod- ore of the "Canada Steamship Linea, has arrived to spend the winter here and will have charge of the C.S.L. boats in their 'winter berths at this port. Capt Lorne McCartney, Orinoco. of the Coalfax, is home with his -wife for the off season, His boat is laid Up at Port Dalhousie, The Coalfax hada good, season, malting 125 deliv- THURS., DEC. 23, 1913 ,,,,,-3 "h' - 1 , .li' OR him, that Long - Distanco call home at Christ- mas is the big event of the day. He's counting on it. Let's make sure that . he, and thousands like him, won't be disappointed. Itmeans giving up our own Christmas telephoning, so that war -crowded lines will be freed to handle the flood of holiday greetings from naval, army and air force poste across the country. It means sending ,our Christmas messages by. mail. Should you find you must telephone out-of-town, try to do so as many days before the holiday as possible. And especially avoid all non-essential calls to distant or war -busy centres. Winning the war is a non-stop job, and urgent messages must go through. C bt )4ctit% £'e-raae OWiscf i`,. GUotels eries for a total of 3,90,000 tons prac- tically all to Lake Ontario ports. Friday's sudden storm wrought dis- aster at the nets of the Graham and MacDonald commercial fishing con- cerns. It came with so little warn- ing there was no time to save them,— Goderieli Signal -Star. V COUNTRY SLEIGH Deep in the raftered gloom, The sleigh that was so swift To cleave the chiselled drift Bears on its frame a bloom Of long. -compounded dust. Blowing straws have thrust Slivers of palest gold between The faded cushions' emerald green, Under the ornate back Swiftly the hornets mould A globe against the cold, And silk cocoones hang slack Here pigeons drowse content With things impermanent,— Successive suns, cool summer rain, Shelter of eaves, largesse of grain. None more amazed than I May' see the sleigh flash by With bells and sparkling spray, On some- still winter day. Newfoundland —Lenore A. Pratt gl-SNAPSHOT G WINTER AND DULL DAY SNAPSHOOTING4a Winter pictures are easy to take and add interest to your snapshot collection. And, don't forget to have extra prints made for those in the Service. 1-kODAY I am going to devote the A column to a napshooters who re- gard a camera as an important corn- pan1on during the seasons of much sunshine and that put It aside as soon as dull days of late fall and winter creep op 011 ns. If you ore a dyed -hi -the -wool snap- shot enthusiast you won't let Old Man WInter turn the stop sign an you. With high speed film you eau take good pictures under adverse lighting coalitions so don't let the season keep you from malting inter- osliug pkotures to send to those In the Service. You will end that on clouded or gray days, you -will have to give longer exposures by opening the leas to a larger aperture, increasing the shutter speed, or perhaps both. For instance, let's assume that on the average summer day you would sat your lens at .1/11 and tho shut- ter at 1/38 of a second for a picture under normal sunlight. On a clouded or gray clay, you would probably have to set the diaphragm opening at f/8 or, if the day were ttntisually. dull, at 1/6.3. If, however, you preferred to get a little more depth of field—sharp' Tress of both near n oa and far obieets in your snapshot—you could shoot at 8/11 and set your shutter speed at 1/10 of a second. When aneppiug a picture at 1/10 of a second you had better place your camera on a solid obiect for otherwise a slight move- ment o1 the camera may blur the picture image, No set rules can be made for shutter speed or diaphragm open- ings under all the conditions you may encounter. A snapshootei cruet use his own good judgment, gained by experience, but you can rest as- sured of one thing, however: under normal winter lighting with fro snow on the ground to aid by reflection, you will have to give Ionger expos- ures to .properly record your' subject. Always remember that those in the Service onjoy snapshots from home In any season: John van Guilder