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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-05-12, Page 2CAGE 2 Lf THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Destiny' By . Agnes Louise Provost SYNOPSIS sprawling bushes. That was the;J The ranch house came into ocarer mouth of the old Bonanza nine; long' view, sprawling comfortably on its Lee Hollister, leturmng from spice abandoned, where one lucky commanding knoll. A thin frowning =trip abroad to the Circle V ranch, gold pocket 'had given Matt Blair lupe came between the bullet eye- •oWned by Matt Blair, who for l\ven- and his 'partner: their first start and brows. Then it cleared suddenly; Lee qty years has been like a father to had brought hordes of other men to 'grinned and swung his horse to the wee, decides to surprise p,e femily. stake claims. That hillside had echoed right. Five minutes later the ranch :He sends thein no word of his wail- once tothe round of voices, the blows building's were completely blocked Sing and rides over the hills to the of picks and the sullen boom of from view and the buckskin; was 'r'anch on horseback. When he finally blasting, as men burrowed feverishly threading his way down the slope of esees the wide ranchland before him, for the gold that was 'never found a little ravine where a slim finger 'he is astonished a't the unusual as- again. Now it had been 'silent for 'of the creek ;ran, pert of the place., years, torn and tunnelled and cross It was dim and quiet here, and as - tunneled, bearing its healing scars, in secluded. as if the rest of the world peace. Matt owned it all now, not 80 'did not exist. The creek tinkled and Chapter II e much for its value—it wouldn't have whispered over a rocky channel, wi1- Lee wheeled his horse abruptly, re - brought twenty cents an ` acre -..but lows fringed it wherever there was traced his way for short distance •because it was a relic of the old days.,roothold, and a thick chaparral and stated'zigzagging' downward. • 1There was a lot of sentiment in Matt,climbed the slopes. About a third. of Here the valley was. lost to view,' The old Bonanza was behind Lee, the, way down a cabin stood, its logs The slope dropped abruptly, with and brought him into a small gorge, a bare strip beyond it a little old the last steep turn of the trailweatheredgrey by many seasons. In sharp turns and jutting angles, growth of of scrub ceder man was just straightening from a that slid beneath the horse's There wee feet. It was base and rocky on this along here, with juniper and jack'stooping posture. side, and vegetation, where there was pine scattering the slopes. Lee gave "Whee-ee! Joey! Yip! Yip!" any, was little more than a tough a scarcely audible grunt: "Lee Hollister! Hi-yi-yi! Lee!" Grub. Over to the right a -black A man was coming toward him, The whoop from the head of the. hole yawned, its edges blurred with riding close to the fringe of ceder, as ravine was answered by a thin, shrill if keening out of view. He was a big, note; the old man scrambled and loosely built man, with a long wo.f- slid and ran. They were almost in The Clinton News -Record ish face and bulky shoulders. A cium- front Of the grey cabin, playfully sy looking man, but the movement oflpounding and gripping each other. d h h d sheofLeo THE NEW ERA was as smooth as the dart of a snake.lvoice squeaked treacherously. "Tnno TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION . His stare of recognition carried a ye was back, dang yore ornery hide. 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- swift surprise and a flare of some-1Where ye been all this time? Could- .adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S, or thing else, quickly hidden. Then he n't even write a line, like any decent other foreign. countries. No paper rode forward with a grin which discontinued until all arrears are showed discolored teeth. paid unless at the option of the pub -4 "Hello, Lee. You back?!' fisher. The date to which every sub-! "Loks like it. Hello, Slanty." scription is paid is denoted on the The reply was civil, and no more. label. L• ee Hollisterollister did not like Slanty was en my legs again. And then I ADVERTISING RATES Transient Gana and Slanty knew it, and seem- decided to .rake it a • surprise. Just." advertising 12c per count line for .ed to find a perverse pleasure in got here. I haven't seen Matt yet first . insertion. 8c. for each ,'subse- making himself as obnoxious as P°ss- Joey flinched as though someone quent insertion. Heading counts 2 ible. Slanty's nickname, origidally had dealt him a solid blow. He had lines. Small advertisements not to Slant Eye, had obviously come from a shrewd, humorous pucker of a exceed one inch, such as , "Wanted'', the Mongolian tilt of his eyes, but '"Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once in its shortened form it was generally for 85c., each subsequent insertion conceded to he appropriate on more 15c, Rates for display advertising counts than one. He was shifty Heard what? What's the matter, made knave on application. and evasive, as oblique in his meth- Joey?" Communications intended for pub- ods as in his name. A good worker Joey gulped again, His voice was lication must, as a guarantee of good, when he wanted to be, he wase toe a dry husk of sound: faith, be accompanied by the name lazy and quarrelsome to hold any job "Matt—Mates gone." of the writer. Iong, and usually shifted for himself "Gone! Look here, Joey, ' you don't G. E. HALL - - Proprietor in a cabin back in the hills. For the mean that Matt is—" rest, he bullied when he dared, back- He. couldn't quite finish it. Joey ed down when he didn't and held a nodded heavily. H. T. RANCF with wIhich is ncorporata is ea a caughtsight, "Ye doggone scallawag!" Joey's folks would, could ye?" A flaking grin. came. "I never was much for writing, Joey; you know that. And I went down with a fever and didn't want to own up until I mouth, bet it was not humorous now. "I forgot." He swallowed visibly. "Ye'ain't heard—about things here," grudge to the end of time, !'Yes: He's dead. He shot hissejf, YOUR WORLD AND MINE (Copyright) by JOHN C. RiRKW00D THURS., MAY 12, 1938 f�atiWeet 1 dYeeeee,N r 's eeW0 5,NW.'L'.V'.'1.•i .'Si efeeserY�'1L AN'SCS Tn Western. Ontario a town of his new parish, tapped the cask, our about 1000 inhabitants is dying—of came water! Every family had done sleeping sickness. It has a newspa-]some cheating. Each family said to per which is 75 years old. This news- itself, "Our cheating will never be paper is about to expire. Its publish- discovered. The idea of 'substituting er cannot continue to carry its on, water for wine will never occur to for lack of local advertising. If and anybody else." It's an old and tru„ when this newspaper ceases publica- saying• — ""Opportunity makes the Lion, then this town, and the rural thief". ' community surrounding it, Will get About this dying town of- which. 1 sicker and sicker. A` town 'without,; have been writing, I am informed' a newspaper is a pretty dtnnb town. that it has a mayor and h b'r replies to my series of three com- munications. It was not because my proposal was unsound; it was be- cause almost all municipalities In, Ontario are insincere when they profess to want new ,inclustriies. I believe that I am right when i say that, apart from Toronto, and per- haps Hamilton, no Ontario' munici- 'pality has sought new industries, by way of advertising, in the past 20 years! Industrial committees are just costumes! Now a word' to retailers who, may read this contribution to the News Record. Far too many retailers im- agine that when a publisher solicits them to advertise it is with a. view to getting something for his ad- vantage' • without giving equivalent a chamber ez value, My view is that any retailer It is like a district without .bid -lute. Who wants to grow up in a voiceless community? Who wants to stay in it? Who wants to trade in it? What commercial traveller 'wants to visit it? One is sorry for the preachers and the school teachers in a dumb town. Before a town should Iet its local newspaper die, it ought to tax itself to get money to save its newspaper. Of course, this is a foolish suggests tion, for if a town ,subsidized a news- paper; it would feel that it owned it, and had a right to tongue-tie its publisher -editor. Better than levying a tax—even if it were legally poss- ible to do so—to support a local newspaper, is for every family to subscribe to the newspaper and for every retailer 'to advertise in it. In this way the money required to sus- tain a local newspaper would he forthcoming, and the community would have a voice: The publisher - editor would have the kind of en- couragement needed to produce a good newspaper; he would give hack to his supporters wonderful value for the money obtained from them. Some years ago a publisher of a country weekly newspaper, in the Niagara Peninsula, was so disgusted with the apparent lack of apprecia- tion that he mean to cease the pub- lication. So the following week there was no newspaper. What a howl went up! Thus this publisher learned that his newspaper was "well-regard- ed—that it was wanted. So he kept on. Perhaps his delinquent subscrib- ers paid up, and perhaps soma more retailers began advertising. A. few years ago I met a West- ern newspaper publisher—from Sa skatchewan. He was one of several persons who sat round a dinner table. He was obviously poor. !lis manners were those of a shy man I can never forget his face, for it showed' that life was hard for hila NotaryPnbliar, ConveyancerBut we got him talking, and he told Lee's eyes dwelt on him with an That's the west part of it, Lee. A' his story. He was a widower. Hu haJ Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- impersonal Agent, Representing 14 Fire regard. Without aggress- man like Matt, solid and dependable, a grown -use daughter who helped hini Insurance Companies. iveness,' apparently without: any ex- always he!pin everybody else t ,to produce his newspaper, ptibliehed in Di 4sion Court Office, Mutest pression at all, they seemed to sug- come to the end of his rope h a village. This man had to take on gest that Slanty's presence on Circle way. They found him in .his office, Prank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. V land called for an explanation, and all slumped down in his chair, with sllarrister, Solicitor, Notary Public that Lee Hollister was the man to his gun on the floor beside him" Successor to W. Brydojle, K.O. receive it._ I Lee straightened slowly. The-im- tGloan Block -- Clinton,but "Riding for the Circle V?" +pact ofthe blow had rocked hili;: "Not for that outfit." The grin be- Matt Blair,that big, vital, huge- A. E. Ce)OK came a sneer. • "I'm hirin' other hearted man, his earliest and best Piano and Voice folks to work for me. Want a job?", friend, dead, and by his own hand! of country weekly newspapers. in Ta '-Studio—E. C; Nickle, Phone 28w. "No." The laconic answer ignored ,Personal loss was submerged for the ionto. He had not been far from his . 80-tf. Slanty's evident desire to be offensive moment by the incredibility of such a home for years. He 'was, T think a and betrayednot the slightest inter- !thing. There was a'ctueer feeling in his Welshman .born. Sa he made an ap- est in Slanty's risen life. Lee merely throat, a sense of the bottom drop- peal to his subscribers just a few D. H. IViCINNES stayed there sitting his horse patient-!p'n, out of his life. hundred all to ld—.to pay u» their ' OPI{AOZOR „ 1. <,I , over -due subscriptions. He told then, other work to get money for have necessities. Thus, he became a civic official at a small salary. I think that he represented ane or more in- surance companies. lie wanted' to attend a conventioi t price es. Slanty'stook malevolence. I don't get it,"he seed slow Electro Therapist, Massage eyes on madon't gat it at all. Matt wasn't y that he wanted to attend the Toronto con- al : he Huron Street.' (Few Doors E m looki!n )for strays,'n he ex= west of .Royal Bank/ plained with sly insolence. "Been kind." vention, but that unless. his subserib- • lSours—Wed. and Sat. and by missin' 'ens retty regular, lately," Joey nodded: S seeclr for the mo- s ors paid up, it would be impossible, appointment, meat was be and him. They responded nobly. They chaffed FOOT CUitRECTION "Better not look'in the wrong Y xsy manipulation Sun -flay Treatment place, Slanty, Other people's brands (To be continued) " their friend. They said to him', "Goon Phone 207 , don't stay on the Circle V." riddance!: Never come back!" Yet they loved this servant of theirs. So Black eyes and greenish ones met this publisher wae able to take'a Iong GEORGE: ELLIOTT' and measured eachother. The green- ll,fcensed Auctlonoer for the County, se ones' wavered. journey, and meet with other pub- of(CorrespondenceHuroe romptly answeretl'I "• Jest as touchy as ever, ain't ye, ushers. It was a big event in his lifs. Jlinmediate+'arrangements can be made Lee? Well, I'll. take yore word for it, Bnt when he returned to his home 'tor'Sa1es Date at The News -Record, this time. So long; I've got work to he had to go on`the treadmill again, 'Minton, or by calling phone 203,' do." Life gave him so very little .him V'eltarges Moderate and Satisfaction tHe wheeled With a savage rake of and his. loyal, brave -hearted ;laugh.Guaraittieet7. spurs and was off, clattering back in ter. His subscribers had not bothered the direction from which he. had emu;. their heads about their publisher, Lee looked after him speculatively. ,to °so. n no kid your They let their subscriptions go un. paid. They disregarded his appeals 1» the+n'to pay up—until he exposed to thein his necessity anli' his great de - she.. I suppose it's the same in re- gard to 'many other publishers: they are carrying on with slim funds. Probably many are in debt to paper houses and type foundries. How can a. publisher -editor weighted downe with debts and anxieties be at th top of his form every week? Would You ' Be Missed'? "How good a citizen are you?'" Did you ever sit down by your- self and ask yourself this question? Because it will be worth your white THE McI ILLOIP MUTi7�iL d A d t Self about Fire Insurance Company Slanty must have been up to some the answer. Head Office, Seaforth, Outs thing, or he would not have given You may think you are a model President, Thomas Moylan;: Sea- ground so easily, Too easily. He was citizen. You. may bridle up and thistle ' Officers: rd. fforth; Vier ?resident, William Knox, probably out on a prowl where he theab But—let's ve question absoto eases— do didn't want to be . followed. Itg' ]Lon.Reid.ro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. , ort woman t hurt to keep en eye on 1' pay your taxes and your bills A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex. but for the present 'Slanty when they should be paid? or do 'B df t Seaforth; J Sh ld' Slanty, 'roe, . oo , ,mos o ice, hadgone Inc way, and Lee had more you. impose on every body by rutting "Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; 1 ? W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. urgent, business in hand. Ile timed•hose Changs off, as ung as you can?, Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, and rode toward the narrow cleft Do you spend money on things yon 'Blyth; Frank McGregor Clinton: which led into that fertile paradise could do without—money that really List of Agents: E. A. Yea, R.R. 1, which wandering Navajos, long since, belongs' to 'those who have trusted "Goderich., Phone 60341, Clinton; had named the Valley of the Sun. You? Are, you really being fair to ',James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Slanty Gan- from a safe distance these people? Brucefield R R No 1• R F McKee - turned in the saddle and saw him dis Are y u one of those who, thinks •sher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. eppea i "the world owes yon a thews" yon Bo nh Ki R. R. N R G. Jarmuth, "Think yore the big boss, around don't earn? Do you carry your own SaAsty m, R. to be paid' ye?" load like a man? Any money be may be paid here, dont he mitered sourly. to the, Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of "Matt Blair's little pet! Well, make Do you break the speed laws, and. 'Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin the most of yore time. Yo're goin' to thus not others in danger? Cat's Grocery, Goderioh: be took dowel plenty." • Do you accept an 'office and then Parties desiring to' effect incur-. twice or transact other business will Lee: rode on slowly. Several things fail to discharge its duties? Are you he promptly attended to on 'applica- were puzzling him, the wasteful tim- a drag on efforts to make the town len to any of the above officers ad- ber slash, the little evidences of iasis, a better place to live in? Do you sun- ease, it does not matter whethera dressed to their respective post ofi- management, the peesence of Slanty port ' bodies which try to help the prompt remittance be made. res. I�osses inspected by the director a Here I think of a stop svhicen 1 g V and, slinking general good as far as you can af- who lives nearest the scene. Y - s thoughg he did f fringe of cedar as ford? Or do you lie back and let read long ago. A French priest wise through that fri wish to be seen. George do it? had earned. the love of hie people was ... There had been a swaggering emir- Nobody cap abject if you don't going to some other community, The TIME TABLE once about Slanty, in spite of his contribute when you can't afford to peasants—whose main industry was Trains will arrive at and depart from grudging retreat. Three years ago do so. But the men, and women who growing grapes for wine—agreeel Clinton, as follower Matt had run Slanty off the Circle carry on are probably as busy as you Buffalo and Gedeilc6 Div. V for abusing a horse, and Slanty had are, and in fairness you should Doing East, depart 7.03 a.m. give 'Going First, depart 8,00 pan. given it a wide berth ever since. at least your time and your sugges- 'Going West, depart - 11.45 p.m. There couldn't be any connection be- tions. Going West, depart 10.00 p,m. tween Slanty and those other things Just how good a citizen are you? London, Huron & Bruce . .but something had jerked Slanty 'low much would you be missed if Ging North, ar. 11.25 lye. 11.47 p.m. up very short' When he had caught you passed out tonight Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.msight of Lee. , • So , many persons think that it costs little , to produce:, a newspaper. They may even expect to getextra copies for nothing, I read in, one weekly newspaper recently, that its publisher, had sent bills to` subscrib- ers in arrears—who owed in the ag- gregate over $5000! Each subscriber in arrears seema to think that all other subscribers are paid un or will pay up, and that in his particular GAN; HAN:' AT 0 A AILWAYS among themselves to give him a cash of wine, as a souvenir of the love and esteem. it was agreed that each family should pour its quota of win' into the cask on a certain 'nigjit• Those tvho had contributed to the gift of wine were puffed up with —Exchange. self -pride. But when they priest, in of commerce of 50 members! This who neglects to advertise in his lo - amuses me, •A town is like a man. 1 p i g Men like to wear uniforms, In the United States there are hundreds up- on hundreds of societies which hole. national and international convert- tions, Each society has its own cos-' 'tune—often weird and wonderful—. 'abounding in. color, with slathers of gold braid and epaulettes and sashes. !And the wives and daughters like- ' wise wear on gala occasions their strange and colorful .apparel. They learn intricate movements for their I marches. They love to parade their pie n oriental s Tendo - ui.Theyare' just - grown-up children these men and "women who clothe themselves so strangely, and who love to show off their glory. Perhaps we have dupli- cates of .these societies in Ontario,. And, animated by the same sort of spirit—this love for ostentation,— !both stentation— !both big and little town in Ontario have their chambers of commerce, their boards of trade, and industrial ,committees. I am ready to admit that 'some of these groupings are really laffective, locally, and• are essential. But it is these industrial committees which provoke my mirth. They are appointed in order to seek new in- dustries, which is just plain laugh- abl�, There have been industrial committees for years and years in our Ontario towns but they. never function! They just hold meetings and make reports. They never have a cent to spend to seek new indus- tries. They are as futile as is a locket on one's watch -chain. If I speak caustically, then I have reason to do so. Last year I canvass- ed upwards of 200 Ontario munici- palities on a plan of co-operative sales promotion—a plan calculated 'to make known the desire of muni- cipalities for new industries and what each had to offer. My require- ment was $100 a year from each municipality, and all I needed to get going was the co-operation of 20 municipalities. My proposal was to advertise in several -first-class pub- lications an advertisement each week The possibilities of youth leader - for 52 weeks. But, apart from about ship by ane man in a small commun- three municipalities, I received ne lity was illustrated in the reply of a ca newspa er rs eheatn himself. Those retailers in that Western On- tario town who "don't believe in ad- vertising" are a sickish lox, and they communicate their sickness to their community. I'd like to develop th;a view, and some day I may. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Its annual report shows Boy Scout- ing to be thriving on the island of Malta. Arrangements are being completed leted ,for a gathering of over six thousand English Rover Scouts of the south- eastern counties at Gatton Paris, [Surrey, at Whitmire A Colossal Camp Map. For a large gathering of English Rover Scouts at Bewdley, Worcest- ershire, in May, the camp site will be ,laid out in the form of a colossal i"mapP of the county. The principal towns will be represented by camps, correctly located, and occupied by Rovers from those districts. Honour for Egyptian and Indian Scout Leaders. St. George's Day awards of the Silver Wolf, the highest honorary decoration of the Boy Scouts Asso- elation, included the names of Mo- hammed Khaled Hassanein Bey, of the Egyptian National Boy Scouts, and Jamshed Nusserwanji, Provin- cial Commissioner for Sind, India, No Delinquency Problem for This Magistrate. ROUND - TRIP TOURIST CLASS ON LARGEST, FASTEST LINERS SAILING CANADA -EUROPE. Go while exabange rates are in'your favor and dollars buy so much more. Canadian Pacific staunch ships sail via the St. Lawrence Seaway "39% Less Ocean" route. Empress of Britain from Quebec, $258 up Tourist Class, Empress of Australia $233 up; or, from Montreal and Quebec on stately Duchesses $233 up; popular Monts $224 up - . , to, 'British and Continental ports. Even lower fares for Third Class. Luxurious Cabin Class. Particulars from your Travel Agent or E. F. _ Thompson, Steamship; General Agent, Can. Pea, Bldg, Toronto. 0.444(194 Manitoba magistrate to a visitor's query regarding local juvenile delin- quents. "Oh, • we haven't any," was the response. "Sid Lightfoot would- n't stand for it."—Sid Lightfoot be- ing the long -successful Scoutmaster of the local Bay Scout troop. A Welcome for Canadian Scoots At European Nation] Camps. Traveling Canadian Boy Seduts have invitations this summer to vis- it Scout Jamborees or cansps in Ices land, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Sweden. Iceland's Silver Jubilee, Jamboree will be held July 5-14, at Thingvellir. Latvia's National Jam- boree will be held near Riga, July 22 -August 1, Lithuania's near Kau- nas, July 8-18, and Luxembourg's camp August 10-20. The Swedish national camp will be held on the grounds of the Royal summer palace of the King of Sweden, forty miles from Stockholm, with H.R.H. Prince Gustaf Adolf as Camp Chief. A French National Rover Came wilt be held near Grenoble, August 21-28. The advertisements are printed far your convenience. They inform and am your time. energy and money. News Items Wanted By the NEWS -RECORD You May, Telephone CLINTON 4 If Anyone Dies —Gets Married —Has Guests —Goes Away --Has a Party -Has a Baby —Has a Fire —Is Ill --Has an Operation —Has an Accident -Bays a Heine —Wins a Prize —Receives an Award —Builds a House —Makes a Speech —Holds a Meeting, —Or Takes Part in Any. Other Event. THA`1<'S NEWS AND WE WOULD LIKE IT PROMPTLY THE NEWS -RECORD is anxious to publish all the news it can. Wefeel that our readers calf -help us by sending in items Iike "Personals," "Reports of Social Affairs" and other "Activities." One item alone may seem too small to bother with, but when ad- ded to many others helps make interesting news of the "doings" of our town and rural folks. Unsealed letters cost only lc. For your convenience we have a drop -box in the office door. MAY WE HAVE YOUR CO.OPERATION? Name of Sender,