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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-10-20, Page 2PAGE 2 ' THE CLINTON11Evil'S"IL +'CURD! THIJRS., OCT. 20, 1938: "Hills Of IIestin By Agnes Louise Provost SYNOPSIS Lee Hollister returns unexpectedly from abroad to find Matt Blair, his foster father and owner of the Circle V ranch, dead by his own' hand. The ranch is going to ruin, Virginia, Mitt's daughter, returns home from New York to help Lee save her prop- erty. Her uncle, 'Ellison' Archer, has persuaded her to sell the ranch to Milton Bradish, a scheming former partner of Matt's. Milton's son, Stan -1 ley, in love with Virginia, tries tot discredit Lee in Virginia's eyes: But Virginia and Lee became engaged) Then Stanley ,accuses Lee of being Matt's son, and Lee sets out to prove that this statement is untrue. He is caught in the old Bonanza mine in' a slide' planned by the crook Slanty, Gano, who has been intriguing for Lee's downfall, . XXV Life had to be faced. 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Real Estate and Eire In- surance 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. A. E. COOK Piano and Voice Studio—E. C. 'Vickie, Phone 23w. 95 tf. D. IL 111cINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION fsp manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed •Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence' promptly answered Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Minton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE McKILLOP MITTI5AL Fire Insurance Company Read Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea- forth; Vice ?resident, William Knox, Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, Walton; James Connolly,. CGoderich; tiv.. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris, Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, B1yth;:Ft'ank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. Yea, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 60341, Clinton; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. MaKer- chez•, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R, G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paidmay be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cbtt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- lor to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN. QT.IONA ' AItWAY TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and (iodericlr Ilio- 1 Going East, depar ........6.58 a.m. Going East, depar 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, depart ' 10.00 p.m. London, Huron & Brace Going North, ar. 11.25 Ive. 11.47 p.m. Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m; the hall, Mrs. Archer, tearful and stifled a sob. incoherent,, cadre towvai'c her niece In her own way she had loved with outstretched hands. Virginia, And for many years the "Oh my dear, ;I've just heard! Your Circle V purse had been long. own slather! ` And your home! I've Virginia did not appear at dinner, always felt—' but sent her excuses by Ling. Just "Please! I don't want to talk about' before it was served she heard a it," Virginia said tensely. She went small commotion outside, and knew on, leaving Mrs. Archer indignant that . her uncle had arrived. and perturbed, but she had yet to She did not even attempt to sleep pass Stanley. He stood in her path, that night. Moonlight came, bathing urgently pleading. the valley in silver. The silver was "Virginia, let me explain. I only beginning to pale before she flung did it to save you from a terrible herself across the bed, still dressed mistake. You don't understand—"1 wondering if she could ever sleep "I do. I understand more than you again. know and I think you_ are the foul -1 She raised her head at the sound est, most contemptible thing I have of pounding hoof beats. They were even seen, Get out of my way!" distant, but corning. nearer That Without another, word Virginia went was racing. speed... The sound swept on to her father's old office and shut past, swerved toward the bunk house the door behind her. and stopped. The quiet of the little room closed By the time she had reached a side around her like a projecting arm. It door 'and flung it open the sounds was easier to disbelieve that hideous of activity were already coming from accusation in this place, where her the bunk house. There was a man father's presence still lived, genial there on a horse it looked like Brim - and kind, She had lost her first stone—and other men wore tumbling horror: of the spot where he had' out of the door half dressed and been found with his revolver lying gathering around him. Even as she beside him. The room was friendly looked two of them began to run, now. Here were his chair, his read -buckling on belts as they went. There :ng lamp, the shabby old desk where l was- motion in the corral, men were he had worked, and where Lee hal saddling in haste. She herself was burned the Circle V brand, long' ago. running toward them now with leaden How her father had loved Lee—like' weight dragging at her feet. a son. It was Brimstone, glistening with She hurriedly thrust the thought,tho sweat of hard riding, but the aside. There was' only one relief, man just dismounting from him was !rem the turmcil in her mind,' Francisco Ramirez. and that was in work. Her father's Curly came running. He talked rap-' papers, for instance. There was al idly, giving her the blunt truth. "It's closet full of them, and there niight;Lee. Francisca was vire home late bo something about Lee. She car -1 and he saw Briptstone in front of ried armfuls over to the desk. 'the cabin all saddled, but no sign It was slow work. Some of it 1 of Lee. Brimstone whinnied, kinda was poignant; much of it was dull,; lonesome, and Francisco went up and as old bills and papers must be. She found the cabin empty and blood on sighed, sorting them briskly into bet -1 the saddle. He hunted around, but ter order. A pile of old check bookslcouldn't find Lee, nor any trail that caught her eye. She pulled them to -1 the hawse hadn't mixed up, so he ward her, scanning dates with a sud-; come tearin' over here to get the boys den impulse to check up the amounts out." • that he had sent her during the lean' With quick, unhurried movements years when he had been so hard the boys were mounting and swarm - pressed and she, with no knowledge jiing out, tiding toward them for of it, had been enjoying unlimited, Curly's orders. In spite of sickening spending money, as well as every I dread something in Virginia leaped luxury in her uncle's home. She in pride at this swift, sure meeting found the first item and jotted it; of an emergency. She looked at the down on a slip of paper, following dark stain on Brimstone's saddle and the stubs one by one. Presently she shuddered. stopped. ^' "Do you suspect anyone, Curly."? "T. Ellison Archer.., .$5,000." "We're lookin' first for Lawlor and "Adele M. Archer. ...$ 2,500." • Slanty Gano. They both held grudges She reached for her pencil again. • against Lee, and they'd better hunt When it was finished she looked up their alibis right now." wearily clown at a sordid little hist- Bradish and Stanley had hurried ory, check after check made out to out and were at her elbow. Shegeve her aunt and uncle during the years them a swift look and turned back when she had dived in their home. to Curly. With damning accuracy they tallied, "Lee carried with him a half • iwn- with her recollection of various acts ership deed to the=Circle V," she slid of generosity on their part -the corn- clearly. "Search every man you kind." ing out dance that they had given;, Heads turned and nodded approv- for her, the first trip to Europe, the ingly. Stanley had a sickly look in second, the summer at Narragansett, the paling moonlight. The riding men the time. Aunt Adele had taken her streamed down the valley. Virginia to Paten Beach. There were others turned to Stanley. • alio-regular payments, a constant "The ranch ` car is in the repair never -failing stream. Her father must shop. We'll have to take yours. I'm have been paying the entire expanses going to drive it myself." of the Archer household while trouble In a few minutes Virginia had the hounded hint and he went down at grey car out and was slipping into last under the burden of debt. the driver's seat. Curly started to Someone tapped at the door, and protest against her going, but stop - her auntcame M. She was visibly ped as he looked into a stony little worried. There had been much to face. He took the seat beside her. agitate Mrs. Archer' -during the past Bradish, on a restless impulse, got fete hours, in also, followed by Stanley who look- "Virginia dear, I am so distressed ed annoyed and :uneasy 'when he for you. I simply can't keep silent found himself unceremoniously crowd - any longer. Of course you can't stay eat on the rear seat by .Francisco, after this hprrible scandal." swarthy and redolent of sheep. The "Why not? It's my home, and it's car leaped forward, sped down' the Lee's also if he wants to come. I valley ing rolling cloud of dust and ,expect to stay." ' shot into the rough road :which led "But Virginia, you couldn't live to the Rancho Ceballos, here alone — with all these rough Dawn came as they rode, men! And this -,-this Hollister — of, The half ruined buildings came in - course he won't come back if Ise has to view. It seemed very quiet there, a spark of respect for your feelings. tvititout even a curl. of smoke to in - But if he does insist on claiming :dicate a morning fire, nor any sign half of •the property, Mr. Bradish'-of life as they stopped in front of could buy him out and you Could sell a wide gateway in a crumbling wall yours and come back to live with us. and passed through to what had You know our home is open to you, been a courtyard in the days of the darling, just as it always has been." Ceballos splendor. Francisco and For answer Virginia pushed a sheet Curly went ahead, aloft for trouble, of paper toward her. It was closely knocked, with no answer, and went written with figures and dates and in, naives, and it lay in .an. open check book, emptied of everything but the "Not quiteas it always was," she said in a bitter voice. "My father isn't here to pay these any more, without even being given the credit for hie generosity... .011, I know there was noreason 'why you should have paid out such sums for me, and. I shared in the spending, although I didn't know what was happening. But the' cruelest part of it is that I was help- ing—we were all helping to bring him to ruin.; I wish you could have told me the. truth". Her aunt started t o speak, and stopped.' Vrginia seemed 'scarcely to hear her. Shesat with bent head, as if this last discovery had been too much for her. Mrs, Archer swallow -1 ed nervously, hesitated and then went hurriedly, out of the door. Humiliation burned' dully in her cheeks, and she (Continued) POISONOUS TO LIVESTOCK Ergot, bracken, horsetail, darnel, purple cockle, locoweed, .and: water hemlock ase the principal weeds which aro poisonous .to horses in Canada. Ergot, darnel, purple cockle are poisonous also to cattle, sheep, and poultry. Swine seem to be im- mune to ei•got but darnel, purple cockle, and -water hemlock are pois- onous to them. There are many oth- er poison weeds. For example, lark- spur, cursed crowfoot, poison hem- look, water parsnip, laurel, white snakeroot and ragwort are also poisonous to cattle, and ,in addition, death camas, pasque flower and lup- ine have been responsible for the. deaths of sheep in Canada. Some ;Brief Notes WWI the Canada Temperance Act NO. 5 MIR HEP13URN Vs. TIIE ''SUPREI,fli COURT O>!� CANADA Shortly after the beer authorities were granted in Huron, Perth and Peel, a deputation waited on Premier Hepburn in protest. He suggested that they, tame the matter' up with Ottawa and stated' that he "would not put a straw in their way" in doing so. Meanwhile the matter was taken up by the Otrtario Temperance Federation on behalf of these three counties with the Department of Jus- tice, and in February 1935 an Order in Council was issued by'the Domin ion' government submitting to the Supreme Court of Canada the follow- ing questions: . Question 1—Am the provincial laws respecting intoxicating liquor as restrictive sinee the coming. into force of The Liquor Control Act of Ontario, as amended in 1934, as the Canada Temperance Act? Question 2—If the answer to Ques- tion 1 is in the negative, is Part ,11 of the Canada Temperance Act in operation in the said Counties of Perth, Huron and Peel? Question 3—If the answer to Ques- tion 2 is in the negative, what pro- cedure must be adopted to bring the said Part 11 into operation in the said Counties? The governmeint of Ontario, the government of Quebec and the Mod- eration League each appeared by counsel and attacked the status of the .Canada, Temperance Act. Their argument followed . two lines: (1) that the suspension could not be lifted without action of Parliament: and (2) that the Act was invalid, Mr. Rowell appeared for the temper- ance forces. The answer of the Supreme Court of Canada was as follows;- Question 1—Na. Question 2—Yes. The. suspension of the operation of the Canada Temperance Act in these counties had, according to the decision of this, the highest court in the Dominion, been automatically lifted the moment the beer and wine amendments were placed on the sta- tute books. The law was in force when Mf. Hepburn's government viol- ated both it and its own Liquor Con- trol Act by granting authorities for the sale of beer in these counties. The government still persists in viol- ating the law of the land. Subsequent to this decision a large deputation ecpresentative of the 3 counties waited on Mr. Hepburn at Toronto and requested the withdraw- al of the authorities. Mr. Hepburn's reply was somewhat astonishing: It was to the effect that he did not agree with the decision of the Sup- reme Court of Canada, that he would not regard it and that even if the Privy "Council. upheld the Canada Temperance act be would not enforce it, and that in that event he would withdraw the provincial enforcement officers and that there would be no enforcement of liquor laws in these areas -a threat to resort to anarchy unparalled in parliamentary. history and a threat made in the defence of a liquor -selling ryyolicy instituted against the expressed will Of the people. HOW THE CHINESE BUY CANNED FRUITS Canadian canned fruits and .veg- etables aro well liked in Hong Kong and Canadianexporters are .awnrc- that an important feature of the Hong Kong and- South China market is the value placed on an attractive brand or trade mark, or as the Chin- ese .call hinese-call it "chop". In making sales • to the Chinese population, the "chop" is of the greatest value because a considerable proportion of ,the buying population cannot read English. They associate a particular requirement with a certain size, shape or colour of the container.:. An original pur- chase • of a canned product will be made chiefly an the basis of price, but if the produot proves satisfactory the buyer will examine the label care- fully. and in future purchaseswill al- ways insist on the can with the satin chop or label. Tire types of label used by Canadian packers, states the Canadian Trade Commissioner at Hong Kong, are satisfactory for the South China market, MILK LAW ATTACKED Farm women who regularly attend the Chatham market Saturday sign- ed a petition to the Ontario govern- ment protesting against the new law which same into effect October 1, prohibiting the stile of unpasteurized. milk and cream. ' For some weeks they have - been indignaut over the new law, which,; they say, will materially affect their income through the loss of the right to sell raw cream on the Chatham market. They blame the law on the 'organ- ized dairy distributors," and say it to be unfair in view of the fact. their products are from accredited and T'. B, -tested herds. It"s just like sumfler at home, claday There's dependable w aapt bi° to ance lin ' }f Ramco Coke. Easily for the rp lenity of reserve heat coldestchanges—p snap. Dustless, smokeless f4 a minimum ash. 'today's best fuel bargain—call your local dealer. yourdealer about. Ask .the new HAMCO Automatic DRAFT •CONTROL and HAMCO HOT WATER' HEATER Two great money savin4 �onvenien�es. HAMCO COKE SOLD IN CLINTON VICTOR FALCONER HAMILTON COKE BYPRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED HAMILTON, CANADA T. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. W. J. MILLER COAL CO. (ALSO BRUCEFIELD) A. D. McCARTNEY etc it nit rrN+ti';' ;N eeeeeee :"a■a'iu"e e :": o :.•.': a Bae,, :.","."o :: u , m : "',; .,e,, °".".°.*.` children. But is it not true that all ■ of us, both the rich and poor, are YOUR WORLD a N D MINE INC reaping every year, and have reaped f for generations, the harvests of what °■ (Copyright) �■ has been spent to make and keep e us literate? When we complain about by JOHN C. KIRKWOODs; the high cost of education and about the high cost of advertising, we for- " s",rpr" • i "*"°°■'i°r■A e"isi,°ac°d"r"'s°.■.'L"hii""■°"r'r"e get that it is the law of life that On Thanksgiving Day I attended up with the Joneses. we must suffer pain and discomfort a country fair. As everybody knows, Look at our newspapers and see fpr our prized possessions. We sim- this year's Thanksgiving Day was the great quantity of advertisements ply cannot have fine roads find fine absolute perfection. One needed no in them—in them and in our maga- public buildings and fine parks, and overcoat—or even hat. What im- tines. These advertisements, in their fine homes and fine clothing and fine Dressed me, as I wandered about abundance, are eiresenting to us food and fine tines without paying among the crowd, was the very large pictures of ease and comfort, pictures for them in the form of labour, number of good -looping and well- of how to make ourselves more soc- Many of us are the beneficiaries of dressed young people andmiddle- ially acceptable, of how to enjoy life., the labour of others, and all of us aged people. I tried to imagine my -.We are being urged to dress better, should. be ready to labour in order self being a visitor 'from another: to eat more varieties of food, to fur - country suddenly put down ori the wish our hones luxuriously, to spend fair grounds. If this visitor had our winters in California or Florida, perceptiveness, he would have been to go cruising round the world, to impressed by what impressed site,' educate ourselves and our children and he would have rejoiced over the at universities and private schools, to transparent happiness in young peo-:buy motor ears and radio sets, to ple's faces and over the many evid- insure our lives, to reduce the num- ences of comfortable circumstances. her of our working years in order to Tt was said that there were quite have a leisureful old age. Imagine 10,000 persons at this fair, and I von- the sacra kind of advertising, and tare the assertion that most of those -the same quantity of advertising, ap- present arrived at the fair in motor peering in the newspapers in Ger- that others about tis and those who come after us shall have such riches as we ourselves possess. It is true that often we pay quite too much for the things which we enjoy. It is true that many of us demand things—and acquire thorn -- before we are ready to pay for thein.. Yet as against what we pay in ex- cess of what we should pay, or pos- sess in advance of our ability to pay, is to be set the abundance of things which are ours free. ears. Hundreds upon hundreds of many and of the Balkans countries, Every day of my life I am grate - cars were parked in the fair grounds. of Japan and China, and of Russia, I ful for what I have or may have 1 fat little or no felt cost. I get my We who live in Canada are readingWhy is it that all English -speak -'newspaper, with its wealth of news, ill these current days much about tug countries sire so wonderfully bles-'gathered at at an incalculable cost Europe and •Asia --about wars and sari in respect of personal liberty, of of money, and sweat, and peril, and rumours of war, and about the op- the amenities of life, of food and even death, for n paltry suns, I may clothing and shelter. Why is it that have four books at a time from the pressed peoples of many countries. • our autumn fairs are thronged by, public library. I can get food— ( Phet is to say, the connnon people thousands of contented -looking and good food—at a very low cost, I are larder. the oppression of law to a ppi t finestlivingsingers prosperous-lookingmon and women. can 1 sten to he i e a g thisdegree that we know nothing of m and young people? One answer to and musicians via radia at a aeg- this country, In Japan the dwellers this question is, English-speaking ligible annual cost. Fine parks are of that country are denied by law people are a literate people. For gen- never Inc from me. Fine lecturers many of the things which we have Ih citations the law has required child- can be heard by me without cost unstinted abundance, In Japan the ren to go to school and to remain other than the effort required to go Iain is compelling many artisans to at school until age 14, or 15 or 13, to the halls where they speak, I change their occupations. Many kinds you'll' not find many people itt Eng- can get the entertainment provided of production lot are either forbidden or lish-speaking countries unable to read by the movies for a very small price. restricted, Taxation has been made and tvtite.1 Iii, no other countries I can travel over very smooth ]tigh- heavier to pay for the war. I of the world will you find so many ways, which stretch across the con - people are regimentedIn Germany and Italy the commonin distasteful ) newspapers, magazines, trade news- tinerut. Daily life is oared for ice . „ i,apers, books, public libraries, public at every turn. ways. They have not the abuiidanee • and high schools and universities. i I am glad I live in Canada. of food and clothing and comforts In countries where all can read incl 1 which we possess. In many European) write, -there develops an appetite for I countries women work in the fields,reading matter in its various forms.{ „ and cows and oxen diary the plows `llritcie everybody is abletoread the. CREATOR OF POPEYE" DIES.i• and carts. In Russia and in Germany y Y people are acquiring new ideas, and + • l -and perhaps in some. other Einem- I E. C. Seger, the house painter who these new ideas when they enter the became a cartoonist by can countries—freedom of expression mind become as yeast: they ferment taking a $20 is not permitted. The death penalty the mind; • they enlarge the mind; trail order course left in deafly a may follow one's indiscreet .ro lark, they make the mind inquisitive. When $1,000,000, legacy of conic characters Secret police are .ieverywliere,l - Ibbto amuse the world. the common people of the peasant some European countries freedom of states of Europe, of Cluiaa and Jan - „1 The creator of Thimble Theatre" Warship 18 net permitted, and some an, of South America, of Spain and •a quaint comic strip printed daily r'eligfons faiths aro not tolerated. Egypt, of India become literate they by more than 500 newspapers, and Many Jews, Protestants and Cath, too will demand newspapers and "Popeye the Sailor," a movie oar- olics are being exiled,and are not toon with fans around the globe, books, and these newspapers and permitted to take moiety and post books will eventually lead 'them to died at his home at Santa Monica, cretins with them, In the Sudeten California, Thursday night. He was want and have what we,have'in such 'area of C-ccltoslovakia is going on a: ebainclance. And when literacy :cones, 44' transfer of populations—families are: tvit i h tt , n I Since last January, his condition h its a get for larger 1, owvledge, being eompelied t0 leave the land of, -had been so serious that he did Iittle and with its power to rause wants their fathers. I, actual drawing; Others eartried On in the common: people,` industry will It does us good to contrast our . , .the whimsical adventures of Popeye, begin to present pictures of higher happy lot with the lot of those in living standards and of the ways by spinach eater de luxe; I. Wellingtons many countries of Europe and Asia, which: daily life can be made richer-Wunpy, hamburger chef, and the Oyl and of ,South America: We have all, family—Olive, Castor and Anna. and fuller' of the find things of life. about us conditions favorable to our; l YKing Features announced in New.' personal peace, comfort, .well-being; 1York that "Thimble Theatre" would and prosperity. The complaints of We are seeing in our newspapersbe continued as a daily stripy just most of us have not to do with food quite often articles and reports of ad -'as "The Gumps" lived on after the or clothing or shelter or personal dresses which say that we spend fax death of Sidney .Snaith, the cartoons liberty, but with our inability to keep too much on the education of our family's creator. in 1935, -