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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-11-23, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD 'mugs., NOV. 23, 1939 apiure `l3e�yan bykA1H�Rm€ !nun BURT a TWELFTH INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS SynoPsle Jocelyn Harlowe, raised in a French 'convent,: at the , age of eighteen joins Icer mother, Marcella, in New York. 'Worried about her - safety, because :sloe is unfamiliar with the modern world and has'' developed into a !beautiful woman, her''mother's first -wish is to get her safely married. .Attending her first ball, Jocelyn' ,meets Felix Kent, rich, handsome and nineteen years older than herself. En- •couraged by her mother, she and ,Felix quickly become engaged. Alone lin her apartment one night, a cripple, Nick Sandal, enters' 'by the fire- eseape, confides in her that he' is her father and that her real name is Lynda Sandal. Visiting her father In kis apartment, Jocelyn meets Jock .Ayleward, a gambler. When• she men- tions the name of Felix Kent, he ,tells leis story of'how he was a mining en- gineer, worked for Kent, and Was sent to 'jail for making what was ;adjudged a false affidavit. One night ,Jocelyn goes to a party with her The Clinton News -Record with which is incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. m 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. saription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES - Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c. for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", 'Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once foe 05e, each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for: display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - Proprietor II. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer financial, Real Estate and Fire In- ,auranee Agent. Representing 14 Fire !Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton !Frank Fingland, S.A., LL.B. iglarrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Glean -'Block - Clinton, Ont. ;l D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, elassage *free: ITuron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) !lours -Wed.. and Sat, and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION 'et manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT 'Licensed A uctioneer for the' County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered Immediate arrangements can be made 'for Sales Date at The News -Record, :Clinton., or by calling phone `203. of?harges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. safe, Jocelyn 'turned from the window and watched him,/ kith' aR quickened action of her heart, He touched and twirled the knob quickly and deftly. She tried with all her eyes to watch and to memorize the rapid move- ments. Impossible of course. Felix heard her little sharp intake of, breath as the thick door swung open, and looked up at her, smiling. "Did that miracle startle you, dar- ling?" he asked. • has a stroke from excitement. Let,- "I will' take steps to discover the Tnside in metal boxes, each in its or Jocelyn asks Felix about Jock' and. thief, Jocelyn, very. quiet and private..compartmy and. 'all marked and he tells her that he's "no good." Jock, steps. There are reasons which you labelled, ley his secrets, the fates of meanwhile, has made up things with can't know.::", she did know, too mines and men. She went ov•er and Nick and tells Nick that he doesn't many reasons ... "why I must move stood close nt y shut s e. "No you don't, Pandora! There are a million troubles in that box and not a' hope among them." He sat at his desk and busied him- self with papers for a moment. Pres- ently he 'dismissed Miss Deal, looked at Jocelyn and smiled. "Now there, let's go," he said. "Where will you lunch with me?" "Some quiet place, Felix." On their way, in the back seat of the limousine, Jocelyn spoke quick- ly: "I want to matry you sooner, Felix. How soon can we arrange it?" He sat straight, visibly excited. "Dearest my darling this goes through me like lightning. How soon? Today!" "No. No. But sensibly. Will Mo- ther agree?" "Will •she agree? Dearest, why have you changed? I love you!" that she will search Bents safe for "Mr. Kent's office, yes . Yes, "It isn't that I've changed, it's d d Harlowe Na he's just that I've suddenly grown up. to Felix. He rose meta love Jocelyn, very carefully. I will engage the 1 and theof Jocelyn Harlowe, raised in a French eonvent, at the' age of eighteeiu' joins her mother, Marcella, in New York. Worried about her safety, because she is unfamiliar with the modern world and has developed into a beautiful woman, her mother's first wash is to get her safely married. Attending her first ball, Jocelyn . meets Felix Kent, rich, handsome and nineteen. years older than herself. Encouraged by .her mother, she and Felix quickly become engaged. Alone in her apartment one night, a cripple, Nick Sandal, enters Iby the fire -escape, confides in her that he is her father and that her real name is Lynda Sandal. Visiting ,her father in his apartment, Jocelyn meets jock Ayleward, a' gambler . ` IIE McKILLOP MUTT5AL Fire Insurance Company Viead- Office, Seafortb, Ont. Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea - !forth; Vice President, William Knox, .Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth... Directors, Alex. 03roadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, B1-'th; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of. Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, . Phone ` 603r31, Clinton; .flames Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Mrucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer- eher, Dublin, R. R. No.' 1; Chas. F. 'Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, ornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to he paid may be paid to the 'loyal Bank, Clinton; Bank of •Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin ,Cett's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will 'be promptly attended to on applies• don to any ,of the above officers. ad- elfessed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. I ,� -- ---- - TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: R,+ffalo and Goderich ni< Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East, depart e.0e p.m I Going West, depart 11.45 am. Going West, depart 9.50 p,m. London, }1,,rne R, Bruce r Going North, ar 11.21, lye. 11.47 a.m. Going South ar. 2.50, leave 8.08 p.m, services of a private detective. Mean- while I entreat you, I command ' you - to say nota word, not so much as a breath about the jewels and my loss of them." "I proniise you, Mother. On my honor." Was that what honor meant -was she learning it now too late- en undivided loyalty? "Not a word to any one, not even to Felix Kent." Felix Kent; the name flourished in her ears with the sound of salvation. He rode life proudly with quirt and spur, knight errant. A warm current of reassurance flooded her chilled When she mentions the name Felix heart. Kent, he tells his story of how he was a mining engineer, worked under Kent, and was sent to jail for making what was adjudged a false affidavit. She would marry Felix Kent. At once. Felix Kent had already left his Jocelyn refuses to believe him, but, Park Avenue apartment. She rang after seem more of Jock and after � , he has kissed her passionately during with a brisk authoritative clicking: a mornert the had alone, she sa g his office. Miss Deals voice came papers on the case andwon'tmarry indeed, Miss a we I've graduated from the eonvent" him if she finds what Jock says • a true. When asleep one night, Joce- lyn's mother wakes her and says that her jewels have been stolen,. "My jewels,". Marcella faltered close to Jocelyn's ear. "They're not where they should be. You've taken them?" "I- don't know anything about them, Mother." But she was remembering her father's silent visit -the visit she had called fruitless -and the foot- marks that came and went across her floor. Marcella kept on urgently plead- ing: "You stood there staring on me. You looked like a sleepwalker but I'm sure you saw the jewels. I was so startled that I left the key there in the lock, behind the cloth on the wall. Of course after I' had gone to bed and the place was still, you went back. I am sure you took them, for- got to return them." "I didn't take them." "Please, Jocelyn, my darling. I wont be angry. Its natural to love jewels. They are so wonderfully beautiful, they seem to be alive. I will forgive you. Don't be afraid of me. Jewels are brave things; they are full of fire. .Only tell me . for God's sake!" "Mother, I didn't take them. Truly.". Marcella released her, dropped down at the foot of the bed and rock- ed herself to and fro, holding her dark disheveled head in both her hands. "Some one has taken them. I must think." She sprang up. "We'll lock. We'll find them. We'll look every- where. Don't say a word. No one must know but you and me. You see horn I trust you? Get up quietly and help me look. We'll find them. We must find them." They both looked into impossible places. They both stood and' tried to imagine traps and corners and dark spots where they might look with hope. At breakfast time quite suddenly Marcella regained composure. Her face locked in its passion. Austere, pale, in her accustomed dress with the silver cross again upon her bosom' she rearranged the apartment and bade Jocelyn go into the dining -room, "I can't eat, Mother. I feel sick." "You must eat. We must not let Mary guess that anything is wrong. No one must know. This is more im- portant that you can possibly imag- ine.. You see, I am ads siting you in- to my confidence. If I can't trust you, myy own daughter " Jocelyn' eyes fell. She crept in and took her usual place at the daintily appointed'breakfast table. Mary, dull and.methodical like some clumsy but well-oiled machine, waited upon her. Jocelyn loved Niek. Even now she loved him; this knowing climber -in at bedroom windows, . this beaten man whose friends 'had hard faresand quick 'eyes .. .Here pain took her heart in both its hands and squeezed it. She had herself admitted these' mem into her mother's house with her own hands. "If I cannot trust my own daughter . . . Thoughts came to Jocelyn like this, in sharp stitches through her. mind. She could not swallow her breakfast. Flinging herself away from the breakfast table, she latnaied to her bathrooan and washed and washed her. hands. She knew the truth now. This was what her daring, her brave adventur- ing had brought her. The truth. The face of her fear, uglier than fear itself. Now • she knew what name het father and Jock Ayleward carried on the shrewd implacable tongue of the law. She knew the. secret of their quick wealth, their sudden poverty. Of their hidden and sordid homer that changed and changed. Marcella came to her door and stood cold and grave on its threshold. She was entirely her old self now.. not here . .. He will be back "God bless you! You're the love- Yes, Miss Harlowe, he said positively liest graduate I ever saw. I'm going that he would be back about noon.... to kiss you ... now.", Why, yes, Miss Harlowe, of course "Not here, Felix, please. People you may come here and wait for en the street-" him." • The diainond air of the city spar- kled when she came out into it. The atmosphere of. Kent's office when she reached it, braced her mood. Miss Deal was briskly cordial: "You haven't been to see us at all, have you, Miss Harlowe? After that first visit we rather hoped, you know, thatyou might.make a habit of drop -I ping in upon us. You were. just like a child at a party, your eyes so; I "Very well. I'll wait. But after lunch I11 carry you off soinewhere and show you ..: ' j "No, Felix, please. Let this be , enough, won't you?" He restrained his rapture instant- ly. But his face was scarlet and his eyes shone. "Just as you say. When will it be?" "Next week, Felix? If Mother can manage it? That's not too soon?" He smothered her the people om bright! Mr. Kent and I found it --,the sidewalk notwithstanding - arra refreshing. Your enthusiasm,I mean to let: her go. say. n I "My beautiful, dear wife," said Jocelyn had flushed under this Felix, "you are mine." eulogy. "I think you must have had "Yes," answered Jocelyn trying to a good laugh at my visit. But laugh look at him. "Yes, I am . . , truly all'you like, I intend when I am mar -I. .. yours." ried • to understand all this business- "There are men who steal things," abracadabra of yours." i she thought, "and men who acquire "I see you're still curious about our them. I have been acquired." safe." Jocelyn had been staring at the! 'In the vestibule of Marcella's shining gray box in the corner. "Has apartment there hung ,a round mir- Mr. Kent given you the combination'ror, As Jocelyn came in from her yet?" !long afternoon witlf a triumphant "I haven't asked him to." Jocelyn's lover she was startled by the image eyes moved from the safe and sought; of her face. It looked Like the sweet Miss Deal's ruddy and inexpressive' composed face of a young nun, All face. This woman must know many the rich trouble of her own youth of Felix's secrets. had left it. "After all," she heard her own soft Through the glass doors which voice murmuring carelessly, "I don't opened from the vestibule to the believe its contents are es impressive large living -rooms she became aware as its outside. There's a good deal of of the murmur of a masculine hocus porus, of bluff, isn't there,'voico. Her mother had a visitor. about these captains of finance, the! A small thin man with horn -rim - big business men?" I mad spectacles, his hair very closely 1. "Not about our big business man., cut, was leaning forward from the Mr. Kent's the genuine article. I sofa toward Marcella who, rigid and guess there are men living in all white, looked an apparition in her parts of the world that would give, carved high-backed chair. The man the eyes out of their heads to sec, the was in the middle of a long speech. contents' of that safe, Miss Harlowe. His voice lifted itself fer an instant . Alt!" Her face glittered, teeth into her hearing: "It can hardly be and glasses. "There he is now. I a mistake, I think, Mrs. Harlowe, she hear him speaking to young Arthur." has been seen twice by two different Kent was speaking to young Arthur people." in a low hard. time and Arthur's awn "Going in by the alley entrance?" young voice lit`ted in reply piped such "Once, ma'am, yes. And once a tune of abject cringing contrition again just leaving a taxi at the that Jocelyn's blood came to her face corner of this block: a conspicuous - in sympathy. lookin' young woman with a big "What do you suppose Arthur has bush of hair under a tam and a full done?" she whispered, "He forgot the scrapbasket." Jocelyn threw back her head and laughed. • Felix became aware of herpies- enee in the inner office, cut short his tongue-lashing' and hurried to greet her. "Jocelyn, darling, you here?" "Yes. I tried to get you ,on the telephone at your apartment and then here. Miss Deal said you'd be in. 'I want to lunch with you." "Splendid." "Just a moment, darling. I've two letters to dictate; and a couple of papers to sign." "Contracts, Felix?" He did not answer. A. little hard line' shot up between his eyes. So, like all the people she loved, he did not 'like to be questioned, this. king *1 finance, this great business man. Jocelyn withdrew to a chair neer the pleated skirt with a tight jacket." (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) ARMY BLANKETS FROM ROYAL LOOMS War Work of Coronation Carpet Makers The Scottish firm which made the magnificent seamless gold carpet front the choir stalls, past Throne, and right up to the Altar Westminster Abbey for the has adapted part of its plant the production of regulation Army blankets. This firm, which' also made the pots for Government House, Can- berra, is only one of several Scottish companies of world-wide reputation se adaptability and, enterprise are sting industry's war effort by back window and waited until he turning over from the production of gap idly world'sp blankets should be through. She'looked the finest carpets to from her window. A fire ese e..,, for the Forces. her blood went chilly. again 'along her Deliveries are small' at present, but- arms. ut arms. the manufacturers have indicated to Three stories below lay a neat court the War Office that they are prepar- which opened through an archway ,in ed quickly to undertake a very large the next building upon a street, no output, altering their looms to' weave thoroughfare, where vans and trucks blankets and installing the necessary were parked. It was an easier fire additional machinery. escape to climb than the one Niek • "Some of the looms which have had used to enter her own small bed -woven Empire wool to make' carpets room Window: or historic occasions all over the "Hoping that you will see matters world will now play their part in in this. light and atloid any such re- protecting our fighting men. 'and gretable development as will-inevit- wounded from the cold," said a rep - ably suggest itself to you upon per- resentative of the' industry. "But it sisal of this letter, should you persist is well to remember that Scotland in your own interpretation of this in- will still be able to maintain produc- cident, I remain, etc ... That ends it, tion of her pre-eminent carpets to doesn't it, Miss Becky?" honour her orders from Australia, "Well,. sir, there"s that Brent mat New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, ter," and the many other' territories in the, "Oh, yes. Wait a moment." • British Commonwealth which are con, Felix rose and walked aver to the start customers," ma reaching the in Cor- onation, for car be cow who asst 11: o tkS11P1arr Let the small children hear "Just! Mary", OBC's quarterhour of originat story -belling, on Sunday at 12.00 noon .. the older children will find lively 1 entertainment in listening to -"The Children's Scrape Book", the new var- iety prograneine designed specially to intertest Canadian youngsters of school age. It is presented every Saturday on the National Network, 12.30 to 1.00 pm. On Friday, December: lst, 9,00 to 10.00 p.m. EST, the Special Events Department of the Canadian Broad- casting -Corporation will illustrate to listeners of the National Network the details of the impressive organization behind the all-important task now be- ing handled quietly and efficiently by the Royal Canadian Navy. Ship -to -shore transmitters will give the listener a picture of how the. Navy works; From the bridge of a destroy- er an patrol, with R.C.A.F. planes droning overhead; from the little pa- trol boats that go out to examine ships being piloted into port; from mine -sweepers,' and from ships carry- ing torpedoes and depth charges in ceaseless conflict against U-boats, comes this vivid portrayal of Can- ada's own "Hearts of Oak". No usual wedding anniversary was that of the Farm Broadcast's Thomas and Martha Craig last week. Before the lovable Scotsman, Thomas, and his, wife went on the air to celebrate their "Twenty-ninth anniversary", two sprigs of heather arrived in the mail for them. "We're Scottish too", wrote the donors who live at Beach- vilie, Ontario. "The Craigs" is a daily feature over GBL at 12.30 pen. EST. Expressions of appreciator in Eng- lish, French, Spanish and other European tongues, are frequently re- ceived by the CBC. But telegraph messages front Indian chiefs are a !rare honour. So it is understandable 'that a Sudbury telegraph operator thought he was the victim of a prac- tical joke after OBQ's recent "Deer Hunting" broadcast, when he received a series of mysterious texts signed by important representativles of the Micmac, Blackfeet and Stoney tribes. In fact, it took a long-distance tele- phone conversation with another op- erator to straighten the matter out. The messages were courteous expres- sions of appreciation about the broad- cast in which two Indian guides al- most "stole the show." In war time as in peace time, youth faces the problem of adjusting itself to a world that is preoccupied with its own worries -and just now it has plenty of them. What modern Can- adian youth, the boys and girls hi their last years at high school, or who have just left high school, think about it all will be the subject of a series of discussions that will be featured by the Canadian; Broadcast- ing Corporation, starting Saturday, December' 2, 5.45-6.00 p.m. EST. If there's one thing that interests, everyone, it's health. Leading Can- adian physicians will discuss • a• variety of health problems, in an importaai2 series of talks on "Educational Health", Dr, T, C, Routley, general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association, will giele the second in the series, on: Wednesday, November 29, at 7.45 p.m., over the National Network of the CBO. After visiting every Province in the Dominion, jut to get fresh first-hand impressions • of our vast country, Ar- thur Phelps has prepared a series orf unusually interesting talks for "This Canada" series Which will start on Wednesday, November 29, 9.00 to 9.15 p.m. from CBL. "YOUR HOME STATION" CKNX 1200 kcs. WINGHAM 250 Metres WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY, NOV. 24th: 8.30 a.m. Breakfast Club 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 paw. The Ambassadors SATURDAY, NOV. 25th: 12.45 pm. CKNX Hill -Billies 7.00 pm. Wes • McKnight 7.45 p.m. Barn Dance SUNDAY, NOV. 26th: 12.45 p.m. Wayne King Oreh, 1.00 p.m. Guy Lombardo Orch,. 6.15 p.m. Freddie Martin 7.00 p.m. St: Andrew's Church MONDAY, NOV. 27th: 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Bays 1.00 p.m. Gene Autry 7.00 Harry Breuer Oreh. TUESDAY, NOV. 28th: 11.30 a.m. "Peter MacGregor" 6.45 p.m. Sunset Skyriders 7.00 p.m. Novatones• '1.0011•311" s WEDNESDAY'S AT WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29th: 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Batesum" 12.46 p.m. The Bell Boys 6.10 p.m. Farmer's News 7.00 pen. Landt Trio THURSDAY, NOV. 30th: 11.46 a,an. Lawrence Welk Orth. 5,30 pen, Kiddies' Carnival 7.00 p.m. The Norsemen 8.30 Grenadier Guards Band DISCHARGE PAPER FRENCH ARMY 1842 IS PRIZED DOCUMENT • Looking through' some old papers the other day, John Lehman, Mit- chell's wpnderful old man, found a paper of unusual interest, the dis- charge paper, or as it appears in Emrich, "Certificat de Bowie Con- duite" from the Reglement de Ilus- sard's given to his father, the late Christian Lehman in 1842 at Gon- tainbleau, after he had served the customary' seven years from the age of 20 to 27 in the French army. It was issued nearly one hundred years ago, in. the French language and sign- ed by several officers of the French Army. It is little wonder that Jahn Lehman prizes this document. It is remarkably pr eserved having been pasted to a firm piece of wallpaper and the writings in ink are clearly discernible and of beautiful handi- work. It also bears several official seals. Christian Lehman had to re - man for an extra year after his fath- er, Jacob Lehman, and his family came to this country, because his term of service had not expired and then lie and his wife left the town- ship of Sais in the province of Alsace to join then here. Jacob Lehinan settled at Seebach's Hill, and it is on their property that the fine St. John's Lutheran Church, Seebach's Hill, now stands. His son, Christian; took the farm just to the north of that prop- erty, both in Ellice township. There Mitchells' John Lehman was born. We Have Just Received Lovely Samples of Personal Chioistrnas Cards MODERATE IN PRICE BEAUTIFUL IN DESIGN he GIilltoll Newsieourd r