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The Clinton News Record, 1936-04-02, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD'.: THURS., APRIL 2 1936 ' 'Te Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated'. THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION tl1.50 per year in advance, to Cana dian addresses, .$2.00 to the U.S. or ether foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option' of the publish- er. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label, ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- eient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c' for, each sub-, Sequent insertion:;' Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 35c, • each . subsequent insertion •15c. Rates for display 'advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good =faith, be accomnpanied by the name of the writer, G. E. HALL, M, E.. CLARK, Proprietor. • Editor. IL T. RANCE 'Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial. Real Estate and Fire In- •earanee Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. 'Division Court Office,` Clinton lFrarik Fingland, B.A., LL.B, Barrister; Solicitor, Notary Tubiac Successor to, W. Brydone R.C. Glean Block- Clinton, Ont. D. II. McINNE'S CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage 'Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank)' Hours -=Wed. and Sat. and by appointment, FOOT CORRECTION +6y manipulation Sun -Ray; Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE Mc,$ILLOF MUTUAL sFire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep - tier, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; James .Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, Zondesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub- lin; John . E. Pepper, B1'ucefield; .James Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth• W. R. Archibald, :Seaforth; Alex, hIcEwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R, F. McI{ercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; e, R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin ,'Outt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will' be promptly attended to on applica- ' ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ees. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. ANADIAMI NATIONALRAJLWAYS TIME TABLE ,Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart' 2.08 a.m. 'Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart 10.0ff p.m. London, Huron & Bruce 'tiding North, ar. 11.34. lve. 11.54 a.m. Going South 3.08 p.m. PROLOGUE TO LOVE By Marth Ostens° SYNOPSIS Autumn Dean's destiny was sealed. in a moment of moon -lit magic, ',poking into Bruce Landoes level eyes, she knew . that she loved him. But love between these two was, i43 seemed, a forbidden thing -a heri- tage from her mother, Millfcent O- dell . . forever loved, forever lost; The setting of .this splendid story is the Kamloops Valley of British Columbia, midway between the vast arches of the Rockies and the color- ful Cascades. To this region of great sheep ranches, Autumn Dean returns from her schooling. among the Continental smart set, to find herself inescapably faced(with a fate- fur secret and a conquering love: After she and Bruce Landor IMAI de- clared their love to each other she learns that her father felt that he was the murderer of Bruce Landor's father, though his death is supposed to have been suicide. He was shot. by his own revolver when struck by Jarvis Dean in a quarrel over Dean's wife, who was loved by and who lov- ed Lander,; This knowledge casts a gloom over Autumn's ' horizon + and for the time,. at least; renders her desperate: She allows herself to be led by a wild crowd into wild par- ties and dirang esrapades for which she has no relish. Bruce Lauder de- fends her honourwhenher name comes up in a , drinking house and incurs the enmityof a rancher. GODERICH: Robert Douglas, 90, a former resident of Goderich, Who died at the Huron County Home at -Clinton, on Sunday, . was buried In Maitland Cemetery Tuesday after- noon. A funeral service was conduct- ed by Rev, D. J. Lane, at Brophey's Funeral Chapel. Mr. Douglas, while in. Goderich, was employed at the Chemical Salt Works, now the Gode- rich Salt Co. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Hannah, in the kitchen of the Cas- tle, lifted her • tear -drenched face from her hands. "You will have to go and fetch her, Bruce," she sobbed. "She is stopping the night with the Parrs at their lodge. You know the; place?" Bruce looked down at her. "Yes— I know where it is," he replied. "Will you go, then?" His lips tightened, "I'll go," he said, In a few moments he was on his, way, the dusk thickening about him' as he sped along the winding trail that led southward into the moun- tains. Two hours later he climbed up out of the troublous dark heat of the valley into the sheer, cool star- light of the lulls, Now the road be- came narrow and capricious, and the black spires of the dense pines made a cathedral ominousness against the sky. How like Autumn, Bruce thought with frowning admiration, to have driven over this road alone! One false swerve of the wheel and she would have been at the mercy of the solitary wilderness until some one found her and brought her out. He strove to keep his mind on the dev- iousness of the way so that he might be possessed of a measure of com- posure for the difficult task that lay before him, He was glad, with a self-effacing bleakness, that h e r friends were with herr Linda Parr and Florian. They would be,able to offer her comfort; as he himself was not qualified to do. • but he never got out of it himself.' Florian ran his hand across the brow, speechless from shock. Bruce saw him glance abstractedly toward the house, "My God!" he groaned at last. "This will just about !rill Autumn!". "You'd better go in and fetch Lin," Bruce said tersely. "She'll, be the best One to break the news to her." I3,ut• Florian was regarding ]rim` in blank conservation. Bruce, puzzled, began to feel an impatience at' his singular attitude' "There's no sense ' in delaying it, Florian," he said harshly, "She has to be told. And Lin is the one to talk to her." As he spoke he glanceditoward the house. It came to him that ,there was something strange about' the place. It seemed deserted, somehow, and al- though the windows were open no voices came out to, them from within. "Lin isn't here," Florian said heav- ily, "Autumn and I are alone." Bruce stared at Florian through the gloom' with eyes that seemed to go dim and lifeless with the :dull flush that had suffused his whole be- ing after that first sharp stab of in- credulity. "Oh!" he said then, in a voice that had died before the sound issued, "Oh -I see!" Florian's face, was turned toward him in the darkness, For a moment. he did not reply. "You don't see at all, youdamn fool!" he broke forth at last. "Lin couldn'tget here. We wore just getting ready to leave when we heard your car coming up the hill. If you think—" "Shut up!" Bruce rasped. "You don't have to apologize to me. Go In and tell her.. She's needed at home— to-night. I'll drive ahead. I don't think I can be of any more use." With his fists doubled upso that his nails were like blades in' his palms. Bruce tore himself away. He had experienced for the first time in his life the exhilarating and horrible impulse to kill. Blindly he 'stagger- ed to his car, swung it through the gate so that it lurched crazily to- ward the brink of the trail before he righted it, then paused to await the sounds that told him that Florian and Autumn had started from the lodge. All the way back clown into the valley, with the shameless and heart- breaking sound of that other car fol- lowing behind him, lis seemed to Bruce that the stars rocketed through a delirious sky, and that the night with its burden of madness would descend and annihilate him . The Pereheron horses at the Do- minion Experimental Station at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, P.Q., besides being used for breeding purposes, have been employed in experimental Work, especially to establish the cost of horse labour and the feed cost for raising colts. The principal canned fruit product exported from Canada to the British Isles consists of pears. In 1935 236,- 000 cases of canned pears were ex- ported to Britain, an increase of 15,- 000 cases on the 1934 expo'"rts. (READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD -IT WILL PAY YOU— He had telephoned to Hector Car- digan from the Dean place. It had seemed proper that Hector should be the first to be informed of the trag- edy—and, if possible, to break the news to Autumn. Bruce would have given much to have had the old friend of the family with him on this sormy mission, but Hector hadnot been at home and Hannah had urged that the tragic newsshould be car- ried to Autumn without delay. The road began to steepen treach- erously as Bruce approached the com- paratively open shelf on the moun- tain where the Parr Lodge stood. Prom some where in the shrouded darkness far above him came' the sinister, feral wail of . a cougar, h trailing sound of wounded malevol- ence. Closer at hand an owl hooted as though in mockery of that other more menacing cry of the wild, A gleam of light through`the dark weft of the pines, , and Bruce was driving in at the open gateway to the lodge. He turned his car about, de- ferring for a painful moment the duty that was before him, and for- mulating olululating in his mind, with all the gentleness he could muster, the dol- orous words that he must speak. As he got down from his . car he could hear a door opening in the lodge be- hitld him. A moment later he was face to face with Florian Parr. Even in that instant, when his own distress of mind . was uppermost, Bra ce detected embarrassment In Florian's manner. • "Hello, Florian," he said as he ex- tended his hand. ,. Florian took the proffered `hand in a brief clasp, then seemed to draw back hesitantly. "Bruce!" he ex- c!aimeciofti "You're he'last per- son I expected to see here to -night." Bruce glanced toward the house. "I've come with some pretty bad news, Florian," he said in a low tone. "Autumn's father was killed ..this ev- ening." • Flofian fell back' a step. "Killed 0 Good God!' HoW?" "He was over visiting • the flock young Shane 'brought out to be sold. the boy says ah eagle 'frightened the sheep and 'they g.dt', to- milling. Shane `tried "to' bleak lip' 'the jasn and they trot into a ditch on top of him. Jar- vis jumped in and saved the boy.- CHAPTER XXIII Strange, Autumn thought with the objective detachment that emo- tional exhaustion brings, how this gold ; and white drawing room that had been Millicent's preserved its aloof and reticent singularity, imper- vious to gny unwonted experience of the other quarters of the house. She sat huddled listlessly in a deep chair, part of her consciousness attending Hannah, who was bidding a smoth- ered good -by at the front door,• to Snyder, the lawyer, the other part aimlessly adrift on that curiously attenuated sunlight that filled the room. Sunlight -no shadows here, in the room that had been peculiarly Millicent's! How oddly ironical! Ev- en now, when the rest of the house seemed to mourn in sympathy with the Laird's deserted study upstairs, where Saint Pat alone kept hit dumb, broken-hearted vigil, this room was a mystically serene denial of death. Or, rather, it was as affirmation of life beyond temporal things. Autumn pressed her fingers a- gainst her eyes at the feeling or Iight-headedness that was coming ov- er her. The ordeal of listening to Snydet read her father's will had undone her completely. And that ex- traordinary codicil, that footnote that he had written into it to Bruce Lan - dor only a short time since- But here came Hannah, with a steaming pot of tea! Snyder had refused tea --had helped himself gen- erously to the Laird's choice brandy, instead.., Funny how resentful one could become,, in time of emotional upheaval, over a small and irrelevant thing! She glanced at the tiny watch that hung on a cord about her neck, Hee- 'tor Cardigan would be here again Soon' He had ,been coming faithfully every day, and now she felt that without him she would be utterly Her very' hands, she thought as she poured the tea with an uncon— trollable tremble, seemed to have Iost their character. i'f They looked weak and purposeless. Setting her cup on the table beside her, she leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes. "I'm adrift Hector," she murmured.' "Absolutely adrift." "Now, now,' my 'dear," IIector stammered, "Life must go on, child. Even after -- after terrible things happen to us." "Life must go on? Why?" She opened her eyes and; gazed at him, as though in genuine wonderment. Hector shifted uneasily. He looked, worn and shaken, she thought with idle compassion. His friendship, for Jarvis had been a long and tried one; he was the only living being who had witnessed the extraordinary drama of that ill-starred' soul from beginning to end. Perhaps it was unfair to in- flict upon poor Hector the irony of. the epilogue,_ "That is an absurd question, Au- tumn," ' Hector said gruffly. "The daughter of the Laird will go •on. You are shocked and, exhausted, my dear-" "I 'have not been the daughter of the Laird for a long time," Autumn interrupted in. a pensive voice. "I know' now that father died twenty years ago. The ghost of him came back now and then -and on one of those visits, he • wrote a note in his will to Bruce Lander." Hector started. "A note?" Autumn rose slowly and Went to the desk at the farther end of the room; where Snyder had sat with her and Hannah a half hour ago. When she returned she held an envelope in her hand. Sheremoved from it a narrow sheet of_ paper. "Father must have written this on the bottom of his will immediately after Bruce came to visit him . one day, at father's request. Snyder could snake neither head nor tail of it, of course. We shall have to give it to.Bmuce." Hector took the paper from her hand. He read, in the Laird's bold, impa- tient hand: ,"To Bruce Landon, the admission; that .1 may have been wrong in many things, At this mo- ment's writing.I seem to see a light. But it flickers :and goes out, leaving an old man in darkness. I cannot help it if I blunder through the night that envelops me. Life has played me false, making of me that which I would not be." For some seconds Hector sat look- ing attentively at the writing. , Then his eyes Lifted and Autumn was sur- prised at the solemn radiance of his face. .It was a look of relief, almost of happiness. "Yes,," he said, as if to himself. "It must have been as you say — the ghost of him came back. I. myself have thought something of the kind. I have thought it often. Poor Jarvis! His obsession with the past distorted all his thinking. He wrote this in a moment of—of lucidity. You should be glad he did, my dear." "Glad?" Autumn said absently. "It alters nothing, Hector." "On the contrary, my dear," Hee-. for protested, "it alters much." He tapped the paper lightly with his fingers. "This is the equivalent of a retraction of everything that Jarvis had against Bruce Lando,.'' "Even so, Hector," Autumn said wearily. "What good can that do now?" "It will not hurt Bruce to know that Jarvis Dean heldno real bitter- ness in his heart toward—" "Certainly, Hector!" Autumn broke in. "Forgive me, please! That was a selfish thought." A shadow, unobtrusive, gentle, fell. across the threshold, and Hector en- tered through the French windows from the lawn. Autumn rose : and drew another chair close to her own. beside the to table w abl on which 'Han- nah, with a silence that marked her own personal grief and not the decor- um of a servant in the house of be- reavement, hadyplaced the tea things. With pale humor; Autumn had noted how Hannah' had taken the loss of her master unto herself, after a due observance of the amenities in Con- soling the master's daughter.; Hannah withdrew noiselessly, and Hector seated himself beside Autumn, "One sugar, I believe, Hector!" she Said, with an effdrt at briskness. "And lemon?" "Quite so," Hector returned. Hector; laid the paper on the table. and placed his hands awkwardly on his knees. "I see," he said softly. "What you would have preferred, per- haps, would have been your father's written consent to—" "Oh, Hector!" Autumn interrupted again. "I wasn't thinking when I spoke." "I can see that," he said. "The fact is, when a young woman is In love, she' interprets, everything In the light of that one fact. Well, nay dear, this retraction—small as it may seem to you --pray have some bearing even on that." Autumn looked at him and smiled resignedly. ; "You don't understand, darling. Bruce has made up his mind about me." "You are sure of that.' "1 haven't told you," she said hes- itantly, "about the night he came to the Parrs' lodge to tell me what had happened to father. I had, gone up there earlier in the evening. Bruce found me there alone with Florian. Hannah had told him that I had gone to spend the night at the lodge. I had intended to, but Linda was to have been there, too. She became ill that day land couldn't leave home. Florian met me . there—to take me back home, of course. But we had supper together in the lodge and be- fore we were ready to . leave—Bruce arrived. , Xou know yourself what .wht the must have thought Pierian tried to explain, but Bruce wasn't in a mood to accept his explanation." "Hm-m," Hector said, knitting his brows: "Has Florian done nothing more about it, then?" "Florian was incensed, of course, at Bruce' sattitude. He will undoubt- edly have a talk with • Bruce—and force him to listen, but he's away just now on a business trip for his father. -It won't male any difference to Bruce, though. You see — he had changed toward me before that!' Hectpr frowned and, cracked his IMPORTANT TALK TO END The Canadian Radio Manufacturers' Association, in co-operation with the Canadian 'Radio Commission, will present on April 13 and 20 the final talks in the series "How to Get the Most Front Your Radio Receiver." On April 13 the discussion will be "What to Ex- pect front Your Radio Receiving Set," and on April 20, "Interference and Its Elimination, The broadcasts will be heard over the Com- mission's national network from 10.30 to 10.45 p.m. EST. Sparkling Fare of Hits Curtain time ' for the rollicking. show' `Let's Go To The Music Hall," on Saturday, April 4, is 8.30 p.m., EST, and the cast will assemble as usual at the Commission's Toronto. studios for thisnationally: popular network presentation under the" di- rection of George Young. The Chair- man will.preeide and he promises a sparkling fare of the better known hits of the great stars such as Vesta. Tilley, (xeorge Fornby,•Harry Lauder, and Frank Coyne, George Patton will open the show with his clever impersonation : o f Formby singing, "One of the Boys." Red Newman_ will be right in his ele- ment with "The Horse the Missus Dries the Clothes On," and George Young, hardly recognizable from Lauder, will do the Scot's favourite, "She's Ma Daisy." Another Holloway monologue par excellence will be given by Patton, "'Alt, Who Goes Theer." . The Three Waiters, increasing 'their popularity with each new arrangement, will be heard in "The Rest of the Day's Your Own." Saving the special treat for the last, the Chairman will present Miss Yvonne Miller in a thrilling im- pression of Vesta Tilley, singing "I'nr Following in Father's Footsteps." "The English Countryside" The speaker for April 9 in the Na- tional Council of Eductaion series of broadcast talks over the Radio Com- mission's national network is Dr. J,. C. B. Grundy, M.A., Head of the Moder n Language Department,. Shrewsbury School, " England, a n d Member of the Modern Language As- sedation of Great Britain, Dr. Grundy has been Lecturer at Cambridge Uni- knuckles. The romances of these young creatures were too much for him. He had been given to under- stand that young love of the mod- ern variety held the conventions in light esteem. Now, in his day—ah, well, in his day! "You're a pair of young fools!" he blurted out suddenly, and poured himself another cup of tea. (To be continued) versity and a university in Germany and is the author of works on English and other languages. He will be heard from Ottawa in a fifteen minute talk from 10.30 p.m., Thursday, April 9. His subject will be "The English Countryside." ' • Winner of Debates The University of Montreal, repre- sented by Raymond Eudes and Roland Guy, was announced winner of the third inter -university debates broad- cast over a coast-to-coast network under the sponsorship of the ' Cana- dian Radio Commission.. The team won over the ,University of Manitoba by one point and spoke in the -nega- tive on "Resolved that the British Empire is to -day the world's greatest force for peace," Eudes and Guy a week befbre had brought the French- Canadian university through the semi- finals against Western University. The University of Manitoba was represented by John H. Teakles, an„ arts student, and Joseph 13. Zuken, a law student. Mr. Guy, a medical student, and Mr. Teakles, spoke in English; Mr. Endes, a law student, and Zuken, debated in French. Last .year the championship was won by I'Universite d'Ottawa. When the contest was held for the first time, two.years ago, I'Universite Laval, Quebec, was the winner. The Montreal debaters had to eliminate both 1934 and 1936 winners in order to reach the semi-finals. Plateau Auditorium before an .audi- ence of several hundred, people, and the compositions were played by the orchestra of the Symphonique Con - cotes Association, de Montreal under the direction of Wilfrid Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York. The judges sent in their verdicts' by wire without knowing the names of the respective authors. GODERICH: Charles A. Reid pas- sed away at the home of his ,brother, Dr. W. J. Reid, Detroit, last Sunday night. He was returning, with his wife from California, where they had spent the winter. Mr. Reid, who was in his sixty-sixth year had been in poor health for some time. He was Magistrate here for sixteen, years, and also was Judge of the Juveniie Court. Ile was born in Goderich, a son of Mr. and, Mrs. Jam- ieson Reid, and -entered municipal life about 1900, spending ten years as Councillor, and four years as Mayor; His social activities were many, he being a member of Maitland Lodge, A.F, & A.M.; I.O.O.F,; Lions Club, Maitland Golf Club, Menesetung Can oe and Bridge Club. Mr. Reid was a building contractor before entering municipal life. Ile was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church, Surviving are his widow, formerly Ada Allen, whom he married about ten years ago, and. two brothers and two sisters, Dr. W. J. Reid and Herbert S. Reid, of Detroit; Mrs, Robert Heard of Lon- don and Mr's. Frank H. Martin of Goderich. The remains were brought to Goderich by motor. • The three wheat growing zones of the Argentine are (1) Buenos Aires district which produces Baril, a soft wheat;. 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