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The Clinton News Record, 1936-08-13, Page 2'PAGE'2 THE - CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., AUG. 13, 1936 he • Clinton News -Record With which is lneorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION y1.60 x,ex veer in advance, to Cana- dian addresses, :$2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper .discontinued until al] arrears are paid awnless at the option of the publish- er, The date to which every sub- -serintion is paid is denoted on the etebet ADVERTISING RATES -,Tran ssient advertising 12c per count line -for first insertion. 8c for each sub .eequent'. insertion. Heading counts. lines. ' Small advertisements not to -exceed one inch, such as "Wanted;" Lost,"' "Strayed,". etc., inserted. once zffor 35e, each subsequent insertion 25e. Rates .for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- ilication musts as a guarantee of good with, be-aceebnipanied by the name of the writer. •. E. HALL, M. P. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. 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They're Rex Beach at his best, e by acx'•3eaCµ " SYNOPSIS speaker; with shaking fingers she a cataclysmic roar: Furlong' and Ben Furlong, a young, but praeti- cal oil man and driller from the Penn- sylvania field, drifted into the Texas 0'11 country, broke and looking, :for work, Finally he fetched up at the. Durham hone where live an elderly aunt, shortly widowed by the explos- ion'of a pgwder wagon, and her niece, pretty Betty, Durham. . Perhaps because of his smile, Betty cooks seine' food for Ben and while he eats be learns the aunt, in' town on busi ness, has an oil man; Tiller Maddox, sinking an oil well for her. . A• short 6 inch holt worked loose from the rigging and is in the bottom. of the well. Work has been suspended for days as the crew "fish" for the bolt and operating fonds' dwindle a way.... 'Furlong offers to give a hand but Maddox objects. Betty insists and overrules Maddox s o Furlong fashions a tool which brings up the bolt. . . . Maddox shows his dislike for the new hand, especially because Ben and Betty are so friend- ly While the two aro iri town shop- ping one evening, Maddox calls upon the aunt, demanding she help his,ease with Betty or there will be no well. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex: Broadfoot, Sea- -forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep per, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. 1. Reid, Seaforth. . - Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; James ;.Sholdice, . Walton; William Knox, -Londesboro;. George Leonhardt, Dub- lin; John E. Pepper, Brucefield; ,(aures Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, , .Seaforth• Alex. McEwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- tton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. 'No. 1; R. F: McKercher, Dublin, R. R. -!No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; ITL. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid' Ito the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of :Commerce, Seaforth. •or at Calvin "Cutt's Grocery,Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur ;once or transact other business will • the promptly attended to on apphce :lion to any of the above officers ad- stressed to their respective post offi- <es, Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. tANAbIAll NiTIONAL a Al W .S TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart- Clinton epartClinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. *Going East, depart '7.03 Going East, depart 3.00 .doing West, depart 12.02 Going West, depart 10.08 from London, Huron & Bruce ,Going North, ar. 11.34. Ivo 12.02 Going South 3,08 Mechanically Ben made an effort to rise, but eould not 'manage it. "Must have hit on my head," he mumbled thickly, and raised grop- ing fingers. Then he sat up. He knew now that he had not fallen in- to a pit. • "Where are they? What's — hap- pened?" - Betty was sobbing wildly; her hair hung in a' cascade about her shoulders; she Was c:ad only in her nightdress, .and it was soaked with water she had poured over Ben to revive trim. Beside the open door to. the •hall. lay the wreck of a chair; two of it's legs were splintered, broken off; Ben realized more clearly now what it was that had crashed down upon his head. With aneffort he scrambled dizzily to his feet. Water was trick- ling into his eyes and blinding him; he brushed it away, then discovered, to his great surprise, that it was not water at all, but blood, his own blood. His head felt twice its normal; size; his 'brain did not function clearly and his limbs refused to, obey him. Betty's voice carne to hint as if Ifroni a long distance; she was telling him something, trying to make him understand that they were alone in the house and that their assailant had fled. When this became plain to Furlong; he sat down: It was some time, before the girl succeeded in stanching that flow of I blood, for she was scarcely i n condition to render help to anybody. By the tithe her task was completed Ben had managed to get a . pretty clear idea of what had hapiiened. She i had been awakened by a. sound and had realized' that somebody was in her room; she had uttered a fright- ened challenge, only to feel 'groping inmates." hands upon. her, to find herself .in Betty seconded this warning In the grasp of. some unseen person. She frantic tones of appeal: "Let him retained no. very clear recollection of go, Ben. He knows what he's doing. anything after that; the rest was a You've got no right stopping him. hideous nightmare. Not until the mis_ You'll just make trouble—." a,rn, creant had bolted out of the ..house "It's none of my business," 'the some - Pam and she had finally managed some- latter agreed, impatiently, "blit how to 'strike a light was she tirade there's something crooked—" He Pall' aware of the reason for his flight. ceased speaking, then ho seized Bet- p.m. Then she had stumbled over Ben and ty and whirled her around with the had realized that it was his voice she sharp command, "Run! Get back!" had heard calling to her, that it was They Were -still perhaps a hundred the sound of his corning that had Yards from the well, but Furlong's interrupted the attach. His plight practiced eye had seen something had done a good Ileal to bring her that suddenly raised the hair upon his WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION• bade to herself, but now she threat- head. That rope from which was sus 'STATEMENT ened to again abandon her self -con- Pendecr the heavy charge of liquid trol. death Mx longer hung vertically; it 'The accidents reported to ,.The Furlong checked this by saying no longer remover the block and into "Workmen's Compensation Board dur- "Betty Durham! You've got nothing ing the month of. July numbered 5, on but your nightie!" ' 172, as compared with 5,334 during it was some time later when the .June and 6,480 during July of last girl emerged from her: room, dressed year. after a fashion, to find her deliverer The benefits awarded amounted to waiting in the kitchen with a scowl $509,801.82, $415,531.00 of which was upon his face. for compensation and $94,270.82 for "You got_ a gun?" he inquired .medical aid, harshly. The fatal accidents numbered 82 as "No, Ben: Why?" cofnrpared with 39 in June and 29 in' "I'm going to kill Maddox." July of 1935. I For a moment Betty stared at the plucked at her dress. It was in a thin, reedy voice that she said: "It .wasn't Maddox. "How do you know?" Betty Durham' were. tossed headlong, flung down like straws.. When they -scrambled to their feet, dazed, shak- en, terrified, it was to -find themsel- "Oh, I know!- It wasn't Maddox." ves enveloped in a mighty dust "Are you. sure?" The girl nodded. cloud. The 80 -foot tower of , heavy and Ben. bowed his throbbing head timber was gone in' an instant it In his hands. 'I'm glad," he groan- had utterly vanished. Where it had ed. "Providence certainly ' broughtetood was a shallow, smoking crater me back. It wouldn't happen that` Splinters of planking•, debris of ev- way once in- a thousand tunes.. Who - cry sort, were scattered far and wide; ever it was, I'll find him." , particles of earth and gravel were Both the ratan and the, girl were in raining from the heavens with the wretched condition.. The rest of ,the sound of a heavy hailstorm; nothing night they sat together, watching the..in the neighborhood of the well re - clock and listening for a possible re mained except the boiler andengine, turn of the marauder, waiting for the and. the former lay upon its side;'Ev day to break; .en the bushes had been whipped' out, It was shortly after they had fin- uprooted, -shaved off as by a sweep- ished breakfast that Furlong was ing scythe. surprised to discover signs of ac- That afternoon Furlong's friend, tivity, movements, goings-on at the • well which caused him to stare fixed- the engineer carate over to the farm- ly, then to announce, incredulously: house with a considerable bundle in '"Say! I believe Maddox is fixing his arms. toshoot the well!" • "How's Betty?" he inquired. Betty took tier place at his side. "She's all right, • blut pretty well , "Why -he can't! He dassent! The bruised, of course. - powder men won't be here. till tomer- `Well, I guess there's nothm more row." us boys can do ,so we're goin' in to "All the same, he's doing some- town." thing queer. See those cans — those Rig . 11 s ay ere un i rs. shiny things?" Durham gets back" "You couldn't hire Tiller to touch "Here's all. of Tiller's stuff that nitroglycerine. He's scared of it=" we could find. I reckon you better Ben uttered an oath. "I tell you look afte} it." v be's filling those 'cartridges. He's Anything besides clothes . crazy! You've got to stop him!" "Not much. A few letters an' Betty turned white; she shook her things we found in his bunk. Miz' head. "I won't go near the place.. Durham can keep 'em in case he's It's—it's Aunt Mary's well:" got relatives. There's one suit of "Then I'll stop him. Why, it's ten clothes that would fit ine. No use to one he'll sear the rock, ruin the to throw 'ani away. Say! , It's fun- ny how scared he was of powder. It musta been a hunch." ' Shortly after the engineer had left, Ben came 'to Betty with a queer light in his eyes. In his hand he held a ed on past her she followed him. soiled sheet of foolscap paper. Together they hurried across the "Feel strong enough to stand in- field and took the path through the other explosion?" he inquired with an mesquite. As they went the girl effort to suppress his agitation. continued to implore him not to hr "Well, the queerest thing—! This terfere. farm doesn't belong to yodr aunt I . Halfway to the drilling camp they Mary, after all; it belongs to you!" met the engineer hastening towards The girl .gasped; she voiced some breathless query, but Ben ran on: "Your Uncle Joe left it to you, just as he promised. He left everything to you, except a thousand dollars to her. This is his will and Maddox had it. I guess it's a ' good will, even though ,your uncle wrote it himself. Anyhow, it's witnessed by two peo- ple -Maddox and another. From the date I figure it must hale been sign- ed just a day or so before he was kit= led." "W'her'e did it come from? How did Maddox—,?" ' "I've figured that' out, too. Mr. Durham post have had it in his -poc- ket when Maddox found him. That would explain everything — how he made your aunt do just what he want- ed and why she didn't dare to fire him," - "That's why she said I'd have to marry hint! That's why- Olr, Ben!" Betty rose suddenly and clutched Fur- long. "I knew she was a mean sel- fish old thing, but I never thought she was so—wicked. This oil is a curse to poor people. I -hate ill"' "Why, Betty!" Furlong exclaimed. "You're the wicked one to quarrel—" "She's the only kin I've got left and I tried my best to love her. But She was so greedy for quick money that nothing mattered. Maddox, tool It; made beasts of theme. I almost wish we'd never heard of oil," After a moment the speaker . continued, more quietly: "I lied to you last night. It was Tiller who came hero." Furlong's body stiffened, he breath- ed an oath, then he muttered: "I. thought so. Why didn't you tell nye?" "What's more, she knew• he was -corning! They arranged it. She as good as sent him! That's:how he got the kitchen key." This announcement the man, greet- ed with the growl of an animal. He began to pace about the room; his face had grown black and threaten- ing; his fingers were working as he stormed. '" "Wait! Wait till she gets back here!" ' "You can't lay your hands on a woman-" "'Can't I?" he breathed. Betty . shook her head; a moment, then arnew' expression slowly crept into her. eyes; her chin set itself firmly. ' "No!" she declared. "But you can lay 'em on her trunk and drag it out here where I can pack it." "I sore can," Ben agreed. "And what's more, when you get it packed I can lug it: out to the gate where it will' be nice and handy for her!' As he finished speaking his frown disap- pear.ecl; it was replaced by a grin and he said: "Say, Betty! What d'you think? I'nr going to marry an heir- ess, after all." THE END. whole job and—Damned if I, don't be- lieve ,he's trying to do that very thing!" Furlong started for the door, but Betty clung to hint. When he push - e'00000 mill: 0000 00..■Yeti'■ 0 0■ tee. 0 o' ■ 0 r'■a0r■"■•r a■'■s.Y'o 4. YOUR ..:WORLD AND ' MINE by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (copyright) } Most of us cannot visit England ■ this summer to see that delectable country, yet it is passible for us to see Britain through others' eyes. So this week I shall try to provide some glimpses' of the Motherland. In a former' contribution to The News -Record I spoke of June, the infant daughter of Sally, a chimpan- zee. Fora time Sally kept her baby hidden from the public,• but now both mother and daughter are inviting ad- miration .— and perhaps something more. Little. June was horn hairless,, and any hair which seems to want to grow is rubbed off by Sally. Sally and June, I ought to say, are resi- dent in London's Zoo. June's father, Koko, is in a neighboring cage, With just meshed 'wire to separate hire from wife and child. Sally and Ko- ko carry on long conversations, but what they say to each other has not been. reported. the farmhouse, and the latter an- nounced, breathlessly: "Tiller's gone plumb off his nut! HIe's goin' to shoot the well himself. You tetter ( stay clear." Furlong dashed past the speaker and emerged from the shelter of the bushes in time to see Maddox ginger- ly swing 'a long, cylindrical tin over the well mouth and guide itintothe opening. A ne* manilla rope had Ibeen run through` a block on the der- rick, and with this he lowered the charge. I Ben yelled at him; • he waved his (ai•nis, Maddox glanced' over his shoul- der, then let the line slide smoothly through his hands. "Take my tip an' don't go too close," the engineer shouted: "He ain't no powder roan an' that well's `makin' gas. Sheblowsoff every few p.m. p.m. ;'lie seized Betty, whirled her around and yelled,' "Run! Get back!' the casing; instead it was falling in loops about Maddox. It was coming up out of the well! Maddox himself was -alive to what had happened. That which he most greatly feared had come upon him; and he also turned to flee. But the platform was slippery or else 'he trip- ped over the rope and fell. The; oth- ers heard his cry of terror. He quick- ly regained his feet, but to Furlong It seemed as if his movements there- after were maddeningly slow and de- liberate. The engineer's apprehension had been, well grounded. Once again gas had been released far down in the earth, and now,like breath . forced from the lungs, . of some tortured giant it rose, propellingthe smooth- ty fitting cartridge of nitroglycerine ahead of it as a pea is propelled out of a, pea -shooter. It was a phenonr- onon by no ]means unusual in a well as, unstable in: its balance of forces as this one. In fact, under like con- dition none but a madman would have Glared to risk Maddox's man- (mover. The latter had not put 50 feet be- hind him, when up out of thewell. mouth shot the glrnming tin cylinder. Directly above and in its path hung the massive 40 -foot steel bit suspend- ed, from its' wire cahle. What • happened next the observers were not able to agree upon, but the world dissolved into an inferno of omolce and flame and the:'suddenness of it rocked the 'sky, upheaved the earth. The two came together with Another dweller in the -Zoo is a giant hamadryad — an 18 -foot long king cobra. Whether his refusal to eat was clue 06 sulkiness or to some other cause, one does not know, but his hunger strike began to worry his keepers, who have had charge of him for only 2 months. Now, hamadryads are cannibalistic—they eat other snakes, and so this giant snake was offered an abundance of grass snakes and rat snakes; water snakes and liz- ards; yet he would not eat. Anxious to keep this ;huge snake alive, his attendants put in with him a 6 -foot -Malayan b l a c k -acrd -gold snake valued at £5. Whatever the reason, this costly snake proved tempting, and was immediately seiz- ed by the king cobra and slowly swal- lowed. ,But what will be necessary next time? for these black -and -gold snakes are becoming rare, and £5. meals are not approved by the Zoo authorities. Some' Welsh people who May know the places, named. -Over 800 coats -of -arm's in Canter; bury Cathedral have been repainted, and they make the, cloisters a feast of gorgeous colour. These coats=of arms date back to the 14th and 1501 centuries, and form an unrivalled col- lection. The only other comparable collection is in St. `George's Chapel, Windsor. The shields in Canterbury represent 'kings, princes, archbishops, priors, peers and laymen. They have wild goats in Wales! Here's an extract from s. letter to the Editor of a London newspaper: • During my wanderings over the Welsh mountains I have eotne a- cross many wild goats. In parti- cular I remember a large herd on Aran Mawdwy. A few years ago I saw a goat perched for hours On the edge of a buttress of rock on the east face of Tryfan, and as re- cently as last year we carne across a whole family of these animals quite low down on the north side of Tryfan: Perhaps . among my readers are LABOR-SAVING Rastus Was bemoaning his wife's laziness to his friend, "She's so lazy," he said, "dat she done put popcorn in de pancakes 'so they'll flop over by demselves. " , Toc H, an international organiza- tion standing for "fellowship and ser- vice," has just had its 21st birthday. This organization is an empire -wide social club which arose out of the war, and whose members are compos- ed solely of ex -service men, ` taking no mote of rank. Toc H was born in a brewery 'hop house in the village of Poperinghe in the Ypres salient, in 1915. It is. re- corded that when the room at Poper- inghe was opened, by the Rev. "Tub- by" Clayton, the padre founder, he put up a notice in the roam; `9f you spit on the ,ea"pet at home, you may spit here". Another motto was, "Abandon rank all ye who - enter here". Inside the house everyone is on a footing of equality, while imme- diately outside Army discipline is maintained without friction, The membership now approaches . 50,000. from their 'Irish homes was attended by all the paraphernalia of romance.' They corresponded in secret, bribed the, servants, and hid in cupboards; they leapt out of windows with pis- tols under their arms when they could have as easily walked out of the door; and they spent the night in a barn.. They floated their relations. ' It was fortunate for them that the spot which they chose in North Wales for their retirement should have been directly on the route between London and Dublin. They kept a diary. Woithsworth wrote a sonnet in their honour. Their fame and the house which they occupied continue to this day. I remember seeing their house when I tramped, through the village of Llangollen about 25 years ago. '• A new book deals with "The Ladies of Llangollen"—Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, known in their day (the closing years of the eigthteenth century) as the "most 'celebrated virgins in Europe". These two women had forsworn the world without religious motives, and devot- ed' themselves to each other. So fa- tuous did they become that it was customary for any traveller of fam- ily or 'lathe, crossing to or from Ire- land by way of Holyhead, and put- ting up at the Hand Inti, Llangollen to pay his respects in person to these two ladies. They were eccentrics who owed most of their renown to the fact that both of them belonged to powerful families, knew everyone worth knowing, and kept up, by let- ters and visits, with the Society of their times. They believed in the noble savage, and were products of the age which believed in the deligh of seclusion and romantic friendships Their first and unsuccessful - flig A memorial to Ring George V is being erected at Windsor. The cen- tral feature of the monument will be a stone cenotaph of simple dignity, surrounded. by a carved representa- 'tion of the Royal emblems resting up- on . a cushion, the whole executed in stone. On the steps loading to the cenotaph will be carved this inscrip- tion- "George V— First Sovereign of the House of Windsor." Below and in front of the ceno- taph there will be a rectangular basin of water flanked by two raised fountains. The overflow from these fountains will issue through apertures representing lion masks. The 'mem- orial will be backed by, a semi-cir- `euiar clipped hedge of evergreen, and trees of columnar form will be planted at the side and rear .of the memorial. The designer is Sir. Ed- ward Lutyens, R. A. The site—that of an old 'brewery immediately below the walls of Windsor Castle , was given to King George as a jubilee gift by an anonymous donor. This memorial is not to be confus- ed with the national memorial for which funds are being received, and which amount at the present time to about £150,000. From the tower of a new church being erected at Ilford, a suburb of Bournemouth, will issue the soudd of , bells, but the belfry will contain am bells. Instead the tower will be equipped with loud speakers and an amplifying apparatus, which will be used to sound peals of bells recorded on gramophone records. These loud speakers can be used to broadcast sermons and services. Scotland is to have a national ex- hibition in 1988 or 1939—an exhibi- tion which -will portray the life and t industry of Scotland. Scotland will . have an exhibit at this year's Cana - ht dian National Exhibition. MAKING UP A SHOPPING LIST The hall (reeds a new rug. More towels are needed for the bath- room, and the kitchen floor could certainly stand a coat of paint. The children need shoes. The car will soon need tires. Well, we buy a hundred new things every year. Scattered throughout Canada are manufacturers who make the very things we need. Their products are on sale in certain stores - within easy reach. Certain of these products, and certain of these stores, are especially fitted to take care of our special need. But which products and which stores? Which can we afford, and which do we think is best? We must look: to advertising for advice. Advertising is the straight line between supply .and demand. It saves time spent in haphazard stropping. It leads you directly to your goal. By reading the advertisements, we can determine in ad- vance where the best values are to be found. With the aid of ad- vertising, shopping becomes a sample and pleasant business, and -budget figures bring more .smiles than frowns. From the lieges of this paper -you can make up a shopping list that will save you money. They carry the advertisements of live finer chants who- carry full stloclks. ThoCiinton -Newsi000rd A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING --=READ . ADS IN. THI3 ISBU]E PHONE 4