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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-09-17, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD 'THURS., SEPT. 17, 1936 1 Me Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 57..50 Ser veal• in advance, to Cana- ' dian addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries.- 'No palter discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publish- er. The date to which every sub- eerintion is paid is denoted on the ADVERTISING RATES Tran- sient advertising 12c per count lino for first insertion. Sc for each sub- sequent ins ertio n. ub-sequentinsertion. ]:leading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed: one inch, such as "Wanted, "Lost, "Strayed," etc., inserted once for -'35e,• each -subsequent insertion $5c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications' intended for pub Iication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. .1'0. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE. Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial.' Real Estate and Fire. In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton iE'rank Fingland, E.A.; LLB. barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to,; W. Brydoie, K.C.Sloan Block r- ain't -on, Ont. • D. H. McINNE;S t.: CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street (Pew Doors west of Royal Bank). Hours—Wed. and' Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by 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 McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. ' Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep- cper, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, .11'I. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex, Broadfoot, Brucefield; James Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub - tin; John E. Pepper,' James Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. MeEwing, Blyth. List oAgents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, 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; Ra G. Jarnmth, 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 Cutt's Grocery Goderich. Parties dedii1ag to effect insur- ance or transact other business 'will fee promptly attended to on applica- ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. �ANADIAIIiNA l0NAL:flAidihYs TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.03 ,a.m. Going East, depart 8.00 p.tn. Going West, depart 12,02 p.nt.. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce "Going North, ar. 11.34. lye 12.02 p,nt, Going South 3.08 p.m. GODERICH: One of the town's oldest residents, Mrs. Sarah Curry, "celebrated her 93rd birthday on Tues- day. She' spent .the day quietly at her home on Piston Street, and re- ceived many congratulations. She was, before he marriage, 65 years ago, to. Mr. Joseph Curry, Miss Sarah •Cantelon, and was .born in Goderich. 'Mr. and Mrs. Curry conducted a farm in Goderich Township for some years, • and retired to come back to Goderich to make their home. Mr, Curry died some nine years ago. There were two .children, Arthur, who has passed on, -and D. John Curry, who formerly conducted a bakery in Goderich, but -who has retired and continues' to live in this town. Mrs. Curry is still quite well, and bright and active a- bout her home. GODERICH: Tackling a lob, that. according to experienced sailors at the dock, few' captains would attempt, Capt. Ed. Robinson of Goderich brought the freighter - Prindoc into Goderich harbor in the height of a strong gale on Sunday. The Prindoc, loaded with grain, was drawing about 19 feet, 10 inches of aten, Sailors who understand the difficulties en- countered in steering a boat in a hea- vy sea, stated that many captains would have stayed outside the harbor mathee than attempt to navigate the ;gap and channel. The boat would suffer a bad night in such a case, these authorities stated, but it would take a plucky captain: to bring his ship inside. The gale was exceed- ingl•ystrong at the waterfront on Sunday and every wave leaped high ever the sea-wall. Visibility was good, 'fortunately. S YNOPSIS Allen Garth is preparing to make a trip toa imine which lie has discov- ered inthe'Canadian Northwest when :In aeroplane appears at the little re- fueling station and an elderly man, a young' man and a young woman light. The two hien who are looking for mining prospects, become titch in- terested in some specimens of ore shown them by Garth. They are all Call it five per cent platinum and five of gold. Tliat leaves ninety per cent of silver and lead, with of course traces of iridium and OSminnnn." "Yes,move the decimal point of your million three places to the left, Jack," said Iluxby. "It brings your wonderful fortune down to a few thousands." Garth was not to be disheartened, "Oh, well, that's better than noth- ing." rather haughty,. especially the girl, "Don't be tee sure. To sluice this and treat Garth- like a servant but placer, freight out the alloy, and pay he shows his nclepetidence and does - for . separating the metals will leave n't allow himself to be ordered about.slut; profits. There may be none at They decide"to take Garth-' in their all. "Too bad you've had all pyour trou- ble for nothing," Garth replied. "I counted on you finding it a real strike —the first big platinum deposit lo- cated •in North America," Mr. Ramill rose to lay a consoling hand on his thoulder. "Never mind, any boy. You'll re- call what I told you about my eh - NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY couraging worthy prospectors. I stand by that now. I will give you Mr. Ramill interposed: "Mining en- two thousand dollars for this pros-. gineers have to guard against fraud pect, and take the chance of getting as well as error, Garth. I was, salted back my stoney by large-scale placer once myself, in my callow days. Just ing." to ease his professional conscience, ! "You're 'too generous," Garth pre- suppose you clear gravel•for us mid -!'tested. "I couldn't think of taking way between here and the staked :your money. In fact, I'll have to own hole down there." Jup I had e. little testing acid with pie "That's my discovery stake," Garth when I happened upon this gray al - replied, "Wasn't looking for gold in loy. So, as I do not believe in cheat- this trough. Just happened to notice ing, suppose we head back for the the gray metal where the spring gush Mackenzie." of the rill had torn the moss from" The millionaire mine buyer chuck - the gravel. About my digging, I led and clapped him on the back. "I must beg to be excused. What if I -said it, boy.• You're a whole lot less should happen to drop a handful of a fool than you look." that galena into the hole, when your Euxby stared hard. Then, pocket - expert was not looking?" ling the alloy, he went for the sho- Ig'noring the irony, Huxby pulled vel. the shovel from the dugout shelter i' "Good idea," Garth said. "A pan and gouged into a bed of moss. Mr.. from above Discovery, one below, and Ramill stooped his portly body to the same from three or four hundred pick up the gold pan, :feet out each side—they'll tell you Miss Hamill had stretched her ov- whether or not its merely a small orslim form on a meat of long grass, pocket,!' to bask in the warmth of the spiral-! Without replying, Huxby set off up ing sun. She smiled at Garth. "You, the trough. Mr. Ramill limped slow - may sit down and amuse me, woodsy. ly after him. Midway to the point Dad said your first name is Alan." where the engineer stopped to dig; "Yes." the older man's breath gave out. He "Before you sit; old dear, fetch me sat down and lit one of his cigars. a drink. It's too far to go back for Miss Ramill appeared to have fal- wine. As Dad managed to swallow len asleep. She at Ieast did not call this mountain dew of yours, I sup- out to Garth. She lay still, protected pose it can't be so awfully vile." by her net from the mosquitoes that "It's free for the taking," Garth tinged about her head, replied. "Help yourself." She sat up. "So you're trying a- gain to prove yourself beastly un- civil:' "You gave me 'no' so sweetly, Miss Hamill. Once is enough. Try the cafeteria plan." Lithe as a cat, she rolled sideways and came to .her feet,. bringing up with her the aluminum pot. With the same ease of movement, she dip ped herself a drink from the pool. aeroplane to inspect his mine and if it turns out to be worth working to take a lease for a year and give him sixty percent. of ,the output. Garth leads. them to his claim and Huxby professes to think that he might have salted iii` Relieved from the company of his inpleasant travel mates, Garth stretched out like the girl. He put all of them from his thoughts and re- laxed Luxuriously on a thick bed of caribou moss. He lay with eyes half closed, gazing down at the silvery glean of the breeze -rippled lake and across at the savage grandeur of the. jagged mountains on the far side of the valley. Garth had thought she aright be weak Probably at no otic, place than from some recent illness. Now lie this, so far in among these subarc- saw she was merely tart', or else she tic Rockies, could a similar timberline valley be found. had shammed indolence to make him tip inwards the Arc- wait upon her. tic Circle the altitude of timberline is Huxby' had already shoveled clear low, The depth' of this, great hole the moss and block !eines from a alone made possible the growth of space two feet or more square. •- He' timber in its bottom—the depth and. tossed aside a few stones the size of the sheltering circle of mountains his fist, and took the gold I that held in the heat of the long sum- Mr.parr from" y Hamill to load it with gravel," mer des, They went a few steps downslope to It Was his valley, his by right of the edge of a lower pool. I discovery, Before his conning, not None too deftly, .Huxby - dipped' even an Indian could ever have set water lute the pan and, began to ro-' foot it it. The gorge by which the tate the contents. When the larger waters of the valley drained out to- pebbles carte to the top, he picked wards the Mackenzie was a narrow them off, replaced the mud with cleft through the east -side mountains clean water, and again rotated. Af-i—a mere crack in that immense en- ter more than twice the time an old! scalable wall. prospector would have needed for the! True, the pass was open. But from - operation, the mining engineer work -I tine foot of the far side, it had ap- ed the pan deer of all except a peered to be only a precipice -topped spoonful of small dull nodules. gash in the mountain,. Its steep cleft • ' After quenching her thirst, Miss was a dangerous climb up frost-shat- Ramill had stretched out again tottered rocks and high ledges, barren 'bask in the summer. warmth. With i of all life other than lichens- No In= dian hunter, would have wasted time and effort to make that seemingly fruitless ascent. A prospector was different. Os'e. veins, not meat or fur, were the quarry. He had toiled up the cleft for a look at the streaks on the precipices that told of fissures. Instead of an uescalable'barrier, he had topped the pass and seen how the gap opened. down the far side. the 'upshot of the sun towards the noon of the nineteen -horn' day, the breeze had died down. The cahn brought, a swarm of mosquitoes up- slope from the lake shore. The girl nut on her headnet, covered the un - booted part of her legs with caribou moss, and resumed her sun bath. Well apart from her, Garth sat gazing at the muskeg swamp, across the left corner of the lake. Even at that distance, he could make out 1110V - pass the glacial bleakness of the ing dots that he knew to be the ant- pass he' had f theltded into this sub - of heads o:f moose bulls.' The big arctic oasts of the valley bottom. His beasts were standing deep in mad !first thought had been that he had and water.: Bythis they escaped the found an immense ancient crater. But nest of stinging' insects, while at the the huge pit was not a volcano. The same time feeding on lily pads: mountains were upheavals of Lauren - Ont of the tail o:P, his eye Garth t]an rocks. They were metal-mor- Out strata, a some .t' p o v 'a watched whose ft fissures ed Ilexf s e b and n Ramill. When had been filled with quartz and oth- he saw the two get their net -draped heads together •,over the gold pan,be ors with melted primary rocks from rose and went towards them. The 6'rHe depths. He thought of the vast length of time that had been required td erode the side of the mountain above him, All the metal in this treasure cache had drifted down from disintegrated 'mineral .veins.' Nature had stent ages in collecting these hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of prec- ious alloy upon which he now lay basking. And he had chanced to stumble upon the treasure near the read of kis moccasins was noiseless: Before the two noticed his approach, he stood looking down over their•. shoulders. "Not half bad for a starter," he. said. "At least five dollars in your first pan," "Hardly that value," replied Ur. Ramill. "Admitting' there is some platinum in this alloy. I am afraid you're a far too sanguine young' roan, end of a trip of which exploration and adventure had been the prime motive and prospecting only a side issue. Now, by law, he was sole own- er of all this wealth. He thought of the two ,men up- slope he had brought to share in his good fortune. They had thanked him by seeking to lie and cheat him out of it all. But that was the nature of far too many men, There was no reason to bo surprised or angered. They had failed to outplay him with their stacked cards. He Iooked- at a clump of alpine blossoms close beside his elbow, ` and smiled. Upslope he heard the swirl of gra- vel in the gold pan. After a time the sound died out, His keen ear caught. the dull tread of heavy :feet on the turf: As he sat up Miss Rannill spoke in her most bored, disagreeable tone; "Well, it's about time, Vivian. Give me a hand -up. I'm not going to hang around this beastly hole another min- ate. Besides, I'm positively fannish- eci? "Mountain air," said her father. "Don't be idiotic, Dad. ` It's hours since we fed. Even then'I had noth- i n g except those rotten canned things." Huxby put in, a bit stiffly: "They were the best -I could get in Edmon- ton." dmon-ton" • "Oh, no need of your apologizing, Vivian. You're not to blame. It's the coming to this God -forsaken hole in the wilds. Thanks be, you happened upon a fairly decent vintage -- one that's at least drinkable. With it I may be able to swallow enough of your•• night-club entrees to keep from starving." Her father turned towards Garth. "We will go back to the plane for lunch while considering the matter." "Only for a, ' short time," Huxby qualified. "I intend to return here for more sampling. No need of your troubling to join us." "Thanks, I'm not hungry. Come to think, I'll go down to the lake and amake sure my old lady grizzly isn't lurking in the bush." "Our nhantom bear," mocked Miss Ramill. "Watch out she doesn't make a :ghost of yon." Tinder cover of his smile at the gibe, Garth caught the glance that passed between her father and Hux- by, The girl had said it. "Watch out" 'was the word. He swung down the trough with no sign of hurry. The length of his gliding stride made his movements appear leisurely. Near the treeline he angled off to the left, in the op- posite direction from the glacier stream and the monoplane. Without looking back, he slanted in among the scrubby -spruces. A mass of the dense evergreens put him out of sight of the three chechahcos up on the open tundra. He turned shalt to the right. Midway down the brush - fringed lake shore, the 'tall spruces stood well spaced. He broke into a run. A vista between the trees offered him a view Upslope. He halted be- hind a screen of young aspens to look. The threehad already reached the side of the trough. They started to hurry on aslant the mountainside, Lilith Ramill and Huxby had the girl's heavy -bodied father between them. They were helping him along twice es fast as he could have made• it without their aid. All had flung off their headnets. The she -bear and her cubs had not been imagined by Garth. They had. hung around the head of the !eke churfng his first visit to the valley 13nt he had seen no :Fresh sign of them since landing from the plane. Nor could he now see any animal, large or small, on the open tundra slope. Had the girl and men been hastening to escape some danger, the girl at least would have cast fearful glances backwards. Only Huxby look- ed around, and his gate was towards the place where Garth had disappear- ed among the trees: No more was needed to confirm Garth's suspicions. He glided across the glade and ran' on through the woods like 'a startled caribou. The mile run brought him to the glacier stream, The thick growth of spruces screened him from the view of any- one up on the open tundra. He vaulted upon the wing of the monoplane and ran along it to jump into the cockpit. In a moment he had hold of Huxby's tool -kit. He went at the engine like a skilled air- plane mechanic. When, 'after a few moments of quick work, he replaced the tool -kit and ran back out the wing, there was a small metal object inside his buck- skin shirt. He jumped off and slip- ped away to an alder thicket, a short distance along the lake bank. Less than three minutes later, he heard a heavy puffing and wheezing and the snap of dry branches. Then the three staggered into sight. Their hurried line of descent down between the spruces brought •them near e- nough for, Garth -noughfor-Garth to see their faces. Mr. Ramill was purple from oxer- tion. His mouth gaped wide with ilia gasps s fos Cath. He heaved and blew like a bull moose brought to bay by wolves Neither his daughter 'nor Huxby Was Winded. But both were flushed front the exertion of support- ing the portly millionaire. As up on the tundra slope, none of the three showed any sign of fear. The girl's expression was one of dis- gust and anger. She stopped sever- al feet short of the Plane. "Oh; darnel Why the rush? We're out of sight now. I'm going to take a rest." Her father was beyond words. As she let go of his arn' he slumped down with a suddenness that almost pulled Huxby over on top of him. The mining engineer straightened above the spent older man to peer back through the spruces, and around at the thicket where Garth lay an wait. "Just one more go, darling,," he ap- pealed, "The fellow must know how to handle his rifle. If he comes in sight of the plane before Pc get out of range—Please, sweetheart! Re- member it means millions to us—mil- lions! I'll give you that emerald neck- lace we saw at Tiffany's." "You certainly will! And Dad will do more. I'm to have a third in this mine that you say is worth so much, Is !:hat clear?" "Yes, darling; take 120111,"' Huxby urged. "We both agree." She waved him towards the plane, "Fetch a flask. We'll never get him. aboard without a. bracer." Iluxby ran to vault up on the wing. The girl had pointed out the obvious fact. Her father was in a state of collapse froth overexertion. He could not move until revived, and he was too heavy for them to lift bodily. The engineer swung into the cabin and hastened back ashore with a flask of whisky. During his short absence Mr. Ramill had ceased to gasp. He could draw deeper breaths. Two or three swallows of whisky tauntenecl his flabby muscles. Helped by his daughter and Huxby, he struggled• to his feet and staggered out along the rock shelf to the plane. The wing end stood neck -high a- bove the ledge. While Mr. Hamill took another bracer of whisky. Hux- by boosted the girl up on the front edge. She grasped hold of her fath- er's collar. Huxby gripped his thick legs below the knees and heaved, Mr. Raniiil's hands were on the wing edge. He pulled with all his whisky - borrowed strength. As he . went up, the wing end gave down"a little. His corpulent midbody rose above the edge. Huxby gave a last upward heave. It enabled the girl to drag her fath- er over on the convex surface. Hux- by vaulted after to help her lift the prone millionaire to his feet. They started to lead him along the wing top to the fuselake of the plane. Behind the - backs of the three, Garth stepped clear from the alders and came forward, silent as a stalk- ing lynx. Mit way between the head of the plane and the spruce to which it was tied, he stopped and lowered his rifle, butt down, to lean on the muzzle: "Hullo," he sang out. "What's hap- pened? Mr. Ramill ill?" At the first word, •Huxby tensed and glanced over his shoulder. He let go. of Mr. Ramill. After a mo- ment, he jerked around and thrust out his automatic pistol towards Garth, "Swing up that rifle. butt end for - Ir.,: