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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-02-04, Page 2} PAGE 2 GLINTON :NEWS-RECOR11` THURiS ,FEB. 4, 1937 The Clinton News -Record. With which .le Incorporated THE NEW. ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 mer v"ear in advance, to Cana- dian addresses. $2.00 to the ILS. or ,the, foreign countries. No paper' discontinued until all arrears are paid, unless ak the option of the publish- er. The data to 'which every ' sub ecinition is paid, is denoted on the +abet. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran - client:: advertising 12c per count' line for first insertion. •Se 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 36e, each subsequent insertion 15e. 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, M. R. CLARK, ` Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer 88inancial, Real Estate and Fire In- eurance Agent. Representing 14 Fire 'insurance Companies. Division Court Office, 'Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydene, K.C. Sloan Block Clinton, Ont. D. H. McINNE;S CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage 'Office: Huron Street. (Few 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 'Phe 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 - ,per, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A, Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; James Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub- lin; John E. Pepper, Brucefield; dames Connolly, Goderieh; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, °Seaforth; Alex. cEwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- •Con, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKereher, Dublin, R. R. 'No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; IR. 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 Cutt's Grocery,, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will Ibe 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. ANADiAN. ATIONAI RAILWAYS 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 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 12.02 p.m. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34, lve 12.02 pan. Going South 3.08 p.m. .••11.r obert Ames Benne SYNOPSIS Allen Garth is ,preparing to make. a trip to a mine which he has discov- ered in the Canadian Northwest when an aeroplane appears at the little re- fueling station and an elderly man, a young man and a young woman alight. The two men who are looking for mining prospects, become much in- terested in some specimens of ore shown them by Garth. They are all ranter haughty, especially the girl, and treat Garth like a servant, but he shows his independence and does- n't allow himself to be ordered about. They decide to take Garth in their 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. They become so interested that they try to get away in their plane leaving him behind so they can put in their claim for the mine. They are thwar- ted in this and their plane is swept down the falls and destroyed. Garth then agrees to lead them out if they will do just as he says and when they get to the river Huxby shoots Garth from ambush, also wounding Hamill. But though wounded Garth is not kil- led and Lilith, realizing this and fear- ing. that if Huxby finds it out he will finish the job, drives him off, declar- ing she will kill him if he approaches them. Huxby goes, taking the canoe and Garth's gun. He procures a plane, some miners' equipment and the help of some old miners and flies back to the mine. Garth, on recov- ering from his wound, signals a ship She flung out her hands. "Oh, if and they are taken out to civilization. only I could go along to help! I'm Garth informs the authorities of Hux- so afraid he'llfind you. All those by'theft of the mine and his at- guns—he and his men —you, empty - tempted pted murder of himself and a Goderich Fisherman Given Life -Saving Award A recognition' long overdue, has :been awarded to Bert MacDonald . of Goderieh by the. Royal Life -Saving So- ciety. The award, which was a parch- ment, has been; given to Bert for his courage and the cool judgment he u - 'ed in rescuing Fred Hardy, 226 Bruns- wick street, Stratford; from the ehil- ,ly waters of Lake Huron on October 10th of last year, Mr. Hardy • was fishing on the breakwater with two other men when .a gale began to blow. Bert warned the men and told them thatthey had better come in but his warning was unheeded. A little later the waves were washing over the breakwater and Bert 'went out to bring the fish- ermen in. He had just arrived on the scene when Hardy was washed from the sea-wall. His heavy clothing hampered him and he would in all probability have been drowned but for the prompt action of the rescuer who extended a pole and pulled the drowning man to the safety of the lboat. Some weeks later, H. T. Ed- wards, Children's Aid Society Super- iintendent in Goderich, had application forms filled out by the rescued man and a witness and sent them in to the Royal Society in order that Mr. MacDonald might receive recognition for his action. This Bert MacDonald is considered something more than a man in Gode- rich. He is a fixture, something very indispensible. A MISUNDERSTANDING When the preacher called for wo- men to stand up and promise to go home and mother their husbands only 'one little woman arose, and when he told her to go honor at once and mother her husband,' she said, "Moth - ser .him? I thought you said Smother 'him!" nights had become long and black. Garth wakened a full two hours be- fore dawn. He had gone to -sleep, mindful of a hazard to his plans. There had been more wind with storm than he had expected. If it had broken up the ice on the lake, the. cabin plane must either have gone to the bottom or else have driven close in upon the east shore, Lilith opened her eyes as Garth fin- ished his hasty meal of lamp -seared meat and fat. Re explained abort the plane. Her hands clutched together tilI they whitened. "You --you'll be careful?" "Never fear. I'll come back to look out for you." He stripped off his buckskins to put on the caribou leg- gings and parka over the inner suit of rabbit -fur. "The storm has blown out. C1ea'r sky, and about ten below zero. Keep treating your ankle, and work on your suit." "But—how long?—" He handed• her the knife, but took the belt -ax. "If I'm not back soon, it will not be till late afternoon or after dark. They may turn out early, like myself, to have a look at their plane. In that case, I'll have to hide-out all day." "You'll freeze!" That won a smile from him. "This is an Eskimo rig. I've sat in one for hours beside a seal hole, at forty be- low zero. Finish your own suit, and crawl out to enjoy the frost. Only, be careful of that ankle. When out- side, keep close to the igloo, and duck inside if you see anyone else than t' S• t Dillon,detailed t o handed!". Mountie, le, r g. is o g out and get Huxby, Garth going as Garth met the almost frantic outs guide. Lilith determines to go along and nothing can stop her. They land at the edge of the wood where the other plane was wrecked and Dillon and Garth go up to the camp. As soon as Dillon shows himself and de- mands the surrender of Huxby he is deliberately shot. In the shots follow- ing Garth's gun is shot from his hand but he escapes and manages to take the body of Dillon to the plane. He and Lilith then go to a place near a glacier where Garth has a cache of food, make camp and plan to "get" these desperate sten single-handed. burst with a look of cool irony. "Do you take me for a cheehahco? Mark this—that scoundrel Huxby is the man who's in danger." With the assurance, Garth crept out through the tunnel, shoving his snowshoes ahead of him. Snow had continued to fall after the wind had died down. That meant easy track- ing. In the dim starlight, he had to guess at the covering of his trail to the stream channel. During the night, the last dwind- ling flow had choked the channel with anchor ice, had flooded over the snow, and frozen solid. Garth took off his snowshoes and crept across the glare NOW GO ON WITH TALC STORY• ice without leaving any marks. She stared, astonished. "What! On the other bank, he plowed a You—trapped here in the valley, with heavy trail up into the ice tunnel, no means of defense; and he bound and brought from the storage cave to hunt you out—murder you!" tone of the retraining legs of caribou. "Don't let that worry you, Miss 'He left the meat atop the moraine, Hamill. By this time he and his men and started down the tundra as fast are back at their camp. If he comes as he could travel by starlight. Dawn was graying over the east mountain wall of the valley when he neared the lake. He crossed over the up here, after the storm, he'll not dis- cover us." ."But—but you can't get away!" Garth's smile hardened. "Neither frozen ford and went to peer at the can they. Now tend to your ankle. three -seater plane in the growing I'm going for meat." frozen twilight. It stood much higher Ile dressed and crawled out into than he had left it. the storm. When at last he came back I A close view showed that the engin- in, he had brought nearly half of the eer and his men had managed to raise caribou meat from the ice cave and the craft above water by cribbing stacked it around the igloo. He had logs under the shattered pontoons. also set up blocks of snow -crust to The top logs of the crib brought the bottom of the floats level with the thickening skim ice. Long poles, had been set to brace the wings, against the wind gusts. Garth swung aboard,' As he ex- pected, all the food had been taken a- way. So also had been the breaker points from the magneto. .Huxby no shape a drift of new snow in a cer- tain way. Lilith was bent over her snow - packed ankle, slow -welling tears rol- ling down her flushed cheeks, He spoke with restrained concern: "Sor- ry' it hurts- so bad. Hoped the cold would ease it." "Don't!" she snapped. "Don't you doubt had figured that the canoe dare pity me! 'It doesn't hurt stow- builder might repair the 'floats with not at all. It's—it's because I'm so rawhide, and run away with the three - utterly useless!" • seater. To baik the engineer, in turn "Well, PM not so .sure of that. Garth helped himself to the breaker We're in for a cold, spell. There'll be cam. plenty of needlework. Those caribou He jumped back on the bank, and skins weren't tanned for rugs." mushed eastwards along the shore in He unrolled the thawed wolverine the dim grayness. At first, thickets of alders and willows cut off alt view pelt and showed big of the lake. He did not trouble to With his knife hea started of catgut. to shape caribou shins for parkas and trousers.jseek an opening until he had covered LiIith's eyes brightened. She soften- a half mile There he came to a ed a length of catgut in the melted remembered stretch of partly open lamp -fat, andasked for a needle. +bank. All the remainder of that day of Though the gray dawn had grown. a death and storm, both of them plied little less faint, he peered for several awl and buckskin needle and catgut moments without sighting the cabin thread. Neither was an Eskimo ; plane. It seemed as if its pontoons seamstress. But their stitches, l must have been sawed through by though coarse, were strong. By night-lthe sharp -edged sheet ice, so that the fall they, finished the first caribou- aircraft had foundered in deep water. skin suit—waistlong sock -leggings,:' But then he made out vaguely a and parka with hood front, fringed; white shape against the white of the with wolverine fur. snow-covered ice. A short dash After another meal of broiled meat,' brought him close to the grounded Garth went out and climbed the lot -I plane,' It lay in shallow water, sur- eral moraine to gather a quantity of •rounded by freezing slush. The biiz- caribou moss from between the snout- !zard bad hit the lake hard enough to drifts on the wind-swept tundra, break up the sheet ice and crack it When he returned, Lilith lay asleep I into pieces too small to grind through on one of the uncut shins. She had the sides of the pontoons. sunk dews, completely tired out. I The plane had been driven across Garth covered her over, blocked the Iinto this earner of the lake, along roof hole with a chunk of soft snow, !with the sludge. The shoreward - and spread his own skin mat on the swung tail was only a biscuit togs out other side of the lamp from the giri.1from the solid bank. Garth hastened He lay down on it and snuffed out to fetch small trunks and pieces of the light, rotted logs from the down timber, un- der the nearest trees. By tossing out CHAPTER XX chunks of log on the snow-covered sludge and bog, :he was able to make The Bedeviling a slender footbridge with pair's of With the: ending of summer the trunks. The, last extension proved touch and go, Cross pieces and stringers drove under his weight, into, the sludge-fil- led water and the mud beneath. But he had made a dash of it. His hands: clutched hold of the rudder before he could stink. He climbed upon the tail, ran for- ward to the cabin, and swung inboard. The frozen body of Constable ,Dillon lay on the floor where he had placed, it. He buckled this cartridge belt with its holstered pistol about his own waist, took the keys and handcuffs from Dillon's ,pocket,` and climbed out to scramble forward into the cockpit. The side of the cockpit had been pierced by several bullets. But when ifuxby fired at the drifting plane, in his attempt to kill the supposedly hidden fugitives, he had aimed with great care to avoid damage to the in- struments and controls and the motor. After removing the breaker points from'the magneto, Garth ran back to the tail of the plane. Here came the greatest of his risks. The bridge poles had riser. to the surface again, but the outermost cross logs remained em- bedded in the mud under the water. He let himself down sideways. As his moccasins touched the slender trunks, he let go of the rudder and leaped. Though the ends of the poles shot downwards, his swift dash car- ried him up their sharp slant to the next pair of trunks. The rest of the improvised bridge was fairly firm, A single misstep anywhere along it would have landed him in deep bog; but he had done far too much canoeing and rough -ground running to lack balance or sure-foot- edness. Safe back on solid ground, he at once stepped into his snowshoes and headed straight away from the shore into a dense growth of spruce. There he circled to the right towards the glacier gulch, keeping well back from the lake. Midway to the stream channel he stopped where, through separate vis- tas, he could see both planes. The gray dawn had brightened enough to make them visible at a distance. He sat down on a log to wait. In the Es- kimo suit, the cold was negligible. A look at the constable's pistol showed it to be fully loaded. He took off the belt and buckled it on again up under the loose fullness of his parka. Holstered between the cari- bou skin and his rabbit -fur under - suit, the oil in the pistol mechanism would become warm. Cold oil is apt to jam a gun. After making sure of the pistol, he had nothing to do except give his face an occasional rub to prevent frostbite, He sat restfully relaxed, as patient as an Eskimo hunter be- side a seal hole. Very slowly the gray dawn brightened. It at last began to mellow into gold, From across the lake came the crack of rifles—three shots in quick succession. Garth told himself that Huxby or his men were hunting noose. He surmised why. The en- gineer planned to cover the shatter- ed ends of the three -seater plane's floats with rawhide. The sun glared over the lagged barrier mountains into the frost -grip- ped valley. Quite a while later, Garth saw one of his four enemies come out of the trees near the lake shore, on the far side of the frozen glacier stream. The man carried a big folded hide on his left shoulder. He held his rifle ready for a quick shot, and as he advanced, he peered around at the brush and trees. A shout turned the man's steps up towards the ford. Other shouts came from the slope above. Garth smiled, It was as he had foreseen. In com- ing to repair the floats of the three - seater plane, Huxby and .his men had formed a line from the lake shore to timberline and searched the spruce woods. But the hunters had found no trace of their quarry all the way to the bank of the frozen glacier stream. There, however, the snowshoe tracks coming down from the tundramade plain sign even for chechahcos. Hux- by cane running along the trail, fol- lowed by the man with the moose- hide, Near the plane the engineer stop- ped for the miner to overtake him. They approached the stranded air- craft warily, with rifles raised, rea- dy to shoot. When nothing happened, Hubxy 'signed for his companion to drop the hide and climb aboard. As the man obeyed, another of the min- ers came running down the trail. Huxby was looking at the tracks that led on along the lake shore. The man on the plane peered into the three cockpits. Huxby sighted the cabin plane across the corner of, the lake. lie shouted and painted to it, but waited for the second miner to come up before starting on along the trail. The fourth .matt of the party appeared up the stream bank. • (Continued next week). DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Scott's "Discovery" Given Boy Scouts Canadian Sea Scouts visiting Lon- don may shortly be able to "sign on" for their stay aboard Captain Scott's famous Antarctic research ship the "Discovery." Announcement of the turning over of this famous vessel to the Boy Soucts Association by the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands was made by Imperial Scout Headquarters. According to the an- nouncement the "Discovery" will be used for a number of definite pun - THS !MEL OF.FIEWER PERHAPS the artist has exaggerated a little -but his point is clear and true. There is far, far less ash with coke than with other hard fuels. This simple fact means that you save not only money by using Hamco Coke but much back -breaking labour in shifting ashes. (Not to mention the fact that coke is much lighter on the shovel.) And your wife saves on her house-cleaning tasks because coke is free from dust, soot and grime. Add to these advantages, — the greatest blessing of all —quicker heat in the morning and a steady, easy -to -control warmth all day — and your choice should be obvious. Try Hamco Coke next time. Your dealer is waiting to serve you! HAMILTON aY.PRODUCTCOKE OVENS, LIMITED, HAMILTON, CANADA COKE'S LOWER PRICE IS BUT ONE OF iTS ASSETS Coke first came into promi- nence in Ontario when supplies of other hard fuels ran short. Some people therefore who have never used coke look upon it as a "substitute" for other hard fuels. This is far from the fact. The discovery of coke, centuries ago, was a great step forward in fuel development. Coke ovens were built, last century, right at the mines so that coal could be transformed into coke to satisfy the demand. Gradually, householders Iearned of the unique properties of coke in domestic furnaces. Irrespective of price they found it heated their homes more thor- oughly with less trouble, fewer ashes and no soot or smoke. To these advantages is added the lower cost. In the opinion of a vast army of house- holders By -Product Coke is the most economical of all solid smokeless fuels. Remember, there is no finer coke on the market than Hamco, made in Canada. HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by= J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. VICTOR FALCONER W. J. MILLER & SON . A. D. McCARTNEY poses: A Iiving memorial to Captain Scott, Sir Douglas Mawson and other polar explorers. As a Headquarters for the Sea Scout Branch of the Boy Scouts Association. As a Training Centre for Sea Scouts. As a Training centre f o r poor and unemployed Scouts. As a rendezvous for Deep Sea Scouts. As a Hostel for Over- sea Scouts who may from time to time be passing through London, and in particular for those who are sons or descendants of British settlers ov- erseas. Funds to finance the project were presented the Scout Association shortly before her death by the late Lady Houston. Boys "Trained" For The Death House "Do you realize that future occu- pants of the death house at Sing Sing are today being trained for that des- tiny?—that today boys, through miss taken training and unfavourable en- vironment, are heading straight foe the electric chair'?" This was the tragic query added to a recent ap- peal by Warden Lawes of Sing Sing prison for more Scout Leaders, to make available to more American boys the interest arousing activities of the Scouting programme. ....= . , • A dverti are a guide to vai ne * Experts can roughly estimate the value of a produt by looking at it. More accurately, by handling and examining it. Its appear. ante, its texture, the "feel" and the balance of it all mean some- thing to their trained eyes and fingers. e But no one person can be an expert on steel, brass, wood, lea- ther, foodstuffs, fabrics, and all of the materials that make up a list of personal purchases. And even'experts are fooled, sometimes, by concealed flaws and imperfections. There is a surer index of value than the senses of sight and touch. —knowledge of the maker's name and for what it stands. Here is the most certain method, except that of actual use, for judging the value of any manufactured goods. Here is the only guarantee against careless workmanship, or the use of shoddy materials. This is one important reason why it pays to read advertise- ments and to buy advertised -goods. The product that is advertised is worthy of your confidence. Merchandise must be good or it could not be consistently advertised. Buy advertised goods. ThoCiillton A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING mous. PHONE P --READ ADS IN THIS 4