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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-02-15, Page 2• PAGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription - $1.50 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher. The date to which every'. subscription is paid is denoted on the 'label. Advertising Rates -Transient adver- • tieing" 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lined. Small advertisements, not to ex- eeed one inch,such as "Wanted", "Lost," 'Strayed," etc., inserted ' once for 35c, each subsequent in- eertion 15c. Rates for display ad- vertising made known on applica- tian. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name .ef the writer. o' G. 'E; HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. • Editor. IL T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer, Financial, 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. Erydone, K.C. Sloan Block - Clinton, Ont. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. BEATRICE R. GREENE Teacher of Piano, Singing and Theory. Studio --Commercial Inn. Phone 172. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., FEB. 15, 1934 1 SYNOPSIS 1 offering his arm. Nancy took it 'and tried to look at him. Together To get fifteen thousand dollars to they walked into the dining room, Save the family honor, Nancy Gor-following the tall figure of •Mammy' don, promises to marry the well -to- I Polk. do Dr. Richard Morgan. Her be -1 Richard led her to a chair opposite loved brother, Roddy, has come home his own, Nancy sat down weakly, from New York to confess that he i hardly daring to lift her eyes, she has taken that amount from the bank was afraid the old negro woman where he works-- beeause a woman needed it -and that he will be jailed if he is found out •before he returns it. So, Nancy, in love with the pen- niless Page Roemer, decides to bor- row the money from Morgan, and pledges herself to marry him in re - tun. • He agrees to the bargain, feeling sure he can make her love him. While they are talking at his house, Roemer comes to see him. "Oh, Richard, don't let him come in here," begs Nancy when she hears his name. And as Richard looks at her the pitiful little secret of her love for Page is revealed to him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario' Street Clinton, Ont, One door west of Anglican Church. Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, 89. "Nancy, you don't quite bate me -do you?" She blushed; she remembered sad•• denly her ery to her father: "I hate that man!" And she Was going to marry. him. She felt ill and weak and trembling, but she remembered her father's ashen face in his sleep. "Nem, I don't hate you!" she ans- wered faintly. "I -oh, don't ask me, Richard." He did not; he was silent for a while, looking at her, and then he re- membered. "I'm going to get that money for you, Nancy. Fortunately, I have it here in the bank, in such shape I can get it, the whole of it, today. But it's only eight o'clock, the banks aren't .open, won't be for an hour. Will you breakfast with ine, I've on- ly got Mammy Polk here, but she's a good cook. Come to breakfast with me, Nancy, for the first time." D. H. McINNES 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 would see the traces of tears. "Try to eat something, Nancy you'll be ill. if you don't," she heard Richard's voice. "Indeed, I can't eat, Richard!" She felt his eyes on her and tried to hide her own, toying with her fork. Her lips trembled. Was he wondering why she wanted that aw- ful money? GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence prnmptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at Tee News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 103. 'Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior Guaranteed. Henri Beauty Shoppe Over Counter's Jewelry Store Isaac Street Phone 228, open evenings. "Don't ask too mueh, Richard!" she cried agonizingly. He shot a look across at her, and his own color died away slowly. "I wish you'd try to eat - See these waffles," he offered Mammy Polk's best. Nancy's ears were strained listening DOINGS IN. THE for his step coming back; she heard, instead, the clock strike, a single WORLD flute -like bell, .half past nine. Mammy Polk set a dish down and turned quickly: "Clare t' goodness, dere's Mist' Richard comingback now!" she ex- claimed: Nancy sank lower in her chair; a deep blush mounted. Then she rose slowly to her feet, gripped the edge of the table and stood, swaying .a little, her face turned toward the door, waiting for this man who was so soon to be -her husband! Richard had brought the money, all of it, and he had asked no ques- tions, not even when he saw the. haste that invaded her like a tempest, the secret haste that she wanted to hide from him and could not. "Richard, I've got to go homer" she eried trembling. "I -I must go alone, too. Don't ask me why!" And he had not asked. Suddenly his voice and his eyes were kind, as if he knew. The passion seemed to have dried out of them, but there was tenderness. ' "I'd come if I could help -. could I, Nancy?" She shook her head, speechless, poised for flight, and he was gener- ous. He let her go unquestioned and undelayed. • _ Fear winged her feet; she almost ran down the long street; she was pos- sessed with a horror of beingtoo late; of having done it all m vain! Her. imagination, a vivid, restless thing at best, pictured. Roddy's arrest just as she entered -or, worse still, he'd be an his way to New York with the detectives. She turned the corner, had a glimpse of the old house and garden, quiet under the fine old trees, and drew a breath of relief. When she opened the gate she saw Roddy walk- ing up and down inside the lilac Nancy took one and sat looking at it, her lips still trembling. "I don't want to cry into a waffle," she said in a choked voice, "don't watch one. please don't!" "1 can't -there's someone at the door now to see me," Richard rose. "I'll send him off in a jiffy-tvhy, it's ,Page Roemer!" Nancy sprang up, her face white. "Oh Richard, don't let him come in here!" she gasped. Then she raised her eyes involun- tarily nvoluntarily to his and her heart' seemed to stand still. Haw his face had chang- ed! She would never have known it, She trembled. I.f. he loved her like that it was terrible to treat him so; to come into his life and wreck it - for -for -money. Every noble in- stinct in her nature revolted against it, and yet there was Roddy and her mother and her father! Suddenly she covered her face with her hands and groaned. "Oh, Richard!" Be was startled; be felt a change in her, and his flush deepened. Some - THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office. Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea- forth; Vice -President, James Con- nolly, Goderich; secretary -treasur- er, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth, R. R. No. 3; James Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Geo. Leonhardt, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; Jahn Pepper, Brucefield; James Connolly, Gode- rich; Robert . Ferris, Blyth; Thomas: Moylan, Seaforth, R. R. No. 5; Wm. R. Archibald, Seaforth, R. R. No. 4, Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3, ?Clinton;' Jahn Murray, Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchley, Seaforth. 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. 'be promptly attended to on applica. 'tion to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post of - 'Bees. Losses inspected by the direc- +tor who lives nearest the scene. TIME TABLE -Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. •Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. fEloing East depart 3.00 p.m. (Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. 'Going West, depart 9.58 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.84. ive.11.54 a.m. *0iag South 8.08 'p,w•' Richard, who had started for the door, turned and looked at her, his heart in his eyes. For a full minute they stood thus, looking at each oth- er, and Nancy's pitiful -little secret told itself. Richard knew it. He seemed to hesitate, to be thinking hard, and his strange eyes deepened and darkened wonderfully. "I shan't bring him in, Nancy," he said quietly, and went into the next room. Nancy sank down again into her chair at the table. Every nerve in her body throbbed and quivered, she heard Page Roemer's voice, then Richard's then the movements of the two men out there in the hall. Rich• arcl was sending him away and she felt like death. If Page came into the room, if he dreamed what she had done -her face burned with shame. Horror seized her,she clung to the arms of the old mahogany chair in which she sat. It seemed to her that she had lost all power of thought and action. Then she heard the front door shut and Richard com- ing back alone. She did not lookup, she could nat. He camp in slowly and stopped beside her. "Nancy," his voice was kind, but there was emotion in it as deep as hers. "I'm going out now -to the bank. Stay here, please, with Mam- my Polk, I'll bring it straight back - the sum 'you need." She tried to answer hint but she could not. She had risen and was standing weakly, and he made her sit down again. S•Iis touch was gen- tle and his face, close to hers, flush - ,ed and paled almost like a woman's. Their eyes met, and, for the first time, he kissed' her. "Nancyl" Every nerve in her body throbbed and quivered when she heard Page Roemer's voice. thing almost like hope quickened in. his heart, but he did not speak. Neither did she, they had no time. Mammy Polk came to the door. "Breakfas' a' ready, Mist' Rieh-' ard." She was a tall, old black woman, gaunt and .erect inher striped pur- ple calico and her long apron. "Mammy Polk, we've got company to breakfast," said Richard quickly,' "Miss Gordon is going to eat break- fast with roe." Mammy Polk courtesied. "I -Howdy, Miss Nancy We'se gat waffles an' coffee; de doctah, he cion' eat muffin mornin's. °ain't I drop yo' egg on a bit ob bacon, ,Miss Nancy?" "No, no! I like waffles, Mammy Polk. I'll take anything you have?" She was trembling violently and she (iouid not raise her eyes. He held her close, pressed to his heart, and she felt his breath soft and warm on her cheek. • "1'11 make you love me!" he said again. "If I thought I couldn't - I wouldn't dare -but I will) Nancy, I will!" Her head sank lower and there was a little silence more eloquent than words. Then she gasped. "Please don't -not now, Richard! I -I can't bear any more." "I know -forgive me!" He . was up and half way to the . door, then he turned back, his heart in his eyes, hot with wrath. . He was thinking of Page Roemer. But some, thing in her attitude, in the appeal- ing profile, the air of grief and help- lessness, went to his heart.. He did not speak; he opened the door and went out. To Nancy the • shutting of that door snapped the tension. She sank lower in her chair, her eyes fixed on, a space of sunshine outside the win, clow where she could see the soft green; turf, and here and there the yellow flame of a crocus. Those yellow crocuses out there leaped up like tongues of flame, she watched them, fascinated, If she could only get out of that window and run away -she caught her breath at the thought. It would bo so easy! SCOUT Boy Scouting ht Korea Korea has eight troops of Boy Scouts of both Korean and Japanese boys, affiliated with the Boy Scouts Association of Japan. Afghan Youth Contact' With World His Excellency Ahmed Ali Khan has been appointed International Commissioner for the Boy Scouts As - sedation of Afghanistan. elf Small Scout Could Rescue 185 -Lb. Man In qualifying for his "Scout Res - eyes. • "It's mine!" she repeated with stiff lips. "Don't stand there, don't stare at me, go back to New York, Oh, Roddy, go before it's too late!" A light broke over his perturbed face. Relief or something akin to it. Oh, Lord, I'm thankful!" he breathed, folding the envelope up, and staring at her, "I'm going -but Nance, where on earth did you get it? I must know that!" Her eyes darkened suddenly, she choked back a sob. "I'll never tell -unless you trust me and go -right away." Roddy stared, 'his jaw dropping, he turned white and then red. "Nan- cy Virginia, did you tell -to get it?" Nancy, who -.felt his shamed mis- take, threw' her arms about him. • "I didn't -I vow I didn't, Rod! I just borrowed it." "Borrowed it -.on no security? Lord, Nancy, how can we pay it back?" Anger welled up again in Nancy. She had suffered and he took it this way -without thought of her! "We'll do it somehow, Rod! Can't you trust me -1 won't tell, I won't truly! Oh, Rod, do you want to go to jail •Can't you wake up, take it and go-go!" Their eyes met. She was clinging to his •arm, pushing him away, urg- ing him to go, and they were very lad weighing but 90 pounds, made a demonstration rescue of a 185 -pound man. emarmase Kashmir Boys See Their First Movie A troop of Boy Scouts who had never before left the vicinity of their mountain villages on the borders of India, China and Russia, hiked 250 miles to Srinagar for a birthday celebration of the Maharajah of Kashmir. They were entertained by the Srinagar Scouts, and amongst other wonders saw their first in ovier Roddy, utterly amazed, stood star- ing blankly as she thrust the pack- age into his hands. hedge. He paced restlessly, but with a dragging, dejected gait. He want- ed to escape it all, but theme was no escape -except by the road. He had promised Nancy not to go until she came back. And then it might be too late. thereareas Producing Leadership Character That the world is calling for lead- ers of high character and a true spir- it of service; that the Boy Scout ,Movement is producing the kind re- quired, and that in its efforts Scout- ing is "only on the first step of the ladder," was the declaration of Lord Bledisloe; Governor-General and Chief Scout for the Dominion of New Zealand, at a Scout rally at Auckland. thiereMehr Scout Saved Others, Himself a Victim A tragic medal presentation was the posthumous award of the Scout Gilt •Cross for Scout Fred Rose to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rose of Richmond Hill, Ont. The award was made for the stopping of a runa- way motor car just before it plunged into a group of playing children. The car, left in front of a church on a street incline, in some way started down the hill. Scout Rose ran and jumped' on the running -board, and tried to ;open the locked door. Ile fell, but caught the rear bumper. Af- ter being dragged some 50 yards he succeeded in climbing up over the car and through an open window, and stopped it just before it reached the children. Two weeks later the boy himself was struck by a car and kil- led. • GO'DERICH: The harbor is resum- ing some activity as boats are being cut out of the ice preparatory to unloading at the Western Canada Flour Mills and the elevator. On GENIAL BARRY EILBER RE- TIRES AFTER FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE. close together. Monday, 15,000 :bushels were dis- "I did it for father," she said charged from the Steamer Prescott flatly, "it was killing him. Now go at the mill. The dredge began cut- -go. There's a train, you can just ting ice away around the Briscoldoc catch it!" on Tharsday so that it can be moved :He hesitated, in an agonyof to the leg of the elevator for un- shame. He wanted to' fling the bed- loading. rowed money back, to say he'd face jail first, but his courage ebbed as the temptation pressed against his heart, he held the package gingerly, but ,he kneav the money was there - the money to save him! (Continued Next Week) Nancy was thankful that he was alone. She could tell him so much more easily than she could tell her parents. They were her real prob- lems. "'Roddy," she breathed in catchy gasps. "I ran all the way -here's the money -go to New York and pay it all back!" Roddy, utterly amazed, stood star- ing blankly as she thrust the bulky package into his hands. She had nev- er looked .smaller or more childlike; her pale face drawn, tears of ,excite- ment misting her blue eyes, only her lips touched with red, moist and trembling. She roust nave gone mad; he thought soberly. Take it, take it, Rod! It's all right -'bonds and securities as good as gold, you can cash them, take them and go -quick, quick, before it's too late!" He took the bundle, glanced at its contents and stared at her with his mouth open. "Where in mischief did you get it, Nancy?" • "I-1 got it-" she stopped, lean- ing against a tree, breathless. She was so pale that her blue eyes looked dark. "It doesn't matter -I borrow- ed it, you can have it, Roddy." He' was turning the papers over, bondsand securities and cash. His amazement deepened as he counted and assured himself that all were genuine. Fifteen thousand dollars --the whole sum -- from the 'gods! Howlin the name of heaven-? He stared at his sister, the red glinting inlzis wine -brown eyes. "What have you been doing? Where in the world did you get this Nancy " he demanded 'hoarsely. "I didn't steal it!" she said in a low voice. Ile turned on her. "Don't rub that, in!" he cried almost fiercely. There seemed to be no gratitude, no re- sponse in him. 'He' stared at her as if he thought her a thief, she had hurt hien cruelly. Her face crimsoned under his Mammy Pollc smiled. "I reckon. Could she? But there was Roddy to yo'11 like de waffles," she said proud- ge to jail, and her father! She reg lyi membered and shuddered, hiding her "Mammy's famous for them," said eyes, Richard. ''Come, Nancy, let's go . She heard illanmry Pollee ;mice, but out to breakfast," the words were blurred, the •old wo. He bent over her, his .face aglow, man ,was babbling about Richard. HENRY EMBER, CREDITON who has retired from public life of - ter serving the public for 52. years. A lifelong resident of his native village, he has been deputy reeve sof Stephen Township, reeve, and for twenty one years represented South Huron in the Provincial, Haase. He has for many years been clerk of Stephen Township and has been succeeded as clerk by his son, Herbert Eilber, whose years as treasurer and as his father's assistant fit him for his duties. 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