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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1934-12-13, Page 2PAGE THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD ,Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Terme of Subscription — $1.50 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S. , :or oth- e$. 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- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c fo,r each • subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 Iincs. Small advertisements, not to ex- teed one inch, such as "Wanted'•, ''.Lost," "Strayed," ,etc., inserted ono, for 35c, each subsequent in- sertion 15c., Ratesfor display ad, vertising made known on applies - tips. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith. be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. WHAM, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. fl. 'T. RA) CE Notary Public, Conveyancer financial, Meal Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance 'Companies. 'Division 'Court Office, Clinton. Frank F'ingland, B.A., LL.B. "Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successca• to W. Brydone, S.C. lsioan Block — Clinton, Oat, DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west of Anglinan Church. Phone 172 Oyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. .H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, SL DR. E. A. AXON Dentist Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago and R.C.D.S., Toronto, Crown and plate work a specialty. Phone 186, Clinton, Ont. 19-4-84. 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 SYNOPSIS Ellen Church, 17 years old, finds herself alone in the world with her artist mother's last warning ringing in her ears, to "love lightly." Of the world she knew little. All her life she had lived alone with her mother in an old brown, house in a small rur- al community. All her life, first .as a new baby, then a bubbling child, then a charming young girl . she had posed for her talented mother who sold her magazine cover, painting through an art agent in the city . Mrs. Church's broken life . . . the unfaithful husband, his disappearance . and after seventeen years of sil- ence announcement of his death was at last disclosed to Ellen. The news of the husband's death killed Mrs. Church.... Ellen, alone. turned to the only contact she knew, the art agent in New York. Posing, years of posing, was her only talent so she was introduced to two leading ar- tists, Dick Alven and Sandy Macin- tosh. Both used her as a model and both fell in love with her ... but El- len, trying to follow the warped phil- osophy of her mother to "love light- ly" resists the thought of love. Her circle, of friends is small, artists and two or three girl models. Ellen at- le so that he ---.and not the waiter— tends a ball with Sandy. While dant- might pull back Ellen's chair, was saying—,. "What now?". Ellen's winglike eyebrows were dark smudges in her white face. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Willy now," she said, "now, you know, Tony! I'm going on to Dick, To pose for him." GEORGE ELLIOTT 4,:censed 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 Satisfactlor Guaranteed, DOUGLAS R. NAIRN Barrister, SolicitorandNotary Public ISAAC STREET, CLINTON Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays --.10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone 115 3-34. he said, and Tony was handing him a'bill that shone very yellow in the dim light. And then Tony's arias around her, right there in the church. And his Bps asking questions against her lips . . . And her lips answering those questions .. , * 'lie a1F "Mss. Brander!" As she sat across the suavely white luncheon table from her new husband—nervously sipping a tomato juice cocktail and trying not to quake both inwardly and outward- ly—Ellen endeavoured to tell herself that it was really her name, now. And then she realized that Tony s voice was speaking. A light voice — a gay voice. "Oh," she said summoning up what courage she could. "Oh, so you're still there!" "And will be,"," answered Tony, "for the next fifty years, at least!" It wasn't such a gay luncheon, after all. Not exactly the sort of a lunch- eon that a boy and a girl might have together, after a chance meeting at a jazz party. In a short while it was over. And Tony, rushing around the tab ing a tall young man claimed her and romance is born. 1TH * °* Tony, his eyes alight— ('But it doesn't mean anything, it's just that I'm a new sensation!" Ellen tried to tell herself) was helping her out of the car. All at once his attitude to - Ward her held a difference—it was as if she had grown very soft, very fra- gile. "Well, here we are," said Tony. "Any laststatement you'd like to make to the press, Miss Church? Be- fore entering the church?" Ellen essayed a smile. She was realizing that she wouldn't be Miss anything much longer. "Keep back the reporters, big boy. For I'm to be queen of the May!" Tony was answering seriously, "You haven't any flowers!" And then they were in the chinch, and it was dim and cool and sweet and somehow very lonely. And Ellen ceased suddenly to think of Tony, and thought instead of her mother. Lying in a cool, sweet, lonely place. Of her mother who had warned her, with that sad, whhnsical mirth, against the very thing she was about to do. That, oh, God—her heart had already done! The minister had coma swiftly into the room. A minister who wasn't at all old: who Iooked at Ellen as if he liked her and who shook hands, firm- ly, with Tony. The minister exam- ined the marriage license, and said to Ellen— "You're very young, aren't you?" And, "Haven't you any people you'd like to have with you? Or --at the shake of Ellen's head, "or any friends to be witnesses?" Again Ellen shook ,her head mute- ly, but Tony answered. Ile wasn't awed by the loneliness of the church, not Tony—he wasn't eaten by mem- ories! "We didn't even remember we hacl friends," he told the minister. "Say, isn't there someone around here who can witness this for us?" The minister nodded. He wasn't as young as Ellen had thought, at first! He left the chapel. And, while he was gone, Tony bent swiftly, and kissed Eilen. It was not the kiss of posses- sion—it was a comforting, friendly kiss, Just exactly the sort of a kiss that Ellen needed. It made her whole soul turn to Tony! The minister was back again with a pian in overalls, with grass stains on them—he would be the handy man who took care of the square of lawn and "a tall, girl with spectacles. He had put a gown over his dark suit, and he carried a slim prayer book in his hand. "Stand together, so,',' he told Dalen and Tony. "No, in front of me. Join THE McEILLOP 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, Londesbora; Geo. Leonhardt, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John 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 1VLurray, Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Finley McKer- cher, Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid oto the Royal'. Bank, Clinton; Bank of 'Commerce, Seaforth, ay at Calvin +Cult's Grocery, Goderlch. Parties desiring to effect incur. ,since .or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies. 'tion to any df the above officers ,addressed to their respective post of - 'Semi. Losses inspected by the direo- hands. No, your right hands ..." Ellen, in a daze, felt Tony's large fingers close around her small ones. The minister's words swam around her in a mist of sound. Beautiful words—liquid, musical phrases --t the marriage service. "Dearly beloved," said the minister, and then—, for who lives nearest the icons. "For better, for. worse, for richer, for poorer—" (Was Tony glancing down at her—didn't he knob couldn't ti he guess, that the money didn't mat- rons li ..!-A� ter) "In sickness and in health . ." TIME TABLE A mist of words. And the tall girl •T`ratns will arrive at and depart from fussing with a hang nail on her thumb Clinton as. follows: —and the man in overalls scratehing Buffalo and Goderich M. his ear, and a fly buzzing just in back ,Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. of the minister's head. And Tony's ,tiding East depart 5.00 p.m. hands so damp, so slippery with .Going West, depart 11.50 a.m, moisture that it was hard for him. to ,Being West, depart 9.68 p.ee. London. Huron & Bruce nein North, ar, 11.34.lve.11.54a;m. I ANAD place the little sapphire hoop on El- len's finger. The minister was speaking. "Irow do you do, Mrs, Brander!" She couldn't, have forgotten it—not really --it was such a gallant, glitter ing small ring. She drew it off so sharply that one of its blue stones scratched her littlest finger of all, and folded it into the corner of her handkerchief, and placed the hanker - chief in her pocket. She transferred the other ring, the great solitary sapphire, to .her right hand. She felt like a feminine Judas as she did it; Dick was standing ,before a huge canvas, with his paint -marked shirt carelessly open at the throat, and his hair rumpled, and his eyes intent up- on some detail of his picture. She went behind thescreen in. Dick's studio. And got out of her, blue crepe dress (her wedding dress!) and put on the white buckskin suit and the coral and turquoise beads. And like a little girl—only one dress- ed up to play pretend—she emerged from behind the screen, and took her place in a kneeling attitude, with her two pink palms cupped together in front of her, and her face raised to the smoky blur of the studio ceiling. She was an Indian priestess, you see. A very young one—suitable to belong in any school. Dick made no comment. He paint- ed with bold, sure, brisk strokes. It was four -thirty. Ellen, counting the strokes of the clock that sounded from the Metropolitan Tower', not so far away, wondered if Dick were al- most through with painting. Dick was painting absorbedly. She knew that she couldn't break into his ab- sorption, no matter what came of it! The years with her mother had taught her not to interrupt creation unless some desperation drove her. How- ever, she asked herself, wasn't mar- riage a desperate maltter? Wasnit it, in the final analysis? She began to count her heartbeats—each heart- beat was a second, wasn't it? She IShe paused, but [the thunderbolt didn't fall, not as she expected it to —mot as it had fallen before. Tony's voice was low, and rather carefully controlled, but he didn't say any- thing at all harsh.. "How long will you be?" he asked. "You'll let me drive you to his place, of course, This Dick Alven's, I mean. And I'll stop for you,'if I may, after the posing is done. It was his compliance that hurt. Ellen again felt the rush of tender- ness toward ilim, wifely tenderness, that she had felt in the little chapel. She was eager to release the thing that was disturbing Tony, to tell him It wasn't such a gay luncheon, after all. counted for a long while.. , . The cloak chimed again in the Tower. It was four forty-five. "Almost done?" she ventured nerv- ously. But Dick didn't answer, which meant that he wasn't, There was a shuffle of feet on the stairs. Ellen started, her nervousness growing, before she realized that the shuffle was too light to be made by Tony's feet. It must be a girl who was coining. It was a girl. It was Claire, per- fectly'groomed from her slippers of suede to her soft straw beret. "I didn't expect to see you here," she said, "after what I heard! I thought for once that I might get a break and find Diek by himself." der, just because you're supposed' to be a wide -eyed -innocent. And then you treat me like a sap!" Suddenly Dick had laid' aside the palette with which he had been toy- ing. In long strides, he had crossed the room to Sandy's side. As he stood there, he looked very formidable; for all his gauntness. (Continued Next Week) Ellen hadn't heard the last part of the other girl's speech. Her whole being stood forward, on tiptoe, to catch the first part of it. "W'hat have you heard?" she asked in a breathless little voice. "Froin the tons of her "you'd think our ewe lamb had solve - thing on the old conscience, what? Never can tell, can one, Dicky? How- ever," perhaps she sensed the hyster- ia back of Ellen's blazing eyes, "however, it was thisI I heard that Sandy was out gunning for you. That he was abandoned, absolutely aban- doned by you, at the Six Arts last ev- ening. That you 'blew, just before dawn, with a handsomer -man. How's that for 'scandal, Dick? Ilow's that?" DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD THURS., DEC. 13, 1934 CLOSING SESSION OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL HELD LAST WEEK Had Si ccestful Year, $5000 Surplus To End Year Huron County has had a most suc- cessful' year, both in financial and' public service :natters, warden Geo - H. Elliott declared when addressing Huron County Council at the opening Montana Boy Scouts are building' a o1 the December session inGed'erich`r' scout trail north towards the Cana- last week; lionn border at Glacier Park. Warden Elliott occupied the chair and all the members were present. • 11p ' Harvey Erskine, county treasurer; Alberta Scout Sails With Prince was. absent; being• confined' to his home through illness. The voyage to Australia of Prince "it is most graitfying to note by. Henry aboard H.M.S. Sussex had a the roll -call all members present,"' special interest for the Boy Scouts said Warden Elliott, "We have ar- of the 8th Calgary Troop. A former rived' at theclosing chapter for 1934. member of its Wolf Patrol was one The year just drawing to a close has of the Warship's radio men. been an eventful one in so far as •, * * county affairs are concerned: Last India's Caste Barriers Giving Way December we witnessed the ushering out of a very unfortunate episode. According to Canon Gould, General' "I entered the post of warden Secretary of the Missionary Society folly conscious of the responsibilitity of the Church of England, the Boy entailed and determined to carry out Scout Movement in India is helping to my duties to the best of my ability, oveicome the rigid caste system, and' and having now almost completed my in this way working greatly for the term r can- stand- aside satisfied' that benefit of the country. Dick was scraping the paint from his palette. FIe held his palette knife very much as if it were a dagger. "Ellen told me all about. it," he said briefly. The clock struck five—the clods in the Tower. A.nd Ellen, who for a moment had forgotten. whirled about on one slender moccasined heel: "Oh, I must run," she said. "I really must, Dick.,: I've a date for five. I must-"' Claire hitched her skirts the merest that, as far as she was concerned, the fraction of an inch lower. "I suppose posing was done, now! That she that the red Rolls, at the curb, is didn't : care if she ever saw a studio waiting 10, you?" again. That she didn't even .care if Ellen was staring toward the screen Dick—dear, honest, faithful Dick — but she stopped short at Claire's were quite swept out of her life. She words. Stopped for a blank second wanted to look into the blue eyes of as Cinderella must have stopped her husband, to look so long that her when all' of her loveliness was turn- ing soul would be lost in theft ing back to rags. blueness, but— "It's not down there already?" she "It'll take about two hours," she asked. "Why, I said " said. "I'm due there at, three. Yes, Claire was laughing. Her laugh - you can drive me to the place, Tony. ter blew, like thistledown,against the And you may," she didn't want, some- "sound of feet—the sound of feet, how, to give the permission, but there once more, climbing the stairs. wasn't any way out, "you may stop Again Ellen's heart stood still. For for me, at five." thistime the tread was unmistakably In silence they entered the red car masculine., Again she, herself, stood again. In silence they,drove once still, with her eyes on the door. more up the proud avenue.' At Ellen's Knowing, even as she waited, that bidding Tony turned off, at last, into the anxious, eyes of Dick, the scorn- a side street --+into a small alley. And ful eyes of Claire, were upon her. then he stopped the ear in front of And then the door opened and El - the building that she indicated. len, with relief bubbling up to her "I suppose," he said with a childish lips, found• that she was laughing. wistfulness, "that you'd not like to Only she .shouldn't have laughed, have me 005116 up, and wait for you really—not at ;Sandy) For Sandy's in the studio?' I'd be very quiet." face was as lugubrious as it was ang- But Ellen shook her head in swift ty terror, a terror that was inspired by "I thought maybe I'd find you here a certain sense of embarrassment. he told Ellen. "Say, you're a peach, "Not now, Tolyl" she said. "Not you are! I hunted all aver the whole till five. I'll be down here, at the hotel for you." door, waiting them."Eillen didn't say anything. She .Only Ellen—wearily climbing the merely stood, in her white buckskin stairs to Dick's high attic studio— suit, and rocked back and forth with did now know how long Tony sat in the storm of her mirth: Only it was the red roadster, beside the front door not just good clean fun, that mirth of the studio house. With his hands it was' something of a ,that up- clasped tight an the wheel, and his heaval. mouth not very firm, and his eyes "I'd'lilce to know how you got like staging straight ahead at nothing at that, all of a sudden. Going so loose, ali. I mean.' Ater all, I've been pretty Just before she knocked on the regular---" stormed Sandy. "No, Dick door of Dick's studio, even as her I'm darned if I'll can it! --art hasn't 1 hand was raised for the knocking. El- always beet, the easiest thing in the len remembered her wedding ring. world, letting you get away with mur- Scout Thanks Badge For H.B.C. I- have' carried' out the task entrusted tome. When the financial report is presented I know that you will all agree that we have made a decided Official improvement in the financial affairs of the' county. A gold Scout Thanks Badge was The result has not been accomplish-• presented by i,t -Col.=Gov. W. L. ed' without the loyal support of you gentlemen who have served with me during the year, and also to the un- selfishness of the county officers who have labored early and late to accom- plish the result. attained." Commends Officers and Committees Huron County has a right to be proud' of' lier clerk"And treasurer and I am sure that I only voice the senti- ment of this council board when I say to both of you that you have done your work faithfully and well and that you are not only a credit to yourselves but to the County of Hu- ron as well. I would like to pay tri- bute to the different committees who have looked 'after the work assigned' to them and especially to the chair- man of the property committee who has looked after the work and decora- tion, in the engineer's, clerk's and treasurer's offices, also the filing cab- inets, which have been installed' and lastly the runner in the hall which is a decided improvement" The members expressed the opin- ion that they had had a very capable leader throughout the year. The clerk then read: A letter from Perth County Conn - chi enclosing resolution regarding indigent patients in hospitals and san atoriums stating that the council of that: comity wished' to ask the gov- ernment to pass a law whereby par- ents of sufficient Paeans whose chil- dren over twenty-one years of age have received treatment in a hospi- tal or sanatorium and are unable to pay for it; must pay the cost of such treatment. At present parents are not compelled to pay these bills when their children Have reached this age. This letter was referred to ate legis- lati've committee:. That a special tax should be placed on chain stores and departmental stores to stop or to lessen unfair competition- with merchants in urban centres was the content of a letter re- ceived' front the council' of Ontario County. The letter was left with the legislative committee. A letter fkons Hal'direand County regarding the production and market- ing of'dairy products and a resolution enclosed therein was referred to the legislative committee. The secretary of the Cid Age Pen- sions Board' of Durham and Northum- berland' indicated in a letter that their board was, satisfied with pre- sent old' age pensions laws providing that the county pay 10 per cent of each pension and' that they desired no change in this administration. This letter was referred to the legis- lative committee. A letter from the deputy provincial secretary regarding conditions at the Huron County gaol and' addressed to Sheriff Middleton of Huron County. The letter showed the gaol to be gen- erally speaking, in good condition. This letter was left with the property committee. Grand' Jury Report Tlie presentment of the Grand Jury enclosed in a letter from the clerk of the Assize Court showed the need of better ventilation and new mattresses for the beds at the county home and that the Children's Shelter 'tves in very good' condition in all respects. The letter was filed'. A letter from William Sallows, clerk of Colborne Township, regard- ing the prevalence of Russian thistle in that township was read and discus- sed. Reeve Goldthorpe explained tha one man in the township had allowe the weed' to run rampant on his far until' it had spread over many farm and the leaves and pods had' piled u (Continued on page 3) Walsh of Alberta, as Chief, Scout for the province, to Col. H. G. Reid of the Hudson's Bay Company Western Arc- tic transportation system, in recog- nition of his services to Scouting. Santa's Workshop Chain in Full Swing There will be no empty stockings anywhere in Canada next Christmas morning if the Boy Scouts and Girl' Guides .can help it. Their toy repair shops are once again in full swing from coast to coast. Last Christmas they helped Santa Claus visit over 80,000 kiddies in town and country, The Largest Hospital Scout Group What probably is the world's larg- est Boy Scout unit of handicapped boys is that at St. Mary's Hospital; Carshalton, England. There are 180 Cubs and Scouts. The Scouting code and programme is credited by the hospital authorities with greatly helping to maintain a good spirit a- mongst the bay patients. IlavYI D. ..� COUNT Many a non -advertising retailer keeps back from advertising just because he feels that it is nec- essary to advertise in a big way and because he is not ready to advertise in a big way. To keep back fron'l our newspaper until you are ready to use big space is just as foolish as would be keeping a child out of school until it had the ability to pass its ma- triculation examination. Beginners in every form of enterprise need to go warily; until experience and practice and growing ability warrant them to attempt larger things, they should proceed cautious- ly. " It will pay some retailers to use classified ad- vertisements and small spaces of 2 and 3 inches. These little advertisements will surely get seen and read by newspaper readers. Make small advertise- ments offer special merchandise. Change them fre- quently. A quick succession of little advertisments, everyone of which is alive, will of a certainty effect sales—will attract new customers. The thing to be frightened of is dumbness: a retail store which does not talk to the public by means of newspaper adver- tisements misses a lot of business. The public goes where it is invited to go. 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