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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., FEB 28, 1935
FIRST INSTALLMENT
Fog ve;led the timbers of Yesler's
W'ha•f thet July morning in a ghost-
ly sperl l:, which quivered- to the
roar of trucks and freshly _ shod
hooves and to the skirling invisible
flight of 'grills around a phantom
"Fi •use it was a line shot yon swarming up the gangway. They
g a
come from that coast," said the ac -
coedion player.
"Id you ••ou to be from the North-
west," he ventured, uncertainly.
` "'Sour eye's good, Bud," replied the
musician with a twinkle,. as he im.-
r.rovised'a series of chords. "But I
ship. beenup and down. a few. Ever hear
That spectre alongside was the this ...?". and 'eiebegan, after a deep
ghost of a ship once dead. On the intake of the accordion, : the chesty
hood of one. of her wheels, as it wav- ballad of Jack Donahue the Highway-
ered above the stingpiece, the faded mail: Then it drifted into music un
letters "George E. Starr, Seattle," familiar to him; half -barbaric and
Frank Fingland, BA., LL.B.
Barrister, So1•citor, Notary Public
Successor to W. Brydone, K.C.
Sloan Block — Clinton; Ont.,
DR. H. A. McINTYRE
DENTIST
Office over Canadian National
Express, Clinton. Ont.
Phone, Office, 21; house, 89.
trickled through an ancient glaze of
rust and soot. They identified all
that was mortal of a condemned side -
wheel ferry boat, which had been
dragged from the bloneyard to make
a.first, and in a way a posthumous,
voyage beyond the Sound.
But to the .'men on the wharf, this
derelict was an argosy. Her musty
reek of •eremite, bilge 'and old ropes
Was the aroma of romance. The
brawl of the trucks that loaded her
was a song of gold.
'DR. F. A. AXON
Dentist
Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago and
R:C.D.S., Toronto.
Crown and elate work a• specialty.
Phone 185, Clinton, Ont. '19-4-84.
And there. was, in fact, a.weaving
lilt •of music in the roar. It came
from a quieter eddy in the fog where
a man was playing an accordion, as
he leaned against an Warned. bale
of hay near the ship's side. Ignored
by the crowd and ignoring them, he
poured into the din a lazing medley
that dissolved there as vaguely as
the mist=so skillfully pitched that
't a was hardly noticeable • His
D. H. McINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
Electro Therapist, Massage
'Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors
west of Royal Bank)
Hours—Wed. mid Sat. and by
appointment.
FOOT CORRECTION
by inanCpulation Sun -Ray Treatment
Phone 207
Lound the cabin and covered parts of
the deck already claimed, but there
was 'a sheltered space under a life-
boat aft of the main cabin, where the
boy stowed his burden. Noticing
that his companion anion still kept the
blankets on hie. shoulder, he pushed
his stuff aside to make more room.
The .other considered him soberly.
"You listen to 1n0 like a good.gun
Bud, in spite of them stern ideas
ebdout the law:" he said. "Ever hit a
boggy erossin' I'll stand by ye. My
ern ranges;
melodies of the West -
name's Speed Mjalone. And he held
ern ranges; such as "Bill Roy" and out his' hand.
"S4ontana Kid."
In the midst of this repetory the
piping cry of a newsboy who came'
down the wharf shouting
"Extryl Buck Solo Makes His
Last Stand!! ,Posse Surrounds Ban-
dit in Ililonntain Pass.. Extra."
The accordion player lifted his
head but did not pause in his playing,
although the newsy's cry echoed a'
story which had been as keenly argu-
ed in the 'rest that month as the
Corbett-hitzsinimons " fight. An un -
"Mine's Ed Maitland," the boy
swei'ed, somewhat puzzled at
earnestness.
Dropping 'his .light pack in the
cleared space, the man rolled a cig-
arette, and while crimping the edge
of the paper; took a roving look a-
long :the deck. Then he made a
back :est of the blankets, and
stretched himself comfortably re-
laxing as fram•,a long physical strain
while .he smoked and watched the
crowd through half-closed eyes—still
identified gunman on a buckskin somehow as observant as,ever of each
horse had ridden into a' Nevada-min-
ing
evada min approach.
ing camp at night, trailing a m,an A deep shudder ran through the
whom die seemed to have mistaken
for some enemy. The 'mistake had ship, as the gates rattled shut. Haws -
caused a blazing gun battle in the ens, thrown from the bits, splashed
dark street, from which he escaped. into the gloomy chasm between ship
Not long afterwards the buckskin re- and wharf, and the .side-wheeler cast
4L -
aat,-
his
CLINTON
COLLEiIATE AFFAIRS
Interestingly Written Up By A Student
Tuesday was a gala night for'the many'consider the most important;
Collegiate students, when they Bath- (`part)-d/Iiss Beydone heads the in-
erred' at the rink for their annual vitation committee, 1/Ess Kiltohen the
skating party. The skating party y games' committee, and Miss Beattie
was sponsored by the C. C. I. hockey the decoration committee. Miss
P
team and the school's musically in I Beattie threatens that unless allow
lb
heproperly,
' supplied ]re' band. e sufficient money•to do it op y
_fined students supple h an dP ,
A sumptuous.lunch, consisting• of she will decorate the auditorium for
hot-dogs and coffee was enjoyed by hard Timers, with ' copies of the
all, especially „the lunch committee. ; cheaper daily papers,
A very large erawd was present, I We take this opportunity to re -
and everyone enjoyed' themselves Me- in.ind those C:C.I. •students who do
mensely.
not dance that .a series of games,
with prizes are being played up-'
ill c - stairs.
It is said that Ellen Charlesworth * 't$f £'
is wavering again. After seeing' the , The C.C.I. students wish to thank
combination of coquettishness and, Tiplady for his consideration for
general efficiency tootembodied ' by Jim- them in cleaning off tike long Stretch
mie 1VIoCal1 as he stood ni hind, the of ,sidewalk which passes his house
lunch counted Tuesday night, • she on (ahs road to the 'Collegiate We
began to think it over. 1Jimnrie leek -
certainly appreciate it, and would
ed very sweet in a spotless white ane like to thank 1VIr. Tiplady heartily.
ron, with a fluffy bow at the back
enough to turn any'girl's head. *
ing whether or not they are making
Ancient, History.
Cooper announced next day
that, for flavour and lasting quali-
ties, the 3rd formers' candy suipas-
sed anything he';had ever before tast-
ed. Three -A is, naturally very slat-
,ed.
its sonic appeared on the Deer's Lodge trail in off in a ponderous c urn
frayey, corduroy clothes, the harked Montana, where its rider had stopped water, dropping a veil between her -
leather of his riding boots, his lean, a stage coach to search the passeng- self and the pier with a swiftness
rangy figure and sunbrowned skin,' err. Strange to say, no money had that owed less to her pick-up than to
the opaqueness of the fog.
As if the uncertainties of the ven-
ture were not high enou,gh, she was
no sooner in the channel than the.
click of dice, .chips and coins began
to rattle a careless measure above
the voices of the mist. Embarked
-
daring. group of Solo players some unexpect for the realms of gold, the miners
Gun scars were net a, special mat- � ed phases of that game. When the were "shooting" their -Money -with an
ter for comment in this crowd. Un- rnsse rode in, an -hour behind him, easy Mind.
like the varied mob that followed the gamblers he had entertained . The Westerner shifted his atten-
them later, the men who blazed the were sketchy in their 'description. As tion from the lifeboat, and sat up to
Yukon trails ie. the early fall of '97, lie hadhadchanged horses the marshals roll a fresh cegarette. Maitland not -
were almost all hard -living then .of had little to guide them, but they iced that two men, a little to their
the open;.:diners, cattlemen, rail- suspected him of being a wide -rang' right, had turned a tarpaluined bale
readers and lumberjacks from the ing gambler and outlaw known in the into•a card table. One ef them. loolc-
Northwest and Southwest; amen who Northwest as "Buck Tracy.": His ed his way, with an invitation to join
knew' little of the sea, but every has- trail lost at C•lark's Fork, had been the game. When he declined the
and of mountain and, desert. ' picked up again crossing the Cotter man called over Speed, "Play a hand
ing of whit
did not distinguish him in that wen- been taken, but an express messeng-
thered company. Clearer light might er, trying to catch him. off guard, had
have ,defined a certain wary challenge been shot. Dodging a posse of mar-
ia his good-humored gray eyes, or shals and heading west, he had earn -
have drawn . attention to an odd scar ed the sobriquet of "Solo" in a camp
that cut the corner of his mouth, ac-. on the 1Vfcntana border,. having halt -
cep
tirg his look of high temper and cd there long enough to show a gifted
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 liy calling phone 203.
Charges Moderate and Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
DOUGLAS R. NAIRN
Barrister. Solidtor and Notary Bublie
ISAAC STREET, CLINTON
'Office Hours: Mondays, Wodnesdaya
and Fridays -10 a.m, to5 p.m."
Phone 11. 3-34.
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
Fire- Insurance Company
Not far from him, however, stood D'Alenes through Idaho. and the in-
a younger man, solitary like hiiiiself, terest excited by the long and des -
whose serious eves traced the foe eerr's. chase began to cleat, a net 'a-
ma.zo curiously, and seemed to find round him, "What 'kind of cards'?" asked
less novelty in the ship than in his The bey bought a paper and read
Speed,. with mild interest.
fellow -voyagers. Some damage the news bulletin. "They've got hili.rare figure they's on'y one koind.
bees, tied in sailor fashion, lay on tite rernered in. the Okanagan country."If you kir play Solo, the tune is
wharf at the feet of the young ob- he said .to the man with the accord -
white you want to set it"
server. A faded reefer jacket fitted ion. "He won't escape now.' A faint reserve which had shown
his lri•oacl shoulders with the snug ef- "Kind of hope he don't?" asked in Speed's face at mention of the
feet that sailors call "sea -going," and the other, without .1ookiu up from
the same stamp of the sea showed in bis playing.
Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
'Officers
President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea -
forth; Vice -President, , Jaiires Con-
nolly, Goderich; secretary -treasurer,
M. A. Reid, Seaforth,,
of cawrds, neighbor?" Those oddly
broadened vowels were as clear as a
state boundary, Utah.
* * Playing an instrument is harder
band -
.0n 1VIiondav, the Literary, executive work than skating, ,or so the band-
met for a discussion of ways and boys testified at the skating party.
The lunch committee were forced to
moans. They emerged with gloomy believe them, as they gazed with
faces. It was discovered that the horror-stricken• eyes at the number
funds are not in the best .of condi-
tions, and .,after they have supplied
the necessary amount to finance the
At -Home, there Will be very little to
fall' back ppon.
The annual At -Home is to be held
en March 1st—.Miss Depew is over-
seeing the lunch committee—,(which
game, vanished in a, smile. "I .only
his salt -stiffened boats, his firm poise "I 'hope he gets the full penalty of !day that game by ear," he said.
e Sto scare Y a none," was
and that unconsctors 'gallantry of the law," was the boy's
„icemen_ "Didn't min
bearing which lends grace to old Willing answer. "He deserves it" the condescending answer.
clothes..I The Westerner glanced at, him "Which you gets me wrong, i am -
As the fog did not hie the two our.intly. "Full penalty of the law, ended Speed in the present tense of
men from each other's view it had Bud, would leave ye kind of short of polite discourse. "What I shrink
the fleet of bringing them nearer, lawyers, if you rammed it home. Not from is exposin' your gifted Mormon
while sharpening the contrast 'be- that this maverick is worth a cuss. duet to the cold air without its pants,
tween them. They were strongly But neither is the outfit that's dog- coat and vest." `
built in different ways; as oak and gin him, and neither was the ex0rese "Stim'lated a heap," rejoined : the
steel are different. The younger man rider he downed. I ain't so dead set man from Utah, "we stoifles ever'
locked sturdier; the man with the ac-; on soein' him hanged. Hope he dies meanie and stave is the play. Stack
,•^•'•diet concealed under his idle pus- , shontin'." ' 'em up 13i11. Gent allows he's a Solo
tura the quick resilience of temper- I . The fog had lightened a little, and player."
•ed metal. Both were sun-tanned—if ' a gangplank now lumbered clown On the point of rising, Speed said
the ruddy -brown of a sea -sun can be from the ,steamer's boat deck. As the to Maitland in• an undertone, "Stake
compered to the dry bronze of the boy was assembling • his dunnage me ten dollars, )3ud."
desert and the range. The boy's hair bags, be found himself under the Ten dollars happened to :be half
was clans and curly; the other's of a scrutiny of an offiicial-laoking per the boy's cash, and the idea that the
surf -rusted color, and cut close, like a son who had appeared abruptly out man celled Speed had started north
•trooper's. Both had steady eves, re- -nf. the mist, and stood framed in it, a with neither outfit'nor money was al-
fleetecta sober disehrline and the nos-
itiye clarity of youth, the ether's hell
a shade of half-m,ocicing tolerance,
as if be took the world as'itc found it,
and had fomid it mixed,
Sonne sense of this, perhaps, drew
the musiciaar's eyes for a curious in-
stant on his listener. Looking away
again into the veiled shimmer beyond
the whartf, he began playing the tune
of an old sea baled.
"In eighteen hundred and seventy-
six
I found myself in a hell of a fix."
At the quick light of recognition
in the boy't face, he masked a gleam
of amused interest. '
"Is that a Boston song?" he asked.
The boy smiled. "My people: Used
tosail ships out of Boston. I've
heard the song since I was a nipper."
Directors:
Alex. Broadfoot, 'Seaforth, R. R.
No, 3; James Sholdice, Walton; Wm.
Knox, Londesbero; Geo. Leonhardt,
Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John Pepper,
13rueefield; James Connolly; Gode-,
rich; Alexander McEwing, Blyth, R.
R. No. 1; Thomas Moylan,• Seaforth,
R. R. No. 5; Vim, R. Archibald, Sea-
t orth,
ea-forth, R. R. No. 4, • •
Agents: W. J. Yeo, R. R No. 3,
'Clinton, John Murray, Seaforth;
Janes Watt, Blyth; Finley McKer-
•cher, Seaforth.
Any money to be paid may be paid
to the Royal Bank Glin'ton; Bank of
Commerce, Seaforth. or at Calvin
Cutt's Grocery, Goderich.
Parties desiring to effect incur-
ansa or trangaet other business Will
be 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.
Cleaning and Pressing
Suits, Coats and Dresser
DRY 'CLEANED AND REPAIRET
W. J. JAGO
not open work may be left .ai
Heard's Barber Spon
e'QNAnlm
TIME TABLE
Trellis will arrive at and, depart from
Clinton as follows:
Buffalo and Goderich Div.
Going East, depart 7.08 a.m.
Going East, depart 3.00 p.in.
Going West. depart 11.50 a.m.
Going, West, depart 9.58. p.m.
London, Huron & Bruce •
Going North, ar, 11.34. ive. 11.54a.rm.
Going South 3.08 p.m.
few ,yards away. The officer's eyes 'moat incredible. But therequest was'
made so candidly that after a pro-
meat's hesitation to shock a gold
piece from his slim purse. '
With a . curious pause before ' he
accepted it, the Westerner said, "You
figure these shorthorns' can •outplay
me?"
• "I' was only thinking," • Maitlapd
said, "that gambling is a loser's.
game,
• Iris companion' grinned.; "If ,you
wasn't a- natural-born gambler; Bud.
you wouldu''t be on this ship. Watch
us lose:"e
• The sweet singers preluded their
harmony "with •a considerate warning.
"R3emovin';• gold mines from gamblers
is our daily routine, ,stranger. We'll
set a quarter ,point, :unless you 'feel
hanlcerin's for ruin in a bigger way."
"Quatter suits me," said Speed
modestly, and made a precarious club
bid which they passed with becom-
ing gravity. On 'ithe completion el
the final trick,, ' bowevey, their 'atten-
tion became more exact.
(Continued Next Week)
grew less sharp on meeting
his, and turned in a more camel way
on his companion who had closed the
accordion case and was leaning over
to fasten it. •
"You two together?*
The boy nodded. It seemed unne-
cessary to explain that he and time
accordion player were only chance
acquaintances. Some official for the
company, he thought,' was making a
cheek -up of passengers,
11fith another .glance at the ,man
with the accordion, the officer pass-
ed on.
The Westerner il••ha'evi a roll of
blankets over his arm, put his ac-
eordion under it, and lifting. one of
the boy'a pacics with his free hand,
wedged through the crowd that was
All hard -living men of the open from the Northwest and Southwest.
J. Aubrey Boyd (above), is a
newspaper man ,and a college pro- l
feasor in serious moments.. He was
born in Seattle, Wash., and is a
graduate of the University of Cal-
ifornia and University of Glasgow,
Scotland. When away he cannot get
back to "lis west" fast enough. So
what was more natural than he
should write a prize winning novel
of the West and the Northwest;
"Slumbering. Geld", the new serial
which this newspaper now presents
to. its.reeder's.
WHAT TIIEY WHOLE ' SCIi00L I
WONDERING --
Are there any aspiring young med-
ical students
ed-ical.,students in. the C.C.I. who loolc
forward to 'spending ten decades in
one town?
*ak*
Why does Beardie Elliott turn his
head away and remit when' hot-dogs
are mentioned?
* *
Are there such things as radiators -
ihat give out heat?
Is it an example of deep calling
unto deep—when Tom (Rabbit) Ross
and Irene (Bunny) Robertson get so
chummily?
Why is Latin?
.11/Ess Kitch'en's horticultural efforts
finally made themselves apparent
last week in a beautiful showing of
flowers and potted plants. There are
of hot-dogs which disappeared when several exquisite hyacinths and nar-
the band raided the lunch counter. oisi, Upper ,School rejoices in a, beau -
Dint Bar'tliff, who worked behind the tiful daffodil -in fact the whole
,counter, (and doled out the "eats" school is bright with flowers. They
with a careful, almost grudging' bring an atmosphere of spring to the
hand), is said to have gone into f,.0•I., and +At are exhorting Miss
hysterics when he saw Cecil Holmes Kitchen to keep up the good work,
finish .his eighteenth hot-dog. How- for we are certainly appreciative of
ever, we are not sure if the story is attempts to beautify the class -rooms.
authentic or not. *, y�c
* * Miss Brydone and Miss Beattie
The play-off game with Mitchell catalogued the library recently. They
was played 'last Friday night, with a merely smiled tolerantly when they
score of 2-0 for Clinton. We are saw Seeley weeping sentinlental
proud to relate that two C.C.I. stud-
ents are on the team. Perhaps this
accounts for it.
*sls '
tears over the title "Wild Honey."
Seeley was disgusted when he found
it was only a story of three tramps.
Mr. Cooper thinks the students should
be stopped going to the library for
Valentine's Day proved that 3A is books in spares—ostensibly for sup -
the most affectionate form in -the plenmentary reading. Mr. Cooper
school. They presented Mr. Cooper complains that several studentshave
Iwith a huge valentine, composed of now read about two dozen
thirty-six lollypops, arranged in the supplementaries, especially those re-
shape of a heart. The candies were pits who need all their spare periods
wrapped in scarlet paper, so that the for studying. 112r. C. thinks it is a
effect was very ,striking. It was ob- racket. We are sure of it.
served by jealous outsiders that there
were exactly 30 in 8A, counting Mir.
Cooper. The worthy Latin teacher I We are beginning to complain a-
•1
famed himself unable to cope with a-
bout Agnes Cameron, the cross -word
three dozen all -day -suckers (although puzzle enthusiast, who annoys every -
eve must admit he did his best) and one in the school by asking for a
observed that in all the Roman his- ward meaning—"a denizen of the
tory, no man was known to eat 36 waters, lakes, oceans, rivers — 4
lollypops, so he distributed them a- letters." You should be able to guess
mong his class. Third forte is argil- that one. s
LONDON HAS WORLD'S BIGGEST
MILK, DEPOT
In London, England, there has been
established What is claimed to bo the
world's largest milli depot, handling
70,000 gallons' of milk daily. It
covers an area of nearly eight acres
and is served, extensively by railway
sidings. Special railway tank cars of
3,000 gallons capacity convey the milk
from collecting depots at Wihitland, to
West Wales; Virooton. Bassett, near
Swindon; Yetniinator, in Dorsetshire,
as well as other citations on the Great
WJesterii Railway, The depot has epee
,sial facilities for pasteurizing, homo-
igenizing and sterilizing the milk with;
a new,research laboratory included.'
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