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WALTON
iMr. Thos. Shortreed and Miss Mary
Shortreed, R.N., of Loudon. epeut
New Year's with their mother, Mrs.
Win. Shortreed.
Miss Mary Buchanan of Stratford
has been visiting relatives and
friends around Walton.
'New Year's was spent very quietly
in the vicinity of \\raltou as the
roads were blocked on the, conces-
sions for ears.
Voters in the Mortis election for
reeve clad to drive to the Morrie
township hall to vote on account of
the 9th concession being blocked for
car traffic. Francis Duncan was
elected reeve.
Sony to bear of Mr. Joe Bennett
being confined to bed with a light at-
tack of pneumonia and heart trouble.
Mrs, Robt. Shortreed is confined to
bed with pneumonia. Mrs. Thamer is
looking after her and we hope she
will soon be out again.
Mrs, David Clark, 16th Grey, was
rotted outside her door last Friday,
seized by a stroke.
Mrs, Chas. Case, east boundary, is
improving after a serious illness,
Airs. Joe Love hag gone to spend
the winter with her daughter Airs- W.
Leeming, McKillop.
A very enjoyable Christmas was
spent at the home of Meuno and
Mrs. Jackson, Mortis. Over thirty
guests were present, from Toronto,
London, Brigden, Blyth, Auburn, and
Morris and Hullett townships.
AUBURN CONSTANCE
Mr. t'layton Martin 4,1 Engeihart Tes Lt „'teary- Society nu -
and Mr. John Martin of Hamilton pnstmmed until Friday. Jan. 19th in
and Mr. and Mrs. Sym. H. Thompson , the school hoose.
of London spent the week end with Mr. atul Mrs. Alvin Dale anti family'
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Thompson. i spent New Year: with Mrs. Dales
Miss Jean Scott who has been in
Detroit the past few months, is visit-
ing'hel' patents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
Scott.
Me. and Mrs, hiaftisud Allen spent
the weep end visiting frleuds iu
Flint, Mich.
Several of the residents of the vill-
age are ill at present with the flu.
Vire are sorry to report that Mrs.
William Patterson is critically ill at
Present at the home of her sot. Nel-
son Patterson.
The rummage sale held on Friday
in aid of the Red Cross work was 11
decided success. The sunt of $125 was
raised. Grain, furniture, wood cod farm
produce and fruit were among the
Various articles sold. Thos. Gundry drawn on Sunday last.
and on of Goderich were the auc-
tioneers.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Baxter and fam-
ily of Goderich spent New Year's
with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Haggitt and
Mr. Joseph Carter.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Bogie, Dorothy
and Dolores, spent Monday with Mr.
and Mrs. Forest Carter of Goderich.
Mr. and Mrs, Harry Beadle and
family spent New Year's with Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Benjamin and family
of Goderich.
Owing to the very stormy weather
on Sunday service in St, Mark's Ang-
lican Church and Knox Presbyterian
Church were withdrawn.
Mr. Jack Weir has returned to To-
ronto 10 resume his studies at
Shaw's business college after spend -
bug the holidays with hie father, Dr.
B, C. Weir.
Miss Alma Match of Toronto visit-
ing her mother, Mrs. James Match.
Mr. Harry Arthur of Zurich is vis-
iting her mother, Mrs. M. Arthur.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wagner are
spending the winter with their dau-
ghter. Mrs. Garfield Staubers, and Mr.
Stauhers of Detroit.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Strausser and
fancily of Sebringville spent New
Years with Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Munro
Mist Ethel Washington has return-
ed to her school near Picton.
Messrs, Harold and Reg. Asquith
have returned to Queen's University-,
Kingston, after spending the holidays
with their parents. Mr.
Asquith.
Miss Mildred Preston
visited a few days last
Miss Beryl Wilson.
Thompson-Bellas,—
A quiet but pretty wedding was
solemnized at St. Andrew's United
Church parsonage. London, on Satur-
day afternoon, December 30th, at 2
o'clock when Ada P. Belles, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Belles of Port
Rowan, was united in marriage to
'William H. Thompson of 1st Hussars,
London, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J.
Thompson of Auburn. The ceremony
was performed by Rev, Dr. J. N. Mc-
Kinnon. The bride looked lovely in a
frock of green crepe with gold trim-
ming. Following the ceremony a wed-
ding dinner was served at the Hotel
London in that city.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940
Orland, of the Molsons Bank, Clinton,
ling is all of whom were present when death
come. Mi•. Johnston was born in Bel -
fust. Ireland, in 1846, and when a
young tart lie mnuigrated to Canada,
where he engaged in the hotel busi-
ness at the Huron House, Goderich.
In 1545 he came to Zurich and en-
gaged ht various business enterprises
and finally purchased the Dominion
House, where he remained until his
death, In the 40 years of his business
activity in Zurich lie accumulated
wealth and was considered a practi-
cal business mail.
Brussels
Particulars have been received re-
garding the death at Hannibal, Mis-
souri, recently of Idi'. Fred W.
O'Brien. formerly of Brussels. He
was found dead In his garage, appar-
ently from the effects of an accid-
ental Call. He was discovered by
Title son, who went to call him for
breakfast: he lay dead under the
auto, the engine of which was ruu-
niug,—W. H. Pryue, of the flour mill,
received a nasty blow in the fate
from an iron collar that belonged to
a pulley and shafting in the mill, as
it was being adjusted.
THEY KNOW THE WAY HOME
On August 15, 1931, a homing pig -
ecu was released in Arras, France,
to find his way back to Saigon, Mao -
China, 7200 miles away. He arrived at
his destination just 24 clays after his
take -off, completing the longest hous-
ing pigeon flight ever recorded. Prev-
iously, the world's record had beau
claimed for a bird that found his way
back to Brooklyn from Caracas, Ven-
ezuela, 2200 miles away, An Army
pigeon flew from Vanceboro, Maine,
to San Antonio, Texas, 2100 utiles,
Such marvels of instinct and stam-
ina are frequent, yet we know little
more about the mysterious force that
guides the homing pigeon than was
known to the ancient Greeks, who
conveyed the names of Olympic vic-
tors to their various cities by pigeon
post.
This .ouch we do know: the hom-
ing trait has been greatly developed
and the range of flight remarkably
increased by careful breeding and
training. Typical is the regimen at
at the large pigeon loft of tre
Army Signal Corps at Fort Mon-
mouth, New Jersey. The fledgling, or
"squeaker." is fed corn and peas
within the loft at regular intervals.
When he is six weeks old, he is taken
outside the loft and put back in
again through a trap door, and its.
mediately given corn and peas. This
is repeated until an association is
firstly established: inside the trap
door, food! Wheu he las reached the
age of 12 weeks, he is taken a little
distance from the loft and released.
The trainer remains in the loft, rat-
tling corn and peas in a tin cup. The
pigeon listens a few seconds and then
Ries in, Day by day he is released at
increasing distances, until he acquires
the habit of entering through the
same trap each time. When mating
season comes, and later when the
squeakers' are born, the training is
intensified. The birds are taught by
repetition that mates and young will
be found beyond the same trap door
that leads to food. Fanciers always
try to enter in races birds that are
courting or raising young. This is
comparatively easy in a large loft,
for pigeons mate at any season.
We know, then. why pigeons come
home; they want to be near their
food, mates and offspring. But no-
body on earth can explain how they
do it. We know that homing pigeons
have remarkable eyesight; their only
blind spot is a 10 -degree sector direct-
ly behind their heads, and experi-
ments tend to prove that they can
see many times as far as humans.
But this does not explain how a pig-
eon, taken hundreds of miles from
home in a wicker basket in au express
ear will. when "tossed," spiral up-
ward for some 20 or 30 seconds and
then streak homeward at 50 miles an
hour.
In short flights over familiar terri-
tory he might set his course by
landmarks, spiralling till he sees a
familiar tree or steeple and thereby
getting his bearings. But the bird
which flew from Arras to Saigon
travelled in the hold of a ship around
India, through the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean. He had no opportun-
ity to select landmarks, and he cer-
tainly could not see 7200 miles. Not
even a "bird's-eye view" is necessary.
A bird which was released at some
distance from Fort Bliss, near El
Paso, was caught and had his wings
clipped by someone who wanted to
keep him—but returned to the fort!
some days later walking. Whatever
this mysterious power may be, we
are reasonably certain that its ex-
planation does not lies in any com-
bination of the five known senses.
Homing pigeons do not always fly a
beeline from the tossing point to the
loft. They will fly around storms and
fog, and will follow the easiest route.
They do not, as a rule, fly in :dark-
ness,
arkness, though at Fort Monmouth', `.con-
trary to all previous' experience,' army
trainers, have had considerable sue.
LONDESBORO
A joint installation of She officers .of
Blyeh and Hallett lodges, A.F. L
A.M.+was held in the lodge room at
Lond.eeboro Wednesday night. Rt.
War. Bro. Jas. !Neilans, D.D.G.M., as-
sisted by Rt. \\"or, Bro. i. R. Tierney
and A. 1V. Beacom was the installing
officer. Blyth Lodge—I.I'.f., \V, A.
Elliott: t\3'.11.. Frank Elliott: S.\\'.,
Rueeell Wilson: J, W., Gordon El-
liott cey.. Roht. Newcombe: conibe trans.,
T B Tierney: D. of C', C. E. i'.11:
D I lsee Wettla fpr, J.D.. fl' G.
McNall; Chop. R. D Philp: I. G„
Norman Garrett: t;rien Cook:
:IS.. \. L. Keruick: 'Tyler. J. S. Cliei-
lea; auditors. Lloyd Wenlaefer and
J. ti. R. Elliott. Huler, Lodge --LP.
AI., Jahn Harvey: ,W.M.. Wm. Leiper,
S.W., \V. Wells: J. t\.. tiro \ic\ft-
tie, see.. R. M. T•awn.end: treas., T.
Miller: D. ryf C.. Stewart Beattie:
Chap:. Willis Mountain: S,D., Harold
Adaina; 1. D., Bert Brufadon: S.S..
Armand McCool; J.S., Wm. Caldwell;
tyler, Fred 'Gibb$: auditors, Bert
R7unsd, i and John Vineland.
parents. Mr. and Mrs, Alex. Lowery,
Seaforth.
Mr. Wilbert Fralick has returned
from \Winghant and resumed his dut-
ies as teacher in the public school
here. Mr. Fralick is to be congratul-
ated on the success of his Christmas
concert which was held prior to the
Closing of school for the holidays.
The children certainly excelled them-
selves under the capable direction of
their teacher as each number was
well rendered. The prettily decorated
tree, well laden with gifts, was a
beautiful eight.
Owing to the condition of the
roads and stormy weather the serv-
ices in the United Church were with-
BLYTH
This community aka- saddened on
Wednesday evening Iast by the Bud-
den death of a pioneer lady in ,she
person of Mrs. Moses McVittie, wit'o
after a' brief illness passed. away at the
home of her son, tt\''illiam •btcVittie, in
her 91•st year. In spite of her advanc-
ed age she 'had enjoyed fairly :good
health until Ghri'etmas when ,she took
seriously ill. She ,was formerly Sarah
Jane Medd, daughter of the late Mr.
and 'Mrs. Henry Medd,. and :was born
at Millbrook, and.at the age of four
came w'it'h her Parents to Hallett
twp. She was ,married seventy-one
years ago to Moses. McVittie. For
some years :hey lived in Morris ewe.
They also resided at Leeburn and Po-
.wasean, and later at Westfield where
Mr. McVittie passed away twenty-
one years ago. She was a member rot
the Westfield United Church and for
her quiet ey'mpatheiic manner -was be-
loved by a host of faiende by ,whom
she is deeply mourned. She is 's'urviv-
ed by three sons. John and William,
of \Vesttield. with wham •site made
-her home: Henry, .,f G7dcrich, and
one daughter. Mrs. William Taylor.
of B•ly'th. The fu:terat was held on
Friday afternoon from the home in
East iW'a.vaneeli.
HILLSGFIEEN
Mr. and Mrs. Urban Ducharme of
Forest visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Baker and other
friends during the holiday week. -
Mrs. Ross Love and children are
spending some time with friends in
Hensall:
Mr. and Mrs. Orval Smith are
spending the holiday in St. Cathar-
ines.
Miss Ellen Love has been confined
to her bed with pneumonia but is on
the road to recovery. Her many
friends hope to see her out again
soon.
There was no church service here
Sunday on account of the furnace
being remodelled.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Finlay visited
with friends here recently.
Miss Grace Forrest, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Ward Forrest, is ill with
scarlet fever.
Mrs. Harry Norris, of 2nd eon.,
Tuckersmith, is at the home of her
parents; Mr, and Mrs. Jas. Jarrott,
where a little son was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Norris, Both are as well as
can be expected.
and alts. C.
of Warton
week with
MANLEY
A real old fashioned winter set in
for New Year's and many visitors
were marooned on the back roads.
as car traffic is tied up. Once more
we have to depend on the old reli-
able horse but with the good sleigh-
ing the farmers have the pleasure of
hauling home their supply of wood
they had gathered up in the pine
swamp, as it is called, even though
there are no pine trees visible.
Our annual school meeting went
off quietly with the exception of Mr.
A. Sierran taking the place of Mr.
Dan Buern.ann as trustee. The board
now is Mr. John DIetz, Mr, John A.
Eckert and Mr. A. Sienon.
Our teacher. Miss Been resumed
her duties on the third Inst, and we
wish her a successful year.
Miss Mary McKay and Stephen Mc-
Kay are resuming their studies at the
collegiate in Seaforth.
ST. COLUMBAN .
The recent snow storm has made
the roads of the surrounding vicinity
practically impassable for cars.
The following teachers have re-
turned to their respective schools
after spending the vacationat the
homes of their parents: Miss Esther
Duffy to Drysdale, Misses May and
Rose O'Connor to Kitchener, Miss
Mary Murphy to Port Lambton.
Rev, Father McQuaid is spending
his holidays with his parents. Mt:
and Mrs. Jos. McQuaid.
Mr, Louis Coyne spent New Year's
with his aunt. Mrs. Frank O'Reilly.
Mr, and Mrs. E. O'Brien of Clinton
spent New Year's eve with St. Col-
umban friends.
"Did you want to kiss me whet
you screwed up your mouth, Frank?'
"Er—no; it was only a bit of gr
in my mouth."
"Then, for goodness' sake, swal
Towit-you need tome."
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Want and 'For Sale Ads, i1 week
Miss Doaelda Adams has returned
to her school at Clinton after spend-
ing the holidays with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Adapts.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Armstrong
and family spent New Years Day
with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Dale.
Miss Olive Grintoldby of McKillop
spent a week at her home here.
Mr. Wm. Moore visited with Mr:
and Mrs. Harry Fitzsimmons of Clin-
ton on Monday.
The heavy snowstorm over the
week end made the roads almost im-
passable for cars and prevented quite
a few people from carrying out their
plans for New Year's Day.
Mr. Kazintir Skorecki spent New
Years Day with Colclough Bros.
May 1940 be a prosperous year to
you all,
The Club of Progress will meet in
the school house Friday evening,
Jan. 5, at 8 o'clock. Let us help to
stake it a success by being present.
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TOWN TOPICS
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Town Topics
Mrs, Israel, \Valkerville, is visiting
her daughter Mrs. W. Cudmore.—
Miss Crotty, London. is visiting many
of her old friends in town this week.
—Miss Gertrude Laidlaw is visiting
in Detroit.—:Miss Rose Dorsey left
Saturday for Penetang. where she
teaches. --Mrs, Parker, Detroit, is vis-
iting her aunt. Mrs. R. S. Hays.—Mr.
George White, Loudon. visited in
town this week.—Mi'. David Sproat
of Bluevale spent a couple of days
this week with friends in town.—Mr.
Norman Bohanan and Jas, Holman
leave on Saturday to join the This'd
Contingent.—Major J. W. Shaw has
been appointed medical officer at
Clinton recruiting station.—Mrs. (Dr.)
Ireland and Winnie of Harriston, are
visiting in town.—Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Winter and Elsie and Jean , of
Goderich, visited at her home in Eg-
mondville.—Mr, Jas. Melville, Mid-
land, is spending a few weeks with
his sister, Mrs. John Warwick: Miss
Katie Telfer, Brussels, was a Seaforth
visitor last week.—Mr. T. 11. Nixon
spent the week end with his parents
at London.—Mr. Chas, Holmes return-
ed to Toronto on Tuesday after an ex-
tended visit with his parents.—Mr.
M. Broderick has been called to Mit-
chell several times recently on ac-
count of the serious illness of his
mother.—Mr. Wm, Henderson, Win-
ona, is visiting his brothers, G. E.
and Andrew Henderson, and sisters,
Mr, F. McIntosh and Ivirs. Adams.—
Mr. G, M. Elliott of Goderich, county
officer of the children's aid society,
was in town on business for the soc-
iety on Wednesday.—Mrs. James
Beattie has gone to Winnipeg to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Bond, who is
not in good health. Mrs. Beattie also
intends visiting at Neepawa, Man.—
The curlers have been in their glory
during the last couple of days. There
has been curling morning, noon and
night. Unfortunately the local club
failed to lift first prizes but got in on
second money, which is doing pretty
well considering the number of rinks
present and the class of play put up.
The "Spiel" has been a splendid suc-
cess from start to finish in spite of
the first day being a little mild.—
Seaforth Intermediate O. IL A. team
has lived up to expectations as far as
results of the games to date are con-
cerned, though there is some room
for improvement yet as the boys
have not had a great deal of practice
together and are really not playing'
tate best that is in them.
Zurich
Mr. Robert Ross Johnston, senior
partner of the firm of R. R. Johnston
& Soni, died at the family residence
Friday am, at the age of 69 years.
He leaves his wife and six children,
three daughters and three sons; Wil-
liam; junior partner and manager of
the Dominion House; Mrs. (Dr.) Mac-
Kinnon, of the village; Miss Victoria
25c Mies Pearl; Wellington, at home, and
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cess in training them to fly at
night. The birds are taken out only
after dusk. A light is kept in the loft
and the birds, having eaten nothing
since morning, fly back for food,
Night after night, as the distances
are increased, they become more pro-
ficient, and the Signal Corps expects
ultimately to develop a breed that
can carry messages at night as well
as by day. Pigeons' ears are similar
to human ears in that they contain a
system of semi -circular canals. Some
say that for the pigeon the aural
canal does far more than it does for
man. Itis even said that these canals
hold the secret of the homing instinct
because if the ears are stopped or the
canals injured he seems to lose it.
It has been cautiously suggested
that the pigeon orients himself in
some way with the earth's magnetic
field. This night expain why pigeons
58001 to be baffled by the electro-
magnetic radiations of broadcasting
activity, instances have been report-
ed in which well-trained birds have
been confused, thrown off their
course, or even forced to abandon
flight merely became, a broadcasting
station lay in their path. Birds tossed
front the roof of a broadcasting
station while the station is idle will
go through their conventional spiral
ascent and promptly start for home.
But let the broadcasting begin and
they will circle helplessly for several
minutes and finally settle to the
ground. This is a scant clue indeed,
and has so far added nothing con-
clusive to our knowledge of the birds'
mysterious ability to find their way
home over vast distances.
Our ignorances of their basic secret
has not prevented our using them as
messengers, nor detracted from their
popularity among sportsmen. The
sport of pigeon racing was imported
from Belgium during the last quarter
of the 19th century, and today pigeon
clubs will be found in every city- of
any size throughout the country.
Pigeons with pedigrees briug $25 to
$50 a head as a usual thing, though
they have sold for as high as $6.000.
The average life of a homing pigeon
is eight to ten years though some
live to twice that age. Their best
carrying and racing feats are per-
forated between their second and
fifth years. The bane of the pigeon
enthusiast is the type of hunter who
takes a pot shot at anything that
flies. There is scarcely a single im-
portant pigeon race from which some
birds do not return "with shotgun
pellets lodged in breast or wings.
LEARNING TO REMEMBER
1'sy-oholotiet: agree that almost all
of us can learn to perform memory
feats far beyond any of which we
dream ourselves capable. The average
person forgets names and faces, facts
and figures, simply because he never
really has to remember them. You
would surprise yourself by your
powers of recollection if your bread
and 'butter depended on it,
Edgar J. Swift, Washington Uni-
versity psychologist, told orf a milk -
wagon 'driver who deliberately burn-
ed an unskilled jdb into a s'kilied one
by improving ibis memory for names
and addresses. His ambition won him
a position as strbstitute driver for 10
different routes of 300 addresses each,
at double his former pay. Though he
carried no written records, he 'knew
by heart the names and addresses of
3000 customers and just what to leave
each.
Consider the feats of Dr, Salo Fin-
kelstein, Polish mathematical ,per-
former, who was hired by an ,Arneri-
can- broadcasting company to tally re-
turns of the 15932 presidential election
'because he was faster than an adding
machine. How long wfsuld 11 take you
to 'learn .by heart the number 6254-
700345986032169832?
214-70t 415986111931269832? Dr. Fin'kelsbein
less time than pat would need to read
the number aloud. But "H.W.," an
Ohio State University student, after
special training by psychologists,
managed the same feat in only 4.37
seconds, beating the most rapid mem-
orizer known to science, And other
college students, given the same train•
ing, thoroughly demolished the idea
that the victim of a mediocre memory
can do nothing' about it.
People have different types of
mint. Some remember pictorial im•
ages, others recall sounds, other learn
by the "feel" of mouth and tongue
movements required to say words.
Most of us have some ,chane of each
type of ability although one faculty
usually predominates. The puha is
that no matter ghat type of mind
y Let have. there are some general
rules that will help you both in iii•
di1idual memorizing tasks and 111
training yollr menlort ,o give bett,ir
.511 -around service in the future.
First, in mernurizing a piece 0f mat.
eria7 tackle it is a wS, o!e. and not in
sections. In learning, a poem o s.h '-
etanca0, you plight imagine it w all'
he easier to memorize a couple of
011117.011 at a time. I.\5'eriineilts show
that this method is wrong. Read th,i
poem right through from start to
finish, as litany tiaras as necessary,
and you will learn it in conuecte1
form --which is the way- that you
want to—and with greater efficiency.
Avoid "cramming." In the example
just given, you will tix the poem far
more firmly in your mind if you read
it twice each evening for a .week than
if you go over it 114 tinges in one
night.
Don't try too hard. Laboratory ex •
•perintents prove that mental tension,
produced by "over -trying," definitely
stows down the process of learning.
Have confidence in your memory C;`"•
"Every time a period remarks that he
has a memory like a sieve," declares
Robert H. 'l'houless, British lecturer
on psychology, "he is knocking one
more 'hole through its bottom."
Avoid "mental crutches," or artific-
ial aide to memory, such as associat-
in,; co:ors with numbers in order to
remember the figures better. This
puts your mind to unnecessary labor
in handling two kinds of material that
have no natural relation to each
other. It is entirely possible to rec-
ognize familiar patterns in figures
themselves. This is the secret of Go.
Finkelstein's num bre wizardry. He
has simply learned to view a long
number as a stria, of smaller, three -
'digit figures, as easily recognizable to
him as three -letter words.
Another interesting aid to memory
is suggested by recent tests. The best
time to memorize anythingis just
before you go to sleep. The ',bedtime
memorizers" scored consistently 210 to
30 percent higher than those memor-
izing at other hours. The material
seems to "sunk in' most effectively
then, the 'benefit being lost if even as
little as two hours intervenes between
the time of study and (bedtime.
The mast important fact brought
out by these and other recent sbudies
is that memory is not the chance pos-
session of a few favored individuals,
but may be cultivated by anyone who
goes about it scientifically and has
the desire , and patience to practice
regularly,
1940's FiCTION HEROINE No. 1
Opening chapter's of "Laughing
Girl," 0 thrilling new novel by
George F. Worts, who wrote "The.
Green Angel," "The Greenfield Mys-
tery," and other successful works of
fiction, begin in The Amercan Week-
ly with the January 7 issue of The
Detroit Sunday Times, Be sure to
read this serial novel which tells of
the exalting experiences of a girl who
staked her glamour, her beauty- and
her cleverness 'with a keen -minded
millionaire—to win the man she loved
—a secret formula worth a fortune.
Be sure to get the January 7 issueof
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