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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1945-11-08, Page 3IIG gy HELEN TOPPING MILLER O1LIPTILRV Instantly, old Hughey extricated kdmsojf from the confusion of his bedding. His sunken, dead -black eyes began to gleam. IIo clawed at Gary's arm, jerked him inside, and slammed the door, "Don't let none of, them folks around licxie you," he warned. "Set down. Yeh, I got a map, But ism Beeping it. What you want with "I'm studying the 'structures around - here. Thought maybe you'd let me look at your map. Know this country pretty well, do you?" "Know it?' shrilled the old man, lulling out a drawer from a lop- sided chest and fumbling feverish - 1s' . • f�. r far:w every- fold and fault and sand in it. Walked every foot of it. Son, you can look at my map, but there abet no ail under this county, not a drop," * * * He straightened, brought out a packet carefully wrapped in oil- cloth and secured with a tightly knotted shoestring. Slowly, al- most lmost reverently, he untied a doz- en knots. A roll of slippery maps slid out, uncurled themselves, grease -spotted and faded. " tot 'ern alt here," Old Hnghey dropped on a stool and spread the soiled sheets over his knees. "Here she is, Look a' here." He traced with a long and filthy fing- ernail. "Thr.e see l.tp:: ..there's the Sabine uplift—where they found the big pool—and over hero there ain't nothing. Lime and salt water, I tell you." With, swift, trained vision Gary et .r.'ect re se.s. It w::s an old print, he noted twenty years old. 'rimro was an uplift—but to the north of It a fault --and on the edge of that—his breath began to quick- en a little, "Thanks, Mr. Fothergill." Re hane:re tate rasp back '" Fl„re-buy yourself some tobacco. You're MANY T}IANKS go to wives and mothers who serve Maxwell House! Yes, Canadian families love the delicious, satisfying flavor of this superb blend of Latin-American coffees. dw t tr' OSMOTIC, NEURALGIC PA1 You get pain relief fastwhen you use Aspirin because it starts to go to work almost immediately. To ese that this is so, just drop an Aspirin tablet in water. What you'll see is what happens in your stomach—the tablet starts disintegrating within two seconds! That's why Aspirin stops neuritic, neuralgic pain so quickly. Get Aspirin today.The"Sayer" cross on each tablet is your guarantee that it's Aspirin) NOW—New Low Prima Pocket box of 12s . only T8e Economybottleof 24 .. only 29e Family size of 10.0 . . only 79c ISSUE 45-1546 quite surethere's no oil under these structures?” "Shake yourself well," advised Adelaide as he went back to the car. "L got the cold shivers when he grabbed you. I was sitting here wondering it I ought to go yell for the police." * * * "He's got. the map --but its: an old edition. I'll have to write for a, new one, I guess." "B'ut that will take days—let's telegraph, can't we?" sir 1 sent a wire eomebody would start talking," he said. "You can't hide oil -or even a suspicion that there night be oil." "Gary Tallman you 'did see something on that maps .You're trying to he mysterious and ob- scure, but I can see right through you. You've got red spots in both cheeks.' revel," ho said. "I've been with you for hours. Flow do you expect me to keep my temperature dawn?" • Y'. e're going straight home to tell Dad." I wouldn't want to raise any false "Dad could hire a geologist" "A survey costs money, too. The big oil companies keep their own crews, hut an independent owner would have to take his own risks,'' "Oliver works for a big oil cam- pany,, [Te sells leases, He doesn't know anything about production. if tlit'se t 01,, illy indices/ens Last there's oil under your place, Kim- ball wo^td want your father to sell out to somebody," 1•:a F Int all the credit, and grab it, too. And probably half the money. I wouldn't trust Oliver an inch, Don't say a word, Gary, when Oliver is around." t ary a_recd promptly because he did not like Oliver, either, '1 hope nobody comes in tonight then we ren tell Dad and Moth- er," Adelaide ran on excitedity, ".And you tint advise Dad what to do. Oh, Gary—suppose wo did VI millions of dollars—" she was breathless and her eyes ware like two hot, burning stars. "Now don't say a word," he warned as they whirled through the gate and around the drive, missing the windmill by the thick- ness of a coat of paint. 'Gary, could you draw a sketch of that anap? You could, couldn't you?" ''1 guess 1 tuuld, I euuld get it down in a rough way." "Torr go up and do that right away, before dinner, And 1'11 fix up some way to introduce the sub- ject,, Later, when ,she had time to think about. it, Mona ,Lee remem- bered the look on Harvey's face when Adelaide said abrubtly, "Now, Gary—now let's tell them!" * For a minute Harvey's face darkened. Gary was a nice boy, but they had had fine plans for Adelaide whtoh did not include a marriage to any young all man out of a job. That was in Harvey's face at first. And then, when Gary spread out the sheet of paper with the rough sketch he had drawn on the table; Harvey's face changed again.. "What's all this?" he asked gruffly. Adelaide drew a deep breath and was tense and her eyes snap- ped sparks, "011—on our land! Gary thinks maybe he's found oil!" It was then that Harvey became a stranger to Mona Lee. (To Be Continued) CHRONICLES o F MA ` t• weneolinee P. :lark We have jtist conic back from the County Ploughing match. We were all there Partner, the two boys and myself. It was a glorious clay, fine and warns, the first day in years that it hasn't rained, or been cold and rough for this big county event, It was also the first time I had ever gone to a plough- ing . match and I found it well worth the .trip. The boys went early in the fore- noon, Partner and I followed soon after dinner — just in time to sec the big bull -dozer at work. And how it worked! What was a bull-. dozer doing ata ploughing match, did you ask? Well, you see this af- fair was more than a ploughing match — thanks to enterprising men within the county. It was also a demonstration and exhibition of labour saving machinery, and, while a bull -dozer can hardly be classed as a necessary piece`' of equipment on a hundred acres, yet there are many, such farms where a bull -dozer could be put to good Use= thus the demonstration, the idea being that a group of farmers might find enough work between tient to bring a hull -dozer in to work for them. * * ,k On this particular farm where the match was held the machinery was lined up in a pasture field. In the field there was a huge stump from which an elm tree had recent- ly been felled. It isn't necessary for Inc to tell you the work involv- ed in prying a green stump front its moorings. No doubt you have seen the men on your faint work- ing with picks, shovels, axes and even dynamite' for days at a time. But on this stump the hull -dozer went to work. It gouged out the dirt from around the stump; it cut through its confining roots; it groaned and whined against the resisting fibres, while a ring of men, women and boys looked on itt breathless expectancy. "By Jintiny, that there stump will take some moving," one fellow said. "Just watch — it'll do it," said another. Fascinated I formed nay way 'to the front of the ring and front this vantage point I noticed that at first the stump was as solid and de- fiant as a rock. And then, slowly but surely it started giving a lit- tle. Came the time when it shud- dered from the impact of the huge steel monster and then gradually gave way before its repeated on- slaughts. Finally the crowd could see the battle of mechanismagainst nature was just about won. Two or three more gigantic shoves and the great root was pushed over and NAVY SUIT Believe it or not, Joy Hardy wears a reconverted WREN'S uniform, All that happened to the uniform was an addition of fancy, dark blue braid and. the removal of the three additional buttons which gave it doable -breasted style. The original fine tailoring of the uniform is retained. yelps Check Colds Quickly: You eau often check a cold quickly if you follow these instructions. Just as soon as feel the cold cor- ing on and experience headache, pains in the back or limbs, soreness through the body, take a Paradol tablet, a Bood big drink of hot lemonade or ginger tea and go to bed. The Paradol affords almost imtaed- ia to relief from the pains andaches and iielps'you to get off to sleep. The dose may be repeated, if necessary, accord- ing to the directions. If there is sore- ness of the throat, gargle with. two Paradol tablets dissolved in water. Just try Paradol the next time you have'a cold and we believe that you will be well pleased. Paradol does not disap- point. driven unresisting away from to soil which had held it for so many years. Bob was particularly interested in this demonstration because he had seenbull-dozers at work so often in British -Columbia and used to write and tell us about them, Also he had wished several times this fall that.he had had one around here for an hour or two. He has been ploughing partly cleared vir- gin land up in our bush and has been having one sweet time, what with stumps, trees and boulders. He would come in at noon some- times and say, "What I -couldn't do with a bull -dozer up sit that fields" There was also a demonstration on ditching today with the bull- dozer pulling a huge 'grader. That was interesting too. Then there was a power chainsaw in operation which we couldn't see at all for the crowd. If only some of the offi- cials' had been, there forcing the crowd to forst a larger ring then everyone would have had a chance to see what was going on. Another thing that claimed our attention was a tractor pulling about every implement used on a farm at one time. * * * And the ploughing? Oh yes, there was ploughing — lots of it —and it all looked grand to me. In fact I don't know how the judges could come to a decision when there scented so little to choose be- tween all those ridges of well- turned sods, gleaming moistly in the warns autumn sun. I heard' Partner and another farmer argu- ing about the respective merits of team and tractor ploughing with Partner all in favour of the latter. No doubt tractor ploa,vhing is more practical in this clay and age but I had a sneaking preference for those team ploughed ridges with crowns so evert they might have been measured with a foot -rule. * a * SO 'hat was, our County Plough- ing match. And, ladies, when the next one rolls along, just forget there's washing to do and climb in the old jalopy along with the rest of the family and have a day out with the sten. It's a wise woman who interests herself in what in- terests her men and you will find a ploughing match, be it county or provincial. quite worthy of your consideration. "Methodist" Preferred A flight officer wanted to buy some war. bonds at the war fin- ance office in Lawrenceville, I11., and was asked in what clenomina- tion he'd like to have then, "Me- thodist," he replied. Daily Air Service London to Vienna R.A.P. Mosquitoes are now making daily runs between Lon- don and Vienna in just over two and one half hours reports the B BC correspondent in Vienna. He adds that London morning news- papers are now arriving in the Austrian capital by 11 a.m., This service is being operated by Brit - Isis Transport Command, The makers of the Mosquito aro now working on a peace time version which is stated to . be specially suitable for world-wide operation and moderate size airports. It will carry eight' to eleven passengers and have a -cruising speed of 160 miles per hour, Ex -Servicewomen Want Own 'Homes The girls in khaki aitd blue have their hearts seton a home of their own rather than a career, it would seem. The re-establishment credit of 85% of the girls discharged from the services up to the end of Aug- ust, a sunt totalling 570,570 has been used to buy furniture and household equipment, None of the girls has yet used her credit to purchase a business, 'Let Us Bind Up The Nation's Wounds'. 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