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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-05-28, Page 6THE WING.t AM ADMAN E -TIMES 'VVtri ghaixi Advance-Tiroes. W, Logan Craig - Publisher Pablished at W INQI AM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning ttbscription rate„ ---es — One year $2.00, Six months $1.00, in advance,. To U. 5, A. $2,550 per year. Advertising rates an' application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Riskss taken on all class of aznce at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont, 4.sUrt r_Cas'1sNS �crs insur- J. W.DODD ''moo doors south of . Field's Butener shop. `IRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 366 Phone 46 WI GHAM; ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes ' J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER. ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store , W, COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambiy Phone 54 Wingham f$OBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG,) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians : and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29. DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST `Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Tres Office adjoining residence nex:. Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 o,m. 0 A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and. National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. Phone 300. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC' AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment, Phone 191. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Winghan't :RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter., or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. DRS. A. J & A, W. IR WY ILi1 DENTISTS (Office MacDonald' Block, Wingham, A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. J. Wait Licensed. Funeral Director and 7E mbaltner. Office Phone 106, Res, Phorte 224, Limousine I unccral Coach, Maggie Johnson, whose father is a letter -carrier, her mother a lazy wo- man who has "seen better days," and her sister a bootlegger's sweetheart who works in a beauty parlor, is a stock girl in the "Mack" stores, the Five -and -Ten Ten. of San Francisco. A boy whom she knows only as "Joe Grant," but who is really Joseph Grant McKenzie Merrill, son of the owner of the "Mack," is learning the business, by starting at the bottom. He doesn't like the job until he meets Maggie. And neither of them realizes that they are falling in love with each other, at first. Joe is impressed, by Maggie's intelligence and goodheart- edness, and gives her advice on the subject nearest her heart, how to live the ideal life. She makes a sugges- tion for a better way of selling cer- tain lines. He tells his father, as if it were his own idea, greatly pleasing the old man. He finds that the girls he used to know don't interest him as much as Maggie does, and when Maggie discloses her love in a burst of jealousy, he realizes that he loves her, too. Joe is afraid that if Maggie finds out who he really is she will not have anything more to do with him. So he pretends that it is some other fel- low's car when he takes her home in his big yellow roadster. And on the way they talk, at last, about marriage. Joe that night reveals to his father for the first time that he has been working in the store under an as- sumed name, and tells him. about Maggie. Joe's mother has him invite Maggie to a fine dinner party at a fashion able restaurant. There Maggie gets her first intimation that he is some- thing besides a boy in the store. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Quiet! He had never seen her so quiet. She had'conenered her first suffocating rush of shyness, she was sitting erect, and when he or his mo- ther or father spoke, she answered. Her look told him that he had be - clans temptation. "Joe, I hear. In such a situation as this to -night an?" she could score. Not very clever, "I may go." not really a gentlewoman, she was ''May go? Why, 1 thought—" said still enough .of each to snub and sup Millicent innocently, turning to Mrs, press Maggie Johnson. She enjoyed Merrill -"I thought you said some - girl's the chance. To feel herself this.girl's thing of a little good-bye dinner to - superior, to cut her easily and care -night, Mrs, Merrill?- I thought he lessly in a bored, beautiful, cull;ivat- was going to -morrow?" g ed voice gave Lillian Merrill real sat- The colour drantea tram Maggie's isfaction. face. Mrs, Merrill laughed "uneasily She had been as a girl, of that as she said: miserable and superfluous class "Well, I think it is practically set - known as shabby gent.eeI. tied, isn't it, Joe?" At twenty-five, Lillian was sharp, Millicent, her bright, mischievous eager, beautiful, hungry. She fell up - eyes reading all their faces, changed on George Merrilf with avidity; he the subject tactfully and presently was a commoner, but he was rich. went on her way. Then Maggie, in He was the first real man she had the little pause that followed the oth- ever met, and to her own surprise er girl's chattering and laughing and confusion she had come to like good-byes, said steadily: hint very much, to feel a strange loy-"I'm going to ask you will you ex- alty and admiration for her common- er. His indifference to her fainily ideals and opinions was—well, sitnp- ly breath -taking! In the more than twenty years of their marriage, George Merrill had changed her somewhat. He was a good, simple fellow, amazed at his own success, proud of his wife, ador- ing his boy. It was at about this time, when by her brightened eyes and nervous you're going to Jap - cuse me and let me go home now Mrs. Merrill. I. oughtn't to have come —I know that. But I didn't under- stand. You and his father have been pretty well worried about me, maybe. But it was because I thought Joe was a poor boy—and that, if he loved her, he'd be glad to marry a girl as poor as mel—Don't speak to me, Joe. I'm done with you -to -night. I never would have cone here, ma'am," she voice, and by the two scarlet spots added, to Mrs. Merrill, "I never (that blazed in her cheeks, Maggie be- would have given you any worry— that if I had known. We were working gan to show the effects of the sur - together, only this afternoon, and he [prise and the strain that George Mer- asked me would I meet his folks—" rill suddenly took a hand in the con- versation. He had been an almost silent spec- tator, so far, watching his wife and. his son shrewdly, sending an occas- ional glance toward the girl. "You work in. the Stores, Miss Johnson?" "In Number Seven—on Eighth. Yes, sir." "How long have you been there? You don't look old enough to have been there very long?" The kind, deliberate voice, steadied her, She breathed easier, looked him in the eye. "I'm eighteen. I went in nearly four years ago, when I finished gram- h-. „die felt her legs grow weak She said: "That's my father and - ...,ehhh neoeher, Jon," trayed her, delivered her, bound and (mar. My father and mother had— helpless, to her enemies. "I trusted considerable trouble." you—I ;loved you when you were a "Your father's living then?" shabby, dirty errand clerk, beside me "My father's a postman." in a cheap store," said Maggie's eyes, "and all the time you were my em- ployers son, ready to make fun of tie, ready to shame me—when your tnonlent came!" She helped herself, awkwardly, un- familiarly, to food, when it was pre- sented at her left elbow on the big platters, But he noted. with a real pang of shame and concern that she hardly touched it. "Would yoti ask the help if I could have some more water?" she said once, And Mrs. Merrill said quite audibly, if in an aside, "Oh, priceless." Joe looked down, his face dark. "Mother--" he murmured, chok- ing. A faint smile touched the older wo- man's painted mouth, and she said graciously: "I beg pardon?" "Water to Miss Johnson," Mrs. Merrill said, annoyed, It was the waiter's business to see that the guest's glass was filled, but Mrs, : Mer- rill felt illogically irritated with, the guest who had had to call attention ; rill in that second. to the omission. "You had no idea who he was?" "And a fork, please," Maggie added, "Nobody did,' said Maggie,, She said it so low, with such ens-. "What did you call yourself, Joe?' his mother asked. "Jae Grant," There was an interruption. A dance had ended, and a girl and young man came up to the : M'errill's table, Joe and his father stood up, and a waiter palled up another chair, and the girl perfumed and rouged and beauti- fully goweed—sat down negligently and easily and was introduced to Maggie Johnson, Miss Millicent Russell studiedthe other girl corns She faltered for a second, went on. "I thought maybeyou and Mr. Grant were like us -I thought it'd be some little place like we have, I night have known -I might have known he wasn't like the rest of us!" "He'll go to Japan to -morrow," said Maggie ,looking Joe full in the face, "and that's right—that's what he ought to do. And I promise you—I promise you that I'll never see him again !" "I don't think he meant to hurt you, Miss Johnson," Mrs. Merril said, "That's all right," she said in cold, nervous voice. "I guess he did ret know how it would strike me Will you please excuse me if I g home now?" "Wait just a minute, won't you— Maggie?" George Merrill said. Andin his turn he laid an arrest- ing hand upon her arm. The voice, grave and sympathetic and distressed, shook her, as did the touch, and the somewhat halting-Ie. name. For the first time she showed signs of a break. u "Maggie," Joe said pleadingly, "yo" know what we had planned—you know I never meant to hurt you." "I think dear, that Miss Johnson feels nervous and tired, and your de- ceiving her about your name and who you are has upset her, I wouldn't say anything more about this just now, Joe." "You don't have to come with me," Maggie said stonily to Joe. And she turned to the older man. "Thank you,, Mr. Merrill. Good -night." And even while she said it, he Saw George Merrill flushed with gen- her eyes move beyond him to the uine concern; he had been trying to door of the room and her face whiten put her at her ease. She sank down weakly into her seat "Well," be said pleasantly, "I think again. The party in which Millicent Rus- sell was prominent was still lingering about its big round table, and all of its members and everyone else in the room were staring, as Maggie was, at the man and woman who -were some- what hesitatngly making their way across the floor, restrained, rather than guided, by the scandilized head- waiter. It was all' like a. horrible dream to Maggie, exhausted, confused, and wearied almost beyond bearing this fresh blow, The approaching couple were her father, diffident and bashful and frightened, and her mother, agi- tated and bold. Pop's shabby old suit, baggy and limp, ,Pop's searching rabbit eyes and bowed, meek little shoulders, looked doubly; pitiful here, and. Ma, with the black veil falling impressively from the hat she had evidently assumed in great haste, and the dark hair i.n un- tidy strings beneath it, and the volu- minous black cape she wore to fun - orals bellying about her like a sail, was the target for all the eyes in the Yo oxn. Maggie felt her mouth fill with salt water, and her throat thicken, and her legs grow weak, She said, "That's my father and mother, Joe." Joe had the waiter once again drag two chairs to the table, and lett, and" Mrs. Johnson, obviously dazed and astonished, sat down and were intro- duced, "T ast him was there ,somcottc here named 'Grant, and.he say, 'No,' " said Mrs. Johnson. "It was just luck I happened to look in the door and saw Maggie." "What as it, Pop? Why'd yon come?" "Maggie, a cop just come to .the house," her mother said abruptly, "That feller 'Lizabeth runs with has been arrested, and she's at the night court. Fop and me didn't know what to do! I give you my word that no- thing like this has ever happened in our family before," Mrs. Johnson said. genteely, yet in a tone of shame, to Mrs. Merrill. "What's the. charge?" George IVIer- rill asked abruptly. "They say they•were speedin'," elu- cidated Maggie's mother, "an' Chess —my daughter's friend is mined Chess Rivers -.-had some hootch in the car." "You'll want some money!" George Merrill said suddenly: • "Ilow much have you?" "It happens that I ain't got more than a quarter," Len Johnson said, in his reedy, troubled little voice. "But we reely couldn't take it from you," Ma added, "I s'pose young folks will be young folks," she said to Mrs, Merrill, "and it ain't as if Liz had been stealing or anything like that. But I thought I would drop where I stood when that cop walked in. I'tn not accustomed to having my daughter get into any trouble—" "Ma," Maggie said. And Joe's fa- ther noted that she only touched the older woman on the arm. But her mother immediately began a sort of rotary curtseying in farewell. "Maggie-Maggie—why do you go —why do you mix yourself up in this?" Joe said wretchedly and inco- herently, trying to draw her aside,. catching her by the arm. Maggie was on her feet now,,shep- herding her father and mother away. MAITLAND PRESBY- TERIAL W.M.S. CON- VENES AT ETH.EL The 17th annual meeting of the Maitland Presbyterial of the W.M.S. was held at Knox Presbyterian Church at Ethel on Tuesday last. The morning session heard reports sub- mitted by the various heads of the following departments: Young Wo- men's Auxiliaries, Mission Band, 1 Home Helpers, Life Memberships and Glad Tidings. There were also a reports on supplies, Welcome and - Welfare work, Library, Literature, • Press, correspondence secretary o treasurer. Mrs. Forbes of Teeswater lead in a dedicatory prayer. The address of welcome to Ethel Presbyterian Church was delivered by Mrs. W. A. Williams, of Cranbrook. Mrs. Williams delivered. a very fit- ting address, in welcoming the visi- tors to Ethel. A fitting reply was v delivered by Mrs. E. A. Menzies of iLuck -now. The closing morning,. prayer was given by Miss Campbell of Molesworth. I owe that store a debt of gratitude, My son, Joe, here, seems to have got- ten a lot more out of it than he ever did out of college!" Maggie looked at hire unemotion- ally, "He didn't do very wellthere, for awhile," she adtnitted quietly, "but now he is doing very well -good-" she changed it again, under her breath—"very well, They all like him." "I'm proud to hear it," George Merrill said thankfully. "Maggie," Joe began at this paint uncomfortably, "thought that I was the daintiest thing she had ever got- ten hold: of, didn't you,Maggie? She gave me any first start." "I didn't know 'who he . was," she explained, with a patient glance at his mother. Something happened to. Mrs, Mer- barrassment, that nobody heard it. "And a fork, please," Maggie re- peated, audibly now, "A fork for my fish," she said, clearing her throat. "And a fork— while you're up," "While you're up!" Mrs, Merrill's lips twitched, as if unwillingly. Her sardonic, ttiumphaht glance, as it met Joe's wretched, defiant gaze, express- ed a certa!tr reluctance to laugh at tnfortunate little humble frietd, but an inability to resist the tremen- fortably, insolently, as she talked. . A, • Thursday, May 28th, 1931 TheBiuevale and Bathes' Auxiliary was in charge of the prayer service and the Scripture reading at the ev- ening service. Mrs, Day of Eadics' reach the scripture lesson and Mrs. McEwen of Blnevale gave the prayer. The 16th annual report' of the W. M, S. was presented by the president, Mrs. McWhinney, She declared that more home helpers were needed to encourage members and increase tate membership: There was the appeal from Northern Ontario for the suf- fering and this had been answered, saki the president. She hoped that there would' be more increase in the membership in the Mission Bands. Two executive meetings were held during the year. She asked for mem- bers to pray for missionaries who have gone from this locality. In 1918 there was a public thank - offering asked for, the objective be- ing four millions, but they realized five millions. The provincial report, given by. Mrs. A. Carr, Wingham, who was a delegate to Windsor W. M, S.,was submitted. A solo by Mrs, Alexander, "Beauti- ful Land. on High," was enjoyed. Mrs. M. I3', McI(enzie, of Ripley gave' a financial report. Mrs, G. W, Mc- Kay, Formosa, gave an address and spoke • of the W. M, S. there, She spoke of Canada holding her Golden Jubilee in 1934, But in Formosa. they would be holding their Diamond Jubilee in 1931. Greetings from the Presbytery of Atwood were brought by Miss Fel- ton; Mrs. Holman of Monkton also. brought greetings from Stratford 10 Presbytery; Rev. Mr. McCullough, of 8' , Kincardine, brought :greetings from Kincardine Presbytery, appreciating (Continued on page Seven) Perhaps it's best after all that inen: marry the sweet, pretty young thing,.: says Peggy, A good, sensible girl can take care of herself. W E. ANDERSON is my name For your approval I am listing below four remarkable values in unused Truck Trans- portation. 1927 Reo 11/4 Ton Speed Wagon with stake body and closed cab. This is one of the best values I have had the pleasure of $350.00 offering in many months 1928—G. M. C. 2 -Ton Truck, large stake body with 42 in. racks. This truck is ideal for back country work as it is equipped with 36x8 single tires on the rear $595.00 1927--Chev. 1 -Ton stake body and closed cab. This is a little dandy and is in exceptional good condition. Ideal for light carriage work or market gardener. $325.00 1929 -.Ford 11/2 -Ton Truck with large stake body and closed cab in Al' condition and newly painted. $465.00 ,Drop me a line and let me know your requirements as I am sure some one of the 20 Trucks we now have in Stock will be 'what you ave looking for. My address is still— REO MOTORS OF WESTERN ONTARIO Ltd., London, Ontario. 138-146 Fuilarton St. Residence 120 Briscoe St. Phone -Metcalf 3171-3170 Phone—Metcalf 7685W. he Census of 1 31 aa In the -opening weeks of June every family and every home in Canada will be visited by a repre- sentative of the Government for the great national purpose of taking the seventh census of Canada. The census is really a stocktaking. That is, it, provides the information to enable the Govern- ment and others interested in the development of the country to "formulate progressive policies for the happiness, comfort and prosperity of our people. All the information supplied is strictlyi PP confidential, and the officers of the Government are subject to severe penalty if they disclose any of 'the information which is given to them by residents in, the coimtry, any other than the Government. Furthermore, it has nothing whatever to do with taxation or military serVice, or comePu,yattendance, or immigration, or any such sor school matter; and the Government itself cannot use it except for statistical totals. The Government representatives _. will put the same questions to all,, and it is your duty as a resident of this country to answer promptly and truthfully. The Government its very anxious to avoid forcing anyone to answer these questions, but it is empowered to do so in the few w" cases. where individuals may, refuse. Issued by .ON. IL li. STI NS , Minister DEPARTMENT Or TRADE' AND COMMERCE --OTTAWA 1 TTAWA ..