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The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-07-09, Page 6Win hal w AdvanceeTimeS. W. Logan Craig - Publisher Published at WINGHAIVM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning subscription rates — One year $2.00, Six months $1,00, in advance, To U. S. A. $2,50 per year. Advertising rates 'sit application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- z= at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. .0.$'lY1lum c,elaU :,�7e�S. 0 . 46 J. W. DODD `Two doors south of Field's Buttner shop. FIRE, 'LIFE ACCIDENT AND , HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 366 Phone WINGHAM, ONTARIO Je W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAWFOR's 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 H. W. COLBORN , M.D. t. Physician and Surgeon 7 Medical Representative D. S. C. 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CeevetGHT 1031 BY THE AVTMor� SYNOPSIS Rackruff Motors hire Rowena to accompany Peter on .a nation-wide tour in their roadster as an advertis- ing. stunt, .At the last minute Little Bobby is engaged to act asehaper on, They are waiting for Bobby. to show up to make the start. A few miles out Bobby becomes tearful at being parted from: her. sweetheart, Rowena insists' on tak ing her place in` the rumble so that she can ride with•Peter and have him to talk to about Carter, Rowena bets Peter to consent to divide the ex- pense. money each week as soon as it arrives, and astonishes' Peter by eating too economically. The three tourists reach `St. Louis, iffier passing through Buffalo and �hicago, Peter and Rowena have iany tiffs,' while Bobby is' enraptur- d at the way Carter is fuming over er flight from New York. OW GO ON WITH THE STORY There were bound to be ever so many pleasant, cool, shadowy short- cuts between St. Louis and Kansas City. On the:way between St. Louis and Kansas City, Peter asked about short cuts at no end of: filling stations and garages as they went west, but no one seemed to be very' well informed E by -roads, and for the most part very one advised against attempting any such thing. It was: well on toward noon when Peter found a man in a garage who hought there really was a short-cut ust as Peter wanted. He wasn't al- ogether sure it was a direct route ,to ansas City, but at least it did not ad back toward St. Louis. They had driven about twenty files along this rambling line, which t times seemed to turn,uncertainly ward Kansas City and then made a ead run for the. Nebraska line, when hey .saw a stalled car in the road be - re them. The driver lay stretched ut on the bank' with his hat over is face. crawl the car rolled exp: to tete shad- owy banir under the willow tree where the stranger with the stalled motor had ,mapped out the futile short-cut, "Ohl" whispered Bobby weakly. "Look -look! Rowena! Rowena,. • indeed, lying motionless beside the road where the afternoon sun slanted behind' the trees to throw protecting shadows over her slend- er figure.. Peter was out of the car long before it had cone to a . stop and was tip the bank and kneeling beside her, He lifted one limp slim hand, It was stained red. "Rowenal;' he whispered. Rowena opened her eyes, "Oh, hello," she said cheerfully. "Gosh, you were a long time coming back." "Are—are you—hurt?" stammered Peter. "Hurt? Why, nol What 'do you mean, hurt?" She licked a bit of red; raspberry juice from her finger as she spoke. "D -did you fall out, darling?" ask- ed Bobby.in fatuously affectionate tones. "Fall out?" repeated Rowena. "Cer- tainly not." She stood .up, lifted pier. arms, stretching her slender figure comfortably to its utmost height. "I' had a grand nap," she said. "And wrote out just what I think of Mis- souri, Poor dears, you must•be hot and dreadfully tired, Come and sit down—a nature's feast to feed you. Berries and cold spring water. I knew you would be famished so I picked heaps." "You darling," said Bobby, and greedily fell to. "But will you please tell •us," she mumbled, with a full mouth, for she was very hungry, "how you fell—how you got—out of the rumble seat?" "I climbed out," said Rowena cheerfully. "It's the only way you can get out of a rumble seat." "But when—" "But how—" "We didn't see you!" "When Peter .and the broken-down Peter slowed' up. Rowena leaned forward'and rapped arply on' the glass. "Never ask ad- ce of a broken-down driver,"she trned him darkly, "If he knew at he. was doing, he wouldn't .be oken down," But Peter for once had struck the ht party. He knew every road in e state. Peter thankeci him for - his careful rections and returned to the car. e was too much of a gentleman to er triumphantly back at Rowena der the awning umbrella in the nil seat. He just got in behind wheel and started the motor. He had driven fully twenty miles er the worst possible sort` of coon - road road when he found that a bridge as out, that there was no detour, d the only possible way to go on in e direction of I(ansas City was to back to the main road and start er, `Very meekly he turned around pay homage to her better judg- nt, ent, but stopped short, staring open - tithed. Bobby, who always looked here others did, turned too and her azeinent surpassed his own, The rumble seat was empty. Row - was was not there. Peter slowly returned over the ads to where the self-styled expert d given him' his directions. Twenty mil est Iotbyclosed her eyes, Peter ped she was praying, He would ve prayed himself except that the d driving over the bad road re - red his complete attention, But did keeps breathing over anti over his heart the one word, "Godl God! d1" and trusted. the Infinite would derstand it for appeal, nstimetivcly his foot lifted froth accelerator and at a noiseless gent were dusting off Missouri in the middle of the road I noticed the wild berries up on the bank among the rocks. I must have got myself out of sight of the car without knowing it, for the first thing I knew, I heard the usual racing of the engine with which dear Peter gets under way, so I ran down and there you were—tear- ing off among the ruts in ;a cloud of metaphorical glory. So . I picked some more berries, and the broken- down gent and I shot craps until the man from the garage came and tow- ed him in. He invited me to go with them, but I knew you would be back for me when you got around to it." "There was a bridge out on the short-cut," explained Peter quickly. "I know. The broken-down gent 'remembered it about ten minutes af- ter you had gone, , But of course it was too late then." been honored with a sort 'oi` an ap- ology, but warning them to be care- ful of their future conduct, Mr. Rack also said they were ex- tremely pleased with the character of the work that had been, turned out, and enclosed check for next week's expenses. Peter was ,extremely grate- ful for that check, for Bobby had spent the last cent of her week's al- lowance by Wednesday, after which time, he and Rowena had been oblig- ed to carry her between them. "Chaperons come high; don't they," grumbled Rowena, as she counted out. nickels and dimes to make up her portion of Bobby's last manicure, It was a genuine hardship to them to be obliged to contribute so exten- sively to the maintenance of luxury loving Bobby. On the other hand, her presence was so essential to the Peter and Rowena looked at each Thursday, July:9.th, 1931 Kansas, and when they complained,of the notoriously hot winds, she smiled patiently and said she didn't mind, She ate very little, and had fifteen. ecnts of her allowance left at the end of the week, When they reaehed Denver ;hey hurried at once, as the always did, to get their mail, and there was no- thing, at all for Bobby, not a letter, nol a telegram, not so much as a souvenir postcard, She said nothing but turned pale' and a little sad smile froze the dimples in the soft face, When. Rowena went down to din- ner she made excuses not to go— said she was very tired, said she wanted a hot bath and a good sleep, said she would just read a magazine she had picked out at the news-stand. They went up to the room imme- diately after dinner with all good int tentions,rand Rowena knocked. When there was no answer she opened the doorand they went in, Theroom had a deserted appearance, Bobby's Handsome articles of toilet were gone from the dressing -table. Her beauti ful dressing -gown was gone from the foot of the bed, her satin mules from beneath it. Her imported traveling bag no longer stood beside Rowena's shabby suitcase on the baggage rack. all-important tour that they were in other in wide-eyed consternation, no position to quarrel very seriously even with herextravagances. "For my part, T'd rather pay her bills than read Carter's telegrams," said Peter moodily, "I wouldn't." disagreed Rowena promptly. "I've learned to read with one eye and listen with one ear, and that way I get through with only half' the mental strain." "Yes, .but you've got a rumble to retire tp." "So I have. But I have to sleep with her," One thing was certain. Her pres- ence was essential, and Carter and his telegrams, she and her extravagances, were alike to be endured. At. Topeka she was startled to find but one telegram awaiting her- a ten word, straight day message.. "Are you taking first train home or are you not?" It was not even signed: Bobby's fright was so genuine, her disappointment so real, that Rowena and Peter tried to console her. Peter took them out to a movie, and Rowena—with her own money- bought her a cunning little Kansas souvenir, a flask carved out of a corn cob -and she seemed slightly more resigned, She was very quiet as they crossed hopeless. They said good night with some- thing vaguely suggestive of affection- ate regard, for this killing, kindred disappointment gave them a cordial meeting -ground for almost .the first 'time. Rowena sat alone at her window, little and high up, for she had frugal- ly changed from a double to a single room immediately after the desertion of Bobby. Shei was not one to give up with- out a struggle -not to give ep at all, for that matter, It was nearly midnight when she shook off her final hesitation, with 'a mind made rep, An idea had collie to her, terrifying and ^tremendous, hours before,' She had toyed with it, weighed it in the balance a.nd, find- ing it "wanting, pushed, it resolutely away;, but had permitted it to work its way back, insiduously, sure. At twelve o'clock she called Peter on the telephone and: that was an end of her hesi tation. "Listen, Peter. You meet me down- stairs in the lobby, right away, will you? 'I have an idea." "But I'm. in bed!" (Continued next week.) There was a note, written on hotel paper in Bobby's round childish.. hand. It was pinned to Rowena's "pillow. "Darling, I'm going home. .I''ve got to. If I don't, I'll never get him back. I'll send Peter the money I borrow- ed as soon as I get my allowance. I'm going on the seven o'clock train and I have already wired him to meet me. You're both just sweet and I love you. But T do wish you didn't quarrel so. I'm glad Carter and , I get along better." "And that," said Rowena flatly, "is that." "It's all of that," added . Peter gloomily. "Nothing," declared Rowena drear- ily, "could be more irretrievably fatal than this." "It was great sport while it lasted," said Peter. "You have been pretty game all the way through, Rowena." "It was corking good business, too, said Rowena.. "And taking it all in all; you are not half bad to breeze around with, Peter." "Well, it's all over now," said Peter. "You don't suppose we could pick one up here, do you?—by advertising,. The way we got Bobby in the first place." But they both knew it was pretty Here and There .I Total numberof poultry on farms at end of 1930 in the Dominion was estimated at 60,795,000, of which 66,247,000 were hens and chickens. Value of this poultry was placed at $54,852,000. Radio is to be used to aid in forest fire protection in -Northern Saskat- chewan. The provincial forestry department has decided t� establish a system of look -out towers equip- ped with short wave radio sending and receiving sets. A catch of 244 salmon by .three anglers in nine days has been re- ported recently from . the Cain's River, . Nese Brunswick, by G. W. Scott, of Keene, New Rampshire, 'who was one of the party, and him- self netted 111 of the fish. More United States branch fac- tories are established in Canada than in any other cduntry outside of the United States itself. At the beginning of last year over 500 such factories were in the Dominion„ re- presenting investments of 3540,590,- 000. Shipping of all kinds entering and leaving Canadian ports has increas- ed 60 per cent. in the last ten years, Total net tonnage, exclusive of coasting, for year to March 31, 1930, was 89,438,789 tons. To this must be added net tonnage of 87,734,773 tons for vessels entered and clear- ed coastwise. Rose gardens are bowers' of rare delight these days, Perhaps the average American does have only on 8,000 word vocabulary, as staticians say. But what of the- turnover? The automobile is an agriculturat intplenrent too. It is often used for sowing wild oats. Teacher—"Billy, if yourfather's car goes 20 miles to the gallon of" gas and he bought 10 gallons of gase how far could, he drive?" Billy—"Not on inch, Ma drives the car." A woman with 18 keys eys in her P.o. r' session was caught entering a strange apartment in Montreal via the fire escape, A mere man would have wasted= time trying those keys, but the woman just intuitively knew that` none of them would fit. B SER ASPIRIN Is always SAFE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS UNLESS you see the name Bayer and the word genuine on the as pictured above you can never sure that you are faking the genuine Bayer Aspirin that thousands of physicians preecribe in their daily practice. The name Bayer means gsnisi~i. pAuuspnnirin. 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Rowena had the usual fat one ad- dressed in the boyish scrawl, and, surely she had read no further than the first paragraph when she began count out her money; Peter had a comforting telegram from Mr Rack, with a friendly postscript front 1Vi'r,= Ruff, advising that the red-haired siege was lifted and that they had MOM II NNE EMIEDENIENEIRREIMENIEBENNIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIM SAUVE .. courteous . . . inviting you to "Step this way, please," the advertisements in this paper are floorwalkers -in -print. They show you the way to merchandise that serves your needs, and saves your money. Do you read these advertisements EVERY WEEK? Make it a regular habit. Read even the smallest advertise- ments and the smallest print. Gems of rare worth are often buried where you have to dig for : them! ;Read the advertisements every week, with pencil and paper at hand, to list those things you wish to look up when you start to the stores. It is trite but true, that this method saves time and saves money. 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