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The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-08-20, Page 6THE WINCHA 1 ADVANCE -TIMES Thursday, August 20th, 193L isrl► ham Advance -"Times. Published at WINGI1AM - ONTAR.IQ .Every Thursday Morning W. Logan Craig Publisher '`Igrtbscription rates One year $2,00, Six months $1.00, in advaitce. To U. S. A. $2.50 per year. Advertising rates in application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class a insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham LW.DOD®. Two doors south of 'Field's Butener. shop. ;FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. :0. Box 366. Phone 46 WINGHAM, 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 H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.).' 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 Treated Office adjoining residetice next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Picone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 n.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Druglese Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. 'Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, .and National Col- lege, Chieago. Out of town and night Calls res - waded to. All business coefidentfait Phone 300. __ J. ALVIN FOX �.,. ,.1 ,� Registered Drugi {tetlti6er eiriAB RAOTid AND . i]ittt0LESg 1kACTICE ELEdTIC,-THERAPY /tones: 2-5, 7-8, or by iafapointment. Phone 191, THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter., or address R, 1, G2rrie, Sales conducted any/1 'Ad satisfaction guat`anteed. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST . X-RAY Office, McDonald: Block, Winghaim. A.3. WALKER . rUR'NI'I,`URE AND 1~ UNERAL sP, vie -A. , . WALX ER it ed funeral Director shard Embalmer. Mice Phone 106. Res. Phone 224, .atest Limousine Funeral Coach.. GdPYJUGHT 1931 BY THE Arnim 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 as chaper- on. They are waiting for Bobby to show . up to make the start. A few nines out Bobby becomes tearful at being parted from her sweetheart, Rowena insists on tak- ing her place in the rumbleso that she can ride with Peter and have him to talk to about Carter. Rowena gets 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, after passing through Buffalo and Chicago. Peter and Rowena have many tiffs, while Bobby is enraptur- ed at the way Carter is fuming over her flight from New York. The morning after they reached Denver, Peter and Rowena discover Bobby has deserted them and return- ed to . New York by train. They are faced with the impossible condition of continuing their trip without a chaperon. Rowena suggests to Peter that they make a "companionate" marriage. They are married and go to Chey- enne, where their actions, when they ask for rooms on separate 'floors, arouses' the suspicions of the hotel clerk. They finally succeed in get- ting rooms, but not without exciting the laughter of the hotel loungers. They resume the trip the next day and are overwhelmed by a 'cloudburst. in an arroyo and are thrown out of the car. A party of tourist campers give them dry clothes and food. Spokane is finally reached and the hotel clerk smiles when they register. They find Rackruff Motors have arranged a public reception and dance for them. They are deluged with pre- sents. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY It was indeed very plain what they thought about Peter. The friendly admiring smiles with which they said good -by to Rowena froze into cold. disapproval in their curt nods to Pet- er. He felt quite cut up about it all. "Don't you care," said Rowena. "When they find out how things real- ly are, they'll be so mad at me for foolinll3 them that they'll rebound "Bobby!" they cried,. "You little' duck, you! Where did you come from? Where are you going? What; in the world are yoti doing here?" Bobby dimpled, wept and giggled, kissing thein both again and again with complete unpartiality. "You .angels!" she said. "I've been so lonesome and I'm so glad to be back with you again, I feel like a poor little 'lonesome orphan that just found out it is a Smith!" "Where's Carter? Is it your honey- moon?" The small brown nose uptilted it- self •to a very haughty angle. "Never mention his name to me again," she said thickly. "I never want to see him again as long as I live." "Carter! You never want to see Carter? Oh, you can't mean Carter!" protested Rowena, who simply could notconceive of a Bobby with no Car- ter at the tip of her tongue. "It's just not possible!" "It is possible—it's a fact. All is over between us for ever and ever. That's why I came to go on the rest of the trip with you." "But see here," said Peter sternly, "you can't just be on and off with us like that. You left us in a terrible hole, running off the way you did—" "I knew I had done wrong," said Bobby, "and so I said the best thing to do was to come straight back as fast as I could. That's why I didn't send back the money I borrowed, Peter. I needed it to come back on." "Well, what happened?" demanded Rowena. "How in the world did you ever get off with Carter?" It was like this. At first he was simply overjoyed to have me back and then in about an hour we got to talking about it and he got madder and madder and said he really didn't know whether he wanted to ruin his future by marrying a woman who had no more sense than that. So natur- ally I broke the engagement and gave him back his ring. I put my things in my bag and called up Rack -Ruff to find out where I could catch you, and here I am. Oh, darlings, I've been so unhappy and it is so good to see you again." They were none too well pleased about ;it.. Bobby was an expensive addition to the party, seemed doubly expensive now that they could dis- pense with her presence. It did not clear the atmosphere a•'m sem, but you're way and think you're quite the nuts." "Well," said Peter, "there's one thing sure. Everything in the world has happened to us now. From des- ert sands to mountain Fluid, from se- parate floors to bridal suite, we've run the gamut of the unexpected. No- thing will surprise me after this," "Me, either, agreed Rowena. "I've used yip the very last of • my surprise sensations. No matter what happens. I'm expecting it," • But they • were both wrong. In- credible as it seemed at the moment, they were dee for many more sur- prising denouements and more sensa- tional ones. Even climatic conditions conspired to add to their discomfi- ture, '-•'%Pr: The sky sky had been overcast for hours,. and a heavy downpour of, rain was followed by a steady, dishearten- ing drizzle that showed no sighs of diminution. They smiled at each other after a terrible day and in friendly comradely quiet pulped' slowly 'it's to the hotel. "fust ask for two singles," advised Rowena. "Alta if 'they give tts ad- joining ones we can't help it.We've got Spokane to fall back on," They followed the boy with their bags into 'Elie hotel lobby. And the first thing they saw there was little brown Bobby Lowell sitting all tam - circa up in the biggest upholstered Refer an. sight. .4 uw-3aWLutit.tu1 all three under arrest." wheii they found waiting a telegram from the company with peremptory orders to send her back at once, It said it was better publicity for the roadster to have the bridal 'couple continue their honeymoon alone. Bobby said it was none of their. business what she did, that she was responsible only to Carter. Was she going to let any ten -cent company give her orders? Certainly not! Her arrangement with Rowena had been for the entire tour and for the entire tour she would continue. So Rowena retired to the rumble seat, although Peter insinuated that he was not vitalley interested in the details of the falling-out with Carter, South to Portland proceeded the thoroughly chaperoned bridal party. It was in Portland that 'Bobby, who had been delighted into genuine hys- terics over their gay account of the big doings in Spokane, demanded to see the wedding presents. Peter brought out the .cocktail shaker and the cigarette lighter and Rowena showed her the watch and the candy box with thekissing cupids. --.It was the last time Rowena showed that watch for a good many weeks. She left it in extremely safe deposit-4dr a consideration—right there iii Port- land. They gave Bobby a lurid account of the desperate strait in whidh she left them, and how Rowena twitchy, ed the bright idea of getting tanarriied as a sop to the requirements of so- ciety. Bobby • said she always did think Rowena was just too clever for words. ' "But aren't you just as married as if you really were married?'.' she ask- ed interestedly, "Not at all, We're just pretending that way. In fact we're?.the same old maids and bachelors we always were," "Isn't it too bad you are both so disagreeable? said Bobby sweetly. "If you were just a little nicer you could fall in love with each other now —you know, they write best sellers about men failing in love with their wives—and it would be too:. romantic for words !" "Thank God we're not nice then," said Rowena. "With the example be- fore us of you and Carter in love and all it leads to, Peter and I have en- tirely too much sense to be anything but enemies." In San Francisco Peter found Ro- wena starving herself to send money, back East. He had suspected that she was in. debt. Evidently her creditors .were pushing her hard. He went abruptly out to the little park where they were snapping the pictures. "Yogi must have enough," he said. "We're both dead tired. Let's lay off." Rowena's smile was grateful. "I am tired," she confessed, When they got in the roadster to return to the hotel he said in a voice so offhand and unconcerned that if she had not been so vitally interest- ed in his words, she must surely have suspected some hidden prompting. "By the way, I got the expense money to -day. Of course, we're not supposed to have it till Monday but I cashed the check so you may as well have yours." "P -Peter!" 'gasped Rowena. And prssed the back of her hand quickly to her lips. Peter hoped she was not going to give anything away, confide any embarrassing details, but .he needn't have worried. Rowena shud- dered her own worries . "I'in hungry as the deuce," he said. "Let's see if we can find a good chop house and get a decent steak." Rowena never said a word about soup. For himself Peter ordered the thickest, juiciest steak they could get their hands on, and plenty of "French frieds." "That sounds good," said Rowena ineekly. "Two." She hoped Peter could not tell from her voice how the very thought of it made her mouth water. "Well, there's one nice thing about travelling trio," said Rowena. "You know just what to expect of every town. A bed, and food, and no ad- ventures, It seems a bit smug after the life of adventure Peter and 1 have lived." Bobby said nothing at all. She was brooding painfully over the probable. state of affairs in New York and her heart was wrung with doubts. There was no letter for her at the hotel in Los Angeles and she wilted visibly, It was probably her absorption in her personal grief which kept her from sensing at the first moment, as the others did, that something was wrong. Peter registered for all three, and the clerk instead of consulting the room chart as clerks are supposed to, turned without a word and went into the adjoining office. "Peter," whispered Rowena, "1 don't like that clerk. He looks like the worst sort of manager to me. I. don't like this hotel, either. I have developed a sixth sense about hotels. Let's go somewhere else," "Oh, that's all imagination," said Peter, uncomfortably aware that it was not imagination and that Row- ena was 'right' about it. But the clerk came back from the inner office at that moment, sum- moned a boy, and immediately they were on their way up. Rowena and Bobby shared a large double room with Peter in a single one adjoining, the bathroom between. He was thickly lathering his hands with soap to get rid of his accumulation of motor oil and California dust when there was a lrnock at the door and Rowena opened it to admit three mets, one the manager of the hotel. "`1VIr, Mande here?" 'His room is over there, He's in 'the bath, now, I, think." "Call him in, will you?' "Peters" Rowena called at the Clos- ed door. "Can you come in a min- ute?' Peter came at once, the towel still in his hands. 'Hellos" he said cheerfully, "What's what?" "That's what we want to know. Are you Peter Blande?" "1 most certainly ant.." "Is one df these ladies your wife?" "Yes. This :lady—Rowena—is nzy. wife," "Did you register as Mrs. Blande?" "No, by nay maiden name. l: am a writer and use my OW11 name for pro- fessional reasons," "You admit :that you however ?,> "Absolutely, said Rowena. "I ev- en brag about it," "Why, they gave them the bridal suite in Spokane," put in' Bobby help- fully, "Yes,' we heard about that, Are you Miss Lowell?" "Yes, Roberta Lowell." "Well, I'm sorry, but you're under arrest. All three of you, We have a 'complaint againstyou from New York. They say you're not married at all, travelling under false pretenses and want us to hold you. They say you're keeping this young lady by coercionand that you have a demor- alizing influence over her." Rowena and Peter glowered at Bobby: "What," they demanded sternly, "does this mean?" "I haven't the faintest idea," said Bobby-. "I never saw anything de- moralizing about you,"` "That," said the officer kindly, "is because you are so innocent. But that lady out there"—and at his in_ dication :they turned and saw a uni- formed woman on guard in the corri- dor just outside their door—"that lady is from the Juvenile Court: She will take charge of you." Continued next week) are lits wife, !might, not table to go to shlape fer tinkin av tings T wud .rather fergit, if I cud. I often tink av a tbrarup who called at the' ould farrum wan wintter, an shtayed arrouncl fer a 'few.. days, till lE tould him he had'betther be inovin on to the nixt shtop,pin place. He shtarted out, but it wits` in the ould days; whin whiskey wus chape an lots ay it, so he, maasht hev come back again whin he got the lick- er, fer the,nixt;marnin we found him besoide'the.shtraw shtack, wid a half irnpty bottle in his pocket, an both av his fate frozen. Av coorse we bad to take him into _the house an look afther hint till he got betther, wid no profit out av him, at all, at all, barrin that he wus a good checker player, an showed me a lot av new skames, till I. cud bate anny other man in the Township, Theer wus no sich 'a ting as puttin in a bill to the Council in thim days. TIM WOULD LIKE BETTER FORGETTER To the Editur av all thim Wingham paypers. Deer Sure-- Sometoirnes I do be worryin me ould head aff be rayson av rile mine- ory not bein what it wance wus. I tink mebby the missus has the besht niin'iory av anny wumman av her age in Nort Huron. She has nivir tould me exactly' how ould she is, but I don't tink she is enough younger than mesilf to make much differ, but, wud ye belaive it, she kin k'ape the names an birthdays av iviry wan av "our grandchilder•-in her head, widout an- ny thrubble, at all, at all, so she kin. Shure, it wud usave me quoite a few dollars in a year if her mimory was sen't quoite so good about thim. young shpalpanes. It isn't betther mimories a lot av us nade, but betther forgetters. Some- toimes I do be lyin fer hours av a Thin sometoimes I tink av the toime T losht me timper on elickshun day, an • got into a foight wid tree Grits. Av coorse I thrimmed'the tree av thim, but it wus a sinseless ting to do, an a bad example to sit be- foor a lot av young fellahs shtandin arround. Thin mebby T remimber av the fellahs I hev git the shtart av me in harse thrades, arr av the tonne I got ine fut crushed in a hay press, be rayson av me own carelessness,: arr av the 'toimes I hev said cross wurruds to the ;nissus arr the childer. An so the long hours av the noight drag troo, whoile I do be tinkin av all the foolish tings, an the mane tings, an the wron gtings, I ivir did in me loife, till I lose confidince in mesilf intoirely, so I do, an aven be- gin to wondher if .I' shudden't hev voted Grit wance arr twoice in me. loife. Av coarse, whin marziin comes, I kno wqu ite well that if I had ivir gone back on the ould parthy, I wud hev had wan more ting to worry about. Yis, 'tis a thrue wurrud I amafther tellin ye that a good forgetter is about the mosit convenient an pleas- ant company a man kin hev wide him shpishially whin he is throyin to go to slape. Tink av the thrubble polly- tishians wud hey if tey hadn't thrain- ed theer mimories ,to fergit tings. Shure, the ghosts av elickshun praw- mises wud be shwarmin arroaznd theer bedsoide siviry noight av theer loives as soon as the loights wint out, if they hadn't good fergitters in theer heads. Av coorse, loike iviryting ilse, ye kin carry this fergittin business to ixtrames. Some fellahs kin aven fer- git to pay theer debts. I thraded harses wida shkalawag twinty years ago, an wus to git tin dollars to boot, an he has nivir paid me yit. Av coorse mebby the harse he got didn't , Pd IN �{IlIIIIIIIii1611111111IIIIPlIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII{III{III�IIUI *EWARE OF IMITATION*, LOOK for the name Bayer ani the• word genuine on the package asi red above when you buyAsspiriu. hen you'll know that you are get ting the genuine Bayer product that: thousands of physicians prescribe. Bayer Aspirin is SAFE, as millioz>arri of users have proved. It doe not. depress the heart, and 'no, after-effects follow its use. Bayer Aspirin is the universal. antidote for pains of all ldnds. Headaches Neuritis Colds . Neuralgia Sore Throat Lumbago Rheumatism . Toothache Genuine Bayer Aspirin is sold at all druggists in boxes of 12 and is bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade -mark of Bayer manufacture of tmonoaceticadt estier rpt salicy licaridr turn out to be all he ixpickted. Yours till nixt wake, Timothy Hay. Moves to Listowel Mr. H. Jobb of the Prudential In- surance staff, town, moved his family from Wingham this week, and his rented the residence on Division st., recently vacated by Mr, and Mrs. Davidson,—Listowel Banner. Assisted at St. Paul's Organ While Mr. Roy Mundy was away on his holidays his place- at the or- gan of St. Paul's Church was most capably and acceptably taken by Miss Cora Phair. A Diplomat The admiral, who was conducting an examination for the navy, was ad- dressing one of the candidates. "Who, in your opinion, are .the three greatest sailors in British his- tory?" he asked. "I'm sorry, sir, I didn't catch your name when I entered the room," re- plied the student, "but the other two are Nelson and Drake," That prices are low and that means bargains. Wise merchants with stocks on hand .want to convert{ them in- to cash and are looking for buyers. Newspaper advertising points the way to both' - when the buyer and seller have'.a message of common inr terests. The great news of the day and the .unprecedent ed bargains for the thrifty. It means great savings for the buyer and. a cleaning out of shelves for the seller. It is time to buy and time to advertise bargains to the buyer. THE Advance -Times Wnghain,- - Qntarioas • ISI