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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-08-27, Page 6PACE THE WINGHAi i ADVANCE -TIMES Wu -wham Advance -Times. Published at WINGH,AIVI - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning W, Logan Craig .• Publisher , ubscription rates * Une year $2.00. Site months $1.00, in advance. To U, S. A. $2.50 per year. Advertising rates •>n application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co.. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates.. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. :ii,:BNER. COSENS, Agent, Wingham. J. W. DODD 11' vo doors south of Field's Butcher shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE ,P. 0. Box 366 Phone 46 WINOHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office -Meyer Block, Wingharn Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRA 9 9 aL O RD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingharri .- Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER. ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. O. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. 1 ;, Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly ? Phone 54 Win stir gham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND , M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) i PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEW.AR.T Graduate of University of Toronto, ; Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the , Ontario College of Physicians and 1 Surgeons. I Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. O. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH Ali Diseases Treated ' Office -.adjoining residence aenPt to ,Anglican Church on Centre Street, Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity :Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 D.m. A. R. & F. E„ DUVAL Licensed Drug -lest Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- 1' lege, Chicago. Ottt - of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential, "' Phone 300. h Ja J. ALVIN FOX n' ol Registered Drugless Practitioner CHXROPRACTIC AND f,. $ DRUGLESS PRACTICE cc ELECTRO -THERAPY pi Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by to appointment. Phone 191. THOMAS FELLS n AUCTIONEER ri REAL ESTATE SOLD h A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock o Phone 231, Wingham re RICHARD B. JACKSON fi AUCTIONEER pl Phone 618r6, Wroxeter, or address 1 : R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- by where, and satisfaction guaranteed. is »R. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST — X-RAY 0ffiee, McDonald' Block, Wingham, Ti go bo th pr to do th1 ju c a j tlir as •ssc ho tail A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE .=y A. J. WALKERR Licensed. Funeral Director and .Embalmer, )fflee Phone 106: Res, Phone 224, ,test Xiniousine Futteral Coach, (x YRIGHT K3 $Y THE AUTOR NSA +,�RlimFRSq=iw9ln n " y Thursday, Aligns t 27th, 19311. is RUM SYNOPSIS Rackruff Motors ire' 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 miles out Bobby becomes tearful at being parted from her e,weetheart, Rowena insists on tak- ing her place in the rumble so that she can ride with Peter and have hint 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- telegran , which be wrote with a very firm'; band' and signalled for Rowena to come and read, •it was addressed` to Carter' Wellman. "Are you going to marry Roberta Lowell immediately on her return to York, New or are you not? If your engagement is cancelled as she believ- es, I shall.marry her myself imaned lately,. A rolling dumpling gathers nothing but trouble for all concerned Please state your exact.intentions." "But you can't marry her," protest- ed Rowena. "You're married now." "Well, he doesn't believe it.—And Rackruff, Inc., will pay for that wire if 1 have to steal a spare tire to get it.": The judge proved' extremely sym- pathetic and agreed with Peter ' that it was an outrage, no less, the way people in love embroiled innocent by- standers in the tangled web of their affairs. He had his secretary send off a wire to Denver to verify the marriage, and to-Rackruff Motors, Inc., in New York, for details of the d to New York by train. They are aced with the .impossible condition f continuing their trip without a s haperon, trip and . complete information re- garding Rowena and Peter. He even ant for the local Rackruff dealer, who fortunately turned out. to be both a native son and a brother Elk . He - was willing to stand entirely respon- ible for their appearance if required. Besides seeing to their freedom he lade Rowena a present of :a friendly ittle dog which he had found in his howrooms that morning and 'which. Rowena promptly proceeded to call onstantine. Peter grumbled at the a utddition to their party but was over- u1ed. And so Rowena had a companion n the rumble seat from then on. By the salesman's good offices they were enabled to return to the hotel without police escort or surveillance f any kind. In the early morning Peter read to he girls the answer to his personal elegram. Rowena suggest, to Peter that they Hake a "companionate" marriage. Chey are married and go to Chey- s nne, 'where their actions, when they' tsk for rooms on . separate floors, n grouses the suspicions of the hotel 1 Jerk, They finally succeed in get- s ing rooms, but not without exciting he laughter of the hotel Ioungers. C They resume the trip the next day d are overwhelmed by a cloudburst r n an arroyo and are thrown out of he car. A' party of tourist campers o ive them dry clothes and food. Spokane is finally reached and the otel clerk smiles when they register. They find Rackruff Motors have o rranged. a public reception and dance or them. They are deluged with pre- t ents. t They find Bobbie awaiting them in he hotel at Seattle and she travels t a eith them to Los Angeles where they re met by an unfriendly hotel clerk, o vho summons the police who the up- on place all three under arrest for e ridnapping Bobby. P "Such has been and is my inten ion," read the telegram. "1 am prob- b ly the last man living entirely hon- rable in my dealings with women. Our engagement most certainly•is not nded and if you interfere I shall sue. Ian to marry her instant of her ar- • «What, no mall for me?" asked Rowena. OW GO'ON WITH THE STORY "See here," said Peter angrily, hat sort of tommyrot is this any - w? This lady is too old for the venile Court. Why, she is her own istress. She's twenty-three years d." "Well, according to the complaint om New York, there is nothing we n do about it. Our orders are to t you under arrest. You'll have to lk to the judge." "But, Peter," cried Rowena, "are ou going to let then arrest us for of being married, when we are mar- edi Look at all' the trouble we've ad, That's proof enough.'' '`But why should they say you are my pretending to be married if you ally are married?" "Weil, who says so? That's the fir question. Where did the com- dint come from anyhow?" "From the gentleman in New York the name of Carter Wellman- —" "You can fisc this up," said th.off- er "Got influential frineds ain't you? tey'1l fix you up all right. Al) they t to do is swear they know all a- nt you and everything's jake and ere you are. You just hop down ivate in your own car with Bill here show you the way—this is Bill L m on --.fine chap, too --he'll go wn with you and introduce you to e judge. He's a swell gent, the Igo is, He'll see how things are in iffy," It was' the simplest way out, and officers made it as easy kr them possible; allowed them to waltz un- ortcd through the lobby of the tel and waited at a respectful dis- ce when Peter stopped to send a rival In fact, expect to meet here with license, ring and minister. Wire what train. So at ten -ten Peter and Rowena stood side by side under the quaint tiled portico of the Santa Fe station and waved a fond—and not ungrati- fied—farewell to little brown Bobby. The misadventures of hobby's re- turn and their legal entanglements in Los Angeles had key -ed them to a high nervous tension, but when they had left the limits of the city a sud- den quiet restfulness descended upon them. Rowena drooped drowsily against his shoulder. "Shall 1 put up the umbrella in the rumble seat? Peter asked facetiously.' But Rowena pretended she , was asleep. By the time they reached the out- skirts of San Diego, Peter as well as Rowena confessed to a complete ex- haustion, mental as well as physical. They pulled up at the U. S. Grant Hotel. There was no boy in sight and Peter, unwillingly to waste a moment, himself carried their bags into the lobby and hurried over to the. desk, , He was surprised at being im- mediately accommodated with two single rooms, Their good fortune followed them and they both had a real goodnight's rest. ?eter had all the bags stowed neat- ly away in the car the next morning, ready for their start for the East, when Rowena tripped,otit of the hotel leading the freshly washed Constan- tine on a brand-new leash attached to a brand-new collar, "Gosh, Rowena, y ejaettlated Peter, rttedt'fiot "what'll we do with the mutt? I for- got about him?", "Do with Constantine!" she echoed, "Why, we'll buy him a nice silk cush- ion to ride on, and get hiin a fresh bone every day. And charge it all to Rackruff. Peter did his best picture at Grand Canyon, one which brought him no small amount of praise and profit. It was the Rackruff and Rowena riding through the rainbow fringe, with Constantine's queer, quaint black and white head nodding approbation be- side her, Rowena was .not having .the best of luck with her work in those 'de- clining weeks of tour. She kept a pencil and note -book constantly at hand, even teaching Constantine to carry them for her on command, but ideas were not coming to her with much frequency. For the first, time in her life, Rowena did not feel like writ- ing, did not want to be bothered and it may as well be added, her writing was far below its usual standard. They apsed into comfortable silence. They did .not quarrel so much when they were alone—there seemed less point to it. To be sure, when occasion required, they would wither each other with a scathing word, but they never went to the old. lengths. In Albuquerque, when Peier had mail he was handed half a dozen tele- grams and two or three, letters. "Nothing for Miss Rostand," said the clerk. "What I" ejaculated Rowena. Nothing for me. Not anything? Why, Buddy always—he surely must have written, Oh, please look again! There must be at least one!" The clerk obligingly ran through the mail again. "Sorry—not a thing," he said again. "Dear rne," said Rowenathought fully. "How—extremely-odd!" Alone in his room, Peter took off his coat and settled down to his mail. A quick glance at the letters told him they were of no special importance and he turned to the telegrams. The two were from the Company, but the third started off on an odd note. "Darling, I hate to ask' you again," Peter read, his eyes starting with stir - prise. "Devil's own luck. Lost fifty bucks at craps. Got to have it this week or they will chuck me out. Rush it by wire Wish I hadn't played." It was signed "Buddy." To 'Peter it made no sense at. all. He turned it over and scrutinized the address again. Ahl That explain- ed it. It was addressed not to "Mr." but to "Mrs. Peter Blande," His mind traveled back over the trip. Buddy—that was . her brother -Ronald Rostand. Ready for his third year in college and taking sum- mer courses to cut down the time and expense, Rowena had received a letter or telegram from him at every stop en route. He remembered her subsequent counting of bills and rush for a telegraph office—her complete financial stringency—the way she starved herself, eschewing all deserts —her thousand painful small econom- ies. Now Peter realized fnily what . it meant—this thing that he was going to do. Knew quite well that when Buddy wrote back in 'complaint of this unwarranted ,outside interference Rowena's rage would be beyond bounds, They had talked sometimes of the future when their motor tour was over, thought they would probably be good friends in later years when their business vicissitudes were separate and distinct; and no longer bound up by compulsion in each other's work and wish, But if Peter flung open in- sult at Buddy—"The sacred cowl" he sneered—all such hopes for the future were null and void, Well, Peter told himself, he didn't know that he cared. After all, he didn't get on so very well with Rowena, But she was a good sport -the best sport he had ever seen —and deserveda better break than Buddy was giving her. Peter's grip on the pen made it a sword as he gave form to his scath- ing thoughts, , "Granting to begin with that it is none of my business," he wrote heav- ity, "1t nevertheless affords me great' pleasure to tell you that in my opin- ion you arc an unspeakable cad, You may not know --of course you do not know, for Rowena is one Rostand who is a rousing good sport and would not throw up her privations to you—that in order to meet your insa- tiate demands for money, your sister tired and exhausted' as she is by hard work and long driving, has saved money by doing her own laundry in the bathtub at nights; has starved herself on soup and coffee and gone without 0 proper meal for days at a time. "Better men than you have worked their way through .college. For Row- ena's sake, I myself am sending you the fifty bucks. "It is of course quite unnecessary for me to explain that Rowena does not know that you. wired for this money nor that I am sending it. Your telegram was handed ':me by mistake and I opened it under the impression it was for me" And without an instant's hesitation he endorsed his sentiments with the signature that would one day be worth thousands -"Peter Blande." Peter was pretty . uncomfortable a- bout the whole . business. He was not used to any sort ofdouble deal- ing and was not at all sure but at any moment officers.of the law -or per- haps the telegraph company—would hale him away to jail to expiate his unwarranted manipulation of other people's affairs by telegraph. At El Paso Rowena had two let- ters. She sat right down in the near- est chair to read them, and Peter stalked moodily from cigar stand to desk and back again, and watched her furtively. Petercould standit no longer. "Buddy 0. K.?" he inquired anx- iously. "He's entirely too O.K." I'm wor- ried you can't be too O.K. protested Peter. "Nobody can. --What do you means'?" (Continued next week.) HA HA TO YO by P.C.1 broke. If I could talk for just five minutes to every driver of a motor car I don't believe there would ever be another railway crossing accident. Whenever 'I see the driver of a mo- tor car beat a rail- way . train to a crossing by a few feet, I can't help thinking of the pit- cher that went to the well once too often , . and Princes G vernoars and Premiers ir he three Lieutenant -Gover- nors of the Prairie Provinces and the Premier of Alberta have officially notified their accept- ance of invitation to attend the Annual Highland Gathering and Scottish Festival to be held at Banff, Alberta, under the aus- • mites of the Canadian Pacific Rail gust .27 to �0 from August 8 . They are Mr. Justice W. L• Walsh, Lieutenant -Governor of Alberta; His Honor James Dun- can McGregor, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor ieutenant- ov-ernor of Manitba; Lt. -Col. H. E. Munroe, Lieutenant -Governor of Saskatchewan; and Hon. J. E. Brownlee, Premier of Alberta. These acceptances, added to the fact that H.R.H. Prince. Sukho- daya, of Siam, will formally open the Gathering, will make the event one of the most brilliant of recent years. A feature of the programme this year will be the inter -regimental piping competi- tion between representatives of the seventeen Highland Regi- ments in Canada and there will also be the other .bagpipe ' con- tests and displays, as well as dancing and Highland Games: The Gathering is.,fplaced In one of the finest scene settings in the world, the beautiful Valley of the Bow' River, encircled by mountains, and .'having, as the entre of hospitality, the famous Banff Springs Hotel built in Sootch baronial style, fitting in ideally with the general scheme of the Festival. Lay -out shows, left to right, top, the Lieutenant- Governor of 'Alberta: H. R. kr. Prince$ukhodaya, of Siam; the Premier of Alberta. Lower left to right, the lieutenant -Govern- ors of Saskatchewan and Mani- toba. Gee! the things I've seen when drivers tried to beat trains have cost me many a sleepless night. Take my word for it there, are en- ough unavoidable perils attached to driving a car without tempting Prov- idence where the railway' and high- way meet." Well, I'll be seeing you. "My husband plays cards nearly every night," said Mrs. Jones to her neighbor, "I think it'sa terrible ha- bit." "Why don't yo umake him give it up?" suggested the neighbor. Mrs. Jones smiled brightly. "I am as soon as Ms run of luck ends." she replied. 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 in- 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 -ains to the buyer. THE Advance -Times Winghan,nY,; ,wOntario M