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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-09-03, Page 6I+, ftT AGE SI ;VE T gham Advance^Tames. Published at WINOHAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning W, Logan Craig - Publisher 'Subscription rates -- One Year $2,00. Six months $1.00, in advance. To U. S. A. $2.50 Per year. Advertising rates 'in "application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1:840 Riskstaken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Two doors south of Field's Buttner shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. Q. Bog 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. Cr. 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 . ROBT. C. REDMOND lid.R:C•S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Logit.). PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty 'of„ Medicine; licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Senecas. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. C. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store, F. A. PARKER OSTEOPA'T'H All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence nein co 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 Dtugles: 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. kitsndeti._ . 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 WELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone. 231, Wingham' RICHARD E. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 618x6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- wiiere, and satisfaction guaranteed, DR. A. Wr, IRWIN DENTIST --a'X-RAY Office, McDonald Block, Wingham. A. j. WALKER F gNIDUItn AND IttINBRAL SE1tvtC1 A, 3. WALKER nsed Puneral Director and .Embalmer, )f`fice Phone 106. Res, Phone 224. :est tfmoiisine Purseral Coach, THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-11MS Thursday, September 3, 103I;• 452tPrZIGNTIO3i BY TH E AUTttO [2. SYNAPSIS ' ness, You were due two days ago. myself." Rackruff Motors tare Rowena to I had a notion to kill myself. e. Peter turned to the boy quite save- - gely. "Why didn't they tell us at the e desk?" "I told them not to," dimpled Bob- - o •by tearfully. "I wanted to surprise you. I told them to show you right s up„ _ Rowena marched into the room, t took off her hat and gloves and tossed them upon the bed. Then she got out s her lip -stick and powder and conceal- -xed the stains of travel in a most ef- s ficient manner. Y "Ali right," she said cheerfully "Come on in, Peter and don't stand , gaping. -- Constantine, shake hands d with one of the Boston Lowelis: e All right, Bobby, give us the low- - down. Now, Carter Wellman----" ✓ "It's all his fault, sobbed Bobby, ignoring Contantine's black and white d paw. "You know that telegram he ✓ sent you, Peter? It was a lie. He - didn't mean a word of it." e "Will you sue him, or shall I horsewhip him?" a "How do you know? You haven't hacraime to get to New York and quarrel with him this time, objected • Rowena. - I had plenty of time in Albuquerque and T called him up. I asked him ' what I should get for the wedding? He said 'What wedding?" I said `Our wedding. That you wired Peter Blande about.' Rowena—Peter—he went. on' something awful. He said if I thought less about clothes and more about my immortal soul I'd be better off. He said what did I mean by tell- ing strangers --and low principled characters like Peter, at that—the pri- vate details of aur love -affair. In fact, he said he wasn't going to marry me until New York had a new insane asylum where he could control me by the latest improved methods." Rowena and Peter screamed with laughte "Rowena," said Peter, ;'I take it all back . I won't punch him in the nose. He's a great' old scout." "What did you say, darling?" in- quired Rowena. "I said." announced Bobby with dignity, "that while prehaps• he had never been in jail as Peter had, and had never toured the country under false pretenses and that sort of thing, Peter could teach him a whole lot about handling women," Rowena rolled back on the bed helpless with laughter. "What did he say to that?" asked Peter. "Nothing. He hung up the re- ceiver on me—and me paying for a clear call from Albuquerque.1" So Rowena. retired with Constan- tine to her rumble seat and they con- tinued swiftly east. Bobby no longer did all the talking. Peter was show- ing up as something of a conversa- tionalist an his own account. "You've made a great mistake, Bobby," he told her over and over, speaking in a slow and impressive voice. I know men, Carter meant just what he said in that telegram, accompany Peter on a nation-wid tour in their roadster as an adverbs ing stunt. At the last minute Littl Bobby is engaged to act as shaper on. They are waiting for Bobby t show up to make the start, A few miles out Bobby become tearful at being parted from he sweetheart, Rowena insists on tak ing her place in the rumble so ha she can ride with Peter and have him to talk to about Carter. Rowena get Peter to consent to divide the e pense money -each week as soon a it arrives, and astonishes Peter b eating too economically. The three tourists reach St. Louis after passing through Buffalo an Chicago. Peter and Rowena hev many tiffs, while Bobby is_enraptur ed at the way Carter is fuming ove her flight from New York, The morning after they reache Denver, Peter and Rowena discove Bobby has deserted them and return ed to New. York by train. They ar faced with the impossible condition of continuing their trip without 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 oait 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. They find Bobbie awaiting them in the hotel at Seattle and she travels with them to Los Angeles where they are met by an unfriendly hotel clerk, who summons the police who the up- pon place all three under arrest for kidnapping Bobby. After adjusting their difficulties, Peter accidentally opens a letter from Rowena's kid brother demanding $50 to• pay a gambling debt. He sends the $50 out of his own money, along with a caustic letter. On reaching El Paso, Rowena hears from her brother. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Why, here he's written me two whole letters, page after page, all' a- bout college and the boys and girls and such nonsense, and never a word about money." She marched straight to the telegraph desk and Peter fol- lowed her guiltily. He had to know what she was going to do, "But Buddy, darling, don't you need some money?" she wrote. "There was no bad news, I hope," said Peter, as they went up in the elevator. "Nobody bothering him— or anything like that." So Rowena retired to the rumble seat and they continued swiftly east "Whys no," Said Rowena wonder- ingly. "Nobody 'ever bothers :Buddy, He isn't that sort." "How—tike," said Peter. The boy who took them up to their rooms: did a very unusual thing al- though neither Rowena nor Peter no- ticed it at the time, Instead' of ,un- locking the door at once, he knocked, and it was opened from within, They noticed o ed the t of course, u se and framed the open door was Bobby Lowell, "Where in the world did you .come front?" "What are you dotng'here?" Bobby was crying, but they were too amazed, too disconcerted, to offer either greeting or condolence. "I've been waiting four days,"'said Bobby, `'I nearly died of lonesome - but he resented your taking up such a sacred subject by long-distance telephone. The telephone is such °a sordid, mechanical, diabolical device, Naturally he would not wish to make plans for the tremendous romantic experience or his life by telephone, at so much a minute. He wanted to have you in his arms, Ba'bby was irnpressed-.-even a little frightened. "]3ut he used to make love to me over the .phone 'in. New York," she said defensively. 'T'ha't was .t1iferioent. Ile was sec- ing you every ,day then and the calls were .freta 'haute to house. It's not like shouting 'I love you' over three thousand miles 'of farm :sod factories. I don't blame'Carter, '1 rn like that "But I, didn't know what to wear "That cut him to the . quick," said Peter, "Men don't think about cloth- es in their emotional moments. And to know that instead of every pulse and every vein, and every*er—cor puscle— singing aloud, '1 am going back, to Carter!'—you were wonderng what to wear,—Well I'm just like Carter. It would wound me to the heart." By the time they reached San An- tonio, Bobby was completely .convinc- ed, entirely repentant and asking Pet- er's advice—he being "one of those men" and knowing how they were apt to feel about things. "If I were you," said Peter, with the heavy air of one who weighed his words. "I should take the first fast. train to New York. You can get a good train at Houston." "I11 do 'it," declared Bobby. I'll take the first train from Houston and T won't breathe a word to .Carter. Then if I do change my mind along the road I can call him up some- where. So iu Houston, Peter put her on the train and went straight to the conductor, pointed Bobby out to hint, and gave him the location of her berth. "She's not very well," he explained in a fatherly manner. "Not really bad, you understand, but has queer little alterrations often. Gets odd no- tions about travelling and wants to get off the train. Cooks up any sort of wild excuse for getting off—wants to send a telegram—to call up New York—no end to the silly nonsense she can trump up. Now I want you to see that she goes straight through to New York. Her doctor will meet her at the station and I'm depending on you to see that she gets safely into his hands. She'll be no trouble at all, one of the sweetest girls that ever lived, but just will get that odd notion about travel." Peter gave the conductor ten dol- lars, who said he could safely prom- ise that she would reach her doctor without misadventure. "You'll know him all 'right," said Peter. "He's red-headed and kind of square -jawed." The conductor, who was pretty square -jawed himself, promised to see to it. Peter passed on the word, and a five -dollar bill, to the porter of her Pullman, and then sent a telegram to Carter announcing the exact moment df her arrival and advising him to get in touch with the conductor of the train. Then he hurriedly rejoined the girls. "Good -by, darling," said Rowena cheerfully. "See you in ,New Or- leans." "Oh, no, you won't," said Bobby. "You won't see me again till you get back to New York." At the hotel in Houston they found another fat letter for Rowena and a telegram which she opened nervously. But it was only Buddy's answer to her inquiry from El Paso. "No," it stated briefly. "If I need- ed money, wouldn't I ask for it?" And hard up as she was, Rowena gave herself the satisfaction of wir- ing back the one word, "Yes." There was also a telegraphic money transfer for Peter, to the amount of fifty dollars, and with it a short cold message, "You go to hell," It was from Ronald l ostand. Rowena was wrong aboti:t it. Bud- dy needed money a great many times. after that but never asked for it again, He accepted a job, in a haberdashery where he worked twohours every af- ternoon and all ay Saturday. Row- ,tna didn't like that because it kept him away from ball' games, but all Buddy said to her objections was, "I've seen a ball garne." Rowena was quite uneasy about it all. Peter wanted to write him again,. tried many times to put his friendly feelings into phrases, to cap cheerio and tell him he was quite the stuff. He would even have ':apologized for his meddling. But somehow the kindly thoughts would not be writ- ten down, for he hacl not Rowena's facility with words arid it was only in the pressure of deep emotion that Peter turned to the pen, Arid so,. months later, when the two net for the first time, there had, been no in- terehange of opinions between them after Buddy's lucid wire, Batt when Rowena, with a hand of each in one of hers, said brightly, "Oh, Pater, this is Buddy!" they, shook hands _heartily ,.and Peter said, "ltrcll, hello1" `Hello, hello,"' said Buddy. And they both laughed a little, and each knew exactly what the other had in mind. They had looked forward to New Orleans as one of the high spots of the entire tour, They had heard enthusiastic friends rave over its quaint charm, had seen exquisite etch- ings of its thousand odd little crooks and corners, had, sampled its time honored recipes, Peterhad his heart set on doing something really worth while in. New Orleans—two 'really worth -while things --one for Rackruff Motors, Inc., and one for Peter Blande and his future, It was his idea to pick out the most picturesque and typical corner, [with just a small portion of the road- ster showing, and with Rowena peer- ing out mistily into a shadowy street —a new Rowena, shimmery and shad- owy herself behind a Spanish veil, Rowena, on the other hand, thought it would strike a more telling note to have the quaint old shop and the quaint old street with a strictly mod- ern Rackruff and a strictly modern Rowena standing out in bold relief. Rowena and Pete? never had the same idea about pictures and Rowena wouldn't admit for a'rninnte that Peter was always right. Certain- ly, whether right or wrong, he would. have his own way when it came to pictures. It was in vain that Rowena argued she wasn't the type to do a native daughter peeping out—she was strict- ly a New Yorker, looking fascinatedly in. (Continued next week) WHAT TIM THINKS OF MR. SENNETT To the Editur av all thim Wingham paypers. Deer Sur:— 'Tis mesilf that has had to shtand a lot av mud trowin from thim ould Grits since the Quebick elickshun, so I hev, but, shure, I don't take anny notish av thin at all, at "all, so I don't. Durin the wurruld war the alloies losht a lot av battles, but they thrim- med thin Huns in the ind. Av coorse mebby it wus a mish- take intoirely not to hev gone on fur- ther wid the Beauharnoise invistiga shun, fer, whin the matther wus dhropped, it looked as if our byes had been too shlow to git theer share av the shpoils, whin the cash wus bein handed arround, an thin Frinchies, I am tould, hev no use fer a parthy widout plinty av money at elickshun toitnes. Av coorse ye will mebby be tinkin that 1 hev turned me coat, fer only two arr tree wakes ago I wus shtrong. fer kapin the lid down toight, but "tis not a bit av a turncoat I ani, at all, at all, as I kin prove to ye. Me poiishy is to bate thim Grits, an, if wan shkame won't wurruk I am al- ways ready to throy another, I am willin ti admit that theer wus some shtrong min in the ould days who used to wear the same shurt iviry day, an shlape in it iviry noight, fer a wake, but toitnes hev changed. Y'e musht be a good sailor these toirnes an ahrim yer sails accordin to which way the pollytickle wind is blowin, arr ye will nivir git to the poort ye arr throyin to raich. Shure, 'Hs 'a lung road that hasn't a turn in it, an ye hev to change yer gears whin ye come to a shtape hill, an put on the brakes whin theer is a sharp curve, an yecan't droive a proivate auto, art. a ,pollytickle wan ayther, daidQut plin- ty av wind, an wather, an gas, an lots av oil to kape the masheenery runnin. Mebby I do be mixin me nettyfers agin, as 'me dawter-in-law wud say, but ye will know what I mane, an, as I hev told ye ;befoor, an Irishman is allowed to shpake until he is und- hershtood. Mishter Binnitt is the bYe. who knows whin to shpade up, an whin to shlow down, an how to take al the detoors widout gittin losht, an shure, he won't shtand fer army back sate dhroivin ayther, sohe won't, He puts a Booty on glass whin it plaises him to do it, , an takes itaff agin whin it soots him, an does the same wid pertaties, an Yankee magazeens, He dishmisses wan Tariff Commish un an appoints a betther wan; he sez iviry cheque musht hev a two tint shtamp, an thin decoides that only thine over foive dollars hev: to pay a tax. He changes the income tax to hilp the rich min, an thin changes it agin to hilp the poor min, an so ivirybody is plaised. He takes the big limoseens away from the Cabinet Minishters wan day, an thin incraises theer salaries the nixt. He prawmises that the Ottawa Government will pay iviry tint av the oiled age pinshuns, but, be rayson"av money bein scarce, he tinks sivinty foive pur cint is all he kin shtand at prisint. That's the roight koind av a -man to hey fer :a premier, a lad who knows his own moind,an kin change it as often as he loikes, knowin that the rale ould Tories will shtay wid him till the cows come home, no, matther. what he does. I haven't anny wurrud yit av bein appinted to boss wan av thim road buildin gangs in the Nort counthry, during the winther. I hope I hear soon, fer, if I hev to lave home, 'I musht fursht put in wan av thim oil. burnin furnaces, so the missus won't hev anny coal to shovel, arr ashes' to carry out, whoile I am away. Yours till nixt wake, Timothy Hay. BAYER AIRI is always PAFE Beware of Imitations ENUINE Bayer Aspirin, the kind doctors prescribe and millions: of users have proven safe for more, than thirty years, can easily bet identified by thename Bayer andl the word genuine as above. Genuine ,Nyer Aspirin is safe and sure; always the same. It has the' unqualified endorsement of phyei. clans and druggists everywhere. k doesn't depress the heart. 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