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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-07-25, Page 6r.; r; W XNGHAIVI ADVANCE -TIN ES Wellington Mutual Fixe insurance" Co. Head Office, Guelph, Ont, Established 1840 Risky t,.ti.en un all i;lass of insur- ance at reze,onable rates. aQBIU+I"s'.R COSENS, Agent, Wingharn J. W. DODD office in Chisholm Block 71+; 2t?,, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND - HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 360 Phone 240 WINGIIA1 , ONTARIO Jr. W. EUSH[FIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Winitiarn Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Winghaan, Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Ovetr Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R Successor to 1)r. W. R. Harnbiy Phone 54 Wingham DR., ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Land.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario. College of Physicians and Surgeons. t' • 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 residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.rn. 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, 601-18. 1 ALVIN. FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191. D..'H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY' Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds; we specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant, Night calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. Phone 150 GEORGE A. SIDDAL - BROKER Money to Tend on first and second mortgages on fartn and other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel amort - gages on stock and on personal notes. A few farms on hand for sale or to rent on easy terms. Phone 78, Lucknow, Ont. THOMAS FELLS • AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stoc Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted. any- where and satisfaction guaranteed. George Walker, Gorrie, can al -range slates; DRS. A. `J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office MacDonald flock, Wingha.rn A. J. WALKER . FURNITURE ANDFi71VERll:I:. SERVICE A. I. Walker it l Director sedI"un'ra e and`' Ernbalmer, t. Office 1 he ne 168, Res. Phone 224. i Latest Limousine Funeral Coach. , it CO Yftt6tiT 1927 by The N3oBBS^Ma RRlLL CO. SYNOPSIS Chapter I.—On the verge of nerv- ous ewous collapse, due to over*ork, Gay Delane, successful New York artist, seeks rest at Idle Island. She rents a cottage, the "Lone Pine" from an island character, the "Captain," and his sister, Alice Andover, "administra- tor." Chapter IL—Gay finds the cottage is tenanted by an elderly lady, "Aunt- alnmiry," who consents to move to an- other abode, the "Apple Tree." Awak- ing from sleep, Gay imagines she sees the face of a Chinaman peering in the window, but on reflection ascribes the vision to - imagination. She settles down in her new hone, anticipating months of well-earned rest and recti Aeration.. Chapter III. -On an exploration of the islnad, Gay, standing on the seer shore, is horrified by the appearance Of the drifting body of a drowned Ivan, which she nerves herself tc bring to the shore. A bullet wound in the temple shows the man to here been murdered. Gay covers the dead face with a handkerchief, and males her way to the "Captain" with the story. Returning with him to tee shore they find no body there, and Gay's story of the incident is . -t down to an attack of "nerves." Chapter IV -Gay, unable to con- vinceher neighbors of • the truth draws a picture of the face of the dead rnan,, intending to send it to the authorities as evidence of the appar- ent crime. She meets a stranger, ap- parently another visitor, to whom she tells the story and shows the. picture. He asks her to let him take it, but Gay refuses. Next day, after a night spent with "Auntalmiry, Gay finds the picture has been taken from the cottage. "Rand" Wallace, wanderer and considered something of a "black sheep," by the islanders, expecting to find "Auntarmiry," surprises Gay at household ,tasks, She likes him at once. CHAPTER V—Gay's acquaintance with. Rand ripens into affection. She sees the Chinaman again and this time. it sure it is not imagination. Rand leaves the island on business. Gay de- termines to stay for the winter. Chapter V1.—The stranger whc rn Gay had met on the day of her dis- covery of the body introduces him- self as Ronald Ingram, like .herself, a visitor on the island, "Auntalmiry" tells Gay of her son, "Buddy," : who has been missing, for years. On Rand's, return Gay tells him of the Chinaman. lie is impressed, suspic- ious of Ronald Ingrain, and appre- hensive of some evildoing in a house known' as the "Little Club," appar- ently unoccupied. THE STORY "That is the beauty of it, Rand. I shall not be tied down. This is my hone, but I shall lock my door and' run away to the city whenever my mood, or my work, suggests it. • I shall stay away as long as I like, and then come bore again with jay." "But when you cease to love me, you will cease to love tl'iis," 'But as long as I ant free in my love, I< shall never cease. It is only when love ties people down, restricts thein, •rules • them, that they chafe at the chains, --'Leave me free, Rand, as I shall leave you, and we shall go on and on all our lives, in love and happy.' Auntalmiry's pleasure in Gay's re- maining was tritalloyecl, for she loved the girl, and Alice Andover had al- ready asked her to remain in the Apple Tree during the winter, so she felt no disappointment on that score. "It will be nice to have my little neighbor on top of the hill," she said pleasantly, "I like the Apple "Tree better anyway. It was only for the. Christmas party that I carne up here. —I always .have a Christinaparty s for the island," she explained to Gay, Y Gay offered the use of the Ione Pine for the event, but Atumtalmify shook her head. She said it would notens like her Ice 1 er party,'if she had it anywhere else. She wanted it all hers. tt was her only festivity during the year. "Who knows but this' may be my last," she finished cheerfully. When she had gone, Alice Andover asked Gay why she had not, as she requested, told her she could have no Christmas party, "Why didn't you tell ber yourself?" Gay retorted. "Well," said the administrator cra- venly, "I'd rather have you tell ;her. I think she would take it better from a stranger. I know her too well. You tell her, first chance. you :get. But tell her when I'm not there." Every day after that, Auntalmiry talked of her Christmas party, made her plans, and it was not in Gay's kind'heart to crush her hope with the sad word, ' So at last Alice Andover herself was driven to it, as they sat. all three, in Gay's living room before her cheery fire. '•'Auntalniiry, John that you can't have party this year." and I decided any Christmas Aitntalmiry did not understand, an- swered with a vaguely troubled smile. "What say, Alice? What say?" "Auntaliniry, you hear what I say. You can't have a Christmas party. It costs " too much, and it's too much work. Last year you nearly worked yourself into; pneumonia, and nearly died, giving that Christmas party. And those little rascals don't need a darty; they—" "Rut I need it," the small voice was suddenly protesting, plaintive. "Alice, I need it. Seems like I just live for that Christmas party, from year to year. It's the. only recreation.:'I have—" He. Made No Effort to Conceal His Feeling for Her. • For one so' indolent, en an island so idle, he found an inconceivable 'awn - her of things with which to busy hihm' self, Andso one night, toward the end of October,' when Ronald Ingram came again, Gay, because she was. lonely, received hiin with a warmth so germine, a pleasure so undisguised, that springing hope sent an eager light to his eyes, and he made no ef- fort to conceal his feeling for her. "Von little snow bird," he cried, "are you 'still here? You'll wake up some morning to find your feathers flecked with"snowl" "And I am going to stay longer, much '.longer-, weeks, and months. Maybe all winter. Maybe forever, if I am very happy." "Oh, any dear," he expostulated an- xiously, "you can't do that. Posi- tively, it is not safe. Why, the island will be snowbound inside of another month. You cannot expose' yourself to such danger. It is not right" "What danger? If I am snowed in, certainly everybody else will be. snowed out!" He sighed heavily, hesitated a nmo- n eet:, then, with the air of squaring one's self for a sudden plunge, he said earnestly, "Then you will hate me for my errand. 1 am seeking the owner or your hilltop iceberg. I want to buy it.,, "Toolate, too late! Itis mine, I have already bought it, and it is not for sale.". "Anything is for sale,.; at the right price," he argued. "I must have it. I have'bought•the old clubhouse down in the woods, and I want to corner it, tried to .buy it. -Some one canine' this whole end bf the peninsula for a in here at.night, and stole it. Some peninsula wants to get you away from here, nest of cottages, You see, I must have your hilltop:, to complete the tried to frighten you .away, and En- circle." ." ally tried to buy you out.—And that "Never, never. is no one but your gentlemanly In - Not for sale." gram, Gay, mark that!" "Oh, •co.ine, have a heart! I am willing that you should make a fair profit on me. But. I, must have it. You see it is really essential to ine." Rat it was essential to Gay also. a whatY "Think i 'means to inn' bank account," he pleaded. But Gay thought only of what it meant to her heart. "No, no," she said firmly. "I should be followed by badluck the rest of my life, I tell yoti, if 1 sold my Heart's Desire. It would be sacrilege, it would be blood money." .'You are in love," he said shrewd- ly, and a shadow fell across his eyes. G..;' is q hed. She would offer no denial. The very admissionwas'sweet to her. He told Gay something of his plans for the exploitation of that part of the island. ` He cautioned her not to discuss his venture too, freely among ier friends, "For I shall have to bity some land yet, and much material, and if people think there is money being made, prices take wings." Gay laughingly promised discretion. As he said good night, he took both her hands in his again, : and said pleasantly, "After all, I feel a sort of happiness because you would not sell. Since we are to be neighbors, Ive must be ,friends. I shall never feel that you are outside my circle, but a part of it. But if you see time or my work- men pottering about, ineasuring . off yards or acres in the woods behind you, don't put a shot into us with that Baby of yours, will you?" Gay said she would lirnit her target practice to the lobster buoys, and he went away at last, smiling back at her. She did not see Rand until the next morning, when he appeared for cof- fee at eleven, "Oli, why didn't you comae last night?" she cried petulantly. "Ron- ald Ingrain was here. I. want you to meet hinm, He is so nice," Rand studied her closely,' "1 knew you were charming—I've known it all along.. But his devotion''—" "It wasn't devotion, stupid. Guess what he wanted! Oh, Rand, he want- ed to buy my dear little Lone Pine." Rand gave a startled', exclamation, sharply bittern off, and lighted his ,pipe with slow consideration, He said nothing. • "Yes: IIe has bought the little Club house, and the woods, and he wanted my hilltop to round off the circle. I laughed at hire. Oh, Rand, he offered to give me ,exactly twice what I paid for it, Spot cash. I laughed at him. Wouldn't the' admin- istrator die if she knew she eotild get today twice what she got last month?" Rand regarded her reflectively. "That settees it," he said slowly=. "Whatever that 'chap is tip to, it ,is not over yet. It is not past, it is present." Gay stared at him, "That chap is tit t "she repeated indignantly, 1 o, p g Y "You don'ttliink Ronaid Ingrain-" "Don't be silly, Gay. Of course it ,is Ronald'Yngrani." Rand had' her go back over the a de story site had told, `from 'the day of her arrival, and ,pieced it all together, bit by bit, in chronological order, "All right, now, he said, when she i had �finished,"look ��at this, Same one, °n • antic of ter- ror', no doubt j a p in the r'i rthtbodyr or sawo d sco a . u ve �y Thursday, July 25th, 1929 "Sruilin' Through" Coming Here at Canadian Chautauqua, SCENE PROM "SMILTN' THROUGH"; INSERT, MARTIN ERWIN "The sweetest story ever told .on thestage" was the comment of a great metropolitan critic when, he first attended a performance ; of. "Smilial' Through," Allan Langdon Martin's beautiful romantic. drama, which: is to be presented on the fourth night of the coming Canadian Chautauqua here. You must see "Smilin' Through." It cannot be described. Its wealth of emotional appeal, its human. comedy situations and delightful love story, its fascinating, whimsical sentimentthat tugs at the,, heartstrings, make this great play a true classic of the modern stage. "Smilin' Through" will be presented here by the famous Martin Erwin Players, featuring Martin.. Erwin in person. AT CHAUTAUQUA, TUESDAY, JULY 30th 1111110.10, cove, saw ,you run for help.:• -=Some one took that body away while you were gone,; and hid it.—Soave one wat- ched for your return, saw your oizr- ions work with a pencil and paper, had to know what you were up to. And found out,—Some one tried to get the sketch from, you, tried to beg You cannot have it. "Recreation, nonsense. Call it rec-, reation working yourself to skin and. bone to give half the island indiges- tion eating candy and nuts) Recrea- tion to make bags, make presents, clutter up the house with trash.—You hear me now, you can't have it." Auntalmiry was silenced. ,The little frozen senile settled more grimly upon her, face, her little birdlike fingers twisted • nervously together. Very soon she said 'she must go now, and went out, stumbling a little. She was very old. Gay and Alice Andover watched in silence as she made her way, down the slope to the Apple Tree. "Afford it," Alice Andover repeated bitterly, when the door closed behind her. `Afford it, Who do you suppose pays for her Christmas party? John does, I do, both of us pay, but mostly nie, for I am the administrator. She hasn't anymoney. She hasn't had any money for twenty-five years. Afford it.—But it's riot the money. It's the work. She begins three months ahead- Oh, she's at it already, work- ing her, fingers to the raw bone,get- ting ready for Christmas -I know her. Sewing. Making things.. Planning jokes, and presents. -And last year she was in bed three weeks afterward, and nearly died with pneumonia. She's too old. She works like a slave for it, getsthin, gets pale. --Why the way she works for that 'Christmas party, she' could almost carp her own living.—If she had to" she added g , apologetically. "Nobody wants her to earn'. a living, of course." * * * * ,N Much to Gay's surprise, she found that Rand was not always available," Gay was sorely "shaken. The evi- that washed ashore in the cove. The protested. "He has such soft, sad rope at the ankle showed that the eyes." body had been weighted to sink, but "Oh, so's a cow," ;said Rand rudely,. the washing of the waves, oe the cut- for he was greatly disturbed. ting of rocks, had severed the rope But upon serious consideration, lie and released the weight. Gay had was inclined to agree that she was in always felt that the body washed in- no particular danger as long as she shore, from sea. Rand, on the ocher maintained an air of utter innocence, hand, was strongly assured that it seeming not only to see nothing, but had' been thrown into the deep water to suspect nothing. Above all, he of the cove from the rocks at the urged her to betray no .cariosity, no farthest point of the peninsula, that interest' in regard to things that went it had come, not from sea, but from on about her, and with Ronald In- land, from the island itself; that mur- grain, if he came again, to continue der had been done, not in the vast- her warm and friendly but uninquisi- mess of the wide ocean, bu€ right there tive interest. Rand did not believe that the affair was a simple matter of bootlegging, as he had at first suspected: The favored method in bootlegging is a constantshifting of base, the effect- ing of surprise landings, first one place andthen another. The acquire- ment of a permanent base for their illicit operations implied a deeper and more deadly enterprise, and with his usual impulsive venturesomeness, Rand had promptly decided to get to the bottom of it, to ferret out, alone and single-handed, this ' business of crime that had attached itself to the island, Gay was eager to assist. "I feel now more than ever," she said,, "that 'I was called to be the avenger of that poqr boy in the cove., F[e cairt.e to my very feet, pleading to be avenged,' and I. stupidly bungled the whole thing from beginning to end. But I shall not bungle it again, not with you to help me." (Continued Next Week.) dence was strong. That something on the shore, within stone's .throw crooked, something queer, had taken from where they sat. place on the good little island site granted willingly, eagerly, -indeed, be- cause the mere suspicion added a piquant spice of discovery to the vat - Raney knew this place of nis birth and his venturesome youth like a book, knew the shore, knew the cove, and understood the movement of the ural charm of her surrounding. tides and :currents. He believed the gram, and his desire to buy the cot- tage, lent a sudden sinisteraspect to the whole matter. _Assuming that. The reappearance of Ronald ; In - `man had been shot -in the club,' or boathouse, perhaps—carried out and thrown'into the deep water.. Perhaps 'this was before the break of day, and some lawless enterprise was afoot in then, with the dawn, the murderers. the bordering , wo tr s, Rand quickly were horrified to see, the corpse wash - realized that the residence of Aunt- ing on the sand, to hear Gay's terri- aliniry he the Lone Pine had consti- fled cries at its discovery. tuted no menace to their security. So far, Gay lent willing credulence, Auntalrniry went to bed promptly with thrilling to every, word. the dusk. Her strolling was limited "The Chink' say you were here, re - exclusively to. the 'pier, .thegrocery ported to your, friend Ingram, whd store, the church, and the homes of cane and tried to frighten, and then her friends. She never ventured to buy you out. To getrid of you along the shore, nor put foot in the because things are going on they do forest,' Bence •there was nothing to "n't want you to discover:—Why' see fear from her presence in the Lone bow plain it is! When Ingram was Pine. The presence of this active, here the other night, the Chink wat- venturesome, keen -eyed young woman cited to assure' no interruption, saw in the vantage -point on the fringe of me corning, deliberately showed him the wood, constituted a constant men- self and led me into a chase to keep ace, and her discovery of the body vie fror?m discovering Ingram," in the Covewasevidence pf the seri- Gay's ' loyalty wavered, but she ousness of this menace, so that she steadied it by memory of the sympa- was subjected to constant unrelaxing thetic voice, the friendly: touch of the viligant guard, strong: hands, the shadow in the gen- Nor had Rand any difficulty in con- tie eyes. strutting an ,explanation, •of the body "He looks so honest, Rand," she a little lemon to the orange juice. Orangeade Orangeade is made by diluting "sweetened orange juice with water. Orange juice is more delicatily flav- ored than lemon juice and it requires considerable moreof it to makea tasty drink. Many people like to add Railway Shop Workers Give " Long Service Nine men shown in the illustration above have a total service of 391 yearn spent at ',the• Motive Power shop of the Canadian National Railways at Point St. Charles, Montreal. This gives an average of over 43 years for each man but the senior has the amaz- ing record of 63 years, while the junior is a mere youth with 27 years, behind him. This group was photographed h of shop now door Of the d 4 outside the' , p 'Made closed, through whicft they had x►t , their daily entrances and exits., • The shopsere older than the inert, dating 1857,a Period of 72 ,ears. , back to�1' This iw i'ven _ to a This shop has naw gr way modern structure capable of dealing t;. efficiently with the heaviest type of motive. power, absoltrtely the last word in machine shop equipment in the Dominion. in roue from left to In the standing p. , right the men are: J. Twigg, 43 years g � g service; A. Lanthier, 44 years; Sandy Welch, 43 years; Thomas A. Bates, years; ears J. C. Marchand, 27 'ears; D. A. Rollo, 30 years; Frank O'R.eilly, theinsert left stand years.rnn 48, .. ng besde one of a set of drivers, is W. H Sargeant, locomative inspector, who has been 63 years in the service, and toftinnes active', and alert. At the Surgeon, he doo a is W. H. ♦rat rw rrgii t y, erecting shop foreman, with 44 years lit service. The O'Reillys, of which Frsnk shown at the extreme right is a sturdy- y representative, have had three gener- ations in the company's service with a total of 108 years, Of the Surgeons♦, grandfather, father and soil have been in the shops, arid in the case of Mr, Collo his father came front Scotiand to work on the construction of Victoria, Bridge and afterwards entered the service. Throughout the shops ps at Montreal, and elsewhere there Will um ' be found n Irers of men who have spent thirty, forty and even fifty years .� in the set -vice of the Canadian National Railways aird its forerunners.