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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-01-23, Page 6V 'i- "v THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY. JANUARY 23r<l, 3936 =====“—=== Fine Serial Fiction in a new form. . . , Three Prize Short Stories (of four instalment* each) by a master etory-tellejrZ^y, • They’re Rex Beach at hi» beat. bbMh; FIRST INSTALMENT ( anj body has told him to try. Who j knows? Maybe you uin do it.”Ibex Fu’-long came to the Southern | Tju> Speapt,r put On her sunbonnet^.,.4. - o, J.UU SJJVttilVr JKIL UU JAVA »UJADUAAAAVt oil fields looking for work. lie was amj together she and 'Furlong went very du-ty and quite hungry when aeross the val>y to tlu. welL al last he stopped in at the Durham House. This was a rather better-looking •plate than the average Texas home­ stead, and when he knocked at the kitchen door a girl appeared who was very much better-looking than the average Texas homesteader, She was. in fact, a very pretty girl. She readily fetched Ben a drink of water, and while he rested she talk­ ed to him. That was, no doubt, be­ cause of his smile. He informed her that he had been raised in the I’enn- sy Ivunia fields and was a good prac­ tical oil man. There being no chores to do, Ben sat in the kitchen and chatted with the girl when she cooked something for him, and in the course of their conversation he learned that her name was Betty Durham, that her parents were dead, and that the farm belonged to her aunt, with whom she had lived ever since she was a little girl. The aunt had gone to Oppor­ tunity in the family flivver. “Funny, you cooking for a tramp dril ing ed. ture?” ‘‘Sure! It’s worth a lot of money. That well over yonder”—fork in hand. Miss Durham indicated a der­ rick not far away—“belongs to us.” From where he sat Furlong could see that the timbers of the- tower were- still bright and unstained, thus advertising the melancholy fact that the well itself was not a producer, so he inquired: “What’s wrong with it? Dry? “Dy nothing! They’re not down1 yet. They’ve got* a fishing job— been at it two weeks.” “Gee!” The visitor 'shook his head. “That's running somebody in debt.” “When the first oil talk commenc­ ed we’d of been glad to get the faim drilled on most any kind of royalty, but nobody would lease it. When they finally got ready, Aunt Mary wanted a bonus-—two bits an «,cre— and she wouldn’t listen to Uncle Joe’s arguments. Bye and bye they offered two bits, but by that time she wanted a dollar. Then the com­ panies got together, kind of petered out. and it began to look as if Uncle Joe would be lucky to make any kind of a deal. He finally laid his ears back and leased a small block. Then he up and got killed.” “That’s too bad.” “It was an accident. A powder wagon let go.” The speaker’s face grew wistful, she stared out across the arid countryside for a moment or two. “Uncle Joe loved me, but— Aunt Mary’s his second wife; we’re not really kinfolks. It might just as well have been Maddox who got killed; he was as close to the wagon as Uncle Joe and yet he wasn’t touched. Funny, too, because he’s always been afraid of the stuff and has a hunch he’ll be blown up. All you have to say to him is ‘powder’ and—’’ “How’d your aunt come to down this new well?” “Maddox drilled the well on lot we leased, and after Uuncle was killed he quit the company sort of took charge of things Aunt Mary. It wasn’t a big well, but the royalty is enough to pay for this one. I won’t (cook any more ham and eggs, so you’d better make the most of these. Yes, and you’d better come and get them; they’re done.” Miss Durham set a plate on the table and1 Furlong drew up his chair. With the curiosity natural to his calling, the visitor inquired more specifically about the nature of the mishap that had halted Maddox's progress, but he learned little. He in­ ferred, however, that Ahe royalties from the first well were dwindling at an alarming rat® and that any considerable delay .in completing the new well might therefore result in ruin to the owner. It was a prospect that naturally gave Betty and her aunt grave concern. When Ben had finished eating be said: “Maybe I can give this driller of yours some help. I’ve worked on a good many fishing jobs. D’you think he’d let me try?” “He will if I tell him to,” the girl declared, “He’s tried everything •==£= iur Tiller, wasn't it?” "Not to be killed? Sure-—” “Naw! To get in with the widder and Betty. Lucky for them, too, that he took to looking out for ’em. it lie makes this we ll they’ll be mov­ ing into one of them Dallas man- -.*ons with marble bedsteads.” “Humph! He’ll never make a well if he keeps dropping hardware in it. In my country a driller that's care­ less would loose his job.’” “Tiller wont lose his job, the en- You 1 gineer asserted, positively. “He don’t i lose anything he goes after,” 3 YEARSALBERT M. JUDD GETS JOHN WARD USBORNE & HIBBERT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Middlesex guilty to Inone verse 50c. Safe-depo, Cli EXETER 10c. per line. meet 1st BARRISTERS, SOLJI Money to ■emnclellod to order. to all' kinds of oa- at Exeter, Ontario Nadiger, ui- W Merner, Published every Thursday morning GLADMAN & STAN CHIROPRACTIC, OSTEOPATHY, ELECTRO-THERAUY & L- V1OLET TREATS PIIONt 7ft‘ MAIN ST. at LISON (fice on Main St. | Qty# Exrivr GJunni-Aimurate Established 1873 and 1887 labor etc. $71.55. | Charity and Relief: Mrs. M. Snidii er, wood, indigent $6.75; J. Albreclit | transients $10.60; E digent, wood $2.25; J account, indigent $17.37; A. Melick,J $UBSCRIPTION_?2 00 per yeay milk, $3.64; G. J. Thiel tmg. etc.,’ advance $6; Reid & Co., indigents $4.75; L. Srhilbe <& Son coke, $4.47; Menno Oescli account, indigents $10.29; C. (Fritz, ditto $9.90. General Accounts: Election exp., $116.00; Gestetner Co. stencils $4,- 6-7; Tuckersmith Tele. Co., mal ’35 rates $202.95; Tp. Clerk reg. Birt Marriages and death $20.75; Ei Lia, (Assoc. Co. bond $40.00. The Council adjourned to again on Saturday, February one o’clock in the afternoon. A. F. Hess, Clerk RATES—-Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent Insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ticles, rro Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of six words. Reading notices Jwvi Card of Thanks 50c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line. ~ Memoiiam, with .„ extra verses 25c. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association ed: “Help yourself, pardner. heard the boss.” When Furlong had fully satisfied I In the course of time Furlong fin- himself as to conditions he took off ’ished cutting the end of his steel his coat and went to work, He knew j casing into series of teeth, and these of no fishing tool so designed as to pick up an object so small and eas­ ily movable a a six-inch bolt, there­ fore he made one. He took a short piece of steel casing or a diameter small enough to slip into the well, and in one end of this he cut teetn several inches long. It was a labor that consumed time: he was still at it when Betty reappeared at the well about dark and advised him that his supper was waiting. . Mrs, Durham had returned from town. .She was a woman of deter­ minate "age. Her eyes were pale; her nose was hooked like the beak of a hawk; her lips were thin and set in avarious lines. Immediately upon meeting Furlong she wanted to know whether he believed .'his ex­ periment would succeed, how he proposed to go about it, how long it would take, and the like. Ben was noncommittal and he refused to raise her hopes. Before he had fin­ ished his meal he had convinced himself that the woman stood in some sort of dread of Tiller Maddox and that 'her fear of antagonizing him almost equaled her anxiety for Furlong’s success. Ben wondered why. Another fact he discovered— Betty and her aunt were not on the best of terms. After supper, by the light of a gasoline torch, Furlong resumed his work, the while Maddox vainly tried, with the new device which his em­ ployer had brought out from town, to grapple that obstinate bit of a fifth of a mile beneath his teeth he then bent slightly inward, this done, he attached the device to a tool and lowered it into the hole. Even Betty Durham and her aunt Mary, who looked on with growing suspense, understood now how he proposed to pick up that bolt. He had shaped those tapering teeth so that they resembled the curving fingers of a hand, and Ills delicate task was to- drive the casing home against’ the steel-hard bottom of the -well until those fingers closed, un­ til he clipiclhed them over the stac.le. than Tiller Muddax was a swarthy man of about thirty-five; his -eyes were bold and black and set close together He greeted the Durham girl with an easy familiarity, a suggestion of proprietorship that gave the visitor cause for thought, but towards Fur­ long he was none too cordial and when Betty explained the reason for the latter’s presence Maddox frown­ ed. “Another wise guy, eh? Every ropechoker in ten miles has been try- to show us how smart he is. What d’you know about fishin’, stranger ” “Not much,” Ben confessed, “but I’ve had some luck.” “Oh, I've had plenty of luck, my­ self!” Maddox asserted. “But I never had any good luck lettin’ strangers monkey with my work. If you jim up the well, I take the blame.” “I won’t jim anything.” “What’ll you charge for this here miralcle of yours?” Impatiently Miss Durham exclaim­ ed, “What’s the difference how much he charges if he can do—?” , “I’ve been paid for any help 1 Ben remark- j can gjve you,” Furlong declared. ..probably I can’t do anything, but so far I don’t even know what's wrong. Do you mind telling me?” “We’ve got a bolt in the hole.” “A bolt?” “Sure! A six-inch steel bolt. It worked loose and dropped out of a tool.” “•That’s a new one.” Ben admitt­ ed. “Why don’t you pound it to pieces !~r like me and your aunt own- j acreage like this,” ••Isn’t this land on the strue-' or the boom or something, put the Joe and ftfr Professional Cards ................... S--------------------------- •ob­ it was a tas'k less difficult it sounds. (Continued next week.) appointed of Hay for Treasurer, H. Edig- Albert M. Judd, K.C., crown attorney, pleaded nine charges of theft and was sen­ tenced to a determinate term of two years less one day in the Ontario reformatory and an indeterminate term of two years less one day. This means that he will serve two years and then at the end of that time may be released or may have to serve the indeterminate sentence. without charge and HENSALL RY S ORS, Ac* istmemts Made steel feet. £ <5 /‘You’ve been experimenting for two weeks at a hundred dollars a day— , Let Mr.. Furlong have a go at it,” said Betty. Maddox grinned. “That’s what we been tryin’ to do, but it’s tempered harder than the bit. It dulls every tool we use and all we been doin’ for two weeks is sharpen steel.” “Can’t you drill past it?” “How you gon’ to sidetrack a six- inch bolt loose in the bottom of a hole?” “You ican drive it into the wall.” “Oh, you can, can you? We’re into a stratter of iron pyrites and the rock’s dam’ near as hard as the bolt. It’s much as ever a tool will cut it at all. That bolt just shifts around in the bottom of the hole like it was in a steel cup, an’ it’s too small to grapple. I suppose we could get hold of it with some fancy kind of a magnet if we could get holt of some fancy, kind of magnet that would get holt of it.” Again Maddox grin­ ned. Betty Durham was staring at Fur­ long with an apprehensive pucker between her brows. “Ain’t that our luck, for a little bitty old bolt to ruin everything? Can you think, of any way—?” “I ican think of one way that won’t cost much to try.” “I don’t want any strangers ex­ perimenting around-—” Maddox be­ gan; but the girl exclaimed sharply. “You’ve been experimenting for two weeks at a hundred dollars a day, haven’t you? It’s our well. Let Mr. Furlong have a go at it.” The driller executed an exagger­ ated gesture of acquiescence. ‘Right you are, Betty! But if this feller puts the well ohritlie bum, don’t blame me.” ThenMo Ben he announc- ORLEY^CARLING & BARRISTERS, SO LOANS, INV . INSURE Office; Carling Block, M^iin Streep EXETER. ONT. MAE WEST GETS $7,066.00 A WEEK HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12.— (AP) —IA>n obliging Government has con­ firmed general suspicions that mov- iedom’s prominents are receiving much hard cold cash for their efforts Stripped of magnifying rumor and ■balyhoo, the actual figures on which leading players and executives paid income taxes were made public in Washington along with those of the rest of their;,fellow countrymen who were “in the money” in 1934. Names and salaries of persons re­ ceiving. more than $15,000 a year were given out by Congress from information supplied by the treasury department. •Stars and their salaries brought to light include: Name .................. Mae West1.............. Connie Bennett ..... Marlene Dietrich .. Sylvia Sydney ...... Gary Cooper ......... Bing Crosby ......... Claudette Colbert .. W. C. Fields ......... J. E. JACKSON, M.B., L. (Tor.) Physician j^hd Su Plmpie . Office: At his rjfei just South .of tgi^Cihevrolet Garage General Practice—Night or Day calls given prompt attention. Successor to Dr. Brownin Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S DENTIST Office; Chudin Closed Wednesday Afternoons Total Weekly $7,066 3,671 3,021 2,304 2,909 4,019 1,771 3,231 Press $339,166 176,188 145,000 110,583 139,667 192,896 85,000 155,0S3 ■London Free Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.jD.DS.^ DENTAL SURGEON Successor to the late Dr. AtkiS'Office opp.ositei;?lhe PostMain St&t, Exet^ Office 3 6w T&plion Closed Wednesday Res. 36j iternoonsHIBBERT COUNCIL dbie inaugural meeting of the Hib­ bert Council was held on Monday, January 13 at Stal'fa Township Hail The members subscribed to the nec­ essary declarations and assumed their responsibilities. The following appointments were made: Clerk, Mrs. K. Feeney; treasurer, A. A. Colqu- houn; auditor, P. F. Benn; assessor, Joseph P. Roach; sheep valuators, John G. Scott and Andrew McLach­ lan; engineer for D. and W. Act, John Roger; M.O.H., .Dr. H. Sturgis; sanitary inspector, James Scott; School attendance officer, T. J. Moly- neau; caretaker of township hall, R, Butson. By-law No. 431 confirming the ap­ pointments and fixing their salaries was duly passed. The following 'resolutions were passed: Authorizing the reeve and clerk to submit the road superinten­ dent’s report of road expenditure for 1935, $5,470.60, to the depart­ ment of highways and requesting sta­ tutory grant as provided by. the On­ tario Highway Act; reappointing •Russell J. Scott as weed inspector for 1936; authorizing the Reeve and treasurer to borrow from the Cana­ dian Bank of Commerce a sum not exceeding $10,000 for current ex­ penditures; extending the time for ireturn of the Collecteor’s Roll for 19 35 until May 1. •General expense, orders, totalling $748.24; direct relief, $83.91; road expense, $12.05, were issued. The meeting adjourned until Mon­ day, February 10’, at 1 p.m.—Mrs. Kathleen Feeney, Cler'k. EXETER ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY: PRICE'S REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANI prepared by said salaries at the next But it was blind work, monotonous work, dispiriting work; time alter time the clumsy fishing tool was raised and lowered, but its jaws re­ fused to seize the troublesome bolt. It was ing as a pair string. The Furlong’s work with the interest of a fellow machinist, and of him the lat­ ter 'inquired finally: “■Say! How come Mr. Durham' to get killed?” “He was bio wed up. It was when the Planet Company was getting ready to put down that well on the northeast /corner. Maddox was work­ ing for the company then—moving the rig onto the ground. A powder wagon ped to then? quarts ■cans all set in felt-lined keep them from jarring. I alius beeif seated of them, but them drivers pound their wagons over these rough roads like it’s so much molasses they, got. Old man Durham went aoross’ the road and give him directions— he stood there watchin’ the WEtgon) as it drove off. The driver was trot-i ting his horses and when he crossed the railroad tracks it let go. Jar set it off, I suppose. Tiller says he saws it all, but he don’t remember hear-* ing a sound or feeling a shock of- any, All he seen was a big black­ cloud, an’ when he looked for Old' man Durham lie wasn’t there. The, fence was goner too.” ' 1 “What happened to the driver?” “What d’you reckon happened? All.; the trace they Over found of him or) the outfit was part of a hoss's leg' bangin’ on a telegraph about a hundred yards tip the grade, There was a holo thirty foot wide where the wagon had boon and the the railroad iron was corkscrewed for a quarter of a mile; They found quite a bit of the Old man—enough to hold a funeral over.” “And Maddox wasn’t scratched! That stuff certainly acts queer at tirnesl” “They figgered Some air current was responsible, Kind of a Godsend a job as hopless and as baffl- trying to pick up a pin with of fire tongs on the end of a engineer’ of the rig watched came by and the driver stop­ ask the way. You’ve seen trucks — six hundred odd of nitroglycerine in square racks to be appointed FRANK TAYLOR LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALITY Prices Reasonable/and Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER P. ojjor RING 138 ■■■wm.mi.,........... ini.........................................................i - - Hay Council The first session of the Council of the Township of Hay for the year 193 6 was held in the Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday, January 13, ac­ cording to the Municipal Act. The tollowing subscribed to the Declara­ tion of office: Reeve, Alfred Melick; Councillors, George Armstrong, W. Haugh, Max. Turnbull and Edmund Walper. The Council then became organiz­ ed for the year '1936. After dispos­ ing of the communication the fol­ lowing reesolutions wore passed: That the following be officials of the Township the year 193 6: Clerk and A. F.Hess; Assessor, W. lioffer; Auditors, Geo. Deicliert and Jacob Haberer; Caretaker of hall, J. Albrecht; Member of Board of Health, Josiah Geiger; Sanitary In­ spectors, Eastern Division, B. C. Edwards; Zurich and vicinity, John P. Rau; Dashwood and vicinity, C. Pfile; School attendance officers, eastern division, W. R. Dougall; Western, F. E. Ducharme and'that a by-law be prepared by the Clerk for passage at the next Council meet­ ing confirming said appointments. That the salaries to be paid to Tp. officials for the year be fixed as follows: Clerk and Treasurer, $3-60.; for Telephone, $350.; for Twp. Rds. $20.00; Assessor $100; and postage Caretaker of hall $40; for transients u.2fi cents per meal and 5 0c for at­ tending the fire; Auditors for Twp. $6; for Telephone, $2 each; Weed Inspector 35c. per hr. including transportation; Rd. Supt., 35c. per hr. including transporation; Board of Health $1 per meeting; selecting jurors, Clerk $5; Reeve and Assess­ or $2 each; /Sanitary Inspector 5 0c for placing and removing cards in country and 4'5c. in Zurich and 10c per mile, one way; 5 0c for disinfect­ ing a house; $2 for inspecting Zur­ ich; $1 for Blake and $1.50 for Dashwood and 10c per mile, one way and that a by-law be the Clerk 'confirming and fees for passage Council meeting. That the following Poundkeepers for the Township of Hay for 1936: J. F. Ingram, W. Al­ exander, S. .iSchraeder, O. Greb,. W. J. Johnston, S. Hoffman, G. Becker, D. Schwartzentruber, Hv Krueger, F. Turnbull and Filbert Denomme. And the following Sheep .Valuators, Wm. Parke, Fred J. Haberer and Fred Kading. And the following fence viewers, C. H. Blackwell, Alf. Pfaff, J. Eckstein and Albert Hendrick and that a by-law be' prepared by the Clerk foi; passage at the next Coun­ cil ’meeting confirming the' said ap­ pointments. That by-law" No. 1, 193 6, provid­ ing for estimated expenditures on Twp. Roads for the year 1936 to the amount of $7300 be read three times and finall passed. That the Clerk subscribe for nine 'copies of The Municipal World; For Reeve, Cuncillors, Clerk, Road Sup­ erintendent, Assessor and. Tax Col­ lector. That the annual meeting of the subscribers of‘the" Hay Municipal Telephone .Systeili be held in the Town Hall,, Zurich, on Saturday, February 1st, 193 6, at two in the afternoon. That the Reeve and* Clerk thorfeed to. sign and submit Minister of Highways, the petition, of the Council of the Township of Hay, showing* th&t during -the year 1935 there has been expended on Twp. rds. the sum of $5097.32 and requesting the statutory grant oii'that-amount according’ to the Ontario Highway Improvement Act and amendments thereto. < .« • That the treasurer’s fidelity bond for $11000, with the Employers’ Liability Assurance Co., -be renewed for one year, The following orders were passed: Hay Telephone (System E. R. Guenther cartage 50/ci; fiSlmor Webb error on rate $3; Bell Telephone Co. tolls Noveinber-Boceniber, $71.55; Zurich 'Central switching for fotlr week $(68.00; p. Mcisaac 3 months, salary $500; Stromberg - Carlson drns and jack $27,75; H. G. Hess, o'clock Cedar Chests AND NEW FURNITURE Also furniture re: We take orders t blnet work for kitchens, etc at the DASHWOOD PLANING MILL Head Office, piarquhar, Ont. W. H. COATES SAMUEL NORRIS Vice. DIRECTORS F. McCONNElLLXjOHN t. ANGUS SINCLAIR HAckne ’AGEN' JOHN E'SSE&iY for Usbprne ALVIN L. .HAIR .for FfilaiWh THOMAS Preeii •Pres Agent■tralia, Biddulph . Munro, Agent and Logan .......... Cromarty, Agent for Hibbert B. W. F. BEAVERS Secretary-Treasurer Exeter, Ontario GLADMAN & STANBURY Solicitors, Exeter be au- ’to the ■crosS-arm The Desperate Straits c2>top .that COLD ek a hurrywiih n quickly bch tn ore a cold to ve’a ha less with colds. They elop into something ous. At the fitst sign Stove’s iltOino Quinine, hat it takes to stop that and effectively. At all Ask for Grove’s. They’re Bitters There are few pedym who escape trouble with thei omach in some form or other. The im; is of sen organs t of the stomach ^consequence to other w io body, for only by properj^paigested food is the entire UStaihed and nourished. r have no hesitancy in recom- ding B.BJB. as a reliable remedy or ’diseases and disorders of the digestive system. It helps to stimu­ late the secretion of gastric juice, the main factor in digestion, nou- tralizo acidity^ tone tip the lining membrano of the stomach, and re­ store the natural, healthy, painless proeem of digestion.