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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-01-13, Page 7THE TJMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY JMQRNJNfi, JANUARY 13, 1M4 JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE NOW! CHAPTER Kill Dy “SWO!”' they Leila had sounded he and had discovered that fac- jobs did not tempt the colored Foremen yelled at employees made mistakes, Zither qua* more—we packed fifty layettes terday tn so abroad.” On the other side of the bed, Waters asked about tea. "Do Scanning Better C BRAY CHICKS Big'-hearted Sarah Daffodil acts. In every capacity for the four-family house in Garset after her husband's death. The frugal, elderly Mr. and Mrs, Peppercorn and the newly-wed Andrew and Candace Thane occupy the two top-flooi’ apartments and below them middle-aged Bert Fitts and his wife—who is too engrossed in war activities to care for her home—and King Waters, veteran of World War I, and his wife Emma, a devotee of fine crocheting. King Waters, who is expecting to sign up for making speeches before young . men’s organizations to raise the morale, discusses Andy Thane's draft status with Mrs. Waters, Andy takes Candace to the hospital and a son, Michael, is born. Sarah Daf fodil visits Candace at the hospital. face his sat bed Zither would come twice a week fo wash and iron and to clean th<> apartment, out lory girl, who yered, she had no intention of put ting herself at thSv mercy of pro duction managers, “I’ll work for Mis’ Thane and Mr. Mitchell till his papa come back,” Zither had said. They had so much to talk about! When Andy, his lean, brown qold against her smooth cheek, gnarled hands holding hers, hunched on the side of her late the next day, Candace unfold ed Sarah Daffodil’s generous plan to him. “She is so good, Andy, she will be so cheerful and strong. And Michael will be in the garden all day, as soon as it 'is warm. I shah not have to worry about him, or wonder if he is unhappy or neglect ed, Shall we accept, Andy? Or shall we be taking too much?” It was taking loo much, Andy as sented soberly,' “But let's say yes.” He stopped with that and Can dace glanced at him curiously. She had expected him to argue, per haps, certainly to weigh his deci sion carefully, to be surprised, or pleased, or touched. He must be tired, not to express greater appre ciation for Sarah’s kindness, it wasn’t like Andy to be so brusque. “You know/’ Candace said, "it will mean a lot to us. As soon as I get out of here, I mean to hunt for a job. I wrote to Hacker and ther set in, there would be the gar-, Hacker, but they are not even go- den. He could sleep in his couch ing to open the repair shop they while she worked in the flower beds, half-planned to open. Tenant repairs and services could well—-they couldn’t pay wait until she was free—Candace salary.” would be at home Saturdays and, Andy put the palm Sundays. “You see, there’s noth-i hand to hi ing left to argue about.” ( You’ll be a "Oh, but Sarah, you have so much J “Oh, I’ve to do. What about your marketing? to worry,” Suppose you had to go downtown?” i She looked She would telephone, Sarah re- even in the plied, or take the boy in his coach, ized that a “We’11 probably cover miles on his lief came with the acceptance that wheels, and my feet.” lone had reached the end of the ■Candace protested. She couldn’t j ^'idge. "It’s all right I’m accept such a sacrifice. “It’s won-ir^ht,’ she whispered, her derful, I do appreciate it, Sarah, but I couldn’t begin to pay wou—” "It’s to be my patriotic gesture,” Sarah informed her gravely. "I've decide that individual service is my niche and that caring for a baby is important work in wartime, or in peace.” It would be wonderful, Candace admitted a.gain, she couldn’t imag ine anything more perfect from her point of view and that of her son’s. She had been ing to devise a afford to worried, "Then and you ah urged, setting iny life in any way. alone so much it will be good me to have something human alive dependent upon me.” Finally they left it that Candace should talk it over with Andy and after Sarah had gone, in the hour before the supper trays were brought up, she thought intently, trying to consider the plan from all angles. Suppose Sarah found the daily care of a tiny baby too heavy a burden? If that proved t.o be the case, she could make other arrangements, herself and stronger and decisions. It to feel that she could leave Michael in sUcli strong, capable, tender hands—no mother would worry one minute about a child in Sarah’s care. Hers was the kind of com mon sense that saw each new situ ation whole, instinctively separated essentials from nonessentials,^ and made the best of whatever wa& available. Sarah would never be maudlin about baby, Candace re flected, stretching luxuriously—it was lovely to see the peaks that were her feet again—Sarah wouldn’t gurgle and cbo, but neither would she be so rigidly detached that she would freeze her affection. Michael Would know, as soon as he devel oped instincts, that someone who loved him Was keeping him safe. The screen around the other bed afforded at least the semblance of privacy. Behind it two girls were chattering to Stacy, their every oth er sentence beginning with "So I said to him,” Sarah put her square, capable hand over the thin white one lying on the coverlet. "I’ve thought it all out,” .Sarah said. What she would like to do, she asserted, was to take charge of the baby throughout the day. There was no reason, she insisted, why she couldnt manage a plain, prac tical day nursery for one. For the first few weeks the baby would re quire little of her, except to be fed and changed, When warmer wea- It’s just as me my old made up my mind not Candace assured him. at him and knew and shock of knowing real- certain measure of re carry too— let’s tell Andy "Mind you, it’s not so discouraged, try- plan out. which she could Andy had been call it settled tomorrow,” now’ S ar il p- I’m' for and Candace reminded later she would be better able to make would be marvelous "It’s all right—I’m all she whispered, her hand straying blindly in search of her handkerchief. Andy gathered her into his arms and her brief storm spent itself against his breast. We have had so much, she kept saying to her self, we have had so much . . * Drying her eyes on Andy’s capa cious handkerchief, Candace said in her normal, soft, clear .voice, "When, Andy?” "They notified me this morning. To report tomorrow. They send you direct to the Armory, then to camp. I’ve had my first physicals, so there’s no chance of a delay." He could stay with her till nine o’clock, he went on, they would have supper together and he’d jolly the nurse into bringing the baby in. "Unless—-that is, I don’t want to make things harder for you, Dace.” "Stay till the last minute, dar ling, Its’ only what we’ve been ex pecting and preparing for.”h Can dace added that he would have to tell Sarah, but she hoped lie would tell no one else. "I don’t want to hear the other tenants talk—I don’t want to hear anyone talk about you.” Candace had a job waiting for her, Andy disclosed she wanted to doctor gave his "My bosses around, since I ing," keep his eyes from his wife’s face. "When I told them I was coming up to the hospital, Bacon asked some questions about you and when he heard you’d been a private secre tary, he suggested that you take my place. Only till I erne back— that’s understood.” He didn’t like the idea Of women holding on to men’s jobs after'1 the war, Andy ex plained. "Not the wife of the his in the first still hare It tor the patients? They ’ Exeter Flv«rS 111111 Clinton 11-3 say it’s going to be rationed. Alb ' ' ' .............•»• + food, they say, is going to be.ya-'Jn First Game of &t:asoa, Last Thursday Honed.................... ..................... ........’ ..... .............. ■ — She looked about the room a little - The Fjyerg {rOn} No. 9 issued in distractedly, as if seeking some-1 the new hockey season with a bang, thing. - ....................... ■ tramps got into our cottage and i trimmed the ruined my summer supplies? Sim ply wrecked everything—I can’t be gin to tell you what the money loss is, to say nothing of foodstuffs we can’t replace.” Her husband, she continued in a ’listless monotone, had suggested renting a fire-and- theft-propf room in a furniture stor age building. “But I don’t know,” Mrs. Waters said forlornly. “All my ambition is gone. And my confi dence. I tell King that I don't trust life any more.” Mrs. Fitts lowered her voice dis creetly, “I was saying to Waters this morning that I hope Mr. Thane wasn’t ill. haven't seen him since—when it, Emma? Thursday morning, I be lieve. I sent Bert up to ring your bell, but no one answered.” "Andy’s inducted." “You mean he’s gone? With you here in bed? Why, how dreadful!" Mrs. Fitts appeared to be genuinely disturbed. She had no idea, fluttered, that it would be so den, Mrs, Waters agreed that it terrible. Unnecessary, too, she elated. "My husband read week of a case where the man pealed his rating as soon as child was born. Decision is pending, but the man is home meanwhile with his wife and baby, You could probably have got a de lay.” "Andy never planned to ask de ferment." Candace wondered how much longer this must go on. In the wards the nurses hustled visi tors out after a decent length of time, but in the rooms only the nine o’clock curfew was enforced. Mrs. Fitts regretted that no one had gone to the train to see Andy off. "I’ve always understood that the military officials and the rail road fnen, too, preferred that peo ple But last enc I-Ie told us it was our duty to give the boys a cheerful farewell. "I had a Mrs. would a little celebration for him, had only know in time.’’ “For \the love of Lulu!” tered Stacy from her bed. visitors turned slightly to "You’ve probably heard that; and a loud bang it was, as they S~A" ............ R.C.A.F. Clinton to the tune of 11 to 3 in Clinton last Thursday was one of those old-fashioned shin ny matches. Hockey sticks, bodies and even fists at times were much in evidence—a real wood-choppers' bee. Nevertheless there was plenty of excitement £rom the viewpoint. From the first face-off of hockey was doomed to bang affair with the result that neither team had the disc long enough to make many scoring plays in the opening semester, The Flyers did get one, the only score of the period. They whipped in four more in the second and six in the third? Clinton chalked up all three goals in the third. It took the accustomed to slated for Mrs, did We was she sud- was de last ap his Still keep away from the stations, we had a speaker at a dinner week who berated the indiffer- and complacency of the public. >> don’t supose your husband soul to say good-by to him?” Waters suggested. "King- have been delighted to stage The stare. "Is Mrs. "Well- lads from night. It spectator’s the brand be a slam their show locals awhile to get the type of hockey the evening but alter they began to find their way around they were much the better team. It was hardly the type of game to size up the Flyers. The Airport boys are a fast skating gang and need a larger ice surface and wide-open hockey to get passing plays clicking. Macey Does Hat Trick It took Macey one game to Coach Wright that he is .going to be a potent factor again this year on the Flyer squad. The "Hub”, who was a star last year banged in three goals. His first goal came while Forsythe was warming the seat of his trousers in the penalty box. It was a smart solo effort through the Clinton team and ter minated with the puck in the net. A few seconds before, he had done the same thing but was robbed by McKenzie as he skated across the front of the net and let go from the left side. 'A few minutes later he slipped another one in from a scramble at McKenzie’s door-step. Near the last of the gamp in Forsythe’s pass-out from ner to do the hat-trick. Coming back after being action last season due to knee which was Wright scored a first goal early particularly well Macey and Wri.glit broke away, For sythe carrying the puck down the left boards. Jim laid a pass >on Wright’s stick and the Sergeant on a nice play, carried the puck in- to beat McKenzie. Another two goals came from the stick of Hawkes. When the game was but seven minutes old Brown got the puck from the face-off and sent it over to Hawkes who potted it. In the third skating across in front of McKenzie’s door-step he bulged the far corner of the net with cl Macey scored his number Fisher slid one into the corner of th© net from a scramble to make i 8-3, Macey was right back again potting the rubber from a scramble. A hard drive by Elwins from the blue-line caught the twine to beat McKenzie, Macey terminated the night’s scoring spree by flipping in a pass-out from the corner by For sythe. The line-up; Exeter—Goal, Young; defence, Wright and Webb; centre, Bradley; wings, Forsythe and Macey, Alter nates, Elwins, Shaw, Hawke, Brown, Huile and Wazorkie, Clinton—-Goal, McKenzie; defence, Whitelaw and Mertz; centre, Carter; wings, Fisher and Mockler; alter nates, Hardy, Dagley, Spragh, Craig and Delotlinville. Referee—Archie Hubert, Seaforth. First period -— Exeter, Hawkes (Brown) penalties, Dagley and Webb. Second period — Exeter, Wright, (.Forsythe); Exeter, Shaw (Huile); Exeter, Bradley; Exeter, (Bradley). Penalties Shaw, Delotlinville, Huile er. Third Clinton, Hawkes (Bradley and Macey); Exeter, Ma cey; Clinton, Fisher; Exeter, Ma cey; Exeter, Elwins; Exeter, Macey (’Forsythe). Penalties, Delotlinville (2) Webb and Forsythe, This ’n That—Clinton weren't the only team to take a shellacking last Thursday night. The Seaforth Beav ers journeyed to Goderich the same evening and squad 15-0. Wright Whitelaw, and Fish Mockler; Exeter, period-—Clinton, Carter (Fisher); (Brown); Exeter, Forsythu shut-out the R.A.F. mut- he shot the cor- out of a bad operated on Coach brace of goals. His in the second was executed. Forsythe, at supper, if it when thetake O.K. have told them I’m leav- Andy said, quite unable to been stewing had be have to Candace deaf, I our boys came out of game nursing bruises, Several of Clinton none very serious. Nor did it on the ice. The younger fans bid boys farewell with a barrage of the but end our snow before the bus was gained. Doc Webb came out the worst from this aftermath with a direct hit on the noggin’ which must have helped to cool him off When the woman is man and the job was place.” * * Toni Fitts sighed as she gun to think She would Wait to see the baby until brought him home. "My never have a minute to myself any Eczema, of salt rheum as it is commonly Called, is one of the most painful of all skin troubles. The intense burning, itching and smarting, espe cially at niglit, or when the affected part is exposed to heat, or the hands placed in hot wateY are most un- bearable, and relief is gladly welcomed^ Eczema or Salt Rheum k The relief offered By Burdock Blood Bitters is based on the knowledge that such ailments, as eczema, and other sldn troubles, ate caused by an impure, blood condition. Bring, about iiiner cleanliness by using B. B. B. to help cleanse the blood of its impurities. Ask nt any drug counter for B, B. B. Brice a bottle. Thfi T» Milburn Co., himitmi, Toronto, Ont, she refined? In your class?” Waters whispered uneasily. —I only asked. I had a friend who shared a room With a perfectly awful woman, the regular gutter snipe type. You never know what you'll get.” Toni Fitts glanced satisfiedly to ward the dresser where her daf fodils filled a green jar. "It’s a privilege to be young at a time like this.” She spoke solemnly, patting the coverlet softly. "Many of us, my dear, will envy you your oppor tunity to give a husband to your country.” "How dare you!” Candace jerked upright; her wonderful, clear voice cut through the room like a blade of steel. "Wha-at?” "I said how dare you. How dare you say such a stupid, cruel, dis honest thing! My husband’s life isn’t mine to give—His life is his alone. Do you believe that when a woman marries a man she owns him, like a table or a chair? What Andy de cides to do with his precious, beau tiful life—'his own dear life—is for him to say. It’s the men who of fer their lives and who loser, them —not the women at home who talk as you do of ‘giving’ a husband or a son.” They were staring at her as if frozen into silence. In her bed Sta cy O’Neill rocked back and forth, clapping her hands soundlessly, Against the background of her pillows, Candace’s flushed face and enormous blazing eyes were star tlingly alive'. Her tumbled hair, her trembling scarlet lips had in them something furious and beautiful and pathetically young. “I have a son,” Voice faltered, hut remained proudly may be ahother war when Michael is old enough to tight, perhaps there will always bo wars—who knows? But if my sou, if Michael goes to war, i’ll never say I gave him to his country. His lifts L his The exquisite the little head erect. "There ’3 « # It doesn’t pay to get in the way of George Shaw’s sizzling drive. Just ask Cliff Young. Shaw, who played senior hockey with Cornwall, is re puted to have had the hardest shot in that league. A NYONE watching this 1944 poultry business develop ban sea that there is. going to, be a real scramble for chicks, the seme as last year, and for the same reasons; patriotism and Profit com* bined. Good chicks, well raised, made money for their owners in 1943. The same conditions that made them profitable then are carrying over into 1944. And the patriotic urge, the patriotic need, are carrying over into 1944, too. Last year we had to disappoint many would-be purchasers . , . hand back their money, and say, "Sorry—no chicks—sold out”. That’s why we urge you to write or call about your 1944 require*, ments, not just soon but right away. Here’s What Bray Buyers Say: I received from you were the best I have ever handled.” Mrs. Walter Clyde, Plaster Kock, N.JB.—"I want you .to know that I am well satisfied with the chicks spring. pullets I ever raised, as well_as the best looking cockerels weighed any I ever raised, age,” and Here’s Why: reaction, out she goes! Breeders are specially fed, so that the embryo chick will get what it needs for full development in side the shell. Eggs are speci ally selected and skilfully incu bated In up-to-the-minute mach ines. Many Bray flocks have 16 generations of this kind of management behind •Mrs, Hill, suits the year’s pullets are laying over 75% now (March) and have laid an average of 60% all winter,” Edward Lowe, Park Road, Ont, —"I have raised chicks both for show and utility, and I can truthfully say that the pullets That’s How —- "the Bray Chick here’s aren’t •they’re Harrison Cross, Vanleek Ont.—"I had excellent re last year, and in fact for past 8 years. My last I got from you last They are the largest ones. The more than at the same That’s how does the Trick”, and why: Bray breeders selected by the flock- selected by the bird. Every last one is handled, sized up by ex perts for vigor, constitution, meat conformation, and indica tion of high egg production. Those that pass this rigid in spection are then blood tested. If there 'is even a suspicion of careful them! WRITE FRED W. BRAY, LIMITED 120 John Street North, Hamilton Bray Chick Hatchery. Exeter. Phon© 246 Alvin Kerslake, Hens all — Agent STEPS TAKEN TO EXTINGUISH BURNING COAL GODERICI-I—Steps of a drastic nature were taken to extinguish a fire that has smoldered and flared for the past eight weeks in a pile of 7,000 tons of coal located on the waterfront of the Western Canada Flour Mills. An official from the head office in Toronto, contracted with a Sar nia salvage concern to shift the coal pile, or as much as may be necessary to ensure smothering the fire, to the parking lot of the bathing beach, a few yards away. While the fire had been smoul dering for weeks, sending out bil lows or smoke, mingled with gas more recently it has burst out into flames. / backhander. Mockler Scores Clinton’s First After Hawkes and Wright had made it 2-0 Shaw added another as our boys began to find the range. It was on a play from I-Iuile early in the second period. Clinton had just given Young a few anxious moment around the hets a few min utes before. Bradley made it num ber four scoring from a scramble. Hardy and Dagley broke away and roared in on Young but Cliff sprawl ed to make a brilliant save as Dag ley shot from close range. Wright built the score to six notching Brad ley’s pass-out from the corner. Clinton made it hot for the locals early in the third. Young was call ed oil to make severhl saves before the Flyers could rid the persistent attackers. Clinton’s consistent poun ding got results, however, and Mockler broke Clinton in the scoring with a corner shot. Fisher, who had been working hard for the losers all night, got a break-away and slipped a nice pass Co Carter. Carter sailed in to drive the puck behind Young, Hawke made it 6-2 with his second goal. Exeter kept oil the rampage for more goals and this time it was Forsythe. Macey, Bradley and Hoi- sythe broke away, Bradley carrying the pack. Ace sent Forsythe in with a pass and dimtny shook off the de fence to beat McKenzie. Macey and Wright had made a few pre-game side-bets as to each other’s scoring prowess for the opening .game. At the end of the second "Hub" hadn't been able to pot the rubber while the Serg. had whipped in two. Just before the third got under way Hub told the boys that he was going to turn on the heat. He wasn’t fooling either. THE BROOM-BALL GAME be tween the Officers and Senior N.C.O.’s at the carnival last Friday night proved to be quite the attrac tion. It ended in a tie. Both teams were biding for the services of "Pop” Watson, but came game time he was in the nets for the N.C.O.’s. surprise of some of team, who servicemen Ace Bradley, Much to the the boys on the hockey should win the race for but coach Wright, centre for Macey and Forsythe, was particularly amused. There is one thing to do about that Serg. and that is to challenge the Ace. THE. YOUNG LADS got off to a start last Saturday morning. They Were under the supervision of -Mr. Howey, teacher at the High School. The boys chose up sides and went right at it. By next week it is hoped to have things better organized and more of the boys Will know about it. It would be a good idea if some of the Lions would give Mr, Howey a helping hand. A big chore it must be for one man to coach two teams and handle the refereeing ad well. to give as he chooses. No one ex cept himself shall claim the right to offer it for any cause, dedicate It to any plan. Not ever.” "That’s telling them!” O’Neill said. !• ” Stacy have been here for 'doing man’s raise.” three men’s money, and Employer: but if ye’ll I Employee: "I ten years, sir, work for one now I want a "I oanna gio ye that, tell me the names of the ilher two meh i’ll five them.” TURNIP GROWERS and SHIPPERS GENUINE CANNELLS’ PURPLE KING AGAIN AVAILABLE Supplies of this famous English-grown Turnip seed have been received by us and we are now prepared to fill your orders for 1944 senson. 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