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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-04-19, Page 7THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL J% 1945 “Happg Go 99 by MRS. HARRY PITGH SMITH CHAPTER II She was trembling as she fol­ lowed him to the door, but they were not to escape so easily. Tony was called to the telephone. When he came back, his gray eyes were blazing with excitement, “Th© Chief is sending me down to New York,” he explained. “The town’s full of reporters from the big papers, but the Associated Press wants me to bring the Kelly story in myself. I’ll have to send you home in a taxi, sugar,” he explained. “I’ve got to catch the' eight-ten to New' York. You don’t mind,” “It’s all right,” she said. Tony was hailing a cab, He put hen inside and paid the driver. The Window was;* down on her side, Tony stood looking in at her. “They’ve got to give me three days off next week-end to make up for this,” he said, and grinned at her crookedly, “Three days ought to be»enough for a couple like us to get married.” “Married!” gasped Barbara, Tony’s eyes were a little des­ perate. “You’ll probably live to re­ gret it,” he said, “but I hope you’re game, chance “Oh, “We I mean, i on me, I’ll Tony!” should be swell honeymoon dollars,he said in a muffled voice, Barbara’s heart was pounding in her throat. ‘‘Are you proposing to me, Tony?” she stammered, “Yep,” muttered Tony, “dnd making a terrible flop of it. I al­ ways thought I wasn’t a marrying man .Only now I want to get mar- . _ - — j if you’ll take a I be tickled pink.” able to take a on five hundred ried. How I want want to marry you. “Yes, Tony/’ she '‘Gee,” breathed happy!” He thrust to! That is, Will you?” whispered. Tony, ‘‘am his head in I . - . __ ____ ___at the taxi window and kissed. Bar­ bara swiftly. “Heck, it’s three min­ utes to train time! So Long, sugar, I—I’ll be seeing you.” “G-good-by, . Tony, d-darling/ faltered Barbara. But Tony was already tearing down the street in his battered fliv­ ver, leaning out to wave frantically at her as he took the corner on two wheels. Tony telephoned her'from the sta­ tion. The train was ten minutes late. He said he had sq much to tell her. He said he didn’t know why he was so fussed around her. . “My tongue ties itself in knots,” he confessed ruefully. “What makes it so funny, I could always say sweet nothings to girls I didn’t give a darn about. Explain that if you, can, Miss West.” He said he would write her from New York. “Take good care of yourself, kid,” he said. “Yon kind of make all the difference to me.” “You don’t exactly stand for noth­ ing in my life,” retorted Barbara. Tony laughed. “You can’t make me mad that way, sugar,” he said. “Good-by.” Barbara* was a-little disconcerted ■when she reached the office the next morning to find that the news of her engagement had preceded her. Tony had told the gang at the sta­ tion. They said he had been walk­ ing on air. They said he acted as if he had come into a fortune and could not keep it to himself. It was apparent right from the start that neither her friends nor Tony's believed their marriage would work out. People told Bar­ bara that,she was too practical and matter-of-fact to be happy married to a harum-scarum like Tony Blake. They said she ought to marry some­ one like Martin Fagg. Martin agreed with them. He had been intending to ask Barbara to marry him for some time. “I was just waiting till I paid, my business out and got a little money ahead,” he told Barbara reproachfully. “I thought you knew that.” Martin was twenty-seven and he was already on his way to becom­ ing one of the .pillars of the com- munity. He had worked his way ' through school and clerked in a dry •goods store until he had saved enough, to go into business for him­ self. He had a small ready-to-wear shop which was doing very well. “I don’t think a man has the right to marry a woman until he knows he can take care of her/’he told* Barbara. “I’m' sorry, Martin,” she falter­ ed. “You’ve always been so nice to me and I’m fond of you, very fond. I-always will be, but-1 love Tony.” Martin’s face crinkled up. “1 can’t understand it/’ he blurted out. “Blake is,a spoiled child, Bar­ bara. He’ll never be anything else, I thought you admired common sense and solid qualities in a man.” Martin was quite good looking. He had a nice physique and was immaculate in his dr-ess and per­ son, His brown hair was always combed faithful “Just wrong,” Hank same town, but Hank came from the^ wrong side of the railroad ‘tracks.,' 'That had not prevented Tony from taking Hank wherever Tony went. With Tony it was a case of like me, like my friends. While Tony was at the university, Hank secured a position on the Clarion, driving a truck for the cir­ culation department. When Tony received his degree, Hank persuad­ ed Champ 'Fields to take Tony bn the paper. Tony’s position was much better than Hank’s, who wore overalls. His hands were usually grimy. ‘‘Sure, Hank’s a roughneck; Tony told Barbara once, ‘‘but fight a circular saw for me you don’t make friends like' every day.” Barbara had received a telegram from Tony as soon as he New York: FORGOT TO SAY I’M ABOUT YOU ISN’T THAT LESS LOVE TONY It was exactly like Tony on an extra word and make the telegram cost twice as much as it might have, thought Barbara. Tony never worried about expenses, but she did. Her father had been ill for' three years, before he died. His illness consumed all his savings. They had had to go into debt so deeply that Barbara lay awake nights wondering what would be­ come of them. She could not re­ member her mother. The responsi­ bility had left her with a terrible fear of being caught in such straits again. Her father’s life insurance had cleared the debts away, but nothing was ever to free Barbara from her dread of being penniless. She had a letter from Tony the next morning. It was a funny let­ ter, but it brought the tears to Bar­ bara's eyes. “You wouldn’t believe it,” Tony wrote, “but I can’t make love on paper to you. After dll the love letters I’ve written with my ■tongue in my cheek, when I want to tell you I love you, my pen gets the blind staggers. ’ Must be be­ cause you’re the most tremendous thing that ever happened to me. Please read between the lines, if you can, sugar. Anyway, I'll be seeing you tomorrow. Yours ex­ clusively, Tony.” Barbara counted the hours until Tony's return and then, as the time came, she suffered an attack of nerves.' ' After all, she and Tony were barely acquainted. “Maybe everybody’s right,” she told herself in a panic. “Maybe I’m crazy to think our marriage can work.” When she heard Tony’s voice in the outer office' that afternoon her fingers turned .to ice. Then sudden­ ly he opened the door and waved at her. “Hi!” he said. Nothing mattered Tony loved her and she loved him and they were'going to Belong to each other forever. “Hello, Tony,” she whispered. He came over to her eagerly, but the gang streamed in after him. They made a ring about Tony and Barbara. They did a war dance, chanting that old nursery- rhyme: “Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man .marries, his trouble 'begins.” Tony held Barbara’s hand tight­ ly. “Let ’em rave,” he said. “We know what we’re doing.” “I wonder,” faltered Barbara. Tony's friends had entered into a conspiracy to entertain him fiancee. They gave a par- roadhouSe the night he re- from New York. Barbara they were, to say the least, just so. He had steady, brown eyes. another good guy gone sighed Hank Woods. and Tony grew up in the 9 9 he’d and that reached CRAZY PRICE- to tack ed.” Barbara "liked the women in crowd no better than the men, One black Who Pan” name Tony the was a woman artist with bangs and a throaty voice called Tony “b'elpVed Peter with every other Breath, Her was Wanda Lytle although told Barbara privately that Wanda had been born -plain Maggie Piltz, “Tony’s spirit has wings,” Wan­ da informed Barbara in a loftiy voice. “It would be the sin un­ pardonable to to earth.” “After all,” dryly, “even a eat and have They’ve even quire shoes." Tony told Barbara later not to think Wanda as goofy as she sound­ ed. “She’s really a grand gal,” he confided. “Of course you know about To­ ny’s play,” said Wanda. “His play?” blankly, “Did you ever man who wasn’t he asked. “Did you ever know one to it?” inquired Hank Woods, Hank went along with the because Tony insisted, but drag his soul down Barbara pointed 'out winged spirit has to somewhere to sleep, been known to re- Barbara echoed see a newspaper­ writing a play?” finish except that of Municipal Affairs, notice mill subsidy on assessment granted in, 1945. ' of Munitions & Supply, in- covering 3 cars of woo4 p.m, Besides 1 1 X R ROLFE, Manager* a Aft ®not moi6thebut n at V°^e a knovzs se&8’ is V tot hiUa Usborne Council crowd ______ ___ ______ ,__ Hank had no more use for them than they for him. “They can’t imag­ ine what Tony sees in me,” he said to Barbara. “They’ve labeled me the Ubiquitous Moron. I had to ask Tony how. to spell it before I could look it up in the dictionary. It means I’m a low-grade mentali­ ty who is always under Tonys feet.” “I’m afraid that’s the . way they feel about me,” sighed Barbara. * On one point Barbara was ada­ mant. She would, not gree to give up her job until they were out of debt. “It’s a complex with me,” she told him. “I can’t stand being in debt.” “But, darling, Mother doesn’t care if I never pay her,” protested Tony. x “I care,” said Barbara, her face white. “You’ll just have to bear with me about this, Tony. It’s my weakness, I suppose, but it scares me to death to have no ahead. I’ll work until we have a “O.K., sugar,” said Tony. “You’re the captain. >I’m just the crew. Barbara had been living in a boardinghouse run 'by a motherly and eminently respectable widow. But Barbara emphatically did not want to ‘ go on boarding after she married Tony. So they' decided to move into the flat Tony was occupy­ ing. It was within walking ' dis­ tance of the office and the rent was reasonable. “It’s not the flossiest place in town,” said Tony, “but I guess we’d be happy if we lived in a goods ■box, so long as it was together— eh, Miss West?” They were driving over to the flat at the moment in Tony’s rickety car. They were to be married the next afternoon. Barbara was taking over some of her things. “I do so want to make you happy, Tony/’ she said tremulously. “I want it more than anything in the world.” “Sure,” whispered Tony7 rubbing his cheek against her. “That goes for me too, sugar.” Tony’s flat was small and dingy. It looked out on an alley and on the rear of a shabby tenement houSe on the next street. There was a square sitting room, crowded with furniture, none of it in good taste or in repair. The., bedroom was tiny and had only one window. The dining room was merely an al­ cove. The kitchen was small and dark, the tin sink rusty, the linole­ um worn through in spots. The stove looked is if it had never been cleaned. (To Be Continued) The MuuiCipuJ CoUUCil of Usborne Township met on 'April 14th with all the members present. The min­ utes of the March 10th regular meeting, and, special meeting of March 15th were adopted on motion 'by Tuckey and Duncan. The following correspondence was received;County Clerk, list of pupils at- tending neighboring high schools; the list was read and the clerk in­ structed to attest to correctness pf same, Dept, that 1 will be „ Dept, voice $355.87, Complaint on Stewart Drain from Jas, W. Gardiner; moved by Fisher and Tuckey that the council inves­ tigate this complaint before pro­ ceeding further. Carried. The reports of T. Patterson on the proposed Lown Drain were received, April 30th at 8..30 Was set as date for opening considering this report. The Clerk was instructed to tact drainage contractors Graham and Graham at once re completion of existing contracts, It was moved by Fisher ana Duncan that the .rate to be charged for snow-ploughing by Usborne Tp. be $5.00 per hour. On motion by Tuckey and Eller- ington, the Treasurer was authoriz­ ed to purchase $2,000. in the 8th Victory Doan. A request was made by the treas­ urer* to file certain obsolete records in the Township Hall. Moved by Fisher and Tuckey that the Treas­ urer be permitted to place records prior to 1943 in the Hall. Carried. The question of arrangement for public meetings sponsoring Town­ ship school area was introduced. Moved by Tuckey and Duncan that the Reeve, C. Fisher and the Clerk be a committee to '"decide about holding such meetings. The Clerk to correspond with the inspector and the committee to then decide re- advisability of proceeding in view of .present political situation in Ontario. A delegation of ratepayers resid­ ing on the narrow road waited upon the Council, requesting that the GRANTON MAN PASSES 'IN WgepRIA hospital (Jeorge.JS. FitzGerald, R. R* 2, Granton, died Friday in Victoria Mgspital in his year. .He is survived by his wife, Gertrude. road be widened from 2 rds. to 4 rds. The complaint arrises from the fact that the fences along this road are almost completely demolished each winter by the snow plow, The delegation was promised considera-' tion by the Council and given as­ surance that the situation would be discussed with the Dept, of High­ ways without delay. Arrangements*’for making an an­ nual inspection of the rpad.s by the Council was left with th© Reeve, Reports were received from the Treasurer and from the Road Su­ perintendent and accounts for cur­ rent month were paid and council adjourned to meet in special session on April 30th, at '8.30 p.m, *’ A. W. Morgan, Clerk. m Spoils Sle^pTohiijlif Surprisingly fast, Vicks Va-tro-nol—a few drops up each nostril—works right where trouble is to open up your nose—relieve stuffy transient conges­ tion that makes it hard to get to sleep. You’ll like the way it brings relief. (NOTE: Va-tro-nol is also grand for relieving sniffly, sneezy distress of head colds,) Follow directions in folder.. Mak».Sleep money *■ z y AFTER VICTORY. WE’LL STILL BE J friendly and his ty at a turned thought crude. Tony apologized on the way home. “They’re a swell bunch of folks When you get to know them, kid. You’ll like ’eih,” he said. Several were newspaper people, others advertising'’'men. There was a young lawyer in the group, a bud­ ding architect, and three medical students. They held Informal meet­ ings almost nightly at various tav­ erns and discussed the books dr plays or houses or briefs which they were going to do She noticed that as a paid the checks. “That’s because I’m 9 9 some rule day. Tony fight.... ______ __ flush 1___ now,” he explained, ‘‘The reward money, you know. Hext, week prob­ ably Paul will sell an article or Dave snare a client and the party’ll be on them. Meanwhile I’m elect- Troublesome Night Coughs Are Hard on the System PTE. LEONARD HOFFMAN IS KILLED IN GERMANY Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hoffman, of Zur­ ich, that their son, Pte. Leonard Theodore Hoffman, aged 23, was killed in action in Germany March .5. Prior to his enlistment, he was employed by the London Shoe Co. He attended Zurich and Mt. 'Car­ mel High School. In February, 1943, ho enlisted, with the Oxford Rifles and received his 'basic train­ ing in British Columbia and later trained at Debert, N.S., from where he left for overseas. He saw action in France, Belgium, Hol­ land and Germany. He is survived by his parents; four sisters, Mrs. Joseph Trailer, London; Sister Ahgela Theresa,„ of the Ursuline Mary and Doreen, brothers, Joseph, Leo and ‘Wilfred, Anthony, of Hay Was a member _ Church, .Zurich, and also of the League Of the Sacred Heart. Me­ morial mass was offered by Rev. Fa. Lucier. Order, Chatham; at home; six Albert, Edgar, at home, and Township, He of St. Boniface v\ioR* . wift call ° tkan z James ‘Broadfoot, well-known district farmer, While fishing at St. Joseph's, reports landing a pike, 52 inches long. x It’s the cough that sticks; the cough that is hard to get rid of: the CdUgh accompanied by a tickling in thd throat that causes the nerve and throat wracking trouble that keeps you awake at bight. Dr. Wood’s Norway Pino Syrup heljis to relieve this coughing condition by soothing the irritated parts, loosening the phlegm and stimulating the bronchial organs, and when this is done the troublesome irritating cough may be relieved. Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup has been on the market for the past 48 years. Pho Trade Mark “3 Pine Trees”. t Price 35c a bottle} large family size, about 3 times as much, 60c at all drug counters. ~ ,‘The T. Milbuiii Limited, Tordiite, Oiit. * A prominent Wingham merchant John W, Hanna, was the unani­ mous choice of the Huron-Bruce Progressive Conservatives for the forthcoming provincial election. Several million herring and white fish fry were placed in Lake Huron in the vicinity of Bayfield last week. COiriitnefcial fishing there, after a good start, fell off slightly last week, There* S lots of work to be done. We are eager to get at it. . . •The war interrupted the normal expansion of Bell Telephone service. As telephone materials grew scarce, more and more people had to wait their turn. Today, the waiting list is nearly 70,000. Just as soon as men and materials are again available, these deferred applications will be filled. Work will be resumed on conversion to dial telephones, on rural expansion, on extension and improvement of present services, on rebuilding our normal back-log of reserve equipment.