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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1939-12-28, Page 6:'t *■page six * ■ s WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thurs., December *w .• ft HOWICK COUNCIL r t- &■ . Y * -> i iI i r Jr SYNOPSIS Anne Ordway, nineteen, is afraid of marriage? of love. Her parents, Fran­ cis and Elinor, are divorced and the bottom drops out of Anne’s world. She does not want to marry Garry Brook's, whom she has known all her life, She goes to live with her com­ panion, Vicky, in her farm home. •Charles Patterson, whose wife, Mar­ got has brought sensational charges against him, in a divorce suit, ,1S in love with her. Anne has just decided that perhaps she will marry Charles when Garry, just returned from Eur­ ope, comes to see her. He is jealous of Charles. Garry tells Margot of their engagement. Margot, wishing to go back to Charles, visits Anne, but Anne is away seeing her father, in response to a letter from her mo­ ther in which she says she needs money, and asks Anne to persuade Francis to give Elinor an allowance. Margot comes to see Anne and makes her promise to give Charles up. Then she goes to Charles and saying she is ill, begs him to take her back. One lonely day. in October Ruff, as he waited on the pier for the return of the old negro, was aware of the approach of a speed boat making for the island. There were two women in it. The one at the wheel was slender, her hair bright against the blue of her reefer. As the boat curved towards the landing place she said, “Vicky, it is Charles’ dog.” And Vicky said, “Oh, the lonely darling. When they landed, Ruff ran ahead and through the open door of the liv­ ing room where a log fire glowed on .the hearth. Books were on the table, flowers in the vases. Anne, standing in the middle of the room, said, “It is as if everything were waiting for us, Vicky.” “How strange it seems," she said, “to know that it is mine—my house— and that Ruff is my dog.” Vicky, standing by the window, looking out over the bay, said, “It is almost too wonderful to be true.” Anne said, “You can’t know how wonderful. It was all so hard. To think that he could take her back! For a little while I hated him, ahd I couldn’t talk about it even to you. But now I know I have him back. If never §ee him again, I have him in my heart.” “Yet his lie married “He had he wouldn’t have done it.1 “How sure “His letter to read it to you mind? I The two women sat before the fire while Anne read the letter. It had come from Africa. “I did what I did because it seemed the only way. I have no explanation. Yet, somehow I have faith to believe that you will need none. And I am only writing now because favor to ask. “I have heard from old negro on my island. He should anything happen io him there would be no one to look after Ruff and my ducks and the birds. He asks me who will take care of them. And I ran think 'of but one person who would care. And that is you, Anne. “So I ask you to let nie give you my island and my house and my dog. I shall be so happy to think of you there. I have written my lawyers, and If you accept the charge they will make the transfer. “You need not answer this, Anne. I shall hear from my lawyers and they tvlll fell* me of your decision. “Some women would never have forgiven him/' Vicky said when Antie had finished. “Somehow it hasn’t seemed to me a question of forgiveness/’ Anne said, “It has been a question of understand- « u ,* 4ifIllg” She sat gazing into the fire and at last said, “I can’t tell you what these two years have meant to me. When I left home I was so afraid of life. Everything seemed so^—so dlffer'ent from what I had believed. Then I came with you, Vicky, and lived with your family and worked with my children, I saw* that marriage could Be happy and thht life was good if we made it so. And I am not fright*; cned auy more.”' She was on her knees now beside Vicky’s chair, “Vicky, darling, whkt would I have done without you?” And Vicky Mid, “You are the ehhd of my heafVAnd.you have filled It.” Gid o hour later# Mtehen. Mj&riOya’rles' write me the houee Miss Anne,” he beamed. “Are you glad, King?" “I is dat. Is you gwine live heah?” Anne shook her head. “I have my school, but I’ll be coming over week­ ends. And in the summed Vicky and I will stay here a lot." “Thank the Lawd fer that,” King said fervently. “I ain’t exac’iy what you’d call lonesome, but I misses Mr. Charles. He’d ’a’ bin heah now ef she had’n come fer him." Color flamed in Anne’s cheeks. “Come for him?" “Yes, ma'am. She come in a speed­ boat and sent it back and stayed. And when he come, he wouldn’t keep her. He made me tek her to the mainlan’. An’ all dat night he didn’t sleep. An’ the next mawnin’ he tole me he was gwine marry her and never come back." Anne ventured, “Do you think he’s happy?” “Happy?” There was scorn in old King’s voice. “No'm, he ain’. How Ye gwine be happy with a woman like that?” The sun was setting now, blazing up fed from the horizon, “We must run along,” Vicky said, “but we'll be coming back." King took them down to their boat and he and Ruff watched them as they went away. In the weeks that followed, while Anne taught her scholars, she thought of her lovely domain. In winter and summer it would be her place of re,- fuge. In sharing Charles’ house Anne felt that she would share, in a way, his heart? “He meant it that way,” | She hesitated and he said) “I don’t want to got well without, you and Anne, Vicky, I don’t want to without you.” She knelt by she said, “don’t stay as long as “I shall always need you," he said, and slept with her hand in his, and waked refreshed. It was on the day that the doctor pronounced him out of danger that Elinor came, and Garry. They were shown into the living room where they found Anne trimming a Christ­ mas tree. Anne had not seen Garry since that day on the beach, nor had she seen her mother since that last poignant interview. As she descended the step­ ladder and went forward to meet them Anne wore an air of deceptive calmness, Elinor was in black. There were pearls at her neck and in her ears. She was as beautiful as in the old days,, but there was. a difference in her beauty, a darkness. % Anne, shaking hands with them,, ex­ plained, “The doctor thinks Daddy will be well enough to see the tree." She was aware of a confusing shyness —”as if they were strangers. Elinor said, “Then Francis is bet­ ter?” “Yes.” - ' \ “Do you think I caw see him?” “The doctor is with him now. You can ask when he comes down." Garry spoke, well, Anne.” “I am well.” the bed. “My think about it. you need me." live- dear," I will “You are looking letter didn’t tell you why | her.” a good reason, Vicky, orn you are!" made me sure. I want you again, Vicky. Do brought it with me.” I have a King, the fears that She had seated her- ’They found Anne trimming a Christmas tree. she told herself over and over again. Many months were to pass, howev­ er, before Anne came again to her is­ land, for one day when she returned from school she found a telegram waiting. Francis Ordway was very ill and he wanted’ Anne and Vicky. It was late when Anne and Vicky arrived at the old house in Carroll County, A nurse in white was wait­ ing in the hall to take them upstairs. “He wants to see you at once," she said. “Is he—?” The nurse said, “He is holding his own,” Anne had seen her father once or twice since she had left him. She had refused, however, to go back and live in her old home. “I am happier with Vicky, and busy.- You mustn’t expect too much of me, Daddy.” Since his divorce Francis had spent much of his time in town. And he had traveled—a winter in Switzerland, a summer in Colorado, and another summer in Scotland. But always he had felt forlorn and desolate, missing his home, his child; Vicky; missing, in a way, Elinor. Now, racked by pain, he was glad that his illness had brought him Anne. She lighted the doorway when she came in with a radiance like that of a church window. “My darling!” She knelt by the bed. “Daddy!” After that either Anne or Vicky was always in the room. The nurses came and went, but to Francis they were mere machines for his comfort. It was Anne’s voice that he wanted, Anne’s hand on his. Or Vick’y—Vicky adjusting’his pillows, bathing his face. Vicky reading the morning prayers by his bedside, reading evening prayers late at night, knowing that they com­ forted him. Vicky kneeling By the bed tn those awful hours before dawn, helping him. Once as she rose and stood beside him. he said, “There was a halo about your head, Vicky.” “Yon dreamed it.” She was smil­ ing. “No, It’s just the way I’ve thought of you. Vicky# will you and Arnie stay?” “Stay?” “When I get wdl?”. < self by the fire, throwing about her neck a streamer of silver tinsel. It sparkled against the green of her straight wool frock. Elinor demanded: “Where are tile favors I brought from Germany? The wax cherries and the Oranges with mottoes?" “1 couldn’t find them." The doctor was coming down the stairs with Vicky. They entered the living room together. “I thought I’d say ‘Merry Christ­ mas’ to'»Francis," Elinor said to the doctor, May I?” He smiled at her, “I think Anne had better go up and ask him." Anne went and came back to find the doctor gone and Vicky telling El­ inor, “It’s a wonder he ever recover­ ed. He’s been very ill. He’ll have to take the greatest care of himself." “He’ll never do that," Elinor said lightly. “No man does," “You can go right up,” Anne "said to Elinor. “He’ll be glad to see you." Vicky went upstairs with Elinor but left her at the door, so that Elin­ or entered alone. Francis was sitting up in a big chair by the window and there was no one With him. With the strong light full Upon him he looked thin and old. Yet neither illness nor age co-uld take from him his fine air of distinction. He held out his hand to her. “ft was good of you to come," “No, I wanted to, When we knew you were ill, David and I felt it was dreadful that you might never know how we felt, might never know how sorry we arc that things had to be?” “Did they have to be# Elinor?" “Perhaps not, if you and I had not been such fools when we were young. Thinking life had to give us every­ thing and that nothing was required of us, David has taught me a lot about life# Pratiels, He Isn’t I can never make him happy, my punishment# perhaps . ,, , shall never make him happy.” "Yet he loves you?”' "Yes. But love should have hdppy. That’s that I "Yes. But love should have iWftt a diffetcui tiding David, Something ttt Bb at And Wk not jjeoud of having stolen me from you?’ (CeaitlmsM Gorrie, Dec. 15th, 1939 , The Council met in the Township Hall, according sto Statute, the mem­ bers were all present, the Reeve, J. W, Gamble in the chair. The minutes of the last regular meeting were read and on motion ot McCallum and Baker were adopted. Moved By Weir and Baker that Os­ car Felker be given $2.Q0 as compen­ sation for flooding, due to blocked culvert. Carried. Moyed by Weir and McCallum that a grant of $10.00 be given the Gorrje Christmas Tree Fund; also a grant of $5.00 be given Wroxeter Christmas Tree Fund. Carried, Moved by Strong and Weir that the Report of the School Attendance Of­ ficer for the month of^November, be accepted and placed on file. Carried. Moved by Strong and Baker that the usual grant of $100,000 be given the Howick Township Library Board. Carried. Moved by Strong and Baker that F. A. Edgar, Township Engineer, be hereby instructed to provide for re­ pairs on B. Trunk Channel of the Bol­ ton Drain, and to separate the Assess­ ment into three parts viz; A, B, and Main, in said Drain, said work to be done -under the Municipal Drainage Act, R.S.O. 1939, Chap. 278, Sec, 76, also 1938, Chap. 24, Sec. 2, Cl, 13a. Carried. v ’ • Moved by Strong and* McCallum that his Council request the County Road Committee not to snowplow the sideroad south of Gorrie, and the 14th Concession from Lane’s School to the Fordwich sideroad, for tile coming winter. Carried. Moved by Weir and Baker that By­ law No. 9 for the year 1939, be given its first and second reading. Carried.- Moved by McCallum and Weir that the following bills be paid, Carried. J/W. Gamble, attending meetings, mileage and fees as Reeve 1939 $93.- 00; D. L, Weir, attending meetings, mileage and fees as Deputy ‘ Reeve, 1939. $74.70; Robert Baker, attending meetings and mileage as Councillor, 1939, $71.20; E. H. Strong, attending meetings and mileage as Councillor, 1939, $68.30; Edward McCallum, at­ tending meetings and mileage as Councillor, 1939, $71.60; Isaac Gam­ ble, Balance salary as Clerk ' 1939, $90.00; Mrs. M, C. Knight, Salary as School Attendance Officer, 1939 $65.- 00; County Treas., lots sold for taxes, $52.39; County Treas., hospital ex­ penses for L. Weiler, Mrs. G, Anger and J. King $19.25; R. G. Gibson, wood for Twp. Hall, Gorrie $15.00; Fred Hambly, balance salary as-care­ taker. Twp. Hall, Wroxeter $15.00; Dr. H. Hart, operation and treatment for Mrs. G. Anger $75.00; Jas Anger, Salary as caretaker, Twp. Hall, Gor­ rie, $40.00; Jas. Walkom/part salary as Collector, E. Div. 1939, $75.00; L. N. Whitley, M.D., taking Mrs. G. An­ ger to Listowel and return $5:00; Mun. World, Supplies for Clerk’s Of­ fice $L40; John Gamble,"trip to God­ erich with officials $5.00; M. Hastie, sheep killed or injured by dogs, $10.- 00; F. A. Edgar, fees on drain, Con. 14-15, $11.00; Isaac Gamble, fees on drain, Con. 14-1-5, $1.00; Twp. Lib­ rary Bd>, Grant $100.00; Jas. Doug­ las, salary as Live Stock Valuator, $21,00; W. C. King, part salary as Collector W. Div, 1939 $100.0.0; E. A. Corbett, part of fund deposited by Veterans $7.20; J. H. Rogers, postage and excise $9,00; W. R. Fraser, M. D., operation, Eileen Rever, $12.50; J. G< Kirk, M.D., anaesthetic for Eil­ een Rover $3,50; A. H. Erskine, col- < lecting arrears of taxes, $79.50; Jos. Bennett, refund of dog tax due to ei1,- ror $2.00; Relief for November $36.39. Road Expenditures T* G. Donaldson, tile $5.77; Saw­ yer-Massey, Blades $9.42; Ditching: Melvin Stockton $46.21, Ed. ICilling- er $19.60, Harry Locking $14.40, Hir- , am Eastman $10.00, Bert Carter $10.- 00, Alex, Porterfield $10.00, Harold Dickptt $5.40, Thos. Porterfield $4,00, Ed. Brautigan $2.00# Wm, Reis Jr. $4,00, Chas. KilHnger $2.00; H. Wil­ liamson; hauling gravel $6.32; Nelson Gowdy, compensation, $10.00} A. H. Dietz, dragging $3.00; Earl Baker, brushing $4.00; Harold Edgar, brush­ ing $2.00; Glad. Edgar, ditching $7.60 Bert Mann, brushing $5.00; Everett Wright# brushing and snow road $T,- 20; Rich. Griffith, repair to culvert# $5.00; Goo, Paulin, repair to culvert $5.00; Allen Griffith, drawing gravel $4.40; E, W. Bolton, glass for wind­ shield $1.50; John Montgomery,, freight on blades .50; J. H, Nell, cel­ luloid. .85; John Montgomery, Road Supt„ $71.40; Nelson Gowdy, power grader $51.00; E, W* Jacques, brush­ ing $1.00; Clarence McCalldm, com­ pensation, 55 rd, wire fence $22.00; John Hyndman# catch basin $2.00; Clifford Brown, repairing culvert $5.*' 20; Geo, Zurbrigg, compensation for Wire fence $11,00; Harvey -Adams# compensation for wire fence $8,00; Wm, Sotheran, 12 yds# of grave! $1,- 80; George Leonard, tracking gravel $8.50; John Hannah# ditcliing .60; Gamard King ditching $4.20; Wm. ■Swart# drawing tMrer ler Bridge#. . ■ ■ ■>■> ■ * i a > FS>’ ■L ■z !w-H?-- ti k trf] F ‘M A Make 1940 a “variety year," with at least one new dish each week for your family or guests, recipes may be used for that holiday dinner, or for any of , cold-weather meals that are ahead. • These big the yet Magic Egg Mog tablespoons sweetened condensed milk cup water egg Few grains salt Nutmeg Blend sweetened condensed milk and water. . Add well-beaten egg and a few grains of salt. Beat with egg beater. Sprinkle nutmeg on top. Serves 1, Orange Prune Cheese Salad (Serves 4) to 5 navel oranges, peeled and sliced Lettuce prunes, cooked cup cottage cheese 4 2 % 20 1 Arrange 5 orange slices in circle on lettuce - covered Center each with a with cheese. Serve sired dressing. ‘ Variations: Stuff cream’ cheese or peanut butter, - moistened with orange juice. Roast Lamb, French Style Prepare leg of Iamb in the usual way for roasting. Make an incision in knuckle end of leg and insert % clove of garlic. Place on rack of roasting pan, sprinkle with salt and- pepper and dredge with flour.:. Put into a hot oven (500° F.)' re­ ducing heat after 15 minutes. Baste frequently with fat in pan. If more fat is needed, use butter or drip­pings of fat salt pork. ‘ Allow 20 minutes, to a pound for roasting. When roast is cooked, remove to platter and keep hot. Pour off part of fat, leaving about 2 tablespoons. Add 2 cups cooked, dried Limas, - stir carefully , or shake them in the pan until all the browned liquid is absorbed.- Add pepper and salt if salad plate, prune stuffed with any de- prunes with $1,80; H. Eastman, shovelling gravel .80; Jas. Wajkom, repair to culvert, .00; Harry Gowdy, dragging and cul­ vert $9.00; Chas’, Aitkins, culvert $1,- 50; Thos. Nickel, culvert $1.50; Jas. McLeod, repair4 to road $1.50; Ed. Eckinswiller, weeds,'iHowick’s Share, $3.27; Oscar Felker, comp, blocked, culvert $2.00; Bruce Armstrong, ditching $3.00; R, B. Watters, ditch­ ing $4.40! Moved by Baker and Strong that this Council do now adjourn Sine die. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co* Established 1840. Risks taken on all classes of insur­ ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. . COSENS & BOOTH, Agents, Wingham. DR. R. L. STEWART PHYSICIAN • Telephone 29. X Dr* Robt. C* REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.C.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON A J DR. W. M. CONNELL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19. .......................... W* A. CRAWFORD, Physician and Surgeon Located at the office of the lata Dr* J. B» Kennedy* Phone 150 ’Wingham Gy BETTY BARCLAY needed, Serve around lamb on platter, sprinkling with minced parsley. Broiled Egg-Noodle Nests Perplexed housewives with throb tempting and nutritious meals to' prepare daily will welcome this suggested wheaLegg-meat combina­ tion that has eye-appeal, .sates appetites and saves both work and worry. Golden Mountain Rennef.Custard 1 1 2 U 1 ;r >;■■«M] I % 8 1 % lb. egg noodles .strips bacon doz, stuffed olives cup butter •Seasoning to taste* -Seasoning to taste Boil egg noOdles in boiling salted water until tender. Drain. Toss egg noodles in seasoned, melted butter’ to saute all strands; Make a circle of each bacon strip by fastening ends .with tooth­ pick. Fill centers with buttered egg noodles. Cut olives in halves and arrange point downward in clover fashion in Renter of mounds Broil till bacon is done. ~ with remaining egg noodles, a change, substitute macaroni spaghetti for the egg noodles. Hawaiian Fruit Bread cup chopped dates cup canned unsweetened Hawaiian pineapple juice or other 1 1 Serve For or 2 tablespoons butter shortening % cup honey 1 egg cups sifted flour cup nut meats teaspoon salt teaspoons baking powder' 1% 1 U 2 Heat pineapple juice, add the 'dates and cook over-a low fire, stirring occasionally until mixture is thick, Cool. Cream honey and shortening. Add beaten egg ahd date mixture and nuts, gether dry ingredients and add. Pour into well-greased loaf pan 10x4x3", the bottom of which has been lined with waxed paper. Bake in a moderately slow oven (325° F.) for one hour. Yield: 1 loaf. . Sift to- Carried. Isaac .Gamble, Clerk. package orange rennet powder pint milk ■ •> teaspoons lemon juice cup apricot £ulp ■ - . , hX?. . . cup sugar '4 egg white Make rennet-custard according to directions on package, Then, chill in refrigerator. When ready to serve, beat egg white until stiffs * . Add sugar gradually until thor-'- ouglily blended, Add apricot pulp .. (prepared by rubbing cooked apri­ cots through a sieve) and lenion. juice. Heap the glasses of .rennet- ■ custard with apricot whip, and if ' desired, garnish with sections of diced orange. Start the new year right by serv- • ing decaffeinated coffee, so that-,, your guests will be sure of a good, night’s sleep, without worry over sleeping problems, even If they in­ dulge in those coveted second cups. Drip Coffee Use 1 well-rounded tablespoon, decaffeinated coffee, drip grind, for- , each cup ,(% pint) of- boiling; water. Prebeat drip coffee pot.‘. Put coffee in upper compartment, of pot. Pour fresh, briskly boiling water over it. Cover and let stand, in warm place until all water has dripped through once. Remove upper compartment and cover pot. Serve. •. • . Games for Nineteen Fjorty. The latest news in games is Fisherman’s Luck, a game consist- : ing of small rod and reel with a rubber feather-tipped suction cup at the end of the fishing line. Thg^-.'’ object of the game is to cast thd.' \ feathered cup onto a target whiqb^ - is made up of different fish. Con- tack,' the matching game that’s played with tri-colored trianglys is a best seller that’s a popular recipe • for holiday fun. Quick Wit, a qulz game played with cards, is another sure, antidote for social ice, ? ’i ■fl FORMER HOWICK . RESIDENT PASSES Resident -.of Edmonton since 1913, John L. Wilson died in a •city hospital at hte age of 93 years. He was born -in Scotland, and came to Canada with his parents in 1858. He lived in Hur­ on County, Ont,, (9th Con. of Hdw- ick) before going West. He is survived by three daughters^., Mrs. H. I. Brownlee, Mrs. Harry G. Turher and Mrs. W. A. Lagg, all of " Edmonton; three sons, W. J, Wilsom of St. Albert, A. Gordon "Vyilsonv pl, Duhamel, and George L. Wilson*; of Calgary, and five grandchildren. Her was a brother of the late Mrs. Robert Deachman and an uncle of R;.; J. Deachman, member from North Hur- : on. " ■ # ? Y‘; . Interment in the Edmonton cempt>; ery> , i ..... ... ; : 1 iK -y"' rl' V Dr. W. A. McKibbon, B.A. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Located at the Office of the Late Dr. H. W. Colborne. Office Phone 54. J. W. BUSHFIELD / Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc* Money To Loan. Office — Meyer Block, Wingham J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor) Notary, Etc. Bands, -Investments & Mortgages *Wingham Ontario V R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office — Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. Frederick A, Parker OSTEOPATH Offfce*; Centre St., WinghanB and ■ . ‘ 'Main St* Liitowel. ' l&fdwel Dayas TtMMdayt and Erf* day*. 'MtdjpatMe and Etectric Traat- Boot- 14] J [xn f r< •< I VY .y. i* HARRY FRYFOi® Licensed Embalmer and . Funeral DnM! Furniture and} Funeral SeSI Ambulance Service, Phones: Day 109W. NightTt rW THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL, ESTATE Bold A Thorough Knowledge of Farm-4 Stock. T Phone 231, Wingham. Consistent Advertising ift The Advance-Time* Gets Results 3 ’>■ Aj • •7 • ' ■ “ ’ ; ■ " 1 ... ■; J. ALVIN FOX ^Licensed Dregless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS ; WWAW - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT J Houts by Appointment. Phone igt* . Wing|HB « A*R^F<B4i>UVAL CHIROTRACTDEg CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTHD THERAB' North Street