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The Clinton News Record, 1933-11-16, Page 2PAGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription $1.50 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper ' discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the .publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. 'AdvertisingRates—Transient adver- tising 12e per count line for first insertion. Se far each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 Unej,. Small advertisemepts, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," 'iStrayed," etc., inserted once for 35c, each subsequent in- sertion 15e. Rates for display ads vertising made known on applica- tign. • Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith,, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL, M. R. ()LARK, Proprietor. Editor, IL T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. /Wean Block Clinton, Ont. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc, Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Firs Wind, Sickness and Accident, A'rto- mobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and; Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.O. Telephone 57. BEATRICE R. GREENE Teacher of Piano, (Singing and Theory, Studio—Commercial Inn, Phone 172. DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence; Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west of Anglican Church. Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, 89. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours-eWed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the • County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at Tee News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior Guaranteed Henri Beauty Shopoe Over. Counter's Jewelry Store Isaac Street Phone 223, open evenings, THE McSILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont, President, George McCartney, R,R. No. 8, Seaforth; vice-president, Jas, Connolly„ G'edericlr; Sec. -treasurer, Martin A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Thomas Magian, R. R. No. 5, Seaforth; James Shculdice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Robt. Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, Brucefield; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; George Leinhardt, Brodhagen. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3, Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth; James' Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchley, Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaferth, er at Calvin • Cutt's Grocery, Goderich, Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica, tion to any of the above officers addressed to theftrespective poet of- fices. Losses inspected by the diree- eor who lives nearest the scene. Cawdn ars Ha` Akt ° n TIME TABLE Frain will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows; Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m, Going East depart • 3.00 p.m. 'Going West, depart n1.50 A.m. Going West, depart : 9.58 p.m. London,' Huron & Bruee Going 'North, ar. 11.34. Ive.11.54 a.m, 'tieing South 8.08 p,m. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD SYNOPSIS Ruth Warren, living • in the East, comes into possession' of three-quar- ter interest in an Arizona ranch, left to her in the will of her brother,; re- ported to have died while or{ business in Mexico. With her ailing, husband. and small child she goes to Arizona to take possession, thinking the cli- mate may prove beneficial ,to her husband's weakened lungs. Arriving at the nearest town,' she learns that the ranch, "Dead Lantern," is 85 miles across the desert, Charley Thane, old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take them to "Dead Lantern" gate, which was 5 miles from the ranch house. As they wearily walked past a huge over- shadowing boulder in ,a gulch in coming to the ranch house, a voice whispered "Go bade, Go back!" At the ranch house they are greeted suspiciously by the gaunt rancher partner, Snavely, and Indian Ann, a herculean woman of mixed negro and Indian blood. Snavely is diffi- cult to understand but regardless. Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust; their three lives to the ranch and its development. Kenneth, Ruth's husband, caught in chilling rain con- tracts pneumonia and passes away before a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She ip not encouraged by Snavely in plans to try and stock the ranch or improve it. She writes to her father in the East asking for a loan with which to buy cattle.' She receives no reply. Will Thane comes home to visit his father . , . and Ruth meets him. A rancher nearby decides to retire and offers to sell Ruth and Snavely his Iive stock on credit. Snavely tries to balk the deal but Ruth buys to the limit of her three-quarter interest in Dead Lantern ranch. NOW GO ON WITFI THE STORY cerzireet Will made no reply and Ruth thanked hint with her eyes. To Snavely she said, as she started her horse, "Please have the two men follow us with picks and shovels." It was not long 'before Will guided her into a small arroyo, one of the hundreds which led down from the mountains. "You see," explained Will, "the rain that fails between the top of the mountain range and the dike sinks into the ground and goes down to bedrock. But it can't get past the dike and is impounded under the sur- face. Where the wall crosses this arroyo is the lowest point, and it's there we found wet sand last year." They came up to the dike. Fifty feet above the arroyo bed it rose, forming a waterfall during rains, and below was a great sandy. hole, The bottom pi this hole was damp. Ruth could hardly conceal her dis- appointment-- she had pictured a pleasant little pool, and the bottom of the sandy hole looked as though some one had spilled half a pail of water there, twenty minutes before. But Will was boyishly enthusiastic. Alfredo always picked up his gui- tar and stood near the door, his eye on the freeno outside. "There she is! Believe me, when you find a damp place in this weath- er, there's something doing." When Alfredo and Don Francisco came with the. shovels. Wil]. directed them in excellent Spanish to dig from the damp spot toward the wall. In less than half an hour there was real water at the bottom of the trench. a ]She and Will returned to the barn ed for a rock drill and a sledge—the plan was to drill through the , dike in into the wateabeyond. th Will and Alfredo took turns at co swinging • the sledge. While Don an Francisco held the drill, giving it a i po quarter turn at each stroke. The to drib sank in steadily; at every blow,an a little more water trickled around w the inch -thick bar of steel. Snavely, Ann and tee:.11iexican woman came. to look, Four hours after they had beg:: the sound of sledge on drill beg to change subtly - "It's coming We're almost through!" Will voice was tense with excitement'. , a he swung the sledge. A few nro strokes, and the drill shot in si inches at one blow. No one made a sound. Wi dropped the sledge. Every eye wa on Don Francisco: With both .hand he worked the drill up and down t loosen it. Slowly he pulled. it out and as it came,' water spurted a round it in ever increasing volume. The drill was out and a muddy spout of water struck the sand three feet away from the wall. t Every one, from David to Don Francisco, made some kind of noise, Ruth hugged the first person a+ hand, until she discovered it was Snavely. And even Snavely shoot hands all around—real running 'wet, er was too much for the old cattle- man. mal on the place .seemed' two-thirde fat. The Mexicans worked on their n, house—Ruth knewthat : they were an happy and would stay 'indefinitely. Every evening for an hour after 's Supper she and the girl Magda • had s lessons; in Spanish and English, Mor When. the hour was up Ruth went x back to the ranch house, for, as the end of the lesson approached, Al- l] fredo always picked' up his guitar s and stoodnear the door, his eye on s the.fresno outside. e . Snavely seemed to have changed subtly since the discovery of the we - ter, Ruth sensed that he had begun to regard her in a different way; it was as if she had proved that she was not to be frightened, she could no longer be treated 'as 'a child. She had shown him that she knew some thing about ranching; and, since the drougth was safely past, that she stood -a chance of meeting her note. But the girl knew that Snavely was far from becoming reconciled to her No one slept that night. They ats around watching the spout of kept the fire going for its light and water. Every now and then, some one took a drink and although the water was still quite muddy, de- clared that it was probably the pun, est water in Arizona. With the proper troughs it would water every head of stock the Dead Lanterr could ever carry and, incidentally, although Ruth did not suspect it, the value of the • ranch had increased by some thousands of dollars since that last blow from Will's sledge. By daylight a temporary dam had been thrown across the arroyo for the use of the cattle until the water could be piped to a permanent pond. Snavely had actuelly helped to built this dam. But when the cattle had been driven up the arroyo and every one was going back to the ranch house for breakfast, Ruth sensed that Snavely was rapidly re- turning to normal. After the midday meal Ruth and David accompanied Will to the mail box to meet Old Charley. Be- fore they left, however, Will had to take a last look at the water. Not a single cow was at the pond; they had all had their water and now were scattered over the pasture. On the way to the mail box the three friends talked incessantly. Da- vid rode with Will. It was when Old 'Charley's car appeared far down the highway that Will said, "I'm planning a lit- tle joke on Dad. Be is always kid- ding me about leaving the Tench for the city—,I know that he hopes some day I'll come home for good and bele hien raise cattle. There's a piece of homestead property which joins our place on the east and yours on the south—he's always muting that I ought to take it up before any one else does. He watches that section like a hawk. Well, here's the point, I'm not saying anything to Dad, but this trip I'm going to pull stakes at Los Angeles and come hone for good. I expect to get back about a month before the round -up and I'm not going to say a word to Dad but just sneak out to that homestead and put up a shack and Iive there. It'll be a kick when he discovers some: body squatting on that .choice sec- tion of his." The girl. laughed, "Be careful he doesn't take a shot at you before he discovers who it is." Old Charley honked the horn as he sighted the three by the mail box. Ruth turned to Will. "It seems dreadfully inadequate to say 'thank you'—I—" "Good Lord! I've had the time of my life!" Ruth looked at his feet, "I shall remember that the Dead Lantern owes you a pair of shoes, not to mention trousers — why didn't I think to lend you some overalls?" Be laughed as Old Charley turner' from the road. "All right, Ruth, but I'll be needing boots instead of shoes the next time you see me." Within a week after the develop- ment •of the water the summer rains had begun. Almost every afternoon brought a brief shower; great, cold pelting drops making the desert sparkle, redolent with the perfume of greasewood. Usually, after these showers, the sun shone fora .time before it slipped behind the moun- tains—,as though to remind the des- sert that it still was master. There had been two severe storks 'which turned the arroyos andgullies into ngry little rivers. All the deepen- ponds were full to overflowing id water lay in small natural pools, many of the deeper 'canyons, The cattle were . everywhere - ere was so lima water that then uld go where the feed was'choicest d they made good use of the op- rtunity. The 'remains of the cot-. nseed meal was stored in the 'barn • d the band of 'bottle-fed calves as scattered. Already evere, ani - As she approached, half a dozen great buzzards flapped into the air on reluctant wings. presence on the ranch; he hated her and he hated the Mexicans. Another thing about this strange man had come to her notice; he seemed to be looking at the old well whenever he was near the ranch house. Ruth had never seen him gc• there since be had built the board fence around it; but many times she had watched him coming up the path from the barn with his narrowed eyes on the clump of bushes by the wood- pile, There was much riding to do ,as there always is after the summer rains. Ruth was so busy that she still had five books to read of the half dozen Will had sent her.° Each morning she rode out with Don Francisco and Alfredo, often accom- panied by David. Every fifth day she carried a slip of paper with numbers from one to twenty-two and rode until she had checked all the bulls. The whit, numbers on their side were still glar- ingly conspicuous. Sometimes she could check six or seven animals all within a mile as she looked carefully from a ,hilltop. She still considered her system of numbering very fine. The summer 1•ains, having been unusually generous, had gradually ceased except for an occasional thun- derstorm which hurried over the San. Jorge Valley. On the Dead Lantern the natural surface water in ravine and canyon was fast disappearing and the cattle were drifting to the neighborhood of the ponds. Late one afternoon Ruth and Al- fredo were returning from the south pasture driving a poor -grade heifer. The heifer was to be butchered and it is axiomatic among cattle owners that 'only the off-color, the dish -fac- ed, the knock-kneed, and the sway- backed shall be served at the family board. When they were crossing the Last deep ravine before reaching the ranch house, Ruth • rode toward the mountains, leaving Alfredo 'to bring in the heifer alone. There had been water in a pool farther up the ra. vine the week before and Ruth wish- ed to look at the cattle which would remain in Pe vicinity as long as the water lasted. She met few cattle in the ravine and upon arriving at the pool found, it empty, As she rode out of the ravine along the side of an entering gully and neared the upper level, her eye caught a whits object hidden among . the under- growth in the gully bottom farther ahead. Presently she saw that the object was a numeral six painted up- on the red -brown side of a bull. The animal appeared to be lying stretch- ed out, and even though sh i ld see little distinctly throe ;he clumps of eat -claw and oeatillo, Ruth felt with a quick,tightening at her throat that the bull's position was unnatural. Dismounting, she half THURS., NOV. 16, 1933 Huron County Auditors Convicted— on ' on Suspendid Sentence Pound guilty of accepting a bribe. of $50 to falsify his ''report and ..to ocnceal shortages in the accounts of Garden Young, former county treas urer, now in prison, William T. • g n, coun y dud - iter, was Friday evening • at Goder- ich, sentenced by Judge Costello to walked, half slid, to the bottom of the gully and picked her way toward the bull. As she approached, `half a dozen great] buzzards flapped ince the air on reluctant wings. The next morning she and the two Mexicans returned to discover if 'possible why Number 'Six had died. Don Francisco and Alfredo held a long consultation together but could come to no definite con- clusion—some sickness such as comes to the strongest of things. As the three companions rode on, the black buzzards slowly circled into the gully, Suddenly Alfredo pointed south- ward. A group of buzzards were wheeling low above an oak tree which rose from the entrance of a gully in the opposite bank of the ra- vine. By noon five more dead animals had been found within a radius of a mile. Ruth, half sick with anxiety, rode back to the ranch house for Snavely had remained at the corrals shoeing horses. The old cattleman listened to what she had•to say, then shrugged, "You'- 're liable to find a dead cow or two most any time --too bad about the bull. but they'll die just the same as Anything else." "But we've found six altogether— all recently dead!" Snavely grew more attentive. "Six —five besides the 'bull?" "Yes. "Well, now, that don't look so good. Here, I'll saddle up an' have la look." I.1'e shook his head after he had studied the carcass of Number Six Tho buzzards had eaten very little, but they did not go far away. `r don't know just what to make of It —maybe if we could find a fresher one. Still, it ain't black leg, any- body could tell that. Don't look like he'd been hurt in no fight, neither." "Mr. Snavely," said Ruth as they rode toward the oak tree where sev- eral buzzards stood or walked about, "you will have to be going into town for supplies soon anyway why not go tomorrow and send out a doctor -- a veterinary " (Continued next week) one month's suspended sentence. The trial Lasted three days. The fact that Booth has always 'borne a, splendid reputation and that it was the first Iand only slip-up of his life, weighed I . heavily with the trial judge in the extension of clemency. Executive effieers of the company by which'' he has been employed since 1921, gave him a . splendid character, stating that for nine years he has handled between $40,000 and, $50,000 of the company'.: ,money iannually without the semblance of dishonesty, Fee Vitiated Plea Booth admitted accepting $50 .from the convieted county treasurer, know- ing him to be short in his accounts. and confessed to withholding this information. from county officers and to omitting it in his .report, but stated he had taken the money for "extra work" done as a result of the "terrible mess" in which he found the books. He sought to justify his withholding of the true facts by say. ing he considered he was doing a "Christian act" by giving the treas, urer a chance to make restitution as he had promised to do. "It would have been much more of a Christian act for you to have offered to help Young out of his dif- ficulties had you not taken the $50 he offered you," Judge Costello told the prisoner in passing sentence. R. II. Greer, K,C., conducted the defence, and Crown Attorney •Hol- mes the prosecution. Higgins on Stand Friday morning Robert Higgins, Hensel], one of two auditors facing trial for conspiracy and bribery, entered the witness box and, as did his fellow auditor, William Booth, ad- mitted taking $50 from Gordon Young, convicted ;county treasurer, but said it was for extra work and not to falsify his report, or conceal information of a shortage. Higgins admitted that his signed statement of his audit tallied with the treasur- er's statement to County Council, although be had knowledge of both a shortage and an apparent surplus. Judge Costello—Why did you not report things just as you found them in accordance with the declaration of office you took? Witness replied that he thought Young was an honest man and had just overdrawn his salary, The treas- uer, he said, had offered to replace the shortage, and later reported he had done so. Higgins said hethed sug- gested to Young to neglect drawing his salary until such time as he wad square. Mr. Higgins was ccpnty auditor in 1921-22.23-27-31 and 1932. Ile said it had always been thecustom for the warden to sign orders for the is- suing of cheques in blank and to. leave them with the clerk. If the auditorr should find that a payment had been made by cheque for which no order had been ,issued it would not create suspicion, • for the reason that an order could be secured at a later date, (Continued. on 'Page 4) U. F. 0. CLUB .0F SOUTH HU -Rol/ ELECT OFFICERS The T.Y. F. 0. clubs' of South Huron with • their affiliated organizations, the United . Farm Women of Ontario and the United Farm Young People of Ontario, held their annual meeting in the Council chambers at Hensel] recently. R. J, McMillan, of Seaforth, pre. sided for the , meeting, The reports of the senior clubs were given by A. Love, Hensall club; R. J. McMillan, Seaforth club; H. McLachlan, Bruce, field club. The Junior club reports were given by Godfrey Etue, of Western Stan- ley, Miss M. McKenzie, of Eastern. Stanley, Miss V. Birk, of Dashwood, and Wallace Haugh, of Tuekersmith, The ,directors for the •coming year were elected as follows: U. F. 0., R. J. McMillan; assistant, William Al- exander; U. F. W. 0., Mrs, C. Haugh; assistant, Mrs. William Douglas; U. F. Y. P. 0., Edwin Johns; assistant, Andrew Petrie.. Archie Service, of Halton County, then addressed the gathering, intro. ducing the "New Canada Movement." with its slogan, 'Save Agriculture, Save Canada." I•Ie urged the youth ,of Canada to a more serious study of our economic conditions and prob. lems and arranged for a series of meetings to be held throughout the County of Huron. ANOTHER REDUCTION IN BAG BUFFALO HERD Another reduction in the buffal herd in the Buffalo National Park a Wainwright, Alta., has been fount necesary in order to prevent th herd from increasing beyond th capacity of the park to sustain the]+,' The Federal Government has, there i. fore, ordered the slaughter of fret; 1000 to 2000 selected animals. Th meat will be sold by tender for itt; retail trade. The 'best heads will 1 h sold to people who want them wall decorations and the 'hides will be converted into robes, coats and rugs. r_. Ii~ "p e er ,1 Con itio s trey it A. Canadian citizen touring certain sections of the United States a few years ago, reported on his return that he had passed through several good-sized towns where absolutely ideal business conditions 'obtained. It had there been possible to so establish a spirit of co- operation and good will, not only among the business and profession- al men, but also between these and the general public, with the re- sult that the most harmonious relations pervaded these towns, The business men were content to live and let live, to refrain from adopt- ing unfair and unethical business methods, to lend a helping hand to each other in troublo arid adversity, and to extend to one another such business patronage as lay in their power, Thus the carpet- bagger invariably got the "cold shoulder," for it was firmly 'estab- lished and acknowledged that every order which could be placed in ' the home town, but which was sent ,elsewhere, simply drained that community of legitimate revenue, and served but to enrich some oth- er locality. Business left in the home town helps everybody in such town. Therefore, when considering orders for Printing of any kind, re- member it can be done expeditiously and well by your hone town printer. THE CLINT N NEWS- EC I t fi D A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING•"-Ri3AD ADS. IN THIS ISSUE PHONE 4