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The Clinton News Record, 1934-08-30, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON. NEWS -RECORD 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 oubeeription is paid is denoted on the label. 'l±dvertising Rates -Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion, '8c fes each subsequeei! insertion. Heading counts 2 linep. Smalladvertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted",` "Loot," "'Strayed," etc., inserted. ones for 35c, each subsequent in- sertion 15c. Rates fol' display ads vertising made known on applies - 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. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer ;. Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Iaaurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Publics Successor to W. Brydone, R.C. Sloan Block -- Clinton, Oat, DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west' co Anglicism Church. Phone 172 Lyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, 0. DR. F. A. 'AXON Dentist Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago and R.C.D.S., Toronto, Crown and plate work a specialty. Phone 185, Clinton, Ont. 19-4-34. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours -Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT `CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT f3censed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence prcenptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior. Guaranteed DOUGLAS R. NAIRN Barrister, -Solicitor and Notary Public ISAAC STREET, CLINTON Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays --d-0 a,m. to 5 p.m. Phone 115 3-34. THURS., AUG. 30, 1934 SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a cream colored roadster' had been found wrecked in the sea at the foot of a cliff, a :girl calling herself Anne Cushing appears at the desert town Marston. She has bought, sight unseen, a ranch located thirty miles away, Barry Duane, her nearest neighbor and his man Beane Pettry procure a reliable woman for her and in Barry's car loaded down with supplies, they start across the desert. In Marston her reticence has aroused suspicion. Barry and Anne become more than neighbors, and when Anne is lost in the hills and rescued by Barry, each realizes that something more than friendship ex - lets between them. After a hasty wedding they go East to Barry's home. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY 1p Cleo seemed to have a great deal to show Anne. A dress. Then a jew- el case. After that there must be a brief call on Cleo's another. There was still something else, a rare vase of the Ming dynasty. "Dad will want to show it to you, so you might as well be forewarned. He's crazy about it, but I think it's awful," said Cleo frankly. "Now, dar- ling, I'II take you home. Wait here for me just a minute ... I forgot to put those sapphires away." She whisked out of sight and pas- sed a house telephone. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea- forth; Vice -President, James Con. pony, Goderich; secretary -treasur- er, M. A. Reid, Seaforth, Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth, R. R. No. 3; James .Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Geo. Leonhardt, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John Pepper, Brucefieid; James Connolly, Gode- rich; Robert Ferris, Blyth; Thomas Mnyian, Seaforth, R. R. No. 5; Wm. R. Archibald, Seaforth, R. R. No. 4. Agents: W. J. Yeo, • R.R. No. 3, Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth; James, Watt, Blyth; Finley Mc1er, cher, Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, ar at Calvin Cutt's Grocers Goderieh. Parties desiring to effect incur - omen or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies. tion to any of the above officers addressed` to their respective post of- fices. Lessees inspected by the direo-' ter who Lives nearest the arena. CANADIAN NATM •AL;RAIWAYS: TIME TABLIe 'trains 'will areive at and depart fres Clinton' as follows: Buffalo and Godericl DI,. Going East, depart 7.06 a.m. Going East depart 2.00 par. Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. sing West, depart 2.53 p... Leaden. Hared & Brace Gettig North ar. 2134, lye. 11.54 am. "Is Kennedy there? ... Bring the car around now, Kennedy. And go to the Chinese room and tell Mrs. Duane that I've been detained :and. will be, down in ten minutes." Out in front of the garage build- ing, which in itself was a smaller stone castle, Kennedy scowled and sauntered back to his car. "Wonder why she didn't give her message to one of the flunkeys? Too damn lazy to ring twice, maybe , . Oh, well, it's O.K. by me" "Miss Pendleton wishes me to say that she will join Mrs. Duane in ten minutes." Anne whirled about to see Ken- nedy. "So we meet again! You're look- ing like a million, Nancy. I suppose you were the last time, but I didn't get much of a look before I passed out. Nice little -party, wasn't it?" "It was ghastly! Jim, how can you talk like that?" "I could talk a lot, if I got start- ed," "You could' talk yourself into;pris- onl" she flashed angrily, "There's a penalty for blackmail." "It would never get that far, baby." He twisted a scornfte. under lip. "It would take too much explaining. There's that pleasant little scene at the beach bungalow, and a sweet mix- up afterward—Oh, yes, I've figured that out, And a nice ride for Jemmy —only it's just too bad that I came back." "Hush!" She looked around ner- vously. "Your own part was nothing to be proud of. What are you doing here? In Grartleigh?" "'Any reason why I shouldn't be here?" He grinned et her mocking- ly. "You've done pretty well for yourself, after all. Picked a rich man and landed soft. Does he hap- pen to know—'•-•' "Please, Jim!" "No, he doesn't know How could I tell him? I left all of the old life beh!nd me, 08 that night last May. I never meant to come Ehst, either, but I had to risk it—or lose every- thing. . ." verything..:." Her voice broke. Kennedy looked at her curiously. "You're a queer kid, Nancy. What did you do it for? . . Oh, you know what I mean. I knew there was some- thing phoney about that accident. I went to a library and hunted up the papers—afterward I believed you'd taken the jump, until I •came here and saw you through a window one night." "Why did you come? "she cried. "If it's money you want, there's little enough that I can do. •My husband isn't rich at all. ' Can't you have a lit- tle mercy and go away?" "You let me alone, Nancy, and I. won't bother you. Get that?" Ken- nedy gave her a 'brief tight smile. 'I'm after money, big money, And if you should get any notions about horning in on the game, don't over- look the fact that I hold some high cards." "But, Jim—°-' He bowed stiffly from the door, and strolled jauntily out to his car. Anne stood for a moment staring blankly at the empty doorway. Back of her 'a curtain' moved, and a pair of childlike blue eyes peeped out before it dropped again. A mo- ment later she heard Cleo's voice call- ing her from the hall. "I tried, to see Gage this morning, "Oh ... I didn't know he lived New York papers," she reflected "but I'll look here first.. "M'm, May se- cond—say the third." A sheet crackled as she bent slid. denly forward. On the page in front of her was a picture of Anne Duane. here," "He doesn't, although he will some day, within a dozen miles. He's liv- ing at the Ritz, now, just back front, Europe. Probably buying up the in- sides of a few old manor houses to. put in his new place, and another rope of pearls for, his wife." "He's married, then?" "Yes. Married a Follies girl." Bar- ry's tone was slightly disparaging., "I'm not looking forward to that in- terview, I nearly told him to go to blazes last time. But I'm going to keep, at him. I ought to take you with me. and see if you can hypnotize the old pachyderm." Anne said "Ob." in a rather small voice. "Then it's Mr. Gage that you are trying to interest- in the Junip ero?" "That's the idea." "But Barry"—she was desperately in earnest—"why do you have to deal with him at all? There must be plen- ty of other men, Why, the only rea- son that he owns the Duane Milds is' because the first plan failed. He'd bo prejudiced from the start!" "You can bet you're hat he's pre. judiced," said Barry grimly, "and that is just the reason I've got to win him over. Gage is more than just money in this scheme. He's the man who owns the other side of the spur that I must tunnel through. It's part of what he took over in pay- ment of my uncle's debts. I don't know why." • , He was silent for a moment. "He has held out now for four years—Says it's damn nonsense. So you see, unless I can persuade him to sell pretty soon, I'd better give up my large schemes." She laughed. shakily. "Oh, well, there's time yet. Hurry into your flannels, and we'll be off." "Right! I'll be ready in ten min- utes." Anne huddled down In a chair, her. hands clenching into tightlittle fists. John Gage again. Everywhere she turned. She must either face him or run away. "He's building here!" she thought. "That's why Jim is here! I must see him again—somehow." She jumped up from her chair, list- ened to the sounds from the next room, and went lightly over to her own desk.. .. Her pun raced. Wlhen Barry came back, a few minutes lat- er, the envelope addressed to Jim Kennedy was safely hidden in her bag. "I suppose this is very silly." Cleo' raised appealing eyes toward the large impressive man. "I wouldn't want anything to come of it to hurt the man's reputation, but he came to .is withoutany references. I just wanted to be sure that he didn't have a criminal record. I was sure you could find that out for ane without any publicity." "If he has one, we'lI find it. What name does he give?" "James Kennedy. And I have a snapshot of him. I took it when he wasn't looking." The man at the desk looked at the small picture with interest. "Yes, that's Jim Kennedy," he said briefly. "Ohl You do know him?" "I've seen him, He may be going straight enough, but he's no chauf- feur. He's a gambler. Ile had a gam- bling house and speakeasy up in the Forties at one time, and it was raid- ed once too often. Dropped out of sight for a while, but he was mixed up, in some shooting business last spring and had aclose' call. "No, he isn't a gunman.. Not his type. Oh, Willard!"' This to the young man who had entered. "Find out when the Kennedy shooting happen- ed. And anything else we may have." In less than five minutes the young man called Willard back. "All right, Willard.. Mlm Kennedy was shot on the night of May second, last. He was , found lying beside a road in the outskirts of Ventura, California. Police inclined to credit 11 to a bootleggers' war. Hepulled through but refused to name his as- sailant. Discharged; from hospital in three weeks. That's all. "There's no actual police' record, outside of the raid on the Forty -Nin- th Street house. I'd advise you to let "me ,send an operativedownto watch him." "I don't think I want to go as far as that." A brief movement of his head said that it was her business. Ile arose and opened the door for her. "Please send the bill direct to`.me, in a plain envelope, I shouldn't want anyone to knew that I've been inquir- ing. Thank you." The man went back to his desk with a dry grin an his face. "So that's old Ambrose's daugh- ter. I'll bet she's a handful." , "I knew it! I was sure I had seen her somewhere! Nancy Curtis, as she appeared in Gypsy Love." Her eyes flicked on the news account. "John Gage! Now I wonder .... . She frowned and went back to reading. "She wasn't drowned at all, She just disappeared... . And , her car went over the cliff the same night that Kennedy was shot, and she's a- fraid of him. Those two stories ought to connect somewhere Maybe 'I'd better get the California papers." Anne Duane had taken the man Cleo had meant to marry, and there were no rules in the fight to get hint back. Cleo pinched her lips and took, a brief census of-Grandliegh. Gwenda adored Anne . . nothing doing there The Atwoods had taken her up, and se had the W'estbrooke's and Chis - helms. But Fan Whittemore, six years older than her husabnd and looking it, hated every pretty girl that Ted looked at, and Ted never missed a chance to talk to Anne. Eddie Car- ver babbled everything she heard. There were plenty of others to catch a bright ball of rumor and toss it along. Late that afternoon Cleo parked the blue roadster in front of the Fair- fax house. Gtvenda was serving tea in the gar- den. Anne was lovely in a yellow frock. Ted Whittemore was dawd- ling near her chair. His wife sat a few feet apart, discontented, as usu- al. Barry was talking to Gwenda, some distance away. Anne looked up quickly. Cleo waved carelessly to Gwenda and Barry and dropped into a chair near Anne. "Bello, everybody. That's an aw- ful clever frock, Nancy. Do you know you're the image of somebody I saw in a play once? I knew as soon as I saw you that you reminded me of someone and It's just come to me as I caught sight of you in that yel low dress. The star or leading lady was sick, and they rushed this girl in. You could double for her, Nancy." She saw Anne's finger tips whiten. against the arm of her chair, They slowly relaxed again. "I suppose lots of people have doubles somewhere." T'an's long eyes drifted from one to the other, faintly satirical. "You- 're not very lucid, Cleo. If the girl made such an impression on you I should think you'd have remembered more about her." " e "Darling, T m not a card index. I suppose the star got well or some- thing. Maybe she got the Hollywood fever." She talked to Fan, but her eyes were on Anne. Anne swung her hat idly by the brim and smiled slightly. Anne strolled away with Gwenda, wondering whether she had really talked or just babbled insanely. Fan looked at Cleo. "We seem to have been tactless. Do you suppose there's anything in it?"' "No, of course not" Cleo shrugged back. Fan looked disappointed. "But she's awfully secretive about herself, any- way. Wlho were her people?" "I don't know. She's never men- tioned them to me." "'Really—" The inflection spoke volumes. "I thought you were so in timate." "Oh we are, but Nancy never talks about herself or her family, or any of her old friends. Maybe she was unhappy, and hates to talk about it." • Fan's lips curled. "She must have been, to have run off to some wild desert ranch... " The little hints that Cleo dropped spread , like widening ripples in a quiet pool. Two days later a tiny wave splashed at Mrs, Schuyler Du- ane's feet, in the form of careless voices on the other side of the garden hedge. "This is the Duane place, isn't it? That girl 'Barry. Duane married is a peach. Who was she?" , "Oh don't ask mel" The high titter belonged to Eddie Carver. "Some- body said she was a Hollywood extra, bid nobody seems to know, Mrs. Duane stood there, rigid with indignation.. Mrs. Duane heard the car drive in, and Anne's voice saying that she had a horrible headache and was going up to her room. That was Mrs. Duane's opportun- ity, but another car came. It was Cleo. • "I hope I'xn not disturbing you, but I wanted to bring this book around. It's a lovely night for driving. It's Kennedy's night off, but I brought the roadster.... Couldn't we have Cleo was already on her way to the lights out and it here by the but he'd just hopped a plane for the public, library. windows " *deg Gm* 2,22 fit Washington." i ' 'It probably wouldn't be in the ,(Continued 'Next Week.). New Barrier Against Wind and Sea I These workmen look like midgets the progress made on the new lifr. when they appear against the Heigh - projection jroject, where 500 men are ton Cliff, England. The photo shows employed to provide a four -mile bar- e.+ rier against wind and sea. Middle amd Upper School Exams. Will Be Earlier Examinations in subjects taught in the middle and upper school of high schools and collegiate institutes will be held a week earlier in 1935, Hon. Dr. L. J. Simpson, Minister of Ede. ation announced recently. The minister also announced that he has under consideration plans for reduction of the cost of examinations and likewise for simplification of the system. The minister said: "It is felt that under the present system, the time between the an- nouncement of the results of the up- per examinations and the opening of the high schools and universities is inadequate to permit pupils and par- ents to make plans in' a satisfactory manner. Under the arrangement now proposed, middle school examin- ations would be ':completed by the end of June, and with the exception required to be read in .connection , with upper school examinations is MOM than double the number written five years ago. of language papers, on which relat- ively few students write, the upper school examinations would be com- pleted at the same time and the re- sults of all departmental examinat- ions, should be made known relativ-1 ely early in August," "When the system of accepting the recommendations of the teachers of local schools in middle school sub- jects was introduced in 1932, the number of papers actually written was substantially reduced, and the burden placed on the readers of the department examination papers was made much lighter, "In the interval, 'however, the number of candidates presenting themselves for upper school or hon- or matriculation, examinations has increased substantially, with the re- sult that this year the number of "The result is that the saving in time and effort in connection with the middle school examinations has been offset by the increase in the burden of the upper school examin- ations." NO ACCIDENT Insurance man (putting questions to cowboy)--E:ver had any acci- dents? "No," was the reply. "Never had an accident in your life?" "Nope. .A. rattler bit me once, though." "Well, don't you call that an acci- dent?" "Naw—he bit me on purpose," READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD ....... _____—____ ......_ "You ou c • 't Stop stoking a steam engine " said Wrigley Interviewed, and asked to what he attributed' his phenomenal success, the late Mr. Wrigley, of chewing gum fame, replied, "To the consistent ad- vertising of a good product." "But," asked the reporter, "haying captured practically the entire market, why continue to .spend vast sums annually on advertising?" Wrigley's reply was illulninating. "Once having raised steam in an engine," he stated, "it requires continuous stoking to keep it up. Advertising stokes up business and keeps it running on a full head of steam." • r This applies to your business, too. Don't make a secret of your. product. Tell people all about it. Tell them what it does. Tell them its :advantages. Tell them where to get it. Tell them through the Press and keep on telling them. EVERYBODY READS NEWSPAPERS h THE CLINTON -NEWS-RECORD A FIWE MEDIUM FOR ADi'ERTISINlG--READ A:DR. IN TEL NMI PHONE 4 eek)