The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-11-05, Page 61112112 111111
1
THE WINGUAAM. ADVAN
�i�ltgh ltl�l A+dVadlesTxxues.
Published at
WINGP[A.M - .ONTARIO
Every Thursday Morning
W. Logan Craig Publisher
Sxtl scription rates -- One year $2.00.
Six months $1,00, 131 advance,
To U. S. A. $2,.00 per year.
Advertising rates 'sn application.
Wellington Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.
Established 1840
Risks taken on all class of insur-
unee at reasonable Grats, Ont.
Head Office, P ,
413,1ER COSENS, Agent, Wingham
J. W. DODD
'L'we doors south of Field's. Butcher
slop.
FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND
HEALTH INSURANCE
AND REAL ESTATE
'1).0. Box 366 Phone 44
l i 1NGHAM, ONTARIO
J. W. BUSHFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money to Loan
Office ---Meyer Block, Wingham
Successor to Dudley Holmes
J. H. CRAW FORD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Successor to R. Vanstone
,Wgham Ontario
J. A. MORTON
BARRISTER, ETC.
Wingham, Ontario
�-----
•
y;.
DR. C. H. ROSS
DENTIST
Office Over Isard's Store
11. W. COLBORNE, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Medical Representative D. S. C. R.
Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly
Phone 54 Wingham
DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND
%.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
DR. R. L. STEWART.
Graduate of University of .Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
Office in Chisho]m Block
Josephine Street,
Phone 29
DR. C. W. HOWSON
DENTIST
Office over John 'aalbraith's Store.
F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated
Office adjoining residence nem.
Aa`rlican Church on Centre Street.
Sundays by appointment.
Osteopathy Electricity
Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 D,m.
A. R. & F. E. DUVAL
Licensed Drugless. Practitioners
Chiropractic and Electro Therapy.
Graduatts of Canadian Chiropractic
College, Toronto, and National Col-
lege, Chicago.
Out of town and night calls res-
ponded to. All business confidential.
Phone 300.
J. ALVIN FOX
Registered Drugless Practitioner
CHIROPRACTIC AND
DRUGLESS PRACTICE
ELECTRO -THERAPY
Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by
'appointment. Phone 191.
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock
Phone 231, Wingham
RICHARD B. JACKSON
AUCTIONEER
Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address
R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any-
where, and satisfaction guaranteed.
DI.. A. W. IRWIN
DENTIST — X-RAY
Office, McDonald Block, Winghatn.
A. 1 WALKER
FURNITURE AND FUNERAL
SERVICE
A, J. WALT E1
Licensed Funeral Director and
Embalmer.
Office I'hotte 106, Res, Phone 224,
Latest Limousine Funeral Coach.
Et -TIMES
h
MARY ROBERTSRI EHAIRT
a'R/C,KT 7g3i
6. A44R' ROBERTS RINEHART
SYNOPSIS tire night.
In planning for this, I forgot nr
nervousness for a tint,;. I decided fin
ally to tell limy wife than an out -of
town client wished to talk busines
with me, and that slay, at luncheon
I go home to lainehecan--I mentions
that such a client was in town.
"It is possible,"' I said, as easily a
I could "that we may not get throug
this afternoon. If things should ru
over ,into the evening, 1'11 tlephone,"
She took it calmly enough, but lat
er on, as I was taking an electri
flash from the drawer of the hal
table and putting it in my overcoa
pocket she carne on me, and 1 itnag
iced she looked surprised.
During the afternoon I was beset
with doubts and uneasiness. Suppose
she called my office and found that
the client I had named was not in
town? It is undoubtedly true that a
tangled web we weave when first we
practise to deceive, for on my return
to tete office I was at once quite cer-
tain that Mrs. Johnson would tele-
phone
elephone and make the inquiry.
After some debate I called any sec-
retary and told her to say, if such a
message carne in, that kir. Forbes
was in town and that I had an ap-
pointment with him. As a matter of
fact, no such inquiry carie in, but as
Miss Joyce, my secretary, knew that
Mr. Forbes was in Europe, I was
conscious some months afterwards
that Miss Joyce's eyes occasionally
rested on me in a speculative and sus-
picious manner.
Other things also increased my un-
easiness as the day wore on. There
was, for instance, the matter of the
back door to the Wells house. Noth-
ing was more unlikely than that the
key would still be hanging there. I
must, therefore, get a key.
Going through my desk, I found a
number of keys, mostly trunk keys
and one the key to a dog -collar. But
late in the afternoon I visited a client
of mine who is in the hardware busi-
ness, and secured quite a selection.
One of them was a skeleton key. He
persisted in regarding the matter as
a joke, and poked me between the
shoulder -blades as I went out.
Six people, Horace. Johnson (who
tells the story), his wife, old Mrs,
Diane, Flerbert Robinson and his sis-
ter, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and
neighbors, are in the habit of holding
weekly meetings. At one of thein,
Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the
program by unexpectedly arranging
a spiritualistic seance with Miss Jere-
my, a friend of Dr. Sperry and not a
professional, as the medium.
At the first sitting the medium tells
the details of a murder as it is occur-
ring. Later that night Sperry learns
that a neighbour, Arthur Wells, has
been shot mysteriously. With John-
son he goes to the Wells residence
and they find confirmation of the
medium's account. Mrs. Wells tells
them her husband shot himself in a
fit of depression.
The French maid admits she went
ort at the time Wells was shot, tele-
phoning from a nearby 'drug; store.
Johnson goes to the drug store where
the clerk tells hips the maid phoned
to the Ellingham house, telling some-
body there not "to call that night."
At a second seance, Miss Jeremy
adds details about a summer resort
where Charles Ellingham was known
to have been at the same time that
Mrs. Wells was there. She also tells
of a pocketbook being lost which
contained some important car tickets
and letters. Mrs. Dane, alone of the
women, seems thrilled by the investi-
gation.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
I find that the solution of the Ar-
thur Wells mystery—for we did solve
it—takes three divisions in my mind.
Each one is a sitting, followed by an
investigation made by Sperry and my-
self.
But for some reason, after Miss
Jeremy's second sitting, I found that
my reasoning mind was stronger than
my credulity, And as Sperry had at
that time determined to have nothing
more to do with the business, I made
a resolution to abandon my investi-
gations. Nor have 1 any reason to
y
s
d
s
h
n
c
t
1,!V4. .cr r rnrga nw., �
goweeeeeeeeeeneeeeieseae
p '� - � 3-tayge••k
The Wells house loomed before me, silent and mysterious..
believe that.I would have altered my "If you're arrested with all that
attitude toward the case, had it not hardware on you," he said, "you'll be
been that I saw in the morning paper held as a first-class burglar. Yon
on the Thursday following the sec- are equipped to open anything from
and seance, that Elinor Wells had
closed her house; and gone to Flor-
ida,
I confess I had an overwhelming
desire to examine again the ceiling of
the dressing room and thus to check
up one degree further the accuracy
of our reevlations. After some reflec-
tion, I called tap Sperry, but he flatly.
a c.fused to go on any further,
"Miss Jeremy has been ill since • When I went out into the night again
I found that a heavy fog had settled
down and I began to feel again sotne-
thing of the strange and disturbing
quality of the day which had ended
in Arthur Wells' death. Already a po=
tential housebreaker, I avoided pol-
icemen, and the very jingling of the
keys in my pocket sounded loud and
incriminating to my ears.
a can of tomatoes to the missionary
box in church."
But I felt that already, innocent as
I was, I was leaving a trail of sus-
picion behind me: Miss Joyce and the
office boy, the dealer and my ,wife.
And I had not started yet.
I dined in a small chophouse
where I occasionally lunch, and took
a large cup of strong black coffee.
ItIonday," he said. "Mrs. Dane's rheu-
matism is worse, her companion is
nervously upset, and your own wife
called me up an hour ago and says
you are sleeping with a light, and she
thinks you ought to go away. The
whole club is shot to pieces."
•I3ut, although T. am a small and not
a courageous man, the desire to ex-
amine the Wells house clung to roe' I do not like deserted houses. Ev-
tenacious}y. Suppose there were cart- en in daylight they have a sinister
ridges inhis table drawer? Suppose effect on me. Tiley seem, ire their
1 ',should find the second bullet hole I empty spaces, to have held arid re-
in, the ceiling? I no longer deceived corded all that has happened in the
myself by any argument that my in- dusty past, The Wells house that
terest was purely scientific, There is night, looming before me, silent and
a point at which curiositybecomes mysterious, seemed the embodiment
unbearable, when it becomes an ob of all the deserted houses I had ever
known. Its empty and eteshuttered
windows were like blind eyes, gazing
in, not otit.
Nevertheless, now that the time
had come, a certain amount of cour-
age Caine with it. 1 am not ashamed
lc, confess that a certain part of it
come from the anticipation of the
Neighborhood Club's plaudits, For
Herbert to have made 'stick 'art hives,-
tigation, or even Sperry, with 'his
session, like hanger, .I had reached
that point.
Nevertheless, I found it hard to
plan the necessary deception to lily
wife, My habits have always been
entirely orderly and regular. My
wildest dissipation was the Neighbor-
hood Club. 'I could not recall an ev-
ening away from home in years, ex-
tent on business, Yet now I must
have a free evening, possibly an en -
height and his iron museles, wou
rot have surprised the Club, But
was aware that while • they' expect
intelligence and even humor, of
sort, from me, they did not anticipa
any particular bravery,
The flash was working, but rath
feebly, I found the nail where t
door -key had formerly hung, but ti
key, as 1 had expected, was gone..
was less than five minutes, I Fane
in finding a key from my cbIlectio
that would fit. The bolt slid bac
with a click, and the door opened,
Once inside the house, the door t
the outside closed, and facing two a
ternatives, to go on with it or to cu
and run, I found a sort of desperat
courage, clenched any teeth, and fel
for • the nearest light switch.
The electric light had been cut off
1 should have expected it, but
had not. I remember standing in th
back hall and debating whether to g
on or to get out. I was not only in
a highly nervous state, but I was' also
badly handicapped. However, as the
moments wore on and I stood there,
with the quiet unbroken by no my-
sterious sounds, I gained a certain
confidence. After a short period of
readjustment, therefore, I felt my
way to the library door, and into the
room. Once there, I used the flash
to discover that the windows were
shuttered, and proceeded to take off
my hat and coat, which I placed on
a` chair near the door. It was at this
time that I discovered that the bat-
tery of my lamp was very weak, and
finding a candle in a tall brass stick
on the mantlepiece, I lighted it.
'When I looked about. The house
had evidently been hastily closed.
Some of the furniture was covered
with sheets, while part of it stood
unprotected. The rug had been fold-
ed into the center of the room, and
covered with heavy brown papers,
and I was extremely startled to hear
the papers rustling, A mouse, how-
ever proved to be the source of the
sound, and I pulled myself together
with a jerk.
It is to be remembered that I had
left my hat and overcoat on a chair
near the door, There could be no
mistake, as the chair was a light one,
and the weight of my overcoat threw
it back against the wall.
Candle in hand, I stepped out into
he hall, and was immediately met by
crash which reverberated through
he house. In my alarm my teeth
losed on the end of my tongue with
gonizing results, but the sound died
way and I concluded; that an upper
endow had been left open, and that
le rising wind had slammed a door.
ut my morale, as we say since the
ar, had been shaken, and I reck-
ssly lighted a second candle and
aced it on the table in the hall at t
the foot of the staircase, to facilitate
any exit in ca?;e I desired to make a
hurried one.
Id
I
ed
to
er
la e
to
1
y,
n.
k
0
1-
t
e
t
I
e
0
t
It
c
a
a
a
tl
13
w
le
1)1
was on: a chair on top of a table in;
Arthur's roan?, with,
.niy'cendle upheld
to the cilirrg. It seeiirc'd to me that
something was moving stealthily in
the room overhead. I stood there,
candle upheld, and every faculty I
possessed seemed centered in my
ears. 11 was not a footstep, It was •
a soft and dragging 'novenent. Had
I not been near the ceiling I should
not have heard it. Indeed, a moment
later I was not certain I had heard it.
My chair, on top of the table, was
cadre too securely balanced. I had
found what I was looking for, a part
of the plaster brnament broken away,
and replaced by a whitish substance,
not plaster. I got out my penknife
and cut away the foreign matter,
showing a small hole beneath, a bul-
let -hole, if I knew anything about
bullet -holes,
Then 1 heard the dragging move-
ment above, and what with alarm and
my insecure position, I suddenly ov-
erbalanced, chair and all. My head
must have struck an the corner of
the table, for I was dazed for a few
moments. The candle had gone out,
of course. I felt for the chair, righted
it, and sat down,, 1 was dizzy and I
was frightened, I was afraid to move
lest the dragging thing above ccrne.
down and creep over me in the dark
nese and smother nae,
And sitting there, I remembered
the very things I most wished to for-
get—the black curtain behind Miss
Jeremy, the things flung by unseen
hands into the room, the way my
watch had slid over the table and fall-1
en to the floor.
Since that time I know there is a
madness of courage, born of terror.
Nothing could be more intolerable
than to sit there and wait, It is the
same insanity that drove men out of
the trenches to the charge and almost
certain death, rather than to sit and
wait for what might come.
In a way, I daresay I charged the
upper floor of the house. Whatever
drove me, I know that, candle in
hand,. and hardly sane, I ran up the
saircase, and into the room, overhead, t
It was empty. + `
As suddenly as my sanity had gone, ! s
it returned to rue. The sight of two
small beds, side by side, a tiny dress- 1
ing-table, a row of toys on the roan- c
telpiece, was calming. Here was the .t
children's night nursery, a white and
placid room which could house noth-
ing hideous. t
I was humiliated and ashamed. I
Horace Johnson, a man of dignity.
and reputation, even in a small way, d
a successful after-dinner speaker, w
numbering fifty -odd years of logical
living to my credit, had been running
half -maddened toward a mythical
danger from which I had been afraid
too run away.
I sat down and mopped my face p
with rely pocket handkerchief.
After a time 1 got up, and going
to a window looked down at the c
quiet world below. The fog 'was lift-
ing. Automobiles were making cau-
tious Progress along the slippery
street. A woman with a basket had
stopped under a street light and was ]n
rearranging her parcels. The clock of
he city hall, visible over the opposite nr
Thursday, Novell
Put�'W gag
r�Rouptr—A�.i��•'�ip lly Disease o�ytzq(�tyn',��.rtilit>�► Tn
1. ifs 19.1.EA,J AMOgl$ and MUST BE ERADICATED
1WFTI.,Y Sold by 70x 0 dealers in Grade:
Pratt Food Co., of Ct6naele, Limited,
Guel h, clot,
TIM GIVES THE BOYS
A FEW POINTER
To the .Editur av all thirty
Wingham peypere,
Deer Sur:—
Wan 'noight lasht wake a3'lrin 1
miscue wus out attindin a maytirl av
the 'Wirnntin's Institoot, I had thim
Hoigh School byes down shtairs wid
me fer an hour,; givin thirty a few
pincers on tings they don't larva from
theer taichers.
I asked them what lissins they
found harrudist at school, an mebby
I cud h.ilp thirty wid thim, They said
Latin wus theer worst subjickt.
"Latin!" sez I, "Shure, I undher-
shtand it is what is called a dead
langwiclge, so what wus the use bo-
tlaerin wid it at all, The thrubble wid
it is," I sez, "nobody ivir uses it in
theer iviry day talk, an it has no
wurruds fer modhern tings. Per in-
shtance" sez 1, pointln to a big per-
tatie on the shilf behoind the shtove,
"what awed ye be afther callin that
in Latin?"
"We wuud call it a tuber colossus
sez young Sandy Banks.
"An- how do ye make that out?"
sex I, shtringin him on.
He said' that a pertatie wus a tub-
er, an colossus wus someting big, an
so ye got the name. An thin he said
that annyting covered wid knobs wus
tuberous an that me pertatie had plen-
ty ay thim.
1 guess he tought he had me slrtop-
ped, but I shtudied fer about a min -
nit, an thin I' asked him how he ix-
plained the fact that consumpshun an
trbercolossis wus the same disaise
'What relashun is theer betwan.e con-
umpshun an a big pertatie?" sez I.
He said that timer setts a close re-
ashunship, an that they wus fursht
ousins at the very laist. A big per-
a�tie maned consumpshun, an a- lot
av it,
Av coorse both the byes gaffed at
his, tinkin they had me in a thrap
his toime, fee sleure, but I had been
inkin all the toime av someting me
awter-in-law wus afther raidin to me
ance about a big road that wus built
in the oud days in a counthry called
Graice. It wus *a long road, an a
woide wan, an a big wan, bigger an
woider an longer than the wan to
Tayswater, so big that they called it
the Colossus av Rhodes. (They wus
oor shpellers in thim days).
Hein as the jawb wus done undher
onthract wurruk be the Government
av Grace I knew that the wurrud col-
ossus wussen't Latin, at all, at all,
but Grake, an that tuber wussen't
Latin either, fer ye kin foind it in
anny English dickshonary, if ye look
the roight place.
I guess thim lads tought they had
e bate, be rayson av me only havin
been to school wan winther in 'ole
loife, an whin I shprung this bit av
infarmashun on thitn they looked pur-
ty chape, so they did, an troid to
change the subjickt, be askin me
hat I taught av the way Mishter
epburn does be throyin to lambasht
e. Tories these days.
I toud him I had nothin min the
ung gintleman, an that he wus a
mart bye fer a Grit, but that T hop
he wud live long enough to hev
corns on his fate, an to hev to wear
Sishtore teeth, an thin he wud hey
sameting ilse to,occupy his inoind;'
,wid, besoides broadcastin lois about
the Tories all over the cotrnthry.
Jist, thin we peered the ;nissus•
Comin, so the byes slcidood up -
lie i,shtairs, an I wint down cellar to put'
some coal on the furnace. ;
Yours till next wake,
Timothy Hay,
roofs, marked only twenty minutes
o nine. It was still early evening—
aot even midnight, the magic hour of
he night,
Somehow that fact reassured nee,
and I was able to take stock of my
Then I climbed slowly. The fog t
lied apparently spade its way into the
house, for when, halfway up, I turn-
ed and looked down, the candlelight s
was hardly more than a spark, sur- I
rounded by a luminous aura.
I do not know exactly when I be -!i
gam to feel that I was not alone in s
the house. It was, I think, when Ih
urroundings. I realized, for instance, H
hat I stood in the room over Arth- iji alt
ur's dressing room, and that it was!
oto the ceiling under me that the i yo
econd—or probably the first—bullet'sh
ad penetrated. 1
ed
TURNBERRY COUNCI L
The regular meeting of the Coun--
cii was held at 13luevale' on Thurs-
day, October 15th, 1931.? Members all;
present. The minutes of the last
meeting were read and adopted.
The following accounts were paid;•.
W. Yeo, dog tax refund $4.00; S, W.
Archibald, fees Hupfer Drain $135.00,,
W. Galloway,' Hupfer Drain $535.00;
Advance -Times, account $5.98; A.
Hislop, 2 lambs killed, $10.00; Patrol-
men: W. Breckenridge $16.30, J. Kele
ly $18.45, J. Potter'$13.00, 1. H. Wy-
lie $6;85, A, Forgie $2.50, M. Sharpin.
$3,20, Fred Hogg $10.25. J. McKin-
11011 $13.85, A. Moffat $5.00, Wrox-
eter Telephone Co., account $1.00;„
W. Elliott, account tile $9.90; J. T.
Wylie, Supt., $26.40; I. J. Wright, ex.
penses re Teeswater River, $7.00; W,0
R. Cruikshank, 're expenses re Tees
water River,- $5.00.
Moved by P. E. McEwen and J.
Baird that we adjourn to meet in•
Bluevale on November 9th, 1931, at
1 o.clock. Carried.
T. J. Wright, W, R. Cruikshank,
Reeve. Clerk.
From Headaches
Colds and Sore Throat
Neuritis, Neuralgia
.Don't be a chronic sufferer bast
headaches, or any other pain. Thee*.
is hardly an ache or pain Ba
Aspirin tablets can't relieve; they ark
a great ,comfort to women who suffer
periodically. They are always to be
relied on for breading up colds.
It may be only a simple headache,;
r it may be neuralgia or neuritis
rheumatism. Bayer Aspirin is still
the sensible thing to take. Just,*
certain it's Bayer you're takirig�a
it does not hurt the heart. Get the
genuine . tablets, in this familiar
package for the pocket.
BEWARE, OF IMITATIONS'
`?Pack up Your Troubles -- and Smile! Smile!! Smile!!! "
The famous war -time marching chorus might well have served as the theme -song
for the events in connection with McGill University's 1931 Convocation, as
can an
Canadians from the faces in the above group, which includes four distinguished
granted honorary degrees at the great gathering in Montreal. E. W.
Beatty, K.C., Chairman and President of the Canadian Pacific Railway and
Chancellor of McGill, (third from right), seems to be the ringleader in the
cheerfulness movement. It would j2e difficult to find a group more typical of
Canadian affairs; and just look h that infectious smile has done its world
Left to right: P. W. McLennan, eminent Canadian mining engineer; .A, C. Ruther-
ford, Chancellor of the University of Alberta; Rt., Hon. R. B. Bennett, Prime
Minister of Canada; Mr. Beatty; 17r. Harvey Smith and Sir Arthur Currie,
President of McGill University. The lower pieture shows Mr. Bennett and Mr.
Beatty, about to leave Sir Arthur Currie's House for the Campus, in a carriage.
drawn by a..team of students. Note the "No Parking" sign, adopted by the
"state eoaehman" as his staff of office. It was a memorable day. Everyone
smiled ---even the Weather Man l