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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-06-04, Page 8CNGITAM AI1'V'ANCli .TIMES rls�n+�n��ilrir�lrl+wllrwlne�nrralili� e fatifetime Atte>Farxn for' Sale at a teas - able price with leading roads two side's of it. Good Build» „ee-= s, Rural Mail and Telephone »+allies, Market, School and launches convenient. If you exit a farm it will pay you to M enquire into this. Abner Cosens ii iii 11114111111111111 310111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 BUSINESS CARDS WEI,LXNGTON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Estiablished ste4o. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all classes of insur- ance at reasonable rates. ABNER COiaENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block /IRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE --•- -- ANID REAL ESTATE P. 0, Box ,;oti, Phone tea WINGHAM, - - ONTARIO DIT LEY Oil `;, ,, ES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds Bought and sold. Office—Meyer Block, Wingham R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates. Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Winghana, - Ontario (Ii . G. R ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. Office Over H. E. Star*. yIs�ard''s ��} b �!p. R. ; AMBLY B.Sc., M.D., C.M. Special attention paid to diseases of I Women and Children, having taken postgraduate work in Surgery, Bast- 1 eriology and Scientific Medicine. I Office in the Kerr Residence, bet- 1 ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- 1 tist` Church. All business given careful attention. I Phone. se. ' P. O. Box 113.' Dr. Robt. C. Redmond M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lond) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Cliishoim's old stand. t t DR. R. L. STEWART t Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario . College of Physicians and Surgeons. f Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street Phone 29. s Dr. Margaret C. Calder j General Practitioner et Graduate University of Toronto C Faculty of Medicine • s9 Office—Josephine St, two doors soath in of Brunswick. Hotel- Telephones: Office 283, Residence Tex.e' DR. F. A.. PARKER e; OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN a' ma wee.. eeeneeort. • i Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Open ever- day except Mondzy and Wednesday afternoons.. Os'teopathe Electricity Teaephone 2ez J. ALVINFOX CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPAT; ELECTRO—THEP,AP'Y .Hours zo-32. Telephone dor MeINNES CHIROPRACTOR MASSEUR Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds, specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night Calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont., in the house of the late Jas. Walker. Telephone rso. Phones: i�g,Yfiice to,6, Ressiid. 2z� AAP J. WALKER `intoliTURB DEALEI1 -..- ,and y-.. PUNnRAL DI] EGTGIt �y/py Idlotor Equipmentr1,1�:r�yN/� NAwi1CIA111, O1 �CTAi1,I0 A mAeUall wNm,.s ,M10040.1. FWiM1l•N4WwMMMWuAPNWMWnWrynWA "Th Smoking Flax By Robert 3. C. Stead "Strike mei Who; I take holt o' that of sep'rator 1 jus' naltirelly scare the cream out o' it, But '1 ain't the twister 1 useta be. The old days --when Mother useta set the milk in the milichouse au' skint it with her front finger ---those were the dayst But once you get a new idee-----It's like losin' the hanker/et' for straw al- ter you've slop' a spell an feathers. I i reckon that's one o' the things wrong with the world these days; two many I new idees--•--•'Well, someun's got to go for Minnie, an' it looks like you. Shouldn't wonder but you're a bit ,WI VMR 4'IMRuovopi ouwog11MMMIo `')e'et I'suppose people continue to eat?" Cal ventured to suggest. No answer, bttt hot pursuit of the elusive something Suddenly a screw flew out and across the counter, Both inen grabb- ed for it, but Cal got it first, and with great deliberation tucked it into his t %stepat pocket, For the first time the hotel keeper was wider than the principal street: of raised his eyes, exposing' a broad, bo- �marly at nictrOVolis; it was a .broad, vine face. "Well, what the bell?" he unpaved traffic canal shored by banks' inquired, of cement sidewalk, He regarded it "Now, old Oxo, just pay attention with interest. This was, no doubt, to lite for a minute, Where do 1 i the "Main Street," he had read about, eat?„ that mercenary and visionless mon- ster, conceived of social inertia, born • I of an existence drab, ignorant, tom than a quick appraisal of C al s bleeps;. I came to the support of the boutlxtcc. nion nln" "c 13n• t t l .�,� o Cal, Matta Street seemed broad, cheerful, inneoctous, in a situation! charged with possibili-' To be sure, the business blocks were ties. not those of Broadway or Yonge "Try the Chink at the 'end o' the Street, but they probably housed block, he grinned Cal surrendered quite as reputable a class of ocou- the screw and they parted friends. lonesome for the white lights; your- pants. From the little incident which self, an' plaitiville'Ii do you good," Reed had reported from school Cal He spoke with friendly sarcasm of, was beginning to understand that in his countr3y. town. "Don' spend all ,the country places one has to be re - your money on the op'ra, By the putable—at all costs. The social life stay, ho' re you fixed?" of a small community is too thin to afford safe cover fol: indiscretions. . The buildiegs'were fronted on the street level with windows of plate glass enclosed in cracking wooden frames that had once been painted, and walled between with columns of brick or artificial stere. Gaps in the irregular profile which 'lined the street indicated vacant lots littered with packing boxes and empty .tin cans, or utilized as open-air warehouses for farm machinery. The ground floors were devoted to trade; the upper star - lies,.offices. Many of the buildings attained M most cases, to living rooms or ,to only one story, and their diminutive 'sze contrasted with the broad street emphasized their squatty appearance, Only one -the Palace Hotel—made a professioi of three stories, and even • the rear part of it, tapering off to two, 1 rather belied its bold pretensions. Cal tools this to be an inquiry in- to his financial standing. Investiga- tion revealed a capital of forty cents. "Well, that's about the price of a big time in PlainviIle," Jackson Stake conuniented, meanwhile digging in his trouser pceket. He presently produc- ed a crumpled and twisted bill, out of the creases of which dropped frag- anents of smoking tobacco, a couple of matches, a screw nail and an American nickel. When it was smoothed out it disclosed a denom- ination of two dollars. "Take that on account," he said, 'an' don' spend it all in one place. 'on can go as soon as you're ready." It was an hour, at his best pace, be- fore Cal could be ready. Not only must he shave and change but he must oil and grease Antelope, replace the tire which had been taken off for :he cream separator operations, and enerally tighten up the clattering oints, So intent was he upon these natters that not until the last moment lid he think of Reed. But Reed. had one gopher hunting with Trixie Bar- y in the afternoon and was probably Hiles away over the prairie. It was plain the boy could not go, tnd in spite of his loyalty Cal felt his ieart thump again. Not quite so tre- mendously, but still it certainly did hump. At any rate, he reasoned to iimself, they might be late getting A bench in front of the hotel was congenially occupied with Saturday evening loungers, who regarded Cal silently but with mild interest. Stran- gers came and went in Plainville, but not so numerously as to escape atten- tion. A dingy waiting xoom, papered with announcements of Plainville's' 1 "Big!' Day" on the twenty-fourth, and of the seed grain fair which had oc- curred the previous March, opened off the main entrance. It was deserted except for a man in shirt sleeves be- hind the counter which barricaded one Cal found the Chinese restaurant occupying' a building of plain, un- painted boards. For a moment he studied in amusement the sign which proclaimed "No Sing—Winn Lung." Evidently it had been perpetrated by a painter with zest for a practical joke but the subtle humor was lost on the proprietor, whose adventures in Eng- lish rarely escaped the borders of his bill of fare. Through. the uncurtain- ed windows Cal, could see a dozen men eating at. plain wooden tables, after the manner of the farm staff at Jackson Stake's. He turned in and joined them. His check was forty cents. After supper he, strolled about the little town, making a mental invent- ory .of it. The business section crowded about a single street; back of that were cliurclies, a number of modest residences,'with two or three .making some, claim to pretension a couple of lumber yards; a large, oval roofed skating and curling rink, now deserted and dank with its lingering ,ice, and a big red brick schoolhouse standing in spacious grounds sur- rbu.nded by a double row of Manitoba maples, many . of them obviously dead. With the exception of the -two or three houses referred to there was no pretense at orderliness; the vani- ties of Plainville people ran to auto- mobiles and granophones, but not to lawns or neat back yards. The whole effect was strangely reminis- cent of that produced by the cluster of , buildings on • Jackson Stake's homestead, Plainville, with the ex- ception ,of its business street,.. -its corner, displaying an assortment " of schoolhouse and churches, and'its tune; Minnie had some purchases tod bI cl • S illi ttrdtu wyt> makes diipabwvat half the work --goad for the hands 1 1' �'4 Earn and Save AVING is just as important as earning, for earning is but of the present, while saving is assurance of future security and; the foundation of prosperitty. The Dominion 13ank protects the funds of its depositors by the prudent management of experienced officers. WINGHAM BRANCH, J. A. WALLACE, ,sa Manages. She shot at him. a 'look, half of pro- test and half -of. raillery. Her skin was pink and clear, and her eyes had a dance in them like sunlight on a ripply stream. "I'm sorry," he pleaded, dropping his `voice. "How could I know?" "You might have known. I would have known, .. •Well, I have some shopping to do. Will you come?" He saw that ' the red effect around "The theatre would keep us pretty late," she said, as she led him to the Roseland Emporium, a sort of cheap bazaar festooned with faded' paper ros- es, and furnished at the rear with 'tf bies where ice cream and soft drinks were served. They ate a David Har - um to the accompaniment of an over- worked and complaining gramophone which had the single merit of partially submerging the boisterous wit of the her throat wet. obtained by lacing a other patrons. The entertainment ribbon through eyelets in her waist; cost Cal forty' cents. af'Tier dress suggested simplicity with It was not until they were out of dignity, and he contrasted her with town in the rickety Ford that Cal be - one or two frippishly clad young wo- Igen to feel reasonably at home. ill men he had seen on ,Main Street. !the town he had trotted about after Minnie had learned" the first principle Minnie with a' vague sense of being of art a sort of faithful collie; but now,with Their shopping led them from store the- wheel in his hands and the grey belt of road winding up beneath them, he was again master of his.des- tinies. The sup had just set, and the sip,' their progress was slow. When western sky was•a sea of gold; .over - at last they had finished and Cal had head, tattered shreds of cloud caught piled all the - parcels in the back seat the evening: color and glowed gently of the' long-suffering Antelope, two in mauve and purple There was no double rows •of cars line Main treet wind; the croaking of frogs came up to store, and, as the farmers were now crowding in for their Saturday even- ing combination of business and gos- chewing gum and thea ci ars. two or :three homes of some prete sake, had she not?—and Reed would p g He and it was with difficulty he could on the gentle air above the rumble of was engaged in performin an auto sion, was a farmyard overgrown, e better in bed. And again there = g thread his way through the groups of the Ford; the fields were very pastor- psy upon a speedometer with a screw ` A boy driving a cow by dint of pastor - eine a little 'bump -bump. t holidaying farmers- that blocked the' n- driver and showed no sign of being much loud argument paused. long Cal set off joyously, out through diverted from his purpose. enough h to direct Cal to Mrs. Goode's the poplar groves; down the main! "Can I get a meal here?" Cal asked boarding house, and he followed the road by the school; glancing up half !at length. narrow plank sidewalk that led to its expecting to see Annie FrSat c, un- ""Nope,,' said the' proprietor door. - Gement -sidewalks, it - seemed it he recalled that it was Saturday;p p r of the hen, still fallowing the principallPalace Hotel, without looking up; were reserved for the business street; odd across count Don serve meals since pro'bition, suburbanites must be content • to walk r3 in a south wes- ' With the screw driver he pursued planks, g , and in- erly direction to Plainville. By p sued on laid length -wise, this time he was out of the scrubland something in the vitals of the me- dulging an annoying habit of up -tilt- chanical cop before h' ing their loose and rottend tot] and into open corpse a ore im. ends the p prairie; gently rolling, fields of black earth, now tinted with i discomfiture of the pedestrian; A :practise even more annoying to cou- green as the new crop thrust its ten- „� e �. pies married in the not too- remote der shoots toward the light; now iii Char ue Sat past was that of engulfing the wheels kirting a sleugh where Mr. and Mrs.' ild Duck (who are about to take housekeeping in a fine thick ura:p of grass which M -s. W. D. had lected for the purpose), observed; en with the indifference born oe hon- s -moon affection and well-eaiorced =nee 'laws: now over a long ridge at disclosed the cimolas of the grain evators in Plainville. The title car e up the distance greedily and in ,=s that half an hour Cal was dust -i ng dwn the main thoroughfare of the town- Two rows of automobiles, eepresenting ail grades of value and condition, were lined against the ce- ent cnrbe. Cali found at opening among thein and brught his do;z-eared' Fsd boldly along side of the preten- lee e soree wealthy ,, � � of fanner. 'Big g car, big stiortgene ,' `" Cal raged -rani the philosophy of Jack- ":take, as his eye took in the tercel el litee of Antelopes neighbor, .... ;anon., now, Ante, with that i u viands t Remember, virtue I _e may. r l e y ege ," geereed with one foot on the �r - _ tegeed and netted her tattered ' C;' a eneourag- ;p high v .:r.,a e.s, 44'ith a quotation. ` now thea tats truth (enough for man tee linos r, 'v'irtue am ne is happiness below' „ Groping iia hie pocket he, found a key, and whine.,ally turned it in the lock with which a prr:'iaus owner had equipped the Ford. "Not as a pre- caution against theft, but as a coni- plunent to the car," he explained. He had intended going straight to Mrs, Goode's boarding house, but a, glance at his watch showed six o'clock. Minnie would be at supper; she would insist that he join her, and that would be leaving the check at the wrong place. He decided to look ov- er the town and find a place where he could buy a meal. The matin thoroughfare of Plainville `out t.' braves* peep a we knowof are hese birds wh'o're c1aimixi credit fr starhn cross word puzzle fac `.,.� ToN/ IL,iw rTan Tomorrow A1x'igl MR Tablets µtop Wok headaches reliever billets* attacks, tone and regulate the eliniinativo organs, make, yata reef Buri. "aotter Than Phis For Liver Ills" I, MITCHELL, Dl Ui GIST of baby carriages in their broad cracks which always seemed broad enough to 'let the wheel flown, but never broad enough to let it up again. Cal was 'able to rescue a young matron and her offspring from such a predica- i ment, and to agree with her that "if ,Councillor Clarice lived on First Street, instead of Third, we wouldn't have these rotten -planks for a side- walk," Plainville was up-to-date in. its imputations upon its governing of- ficials. At Mrs. Goode's gate he met Minn- ie corning down the short walk that led to the boarding house door. She had been watching for him from the screened veranda and had timed her progress to a nicety. She wore a smart 'dress df some navy blue stuff, relieved with a dash of red about the neck and cuffs, and around that V- shaped aperture, not too modest and not too daring, through which she conceded a glimpse of a white and well -formed throat and bosom. Her ,hat was of blue, in keeping with her dress, and carried only a perky red feather to hint that its seenbreness by no means suggestedthe anoad of the active little head it covered.. "I was afraid you had had trot- hle," she remarked, as though they had parted an hour before;"I turned down a chair beside use at supper, ex- pecting to have the 'honor--" "That was good of you, The hon- or was' shared by two other farm hands—unappreciative, I am afraid at the table of our celestial friend, No Sing. The cause of his musical limitations is indicated, .with refresh- ing frankness, on his "You mean you went to the Chink's forsapper," the practical Mienie inw terrupted him, short -cutting through his verbiage, ",Aid 1 with a chair turned down, itt defiance of the glan- ces and quips of the other boarders! Well »t, al and still. Sharply marked currents sidewalk. of ,warm air—strange atmospheric "Well, that's that," said Minnie. Gulf streams, as they seerned-swept "Are you ready?" Cal's face as he crested the knolls and But Cal was not "ready -quite. He ridges, but a chill tang was abroad on :\ was in a dilemma. With other girls the levels, and the presence of Minnie,; he might have been embarrassed, but close beside him on the front seat, Minnie's presence exuded frankness as 'was peculiarly grateful. He had long a rose exudes perfume, He asked ago learned to drive his car proficient herr Ily with one hand, • and it happened What does a young man do in that the other one dropped from the Plainville when he wishes to entertain wheel. a lady friend?" " He talked of the plans he had for "There are two possibilities," she remodeling the farm; of what had told him. "He may take her to the been done already; of the enthusiasm Electric Theatre, where they hold of her father, which he hoped would hands under' her hat, or to the Rose- presently express itself in the form of land Emporium, where they eat an ice paint for the granaries and the house cream sundae." Then there was the great projest "And your! preference?" which as yet was only takingform in She hesitated, as though weighing his mind; the new building, a sort of a matter of some nicety. He had .a annex to the house; to be equipped feeling that it was a contest of ice with gasoline power arranged to drive cream against the friendly shelter of the .cream, separator and the washing, a hat. Ice cream won. (Continued on page ten) ROYAL BARGE --ego 'SEARS OLD A beautiful piece of Moorish crafts- Constantinople, weighs no tons. mauslaip—tints Royal Barge of the "Wheat in lige, 144 rowers were need - Sultan of Turkey, This ancient tai- ed for' the craft, with • 'a doable bank - glue, now :in the naval dockyard alt tug oars.