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The Huron Expositor, 1944-02-25, Page 7+l .iii • l6 j ikY ryII�+ t!�f ', - '•t ;s� t ', i(' d t $ •A�� Po�. U 1 .T ..ba;Y13elicW -: { N It :iI +3 V+{ ff�l yHi iNp/� 6 , • ! # 1IIC ,#1 ,j PP..' : Vatrlelc 1J; McCoxtneli - IL p'1enn Haye SEAPOR'Ta ONT. .'I+'elelPhtl ne 174 . li.I. IVIeLEAN Barrister Solicitor, Etc. SBAFORTH - ONTARIO ' • Branch Office -- Hensonw aenua ' ' Seaforth 'hone 113 Phone. 178 . • MEDICAL SEAFORTH 'CLINIC DR. E. A,, MONASTER, MSB. Graduate of^University ofToronice-'. • The Olindo hi telly upped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and:. therapeutics equipment. : ......... Dr. F. J. "Rx Forster, Specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and 'throat; will beat the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 pm. •Free Weil -Baby • Clinic will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 "nm. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DE. II. H. ROSS' O1'FICE Phones: Office 5-W'" Res; 5-J Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician arid ',Surgeon Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W '- Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. . . Late assistant, New ' York Opthal- 'mei and Aural . Inst„itute, ' M'ooretielcl's Eye and Golden Square' Throat Hos- pital, London, Fang. At COMMERCIAL Il TEL,, SEA FORTH, ;THIRD WED- 1�lESDA�Y in: each month, from 2 p.n1:i to 4.30;;'p.m.; also ,at,Seaforth Clinic 'ret Tuesday "of • each month. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford: •. AYJCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in r'e'arm and Household t - Licensed in Heron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction a guaranteed.- °' For information, etc., write or phone ''. Harold Jackson, 14 on 661, "Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. „ f ..,.... •...EDWARD,W. ELLIOTT '. 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Goderich ..'.... ,.,_„ 6.1§ g.30 Holmesvr"i1e 6.31 2.50 Clinton 6:431' 3.13 Seaforth 6.59 - 3.21 St. •Columban ,' 7.05 3.27 Dublin 7.12 3.35 Mitchell ' 7.24 3.47 WEST • Mitchell 11.27 10.33 Dublin • 1.1.37. 10.44 St. Columban .11.40 Seaforth •11.51 10.56' Clinton 12.04 11.10 Goderich 12.35 11.35 C.P.R:--AIME TOLE EAST P.M. 4.35 4.40 . 4�i9 4:58 �,....1 5.09 5.21 5.82 9:45 Goderich . Meneset EIVIeGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto WEST Toronto •,W 'l1MeNaught Walton Blyth .. : iS 'Auburn. A.M.' 8.20 :04 -12.15 12:28 • CHAPTER fl.1 Cherry 13yeoroit, member of the Waafs,, hurries to London to the apartment of her friend; Deniee,, who had, marrle&,•the man she loved. On arriving- she learns :that Denise no -longer laves 'Sim= Sint- on, and that' she is leaving that night to avoid meeting him ' on his return: frees a trip to Aineri- ca. Cherry" admits she has been in love with Simon. Denise asks her to stay and greet 'her' hus- . band with the bad news. Simon ax rives. but Cherry - vitItholdj the news., Le�••rning that the train to Bristol had crashed --.'the , train that Denise took -Simon and Cherry' drive there, Identify De- nise's ' charred suitcaa,e, and as- sume a badly . burned body is hers. Months la'ter Simon de'- clares his love for Cherry. He touched her cheeks as if it were something, ineffably precious.. "Will y6u marry,' me, Cherry Pie? Will you •bear with me at times when I'm moody 'and difficult? Would. y.pu be willing .to. do that?". • ' h, yes, yes! Oh,.'Simon, I'll un- deraltand." • Simon and Cherry walked on toge- ther, her hand drawn through his arm. 'I've been wondering if it was faif"" to ask you to marry, me until the war is over., Sometimes I've told myself it isn't. But. for this don'bt in my mind I'd have asked' you soon- er. , Yeu see, Darling, everything is so uncertain," Simon said. "That ' doesn't matter." Nothing mattered, ' but that they would be married as soon as possible. "I don't want. to wait, Simon. I've got .ten day's• leave in a month's time." She I shyly. "Is it very forward. of me to suggest our wedding should be' oon?." For answer he: caught her to 'him again .and kissed her. Wel start at once to look for .a cottage, he. said. , These days were .unbelievably hap- py for Cherry. It was fun being en - aged: The other girls fussed around er, wanted to knew all details. ' • A fortnight 'slipped by. Simon found an unfurnished .cottage near Burnham Beeches, not far from the airdrome, where he could- commute o town. each div, _ Cherry, whenever I ewot l4 be .there, with him. A week br'-P..ore: her Wedding Cherry with a day's leave before her, set off or the cottage. The furniture was' being sent rlowii from starnge' and Cherry, with the help of Mr=.• Greene, a. l.ocel woman wi.o was' going. tb 'do or them', was going to settle it in.‘ Bythe 'time Simon was due to ar- ive-•-in--•the-••'a€ternoon. ..they'd nearly finished, It . wasn;,t a large cottage nd the curtains and carpets had been taken over from the previus weer and this, insisted Mrs. Greene, vas more 'than half the battle. Now, ,as they bath stood looking round, Mrs. Greene with appreciee tion, Cherry felt an odd sensation surging 'through her. , She remember- ed that it was With these same chairs, sofas a,nd .tables that Denise had 'iv; ed as....Sinton.'S wife, The sight of f\leern brought her back vividly: Sim- on had warted to s.e'll ,all this sniff, but it had,;seemed so extravagant not to 'make u'se`ai it-- Now Cherry wish- ed' site had let hire have his way. ' Sire turned and ran upstairs to the bedroom. A taffeta petticoat draped the dressing table, hirling the many. tin drawers , in which Denise had kept her little personal things. Here she, ,too, when she was able to snatch a few honrs•,with.•Simot, would hide her little personal oddments, Idle she. .opened one drawer and then an - ether. Suddenly her heart seemed to stop beating. A' large. solitaire diam- ond, set around with tiny emeralds, winked up at her in an unexpected. shaft of sunlight. With trembling fingers ,she took the ring out of the little box where it lay snugly on its bed of purple velvet. She had seen it`-`eti `many times before, that unua- ual- rrngi . ,.The , first time when De- nise'had- announced her engagement; the. last time, she'd thought, in that waiting room after the accident. The color drained from her cheeicg, She put it hack in the box and albs - ed it swiftly, trembling all over as the •trit.th shatteringly dawned upon tier. 'Here was Denise's engagement ring. There was' no"' .mistaking it, Then that other ring on that poor charred• finger must have 'belongetl,�to. someone else. .-]tier mind reeled, then •slowly, and painfully cleared, . She knew :now what had. happened,• Sim- on and she bad,.)reen wrong when they'd , believed Denise to ''be - dead. That other woman had not been 'De- nise. Therefore . somewhere - Clod 'alon•e-knew-• 'where-Deni:ee' was' a'l'ive at this very moment.e. "'• She heard the sound of a ear turn- ing down the 'little lane that led to the cottage. A moment later it stop- ped and there was the honk of, a horn. Simon had come down from town as soon as' hp could to help herr arrange `the n'e'gG',;ttumbn-together. • • 12 She heard big step on the little flagstone path. The*, next thentent he wee in the doorweyy looking ,intei'esatedly around•. l set - 12.64 "V u and• yrs, Greene Timet hare tl3oderldsh ,WY'.,;... WW>'i.....�"' v 1.01f wotted like'b'Iaeks" His eyes rest- ra1166:�larV' ., , • • •••WiiiYiW'v ,, iY •. 12;47 ad en, her ;ace; "But' you're•looki tired,. ,Fngt afraid You must have been overdoing it." -Then, , sharply, °'I say, there's• noliag wrong, is alert!" Cherry answered Simon automatie. ally ' No, there . was nobhin wrong, eseeitt pejj aps that she 'was a little. tired." ,Anything -to gain time. ;Site needed to ,think swiftly. She hadesot yet made up her mind what she w going to do., The discovery of De- nihe's enga,genient ;ring ••sliest she •thought - she'd' never 'see main -that ring had told her that somewhere at this moment Denise might ,still .be alive -swan -as yet so. recent, Simon came to" her and -put his hands on her shoulders. His ,eyes looked deep and questioningly into hers. "You're sure you're all right, darling?" "Whys, yes, Slmesi!" • A quivering sigh escaped her. Sim- on put her from him and looked at her • anxicresiy° • _,"You know you've been overdoing it!" She pushed the soft dark hair up- ward from. her forehead with her cold hands. "Perhaps I have just a little. Furn- iture moving's hard work." "You should have waited till T came along tohelp you," "i wanted the cottage. to look nice by the time you arrived," "You've certainly. succeeded," The cottage did look charming with its gay chintz curtains, gleaming oak floors, the •inglenqoks` beside• the ,:red brick fireplaces., Simon and Cherry had their tea. out on the lawn'?ene'ath, en old lich- ened apple tree, "This time • next week, Cherry Pie . . he said, smiling at her as_' he balanced . his cup en his lap. "It's • not long, is itr • Simon?" • She laughed uncertainly. She knew - new that she ctuldnt' tell him. Right or wrong, she loved him too much break the lovely happiness, that was theirs, at this moment. If necessary she would fight to keep that happi- ness. Only she anew that,' Denise was probably alive.' It was her sec.- ret ec-ret and one she would never share. On .the face of it, in a World where ight was white and wrong wasblack he was going to transgress every •ule which ehe'd been brought up to believe in. But there was some` ex - ng good bye Simon held Cherry in his arms. "It's ibeeii' pej ct, this last week, •Cherry PI "I naverseplete .it , . as Possible to be,;so happy, SiraiQpr„ fir':." "Nor L mY dark lig "� lIad he reall3''=n 1t i that? Had ,he never before been -en happy? Not even during her -Mist inarriage? as ag"1n a fortnight we, be, together .r s .ruse --for what she was doing. , After all; . she -wasn't certain, 'There might still be 'some explanation of the ring, Hadn't .she, ' too, a right to happi- ness? Denise had had her chence. Denise bad snatched 'Simon from ,her those early days. She had mar- ried 'hint, wearied of, him, 'then run away with another man. Denise had trampled on his love for her without a.,thatlglrt-pf-,w-hxt _ it would mean to him. ' ......•..- ....-_...._..... Then fate had • stepped in, .making it look as if Denise. -were dead. No one'questioned it. 'There had been d notice in the papers. Nothing', could have beep more final than her tragic death. And now, no one need 'ever know of the faintest possibility of a mistake. Not, indeed; if Cherry chose to keep the secret locked away in het heart. . • She looked at Simon, happy. now because she had tea.ssured ,him. She thought passionately. I can't tell him, I can't! I won't! She knew in that Moment that she would marry him with 'Iter; eyes wide open, She would hurt no one but herself, but she, would always live with the, fear that one -day site" migbt turn a corner and find herself face to face with De - nice, thet one day Denise might re - tern and 'want Simon 'back. S'he must face' the possibility that Simon might return to Denise, even after he hart learned the• truth- 'Men had been' known to forgive and forget. In that Case it'would be- up to. Cherry to stand aside, to say, "It's all right. Simon, I understand. You mustn't consider nie." 'But 'after all it might not happen. She was by no means sure Denise wasn't dead. They were married .a. we It was a quiet wedding, with week later. only wo 'friends of Sj non's there and on - y Valerie, and one of ,the other girls tb support Cherry . Cherry bad ne living relatives. Simon had only air invalid sister in the' north of Scot- land. They said laughingly: to each other, "We're bent -going to be. sin- gularly free of in-laws," • After he 'wedding they drove straight.,down to the cottage and for Cherry it was a,week spent in heav- eei.:.....+Reselutely she shut her mind to 'any doubts and fears. Everything was going to be all right. Sae -Mustn't worry, mustn't think that somewhere Deride might still bre alive. Other- wise . , ° It was wonderful how she manag- ed to forget.. It was as if she'd lock- ed -a -deer on a-room-i-tt--her Mind and thrown away the ,key. .She would never find that key and open it again unless' she were forded to. They were lazy days she and Sim. on spent together, each was contehf to be with the other. They went for long -waike and came back tired and litreigt!y--,te---simple•-•meals that Mrs: Greene prepared for them. They gardened, planning the little rambling. Batch eo that It would gftre theta the anaitlr lili'n of flowers and, vegetables, Their the- last morning -oaree and there was nothing' 1nft but to Bray' • p.) She hated' parting Ifni, n him. He drove her to the gas et:the airdrome': ,end from there he woe. going on to. London. •cherry was an AD, , again now, dressed once moxa, its.,;,err neat blue uniform with: her chiral ttegked be- eath her cap. "Does, a Waal kiss her , husband good-bye'?" Simon ask- ed with, a smile, as the last moment came. "This one's • going. ,.to. " She watched' him drive away, and stood waving until • the car • disap- peared round a bend in the road.. Then she hurried along to her billet. The girls crowded around ;her as she opehed the door,' Blake, not usually denionsl.rative, hugged }Ter.' Lane emerged from the bathroom, her, •bjonde hair a wet tangled halo around he? head. She took a look p,t Cherry end grinned. '"P wish you'd take thatiook of eCatasy 'off' your face. It makes me enticing." "She'Il lose it once she gets 'back to work again, said Valerie. But she kept that happy took as. the. next fortnight. slii)ped by. She - was working, working, .working. But mail time 'now marked :,a difference.. Now there was a daily letter from Simon and a daily ,pre written to him. "Simon darling;' now it's only a 'week . "Simon dearest, this time the day after tomorrow . . At last -her first thought on wak- ing: I'm seeing him this evening.,. "He would call for, her at 'six o'clock- 'She had forty-eight hours off duty and they were starting off by going to Valerie's 'birthday party. • 1Virs. Hampden, Valerie's aunt, had gone, all out to recapture a pre-war party spirit for her'favorite nice... When Valerie had greeted all her guests ' and was free to enjoy herself I Cherry "whispered to Simon, 'Dance this with Valerie, . darling. I think I can spare you just for , w mom- ents," and. she turned to her hostess, Miss: Hampden; Who smiled an her warmly, "My dear, I'm only too de- lighted that so many of you ,girls were able to come. But this won't do! •• Why aren't you dancing?" She glanced around as she spoke, look- ing for a possible partner 'for Cher- ry, and now suddenly seeing one: "Ari:'Mr "M'in'er, de'me•'here-and-deiree with Miss -Miss . . , ? Pre so sorry, I forget •your name. I've met so many new friends of Valerie's this ening.. Yes, Edwards, do you want me?"' She moved .'away ., to speak to the butler •who was .hover- ing near -by waiting for a word with. her. • (Continued .Next Week) Food Budgets All In- Day's Work Put a food budget in front of the average woman and she can follow it like Montgoniery tracing the plan of attack on a war map. As time goes, by, I em convinced that the Canadian woman is thinking ,rmore in 'terms of food budgets, price ceilings and price control than ever before, and what is more, she' is work- ing hand -in -glove with 'her ••'norne grocer. They are ie partnership sharing the responsibility for holding the price ceiling. Armed with her "little Blue boo -given out by the Wartime. Price and Trade Board -she knows the ceiling prices, and by studying the newspapers' keeps up.to-date on food conservation and price control topics. She icetows that in, more than four years • df •t'lis' war, the cost of living in Canada rose 18.1 per' cent as com- pared with a rise of nearly 60 per .eeat in the last war and that since the imposition, of the oyer -all price ceiling towards the end of•1941, the cost of living has advanced only 3.1 per cent, in contrast to an . increase of 38 ,per cent during the same months ofethe last war. • She knows 'which side her bread is buttered on, and 'She also knows that were it not for price control and ra- tioned butter, at tunes She likely wouldn't have it on either side, She know.s too, that in over four years of war, the cost of living in- creased'far more in the United States and Great • Britain. I know It isn't nice to crow about ourselves and what we do, but 4t.,doesn't hurt once in a while to remind ourselves how lucky we. -ego,... In Russia a roasting chicken. costs 4150.06, butter is 880,00 b pound, a pint of milk costs $7:00, in our money. Russians don't expected to live well they pust expect to -live• ...,, and to .tight, and fight hard. . Under Canada's • price 'o'eiling, e, a chilken is a happy reality; we send• our children. to school in strong :lea- "ther'shoes; ante we have siiffielent fuel tai• ^ keep our houses donlfortably tettrm. The" Wartisxce Prices and Trade- Beard have a big job on t;'kefr hands,. k'ee'ping the east orf llviti tl 'i ig .for ei:130,hme oin Canada Ate Ye'u de: ti•ng•your share? (l?'t1lfiuce Ilutchraon in. r. Nat,° oavto4 *R Ile btu .hie boll.. *at and"listeEr the 4lristle `4i train without ,a .fsree qt#1 lilei�, �i tae hood nentories., • The 1Qne, r cry" cr the.leeo>ieetive in' the darkptess ie. oxi Pg the eeepAtial este a: �f Ceanada, a, sip• part 01.01.1r life. Ten we are .xaifw'a - people,, Our coutit,ry was Ib>xilt' ib railways atldy,ziosy cling tor"gs[etexree�, and the Magic 1a4/1„. i'ts sweep and. loneliness.. hardness and. beauty an •nd.•_ bltel*' voice when the train whistles, and 'we- bear'it .in the nig • e. •• - ,--•.• - Fioin my 'be. 'rose •to the Cana diem- National Station in Win ripeg, :X can hear all :the trains . whistling and they soothe me to sleep 'like a Julia- by. ulia by. In other places the occasional whistle. hoots in. 'the darkness as a, single -train' pounds • by. ' This is • the familiar midnight sound of every, -lit- tie town in our. country--�a •warming,• welcome • sound which reassures' us that the machinery of our life is still eat work, that the nation is still •func- tioning and breathing ''while we sleep.. But 'here- in Winnipeg all tl`ie trains whistle, agd.,••all' th'e trains 'come. to: gether, rushing in'lrom every point of the compass, for this is .the rail- road hub of Canada. • Like a spiderweb' the railway lines spur Of of Winnipeg, and like, busyr spiders the tra_ ins all run into the' centre of the web....._Every train of any standing at all must come here sooner or later, laden with, the pro-' duce and people of the West or with the factory goods of the.. least. Here is the crossroads 'of the nation. And here the trains .meet and ex- chan•ge their greetings .in the `night the great transcontinental trains' fr,' w, Montreal and Vancouver, hurtF•.+ like projectiles across the prairies, all their lights aglitter," pushing , aside, all lesser travellers; the long, 'groaning • freight ' ,trains, the workhorses of transportation, bulging' with grain, which will 'feed: hungry people at the end's of the'.earth; the little local trains • bustling in frons the country towns, , their passengers sitting eager- ly in day coaches, waiting to see the lights and movement of a big city: ,;Trains from everywhere and bear- ing with them' bhe assorted flavors Of Canada, the smell of fir timbers' from the Pacific Coast, the smell of Prairie wheat, the' smell of factories and the smell of those white fishing e Press'). p idle xot4 q€l P g uea' Iby 'their OXY as you know ygttr 'velces The transect •,IiTri'ogant' alr4,. ell a n79re alzua than.sMm„ dill ttiitna wild shooelalaiP heI! thin, der•'t4'tq' W 1 t-xe o o,. lioa 7i zo tr,'":•eery' inQs, •.¥'ore :respet:tf llyfi realised ttpttr aninre 1Rw7y pgbglz,: ' frein t ennistes ell tt" li eanieireg, tone, in potter ' ltey., and , the l Mace- ing �f�•i�n-gima?' othe' logia tial "baying': nOtihing-.io boast of •: aitliea� �...., the site,. ret,:440,1 • trains or the-..lengga,, Of their jqurney, emit only R Tittle 'bark of greetdng like an old dog cora.- Hier eshc'. ys, ing...40me. ' The bells of the loeeraotivee° al have,: their own special soipfds,- The! Modern engine's bell clangs lthclut, interruption, , -by, ..electrical 'c.Atitrel, but .this' newfangled gadget 'iacks all the glory 'of . the old-time bell wideli; • the fireman used to ring by pullizig a string There is all, the di fereeee here between a work of art and a product of machinery, 'between "an orchestra and a gramophone record: Let the monsters clang -with their mechanical rhythm.. I lie. in .,bed' and listen, to the little 'peal engines, the old-fashioned Iocomotives who_ have seen life 'and hard times, • and 'their Dr, t.,hase s For Quick Rc(i •f of P:,:,, :Irre1 lr1ST tCla; lire htimam a R4 urougta•my:vet rld d' tlrsous 'and a. thcetege4 �1 ples�.O,e wheel T ?soy, whe>h tithe er epu 4-** town, wars au•' re penger from , than°glist"eniug' world tdf nseA and cit- tease and unkstewn clel g "i `r "down' . the .tracks ' I ''listen to the bells. and'• • the whistle 'shrieks and;. I see all the lost days and vain hopes of"ktcpyhood; and I see also - the whole ' vast and wondrous land of Canada,;aquiet'• in the night, with only trains- moving upon it.' '1 Recently repatriated Canadian prisoners from -enemy hands stated emphatically that it it hadn't been, for the.Red Gross food parcels- they would have starved'to death. OVer seven mi'(Jion, suph,,parcels have been packed in' Canada 'and shipped overseas since the out- break of war, supplying energy and hope to such ':U,rnited Nations men as are shown above, working in their prison garden. 1 A LE ESE: LOOSE LEAF COLUMNER BOOKS LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS LEDGER SHEETS LOOSE LEAF RECORD BOOKS LEDGER. INDEXES BILTRITE BINDERS CHARGE LEDGERS COLUMNER FORMS VISIBLE RECORD EQUIPMENT Loose Leaf Equipment comes in a large range of sizes, styles and qualities. Whatever your require- ments are, we can satisfactorily meet then,,., Phone 41 FOR SUGGESTIONS AND ESTIMATES e ,Phone 41 Seaforth iNr c; 6