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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1931 Sunda: Mr. Wilcox at the library. His girl 1s 111 INSTALMENT XV At six, Dora Foster came in, sub- stituting for her sister at the lib- * rary, and Edith and Gail could walk home through the broiling late af- ternoon * They. fussed away in the shady kitchen together: Edith straining © tea into tall glasses, Gail assembling the materials for one of her fam- ous salads: chives, lettuce, tomat- aes, cucumbers sliced as fine as tis- sue paper. / With Sam' blundering help they ' s#t the table out under the big oak in- the side yard, 'Dick came in; Phil agrived with ~ muffins. They all sat about the (table while the last of the hot 3 twilight died into a hot dusk, talk- ¥ ing, murmuring, passing lec and #8 forth the old Brazilian silver salad bowl that CrenTather Lawrence had + brought to Yerba Buena on that long-ago wedding journey. i Phil and Dick Stebbins monopol- ized the conversation for a while, | But presently Gail was in the sad- 2 dle, her elbows on the table, her i tastic combination: ef y. fn {is it, officer?" there was a stranger in the garden. A stranger. At the first glimpse of him Gail's heart stood still. Horror, Horror. They were ali jost. The moonlight touched the star on his breast. : was the first to speak, in a Ro authoritative voice: "What "There's been a bad accident up near the cement works. A little girl has been killed--" the man be- gan. Gail was beside him, fingers grip- ping his arm, "My sister!" "No, ma'am, it wasn't your sis- ter. She was mixed up in it; I brought her over to see your broti- er. She ain't hurt," he said hur- riedly, noting the wild light in Gail's eyes. "She's just run upstairs in- side; I'm waiting for her. I seen you out here so I came over." "What happened, officer?' Dick's voice asked. The others were strick- en dumb. The man turned toward him in the gloom. "She was driving a car, sir, and another automobile hit her. She didn't have a license, and she's booked for that, and also on a charge of manslaughter. In the mix-up a little girl in a third car was thrown out on her head and killed." "She's here now? mean?" Phil asked. "Yes--she just now ran in the house to find you." "After her, Phil! She may kill herself!" Gail said sharply In a whisper. Edith put her hands over her face for a moment. praying, he- 'fore they all ran together = toward the kitchen door. In the icy grip of horror and fear they ran up the kitchen steps. across the dark porch. Eyes still dazzled by the shadows of the yard, they blinked bewilderedly at ione another, faces white and quick voices shaking. Ariel--Arie]l in an accident--somebody killed--a - po!- iceman here-- They heard her calling as they ran. She was somewhere upstairs in the dark house running. orening doors, searching for them. "Phil! Gail! Where are Gall!" "We're coming. darling!" Ariel opened the door of the In- ner passage as the other rushed in from the porch. and stood at bay My sister, I you, 3 Imagination and wit flashing like 2 summer lightning wherever they w could find an outlet. & "I fe?! as if we have you back, Gail!" Phil said, putting out bi 2 hand to lay it over hers on the 1 table. "Anybody ohject--?" Dick had his facing them. She was breathiue | quickly, staring, with her head i dropped a little forward, and her | hostile bright eyés moving from one whitened face to another. She spoke impatiently. a nota of re- proach and complaint in her voice: "pid pipe In his "Some night some one of us will £ say, 'Yes, 1 co' when you ask that! Dick," Gail said. "and you'll drop | the floor in a faint." "Where were you, Gail? I've been swung round, and all the cars jam- med and every one shouted-- ¢ "They say he's Jose his license and gets ten years in jail, and I hope he does! They say hexdidn's know, even then, that anything had happened." There was a dead silence in the kitchen. Ariel tossed ter head and looked about fretfully. "I'm starving, Have we had din- ner she asked in a trembling unns- tural voice, Nobody answered. Dick, who had followed the pol- iceman out for a few private wis, had returned. "It looks to me, from what Fargo says, as if it was up to the other fellow," Dick said now, sitting down beside Gail on the end of the table. attended and the prices for the most part were high. All the ar- ticles were in good condition, and had been carefully cared for, so were sold well. Mr. W,. B, Pow- ell was auctioneer. Born on Wednesday, July 8th, at the Pickering Private Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. James Palmer, Kingston Road East, a son. Born, on Wednesday, July 8th, at the Pickering Private Hospi- tal, to Mr, and Mrs. Omar Sleep, Base Line, a daughter. 3 Mr. and Mrs. E. Rutherford and daughters, Misses Florence and Helen, and Miss Jean Mc- Clure, of Burford, called on Pick- ering friends on Monday, on their way to Quebec, on a motor trip. Mrs. Emma Gee, of Toronto, has been spending a few days this week with her niece, Mrs. |. A. Bunting. ' Mrs. W, C. Murkar and child- ren are holidaying with Mr. and Mrs. F. Jones at Wasaga Beach. Mrs, A. Boyes is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. L. Kemp, of They all looked at him eagerly, frantic, with hope. "I told you it was!" Ariel said re- sentfully. "It doesn't matter who was to blame, if the dear little girl was killed," Edith said In her sweet sad voice, "Whose child was it, Dick?" "Moss. A little girl named J' net Moss. Five years old." "He's the tailor, Phil," Gail tup~ plied. "They live up on Figueroa Street. The mother often comes into the library." "Fargo said their only child." "No. they hav gAfiother little girl. Not--" Gail said hat it makes it any better!" 'T don't kmow why you all look at me. I agree with you that it's simply terribly!" Ariel said quickly and hetly, "But you dop't thin. I'm--I'm enjoying it?" "Qh, shut up," Phil commanded her, brushing the litle spurt of tem- per aside, his dark look not bright- ening. "But--but Ariel wasn't to blame Phil! It wasn't her fault, Dick. Why--why should they~why shou! they want to take her to jail?" Gall demanded, turning from one of tle men to the other. "She was in the car that hit the little Moss girl. Gail" Dick ex- plained. "It's what they call a technical charge, Now, let's kerp cool, everybody, and find out just where we stand. In the first place, what time was this, "Ariel?" "Ten minutes to six." "And you and Buddy Ratich end tha Barchi boy were in the ear?" "In Buddy's roadster." "Was Dorothy Camp th-<e?" 'No. Not then" "Where was she?" he (To Be Continued) | hunting--I've been everywhere!" "You're hurt!" Gall whispered, beside her. "No, I'm not hurt at all and for "T love the small of your old pipe. | heaven's sabe don't meke such 8 Dick" Edith said in an odd dreamy tone. And something 'heart turned over with amazement and loyalty to Edith. "' ut it coulda't be possible 1 h felt anything for olc¢ ~x1 Gail turned it over and over sh gonfused thoughts while # some of the opinions of the irre- a ible Formaldehydes convuised | Sithe family. | in Gail's | fuss!" Ariel said quickly. "Oh, it's you. Gargo?"' Dick said to the policeman. "I didn't recon- nize yo out there. Been an pcc'id ent. eh? "w"Hello. Mr. Stebbins", the nalicr- man said with a sort of deliberate solemnity, "Yas, sir, Lucky mn and McCann happsned to be clsss by--" "And some ons was--huri?" Phil heart contracied | asked in a dead voice. jwith pity and an odd reluctant anc | It 'was not only that Dick jebbins was not the ¢--* of pers n one thought of as a husband "yearning. "fastened itself on Dick simply be- use he was the nearest man. Edith hed endowed Dick with the qualities her knight must have, re- ~ gardless of what Dick actually was. 'That he would not play up to her artless dream was a foregone con- clusion. 0 As the conversation vesr- :} shifted she looked at Dick with new eyes. He wa: a big young man; _ "muscley and swesty," Ariel © -d once called him, Ie had a long hard throat and a big hard jaw and | heavy hair of what the same dis- « respectful critic had called "Swed« Brown." - The Lawrence girls had always liked Dici: because of his passion- s loyalty and devotion te Phil But they found him rather slow- going. He had sisters, but thev much older than he, and their careless remarks, questionirg them tirelessly. as to their motives or ideas, and marveling at their but fhe ideal lover--and liked 'him! Ard Gail & new romance in i tamed and groomed : sileht creature; amd Van, who had been ®y her yesterday {isn't my fault if drumken wf | charging all over the road on 2/8 voice she Bs § gs i : HE CH k & g H 3 8 : § £ i + g it : sh ay Jor at-twenty-one, hadi fullsaf tarrifvin~ foros: bask she- Gail thought fiercely. "There was a little gir! killed, Mr. Lawrence. They took her tn thn hosnital but later we heard she--" The officer coughed respectfully. Words had lost all meaning {» Gall. The shabbv old kitchen wa: ows, fear, all the terror of the tran She we! her dry lips, tried to thin): A way cut--there must be 2 wa) out! "Who's on the desk tonigh'® Dick asked the officer in an urde:- tone. "Walsh?" "Well, yes, it's Bargeant Walsn tonight," Fargo answered. Miss Lawrénce and the feller that was driving the other car are booked on a charge of manslaughter. The Judge is going to see them in the morning." His manner was sympathetic, fatherly, regretful. There was a horrible detachment, a horrible in- evitabllity about him, a wheel In the great machine of the law. Nothing could stop him. "She'll not be Here tomoriow!" "We'll send her away!" "It was a suestion of ball--"Fargo pursued gently, dons a Pick sald. "I'll be right own. I'll take care of everything." "Why take your time, take time," the officer, departing, said on a faintly protesting note, tn 8 ay Een oan or silence that his Solng. Zelioned "The child was kil 4 whispered. Sed? "I can't believe eet i t happened?" =v deman-. ed, sittihg down heavily in th, 3 Sw rocker, y e old 8. Edith it's us" @all his eyes never leav- Ariel braced herself, half against the kitchen table, Gail be- side her. Edith was bowed in one of the chairs, her face covered with her hands, her lips moving, It's horrible of course." Ariel be- gan impatiently, her. lips white. "But--it's. ned, and we just 'have fo--make the best of it! . It en go Sun- core! RR Bt 20 hy vely. "But Ii pa what Ph be Pe "Why, Just this," Arie] began In: tried to make sound easy 'and natural, "A drunken 1aiot drove his car out into the middle of traffic and forced our car against the other side of road, and we hit the car this little gir! was in. That's all. I had no.. more to do' with it than---well, Sam, here!" : But despite the bravado she look- ed frightened; she looked like sitting, SUNDAY SCHOOL AT PICKERING HOLDS ANNUAL PICNIC Enjoyable Time Is Had at Frenchman's Bay (Jean Clark, Correspondent) Pickering, July 10.--The an- nual picnic of the United Church Sunday School was held at Cevis' Park, Frenchman's Bay, on Wed- nesday afternoon, As it was a fine day, a large number of adults as well as the children attended. The afternoon was spent in swimming, boating and playing games, and after a supper at well-filled tables, a program of races and other events was run off. Much amusement was caused by the tug o' war between the married and single ladies which was won by the former with little effort. It was sug- gesed that at the next picnic, the weight, rather than the num- bers be taken into consideration in the teams. The boys and the men also had a contest, and once more adult muscles won the day. At dusk satisfied youngsters, and tired teachers and parents set out for home, ®eeling that it had been a splendid day. The ninety-ninth anniversary of the founding of St. George's Congregation, the oldest in the township, was observed by ap- propriate services on Sunday last. The special speaker for the day was the Rev. 8S. C. Jarrett, of Holy Trinity, Oshawa, who de- livered two inspiring sermons, The choir provided special music for the day. At the morning ser- vice, the Pickering platooon of the 34th Battalion attended in honour of their padre, Mr. Jar- rett, At the evening worship, a number of the United Church congregation were present, as that Church had cancelled its evening service for the occasion. The chancel was decorated with bouquets of garden flowers of various hues, which added to the beauty of the quaint edifice, which has been a bulwark in the village for nearly a century, The Entrance Class of the Village School, with their teach- er, Mr. George Wallace, are to be congratulated upon their splen- did showing at the recent exams. Of a class of ten, nine passed, with six honours. At the Pick- ering centre of the thirty-three candidate, who tried, thirty were successful and ten received hon- ours. Of all the sneak thieves, one of the meanest iz the person who will steal veranda furniture, while the owners are fast asleep, On Thursday evening, our vil- lage was visited by mid-night marauders, and a number of the residents on King St. East lost camp chairs, and other articles. Foot prints in the flower beds of one house are the only clues which were left. The time seems to be rapidly coming when in or- der to possess anything one must nail it down or carry it around, The sale of the household goods of the late Miss Louisa, Richardson, which took place on Whitby. i Mrs. R. 0. Crummer is spend: {ing a few weeks with relatives in Goderich, and other Western | Ontario points. | Miss Hazel Walters is holi- | daying at her home in Courtice. Miss Lillian Wiman, of Peter- boro, is visiting with her grand- mother, Mrs. A. Burrell. | Mr. Willard Cronk, of Detroit, spent a few days thls week with { her parents R. H. and Mrs, Cronk, | Mr, and Mrs. S. W, Knipe, of Toronto, were the guests of W. J. and Mrs. Clark, on Sunday. | Miss Phyllis Marquis, of Stroud, spent the week-end with | Pickering friends. { The July meeting of the Wo- ' men's Association of the United Church was held at the home of the Misses Law, on Thursday af- ternoon. The Misses Rorke and mother have taken up residence in their summer cottage in Pickering. Messrs, Alfred and Russeil Haggith, Rochester, N.Y., visu- ed their uncle, Mr. Ed. Haggith "A number from here attend- ed the Orangemen's celebration at Cobourg on Saturday. Mr. , Howard Cowling won the second prize for the largest fam- ily at the Bowmanville Business Men's Association picnic on Wed- nesday, there being three boys and six girls full brothers and sisters, while the Flintoff family that received first prize, were thirteen and not all full brothers anda sisters. In that case many thought "the Cowling family should have held first place, | PICNIC HELD AT PORT BOLSTER ---- (Mrs. L. Scott, Correspondent) Seagrave, Juiy 10 -- Favored by fine weather about 165 gathered at Port Bolster on Thursday for the annual Sunday School picnic, One hundred sat down to a sumptuous dinner provided by the ladies' and with the long motor ride were able to do justice to the many good things, following dinner, various sports were then enjoyed, including a fine game of baschall by men of the community, after which an ex- cellent supper was served to 165, many coming in the afternoon and staying until a late hour, when all left feeling that a very enjoyable and successful day had been spent Friends were present from Toron- to, Windsor, Brooklin, Port Perry, Little Britain and other points, A family reunion of much inter est was held at Little Britain Park on Wednesday, when about 8) of the King Family and relatives ga- thered for the annual re-union, Af- ter dinner had been enjoyed a pleas- ing address" was given by the chair- man, Frank King, in which sympa- thy was expressed for the family of the late David N. King, of Peter- boor', The minutes of last re-union were read by Miss Cora King, of Sonya, followed by the election of HAMPTON GIRIS DO WELL IN BALL TOURNAMENT Team Defeated Peterboro at Pres'quille Friday (L. Horn, Correspondent) Hampton, July 11, -- The Hampton girls baseball team re- turned home from their outing to Pres'quille on Friday in a ra- ther buoyant mood; having won the cup from Peterborough, the results of the games played with Feterborough being 9-5 in favor of Durham and 15-0 in their fa- ver in the game between Lennox and Addington and Durham, The act of the matter of Peterbor- ough having left the cup at hom? was rather a joke as they thought they would be the winner again this year. Retta Billett, Jessie Knox, Mary Rundle, Ruth Johns, Vera Kerslake, Helen Knox, Flor- ence Burns, Elinor Sykes, Olga Cowling, composed the Hampton team, while the Durham team which plaved on Friday, was com- posed of the Hampton team, with the exception of three players from oteor local teams. The Cryderman--Ruse annual ticnic held in the Hampton Park on Saturday was somewhat inter- ferred with owing to weather conditions. Mr. and Mre. W. G. Doidge and Mrs. T. Wray and Jackson ond Eileen visited Oshawa friends op Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. C. Willis have returned to Toronto after visit- ing at the home Mrs. C. Johns for a few days. Mrs. J. Curtis visited Toronto friends for a few- days. Mr. and Mrs. T. Salter were Port Perry visitors during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Harbor and sons Blair and Ted, Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Venner and daughter, Mar- kbam, were recent visitors at the home of J. Chant, at the cream- e ry. The steady rain of Friday was greatly welcomed to give veget- ables a fresh start, some things showing marked effects of tne very warm weather und very lit- tie rain, 'The weather on Sat- urday was also showery and very windy. Quite a number from here at- tended the Junior Farmers and Junior Institute picnic at Pres-'- quille, on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. E. Horn attend- ed also, Misses Florence Burns, Reta Billett and Vera Kerslake accompanying them. Haying is the order of the day with the farmers these days. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clarke and daughter, Lillian, Mr. Four- ay and son Bob, and daughter Nellie, of Toronto, were recent visitors at the home of H. Hol- well, Mrs. Bessie Robbins, accomp- anied her brother J. Cowling and Mrs. Cowling to Bowmanville on Sunday where they visited rela- Lives, Mrs. Grace Clatworthy and daughter Ruby, were week-end visitors with Mr. and Mrs. W. McMillan, Peterborough. Mr. and Mrs. Milton . Avery, Puffalo, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. Avery, on Saturday of last week. Mr. Ebersole, Kingston, and Wallace Horn, have been in thi locality, this week on biologi survey work, spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. W. Horn. Edgar Horn was the winner 6f five hundred of coal and a picnic Ham, as prizes for coming first in the fat man's race and also being a winner in the married men's thirty to sixty yard race at the Bowmanville -Rusiness Men's Association pie- 'nie, at the Cream of Barley Camp on Wednesday. . Mrs. Kenneth Caverley and daughter, Gwendolyn and son Couglas, Windsor, are visiting Saturday afternoon last, was well 'her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C, W. oven, ue SON w - lucky ! new officers, and adrress by Doble | King of Aylmer. A lengthy list of | sports took up the rest of the after- | noon, many useful and worthwhile izes were given, while a number | renewed old acquaintances and en- Jjoyed themselves in a more quiet way. Relatives were present from Toronto, Blackwater, Port Perry, Lindsay, Sonya, Scugog. Myrtle, Oakwood, Burekton, Newmarket | Oshawa, Little Britain, and Sea- 'grave, A very pleasant time was | spent. Mr. and Mrs. L. McDougall and daugziper, Mr. and Mrs, M McDou- gal, of Toronto, were visitors at the home of Mrs, W, Mark and Miss Lotgie on Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. R, Pollock and fam- ily of Uxbridge, visited Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Shunk on Sunday evening, Mr. and Mrs, H. Jewell, of Pine Dale, visited Mr. and Mrs, W. Clarke on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. Parker, and famjly of New Ontario and Mr. WW Butcher, of Woodville, visiting at the home: of Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott on Sunday, ' Mr. Geo, Bowden and Mr. F Billinghame, of Toronto, spent the week-end iwth friends, Rev. Mr. B. F. Green spending a holiday at Long Point Miss Marion Eagleson spent a few days last week with friends at Uxhridge Mr. and Mrs. I. Beadle have re- turned home from. a visit with re- latives in the States. leased to report Mrs. S.J 'Wooldridge able to be home from the Port Perry Hospital, also Gar- field Stone and improving in health as well as expected, Mr. and Mrs. F. Snyder and daughter of Toronto, spending a week with the farmer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Snyder Mr, and Mgs. Jas. Harding in To- ronto on Tuesday and were ac- companied by the latter's sister, Mrs. Brochel, of Woodstock, who will spend a holiday with her duagh- ter, Miss Ruth Brochel. Misses Laura and Hazel Mark, of Toronto, spending a holiday with Seagrave and Zion played a friendly game of baseball on Tucs- day evening. The score was in favor of Seagrave. Miss Viola Wilson, of Fenelon Falls has been engaged as teacher for our public school for the com- ing term. We wish her success, Mr, and Mrs. Dunn and family of Toronto, are guests of the lat- ter's sister, Mrs. S. J. Wooldridge on Sunday. Miss Laura Orchard, of Port Per- ry, visiting at the home of Mr, and Mrs. A. L, Orchard. Mr. L. Séott spending a few days in Petérboro' this week with his brother who is confined to his bed through illness. Miss Alma Frise and Mrs. F. Qrose, visitors to Lindsay on Tues- aay. The school trustees paid a flying visit to Fenelon Falls on Tuesday. Mr, and Mrs. H, Wanamaker and sons, Bertrum and Glen and form- er's mother, Mrs J, Wanamaker, attended the King re-union at Lit- tle Britain on Wednesday, "He must be blind and deaf and dumb who cannot see and hear the signs of the times."--Nicholas Mur- ray Butler. "We must take human nature as it is, with all its absurdities, and try to divert them into harmless channels."--Dean Inge. "My idea of .Socialism is to bring about a state of things in which every man in the country will be a possible husband for every woman," ~George Bernard Shaw. "It is all evident to informed | people that no country in the exist- ing state of the world can be self- contained."--W. W. Atterbury. "Biography has suffered from be- ing like club sandwiches--toast on top and underneath, with irrelevant matter in between."--Philip Gue- dalla. "I hear your son is getting on." "Rather. Two years ago he wore my old suits--now I wear his." Reno Visitor--So0 you found that being married on a Friday brought you bad luck? Ditto -- Yes, the court house closed at noon and I couldn't get my divorce till Monday. Mother--And if that young man who is taking you out tonight asks you for a kiss tell him "no." Daughter--But, Ma, they don't Apprentice--*"You want me to clean the office? You said you had a man for rough work." Chief--*'So we have. lects the debts." He col- "Most men do not realize that a process of wooing is necessary after marnage."--Bertrand Russell, "A machine age cannot be a stu- pid age." It has to be a highly in- telligent one."--Thomas A. Edison ---- "Let no man think that the living standards of one country "can be maintained at a measurably higher level that those of other civilized nations."--Owen D, Young. CAR ON FIRE The firemen had their first run in some time on Sunday after uoon, when they were called the corner of Athol and Simcoe streets at 5.17 p.m. to extinguish a fire which had broken out in a car owned by Mr. Lownie, 79 Gibbs street, The, pumper unit and four men responded to the call and put out the fire with a pyrene extinguish- er before on damage had been gufferd by the car. The London Life i Barometer of Business (Eighth ip a Series) A RECORD WEEK July 6 to 11, 1931 $3,435,000 uring D New Insurance Issued the past 8 weeks nineteen million dollars of new insurance has been purchased by Canadians in this Company as a means of estab- lishing financial security for thems selves and their families. Life insurance for protection of de- pendents accounts for the major pro- portion of sales, but life insurance for investment purposes is increasing .by leaps and bounds. The London Life's financial position makes it a leader for this class of business. non-speculative, and the rate of in- terest earned on its entire invested assets has averaged over 6.5% for the past five years. ondon Life Insurance Gompany "Canada's Ind Its investments are all ol Ded C » ask for 'em any more, - y ry JULY SALES Two Outstanding Values For This Event Price, yard, . SILK RAYON That popular fabric in 8 of the new shades. 36 in. wide. July Sale Per Yard ......... = DRESS FABRICS 29c yd. Printed Broadcloth, Printed Voiles, English Prints, English Broadcloth, Silk Velvachine. Reg. up to 95¢c. July Sale Price, I EE ER I a) 2c serene... their sister, Mrs. A. 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