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a - - ing that they had received unex- o FPF IR I FER ite le ane ee HALLOWE "BUSY EVENING AT CLAREMONT Young Folks Made Merry, and Some Farmers Had . Surprises ; Claremont, Nov. 3--Hallowe'en has come and 'gone for another year and some of our younger set made goode use of it, as they spent a few busy lours on Saturday even- ing. In fact they were so indus- trious that their labors were not ended when the midnight hour ar- rived. As a result some of our citizens discovered on Sunday morn- pected donations during the night, while others, including a few of the nearby farmers, found a shortage belongings next day. | village trustees quietly watched a One of our generous donation being piled in front of his place of business at a late hour, and when he considered the donation complete he kindly invited the donors to remove it to the place from whenee it came, so being of accommodating disposition they promptly did as they were bid- den. : - A number of the smaller children thoroughly enjoyed their Hallowe'en outing in the carly evening when they called at several homes and received a hearty welcome as well as treats of candy and other good things. Social Functions ; The High School Continuation Class celebrated Hallowe'en at the school last Thursday night when teachers, pupils and ex-pupils spent a jolly cvening. The public school pupils held their celebration on Fri- day when they too spent a happy evening. The Badminton Club held a dance in the Community Hall on Friday evening, October 30th when Brown's Orchestra furnished excel- when they took inventory of their lent music for the occasion. The attendance was not so large as had been anticipated as most of the near by town and villages were having a. dance on the same evening. Those who attended report & most enjoy- able time. ; * Aid Met The Ladies' Aid of the United Church held their October meeting in the basement 'of the church on Thursday afternoon, October 29th. The hour for meeting has been changed from 3 to 4 o'clock as most of the outsiders do not come for their supper until 5.30 or 6 o'clock. Hostesses for the October supper were Mesdames Bacon, Cooper, Cook, R. Ward and Vine. Miscellaneous Shower On Monday evening about seven- ty-five of Miss Grace Mundell's friends assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Scott and sure prised her with a miscellancous shower of useful and beautiful gifts, Among them were included valu- able articles of linen, a large collec- tioin of bridal rose china, several pieces of silver and numerous other useful and pretty gifts of varied design. The bride to be was taken | | few other friends had been supper guests at the Scott home. t 9 o'clock seventy-five of Miss Mun- dell's friends entered en masse, pre- ceded by oné of their number who layed "Here Comes the Bride." The large den which previously had been decorated for the occasion, was thrown open and Miss Mundcli invited to enter. Here she found herself surrounded by parcels of all shapes and sizes. Two young girls, Miss Marion Kilpatrick and Miss Enid Cook, dressed as bride and groom assisted Miss Mundell in opening the numerous parcels in the presence of the large* assembly of guests, After tie gifts had been viewed and the many witty verses read all engaged for a time in community singing led by Mrs, D. A. Scott. The remainder of the evening was spent in playing cards and in social intercourse, Sympathy Extended Mrs. I. F. Dopking has the sin- cere sympathy of a wide circle of friends in her recent bereavement from the sudden and unexpected death of her brother, Mr. Roy, of Buffalo, on Oct. 23rd. Mr, Roy had been spending a few weeks with his sister here convalescing from the effects of a major opera- tion when word was received that their mother was critically ill at her home in Buffalo. 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SN ATLANTIC & PAC IFIC TEA C0. suddenly succumbed to heart failure, He leaves a wife and family of small children in Buffalo. The mother's condition still remains serious. 5 The Badminton Club is planning to go to Toronto on Wednesday evening to have a friendly contest and spend a social evening with the Badminton Club of St. Ann's Church. . Rev. H. R. Steven's subject last Sunday morning was "Some Plain Words on the Drink Question." In the course of his sermon he im- parted some valuable advice and in- formation on a question vital to all thoughtful Christians. Mr. Goddard, Balsam, gave a most interesting address ta the members of the United Church Sunday School on Sunday morning. He is visiting the different schools of the township in behalf of the Sun- day School Association. M. J. and Mrs. Wilker spent the week-end with relatives in Clarc- mont. Ivan Benson who has been sec- tion foreman of the C.P.R. at Agin. court for the past two years, has accepted a similar position for the east section at Claremont, and is moving his family to Wm. Birkett's house at North Claremont which has been occupied by Mr. McLaren and family for some time. Miss J. Pilkey returned home last week after a visit with relatives at Strathroy. Mrs. Williamson, of Pefferlaw, has been the guest of Mrs. J. Read- man during the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Pennell and little daughter, of Toronto, were week- end guests of the James McCul- lough family. Walter and Mrs. Ward had a business trip to the city on Satur- day last. A. McGlashan and Mrs. Miss \ Little are visiting friends in Tor- onto this week. NEWCASTLE FOLK WELL ENTERTAINED Company Presented an Excellent Program | (Miss Cora Butler, Correspondent) | Newcastle, Nov. J~-- Newcastle | Community Hall was certainly given over to the spooks last week. For three nights, Johnston, the magician, practiced his black arts to a bewildered gathering. Tt was nothing to have gold fish swim- ming through the air--for swim- ming they must have to have been caught on Jalinston's casting lines, thrown nonchalantly over the wdience. Nor was it unusual to liave pigeons and nice fat tame ducks step jauntily out of cans or iars which the same were positive- {ly empty and void but a few mom- | i ents previously, and then on Thurs- | | duy night the recreation room be- low the great hall took on a de- | Bert Johnston and His, | cidedly spooky air of witches and i hosts walked hand in hand with fairics, grotesque old men, beautiful ladies who were not ladies and kindly sisters of charity. | Clowns | gambeled about and life size pea. | nuts and pumpkins walked about as if they, were quite alive. "The le casion was the annual masquer- ule party given by the Young Peo- 'c's League of the United Church. There were judges with the always lifficult task of choosing the best 'rom so many deserving of the 1ame.. Some of the prize winners ere best dressed lady, a Spanish lady, this lady was really beautiful ind the judges were rather discon. crted, to say the least, when the lady turned out to be a boy, Harold Deline. Best girl's costume~--Jean Rickard as the Spirit of Hallowe'en | Best comic, Miss Powers as a Plan- ter's Peanut. Best couple, two nuns, Mrs. Cooke and Mrs. Jones. Best child, a victorian age child-- Pauline Deline. On Thursday evening last, the Women's Auxiliary of St. George's Church gave an illustrated lecture in the Parish Hall. The subject was "The Byways of India" and was taken by Mrs. Mabel Lindsay. Mrs. Lindsay spent some time in India and made the lecture especially in- teresting. The silver collection taken at the door went to the funds of the W.A, Rev. Lorne Thomas of Ridgeway is visiting his mother and sister, Mrs. D. J. Galbraith 'spent the week-end in Toronto. Mr. Gowan Ardagh was home for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs, H."H. Ardagh have taken a furnished house in South Rosedale, Toronto for the winter months. They intend leaving this week for the city. The Women's Association of the United Church are holding their annual bazaar on Wednesday of this week and next week on Thurs. day St. George's Church are hav- ing their apnual Harvest supper. he funeral of Mr. Ernest Haigh was held on Monday afternoon in St. George's Church in the presence of a large gathering of sympathetic friends. The rector, Rev. F. Mason, took the service, assisted by the Rev. W. J. Todd of Bowmanville. Interment took place at Bond Head Cemetery, 4 Mrs. Stinson and Miss Frances tinson motored down from Tor. [onto _and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs." Geo. Eilbeck. Mrs. D. B. Simpson has been with Mr. and Mrs. ID J. Galbraith for a few days. Miss Hazel Barrie of Oshawa teaching staff, spent the week-end with Mr. Walter Couch and' Miss Couch. \ "Hit The Pike" Lindsay. ~~Marching orders were issued to the hoboes staying at the "jungle" near the Iron Bridge when local and C. N. R. police told the lads who were staying there to "hit the pike," and the building was officially padlocked and declared out of bounds, Far from being in the straightened circumstances some people say, the "boes" had good sleeping quarters with beds and blankets, two stoves and seem- ed to have plenty of grub, evidently | the fruit of their . panhandling among kind-hearted local citizens KATHLEEN NO Maggie Johnson, whose father iz 'a {etter-carrier, her mother, & lazy wo- man who has "seen better days," and her sister a boot-legger's sweetheart who works in a beauty parlor, is stock rl in the "Mack' 'storgs, the Pive-and- 'en of Ban Francisco, A y whom she knows only as "Joe Grant,' but is really Joseph Grant MacKenzie Merrill, son of the owner of the "Mack" starting learning the business b at the . Joe Is impressed, however, by Maggie's in- ce and dl gives her advice on the subject nearest her L] 6 used to know don't Imter- | est him ss much ss Maggle . and When Mag frie Siscsoe her love In a alous e } iors her, loo A realizes that be 02 is afrald that If Maggie finds out who he really is she will not have anythinging more to do with him. he pretends that it is some other fel- low's car when he takes her home in bis big yellow roadster. - And on the way they talk, at last, about marriage. Joe that night reveals to his father or the first time that he has been working in the Store under an as- name, an t Massie. ells bim about 0¢'s mother has him invite Maggie to a fine dinner party at a fashions bio Jntaurant. W se Maggle gets her mation that h som besides a boy in the ce ing NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | INSTALMENT -X1I Quiet! He had never seen her so' quict, She had conquered her first suffocating rush of shyness, she was sitting erect, and when he or his mother or father spoke, she answer- ed, | Her look told him that he had be- trayed her, delivered her, bound and helpless, to her enemies. hi! 5 trusted you--I loved you when you | were a shabby, dirty errand clerk. | beside me in a cheap store," said' Maggie's eyes, "and all the time you! were my employer's son, ready to make fun of me, ready to shame me --when your moment camel" { She helped herself, awkwardly, unfamiliarly, to food, when it was presented at her left elbow op tie ig platters, But he noted with a! cal pang of thame and concern shat she hardly touched it. i "Would you ask the help if I could have gom2 more water?" she! sald once, And Mrs, Merrill said quite audibly, if in an aside, "Oh! wricsless)" Joe ced down, his face dark. "Mother ing. A faint smile touched the older | woman's painted mouth, and she sald graciously: "Water to Miss Johnson," Mrs. Merrill sald, annoyed. It was the | walter's business to sec that the Quest's glass was filled, but Mrs. Merrill "felt {logically irritated with the guest who had had to call ate tention to the onvisston. | a a fork, please," Maggie ad- | ded. She said it so low, with such em- barrassment, that nobody heard it. "And a fork, please," Maggie re- peated, audibly now. "A fork for my fish" she sald clearing her thoat. "And a fork-- while veu're up." i "Whil2 you're un!" Mrs. Merrill's lips twitched, as if unwillingly. Her sardcnie, triumphant glance, as it met Joe's wretchw!, defiant gaze. expressed a certain reluctance to 'augh at his unfortunate little hum- bla friend, but an inability to re- only this afternoon, and he asked | ist the tremendous temptation, In such a situation as this to- night the could score. Not very, clever, not really she wes still enough of each to snub and sunpress Maggie Johnson. She enjoyed the chance. To feel herself the girl's sunerior, to cut her easily | and carelessly in a bored. beautiful cultivated volce gave Lilllan Mer- vill real satisfaction. . She had been, a girl, of that mis- erable and superfluous class known as shabby genteel. i At twenty-five, Lilllan was sharp, eager, beautiful, hungry. She fell upon George Merrill with avidity; | he was commoner, but he was rich. He was the first real man she had ever met, and to her own sur-| prise and confusion she had come to like him very much, to feel a; strange loyalty and admiration for her commoner. His indifference to | her family's ideals and opinions was --well, simply breath-taking, In the more than twenty years of their marriage, George Merrill had changed her somewhat. He was a zood, simple fellow, amezed at his own success, proud of his wife, adoring his boy. It was at about this time, when by her brightened eyes and ner. vous voice, and by the two scarlet spots that blazed in her cheeks, Maggie betan to show the effects of the surprise and the: strain, that George Merrill suddenly took a hand in the conversation. He had been an almost silent spectator, so far, watching his wife: and his son shrewdly, sendin~ an occasional glance toward the girl, "You work in the Stores, . Miss Jobnson?" "In Number Scven--on Eight. Yes, sir," "How long have you been there? you don't lcok old enough to have been there very long?" The kind. deliberata voles stead. fed her, She breathered easier, looked hi min the eye. "I'm eighteen, I went in nearly four years ago, when I finished Grammar, Mv father and mother had considerable trouble." "Your father's living, then?" "My father's a postman." George Merrill flushed with gen- uine concern: he had been trying to put her at her ease, "Well," he said pleasantly, "I think I owe that store a debt of, gratitude. My son, Joe, here, seems to have gotten a lot more out of it than he ever did out of college!" Marais looked -at him unemo- tionally. ; "He didn't do very well there, for awhile" she admitted quietly, "but now he is doing verv well--aood--" the changed it again, under her ~ 1s | ten hold of, "I beg pardon?" | | eyes reading all their faces, | Mrs. !inly pronounced name, breath--"very well. They all like him." "I'm proud to hear it," George Merrill said thankfully, "Maggle," Joe began at this point uncomfortably, "thought that I was the dumbest thing she had ever got- She gave me my first start." "I didn't know who he was," she explained, with a patient glance at his mother, Something happened to Merrill in that second. "You had no idea who Joc was?" "Nobody did," sald Maggie. "What did you call yourself, Joe?" his mother erked. Joe Grant." There was an interruption. A dance had ended, and a girl and young man came up to the Merrills' table. Joe and his father stood up, Mrs, eo 2nd 2 waiter pulled up another chair, and the girl--perfumed and didn't you Maggie? | dark hair in untidy strings penesthl it, and the voluminous black cape she wore to funerals bellying about her like a sail, was the target for all the eycs in the room, Maggie felt her mouth fil: with salt water, and her throat thicken! and her legs grow weak, She said, ave my father and mother, oe." Jog had the walter once again drag two chairs to the table, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, obviously dazed and astonished, sat down and were' introduced. "I .ast him was there someone here named Grant, and he ays, 'No, " said Mrs. Johnson, "It was just luck I happened to look In the door and seen Maggie," "What is it, Pop? Why'd you come?" "Mazgle, 8 cop just eome .to the house," her mother sald abruptly. "That feller 'Lizabeth runs with Massie felt her legs mother, grow weak. She said: "That's my father "and 4 Joe" rouged and beautifully gowned--sat down negligently and easily and was iniroduced to Maggie Johnso Miss Millicent Russell studied other girl col as she talked. "Joe, 1 hear you're going to Jap- an?" sald Mi Mrs, M something of a litt ner to-night | thought he was going to-morrow?" | The colour drained from Maggie ~" he murmured, chok- face. Mrs. Merrill laughed unsasily | (as she said: "Well, I think fit settled, isn't it, Jog?" Millicent, -her bright, is. practically mischievous chang the subject tactfu'» anf ieeantly went 'on her way, Tuen VM ggle, in the little pause thet foMcwed thé other girl's chatteri end latghing good-hyes, said ¢ "I'm going to « 'l you ex- cuse me and let me go home now, Merrill. I cughun't to have come--I know that. But I didn't | understand. Ycu and his father have been pretty well worried about me, maybe, But it was becausa I i thought Joe was a poor boy-- and thet, if he loved her, he'd be glad to marry a girl as poor as me!--Don't speak to me, Joe, I'm dona with you |--to-night. I never would have come here, ma'am," she gdded, to Mrs. Merrill, "I never wculd have given you any worry--if I had known. We were working together, ged me would I meet his folks--" She faltered for a second, went on. " thought maybe you and Mr, Gran little pltce like we have. I might have known--I might have known Joe wasn't like the rest of us!" "He'll go to Japan to-morrow," sald Maggle, looking Joe full in the face, "and that's right--that's what he ought to do, And I promise you ~--I promise you that I'll never see him again!" "I don't think kh» meant to hurt you, Miss Johnsoa" Mrs. Merrill sald, "That's"all right," she said in a cold, nervous voice. "I guess: he didn't know how it would strike me. Will you please excuse me if go home now?" "Walt just a minute, won't you-- | Maggie?" George Merrill said. And in his turn he laid an arrest- ing hand upon her arm. The voice, grave and sympathetic and distressed, shook her, as did the touch, and the somewhat halt- For the first time she showed signs of a break. . "Maggie," Joe sald pleadingly, "you know we had planned--you know I never meant to hurt you." "I think, dear, that Miss Johnson feels nervous and tired, and your deceiving hor about your name and who you are has upsst her. I wouldn't say anything more about this just now, Joe." "You doen't have to come with me," Maggie said stonily, to Joe. And she turned to the older man. "Thank you, Mr. Merrill, Good- night." And even while she said it, he saw her eyes mave beyond him to the door of the room and saw her face whiten. She sank down weakly into her seat again. : The party in which Millicent Russell was prominent was still lingering about its big round table, and all of its members and everyone else In the room were staring, as Maggie was, at the man and woman who were somewhat hesitatingly, making their way across the floor, restrained, rather than guided, by the scandalized headwaliter. | It was all like a horrible dream to Mageie, exhausted, configed, and wearied almost beyond bearing this fresh blow. The approaching couple: were her father, diffident and bashful and frightened. and her mother, acitated and bold. Pop's shabby old suit, bacgy and limp, Pop's searching. rabbit eyes and bowed, meek little shoulders, looked doubly pitiful here, and Ma: with the .black veil falling imnres sively from the hat she had evident- ly assumed in great haste, and the mfortably, insolently,| |] | has been arrested, and she's at.the | night court, n | know what to do! he | word that nothing like this has ever Pop and me didn't 1 gave you my d in our family before," mnsan sald, genteely, yet in { shame, to Mrs. Merrill. the charge?" George ¢d sharply, z they were speedin'," Mazgie's moter, Yan' ny daughter's friend is Chess Riyers--had some bh in the car" "You'll want some. money!" , George Merrill said suddeniy. "How much have you?™* A | "It happens that Y ain't'got ai than a quarter," Len Johnson Said, in his reedy, troubled -little--voice. | "But we reely couldn't take it frem you" Ma added. "I 's'pose young folks will be young folks," i she said to Mrs, Merrill, "and it {ain't as if'Liz had been stealifig or anything like that. Put I thought | T would drop where I stood when | that cop walked in. I'm not-accus- | tomed to having my daughfer get { into any trouble--" : | "Ma" Maggie sald. And, Joe's | father noted that she 'only touched | the older woman on the arm. But | her mother immediately began a of rotary curtseying in fare happene Mrs, ; sort | well "Maggle--Maggle--why dé you go --whv do you mix yourself up in i this?" Joe sald wretchedly and in- | coherently, trying to draw her asida, catching her by the arm. Maggie was on her feet now, shep herding: her father and ig away. | Hf QNO.Linmes. | 1010 S'Antoine S¥ = REAL | Bladder Troubles Bother Many . ast 40 TRE Seven Out of Ten Are Victims But Writer Tells How "Uratabs" Bring Swift, Amazing Relief With Renewed Vital Force "No one knows better than I, the horror of joyless days and sleepless nights. 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