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the georgetown herald wednesday evening april 9th 1941 hawkhewind three dogs yapping flung them selves suddenly out of the dark and around the house virgle morgan pressed switches the terrace out side ivycovered and glittering now with ice was suddenly illumined and as swhftly the dogs were still she could see them aut there now in the drizzle taut as so many ca nine statues facing tf tall figure in a tan raincoat and limp rain soaked hat there was another rap on the door and she could hear a calm slow voice masculine with youth in it speaking quietly to the dogs out side behind her lossie begged dont open it mis morgan let me call andrew shushl virgie was curt cer tainly ill open it its one of the boys likely don t be a fool oh she said as the briny gust of the night rushed in the open door how do you do good evening out of a strange white young face strange dark eyes regarded her a man a young man whom she had never seen before i he began hoarsely smiling in a wan dazed way seem to be lost i saw your light come in out of the wet virgie ordered lossie was making tittle frightened expos tulatory noises but virgie paid no attention my feet are pretty muddy the stranger objected his voice had the sound of cities in it his clothes had never obviously been made for mountain travel they were sod den soil stained briar torn come along in repeated virgie firmly where were you headed lossie make some hot coffee right away for youre a long way off the high way this road doesn t go any far ther this young man she was certain was no thug his face was star tlingly pale with hollow shadows under the eyes i didn t come by the highway he removed the dripping hat and she knew then that she had been right about him he had a good head his eyes looked at her honest ly though haggardly and he could not be much past twenty five i was trying to find the highway 1 came over the mountain my heavens virgie exclaimed warming to him as she denied sons warmed to everything young and male except bry hutton you mean you ve been walking weather like this come up here by the fire never mind the mud this house is used to mud lossie make some not coffee right away you d bet ter take that soggy coat off quick young fellow and let it dry out how on earth did you get lost on the mountain the stranger sank into a chair slipping wearily out of the dripping coat he seemed at the point of ut ter exhaustion his breath came in tired gusts his hands shook i came in with johnston s out- at he said we were making es timates an some road building for the government we started to leave tuesday thai was iive roaming around these mountains since tues day she demanded i must have been it seemed like a couple of years to me you see 1 was starting on ahead to send a couple of telegrams from the filling station down there at the crossroads and the test of the otrtv fit were supposed to pick me up when the baggage was loaded so i walked down the mountain road and i saw what i thought was cer tainly a short cut down to the store a perfectly plain trail cod made by a be probably or d hogs or hunters supplied vlr- sjie putting more wood on the blaze then in a little bit you found that you were lost men born and raised iif these mountains have been lost iver there in those laurel hells son polks who know these hills respect hem we don t gp up there in the big timber without a guide even i don t and i ve lived here in the shadow of those big peaks and cut umber on them for a lot of years you were mighty lucky to get out alive if you ask me the young man laughed wearily i know that very well i wen around in a circle for a while kept looming back to the same big pop lar rhododendron over my head- no light no path my boys said virgie found a man over toward huggin s once i didn t call up to be petted bry this is business i want to go to sally gallup s that mountain road ts muddy and mother will fuss u 1 drive it myself you u have to take me oh look here sweetness tt s raining and cold as hell can i you call sally on the phone can t you wait till tomorrow it might freeie over by that time i want to go today if you don t want to take me bry i 11 call somebody else well don t do that if you ab solute ly have to go i li take you but it s a nutty idea if you ask me there s no sense to it nobody asked you and perhaps there isn t any sense to it bry will you take me to asheville instead sure stick around i 11 be there no 1 won t stick around i m going into town now she spoke hurriedly a car was stopping oul side in a mon enl branford wills would be goinj down those stairs i ii meet you at the drug store bry she said as she hung up rain beat through the open win dow of her little car as she lore down the mountain the wheels lurched and skidded on muddy turves but she was reckless and heedless she had to get away an ger rode her like an imp of white flame anger hat hurt the stiff fiber id her that she had from her father that odd fierce honesty that could be both intolerant and tender was tortured by the thought of weak ness 6f surrender how could she have been so weak so easy she braced herself so hard on the steer ng wheel that her knuckles ached she did not like bry hutton par ticularly she did not care particu larly for any man she had met as yet they were all too obvious too aware of the fact that virgie mor gan was supposed to be a rich worn an they were too glib or too dim dent they got their conversation and iher manners from pulp magazines or moving pictures they were coun try college men did not stay in little towns they went ranging seeking wider opportunities and those who came in from outside like stanley daniels came with an air of condescending superiority she went around with bry as los sie had so shrewdly surmised to iet her own way and because bry as stimulating being with him was a constant batt e and dominat mg him was an achievement for any woman marian rather liked the struggle to keep bry aloof to main lain her delicate arrogant remote ness and she had to get away to stop thinking about branford wills lean sardonic face at the drug store she parked her car and went inside the one clerk swabbed off the top of the counter and said what for you marian i m just waiting she shook the rain from her coat has mother betn in not this morning she s been try ing to find perry bennett lucy and mildred were calling all over town i guess they found him 1 called a while ago and told lucy i saw him sjoing into piute s shoeshop i dsked her if she wanted me to yell ai him but she said never mind marian stood near the door watching she was sorry she had told bry to come here every one n town would know in no time that he had gone off somewhere with nm but that might be just as well if every one knew it ada clark would know it and the sharp- nnsect girl who was head nurse su oerintendent and manager of the msurd little hospital would know it ultimately by the sheer saturating ffect of knowledge in small places branford wills would also know u she waited until bry was actually in the store and then said with elab- rate castralness if you re going ver to te court house bry do you i md if i ride along with you i ave to see a dentist and mother vorries when i dr on wet roads a weekly review of developments on the heme fruit t march april 3 1 canada a special interests in de fence of newfoundland safeguard fa supplementary protocol to united statesunited kingdom agreement covering 89year agreement lease of bases protocol recognizes that de fence of newfoundland is integral feature of canadian scheme of de fence and therefore of special con cern to canadian government pro vides that in au actions taken in regard to base leased in newfoundland canadian defence interests will be fully respected b that nothing in agreement ahall affect arrangements regarding newfbudland defence made in pursuance of recommendations by us canada joint defence board o that in all consultations concern ing newfoundland arising out of agreement canadian as veil as new foundland government shall have right to participate under the agreement the united kingdom leased to the united states defence bases stretching from new foundland to british guiana in return for fifty overage destroyers 2 war appropriation bill for 1300 000 passes final parliamentary stages 3 production of steel ingots and castings in february rose to 173 606 tons from 140313 tons in february 1040 4 contracts awarded by department of munitions and supply during week ended march 21 numbered 1 860 and totalled 39373 683 ships and aircraft called for the largest orders yarrows ltd of vic toria bc got a shipbuilding order for 1312 000 canadian oar and foundry montreal got bwo aircraft orders one of 1469880 the other of 1802 700 united states orders amounted to 13 03563 5 production of canadian automo bile plants not turning out cars be fore december 2 limited under order of motor vehicle controller 6 decennial census to be taken on june 2 7 save to win is nationwide ap peal of the salvage campaign which opens april 14 billboards newspaper advertising and radio commentary are to drive home the imperative need for avoiding waste 8 index number of living caste on the base 19351939 equals 100 fell slightly from 1063 in january to 1062 in february living costs in february were 73 per cent above the level in august 1939 9 canada now producing enough aluminium to go into 50 000 planes annually 10 department of munitions and supply places order for 39 flying boats 11 canadian air force announce urgent need of 2500 radio technicians who will be given a short intensive course in radio work and sent overseas to take their place in the ground de fence against aerial attack of the bri tish isles poetry when the apple pit wa3 opened note in the not too distant past many fanners would pit their surplus apples potatoes and other hoe crops when they did not have inside storage facilities to protect them through the winter the process is given in the poem herewith when we opened the apple pit early in spring no one but a boy knew the joy it would bring there were greenings pound pippins and russets and spies forapptesauce dumplings and deep apple pies there were sheep noses totamns and snows just to eat and a big yellow kind oh so lusciously sweet how we youngsters would munch em youd think wed neer stop although there were bushels to last till next crop twas a real happy job when those apples wed stow in the pit in the fall gainst the cold winter snow wed select a small rise whete the ground was some high so the water d run off and the place would be dry then wed dig out the pit and fill it with straw dump the apples on top but not one with a flaw then we d lay on more straw till wed hid every bit next wed cover it all with the dirt from the pit fc then wed add still more dirt from a trench round about to make sure that in winter the frost would stay out vent boles in the top we would wedge with straw tight then that old pit would he through the long winter night but then bwould be opened so early next spring no one but a boy knew the joy it would bring ralph gordon 628 crawford st toronto dance every wednesday night oddf dlows hall brampton gibson boyd orchestra dancing 9 ujn to 1 ajn djst regular admission the georgetown herald news of georgetown nerval glen wlbusns unwbsvss mswarttsw balunafa and tsm oatta 3tjb6greptkjw hatsss canada 160 a year united states 200 year single copies so advertising bates will be qwoted on appussuon walter o bikhn oarpibld l mooilvrat leslie clark reginald broombead phone no i member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec drvistou of the o wjna bssmps new telephone directories issued 735 telephones in georgetown gain of 39 last year featuring a green cover wth a mes sage on the back urging the purchase of war savings stamps and certificates georgetown s new telephone directory is being distributed the book which bears the official title of brampton- orangevllle newmarket directory lists such towns as milton erin shettmrne aurora and sutton as well as our town statistics show a gain of 35 installa tions in georgetown last year mak ing a total of 736 telephones in use at present other towns show similar gains with brampton jumping from 1427 to 1403 oakville 1330 to 1369 and milton 648 to 666 the back cover of the new direc tory has been donated by the bell telephone company to promote the war savings campaign this is fa une with the advertising pogkoy of the company this year with littjs of the sales promotion flavour of years gone by rather it is more informative and shows the impor tant part the telephone and tele phone people play in canada s war t ifort war savings stamps and certificates are an sale at all bell telephone offices since there are thousands of new and changed listings in the alpha betical section alone the need for destroying the old book and care fully consulting the new one be fore placing calls is obvious if the wrong number nuisance is to be avoided the green cover will make it easy to distinguish the new book from the old altogether more than 8 000 volumes of the directory are printed of this total nearly 1 000 are distributed in georgetown the r glo to subscribers in surrounding communl among the many hot potatoes hit ler is holding is poland the poles publish many underground newpa- pers secretly circulated slogan of one of these sheets is to suffer de feat but not surrender is a victory lotsdfw i when yoa want to tree t the children or mother ai dad to a trip send thai by highway cruiser for c happy and carefree jonmr 4 v ake q care tickets w 0mat1on at w h long phone s gray coach lines welcome the wrens by h l hutt two of our most welcome summer visitors are johnny and jenny wren after a restful winter holiday in the sunny south they come north to re sume housekeeping and raise a family of healthy youngsters their trip north is timed to insure comfortable nesting and a bountiful supply of juicy insects to support a growing family they are due to ar rive in georgetown the first week in may and there will be no doubt about the time of their arrival for as soon as johnny gets his breath after an all nights travel we will hear his first cheery trill just at daybreak in his anxiety to lose no time and have everything in readiness for jennys arrival johnny usually comes a day or two ahead of jenny looks over all the nesting places and has one nicely selected and cleaned up for her like most housekeepers she has to have her ovn way and often prefers one quite different from what her husband thought just the thing of course he knows there is no use arguing about it and both get busy carrying little sticks and hairs and feathers to make the nest in the selection of a building site their two worst enemies have to be considered that is the cat and eng uah sparrow and here is where we humans can do ourselves and them a good turn by providing a few bird- houses that will make them safe against both all that is required is a little box measuring four or five indies inside with a one inch hole for a doorway just big enough to let in the wrens and keep out the sparrows this should be hung in a shady spot out of reach of cats anyone who has taken this bit of trouble for them can testify that ithey pay the rent in fall by services rendered in the garden with lots of cheerful ingjng thrown in for good measure wrens have no use for the modern idea of small families no one and only spoiled child for them two broods in a season and from tour to seven in each brood is what they count on as the proper thing and they hunt a home for the second brood before the first has left the nest so it is well to have at least bwo houses ready tor each pah- of wrens it is a good plan to hang the box where they can be easily seen from the house windows we am will ing to bat dollars to dnufteatsr wul provide more good entertainment for a couple of mont than many of the m movies to encourage boys and gtrls to pro vide plenty of such bird houses in town this year the local bortteul- tumi society la offering eight prises totalling iono to punas of the pub lic and hjgllbchop for the most suit able bird houses for any kind of srd the same to be ready for the birds by the first of hay and to be shown and judged at the fall pair in sep-