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wr 1 1 jyt ii the georgetown herald wednesday evening april 2nd 1941 chapteb i virgte morgan shut the front doer k her house locked hvchainexmt peaned against it her knees fluid fher heart poundmg the old fool she choked with jury the addleheadedt pathetic impudent old foolt hot red surged into her strong shrewd face then it ebbed a lit tle she pushed back a gray wave of hair yutth a gesture naive and disturbed she was fiftytwo a tall strong woman with power in every inch of her tallness in the wide de cisive gentleness of her mouth in her steady gray eyes her proud tnose which dominated her features without dwarfing them her feet sat solidly on the pol ished floor her clothes well made and not cheap fitted her muscular body forsaking style for utility her chest was deep and her thighs stur dy but with all this anchored sta bility she was now one quivering tumult of outraged nerves a man had asked her to marry him and tn sudden wrath half shame and half consternation she had put him out of her house now she could hear his car roaring around her drive swerving past the rhododendrons and the tall stone posts gathering speed as it swooped into the descending road wallace withers whom she had known alt her life going home in a rage because she had slammtd her door upon him pulling herself together with some difficulty vrrgie went to the mirror straightened her collar looked her self coldly up and down her feet wavering slightly her head spinning she stumbled into her bbrary which she still stubbornly called the sitting room a log fire burned there there were books in autumnal colors along two walls and over the stone mantel an en iarged photograph of a middle aged man with an alert nervous face black hair and cool calculating iblue eyes virgie looked up at this portrait swallowed grimly and achingly tightened her cold hands into fists you missed a lot david she said aloud i reckon it s just as well a door at the far end of the room moved slightly virgie scowled at it come along in lossie she napped if you want to listen come in where you wont miss any thing a girl with a dull face and oraujr hair waved stiffly slid into the room i heard you talkin i thought maybe you was calhn me you heard me all right virgie was grim i suppose you heard mr withers too listen to me los- sie wilson if you drop a word around marian youre fired you hear me yes m 1 wouldn t say anything or nothing mis morgan i didn t bear real good anyhow you want anything mis morgan tea heat up the coffeepol you javen t washed it 1 know bring me a cup of coffee strong and no augar is marian in yet no tn she ain t yet she went to ahe second show maybe virgie wandered to the window uneasily its starting to sleet again she s got no business driv big that car up this mountain in a yes m but she will thougn it aint any use saying anything to her the cojee was hot and black and warmed by it virgie morgan re- taxed a uttle her anger had turned chill stiffened to selfscorn she tiad let herself get out of control she had made wallace withers mad that he had made her fighting mad also did not excuse her she had known she realized now what was working in wallace with- rs mind for more than a year she had known when she had gone to bit brick house up the river at the time of his wifes death she had carried hot homemade bread and baked bam sbt had gone into the withers kitchen and supervised the excited whispering women there bad made coffee cor wallace with ers and prepared his supper with his wife tying stony dead and canceryellowed laid out in her best gray silk wallace had looked at vir gie then with approval and thought ful speculation in his slow drab yes a rich man a cansful man a man ho lusted tor power she knew now that she had seen then the birth rf an idea in wallace withers mind over that hot meal mat cup of cof fee and tonight here by her pleasant ore the idea had emerged tfuil grown ruthlessly practical dressed up in tight arguments launched in clipped perfected phrases as we see it by j a strang wallace had kept to his suave tone however wheedling smooth switching cleverly to the point that actually lurked in the back of his mind f the mill virgie s mill no womanly woman no gentle tenderhearted creature his march ing words averred ought to be wor ried with running a pulp mill and there was his timber land up river toward the gap txi buyh n you want to sell virgie interrupted tersely but wallace did not want to sell his eyes were on the mill on the mill that david morgan had built and virgie had run successfully ever since davids death it was then that virgie had lost her temper trying to tell me 1 didnt know enough to run my millf she snort ed now setting the coffeecup down on the hearth as though she had not steered the mijl successfully through the hard est years business had ever known in these carolina hills a whole year after david had had his stroke and for three years since no profits to speik of but no red ink either credit maintained and the quality of the morgan product kept to its high standard manufacturers who bought pulp from the morgan mills knew that they were getting the bebt virgie had fought for that as david had before her i d like the see the mill wallace withers would run the old chisel er she snorted fanning her dis gust anew she unbuttoned her shoes eased the straps over her plump ankles wandered to the window marian ought to be coming in the crazy young one it wasyafter ten and the wind was mine a blow cold drizzle blackened trie win dows and freezing made the hem locks bend and twist into tortured patterns it was the worst early siorm virgie could remember the 1 oys would grumble about going out into the woods tomorrow but two ti uckloads of seedlings had to be put out before the groundiroze hard and their roots dried lossie came in with the wood punched at the fire regarded her mistress staring out into the ugly night want 1 should wind the clock she inquired helpfully you always wind it too tight virgie objected id hate for that dock to get out of fix david brought it to me all the way from st louis once held it on his lap so the little bronze boy wouldn t get his arm broken off its company for me ticking and striking in the night marian thinks it looks terrible but marian thinks about everything in this house is old fashioned and tern ble including met lossie hunkered down poking at the embers said hesitantly it a none of my business mis mor gan that virgie was dry never deterred you yet when you had any thing on your mindt it s none of my business the girl went on in a little desperate pysh but i can t help seeing things she don t care a thing in this world lot bry hutton mis morgan not a thing in this world its just you make such a fuss about it she s stubborn she s always had her own way a lot she s had her own way too much marians mother set her mouth stiffly bry hutton can t drink and tear around like he does nnd then hang around my house she just wants her own way persis ed lossie with the brash fa mlharity of the old servant if you d just stop fussing about him let on like it didn t matter one way or another shed get tired of him rnignty quick but she likes a fuss going she tikes to get the best of t lossie if it wain t that you can make good butter ar ron napkins better than anybody ver had hi my kitchen id fir nu for your impudence no you wouldn i mis morgan you know what i say is so you want me to sit up till she comes in no you go to bed i want my breakfast before seven pm going up tn the woods with the boys rd better oil up your boots and set mm in a warm pmc then you got em terrible stiff the other day wading that branch 1 want sausage and corn muf- nha aad black coffee black not dirty gray shut that joortt makes s draught yesm if youd put in fur nace mis morgan it would save a tot all that ashes and dirt a lot of people have lived in this house lossie wilson and no body ever froze yet i heard somebody lossie tensed sounded like the front door most of us have our own favorite sport and at this time of the year we would be likely to state that sport would be hockey in the summer time though our opinions would like ly vary some localities prefer la crosse others baseball and still others aortfcall the latter seems to be gain ing in popularity and no doubt this is on account of the more thrills that the spectators have at a sottbau game usually there ate more runs scored than in hardball and runs of course means more excuses to cheer for a amaii summer game we prefer girls softball and when given half a chance it has become quite popular it might be interesting to note that south of the border according to at tendance figures it is basketball that is the most popular game in the usjl softball takes second place and hoc key gets the ninth position lacrosse too has its followers in the states the city of rochester new york state being perhaps the most enthusi astic american city for that game outside of heseball football and hoo key we hear or read very uttle american sports it would newer do though to sign oft this column without mentioning the great canadian game ttoat is so popular at this time of the year we refer to the game of marbles it seems to be as popular as ever shortening as used as one of the ingredients in bread making is our subject for this weeks column there are several different kinds of shorten ing and perhaps the better known three would be butter lard and vege table shortening within the last few years vegetable shortening has at tained wonderful popularity its main advantage is its freedom from becom ing rancid iure lard gives the best results when used in breadmaking but its drawback is the fact that it varies in flavor from time to time pe culiarly enough butter is the poorest shortening of ail when used in bread- making not only does it give the bread a dark appearance but it also falls to lubricate the gluten as does the use of lard or of shortening this propertj that shortening has or lub ricating the gluten allowing it to stretch further without breaking is quit an asset to the appearance of the finished loaf of bread another advantage of the use of shortening in bread making is that it enables the bread to keep freh longer and again us use overcomes some of the sticki ness in the handling of the dough while pure lard is considered the best shortening of all to use in bread- maktne yet because of its variation in flavor lt is not used as universally as li vegetable shortening there is quite a difference in rural life in northern ontario as compar ed with older or southern ontario the folk up there still refer to our part of the province as outside no doubt you have driven the ferguson highway as far as callander at least and you would see very little differ ence in the towns up that way as compared with the towns in this lo cality they have neat service sta tions and hot dog stands much like our own with perhaps more cabins and tourists houses than we have down this way however if you had turn ed ofl the highway and driven back the sideroada and concession lines you would have noticed quite a difference as compared to the side roads of this part of ontario perhaps you might be interested in the rural schools up there one that we have in mind is about six miles off the highway it 1b of frame donatruotion and we remember when it was built replac ing the former log school a different site was chosen for this school and the school grounds were covered with trees the soil was light sand and stoney the trees were removed but the na ture of the sou was not suitable for landscaping and the grounds were not level either the teacher would often be a young lady and this her first position after graduating from normal she often just stayed the one term getting some experience to enable her to take a better school last sep tember it was a young man that the school board selected and he proved to be a go getter before the frost came he had the pupils bring a couple of wheelbarrows and several shovels and morning and evenings both pupils and teachers were leveling the yard the idea being to make an open air skat ing rink when jack frost appeared a few boards along the edge complet ed the foundation and a plent sup ply of water completed the undertak ing the average attendance is twen ty and somehow or other they dug up skates and shoes and the teacher sup plied a hockey stick for each boy and girl skating was on the program morning recess noon and after school young men with this teachers ability are in demand right now and he was called up for air service bow- ever in the short time that he was teaching in that school he had taught besides the regular lessons the value of cooperation in the levelling of that rink foundation and besides that be had taught these pupils how to skate and also bow to play the game of hockey we imagine those youngsters will remember that young man long after they have fofbouen the name of the capital of afghanistan we have found that the rural parts of northern ontario are different than our rural parts the town that we have in mmd is located on the highway and 1 also on the main hne of the okr it has a population at some 700 although the summer tu tors easily doable that number ttds town has a nlooakatmg arena and tfcsy usuasy have im fair milton soldier weds in england first lobne soot to ovkrsras georgetown oiium best man a pretty wedding was solemnised at the royal military college chapel sandhurst surrey england on sat urday ffetomary 8th when susan irene morrison eldest laughter of mrs j morrison of whitley bay northumberland became the bride of pte john w turner of the lome scots he is the only son of mr and mis j l turner of milton both the bride and groom were in uniform the bride being a member of the wo men s amdllary territorial service the bride was attended by volunteer violet partlett while opl thomas b oiven georgetown acted as beat man the bride was given in marriage by sgt j oullunalne of the welsh guards the couple left the chapel under an arch of bayonets formed by mem bers of the lome scots who acted ss guard of honour the wedding party proceeded to the railway station where a hearty sendoff was given to the happy couple as tufcy left for a honey moon tnp to the north of england on the evening preceding the wed ding a dance was held hi honour of the bride and groom a presentation was made to the oouple by oapt q w bullock on behalf of the lome scots pte turner who enlisted at the out break of war has been on active ser vice in england for more than a year he was the first member of his unit to marry in england 47 mumps in march tops last months figure 47 new cases of mumps are reported by the medical officer of health in the march statistics released this week this brings the total number of cases to 127 since the outbreak of the epidemic last september the complete report follows scarlet fever 0 chlckenpox 1 measles 0 german measles 4 mumps 47 infantile paralysis 0 typhoid fever 0 whooping cough 0 cerebrcsplnal meningitis 0 epidemic is your executor qualified the executor you appoint in your win should be competent to manage the affairs of your estate years of experience in estate work of every kind financial responsibility continuous existence these axe but a few of the advantages you can secure by naming the ouelph trust company to act as your executor it will be time well spent to consult with us about your will and your estate full lnfbrmaupn gladly given on request ihe guewf ifeuat company j m purchei h i bhnatjuttk managing director assistant manager office corner wyndbam ooricsta ottetph rest or the team appreciated the mini sters hockey ability and after prac tice that night each week the whole team went to prayer meeting it all sounds like a fairy tale but after ah playing the game is merely another way of practising the golden rule f low fares co my taae laanday april 10 mil 1 00 pue moxby april 14th return ian dotbutioo p to aldnijm taeaiiy april 15th 1941 canadian national its the big car wok tt thrifty engine sbs ttj although to l m0s no team this mater bttt it l tfcetr mm of toot ore yean av tht have m adnd- one of thoee pk4n k now tntee sat and l bubm j iiiiiiil i mi of last teem w too iced mlibbf x3c- ooimij them to no raeaon out w mow of it tout often done thto yount man was different and it wae mtenatmj to tarn that on prayer meaunt ntgtat the hookey prao- ttlce wee aet ahead an hour to able the mfnfeter to take part the have you seen the ford the big new 1941 ford in actual feet and inches its the roomiest car in its price class greatest inside length greatest total aing width extra kneeroom and headrooml wider doorsl larger windshield a springbase thats inches longer its the big car with the thrifty engine only ford at this price is powered with an eight eight cylin ders for smoothness as in americas highest priced cars gaaolineeconomy that has outstripped all compe tition in its das in one otfvialrontmt after another lontteajxritiiabilitythat persuades ford owners to buy one ford after another whats more the 1941 ford has that big car feel that road- hugging stability on the curves or on the straightaway this year ford riding qualities are a revelation a completely new ride made possible by sowmotion springs plus improved shock absorbers new stabiliser a more rigid frame ford prices are still lowest get in touch with a ford dealer and see what an attractive deal he is willing to offer t35awtohauitkt dottn payment toys aay ftrrfv8