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the georgetown herald wednesday evening april 30th 1941 red- oboss marks scene ok visitors in western uptown affdhareal often ask questions regarding- a big wood cross painted red visible over the fence of the mother house ol the order of the orey nuns traffic of ficials of the canadian national rail ways carried a query to dr w h atherton authority on historic mon treal and he recounted a story in ex planation in the time of the french regime whtn montreal was beginning to extend oeyond the fortified walls 1a ohemln du rol the kings road straggled along the edge of the mldtown terrace about the present line of dorchester street at the point where guy street now inter sects stood a farm house and the farmer was credited with possessing a store of gold a bandit attempted to rob the farmer and when the lat ter resisted killed the farmer bis wife and a laughter captured french justice decreed that tie should be hanged and quartered the body to swing on the gfttoet erected at the scene of the crime afterwards a was placed at the spot years later when che first roads were straightened the cross was in the centre of the thoroughfare and on request of the municipal authorities the grey nuns agreed to maintain in perpetuity a cross to mark this page ill the record of the former french colony a lost treasure one evening at my leisure i chanced to take a stroll and i come by a utile treasure as the village bells did toll i watched some little schoolgirls shy htue girls with pretty curls i said to one why are you sad she said i ve lost my poor dad chorus its one of those many sad stories mosthappens to be true true friends i said to myself they are always very few now tell me pretty girlie itusfould make me feel so glad just answer me this one question what happened to your dad mother died when i was born my stepma licks me night and mora then dad took sick i hate to say and the lord he took him far away though im only five i wont forget memories bring me regren for he was the best friend i ever had my own loving dear old dad daddy he was so good to me he used to take me on his knee and when i would fall asleep upstairs with me hed softly creep but now that he has gone from me i know with the angels he will be but since i lost him i feel sad dearest treasure my dear dad james williams academy road georgetown our last wednesday night dance brampton oddfellow hall gibsonboyd obchestra dancing e pm to 1 ajn dt reqular admission the cheerful chap who is so anxious fo assist you is your local agent be sure to ask him to help you plan your next trip toull buoy r going by motor coach gray coach lines hawk in th wind by helen topping miller virgie went out through the kitch n collecting a hot kettle on the ly every year winter came jo he mountains witfi a wretched ezing storm uke this her little r mould be hard to start she drove slowly down the icy rind gripping the steering wheel h tting the treacherous going her 1 t felt insecure on her head her kray hair was thick and strong and ese cocky little hats had no crowns yvay as she went through the mill gate ir swift eye measured every sign ii d sound every spouting feather i steam every odor the mill was aring on roaring on without her t m was anxious virgie filt bet r when she saw his gaunt face least tom had missed her she spent a half hour telephoning tl en was properly indignant those government men went ong back to washington bridges lys thev said something about wait- rg for this young wilts then they tecided that probably he d caughta ride down the mountain this is i crazy country if you catch a six inch fish out of a creek up there in the forest a ranger will chase you a mile but a man with brains and potentialities can go to waste any where and nobody bothers about it but tom was not worrying about vounrj mi wills a government man more or lest could be lost in the turel hells indefinitely without loss i th mi ijun mill tom had other l on his mind old man perry bennett come n trim pushed off his wide hat wurried his forelock he says he e kuns he won t sell you that piece it tuc kieelet he says he got a i tier offti on it vugie s mind stiffened to atten i who d buy that culover piece jnd whal for ci impion maybe c t dinpiiin have goi all they want id even with the government tak lit their best acreage they wouldn t o ihir with a little thiekety piece ke old bennett s tom i think 1 lie a few things you don t know j bout you let me handle this i am t itchin to handle perry bennett virgie remembered presently to pull off her hal and spike it on the ok on the door the telephone purred marian s voice came thin with an edge of fright on it mother it is pneumonia keep your head on counseled er mother dryly open the win low and keep the fire going i 1 s ada clark out there in a little ihe hung up where s lucy she lei landed the chair the little desk the c lied typewriter on the other side of the office were vacant so was i e prim little wooden costume r in tr e corner where every morning lu fields virgie s secretary hung up hei green wool coat net small i ck hat tom pulled out his ponderous itch it am t but four minutes iter eight my lord muttered virgie wea ly- 1 thought it was most noon lue came in on time to the mm taking off her r shoes set ig them neatly r corner lucy fields was i er of those 10 comforted virgit morgan lu s quiet hazel eyes her husky ice and smooth hair gave an air calm to the cluttered bedlam of e office lucy had gone t high hunt with marian but whin mar n j setting out for college with trunks full of clothes and a lit roadster of her own lucy was irning gregg and swift assured iys of knowing exactly which way losi cat of potash might be routed lucy c mother made watermelon id pukles and tufted counterpanes r tourists in good weather the unterpanes hung on clothes lines th porch of the fields cottage mti he highway mariar was sorry occasionally tor iiy inviting hei out to supper avely overlooking lucy s made er frocks iher half soled shoes ii when there were young men at e house on the mountain with lancing and gaiety tucy was hot invited she blushes so she squirms ac tually marian justified this omis slon for a girl with the poisesrre has around the plant to let the boys rattle her so and make her tongue- tied is silly but that s the way lucy la there were things about lucy that virgie was sure she knew prim little secrets that lucv s quiet eyes hid still maids who fed on dreams with no satin or moonlight or rose petals with which to wrap the timid bones of dreams suffered vtre e knew she had been a tongue tied nrmented girl in hand medowns herself blic sent lucy out into the mil or the chemical report shell have a good day and ev ry word will be spelled right if le sees stanley daniels first she id tom pruitt there is something sudden some- ins jntrepld and challenging about nrountain town a settle tienl gathered together on 9 plair marks the place where ei puu ed where tliy delaved ri rested b it a town iiiidet a a p w th loothold on ihe iron i i s k e of the ranges wilh qimr 1 in streams gashing u roodwut ist tit heari straining nu of a 1e ir a b rbu un rns simithinj iid nus about it cocky tell ton med a little defiant stank daniels chemist foi he nrjj ir mill lean and th rtv out ol t university of m ssr urj with ung mtolerniuf and the unbeur le sting and sutge of young ambi n in hs blood felt and resentedj is coorremqjeness of the moun in town clustered about the mill he was in it and of it he was ol hill stock from the ozark country yet this little town had never let him in he lived at a rambling green house facing the main high way and the railroad a house need ing paint with a vast asparagus fern on the porch and a row of stiff indifferent chairs around the wall of the parlor with five kinds of meat et out in the long dining room and the linen not always clean the landlady a mis gill moth ered him washed his socks for him her face screwed up at the terrible chemical odors ht brought m with him her other boarders widowers torn up by the ro is judges and law yers in court week odds and ends of detached hum inity were pleas ant enough to him he was a youne man m the quiet backwater of old lives drifted to gether he ki iht i i krs admire his youth and tdke the winds of life as they blow for vouth vicariously tn their faces thr ugh him but he never felt that hi b longed he was a bird dliltt he was a hawk in the wind something alive briefly caught in the slow motion of a mountain mill village sooner or later he would be aught up in a stronger current but while this hiatus in his lift uisii d he would ease it by such grdc u us means as came to his hand and the most gracious of these gifts was lucy fields lucy was turn d deep she had quiet splendors she read a great deal and thought a threat deal and one would wonder after listening to the number of soap programs and by that we mean soap powders flakes and just soap programs that are on the air that there must be a won derful demand for soap in order to pay for all that radio time no doubt there ts more soap of various kinds used than would be the case a few years ago and yet we wonder why this should be most of us wear fewer clothes than- we used to so that there ahouldn t be as many clothes to wash that unless they are washed oftener now a days we don t suppose that hands and faces get soiled any more than they used to however jhe bath tub has gained considerable popularl- ty within the last 30 or 40 yeans an other modern use for more soap would be to wash those hare legs that have become so fashionable lately they would either have to be bathed bet fore going to bed cither that or the bedding would have to be washed of tencr and we imagine that the legs would stand the extra washing better than would the bedding anyway we canadians should be thankful that we hate plenty of soap especially in com parison with some of those overseas coimtrief that we read so much of the c days i thinking about soap reminds us of the bovs handicraft school in hamil ton this school is conducted for under privileged boys and most of these boys come rrom homes in which the parent- do not speak english and a bn h tub in these homes would be a i rarit the school teaches such sub i jec ha mmual training mechanics tailoring art even barforing in fict a now sludent is likely to be sent to the barber shop on his first morn ing nt school the barber shop has seen chairs and only one master bar ber the other chairs are manned by bojs learning the trade our new student gets a real haircut perhaps the first he has ever had and d tr nz the process fie is told of the advan tages of a shower bath in tact he is advised that taking one of these is the proper thing to do and right away at that our now student dtdn t look too hopeful as he entered school that morning but you should see him as lie steps out of that bathroom his hair is actually combed and his head ls thrown back just a little farther and he ls whistling there is a tavern in the town or something we don half appreciate soap and water this week we are going to attempt to write something about flour from time to time we hear comment on modern bread and the statement may be made that the baker uses flour that is too fine altogether the baker merely uses the quality of flour that the miller supplies and no doubt the miller merely grinds the flour recording to public demand it ls well to keep in mind that our cana dian flour has no equal in the whole world climate moisture northern situation and the quality of the soil has much to do with the quality of our wheat and of our flour made from j it these countries that import our quality wheat and flour use ii to mix with floor made from their own local wheat to anprove its quality back in 1928 the dominion government ask- cd us if we would consider going to singapore for them to introduce can- diaii flour to the bakers there it would have been on interesting expert- 1 ence for us had we beeii able to go when speaking of flour we naturally think of flour made from wheat how- ever there are many other flours instance rye flour barley flour oat flour potato flour rice flour and oth ers in making flour the germ from the wheat berry is removed- the j germ contains the fat and were it not removed the flour would very j oon become rancid again we often hear that the bran should be left in the flour of course this is done in th case of graham flour again we hear the remark that the bran acts as a laxative to the human system this is really not so although the in clusion of the bran would mean more roughage which of course is neces sary however the particles or bran which by the wa the human digestive system has ro effect on passing along the digestive tract irritate the muscles hal s irround these organs and in that way cause jiem to become more active in arr irticle some time ago we mentioned lhc processing tax that the domlnon government had placed on flour through an error it was tiled that the tax was 15 cents p bag of flour instead of 15c per bushel ol wheat as it ijwuld have read recently it was proposed that this tax tjiojld be increased to 50c per bush el of wheat should this new tax be come effective it would mean a sharp increase in the price of bread no matter what the outcome of the tluauoi in greece may be by the canadian patbiotksm there has been some lrrenpqnalbia talk in detroit as well as other amor- loan cities especially border dtlet about the dwindling canadian travel in this country such criticism is ill considered and thoughtless because in normal times our canadian neighbors are enthuvt- ostlc toursts and delight to vacation in the states the fact that now they forego tfcte pleasure is merely another evidence of their selfdenial for ihe common good of thejxj nation at war if was expressed patly in a recent editorial in the montreal dally star which observed that acceptance by the canadian people of the curtailment of pleasure travel in the united states which they have so widely enjoyed in peacetime in the post and their uncomplaining accept ance of the condition of cash-on-the- barrelhead when buying goods from the united states have arrested the attention and brought about the un derstanding of americans as no print ed or spoken words could do this is true every thinking detrcdt- er every thinking american can have n mind nothing but admiration for the modest and cheerful conduct of the canadians who are making great per sonal sacrifices each day that the war continues and while it is impossible for can adians to travel extensively here as they would like to they remain eager to extend to american visitors to their country the same warm hospitality they always have shown detroitera will remember this when the summer touring season starts detroit times before the war london s population was increasing at the rate of 80 000 a year time these lines appear in print sup pose we withold judgement on the re- sponslbilili of those who have engin eered the action until such time as wo jiave all the particulars it would be on y british fair play the worlds news seen through the christian science monitor an international daily newspaper a truthful owmi utuve unbraaed pre from soumknuj- tsm editorial ar timely nd initrucuv wd it du feature together with ihe weekly magazine section mak fo- the ham the csirtm5ene publishing society one norwav street bo hon massachusetu price j 12 00 yearly or 1 00 a month saturday iue including magazine section j 260 a yi introductory offer 6 luues 23 cents name sample copy on request stanley daniels was pleased by luc she was as foreigr t nei thin leather skinned little mother lo wore asafetida around her neck ill winter as the moon is u reign to a barnyard lantern lucy still ached a little oeejuse he had not been able to go to cil lege she winced when hei mother bdid over yan or tit mid her dry flnle mails with the eiss rs she worked hard and believed that vir gie morgan was the finest woman in the world stanley daniels wu pleased by luey warmed by hei admiration sensed the fine gold uicui the quiet shyness generously lei her go on in cubating little dreams about him while he waited cannik commit tme himself to nothing waiting for whatever more splendid offering life might be saving for him when the whistle moaned at rive o clock he wailed for her she was always conscientiously a little ate she dabbed about dusted licked stamps haled hurrying out of the of fice usually virgie or tom had to shoo her out get along home lucy your oeau won wan out there all night in ihi raw weather the wind dragged at lucy skirt diia made her thin silk hose fee like eoatings of ice on her legs as she went down the cinder road to the gate bui at the sight of stanley daniels hunched in a sheltered spot warmth flooded her body sang in her blood made hei cheeks burn and her eyes groj ht fcontimied next week did you hear that jones is suing that water diviner chop 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