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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 24 Jan 1929, p. 9

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iit, "Beaet.'" he amused. There was a whining triumph In his voles. “He soon it too, Sam'l, he soon the Kitty Norman swallowed. “I saw the dog!" in) and. "The captain'l dang!" “Have ion lost your wits?" she cried angrily. She turned on her father. "He's wet, he's been in the water . . . .” cried angrily. She turned on herI “Where?” Parish demanded. lather. "He's wet, he's been in the Ed Baker pointed to Norman.' The water . . . ." ”Minn! keeper leaned against the Norman pushed away her hands. *centro table with both lnnds shak- His heart thumped from her shah-ling. He was choking tor breath. in. He looked down at his legal "Weeck . . . Blind Men's Teeth . ." their flesh creeping atiU where the he cluttered. “Emil boat, dog wash- body or the dog had touched them. -ed ashore." "I saw a dog'." he cried asain.‘ Captain' Parish whipped around, his “There's a boat on the reef. Dog jaw tighter. wwhed ashore. A dog'. Ahairy dog'. "Anderson," he shouted," you so Deed! And three lights!" . tell my wife, then run tor Carlson. "A boat?" Captain Stocking re- peated, his voice rising. "Bpatt A live boat? Not the Kitty K. . . . t" "A live moat. smashing on wet Saw her. plain'. Dog ashore . . ." "Well. I'll 'be sunk me'sel'!” The keeper's voice hardened as he glared at his assistant, He yanked his son'- wester down from in; peg. hooked Hie lantern on his arm. and buckled the oilsklns at his neck. Norman stopped, panting. and covered his eyes. Sue's expresslon was mercilegs. The fog signal hooted. He Bhivered convulsively. "You keep the tire goin' here, gal." he directed Susan sternly. "Get up. Erickson. and come along. Sutton, your boat. Your boat. drat ye!" ‘He swung angrily on the fisher- man. Sutton's face. which had been white as canvas. began tttling with color. now that he knew It was not the Kitty K. He leaped after Stock- ing. . "Best take the skin, Sam'l," he cried as he plunged through the door. "That sea'll bust up a power boat . . . we kin carry in a line . . ' sure we can do it'." . "Bring 'em ashore in a skim" "Two of us can take it out . . ." Captain Stocking came back to tile tog shack, squalling: "You go tell the coast . guard. Erickson'. Run! Never mind the phone. Line's blamed down by now. Sutton and I will start in the skill!" "You go with my father!" Susan cried. '"rhore's room in that skit! tor three!" Norman arose, his knees like milk. “Tell the coast guard?" he TNV peated. He could not meet Sue's hard steady face. He tried to follow the keeper. "I'd rather go with you. sir." "The coast guard!" Stocking shouted. Norman staggered through the door, that swung banging behind him. Fog already concealed the cap- tain and Sutton. A wind like crea- tion's tary thrashed down trom the vengetul north. Bcuds of foam whipped across the signal 'house, pelted the gravel on shore, beat without me.rcr against the frame timbers or tho lighthouse tower. Along the beach the spars and planks or (laid half-buried ship! broke the lake’s attack;. It retreated to mai tor-ward again immediately. Norman plunged headlong through the sand The tower light was at his incl: as he ran. A wall of Bomber tog met his eyes. Dimlrthroutth it he saw at last the night lantern in the porch ot the count guard station, the dark look-out tower. the black cloned mouth of the boat-house doors. A yellow light shone in n lower win- dow. He tripped across the f1owtyr boxes toward it. Sue Stocking, leaning dawn. shook The Brat man he saw as he flung open the door was the new number sewn, Ed this. A Romance oftlu Great Lake: _ BY KARL w. DETZER "Anderson," he shouted," you so tell my wire, then run tor Carlson. patrol south. Quick, man. Gala. call.' 'Get Shay down trom the tower, Baker." He gave his orders rapidly. l“Where is thls wreck, Erickson? Speak up. On the Teeth, eh? Close Int Reach It with the gun and buoy, b?:?::?,",," He stopped, then save his own answer. "No, can’t do that! Atr'ia' the wihd to-night! And a power o' surf to bust through launch- in' a tite-ttoat'." “Wreck!" Now cried. Bike: dropped his 'tsoraaper. no slid one “spender up over the shoul- der ot " rblno tttuutel shirt and stand at Norm unbollovingly. From the room adjolnlng. (brain Parish pushed hll shun chmy be. through the doorway. Norman wiped the spray lrom his face. Before his eyes the hare coast guard "vintr-roorn danced dizzily. in hits. head roared [rightful words, sounds. horrid fancies, hideous night- mares resurrected trom his boyhood. He heard his father's old singwng voice telling ternble stories. Stories ot.a dog. He heard the wind rattling the hand-hewn shingles above the bedroom where he had slept at home. He saw his mother. saw her plain as lightning tor one ghastly moment. that night old Gustaf beat her be- cause their boy cried. cried like a baby over the tale of the schooner Gottland. Baker stamped in with young Shay) running behind him. a green min“ armed lad with a sunset complexion. i‘hey left puddles on the floor isel .side the door. Captain Parish, shoot- :ng ortfei's like bullets while his men) raced tor their rough weather' clothes, slid to his desk in the cor- iner. slammed down its lid and locked it. He put the key in his pocket. took it out, looked at it dubionsiy. as if he might never see it again. And hung it in plain sight on the wall ready tor some one else. "I'm short two pairs o' hands," he snapped. "comes o' leaving men go visitin' with their wives! Gave num- her tive his afternoon on and he's takin' till morning. Engineer's on vacation. Youll have to go along with us, Erickson . . . need eight men to handle that boat t . . such a ‘night . . . you mind the engine, night Baker “mu" He padded his rubber boots through an open door to the boat- house. Norman trailed after him. The lite-boat bulked astoumllngly large in the confines ut.her small quarters. She lay in her cradle. upon a track that notched the bottoms of the wide doors and shot in straight lines down to the water. Spare oars hung neatly on pegs along tho walls. She was a new. tsehr-trailing. cabin craft, trim, sturdy. white. her side- lamps alight, ready tor'any emerg- ency; her coils or ling neat as grim mat: on the decks lore and art, her brass slowing in the helm ot the lantern; stout enough and titte enough to do any act demanded. The in energetically. ' _ "Ease " there!" Captain Parish doors hanged open and wind piled shouted. "Watch them blocks!" The his boat moved in her crtutle, and forward. and upon smooth sure Baker shouted. "can '. " 7:33 r human-Inna... , sun-H Inga-u: in. no In. " tet.tttttfeteeeeti I all.” mutant.“ It mmmowwm I hum-won. mum . M's-flown! ”all: hand WI! "rs a. momma-Antommvm emu-ML notmmw.m¢i w: .oarethina,F'. 80191:: "I. I. you - but MP. Ho know Putin no.“ out! In...he’d 30...:uu tur'd to . . . he'd lilo- Sno Stocking, III). an In» keeper. " was was not his turn We yet to lump . . . he must wait but " turn.... . A "at roller alloyed up than“. tripped MI legs. ranked the boat, "Hum! her spitolully out ot me “was hands that held her, thumped liar down. “‘Huva!" Captain Parish screamed through the turmoil. His mouth reached close to Norman's ear. The next wave buried hotlt men to their waists. . “Have!" The boy Shay. on the decking, Jabbed the beach with a pike pole. Still another hatching wave. Norma did his part stubbornly it was still not his turn to Jump. "Come . . . hurry . . . in with you'." Parish cried. His lantern had gone out long before. A wave pushed the surf-boat back toward the sand. and the under-tow dragged it lakeward.‘ Back, out, book, out . . .'evory man captain. Parish leaned close sand was aboard except Norman and the bellowed. . _ "Your turn last . . . jump!" Norman bit his teeth together and made ready to obey. With wet smarting eyes he say the lean big boned officer swing aboard. He reached tur the gunwale. A torren' tial wave slapped against his face. He saw the black shadow ot the lite-boat jerk away. He struggled toward'it. saw another high gray wave cut him oil from the boat, saw the plunging starboard light shine green through the fog. Norman leaped forward tor all the} strength that was left in his less.) He heard Ed Baker cry: "Yamrr-benied pick'red!" The assistant keeper waded out savagely. while a cold roller splatter- ed him with a [min-r that chilled his spine. Afraid? He afraid? He'd show them! Show Baker! Show old Gustaf'. Baker was wrong this time'. (They were all wrong. always had !buen wrong. He was gluing! His !bre:nh strangled in his throat. ' “Cornet" the men were shouting. "Fume!" He ducked his head and scrambled forward. The stern of the hunt float- ed Oreo arm-lengths off. .Nurman Ispruwled after it. "Come'." the captain's .\'oi(-e snapped back to him on the wind. Destiny intervened. A roller, grealer than all the ollmrs. heavier. angrier. leaped out of the darkness. " fell savagely on the man who was left. flung hilll trachward tar up the beach, tramplol him into ttto"gravel, and retreated satisfied, Can be Quickly Banished With The ailments ot childhood are many, but nine-tunlhs of them are due to one value and one cause on- ly--a disorueted condition of lhe tsto- mach amT bowels. To quickly Dan- 1241 any of the minor ailments ot "nabyhood and '-ttildhood, the bowls Linust be made to work rvgular and [he Hanna-'11 must bu sweetened. . No Other medicine for lmle 0mm has had snub morass as has Baby's Owtt Tablets. They banish constipa- tion and Indigestion; break up colds and simple fevers; carrot-I diarrhoea and colic and promtm- healthful bdrm) by regulating llnnluncuum or ‘the stomach and bowels. Concern- in: them Mrs..L. M. llmwn. Walton. NS. writes: "I cannot speak too highly of Baby's Own Taltletg as l have found them excellent for child- hood ailments." - Baby's Own Tablets are' will by medicine dealers, or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr. “(Imam Medicine Co., Itrovhvi1le, Ont. Minard'e Liniment tor the Grippe and Flu. CHILDHOOD AILMENTS Baby's Own Tablets. iro tie continued) ”hunt“ - [In an): “and Hagan! m and" 1- - outbound." W11. (ell-Iv): “M - don't you turn at tho ulnar?" tt Dually Work. "Do you now how to m. a peach could!" N “Sun, and her mm may." loot of Than I). Cu: 3 girl do tnythln; shout an unattractive knee? Nothing but "In and bare it. A LiunI-Mlndod Stonognphor A new clerk. dictating a few day: ago, was In doubt as to the use of a certain obtuse, am he laid to the sttrnotrrturtusr: "Do you retire a loan?" and the wistful eyed one replied rather sleeplly: . " Jllllilj0isuilf TP. COUNCIL We|lesley Township Council held f1rBt meeting in 1928: .. _ The Municipal Council of the Towmship of W'ellesley. "Elect" to serve tor the year 1929. held their first session at the Township Hall. Crosshill, Monday. the 14th day ot January, 1929, at the hour ot 11 o'clock in the (omnoon. Dr. W. Glaister Re-appointed Medical Otrieer of Health and Joseph McCormick and John L. Hammond Tax Collectors. Robert Voisin and 19 Others Petition for Election of Wire Fence Along Ninth Line. - The following members subscribed 'their declaration of qaaiitication of office as follows: Wm. H. Knight, Reeve; P. A. Wagner, Deputy Reeve: L. Baechler, w. Freeman and G. J. Toll Councillors P The minutes at the last meeting held Saturday, Doe. the 15th, 1928, and also the intermediate proceed- ings. relating to the Municipal No- minatlan of Candidates, were read and adopted. . _ V'lr‘vhe ineetint, opened in regular form. av. H . Knight took the chair. A eoaauniéation from the Hos- pital tor Sick Children. Toronto, was received asking tor a. génerous grant. The sum ot $25.00 was granted. ay-Laws . Moved by P. A. Wagner, sec'd by L. Baechler that Bylaw number...“ to appoint auditors in the Township of Wellesley tor the year 1929. to tudit the accounts of the Corporation of Wellesley for the rear 1928, be now read a first and second tima--- 7nrried. . luau-sub“ hummus-natal“ mummy-Um. Proposed by P. A. Wagner and G. L Vull that By-Law numberm... tn provide for the appointment of a col- 'ector of taxes tn the Township of Wellesley to define his duties and salary'. be creed a first and second time.--Cariied. Moved by L. Baechler. sec'd by w.' IPreeman that Bylaw number.... tor the appointment or Valuers. to value sheep killed by dogs within the' boundaries of Wellesley TownshibJ tor the year 1929, be now read a ftrsgt and second Ume.--carried. I Proposed by P. A. Wagner and W. i’meman that By-baw number.... for he appointment ot assessors in the Township of Wellesley tor the year 1929 he read the first and second time.--iarried. ~t iii,krii/ in the Township of Wel- esiey. tor the year 1929 in Irursu- tttee of the Public Health Act in the 'rovinee of ontartio. of the year' 1312. be read a tirstwand second time. -Carried. "No, [sleep with mania." "Moved i,y w. Freeman. seconded D' G. J. Voll that By-Law number...... 'or1he9ppt'iutpe".t. ot a Local Board Moved try P . A. Wagner. seed by G. J. Volt that By-Law tttunter...... to nulhurlze certain sums to meet the now current expendlture, _ be now read the first and second time.-- ‘Carried. Moved by P. A. Wagner. sec'd by L. Baechler that the Treasurer place to the credit of Wellesley Municipal Telephone System the sum of tive hundred dollars. to charge same to sold system with fn- erest at "morale at six por cent. ' annum. . Farm-n! of Account. Proposed 'try P. A. Wagner and G. J. Von that the following bills and accounts he [aid and that the Trees- urer issue cheques In payment ot the same. as follows:--- H. w. Kaufman. for ptmc5tunation' papers and financial statempn's. 669.50; Frank H. Schummer, Divhlon Court tees, 24.00; Hy. Holle, Division Court. fees, 24.00; W. H. Knight, use ot car during Brenner drainage sur- .vey. 10.50; Ontario Good Roads As, “relation. tor mombenhlp tees, 6.00; APPOINTS OFFICIALS . inn-um Hospital for Sick Children. Toronto. usual gram, 25.00; C. B. Barbour. postage and excise stamps, 7.00: The Canadian Bank of Commerce at Wellesley tor ca1leeting tings. 30.07: G, A. Rennie, error in assessing dog. 2.00; J. K. Form-ll. gravel, Road 29, 30.50; Gideon Wagler. spreading gravel. road IS. 5.25; H. Doherty, salary. 14.00: J. T. Schmidt. tile ale mad 2. 3.30: The Pedlar People. tor x-ui'm'l. mad H, 33.46; Jacob S. Erb, work on mad T, 5,00. Total "78.58.-- (‘arrimL a the tho-ds and w. d n- and women who but but. 'F unud to perfect health by ‘W tiT.Nc,",'."t no more mun: than Mr. . Graham, 638 Mm Bt., Oshawa. "t tun 60years old Ind Ill hosted for year! for I. trouble but“ tho bowels no the bidder, which kesttm?hotmrh?vrorkfo.rimoqth atjtime;uatitEestartodtouk. "'Pruit-a-ti " Since then, I have worked ITai, foctour you: and have never had a. lick dag! Try tl1it wonderful me icjne; Vinnie Proposed by L. Baether and W. Freeman that Council form into a r-ommiltne ot the whole on the sev- eral By-Laws, and that W. H. Knight he chairman-Carried. . "iv-Law 933:ut- The Firm ot Gor- den Peters & Co., auditors, was written in said Bylaw. _ _ By-Law "33:-- The names of w. H. Knight. w. Glaister. N. S. F'leischauer and P. F. Schummer were inserted to consume the Local Hoard of Health in the Township ot Wellesley fo r the year 1929,' Dr. W. Glaister being the Medical Otricer of Health. . xx} nu- uuuucuun unculculv, “all: from fruit juices combined with the iinest medium gradients. 25c. and 50e. a box-tst de en everywhere. By-Law 934:-- The name of Ed- 2 ward Kaufman was written in said E By-Law to be the collector to collect E _sll taxes nut paid on or before Dee. 'ii: um " By-Law 933: -T.he following names were inserted: Alex Hartman. Simon Huber. James Freebrn. and" Martin Len ohm] 'oy drts. Bylaw 937:-- To borrow money Jrom "tie Hank of Nova Seotia, Lin- wou.d: Tho sum of thirty thousand dollars was irtc,erted in said By-Law. Moved Ity P. A. \Vagner, sec'd by G. J. You that committee resume in nme council and that By-Laws 932. 933. "ill. 935, 936 And 937, as now thlled in Wm read a third time and passwd.- "1arried, liy-Law 936:4 To appoint Collect- ors: Joseph McCormick was appoint- " tor the whole of tho Wiener“- section at a salary or ninety dollars. md John L. Hammond was appoint- ed for tlw whole ot the eastern- ;m-tiun at a saiarf of one hundred and ten dollars. Morrd by l'. A, Wagmyr. sec'd by I, Bat-rhlpr that the Reeve instruct the Treasurer to issue cheques in [unn' of the l'hlice Villages in this Towruihip in settlement or the usual pvrrnnmzp of revenue due them am lulmlly. Carried. t A petition signed by Robert Vbisln and 19 mum's was presented to the wuunrit at th.s meeting, praying that ‘3 wire Mme, he erected along the Irrh concession, Lot 3, near the Jitrans Midge. " The (-nuncil decided to lay this matter over for further considera- tion and then report. Proposed ‘hy P. A. Wagner and L. Itaerhler that thig Council do'now adjourn to meet again at the Town- ship Hau. on Monday, Feb. the 4th, 1929, at 10 o'clock in the torenoott.-- P"ried. ' |School Attendance Otneer'q Annual Total enrollment t.m...rrrrrr.rt..t...._...t. Average attendance .N....t......e..t..tm. Percentage ..e.rrm.tet...mFm.tmttm.m._r.rm.WPF. 1 Total number of pupils reported by teachers Ftwrrrrr....mt-rmrmermm_m-....'Fe. Others .et.t..mrt_t.rrr....m..w.rr..w.r...rr.tr..-_.m.e Total number of cases "IVE!“- gated "WV""'"'-'""""""""""""'"""""""'. Number of ttneg imposed mF...r_.tr.. Number of cases tried by Police as “vault-rs of. sifiViiiiiiii,t Report . 671 ‘. 522 77.41 103 'Joun Fiscal i', G. A. BOI J. AGE": 2. m. '. l, P""""""""" S . i5 J. c. I- i I I"; " Gun!!! .1 ‘ g ’5'; no]: i it-C. Bible; an l E k I 1- E Add non d 2 library by .t g muslin. I c. ,3 lam-nu; I; emu, do. .3 g _ pm n Car. Good- all: l Waterloo i Mutual Fire Insurance l Company mum-u 1003 DK B. B. mm. Dentist. one. 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