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North Bay Nugget:â€"*"There isn‘t much to be seen ‘n a little town," muses a magazine writer. Maybe not, bub, but what you hear makes up for it! "You know, my dear friend, that you and your wife should be as one." "As a matter of fact," replied the other, sadly, "we are as ten." "How‘s that?" "Well, she‘s the one and IT‘m the naught."â€"Gilobe and Mail. The discovery that a married couple in his flock were liable to quarrel upâ€" set the vicar. So he decided to speak seriously to the husband. SAVES sorvtion* of Gillett‘s Pure Flake Lye will take the drudgery out of dozens of tasks. It clears clogged drains . . . lifts grease and hardâ€"baked food off pots and pans . . . It saves rubâ€" bing and scrubbing because it cuts through dirt in a jiffy. Keep a tin handy. HOURS OF Heavy Work *Never dissolve Ilye in hot water. The action of the lye itself heats the water. 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Buy Victory Bondsâ€"they are an investment in human freedom. x N CASE OF FIRE In the case against Ernest and Lilâ€" lian Charlton the crown presented a strong case and in spite of the lengthy plea by Dean Kester, K.C., the man was sent away for four months, but the woman was aquitted. Sergeant Kirk of the iRoyal Canadian Mounted Police said that he had raided the house that the Charlton‘s were living in at the end of Ross Street, on April 12th, 1941. He was accompanied on the raid by Constable Guolla of the Timâ€" mins police and one of the members of the Ontario Volunteer Constahbuâ€" lary. Five "Jehncvah’_s Witness" Cases are Dealt With at Tuesday Afternoon Counrt Ernest Chariton was given a four | month term when the crown was able | to prove that he had access to a quanâ€" tity of the illegal literature that was stored away in a cache in a cellar under his home. Adelard Prevost was{ also given a term of four months when | the police proved that he had (hsm-f buted some of the pamphlets. | After a thorough search of the house they found a. trap door in the pantry in the kitchert, the sergeant said. Unâ€" der this trap door was a sort of dugâ€" out. In the dugâ€"out were kept a quanâ€" tity of vegetables. Constable Guolla deséended into the dugâ€"out and after a search around in the dark hole with his flashlight through the ‘hole and saw three cartons, so he took off some more boards so that he could get through to the cartons. Five of the six cases before the court on Tuesday afternoon, that had been laid under the Defence of Canada Reéegulations were dealt with while one of them is still on the docket waiting for the police to serve the summons. The case that is still on the docket is the one against Harriette Wickâ€" strom. The cases against Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gauthier were dismissed as was the one against Mrs. Lillian Charlton. The cartons were found to contain some of the illegal literature so they were brought upstairs and while they were searching through one carton of the pamphlets they found a newspaper that was lying on top of the pamphlets but inside the carton. The newspaper was dated FPebruary 4th, 1941. A numâ€" iber of pictures of the scene were shown to the court and entered as evidence. When Mrs. Charlton was asked about the pamphlets she denied all knowâ€" After a thorough they found a. trap in the kitchets the der this trap door Two Persons Get Terms of Four Months Each While Three Persons are Acquitted. Charge Still Pending Against Harriette Wickstrom. _ One Man Refuses to Testify. ESTABLISHED â€" 1817 [ *Ihe magistrate commented that he had no doukt that the passages were t‘ of a vicious nature and that the pamphlets were issued to cause disâ€" |satisfaction among the people and ! to hamper the successful prosecuâ€" tion of the war. He added that he had made a finding on the same pamphlets before and that it was unâ€" necessary for the crown to go farther to prove that the booklets were illegal. Mr. John Ernest Charlton, took the | stand in his own defence and said that !he had worked at the McIntyre Mine | for the past five years He had moved into the house at the end of Ross Street sometime in July of last year, he said. The former tenant at the house was a man by the name of Mr. Noldmeyer. He knew about the dugâ€" out in the bassment of the house, he said, but he did not know that there ( were any of the "Jehovah‘s Witnesses" pamphlets there. In October of last year he had built a pariition in the dugâ€"out and was using the space that \he had thus partitioned off to store ‘ vegetables in. He had torn two of the boards out of the partition in March of this year, he said, because when the frost had started to come out of the ground it had started to raise the floor of the house and he thought that since ‘‘he had put the partition there he had | better move it before it did too much ‘ damage to the house. ! When asked if he had ever found any | t c woue > of the illegal pamphlets in the house ihe said that he had found several of ‘them last fall and that he had burned them behind a shed outside. The police had visited his place on Febâ€" ruary 2nd and had found some pamphâ€" tlets but they did not find enough to THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, me a definition of space." Junior stood up fAustered and red., "Space," he began, "is where there is nothing. I can‘t explain it exactly, but I have it in my head, all right."â€" Cilobe and Mail. The books were all illegal but the sticker in the case was that there were not enough to term it "in quantity." The booklets had been found in a room that was rented by Miss Harriette Wickstrom,; a person that the police have been unable to find. Mr. Joseph Gauthier said that he had left Timmins and had gone to Niagara Falls to work in March and had returned in May. Miss Wickstrom had rented a room at his house about a week before he left and when he reâ€" "urned she had left so he did not know her very well. He said that he couldn‘t remember ever seeing any of the bookâ€" lets around the house. He added that if he had known that Miss Wickstrom was one of the "Jehovah‘s Witnesses" he wouldn‘t have let her have a room at his house. A postcard was handed in as evidence that he had gone away and it was postmarked from Gravenâ€" hurst on‘ March 22nd. When the magâ€" istrate saw the card he said that the man had too good a sehse of humour to be a "Jehovah‘s Witness."" He then dismissed the case against the man. After an argument as to whether there were enough booklets of the same kind to say that they were in quantity, it was decided that there were not, so the case against the woman was alse dismissed. When the defendant was asked if he had anything to say for himself he reâ€" plied that he refused to take the stand. That was when the magistrate said that he was sure that the man was one of the organization and sentenced him to four months. Mr. Joseph Gauthier and Mrs. Leda M. Crauthier earned an Aquittal on charges of knowingly having in their possession in quantity, illegal pamphâ€" lets. Their home was raided on April 12th and a quantity of the illegal litâ€" erature was seized. Detective Ernie Gagnon led the raid and he said that most of the stuff had been found in an overnight bag in one of the rooms. Two study books had been {found in the living room and the name of Thomas Charron, a man who was convicted here a short time ago, waq found on one of the books. The charge against Adelard Prevost was one of distributing the illegal litâ€" erature and his hearing was very short. He practically convicted himself when he refused to give any evidence in his own defence. When he refused to tesâ€" tify for himself, it drew the comment from the bench that ‘"he is one all right." He also drew a four month term. Deputyâ€"chief Jack Downey said that he had been informed by Leo. St. Pierre, that a man was distributing the pamphlets in the vicinity of 20 Southâ€" ern Avenue. He had investigated after being informed and had then laid the charges. . _Leo.St. Pierre said that he had come home from work about eleven o‘clock on May 12th and that he had put his bicycle away and had entered the house. ~When he got in the house his wife made a lunch for him and while he was eating this lunch he heard a noise at the door so he went to see what it was. When he opened the door he found one of the booklets He finâ€" ished his lunch and then brought the booklet to the police station. He then returned to the house and when he was entering his yard he saw a iman placing more of the booklets at his neighbour‘s house. He chased the man and found out who it was and then returned to get the other booklets. He made another trip to the police station and told the police who the man was. The next morning, he said, he found two more of the booklets in his yard. Mrs. St. Pierre added that when the man had placed the booklets at the neighbour‘s house she had also seen him and was certain who it was beâ€" cause it was a clear, moonlit night. press charges. However, before the police left they warned him that the pamplhilets were illegal. When Mrs. Charlton took the stand she said that she had found some of the small booklets in the attic. They had been left there by Mr. Noldmeyer, she said Mr. Noldmeyer had also left Mr. Kester, in summing up the case for the defence, said that he could see nothing that could tie the couple up with the pamphlets and said that the charges against them should be disâ€" missed. One of the booklets that the man had burned the previous fall, had Mr. Noldmeyer‘s name on it, he said. Crown Attorney Caldbick said that there was no doubt whatever that they had knowledge of the pamphlets. The newspaper that was found in one of the cartons was dated two days after the police had warned them, so that someone must have had access to the partr:ionedâ€"off part of the dugâ€"out. The booklets that had been burned the previous fall didn‘t look as though they had lain outside in the snow all winâ€" ter either, he said. Before reaching a verdict, the magisâ€" trate said that he had no doubt whatâ€" ever that the pamphlets were subverâ€" sive and that they tended to cause disâ€" satisfaction among the people. He was basing his finding on the fact that someone had access to the panfphlets and that the only possible people who could have had were the Charltons. He then said that he was going to find the man guilly and was acquitting the wife. He then sentenced Charlton to four months. a hymn book and a bible in the living room> downstairs before he left. She denied .ever seeing the stufif that was found in the dugâ€"out. She had told Sergeant Kirk that her husband had burned some of the booklets last fall, she said. MERELY HESITANT said the school teach*er, "give "There you are! Come back, my dear! I didn‘t mean to drive you away. You can‘t stay out here in the cold. .1 promise on my honour I won‘t annoy you again!" His face as he looked across at her was a white mask of determination. "There‘s enough to eat here, and sufâ€" ficient shelter. I‘ve no wish whatever to leave this place." "What do you mean?" "I mean that you‘re my wife ""You can‘t mean that we should stay here indefinitely." She managed to speak calmly. "I â€"ado mean it!" "But you can‘t do itâ€"we can‘t stay here. My motherâ€"my father, they think I‘m dead! I must get back to civilization! A promise is a promise! You made me marry you!" She burst into tears. + He drew back and turned away, sudden misery in his face. He walked up and down for a moment or two. At last he came back to her, where she had sunk down by the fire, the picture of wretchedness. |’9 "All right," he said quietly. "We‘ll go! Forgive me for being so mad. I‘m just raging because I‘m trying to undo the harm I‘ve done us bothâ€"and, Of course, I can‘t. T‘ll abide by promises; everything you wish always!" ‘"Thank you!" said Bridget in a choked voice. "That‘s all I can do to make you like me, isn‘t it?" She bit her lip and nodded. "We‘ll get down to the mouth of the inlet toâ€"day. Are you worrying about your parents?" "Yes, very much." "I have a father in Dorset," Salt said with a sigh. "I suppose he will have siven me up, too!" MARK â€" SALT â€"Former airman â€" tough, reckless, handsome, and minus one arm owing to the air crash which put him out of aviation. He is now conducting tourists on cruises, MRS. WERTHEI M â€"Rich Cosmoâ€" politan. Owner of a famous necklace of pearls. "Bridget!" <His footsteps came toâ€" wards her, she thought he would see her white cardigan, and began to run; at a dim impasse among the bushes, she stopped, and in a moment he came rustling to her side. She went and lay down in the cave on the heap of dried moss they had collected there; he sat by the fire for a while. When he came at last he lay aown softly on. the outer edge of the cave. But he didn‘t look at her. She could see him outlined against the glow of the fire. She dozed, uneasily, and whenever she wakened she could see he was not sleeping; now and again he got up to put wood on the fire. Salt‘s face was somewhat grim and his manner constrained. She wonâ€" dered what was coming next. "‘Couldn‘t we try to get down to the sea toâ€"day and find out what has beâ€" come of the others?" she ventured to suggest, after they had eaten. ‘"Why?" "Why?" She echoed him confusedly, and her cheeks coloured. By afternoon they were ready to leave. They carried a supply of musâ€" sels tied up in his coat, and some baked fish. Despite Bridget‘s reâ€" straint at the situation which had arisen between them, she became alâ€" most hysterical. "FPish in a félt hat!" ing until she nearly cried. if one had been told al one day one would be ca fish about in a felt h wouldn‘t have believed it "Let me alone . . . T‘ll find someâ€" where else to go!l" She tried to walk away from him. ‘""But you can‘t stay out here." She went back with him at last. He was silent with contrition. She wakened find him gone. another fish. breakfast. said Salt. "It may not be so funny when the hat is empty, and we‘re on the mountain tops with nothing to eat." MRS. GARFORTH â€" A successful novelist who keeps Bridget busy proâ€" ducing stories in quick succession. MADAME DUPREâ€"Elderly Frenchâ€" woman Oof great wealth and charm; takes a sympathetic interest in Bridget. Principal ChaTacters BRIDGET BROWNâ€"Shy and quiet secretary to her wealthy aunt. * JOYCE and DIANAâ€"Mrs. Garforth‘s two spoiled daughters. "Calm â€" yourself said Salt. "It im He decided that their best plan would be to swim across the inlet at low tide, and try to make their way through the beach woods on the southern face of the inlet down to the mouth where the rest of the party had gone ashore. Out of branches and boughs, interlaced and bound together with strips torn from the lining of his coat, they made a rough raft to float CHAPTER XXXI A PROMISE IS8 A PROMISE PU‘BLISHMHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT CHAPTER XXXITI TREK FOR TWO in the early dawn to Their line had yielded ‘They baked it for voung â€" woman! he said, laughâ€" a. "You know, at home that carryving baked hat, one just Then, as they climbed out from among the trees on to the cliff‘s edge, they found themselves looking down on a little stony bay; and there was the smoke of three campfires rising into the twilight, and figiutres moving about below. "Look!" Bridget cried. "There they Once on the beach they wasted no time lighting a fire. Salt exchanged his wet shirt for his jersey; Bridget put on her coat and cardigan; they bunâ€" dled the wet things into their pack, and set off along the shore. Cliffs had them â€" climbing almost immediately, into the dripping, lightless beech woods. Their feet sank into rotting boughs, breaking the debris,â€" and the silence of immemorial time. By trying to keep the inlet in sight on their left, they made a course towards its mouth. Then a rift between the hills, so precipitous that they could not make their way down it, drove them inland to try to make a circuit of it. They climbed and climbâ€" ed on the edge of the gully through the twisted woods, exposed to the colÂ¥ violence Of the wind.. Their feet, chafed by the rough wrappings of rag and bark, were cut and sore. They pushed on along the shore, and were driven to the hills again, as the tide rose. By evening their heants were heavy with the loneliness of the place; they were worn out, sick of mussels and shelterless misery. The matches were damp, and many were wasted getting the fire to start. But they made a great fire, and hudâ€" dled over it, and ate their food. ‘The shelter of the boulders was not like the shelter of the cave; but from where they camped they could see the hump of hill not far away which hid the mouth of the inlet. Next day perhaps they would be able to see if the rest of the party was still there. Bridget and Salt climbed down to the beach.. Against the cliffs a hunâ€" dred yards south, they found the ashes of a big fire, and large numbers of empty mussel shells, "‘They rested here," said Salt. "Either they were taken off in a boat, which is very unlikely, or they will have gone on south along the beach." "Yes!" Salt‘s voice shook with relief. "And what‘s more they‘ve found someâ€" thing! Whyâ€"there‘s a horse, they‘ve got a horse!" "Yes, and there‘s g hut with an iron roof. Civilization!" They halooed, waved and shouted, and began scrambling wildly down the Long before sundown Salt stopped by a trickle of snow water in the shelter of some great tumbled boulders, and looked for firewood. Overhead those cold, terrible stars in the windâ€"washed night sky looked down on them while they shivered and tried to sleep. He got up frequently to put wood on the fire. "I know what I can do for you! I‘m going to find out who really swiped those pearls!" She was silent a moment. "You?" she said, "But it would be too difficult. All the people who were on the ‘Australian Monarch‘ are scatâ€" tered. It would take a lifetime!" "Well, what‘s a lifetime?" said Salt. "Its good of you to say that! But it isn‘t possible!" "Then I‘m going to do the 1mpos- Night was very short, and dawn was soomn shivering on the stark snow peaks. They ate some mussels, leaving enough for another meal, and set Off for the hump of hill above the mouth of cthe inlet. face of the cliff. The figures on the beach stopped and gazed in astonishâ€" ment An hour before noon they stood on it, looking down at the rocky beach where the party had landed from the lifeboat. There was not a sign of them to be seen. Bridget took off her torn stockings and her skirt, and swam wearing her lifebelt. The water was icy, and ebbâ€" tide carried them down a hundred vyards before they kicked themselves and their raft across. Sitting up, hair on end against the firelight, he said to her suddenly: sible "You fool!" she said, half between a laugh and sob as she lay huddled in the darkness. "Yes," he said, "Call me that. Fool, fool, fool! For it‘s what I am." their supplies and clothing on. ~At low tide the inlet was not more than hundred vards from beach to beach. CHAPTER XXXTII REUNTION "It‘s Mark! It‘s Bridget! It‘s Bridget!" ; Aa TE Soft Drink Makers of the North Form Association Joyce tooâ€"clinging to Salt‘s arm, asâ€" suring him she had thought he was without her makeâ€"up and her lovely clothes, was a blousey wreck; only Diana, finer featured and more cleanly built, still showed some of her charm. "We wore afraid you were drowned," said Mr. Mills, "We couldn‘t follow down the inlet, we were in too bad a way! We pushed along the beach and camped in whatever shelter we could find. And then we met a gold miner â€"this is his hut, he‘s an Austrian. He couldn‘t speak English and we couldn‘t speak German. He brought us here with great difficulty â€" poor Mary Grimson had to be carried, she‘s ill, very ill, I‘m afraid! The miner went off over the hills, and we understood he was going for help; so we gave him a slip of paper with our names on it, saying we were survivors of the ‘Melâ€" ville.‘ "He came back this morning, with a carcass of mutton on his horse, and a note from a man named ‘Craig. It seems there‘s a sheepâ€"run on the east coast of the island, where they hava aâ€" short â€" range set. They‘ve radioed Magellanes, and a ship is being sent out from there to take us Off,. This man Craig said he would come down with medicines and supplies this afternoon!" With representatives from 15 cat« bonated beverage manufacturers atâ€" tending, the Northern Ontario Carâ€" bonated Beverage Association was formed at North Bay Thursday night. J. L. Shaw, of Macdonald Sons, North Bay, was elected president at a meeting held in the St. Regis Hotel. Viceâ€"president is W. J. Doran, of the Gold Belt Breweries, of Timimins, and secretaryâ€"treasurer is J. J. Kelly, of Macdonald Sons, North Bay. The new association will look after the interests of Northern Ontario carâ€" bonated beverage manufacturers, and meetings will be held from time to time to review the business and to hear suggestions. Thursday‘s meeting saw the followâ€" ing firms join the association: DOâ€" minion Bottling Works, of Kirkland Lake; Silverwood‘s, of North Bay Cobalt Aerated Waters, of Cobalt; Timmins Bottling Works, of Timmins; G. V. Beverages, of Timmins; Bilver Foam Breweries, of Sudbury; Sudbury Breweries, of Sudbury; Sault Falls Brewery, of Sault Ste. Marie; Lakeside Beverages, of Kirkland Lake; KWik Beverages, of Sudbury; and Macdonâ€" ald Sons, of North Bay, Sudbury, Kirkland Lak®e, Timmins and New is« keard. the lifeâ€"boat already dim, was struck by the ghastliness of the whole coms pany. Executive officers elected were Carl Nurmi, of the Star Bottling Works, Sudbury; Albert Kokotow, of the DOâ€" minion Bottling Works, Kirkland Lake, and Hector Trudel, of Aerated Waters, Cobalt. Quinte Suun:â€"Britain has begiun enâ€" listment of dogs for war workâ€"accepâ€" tance based on intelligence. Good chance here for critics to say "Britain is behind again." Germany enlisted the services of dogs some time ago. They were more conscious of the aniâ€" mals‘ ability to fill sausage skins than of their ability to perform war feats., Blairmore Enterprise ciencies in this week‘s i fishing. # Come to Jasper, biggest National Park on the Conâ€" rinent! See all the Rockies â€"â€"with Jasper Park Lodge as your headquarters; There‘s pleaty to do. Come via the smart, airâ€"conditioned Conâ€" tinental*Fimited. Low Summer Rail Fares; Your local Agent will gladly furnish you with descriptive booklets and full information as to fares, limits, etc, (To be continued} COPYRIGHT PaAG® THREE Var 1IeAt iny defi