HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-06-21, Page 2THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY, JUNE SlSt, 1928
HURON COUNTY
COUNCIL
The following is the report of the
Go<hI Roads Commission presented
to the Huron County Council.
Since the beginning of 1928. the
maintenance work on th County
Roads System has been going on as
usual, and the roads are in us good
condition as the severe spring situ
ation would permit. Am expendi
ture of $42,929.68 has been made
:o date, a* considerable part of which
is accounted for by gravelling work
done at the end of 1927, and dur-
’ng the early winter. A heavier
expenditure for dragging has been
necessary this year to get the roads
into u smooth condition.
An inspection was made of near
ly ail the County roads by your
Commission, with a view of deter
mining the work necessary for
maintenance and construction for
1928.
On February 23rd, the Commis
sion met in Toronto and inspected
various trucks and tractors and
other machinery which it was pro
posed to purchase and during the
week attended sessions of the On
tario Good Roads Association Con
vention being held there. A num
ber of interesting and instructive
papers and addresses were given
iron and the* importance of high
way transportation was generally
i mphazied.
R. M. Smith, the new Deputy-
Minister of Highways, stressed the
importance of closer relations be
tween the Department of Highways
and the Municipalities, and gave an
illuminating address on road mat
ters generally.
Safety on the highways received
much attention among other mat
ters, and much of interest to the
•ownship municipalities was dis-
. ussed.
Full reports of the Convention
may be seen in the issues of the
.Municipal World, the Contract Re
cord and the Canadian Engineer.
On April 19 th the Commission
left by car on an inspection trip to
the Counties of St. Clair, Macomb
and Washtenaw, in the State of
Michigan, for the purpose of observ
ing the methods in use in those
counties and particularly to exam
ine the types of machinery in use
rhere. The Counties in the State
of Michigan are recognized as being,
perhaps, further advanced in meth
ods of maintenance and construct
ion of such roads as we have than
any other ■ place • in the world.
All of their equipment is motorized
and much valuable information was
obtained, which was useful in as
sisting your Commission in deciding
on the purchase of machinery. Val
uable information was also gained
by learning of their practises, re
road signs, and in the application
of calcium chloride, and other dust
palliatives. Their constuction meth
ods on bridges and grades, etc., was
also of interest. They are adopting
cn some roads a standard grade of
50 feet in width, giving a 15 foot
shoulder which provides safe park
ing space, and permits of widening
the pavement when necessary. The
road authorities in these counties
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we are much indebted to them for
their courtesy.
During the past month machinery
has been purchased as follows: Two
Reo trucks, 2-ton; 1 IHC used
truck for maintainer; 1 Rumley 2v-
30 tractor; 2 Case 18-32 tractors; 1
Dominion Power Grader.
Considerable expenditure will al
so be required for repairing and re
modelling the county crushers so
that our machinery cost of this year
will be considerably higher than
usual.
The county has followed the prac
tice in the past of using teams al
most exclusively for hauling, but
such experience as we have had and
the experience of neighboring coun
ties show that hauling by truck is
much cheaper. In 19 27 contracts
were let by the county for 20 cents
per yard mile, and other counties
show costs for hauling with their
own trucks of from 10 to 14 cents
per yard mile.
A considerable number of road
signs have been erected this year,
and among others, danger signs are
being placed 40 0 feet from twelve
railway’ crossings.
During 1928 the payment of all
accounts by cheque has been adopt
ed, rather, than by sending a lump
sum to each patrolman.
The Ontario Department of High
ways has advised us that it is the
duty of this County to see that all
fences on the London Road are mov
ed -off tlfe road allowance by July
15th, and notice has accordingly
been given to the owners affected.
The approval of the Department
of Highways has been given to the
clauses of the County by-law desig
nating the following roads as county
roads:
1. The road in the Townships of
Colborne and Goderich from Carlow
to the Huron road.
2. The road in the Township of
Turnberry from Bluevale to Wrox-
eter via the 2nd Concession.
3. The road in the Township of
Stephen, easterly from the London
road at Centralia to concession roads
2 and 3, thence northerly to County
Road No. 4.
We recommend that the Pension
Board at Ottawa be petitioned to
reconsider the matter of pension for
Mr. Tony Meahan, of Wroxeter, and
that his pension be substantially in
creased. Mr. Meahan was perma-
mently seriously disabled as a re
sult of wounds, and receives a very
mea.gre pension.
We recommend that the Ontario
Government be petitioned to amend
the existing legislation so that fines
imposed for infractions of the traf
fic laws, occurring on county roads,
be paid to the county instead of to
the local municipality as at present,
so that in the future, if it is deemed
expedient to appoint a traffic of
ficer, the cost will be provided for
from that source.
The Department of Highways has
deducted the 1926 provincial high
way bill from the 19 27 subsidy on
county roads. Together with the
1927 account, the total to be met
for provincial highways is $81,12.5.-
96. This may be provided for by
tbe issue of twenty year 5 per cent,
installment debentures, which would
cost the County of Huron $6,509.76
yearly for 20 years. The County
of Huron will be able to secure
money on u 4.90 per cent (basis, or
less.
We recommend that the Ontario
Government be further petitioned to
reduce the proportion of the cost
of Provincial, Highways, payable by
the counties, from 20 per cent, to
io per cent.
Re application of the Town of
Goderich for the improvement of
Cambria read, we recommend that
this be done from the rebate due
this year.
W recommend that the following
items of road construction be un
dertaken ibis year;
1. No. 12. McKillop, 1A miles
along von. 11-14, $3,000.00.
2. No. 30. Howick, 1 mile, along
Con. 2-3, $1,400.00.
3. No. 25, Grey and McKillop, 1
and a half milds easterly from side
road 5 and 6, McKillop Tp., $5,000.
4. No. 1. Ilullett, at cemetery
$400.00.
5. No. 30, Howick, at McLaugh
lin’s Hill $200.00.
G. No. 21, Turnberry and Morris,
easterly from Wingham, 1 % miles,
$4,000.00.
7. No. 35, Goderich Tp., east
from Middleton’s Corners, $2,500.
8. Annual payments to Hensail
and Wingham, $9,821.00.
Total--$26,321.0(1.
The estimated; expenditures- for
1928 are as follows:
Maintenance
Resurfacing , ..................$68,000.00
Oiling and Tarring ........ 10,000.00
Snow roads ...................... 2,500.00
Dragging ........................... 23,000.00
Bridges ..................... ..... 2,000.00
Culverts ........................ 1,500.00
Weeds ....................... 2,500.00
Drains ............................. 1,000.00
Grading ............................. 2,500.00
$113,000.00
Machinery
New ................. $15,000.00
Repairs ............. 5,000.00
$20,000.00
Superintendence .............. 5,200.00
Constuction ..................... 26,321.00
Deficit from 1927 ......... 6,000.00
Total ............................$170,521.00
Estimated Receipts
2 mill levy .....................$S8,542.35
Rebates & Sundry receipts 6,000.00
Government subsidy ....... 82,260.85
$176,260.85
It will be noted that the construc
tion program has been materially
curtailed in order to avoid the ne-^
cessit.y for an increase in the coun
ty road levy.
We recommend a levy of 2 mills
to cover this programme.
Canada’s consumption 0/ coal for
industrial purposes was greater by
two million tons in 1927 than in 19-
26, thus reflecting in some measure
the advance in factory, mine and
mill outputs that took place during
the year. The apparent consump
tion of coal in Canada during 19 27,
obtained by adding production and
imports and deducting exports, has
been, computed/at 35,551.263 tons,
compared with 33,506,070 tons in
1926.
Here and There
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Actual sales of Canadian Pacific
Railway farm lands for the first
three months of the year have been
double those of the corresponding
period of 1927. Enquiries for farm
lands generally have increased in
the same proportion.
Quebec, Quebec. — The mineral
production of the Province of Que
bec for the fiscal year ending June
30, 192S, will be well in excess of
$30,000,000 if the activity continues,
according to.a statement from the
Provincial Department of Mines,
just issued.
Saint John.—The Maritime Pro
vinces can find a good market in
South and West Africa for their
manufactured and natural products,
according to D. J. S. Tyrer, who rs-
cently returned from there. A vast
trade, he claimed, could be worked
up in salt fish.
Vernon.—For the first time in the
history of bee-kCeping In British
Columbia one bee-keeper in the
Okanagan Valley has exported a
full carload of honey from his own
hives. His 256 colonies gave him
an average of 175 pounds of honey
per colony. v
Ottawa.—A survey will be made
this year for a Canadian air mail
route between Montreal and Winni
peg. ' This will consist of deter
mining 'the best routes and locating
landing fields. Recent announce
ment of four air mall Odhtracts be
tween points In Eastern Canada
forecast more extensive operations
along tW« line at an eatl? data,
gg A 11AVHN FOR SLAVES
Natives of Africa Who Flee From
Abyssinia Find Safety In
British Territory.
The manner in which slaves who
escape from Abyssinia into British-
controlled Sudan are protected is dis
close d in correspondence vthlch has
passed between the Anti-Slavery and
Aborigines Protection Society and
the Foreign Office.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, the For
eign Secretary, states:
•'The records of the pro,vince of
Ku«sala show that during the last ten
years 173 slaves have escaped from
Abyssinia to Gedaref, a district head
quarters lying some 75 miles from
the frontier. The figure 173 repre
sents registered cases only, and it is
probable that other slaves have es
caped into the Sudan of whom no re
cord exists.
“Escaped slaves who are registered
at Gedaref are sent to join an Abys
sinian ex-slave community which has
been formed at Gharb el Gash, near
Kassala. Work is there found with
out difficulty for the men and hus
bands for the unmarried women. The
community is reported to be flourish
ing, and a number of children have
been born there into freedom. In no
case has any escaped slave been sent
back to Abyssinia.
“These people are given tbe chance
either of settling in various selected
localities in the Roseires district ,at
least 60 miles from the frontier,
where ‘refugee colonies’ have been
formed, or of moving to the north of
the Fung province at a still greater
distance from the frontier. The great
majority prefer the former alterna
tive and are allocated land for build
ing and cultivation.
“In certain cases where large par
ties have entered the Sudan in a state
of destitution loans have been issued,
payable after the harvest, and the
past year’s taxes remitted.
“These ex-slaves are free to return
to Abyssinia if they wish to do so,
provided any taxes they may have in
curred are not in arrear. Claims are
frequently received from former own
ers for their return as slaves, and
these claims are usually accompanied
fiy charges of some kind of crime.
The refugees are, however, never
compelled to return unless a criminal
offence has been fully proved against
them.”
The claims submitted to the Brit
ish officials for the return of escaped
slaves were often couched in quaint
terms, as may be judged from the
following examples:
“May God show you the justi.de.
“The protector of the poor and
their properties is the Government.
“The question is that all slaves of
the Quabtia territory have run aw
towards Gedaref. Accordingly, we,
your poor men, have been oppressed
because it is difficult for us to carry
on without slaves.
“How are you? l’am Well, praise
be to God.
“A certain telephone clerk of
Gliilga, calldd Lij Zaman, reported to
me that two daughters (girls ) to
gether with 133 dollars escaped from
him. One of the girls has been found
at Matamma (Gallabat). He asked
there to have the girl handed over to
him, but the request was refused. I
therefore shall be grateful if you .will
kindly deliver the girl and send her
ta me.
“After greetings and prayers for
the mercy of Allah and his blessings,
and after inquiry about you and your
affairs I hope that 'you are well.
Further, I inform you that six days
ago slaves’ fled from us to the num
ber of eight head, among them a wo
man who is hur wife.”
World’s Worst Diet.
The letter “.S’’ stands for the diet
that is ruining health by causing
dental decay. Sticky, sugary, star
chy, and solely synthetic foods have
been found guilty by Dr. A. Living
ston, consulting dental surgeon to
the’London University Council, who
declares that they •are the best, media
for the cultivation of microbes.
Peril lies in the pulped biscuit and
milk, that “Little Willie” eats at bed
time, because this type of food is go
ing to ferment all night and result,
months later, in toothache. Microbes
get'into the nerves, which hurt, but
they also invade the blood, and this
may not be discovered.
As the poison spreads, tuberculosis
glands are developed. Hospital treat
ment may pull the patient round, but
the deleterious effects will have spoil
ed the youngster’s physique for life,
To Build Three-Masted Sailing Yacht
W. J. Roue, of Halifax, noted yacht
designer and naval architect, has
been entrusted by a New York man
with the designing of the largest
three-masted sailing yacht ever built
in Canada. A Shelburne firm will
have charge of the construction. The
dimensions of the v-ssel are: 155 feet
long with 30-foot beam, draft 16 feet
and motive power 350 h.p. Diesel en
gine. The craft will be fitted out
with electric refrigeration, winches,
heating and ventilation, and will cost
approximately $100.0 0 0.
Canada a Rubber Manufacturer.
Canada has now become the fourth
rubber manufacturing country of the
world, exporting rubber products to
the. value of $30,000,000 annually,
though the raw product comes from
countries to which the Dominion is
exporting the manufactured commod
ity, said Hon. James Malcolm, Minis
ter of Trade and Commerce at the
annual banquet of the Canadian Rub
ber Association.
The Tit-Lark.
The most common British bird is
not the sparrow, says an eminent nat
uralist, but the meadow pulpit, more
Commonly known as the tit-lark.
Railway Engines.
Railway engines are s?,ld to make
full use of only five per cent of tilt
heat generatedin their boilers. ,
GEORGE H- DORAN.
lead of Probably the Greatest of All
Publishing Houses.
A Toronto boy who has made a
freat place for himself in the world
s George H. Doran, He is now at
he head of probably the greatest of
ill publishing houses, Doubleday,
Doran & Co., of New York, and the
Jauadian house, Doubleday, Doran £
Bundy Ltd., Toronto, says the Toron
to Star Weekly.
Mr. Doran was born in Toronto,
ipent his youth in that city and got
Us early experience there as a pub-
isher. He went to New York in 1891
ind met with steady success until the
■ecent amalgamation of his business
vith the famous firm of Doubleday,
embracing his owp and that firm’s
European connections.
At the outset as a publisher Mr.
Doran adopted this as his position:
'I will publish any book that does not
lestroy a man’s simple faith in God
without providing an adequate sub
stitute, and I will publish any book
that does not destroy the sanctity of
marriage without providing an ade
quate substitute.” From this stand
xgainst destructive books he has
never budged.
During the war Mr. Doran threw
the resources of his publishing house
into the scale on the side of the
Allies and brought out a great many
Influential books and pamphlets, in
cluding Gerard’s “My Four Years In
Germany,” of which 200,000 copies
were sold.
Of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s “The
Amazing Interlude” he sold nearly a
quarter of a million copies. Hugh
Walpole, Somerset Maugham, Ralph
Connor, Frank Swinnerton, and a
host of other authors have been made
by Doran, whose books he has flupg
through America by the hundred
thousand.
> Mr, Doran is a quiet man endowed
with a tremendous industry and defi
niteness of purpose. He uses simple
directness instead of emphasis in
conversation, and about the only test
he ever takes is on his frequent ocean
voyages to and from London. Re
cently he was in Toronto and met a
group of his old friends at dinner.
The years have dealt kindly with Mr.
Doran. He has reached the age of
three-score and his hair begins to
gray. But it does so beautifully. No
man could possibly take on the hues
of the autumn of life more grace
fully than he, gyving him the benign
aspect that seehfe reserved for those
only who live their lives engaged in
the creating or producing of litera
ture.
WRITING ON BAMBOO.
Papermakers Need Not Rely Nowa
days on Old Sources of Supply.
How much paper do you use In a
year? Count in newspapers, periodi
cals, writing-paper and envelopes, the
paper you use to tie up parcels or
collect on shopping expeditions, and
you will -find the total rather aston
ishing. In England it works out at
half a hundredweight a head. In
America it is a good deal more.
Much of this paper is obtained
from Canadian soft wood, but it is
estimated that if this continues to be
used up at the present rate, it will
be exhausted in about twenty-five
years, says an Old Country paper. As
for the United States, it is using
every year eight times its annual
growth.
No wonder the experts are-perturb
ed about the situation. It is not only
paper that is affected; many modern
necessities, from silk stockings to pit
props and-'railway sleepers, would be
endangered by a soft wood famine.
Fortunately, the papermaker need
not rely nowadays on the old sources
of supply. New ones are being
opened up. In the Transvaal, bao
bab trees are being used for making
paper, and a pulp factory has just
been built in the baobab country.
Then, bamboo is being used for
raw material for paper in India, and
experiments on a commercial scale
have shown that bamboo pulp can be
produced at a cost considerably low
er than that of wood. pulp.
Probably bamboo especially will
be used more and more for making
paper in tbe next few years. The
cellulose industries, including paper,
are to-day using up 40,600.000 tons
of raw wood a year; and in ten years’
time it is estimated that, this ffigure
will have grown to 50,000,000. The
existing forests cannot stand the
strain of providing this, in addition
to the supply of soft wood needed
for other purposes.
But it isn't enough to find new
sources of supply. The forests must
also be protected. At present, forest
fires and other destructive agencies
destroy four trees in Canada for
every one that is used’commercially.
1,000,000,000-BlxsheI Crop.
Eventually Canada will produce
1,000,060,000 bushel.crop of wheat
and will have no difficulty in finding
a market for it, predicts-Hon. T. A.
Crerar, president and’ general man
ager of the United Grain Growers,
Limited. Referrin.* to the develop
ment of Western Canada, Mu Crerar
said there was no country in the
world where so great a development
had taken place in the past tew years
and there was no country having such
great possibilities.
Reforestation.
Within a few years there will be
an annual reforestation of twice as
many trees as are cut in Quebec, said
Gustave G. Piche, chief of the Quebec
Forestry Service, when asked as to
plans. He said that it was hoped
this year to plant some 3,660,000
saplings in the forest of the. province.
Last year 1,600,000 were planted.
Hairpins.
Hairpin-making is on the down
grade, the output in Britain having
fallen from 47,000 cwt., worth £137,-
000, in 1913, to 11,000 cwt., worth
£60,000, in 1926.
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ZURICH
A new garage is being opened in.
wlitft was formerly known as the
Commercial Hotel barns. Mr, Den
nis O’Brien is the,proprietor.
Mr. Milton Heycock, of Detroit, is
spending his holidays at the home
of his grandmother Mrs. S. Rennie-
Mr. Heycock is manager of the State
Bank, in Detroit.
Mr. Precious, the barber at the
Dominion Hotel, broke his arm
while chranking his car,
Mr. and Mrs. E. Eilber, visited, in
Waterloo last Sunday.
Mr. Christian Stade, of Dashwood,
is visiting his son, Mr. Rudolph
Stade for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. John S^otchmer and
son, Gordon; Mr. Chas. Scotchmer,
of Stanley Tp. and Miss Lulu Al
brecht 'spent a week visiting friends
in Holland, Flint, Pontiac and De
troit, Mich.
MEININ GER—WESE DO H
An attractive wedding took place
on Saturday, June 9tli, in St. Peter’s
Lutheran church, Zurich, when Miss
Lillian Weseloh, youngest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Weseloh,
became the bride of Mr, Arthur Me-
ininger, son of Mrs. P. J. Meininger,
of Hastings, Nebraka. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. C-
Killinger, of London. Miss Mayrna.
Meininger, was bridesmaid and Mr-
Alex Meininger assisted the groom.
After a wedding trip through the
states of Nebraska, Colorada and
Montana, Mr. and Mrs. Meininger
will reside in Detroit where Mr. Me
ininger is a prominent hardware
merchant.
Experts of Canadian coal during
the year 1927 amounted to 1,113,330
tons, compared with 1,028,200 tons
in 1926. Imports reached 19,253,-
088 tons, including 18,314,248 tons
from the United States, 928,544 tons
from Great Britain, 4,818 tons from
Germany, 5,155 tons from the Ne
therlands, and 3 23 tons from Japan-
By kinds of coal the import records
showed 3,719,326 tons of anthracite
of anthracite dust, 15,178,640 tons,
in egg and* nut sizes, 344,293 tons
of bituminous coal, and 10,829 tons
of lignite.
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or his conscience, you might just as
well let go of his neck.
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