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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-09-25, Page 6Press Convention at Halifax The Editor of the Times-Advocate was in Halifax last week attending lire annual convention of the Cana­ dian Weekly Newspapers Associa­ tion. The Association includes the smembers of weekly newspapers from roast to coast and among those who urere present at Halifax was Mr. J. Skinner, of the Whitehorse Star, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory and W. A. L. Barrett, of the Star., Curl­ ing, Newfoundland. September is a beautiful month to visit the Maritime Provinces and the weatherman seemed to produce ■the best brand lie had to vie with 2 lie entertainment committees to im­ press upon the vistiors the beauties, the grandeur and the possibilities of these historic provinces down by the isea. Wo left Exeter Friday evening and at noon on Saturday after travelling all nigh,t we found ourselves nearing the famous Quebec bridge, that mar­ vel of engineering skill which cross­ es the broad St. Lawrence and after following by winding trail this ma- - -.................- ------- ---.......- OSBORNE & HIBBERT FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office. Farquhar, ’Out. President > SI^ON DOW Vice-Pres. FRANK N^CONNELL DIRECTOR^ ANGUS SINCLAIR, J.A. ALLISON, ROBTL\ NORRIS, M. BROCK | AGENTS JOHN ESSERY, C tralia, Agent fo> Usherne a Biddulph ■OLIVER HARRIS, Munro, Agent f<» if).bbert| Fullfcrton and Logan URNBULL. Secretary-Treasurer Box GLADMAN & STANBURY tsoncuora, Exeter Exeter, Ontario WBWWIWBSBT 1! JMV! ;:J ..J:- THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE jestic stream, we finally landed in that historic city of Quebec, crown­ ed as it is with that magnificent ho­ tel Ths Chateau Frontenac. The city is divided into the old and new. Nar­ row streets and quaint houses that date back to early history are still the attraction of many tourists. We did not stay long in Quebec city as we had been there previously but we enjoyed a motor trip to the shrine at St. Anne de Beaupre and Mont­ morency Falls, It was late that night when we boarded our train from Levis tor Halifax. The next morning found us still in Quebec Province, which has a picturesqueness all its own. Quaint farm holdings with the buildings all in white dotted the landscape. Most of- the buildings in Quebec are built with the stairs on the outside. Soon after arising we passed through the celebrated Metapodia valley which is a fertile valley with a beautiful setting along the shores of the St. Lavzrence . The first place we stopped ,at in New Brunswick was Campbelltown and after that came Bathurst, New­ castle, Moncton and Sackville, After passing through Amherst and Truro in Nova Scotia we landed at Halifax about eleven o’clock in the evening. At Halifax the Canadian Nation­ al Railways have erected a magnifi- •cent new hotel called the Nova Sco­ tian. This was the convention i headquarters and everything possible was done to make the visit of the newspaper people comfortable and enjoyable. The hotel was filled to overflowing and some of the dele­ gates were registered at the Lord Nelson. The Nova Scotian joins the station through a closed* passage. It is well equipped and up-to-date in every particular and is among the finest hotels in Canada. The delegates were not permitted to allow the time to drag heavily as the entertainment committee pack­ ed every minute of the spare time with a delightful program of educa­ tion and entertainment. Sessions of the convention were held in the I the delegates were taken by special train through the “Land of Evange­ line,” made immortal by the poet Longfellow. Tftto beauties of this historic province were unfolded to the visitors as they toured the An­ napolis Valley, famous for its apple orchards where the visitors were treated to its fruits. The party was taken as far as Kentville by train and after luncheon at the Cornwallis Inn they proceeded by motor cars to the “look-off” at RlonUdon where far below them the Canadan editors saw the magnificent lands of what has been termed “The Apple Or­ chard of the Empire.” Returning, by way of the Gaspereaq Valley the party arrived at the beautiful Mem­ orial Park1 at Grand Pre, where they spent considerable time enjoying the impressive beauty of the Park. Arriving at Halifax in the even­ ing the party proceeded to a band concert in the Public Gardens which are reputed to be among the most beautiful in the Dominion and cer­ tainly they are a rare treat to the visitors. The following afternoon the party was taken by boat on an excursion round the harbor and the North West Arm, refreshments being served on board. Halifax has a wonderful natural harbor, not one .cent having been spent on it for dredging. We will deal with it at more length in another article. In the evening the visitors were guests at a musical en­ tertainment and moving pictures in the ball room of the Nova Scotian Hotel. ■Wednesday afternoon the visitors were again treated to a full program, At noon the ladies of the party were entertained at one of the several fine club houses along the harbor front while the gentlemen were en­ tertained to a banquet at the Lord Nelson hotel as guests of the Nova Scotia Government. At five p.m. a Garden Party was held at Govern­ ment House as guests of the Hon. J. C. Tory, Lieut.-Governor of Nova Scotia, and in the evening a dinner dance was held in the ball room the Nova Scotian Hotel as guests the Canadian National Railways. We have endeavored to give hurried running sketch of our trip and in some future articles will deal with some of the more interesting places in detail. Of of a A MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER Miss Clara Wallis, of Granton, was hostess at a miscellaneous shower in honor of Miss Edythe Langford, a bride-to-be of this month. About fifty girls were present and Edythe was the recipient of many pretty gifts which were wheeled into the room by a bride and gro'om, this part taken by Miss Bernice Lankin and Mr. Harold Wallis. An enjoy­ able evening was brought to close “Foi* She’s a Jolly Goodmorning with the .afternoons and.by singing evening free. Tlie- first afternoon ] Fellow.” 19 3 0 F For the three monllns9 The Canadian Auto­ mobile Underwriters Association has endeavored to familiarize the Motorists of Ontario with the provisions of the New ‘Safety Responsibility Law which became effective September 1st. 'The Agents of the Companies have been furn­ ished with information and have been explaining the Law to their clients. Tlijb Analysis of the New Act prepared by the Underwriters has been widely distributed. ButdoMbu NOW as a motorist fully comprehend the effect of th© law? f not, are you prepared to pay for the damsige yon fhay do io the person or property of another ? u Accident M/of the Law and particulars about insurance will be promptly .^,/uriiL'jf'hed by the Agent of any Company a member of The Canadian Automobile Underwriters Association*12 r ■*■ News and Information for The Busy Farmer (Furnished by the Ontario Department of Agriculture) ■-------7------------------------------------- All farm products were reported moving slowly on the market with prices low- the middle of September. Peaches were selling at 75 c to $1.00 per 11-quart basket; eggs, fresh firsts, 33c. sper dozen; wheat 70c. per bushel; barley 35c. and oats as low as 27c. per bushels; potatoes $1,00 to $1,40.per bag and cheese 13 J.c. per pound. Forty-three bushels to the acre was the yield of wheat at the Ridge­ town Experimental Farm, according to .Superintendent W- R- Reek. This Farm makes a specialty of distribu­ ting seed grain to farmers in the district. The year's thirty- sold, beans taken heavy ty-three spring pigs were raised on cheap grain this year at the Farm. wheat crop, all told, has been ■of thirty acres of spoken for, to be March. There is a The r-four acres The crop i has been away next - demand for brood sows. Nine- Proper Potato Storage Cold storage experts advise that by proper curing most of the damage caused by potatoes field in low tem­ perature storage can be eliminated It is found that the more serious in- jries come from the placing of tub­ ers in storage temperatures around 32 degrees F. -within two or three days of harvesting. When placed in preliminary storage at tempera­ tures between sixty and seventy de­ grees F. for a period of six days po- totaes have an opportunity to pro­ perly “cure.” They may then be placed in storage at low temperature without serious injury for ance of the storage season. the b al- / w / --------------------- ----— erous and every fanner in the count­ ry js eligible, Teo Many Fires The threshing season of 1930 has been most disastrous since the in­ ception of the Fire Marshall Office in respect to fires caused to farmers’ barns and dwellings through thresh­ ing operations. Between August 1st and Sept. 10th reports were receiv­ ed of 213 separate fires resulting in the destruction of six dwellings and 27 barns, with a large number of small outbuildings, involving a loss of approximately $225,000, of which about $125,000 was covered with in­ surance'; the balance of $100,000 represents actual loss to ers whose property was Most of the fires arose separator or blower pipe. Marshall intends to request the pass­ ing of an enactment to ensure great­ er safety in this regard. For the purpose of considering this legisla-. lation, a meeting will be held on Friday, Oct-o'ber 10th at 10 a.m. in Room 340, Main Parliament Bldgs., when all interested parties are in­ vited to attend. Each pad will Tull flies all day An$ every day for three weeks. 3 pads in each packet. 10 CENTS PER PACKET at Druggists, Grocers, General Stores WHY PAY MORE? THE WILSON FLY PAD CO., Hamilton, DnL as 7 the farm- destroyed, within the The Fire Weekly ’Crop Report Reports from representatives through the province indicate that due to long-continued drought, the acreage sown to fall wheat this year will drop almost 5 0 per cent below the average. In. many sections it has been almost impossible to plow and where cultivation has been accom­ plished there is. not enough moisture to sprout the seed. The corn and root crops have also suffered sev­ erely during the dry weather and many farmers have been filling their ®silos „earl because the corn is dry­ ing up and depreciating in food val­ ue. Grain yields throughout the province have been generally good. Wheat has yielded from 25 to 40 bushels per acre and oats from 45 to 80 bushels per acre. Several of the counties report alfalfa ' seed yields of from 2 to 10 bushels per acre with the quality exceptionally good. Lincoln County reported a very large crop of peaches, while Prince Edward County reported to­ matoes to, be not more than half a crop. There is a smaller area in Western Ontario under after harvest cultiva­ tion this year due to dry weather. Eastern and Northern Ontario, where more rain has fallen, reports that farmers are paying more atten­ tion to summer fallowing and after harvest cultivation and are making an honest effort to keep in control noxious weeds that have become so troublesome on most Ontario farms. Loss From Smut all A survey of 200 acres in Oxford County made during the past sum­ mer under the direction of the lo­ cal agricultural branch, showed ^that approximately 44,000 bushels of wheat was the annual loss of Oxford County >out a total production of 627,000 bushels. The brought about by the smut Only 18 of the free from the disease. DDD Cor skin affections It cools, soothes instantly. A fluii that actually does wash the blemislieil. skin clean. A bad skin is unfortunate^ embarrassing, unnecessary, with this- formula so rich in healing elements,* W. S. HOWEY. DRUGGIST The department is shipping a car­ load of sow's to Ailsa Craig district towards the end of October with a. view to bettering the stock of that district. from Ontario packing plants by the Dominion swine grader. The .stock were selected Sets Good. Example The township of Hallowell in P. E. County has set a good example to other municipalities in the way of enforcing the weed control? A petition drawing attention to the menace of noxious weeds generally, and of the sow thistle in particular, and asking for effective co-operation in the complete eradication of the “deadly peril,” was circulated and received the signatures of over a hundred farmers in the township, in­ cluding endorsation of the reeve, de­ puty reeve and two councillors. Winter Wheat Experiments A total of more than 300 varie­ ties of winter wheat consisting of hybrids and plant selected strains have been under test at the Ontar­ io Agricultural ’College for the per­ iod of five years or more. The Dawson’s Golden Chaff (O.A.C. 61) and the O.A.C. No. 104 still con­ tinue to be the two leading varie­ ties of winter wheat under test at Guelph. In the average of the last eleven years the Dawson’s Golden Chaff (O.A.C. 61) produced a yield per‘.acre of 65.4 bushels per annum and the O.A.C. No. 104 of 63 bush­ els of grain per acre per annum. The highest yielding variety of red­ grained winter wheat in the experi­ ments, which was the Imperial Am­ ber (O.A.C. 92), produced an aver­ age yield of 57.2 bushels per acre. The Dawson’s Golden Chaff and O. A.C. No. 104 varieties of winter wheat are grown on more than 80 per cent, of the winter wheat land of the province. loss was | disease of, fields wero plowing Match Next Month The next great agricultural event of the near future in Ontario is the International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration. This feature annual match, which brings together the best farm im­ plement men in the country, is sche­ duled for October 14. 15, 16, and 17 on King’s Highway No. 7, near the city of Stratford. J. Lockie Wilson, managing director, has been hard at work. for the four promises events in contests. the past few inion ths and days of ’plowing this year to outclass any previous the matter of entries and The awards are very gen- Wool Salvaged Ther? will be little loss to sheepmen who shipped their to the Canadian Co-operative Growers Ltd./ as a which completely Weston warehouse I Very little >cf the of wool in storage at the time burned, though all the wool seriously damaged by scorching smoke, and further damage caused by water pouring into building to quench the blaze, check heating, which immediately followed soaking, the wool was re­ moved to a nearby field and spread out loosely in the sun to dry and ths quick action resulted in a sal­ vage of well over three million pounds of wot and damaged wool, the sale of this, added to the insur­ ance carried, officials stato, should balance a reasonable market value of the wool at the time of the fire. On the building and business' opera­ tions for 1930, however, there will be a loss. It. is expected that a new warehouse of absolutely fire-proof construction will he erected in time to take care of next season’s’‘crop. those WiOOl Wool result of the fire destroyed the a short time ago. 3,400,000 pounds was was and was the To OFFERED CHANCE TO GO TO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Bob Stoddart, champion polo­ vaulter, has achieved great success and the University of Pennsylvania has given Bob a chance to take a course right through, to a degree in order to have' the credit of develop­ ing him as a pole-vaulter. B CH I NESS 1*U R CHA SE1) Seaforth Holding •Syndicate have sold their Main Street factory to Avon Chests .Ltd., of Stratford. (613) The first electrically-driven tug’ to be buiJt in Canada was launched, at Lauzon, Quebec, recently, wheat the “Prescotont", Diesel-electric' t.ug for the Canadian Pacific Car and Passenger Transfer Company’®- service between Prescott and Og­ densburg, slipped into the waters;.' of the St. Lawrence after the tradi­ tional bottle of champagne had; been broken against her bows by Mrs. M. McD. Duff wife of the man- . ager of the Canadian Pacific Great Lakes Steamship service. It is? the first electric tug to be built- in Canada, and is designed to tow a three-track railway car-float witki accommodation for 16 hundred-ton. cars. Canada is taking advantage of" all opportunities to fight tubercu-: losis and I think is far ahead o£’ England in the matter of sending? students to sanaloria to make art* intensive study of the subject, said-. Dr. J. A. Coutts, of London, mem­ ber of the group of British Tuber­ cular experts, interviewed aboard? S. S'. Montcalm, on his return to England after some weeks' stay iu . the Dominion. • Stating that the Canadian ChamA. ber of Commerce official tour oK, Japan and China leaving Vaneod^k’ ver and Victoria October 16 aboard’ S.S. Empress of Russia, offers a splendid chance to emphasize Can­ ada’s position as a trading nation, Col. J. I-J. Woods, Calgary pub­ lisher and president of the Cana­ dian Chamber of Commerce, speak­ ing to 300 members of the Vancou­ ver Board of Trade in an address® at the Hotel Vancouver recently^. urged Canadians to take full op- portunty of the chance afforded by the tour. Canada’s wild life has a capital valuation of one billion dollars and represents a yearly business turn­ over to the 'Dominion of about $45,000,000, Dr. 1-1. F. Lewis, of .the • Department of the Interior, told' the delegates to the Provincial^ Dominion game conference at Ot­ tawa the other day. The valua­ tion includes the fur harvest, game fish and their attendant effect upon the manufacturers of firearms and fishing tackle not to mention rail­ ways, tourist camps, magazine pub-- lishers and others who derive & certain revenue from this source. Badges will be worn by all big: game hunters in New Brunswick: during the season opening Septem­ ber 15 for deer and October 1 for- moose. „ During the recent yea? all non-resident anglers in New Brunswick have worn badges and the system has proved so satisfac­ tory as to render extension of the ■ plan'to shooting advisable. This year’s crop of grapes in ths Niagara fruit belt’ between Hamil­ ton and Niagara FaUs, Ont., is ex­ pected Jo reach about 58,000,00® lbs., an,-'increase of 15 per cent. ■ over the 1929 crop. The crop is . now bejng harvested. ’ f A shipment of 128 live cattl® from farms in Ontario went for* ward recently to England, the firs# in 18 month1*. It was consigned to buyers.in Manchester. The ship* ment, tli.6ugli comparatively Smal^ is regarded by* the live stock tradw as marking resumption of Canada’s export trdde in cattle to th® Britistvinarkct. Her Two Children Had> Summer “ 4 ) Mrs. J. jJsMacDmald, Glare' Bay, N.S., writes;—- ”1 am the mothe^bf six Children, and Would not bo- without a jpOttW'of Dr, Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry? house. My two youngest were vory sickfwittf summer complaint, and there was, nothing Ijtriafi, could equal that remedy, and I hadt trlod moss ojrerything, but they could got no relief. ‘Dr.,Fowlers’ made a change in both of them ini leas thahftyO hours.” On th. by Tho 1 larkct for the past 85 years; put up only - Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.