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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1946-01-31, Page 7
99 THE TIME^rAPVQCAJE, EXETER, ONTARIO^ THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3M 194^ A New Serial Story OPPORTUNITY FOR MONEY IN BROILERS taxes got tq do with it?” “NICE GUY by Ahlene Fitch SPRING RUSH! CHAPTER 11 The story thus fay: Rippy : Whit more^ "bank-cracker” for,, the north side gang, confides to his friend. Runt Smith, his desire to go straight. Almost immediately after ward Paunchy Pilber, head of the gang, assigns tq Rippy the job of killing Tiger, head of the south side gang, Tiger has just refused Paun chy as a suitor for his daughter, Madge, This is awful, horrible, unspeak able! First I figurq to So straight. Second, Paunchy concludes that Tiger .must be bumped, Third, he decides that I have got to do the bumping. If I refuse to do it, in about ten seconds I am nil. And if I go and do" it, maybe I am nil, anyways. It begins to look like any way from the ace I am a potential cadaver. "Boss,” I commence, "boss I am not the pop-off guy of this mob, That is Chopper’s place. I am the. official can-opener. And I am a good can-opener, too, Banks is my meat, not bodies.” "Listen,” spits out Paunchy, as if I ain’t, "maybe once you was a bank man.” "Once?” I insist and there is no doubt these past tenses are begin ning to tell on me. " "Maybe you are still?” he con cedes. "But today you are an ice guy, Either you are an ice-guy who rubs out Tiger or else!” "Else what?” skips out Runt like we are springing riddles. "Let it pass,” I say to» the- fat guy with the cold green eyes. “I’ll wise him up at my leisure.” “You ain’t got no leisure,” the boss comes back. “Either you are Soon busy cooling off Tiger or* else you are soon busy shoving up lilies. What do you .say?” “I am honored to grab off the privilege,” I yammer, because if there is two answers to Paunchy’a question this is still the only one I know. "Wise guy,” says Paunchy'. "Very wise guy. Mugs, get Rippy that newest tommygun. It’s in the lock up overhead. And Chopper, tip him off to tile how it’s done. Learn him the ropes. You pughta know.” “Sure,” rumbles Chopper, rolling ;up..®araJleL.td me..! "Always/glad toWise up 'a pal." The'liam he Wallops' down' on my back is to carry out the pal line, I guess, maybe, but with Chopper ’ I will take all my affection verbal,. "First off,” sug gests Chopper cheerfully, because, After all, who is the sucker in this game, anyways? "You got to con ceal the tommygun.” "I’d guessed that far,” is my an swer, and, believe me, the look I hand him does not resemble a hap py sound. “Okay. Next you go qver to the south side hangout.” , “I wasn’t aimin' to do this by parcel post,” I let him know. "It might be healthier,” Runt, still right at my elbow. "Then you tell the mugs at the entrance .that Paunchy trotted you •over with some more info on this gettin’ together scheme.” “That’s no go,” butts in Paunchy "Them eggs know ,1 was done ne gotiatin’ when I left there.” “ Maybe,” counters Chopper, “he better let on then he has quit the north siders an’ wants to make a new hookup.” "Well,” be?’ “Okay, give them on seein’ Tiger, they lead you up stairs.” "Maybe they do,” puts. in the graveyard filler, which is still me. ‘Well, “maybe,” agrees Chopper generously. "Nothin’ is sure but death and taxes.” hints. ponders the boss, “may- Then Rippy, after you your mad story an’ insist Highland Cedar FENCE POSTS LARGE RUN Sound, Straight and Peeled AT LOWER PRICES also Lumber and Shingles A. J. CLATWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 Granton "What's Runt chortles up at me. "Button your lip!” Paunchy aims a toe in Jiis direction, but Runt clears by inches! "Now you are upstairs,” plows on Chopper, and if I ain’t what the heck does lie care? "They take, you down a back hall, in through a doorway, and what do you see?” “A marble slab,” guesses Runt. "Wrong!” Chopper slaps himself, cheerful-like. "You see, Tiger.” "Fine/’* pants out Paunchy. ?‘You got in easy.” The .crack in his face opens up at this and his set of ivories greet the sun, "Now,” Chopper hammers away, "everything 'is all set. Before Tiger has got time to inhale? you rip out your tommygun, turn on the juice and Tiger has got lead poisning so bad 'he' never recovers.” For a sec ond Chopper stares at Tiger on the* floor, mentally speaking, .and then he comes back to the living. Which in this case is me, but who would ever suspicion it? "Well,” says Chopper, shrugging his shoulders, "that’s all there is to it.” He turns and starts rolling out of the room, "Hey!” I warble after him. “Just a sec! Just a sec!” Chopper turns slowly back gives me the glassy eye. “Well?” he wants to know. “So far,” says a strange voice, which maybe is mine, because it comes from that direction, “I am up in Tiger’s room. Tiger is dead. All the south siders have heard the shots which did him in. All tlfe south siders is sore as blazes.”- “Sure,” agrees Chopper, can’t blame ’em. So what?” “But you still ain’t wised me up on how I get back out.” “Say,” snorts Chopper, "I ain’t got no Aladdin’s magic lamp. Ain’t you got some ideas?” "Check!” Paunchy props himself up Qn his two dogs. “I’m a. 50-5(0' guy. Chopper thinks you in. You think yourself out. No one guy ought to do all the brain-crackin’.” “It sounds legal,” puzzles Runt out loud. “But -it smells rotten.” Paunchy is just drawing back for a good punt, with Runt too tangled up in something like a thought to notice, when the back dooi* swings in and .Miigs is a close second. “Here,” he beams,, plowing over alongside mq; ,>n,A hqaying an obj ect into my two’mitts. “.Treat it easy? he warns me, giving it a tender pat. My eyes slide down to what it is Mugs has tendered me, enough,, it is Tiger’s maybe. Because it .seems up make the next move, I son one of Chopper’s instructions, and, conceal the tommygun. And when I act on lesson one, believe me it is not with any hopes of ever getting through the'course. I “One more thing.” Paunchy toss es a green eye over the rest, of the boys. “'One .of the men here better trail you. We crave somebody cornin’ back to say how you made out. .Pick'your man, Rippy” “Sure,” says Runt agreeably, you insist.” ' “Huh?” I look hard at Runt, cause when a half-wit blows his it ,is something unusual. “I reckon,” carries on Runt, roll- 11HY rlnxim Kict doavoc t)Ctt©r \crank out, is goin’ to ger .you’ll get by on life? "Good Lord!” I groan, and may be it is a sprayer, "Don’t that think box of yours turn out nothin’ but morgue scenes?” "Well,” ventures Runt, consist-, ently missing the point, if lie even suspicions there is one "you might get by on life, But more likely they’ll give you the hot seat, Tiger has .got pull.” "Look, here!” I haul up short and cease moving. What with a prominent weakness around the knees, anyways, Runt is more than I can bear, Planting myself on the steps leading up to I don’t where, I exhale a couple of Maybe it is three. ".Runt,” I confess, "if I know times. and ‘'You and sure Waterloo— to me to act on les- 'if be top ing down his sleeves,. .amble.” "The idea bein’,” I "you are the guy which trail me.” ■ "I thought it was all settled,” he comments. "Well,” I eye Paunchy and thumb at Runt;- "there is my feelec tion.” * Grabbing on to Runt by a stray portion of his anatomy,. I boost him out the front door and close it be hind us. •’ Maybe it is ten blocks I walk without passing a syllable to Runt; maybe it is twenty .’“What is blocks to a guy who has just traded in a grocery store for fifty years Up the river or mor,e likely a million- years under the daisies?” It might be, der-sized shadow to the rear, should of drove.” "Walkin, takes longer,” ment over my shoulder, "Right,” pants Runt, be we should of drove.”, "I’m thinkin’,” I growl at but it ain’t effective. "So?” coihefe his answer as he paddles up alongside of me, "What on?” "Life?’ I retort back, knowing the idea is more than he can cope ■with. "Life?” asks Runt. "If the bulls catch you bumpin’ Tiger yOu fig- No Happiness in the Home When Mother Is Sick The tired, worn out mother cannot make a happy home if she is sick and Worried by. the never ending household duties. ‘ She gets rtiii down and becomes tiervous and irritable, downhearted and discouraged* can’t rest at □NCE spring work opens, you’ll be on the go! You’ll want to spend as much time as you possibly can on the land. Here’s one way to save yourself time then: Order your chicks now. Poultry market reports ■Poultry Scarce, Demand Heavy, With receipts very light and freezer stock be low normal, it is necessary to limit distribution of sup plies," Report from the Domin ion Department of Agricul ture; “Indications are that poultry prices will continue high for the first 6 months of 1946, at least.” • This makes it look like an extra-good time to start a batch -have let it If you have good brooding equip ment, it’s no trouble to etart your chicks early than if is tp start them late; some people .say it’s Jess trouble. You’ll have more time to give them the good care that’s so important with baby chickej and you’ll make more money out ot 1 them. Feeding Swine In our last two visits we chatted about feeding, beef and dairy cattle This week we should mention a few things about feeding swine be cause, aftei’ all, .they are the most economical converter of feed to meat. Perhaps it is because hogs so excel in this class that they come in for so much political dis cussion whenever their production goes up or down. We don’t care to add to the confusion of some of these arguments but will pass along a little information that is not debatable, and concerns feeding hogs. This animal is a great scavenger so the city pigs, or should we say, those in “ piggeries near a city, do very well <m a diet of garbage. They1 prefer their garbage raw rather than cooked but in the raw it often contains harmful ingred ients. Most garbage is more or less a balanced ration and requires little supplemental feed but weight is put on faster by adding barley or meddlings. Gi’ain Is Good Corn, either shelled or on cob, is most commonly used one type is just as good as other as far as building weight. Whole corn has a lot of oil in it and can cause soft pork if, fed too liberally. Because corn is low in •protein, soybean meal with it but no more than 10 per cent because it also contains considerable oil. Barley, particularly if chopped, equals corn in feed value for hogs and has the advantage more protein. Barley known for their hard meat. * Proteins Needed Hogs grow rapidly' seed meal. Using this mixture, hog . raiser will have few worries about^ diseases and lack of minerals and vitamins in his animals. (Feeding Calves It has been known for a long time that giving a calf the best possible start demands two things —-feeding nothing but whole milk for the first two or three weeks and feeing particularly careful not to over feed. Regardless of the -feeding plans *to be uspd latei* there is no substitute for whole milk during the first few weeks. For at least the first week, the milk is not fit for human use anyway. The reason for this is the colostrum it contains which is the necessary ingredient in the milk that starts the proper digestive functions of the suckling, Five or six poupds of milk each day, given in two or three feedings, is enough for average-size calves and no more than eight for a large one. High-producing dairy herds often require three milkings a day and their calves should be fed right after each one, with milk kept be tween 9 0 and 100 degrees fahren- heit. Increase Feed Slowly As the calves get older and larger, their quantity of milk can be» slowly increased 'by following the rule of one pound of milk for every ten pounds of live weight. At it requires something like J this stage, indigestion and scours of broilers. If you ’ the equipment, don't stand idle! Early pullets begin laying just when egg prices begin climbing. They reach full produetion of bis eggs just when big egg prices and premiums are highest. Early cock erels reach market when demand and prices are strongest. With the fall British egg contract already set at last fall's level, and the Dominion Department of Agricul ture predicting good poultry meat prices for at least the first 6 months of 1946, this looks like an extra-good season to start extra good chicks extra-early! have cockerel chicksWe of good broiler breeds and crosses ready for prompt Shipment. All this stock has many years of careful selection for fast growth, fast feathering, and good meat type . , , and a re markably clean pullorum test sheet. Get in touch with us-—we’ll be glad to give you full particulars, knew this would net me quick lilies I could face it.” "You mean,” gasps Runt, "you don’t mind croakin’?” "I aiit’t sold on it,” I come back “But .like this”'—I pop my fingers, “its all ironed up. But doin’ time in jail—” "Yes?” asks Runt politely. “Doin’ time is .awful!” “You can still breathe,” suggests Runt, meanin’ in English he’d rather do a stretch than get plant ed. “Not me,” I assure him. “I’d be stir crazy in three moons. Bars', Bars! Lord, it^s like bein’ sewed up in a coffin, only a guy’s alive an’ so he knows it. That’s why this bein’ straight idea sings so sweetly “Well,'” argues Runt, “bein’ straight has probably got some drawback^ too. But then,” he adds, contortioning around to scratch his back, "there ain’t no use to figger out what it is since you have give up this goin’ straight 'theme of yours.” "Me give it up!” I spit at him, because what the devil does he think Paunchy and me was discus- sin’ ten minutes back? “Me give it up!” “I thought,” says Runt, “you mebbe was goin’ to blow right no,w instead of coolin’ off Tiger. Ac count of if you pick off Tiger may be for certain it spells lilies foi’ you pronto, or else the bulls on your footprints and a long stretch later. But if you blow now,” he babbles on innocently, never suspic- ioning he is father to his first real idea, “it is a perfect opportunity, what With no one tailin’ you feut just me, and you luggin’ a tommy- gun, which is a great .protection, and it, is nice artd dark, and all?-’ Alftiost this idea-is too much' for even a tough guy like me. Shoving my rigid diaphragm roughly to. the edge of the step I am parked on, I take a good clutch on Runt’s shoulders. “You mean,” I choke out from some spot away below my belt-line “either it’s make for freedom to night or else bump 'Tiger and put in the rest of my life, if I got any left by then, holdin’ my chin over my shoulder to see what’s closin’ in from the rear.” “Biowin',’K comments Runt plac idly, still taggin’ whatever is chew in' him on the back, “is a rotten idea. Paunchy’d have your hide in twenty-four hours. Maybe,” gests thoughtfully, .giving tag .game as be gettin’ “Runt,” tightening on the bugs move out, xvu^, x su in’ to make a break for it! I.’m .go in, to blow!” "You mean? amazement, the idea before, bump off Tiger!” "No! I’m going straight!” “Straight to where?” "Out of town?’ Gently I place Runt on liis feet "You hang around some ____ Then ankle back to the hangout. Tell Paunchy you waited outside while I crashed into Tiger’s joint. Tell him you waited and waited, but I never come out. See? I never come out. Then maybe Paunchy figures them guys done me in, and I am personally all washed up.” "I waited outside,” murmurs Runt , obligingly "Rippy never come oiit.” He looks up at me question- ingiy. ‘‘Shall I mention,” he wants to know, "that you are goin’ straight?” . "Listen,” I groan desperately, "Tiger’s gang wiped me out. I am dead. See?” "Sure,” rumbles a deep voice right near my collar. "You are dead. Or almost.” Whirling around I nearly collide with the gaij which is trained on m,y centre section— and who i$ holding that gat but Chopper! "Yon was murmurs sadly, guy, Rippy?' (Tq Be Continued) on I he sug- up the hopeless, “we, better to Tiger’s.” croak,, my fingers him ’till- I bet even "Runt, I’m go- gurgles Runt like he never “you ain’t in heard gonna place for a couple of hours. Tell him you waited and waited. suggests the un- , "we I "It com- might Ruat, a nice guy,” Runt "You was a nice the and the of having hogs and are firm their feed requirements change just as quickly whitih means high ‘ protein rations are protein is . available milk products, linseed, fish and alfalfa meals, and fish meal also have supply of minerals. Fish meal goes still an-; other steji by supplying vitamins A and D but must be used only ac cording to ;dir.eqriqns,' it may taint the meat otherwise. A pork chop tasting like codfish just isn’t a pork chop. •Skim milk and buttermilk are both fine for young hogs but not whole milk which, due to its fat' content can cause digestive in young pigs. Grains and protein concentrates, are usually minerals and vitamins but be overcome by feeding about 5 per cent alfalfa * or other legume hay. The ‘Trinity’ mixture makes a very good concentrate for pigs and consists of 50 pounds.... of tankage or fish meal, 25 pounds of chopped alfalfa- hay and 25 .pounds of lin- and necessary. Plenty of in tankage, soybean, Tankage troubles low in this can often appear which are merely symptoms of over feeding. The an swer is simple — reduce the feed slightly, keeping the calf just on the hungry stations recommend adding one <pint if lime water to each feeding if Jersey or Guernsey milk is being used. This is apparently to prevent the formation of hard curd which •uopseSipur sasnuo Feeding for Growth When rapid growth is desired regardless o,f the cost of feeding, the fastest way. is to use whole milk exclusively for six months. Apart from the higher cost, this method hardly seems practicable in View of the serious butter shortage. We have just had one butter ration cut and another is forecast for the near future, so we might better follow the normal procedure of changing t_ _______ Bl' or .four weeks and in that serve the butterfat for our sumption. Milk Substitutes Whey and buttermilk cessful milk substitutes if fed. Diluted solutions < skimmilk, dried buttermilk but sometimes too expensive for the average farmer. Another method is to reduce the milk to the absolute minimum after seven or nine weeks and feed . a "calf-starter” meal, either in the dry or wet form. We’ll stop ’n talk about this and other feeding methods next week. side. Some experienced to skimmilk after three con- con- way own sue-are : properly of dried ___ „ and semi-solid buttermilk are also good Canadian Canners Annual Dance The third annual dance of the Canadian Canners Ltd., Branch 100 was held Wednesday evening of last week in the Exeter Opera House. The hall, suitably decorated with "Aylmer Brand” large paste board posters and pennants, was •crowded to capacity and the dance attended by food products .growers present and former employees, was termed a highly successful affair. Excellent music was supplied by Flannigan’s Orchestra, thirty a.m. until Fred W. Bray, Limited 120 JOHN ST. N. - Bray Chick Hatchery, Exeter HAMILTON, ONT. Phone 246 YOUR Exeter District Co-Op Store FERTILIZER FERTILIZER Farmers requiring fertilizer will be well advised to secure their supply at once. Place your orders with Exeter District Cooperative P. Passmore, Manager We are still taking orders for fish. Seaforth Couple Married Sixty Years irritable, downhearted and discourage , . ______night, and gets up in the morning feeling as tired as When she went to bed Women suffering in this Way (may find in Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pjlls a remedy with which tb help recuperate tlieir health* build up the run down system* and assist them back to health—happiness again. Price 50c a bdx* 65 pills* at all drug counters. “ Look for our trade mark a "Red Heart” on the package. The T. Milburn Co., Limitod, Toronto, Ont; PARKHILL BUSINESS SOLD K'red V. Laughton, ex-^M.lL.iA., who hag been in the grocery busi ness in (Parkhili for over 40 years, sold, his (grocery 'business to Grant Pollock, son of Ray Pollock; of Kerwood, Who has jftfet received his discharge from the R.C.A.F. Mr. Pollock took over the business on Monday, Mr. Laughton has retained ownership of the building and Will Odntinuo io reside in. Parkhilt one- thirty a.m. and coffee . and sand wiches were served' at midnight. Two baskets of groceries; value of five dollars each, were given during a special spot-dance through the courtesy of Mr. Bruce Rivers, local groceryman. The lucky lady winners were Mifes Eileen Hodgins, of Crediton and London, and Miss Eleanor Hunkin, -of Thames Road. The "Aylmer Can Mystery Man” in a black mask and high gallon can hat bound with a red Aylmer corn brand label, appeared at the dance aftei* lunch? A prize of two dollars was given to the first lady who challenged him with the cor rect name of the wearer, and was won by Miss Isabel Snell, daughter of Mrs. Wm, Snell, the pianist in the orchestra. One of the dance numbers by the orchestra was a request song, “From Sea To Sea”,-^-title taken from the Canadian National Motto, A Mari Usque Ad Mare—recently written by Dick Howard and Capt. Warren Finlay, and dedicated to the Royal Canadian Air .Force at Centralia and other stations. The guests of honor were Reeve Benson Tuckey and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kestle, recently married couple* The latter has been for sev- eval years chief accountant of the local branch, and advantage was taken to give him atid his bride a bedding gift subscribed by his friends on the staff of the Can adian Cahners Ltd, A humorous address Was given by Dick Howard, master Of cere monies, and Reeve Benson Tuckey made the presentation of $56. War Savings certificates, and read the? following gift letter: , To Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kestle: We, your friends and fellow workers of the Canadian Canners Ltd. are glad to welcome you both to-night as our honored guests. We congratulate you upon youi' choice of helpmates, ana wish you a long and happy married life. We ask you now to accept this presentation of $50. War Savings certificates—in. two certificates of $25—purchased through the Exeter Branch of the Bank of Montreal, as. a remembrance of : friends and fellow workers of'the Canadian Canners Ltd. —Signed on behalf -of the Staff: Ed. Pollen, 'Superintendent Archie Brintnell, Shipper Dick Howard. Mr.. Kestle made a very witty and apropos reply and his wife, the On (Saturday, January 26th, Mr. and Mrs. James Rivers, (North (Main St., Seaforth celebrated the 60th anniversary of their wedding. On that date in 1886, they were united in marriage at the home or the bride’s (parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Joshua (Ashton, in Us- borne Township, the ceremony be ing performed by Rev. Colin iFlet- cher, D.D., who for a life-time was minister of Thames Road Presby terian Church, now United. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Rivers went to reside^ on the groom’s farm in Usiborne, where they spent eight years, before mov ing to Hibbert Township, where they continued "to farm for 18 years. In 1912 Mr. Rivers disposed of h!s farm and purchased the residence in Seaforth, where they now making their home. Both are energetic and active and in excellent health. During the war skilled horticulturalist, for years his large flower and vegetable gar dens have been show places, and year after year the growing hands with which,he has been endowed by nature, produced the first flowers and fruits that appeared each year. For over 5 0 years too, he had been connected with township beef rings, for which he was a skilled butcher, and still acts with efficiency when emergency arises.—Seaforth Expos itor. i CEDAR POLES WANTED BYX your many I years Mrs. Rivers was one of the 'ers of' the hiost active members of the Red in acceptance former Miss Jessie Hodgert, of town, clad in a turquoise blue dinner dress spoke a brief word of thanks. The Canadian Canners Ltd., un der the able management of E. J. Green, just closed a very success ful year of canning operation of 1945 season’s crop, and prospects promise an increased number of growers contracts will be made shortly for the coming season. Cross Soriety and has knit hundreds of pairs of socks and other comforts for the overseas forces, and just last week she completed the making of a dress for herself. Although Mr. (Rivers retired 34 years ago, his retirement was one in name only, as he is still one of the most active men in Seaforth. A • W** THE DATE "BERT” OLINGER Albert^ "Bert” Clinger, a retired commercial traveler of London and Grand Bend, died at the home of his son, W. M. Clinger, 39 Hedding- ton street, Toronto, On Monday. Mr. Clinger had been in Toronto since THE HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO Clinger had been in Toronto Christmas. Mr, Clinger traveled for Hawk's Glass Co., Corning, Until his retirement 12 years He was welt’ known in Grand____ where he lived during the summer months. He was an Anglican; a member of the Masonic Order and the Mocha Temple 'Shrine in London. Mr, Clinger is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hanna Beatrice (Crawford) Clinger; two sons, W. M, Clinger, TorOntq, and Hoyden Clinger, formerly of London. the N.Y.* ago. Bend All poles produced in accordance with H.E.P.C, Specifications, 30 feet and longer 6 and 7 in^ch tops, and offered at acceptable prices prior to October 31st, 1946, will be purchased, by the Commission. Specifications and prices will be furnished on/request. Apply to;