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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-10-10, Page 3* • ’ Scribbler—Writing puns, is a sefh /ous proposition for Jpkesmith . these days. ' Dotter—What’s the matter? Did he sell some,? . . Scribbler—No, buLhe broke one of his ribs laughing over one of the ‘ jokes he wrote. T It won’t be very. long, till’* the ~~ - -frost'- is on. the pumpkin and the- •Bleeves^pf last year’s topcoat prove to be as frayed as we feared they ’"would- be. Hiram Henpeck—Me and my wife are going to the West Indies., Next Door Neighbor—-Jamaica? Hiram Henpeckr—Naw, she made me. ' ■ * j Harvesting In Saskatchewan At 20 Below!, i Helping with the dishes all sum- ....._jiywcJtias-J3^ wanting to. / rush back t.o college'in. the fall than • ‘ the desire for a higher education. Sourdough—I warned : Bill^ that® Wxat girl would play the deuce if he' ’■‘^married her. Shadbelly—Well, did she? • . -. Sourdough.—’ Yes. ■ Haven’t you heard? They’ve got twin's.. ■ Jlist? about the middleof Dec-, ember, one of .the most unique and : interesting annuaF ’ harvests to- be garnered on the Norlh .. /-American Continent - will be. in full swing’. s No! ?Not ft heat -5- but Mineral Salt's.. The scene^ vriH be Little ' Manitou . Lake, Watrous Saskatchewan. T h e harvesters ■will be the employees of the De­ partment of Natural Resources - - of- Saskatchewan.; and the-harvest- itself will consist of the tiny crystals of mineral salt which form in Little Manitou Lake.each ---year at-^f-r-eeze-up-.” .-Itr-is—phe-~Af~ the essential conditions that the harvest be completed within a n period , of ten^ days. When, the Prairie, winter comep. -in real -earn­ est, "and the- thermometer . shivers. down to- 20 below , zero,' the De­ partmental ...men, warmly attired,’ and wearing ,waist*-higi} ' rubbl^',r».- boots,-gather' up these' crystals with/’specially. constructed.' .shovels,, and store them in the. Government warehouse at Watrous,, from where they are later di^lbutedv The medicinal qualities of this saline lake, known for many years, are becoming- -more, and more widely recognized, and as| a consequence these harvesting operations are assuming ever-in- ■ -creasing----..propsMtori-s,. - and- „£he . Lake is proving to be, one of the Province’s most important natural resources. Vaudeville In- New York ' . (New York Times) Vaudeville’s diminishing realm, in this city is now cut in two. Of eight theatres which have been showing the old-style variety, along with movi­ es,., fo.ur theatres h^ve gone over to straight pictures. The scholastics of the amusement, business make a dis­ tinction between . 'vaudeville and “stage shows.” If the latter are" in­ cluded the eclipse is a little less com­ plete, but it is a sad enough decline at. best. • . : " " ? And yet it is the case here' as with so many other conquests. The pictur­ es and the ra.dio^.yvhich have so' near­ ly ma.de /pn end of vaudeville; . hdye assimilated perhaps its, two principal features. ' ’ . . Aqrobats and, trained animals.’and ^d^UcWnt'^'Tfor7a~gobd~deal7~~'^i^” the backbone of a. vaudey.ilie.progra'm W,as the comedy teams and-the dancr ing. Radio ■'has • taken' over '"'the comedians, and any night they Way be heard asking each other the quest­ ions and springing-th^ answers they used to WQfk 25 .years ago. Movies have iaken over the dancing." Canada’s Trade Witli United . Ecstasy From the French~of Victor Hugo '; Under a night ~of 'stars.-f-stdod alone beside “the sea, ' No -cloud o’erspread > the glowing' Heavenno sail wone lumin­ ously, And far beyond the- bounds of earth my searching vision pressed' 'A farmer with hay fever this fall is in a he.ck -of a shape. He needs a frost to stop the fever,-and needs a frost free fall for his crops. Tommy—Say, dad, how much am I worth to you? Dad—All I have in- the world,, ■f- Tommy. . ' have a quarter in advance.? —-Geouietoy—wouid----be---bRe~--of— most jntetesting studies in the high school curriculum if it could Shpw -^where^the-^uilback should bisect the line..’and the best angle at which a 'halfback should run.:. " ■ Tommy—Well, could you. let me - ? ■ ■ j ■ The Good Book tells us where f . ' charity begins, but no one knows where it wi|l end. Monthly Bulletiji of the Canadian^ Chamber of Commerce in Great ’’ Britain. lean -. . . -, • | To - learn ..the secrets Nature holds with 1 429 ' ' !■ sa.fe-guarded in her breast, • Canada was second' Ffi! wood' andi 'mountains,' woods; the silvery ’ - . i stars-^the ■ ;soft surge of the ■ sea— ' .. . . ' V Ssj ^-Canada has first place im- the British mfarket in ’imports of .wheat in the first six months of 1935 with 16,214,262 cwt., Argentine being second with 14,702,776, Australia third with 9,221,4.82, and Roumania fourth with' 353,886. Canada was third in barley with 1,453,938. cwt... out of a total of 1,>. TBS^/rTT^Tmp^sUon oats“- by^'GFeat" 473 Tn the' same period. two~ years’- ago, but the requirements from Canada have increased frpna-695,201 cwt. Canada was first in wheat-flour with1 1,946,346 cwt., Australia being, second with 773^287, , France third with 577,205, ana, Italy fourth with- 224,741. ' • • , '“’Canada ‘“was'' /second' i n ““the total’ of grain and flour with a value-of of grain and flour with a -value of .£7,787,902, Argentine being- first with £8,S48,163, Australia third with £3,072,733, and France fourth £1,340,932. Canada was second 6,124 head- •Canada was second 535,918 cwt: ' . Canada was second I 104,’891. cwt., the- United '.State's : being-first with 213,608, and Poland TTrnrd wiirr'yy/uo. inTports. from M ATnited States Rpye heeri decreasing, in cdttle in bacon in hams with with with with timber, with £1,900,696. . I Canada'was second in hides and - ■ .skins'with a value of £9IS,851°; the 'An tee_med .V United States' being first with £1,- 486,42.0, . ] Canada was second in unwrought ' Pow.er that ruled their destiny. I asked the stars; infinite hosts, those . glittering points of gold copper Aith- 26,879 tons,' United boundless tracts States-being -first with 28,180. In ' or Heaven e ernaHy hav^ rolled, thel! two ■previous years Canada Was-1 AM '° "•»>”» *?»». > far ahead of all otter countries with I- »>» ''*“e and curl,ns ci-ests that commodity. / . . ' I T» gauv h.e secret of that force - r j . • i -naught ■ hinders nor ^artests— . -with—4-7„2.9.2, tons,. , Australia ■» being-. __' first with 92,028,aA nun ’ nd MdviPA- fnnWb witb" Saying, “It..is from One Divme-The . RETURNS FROM EXPEDITION A phrase or title' invented by . "an author can' so stick in the public mind that it bbconles. a nuisance. Kipling’s line • about Canada/being Lady, of the’Snows n'ev.er brought joy to the travel agencies. AMd/S-in'clair Lewis’s. “M.ain Street”; gave' too'’many*"city'"folk"ahi'-uhwar-'' T TOW the faithful slave girl - saved her master’s life— how , the robber was foiled , through a great eastern cus- tom regarding.Salt—is told in picture and story in new book - . for Children! Yours free! Send coupon now for "Salt . all over the World”. Strange, - engaging Salt customs in many lands. Every _ ___Jhome should WINDSOR SALT havo this teaspoonful in glass of.MEafer is mild, pleasant, -effective ana harmless. Regal Table Salt (Free Running) A Windsor Salt Pro­ duct. For table, cbok- \ Ing and Oral Health. l/nlfortnly pure —■ maintained so by Chemical control. book! Send’ coupon how I J — 7, .------------------. --- ------- --- with 24,050, and Mexico fourth.with' ’ 8,350. ' - ' '■ ■'■-/■' '. ' Canada was first in etude zinc with 48,222 tons, Belgium being second with 12,139, Australia third with 5,9/75. " “ ■ .... Canada, was first ..in -the total ofj .mo-n-.£erto.usM.-me:t^ tures with a value of £3,13.9,4'8'4,/ (MTi'lt!'7buiT^^^ Australia third ■ yvi th ’ £1,3 02,5 83,'i Northern Rhodesia fourth with. £1,-.! 246,188, and United States fifths, with £1,181,057. Canada was third in machinery with~a value of £418,369; the Unit­ ed-States being first -with £2,959,- '.-IzO. Germany was second with £1,-' ■759,767. . ; ' / j Canada was first in patent leather,i with 6,288' cwt./ the- United. States! tneie AUU.Ub LVVU second ^with 2,458/ Germany- -third^ the ^^3.11^ “Canada- waa/ sdcond; in newsprint- ;of coal uniformly/over, the ashes. ' Mighty Sover eign Lord I ” ' , . Aljce KaRiryn Gould. Smith' Falls; Ont. . Tanted ."sense ■’ of superiority" over” those who live in, small “towns. —The—meap-ing—of—the-woni main.: is, —important? essential ..to results, momentous in consequences.' In the trade affairs, of this Domin­ ion, Canada ’s Ma-in Streets are- pre­ cisely that'. ■ ;' " In the 1'25,000 independent stores, "of' Which/ a large percentage line- -second with .2,458,'' Germany- third BUILDING a fire is a very simple job blit, as in everything else,;, there is[ a right and. Wrong way of 'doing it. From my experience, . the. quickest and easiest. way ,to light a fire is thi's: -, First of all, if there, is a layer /. pf ashes on the grates, leave it there. About two inches of ashes . > a lot. streets such as these, is done ■ si%ty-' -nine per cent, of»the country’s re­ tail'. business. ' / ‘ . The 146. 'departmental ^stores'' in Canada do- thirteen per cent. of .the total, business. The 8,476 chain stor­ es, eighteen'per rent. , -■' . • Ponder that fact. .Sixty-nine' of every hundred retail sales are made not'by 'the big departmental stores; not by mail order houses in big cities; not by the- chain stores. . . They ai]e ■ made. over, the counters, of' stores ,o'n- the- 'corners of .cobntry ..cross-roadph .Che Main Streets ‘of ~o-uT~-wrfetg-eg--t o w h s ^md-reities---'- And- ■iu’C'uea'si-n-gr-———- Canada was second in apples with- 900,867 cwt,, .Australia being first with 1,275,722,.. the United-States third 'With ' 780,790, and New Zea­ land fourth-with .277,480. ■ Canada was first in .Iqbsters with 9,75.3 cwt., out of a’total of 11,012. Canada; was second with unmanu­ factured tobacco with 5,984,714 pounds- Canada was- first in copper ore with "8,723 tons, Spain . being second third with 690,101, Norway • fourth with 272,$89. ' Canada was fourth, in the total, of paper, with', a value' of £693,611, Sweden' being first with £1,325,239, Germany second with £842,906, Fin­ land Third with' £751;989. Canada...was first in rubber manu­ facturers with . a value of £28'7,978, ■Germany- second with - £108,467, United/' States third .with £82,293, japan fourth with £18,974.;- : ing oTnewspapers ■and 'lTglft.yv'budr-r”' Be sure that ■ a the Turn Damp­ er in the smoke- <hoich dompc* .0 Tribute to a nameless construction; r_.................. J worker who gave his life during the j building .of the C. P- R- through Nor­ thern Ontario was. paid by Sudbury Boy Scouts while camping this sum­ mer-. The boys erected a cross, and using the iega.1 name for an unknown persoii, add^d tjie ifiS’cViption: “John Doe, who .gave his life in the upbuild­ ing. of Canada. Erected by the Boy Scouts.”- . ' - ..." ■ Nearly 5,000 Wolf Cubs, Boy. Scouts and - .RoVers- took' p.'irt..in the annual Scout parade this year on the clos­ ing day of the Toronto fair. .The. boys ifiarched through the Princes ■Gate to the Grand Plaza, where tthey^ ■Were reviewed and addressed; by Lieut?-Gov. Bruce. - “ ‘k * As usual many- hundreds of boys were taught swijnming <it the1 camp of the 1st Smooth Rock Falls Troop, Ont. A dozen boys learned .to swim,- four Wolf Cubs “passed the Cub swim­ ming tes Seoul's won the Swim- Ad'drMC. A SAFE OINTMENT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED i ■ SALT DIVISION «t;TA WINDSOR, ONT. 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Occasionally you may find, when the kindling wood begins to burn,’ that smoke starts coming out . /through the crevices around the . furnace doors. This is due to the fact-that the chimney, being cold, I does not provide sufficient draft i to carry off the smoke. This con­ dition can be_guickly_remedi0dRy^ opening wide the slide in the fire door-—or by partially or entirely closing the ashpit' damper—or by . a combination of the two. (1) ■ v I®ruvGvvv Com- Valued kt * * ■ mer’S Badge and three -Scouts passed tlie exacting test for the Rescuer's'! Badge. ■- . • ' » »■ * . As' a district event Border Cities Scouts .started the new season with a big .Scout rally, .at SlieurQ .bu^h and a Cub rally*a .week later at Apiherst- , burg. ' ’ ■ <' . ♦ ♦ * 11 ■ .Further reports of American Boy -ScouPs visiting Canada.th,is year in­ clude ,a .party <yf 32 Illinois Scouts /at Halifax, —. .. Montreal and Oregon Sccmfeh: at Win-., nipeg-and Victoria, B. C. The Ameri­ can lads originally had- planned to attend the 'cancelled “Wasihington' Jamboree. . ' . A first, aid kit^ound new use in ‘ the hands of boys,of life 1st Cli^ster- ville Scout Troop''on their “way home from the. summer camp. Investigation of motor trouble revealed’ Mliat the motor fan had cut bhrougli the rub­ ber hose of the colling system los-1 ing the. water. Otit came (he first-aid kit, there was a good job'-Wtt}h adhes- ' ive tape^J-pesh water Tor flies radiator-, I aiid (We^tr-uclc"was. Why'- wibh little -delay, ' vincial Council of (ke Boy Scouts -As­ sociation, and’Chairnjian of the pro­ vincial Board of Honour, which deals wi.il appointments of- Scout loaders ,and awards' for Scout act • of ga-liant- ry and .Outstahdjng service. * . * ■ , • Seven ■ teams of Rover___ _ Scouts re­ presenting the. 4th, ioili, lltli, 14th, 17lh, lS'th and 33rd Royer crews took part -in - this ■ su-m'mor's.. annual Win­ nipeg Rover 2-1-llour Hike . Competl- ;ion. «The' contest inctiwlos hiking equipment carried, Oh'e. making ql’ mups and n'o-ies, details of the ovei*- nigljt br.mp site- and contl'ifions of •'-■ite aft^tiW“'’ Mr. A. G. MacKinnon, K.C., recent-' •]y appointed District-Court Judge at Shaun-avon, Sakk.", Ik Scoutmaster of the 47th Regjna Troop, of Holy' Ros- afy Cathedral, a member of the PrO- Thd Longer Evenings of Fall and Wintdf afford op­ portunity ■ for mental improve­ ment. You can overcome Inferi­ ority c|oniplex,' dev-ei-op- a power­ ful memory, learn' t bo sociret of success, and improve YoUr mental cijlibrb by, fascinating correspondence, ^courses which ' you can study ' in your .spare time abd in the quiet of your-- own home. For full., particulars, w-rlte to. 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