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Foot Severely Cut by Axe—
Mr. .Samuel Jantzi, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Solomon Jantzi, of the Welles-
Herriot Quits French Cabinet
Paris—Edouard Herriot, former
Thursday, January 23, 1936
HYDRO LAMPS
The Lon$ Life Lamps
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Chrfa* of Six Lamps
Wingham Utilities Cgjnmission
Crawford Block. ' Phone 156.
Ontario to Tax Incomes
All annual incomes exceeding $1000
for single persons resident in Ontario
and exceeding $2000 for married per
sons will be taxed by the Hepburn
Government. The rates will range
from 1% per cent, to 28 per cent, in
the lowest and'topmost brackets, res
pectively. Single persons earning
$1000 in excess of exemptions shall
be subject to a tax of $15, or 1^ per
cent., and 2 per cent, on the amount
by which the income exceeds $1000
' and does not exceed $2000. Married
persons who are childless earning an
income of $2000 in excess of exemp
tions shall be subject to a tax of
$35, and 2% per cent, upon the am
ount by which the income exceeds
$2000 and does not exceed $3000. Ex
emptions amounting to $400 per child
which has
some time before he
resume work again—
skids along
at a rapid
The plant covers a table about four
feet square and is greatly admired ev
en in summer by visitors,—Teeswater
News.
Hanover Rink Unsafe
Having been notified that the rink
in Hanover was unsafe, the owners
on Nov. 11, 1928, the day on which
his majesty contracted the illness
from which his health has been under
mined ever since.
The picture ABOVE shows the late
King, Queen Mary and Sir John An-
dejson, then under-escretary for home
affairs, on their way to the cenotaph
While the Queen personally super
vised arrangements in the sick room,
Lord Dawson of Penn, the King’s
! personal physician, shown in (1) is
' one of the world-famous medical men
his
King, then the Prince uf Wales..Gloucester, third son at Buckingham Palace on Nov. 6th,, RIGHT, Lady Alary Cambridge, the
was married to Lady 1035. The ABOVE photograph shows Duke of York, Lady .Elizabeth Scott,
Douglas-Scott ift ft the Duke and his bride, with the roy- ■ the Duke of Gloucester, Lady Alice
at the royal chapel al wedding party. From LEFT to , Scott, Lady Angela Scott and the new
WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
Premier and staunch supporter of
Premier Laval, announced his resig
nation from the Cabinet, His move
was described by political, observers
as an attempt to reorganize Govern
ment support in the divided though
still powerful Radical-Socialist party,
Rudyard Kipling Passes
London—Rudyard Kipling, distin
guished writer of talps and poems,
died suddenly at 12.10 a.m. Saturday
in Middlesex Hospital,, less than five
days after he had undergone an op
eration for a perforated stomach ul
cer, Just before the end, however,
Dr. A. E. Webb-Johnson, realizing it
was unlikely Kipling had sufficient
strength to rally, warned Mrs. Kip
ling, who was at the bedside with
their daughter,' to prepare for the
worst.
elect for Maisormeuye « Rosemont
(Montreal) youngest member of the
House, to be seconder parliament
will open Thursday, Feb. 6th, It is
understood Mr- Masgrain’s selection
as Speaker has been difinitely settled,
The Deputy Speakership is expected
to go to either F. G< Sanderson, mem
ber for Perth, or William Duff, a for
mer Deputy Speaker, who represents
Antigonish-Guysboro’, Ross W. Gray
of Lambton West has-been appointed
Chief Government Whip.
ley North Easthope boundary, who
is employed with Mr. Hugh Chalmers,
had,the misfortune to inflict a nasty
gash ‘ in his left foot on Friday fest.
He and his brother, Joe, were cutting
wood when the axe caught in (he
limb of a small tree and glanced side
ways striking his foot. We under
stand the main cord is injured and it
will likely be
will be able to
Milverton Sun,
KING EN ROUTE TO CENOTAPH
Earl Beatty Retires from Navy
London—Nearly twenty years after
he took pommand of the Grand Fleet,
at the mgst critical period of the Em
pire’s history, Earl Beatty was retir
ed as Admiral of the Fleet. He rea
ched 65 and.the naval age limit auto
matically retired him from active
connection with the Admiralty. But
he can look back on 52 years with the
Royal Navy and one of the most’ bril
liant careers in the long and exciting
history of the senior service. At Jut
land, greatest naval battle in history,
he commanded the First Battle
Squadron, ranking second only to
Lord Jellicoe. From 1916 to 1919 he
commanded the Grand Fleet. Then
for eight years he was First Sea Lord
and Chief of the Naval Staff. Though
he relinquished those duties in 1927,
‘he has- remained on the active list as
one of the Admiralty’s most-valued
counsellors.
Britain to Modernize Army
London—A far-reaching scheme,
including modernization of Great Bri
tain’s army, air force and navy, will
soon be launched. Steps already have
been taken to build. up these forces.
Conversion of the existing cavalry di
vision and the army tank brigade in
to a mechanized mobile division was
announced last month. It also was
announced then* that the cavalry bri
gade in Egypt would be converted
into a.mechanized formation. The in
fantry battalions of the regular army
will be converted into machine-gun
battalions and rifle battalions.
ROYAL UNCLE AND NEPHEW SEPARATED BY DEATH
The death of the late King George
’ V. has ended the lifelong friendship
which he cherished with his uncle,
Field-Marshal. H.R.H. Prince Arthur,
Duke of Connaught, sole surviving
son of Queen Victoria, former gov*
erndr-generat of Canada, and a dou-
ghty soldier now past 80. The late
sovereign and his uncle are seen in
the ABOVE Picture as they appear*
cd at Westminster Abbey in connec
tion with the installation of new
knights grand cross of the Order of
the Bath, of which the Duke is Great
Master,
Former London Crown Attorney
Sentenced .
London, Ont,—’Pleading guilty to
nine charges of theft, Crown Attorney
Albert M. Judd, K.C., was sentenced
to two years determinate and two
years indeterminate by Judge Uriah
McFadden of Chatham. Restitution
of the (thefts, which involve $8/5:11,
will be made in full, W. B. Hender
son, K.C., defense counsel, told the
court.
Disagrees with Retirement at 60
’■ Ottawa—A general scheme of retir-.
ing workers at the age of 60,' recom-,
mended in. the legislative program
presented to the Government by the
Trades and Labor Congress, and
mentioned in the Conservative Party’s
platform in the last election, will get
no support from the present Govern
ment. Prime Minister Mackenzie
King made this plain to the labor
men, describing the scheme as part
of “the policy of scarcity” which he
believed to be wrong.”
Hauptmann Granted Reprieve
Trenton, N.J.—Bruno Hauptmann,
convicted Lindbergh baby killer, was
saved temporarily from the electric
chair by a 30-day reprieve from Gov
ernor Hoffman. The reprieve, though
only for thirty days, assures Haupt
mann of at least eight more weeks
of life, perhaps three months, because
it will be necessary to resentence him.
Freed of Murder Charge
Toronto—The * lilac bush murder
case, which created a sensation here
in July, 1934, remained a mystery af
ter Alwynne Thompson was acquit
ted by an assize court jury on a
charge of killing his wife, Viola. Mrs.
Thompson, young auburn-haired, was
found dead lying beneath a lilac bush
just off Blythwood Road on the north
fringe of the city. Her skull had been
fractured with a stone weighing about
five pounds. Her clothing had been
torn. She had been ravished.
Missing Fliers Found
London—Lincoln .Ellsworth and his
pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, Win
nipeg, 'missing since they started a
daring .Antarctic flight Nov. 23, have
been found alive and well in the froz
en "wastes of Little America.
Britain Sends Troops to Egypt
Paris—Great Britain has 75,000
troop's stationed in Egypt, according
to a despatch from Le Petit Parisian’s
Cairo correspondent. Majjor-General
Geoffrey W. Howard . reached Alex
andria aboard the troopship Scythia.
With him was a brigade comprising
the Cheshire, Gloucestershire, York
and Lancaster Regiments, the des
patch said. • ,
Lloyd George 73 Years Old
Marrakesh ,French Morocco—Dav
id Lloyd George was 73 years old on
Thursday.’ He celebrated the occasion
in-this ancient Mohammedan city, at
the foot of the Atlas Mountains.
When he is not golfing, he is writ
ing his new volume of war memoirs.
He hopes to have the book near com
pletion when he leaves for home to
ward the end of January.
Ontario Law’Society to
Honor Governor-General
At a special convocation of the
benchers of the Law Society of Upper
Canada on Feb .21, Lord Twecds-
muir will be called to the Ontario
Bar. At their January meeting the
benchers resolved to extend a call to
his Excellency to become a member
of the legal profession in Ontario.
He is a barrister and a bencher of
one of the English Inns of Court.
A New Insulin Developed
An improved treatment for diabet
es—;a “delayed-action” insulin -— has
been developed, it was announced in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Although full credit for
the discovery goes to four Danish
doctors at Copenhagen, a group of
Toronto professors and doctors have
for some months been working on the
idea at the Connaught Laboratories,
Slaght Chosen, by Premier
Mr, Mackenzie King said he had
invited Arthur Slftght, mdmber-elect
for Party Sound, to move the address
in reply to the Speech from the
Throne, and Sarto Fournier, member*
NEWS
of tKe
I DISTRICT
Loses in Chase
Teddy, a small terrier, chased a
rabbit up a drainpipe here, 30 miles
south of Owen Sound, and it was 18
hours before a rescue crew could ex
tricate him. The whimpering, scared
puppy was located 250 feet from the
entrance of the nine-inch dis-used
drain, but no trace was found of the
rabbit.
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Listowel Couple Sixty Years Married
With the member of their families
present, two of Listowel’s most ven
erable citizens, Mr. and Mrs. George
Orth, Inkerman street, quietly observ
ed their sixtieth wedding anniversary
at their home on Wednesday. Sixty
years ago Mr. Orth and Catherine
Fisher were united in marriage at
Kurtzville, by the late Rev. Mr. Bru-
er, pastor of the Lutheran Church. A
year after their marriage they moved
to Illinois, where they resided for 14
years, returning to Wallace, where
they farmed on the fourth concession
for 25 years and moved to Listowel
to reside in 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Orth
were both born in Heidelberg. Mr.
Orth will celebrate his 86th birthday
on May 19th and Mrs.. Orth reached
heri 82nd milestone last December.
When both were quite young they
moved to Wallace township with their
parents. They are enjoying good
health.
Hund Badly Torn by Machine
VVith her hand wedged in between
two fine steel combs, Kathleen Hart
ley had’ to wait for 35 minute? while
workmen rushed dismantling a gill
box at Botany Dry Spinners, Kincar
dine. When the girl's hand in some
unaccountable manner was caught be
tween the fast moving combs ordin
ary safety releases proved ineffective.
Her hand was badly torn by the ma
chine and she was removed to Kin
cardine hospital, After the injured
member was taken from the machine
fifteen minutes were required to re
move the sharp steel teeth.
Fractured Hand
. While playing hockey in a game
between Atwood and Newton at Mil
verton, Mr. C, E. Cobean of the Can
adian Bank of Commerce staff, had
the misfortune to fracture his right
hand.—Atwood Bee.
Tax Certificates Prove Popular
at Listowel
Indications are that the plan of
tax payments by the purchase of tax
certificates inaugurated last year will
become one of the most popular mea
sures passed by the Council in the
history of' Listowel. Since prepay
ment went into effect on January 1,
many citizens have been taking ad
vantage of the five per cent, discount.
Up to last night, the end of the first
period, the sum of $8,345 had been
paid in. The ratepayer really receiv
es the' money that would otherwise
have to be paid in bank interest.
Lord’s Prayer in Miniature
Mr. Gilbert McLaren has in
possession a very novel piece of type.’
This bit of metal is only one-sixth of
an inch square and yet it bears on
its minute surface the entire Lord’s
Prayer, and the name of the casting
machine which made it. The type is,
of course, too small to be seen with
the unaided eye and is visible only
with the assistance of a magnifying
glass.—Port Elgin Times.
New Form of Transport
Residents of this district around
Harriston, are interested in a trans
portation contrivance displayed on
the Main street of Harriston, the con
struction of which is the result of
the mechanical efforts of two young
men of Minto Township, named Mor
rell and Stockton. It is in the form
of a bundle of equipment mounted on
skids with a propeller attached at the
rear of the machine and
the snow-covered roads
speed.
Christmas Cactus
A lovely cactus plant
bloomed every Christmas for forty or
forty-five years, boasted 255 blooms
this year. The plant which is the
treasured possession of Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Caslick, whose home is on the
10th concession, north of Teeswater.
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have closed it. That town had two-,
teams in the Western Ontario Hoc
key League, they will play their re
maining games in Walkerton. It is.
not likely the Hanover rjnk will be',
opened again this winter as the re-.
pairs would mean the expenditure of'
several thousand dollars.
KING’S PHYSICIAN AND NURSE
who attended His Majesty. Agnes
Black, the nurse who, with Lord.
Dawson, brought the Kmg through
his illness in 1928 at Bogner Regisr
and then became a member of .the
royal household, is shown in (2).
DUKE OF GLOUCESTERMARRiED IN QUIET CEREMONY
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