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TRANSIENTS WILL BE FED
It has been decided by the Town
Council that all<( transients calling
> here must work for their meals. It
was thought by the members of the
Council that it was not fair that local
relief recipients should be made to
work for what they receive and the
knights of the road get their meals
and bed for no effort on their part.
.This transient problem has been a
big one now for a number of years
and Wingham was marked by this
wandering lot as an ideal place to
spend the night. No work, plenty of
heat, good eats, appealed to .them and
why not? The repeaters were very
numerous.
The transients still will have the
same accommodation as before,- the
only difference is that they will have
to cut a little wood, shovel some
snow, in other words, do a little
work for what they get.
•It is up to the public to help the
Council. Do not feed the transients
at your door. They can get meal tic
kets from Chief Allen but they will
have to
receive,
that?
do some work for what they
What could be fairer than
by the Gov-
and factory
Canada many
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PROFITS ^ON ARMAMENTS
It appears- that the Government
will set up a purchasing board with
power to purchase equipment for de
fence services. The recent Bren gun
contract investigation, while it did
not bring out the fact that there had
been corruption, did, if we sense it
rightly, create a demand by the pub
lic in general that profit ought to be
removed from the manufacture of
armaments and other military equip
ment. If this is to be done it will en
tail a vast expenditure
eminent in factories
equipment.
No doubt we have in
factories that are partially equipped
to carry on such work and it is doubt
ful if the cost of taking over these
factories or building new ones would
justify such a move. It is a bigger
problem than appears on the surface
and would force the government in
to many different lines of business
if they decided to carry out such a
policy.
No industry is more highly organ
ized than that which manufactures
. the automobile but even these manu
facturers do not attempt to make all
the parts that go into their finished
product.
A careful, efficient purchasing
board could no doubt save the Gov
ernment a great deal of money but
we doubt if it is practical for the
Government to go into the manufac
ture of arms and military equipment,
and thus eliminate all the profit.
s
to have crashed into the side of the
coach on a C, P. R. train, and then
«werve’d into a deep ditch.
Four Cases of Fever at Clifford
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
broken out in Clifford, Four cases
are reported with the result that the
Board of Health has closed the pub
lic school.
Runaway Horses Crash. Windows
Display window’s in Lestern Arm
strong’s store at Pine River, and a
gasoline tank in front of the store
were broken when; a runaway team?
sweeping around the corner onto the
Blue Water highway which runs in.
front of the store, crashed into the
store. The team of horses, owned by
Mack McDonald, of Huron Town
ship, received minor injuries in their
runaway.
Wolf Shot Near Chesley
George Jacklm, a farmer just a few
miles west of Chesley, shot a large
timber wolf near his home and ex
hibited the carcass of the animal to
a large number of interested persons
in town, many of whom had never
seen a wolf. The animal weighed in
the neighborhood of 40 pounds and
Mr. Jacklm shot it when the dogs
which were running rabbits, chased
it up past where he was standing.
The wolf had been seen a few days
ago in Brant Township, close to
where it as shot at Monk’s bush, near
Me. Jacklin’s home on the 12th con
cession of Brant Township, A boun
ty will be paid on the animal.
Amateur Radio Station
Retinites Brothers
Brothers who have not met for'sev
eral years and who have been out of
touch with each other for the past
four years were reunited by amateur
short wave radio. Reuben Lautens-
lager, who operates station VE3ATR
at Kincardine, thought he would en
deavour to get in touch with his bio-
ther, -who last lived at Green Bay,
Wisconsin. He made contact with
station W9CEA there. The operator,
Al Jannclle, did not know the miss
ing brother, but in the course of a
few days had him as a customer in
his barber shop. Arrangement were
made for the brothers to “converse,”
and in a three-hour conversation
Reuben and Roy Lautenslager decid
ed to introduce their wives who nave
never met, in a later contact between
the stations.
Getting Set for Old Home Week
For several years a reunion has
been mooted but not until last au
tumn did anything definite take place.
A meeting of business men and oth
ers interested was held and it was
then resolved to hold an Old Home
Week at Walkerton in 1939, July 1
to 5th inclusive. An enthusiastic re
sponse was given to the plan by the
citizens generally and the interest
has increased at the several meetings
,since held. Various committees to
look after arrangements to stage the
monster event had their final O.K. by
the executive at a recent meeting.
of the
DISTRICT
Truck Crashes Train
Two of the men riding in the cab
of a transport truck which struck a
train .escaped injury but the third
William Craig, of Williamsford, suf
fered serious injuries when the cab
door flew open and he fell out of the
machine. Edward Jank, Chesley,
driver of the truck was driving down
Plowright Hill on the Hanover- Wal
kerton highway at the time. The
slippery down grade gave him no
chance to stop and the truck is said •
Pansies in January *
You’ve no doubt heard of the pop
ular song “Roses in December”. Well
here’s the latest one “Pansies in Jan
uary.” This, however, is not just a
mythical song, but the genuine thing.
Mr. W. T. Riddell of Auburn picked
pansies out of his flower garden, in
bloom last week.—Blyth Standard.
Western Railroader Native
of Wawanosh
Alex. Anderson, son of tire late
Hugh Anderson, of West Wawanosh,
near St. Helens, is a proud railway
pensioner, and rightly so for Alex
Anderson drove the last spike in the
Canadian Pacific Railway at Jackfish,
Ont., May 16th, 1885, joining the
steel being laid from east to west. On
a recent visit to Winnipeg he dis
played the spike presented to him in
1935. Mr. Anderson, a resident of
Maitland Creamery
Buyers Of
Cream, Eggs
and Poultry
UNITED FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
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WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, January 19, 1939
Port Arthur, is now 81 years of age.
He left St. Helens as quite a young
man. Kenneth Cameron, West Wa-
wanosh apple grower, is a cousin,—-
Lucknow Sentinel.
Narrow Escape from Gas Fumes
Unconscious from fumes of coal
gas which filled the room of his
home on the Lake Shore Road south
of Kincardine, Ogle Duggan was
rushed to Kincardine General .Hos
pital by Dr, A. E, H, Couch '■who an
swered the call put through by Mrs.
Duggan, who herself was partially
overcome by the fumes.
Mrs, Duggan wakened early Sun
day morning to find the room filled
with deadly coal gas and her husband
unconscious. In an effort to shut off
the cause of the gas she received a
burn on her arm. At the hospital
Mrs. Duggan was permitted to leave
shortly after
Duggan was under treatment for
nearly a day before he recovered
from the fumes which had almost as
phyxiated him.—Kincardine News.
her arrival but Mr,
Heel Fractured in Fall
Philip Kroetsch of near Carlsruhe
was taken to the Bruce County Hos
pital to receive treatment for a frac
tured heel and a badly shaken ankle,
sustained when he fell from the over
layers in his barn. In crossing this
loft, his feet slipped on some cut
straw, and he dropped to the barn
floor, a distance of about twenty feet.
The heel was badly fractured, and he
will be laid off duty for several
months.—Mildmay Gazette.
Will Bring Action
Mr. J. J. Musgrove, of Gorrie, who
alleges that his car was damaged to
the extent of $50 when it plunged in
to a hole on the Tenth sideroad of
Carrick, just south of the 4th con
cession, on October- 10th, was at the
Council meeting, and informed that
body that it was His intention to
bring an action against Carrick to re
cover his damages. — Mildmay Gaz
ette.
School Girl Injured by Falling Pole
Willa Carroll, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. I. Carroll may certainly be
named the luckiest girl, returning
home from school she came very
close to receiving an injury that
would have confined her to bed for
mcrttihs. The Bell Telephone line
men have been working about the
town removing poles and rebuilding
lines and as Willa was walking along
St. Andrews St. not a block from her
home one of the poles fell to the
ground, striking her head and admin
istering a cut, as well as* bruising her
back and shoulders. There were no
bones broken and Willa was about
the house the following day, feeling a
bit stiff, but otherwise unhurt. —
Mitchell Advocate.
Horse Crashes Car, Breaks Neck
There was considerable excitement
in the business section of Listowel
when a runaway horse ran into a car
at the corner of Main and Wallace
street. The accident occurred when
the horse, which was owned by Mr.
Solomon Berlett, of Lebanon, ran
away on Wallace street. The bit
broke when opposite Bayne’s black
smith shop. It collided with a car in
front of Kidd & Ruppel’s butcher
shop where the horse broken loose
from the cutter, dragging the shafts
behind it. The horse continued its
mad dash, and just as it crossed on
to Main it struck a car proceeding
east, smashing the glass and the body
of the car. Had the vehicle not cross
ed its path the horse would likely
have smashed into J. C. MacDonald’s
store. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Ballantyne
of St. Marys were in the car, and
Mrs. Ballantyne was given first aid
in the office of Dr. H. D. Living
stone nearby. She sustained face cuts
and bruises. The horse died shortly
after the accident from a broken
neck, and Mr. Berlett escaped injury.
Listowel Banner.
Perth Farmers Favor T. B. Area
Canvassers’ reports turned in to R.
E. White, agricultural representative,
show that 2,405 of the Perth County
cattle owners already approached are
in favor of the proposed scheme to
make Perth a bovine tuberculosis free
area, The reports show 969 breeders
are opposed to the scheme. The per
centage in favor is 71 but there are
still about 50 canvassers’ reports to
be turned in, so it will be some weeks
yet before a complete report can be
given. The law demands that two*
thirds of the cattle owners must favor
the scheme in any given territory be
fore that territory may become a re
stricted area tinder the meaning of
the.tuberculosis-free scheme,
THE ELECTRIC FENCES
(Experimental Farms News)
The introduction of the electric
fence into Canada has been received
with much interest and it is gradual
ly becoming more widely adopted for
fencing pastures, states H. J. Kwp,
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that He's YOUR BOY!
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tfD, while we’re still in a fanciful mood, let’s
suppose he has suddenly become, seriously ill—
Then, imagine yourself to be in financial difficulties
—■your income, never more than $900.00 a year, has
ceased altogether because the factory has shut down
temporarily.
> You think your little boy may be dying—the doctor
orders you to rush with him to the Hospital for Sick
Children you learn it’s Pneumonia of the most
serious type — that serums alone will cost over $400.00,
to say nothing of the special graduate nursing and
expert medical attention required, nor of the cost of
hospitalization itself.
Could you be turned away because of this? There -
is only one answer to this question. It has been the
answer of the Hospital for Sick Children for 63 years—
a youngster’s real need for hospital care and medical
attention is the only ticket of admission required.
Race, creed or financial ^circumstances are not consid
ered. We know the people of Ontario want it that
way. **
• This Hospital has met qvery emergency which has
developed during the 63 years of its existence. It is
famous throughout the civilized world for the success
and efficiency of its medical and nursing staffs and
for the low cost at which it is operated.
And who pays for this humanitarian work? The
• doctors give their time absolutely free. The Ontario
x Government pays 60c per patient per day and the •
patient or the patient’s municipality pays $1.75 on the
same basis. That leaves over $1.00 per patient per day
of bare cost for which we must appeal annually to
humane and generous citizens. This Hospital does
NOT share in the funds collected by the Federation
for Community Service because patients are admitted
from all over Ontario.
This year, over $83,000.00 is needed. That means
over ten thousand donations if they were to average
$8.00 each:—or over twenty thousand averaging $4.00.
Certainly, a staggering total! So, please make your
gift as large as you possibly can. If you cannot afford
more—remember that even a dollar bill helps pay '
for the care of somebody’s baby,
. Kindly mail your donation to the Appeal Secretary,,
i67 College Street, Toronto. We cannot afford to use
any of our much-needed revenue for canvassers or other
organized effort to collect money.
SICK
67 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO
^ HOSPITAL for
THE KING TO PURCHASE GIANT STREAMLINED AIRPLANE
Dominion Experimental Station,
Swift Current, Sask. This type of
fence has many advantages, but at
the same time caution is necessary in
establishing the equipment. Research
and further investigation will, no
doubt, improve the- safety features, its
efficiency and general range of use
fulness.
1. Reduces the cost of erecting
temporary fences.
2. Reduces expenditures for wire,
posts and gates.
3. Reduces injury to live stock.
4. Especially adapted to winding
coulees or temporary pasture areas
otherwise impractical to fence.
5. Enables the use of untillable
lands in fields that otherwise might
be wasted.
Three types of electric fence con
trols are in use. Two employ direct
current of either six volts or 32 volts.
The third uses alternating current of
110 Volts, Regulations do not always
permit connecting the alternating
current .electric fence controls to
commercial or rural light and power
lines, The six volt direct current bat
tery typo is considered the safest de
vices to use.
Direct electric current of six volts
may be supplied to< the battery oper
ated types by cither four dry cells,
a hot shot battery, or a wet storage
battery. The fence control equipment
■ Increases the pressure of the current
from six volts to a range of from 350
BW
This is a model (TOP) of the new
British airplane developed at a cost
of more than $500,060 by the De
Haviland Co, King George will pur*
chase it for hi spersonal use if trials
at Hatfield airport are successful,
Since war days when King George
was an officer in the Royal Air
Force, he has been keenly interested
in flying. Now he is planning ’to re
place his present four-passenger ship
for a DeHaviland Flamingo capable
of attaining a speed of 250 miles an
hour. This cross-sectional sketch
(BOTTOM) shows the pilot room,
baggage compartments and seating
arrangement oil the airplane.
t,o 30,000 volts. This high voltage is
delivered to the fence wire at a very
low volume of from 10 to 15 milliam-
petes at regular intervals of 50 to 60
times per
application
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minute, The intermittent
of electric current con-
battery current. This In*
mrmittent current, together with the
very tow amperage? are excellent pro*
visions for safety. High voltage ’ap
plied at amperages higher than 15 to
20 milliamperes are regarded - as
dangerous to both humans and ani
mals and competent advice is rccom-
mended where any doubt exists.
Some makes of electric fence con
trols include means to increase or de
crease the voltages to suit wet or dry
soil conditions, a meter for testing
the battery, and means to indicate
short circuit in the fence line, a light
ning arrester and a condenser to re
duce radio interference.
A,s a rule, one Or two wires are
used for the electric fence to carry
the electric current. One wire is suf
ficient for horses and cattle. Two
wires are considered preferable for
pigs and sheep. Barbed wire is much
more suitable than smooth wire al
though the latter dan be used where
barbed wire is especially objection
able. The wire can be supported by
porcelain insulators on 2 inch by 2
inch stakes set in the ground 30 to
40 feet apart
Animals as a rule need little train
ing to keep them away from the
charged fence. Observations at the
Dominion Experimental Station at
Swift Current show that they learn,
surprisingly quickly and keep away
from the fence for long periods even
when such a fence is not charged, A
13-plate wet battery was tised and the
electric fence was operated through
out the summer months for pastur
ing cattle. The cattle were well con
trolled, no harm was done to either
cattle or the attendant and the bat*,
tery was still charged at the end of
the season. ,