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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-02-01, Page 2A ‘ JWINGHA’M ADVANCE-TIMES Quality That Satisfies SAJLADA * *■ MM ble-barreled shotgun, he sought to chase them awa^, and they left with- out the farmer getting a shot at them* Just as Jay. was breaking, he again ■ heard the dogs raising a fuss near his house, and, opening an upstairs win dow, he saw the five of them in a group starting to fight among them selves. Letting go with both barrels, he found that the double shot killed two of the dogs and a third crawled away a short distance and died there. The court held that the case should be dismissed.—Ha nover Post. Wingham Advance-Times Published at WINGHAM - ONTARIO ■ Subscription Rate •— One Year $2.00 Six months, $1.00 in advance To U, S, A., $2.50 per year. Foreign rale, $0,00 per year, Advertising rates on application. FEDERAL ELECTION SOON Those who thought that Premier King and >his government would car ry on at Ottawa until summer at least and maybe until next year, as a war measure* surely got a surprise when Parliament met on Thursday for four hours and then folded up. The ouly news of this short session was that a general election would be held as soon as possible. This act on the part of the King administration took everybody in the country by surprise, that is, all but Mr. King and his Cabinet. One has to go back to the time of Richard II to find a precedent for such a move. The action of the government was, without doubt, a bit of news that left most people with their mouths open. It was expected that during the ses sion, that was so suddenly called off, discussions would be held that would give the people a true picture of Can ada’s war effort. Now we will have to try and digest this information dur ing the heat of an election campaign. Premier King has been roundly crit icised by Mr, Hepburn for his lack of >var effort or the way in Avhich it is being administered. The Ontario leg islature censured Mr. King on his ef forts. Mr. Hepburn has been very critical of Mr. King for a long time. Mr. King and his colleagues appar ently decided that they would let the people decide and as a result we are in for a whirl-wind election campaign. There will be much ado in the bust lings as the Liberals have but a third of their men nominated, the Conserv atives about one-half, and the C.C.F, about a third. * * * * SHOULD STOP AT RAILWAY CROSSINGS A coroner’s jury at Lucan last week recommended that all trucks be com pelled to stop before crossing a rail way track. This jury was probing the death of a Rodney truck driver who was killed when the truck he drove struck the side of an eastbound tram at a Lucan crossing. During each year there are many such accidents and, the loss of life from such occurrences could be stop ped to a very great degree if trucks stopped at railway crossings. Many times we have advocated that all cars be compelled by law to stop at such crossings and we firmly believe that When a passenger bus approaches a railway crossing it stops. The com panies who operate these lines draw up a schedule and each driver must maintain It. But time is allowed so that the driver may carry out his in structions Ao stop at railway cross ings. Every railway crossing should ' have signs that are easily seen and the law should be amended so that all motor driven traffic will stop at such crossings. * * * * WHEAT FOR RUSSIA CANCELLED Russia stepped into the Canadian wheat picture with both feet, when she ordered a large quantity of our wheat, It was said at the? timg^that there was nothing unusual about this, as Russia very often made purchases o_f .this fine Canadian product. But the public were not satisfied. They had the fear that this wheat would find its way to Germany and thus we would help to feed the very people who are most anxious to destroy the cause of the Allies, From one end of the country to the other the people protested this sale. The Government also stepped into the picture, and Russia will not get this wheat, ’The Government has taken precau tions so that metals, .etc., will not reach tlie enemy by some roundabout route. That <they took the same ac tion in regard to this sale to Russia and also added recently many other items to the controlled export list shows that the government realises the importance of keeping a watchful eye on where exports actually arrive after they leave our country. Freak Egg Clarence Lembke, aon of Jake Lembke, who resides near Marmion in Sullivap, Tp., recently left at the Enterprise a freak hen’s egg of over size proportions. Inside the regular shell and lodged in the white of the egg is a second and smaller egg which is perfectly formed.—Chesley Enter prise. Carrick Farmer Hurt Emmanuel Litt, of the 12th conces sion, was painfully injured by being kicked by one of his< houses. He was leading the animal out in the barn yard to water it, when his dog nipped it on the heels, The horse gave a wild leap ahead, and then drove a vic ious kick, which landed on the right side of Mr. Litt’s 'back,' between his hip.and'his ribs.—-Mildmay Gazette, On Auburn Bank Staff Mr, Carl Zurbrigg, who has been on the local staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce for the past three^years, has received word of his transfer'to Auburn, duties to commence the first of next month,—Listowel Banner, Hand Badly Gashed Alfred Meyer had his right- hand badly injured while operating a cir cular saw at hjs home. He was feed ing in the wood* to the saw when his hand came into contact1 with the swiftly revolving saw, with the result this his thumb was partially severed. —Mildmay Gazette. NEWS of the DISTRICT of the Harold for the Examined Lucknow Students At the inaugural meeting Lucknow School Board, Mr. Allin was appointed trustee year 1940, succeeding Mr. Rae, Mr. T. W. Smith was appointed chairman. A motion of appreciation was tender ed local doctors and dentists for their work of examining all Public School children.—-Lucknow Sentinel. Killed Three Dogs With One Shot I An interesting case was heard atj division court here, when a Hanover; man sued a Bentinck farmer, just | south of town, for shooting his dog.3 The evidence was to the effect that about five dogs, apparently from Han over, had been congregating at the farms just out of town, and. one night this type of accident would not take ! a farmer was aroused by them and he the toll of dead and wounded if this | got up and chased them away. They Simple but effective remedy were ap- j went to a neighbor’s, who was awak- plied. Hunters Each Got Fox Messrs. Roy Leppington and Thom as Deeves, while hunting a short time ago, sighted a pair of foxes, one a beautiful silver grey, the other a red one. Roy was successful in bringing down the silver, and the. other animal fell prey to Tom’s marksmanship. Not a bad day’s hunting.—Clinton News- Record. HOW YOU CAM BREATHE! Cfoor CoW-C!osfl«d H*ad WsQu^lcW?»y Clear that tormenting stuffiness— breathe? more freely! Just a few drops of Vicks Va-tro-nol—that's what you need. Feel it go right to work —bring real comfort, This treatment is successful because Va-tro-nol is active medication—containing sev eral essential relief-giving agents plus ephedrine—expressly designed fot nose and upper —----- throat. Next time don’t wait for a cold to get a head start. Used at first sniffle or sneeze, Va-tro-nol helps keep a cold from dcveloping. VA'TRO'NQL WAKE vr XOVR NOSE AND THEN TROUBLE BEGAN enough Snow Plow Lost Wing As the C.N.R. snow plow was mak ing its run over the Stratford-Palm erston branch to clear away the banks left bv the week-end snow storm what might have been a. serious accident occurred near Newton when some thing went wrong with the compress ed air lifting mechanism of the heavy steel Wing on the plow with the result that it struck the bracing on the riv er bridge^on the George Tanner farm and in addition to ripping off the bracing of the bridge the wing was I torn from the plow and hurled into | the adjoining field.—Milverton Sun. i __ Burned by Boiling Water Margaret, 2-y ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvery J. Smith was brought to Kincardine General Hos pital from lier Inverhuron home, suf fering painful bums to her body, The little girl pulled over a kettle of boil ing water and' was badly burned as a result.—Kincardine News.cned by them, and grabbing his dou— % rt Receives Shooting Award Mr. Elwood Epps has received a fine target rifle as a special award for his fine marksmanship tn the recent Dominion Rifle Competition. Elwood competed against the warmers of oth er provinces and piled up the highest score ot all. The other provincial win ners received similar awards. In the Dominion contest the Clinton sClnb ranked fourth, the Calgary Club being the highest for the Dominion—Clinton News-Record. Sight of a Soviet flag was to .turn the- United Mine Workers’ convention at Columbus, O’., into an uproar. “We have no Communists/' declared John L. Lewis (at micro phone) as delegates protested appear ance of the flag. Police are seeking perpetrators of the prank, ; pear yoUng when it took over the Sparling job ten years ago, yet for the past decade Jt lias showed, its heels to many junior chargers. — Walkerton Herald-Times. Named Court Clerk Mrs. Mabel L. Gray, Goderich, has been appointed stenographer and pol ice court clerk temporarily for three months, by the Provincial Govern ment, succeeding Mrs. W. Gardner, (formerly* Miss Marjorie ProtiseJ. Clifford Fair Society Elect The annual meeting, also directors’ meeting of Clifford Agricultural Soc iety wax held in the assembly room of the continuation* school. The offic ers appointed for 194(1 were: Presi dent, Ezra Reubens; 1st vice-presi dent, Chester Cook; 2nd vice-presi dent, J. Dl Jackson; secretary-treasur er, Louis C. Wolfe; directors, H. | Hopf, A. Darrocli, David Campbell, 1 Dr. A. F. Thaler, R. Milligan and jMesdames A. F. Thaler^ H. Koehler, j A. Darrock and’ Miss A. F. Bayliss. | ' • _____ • Face Charges at London Crown attorney Holmes court at Goderich, that | Hicks and Jack Talbot, of charged with vagrancy in connection with “Tire Hub’* resaurant fire at Grand Eend, had been removed to London, there to face more serious ; charges. told the Clarence London, Lucknow Fair Board Directors The elected officers at the annual meeting of the Lucknow Agricultural Society resulted as follows: Pres, R G. Todd; 1st vice pres., John Parish; .2nd vice pres., Adam McQueen; Dir ectors—Kinloss, D. Carruthers, Rob ert Moffat; Ashfield. J. R. Hackett and Jacob Hunter; West Wawanosh, G. A, Greer, George Kennedy; Huron, R. G. Martin, Fred Martin; Lucknow, Severe Type of Paralysis A severe case of the dreaded polio disease occurred in the south Bend neighborhood, Egtemont Township, at -the week-end, when George, the <5- year-old son -of Mr, and Mrs. Murray, Dowling, was suddenly taken ill at- play Saturday about 5 o’clock. He was placed in an iron lung in the Sick. G. JL Smith; Association Directors— Children’s Hospital, Toronto, on Sun-i Kinloss, Richard Elliott, Pharis Math- dav, but passed away that evening, il ers, Harold Campbell, Eldon Hender- The chse was a very severe one, in-i! son; Ashfield, Sam Alton, Wilfred vol ring the respiratory organs, the brain and spinal eord* and medical ex perts are studying the case in all its j aspects.—Mount Forest Confederate, Thursday, obrntry 1, ,tM| Fo«r help is urgently p^ded —please mail a donation Toda^l Everywhere In Ontario are little children, once crippled, who now walk thanks to successful surgical and hospifol at The Hospital for Sick Children. The continuance of this essential public service depends on funds contributed by charitably-minded Ontario citizens fifre money can come fro* I* other source. 1 t „ in the Court House late Satur day afternoon which nearly wrecked the furnaces, .temporarily knocked out •Caretaker George James, and chased County Clerk J. M. Roberts out of his office when the second explosion blew a h^le in the chimney where is passes through the Clerk’s office. -The base ment, Clerk’s office and hallowed halls of the old Court House were fill ed with thick black poal soot, The wooden girders above the furnace took fire and were burning smartly when caretaker James, groggy, about to turn in a fire alarm, changed his mind and put out the blaze with’a garden hose, The cause of all this commotion was learned later, The steady chimney down draft caused by the gale that was raging blew closed the rear draft of the furnace after a fresh fire had been built, thus trapping the coal gas fum es and causing the explosions.—God erich Signal-Star. FARM PRODUCTS By’P. S. Fisher has MAY P£AY ONCP AGAfP THE HOSPITAL 5ICK CHILDREN 67 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO • *mepce for January 1940, .the fourth paragraph relating to, Recent Price Trends, reads as follows: “As Canada is the world’s fourth largest exporting country, world -rather than domestic markets establish the price, level of most of the commodities with which we are chiefly concerned, and. individ- Since Charles Herbert Huestis gone to Vancouver, to shelter himself from the rain drops of the far west, rather Ilian, the .snow-flakes of the east, in" Toronto, we readers of the Star more frequently have opportun ities. to read the thoughts of R, J. ua; price movements must therefore Deachman. Whatever may be said of the value of his Writings from the standpoint of ^utility, they at least possess invariab ly, the prerequisite of every success ful salesman, i,e., a good address. He may end, to the layman, in a dancing ma'ze. of economic statistics as unan swerable as an anecdote pf Abraham Lincoln’s; but he commences with bare feet on a dusty road in Huron County, by contemplative meditations by the meandering Maitland dr by vis ions of the* night from the- bedroom window of his boyhood. Tales of “away back when” interest most people, and from this successful starting point R: J. Deachman pro ceeds. Let us do likewise, leaving Huron County for Wellington. Here at Guelph we have the ‘O.A.C. with the genial, capable Dr. Christie at the head. Not long ago, excerpts of one of his speeches relating of course to agriculture, appeared in the Star. It was very informative. In it he told of a phenominal increase in the produc tion of potatoes, -on a small portion of a certain farm, where the potato crop was poor. The soil was analyz ed, a deficiency was supplied, potatoes selected and , planted, with incredible results following when harvested. The small patched under supervision of the O.A.C. yielded more than the rest of the field under the farm own er. If low prices for farm produce seem likely to continue, would it not be pos sible to raise the farmer’s aggregate ■of cash, By the introduction of such scientific knowledge, soil ingredients and proven farming processes as the Ontario Agricultural College appears adapted to supply ? Without asking a number- of questions all, pointing1 to the closet possible' linkage between whatever disparity exists betwixt the" unscientific selection, of field, seed, care during growth, etc., of the aver age Ontario farmer, and the latest findings for the fullest agricultural de velopment of the farm by tfie O.A.C., may We have from the facile pen of R. J. Deachman an unfolding of the governmental attitude, federal or pro vincial, or both, concerning! the scien tific supply of tiie College to the un-! supplied need on the farm. . {onto Dally Star, have induced' me* to In the Monthly Commercial Letter | wonder, as* I seek to relate -them, if issued! by the Canadian Bank Of Com-j The plowman, who homeward’ plod's be judged in the light of all the known facts as to their supply, demand, and potential production, rather than on the basis of what, from the domestic point -of view may be regarded as a “just price”.’’ Assuming -that the above paragraph is true, it would appear that no. longer is Gorrie or Wingham, Guelph, Ham ilton or Toronto the places that dic tate the prices of the commodities produced in Huron County, but rather, as jn the Parable of the Sower, the field is the world and the farmer of Howick or Turnberry, apart from his immediate needs, competes with the farmers of a collection of continents, What percentage, speaking general ly, does the average. farmer’s actual production bear to his “potential pro duction”? How is the gap ’to be bridged? Recently, I lunched with what is called here, a gentleman far mer — a man whose business is in the city and whose home is just ouside it. “Anything new -on .tire faVm?” “I went -into the chicken house one night — took my man with me.” “What for?” “Not getting enough eggs for the feed I’m buying.” “What did you do?” “I said to my man, turn on the* light, pick -up that hen, and this one, and that one over there; put them in the empty pen and come back. Now, take that one, no, the one sitting down there half asleep, yes, and the one next to it and this one here. I went through the crowd of tllem and weed ed out over a third of them.” “What was the result of the weeding?” I ask ed. “I’m getting just about as many eggs as before I did any weeding." “What happened to the hens you so rudely disturbed in the right?” “They got their heads chopped off.” “How do you tell the wheat from the tares?’’ “Leave that to me” was his laconic and final answer. Most of what I know of farming re lates to a day when I was? thrown up in the air from the horns of a cow, and to an afternoon when I fell off a load of hay. Heading rapidly for the hips of one of the horses, I called' out “Whoa, Pat!” on the way d'own, and have cherished an undying affec tion for the Irish ever -since. i These articles, however, it^ the-Tbr- his weary way’ in the evening, should go forth • next morning with a few sacks of calcium on top. of his harrow to spread over the land and! thereby step up his production;. thirty, sixty or one hundred’’ fold! ‘And another thing. A few nights ago the Star published, an account" of one apparently well versed- In the con tent of apples. Now, I ate apples long before ■ those- never-to-be-forgotten, days, when I scampered’ from; school* in bare feet, over- the* soft dhst of .the road that led to the old! swimming hole on the banks of that same merry Maitland; but after reading the- article about apples I went to cellar- at once to get the- vitamin- A,. B- and! I think Q) that I was missing. Now, I am in another quandry. Arer our Ohtaribi ap ples better , for us amid!’these snow storms, as a prelude to porridge-at & a.m. than .the oranges we are more likely to consume? Perhaps this is putting too much upon our Friend, Deachman, still, since it concern? im ports it must, ba- important.. Mr. Deachman has the floor. Order*, please! ‘ Heating Hints i (~\ NE mistake- tftat? a great many " home-owners make; less not putting enough-coal on!the-fire.Thi& is a falSa.economy.-, A thin, skimpy fire not., only, bums: up- too fast, goes out mores’ easily;, and! causes many; unnecessary trips- to the cellar, .butitalso; wastes. jhisL Eon-the most- economical opera- tion, .always put; on? enough-fuel to keeps the? fire-bed: level with the bottom * of the- fim*dboj^ In > mild' weather.-you can- leave a little? heavier accumulation of" ash on; the- grate. The* fire wifi then burn very slowly, yet. there will be sufficient fuel: un the- process of D«»p: Sr*, level, •with, bottom of; fire <foor Sb«U<ew fir*. Wtaiwful ♦oncyiog burning to provide: ample heat in ease of a sudden* drop m the out side temperature,. And remember, whenever you put. on fresh coal, always leave an- exposed spot of Eve coal directly hi front of the fire-door to act. as a pilot light to ignite the gases: arising from the fresh coal. (5) ONE OF BRITAIN’S STATELY HOMES IS MILITARY HOSPITAL ;■ Hackett, Kelso McNay; West Wawa-| iitwsK Fefer Watson* Andrew Gaunt* | •! Wallace Miller, Fred McQuillin, Tom | 'Todd; Huron, George Brooks, W, S.| 1 McGuire; Lucknow, S. C. RuthwetlJ j|Wm. Hornell* Campbell Thompson, Con Decker* Alex. Andrew, S. E. Ro-' Died in Harness | During the blisaardy blasts recent- Hy* Sparling's delivery horse* which j bertsoti. Associate Lady Directors— ,| was afflicted with the heaves* answ-1 Jean Lyons, Mrs. R. G. Martin. Mrs. Jewd tthe last call, for on arriving Sn: Ewart Taylor* Mrs. Jas. Webster* | front -of Mr. Rer.e CttMiton’s home m! Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Aimer Aekert and | the East Ward with the meat mean |presidents of Idta'I orgatileaiions. «ta dinner, it toppled over 5nta friendly snowbank, and yielded up the J It Wasn’t a Bomb ghost Although no fyling of then A mringsound was followed close teeth could have made that horse ap-My by two suppressed coal gas explo-’ flfrMww home of the of Salisbury nowhs . inTe'EZC ’! look down on a new and vafamilsaf lallwiiidlag vlcltas otslckaessard ar-v;*iu4b’c paintings and sight Hatfeld Home has Bees taken'ttdett in France tss^tMt TH,'*’*