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Runaway When the horse he was driving ran away, Wilmer Bridge, Tiverton dis- trict farmer, received a fractured leg and. ankle. He was taken to Kin- cardine Hospital for treatment. He also suffered painful hand cuts. Flenniken Gets Two Years On 1VIanslaughter After deliberating for one hour, a Huron County jury of 10 farmers, one baker and a merchant found 16-year- old James Flenniken not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. Justice McFarland agreed with both verdicts. Because of the boy's youth, he said, he would be given a chance to change his career and rid himself of criminal tendencies. "I have 'no in- tention," his lordship added, "of im- posing a long term in a penitentiary where Flenniken will be herded with criminals." Sentence was two years less one day determinate in an Ontario reform- The Meanest Thief We would like to know the name of the meanest thief in town. The in- cident is as follows: The Girl. Guides and Brownies were asked to collect used stamps, the proceeds of which were to go to a hospital for bombed children in England. The Brownies had collected the splendid amount of about 10,000 stamps, no small job for such little folk, when the girls went to the cupboard where they were placed recently, they had been stolen, —Listowel Standard. AN IMAGINARY TRIP TO VICTORY by Mrs. George Addison, Chesley, Ontario Editors Note: The following was received by Rev. Kenneth MacLean asking that it be read at the Civic Service which was held in St. Andrew's Church, Sunday evening, March 1st. Due to the service being of same length, Mr MacLean read it over the Church of the Air in place of as requested, Many have ask- ed for copies of this composition so we are publishing it so that our read- ers may see it and clip it if they so desire. Britain, to me is like a mightly ves- sel, sailing across the sea of time with her crew of loyal subjects sailing peacefully along. Suddenly a great tempest arises, dark war clouds gather, the gale of the foe fiercely dropping shells, bombs and fear down upon us, while the Waves of cruelty, wickedness and greed dash high around us, Bet we bravely battle the storm with Win- ston Churchill at the helm, steering our course the straight and narrow way, King George, our captain, stands on PlittEST Ft) M WHICH tOOACCO CAN OE SMOKED.° If every one of Canada's new army 'of wage-earners saves more, the.country's effort toward winning the war will be 'greatly helped. Every dollar you save means more labour and materials freed for making the war goods so urgently needed. These savings, lent to the country In the purchase of War Savings Cert;Ficafes or Victory Loan BOWS—lent to intensify Canada's war effort—will bring victory and peace--nearer. Thursday, March 1Zth, 1942. PAGE TWO WINGfIAM ADVANCE-TIMES atory, and the same term indetermin ate. Flenniken was charged over the &Teeth of "Kip" White, jail turnkey during an abortive attempt to escape trout Huron County jail in December White was hit on the head with e ammer. Seriously Hurt on Sleighride Jantes Harrison, student ;.t a tech- nical school in Toronto,. met NV 4:). a serbus accident sginile visiting at the trta gf his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Harrison, at Harriston With -.eller young people he was enjoying sleigh-ride party and reaching the bottom of the slide he crashed into a snow-covered least, nmcturing his een. He wa s rushed to Guelph hos pital and an operation was performed. He is at preemie in a critical condition. Deer and Dog Chums Mrs. )George Hallam, of West Wa- wanosh Township, witnessed an un- usual sight when she glanced out her window. She saw a deer and the Hal- lam dog plasein.d in a near-by field. Shortly after she heard the dog yelp- ing, and the deer was chasing it. Victory Loan Broker Injured 'Wilfred McCarthy, 35, of Kings- bridge, continued his Victory Loan campaign work from his hospital bed despite the fractured skull he suffered when his car rammed a C.N.R, over- head bridge. With the aid of Victory Loan officers McCarthy com- pleted applications he had scoured just prior to his accident, Thrown through the windshield of his car in an acci- dent as he was completing the day's Victory Loan campaigning, McCarthy, age 35, was rushed to Alexandra Hos- pital in critical condition. He has a 'fractured skull Former Glamis Preachet Student Killed Sergeant Pilot Ian Mackenzie who for two years prior to the outbreak of war was student minister at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Glamis, was kil- led in an aerial accident over Cam- bridge, Gloucestershire, England on Wednesday, February 25, according to word received here. — Kincardine News. Injured by Washing Machine While working around the washing machine at his home last week, Mr. Robert Ireland, Culross farmer, got his hand caught in the mechanism, and lost the end of one thumb as the result. —Teeswater News. Accepted For Army Service Miss Ethel Keith of the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, who is a member of the Walkerton Women's Auxiliary Corps, and who recently signed up for active service in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, has been accepted and was in London on Monday for medical examinotion. Miss Keith passed all the tests and has been ordered to report for duty in London on March 15th, She is the first Walkerton girl to join the C.W. A.C. for active service. — Walkerton H erald-Tim es. Signs of Spring? Hugh McKague brought to The News Office Monday of this week a caterpillar, one of those fuzzy little black and brown fellows, that he had found in the yard of his home. How- ever, Jean McDonald of town beat that record by depositing- a like species of crawler on the editor's desk about three weeks or so ago. A couple of weeks previous to this date Thomas McDonald of the 6th Concession wrote "finis" to the life of a common earter snake that was reposing on his back doorstep enjoying a February sle-bath. — Teeswater News. To Enforce Curfew Law Feeling that Hanover's curfew - by- law was superfluous as the Children's Protection Act in the Ontario statutes forbids children under 16 loitering in a public place at eight, Hanover coun- cil repealed the 33-year-old by-law and instructed Chief Constable Meyer to enforce the Act Nine o'clock is the hour specified in the statutes, but the council took the view that standard lime is meant and set the hour at ten. -o'clock daylight time, when a curfew As to be sounded warning boys and hairls not yet 16 to wend their way homeward. — Hanover Post, , A Freak Calf • Mr, Robert Wallace reports the birth of a calf on his farm. The calf has' no eyes, and appearing where the eyes should be are two tiny slits, but • there is no eyeballs,- and rat course, the calf cannot see, Otherwise it ap- pears quite normal. Mr, Wallace says this i; his first experience with a real freak, although he has had previous experience where a calf was born blind,—Blyth Standard. Held Hauling Bee A sight that is seldom seen in this district in these days of motor truck- ing, occurred here 'last Thursday when Sixtddil teams hauling togs came to town en route to Schwalm's sawmill. Mr, Ed. Lerch of the 12th concession had quite a bit of his bush removed, and last Thursday had a bee to haul the logs to the local millyard.—Mild- may Gazette. Caught White Mouse farmer ott the 10th concession of Carrick reports that one of his cats caught a pure-white mouse on his farm the other day, The owner, who noticed the feline playing with the rodent, ,tried to save its life and keep it alive in a cage as a curiosity, but the mouse did not survive the cat's maulings. The mouse had pink eyes similar to those of a rabbit, This is the first time that a white mouse has been reported in this district.—Mild- may Gazette, Eight Boys in One Rural Neighborhood Enlist One of the best records, is that of the enlistments of young men for mil- itary service, which have been made in the Township of Huron. Within a mile and three quarters on concession 2, no less than eight young men have signed up . to fight for their country and free- dom. They are Cecil Humphrey, mili- tary 'transport, Nova Scotia; Donald Courtney, aircraft school at Galt; Gar- net Henderson, provost, Kitchener; Lester Ferguson, transport driver, Nova Scotia; Chester Emmerton, ord- nance corps, Windsor; Grant Camp- bell, infantry, England; Gordon Camp- bell, R.C.A.F. flying instructor, Man- itoba; Ivan Courtney, R.C.A.F., Tor- onto.-.--Lucknow Sentinel. Lucknow Fair Dates Changed At a meeting last week of the dir- ectors of the Lucknow Agricultural Society the fall fair dates were chang- ed to Tuesday and Wednesday, Sep- tember 22nd and 23rd. For many years the fair has been held on the last Thursday and Friday of Septem- ber and at the annual meeting in Jan- uary it was decided to move the dates forward to Monday and Tuesday, September 21st and 22nd. Upon con- sideration however, Monday appeared as a poor first day, and hence the change to Tuesday and Wednesday. —Lucknow Sentinel. the bridge with Queen Elizabeth graciously smiling at his side, the smile which dried our tears and buoy-- ea our hopes. Our captains gives the order for ail i on board to put their hand out in the darknees into the hand of Good; we do so and all is well. Then eumes a great calm, the tempest and blackouts are over, war clouds vicar away and mornifig comes. What a glorious moraine with the Sun .d f Peace shining down upon us again, till our great and mightly vessel blushes red in the 'glory of its redi- ance. With the bennere of our, Kine- dem flying high at top mast, our ship :n glory and splendour gallantly sails into the port of Victory. While our good friend countries gather around her piers to extend their hearty wishes, we lower our anchor into the rock of Christianity and the tempest is over, Our good ship Britain has won the we gaze from her honourable decks we see a sight of heavenly beauty, a new empire in which to live, with towers of brotherly love and un- selfishness reaching to tine sky We, see green fields of wealth and prosper- ity, beautiful monuments rising high in honour of our brave men lashed overboard by the angry enemy waves and gone down to a hero's grave. Gateways to mines overflowing with help and" comfbrt cheer their loverl ones left behind, while abundant. em- ployment, full churches; empty pris- ons, highways of safety and respect for human life with the lights of Lon- don shining again, all mark the dawn of a new and better day. On beaded knee we thank God with hearts of overflowing gratitude, and as we look out we see the rays of Peace draw a path across the sea resembling 4a, band of gold and seeming to encircle our great and mightly ship Britain, drawing her closer to Christianity where she will tie up to the end of time in the blessed part of- Perfect Peace where storms and war shall be no more. PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry J. Boyle Winter Fishing Every so -often a man gets a foolish idea that practically always gets hint into trouble. I guess that is just an- other trait of our being human. At least every farmer that I know of who is honest will admit that he gets a big idea now and again. The idea hits him right between the eyes as being something gigantic. He broods over it , .. goes ahead and does it and usually manages to get- into trouble. Neighbor Higgins was helping me to clean up seed -grain in the granary the other day. It was a dusty job and the granary was frosty cold and both of us were getting pretty tired. He asked me if I would sell the big bay horse.: Now we need that horse at Lazy Meadows and there isn't a chance in the world that we would sell him .• . . but it was a good excuse to get down in the stable where it. was a whole lot warmer than up in the granary: After a time we sat down on the two chop bags in the passage-way in front of the cows and (notwithstand- ing Fire MaAall's orders) started smoking. Polities . and war and the farm problem haVing been disposed of, the conversation drifted to sundry lines and he happened to mention the fact that he 'saw a piece in the news- paper where a man had caught a big fish simply by chopping a hole in the ice over s, deep hole in a spring creek on his farm and then snaring the fish with a wire. That was all he said but that night staring up into the inky blackness of the bedrodin I started thinking about "Old Sam" that wily bass who has eluded capture in the creek on Lazy Meadows for several years now. You can see him in the deep hole just be- low the bend in the creek, gliding and flashing around in the water but he re- fuses to bite. It might be possible to snare him because in warmer weather in the winter he hugs close to the bottom of the creek! Armed with snare wire, an axe and other equipment which might come in handy for the expedition I set out af- ter the morning chores were finished the next day. It was frosty cold and you could feel the pinch on your cheeks, The snow crunched under-foot, like salt. it was an easy matter to chop the hole in the ice. Then came the task of trying to find the big bass. The sun' seemed to be shining in just such a way that, there was no use in trying to peer .down through the water. ,Two of the bags which I brought along served as shields against the sun and that helped somewhat,- Have you ever looked down through the cool, ,green depths of a creek in the .middle of winter? Isn't it a pleasant sight, I have no doubt that it is, but when you're looking for a fish it isn't. A dark lumpish object along lilt side of a log looked as if it might be "Old Satre I poked with the handle of the axe at the object but the blade of it slipped through 'my .mitts and the axe plopped down into tine water, That was what provided the amateur fisherman with an opportunity to try Ins ability with a snare, An eddying current of water swept the wire away each time that it came close to the handle of the axe. Finally the axe slumped down until it seemed. to be almost an impossibility to catch it. The weather seemed to grow warm- er as time wore on , , 'due no doubt to the warmth of the words expressed. as the noose persisted in avoiding cue- tact with the axe. Finally it landed the axe and pick- ing up the equipment I decided to go home. A plane flew overhead at about the same time and I gawked up at it, stepping back to get a better look. One leg plunged down into 'the icy; water of the creek. Try walking with one boot full of chilly water on a frosty morning and see how enjoyable it is, When Mrs. Phil heard the story, after a certain amount of persuasion she just looked at me toasting my feet in the oven and said, "Men do the strangest things." I couldn't say a thing. HYBRID CORN AND CORN VARIETIES (Erperimental Farms News) The increasing importance of hybrid corn demands that every grower of corn should know something about it in general and individual corn hybrids in particular. To begin with, the term hybrid corn is an inclusive one. It does not refer to a single product but rather to a large ,number of individual` corn hybrids in much the same way as the word corn refers to many differ- ent verities and these individual hy- brids have a wide range of adaption similar to the varieties. This is one reason why it is just as necessary to exercise justment in choosing a hybrid to grow as it is in choosing ti variety, states F, Dimmoek, Division .of For- age Plants, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Most h Growers of corn in eaetern Ontario are familiar with the tom s mon standard varieties, such as Learn- ing, Golden Glow, Bailey and Wiscon- sin No. 1. They have grown one or the other of them for many - years. They know from experience that within each variety there is almost as much var- iation as between the varieties and that the same variety may differ widely from year to year. They know also that all of these varieties possess cer- tain, undesirable characters, such as, unevenness of growth, lack of uniform maturity, carless stalks and a tendency to lodge or blow down under severe storm conditions. Under the best of cultural conditions and even in the most favourable of seasons, many of these varietal weaknesses have been apparent, and their influence in the lowering of yields has been all too clear. Now what about the hybrid corn. Hybrid corn has been bred to elim- inate the weaknesses common to most varieties. Under suitable conditions a good hybrid will produce a more uni- form growth, fewer earless stalks, more even maturity and much less tendency to lodge than the common varieties. Because of these things a higher yield of better quality ensilage will result. Increased strength of stalk has been claimed by some to be due to more fibre in the stems, resulting in a poorer quality of ensilage. But this contention is not supported by chemical analysis which shows that ensilage from hybrids contains no more fibre than that from the variet- ies, The importance of choosing the right hybrid to grow has been men- tioned. There are early, medium, and late maturing hybrids. Some hybrids in each of these groups are more pro- ductive than „others. Tests conducted during the past three years at Ottawa have indicated that corn hybrids well adapted to eastern Ontario for en- silage production include the follow- ing, Ontario 606, Ontario 625, Ont- ario 645, and Kingscrost M. These "hybrids have yielded about, 15 to 20 per cent higher than the comparable varieties, Golden Glow and Wisconsin No. 7. Additional information on hybrid scan may be obtained by writing to the Division of Forage Plants, ,Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Doctor's Orders A woman who fell indisposed after attending a fashionable function ord- ered her chauffeur to driye to her doc- tor's office, The doctor saw her at once, diagieosed her case rapidly, and gave prompt advise. "You have caught a chill,'!„ he said. "Drive straight home, get dressed, and go to bed." * * There is nothing that makes men. rich .and strong but that which they carry inside of them. 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