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Wrap in paper; tie securely; tie boots and shoes in pairs. You. can include a short personal mes- sage with your contribution. 2. Take it to your nearest post office or collection depot. cc-es NATIONAL Overseas CLOTHI or N COLLECTION E t i; f 2 THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF The a. Wingham Utili ties Commission Publication Delayed For the first time in many years, the Wallaceburg Weekly News last week was unable to publish. A sign on the main entrance of the newspaper plant read: "Paper publication postponed. No newsprint." An official said this week's edition would be printed when a fresh stock of paper arrives. Dungannon Man Suffers Fractured Neck In Fall William Menary, 75-year-old farmer who lives one mile south of Dungan- non, is convalescing at his home after two days spent in Alexandra Marine Hospital, Goderich, X-ray examination showed a broken bone between his shoulder and neck received when he inhis barn. fell down to the floor from a stairway in his 'barn. Baby's Murder Is Laid To Mother Mrs. Ella Martha Rose, 43, was committed for trial on a charge of murdering her 15-day-old daughter, Sheila, and was remanded in custody. The child's body was found in her crib May 25th., by Mrs, Gordon Mac- . Donald, with whom Mrs. Rose and •, her mill-worker husband, Albert were living. Mrs.. Rose was arrested short- ly after on a charge of vagrancy, and, following investigation, the charge was changed to murder. At the preliminary hearing, Dr. John Fisher, Provincial ,pathologist, who performed the post-mortem exam- ination, said the cause of death was as- phyxiation, and that it would be diffi- cult to suffocate a child of that age and not leave any external signs of viol- ence. wmomion•••• comm. Takes Over Clinton Paper Richmond S. Atkey has purchased the interest in Clinton News-Record, owned by Herman L. Tornlinnson, and the partnership previously existing, has been dissolved as of June 1, 1946. Mr. Atkey has been editor and busi- ness manager and Mr. Tomlinson has been plant manager, The latter will remain with the firm for the time be- ing and will continue in his present capacity during that period, "suffers Loss Of Eye Vele, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Edgar Ash, of near Mention, met with an unfortunate accident on Tues- day last when playing around where his grandfather was working, Ap- parently he got in the way of a shovel the latter was using, which struck hint in the eye, He was taken immediately to the Owen Sound Hospital where it WAS found necessary to have the eye removed. Dr. Danard performed operation.—Tara Leader. New Pastor For United Churches The congregations of Mildmay, Bel- more and McIntosh United Churches, have extended a call to Rev, Udell, of Canfield, to become their pastor. His duties will commence July 1st. Mr. Udell, will succeed Rev, A. G. Hewitt, who is moving to Bluevale.—Mildmay Gazette. Deer Fatally Hurt In Crash With Auto A 150-pound deer caused about $150 damage to a car when it crashed into the machine near Clifford. The car, driven by Vince Sisler, Hensall, temp- orarily stationed in Stratford as a C. N.R. section foreman, came out of the crash with a damaged grill, badly dent- ed left front fender, broken radiator and headlight. The deer's back legs were broken and the animal was de- stroyed by police who investigated the accident. RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY SCHOOL DAYS When two old timers met one day last week, who may. be designated as Bob and Bill, whose first school days go back to the late sixties and early seventies, when Wingham was a ham- let, Zetland was a flourishing village, and Lower Wingham was thriving, Bob suggested to Bill, "let's go fish- ing." Bill naturally asked, "where'll we go", and Bob promptly replied, "to the Slab Town. dam." The ordinary citizen of today will likely wonder "Where's Slab Town." So Bob and Bill hunted up a couple of fishing poles and went to the point designated to see if the old hole was as good as it used to be, Said Bob, "George Drew must have started a school to educate fish to eat the worm off a hook, as they're having a beautiful feed on my worms. I could do better than this in my young days with a bent pin for a hook" Bill asked, "why don't you get out your pipe and have a smoke." "I don't smoke, never did, replied Bob. " Now isn't that a funny co-ineld- ente, as I don't smoke either, and in this tobacco-consuming ago a non, smoker is a rarity." Gradually the two fishermen began to recall incidents of their early days, when the children of Slab Town at. tended the Rowdy Hill school', when both districts were yet in Turtiberry Township, Slab Town was Lower Wingham, and Rowdy Hill was tipper Wingham, hi those days, and there was. always a war on between the boys of the two districts, Said fob,'" do you remember the night the Slab Town mob came to. ", Litt exaggeration, The infants and children who have no more to Wear that, this little babe rim into the htuulreds of thousands in the war-devastated, areas of Europe. They need serviceablo used clothing which can be supplied to, them through the National Clothing Collection for over. seas relief to be held Juno 17-29 tmdzr the itilaPieed of Canadian Allied Relhq. This worthy campaign Will be ducted on a nationwide Bob, swe lived in ,a house that still: stands near the old school on John street. He left his contraption outside at his back door one day and some of the boys investigated it, to see how it worked. The inventor lost the com- bination of it after the boys had satis- fied their cursiosity, and, what a row the man kicked up with the teachers over it," "One day a deer' was seen running wild across the river, and the whole school rushed to. Victoria Street to witness such an unusual sight", remin- isced Bill, "Two boys you must remember" said Bob, "were two Lower Town youngsters, one with his right arm off, and the other with his right leg off. Both accidents happened When the boys were perhaps under five years of age, in the old saw-mill, 'Which indus- try gave Lower Town its other name. The one-armed boy used to set the headlines in our copy book,, he was such an excellent writer. The one legged boy delighted in riding a horse bare-back, with about eight inches of a stub on one side of the horse". Lower Wingham produced a more notorious youth than either of them," came back Bill, "He was a son of a general merchant, who later went to Prince Albert when that city was no more than a Hudson Bay post, He changed his name to Jaxon, when he became secretary to Louis Riel in 1885. By this time the worms were about all used up. .A few rock bass of a di. minutive size had been hauled out. Bill had caught a catfish, that had swallowed the hook and a couple of inches of line. "Wow," yelled Bill. What's wrong," asked Bob. "This ugly devil has grabbed me by the thumb." But the fish didn't hold on long. "Bill, I want to tell you the funniest thing,,,that ever happened in the old school, and then we'll roll up and call it a day, said Bob. ' "The principal was an old' Irish soldier, and he liked his Liquor, so some of the older boys would now and then slip him a small flask. Thee teacher was suspicious of the contents of a bottle he received one morning. He held it up to the light in front of the whole school, and asked the donor a pertinent question." It wouldn't do to tell the rest of this story, Names may be fictional in this story, but incidents related are actualities. BELMORE Owing to illness in the family, the Institute meeting to be held at Mrs. Clark Renwick's ,was held on Wednes day afternoon at Mrs. Douglas's A de- monstration in salad making was to be given but as we were not there we didn't get any of the good things. Mrs, Fred Johann 'had the topic. The stork,- as elsewhere has been quite busy in this locality, the Birth rate outstriping the grim reaper. On Monday evening Mrs. John Har- per and. Elva Reid attended the pre- sentation in Gorrie Town Hall, for Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Harkness. Mrs. Har- per's nephew. On Wednesday evening the Misses Stokes visited at Omar Stokes on the tenth. Messrs. Reuben and Thomas Appleby and Mrs. Taylor were also visitors. ,Miss Helen Langley and her sister, Mrs. Darling, from the West, called on Misses Hannah and Mary Stokes, Monday afternoon. • Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Edwards were in Listowel during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. T. Fleming Ballagh and Harvey motored to Drayton on Thursday. Mr, Jeffray took tea with Myrtle and Elmer Ballagh Thursday evening. Rev. Jergenson had the church of the Air on Friday evening, some of his choir accompanying him. The Young People took "Him and I" to Langside on Friday evening. A three-act Comedy. But as it is get- ting too busy times for plays the at- tendance is not so large, We extend sympathy to Mrs. Ro- land Ballagh in the death of her father, Mr. Nelson Hitnkin is making im- provements on his store, Men are at work, improving the late Lavina New- an's house, Jains Dickson and Geo. doing the cement work. Self-Feeders For. Bacon Hogs` The "praCtice' of self-feeding farm animals is coming into more general use, Under this system a continuous supply of feed is kept before the ant= coals enabling them to eat when they want and in whatever quantity they desire, thus giving the 8/naller, weaker pigs a better chance. It eliminates the competition and fighting that takes place at a trough, says H. E, Wilson, Dominion Experimental Station, La- cornbe, Alta. The advantages claimed for the self• feeder are that it saves labour and en- sures satisfactory gains being made with the least waste of feed with both growing pigs and old sows which are being fattened. It is not to well ad- apted for feeding brood sows or any' kind of breeding stock that shOuld be kept on lets than a full ration, A self-feeder' to be entirely satisfac- tory must be so arranged that the Con- tents 'will feed into the troughs with• out any stoppage caused by the biotic- rug cif the meal in the hopper, The type of self feeder used with snceets at the Lacombe Experimental Station is provided with movable board Se- cured with thumb screws, the board enabling the flow of feed to be regulat- ed accurately, It is necessary to regu- late this board according to the kind of the feel used and to make frequent inspections to see if the feed supply is sufficient and the feeder properly adjusted, A lip on the edge of the trough has been found an advantage in preventing waste. Experimental results at Lacombe in- dicate that the self-feeder when prop- erly constructed, and when used• in connection with a properly, balanced grain ration, will not only save labour but will give greater 'gains and produce the gains with a grain requirement which is not out of line with that re- quired by hand-feeding, • Based on a seven-year average of results compar- paring self-feeding with hand-feeding it has taken 8 per cent more grain to produce 100 pounds increase in live weight when the self feeder was used than when hand-feeding was practised. On the other hand, self fed pigs made 19 per cent higher daily gains than those hand-fed, proving conclusively the possibility of preparing hogs for market at a much earlier date when a self-feeder is used, Self-fed hogs also invariably showed more uniformity of size and more even Healing than those hand-fed and on the, average, conform- ed as closely to bacon standards as did the hand-fed hogs. A well-bred bacon type hog, fed oa well balanced ration, will grade well on the rail in the pack- ing plant even though it may have been fed from a self-feeder. Free detailed plans and specifica- tions for the construction of a self- feeder are available from Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, or front any Dominion Eiperinuental Form or Station. PHIL OS1FER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry J. Boyle There's something about a city in the still of the night•that's fascinating, I stayed at my sister's place in the city thp other night. Of course, being country bred, I couldn't qUite get to. sleep for some time. I think my grand, father used to say, "Take away a per- son's regular bed and give -him another and what have you got . . . no sleep." We sat up kind of late and talked and had coffee and sandwiches. Then I went off up to bed, determined to fall into a sound sleep. The bed felt wonderful. Sleep didn't come as soon as it should have. Maybe it was the salmon sandwiches being dissolved by the 'coffee. Anyhow I twisted and turned and tried finding a cool spot on the pillow and then gave up. • The sound of a suburban area of a great city at midnight is quite interest. ing, Everything is perfectly still ex- cept for a far-off sort of humming' sound. That's the traffic off down in the busy part. Every so often there's one noise that seems to stand out above the rest' of it. It's a passing street-car. A starter whirrs a motor into agit- ated action ... there's a grinding, high- pitched humming sound and a car has started off. It fades off into the silence of the night. A car horn toots- A truck lumbers along the street clumsy and rough sounding. Then the silence closes in again and you Teel the cool, dannpish air that seems to gush in the bedroom window. Somebody opens.a screen door and calls a cat or a .dog The screen door bangs shut. Somewhere in the neigh- borhood a door opens and party sounds tumble out into the night The voices, chatter away and there are pro- longed farewells and a car starts up. It transports the sound with it and the night closes in again like the swell behind a ship, Boys coming home suddenly yell as if they wanted to get rid of some ex. cess energy before going to bed. They, part and continue loud voiced conver- sation for at least a block, A police car shrieks past, The whirring sound of the siren sends chills up and down your spine. A lone walker whistles his way past. Someone who had been celebrating too well goes lushly by singing jerk- ily. A train moans away off across the city. A car, evidently a big one with a silent motor and soft tires, slips by on pussy-feet. An impertinent little dog barks irritably. Then comes another silent period and a motor car comes to life and goes gliding down a nearby' street. There's a scream of brakes as a jalopy roars up to a nearby stop sign. And so you fall asleep finally, think. ing of the difference between the night sounds in a quiet part of the city and a quiet part of the country. 'AGE reN • -TM WIN GRAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, June 29th, 1946 1 -INTERESTING CLIPS OF DISTRICT NEWS the Rowdy Hill to settle a feud between the supposed champions of their re- spective bailiwicks? You'll remember that the Slab Town boy had a defect in his speech. He could'nt say 'fetch" and he couldn't say fight," so when the gang assembled in front of the domi- cile of the Rowdy Hill Champ, on Minnie Street, near Victoria, he called out "Hetch out your hightin' man." The mob took up the cry, but the Up- per Town boy didn't come out, and the crowd dispersed, satisfied with • their bloodless victory." Then it was Bill's turn to tell about a girl from Lower Wingham who at- tended the Upper Town school," you ought to remember her, Bob, she was known as the Prairie Witch. When the teacher asked her about'her par- ents she told. him, "she didn't have no parents, she just came down in a rain- storm". Say, Bob, that girl could hold her own with any boy in the school. "One girl, I remember," said Bob, "was the one who had six toes on one foot, and as it was a common practice to go barefooted to school, it was a joke to count those six toes." "Do you remember the man who al- most invented perpetual motion," asked • r.