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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-09-06, Page 5'Thursday, Sept, 66, 1917 1 1 11 THE WJNW.:1AM ADVANCE r i' r+ IiiMparniumoraINININOWNWIlialgiAllININIONIONINIMOMEROMMISWINIEWNWEWAINWANO O choolSuits Now is the time to buy boy's suits. We have a large assortment to select from, at prices that cannot be repeat- ed. Boy's heavy tweed two and three piece suits. Just the thing for school wear, $4.50 to $7.00 Boy's extra quality worsted suits in Norfolk and pinch back styles, rang- ing in price from. $5.00 to $12.50. Boy's fine navy blue serge suits, fast color, special $8.50. iiissamosimminmmensal Young Men's Suits It will pay you to inspect our stock of men's suits before buying else- where. We have the newest in Nor- folk and pinch back styles in greys, browns and blues, ranging in price from $10.00 to $25.00 J. A. Mill 11 The House of Quality.. Phone 89 Qlr 406tifAed 1872,'' Capital Authorized, $5,000,000 Capital Paid-up, - $3,000,000 Surplus, $3,500,000 A Dollar a Weeek i\ -OT much, is it? But if you deposit that small sum in the Bank of Hamilton re' gularly, it will amount to almost _ Tint $f,000 in ten years. This habit, +, ill once formed, is easy to continue, " ri ,1 Begin to -day with one dollar, WINGHAM BRANCH C. P. Smith, Manager 41-C NEW 1 CASH CREAM STATION We have learned in our twenty-two years experience that it is more satisfactory to the Producer and also to the Buyer of cream to sell his create, direct to a cream station, where he can see it weighed and tested and receive payment for same when delivered, than it is to ship cream to a distant creamery and await .returns. We have rented a store, for a year, from E. MERKLEY & SON, r! INC aAM Corner of Victoria and Josephine Streets, and will buy cream TPPXS AND FRIDAYS Beginning Friday, August 31st. Evenings Included. We have engaged an expert cream tester to buy Cream for us at WIngham and other towns nearby. We were the first creamery in Western Ontario to open Cash Cream Stations, WE LAD --• OTHERS FOLLOW, We will pay as high a price ae the market will warrant and give ,ou a fair test and honest weight. We furnish cans to our patrons but we re will pay 1 cent a pound more for butter fat to patrons delivering cream to ti in their own cans, Ask your banker as to our standing. SAFETY FIRST Ml we ask for is a Trial. Mr, t 1erkley will give you a cream can any time you call at his garage. Open until 10 o'clock every '1 esday And Priday evening, WELLINGTON CO. CR.EAMERY ARTHUR ONT. DISTRICT NEWS On Friday last Marty Darrow, of flay. field was fined $50 and eo'.ts by Police Magistrate. Andrews, of Ctioton, for an infraction of the Canada Temperance Act, On Monday Eddie>Dueharmo pleaded guilty before Magistrate Andrews, to 'an nfraction of C. '1', A., and was fined $50 and costs. These cases were the sequel of searches made by Constables fellow of Goderich and Welsh of Clinton, Mr. John Watson is starting a vinegar factory in Listowel, utilizing as much as possible of his brewery. Ile has secured the services of Mr, Telfer of ['ort Hope, a vinegar expert. and its the near future expects to have his plant in operation. There should be a good opening; for a vinegar factory in this district and no doubt Mr, Watson will work up a large business. Oa Thursday morning 01 last week the proprietor of the Arlington Hotel appear- ed in court to answer to two charges of selling liquor contrary to the provisions of the Canad•t Temperance Act. The in- formation was laid by two Government provincial detectives, Jones and Hinch. to whom the liquor was sold. The first charge was a second offence charge of selling liquor on July 23, 1917, contrary to provisions of The Canada Temperance Act. The defendant pleaded guilty and was given one month in jail with hard labor. The second charge was put in as a first offence charge. To this the defendant also pleaded guilty and was fined $75 and costs, the costs amounting to $50, Mr,. F, H. Thompson, Stratford, prosecuted, and Mr. Vanstoue appeared for the defen dant.--Stratford Herald, A barn on the $ih con, of Huron, owned by Thomas Harris. cattle dealer, was struck by lightning on 'Thursday night last and burned 64 the ground. The season's hay crop went up in smoke, and 15 pigs were also lost, Mr. Harris carried no insurance and his loss will be about $1500. The floods this year in Kincardine township were extremely serious and it will cost the township about $14.000 to re - pais -the bridges and culverts that have been damaged, This will mean about 12.00 extra taxes this year on every 100 acro farm. Every municipality in this section has been hard bit by unexpected anddunavoidable expenditure on account of the floods this year. An aged Kincardinite, who was com- mitted to the House here, and who, it seems, bad been giving much trouble by persistently leaving the premises and pro- menading about the streets, was arrested by Chief Ferguson during one of these gadding expeditions and committed fly Magistrate Tolton to ten days in the County jail. As the aged indigent is also a chronic sufferer from epileptic fits, and would seem to be a fitter subject for the Home for Epileptics at Woodstock than a House of Refuge, it is probable that he will be returned to Kincardine on the ex- piration of his jail sentence here, -Walk - erten Herald. While operating a seed drill on Friday ast Ford Sothern had the misfortune to be struck in the face by a lever. He re- ceived a nasty blow between the nose and eft eye, but we are pleased to say that it s now improving nicely,—Fordwich Re- cord. Mr. Marvel Weber who operates a hreshing outfit, met with a mishap on Wednesday evening last week, that might have had a much more serious ending. IIe was coming east, down the big hill opposite Vollick brother's farm on the 7th concession, when one of the steering chains on the big traction en- gine broke, and the huge monster made a beeline for the deep embankment, A man is almost absolutely helpless in a position like that, but Mr. Weber did the only thing that was left for hint, by ap- plying the emergency brake, and he managed to stop the outfit before it top- pled down the embankment, The engine was balanced on the edge of the bank, and it took several hours of hard work to get it back to the middle of the highway, —Mildmay Gazette, Agriculture Colony That the Ontario Government will start an agricultural colony for re- turned soldiers somewhere in the neighborhood of Port Arthur was the announcements made to the News - Chronicle of that city • by Hon. G. Howard Ferguson, minister of lands, forest and mines; who is there on a tour of Northern Ontario, The plan is now being given a trial at McPherson in the township of O'Brien on the 1 apuekasing river at the paint used largely for an internment camp in the early months of the war before the in- terns were released for labor. itt this community the government is erect- ing thirty houses with the complete- ment of stables, barns, etc,, and will aleo erect a school. Page We GOVERNMENT CONTROL OI' GASOLINE CONSUMI'•I BON Rumour to the tff'et that the coq' Gumption of gasoline will bo draetical ly controlled as a war measure, and that the importation of.Kiiotor cars will be prohibited or radically curtailed by the government, have apparently gained wide circulation and some ct'c d• ence, as they have on several occaslons been Balled to our attention of late, These tumors might well have bad a mischlevous i'1 act, in that they pur- port to haveernanated from the pow - ere -that -be at Ottawa. Fortunately for the welfare of the country, the federal Government is not comtetuplating anything of the kind. We have dealt at length in these columna heretofore with the iter portance, yes, necessity of the motor ear in our economic scheme of things and we have no intetation of re- iteration here, other Oulu to state that the Gavetnnient is not so foolish as to stultify itself by suicidal sumptuary or restrictive legislation that would partially or totally para- lyze our greatest transportation facil- ity, —the motor car, .motor truck and tractor—disrupt one of our greatest induetriee, throwing tens of thousands out of employment in Ontario alone, and generally strip the gears of the Dominion's economic and efficient military, industrial, commercial and agrarian activity. There are sophists abroad in the land who have educed a spacious argument to the effect that because Great Brit- ain has practically commandeered all gasoline, greatly restricting private consumption, Canada should do like- wise—inferentially so that what Cana- da could save would go to the mechan- ical transports, air fleets and navies of the Allies. Of course the fallacy of such argument lies in the fact that Great Britain and her European Allies are not being deprived of one drop of gasoline or oil by Canadian coneump. tion. England imposed its restrictive Iegislation, not because an abundance of gasoline or oil was not procurable, but because tank -ships could not be secured in sufficient numbers to trans- port gasoline and oil overseas in the quantity necessary to supply both war and normal civil consumption. To totally abolish the consumption of gasoline in Canada would not lay down one more gallon overseas. Suppose, tho', that Canada should abolish gasoline--vbat then? We im- port more gallons of gasoline than we product of crude oil, popular opinion to the contrary notwithstanding.' By abolishing the consumption of gaso- line we would simply cut off importa- tion tion from the United States, giving Uncle Sam so much more "gas" for his three and a half million care, to say nothing of his trucks, tractors, motor boate, etc. Our net saving in gasoline would be pitifully small, our economic Iess enormous. After great labor the mountain would have brought forth a mouse and then been at loss to know what to do with it. . If the time comes when gasoline conservation on this continent is a war factor, then Canada must act in con- junction with the States—or act inef- fectually. There is absolutely no reas on to believe that such a time is im- minent or in sight. Shameful misuse of gasoline is at no time to be condon- ed, least of all at these times. Joy. riding, especially by slackers, finds no sympathy in these columns. Joy -rid- ing is, however, indulged in by a trio• ial, almost negligable number of mot- orists, To cut off the supply of gasoline to all as a punitive or correct measure for joy riders would be like cutting off the Dominion's face to get rid of a freckle—Toronto World. 0 wing to there having been a suffici- ent number of successful candidates at the recent examinations for admission to the Royal Military College for the year 1017, no applications by matricu- lants, for entrance to this college, can be considered. The "B" on the Oat Leaf A farmer brought in a number of green oat leaves last week, on each one of which appeared the plain and distinct letter "B". He says he exam• ined the oats in several different fields in the country, and found the letter on nearly every stalk. It is said that at the time Of the Crimean War, fifty years ago, the same thing occurred. Another story is that an aged seer prophesied that during the last year of the great war, the oat leaf would bear the name of the victor. The "B" in this case would stand for British. -- Bruce Herald, MILKING MACHINES AT WORK This cow appears to be quite reconciled to herr adopted family, ltad'1 the little plgd appear to be just as much at home. The picture Was takers at the home of Mr, Stoke4, on the 10111 of Tunibeir'y, YES! LIFT A CORN QEE WITTIou2r I"AIFt Cincinnati authority tells how to dry up a corn or cailuasoit lifts off with fingers. You corn -pestered men and women need auifer no looger. Wear the shoes that nearly killed you before. says this Cincinnati authority, because a few dt'opsof freeze Ile applied directly on a tender, aching corn or eallue, .stops soreness at once and soon the corn or hardened callus loosens so it can be lifted out, root and all, without pain. A ernall tattle of fierzone Corte very, tittle at any drug store, hut will posi- lively take all'. every hard or soft corn or callus, Thie elmtrld be tried, es it is inexpensive and le said not to irritate the surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn't any fremone tell hint to get a small bottle for you from his wholesale drug house. I1 is tine etuf1 and acts like a charm every time. The 16lst to Baseball Among the battalion notes published in the Brantford Expositor about their own Battalion the 12.5th we clip one of local interest:—Our brass band ball team defeated the ]Olsst battalion mus- eians at baseball --1.1-1:, VISITORS TO THE World's Greatest Annual Exhibition , TORONTO (Aug; 25th to Sept. 10th) wmu- AN FIND THE CANADIPACIFIC THE CONVENIENT ROUTE FROM ALL POINTS IN CANADA EXTRA TRAIN SERVICE To and from Parkdale Station and Exhibi- tion Grounds. From, Principal Points on Certain Dates Particulars from any Canadiat, Pacific Ticket Agent, or write W. B. HOWARD. District Passenger Agent, Toronto. SYNOPSIS OF CANADIAN NORTIrI:- WEST'LAND REGULATIONS The sole head of a family, or any male over 18 years old may homestead a quarter section of available Dominion land in Manitoba, Sask- atchewan or Alberta. Applicant must appear in person ab the Dominion Lands Agency or Sub-Agenov for the District, Entry b5 proxy may be made at any Dominion Lands Agency (but not Sob -Agency on certain Conditions). Duxtv:s—t•ix months residence upon and cultivation of the land in each of three years. A homesteader may live within nine miles of his homestead on a farm of at least 80 acres, on certain conditions. A habitable house is req- uired except where residence is performed in the vicinity. Live stock may be substituted for cultivation under e conditions. de certain condi i ns. In certain districts a homesteader In good standing may pro-ompm: a quarter section aloud side his homestead. Price $3,00 per acre, Dorris—Six months residence in each of throe years after earning homestead p„tent: alst150 acres extra cultivation.. Pre-emption patent may be obtained as soon as homestead patent cn certain conditions, A. settler who has exhausted bis homestead right may take a purchased homestead In cer- tain distrIctil. Price 53 por acro. Duties— Must reside six months Meech of three years, cultivate 50 acres and eroot"a house worth $300 The area of cultivation is subject to reduc- tion in case of rough, scrubby or stony land Live stook may be substituted for cultivation under certain conditions. W. W. CORY, C. M, G. Deputy of the Minister of the Interior, N. B. — Unauthorized publioationofthis advertisement will not be paid for -1141. 1 Farms Van-te& We have frequent inquir- ies for good farms within reasonable distance of Wing - ham, If you have a farm for sale it will pay you to see us. Ritchie & Cosens Insurance and Real Estate Wingham Does It' Pay to Advertise? rive and one-half tons of fall Bata- logues were shipped in here by express last week by The T. Eaton Cp., of Toronto, for distribution from the Wingham post office, The Eaton Oo. ere using Wingham as adistributing centre so as to take advantage of the parcel post rate in the twenty mile radius, thus saving Half the postage it would, otherwise coat to mail them from Toronto. The express' charges on the shipment were $fit and the post age charges $301, 1f the merchants. not only in Wingham, but in the 20 mile radius, and there ate many of them, who sit back and take advantage of the advertieing done by a few, would see the amount of money per ton thess catalogues return to the T. Raton Company, it would be startling revelation to them. This is not the first shipment of these oataioguee and it wtil not be the last. It pays' and it will Continuo to pay until the local merehaute become alive to the fact that the T, Eaton Company is taking the trade that is rightfully their's and doing it in broad daylight. If the local merchants want to hold this trade they will have to go after it, and It is well worthoin after because it fi g is a cash trade. It can be done, but there Is only one way, and that is the judicious use Of the local papere for adwertielog, WING POWER OF Dif.iDt Merrily Petrel'o Great Power ref Fliet't es -The Swift 8wallovv There is nothing more wonderful in Nature thatt the power of flight pos- sessed. by birds, and no subject which yields more toartling facto upon invee- tigation. "Tho way of an eagle in the air" is one of those things of which Soloman expressed himself ignorant; and there is something truly marvel- lous in the mechanism which controls the scythe -like sweep of wings peculiar to most birds of 'prey. Yet even naturalists of the vrat order have had little or nothing to say about the' power of flight in birds, 'while some, sof them tiaea,k on very insuflleient evi,, dance, Witness Miohetet's statement; that the swallow flies at the rate ol! 240 miles an hour, Roughly, this gives us 1,000 miles in four hours but nature: ally, even in its swiftest. dashes, the 'Swallow does sto attain to anything: likQ this speed, But the Duke of Ar.! gyll is rather under than 'over thel mark when. he computes the speed. at; ,more than 100 mileser. hour, Tile mechanism of flight( in the -swell low is carried through an ascendfn$ reale, until in the swift it reaohes its highest degree both in endurance and facility of evolution, Although there! are„ birds which may, .and probably, do, "attain- to the speed of 160 miles; ;per -hour, this remarkable yate is lion ,to be looked for la anyQf the birds; .of the swallow kind, In^their naives' tions swallows stick close to land, and, never leave it unless compelled, They, cross straits at the narrowest part,' and are the most easily fatigued of'. all birds, Apparently, though they pose' sass considerable speed, they have no' powers of 'e l.,tained flight, These at-.; ;tribute i,elong in the most remarkable' degree to certain ocean birds. Anyone who has crossed, the At. ;antic must have noticed that gulls ac- company the ship over the whole die- eance---Or, at least, are never absent, The snow "sea swallows;' as the terns aro balled, seem quite tireless;' though the petrel and the albatross alone deserve the #lame Of oceanic birds. No sea deserts seem to bound the range of the petrels, and they are 'found at every distance from land. Dif ferent Opecies haunt different seas— from the fulmar in the far north to' :the giant petrel, which extends its flight to the ice banks of the south. Hdre.the Antarctic and snowy "petrels appear, often floating upon the drift lice, and never leaving those dreary seas. - Another bird of immense wing pow- er is the tiny stormy petrel, the amal- lest web-footed bird known, Will Get Some Money At the meeting of the Goderich town conncil, Mayor Mannings announced that the trustees of the West Shore Electris Railway found that the sale of the rails and material of the roads between Goderich and Kincardine would pan out much better than was first expected, The Hydro -Electric Railway Commission has purchased the raiie , baidgee mater's, fish plates, etc„ and le removing them for use in the Chippewa Creek development. It is estimated now that the material will realize about $200,000 nearly half the amount of the bonds guaranteed by the municipalities. See our Exhibit in the Transfiortation t%uilding, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Aug, 25th to Sept, .loth Canada's Most .Popular "Country flub"! This is Country Club week in Canada= 't':ie week that has been set aside for the special purpose of displaying this most popular of all sport models -the Overland Country Club. 1e want you to see this "'c`ar---to ext amine it at close range—to note the strik' ingly stylish beauty of its interior as weft as exterior lines. , Every detail reflects the height of) good taste. We want you to ride in it --to drive it if. you please and to satisfy yourself as to the power plus economy of its motor. We are at your service at all times but we are particularly anxious to have you drop in this week to see our special Country Club exhibit. Brief Pour Passenger Individual front seats 32 horsepower Cantilever rear springs Specifications `r ,;F Five wire wheels 0,1 4 inch tires Auto -Lite starting and lighting. 104 inch wheelbase Wingham Overland Sales --L. Kennedy Willys-Overland, Limited the Willys-Knight and Overland Motor Cars and Light Commercial Wagons Head Office and Works West Toronto, Ont IMOVie V OF EA L G 1t!`! r. The famous pass in the Purcell ,Mountain Range. Earl Grey in - pet. ANinteresting point has never yet been decided as to the per- manent name to be given to the pass which leads over the Pur- cell Range between Lake Winder- mere and Argenta . on the Tipper Eootenay Lake. The late Earl Grey, evho had a hunting cabin half way up the pass on Toby Creek crossed the pass on one occasion, with the result that the gcographere named it after him. The original discoverer of the Bass, however, waft a prospector nem. ed Wells, and Earl Grey, who was always a thorough sportsman, wrote paying that lee thought itethgrdship I to deprive Wells of the right to the pfd name of Wells Pass. To -day, xi'r ass issthe E tillcurrent, and remains Grey's ma ns n .most of the maps, The British Co• lumbia Gevernnient commenced to build a road over it, which, however, ;was badly damaged in the great !washouts of 1915.' This summer tt**o :venturesome tourists' made the cross int; though at considerable hardship, ening to the condition, of the trail tit Hemniill Creek, on the western side. The following aroma of the trip alt• peered to the "Kootentan," of leasio 11.0.: After a trip that they will not forget in a hurry, Dr. R. N. Carter of Itossland, and henry Cody of this eity arrived ill town on Wednesday Of last week, after a somewhat dan. gerous jaunt across Earl Grey's Pass, and through Hammitt Creek canyon They had left Wilmer, in least boot enay, about ten days before and mads their way up the Toby Creek wager road to the summit, tend put in about one day etplorir. g the huge Toby Creels leo field. Mr. Cody was well ttcgpalnted with the country up there, having mineral claims on the hast Eootcliay side, upon which he has 1 t t 'Men delete, assessment ver for yearn, The, ground was not new to Nina, but it was virgin territory to the doctor. The latter stated that ho had never befol'o seen such magnifi- cent Mountain teenery, Ilaving tree Veiled a teed deal neer the surface of t I Earl. Grey at his hunting cabin near Lake Windermere, S.C. ! the globe, he is in a pretty good posi non to judge as to what constitute: the real thing in the line of mountain sc en cry. "He found the Toby Creek glaciei tt particular inspiring and wonderfu r;;ectaele, They spent a day on tel of this huge lake of ice, and only had a look over one corner of it. They started out In the early morning to ,,romenadt upon it, and walked for felt' hours steady, the going being rather good except for working around some of the crevasses, and it the four hours' stroll arrived at the t^ncluslon that they had not gone talf way across It. So they returned to the camp. Beyond the risk of fall- ing off a precipice or looping the loop down the side of a mountain, there was trot a great deal of danger to the trip until they worked their way !own on this side ot- the pass and be - tut to come down Ilammill Creek The trip from the pass down was made in a driving rain, with the bustles soused with water, so that they were soaking wet in a few Min uses after leaving the timber line The trail in places was so overgrown that it could scarcely be followed. A a , come down newelides do 1 fI sid number nt o lately and piled the bottom of the valley wlth various debris, so that progress was at times necessarily clow. they ;managed to get through to tbo Argenta Mines compressor lbufldlii aiiti caiwod At that point ever night. The following day we one of hardship, and extreme peril at times. Between tite paint on the( flammill Creek road where the trail to the St. Patrick group branches ofes and the Argenta Mines compressor; ell aetnblance of a toad was wiped cut entirely in places through the depths of the fiercely savage Heats mill Creek canyon. Several times, they had to improvise bridges tett cross tho roaring stream, satdl bridges being tenting but a convent•! =ant tree, which was felled with an axe. As Hammitt Creek varies all the way from forty to eighty feet wide, and as the fallen trees somee times sagged down into the teeming torrent, the peril of such crossings can be better imagined than describe ed, more .particularly le view of the feet that both men had heavy packs en their backs, that of Cody's weigh ing some sixty-five pounds, "At last, however, they gained the 'mint on the eanyon road where the: trail branches Oif to the St. Patrick group, and from there on, compara-1 lively speaking, the going was likei unto that of a paved street, In due; tinte they reached Argenta, and froni that point were rowed over to f,ardo,; where they connected with the barge, "Empress" and came to tOWit," eee •