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The Wingham Times, 1916-11-09, Page 6� fy THE WINGHAM TIMES cvr,tt,.v.. Council met in the Town Hall Tees water, Oct. 23rd 191i'. Members a present„ The min+gle's of last meet- ing were read nd' g'e'l. Case --Donaldson, That we give a grant of fifty dollars to gravel the road opposite lots 10 and 11, Con. 14 and 15 and that Jno. Atmstrong expend the seine. Carried. Donaldson -.McPherson,— That the Court of Revision re the Thacker Drain be now opened and that the Reeve be Chairman of the Court. Ca•ried, Armstrong—McPherson--That this Court do now adjourn to meet at 2 O'clock. Carried, Armstrong--- McPherson— That we appoint the Reeve, Donaldson and Case to investigate the claims for damage re •ride t to auto on Turnberry boundry and to consult our solicitor and act accordingly. Carried. •t.cl'he,ot,ti-- Donaldson —That we give a grant of fifty dollars for the Moscow road Con. 13, opposite lots 18 and 19 and that Ww. Case have the same expended, Carried. Case —Armstrong—That this Board give t, grant of $50,3 to the British Red Cross Society, to be paid not later than the 15to of December, 1916. i'>untz—McFberson—ln amendment. Teat this Council grant the sum of $1.1100 to the Red Cross to be paid as soon as Convenient. For the amendment— Kuntz, Mc- Pherson. e'or the motion—Case, Arm- strong and Donaldson. Motion carried. Donaldson—Case—That this Court of Revision on the Thacker Drain be ad- journed until Monday, Nov. 20th at 2 o'clock p. m. Carried. Donaldson—Armstpeng—That a com- mitte composed of the, Breve, Case and McPherson be appointed to award the contract on the Pennel Drain. Carried. McPherson— Armstrong— That the Clerk write to Middleton &Speerman re Fischer and Tone claim for damages to auto. That : s soon as we can consult our solicitor regarding the matter we will inform them of our action in the matter. Carni d. Case— Donaldson—That we grant an amount. to the south end of the gravel road sufficient to gravel the portion that has been graded and that the mover and, Thos. McPherson expend 1 the same. Carried. Armstrori.g—Case— That the Collect- ors Bond be handed to the Treasurer; for safe keeping Carried. FINANCE REPORT Geo. Waddle, raking stones off road, *1.25: L. Becker, abutments for bridge, ; $231.30; Don. Grant, culvert on sideroad 20, $18 00; A. Halendby, sheep killed i by dogg, $35.110; Wm. Baptist, Iamb killed by dogs, $12.00; Jos Voisin, in -1 apecting sheep killed, $1.50; Jas. Whiteman, 86 ryds. gravel and road, - $1.60; Fd. Mtybsel, cement tile, culvert, 11 Con. la, ' .'if!: ,lac. �il'ic' floored, g road drag, i$13.50; Slich. Fesen*r, 74 ;ds, gravel and road, ;1840; Phil ',•;.'{e'•r, 3 days' grading. 2 teams, 427475; Pail Keifer, working grader Culross and Turnberry, $4 75; E. J. Kuntz, selecting jurors, $4 00; Jno. Rettinger, 10 yds. gravel and road, $2.110; dna Reit .n, r. 50 yds. gravel, $5.00; W. EI. Wi , 79 yds. gravel, $7 90; F. Keifer, inn ting in tile, $1.00: Wm. Bannerman, repair- ing bridge Con. 14, $6.00; Wm. Case, 170 lbs. flour for indigene, $i'.9' ; Th . Elliott, 71 yds, gravel and road, $8.10; Jas. Harkless, rep. and covering bridge, $15.0; Weiss Bros„ beef for indigent, $1.40; And. Schmurr, 91 yds. gravel j share, $4,55; Molsons Bank, for souviners, for soldiers, $156.98; R. Donaldson, butter and tea for indigent, $2.80; Agricultural Society grant, $25.00; Robt. Patterson, repairing bridge, $2.00; Rod. McDonald, repairing bridge, $27.00; G. Benninger, railing' for sidewalk, $95 57. McPherson— Donaldson — That the Finance report as just read be adopted and orders issued for payment of the accounts, and that we do now adjourn to meet again on Nov. 20th, or at the call of the Reeve. Carried. CHAS. BUTTON, Clerk. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAS ORIA SELECTION OF SEED POTATOES Thousands of farmers have suffered heavy losses at various times from fungus diseases attacking potato crops, says F. C. Mennick. Weak, spindly hills make breeding places for the diseases which would never get started otherwise, These spindly hilts are often caused by planting weak seed, the re- sult of carelessness in selecting the tubers for seed. Like berets like and the sooner persons planting small or diseased potatoes realize this the better it will be for their crop yields. Remarkable results have been obtain ed by investigators in seed selection work with potatoes. Intricate methods are not necessary to obtain marked im- provement in the ordinary field crops. It is a good plan to go over the field when the tops are about half ripened off and mark with a stake or twig the hills which show exceptional vigour and re- sistance to disease, to ,drought or to heat. At digging time these hills can be kept apart for seed. Any of the marked hills not yielding smooth or superior potatoes should be discarded. Farmers may think it toy; much trouble to save all their seed in this way but enough can easily be selected to plant a special seed plot each year from which seed for the main crop the following ear may be obtained. If the farmer eglects to mark the vigorous hills he hould, at least, note and keep apart he high yielding hills of smooth, ani-' oro tubers for a seed plot next year. Potato growers will find that it is ighly profitable to select their otatoes for seed carefully and in- elligently as it will mean greater pro- uctiveness, vigor and uniformity in hape and size. CieeI,IeSs ith Eczema y Mrs. Link, 12 Walker St., Halifax n N. S. states:—"After three years of s miserable torture and sleepless nights' t with terrible eczema, and after trying' f over a dozen remedies without obtaining' anything but slight temporary relief, I1 have been perfectly and entirely cured! h by using Dr. Chase,s Ointment. After 1 p the third or fourth application of this grand ointment I obtained relief, and a l few boxes Were sufficient to make a! d thorough cure." I s A FAMOUS VICTORY It wee a ewe' t r o •Ifni;, Old Begun -+u.1': .tar wa., done, And he, befu-e the eo,ndy'siene, 'NW.' Si rtitlg in the sun, Iestrue ing--for the hundredth time— His grandeen, Fri z von ilogget.heirn. "Twas where the German ccean rears Its crests of snowy foam, We met and neat the 11:itish Fleet, end then retreated home, K hniterl t1P,+ rt,a dee...," says he, "After that famous victory. "When things were looking very blue A shoreward course we shaped; We lost about a score of ships, But all the rest escaped, And, in unconquerable pride, Made for a port in which to hide, "A world of human pity filled Our noble Admiral's mind, And so he broke the action of And left the foe behind. We always act like that," said he, "After that famous victory.. "In our communiques we made No indiscret remark, For we had cautiously resolved To keep our loses dark; A course invariably applied By people on the winning side. "And, after that, the beaten foe Blockaded all our ports, And ran us short of meat and bread. And goods of various sorts. Such things as this muse always be After a famous victory " "But why did we allow them to?" The artless Fritz inquired. "Because they had so strong a fleet They did as they desired. Stich cruel things must always be While brutal Britain rules the sea." "But Grandpapa," said little Fritz, "If we had really ;von, Why did not Prussia rule the sea, As Britain once had done?" "Oh, shut your silly mouth!" said he, "It was e famous victory." —FIorace Wyatt in the London Chronicle. Oh:i dren Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAS .TO:Z I A Swift Current, Sask., to date holds the record for parcels of land advertised for sale for arrears of taxes there being l no less than 23,500 parcels of land ad - ll vertjsed. II A time saving can opener patented by an Arkansas inventor has a large blade ro shaped that the top of a can is re- moved by a single turn of a handle. Sound travels through dry air at the 'rate of 60 feet per second; through i water at 240 per second, and in steel wire at 1.7,13o feet per second. Greece in 1914 produced 117,439 tons of raw magnesite. Duty is never so disagreeable as when it is neglected. One of the mysteries of life is the mystery men make of it. IL Do not suffer another day with Itching Bleed- ing, or 11rotrud. ing Piles. No surgical oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you at once and as certainly cure you. 60c. a mix; all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. Sample box free if you mention this paper and enclose 2c. stamp to pay restage, THE A. B. C. OF RAILWAYS WHAT IS A REFRIGERATOR CAR? ARllb'RI OR car is the diametrical oppo- site ted' . refrigerator, The latter is !am_ expecte to 'hi one place—the refrigera- tor ear is built ep.''y for the purpo'eo of moving Wieldy and as often he the railway companies 440 rreittea to move it pith loads of fishable Y pro- s; True, a treistt tar is somet1n ,s divet+ti OM tiles life r ti its parentage die ne(l it, a *xaainind t1'l'l on filled with Trimsful ,ptl i0ae dd a sforage pre .rhep to Hiss 4ta mora indene of other eltilppers end cdira!'ittaetsi who meal* . ,bore cart's to move fr ., t and air., g tb raii+fray oorepitiiltes instea tie itr.' ttchtelet ICJ . II o s �•�L sibs, `that ory w *yelled and mored usefully for twelve days in August. The following notable performance brl3te tank refrigera�tor car 28:964, Totrwna Jahn, MB., loaded /Atte fresh meat; fit. John, a, West Toronto, empty; is an illustration of handling:- 18.—Ord andling;18.--Ord I. --Car 10,00 .-4.00 train 90.--- In a .. .. O. ti esQ' ailren by Guns ' , placed >*or hnti� ing yklmnaggOM. • .—Car, etaP ; tinted �p eat j 2 e'a' transit: -891 miles loaded. • trenelt•—gil ranee 'Misty ANCIEN Tibetans Are Said to Have Used the Weed 2,200 Yearn. Ago. It Is geucrally supposed that tobecct was unknown in the old world mai after the discovery of America. But there is excellent evidence that it wan mut ct used in Tibet as early ae 377 B. C. In a note to au artlele in the Geographical Review Di'. Berthold Lau Per of the Field 'Museum of Nature; History, Chicago, writes as follows: "Among the many curiosities of the .Tibetan -English dictionary, published in 1002 by Surat Chandra Das, the wet known Bengali student of Tibetan ant' explorer of Tibet, we read that !he eve drug tobacco (in Tibetan tba.ma-kha! appeared in ancient time about 10( years after the death of Buddha, whist would yield the date 377 B. C., and that mention is made of tobacco also in the writings of a lama who is dated in the twelfth century A. D. "In 1903 I enjoyed the privilege 01 spending several mouths iu Lassa villa, the house of Das, in Darjeeling, and when one evening, in the course of 5 learned conversation with him, I wen tured to draw bis attention to Bibchronological anomaly and the post Columbian introduction of tobacco into Europe and Asia he replied, 'This 14 your tradition, and that (pointing to the passage in his dictionary) is our trade• tion, and our traditions certainly areas good as yours.'" T TOBACCO, ; HAD WEAK HEART THE HOUSE WREN. A Good Little Friend That Should Be Protected From Sparrows. A. little friend worth having is the wren. During its working hours it will pry into nooks and crannies about then garden and orchard, picking up grass• hoppers, spiders, beetles, thousand leg. ged worms—anything which isn't toe big for it to carry off. When it is through work it will perch on the front porch of its little home, lift its thead and sing a warbling little song that will delight your heart. It is called the house wren because it prefers a little box house for its home. A generation ago it built a nest in holes iu trees, in hollow fence rails or even in an old hat. Then came the sparrow, and the wren's nest was raided. Since then the wren's only refuge is in a nest which has a door too small to admit its enemy, the sparrow. If you 'want the wren to spend a summer with you build a home with a door not more than an inch in diameter. This will bar the sparrow and give the smaller bird easy entry. Years of continuous fighting against the sparrows has given the wren a temper like a spoiled child. It ruffles Its feathers at the slightest interrup- tion. When it has its own way, with a good home and plenty to eat, it is as cheerful as a Sunday school picnic. Power of Words. "For me," writes Lafcadio ,Hearn in the "Japanese Letters of Lafcadia Hearn," "words have color, form, char- acter. They have faces, ports, man- ners, gesticulations; they have moods, humors, eccentricities; they have tints, tones, personalities." A good instance of this power ap pears in a description of Patti's sing- ing: "There was a great dim pressure, a stifling heat, a whispering of silks, a weight of toilet perfumes. Then came an awful hush. All the silks stopped whispering. And then suddenly sweet- ened out through that dead, hot air a clear, cool, tense thread gust of melody unlike any sound I ever heard be- fore save—in tropical nights—from the throat of a mocling bird. It was 'Auld Lang Syne' only, but with never a tremolo or artifice, a marvelous, auda- cious simplicity of utterance." When Baronets Were Bold. It was in the reign of good King James that baronets first came into existence. ' Today you could hardly tell a baronet from a banker. But in the year 1611, when James'I. needed ready money and created 200 'little barons" to supply him with cash, they swag- gered about in their baldrics and sash- es and behaved in the courtliest of fashion. Each baronet in order to justify his title had to maintain a small army at thirty soldiers for three years. In this way the crafty king not only increased his revenue, but actually lightened his expenses.—Lon- don Telegraph. How Amateur Mechanics Work. "What do you do when anything goes wrong with your car?" "I tinker with the carburetor." "Does that remedy the difficulty?" "It never has, but I always tinker with it anyhow in the hope that posse. bly that may be the cause of the trou- ble." The Aftermath. "What became of that candidate for your sister's hand?" "He won out. And say!" "Well?" "He hasn't redeemed any, of his nu- merous pledges.". No Repairs Necessary. - Flubdub—What de you do with an umbrella when it Is completely worn out? Iiarduppe--I generally return it to the fellow I borrowed it from. -- Judge. Aids to Conversations "Books help R man's conversation." "Undoubtedly. But the man wee buys them seldom gets to be as good a talker as the man who sold them to him" He is unfortunate and on the road p rain who will not do vnhat he case, but Is ambitious to do what be cannot..., Goethe, COULD NOT WORK COULD NOT SLEEP. Many women arekept in a state of fear of death, become weak, worn and miserable and are unable to attend to their household, social or business duties, on account of the unnatural action of the heart. To all such sufferers Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills give prompt and per- manent relief. Mrs. J. Day, 234 John Street ,South, Hamilton, Ont,, writes: "I was so run down with a weak heart I could not even sweep the floor, nor could I sleep at night. I was so awfully sick sometimes I had to stay in bed all day as I was so weak, I used three and a half boxes of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills and I ani a cured woman to -day, and as strong as anyone could he. I am doing my own housework, even my own washing. I doctored for over two years but got nn help until I used your pills. ' Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are 500. per box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of nrice by'I'esa T. MILBURN Co., Llnaar1D, Toronto, Ont. HE WAS A MAN • OF HABIT. And He Couldn't Break His Routine Even to Be Agreeable. A couple in a Broadway restaurant were engaged iu a conversation which to all appearances was tender as well am ''confidential when an elderly man wv l;ed stolidly past thirty er more va- cant tables and sat down at theirs. The couple stopped talking and looked tit -the roan with an icy stare. But the man's mind was not in a receptive state. Ere calmly studied the bill of rare and ordered his meal. The woman in the case looked des- perate. "Is there no remedy?" she said to her companion. "None apparently short of actual murder," •he replied. "We might move," she suggested. "No; let's stick," he said. "I am go- ing to find out why this ill mannered pelican is butting in when there are so many vacant tables." In slightly modified terms the ques- tion was put to the aged interloper, "I don't mean to freeze folks out," he replied. "This is m'y table. I has, eaten luncheon at this table every day for the last fifteen years. You don't suppose, do you, that I am going to be thrown out of gear at this late day just because you people want to be sentimental? I am a man of habit." "From people who have habits," said the young man, "good Lord deliver me." And then he ordered the waiter to serve them at another table. To Clean Paint Brushes. No matter how hard a paint brush has become, it can be made as soft and clean as new, says R. A. GaIliher to! Farm and Home, by simply boiling in; water into which has been put a little lye. A little washing powder or soap will do, but it will take longer. The brush should be placed on end, and the boiling water should be no deeper than the length of the bristles, as the boiling suds will injure the han- dle. Turpentine will clean paint brushes, but not after they have be- come real hard. Process of Cremation. The process of cremation is as fol. lows: The casket is lowered into the incinerating room. The metal handles and name plate are removed, and it is put into the retort. The heat is so in- tense that after a few hours only the ashes of the bones remain, all else, ist& eluding the structure of the casket, having disappeared in light ash or gas- eous products. The casket screws and% nails are removed by a magnet, 'ands' about four ounces of pure ask remain„ The Dwarf Palm of Algeria. The dwarf palm, which furnishes considerable quantities of fiber, grows in great profusion in Algeria and is one of the principal obstacles to the etear- ing of the land, so thickly does it grow and so ditieu1t is it to pull up. • Iia !roots, in shape resembling carrots, pen- etrate into the ground to the depth tit: a yard or more, and when its stem onlp is cut it sprouts out again almost im- mediately, As its name indicates, this palm is very small and can.only attain a certain height when protected, as b the Arab cemeteries, for example. Restrained. "What is a temporary infianctioar pa?" asked little Richard, lookiaa 14. from the newspaper he was reading. "FM givo you a concrete example et it, my son," replied his father. "Your mothertold me this evening that she didn't want me to go to the club. That' is a temporary injunction." "I see, but supposin' yoti go anyhow, what would that be?" "When you have been married as long as I have, my son, you won't ask such foolish questions," said father sainy. '- Aids to Greatness, Phrenologist (enthusiastically)—W1, . sir, the bump of veneration is the lar: gest I have ever seen. Stith a bump should maize you a bleb* Subject (detie 9) -STs that so? Well, P11 get Paddy Nolan to give me another whack In the same place, and I'll be as arelhe whop at Dirge.—lllachange. Mean. Tempered. "Your teeth are in pretty bad shape,'t retxked the dentist. 'St isn't their eltrpe that bothers me," add Its patient. "It's their dia. �oadtto?n �?•joule Post -Dispatch November, 9 1916 Fun Dings We defy anyone to look on the sad side of life when the delicious, negro drollery of Bert Williams is at hand or when the inexhaustible humor of Joe Hayman, "Calamity Cohen," is ready to divert in, COLUMBIA Double -Disc RECORDS Step into any Columbia drealer's and listen to Bert Williams—A1289-8Sc. My Landlady (Williams) Nobody (Williams) Joe Hayman—R2958-850. 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