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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1920-8-19, Page 7Canada .From Coast Jo Coast eSt. Jahn ---The. Canadian Depart - Ment of Public Works and the Maine t$t ate Ial'ighw:ay Commission have ae- sned a joint call for tenders for the edastrztetion of the superstructure and. eiibstrueture of the : proposed inter- national bridge to be built over the $t John River between Ecimundston .nd the village of Madawaska, Maine,. Bids will open Au•ust 18;th_.. 'Bathurst, N,13, -Because of the gen- eral .coal shortage the Bathurst Lum- Ii e : Chas large pulp malls have ';beeti foyeed to shut down. The mills em- ailby, about 500 hands. Montreal -The most important pur- c'h'ase n•ade by English interests of Canadian pulp • holdings has now been Closed as the result of:, Northcliffe interests of London; England, having. P,urehased a two-thirds interest in the (tiff Pulp and Paper Company, at. 'Clark City, , below Quebec. This is We company owned by. members of the Clark family. Poiloeving. their purchase, the Northcliffe ' , interests have formed the Imperial Paper Mills, Limited, ..The remaining one-third of the interest in the company is, being purchased by other London people who are interested in the purcliase of paper. _ The price, it is understood, 'Was $3,000,000. . " Regina --Over 300,000• pounds of Western wool has been sold to a Can- adian manufacturer by the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Associa- tion at a price ranging from 45 to 65 cents per pound. Up to date over 540,000 pounds of wool, have been, re- ceived ut`tha Regina warehouse, while the total for the whole of last reason was only 556,000 pounds. It is er'ti- meteil,th.tat 700,000 ponds •af wool will. 'bo hazidled at the local warehouse this year, Fredericton—Provincial :Horticul- turist turist A. C. Turney, announces that the apple crop in this province this. year would amount to only sixty per cent. of last year's crop, This was owing to the . prolonged drought in "a,ome sections Which caused a heavy drop, ofatihe young apples. Regina --Cutting on the Greater Production in Alberta has already started. The crop on 12,000 acres so'v i in *heat is expected to average 30 bushels {:o,tOEie. acre. W. M. Graham, Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the three prairie provinces, is on a tour of inspection of the crop on the Greater Production farms. Vancouver -The sockeye are just starting: to run in'the Fraser River and the ipeck is expected to be equal to last Year's. • On the Skeena River the fish are not running so strong as last year ;and a much smaller pack is expected in that district this year.. Regular 'English custoniers have already'placed large orders for sockeye and red spring salmon, subject to the pack and sales have been made to 'them, at $21 a case unlabeled. The; priceof: raw sockeye to the fishermen opened at 55 cents per fish and they are now being paid75 cents en the Fraser, and some packers think :it will be necessary to pay $1,per fish to induce the fishermen to increase his catch. RED CAMPAIGN THROUGHOUT CANADA Bolshevik Russia Preparing to Send Spellbinders to America. A despatch from Copenhagen says: Bolshevik Russia is preparing toflood the United States and Canada With thousands of secret emissaries, who will spread the Soviet propa- ganda. Arrangements have been come pleted by "Comrade" Schkoviski, Len- an's chief foreign propagandist, for the "peaceful penetration" of Am- erica. "A large percentage of theRussians returned from the United States and Canada• to net for Russia against Germany talk English. Those from . the United States have:quite an Am- an twang, those from Canada have. ea -English accent," Schkoviski told the correspondent just before he was removed, protestingly, from Denmark, and ordered never to Texan. "These n are now being given courses in sp -binding and other useful arts, , pre, to returning to their adopted countries; where they will champion a Soviet Government. Pass:- port ass-port regulations will not keep them put. We have tested this ,already through the forerunners of our armies of talkers in the United States. and Canada." Schkoviski's expulsion from 'Den- mark was due directly to the discov- ery that he was behind the recent sailors' and longshoremen's strike, which paralyzed the Danish parts for Months. "We are out to overthrow the present system of capitalistic govern-, ment everywhere." He boasted heaving enough soldier I support in Scandinavia to make pos-' siiSTe a general strike, and claimed that Esthonia was pradtieally soldidly Soviet. • ' • • Canadian Towns to Get German Guns A despatch from. Montreal says:— Nine hundred towns and cities throughout the Dominion of Canada are to have presented to then gutis captured by the Canadians from the Germans during the Great War. Ten of them have been given to Montreal and placed in various parts of the city. A small trench mortar has been placed before Mayor Martin's resi- dence. "Not as a gift," said the Do- minion archivist, "but to eommemor- ate the visit of the Prince of Wales to his home." Cols. "bishop and Barker will again havecharge of the 1920' aeroplane nights at the Canadian National Ex- hibition. VENIZELOS FIRED AT EIGHT TIMES Premier' of Greece Attacked When Entering a French Train. A despatch from Paris says:— Premier Venizelos, of Greece, was at- tacked and wounded on Thursday as; he was leaving the Lyons railroad sta- tion for Nice. As the Premier step- ped onto a train two men fired re= 'elvers at him. He was wounded slightly. His assailants were arrest- ed, Eight shots were fired at the Greek Premier. The shooting occurred at 9.45 p.m. Premier Venizelos was taking leave of friends, when two swarthy indi- viduals rushed frain- the crowd, one firing 'three shots and the other five before they were overpowered. The Premier was reported wounded in the right side and the left arm. His assailants, following t1 eir ar- rest, were rescued by the police from the crowds with great difficulty, the anob shouting, "Lynch him!" Both Of the men were severely manhandled. d4i:e±F4riti� S:'r:•:<:. M•.aL�wu...r, n.». .........., Sir Auckland Geddes British Ambassador to Washington, who has accepted,an invitation to open the Canadian National Fair at Toronto this month. • Will Fight in Air and Under Sea 'in Next War A despatch from Paris says:— The next war will be fought in the air and under the sea, Marshal Foch told the Naval Cadets in an address an Thursday. • 151, THE STORM CENTRE OF EUROPE General view of Warsaw, capital of Poland,: showing the Alexander Bridge spanning the Vistula, across which lies the city. A Letter From Landon Queen Mary is making a collection of articles which were once the pro- perty of Queen Victoria, and which her Majesty has found whilst rummaging about the royal palaces. Some of these have been found at Windsor, and Queen Mary has made many discover- ies at Balmoral. Nightcaps rich in fine needlework have been found, as well as a patchwork quilt made by Queen Victoria to while away the tedium of her declining years. * I am told that Her Majesty is again wearing her beautiful jewels. The gift of donning gems with real distinction is by no means given to everyone, but Queen Mary has .it in a remarkable degree. They suit her to perfection. Most, of the finest jewels are kept at Windsor, where there is a special strong room in which they are placed in safes. Three people are always present when these are . opened, the trio including a Lady -in -Waiting, who is responsible for the keys. ,Some women are of opinion that it is hopelessly bad style to kiss in pub- lic. If they had seen Queen Mary em- bracing her relations they would know that Her Majestyeetoes not agree with them. The Queen kissed Princess Christian, Princess Arthur of Con- naught, Lady Hillington's children, and any friend who came along. * - +i. h �F y The census is to be taken next year and we shall be hearing all about it ere long. In the remoter parts of the Empire curious expedients have some- times to be, adopted by census officials. During the 1881 census several tribes in India took fright and ran away. The district officer interviewed the headmen and gravely informed thein that the Queen 'of England and the Empress . of Russia had made a bet as to which ruled over most subjects. The census, he explained, was being taken in order to settle the wager, ani he appealed to them to help the Queen to win. This appeal 'to their sporting instincts succeeded: the tribes came in from the jungle and were counted. * * * Morley's Hotel, Charing Cross, Lon- don, which is to be converted into a business man's club, is said to be the only place of its kind that can boast of having turned an Empress from its doors. Many years ago a gentleman called at the hotel saying he wished a room to be reserved for a lady and himself to held a short discussion on an ,important matter, The manage- ment viewed the application with sus- picion, and politely but firmly refused accommodation. The waiting carriage had hardly left the doors when a vis- itor, recognizing the occupant, excited- ly ran to the management with the news that they had turned away the Empress Eugenie. The filming of "Little Dorrit" is a reminder that some of the London scenes of the novel still remain intact. The Iron Bridge—known to later gen- erations as Southwark Bridge—where the turnkey's son wooed the Child of the Marshalea, is now being- rebuilt, and of the Marshalea itself only a por- tion of a wall remains abutting on the tiny open space known as "Little Dor- rit's Playground;" But St. George's Church, where the heroine was chris- tened, where she and Maggie found The announcement that the pfize- inoney for the submarine E14, for the sinking of the Guj Djemal, is now ready for issue, will arouse feelings of envy among many less fortunate naval 'nen. E14's little account is for £31,000, the greatest sum awarded to any one sle'p for prize -bounty in the war. The commanding officer, who holds the Victoria Cross, can put about £5,000 to his credit, and each of the able seamen should have about £700 out of the "kitty."—BIG BEN. Red Government Sends Am- bassadors to Berlin and Viena A despatch from Paris says:— refuge on the night they were shut out Solsheviki plenipotentiaries have ar- of th&prison, and where she was hap- . rived at Berlin to resume diplomatic senger carryingfor later considera- pily united to Arthur Clennam, re- relations between Russia and Ger- country, it will mean that millions of mains very much as Dickens described many, it is reported in a despatch re- dollars of additional money will be tion. In many ways the Pelican is ceived here from the German capital.. brought into Canada. an entirely new type of aircraft. Not ,it. Few probably of the tens of thou- 1 "gull's ' AMIE AND PESTILENCE l A New Jrri ti+ lis h SW7-7.4ZP POLAND ]'liTthfi 4'vA nee ikSY the farmer now m ards: irsig'atichv an the' e�� Armies Living OM Four. West, th + A dcepatc'h from Berlin says,•—Na to a n'e .. es , andan'a la ins,an of the Times Dedotated ,and. general d�eanand' for .etended schemata comes front 'the aoutla-w t i c t. r whattheoutcomeofthe nego- of the Provinco Qf Saslcatclaewaaty; matter c xi g who're a petition has been prepared fox tir,bions at Minsk, the proposed confer- cnee in London or elsewhere, Poland is the 1ittnehin'g of a new arr ggajr.;on pro= at the very start of the blackest of all jest under the provisions of Mie rawly, Winters that she has experienced since' Passe�ci Irrigation Act« T1?e schema the lieginiiing of the World War. 's to Bost approximately one anillao' a� begi e and pestilence promise to doi�Iara, and will be easily the .,i'nges't be the heritage of her attack on Rus- project trf its is rad atteiaipted in F3,sa- sia. Poland was fed very largely by katchew•an, embracing 12 5,000 acres, the United States last Winter. Now i+'uatheraaiore, it is staked Hast it wink the Red forces that are sweeping over prove one of the cheapest irrigation the country have advanced so rapidly s'el razes. en. the American continent, that they have not been kept in sup- per estimated cost being less than $9 plies by the railroad lines; Asa eon Per acre,' whereas others. have coat as sequence the men and the horses are high as $60 pea: 'acre. living off the land over which they The scheme involves, the diversion advance, Poland promises to be of the Battle and Boulanger Creeka. swept absolutely bare. Four times in into Davis Lake, and the construction the last five years huge armies have 'of a dam four miles west of the lake swept across the land. across the White Mud Valley in the Horrified by what has happened to vicinity of the Maple Creek trail south their land and with their hopes crush= into Montana. The natural topography ed, thousands of Poles are unwilling to 'and geographLcal features of the face the Winter. They want to emi- grate to America. Canada's Crop Offsets War urden country make the project easy and economical from an engineering point of view, The proposed dam aeross the valley will be 'approa'mately,250 feet in height, built of concrete and will cross the full width of the valley. Three channels are to be cut from There is one particularly strong the south aide e the `lake, forming reason why there should be a great mann irrigation canals through the deal of confidence on the part of country ,drown to tha Lethbridge-Weye Canadians in the outlook for this burn line of the C.P,R., and providing country. While Canada, along with the for wateni:ng the crops through the rest of the world, is undergoing a country north of Consul, Vidora, and Period of trying conditions, the Dom- Robsart. While this is the extent of inion has good reason to face the sit- the scheme as at present .outlined, it uation with a. great deal of hope and is stated that it would be possible to courage. The principal reason for extend :it farther to provide for irri- tihis is that Canada is - on the eve of gation of considerable txaets of court - reaping one of the largest crops in try farther south. the history of the country. While . ea---e--- happening, ,-_ -e--_ th h ee of something still happening, which will reduce the total yyield, still it is felt that the danger 1 point has been passed and estimates now indicate a yield an the three West- ern provinces of from 250 million to Aeroplane Wing Syndicate has de- 300 million bushels of wheat signed the "Pelican Four -ton Lorry," ere asacan A New British Aerial Lorry, By means of an entirely novel type o wing construction the Commercial While the wheat market is showing a type of machin which may revoha some fluctuations, there are indica- The aerial goods carrying, says tions of a very good price for the pro- The Manchester Guardian. The pres- duction. What is especially advan- ent intention of the Syndieate, which tageous is the fact that this is:newly is an offshoot of the Blackburn Aero - created wealth, and as fully two-thirds plane Company, is to provide for the of the crop will be sold outside of the carriage of goods only, leaving pas- of who .pass it daily on the way The message adds 'that another mag on y does the newwing type to London Bridge know anything of , the cid church's romantic connections. with a view to renewing re�ations with Austria. Sion has reached Vienna from Russia • t:.::<. . ... of construction enable a load of 13 lb. per square foot to be carried, but the load of four tons can be carried at the low rate of 50 eents per ton -mile at a speed of 72 miles per hour. The machine, a monoplane, is fitted. with two Napier engines of 450-h.p. each, these engines being normally run on half -speed for the sake of economy. In case of necessity the engines can be opened out and a speed of iittle less than 100 miles per hour obtained. Also, should one engine fail, not only can the machine fly on the remaining motor, but it can actu- ally rise at the rate of 40 feet per minute. These engines are fitted in a special part of the fuselage behind the wings, the propellers being con- nected by means of shafts and clutches after the manner of airship engines. The pilot sits in a cockpit in the very nose of the machine, his accommoda- tion swinging clear to enablegoods ' to be stowed away in the fuselage. MakingBricks bar 1�'Iachinery. One serious obstacle to building at the present time is the price of bricks, !which has trebled in the last ten years. Increased cost of labor and fuel is the reason fcr the rise. I L•abcr and fuel represent 70 per cent. of the cost of making a brick. -What is needed to bring the price- down is kautomatic machinery. In view of mechanical development, ' brick malting is away behind most other industries. The raw material is. dug with steam shovel or planer and ground and screened by machinery; but from the cutting table to the fin- ished product the work of manufac- ture is done almost entirely by hand l The tionabor., Its origin seems to have been brick is a very ancient inven- remotely prehiatorie. Babylon was a brick city. We know from the Bible that the Israelite captives in Egypt. were employed at brick -malting on an extensive scale. But the brick has a future not less important than its peat, Probably the pressed brick of to -day is as good a brick as will ever be made. To cheapen it, work is in progress to manufacture it automatically, without being touched by human hands. It is hoped by machinery to cut the cost of production. He Was No Poet. The passengers on the pleasure steamer, having just finished dinner, were enjoying the beauties of the evening to the full. A majestic Highlandravine came lnto view, all tender grey,s and shim- mering browns and blues. Mrs, de Vere held her breath till they had passed. "Oh, John!" site said, "what a lovely gorge that was!" "Yes, darling," he said absently,. "quite the beat feed we've had since we left London." The Canadian. National Exhibition will again run thirteen days in 1930, The suggestion that it be extended for three weeks heti been left in abeyance by the Directors; Weekly Market Report .ort Wholesale Grain. Toronto, Aug, 1R.—Rianitoba wheat —No. 1 Northern, $3.15; No. 2 North- ern, $3.12; No, 3, Northern, $$,08, in store Fort R'illiani. Manitoba oats—No. 2 CW, 991/2e; No, 3 CW, 961/ c; extra No. 1 feed, 96aac; No. 1 feed, 921/xc; No. 2 feed, 901/ac, in store Fort William. Manitoba barley—No, 3 CW, $1.45; No. 4 CW, $1,35; rejected, $1.15; feed, $1.15, in store Fort William. American corn—No. 3 yellow, $1.85; nommentinal, track, Toronto, prompt ship- . Ontario oats—No. 3 white, nominal. Ontario wheat—No. 2 Winter, per car lot, $2.20 to $2.30, shipping points, according to freights. Peae—No. 2, nominal. Barley—$1.20 to $125, according to freights outside. Buckwheat—No, 2, nominal. Rye—No. 3, $1.75, according to freights mat ole, Manitoba four—Government stand- ard. $14.85, Toronto. Ontario flour—Government stand- ard, $12.P0, nominal. Millfeed—Car lots, delivered, Mont- real freights, hags included: Bran, per ton, $52; shorts, per ton, $61; good feed flour, $8.75 to $4.00. Country Produce—Wholesale. Eggs, selects, 64 to 65c; No. 1,59 to 60c. Butter, creamery prints59 to 61.c; choice dairy prints. 49 to 51e; ordinary dairy prints, 45 to 47c; bak- ers', 35 to 40e; Oleomargarine, best grade, 3a to 38c, Cheese, new, large, 291 to 30e; twins, 30 to 301/2c; old, large, 33 to 34c;. twins, 34 to 35c; Stilton, old, 351/a to 36aaa•c. Maple syrup, 1 gal. tin, $3.40; 5 gal. tin, per gal., $3.25; maple sugar, lb., 27 to 30e. Churning cream—Toronto creameries are paying for churning cream, 58 to 60c ,per pound fat, f.o.b. shipping points, nominal, Provisions—Wholesale. Smoked meats—Plams, med., 47 to 50e; heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 64 to 68c; rolls, 34 to 36c; cottage rolls, POP WILL You HELP ME. WI'T'N MY ARITHMETIC FOR- NE)t'f' TERIA-- I DONT KNaM rO Do SUBTRACTION "REG'LAR FELLER S"—Eyr Gene Byrnes 39 to 41e; breakfast bacon, 50 to 55c; backs, plain, 62 to 54c; boneless, 58 to 64c. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 27 to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c. Lard—Pure, tierces, 27 to 28c; tubs, 281/2 to 29c; pails, 29 to 291%; prints, 29ea to 30e. Compound tierces, 25 to 25143; tubs, 251 to 26c; pails, 25% to 26' /se; prints, 27 to 27½e, Montreal Markets. Montreal, Aug. 16.—Oats, No. 2 C. W., $1.17; No. 3 CW, Flour, Manitoba Spring wheat patents, firsts, new stand grade, $14.85 to $15.05. Rolled oats, 90 -Ib. bags, $5,50 to $5.85; Bran, $54.25. 'Shorts, 361.25. Cheese, finest Easterns, 24/c. Butter, choicest creamery, 5712c. Eggs, fresh, 66c. Live Steck Markets. •Toronto, Aug. 10.—Choice heavy steers, $14 to $14.50; good heavy eteere. $13.50 to $13,75; butchers' cat- tle, choice, $13 to 313.50; do, good, $12 to 312.50; do, med., 310 to $11; do, coni., $7,50 to 39; bulls, choice, $10 to 311; do, good:, 39 to 39,50; do, rough. $6 to 38; butchers' •co=.vs, choice, $10.50 to 311,50; do, good, 39 to 310; do, corn., 36.50 to 37.50; stockers, $9 to $11; feeders, 311 to 312.50; canners and cutters, $4.50 to 35.510; milkers, goad to choice, 100 to $165; do, com. and need., $05 to 375; Iambs, yearlings, 310.50 to 312.50; do, spring, 312 to 314.50; calves, good to choice, 316.50 to 319,25; sheep, 36.50 to 39.50; hogs, fed and watered, $20.50; do, weighed off cars, 310.75; do, f.o.b., $19.50; do, do, country points, $19.25. Montreal, Aug. 16.—Butcher heif- ers, com., 35 to 38; butcher cows, med., $5,50 to 38.50; canners, $3 to 33,50; cutters, 34 to $5; butcher bulls, corn., 35 to $6,50; good veal, $12 to $13; med., 38 to 11; grass, $5 to 36; ewes, 35 to 37.50; lambs, good,12 to $12.60; cora., $8 to 311; hogs, around 150 lbs., off cars, $20,50; sows and heavies, mixed lots, $17,50 to $18.50; selects, 120 to $20.50; sows, 315 to $16.50. ..eseeeeseeseeemeseee SUBTRACT; TRItd65 MUS -r• E. of THE. SAME- . DENOMINATION - FIR( NSW,: ICE. YOU GfatedT TAKE- FQu? . BENS Foh'l SW. HORSES Seeking Fresh Adventures Col. Raz Collishaw, the famous Cana- dian airman, who is again in search of adventure. He has left Canada for England, v, here he will receive a com- mission for service in Poland. Col. Collishaw is the na,cst noted airman in service to -day. AERIAL ROAD MAP FOR ALL CANADA A despatch from Ottawa says:— The roadmap of the sky for ail Canada is in the retaking; in fact, it is nearly complete, and will be published by the Air Board within a day or two, ac- cording to Col. F. F. Scott, director - in -chief of civil aviation. This map will cover every route laid out within the Dominion. One of its most important features is that it will be drawn to deal with both civil and military aviation. When re- vised and finally published Canada will have as complete a directory of travel through the air as it is possible to get. There will be one vast highway across the Dominion. The map also involves an aerial survey of the whole Dominion. r I:L)T YOLJ CAN, -mK-,.-. c- std?Ts M I L.I( ROM TWO CC' -LS 0 r • .en.wI�y K Vii; t 7M4� t