The Brussels Post, 1929-1-2, Page 6WE NEED
JAN, 2nd, 1929.
Beazttifool Silverware is
0 %o4ery4 Necesszty
Arra what better indication of
AA- caste and refinement Man a
Rervice of celebrated
COMMUNITY NATE
The Tableware De Laxe
By resson of our complete stocks
this store is fast becoming known
as headquarters for this delight-
ed were.
Prices Most Reasonable
J. R. WENDT
Jeweler
Wroxeter
7,7HOWICK TOWNSHIP COUNCIL NEW ONTARIO
Council met. in Gerrie, Dec, 15th, ' LAND GRANTS
11)28 in the Twp. Hall pursuant to ARE ISSUED
Statute. Members all present, The
Reeve in the chair. Minutes of last
Toronto, Dee. 26. ---Ontario is
meeting were read anti on motion still making (rants of free land to
of Taylor and Leonard were adopt.agricultural settlers and by degrees
av
ed. the 'availablerable land in New
It wasp. moved by Hubbard and Ontario's clay belt le ben; taken up.
Gamble that the amount in despute According to figures now being pre-
te in the Wroxeter School be heal
pared for the annusl report to
by the Treasurer of the Tmatter
ad -
were
minister of lands branch, there
ad-
tt I' ler-
n
a edu
' the tallotted
1402 homesteads
untilf , d�
Howickm_.t a
00
ofH•eh
wet
the
retepl and the amount Due Ing the last fiscal year to free land
ratepayers in the Wroxeter School settlers. These represent entirely
be refunded -Carried, new farms under cultivation.
A petition was presented to the
Council by David Robinson and �^-r
signed by a number of ratepayers Robinson, lighting shed in asking the Council to forward it to wich, $50.00; L. N. heditin salary
Ford -
the Hydro Commission in Toronto its i. C. of H., $Wh th ; salary
asking them to give a rate for 30 05 M.
telephones and 0.00;expenses an
s.
street e. Lights inov villageT of Drains, $10.00; Phillip Strauss, re -
Wroxeter. It was moved by Taylor
fund of Dog tax. $2.00; W. C.
re -
and Leonard that the Clerk be in- Drur bal. on B. trunk channel
traded r forward said petition 'k 1lun Drain No. 10, $250.40; W.
the Hydro Commission and ark t` Teeiry, bal. on B. trunk channel
for a rate -Carried' mut. Drains No. 10, $241.20; F,A,
it was. moved by Gamble and 1:, ., Inspector B. trunk channel
Hubbard that the collectors; to the intro. Drain No, 10, 030.00; 3.
January meeting to return their lteirhard, farm bridge open portion
Collectors Rolle-Car•'.ed• • Man, Drain No. 10, $35.00; H.
It was moved by Taylorani Lee Gibson, ditch already constructed
onard that By -Law No 1D appointing open portion Men. Drain No. 10,
appointing Deputy, R to nin_: a,
eery and poll clerks Le rad tl,e
third time and pessed e. tried.
It was moved . a ill and
.
r ire G
iluh'nard that the following OC•
counts be held Thos. Inglis. fes 'a3
member of 11. of 11., 810.00; J•,;.
Edwertie fees ae member of I. of
H., 310.00; G. W. Walker for: as
Sec'y., of Ti. of II.. x1`5.00; Thos.
Inl_'li tbtry & rommisi0n 'ss
Reeve. 325.00: Geo. llulbbard,
salary and commieelon as Deputy
Reeve, 5100.00; J.W. Gamble, sala-
ry & commission aae councilors,
•32100 00 Milton Leonard, salary &
comm :0n as eouncinor, $100.00;
F. C. Taylor, salary & etennni-.ion
as councillor, $100.00; S. H. Web-
ber, rent of roadway, $2.50; Jas,
Douglas, as sheen valuator. .+'+2,011;
Isaac Wade, school attendance offi-
cer hal. s,tlal•w $30.00; • I1. J. M 1-
guire, coal, $49.00; James Ma- chain No, 10., 123.30; Twp. Trees -
thews. digging grave, $3.00; An- urer, ditch already constructed open
thony Holt, refund of Dog tax, mun. drain No, 10, $25.00; R. J.
$2.00; Wm. Debte, refund of Doe Sanderson, eleaning out and open -
tax, $2.00; Those Lemon, refund of nig tile portion of Gathers Munici-
Dg tax, $2.00; Stewart Edgar, for pal Drain, ?25.00; J. Tinker, hal. on
roadway to gravel pit, $5.00; 'rho' culvert open portion-mun. drain No.
Inglis, expenses to Clinton, .510.00; 10. $100.00; J. H. Rogers, services
L. J. Maguire, lights for public as Treasurer mun. Dram No. 10.,
shed Twp, Hall & office, $71.00; $25,00; J. H. Roger.., .services as
G. W. Walker, hal salary as clerk. Treas., Wallace Twp. mun. drain
$1.00.00; James Walker, drawing Na. 10., $1.5.00. It was moved y
gravel, $1.50; A. Heihein, refund Gamble and Leonard that this
of Dog tax, $2.00; E. W. Cason, council do now close, -Carried.
supplies for Twp, Hall. $12,80; F3. G. W. Walker, Clerk.
W. Carson, part salary as collector,
$00.00; J. Hueston, coal for 13. About one•ethird of all the coal
Harrison, $14.75; Oscar Felker, used in the 'United States today is
comp. for wire fence, $25.00; Gen. consumed by the railroads.
Hubbard, attending meeting, $3.00; There am limes which are almost
R. F. Edgar, salary as road supt., as sweet as oranges.
$35.00; Howick, Telephone Rental The whale has hairs around its
to Dec. 31 & tolls, $18.25; Alex mouth which are extremely sensitive,
THE BRUSSELS POST
ANENGUISHFARMHOUSE NEWSY ITEMS
re,,,RN`eY ole lA'omc AND 40011 The normal life of en' elm is 100
eats
PLAIN FARE, American toy bicycles are -beconl-
raw Modern imOrovements and the Ing, popular in Booth Africa.
:4'atmer's Wife le Inept Busy le oln, Autos in Anlerlea are increasing
Morn Tat Night, Bat I,ife Is Not at the rate of 2,000,000 a year.
All '!York, kranee has more cool anti iron
'Whether in 'thatch -coaled cottage, mines than before the World War,
Camels and pigs are said to be
grey -atone house, red -brick villa, an -
the only animals that cannot swim,
anent or modern -lite in an English An air post is being built near
farm -house means plenty of work for Mexico City on what was formerly
the farmer's wife, writes Eileen Olare
the bed of a lake,
Gibson in the 1:Awltreat Family Her-
ald and Weekly Star. The President of the 'United Sta-
In the old houses, large kitchens, tes who served two not -consecutive
rambling passagea, ' winding stair- terms was Grover Cleveland.
cases pause much extrawork. Even A, London movie theater will em -
in the newer houses there are few
modern conveniences, Water may ploy only red-headed girls as usher -
have to be carried upstairs to the otter, and has engaged 20 of theme
bathrooms, or it may be heated from The recent hurricane which
swept
n
t
a boiler behind the cook -stove, or over the West Indies caused heavy
range as we call it, which le set in a damage to crops in the Dominican
Permanent bricked recess, with a
brick chimney. Cooking is done on republic.
the coal range In the winter, or an Since the beginnings of the World
oil -stove In the summer. 011 is used War Americans have invested nearly his !topes were concerned -a blow sea -
for I1y outsing. Central own, and we sit round an !s prae- $0,000,000 in schools in foreign den and hitter and then all the sun-
Licahy unknshine of life seemed blotted out for
pen grate with a dr( of logs or coat, countries.
The imine- Min. Iola had come to treat Burton
almost as one of the family. She en-
joyed companlonShip with a'iperson so
hitelleeteal and kindly, land he outer
tanned the secret hope that as time
regard
him
went on she might Come to lege
with the favor of affection The place
of happiness he had built so fondly
crashed Into ruins as one day Es1•a
Walden called him to his room, where
he lay slowly wasting away
t
said the oil
Burton,"
ui
"Sit down, lin t I ,
Man feebly. "I want to have a talk
with you. You have been a great help
and comfort to me, you have worked
hard and faithfully and 1 don't want
to see you lose by it, 1 haven't long to
live, the doctor told me last week.
When the end comes there Is Iola to
think of. I want to provide for her as
fully as possible. Iola wishes to go to
Denver."
A quick pain struck the heart of the
ardent lover. "She has relatives there?"
he ventured faintly,
"No, hut about a year ago a men
named Blake Darrell spent a month
here hunting and fishing. Ile was a
flashy, boastful sort of a fellow nod,
between you and I, did not impress me
very favorably, but as T later learned
made love to Iola and she was Im-
pressed.It was after he was gone that Y
the child told Inc that he had tilled her
mind with all kinds of glowing ideas
of the active life of the city, that he 1,
was writing to her regularly, and if
she ever came to Denver he would see
that she got a fine position and would
make her his wife. She did not ex -
icily
she wasn't n
actly agree t0 this, for . he
of her own mind. but T min see tint '1
when 1 am gone her thoughts will all
be fixed upon going into this nen' lift.
What I was thinking was this: Yon .
8)132 you h3n•e' about a. thousand de llat a
saved up. Buy the place here, Pay 4
«0)1-0 what you can and the bnittnre to
go to Iola as she needs It. Only this
If her mind Is set on going 10 Denver,
and if she wishes to marry this than,
Darrell, go with her and become her
guardian until that is ronemenntted,
lust as if ,you were myself."
Morton's heart was heavy as he gave
his promise to hurry out the injunc-
tions of Mr, Walden. Tris declot urns
over and clone. lnla mos lost to him 1,1'
and the Stature seemed blighted. With-
in the week the old iron died. A 1 iwi-
Iy neighbor took 10111 In her clinrge
and a few days later Murton elnlied
upon Iola to learn her wishes.
She was subdued with grief, forlorn-
ly unvertnin, but tinnily told Burton
that she wished to go to Denver. Be
explslned to her the Wtslies 0f her
grandfather and she seemed to rx- sl
pr•ienre a sleep gratitude for his help-
ful, loyal service.
This was emphasized when together
they started for the I:est, 111a'1011 use
and :solicitous care for her enndort
touched Tnla deeply. She began to
realize hone she would miss the sternly,
sterling friend when he went hack
alone to the old farm for which she
secretly began to grow homesick. She
was almost tearful when he left her
at a hotel in Denver. !ler face wore
a strange seriousness when he called
the next morning.
"I week] like to have you deliver
this," she said. "Walt for no answer."
And she handed hien a letter directed
to Blake Darrell.
She was in a nervous nutter when
Burton returned, He also acted tin-
settled and shaken.
"I have strange news for you, Tote."
he said. '`Blake Darrell cons shot dead
In a drunken brawl a 111011111 since. He
left u widow."
To his surprise Iola seemed tittle af-
fected changed
d
fected by the intelligence, !.
my mind half way to Denver," she
spoke in troubled tapes. "I do not in-
tend to remain. Obi my gond, !rind
friend, whom 1 alone can trust, take
me back -home 1"
Burton began to tremble with vngue
suppressed emotion. She tore open
the envelope he had returned to her. 1
"Itend It, please. It vitt explain," she
snld in subdued tones and turned her
face awry
Tae understood as he Traversed the
lines telling Darrell that she had
Wed not not to marry him, that her love
thee.
Won
By Waiting
sM4s
By ALVAH JORDAN GARTH
(OoPtrtsht, 1830, by the Madera Clews-
paper 'UMW)
It was like a t•nnsitiof from the nrld
desert to a fertile 'valley of laden, tie
ahuad0ument of 01? impossible farm n
the entail lands, and a grateful settlh g
down in'tbe welcome groove o1'' the
Walden Place; It was the p0ssesslou
of a decrepit old morn, llzro Wal-
den, null his enamel niece, I0)0, and
from the start John Burton liked it
and bound himself to remain. Ile was
to work 1t an shares and after' that: On
e half ownership basis.
outside of comfort and prospect
there Was Iola. It took less titan a
month for Burton t0 treasure her as
the brightest little being he had ever
met. b'h'st he admired her, then he
longed for her constant company and
8ntt1132 came to love her.
And then disenchantment, so far as
whicll warms the room well, but hors Four ages of man. gimme -
We
we shiver going to bed and getting up ` age; the yes -sir -age; the fetch -it -
bed- 1 bore -age, and the what's -the -world -
We get up early on a well-run coming -to -age.
c •ease of 130,302 gross ton -
bis
will Ade z
the b
farm.Sometimes
I
breakfast before going out to start nage was shown in the recent retort
bis men at 6 or 7 a.m. of British sailing ships for the year
The rest of the household usually
have their first meal about 8 o'clock. ending June 30.
Dinner Is at noon, and tea about j Finally built roads and a central
will be bread-and-butter, cakes, tndfeet square
s100
Tea, the Englishban q
T. in t aSt
b a more
.m , building
p
have been unearthed at the Roman
Camp a Geer, Wales.
Mehylated-spirit drinking is on
the increase in England and Souh
Wales, there being 428 convictions
for this offense in the past year.
A bill introduced in the legislature
of New Brunswick, Canada, prohi-
bits the erection of advertising
billboards of any kind along the
highways of the Province.
In this the clothes can be boiled, or Great Britain is Germany's best
It is useful for heating a large attar- beauty-sids customer. Face -powder,
tity of water. Washing machines are rouge, lipsticks and other cosmetics
often in use, but are not electrically driven. to the weight of over 170 tons were
Only a few years ago. it was cos- imported for John Bull's daughters
Urinary to board several of the farm last year.
hands. They had separate sleeping -
quarters, and took their meals in the
kitchen and not with the family. This
custom has nearly died out owing to
the lack of domestic help, and the
in the rooms, morning in our fireless
tea to drink, with cold moat if extra
is needed. Supper follows just be-
fore bed -time; bread -and -cheese and
a hot drink is a good "night-cap,"
Our men -folk give us no help with
the washing, but climatic conditions
are not so severe as in Canada, so
that 1t Is not quite such an ardous
task. Practically all English houses
are fitted with a "copper"; that 1s,
a permanent metal boiler (originally
always made: of copper), encased in
bricks with a fireplace underneath it.
375.00; H. Gibson, ditch already men live in cottages on the farm, or
In the nearest village,
oontueted Lranch E. Mun. Dr. This has lightened the work eon -
No. 10, 335,00; 0. Zurbrigg, ditch eiderably, but on most farms in addl-
e o
bread n there is b1 a
z outln.
into the r
1 •lead
open
portion
to
•r e cent u P
.d my n
t tree
Mon Drain No. 10, 3.30.00; Ed. bake, milk to separate, and butter
to make. At intervals a pit, is killed
Hargrave. ditch already rnnstruct- and this brines tauh Xtra work, er
• d open portion Mun. Drain No. 10, there is fruit to pro's"rte or to "jolt,"
2315.00: Ed. Knight. dit'h already , and in the 'south, eider Is made 011
the farm, and .good time -made btew-
con'tue el ,t portion Mun. Dr, ed ale can be found in other di. tnirts.
No. 10, eleen1 Jae. Topham, ditch To -day we often run the house
already run tree ted fl. trunk than. single-handed, with the help of •a
mun. Dran No. 10, 310.00; 0, charwoman on wase toy and to scrub
floors must be done 0n hands and
trusted R. trunk clean. mun. Dr. knees, no bucket -and -mop would get
No 10 •81.00 ; led. Knight, ditch them clean. We May be fortunate rte to
already constructed 13, trunk than. get the help of a little girl 'int 130ht
from school; and how (11,1008 w. ar,
mun. drain No. 10, 10.00; M• if our neighbor s i e an exp Iienc-
Sclioighy, exeevation lot R. eon. 3. ed servant, and num, r7ir sh • keeps
branch cl Mun. Drain No, 10, her! Wages are eight irons $8 a
`$77.70; J. Reichard, excavation bit week for a young (41-3 to 05 for a
traire::d servant, with all found and
E. R. iron. 3 branch 0 mun. drain plenty of outings. But the towns
No. 10, $132.90; A. Edgar, excava- prove too attractive in comparison
tion we 19 con. 3. branch f, mun. with our quiet and frequently iso-
lated conditions.
In uddition to the dome :tic round,
the reamer's wife usually looks after
the poultry with the help of a boy
occasionally. 73r ->s, too, may be a
side -line, while the garden and the
orchard are apt to be neglected 't'
she does not take them under her
care.
However, life is not all week.. On
the larger forms shooting parties ars
not infrequent, and it is quite usual
for the farmer and his wife to have
a day's hunting with the fox -hounds.
There are usually facilities for hockey
or tennis, and the opportunity for
playing them on a Saturday after-
noon, which is a eompulsory half
holiday. Whist drives and dances are
among the social activities for winter
evenings.
The automobile has linked up
many outlying farms, whose occu-
pants used to have little amusement
during the long dark evenings. For
In the larger agricultural districts of
England it is not unusual for the
farms to he eight or ten miles from
the nearest town, and a mile or more
from their neighbors. In spite of
modern amenities, including the ra-
dio and the telephone, many farmers'
wives find their only relaxation in
the weekly visit to the market town,
where they do their shopping and
gossip with their friends,
the finers Fol' n3,i brick Or the
Shoemaker, flitch already COnS-
C
am
W.IR nted
We pay Highest Cash Price for
Create,,. 1 cent per lb. Butter Fat
extra paid for all Cream delivered
at our Creamery.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Brussels Creamery Co.
Phone 22 Limited
t Buildings.
]tevtorin), 1 ailitamen
Restoring the Parliament bn[ldings
in London at an estimated cost of
£1,00{.1100 is a task to be soon tak-
en In stand, Much of the stonework
is crumbling. hundreds of windows
will have to be replaced with new
Mono. On the terrace front alone
there are 115 of these. There are
also about 250 crumbling statues,
When the House of Parliament were
erected during 1840-1852 they cost
just over £2,000,000. TO day the
Price Would be about 212,000,000.
Railway Cadillac Sccla,.
A 'high power Cadillac sedan, es -
1, e'alY equ10p0d with tinged, steel
tired wheels, has meet turned cut of
the Angus shops 1,f the Canadian pe.
dile Railway, Montrettt, for the 2180
Of thn engineering department of the
railway. Capable of travelling en
the rails at as great a speed as upon
the road, the maebine will be used
for inspeciion drips on c.r,1i. linea
•lltrougheut the country;
Here and There
('20S )
Appie chip lents Over the Domin-
ion Atiant3e ii.,iay',y in Neva Scotia
, c
anti act t -[ ember 6th
u to a
n
totalled 111 r- , 111( increase
of 372 . 'o the .,.ane period nI
last year
A mote read t will shorten
the present Be f t •;vary highway
and take et'',.0:10 of the finest
scenery 11 the Recedes is now in
(entree ri to,ls1t 1 ion ;and should
he in op:a,.ti011 net year,
Tie Port of Mentrcal hes again
leered a new ree•or,l with grain
elclive e at 210 , e r ere) bushels for
the set a d a w 1r'r t Last
year's s 11 !t- e 1152.7.914
of l 24 to 1.i1, -
51,1.24n 3m<11.,•;__._..
5T.:: S v, 1:111.1 wr,dern
•cafes in e. t n ,t s•nd Ute United
State.. are ea •tied ,t the Banff
winter e'arr_iv 1 this season, said
W. A. 131e'.,:tt fro. -:dent or the
wintersp0; is nn iatizat10n at
Banff,jud •hie Beim the number of
Inquinke that have been received.
Skiing, skating, and other kindred
winter sports v.111 ie in full swing,
he said. and it nog appears there
will he wily competitors from
outside palnt.e 1n the various
events.
The 91.00,111 season. of naviga-
tion 1s eha'acterized as "a phe-
nomenal year as for as general
cargo is concerned" by the chief of
the wharfage. depart -taut of the
Harbor Commission of Montreal,
Commenting on business outside of
grain. "We shall show a revenue
increase that will be astounding
when the annual report comes to
be made up," he said.
Although the• Canada Coloniza-
tion Association only started to
operate in Ontario last February,
1t has already placed 1.311 families
on 5,071 acres of Ontario farm
lands, according to a statement
made recently in Toronto by W. C.
Kent, Hamilton, provincial repre-
sentative of the association. It
was his opinion that British set -
tiers found it easier to start to
Ontario than elsewhere.
Some 200 of the tbousand head of
buffalo in Elk Island Park, east of
lklmenl.on, have been slaughtered
during December In order to keep
the size of the herd within the car-
rying capacity of the park pasture.
It is expected that most of the meat
thus secured will be shlpped north
in the form of pemmican to provide
food for Eskimo inhabitants of the
Northwest Territories as a result
of the growing demand from this
source following the trial ship-
ments made last year.
Supplies for the 150 inhabitants
of the lonely little island of Tris-
I.ian da Cunha in the southern At-
lantic not Par from St. Helena are
being collected by ?Montreal clip.
tern of the I.O.D,E, and will be
delivered in February by the Cana-
dian ?Raffle Liner "Duohees of
Athnll". This great liner, making
a cruise of South,. Arnetica and
A, Price, is ono of the few veseeles to
call at this isolated point,. The
visit is one of the nitwit fewtures
of the cruise for the passengers
and tate event of the year for the
inhabitants of the •lelamd. �... ,
was bestowed upon ono
"You ore going back t0 the old
homer" spoke Burton.
"Yee, If you will take me," surd Iola
brokenly. "We had not left the dear
old place an hour before I reelized my
E{ e11
hnstened to take lir hand, Her
bend dropped to his. shoulder and be
knew be was that outer to whom she
had referred in the letter.
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Am
the Master
Salesman
i.o, the people of the earth do me 'hom'age.
I am the herald of success for men, merchants,
manufacturers, municipalities and nations.
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service and sound merchandise. And the world lis-
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There was a day long ago, when by sheer
weight of superior merit, a business could rise above
the common level without rte, but that day has
passed into oblivion.
For those who have used me as their servant
1 have gathered untold millions into their coffers.
1 Sell More Merchandise
per dollar of salary paid me than any' other sales-
man on the face of the earth. The fabled lamp of
Aladdin never called to the service of its master
genii half so rich and powerful as 1 am, to the man
who keeps me constantly on his payroll.
Hold the Business
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cipled business. to cover, and sound the death -knell
of inferior merchandie. Frauds are afraid of me be-
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for life takes no chances on drawing down dividends
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hand.
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