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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1937-11-10, Page 7'BLEPIIONN TALKS IN TUE WATSON F M114"2 "I had to tell you right away!" Bob Watson came home bursting with the news. The big break had come at last. He was now Department Manager at a big increase in salary. "Your Father will be delighted!" beamed Muriel, his wife. "Why not call him up?" "I certainly will — news like this demands Long Distance. And .while I'm about it, I'll call Aunt Mary, too!" The Watson family have found that to spread good news or in emergency, Long Distance is indis- pensable. Are you making best use of all that Long Distance offers? [Low Night Rates begin every evening at seven, and apply ALL DAY_ SUNDAY! T he Brussels Post FOUNDED -1873 R. W. KENNEDY — Publisher Published Every Mednesday afternoon Subscription price $1.50 per year, ppaid in advance. Subscribers DI United States will please add 50e for postage. TIM 'POST' PRINT Telephone 31 Brussels, Ont, BRUSSELS CANADA WE HAVE SOME SPIRIT LEFT It does look as though we were not lacking people in Canada wlio are prepared to do something to bet- ter their own condition, James Baak a young fellow of 20, landed at his tuicle's farm pear Goderich a few days ago, and as anon as 1'^ ;t^.:v.,rt he went out and started helping with the chutes. There wit: n eel wanting for hint on that farm wb=gin he arrived on his 'bicy-cl b fin'tt Saskalchcnwan, a distance ci 2.rat, miles. The reason wiry he work. Ing on a Huron county faunt is be. cause there is little to eat at the western home. Young Boak hail a little cash when he set out and his pposscssions were strapped on Itis back, Now and then he stopped to work along the way in order to se- cure money to buy meals. It took him sur weeks actual wheeling tc make the 2,000 miles, so we take it there must be a fair amount of gen f and determination in this young Canadian. '''hen there is the story of Mt. and 1+fra;. T, W. 'Stewart and six children, ranging in age from twc to nine years', They had been on a farm ear Watrous, Sask., for nine ' years and in eight of those ye'ti's they secured no crop, They arr•Iv ed in Winnipeg the other day on the way to take up a small farm not far front Montreal, and they were rid ing In a homemade trailer drown by two horses. It had taken 2118111 24 days to cover the distance be. tweee the farm and Winnipeg, and the head of the house hopes' he may be able to trade the two horses for a used ca rto pull the trailer from Winnipeg sir Moutread, Nor was the wife and mother full at woe or grief, The 24 -day trip from the farm to Winnipeg with eight people in a horse-drawn honte made Nailer had not bothered her nor was sire asking for or expecting sympathy, She looked upon it as t•aveiting and said that was something she'd al- w'nye wanted to do, And site luta 1207 mites to cover between Wimi!. peg and Montreal. So that is the way the J. �3'. Stewart faintly are deaidiig with their problem of bow to ntalto a living for norther and father and six children, Yes—we are Inclined 10 think there is consider- able of what might be called spirit and spunk ana determination in our Canadian people. nes aieT•tme HOW MANY HENS? The fowl supper has not weaken. ed It is going on today just as it did at the church at the corner of the Tenth Concession and the Brok- en Front Road a good many years ago, The reason for such affairs has not yet been concluded but in an effort .to inject some sort at a setts. tical survey into the situation we have found in Tenant weeks that the 'Post' has reported several fowl aupgpers as having taken place. There may have been some which were not Tecorded and there are others yet to come, so with the ]grand total in this district is pos- sibly not too many. We have been making some in- quiries regarding the number of chickens or hens—probably the latter—which are intimately inter. ested in .these affairs, 'Ve :should have said vitally lntertsted, for it is a matter of lfe and death with them. The results are not non- elusive and are therefore subject to correction by those qualified to fur- nish exact information. People do not seem to agree exactly on how many people can be fed off one hon. We have heard it stated that tour Wolk can eat such e bird bat that would not include picking the neck better, clean, while mines say that six can he given a fair helping oft one good-sized hen. So it's like trying to work out one of those prole Ions to Algebra where X etpmle tee known quantity, tisiug these rather ittstiftielent and defective particu-- lare we have come to the conclus2on that it takes on an average of 00 liens to make a fowl supper. So if we have 20 of these affairs in our district that would mean 1,200 hens participated. So if that figure is any way near correct it is probably just as well the incubator (or iron lien) was invented as it would call for a great cleat of clucking and set- ting for hens in the old fashioned away to produce the 720 chicks' notes- sary to keep the hen population on an even keel And It 1,200 hens are going to the fowl eupper in our district in one season the same thing is going on all over the province, for the fowl sapper is an aid institution on which no section has a monopoly, And atter all it is not a bad way for a hen to come to the end of her road. ;Minch better than being on the high way and struck by some silly person driving a ear too east, and much better than being killed and stripped or Nutmeg° and thea expoesd for sale on an open market or in a stars window. Great is the fowl supper' BLIND EDITOR RECEIVES CORONATION MEDAL Nowhere within the British Em- pire is there a prouder citizen than the modest editor at' a smnall town newSPatper who recently was the recipient of a Coronation medal THE BRUSSELS limed in commemoration of the coronation et Their Mxlestles, King George and Queen Eiloabelia, Rixon Rafter, blind proprietor of the Arthur Iiaterpriee•News, who 18 one of the very few persons in Wel. iingtou county to bo so honored, attt:tes he does not know yet to whom be is indebted fr it, "But ooleala we are that no recipient of thin decoration amoiu, loyal sub jests oe Their Mejesties appreclatee it more or accepts it More grate- tully," be adds', mor, Rafter was born In Welling: ton county, not far from where he now carries on his weekly news- paper, After attending the Can- adien National Institution for the Blind et Brantford, he entered Queen's University, and took hie degree at Bachelor of Arts, He gathers practically all of his papel'e general news' himself and with the aid of the typewriter puts his anterial in shape for type- setting, Several times Mr, Rafter has 'been nominated as Conservative standard !bearer, both in provincial and federal politics, but has Always declined that horror. Prominent in tate community of Arthur, he has headed mimetically every hoard in the municipality with the excep- tion of the village council. Ise travels about the village unassisted and knows "every inch of the place' His skill in making change is entire- ly lineally. He can tell the difference between a $10 bill and a $1 bill and has rare. ly bee known to make an error, WHO WON Ti-CtE WAR? It was Italy that won the World War for the Allis, Then Italy de- feated the Austro-Hungarian army at Vittorio Veneto a week before the armistice on the Western front the war was won. Right at Vittorio Veneto. The press of Rome has said so and tbe press of Rome prints just what is in the minds of officialdom, Now that is something the rest of tre world has overlooked, or it may be we never heard of it, We have heard some British talk who in a moment of mental exhilar- ation have claimed they won the war, and again we have heard some fair-minded people :from that coun- try who doubted that such was tbe case, Often enough have we heard that United States won the war, and not on may ocacsions have we ever heard of people from that land denying such a claim, t anadtans wba went through a good deal of the hell may have had the mistaken idea they bad some- thing to do with it, But now some 19 years after we are enlightened. Italy won the war. That should help to clear up matters particular. ly as there are a number of people who seem to believe and with g.iid reason that no person won it, Coral essions POST 4i'h1112VH.SGt1T, NOV., 1021i, 7997 By A. R, K. if I never could quite understand, Why sante days everything gets jammed, when I've no time to waste; on inch a clay I stir up dust. and always will my shoe string bust, 'before the thing's lla!f laced. And when I shave on such a tiny and knock my whiskers all away, I used both need and vim; 'tis then I lino I'm moving rash, and always l open up a gash, and have to Patch 1 my chin, ¶ The stove won't draw on such a day, when I make haste to get away, nor will, the kettle boil; my temper's spoiled before I start, with hapry moments far apart, and I'in (ate for my toil. My cellar button on that day, will take a roll and get away, and id's' beneath the bed; and then I Have to crawl in trere, and using up more speed than care, most likely bump any head. ¶ And when I'rn tushing to depart, i find the flivver will not start, the juice is dead alas; or else when I investigate I start and chant my hymn of rate, 'because there is no gas, ¶ I don't like days that go like that, they leave me weary like and flat, they 1111 me with hate; but I can't blame the country's laws, I'm honest and admit the eame'-'ho- cause I've slept too late, 25,000 BEEKEEPERS IN DOMINION • Beekeepers in Canada number about 25,000, Canadian bees pro- duce more than 24,000,000 pounds of honey in a year and close to 000,000 pounds' of beeswax, says a Canadian Resources bulletin, Aren't We Ali? She wee se dumb she thought the temperature zones had something to do with the liquor question, LET US LOOK 1 AT THE PAST Hire Are Items Takes ;Pro* Piles of the Dost o/ 64 and 26' Years Apo 25 YEARS AGO ETHEL J. el, Slemon was elected one of the officers of the Winghani Die- etrict. Ppwortli League, Harris Warner, wra haw !leen In the Standard Bank at .Ailsa Craig has been sent to Cannington, , • W. E. Sanders will attend the Dia- triot Library Convention at Strate ford this week as representative of Ethel Library, MORRIS Miss Elsie Ireland is home from an enjoyable visit to Brantford. A white chrysanthemum belougtng to Mrs. A. H. McNeil, 5413 line, has no less than 145 blossoms aid flowers upon it. • • • Presentation --A social evering was held at the imam of Mr, and Mrs. Louis Williamson by the oho;r of the Methodist church and other friends recently, A verypleasing feature was the presentation of a short address accompanied by an easy chair, 'Miss Mabel Bruce read the address and Jno 'Carter and I Jelin Bruce peesertcd the eft. 1I+° Williamson briefly expressed thanks. _—wd_ BRUSSELS Mark Buchanan is home from his stay in the north. • • • ,Miss Jean Stewart expecte to !spend the coming winter in the old dead. Mrs. Jas, Ballantyne and Mrs, Robert Thomson are in Toronto at- tending the Provincial Women's In- ` ennuis and Not'tieelteral Show, r Miss Fiorerice �''homson is bark from a Inoot enjoyable trip of sev- eral months at ire Pae ile Coast, 60 YEARS AGO BLUEVALE Geo, Adtcheson is 1n town again this winter, Wart Smit• h has returned from Grey, we welcome hint Miele Jas, Pugb find James Lake, Mor- ris and Hiram Lake have left fat Manisteek, Mich. ETHEL .Mrs. Ella McNeil 11118 been eegag- ed as assistant deacller in the solrool for the -next year. R, Wright •our *obliging but;her, has dii'poseel of his businese to W. and D. Tindall, ee Gilbert Lake and family have re- moved to Listowel where he int.irt!s carrying on the c•oepeliug bus;re• s. CRANBROOK Elias Mihm who carried ee business as a weaver, moved away last week. Ste^ilten K1e'?;er •has ritutr,'-i from the Soo where he has been. for the Past six months. John Wasman who has carried on the bleeksmithine buciuess in the stand recently purchased by v. Stelss, has moved to Bluevale. A wild cat has Inca zcen on two or three different occasions in a piece of woods n the suburbs, MORRIS Wm. McNay has left for a few weeks sojourn in Brandon, Jno, Pugh, formerly of the seeend concession has sold his farm to .14r, Scott also of Morrs, Robt. Anntatron`g tylia bas been in the Nrothwest for severla months has coxae ba BLYTH Our Reeve, 1?, Hely, retiu'necl hotne :from a trip to Manitoba thia week, ••p At the last 'meeting of Court Morning Star No, 00, C. 0. F, the following officers were electedt C,. R„ John Dunitolm; C. 11., George P. Pltilps; R. T„ John W. Be11; Treast, Riebard Somers; I'. •S., John T, Carter; Chap., Hugh McQuarrie; S. W,, Arthur Steinhoff; J. W„ J. M. Ross; S. 13„ W. Sims; J. B, Johnston, BRUSSELS George .Smith, Erin, .has purchas- ed the house and lot from John Doison, John street, On Tuesday morning•of this. week D. A. Smale, wife nd dughter left Brussels for , Flint, Mich, where they intend to reside. Why Some Men Fail To much talk; Not enough walk; Too much sigh; Not enough try; Ta motif tacit; Not enough ask; Tao much blow; Not enough go; Too muoh blink; Not enough think; Too much mope Not enough Trope; Too much shirk; Not enough work; The result is Y,,:a miss the biz. Fashions While You Wait According to an American 11x1)010, rayon, or artificial silk, will be pro- , duced without any complicated pro cesses in the near future, and be foresees the day when material will he designed, produced and rush- ed to .the fashion shops quite as quickly as the modern printing machine produces newspapers. NOTE AND COVENT The Matrtr•ead police force may be inceraaed to 2,000 within two years The authorities .must be figuring an suppressing a lot of public nieettngs, British statesmen are still spent - Mg of friendship with Italy, The truth seeats to be that Italy, far from acting like a friend is behav- ing more like a rotative these days. We notice where triplets have been boss to a family named Murphy living a few miles out of New York, So we suppose it's an- other ease of where the folk are are thankful for small Murpltiss ___*e-,-_.-_ Aceording to a newspaper article Canadian a:deters fans laugh when Mussolini's face appears on the screen, Apparently they feel they are fat' enough out of the castor oil belt to be able to clurnkle in safely, ** Writer of a letter in a Poeatito paper says that all sideroads should be clearly marked. The sugges- tion is a good one except for the fact that most folk nowadays drive so -fast they would probably fail to see the signs. Frank Russo, 19, sentenced tolife at Sing Slug, made the boast lie would take his ownlife, and the judge said site prison would b;: a sweeter place if he did. So the next move appears to be up to Mr. Russo, Cso gt Bernard S:'iw Mdiate 11 e collapse of civilization as a cense- quence of another great war and that has 'been said so often that it does not seem to fit in with the usual conception of the famous author, • —x— dltayor LaGuardia is expected to have a majority of at least 400,000 in New York city so that when his Democratic opponent concedes the election there does not seem to be any danger that he had made a mis- take. $100,000,000 Dominion of Canada 1937 Refunding Loan The Bank of Canada is authorized by the Minister of Finance to receive subscriptions for this Loan, to be issued as follows: One and One -Half Year 1% Bonds, due June 1, 1939 Issue Price: 99.125% and accrued interest, yielding approximately 1.59% to_maturity AND Seven Year 23A% Bonds, due November 15, 1944 Issue Price: 98.50% and accrued interest, yielding approximately 2.74% to maturity AND Fourteen Year 33i% Bonds, due November 15, 1951 Callable on or after November 15, 1948 Issue Price: 99.00% and accrued interest, yielding approximately 3.34% to maturity The 1% Bonds will be dated December 1, 1937. 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