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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-1-6, Page 8--Prices from 0211211011•1 $37eOG up tan° TERMS TO SUIT ALL PO not Waste time solVing ptilezieS bill:get, Ui totiell With the old eStithiiSiled and teli.tble firm 311d get fill' Mille for yotlf 1110114. Mason & Risch 97 Ontario St. Phone 1 7 I Strati -Ord v•sramauengwousmaat. ..........,,,.. ,..,_............, L1 Saskatoon's Fox Farm Makes Rapid Progress _ Ranch South of City is Elaborately Laid Out; Thirty -Three Pairs of Sil- ver Foxes Give 118 Cubs in First Breeding Season The following article appeared in a recent issue of the Saskatoon Daily Star, and one of the shareholders is an old Greyite, W. L. McQuarrie:— About a mile past the Exhibition grounds on Lorne avenue is a fifteen acre patch of land owned by the Saskatoon Silver Fax Company, Ltd., and used by the company for a ranch. Most people who live . in Saskatoon „ have passed the fox farm more than 3 once. M‘iy have made tours of in- -' spection. ' ut it is certain that the majaity ve little idea of the pro- gress mad Once the company organ- ized and started work. Dr. S. T: P. Nichol, V. S, laid out he farm and buildings and is now in -charg&. He conducted a visitor from The Star round the premises on Fri- day•morning. , First, one inspects the buildings. There is a neat little modern house for the resident caretaker. There is a cook house where food for foxes is meticulously prepared. Rabbits bred on the ranch are a main item of diet, as doubtless they would be in nature. The foxes also Pat minced beel stew and a sort of biscuit with sixteen ingredients, including oat- meal, ground bones and marrow. Very great importance is attached to correct feeding. ' The lighthouse -like structure vis- ible from the road turns out to be a conning -tower from which one may survey the ranch proper. Foxes lee wild animals and never behave quite. naturally when under inspection. From the tower one can watch tpeem unobserved. The tower has carpet- ed stairs so that the noise of ascent and descent will be inaudible. Inside a high wooden paling is the ranch itself. There are sixty pens, each one about 25 feet square and surrounded by sunflowers for shade. On all sides and on top the pens con- ist of wire -netting, held up by mem- soted posts. Cement walls extend round the 'edges of the pen from n - bout a foot above ground to two feet , below. These prevent the escape of the foxes by burrowing. Inside each pen is a hutch, eun- ning;ly designed to imitate the hole in the ground that the fox would dig for himself if he lived in the open. He enters the hutch by a nano* wood- en tunnel and after several turns and twists lands in the last compartment Here the animal feel,, secure from intrusion, away from pursuers. It is here that the vixen bears and cares Lan her young. The foxes on the ranch show the results of the elaborate preparations made for their proper feeding, hous- ing and comfort. They are alert, healthy and glossy -coated. At this season they do not reach the fullness of .their beauty. Cold weather brings their fur to its best, but even in September they are handsome ani- mals. At the start the farm was stocked with thirty-three pairs of Kannata silver black foxes, chosen for the quality of their pelts and for their fertility. There are on the farm, foxes from almost ,.very part of Can- ada, Princ,• rdwerd Island, the Mari- times, cemed e7e. -eta, and the west. Mainly, how. 00t'. company is pro- ducing wte! rn !'eeee, those indigen- ous to the • eitirie provinces. Thee have the ; .e..st pelts and are of couree beet ited to western weather eonditions. This yem - breeding at the ranch has resulted in a progeny of 1 1S cube. now ready for sale. The aver- age litter from a pair this spring was -1.2 cubs, which is exceptionally high, and several litters of seven were born. All of the 117 young fox Is are the offspring of the original 33 paire. By this time they are about full grown. Financially speeking, the ranch is to bo clasAfied as a big industry. The company's original investment was about $20.000 in the plant tnd about $30,000 in foxes. The 111.110h is one of the ten or twelve now es- tablished in this province. Prince Edward Island Contains nearly 500, a fact which indicates how far the industry may yet progress in West:era Canada. - . , At a recent share -holders' meeting the following board of directors were elected: Sydney Parrott, president, proprietor the Modern Laundry, Saskatoon, and engaged 14 large farming operations; H. L. Gallagher, merchant, Saskatoon; A. E. Bence, barrister. Saskatoon; Dr. P. D. Stew- art, medical practitioner, Saskatoon; A. H. Weneley, commercial traveller, Saskatoon; Norman S. Smith, mer- chant, Borden, Sask.; W. L. McQuar- rie, secretary. Retail Merchants' As- sWation, Saekatoon, Sask. The cohmany invites visitors to in- spect the raneh. But appointments should be made because the tower will only accomodate, a certain num- ber at a time. Margery --1 know what mamma's going to have for Christmae dinner. Teddie—I do too. We're goin' to have turkey an crambelly sauce. Eloo White IS the ADVERTISING space enterpris- ing merchants use in THE POST to tell the good folks of this community about their stores and their goods. Good ADVERTISING is moving eloquence, too. It brings new custoiners to your store. It builds good will. It creates new business, moves goods and makes bigger profits possible. ADVERTISING is a hard-working ally :that should be co-operating with every merchant, Why not investigate its merits. Ask us about it. PBOGBENIVE MERCHANTS ADVERTISE alined by '08asc1ian Weekly NewapApere Aesoelatio GM Scapegrace By li.MMELINE L. FORSTER 434,4004>0.44444.44Y4 IIIININNONNOVNNISIP.O.NINNNIMPOW,TOWNINI,..0 (CO103'4031 1011. 135 1.1)1,3 westorn News- asper Union.) They were orderly homeepun people In and around Pohleieford, an but Larry—Larry Maillee. So wild feel he rational were some of the freaks of this unique character that parents with well behaved sons wondered If after nil a good done 10115 not doe to Larry in the way of example of warn- ing. Ile could upset the little settle- ment over night and appear so docile and peultent the next day that the suf- fereis through hls mischief were ready to forgive and nearly everybody loved hirn. 1.3 was when Larry went to the cross roads among a rough erowd that the bottled up vim and hilarity with which be overfluesed was freely distributed upon returaing to hie native heath. He lived 'with an uncompanionnble crotch- ety old grandfather, wbo allowed hire to drif 1 unrestrained for the pre9- e131 and neither thought of nor eared for his future. Larry's freaks -were more of the heedless school boy order than in any wax vieious or criminal. "You'll go just once too often down among that roystering set at the cross- roads," leas the propheey of the town marshal. "Every man there Is my particular friend and would lay down hi$ Me for me," asserted Larry staunchly. "If you'd only keep respectable for a whole year at a time, insteau of once In a while," sighed Deily Proutive, the storekeeper's daugliter, "Yes, all right. what then. Dotty?" eagerly questioned Larry. "Say snme word of promise and let me thy the new tack," but Dolly shook her pretty head dolorously. So Larry went his way and Dolly mourned, and one Saturday afternoon Larry. with his month's hard earned wages in his porker. started jauntily In the direction of ,the erossroads. It was early Monday morning when Dolly Prentiee gasped and trembled as the first customer of the day entered the store. "Oh, have you beard about Larry Menem?" she questioned. "He's in, at last!" "In—wherer asked Doily. a quick catch int her were, "In Jail. The marshal looked him up at midnight. We robbery, they say—burglary and all thee" "Never!" cried Dolly Indimeniffse "Larry wouldn't touch a cent not 1158 03571 1" "He has. this liTtle," persisted the eustomer. "A eentl Oh, my, not thdt, but thousands! Larry broke into the Waltham place last night and took everything In sight. They found the plunder on him and when he got his head clear this morning nil he told the marshal was: 'Bring on the trial quick, und get through with it.'" That wa5 n -bustling tray for the town. Its Jail comprised the office of the marshal with a barred room be- hind. A group gazed upon Larry, who was sinning, undaunted. The sages came with "1 told you so." explana- tions, Ultra conscientious persons Passed the grewsome prison with a shudder. But the children, tbe petted favorites of thls audacious monster of crime—there were tears III 5110 eyes of their hero mill ehamplon of the past as pitying faces mixed past the bara. and handed through them this one tin apple, that a doughnut, and one tiny urchita a tooth:amt..) lunch put up by the mother who owed the child's lite to the bravery of Larry In A rtmaway accident. And Just at dusk Dolly tear- fully appeared and broke deem utterly. "Iseet few, Doily," said Larry; "I'm through." eyee, yssil etrie" eoldeel Dolly; throuele iedeed "I mean wt II idleness and the cro,s- roads. I've had my warning. Soon as Ihn out to you." "As soon as you're out—oh, LarrY! will you ever be out again?" "In a Pry:" declared Larry brightly. "1.111sa „Waltham saw the robber and is coming tomorrow to identify me. Watch her: I wanted a day's time to fix thinge right for—for a friend," "He's not the man I saw through the screen from my garden," am nouneed the rieh old spinster. "But yntlr MfglOy js.rrPla WPM f(11411(1 in his possession," observed the marshnl. "If you'll speak with me alone, Mise" said Larry. explain Imw that was." She wns the sole auditor of the etory—how it was itoss Burdett who had committed the theft—Roes Bur - dell, who had become half demented by the loss of his wife and three chil- dren all within the swum of n year. Unhinged by his great sorrow, eager to get away amid 11030 scenes, bad been driven to crime. Larry Mathee, but a friend, indeed, had come upon him Just after the theft. He bad shown him the frightful error he was eommitting, He had Milt of his salary left white) lte gave Burden to take him te a distant point. promising to return the,,Apnlftitn;11711. imam n man of himself, trust tue 5" declared loyal Larry, "And thal's my bent now, too." The word of Miss Waltham wan suf- fieient to sustain the innocent Le rry. A year later when, n stranger to the Crossroads forever, ho inarried Dolly Pren leo, people wondered ni 11))' eptendid wedding present flutt mote from thy rich old %slimier. Robert, aged 6, ardently desired a eider,- and Was told that if he prayed for one e baby Might come., So he added to his ,tiightly prayers a peti. tion toe a little eister. wished, one night he added: "if you lieve a baby almoet ed don't wait to put in her tensils or appendix, as they initially have to he eut out, anyhow." thei....."1.'1,244.1443.134,4,&(44.433.^.3 cit. Double Wedding ea.cu By RALPH HAMILTON Lic.4,4>CP<K00,,,j (Copy)ight, 191), by the 'Wisdom New, super Unless.) It was not the fault of MtlIy for there was a sharp curve at the street corner and she could not very well dis- cern that it noiseless automobile was rounding the circle. All her attention was bestowed upon herself, and with a reason. Site had Jest arrived on the train from her village home to visit a cousin In the (qty. She was on the way to her now, There had been a heavy rain earlier in the tifiy and the roadway was wet and slippery and its not holes weve full of muddy wnter and slime. In her neat -fitting new dress, daz- zling white shoes anti stockings and lie' 'dainty hat, Milly was about as falr a sight to view as one woutd meet In a day's ,journey. She 1.41:10- gested Just what she was—mi lovely country flower in budding bloom. 1100 sparkling eyes and Joyous face told that every motion she made respond- ed to a happy heart. A proud one, too, for this was the first real fall outfit, all new, that !dilly had ever possessed. It represented her berry money of a whole season. A, little frown of dismay hovered above the charmingly -dimpled cheeks as Milly paused at the curb and sur- veyed the forbidding roadway. Then her eyes Melted out it possible care- fully selected tip -toe route which might -land her aeress without soil- ing her spotless attire. "Toot -toot 5" With a quiver and n shiver, Milly thew back, but too late. Gracefully the warning automobile rounded the curve. Milly was out of all danger of a collisidn, but the font wheel of the machine landed in a deep rut. "Splash!" In consternation Milly glanced down, first rubblug from her face the grimy water that had splattered up. Her slippers were dotted with specks and splotches of mud. One stocking had been deluged. The front of her dress was streaked and spangled. It was like a reeking brush full of blnek paint thrown at a fair canvas and blotting out all its beauty in a flash. Milly tottered acmes the sidewalk, sanit to a doorstep and the tears fell like rain. Where now the joy of meeting and surprising her consin. prordenading along areal city street? The chauffeur of the stytish automo- bile had come to a halt at it sharp word from a young man in the rear seat. Beside hin) was ri lady older than himself, but resembling hint and evidently his sister. The, former opened the auto deer and started to- ward the forlorn little viethn of the mishap. At once the lady followed him. "My dear chile," spoke Helena Bland, Placing n menpassionate hand on the shoulder of hilliy, "this is in- deed dreadful! Such a pretty dress! But we. will soon remedy the damage we have wrought. Help her to the auto, Dayton, get us home at once." "Oh, it was not your fnuit, mISS 5 Ton see, I am not used to thb city," uttered !Hilly, brokenly and ingenu- ously. So dime] was her plight in her 0W11 estimation, however:that she was all absorbed In it and was in the automobile before she realized it, and 'Itss Bland was wiping the spots from her pretty face with her henclkerchief, while her brother wondered that no such artless wild roes fare had come into his life before, Ililty was eliermed with the state- ly but warm-hearted Helena Bland, who took her to her rem at her sump. Intros home and called in the services of maid and laundress to make Maly almost presentable again. "Yon will do Tem, well dear, nntil morning," Miss 'Bland assured her. l"Then I shall call for yen and WC WM duplicate your damaged outfit frht top to toe." "Oh, indeed. No, no," answered tilily impethoesly. "Why, I can whit- en the !dippers nfid miles:: you look cloee sesu enn lifirdly notice the splotches on the dress, You have been too Itind already," but Miss Bland not 1)1113' took Milly to her 00110. Ile$1 1110110 111 511, 11111011101/110, he 0011- 011 111,Xt 11101'11 1110: 111111 311.1‘0011 1900 11 eleeneme experience 111:11 3111011 her an. sophisticated 11511e heart with delight, 311113 was slatted In .\ 11.:s Bland's bon. doir v.fien for the first 111110 spryest a framed phot04raph. "Why. Miss 11111181 1'' 'die exelelnieti "I know whe :hat 1143" Miss Matto etterea .1 ga,p nIl Nen. ed pale. "A fun, 1, .1 h.:4031114n M.O. deer, 1 fliiele" neireetrefl if) Alt 1111stPlItly Stew. 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Furthermore it will bring more at- tention to the ravages of the fire demon and attempt to cut its claws. Its expressed objects are to be an educational, statistical, and public service organization, maintained by fire insurance pompames transacting business in Canada with the ultimate object of reducing the enormous fire waste in the Dominion. This Mire= will have headquae- tors -in seven provinces and it head office in Montreal. The new organ- ization Is known as the Fire Under- writers' Investigation and Loss In- formation Bureau. of Canada. It 0 expected that the membership will eventually be 200 hundred members, as provision has been made for the inclusion of non -tariff fire insurance companies. Amongst its members will be not only the Canadian Fire Under- writers' Association which covers Quebec and Ontario, but the western board for Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta; the British Columbia Fire Underwriters' Association, the New Brunswick Board of Fire Un- derwriters, the Nova Scotia and the Prince Edward Island boards. Montreal and Quebec will care for the eastern and western sections of the Province of Quebec, Toronto and Sault Ste. Marie will be Ontario's headquarters. At Winnipeg, Cal- , gary, Edmonton and Vancouver will be headquarters for the respective ' provinces. The principal work will be the vestigation of fires of suspieious ori- gin and co-operation with the auth- orities in an attempt to arrest par- ties guilty of breaking the law in this regard. There will be a file kept in Montreal all fires throughout the length and breadth of Canada and a gallery of .incendiarists also will he kept. The Bureau will co-operate else with United States organizations of it similar character it is hoped; this will help bring the Canadian organ ization up to the highest pitch of ef- ficiency. Capable investigators will be appointed by the bureau to carry out the work of investigating fires. • 0.1•1•••M•014 ••••••• f + • +VI' 44. ,Tr4ir 44 +44 .3444 41:14. +01.0..1.•+0.1.0441 +0 .14+.0 +4.1,0 +0.11, Seaforth Creamery 0, Send your Cream to the Creamery thoroughly established and that gives you Prompt Service and Satisfactory Results. • We solicit your patronage .knowing that we can give you thorough satisfaction. We will gather your Cream, weighsample and test it hone -say, using the stale test to weigh Cream sam- ples and pay you the highest market prices every two weeks, Cheques payable at par at Bank of Nova Scotia. For further particulars see our Agent, MR, T. C. McCALL, Phone 23 1 0, Brussels, or write to The Seaforth Creamery Co. SEAFORTH, ONT. ee---e-e-- In commenting upon this orgamz- 0+6.1.0.+044.1.0.14+0.05446.14+0+*+ 1 ation, an outline of which 0 given ',I,' ee above, a local insurance official saki + it was a splendid idea as it will do + 1 + * 4. 4, 4. sio + . + 34 everything possible to reduce the en -m 1 : orous losses which are sustained in ft Canada annually. I LI, WANTED The Municipat and Federal auth- orities through Canada, he said, have 1 $ H igh est market prices T. done their utmostp in helping to re- 1 l' + o far too much is lost each year by fire i t. SPP "10 Cir Prh0110 No, 2x, Bilis. .e. aid, duce this evil but it still exists and I 4. , . o afi1 will ll and get I ce v ; Biu - still. So that„ eels, d with such a carefully 1 ,t - our Hidee 4$' organized bureau as this, the author- ities will know that others are equal- ly cognizant of the dangers that ex- ist and the neeesSity for doing all possible to lessen the evil and reduce the toll. He pointed to the fact that, with such a bureau, the whole of Canada is covered and that in this way there will be a closer cheek kept on all fires than heretofore. Then, with such a network of investigation it is hoped to get to the bottom of more suspicious fires, although this has al- ways been a problem in itself. Nev- ertheless, out of this bureau, he said, will come good results because it has been built on a solid foundation, and it is an organization from which much good will accrue eventugly. VERTICAL VERSE Divorced Are Mr, And Mrs, Shoots; She Smoked Up All His Cigaroots. He.askea ner to meet him by gas- light— But she wasn't a gas meter. 0 • : Y Hick 4. I 4.16.14+41+404.4.+1144+44•38+0 +4+6+0 ICardinal Mercier, .111 imt Brussele. is reported well on the wal to recov- ' ery. , Detroit people applied for 8,200 ; divorces in 11)25, and 4,700 were granted. Mrs. Ruth Townsend shot le r four children and herselt at Oklahoma I City, Okla. Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We will do a job that will do credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and ft it requires replenishing call us by telephone 31. The Post Publishing 1181150 Jack Frost rings King Sport to Lebec Chateau Frentenne Dap Team with trainer. Chatseaulsrentennc &Toboggan Sligo. (Upper r15111) Trot:Ong Rtsees—Quelles jrhat is expected to be the most brilliant winter VI' season in the history of Quebec was launched in that eitY recently, with the formation of Oe Winter Sports Club which ms under the patronage of His Honor the Lhettenant Governor of the Province of Quebec, Hon, Hart:leen Perodeatt, Hon. L. A. Taschereau, Premier of 113! Province; and Mayor Tos. Samson, of Quebec. Tim Club has nndertaken to arrange the International College 81d Competition, the International Snow Shoe Convention, the World Championship Snowshoe races, and the famous Quebec Dog Derby. The Ski competition will include a eve -mile moss -country race, a oki-jumping men t eet, and teas in efficiency including Christiana turns. teight-seeing there and sporting even1s will follow 111 hannonious succession right through the season in Ma'am to the major evente. In the Quebec Open Aufat our 81d meeting in :February, clubs from IVIontreal, Ottawa, Berlin, Mil., and others will compete. XvInd blettem,.. amateur ski champion, end Olivor Kaldahl win be the ski metructors. A lady inetrUctressie to be appointed end visitors to Quebec will be carefully instructed and taken out in pretties. As mufti, skating will form one of the attrattione, Lars Grabstretet and MM. Allan Xerr will act 103 11383311e. tOOq o t illuminated open rink 031i -side the Chateau Prontenac, while another masquerade may be held in Pebruary. The rink will also be available for smaller xnaequerade skating affairs. Moonlight ski -runs and sleighing parties, the brightly lighted tobogganslide music from dancing rooms in the Chateau, all will add' to the gaiety and eharm of the carnival. The Dufferin Terrace toboggan Slide rune well over a gamier c,t a mile. A long 41(1031) back, but what a soothing sensation to come flying down a long, emooth streteh el ie as if the toboggan would never stop. rive Swiss bob -sleighs have been acquired and competitions will be arranged some time in PebruarY• Desides the regular hockey league pones, negotiations are in progress to arrange an exhibition game between. Sons or Ireland end a Princeton 'University team, while there is also every possibility of having it few Indies hoekey teams. Tripe will be made poriodiottny to the Shrine at, St. Anne de Beanpre,Chateau Richer, Mont. rttoreney Palls and other beautiful site abdtst the city. A number of exeurtions will be made to the Island of Orleans via the ise bridge with sid-iug on the retort journey. This novelty is expected to make aOecided hit with tourists,