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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1927-1-19, Page 2?l'11)NESDAY, JAN. IH, !927. be trusstig los On _Prizament Hill WEDNESDAY, SI>AY, JAN r By R. J. lleactrman, Press Gallery , l.i, t 127• BRUSSELS COUNUYL t'(1UU it met on Monday morning end dm I. •eve, Councillors IIewitt. 'Bowman and Armstrong signed , d tIi der•leration of office. On motion of Councillors Bowman :,tad Armstrong, Council adlourieet until S o'clock to , transact general businees. At the evening session all the mem- bers elected were present with ter wee the mixed metaphor) i attempt. It +. -- Reeve in the chair.rn to stage a edea- back, Down I continued Gift for him. Parlianu•n- ROSSLANO UPON THE WAY The readnutd do the Tait ti "tin,boil as a whole are less as- TO A NEW PROSPERITY ,re and adopted on Haitian of th�_•re• they take politic, seriously.: taryive of their rights now than for - Councillor They are rushing' into thy' battle: i Bowman and Hewitt. with tall po =slhle forces en both sides, 1 inerly, but they will hardly permit a Three Hundred Smelter Workers Gonncillnr Armstrong sari Hewitt NIiritimv riehts are, Of course, the thing like this to Iris: without quer• Cash Pay Checks at Golden City -Now Becoming a City of Homes -Development Work May Bring Mi11es in Again -'Free Building Lots THE BRUSSELS POST 'e•4•4•a•4•ora•a••ra••t•ae••:•a•c•s•e•a••1•• ++.i.+.1. jor_Sale! •Y' 1 , Fur Calves Politics is •qure•t in Ottawa these is What it will be Tpaid here for is nothing' : Ale oll f serval before iceable euy1hg- ¢ dsys. Scarcely a political leas' , Western Farmer. are got- very cheerful about that. 'lira ri,tht Terms to suit *chasers. t i rin;c Cabinet t tl ui tr r „ Also a quantity of Wood nig over their New Years' •drone r3 of the Government to establish in for Sale. •F and writing down in exrnm-;ec book: this m nee r• a regional Parliament ttart witwill I ] nih House meets. It a :crud resolutions for the coming , the consent of ar hilum the �� year. Doyen in Neve Seo".ia there is , brought into questions assoon thefirst t ,,;t of a local brittle in ntigot (labor.), Admiral Duff, who wee ! time that Mr. Wolvin of 13n'elslEnt- '• ` p ras t. p• 4. Phone 166 Lot 36, Con. 6, Morris e• [n•1g.qlppl bkdBRgg j{tp unhorsed in the, lust electron (Tut- pint Stool has been after this ' htful if it will be a long -. -That Equalization of Ass esm.•nt'411):1"11.nt disco ,inn --it's a Pc""""ton.on. be sncisfactory and acceptable to the '411):1"11.int j subject -and both sides have Good. Times CoDsworn by the souls of their armee- Prospects at the first of the year Dy -law No. 1, appointing Ofii:ens tors that they will bring back th• are exceedingly good. One seetian was read three times and passed: beacon in the Corm of every single of Canada hardly realizes what the A, FI. McDonald, Clerk ens Tr as' 1 h Duncan other i, dote•` The West rs -ited user; Jos. Wilton, Assessor; Gordon McDowell, Policeman. ele. 11I. Black and N. F. Gerry, Au• ditors; Rev. A. W. Darker, meeube•' of the Public Library Board; Alex. Stewart, member of Board of Health;Dr. T. T. McRae, Medical Health Officer. The following accounts w'.•c'e order- ed paid on motion of Councillors Armstrong and Hewitt: Post, printing `;10.35 Peter Stewart, work on lawn. 2.10 A. Oakley. snowplowing 15.30 Sick Children's Hospit^i... 10.00 Children's Aid Society . , 10.00 A nomination meeting will be held on Monday, Jan, 17th, at 7.30 p. m. to fill vacancy in Council; and if an election is necessary, election will be held on Monday, January 24th. Council adjourned. Morris Council Meeting (By Mayor A. W. Smith; tiling iecomenime(l in e Report, plus sundry other things: about the development of its oil The Nelson, B.G. D Fyn he on picked up by the wayside. field.. The East knows nothingJan. lst, gave specialsr r - lir. Guthrie is making mild speech- about oil, but ever a million shsres ions B. C. towns and the following es to meetings of business eme^.n. The a day change hands on the mining was written by an old Brusselite, a other day in 'Montreal he expressed exehang'e. A significant sentence brother of W. C. Smith, who was re - the opinion that an educational cam- appears in the last report upon em- elected Mayor of Ross and: -- reign ought to be undertakers by the. pleyment. December usually records ! Rossland, B. C.-Rossland has ex - Conservative party in Western Cain- 1. seasonal decline, but despite 'i perienced unusual expan ioe on'during The su" estien is a good one. slight curtailment at this perioe of the past year, very few, •.yhomes Wh, gmining Whither it is to be a'ivyn by cnrrr•s- this year, employment was higher � worthwhile, in the pioneer pondenee or intra-murally has, not than in any month in the years 1;121 city cc uprfrlBrie. ish can bColuetk:bia being unci- - sso far been revealed. It is not nut and 1025• of place to suggest that the Hoonr- m The general improvement of con- ate this return of 'better times in able lender himself take the ecurse ditions ought to put heart into the Rossland when it Is noted, that ap- to begin with. When was Mr. Guth- country. Those who are doing the proximately oo workensoso l at ilinrngt he rie in the, West? Does he know any- most cheering to -day are those who I smelter of the Cthing about Western problems. save howled so much in the Fall of 1925. , & Smelting Company of Canada at what he has learned in the re'c•unt- There never was any real need for Tadanac, were paid at the local bent position in a Pullman car, or the "Whispers of Death." Changes' branch of the Bank of Monrealiotn has been told him by the lone Star are needed in some things, but this the recent payday, a Representative of Western Canada, country is basically sound. Mr, the men formerly being paid at the the Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett? Rob who is now on a holiday in the • smelting works. Together with those But why not reverse the dices How West Indies has a couple: of loans to employed hi the local mines Ross - would it be if the Farmers Organize- ' float in the Fall of this year. These ' land is gradually creeping back to tion in Western Canada were to send are the old 51,a ', Victories, non- the period of prosperity enjoyed down a few men to give 'a special taxable. Their renewal ought to save here just before the war's beginning course in. statesmanslti to political about a million a year to the treaa- in 1014. leaders in the East? The mu.tcal ex- Wry. And it's cheerful to think that Building Movement Forecast change of ideas would be beneficial in 1933 and 1934 we shall refund The city having annexed a con - and the county would gain from the about a billion of five an 1 a half's siderable number of lots which went exchange. and the interest saving on that will to tax sale, is offering these lots to The Imperialists be a pretty penny to be used for workers who are prepared to build Mr. Guthrie is also sti'eesing Im_ tax reduction. That's a long time homes, without any cost to these ahead, but keep cheerful! workmen, and there is every indica- perial matters in his public atiaran" tion that, with the coming of spring, cess He is annoyed at the theuxht The Senator Says there will be a considerable amount of what may happen to ue from '•e- Hon. Charles Murphy has come of building activity. rent changes brought about by the forward lately with a suggestion Improvement to the road leading Imperial Conference. That .sorry he that ought to be of interest to bath to the smelter, out of Rossland, shares with Mr. Cohan of Montreal, political parties. He points out the which is designed as a permanent and the Toronto Globe. The silebe folly of the present system in which t piece of work, while not covering does not like Mr. Mackenzie ling we become wildly excited about poll - the entire distance fromhis city to and se it palavers unctiousiy from tics during election time and then the big nidustat the, will, it day to day about the duties of Can- forget all about it until the next con - is thought, eventually be completed, ada to the Empire, forgetting all the test. Cynics will say that the Hon, This snakes it much easier for lwork- etod time that there are duties which we Charles who has been a bonnie fight - men in the smelter as well as others owe to ourselves and that our Irnper- ' er in his day and ' still loves a gad' taking up residence here, who reach ial obligations can pretty web take battle, is anxious for the war to go there place o£ employment in a ver.' caro of themselves when we prove on at all seasons, but the truth is short space of time, and this will no no our own capacity for looking out 'hat one of the most necessary thing:: doubt assist sexy materially in • for those responsibilities which lie• in the Dominion to -day rS ti continu- crreasing the popuIatiwt of our city. next to our own door. Of course, cd, active interest in politics in order Residentially Desirable Mr. Guthrie's effort is made for the that the public may be informed on i Rossland is a cty of homes where purpose of alarming the Province of the issues of the day. Mr. vegetationMurphy's is a cand fruits of all Quebec about its rights and privil- suggestion is that the Parties should s can be grown successfully, egos under the B. N. A. Act. Mean- , try to state their platforms between while the climate (fres proven ideal while talk of the Torry convention • Parliamentary sessions and that we for the raising of poultry, things cal settles dawn. It is rumored that should adopt something of the old ort'ate Mr. Guthrie may be left in his chair idea of annual picnics or regular P' ap- ' 'i cl by most home owners, and while the Party settles down and tours to certain Party shrine's---pltic- things which have drawn to our city es considered sacred because they many newcomers. finds what it really wants, It is thought that ere long, Ross - Changes Gteatonce the: home of Our Politically land's mines will again return to the While not definitely announced, it Gi c' list of shipping mines to the smelter, is now certain that "Billie" Moore only development work with spasmo- w ll take the place of the Hon. Geo. clic shipping having gone on during P. Graham on the Tariff P,oarl Mr. the past year, making the future out - Moore is a shrewd man of Wealth l,s. p look even more hopeful for the He is a lawyer, a man of wealth end l "Golden City" than for many years,. of marked ability.. He wool prove Property values have shown eon - acceptable to both ends of the cotta- siderable increase 1-» the recent try and ought to bring a sense Of transfers which have taken place, in some instances property acquired here three years or more ego having spirt et donhle the purhase price of that time. • - Council stet in the Township Hall on Monday, January 10th. The mem- bers were all present and after sign- ing the obligation of office, the Reeve took the chair and the following busi- le:es was conducted. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. ']bwr.d;ip Officers appointee for els- euing scar: - Clerk, A. MacEwen, salary 3225; Assessor, Jas, Peacock, salary :11100 Sanitary Inspectors -Wm. Abram, Leelie Fear, 50c per Maur while on duty; Auditors -R. Johnston and Peter. McNth. 315 each; Medical Health Officer, Dr. IL. L. Stewart, $50; Member of the B. of 11., Peter McNab; School Attendance 0lfirer. A. Shaw 315; Printing contract to the Post 390. - The Clerk was instructed to prepare a Bylaw to collect the levy on the: Jermyn Drain. Grants were given as• follows: - Childrens' Shelter, 315 ; Muskoka: Hos- pital 310; Sick Children Hospital 310. A resolution was passed atttliories ing the Reeve and Clerk to sign and submit a petition to the Ministry of Highways showing that during the year there has been expended mien the ':township roads $9443,55, and re- questing the statutary grant on the Baine. The Treasurer, the Road Superin- tendent and the Drain Inspector con tinne in office. The following account ,'i' A. Shaw, balance of salary. . ,Jas. Craig, patrolman ... .. T. Miller, extra work on read report Jas. Clark, election A.lef. Smith, election Wm. Spear, election S. Johnston, election Jahn McArthur, election Gilbert Nethea•y, election .. • -A. MacEwen, election ant nomietion A. llacf.wen, `Trains Mu111ripad World, election sup plies J. Ma;mr, minute book John Roger, account Next meeting on Monday, February 14th. A. MacEwen, Clerk. Sir John Gibson, former Lreute ant -Governor of Ontario, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday recently at "Ravenscliffe" his home, in Hamilton. His health is good, and though Sir John says he has been healthier, he doubts if he has ever been happier. Sunday School .Lesson BY CHARLES Q. TRUMBULL (Editor of Tho Sunday School Tinos) PRAYER IN THE CHRISTIAN ' 0. All these five preparations and LIFE ' 1 facts led up to the goal and pur- pose, Christ played, alone with God. Sundry, Jan. 2,3, -Mark 1:35; 341 iThe late Dr. Scofield said: "There is 32-30. Matt. 0:9-13. I a place for fellowship prayer, but Golden Tert; not here. Eagles do not fly in Ask, and it shall be given you; flocks." seek, and ye shall find; knock, and. If Christ needed to pray, how it shall be openod unto you. (Matt: much more do we! Let us not be 7:7), concerned about any attempted ra,t- God is .good to have let no know Tonal explanation of why Drayer is the place that prayer had and has in needed or why it should not be need - Christ's life. Although the Saviour ed. God has ordained it and has identified Himself with the sinner, in laid it upon us as the highest ohli- order to be the Saviour, nevertlre- gation and most precious privilege leas there is an infinite and ,eternal of our life, The. Son of God, to • difference between the two; the dif- whom was committed all authority Terence between. Creator and erea- anti- all power, prayed; and even Important Tourist Traffic Rossland derives considerable bene- fit from the heavy tourist traffic which routes the; way,from the boun- dary country, from the south through - the port of Paterson, and this too will be materially increased through the completion of the Fraser Canyon highway with the coming of the tour in season next year, Rossland being on the transprovincial highway from Nelson, from Grand Forks and tate highway from Spokane. An improve- ment contemplated by the ::tate of Washington next year in extending the state highway to Northport is another matter which will aid. in plat ing Rossland in her old position on the neap of prosperous interior Bri- tish Columbia cities. I extend to all Rosslanders and Rossland oldtimers everywhere the season's greetings, and assure oete and all that with the co-operation from citizens generally in the thing; possible to be 'done to make Ross - land the city she should be, all the hopes of the past few dull years will soon be realized. The danger of skating on thin ice is impressed on small boys and all politicians. If you see cutter drivers looking glum, just recollect that motorists have been granted a five dollar re- duction in license fees and eutteriets paid; fairness to a task that is more than will have to go through the pitch 15,110 difficult. holes at the same old price. 5.00 141r. Euler is making a nano for himself by his effort to stop the 10.011 movement of booze by the smug - 10,00 giers' road to the United States and 10.00 sometimes back into (i':nn.la. There: 0.00 i evidence that the Governm'•nt has 10.011 made, up its mind to clean this thing 10.00 up. It is convinced that in a.1 an• - 10.00 gunlent with ,the liquor questioi it must win or be lost an•I Mr. 1'bil t• 15.00 has no intention of throwing away 15.00 the Goyer•nment in order to MOD, a gay holiday for a bunch of high - 9.10 jacker's. • 1.00 1n other,n:eitters he has 'tr; been 4S3.u0 quite so fortunate. The other. day the Government, br'oug'ht into force one of these Amines: and inexpiicable regulations which to ,,ey the least lie healing in the extreme. it eeeres that for some time 1 rebate et' ih:, duty p:.id upon coni ha•, been Horde where the coil was sold to ships for There would he 110 demand for hunker Perms, n. Th1,1 rt•,•ulat•ion tort.`.$ 'If every mita had 'na appetite...- still Prvvails i n azi:.he L,l1)(1' 1 2 nu Wats . takes • are a onceine 1, 'but. 4 (( th4 A Dew 'lull it:veesed by -,. (ir.rmu' I' . ships epee` :he .1ilanti 5'a• ! Premior Coates, of New Zealand, n11 12 0,..tu1'cr cask a Wickert winl( 1-1,1,1 or' 'r'im (h ,it:, i.,wa ae' ! e.otlp.nied by Mrs. Coates and tt••,t stee ;-`u;rd-hnib;cl bachrar.•r,; to 1 Ports still have to pas the duty, It l to t' of his party, ler; I,nn'fcn - ; e, etW . way of rivi 1; that, I 1 t.s `.'c, Pint! .ntpton to Jilin the flr-i• tt la. AIttliiania, 'on his way �home- „ttrr'rrc<•ia drtb'oreerr Pear Lncic-i Id• r•al (r'r ' Tisa,` ,.:,orae. The 1'" 'Sam 11 V 1 `row ,tint (01 'Wien lea t,:r, i '' ,r a. es fee,to, ests„ f?, weal. l: 1, . ,testy lr travelilt: to Nese ;' iit 1..,. tb bonus: to the 13x1• :tie's,' . 1 �rw York, "ln.itreel andf r'.t. i !.� y rl,.ntantl 3nr r r,c 4 dritie � ' on cr'etinimported from Cana.'3a. (•tish ,.1211(11 .steel Ceenparly, for that Vancouver. '.l'Wilt:r menti every sixty-ninth birth; But, of course, few families have that many. WILL VISIT CANADA WI ter �.x`tery Storage We are ready to store your Battery in an up-to- date Battery Plant arid charge them with a real charger at a moderate price. Be sure your Battery is well looked atter during the Winter. R Pays You Mein erre & Cud :more Ford Agents Brussels tore; the difference between God and man. Yet Christ, who is God, prayed and prays. Therefore we le - gin our study of prayer in the Christian life by observing, ;with rev - "VERY CALM AND WARM AND DRY" SEEMS TO BE CHIEF FORECAST FOR 192 J. B. Bowes Gives Customary Pre- diction of Weather For Coming Year -Mild This Month now in the glory Ile still prays, "seeing He ever liveth to • make in- tercession" (Hes. 7:35). If Christ needed to pray, and needs to pray, who are we to say that we (10 not? creme, worehip and gratitude, pray- Wo are on holy ground when we er in Christ's life. are, permitted to see any of the pray We are shown two experiences of er experiences of our Lord; but prayer in our Lord's life; the one when God brings us into the pres- we may call His 'extraordinary pray• ewe of His Son in Gethsemane, it is er life; the other, extraordinary. So the holy of holies. We shnulet not prayer in the Christian's life may even read the Gospel accounts of be either ordinary or extraordinary. this without asking God to cleanse Both are needed. our hearts and minds, and then ap- The first. verse of the lesson proaching Him in awe and wnrsnip doubtless describes a frequent ex- indeed. perience of our Lord on earth. "In Let us never speak of "our Geth- the morning, rising up a great while semane." No created human being before day He went out, and de- ever has had a Gethsemane of ever ( parted unto a solitary place, and will have, There has been but one there prayed." in time and eternity; there never will Six 'disbud: and significant facts be another. There is no possible are there recorded, five of them de- I parallel in it to any experience that scribing cheractristics of our Lord's man can ever be called upon to en - praying, the sixth being 'a statement clure. Gethsemane and Calvary are that He "there prayed." unique: only Christ coulri know 1. It was, "in the morning." Christ thein. put prayer ahead of other things, Yet the comforting fact remains early -in the day before the pressure that, in the black hour of mi agony of the day's duties closed in upon that we can never know, our .Lord Him. Jesus prayed. Prayer was His com- 2. His prayer was after "rising fort and guidance and strength then up." He did not remain in bed as it may always be ours in our in - when the time cane to pray. There finitely lesser trials. He shrank .,ort;('* with all the holiness and sensitive ness of His being from the "cup" that was being ,offered to Him; but with His prayer that it might be. if nossiblc, removed He said to the Father, "Nevertheless not what I will, but what Thou wilt." We have • the unspeakable privilege of pray- ing the Gethsemane prayer when- ever we need to, though we shall always be spared from Gethsemane experience. One of the best summaries of what fa called the "Lord's Prayer" is given in the Scofield Rir.ference Bible, as folows: "In the so-called Lord's Prayer, Christ gives an incomparable model for all prayer. It teaches that right prayer begins with worship; pats the interest of the Kingdom before merely personal interest; accepts be - Wiarton, J'an. 5.-S. 33. Bowes, noted Chatsworth weather sage, has just completed his prophecies for the year 1927 and hi them, es outlined below, he says that Ontario will have a decidely mild winter.' 9, In referring to his predictions for 1926, Mr. Bowes stated that April, May and June were not so warm as he expected and July wee milder than the forecast. August, Septem- ber and October were 95 per cent. correct.' December was not mild as he prophesied, "However, I think my predictions deserve -some consideration by the People of the • district," said Mr. Bowes. He added that he was cor- rect for the ;last five months of 1926. Bowes. He added that he was col. - the Chatsworth weather prophet. but SS he has recently moved to within a Write ancLa half of Owen 'Sound, that city really has more claim on hie than Chatsworth. His fnreeasts follow:,. a ;January -Quite mild and calm un til lust week; then strong winds and quite cold. February -s -Very mild and calm; coldest part r,f month about the 1.5th. March--p'irst very strong winds with snow, stormy and very cold. 'Phis storm will last about e week. TIcn very milt, About the 1 3th Very cold winds with rain ane snow. 'Phis cold spell will last until the 200, then very mild. April -Very calm and warm and dry. May -Very calm, warm and dry until . the 19th; then strong winds with rah;, frost and probably snow. After the 26th the weather will con- tinue very persistent with frost, strong winds and snow. June -Docilely warm end dry and quite calm. July -About an average temper- ature and quite dry until the 18th. Then strong winds and rain. The balaance mild and dry. August -First half of the month, cold Mid dry. Latter half cool :slid wet. September ---A probable record - breaker for wind, rale anei frost and teem persistent wind, Especially :*out the 2nd, 1 Oth, 22nd and 2lth. October -First 20 days cleeidely mild ''.Chen 11, 'norm of wind aired rain (.,tel p'eolebly frost, Last por- tion of month unsettled. Nov.eniboi'-First nine days quint may be times when it is proper for us to do this; but sleepiness and. the wandering mind are likely to inter- fere with our most effective pray- ing unless We "rise up" 3. Not only was it in the morning "but a great while before clay," very early indeed. Are we willing to make that sacrifice? God will show each individual whether it is His will for that one; and if it is, there will be a blessing in prayer that can come in no other way. 4, "He went out." Doubtless be- cause that was the only way He could be sure of privacy in an Ori- e'itsl house. Tilis was individual, secret prayer. 5. Not only diel He separate Slim- self, from other people for this pray- er, but He made sure that He could keep separated by going away "into a solitary place." We may be able forehap.d the Father's will, whether - to have that privacy and assured to grant or withold, and petition:; ` separation in a room with closed for present need, leaving the future door. to the Father's care and love" mild; after 10th, strong cold winds, frost and quite probable snow storm. December-Firsti week a very pro- nounced storm of winds, rain and snow and low temperature. Last three weeks very mild and dry, January, 1928 -First week strong winds, rain and snow, Balance of month very mild February, 1923 -Quite mild.'. • BLUEVALE R. Johnstone shipped a carload of hogs to Toronto. Messrs, Martin and Adair are pressing hay in this district this week, Levi Galbraith, of Howick, spent mrd Sunday with his sister, Ml's. Joseph Underwood. .Phos. •and Mrs. Field, of Wing - ham, spent Sunday with Jos. and , Mrs. Underwood. A. and Mrs. Field; of Winghatn, spent Sunday with the latter's par- ents, Jos. and Mrs. Breckenridge. Mrs. G. B. Wray, of Woodrow, Sask., is home on a two months' vis - 1 it with her parents, Thos. and Mrs. Stewhrt. Whitney Stewart has purchased ' the George Greenaway property and is going into the dairy and poultry business. We wish him success. Brakes unevenly adjusted will throw a car sidewise out of .its track. �•� • --m,�,,>�,m- nom. Means ETTER CREAM ETTER I3JJTTER ETTER, PRICES We are now prepared to Grade your dream honestly, gather it twine a week 11(1(1 deliver at 000 Oreatrrery each day we lift it. We gather• with covered Intek to peep cart Off it. We pay ar Premien: of 1 cent pet• lb. butter -fat for Spec- iate ever that of No, 1 grade, and 3 cents per lb. butterfat for No, 1 grade ever 1 hat of No, 2 grade. - The basic prineiple of the improvement in the quality of Ontario butler is the enroinutfon of Second and off grade rt ea m. This lolly 110 aeroinplislie1 by pitying the prnduner or good create at better peiee per pound of be (2 ev'fet than ie paid t o the pr mincer 01 peer cream. We solicit your patron- age and ee•oporttticn for better 011111tet, ter We will loan You a carr, See our Agent, T. C. McCA.LL, Or Phone. 23I0, `mussels. ' Seaforth r'e 1'i' i01� r • tr 1,