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HARD TO BELIEVE
'Dire ,C,P,It, Detreit-Toronto flyer
was two minutes behind schedule
saki the driver in .tile ei gine had
opened, top Or speed of 70 miles
an hour, and that was the admitted
rate at whish the train was going
When Thomas lOJeanents, a man of
op years, was dhdyinfg :hist horse
anki buggy toward a level crossing
Mr. Olemenbs was not present at
else inquest where these_ natters
were related because be is dead and
buried, But the engineer of the
train was on hand.
That is a general pray was the
tsitualbion. The train going 70
miles an hour Struck the .buggy in
the centre, carrying ,the driver a
measured: distance of 222 feet, and
injured ,hLn eo seriously that lie
wets dead when. picked• up.
Alter attention • had, been paid to
the man of 912 In the buggy a search
was started for the ,horse, the be-
Idef :befog that it would Ibe hound
some place along the traok, It is
here that the almost unbelievable
feature enters — the bone bad
"She says here,
she'll be home
to -night!"
Ia there anything
IpM
more worrying than
. waiting? One voice
inside you says:
Don't be silly,_
she's all right . "
And another vqice whispers:
"Perhaps she's had an accident
.. oh dear, what shall I do?"
lr1
t'I would have
stayed up all
night!"
But when you hear
her voice on the
telephone you
know all is well—
you thank heaven
for Long Distance
service — you realize how easy
it is to keep in touch -.- and
you litre people who do.
"She didn't realize
that I couldn't
get away
Sometimes you think older
people are foolish to worry —
but somehow you feel better
when you've brought calm and
peace to anxious minds —
by LONG DISTANCE
•
And it's co easy too, Your call
is on its wry in a few seconds,
your destination reached in the
twinkling of an eye. Use low
Night gates applying every
evening alter seven (and all
day Sunday as well), and place
"Anyone" calls,
been out clear by tale itnlpact of tl
engine, after ;Which tt wandered
a iteerhy Belts and when found We
mufdhnJg away et some pasture
s ae clnate a tot
to of pumping before there would be
s I e'nouggi in A for a horse or cow to
reedit over top and, take a drink,
And •1t was an such days that one
bad a cbanee tp learn by personal
observation just how much water a
horse or a clow will drink, Perhaps
we were. W2'ong but it always did
seem, that cm the hot days when We
windmill, would not spin that all the
animals arodnkl the Place has etart-
015 amine sort of a contest t0 see how
much they could dtdnk, The little
stream, that the plump, would deliver
seeaited, sosneithinlj like trying to put
1 out Vesuvius in eruption with a Lea
kettle, There had been times when
t at school or in books we had read
about Blow much a camel would
drink, and of slow rnudia work it
took to wetter elephents.in a cirrus,
hut When cows ,and' horses and
everything .else took to drinking on
a loot day when Ihere was, no wind
then it seemed. the containers in
such animals must be far greater
than most folk had, ever guessed,
FIRE LOSSES
We received a bulletin from the
Oanndlan Underwriters Azteocia'tlot,,
dLapiayning fire losses saes causes of
fires in Oauada. We considered
the bulletin interesting ,and ed•uee-
tional a.ntd pass it on to our readers'
,Canadian, property valued] at n5,-
859,180' was destroyed in 44,104
fires in 1938 And en .anayists or
causes given In government static
tics silresys that probably more than
60 per cent of these fires could have
been prevented by the exercise of
ordinary care, accodling to an ana-
lysis released, by the ,Canadian 1Jn-
derwrtteris' Association,
Of the 'total fires 13,719 deetrov-
ed, Prolpersty valued at $2,426,597
through "Smokers' earelesaness and
matches;" 3,972 fires were caused
Y 'stoves furnaces, bdilers and
ipes with lose amounting to 51.-
03,208. "Electrical wiring ,and ap-
biance's" started 2,625 fires which
nbolved: a loss of $2,294,278,
One of the strongest arguments
n favor of safety advanced by the
Association is supported by govern-
ent figures which show that 1,500
rest, causing a loss of 5551,655 oc-
urred from lightning in buildings
hich were not rodkled, while only
, involving damage of $19,322
ere caused, by Iightnling in build
gs which were rodded.
Defective chimneys and fires
ere responsible for 3,870 fires
lith destroyed property valrued at
690,267. ISpraks from open fires
rted 1,004 outbreaks which, be-
-e they wereextinguished, des-
yed property to the valve o''
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51,
ata 2
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$196,872,
Among ,sone of the other con-
tributory causes to the 44,104 fires
In Canada lash year ands practically
all of whicih, are Listed as "prevent-
able" were: portable lamps, lant-
erns' and open lights, hot grease,
relation, fireworks, steam ,and hot
water pipes.
"Prom a •study of these causes"
the Association commented, "it can
he seen that it would be a rela'tibely
easy mutter to reduce fire losses, in
Canada very sugstahtialay by the
exercise of more Dare on :the part
orf every individual."
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AS IT WAS
ON THE TENTH
We came acdtoss something
about a windmill in a farm maga-
ziue and it was describers as the
dheapest power in existence, "The
power is there waiting to be used,
and you do not have to pay any-
thing for It." That's what it said.
Posasibly the sane ,thing must
have occurred to .a good many
people who Lived, on the Tenth Con-
cession, for there were a number of
windmlills there. There was One
on. Lot Four, How deep the well
was, we never found, out, but there
was always some water int it, From
the spout there was a trougl, which
emptied into a large wooden con-
tainer, and it was there that the
houses and the cows and everything
else around the Place needing a
drink used to 'gatiter. When It
got Hull it was necessary to work a
little dbohickey and the pump
woad cease wanking, Actually it
was a rather good araingemeut,
But there were other days when it.
wasn't so good, and often enough
they were much the sante as these
through which we have been Living
laltely, Thee( were loot an dsulary
and there woluld be no wind, The
article we read ill the 'farms paper.
never said a word about the clays
when the wind had gone off to brow
elsewaltere.
(There wow only one thing to do
on such a day, and that was to take
holes of the pulnlp' handle. and stllupjy
the power. No person ever ran out
from the ]souse to take on that job,
Grandfatlher always 1101(1 he knew,
nothing at all about the windmill;
it wee 0810 of those new mantrap -
tions which he did not understand.
The hired ratan was sinther ,handy
at climbing tap the frame worst with
an oil can and, fixing the thing
when it went wrong or smueake;L
but on, clot and sultry duly when
the width died clowns he was, unusual-
ly busy elsewhere, Id there was a
threshing on he'd Ligll1 out almost
before tale chores were done to the
morning. Pronaijtness seemed to
settle upon ]time, .and. engulf him 9u
such Sega,
On malt a day one had a chance
to recognitle ,how MIllelt W,atsr It
took to try and till that 'big trough,
Ile ctibiolty We do not know—anti
that is a word we have Picked up
There was a fairly long iron
handle on that pump with a sort of
loop at the end. And the 'handle
was hot. You'd try one hand and
then the other and then bath hands,
and meantime keep looking at the
top of the piopfar tree to sea if
there was any signs of
a
stirring. And on such aday 1ethe
tree top stayed perfectly still,
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WEE ANGUS
* (By A. R. K.) * *
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if A. little trouble' on today, Wes
Angus, looks washed oat and' gray,
and so do Dan and Joe; as near as
I can fudge and, tell, they're not
exactly teelin.g well, .they're nigh
filled up with wee.
4 They Play around their shack a
lot, and I was wondering what tlteY
got, so I'd• investigate; 1'd see if
they were eating stuff, perhaps it
wasn't goo enough; it might be out
of date,
Q The shack ineie looked pretty
fair, they keep things rather neat
out there, as though they bad some
pldd'e; and yet Wee Augtts stayed
at home, and now and then he'd
start to groan, and say he ached
inside.
He event started in to cry, and
felt as tbonrgh held sup and, die, he
said he burned, within; he got a-
larmed at what he said, anti felt the
Treat around his Neta -c1, anti called the
doctor Ilk,
T( The doctor canoe to ,see the
child; I think be rather winked and
smiled; he put hint off to bed; Wee
Angus told him. where he ached and
how he felt all burned and (baked,
and -Neat inside his head,
II The doctor hummed and hawttl
a bit, and rummaged lir his little
]tit, I'd cal] hien smart and kers,;
Ise told me just the thing to de,
told Angus just when he was
thfreu&11s.-Islte Iapiples were ,too
green.
Library Closed
Brussels Public Library will he
closers from Aug, 1st to Aug. 15th,
while the Librarian is away on
vacation,
THE BRUSSELS POST
LET US LOOK
AT THE PAST
Niro Are Montt Tile.n ?rain
Moo o' tho loot o/ 1
sod M room Oe
50 YEARS AGO
ETH EL
11, Dilworth has disposed of a
fine colt to R, Leathendale of Brus-
eeis,
Elhet division S, •T.
is boom.
ing. The following officers were
installed W.P„ J. Oober; W. A„
Alfita Milne; R.P,F„ Emily Hol'o-
way; A,.R,S., Rebecca Spence; 0.9„
A. Eckmier; F, At, Fogel; .Chap„ C.
Stubbs; C. A. Fogel; A. C., Anne
Il l'leway; L;S., Addie Milne; O.S.
A., A. Panabaker,
GREY
Uriah MoFadtden jr., is away 00 a
,hol5day nit to Sault Ste. Marie,
Donald M.c'Lauohlin arrived bees
from the Nonthwest.
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Mrs, R. R. McDonald of Kincar-
dine) paid a, flying visit to her old
home last Saturday,
Last Saturday • aYternoon• Peter
McDona1drs farm; 13th con., was
sold' by pubilc auction,
W• ALTON
Mlss Louie Pollard of London la
spending a short time with friends
in this, locality,
* * *
Mr, and Mrs; Jahn Reid of Wa-
wantlsdl spent Sunday at Thos.
Wi•I liomtso•nfs,
Alton Anderson teacher of S. S.
No, 9, Morris, is spending his: va-
cation in the harvest field with Mr.
Kirk of Weslt Watwannsib,
MOR515S
Ms. W. Burch and children and
Miss Goltson of ,Qhicago are visit-
ing at John Mooney's.
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Wm, Sample is home from the
West.
* * *
Jas, Carter house on the 8th can.,
was struck by Lightning but not
much damage was reParted,
:BRUSSELS
,T. A. Creighton was home - for
$rt'iiday
Mists Ample Rosa of
oluBrussels, hiss
Measles of Grey and Mrs, J. Smith,
or Morris reached Bdussels on Pati
u1•dtay after a return trip to the
Prairie Provinces. -
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Married
1I'Farlden-Doyle — at St, Peter's
Church Goderddh, on the 17th Junc
by R.ev. Botcher West, Moses Mc-
Fadden, Barirster of ,Sault Ste.
Marie to Annie Doyle of Goderich,
Patterson -Wheeler In Brussels
on Jatby 31st, by Rev, G. B. Howie,
L,A„ Mr, John Patetnson of Grey
to Miss Isabella. Wheeler, of Wing -
ham.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2134, 59$
R. A. Reid, R. Q
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More Than 20 years
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25 YEARS AGO
W.ROXETER
Roy Carr was, a visitor in
secs• on Sunday.
* * *
Mrs. W. S. M;cdierober and Miss
Agnes• spent lash .week in -'Toronto.
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Mies Margaret Gibson Ls vacation-
ing at Brece Beach,
gone on a trip to the West.
Miss Mary Miner, who was a
Bras- pupil of Miss, Bessie Moses' was
successful he passing her entrance
at Wroxeter.
MONCRIEFF
fMr, and Mrs. W. Solunbak and
family Sumdayed ra Wdnghadm.
* * *
Miss Anna Dunlap is, visiting with
Miss Beth McNatuglut, Monleton,
Alex Manu, and lubes Pearl Har••
risen took in the Goderlch Exour-
stow Wednesday.
on the 11th con;
ETH EL
Mr, and Mos. A. H. Macdonald are
making a tennis court on their prop-
erty.
The Women's Institute was held
at the home, of Mrs, A. L. MacDon-
ald. Mrs. George Addy gave the
address, a solo by Miss McDonald
ands a. recitation: by •Miss Elizabeth
Chambers.
. GREY
Robert Davidao•n, Toronto is
visiting,his brother Thos. Davidson
• • •
Miss, Myrtle Cummings of Toren- • ` •
Ari-
ta is visiting at her home, 14th con„ biisees E. J, McKibben and An
Greyq, for a few days. Halle] Thomrpsom of Toronto are
welcome visitors, at Mr. and Mrs,.
,. *
Arnold, son of Mr, and rMs. J
seph McKay, passed the entrap
examlinatdons and intten,ds going tc
Hamlitan, Collegiate.
Wm. Armstrong.
o-
ce Mrs. George E. Speiran has gone
on an extended visit to Walkerton.
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BELGRAVE
Mr. and, Mrs, Deal, Varua, were
visitors with Mr. and Mrs, Robert
McGuire.
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1511es Edam Zcanudrett visited
Miss Pearl Toll.
113 LU EVA LE
Rev. Mr, Tate preadlred to \Brus-
sels last Sabbath.
Mr. and Mrs. George- Rattan, At-
wood were visite-la with Mr. and
Mrs, Leonard Rattan for the week-
end,
CRAN.BROOK I
Wnc. Knight, B.A., and Mrs.
Knight, of Belleville are renewing
old friendsJhips• in Grey Townsdiip,
JAMESTOWN
George King, Elyth, called on
old friends:
Mns. Richard Miller of Mroxeter
was 'fisting friends• here.
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IAIr. and Mrs, D. L. Strachan have
Mlrs. Wm- May, of Sundridge,
Ont., is visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs, Russell Porter.
BRUSSELS
Mrs., S. Bell of Teeswater
here far a short visit,
J. T. Duncan was home for a tete
days.
Mise Mabel Hay raft of Port Ar-
thur is, renewing old frienddh:ips in
Brussels;
Stewart Stott, Seaforth, is here
for a holiday visit at the Old, ' home.
'Ir, and Mro, H'eNbert 'Chinning -
ham and, children of Palmerston
are here for a holiday.
Mr. and Mrs. Work and baby of.
Toronto are holidaying With Brus-
sels and+ Grey relatives.
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Alex Ross of Ottawa is renewing
old acquaintances in town,
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,Miss Mina DilIoltt of Thornhill
has been visiting. Miss Berve Bry-
ana, Queen Streett. .
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