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H. T. R,ANCE
NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY:
AKER, FINATCIAI. REAL
ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR-
ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT.
ING 14 , FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANIES.
DIVISION COURT OFFICE,
• CLINTON,
W. BRYDONE,
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR,
NOTARY PU13LIC, ETC.
015ce- Sloan Block CLINTON,-
DR. GUNN
Office erases at his residence, oh
High and Kirk streets.
DR. J. C. GANDIER
Office Hoursi-1.30 to 8.80 p.m., 7.80
,to 9,00 pan. Sundays 12.30 to 1:80
p.m.
Other hours by appointment onlc.
Office and Residence -Victoria St.
CHARLES B. HALE,
Conveyancer, Notary Public,
Commissioner, Etc.
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REAL ESTATE and. INSURANCE
Issuer of Marriage Licenses
HURON STREET, CLINTON.
GalXtPIELIjr McMICHAEh,
Licensed Auctioneerer for the
County of Huron. Sales con-
ducted M any part of the county.
Chatges moderate and satisfac.
ben guaranteed. Address: Sea.
forth, R. R. No. 2. Phone 18 on
296, Seaforth Central.
GEORGE ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer for the County
• of Huron.
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.11•00/110444.05114411S6141.11.4.
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Box 127, Clinton - a Phone 100,
• -.Agent or
The Huron & Brie Mortgage Cor.
',oration and The Canada
Trust Company
Comm'er 11. C. of J., Conveyancer,
. Fire and Tornado Insurance,
Notary Public
Also a numbeer of good farms
or sale.
At Bruce/131cl on Wednesday each
week.
-TIME TABLE --
Trains will arrive at and depart
from Clinton Station as follows:
BUFFALO AND GODERICII DIV.
Going east, depart 6,83 a.m.
2.52 p.m.
Going West ar. 11.10, dp. 11.15 a.m.
ar. 6.08, dp. • 6.47 pan.
• " ar. 11.18 pea.
LONDON, HURON & BRUCE Div.
Going South',"ar. 8.23, dp. 8.23 a.m.
et 11,
4.15 p.m.
Going North depart 6.40 p.m,
" 11.07, 11.11 am.
Thu RICillop
Fire insurance Company
Head office, Seafotth, One,
DIRECTORY
President, jamas Connolly, Goderialt;
Yice., hamus Evans,Beechwood;
BecaTreasuree, Thos, E. Hays, Seat
iorth.
Directors: George McCartney, Sea -
forth; D. le McGreger, Seaferth; J.
G. Grieve, Waltoln Wm. Rine Sea.
forth; M. McEwen, Clinton; Robert
Ferries, Harloch; John Benneweir,
Brodhagen; .tas. Connolly, Goderich.
Agents: Alex Leitch, Clinton; J. W.
Teo'Goderich; Ed. Ilinchley, Seaforth;
W. Chesney, Egnionsiville; R. ear.
meth, Brodhagen.
Any money to be paid ',a may he
paid to Moorish Clothieg; Co., Clinton.
Pr st Cutt's Grocery, Goeserich.
Parties dairies to effect Insurance
er transact Other busipess will be
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irspeeted by thehtirector vsho
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Proprietor, ltdih, ,
ruin. Moq 'Ent ram TWea,'
41; ditShitheeed ji o neIt.
borood a hlett 'foeprPYldilet geth
ovine end comparetively" 'Iineepenssive
Meet eupply fee opt tahles. h know
vo40 val!* cattle ht who eerily
thddrete tlene to Aoruncrolot 7; Adelaide 51, Nest Toronto t
A Breeder's/41cm
There are many who do nob believe
very fitroegly le a eareful, Manhille
breeding', There are many" Acrub cows
that alle enormoue producers, 'both in
uaUty Mid quautity, of miik. Then
there ere may pnresbeed cetes that
are peer leadsmen, A ease has one
Th our notice of it Oro -bred cow which
produeed Omit twelve thensand
POMAIS of milk in a year, mated with
ere whose dam produced eleven
thousand pounds in a yen's' and the
result was a daughter which we cap-
able cif iprodueing less than six thou-
eancl pounds: of milk in a year. It is
because of occurrences like this that
mine dairy farmers look with some
suspicion' on scientifie 'breeding of
dairy cows,
The principle of atavism, which 4
breedhig heel; to some primitive type,
is well shown in such eases., This,
principle es frequently shown, not only
in the breeding of tattle, but in the
breeding of all other animals. In such
cases the sire and damlhat bred back
should never again mate. It misty be
that the :fault was not exclusively in
either, .but in the combination of blood.
The intelligent breeder will see to it
that each offshring is sent to the
shambles.
The experienced 'breeder can usually
see before the calf is two weeks old
whether it will be suited to dairy pur-
peses. The dairy animal will have a
thin neck. There is a needier soft-
ness in the skin of a good dairy ani-
mal that all experiencad animal breed-
ers will quickly notice. .
It is a fact that a great deal de-
pends en the way salves are brought
up. The best heifer ealf may welly be
spoiled by being fed fattening. food, or
by semi -starvation before it is a year
old. Both of each procedures are in-
jurious to the calf's digestion. If this
is ruined in calfhoocl, the cow will be
a poor eater, and therefore a poor
producer, no matter what the sire and
dam may have been.
It would ulso seem to go -without
saying that a great deal also depends
on the way the mature animal is fed.
Fine blooded anithals require the best
of care and treatment if they are to
do their best. If the owner is not able
or prepared to give his cows 61 re-
quired tresttment, or is too negligent
to do .so, his finehblooded cows are cer-
tain to sink to a level with, if not
below, that of the scrub cows. And so
it often occurs that the best bred ani-
mals are 'often branded as cheats, only
because their owner did not properly
treat and sustain them. '
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How Our Silo Has Paid for Itself.
It is to me a great mystery that so
many farmers are still without silos.
Having been in use for a quarter. of
centery, they etre certaWy 'beyond
the experimental diage, The' have
'brotight smicates to agrictiltuelsts 1(1
e(7ert/. country, Mob hatmerii who beef)
fonrid their unprofitable bave not
treed them rightly, ok have made some
serious .telstalte in thole eonstruction.
Before building or elle we had only
ten C',ows; yet, to provide ample for-
age for them, winter and ettntmer,
good years and had, was somethnes
difficult job, Now we have 20 cows,
and it 4 easier to provide feed Inc
bhem th'aa it Was to preyide for the
other ten, Beeides, our silage -fed
pews are in better condition, look
sleeker, and produce a higher grade of
milk. For the last two years every
cow has produced ori the average Of
400 pounds of butter per year. •Thie
butter, we have ascertained, has; met
us ten oents a pound leest produoe
. than better coming "Nom cows not fed
silage.
Comparing figures with one of or
neighbors Nem haseno silo, we find that
each of our zilws cost us, per year, $18
less to feed than his. We are also
able to produce beef $2 cheaper per
100 pounds than he can. Figuring at
thie rah:, we came to the conclusion
that our silo earned, last year, at
least 32e5. Moreover'we saved much
grain feed by giving the colts silage,
and also the horses, when not working.
Indeed, I believe that our oil.) has
sexed.ehough to build a new one each
year for the last four or five years.
Sometimes when the corn crop has
been short we have made .good silage
from millet, clover, oats, or rye. We
have fed this with success even thi
winter, but nhostly we feed it during
the latter part of -summer, after the
corn silage is fed out, In fall, again,
we fill the silo with corn, and if this
is not enough we refill it later with
cornstalks taken from shocks in the
field. The stalk, (if soaked with water,
can easily be cut, and make good
silage.
We always try to have a supply of
silage for summer, The cattle -need
a cool, succulent feed' during got
weather, and what is better than corn
silage? Souse summers, also, the pas-
tures dry up, and then silage comes
in handy. Besides, high-priced pas-
ture lands do not pay. Since we began
,feeding silage in summer, we have had:
only half as much pasture land as
formerly, and our cows have milked
as they never did before. A piece of
land for raising silage crops will pro-
duce five or,six times as much feed
as will a pasture of equal size,
Every farmer having 10 MINS or
more needs a silo. Without one it is
hard to do a profitable dairy business.
A good silo will stand as long as any
other building. We built ours seven
years ago, and it, is still in gooll con-
dition.
If the pullets have not been treated
for lice it will pay to give thein the
blue ointment treatment at oncenOne
application witl protect them until late
in the spring and it may he only lice
that are keening down the egg yield.
The pullets that lay first will pro-
bably be the best breeders in the
speing and it will pay to .itand such
birds and use them exclusively in the
breeding pens, Even though trap nests
are not used the farmer will doubtless
be in the poultry house often' enough
dating December and January to spot
most of the pullets which frequently
go to the nests. If the farm flock -ie.
to he improved the work must start in
the winter with careful selection and
management of the pullets.
Do not lose eggs during the cola
weather by allowing *emote freeze
in the .nests. When eggs am worth
six or seven cents each it does not
hike many of them to pay a farmer
very well for his trip through the
snow to the poultry house. t.
find his den, especially if he has been
much trapped. In this case you will
very likely find hiie holding forth in
some old building, under a stone pile,
or around the roots of a tree.
When you find his den 'set your trap
(No. 135), digging a shallove trench
in the ground so that the trap sets
level with it, then fasten the chain to
a strike and drive it down level with
the ground. Too often trappers make
the mistake of leaving a stake stick-
ing up above the ground. Cover your
trap with straw freely mixed with
chicken feathers, and stetter a few
grains of corn about. You will find
this one bf the best sets,„4ar skunks,
and one that can be used anywhere.
When you catch a skunk, do not muss
up the surroundings too much. Skunks
often den itieten or more in one hole,
and if things are not too much dis-
turbed, one set may prove very profit-
able.
Mice make good bait for skunks. If
you can find where a skunk visits a
chicken coop, eet a trap alongside of
the buileing and eover .11 with chicken
feathers. Road cuiverts are a fahor-
he prowling place for skunks, and a
trap set at either end of one willhikely
produce results.
e
As .anyone who has tried it knows,
catching a skunk is only part of the
job. Next, and some think most im-
portant, comesekilling and skinning.
The best way to kill a skunk is to
shoot him in the centre ,of the back of
the neck with a .22 -calibre rifle, using
a short eiretridge. If yoti have no gun,
'break his back with a long pole, which
will have the same effect,
Lots of people, espeelally boys who
skin a sicunk advertiao the feel for
days aftetward. However, it is quite
health insurance for stock, but the possithe to do the job in such a man -
cheer, comfort, and ,contentment that ner that half an hour later you need'
sunlight affords counts profitably in not be a total outcast of eaciety, The
melt end meat production when 'the eocret hes in first greasing the lianas
animals an-ust spend the major part of
every day indoor.
The same window opening properly
screened in warm weather affords free
Many a dark and gloomy stable
could be made eheerful and far more
healthful to the cows and their care-
takers by the expenditure of a very
few dollars invested in a number of
generous -sized windows suitably plac-
ed. 'Germs musing practically ell of
the dangerous diseases thrive M the
dark, and direct sunlight is an effec-
tive germicide. Not only is sunlight
Uig paelter le valuable bYtaroducte-
blood, head; tihd,
bevies,
Let me tell yoh tieW we manage'
heur poultry and pork are home-grown,
killed and prepared.
For our !beef, .mutton, and veal we
aim tosco-operate with at leest three
neighbovs, and each one of this group
of four families butchers one, small
young beef and one or mere Yeats and
fat slieep each year. •
A euitebie butchering shed was pre-
pared Where the wok is conveeiently
done, and provision i made for sav-
ing all the blood and every plat of
the carcass, The bones below the kneee
and hocks, and the heet, cleaned
the same as hogs' feet, and boiled until
the meat is perfectly tender and slips
easily from the bones. The meat ie
then seasoned erith* salt, pepper, a
pinch of sage, a little flour, a minced
onion, and a beaten egg stirred in.
This is carefully mixed, then dropped
by spoonfuls into hot fat and fries!,
Thus hendled, what is too often wasted
is to,us about the best relished part
of our beeves. The watee is than
evaporated from the oil in Which the
feet and leg bones were cooked by
boiling, and the neat's-foot oil result-
ing is'trained and bottled for harness
and leather dressing..
The heads of beef, sheep, and calf
are carefully cut up with a clesteer on
a block, and are esecl Inc head cheese,
hash, and sausage. The tongue boiled
and served cold is a titbit high in
favor. Se, too, withabeart and liver -
every bit becomes appetizing meat for
our fain).
Instead Of the cirstomary way of
frying liver, I slice it thinly, season,
roll in flour, and fry in boiling fat like
doughnuts, putting in the oven to
'brown, and tenting when one side is
browned. It's then no longer beef
liver.
The heart I stew until tender'then
bake with a dreseing made of bread
crumbs, seasoned as for chicken and
'Made rich with butter. This' makes a
dish fit for a king.
well, then use a sharp knife, and be
careful to cut ontly skin sleep When
peeling the carcass. Unhappy exper-
iences ere nearly always the result of
circulation of air, while barring out , ending too deep. 'Stand on the wind
flies. -The objection sometimes raised side of yoer atinial, and when you
against largo windows as A meals of have finished wash your hands -web]
losing much warmth lay radhation at with km:men°, and the acent will come
night, can be readily met by using off with the groom. If you get tiny
inside hinged wooden shutters, or
spring -roller building -primer shades.
Outwitting the Skunk.
Mr f Skunk with his unsevory rope,
tation is probably the best known of
our fur bearers. It is an exceptional
farm which cannot bong of a skunk
den er two. Civilization may drive
the larger den$,zerls of the wilds afar, tight, and le is ready for nee at any
but the skunk readily adapts himself time, bay(' kept ib thim wah as bong
to new conditions, and becomes denim- '-' a Year. "'Ye baa alwaYa been one
cleawback-it takes so meth lard to
'heated to tim e.xtent that he is tothieg
loath to telm trp his abode under the eoher the eakee, and while it was never
barn flool, or to burrow iata a straw „entirely lost, it was never So nice to
stack. While it is ttue that this aid- 0.50 a'gain. Yeast heat. 1 tried a nceV
mal is in scene Ways a frieed of the rie,iihme. t 11//,4,C1 orilr.SP3 f",66.se tha6
e; h
lamer, by deetroyinaernful insects ma" °au ‘'ne (3"P5' as they were
eee mho, yet he hag a black amyl,. coolcitee twie or three tablespoonfuls
Scent on your clothes, fresh air and
time are the best deOclorizers.
__tete-eh
Keeping Canned Sausage.
In ft6 when we kill hogs 'I alwaya
fry sausage iti takes just thehiee, we
use on the table, put them in glass
jarie cover with molted seeew up
against him hy vivtue of his Tenth0<u ."'0 jar of aall'affe1 altev aerewing
fot ehieken, He troublesome roost tight I turned the jar upside &hen to
roleht, eciera (11 toteese, the este wars perfeetly
In eleiaely settled neighborhoods ate, alrhight when the Med 'cooled Mid thy
Skunk will .oftee seiverthe his tithe. mintage kept pettedly, 2 left the jars
owe by doriferone teatime mid b titaltdira so the taps, as in illewaris
depleted ehteeee eagle, het shehptee Weether the teed might holt &Way,
Will tVaitill Oa 10119 OW,!1' AM NI to, "Id Pa tiaaaaga wa"la
Meida"' me.
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And howroN>i.4 the.
eyn."437.-thee:1
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quarter of the animals butchered, and
the variety furnished is much Wee -
elated.
In cold weather 'some of the chohest
roasts and steaks can be kept for fu-
ture eating, some of the remainder is
corned and scene dried.
According to our reekoning, this;
plan of farm meat sepply we are now
making upe of furntelme us about
three times as much choice meat . as
we would get for the aame expendi-
ture were at bought at retail prices, as
practiced by many. -L. A.
Smothering Out Quack Grass
My Form
It seems to inc I 'have never seen
the treatment for quacic grass whiCh
T have beentpracticing for some time
with gratifying results, mentioned in
any faern paper. I do not use the
spring -tooth, and have observed that
the farmers who do use it have plenty
of quack grass.
For several years I have been fol-
lowing. thelractice of always going
the hunt way over the quack with
wheel or disk 'harrow, smoothing har-
row, or cultivator where there is
quack. Go the same way in the row
when cultivating every time. The idea
is to keep crowding it under and cov-
ering it. If one goes the opposite way
in the row alternately, it just puts the
quack in good growing condition.
I prefer the disks to be dull, so as to
not cut the roots when disking, be -
The tail goes into "ox -tail" soup, cause the more. you cut the roots the
All 'bones are groued for the layingl more quack you have. Sometimes
hens, and the best of the entrails be- quack is hard to pull, and at other
come tripe or sausage casings. Of times it pulls easily. One should
course, every ounce of tallow leaf and watch and take advantage 01 it when
it is weals.
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Two things stand like stones. Kind-
ness in your neighbor's trouble, cour-
half as much value in meat as do a age in your own.'
"rough" is rendered, the best going
into a lard compound shortening, and
the poorest for soap -making;
All of these too ofteet wasted by-
products supply us With practically
Rural Community Service
The one .big lesson we learned from try. The material from which our
our war activities was the lesson of farm leadership 'should have been de-
veloped has been diverted to the city.
If the country is to keep'apace, if we
are to bold up an end, we must have
leaders. We ,can raise these leaders
an our rural environment much better
than we can import them fr.= the
city;
One of the reasons at least why the
boys and girls grow up and -leave the
farm is because of the lack of a social
program. This, at course, is not the
only reason, but es one of them. Some
more reasons are because they think
they can make more money, but the
fact that in the richest section of this
country the farmer owners have mov-
had into town ahd their farms.are man-
age,c1 by renters shows that ?peek of
the economic reasons, is the fact that
rural environment is too lonely. This
was not always the ease. There was
a time in the history of our country
when every farm neighborhood re-
garded it as a neighborhood or com-
munity responsibility to have a ly-
ceum, singing school, spelling match,
or other progiam which was an excuse
for sociability. The work itself re-
garkingeso much hand .labor was an
excuse ifor sociability more than it is
to -day. Corn huskings, apple pick-
ings, harvesting, etc., were all made
an occasion of a certain amount of
sociability •where everyone "changed
work."
Now, then, if the community can be
brought again to bear the burden and
accept the responsibility for a truly
social program we will have. made, I
believe, a distinct forward step in
rural life. Suppose the school he re-
garded as the centre of the community
and that with the help of agencies
available, a committee in the conunun-
ity map 'out a year around program to
meet the social needs of their com-
munity. This program will, of course,
vety it different communities, but the
eesentlal feature would remain about
the same, I believe, We Elhould map
out a program that will meet the
leisure terne of rural people young end
old, if rural people can be said to have
leisure time, This program would in-
clude some of the following featuree:
1. Incheased recreational 'facilities
an the school grounds for boys and
.girls. IA small amount of equipment
foe volley ball, tennis, basket ball, and i
hasehall only would he necessary), I
2. The use of' the wheel as a social'
centre. Around .the sebool es a centre'
could be built a program of music, lit-
erary work, dramatic's, etc, which
would do mach to keep yelling and old!
interested in their own envircnitnen0.1
The problem of the farie is 1500er
than a problem of. eliminating the ex -
Cess meth of the middleman. True, it
is a problem of produeirig reore
cift-
sionily and marketing move efficiently,
thereby reeking it more rommerative,
Bob more thanthis, it is a nyeatlem of
Making the farm life and tthe rural
environment girth that farm boys Elba
gills will be glee he stay em the farm
and will tind big, as 'Peat an oppox-
tuni4, there as they can new find hi
the city. When we reach Mee stage in
turd lite, we sae begin to expect Mere
progress for we will ,be developleg and
eousetviee rural !Imam% in Whom
bee& the problems erf terming and
rural life may be sweely bIt.•
71 rutt'l 'community service cari..he
deVelnped arid ecu coutribute a rural
sociaine ptegtarn, it wall fie worth
MIA MOTO that itS dWit, 3
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team week, or working together es a
community. Cities, villages, and rural
communiies fcagot petty strife, jeal-
ousies and individual differences in the
all -absorbing task of winning the war.
If eve should lose the gains thus made
and lapse again into our old ways,
what a tragedy it would be, and yet
it seems that is exactly what certain
communities are apt to do.
The wdr brought home to us the
fact that, as tem statesman put it,
"Unless this country can be made a
good place for all of us to live in, it
will not be a good -place for any of us."
The same applies to the community.
There are certait vital problems af-
ectinghthe community which must be
faced and solved by the community
if they are solved at all. Otherwise
that community will suffer in conse-
quence thereof.
During war time we thought it was
a matter of community concern to see
that socks and sweaters were knit in
plenty, and that it waa a community
matter to subscribe for our quota of
War Sweinge Stamps, Victory Bonds,
and wdrrelief funds, and that meats,
flour and sugar were conseiyed. We
have regarded it as a commenity mat-
ter that those of our boys who were
fortunate enough to come home whole
were receivedin a fitting manner by
the community. All these things and
many more are naturally thought of
as matters of community interest. We
are coming to see, however, that many
of the problems formerly regarded as
individual have a community bearing
and must be met by the community.
This is being evidenced by the fact
that in our Inger towns and cities vte
are establishing more social centres,
open forums, more gymnasiums and
more public playgrounds. Those of
our cities Whish organized hospitality
work /or the soldiers at their gates
have bad their eyes opened and tire
continuing to 'organize hospitality for
their own peeple, This is especially
true with those cities engaged in •war
camp community service. Called upon
by the war and' navy departments to
take charge of the soldiers and
sailors in the e•anip cities when
they were on leave, this organization
learned its lesson so well that peace
time cemmunitt Service programs are
being. inappeth out in reany cities to-
day.
Let us compare , this example
with rural conditions. Our men -
try communitieg . 'have been 'to
wat, have returned honte and to
some extent are forgetting the lesson
leaned. The country 'needs a rural
comnninity service or a viral social
program, The 'fact that few or our
boy e coming hack from earvice return
to the :forth finds grave concern every-
where. Yet how would you dare ex -
peg that any great number, of boys
would go back the'face of longer
hourseless wages, ,ansl an eevironment
So laelcinUin social features, ilatrin
boys in se ice awoke to the fact that
they wete social beings. The 5rm3r and
navy for the Most part was nothing if
not eociable. Otto rural commenities
rettet cotrect this feature if they are to
tempt theiteboys back to the fart.
Nor is thie the only reason wave
email program is eecessary, he
leedership irt the eititte to -day liee
been tecruited front the country hays
end giele at 6 feted met to the mini,
[1 A Country Church That
"Came. Back."
lives
fanner IOW hae Worked all les life
with the 'idea of eetleing In his old
age and buying a home le Kangas
City. He has reaehed the veld at
which this ambitionamay be easily
realized but forone oletteele..--his
yeeng son mad daughter firmly and
yigorouely refese ti glee their eon.
,senel
• They refues because -what do you
think ?-they are v,fealcl the city would
he dull! They are yeey sure, at any
rate, that it wouldn't give thorn the
eatiefying social life they enjoy In
their home 'neiaborhoocl.
Their mother is partly responsible
for the attithde" of the thildren who
won't let Dad leave! the icountry. She
was one of.. seeenteen mothers who
met one day to make plans for build-
ing a social •centre annex to Second
Creek Church near Kerrelview, the
.oldeat eotintry clattec,h, in the county.
The seventeen had eissert;ed, the wall-
ing influence end the gradual abandon-
ment of many rural churchce, 'and.
especially 0l,eir failure to touch the
lives of the growing' boys and gtrls.
They derided that 'Second Creels-
Chureb should tot auccumb to creep-
ing 'Paralysis, Mit should "come back"
to the position of vitality and helpful -
nese it held in pioneer tinier,
Plans were made Dor a social centre
annex to the church, consisting of an
up-to-date leitchen and a community'
dining -ream and auditorium. Modern
plumbing was to be installed, with
lavateries, drinking fountains, and in-
side toilets, bet -air furnace was to
replace the stoves.
These improvements would-coet 31,-
000. The figures was low 'because the
farmers .in the neighborhood had offer.
ed to, contribute labor and reateriale.
Nevertheless, the raising of $1,000
was a task not to be lightly as-
tomplithed by a handful of busy coun-
try women in these days of scarcity
of help.
"It will take a long time to raise
$1,000," suggested one of the workers.
"Our children would grow up in the
time it would take for that money to
trickle in from schials andebazaara. I
move that we look on thts as a busi-
ness proposition and go at it hest as
men would. Who ever heard of men!
waiting for public improvement's until
'they had raised the money by 'pie
suppers?ael propose that we borrow
$1,000 at thee bank ahd give our per-
sonal notes for it. f
"If we get in debt we'll have to get
out. Our good names well be at stake,
and we'll work like beavers to make
up the payments. If we get it loan we
can start buildag right away, We
can have our improvements and be
getting the good of them while we're
paying."
Everybody gaSperl. But the more
the proposal mac threshed over •the
more sensible it seemed. The neigh-
,
borlhood needed social enlivening at
once.
The women adjourned to put the
proposal to the president of a bank in
the nearest ',tillage. They got the loan.
. That was in 1917. The annex, com-
pleted in a few weeks, was equipped
with a kitchen containing a gas stove,
a cooking eapge, hot and cold running
water, and every convenience for pre -
CATARRH DOES HARM
Whether It lo ;7:17e NPigh
Other °roans, Oat File of lt,
Caterrh of the Wiese eV throet Whelk
beeemee clirerile Weekensi the
sale long tisio, deranges the clitseee
tire organo, and may Mod to mut
sumptioe, It impairs tee teeth smell
aud heitehig, and affeete the hone. It
is a coreithatienal (Neese arid re.
(011,re0 a goestituttenal realedY,
'Pelee 'efood'e a'areeparille, witielt
by purl:Eying the bleed rereeTea the
cause Of the (Hellas° awl -gives eer-
ie/emit .eelief. This alterative MI
tome mediae bas prehed entirely
satisfactory to tbodeancleof familie$
in three gmerations,
If there is bilioetniess or eonethet-
lion. take Hood's Pills, -they are
thorough cuthartio, a gentle laxative,
paring and servieg meals, Tee large
dining hall is aim used Inc A Seedily..
sehool room, and as an auclitoeitim for
lectures, femme' meetings, eoneerts,
ameteur theatricals, community dire
ners, and Cheishritle treeti.
"The hig :thing about, inoclevnizing
a country eighth is maiiinst op youit
mind eo do it," said fries, Joe Collett or
Westdall, Missoupe, who IS a leader in
the social adivities oe the enlarged
church. "Once you've decidedto go
ahead you'll get all kiedeaf co -opera- '
tion, We could -eh have improved our -
church but for the help of our hus-
I bands, b,rothera, 'fathers, and sons.
"They contributed teams, labor, and
' material to the •value of several hun-
dred dollars, People who had never
taken much interest in the church
4(1:led their bit. The building of the
annex stinudated the spirit of co-op»
eration and teamwork, not only in the
church' but throughout the neighbor-
hood, I think any hand of church
women could do what we did."
The annex has snore thotn. fulfilled
expectations in supplyingethe•commun-
ity with soaial life. To the dinner
given in the 'hew dining hall, people
come from a radius of twenty miles.
They arrive by ranter' car, by rciule
team, ancl on foot. The young hus-
band and wife who have joqt mohed
into, the neighborhood shake hends
with mores of new friends, Lifelong '
friends meet and talk acroge the table.
The yonni people sit around in ton -
genial gouge, •
The Ladies' Aid has met payments
on the loan easily. The womee got out
a cookbech which they sold through-
out the country to raise money, They
have had entertainments; bazaars, and
sales of food, garments, and fancy
needlework, One 'day of each month
they meet at the clients 00 sew on gar-
ments which are sold for the church
fund. Meanwhile them is "something
doing"-sorrie evecith or educational .
gathering -at the annex every week.
And that is why the boy and gerl
in the home of at least one farmer in
Plate County, Missouri, ave growing
up happily and wholesomely on the
farm, and not in the city,
a'e
If the little -daughter's winter set
of white fur ha e turned dingy from
wear it is eaelly cleaned at home. Put
O gallen of cornmeal into a deep plus
' and set in the oven to get very hot;
put the furs into this and rah just as
if washing in soap and water, keep the
meal hot while doing this; then with
• several good shakinge the fur will be
clean.
ve7.151=' ""Wej§
john, 13. lather, Am41,4•D
Address communications to 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto
No Danget.
"In our family of five there are
three boys and two girls'. All of us
are fine and strapping and have the
color of apples in our cheeks. But
e ease cannot live and be dangerous for
here is the problem. My father, boe- more than a few Llays outside any
in Ireland, was a fine, strong man who
came over here the picture of health. living body. Therefore, three years
after, you need liave sio fear. Banich
When we all grew up to from 11 to 18
fear
he contracted a cold resulting in his from :Mr mind. For herein lies
death from 'consumption. Dees that a potent preeispoeition to disease. Live
the hygienic life, watch out (but not
to any morbad degree) for the early
signs of tuberculosis, go to a good
doctor at the first sign of trouble, and
there ie no reason why you should not
omes and more.
allt the five of you, boys and collems
ale live to fours
Questions mid Answers.
My little grandchild aged 335 years
has had epileptic fits occasionally /or
Answer --My good friend, consume. the last year or two and is estremely
tion is in the vast majority of tams nervous all the time. When ehe was
neither a family not; a ,hereditary born she was injured on the back of
ease. It is in most cases acquered the 'head 13y the instruments used .by
aften. 'birth, It has been leavnetl bee
tee 0.0•Cuer. J.,0 you think tli1 injury
yond peradventure that the parent has mused the fits? Please lot me
very varely indeed transmits to the lame, if them fits can be cured, as the
offspring the germ of teberculosis child is remarkably ineght, perfeftly
(consumption), though a tendency to healthy anff normal in every way with
the 'disease (that is, a weaknees of the the eeoehttoe or leant. meeet,e,
body by vhich 10 may • ecorne e Answer -Are you hive. the ' ehild
soil for the implantation and the was injured at .bieth? he some cases
growth of the weed -lake gerbil may of cleildhitth instrument% have to be
be transmitted. used if the motherei lafe is to be saved.
I am eorry to say that ona of the People I am sorry to say, .semotitnes
races which ere prone to such ten- trafah.ly retribete maladies to the pro-
dency is that of your forbears. te, cedures which doctors may institute.
however, no one of your family has 10 any event, epilepsy may be due to
shown any sign of the disease since at, behary within the skull and in some
your good tether's death three years .such Caere operation lute 'resulted in
ago, you may be sure be has not trane- its cure. In most ceets of the dhease,
-mated to any one of you the diseate however, the turd is difficult.
_et...teas .... •
Tara^grallakiriMARTIMANVOIr
▪ 1 4v.) -
t',4(
itself, Tuberculosis has often been
called a house disease for the veason
that any careless sufferer may ernit in
his sputum de .germs width others
may anide. But the germ of this dis-
doom all of us? He wae very careful
and since he died, three years ago, we
are nervous. None of us so far as I
know, ever had a cold; but does the
first sign of a cold doom us to that
disease? I have beard so much about
the disease 'being hereditary that it is
(11 myeenind all the time, Please nptift
a sad ima.gination that I have upon
myself."
• melt lee
There ne't a nieintit" :tftbe faniiiy need SuIi,w froin
:headaches, bib:aweless, fermented etornaoh, etc, ,31es 00 500 will take
• Chamberlain'Stem:tell and Liver Tablets, ahoy eleenee the etoniaeli
and bo Vete and stimalato the liver to healthy activity and emo up the
whele s,vstern. 'Almon at etelit arid you're RIGHT le the whiling.
' All 4rtr,gitft, 25, 5,10 ro.d troziCitaeibe1aia Mediedhe Com Vatxy, TordotO. 1S
.lionzat
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