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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1939-06-08, Page 2PAGE TWO THE SEAFORTH NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939 Very Finest Quality a6 Mirror or the Nation The Bren gun contract was again in the limelight :during the week with the •Government making strenuous though rather ineffectual efforts to counteract Uhe 'charge made by Col. Drew that it was the most abomin- alble contract that oould possibly be conceived." The interchange and crossfire 'became rather heated and the Public Accounts Committee at titres took on the appearance of a prize ring rather than that of a parlia- mentary institution. Mr. T. C. Douglas, C.C.F. member for Weyburn and two Conservative members on the Public Accounts Committee objected to irregularity in the proceedings but were over- ruled by the chairman, '4Vnt. Fraser, Liberal member For Northumberland and were, of course, outvoted .by the large majority of government mem- bers an the committee, Col. Drew stated that he thought the contract i1��!AMY►i�pR�� MILE E aKER5 - e For long, economical service ... on any roads choose Goodyears. Goodyear makes 23 dif- ferent types of tires for commercial and farm use. Drive in and see our dis- play of Goodyears today, We have exactly the RIGHT TIRE for your job at the price you want to pay. W. G. Wright, Jr. Seaforth, Ont. PHONE 267 was bad when he wrote the article, 'but when=during the inquiry -=he heard facts concerning it which he had not known before he realized that it was "abom•inable." The Public Accounts Committee. is not the only centre of interest this week. The Mortgage Bank (bill before the banking and commerce 'commit- tee is also causing strenuous conten- tion.- This is likely to 'hold up prorog- ation and there is now little prospect that the ,present ;Session will finish this week. The big opposition to this bill is the combining- of mortgage legislation dor both rural and urban property. Most objectors agree that bhe farmers need some assistance but do not admit that the same conditions apply to city mortgages which, they claim, should be 'handled under a, separate bill. While the financial experts of the. Opposition groups were fully occup- ied in the committee the Government put the $790,000,000 refunding bill through committees in the House and third reading was reached and passed 'before the conscientious objectors could get back to the House. It is utterly without precedent to bring important measures 'before parlia- mentary committee, while the House ts sitting. and now that the question of prorogation :b5 His Majesty the King is no longer an issue there is no adequate justification for such pro- cedure. The opinion of experienced parliamentarians is that the House should now proceed in the usual. manner and give the members proper time to atter t to their duties both in committee and in the House itself. This opinion is shared by the general public. :another i:iberal member has voic- ed criticism of the 'Wheat Board Bill hut was Prevented by his own party front tooting an amendment to it. HIe exposed weakness - in the cam:traction of the Bill which. would enable the large producer to get the guarantee on five thousand bushels and then sell the surplus to the smaller producer at the market ,rice. The smaller pro- ducer in turn can sell this to the Wheat Board at the guaranteed price and this profiteering can go -on ad ins finitunt if the Market price is below the Government guaranteed prier. The Civil Servants have been side- tracked once nt+ire.:rile derision of the Government to do nothing in the way of legislation this year has come as a distinct- disappointment, The committee has now sat through two sessions of Parliament and so far there is no concrete evidence of their labors bearing fruit. Now that the 118th Parliament o€'. Canada is drawing to a conclusion' and a federal election is approaching the Government has at last turned• its attention to the ;plight of the fisher- men of the country. This week a hill was introduee3 to create a salt Rah hoard and an appropriation of $800,- 000 is 'being asked for this purpose. A subvention- for coal miners is also mooted. BECOME RAFFIC STENOGRAPHER Practical 'office 116" aro available for y, Yang urn arra women trained as traffic stenographers and clerks. More traffic restores prosperity to Canadians and only through increased• traffic can johsbe. secured. Our Freight Traffic Coarse has been approved. 't; malty traffic and railway officials and has been specially written far Canadian rail- ways. We have had 23 year,' experience in teaching t'tis course and when you combine to caur,e with Our dandified a t :r in ''Plain English" shorthand you have a very practical catiC,ination. It is easy to learn at home. Mr. E. D. Cotterel, Gen. Supt., C. P. R., Winnipeg, Man., writes: "1 have examined your Freight Traffic vir,e c tu•'t cm - 'bodies' full details in c.onnecti.tu with the 'last 1..,.: i.. 1 u'ghf car service work. They are certainly instructive and rer," ._r ;tarn tc•„ If you have at Iea, one year high school education. write fiat free folders describing these. ..our—,2,, WVritetoday for free descriptive literature, CASSAN SYSTEMS DEPT. L TORONTO, 9, Ont. HURON NEWS Engagements Announced- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whitmore, of Halmesyille, announce the engage - anent of their youngest daughter, Gaynell Marguerite Isabel', to Carl Alexander Cox, eldest son of ;Mrs. Cox and the late John A. Cox of Goderich township, The marriage to take palace the middle of June. Mr. and Mrs. Iloilo Snell, Londes- •boro, .announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Helen June to Mr. Murray J. Ferguson of Goderich. The wedding to take ,place this month. The engagement is announced of Marion Ellauise, yo.unges't ;daughter of Mr. John W. and the late Mrs. Walper, of 'Exeter, to Lloyd Willett only sort of Mr. and Mrs. Samue McBride, of Zurich. The marriage to take place the latter pant of June. •. Contract Ended at Oil Well— Work was halted indefinitely las. week end at the Howard Trewartha +farm where a search has been in progress since last fall for oil. For the past ,two weeks hopes had been entertained that the precious sub- stance might he found in paying quantities since the drill was work ing in oil bearing shale but granite was reached at around 3,500 fee without favorable results. Since the contract of Gregory and Sons had been fulfilled work was discontinued Whether or not this is the end of the search has not been determined. The general opinion seems to be that this is the end, finally and completely Talking to one of the officials of the Huron -Bruce Company on Tuesday we were informed however that so far no meeting had been held.—Clin ton News -Record. Drillers Leaving— Geo. F. Gregory and Sons are mov ing out their drilling equipment, af- ter having completed a test well to the granite formation at 3331 feet for the Huron and Bruce Oil Co. Thio equipment will be set up in the .gas fields of .southern Ontario. Gregory'. all also have two machines operating on the Manitoulin Island this summer Isaac J. Rathwell— The death of Isaac James Rathwell a life-long resident of Goderich town- ship, carte as a distinct shock to the community. Mr. Rathwell was work ing in the field riding a land roller when stricken with a fatal heart at- tack. He was born on September 3rd 1375, on the homestead of his parents the late Jemima Thompson and Ed- ward Rathwell. He was never mar- ried and had farmed all his lifetime in tite community where he was born He was keenly interested in fraterna work and was one of the active mem, bers of Varna Orange Lodge, 103+5 the Royal Black Preceptary, and Clinton Lodge, A.F.SzA,M. No, &4. Mr. Rathwell was a member of Varna United Church. Left to mourn their loss are two brothers and six sisters Geo., Tormno; Walter of Grand Prairie. Alta.; Mrs. W. Foster, Hen- sall; Mrs. John Todd, Souris, Man.; Mrs. (Dr.) A. P. Squires, Rotterdam Junction, NM.; Mrs. Mowatt Ballan- tyne, Vegreville, Alta.; Mrs, Annie Varcoe, Winnipeg, Man., and Miss Mabel at home. The funeral under auspices of the Orange Order was held at his late residence last Thurs- day afternoon, commencing at 2.30 Rev. J. R. Peters, pastor of Varna United Church, officiated. Interment was in the fancily plot in Bayfield Cemetery. Bread Eight Cents— . Complaining. that chain stores in Goderich are frequently using bread as a "loss leader," bakeries on Mon- day reduced the price of that com- modity front nine to eight cents a ilaf to meet he competition. A short time ago the price was reduced ;roti tett 1, nine cents to adjust it with prevailing € aur prices. - Goderich Si:goal-Star. Late Charles Weber— passed away at his home in Zurich on Friday, May '2166, a mem- 'on- of one ; the oldest fatuities in the village in the ,person of Mr. Charles Weber, a son 'Of the late Cas - oar Weiler, one of the early pioneers of the village. The deceased, who was well and favcrra'hly'kunvn in the com- munity, vas especially :noted for his. natural humorous stood. He had r a..hed bre age of 713 years. The Late ?Ir.'Wnher. was a vary handy ;nail, he ,ul-1 carpenter. mason and do 'prac- tically ail kinds of work, and he will be .greatly missed by his fancily and neighbor:. Survivin besides .his sor- rowing widows are three . slaughters, Mrs. High Thiel of Hay Twp.; Mrs Flossie frown of London, and Miss Gertrude at house and one son, Mor- ris at home.A son, Milton, prede- ceased him 125 year, ago. Three bro- ther, Louis of Zurich; Harry of Preston; Adolph of Ingersoll; also three sisters, Mrs. Catherine Beers of Buffalo; Mrs. Mary Demuth of Port Arthur; Mrs, `'Annie Laidlaw of Crossweli, Mich, The funeral," which was largely attended, was held on Suhday afternoon with 'services in St. Peter's Lutheran ohurch:—lZurich Herald. Cow Walks to Death— lA valuable cow, owned by William' Bell, near :Shakespeare, walked into a death trip loSt 'week when the ani- mal „wandered into the 'driveshed and broke through the covering on the well. A +tow truck came to the rescue but the'chain on bhe derrick Slipped 'before the tow could ;be raised to the surface alive. Maloney-Bannon— St Patrick's Churcih, I in+kora, was the scene of a pretty May wedding Tuesday morning, May 231rd, at nine o'clock, when Rose Beatrice Bannon of Detroit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Bannon, iKinkora, was united in anarriage to Mr. Lawrence Mal- oney, also of Detroit, son sof Mr. and Mrs, Michael Maloney, Mitchell. Rev: E, P, Weber performed the ceretnony and sang the nuptial plass. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was attended Iby her sister, Mrs. Angus McCaskill of Detroit, as matron of honor, and Miss Lourdes Maloney, Mitbhell, sister of ;the bride- groom as bridesmaid. Graduates .}n Medicine— Norman Park, son of Mr. and 'Mrs, Norman Park, town, has ;been suc- cessful in +passing, his sixth year ex- aminations in medicine at the Uni- versity ofTorontoand his many .friends here extend congratulations.— Mitohedl Advocate. Mrs. T. S, Ford, ;Mitchell— In the passing of Mary Louisa Tallman, wife of the late Thomas Symons Ford, Mitchell has lost one of its beloved and most respected re- sidents. Her death came on Friday evening following"1 an illness from heart trouble which had been of six months' duration. Her husband pass- ed away suddenly an March 10th of this year. Apple Business Was Very Large in the 808s (By J. HacTa'vish in the London' Free Press.) Apples are apples, whether adher- ing to ;branches Or when. packed in ,harrels; 'wlhebher rosy-oheeked Nor- thern Spies or palesfaoed, shrivelled avp no -account seedlings,. And trees that lbear them. at least in Huron and in 'Parti;, certainly do not produce in reasonable quantity anything approaching 'what was ob- tained back. in the'180ts. The reason to us, at least, appears to be quite Obvious. Take a, drive oc casiona'lly during the summer months, say ;front 'Seaforth to Goderich, and along the Blue Water Highway, or from Seaforth to Mitchell, then to Exeter by way of .the Thames Road or ,go zigzag in, different .directions across the country, and on almost every farm -site you will see .an orchard. It the majority of instances the orchards have served ,their day and are relics of .by -gone years. ' 'Marty orchards have long since ;passed their 50 -year mark, but are still :bearing fruit. Here and there old trees have been replaced by the younger ones, but young orchards are few and far ;between. It mai he truthfully said that n'o worthy ,peaces on ,farms have ;re- ceived, during many years, less care- ful thought and attention than have ,the orchards. Of course, there are some ou•ts'tand- ing exceptions where orchardsare maintained and apples sold on a pro- fitable 'basis, but they only loom up at rare intervals and nta'ke the truth of the statement more apparent. Lt is seldom that we see or learn about an orchard that has been pro- perly pruned or cared for, while the plowing or fertilizing of the ,:;round s 11 .eel ut1 i s an unthou ht of thing. g Y 'a In seeking information anent ap- ples, we have gleaned from what should be reliable sources, certain details that carry interest. In the apple kingdom there are more than 2,000 varieties, and from this vast number it is believed that in 'Ontario there are Igrown as blain. skinned and as fine -(flavored fruit as is Fouad anywhere when trees receive the attention they, require. Back in •the '80?s trees bore high- grade .apples ,in abundatice, even if orchards were neglected and when spraying came in. few gave it consid- eratiotl.'.It was not necessary to use some insect destroying solution then ;because the present-day apple mag- got was not playing ;havoc with the crap. Ln Huron County there were 'buy- ers in every town. •To name some, there were John Skinner, Mitchell; Cardno •& Son, Seaforth; David Can.- telon, •Clintots; R. Elliott, Goderich, and R. S. Lang, Exeter, There ware others ,perhaps ;just as deeply con- cerned. These men, we :have lbeen in- formed, thought and sold more than 200,000 ;barrels of apples in one sea- son, whereas now, as nearly •.as ftg- ttres available show, bhe annual ship- ment from Huron is from t1i,000 to 2,000 barrels. C'aedno one fall shipped 116,000 barrels from Seaferth alone. During another autumn they ,handled more than '36,000 ;barrels ;procured along the lake shore road, or along wlhat is now named the Blue -Water Highway or in that 'locality. Ini.formation is likewise to the effect that Cantelon shipped more than 31 0,000 ibarrels during autumn months. Each barrel was made to hold ap- ,proxitna'tely 1111 pecks of apples and the :price paid was usually about $1 a barrel, The season for shipping started in September and finished in, November. It was divided into three sections, namely, early fall, late fall and win- ter apples. During picking time .boys from the villages and elsewhere :were often hired to assist in the work and were usually paid 25 cents a ;day and part found," which meant dinner and supper. 'And at times these a ys handled apples when the wind was 'raw and snow^ was on the :ground. Notice to Creditors, 3 wits. for $2.50 Iae Y ' ttIltiSIII lealIusuoviirt ax.... as - A harvest of 324 million bushels of wheat, to say nothing of the increased volume of coarse grains, and all of it brought in and threshed in 1938 without the assistance, of the erstwhile army of tens of thousands of harvest help from the East in the years not so long gone by. Thus does the mode of our lives and the methods of our callings change, keeping pace with the progress being made in the scientific engineering and industrial realms. The evolution of the Combine to the small, compact model now made availsb!e has revolutionized harvesting, making it an easily undertaken task for the regular help of the farm. Its production at a cost to the farmer of but one-third the price of the earlier, bigger models, is an evidence of the contribution made by the implement maker to help the farmer meet the problems with which he is con- fronted. The lower operating costs of this machine, and the reduction it enables to be made in the cost of harvesting, saving as it does up to 15c a bushel for complete harvesting, has meant, in a great many instances, a profit instead of a loss to the farmer. Power,of course is the basis of the great mechanistic progress of agriculture and the record of attainment in making more efficient, less costly, and lower operating cost models available is an achieve- ment that cannot be beaten by any other industry. To -day's modern streamlined, high efficiency tractors make earlier models look like pre -historic monstrosities and sell for about one -Half the price, costing less than half to operate. Massey -Harris is pleased to have taken a leading part in develop- ing machines which are destined co play so important a part in making agriculture profitable. The advent of the combine and now the greater popularity of the small combine has meant a striking decrease In the outputof binders whichrecords show reached the height of their volume.: in the years lust previous to the war, both in Canada and the United States; production in the latter country dropping from 215,386 in 19 L4 10 31,259 in 1937, thus losing the benefits of mass production gained inthe years when the volume kept Apart from the tremendously improved product offered in the binder of to -dry, which accounts in no small way for its relatively increased price overpre-war years, the fact of the greatly decreased tiotumenow manufactured mikes the binder cease to be the criterion of values offered by the implement industry: PAIN( LIMITED Bu`IL®ERS',OF IMPLEMENTS'.T,HAT'MAKE FARMING MORE PR®FITABLE