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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-01-01, Page 2ada ' from Coast to Coast Pharlottetown,';I':E.L—A, consider- able export tradein live silver foxes is lining conducted by island fox breed- ers at the present time. The most re- cent consignment uveas one of ten pairs of black and silverfoxes from Bear River to San Bernardino; Cale where a fox raneh wilt be established by a former Prince Edward Island man. Halifax, N.S.-Tho National' Fish Co., of Halifax, are adding a new in- dustry to their, plant here in the shape of a fish meal mill in which they will utilize thewaste from their products, such as fish skins; etc,, in the menu- facture of ,a meal to be used as a feed for horses, cattle, etc, Heretofore this waste has been taken out to sea and dumped, but with the addition of new machinery to their present plant they will now be able to take care of this waste as well as giving employment to several men. St. Bohn, N.B.—Improvement is not- ed in the fishing industry of the Mari- time Provinces. Tho maritime mer- chant reports various happenings indi- cating that the 'industry is coming back. The outlook for canned lobsters, owing to market conditions in France and Germany, is improving. The acti- vities of the Lunenburg fleet are being increased and the fresh fish trade is being 'developed by the use of steam trawl Montreal, ne.-T Q he Canadian Prest-Air, td•, a company recently incorporated to 'm'anufacturea new refrigerant "Prest Air. Ice," is estab- lishing a plant here, which will have a daily capacity of 50,000 lbs. Timmins, Ont.—The output of god reached a new ,high mark for North- ern Ontario during November. Com- bined production from, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake during the month was around $2,300,000, or at the rate of be- e-•.----. tween' $27,000,000 and $28,000,000 a year. Winnipeg, Man. -Gravelling of .the Lord Selkirk Highway, ,the principal artery of communication between Man- itoba and the United States, will be proceeded with immediately, 'accord- ing to an announcement made by the Provincial Deputy Minister of Highs ways. The total estimated cost for the completion of the highway from St. Norbert, Man., to the internation- al boundary is $320,000. It will form a link with four chief highways south of the border. Regina, Sask.-The estimated value of the total wool clip of the three prairie provinces for the past year is $681,700, obtained for 2,690,000 pounds of wool. Alberta leads with 1,250,000 and received the best = price, which would average around 25 cents a pound. Saskatchewan had 840,000 pounds for which an average price of 23 cents was obtained. Manitoba's yield was 600,000, with an average price of 21 cents a pound. Edmonton, Alta,—Preparations are made for the winter fishing operations on the big lakes of Northern Alberta. A total of 550 commercial fishing per- mits have been issued by the Domin- ion Fisheries office .in Edmonton, compared with 460 last year. It is expected that 70 more will. be issued. Last year the catch of the Northern Lakes amounted to some 1,500,000 lbs./ of dressed white fish, and it expect- ed that the catch this year will equal if not exceed that fi¢ur Victoria, B. C.—Whaling stations along the British Columbia Coast are finding business much better this year than last. Up to the present month more than 200 tons of whale oil' from the stations on the Queen Charlotte Islands, have been shipped to England. the Richard family of Noyent-sur-Marne, France, were awarded the 10,000 franc prize for a "large family." The parents are twenty-four years old and have six children, the youngest being 18 -months -old -twins. LARGE, NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS IN STATES More Than Sixty Persons Killed and Half a Hundred Injured in Various Centres. A despatch from Chicago says:— More than sixty persons were killed, upwards of half a hundred were in- jured and a number of others are. missing as the result of an unusual number of accidents Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. o In addition to the loss of life, fires, many of them resultingfrom over- heating heating due to the zero Christmas weather in someparts of the country, caused a heavy property loss. At Stamford, Texas, four were kill- ed and six injured, one seriously, in a fire in the Stamford Inn, I Two men were frozen to death in Chicago's five below zero Christman weather, a policeman was killed as the result of a fall, and a Chinese laundry , man was shot and probably fatally wounded in a renewal of tong war- fare. Four were killed and one probably fatally hurt and another less seriously in an automobile accident at Rich-. mond, Va., and at Dixon, I1I., a three- year-old child shot and killed his ten- year -old brother with their father's shot gun, and one person was ]tilled as the result of placing oil in a cook stove. Two were killed in a Christmas Eve ehaoting scrape near Richmond, Ky.. two were killed in an automobile ac - aldose: at Birmingham, Ala.; 'a three year-old girl died of burns at Wor- cester, Mass.; one was killed in an automobileaccident at Lexington, N. Cr, a, policeman was killed at New Orleans by a bank robber; a mother died of burns at Lincoln, Neb., after 'miring kerosene on a kitchen fire, two were injured at Glendale, Cal.; when a bomb in the form of a Christmas package exploded, two were killed and two injured in an automobile accident at Centralia, III., and at Michigan City, Ind., two were killed and two were injured when a train struck an automobile, while in New York five men were seriously wounded by two gunmen. The temperature reeistered' grees below zero at Elko, Nevada, and put the air mail radio station out of , commission. The pump and radio arc were frozen, air mail officials said. A despatch from Hobart,; Okla.,, says:—With 33 bodies most of them' burned beyond recognition, lying in a temporary morgue in two store build- .,, ings, and 20 others injured as a resulti of a Christmas Eve fire at the district school house at'Babb's Switch, seven miles from here, work of recovering the dead wasretarded by lack of water on the school grounds with which to cool the embers. Calgary's Natural Gas Supply. They do things in a large way on the Prairies. Calgary has just com- pleted an addition to its natural gas supply from the Foremost: gas field. To make this gas available required a trench 32 miles in length. Into this trench a ten -inch pipe was laid. There are 8,500 lengths of the pipe, each 20 feet long. The pipe was made' at Welland, Ont,, and weighed 2,500 tons. Calgary is now receiving its natural gas supply through 221 ori' s of pipe line. The four gas well., at Foremost can supply 49 million cubic feet per day, more than double Calgary's pres- ent consumption. Canadians not so fortunately situated with, regard to a fuel supply can hardlY anPreciaie the Salvaging operations being undertaken by Great•'o ee German fleet at Scapa Flow are .,. ,. advantages of having a gas supply for shown in the above photograph: The value of the fleet Ito., c,hief1y in the enormous mass of machinery and brass ' r both cooking and heating purposes, and copper tubing it contains. ,• When some irregular local pollee mutinied at:Gas•dai, Indite'. they took possession of a block house and defied the world, 3: r—all British gun, how- ever, -upset their calculations and they were captured. The Week's Markets ! A }tome for -Blind Babies. o. 2 North., $1.91,; No, 3 North., $1.86; No. 4• wheat, $1.76%. Man, oats -No, 2 CW, 755/ae; No. 8'. CW, 71c; extra No.'1 feed, 71 4c; No. 1 feed, 69%c; No. 2 feed, 6654c.. All the above'c.i.f. bay ports. Am- corn,track Toronto—No. 2 i 22c; breskfast bacon, 23 to 27c; spa- esal brand'brealcfast baron, 29 to 31c; backs, boneless, 29. to 3ac. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs;, $17.50; 70' to 90 lbs., $16.80; 90 lbsi arid up, $11.50; lightweight rolls, m. barrels,. $33; heavyweight rolls, $27:' Pard Y Pure, tierces, 18 to 18r/ c; yellow, $1 4tubs, 18 /.f to"19e; punas •18% t`o 19%c; bags meed—Dell Montreal :freights, prnits, 21 to 22c; shoe tenit'g', tierces, bags included; Bran, per ton, $35,25; 4% to 1.5c; tubs, 15 to 151'wc; pails, shorts; per':ton; $37.25; middlings; 163t to 16c: prints, 171/ to 17ase. $42.26; good Feed'flaur, per bag; $2,45: MONTREAL. • Ont. oats -Ne. 3 white, 48 to• 50c, Oats=No. 2 -CW, 75c; No. 3 CW, Osit, Wheat -No. 2 winter, $1:43 to 78c; extra No.:1 feed, 70c. Flonr-- $1.45; No. 3 winter, $1.41- to $1.43; Man. spring wheat pats., firsts,. $9.90; No. 1 commercial,. $1.40 to $1.41, f.o.b. seconds, $9.40; strong bakers', $9.20; shipping points, according to freights. eeinter pats, choice, $7.15 to $7.25. Barley- Malting,- 84 to ggc. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs, $3.95 to $4.05. Buckwheat— ice ,2p 80 to 83c, Bran, $35.25. Shorts, $37.25, Micl- Rye—No. 2, $1.18 to $1.21• lings, $43.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton, Man. flour—First pats.; in jute ear lots, $14 to $14;50. sacks, $9,80, Toronto; do, second pats., Cheese, finest wests., 18 to' 1834c, 59.30, Toronto. Butter, No. 1, pasteurized, 35% to 360. Ont. "floor -90 per cent. pat„ $7, in No, 1 creamery, 84% to 35c; seconds, bags, Montreal or Toronto; do, export 88'/2 to 33if'ac. Eggs, storage' extras, 45s, cotton bags, c:i,f; , 48c; storage firsts, 43c; storage sec- _ liay N;o: 2 timothy,. per ton, track, ends, d0c,; fresh; extras, 70e; fresh • -- Toronto,:$14.50; No. 3;.$12.50. firsts, 55c, Potatoes, per bag, ear lots, • Straw—Carrots, per ton; $9. 60 to 65c, Encouragement. Ontario Government Makes Sereeeiin s— t t g S andard, recleaned, . u " Change in University •treat, bay ports, per ton, $27. Christiania is Now Oslo Cheese—New, large, 20c; twine •y ' Blessed. are they who, without a Control. 20 to .aincie ilt NaiEle of Capital mere . rush of optimism to , the head ?/a 21es triplets, 22c , Stiltons, 22c. Old;, large, 23 to 24c • twins 24 or persistence in a fool's paradise, Since 1906 the University of To to 26c; tri. let 25. ' On New Chris -- Year's the capital of P s, to 26c.� Day p habitually take,a cheerful view of our repro has beenmanaged by a Board of Butter—Finest creepier prints Norway changed its name from Chris= little planet and its citizens and are Governors appointed by the Lieuten- to 40c; No. 1 creamery,•37 to 38e; 'No, tiania to Oslo and all' the geography forever lending a hand to help a good ant -Governor -in -Council. This Board'2, 85' to 86c; dairy prints, 28 to 30c, books in all the schools of the world work forward. is really a Government Commission; Eggs -Fresh extras, in cartons, 68 were made wrong:: The world market is-oversu lied •made up of twenty dour members re- to 70c; 1pose, .65 to 66c; storage ex- The cityhas been calledChristiania with mere faultfinders who don tiring at regular intervals' For some tree, in:cartons, 4$ to 49c; loose, 47 for the t'thre , s 9 tor 48c; story a firsts, 44 to 45c;pa a centuries, but it was thing but knock. Those who know so years the graduates of the Provincial g iter- called Oslo for the six centuries before University have been askingfor rep- age seconds poult 88 toH ns, that• 9d it is now much and ars content to know g nine res P Live outs, 18Hens; over 5 lbs., 13s, going back to tlie' ally do nothing, instead of doing more entation on the Board of Governors do, 4 to 5 lbs.; 18c; do, 8 to 41bs., 13c• name of Oslo, than the rest, In all directions help and to their requests tho Government. spring chickens, 2 lbs. and over, 23c; Oslo became Christiania three-cen= is needed. That help does not come complied by means -of an amendment, roosters, 12c; ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, turies ago after a conflagration which from those whose cynicism withers, ' in March, 1924, to the University Act. 18c;' geese, 20c; turkeys, 85c. wiped out the city and compelled Kin whose irony sears and chills whose Graduate members of the Alunani1 Dressed poultry—Hens, over'5 lbs., Christian IV to. build "a ew capital ' Federation :are now to select a anel'26c;•do, 4 to. 5 lbs:; 23c; do,8 to 4 P tongues are cutting implements, ! p lbs., 16c; spring chickens,. 2 bs, and of Norway across the bay from Oslo. of eight names to be submitted to the in his honor it was called Christiania. Indeed, the most self-sufficient—as over, 28e; roosters, 18c; ducklings, 5 they seem to us—are often longing Prime Minister and from this panel lbs, and up, 25c; geese, 21c; turkeys, During' the past three centuries, for the morsel of encouragementhe will select some or all for appoint- 38c. however, the suburbs have recrossed' in our power to bestow. There still liv in ment:to the Board_ of Governors. In! Beans—Can. hand-picked, 1b.,. 65' c; the bay and included the site of Oslo, each of us the child who .runs to his this way the Government's responsi-,Primes, 6c. and. the nationalistic spirit of Norway mother to be" petted and encouraged bility for the Provincial University! gBMl • to acts=a yrup, er imp, has emphasized its. old traditions. The. and told he has done well. will in no way be lessened and at the,,12e.40111 P 5 g •tin, 2.30 per Christiania Chamber of Commerce, in same time the graduates will have an:gs'1;maple sugar, lb., 13 to 26c• hailing the name of Oslo, announces To one whose hand is set to the I Honey -60-]b, tins, 13%c, per lb.; world's strenuous daily enterprise, opportunity to share in the governing ,10-1b. tins, 13;4c; 5-1b. tins, 14c; 234- that The Norway of to -day feels soft blandishments and honey -tongued of their own Alma Mater. Graduate lb, tins, 16 i/2 •to 16c, more than ever its unbroken contmu flattery are enervating. His first and mems s fthe Alumni Federation _ Smoked meats—Hams, reed,, 25 to ity with the Norway of Harold the best encouragement is to ace the work being asked to send in nom- 26c;. cooked hams, 87. to 38c; smoked fair-haired •who founded Oslo as his go forward, as he and his mates toil inations, balloting will -follow' after rolls, 18. to 20c; cottage rolls, 21 to 'capital in 1047. loyally together. They face all we three weeks and, early in February, there; surmount all crises, endure all the names will be submitted to the grief and hazard; and in the darkest Prime Minister. hour, though they may say little, they' will be found giving each other the i steadying hand, the heartening word. Foreign Population of Paris that comes with the force of new regi Estimated at 620,865 ments to soldiers hard beset. "Good Americans go to Paris when $250,000 Property'Loss they die,' is the saying here, says a peg Paris despatch. To their• infinite num- by Fire at Winnibers must be added 38,623 living citi- A despatch from Winnipeg says ,tens of' the United States now in Fire, starting in the elevator shaft on • Paris. They are presumably, good, the second floor, Christmas Eve, prac police they have satisility fied the tas rsidents Parieian tically destroyed the Werner Block,; and havet1earnedheir saplace in the census in the wholesale district here. The returns. damage was estimated at $260,000.1 Italians, it wouldseem refer earn - There was no one in the premises ati • i.P the time. mg a good living now, in preference Fought in bitterly cold weather, the Ito enjoying Paris in future incarne- fire was one of the mast stubborn ex- i 5ion,since there are registered withless than lice. perienced by the city brigade in sev-i Mot them onsofHe the are em- .+ Most of these sons . Italy em- eriti years, and at one time threatened' ployed in the building trades in and a cafe and adjoining hotel. The owe- around Paris. -• «•a.. r:... , :: pants were preparing *to leave when the flames were brought under con -1 Belgians come next with 96,457. I The Russians total 56,909 and :the The bow of the newest of American submarines, the V.1, has the appear - ural shortly after midnight, an hour+ Swiss, 53,571. The total number of since of the bead of a giant whale. The undersea dreadnought Is now in New after the first alarm was sounded, foreigners registered as residents of York, being inade ready for its trial trip to Portsmouth. The block was occupied by several Paris and its suburbs amounts to 620,- wholesale firms, the heaviest losers being the Werner Drug Co. and the' 865, of a population of 4,500,000. Van Berk -yl -Product Go. • Fourteen -Year -Old Girl Term "Fresh Egg" Explained by French Court Has Sight Restored A des etch from Paris.sa s:— A despatch from Louisville, Ky., psays :-Joy came to Elsie Day, 14, pa - After three days of ponderous•delib- eration, a French court has decided tient in the Kentucky School for the just what is a fresh egg. It is an egg Blind, Christmas morning, when she not more than two weeks old in Sum- looked at the first dol she had ever mer or three weeks in Winter. Dealers seen, her gift. from S'mta Claus. who sold older eggs as fresh were Sight itself is new to Elsie, For given fifteen days in jail and fitted 300 as long as she coal_ i remember she francs. The court also defined the rad been blind, Two weeks ago she three classes egg. First is the egg a was admitted to the school, and two la coque; that is, young enough to• ('i'crations, four days alai 1, ;;ave her sinht. In two weeks she "'mill go 'eves to southeastern 'Kentucky to .greet her father, mother and a blind brother. Elsie has never' seen "them boil; second, the egg still fresh, though laid over a fortnight, but not artificial- ly preserved; third, the preserved' egg. Hereafter eggs must bear their proper label. British Leaders Protected from Stage Jokes Prominent British politicians have been protected from' the irreverent chaffing's of theatre coreedinns by re- cent rulings of the Lord Chamberlain, the official responsible for censoring plays and songs, says a London de - pa c . 'His most recent ruling was against a West End company which was about to produce a new edition ,of its frothy musical revue: One of the songs in the piece was not allowed to be sung because in it four eminent politicians; —Austen Chamberlain, Weston Churchill, Ramsay MacDonald and David Lloyd George—were per rayed in a lightsome vein. From Nova Scotia to Rome in Canoe and Steamship • A kind-hearted gentleman conceived. the idea` that a Homo should be estab- lishedfor blind babies or , children, His kindness was Christ -like, His method was unscientific, :It is not enough to have Christian or human- itarian"sympathies. Sympathy and social science should' be ,syn he{n ed. Our kind hearted friend should have studied the whole subject before jump- ing to the conclusion that a Home should be estahlitliecl. We would have sought diligently. for answers to such questions as these: "Are there many blind babies?'' "Why should there bo any?" "Should blind babies he taken away from their mothers?" "Would • the mother part with them?" "If so, ought not the babies to be placed in foster hones until they are old enough- to go to' a school for the blind?" As a matter of fact, there are not many blind babies. There ought to be none. Blindness in babies is air most, wholly preventable if doctors and nurses' and mid -wives' are as care- ful and skillful as they"orteht to be. He had raised about $2,000 for the Home. This money, until lately, was Ion the hands of the trustees, who were perplexed to know what to do with it. They took counsel of an experienced so'ial leader who, advised them to con- sult with the Canadian National In- stitute for n-stitute,for the Blind.• This they did. with the result that tale money is be- ing handed over to the Institute to be used for the purpose of either caring for or giving sight to blind children, which is` often possible,: or in their' educational work for the. prevention of blindness in babies by securing proper care et their birth. A simple solution applied to the eyes of the new Ppl born babe inalcrs sure that it will not be blind oven tlione•h there were in its eyes the seeds .o f blindness •because of disease of the mother. One stitch blind child recently .in a west"rn-village was discovered by a worker for the Institute for the Blind, taken to a city, operated on, had its sight restored or bestowed and is now. happy in God's - sunlight .and in ell the matchless beauty of the world and faces life almost wholly unhandicep- ped. How much better to put this money to such use rather than to establish a new "Institution to be a burden and a' source of perplexity to future generations of kindly disposed ' people? • , Another fad of kindly but socially untrained people, is to .launch the building of great orphanages for little ehf'dren. Any worker of'eocial ex- perience knows that to place.these little orphans out in private foster homes is a math Wiser thing.and much less expensive. The only use of an orphanage is to house and care for orphan or neglected :children until such time as foster homes can be se- cured for -them. And this is what the best orphanages are seeking diligent. 1y to do,—Dr. J. G. Shearer. Pioneering in the Forest:. Probably few are closer to the actual forest than the farmer. As the pion- eer he is opening up the country to settlement and living on the very edge of the primeval. forest. As such, no one stands to suffer:more from forest; fires. Ile usually has his all—family , and possessions -beneath the roof of his first :homestead. Clearing, of course, must be done, and clearing fires are'neceseary, but care must be exercised in the setting 'of crating flees. Settlers should get in touch with their nearest forest ranger, who is well acquainted with the danger of : uncontrolled fires, He will advise when it is safe for clearing firea to ba set and : if conditions are fa, ,.able, will issue a burning permit. In another form also the for._t ap- peals to the farmer. It is large'.y in the forest and wooded areas that he obtains his sport, Bunting and =hoot- ing is usually the fat rite recreation of the farmer and, his family. With - et the forest, or with nothir•r within Es reach except:' a partially eurnod ooer area in his immediate'nnarbor- hood, he would greatly miss this ,i.ea- sure. Tho latest 'figures available„ give. the amount of firewood cut in Cararla., annuallyy as nearly nine million cords The larger centres -of .population 'tile. coal chiefly for heatingimposes. :'t is the rural districts, therefore, that are more .intenseiy, interested in ` ie: weed, not only because it menu ti;- f•>rt in winter but it e:so provides a great deal of enmplmnncr.t to the so who require to help out the farm income In many portions of Canada large quantities of railway ties, tciephone poles, pulpwood, etc., are tak'n out every year and sold by settler.a. ,rho, with a burned forest would he with- out this welcome help. Then again, from the larger rind-' point, the farmer, is .interested in ,e protection of the forest because it:: means so iituch.iit the wealth of Con - da and Canada to hini means home.: fuer agriculture, the ferest at:ri for" st products are . the tirgest c ass of ue exports, and go a tong way to pay or those things which we find neves ary but which wears unable to pro use or have an insufficient qu ;ntity.' There is constant danger or Forest res, and the farmers of Canada ciin' o a great .deal, personally Ind by ntere oting other,, to assure a con- inuance of the forests, "with all they moan as recreational legions, tact simpplies and, where' necessary, em • The night watchman on the house= boat of•Marshal Joflre, a popular res- tuarant in Paris well known to tour- ists, was startled the other night when. a canoe drew up out of the darkness on the Seine and. its occupant jumped on the deck. The visitor asked if he could leave his canoe on the deck of the houseboat. Permission was greet- ed. The watchman politely asked where the visitor had come from, The1 latter answered, "Nova Scotia." The paddler was George Smyth, the navigator, who is malting his way by canoe from -Nova Scotia to Rome, His trip so far has b,eon successful, and with the exception of " the Atlanticcrossing, which necessitated passage on a steamship, he has made his way ai--one with the help of a stalwart paddle. The English 'Channel . represouted the most difficult leg; of his European travels and it tools two attempts for him to snake the.French •coast. On his first trip from Dover to Calais a wave washed his ;compass overboard. He was forced' to put -,back toward the English coast and was picked up at the South Goodwin' Lightship after fourteen, hours at 'sea. Most, if the time he was forced to' keep bath)" out his canoe and barely escaped being sswamped.Smyth immediately paddled ,bail. to Dover alter this unsuccessful attempt aandthe next day started out again, This time he was able to preceei do a a A straight course for 'Fratice. 'rein Calais -he to Paris by river and ,;d canal, the most pleasant part of his trip, according to his reports. ;ills route from`P,aris lies up the Seine' into d the `old Burgundy Canal, down the i Saone and then the' Rhone, coming; into t the Mediterranean at.Marseilles. 1)e uwill.sacirt the shores of the L1eclitei- ranean until he reaches the `mouth of tlie ilrno, and then paddle up this stream into the Tiberand thence to Koine. ' The trip from Paris to Rwna will take :,bout ten weeks, ,I, ployment.. There isnothin Flike work to make' ako' 'person who meselythinks he is busy realize how idle he has been. E �1