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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-11-30, Page 3THURSDAY, .NOVEMBER 30, 1933 THE SEAFORTH NEWS. ., v� �r L.�' -.0"r YJ�}. txrl ry'.]H`:: 3n,�+,a.MF•F idle Are Se111nq Quality Books:. • Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean - and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Oyler. The Seaforth A RICH GIRL INew York.—Doris 'Duke, ' slender, •fair-haired, cloistered-1became the world's richest' girl a.t" midnight the other night. ,;She was u1' then and name into control of a third of the IDiske fortune. Her attorneys would not estimate he amount, pointing out shalt daily marlcet c'a'pers affected greatly such stuipe'ttldotts investment. 'However, approxjnt'ately $110,000,000 passed into her hands 'when 'the clock ;struck twelve. Her entire legacy has 'bleu estimated at 1$30,000•;000. She will 'get :another third at 95 and the last third at i30. There was no'legal or .social hullabaloo when the money en- tered her possession. The law simply declared the girl is the legal owner of some millions sof dollars. Money has' never meant notch in Miss Dtike's life, 'Her father, the late j a i' 'wilt IJa'mes !Bu'chanan Duke, b up fortune in North ,Carolina and 's'w*gilled it in the money marts of'the' world. Water 'power devolopments, tobacco 'interests and investments int -many ,other fields amassed the Duke fort - "I widish," she said once, "I could go into a store and shop dor things just as any girl:" IBut.she can't.!A flock of detectives guard her trail and ,chaperones accom- pany cher everywhere she goes. At- tempts are made to conceal her•'idem- 'tity-when she travels because of fre- quent reported kidnap threats. Miss Duke ;sometimes v1'alks''about INew York, apparently :alone, and us- ually not recognized by the crowds, Ibart 'al:ways detectives are.in her sha- 'd'ow and a ,rihaperone,follows in an 'hint and he said: "Oh, no, I guess it automobile. wasn't 9 o'clock. It bwas 19.30." She owns a town house On'East �7Sth 'According to the a,titneter' within. 'street, ,New York,' a 15,000 acre estate 'the gondola; Major Fordmey said the. at 'Somerville, IN.'J,, a castle at `New- highest altitude reached was 59,000 posit, an estate 'in'North 'Carolina and another estate at !Antibes. (Her Iflather's dotal fortune was •esti- 'm'ated at 1�110I11,000,000 ,when the died in. .' Of net estate il9I715, 'Two-thirds of the went to 'end'olwmerats and charities. A rival for:the 'title of r'iches't girl ' v was ''born 'lias,t week 'to Mrs. David K. Hata }11 IPittslburgh. 'T'hsa l'i'ttle 'daugih- ter is the first 'grandchild o'f 'And'rlw W. 1ialellen, Who, it is e's'tim'a'ted 'hes nearly $300,0100,000 to divide 'between Mrs,. Bruce land his only other child, ,Paul, now in college, and their heirs, present and'fu�ture. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. News PAGE THREE The most •protilfsieg nwthod, which has been successfully used by various: golf clubs, is that of using apievenlive treatment whichcan be applied the Previous, fall, and which will serve to Protect the turf throughout the latae falai, winter, and early spring. The treatment is as foll5ows:.Mix 3 ounces •calomel' with !l 09055 of-corros've stibl'miate with dry sharp sand in an eigh't-quart bucket about :three-quar- ters •full of sand, dor every 1,000 square. feet of turf surface, It is essential 'that. the size of 'the area to be 'treated be fahly accurately known, as mercury is quite toxic .to the turf when Used in excessive amounts. The fungicide should the thoroughly mixed. with -'a small quantity of Windy screened, sand or cotnpost if fall applications are to be made. ;It is preferable to allow the mixture to s'taud over night.' This mix- ture should be distributed evenly over the turf. Since mercury is corrisive to me'ta'ls and very poisonous care should be exercised, Fresh (Supplies in ,Demand.—.Where- ever Dr. Thomas' Eclectric. Oil has been introduced increased ' supplies have been ordered, showing that wherever 'it goes this excellent,' Oil impresses its power on the people, No matter in what latitude it stay be found its ,potency is neder impaired. It is put up hi most portable shape in bottles and can be. carried without fear of breakage. DUTIES. OF TREASURERS AND AUDITORS task of audititrg in the belief that there is concealed fraud tivliich he has to discover, and in any event the kind' of audit given wvas that which the county paid_ for. f11c proper autbi Lit., of c milt:. lln- alces'is a diffictll't and inittrat, un- dertaking for ;heti not $Pec'ially train - cd in accountancy. Not only is it the duty of the county auditor, to see that the correct: amounts have been paid to the proper Persons and vouch- ers 'prodti'ced therefor, but they re- quire to be familiar with the 'M'enici- pal Act, aed many other statutes, and also with the bylaws and proceed- ings of county-coilcil:in order to as- certain that the treasurer has been aii- thorized.to make suelt pttyn en1s, This is their, work in conueeti:,5; with and iting the 'payments made by thetrreas- user, but a more difficult task is the auditing of his receipts, How are the auditors; to verify whatmonies the treasurer has received or should have received? In large counties such as Bruce, with thirty-one local ni iieip- alities,'the.''local' treasurers from time to 11195' forward the county treasurer payments on, various accounts—coun- ty rates, cost of maintenance of indig- ent patients, costs of highway con- struction work, and other'.,. payments. Here the Municipal Act helps out.. Section 236 provides as follows; "Every, treasurer, on or before the 7th day of Janizary in each year, shall transmit by registered post to the head of every municipality to whose treasurer he has made any payment during the year ended on the 31st day of the -next preceding December' a statement signed by him setting forth everysuch payment and the date of (Ghesley ,Enterprise) The recent defalcations of the treas- urers of the counties of Renfrew and Huron, involving in the case of Ren- frew a shortage of over -'111117,000,00 and in the case' of Huron over $111,000 have been the .subject ofJim ch news- paper comment and the ,proceedings MAKE NEW RECORD In the case of a chemical 'burn the rest of his career was that of a phil- its each case have been watched with i Ny! ,--iA•inerica's first first thing to do is to remove the of- anthropist. • interest by municipal cot ncil and off - stratosphere ',Bridgetown, 1 J balloon jolted to rest its fending substance; water poured Dov- tDoctor J'olnson disapproved `him as icials and. by the, taxpayers in general •west of Bridge- er the injured surface will do best; if a radical and a ubiquitous social busy -1 throughout the 'Province. The startl- the t'515 land south '- �0!eh. a man has dropped so'mach caustic body, saying scornfully that • he "ac- I ung discicsures. in these cases will no tong at ilnd ds Nov.N'ov.if that t has wired some reputation by travelling • doubt 'result in the attention of the •As"Hundreds of persons scare sec � Leislatttre being directed' at its next 1 1 acid or alkali on himself t 11 n to q d 't through his clothes and is eat- abroad but lost it alt by travelling atI the pine woods, cranberry bogs an ea'ten •n southern New Jer- 'ing 1,110 his skin a good plan is to turn home." But how could Doctor John- 'session to amendments to the 3lisc aey, cultivated farms t se Settle Elena_ s aide,der T. G.VIr.Tex the base on him while he takes -off son, cousunter, of tea -cup after tea- ipal Act with a� mien- of more fully hi Frdsey, slept hMaj. Chester L. his clothing as duiclely as, possible. cup:of strong tea to an incredible to- 'protecting She municipalities from night When all the caustic has been washed tal, be expected 10 approve 01 the au- loss through the misconduct of ineont.. wrapped, slept..through theg off the chemical antidote should be thor of "An Essay Upon :Tea, con- potent or unscrupulous officials: wrar bi ,b in n, awaitintedg fabric of As the law now stands -every muni - At big �ba'lloon, daybreak. applied by irrigation or mopping; van- sidered as _pernicious to 1-Iealth, ob- theirg and water is best for an alkali•'structing Industry, and impoverish- cipal treasurer is required to give through a.m. MajoraryFordney arkingudg- egarsuch securityas the council directs ed the marsh. lands, Walking; burn„ bicarbonate of soda solution for ing tate Nation"7 un h d the an acid burn. That treatment will n -e- !Because of his generous bequests 'for the faithful performance of his farmtil house a.m.,of when,hereached lieve the pain and if the burn is of the and philanthropies, Jonas Hallway, duty,,the security to be a bond of a ' s sou we S. N. Johnston, surety company, unless the council rine miles southwestofBridgeton, .first degree it may be all that is need,. was burled in �iVestminster' Abbey; tby resolution, authorizes a bond of "I'm hungry and I'd like to use the cd. Usually, however, it is advisable but - it is to be feared that of the Itis the dut • of the "g aannounced Major to apply .also an ointment of oxide of many thousand Americans who ani- personal 'sureties.} Fcrd ey the stlyartled J mall Abbey,sound!, at a meeting held not later Fordney to the startled farmer: Then zinc or boric acid. y visit the great looking Burns of tate second and third de- for the Poet's Corner and the tombs, than the lath of ;February in each be. took up the telephone and notified I year, to r loth cr the production before were safe. gree should be snipped at the bottom of kings, ,few spare a •glance for the bond to see that the theworld the v r such bo Y itofeey "We had a deli delightful and untoward oe a'. - ' g .� r' must be taken not to tear off the ten- the shelter of whose greatest contra- trip," Major Fordney said, except is by personal sureties, to see that so fast we had' to der covering, Then, after the surface bution to' social comfort it is more that we carne' down s , -1 such sureties have not died since the throw things overboard as fast as we ate f London the • 'have proceeded bond w'as given or that their financrt , solution and patted dry with sterile o ,- y A impaired i❑ the could to lighten ship. tioif Too often alas standing has not been p "Although was:a tett rapid1 � should be to their destination. .' i ime, This requirement of to 1 gpretty, mean:bine. q t let it the Fluid dram away but care tomb of the gallant innovator, under sante is kept renewed, or if the bond has been irrigated with a boric -acid than probable, considering the corn. 1 absorbent cotton the part to tf o crcd with a paraiful dressing, pro m a careless world the memory of 1 lauding, neither of us was liar., We tools -our bearings, saw, we were ii. meshy ground, surrounded by woods and that it ,would be best just to put tap'for the night. So we got out of the gondola, wrapped up in, .the balloon and slept for the night. "Leaving "Tex" to stand watch ov- er the balloon, I struck out for civil- ization at 8.x14," iAt chis point Major IFordney show- ed he was still uncertain of the time by saying he had reached the farm- house at 9 aan. A bystander corrected Life's Changing Outlook how Have you ever pthought plans of in- secure are the epees and p the poor, who, dependent upon outlook daily earnings, find life's outlook so greatly changed when sickness comes? They bear a double cross, for in addition to physical suffering', poverty stares them in the face. There is one disease most dreaded by this class. It is consumption, which, fostered by their mode of life, preys upon them. Nourishing food, fresh air, rest,. the only known cure,is beyond their means. - What theis tobedons? There is no alternative. They must be helped. The Toronto and Muskoka Hospi- tals for Consumptives: with their new .buildings,: cats give better ser - Vice now than ever before, their only handicap. being lack of suffi- cient funds. There -. are but few patients 'who can pay anything' to- wards their keel. .There is NOT CNI: for whom the whole, cost of maintenance is received. For the difference, amounting. to many. thousands of dollars in the year, those institutions must look to .you and to other warm hearted friends. Will you please send what you. can to College Street, Toronto Treasurer, as determined by experts'was' over 61,000 'feet, which constitutes '` a new official 'world. record. II•n landing ;they lost photo plates, \4aljor Fordney said, and some other accessories.. He said they were"fort- unate 10 ,preserving alt essential equip- ment. The balloon was not. seriously da'maged. "Lt's a perlfectly beautiful sight, as, you' look off the gondola, a clear beau- tiful blue; yes, it's distinctly blue."— That was ,the report raclzocast di.r ect from the. balloon. The take -off was made at Akron in the morning and they were continually in touch with the' world by radio ,until about 14,30 when the 'balloonists "tihre'w out tate. batteries'of their transniitti,tg,•appar- atrus to ligh' tea the ballast load at that time. c v • - tl thick. layer of absorbent ancient benefactors is fo•gotten as I law is one that is nacre honored m tie t l y sec ec with ''The head of the municipality shall cause every such statement received by him to be read at the a test meeting of the council ,after the receipt; of it, and to be delivered to the auditors be- fore the audit of the.accounts for tate year to: which the statement relate:." 'But in addition to such payments received from the local treasurers the county 'treasurer receives lnany.. pay- ments from other sources, such as 'Government grants for education, highway construction, administration of justice; and payments from private individuals who have -dealngs with the comity, as itt the case of moneys raid to redeem land sold for taxes, the amount of license fees, the am - aunts paid by paying impales at the house of refuge and other such pay- ments. Here is tchere the auditors would have to be on their guard is they have any misgivings as to the honesty of the treasurer, In tite•eotut- ty of Renfrew the auditor- assumed that the entries of cash receipts in the comity treasurer's cash book repres- ented had actually e:t'ted all the money to ac - received, whereas by concealing cer- tain received payments �he sac Main of the pal s from time to time during a period of six years he had misappropriated to Himself county funds to the amount of over $1111,000.00, In the case of the defaulting treas- erer of Huron the method of proced- ure was different and more easy of detection. It appears that in the coun- ty of Huron the bylaws authorized the treasurer to issue cheques over 'his. odyn -signature alone, without the same being countersigned by the warden, and this raises the question as to how far this lack of countersigning should be allowed to go, In towns and villages, and even in 'townships, it is quite practicable for the cotulcil to enact that all cheques be signed by the reeve and treasurer, as when -moneys are required to be disbursed ort short notice the reeve is generally- available to sign cheques. fin the case of the county, the matter is different—the warden, except -dur- ing sessions ot the county council, is - generally many stiles away from the treasurer's office and if the sheriff, calls on the treasurer with a jury pay list or list of fees payable to Crown° witnesses the treasurer is by statute required to forthwith pay the am- ounts called for; the jurors and wit- nesses must have their fees is cash 'before leaving for their hooses. It would be expensive to have the war- den attend all sessions of the courts in d ,ch Cheques for jur- ors to have signer eq sJ ors and witnesses. There ate luany cases in 91)1511 the treasurer is requir- ed by statute to pay: out moneys forthwith -book for'the registry of- fice, Division Courts, certain officials of the courts on the certificate of'the inspector of legal offices, wolf 'boun- ties on the production of wolf skins, insurance renewal premiums, and oth- er instances might. be mentioned. It would therefore seem reascitable that in such'cases' the county treasurer ill itst have the right to- disburse, funds { a cotton and held in place with a bat;Y casil • as an umbrella. breach than in the observance of it, dage. The dressing should he changed as often as the discharges,fronl the SNOW -MOULD TURF INJURY CHEMICAL BURNS ,Strictlyy speaking, .a burn• is caused by heat,' but the injuries, that sarong acids or alkalies inflict are so similar to real kerns that it isiconvenient to 'call them burns ariso. The injuries caused by such cau•sttics. are of three degrees. The first includes simple' in- fianvnatiott and perhaps blistering; the second more or less eating away of the stein; and the third, real dent- ruction of tthe tissue's. The most com- mon caestilt•5 are strong nitric acs d, Potash or soda lye and slaking 'lime; less common are chloride of zinc and acid nitrate of mercury. woundyloosen it. for in the minutes of local councils as published we rarely see a report of the treasurer's bond being laid on the table and its validity considered by 1t OR OF UMBRELLA five years since the During the past three years, the the council. 'While it is also a statut- it introduction of ,ology, at 'Edmonton, Alberta, has I yearly on the condition and sufficiency : It is about one hundred and eighty - INVENT 'Dominion Laboratory of IP'lant Path- I ory duty of the auditors to report timbre'llas into 'England. :'•Recently ong articles appeared in the Europ- can press commemorating the life and doings of the 'British merchant and plhilant'hropis't, Jonas IIrailway, 'bold personage w'ho, despite the jeers of the rabble and the politely superior smiles of their. betters, first ventured upon the streets of rainy London pro- tected by an umbrella. alt was not until found that the most 'important single factor of the .cause of winter injury;to .awns or .putting greens is due to a parasite called snow -mould. The sym- ptoms are first recognized as soon as the. 5110 w' melts in the spring. As soon as the grass starts to grow, dead areas are found in the 'turf, which is some- times covered with an aerial growth of the -snow -mould fungus. The fungus is Often found to be growiaig into and thirty years later than the innovation ;through the snow and ice over tile turf. This fungus attacks the plants, am Je ,foll'owed. Mingled- with the P as fulls accepted .anid his discreet ex- killing the reaves, stems and roots, hoots off 'the rowdy element that greet7 thus destroyinq:the crown of the plant ed Mr, I3an•way's "stout and ample ISucb 'plants 'd'o not usually recover, 1 :, � u th,irs. patches, somewhat c'� 1 t : trcular fiercer yells and o'hjurgations of two in outline, often coalescing and cov- profession'aily jealous classes—the eringa'large area are found. drivers of hackney coaches and the The organisin causingsnow-mould 'bearers of sedan chairs, 1x10 feared has isolated, inoculated into heal - pioneer umbrella •had tbeen the even to lose the brisker trade they alwv<ays enjoyed in bad weather. J'onnas,'H:au'way, horn in. 11111?, Jived until 117186., H1e was the' contemporary of Fanny 'Burney .and Doctor Johm- son, both of wh'oin had something to: say about 'him sitibis later year, Miss 'Burney' described' him as "very lo- quacious, extra o-quacious,'extra fond• of talkit g of what 'he had seed,,' •and ^beard and would 'be very entertaining were he Jess addicted to retail anecdotes and reports from arews'papers." No doubt the clever lady -novelist right; Y g what the' garrulous old gentleman had Been and heard personally, could he have confined himself to that, could scarcely have failed to be in'terestiii . for the ca: eriences 'of his life 4 P as a nierciiant-traveler i0el uled perilous voyages b}- land and sea in Russia and tate neat' East, fighting "ofd iirates pirates, having his caravan plundered by re- volutionaries, and dealing with '.senti- batita,ric chieftains atsd potentates. I is active life as a traded; ceased when lie inherited a fortune, and the bhy plants, `re -isolated, and identified by plant ipatliologists in 'Europe and (America. 'Coeltrol of snow-niould itas been attempted in different ways with 'varying degrees of success, Obviously 'the provision for adequate surface drainage, although it niay aid, will not alone control the disease. The use of resistant varieties of grass w-oitltl be ileal, but vnfor'tttnately..there are ap- parently no resistant varieties now - o l e, '3leclianica'l attrition, or 'brush- ing tile 'turf, undoubtedly can be util- ized in reducing the damage once it becomes' evident 'that show -mond present, 'However, this alone will not control the disease. Removal of the snow from the turf early, in the spring before nieltinig starts, is also helpful, but, tinforftinately in some years ws'hen the snow nea'rest tate surface is frozen, ita'is alnios:t impossible to, carry, this 0111 11-bitout injuring the turf. g Therefore, e ore, tibptnt the only other al ter�naltive is the use of fungicides or chemicals for l:iliing the parasite, but not the turf, of the security of the treasurer the Act specifically states that this shall not relieve the council from the per- formance of their ,dutyas above ,men- tioned. It is also the duty of the coun- cil to prescribe by bidaw the proced- ure to be followed by the treasurer in the receiving and ,paying out of the municipal funds, and to designate the officials by 91)0111 the cheques or or- ders are to be signed—usually the head of the council countersigns the cheques issued by the treasurer. Hav- ing arranged .all these matters -mad having appointed two ormore-audi- tors as required by statute the coun- cil has performed its whole duty., and the safeguarding of the corporate fundis devolves on the treasurer and auditors, on whose honesty and ef- ficiency the taxpayers -must ten rely. es not speci- fyThe Municipal Alt alp p fy any particular qualifications for auditors, except that no:pea on who was during the preceding year a mem- ber of the council or had during such year .any contract or employment with the corporation ed. The council may a firm of chartered 1n ) rs ns whom t Y le a0 qualified for the worl cepa the position, au 1)ligation to perform reasoitatbly careful an then 0 i P r shalt be appoint- ed. appoint accountants O1 they may deem Once they ac- cept are under their dttt}' in a d skilful manner, heir. liability for treasurer tour will take uvto consideration their ex- erroine "by having a Small drawi'n'g 1 asience and remuneration in deter- count for •the : treasurer, to pay stipul- miniitg tate degree Of skill that s'houlcf ate(' expenses). he exercised in the performance of their duties. Til the Retrfrew case \dr, Tit ' hut, in considering„ on his ow'tt signature. Clefalcatrons by the t'. (This difficulty c'ou.lcl be readily ov- sties R,r,ght exonerated •tlie' audi- tors, and on appeal by the county his decision ti'as confirmed by the Court sf !\pseal,-the count holding ' that while an auditor is bound to be on the alert, he is not. bound to approach the 'Pnnthache, and neuralgia are it1- aiitaetln 'It' lieved '.•: mith : Douglas' '.e)-5fian Liifiment. `A quick,' sure rc- nteiiv. .\1so recommended for bursts spreirgs sores and iti`flamin ati'oti.