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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1930-01-23, Page 6ingbailn Advance -Times. Published at WINGHAM - ONTARIO Every 'Thursday Morning W. Logan. Craig, Publisher Subscription rates — One year $L,oO. Six mouths $z:oo, in advance. To U. S, A. $:a,$o per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class . of insur- ance at reasonable rates. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODO Office in Chisholm Block "EIRE, OPE, ACCIDENT AND -- HEALTH INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE • P. O. Box 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSEIFIELD Barrister,Solicitor Notary,. Etc. oney to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money ane to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario 1 A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and. Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR.' ROB'T. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S.` (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, ,'Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of . Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON la DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office Adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. . Sundays by -appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town : and night calls res- ponded to, All business confidential. Phone, 601-13. DATE PALMS IN ALCI ni I1X.ek- r3evett 144iilliori Tr'eces Give to Desert! Shade and Food, Cultivation of the date palm in At- eria is constantly increasing with the; result that larger tracts ox the desert are lying under the shade of their leaves and exports :abroad of the fruit are, mounting, Facts pub- lished by La Jour nee Industrielle make interesting reading: For hundreds cit years the Arabs have been nourished in part by the fruit of these trees, and the French occupation has led to the develop- ment of this natural industry. At- tempts to introduce the palm to the civilization of the coast failed signal- ly in one respect: Though the trees retained their artistic form they. yielded no fruit. They required the Constant refreshing of subterranean waters, an habitual heat, and com- plete dryness of atmosphere, and these the desert supplied. At Figuig, on the Algerian -Moroccan . frontier, is an oasis with 300,000 date palms, and at similar places it is possible to utilize the shade for the planting of market gardens and fruit' groves. The sweet "Degel-Noor" date is the variety which is almost solely ea• ported. The name means, poetically, "finger of light," after its amber color and succulence. Of the 110,000 quintals of dates sent each year Prom Algeria,, slightly more than 100,000 are Degel-Nours, and of these the largest and finest come from Bout. The date called "Ghars," or "robust," is produced to the extent of 600,000 quintals, as compared with the total of 250,000 of the Degel-Nours, but the.Ghars is consumed almost entire- ly in the oases of the Algerian Sa- hara. It is an abundant fruit of a bay color and teeming with a fluid from which is made the "date honey" of the desert. The pulp left after this is extracted is ,sold to the caravans. under the name of "date bread." The "Degla-heida," or "white fin- ger," is a date that goes to the north and central parts of Algeria and; is bought by the city dweller and no- mad. The quantity grown almost equals that of the Ghars. In Algeria,. altogether, there are some 7,000,000 date palms clustered into olive -toned masses here and there over th e yel- low sands, almost sure signs of water and human habitation. France ab- sorbs to -day more than 90 per cent', of all the dates exported, and efforts are being made to educate the na- tives to improve their methods of sorting and packing the fruit. Spain and Morocco take a fair amount of what is left, also Tunis, and relative- ly small shipments find their way chiefly to England, Germany, and the Balkans. The date Palm not only yields its fruit for commercial purposes. The leaves are used in making the native ceilings of their dwellings, and are woven for cradles and baskets; with the thorns the wool is carded; from the stalks wood for carpentry is fur- nished, and even the twigs are burnt or have theirr other uses. The date palm is the best tree -friend of the Arabs, and the French are taking pains to insure the progressive aug- mentations of its cultivation. In a quarter` of a century exports have quintupled. . J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS , PRACTICE 'ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by Appointment. Phone 191. 1 D. McE v E,N LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14. Sales of Farm' Stock and 'Imple• &nennts, Real Estate, etc., conducted with satisfaction and at moderate Onions as Weather Prophets. Almost every animal, bird, insect, tree, and plant is regarded as a wea- ther portent of some sort in different parts of the world. In the autumn moles prepare a kind of clay basin in which - they store their winter's supply of worms. When the winter will be mild, there are few of these basins, but many basins indicate a hard winter. It is also said that moles leave the valleys before floods come, and that thei presence in meadows promises fair weather. A hard winter is said to be coming when leaves are late in falling, when sparrows get busy with their nests late in the year, and when berries are plentiful. When an onion skin is very thin it WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR • lof good in every husk of Hardship, this chapter -arrived at the 'O d Sol - "I knew you'd do it," Maryella cop- Idier's Home at three -thirty • ti'ithout Tom Bilbeck is the narrator. He ratulated• "You'll find it /stakes ev- having to stop for anything! tun 1 b g , erything look so different! "Some problems are harder than CHAPTER IV others, . of course. On of the very, Comrade Pilk :Henwether irst hins'. that struck me this morn 1 have never received a more royal f things trig was remembering about your be -welcome than that tendered us by hal ingI couldn t fi are out those livingat the Home. They c g any way; that it could be all for the best, but finally I got it. Jim Cooper helped hie." "Oh, he did," I said truculently. "What cheerful outlook could you two get on. the. dark fact that 1 am laid out in curves like, a park, instead of straight like a city street?" "We decided that it was all for the best because if it wasn't for 'the cur •er Page shied and nearly jumped into s ve you would probably be so,tali that the ditch.'The air was "The Star- your1 Y head would bump the ceiling. Spangled Banner," but the slide from After we got that one everything else bonist evidently had the wrong music. was easy." • 13ut what a bass -drum virtuoso! What was the use of being angry I have' never beard a .bass -drum with her? She evidently regarded niy curves impersonally, as if they were some freak of nature impossible to explain, like •theGrand Canon or Nia- gara Falls. It was more fun being with Maryella than against her in a .h u discussion, so 'I' willingly let the sub- ject b jcct drop. Adopting our new code, I. decided that it was all:for the best. 15 a fat newspaper writer who drives a tumble-down car be calls Grand- mother Page• He is in love with Maryella, his rival being Jim Coop- er, The three are memt' rs of an am- lie dramatic roc Plans.. for a areagroup, , i::r Home are olds I -I play at the Old S tinder way. Grandmother Page has engine trouble while Maryella is out driving with Bilbeck, and Cooper, passing in a big roadster, taunts him, After Maryella has left Bilbeck is able to start his car again.- - The amateur players are to give Pygmalion and Galatea at .the- Old Soldiers' Home. In their version Bil- beck is to act as the statue, and Mary- ella despairs when she discovers his bow legs. Mrs. Hemingway ' later flatters Bilbeck and talks to him -a- bout the play, Bilbeck' pats her hand, onlyto find a rough hand grasping him by the shoulder and lifting him out of his seat. The escape of prisoners from the local penitentiary keeps Bilbeck busy at his newspaper work, • so , that he gets away from,the dramatic group. But Maryella summons hill, and starts telling the story of "Dollyanna'' who believes that everything that hap -"How long before you'll be' through ing its a •magnificent cresendo, a sort with that?" Maryella asked Mrs. Hem- of tone -picture of 'a courtship be - "The pens turas out to be for the best. - heard us coming a long way'down the road—that is one of the advantages' Graf drnother Page has over most cars —and when we came around the turn the'Home Band burst into melody. "Burst". is absolutely the correct worst, as you would realize if you had heard the sound and had seen the. ex- pression of the'players. Gran'dmoth played:more feelingly, even in Sousa's Band. What expression, what shades of meaning the artist put into it! You could just picture the bombs burst- ing in air, First came the boiler -fac- tory motif, then a minor: counterpoint Y , melody of : bursting quick -detachable tire, and :finally a reversion to the original theme in the major key end- NOW nd NOW GO.ON WITH THE STORY "She is a sweet child," 1 said ad- miringly." "But she doesri t • die, so it is all right," Maryella hastened to reassure me. "There is a great lesson in the book though, and if every one would lake it to heart this 'World would be a better place to live in. Don't ,you- think so?" I looked at Maryella's eyes sharply. I.never: can tell from the rest of her face whether she is in earnest or not. She was perfectly serious. "Yes." I admitted cautiously. • "All we can do," she went on, "is to make a beginning; but maybe oth- ers when they see how beautifully it works will follow our' example.' "Us?" T questioned in alarm. Whs.. +` c,(;aale rrr, nd the Turn the Horne Band Burst into Melody iningway, who was pinning ruffles on ? a curious -looking garinent. Whom do you mean by 'us'?" r tmati Club I ""1 think I can finish in another ' "Why, the Sheridan D . c hour " she of course! • All-. t'he members whom s to an w er ed. we have asked so far have ,agreed to "Then, Tom," Maryella went 'on, taking charge -of me ;and the expedi do it. Jim Cooper started it lde tion with her customer .e -e• for de- just finished reading the book 'to me Y y tail "let's get started fdrthe 1 OId Sol- I last night. I think it is an adoralbe diens' Home right: after Punch Is 'scheme and also very practical. I g the car running all right to -day? iwanted you to be one of the first to „ I don't know. Are we groin • out come in. Mrs. Hemming -way and jini b S m the car?" and I are the only ones so far, but if you'll try it 'we'll bring it .up before "Can't we? It wvil.l be much nicer. the club and maybe` change the name iBesitles, there is no train back late at i i (7 tiniists night and we don't want to sleep of the organization to the . p. r' !' there. I called up Mrs. Lillelove and or semething like that." "Ouch!" exclaimed Mrs, Hemming - she says ive can use their bus, as whohad beets sewingawayits- "there is no funeral in town this' after - way, noon. That holds twelve, and if you'll take me and three others that will be is said we will have a mild winter; when thick and tough the winter will be cold and rough. dustriotisly while Maryella and I were 1 talking, i dear?" , all we' need.. Fred Merr weather "What's the scatter, Mary -Y ella inquired. went out on the train with the scen- fin ery and properties this morning.", I agreed to this arrangement. I had a fee'v private doubts as to whether: Grandmother • Page would negotiate the thirty miles out to the Home and back with snaking any fuss about but 1 kept them to inyself. The• pros pect of the long drive with Maryella on the front seat beside'hie was so roseate that I overlooked all the blue gimps that might be hovering in • the. background, needle wasn't sharp enough to prick As a .justifiable precaution howev you, you couldn't, sew with it. So, you er, I went to the garage to inspect rof, h find,P „ On the ni Itin u o mer C, g Johannes Schmidt, head ofethe expee sec it is an for the nest. the car as.soon a5 T left IVlaryellas •charges. clition, says that the specimen exam- She turned to hie triumphantly, house. Grandmother rattled with joy heed omitted a greenish phesphores- "'You see ,how it works out, don't when she saw rhe coming, as She al - "I just stuek,the needle in my ger about an inch, darn it," nnirmur- cd Mrs: Heimningway feelingly. Radio Shrimps. "You ou mustn't say 'darn it'," reprov- A ,peculiar and previously undis, ed Maryella. "The fact that you covered stiecies .of deep sea shrimp pricked yourself is all for the best,. which casts offa luminous green You ought to be glad. glow when brought to the surface has been discovered by members of • "Why ?" the Danish Oceanographic Expedi- Mrs. Henimingway was a trifle pet tion, which 'made port at Manilla on giant, • an Oriental scientific tour. Scientists „ Because paused and. here are much interested in the spe- - i1[aryella oimen which is believed to represent thought a moment --"because if the Ad entirely new species. It was caught in '1,500 fathoms. THOMAS FELLS .A,UCTIONEER 0 'REAL E,�TATE SOLD f thorough knowledge of Farrar Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD S. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie, Sales conducted any where and satisfaction guaranteed. George Walker, Gorrie, can arrange "dates, cent light. ''Further," he says, "when we took the specimen from the, net they ejected from their bodies dropss of liquid.uil which showed a p hos- you,'Torii? Isn't it lovely?" ways does: I gave her a lump of Bard "It would be even a better example grease and patted her: on the radiator if it had been your finger,'/ Mrs. lAs far as I could see she looked as if phorescent light. Thisspecies ofdcninin SvaY Pouted, kissing her own 'she would last went y-four hours len- shrimp is still unknownto science." injured digit in the absence of her 'ger, husband. Just to be on the safe side, how - Dates In Unitetl States Now the basis of a promising fruit anti cuntrrrttcd• to rhe: • a s Maryella disregarded the comment ever, I.p'ut a hank of baling -wire and industry,. the date palm :was ten years: some, babbitt rectal in the tool -box ago little more than a botanical "Even our afflictions will make tis and bought a package of chewing proximately. 2,500 acres have- been far enough ahead. There. is' always should leak anywhere. 250 acres are now in comtnercial some: 'bl;essing disguised iii every ill,. When I called at Maryella's house curiosity in the United States. Ap- happy if we iciok far enough' back or gum in case the acetylene -gas system planted, to dates in America while bearing, ,A11 we have to do is hunt for it and I found that -my load consisted of . --• if we look hard enough we'll forget Maryella herself, Mrs. HermingwaY, Warships vs. Education. all about the misfortune itself and see. Mrs. Lilley e im ,1 ov ,and �'r Cooper . Capper's• Weekly has figured out only the benefit, "I don't like to take my car out in that the $5,000 to $6,000 a day re - DRS. N DENTISTS Office MacDonald Block, • Wingham A. 1 WALKER RNITURB AND FUNE RA.L SERVICE A, J. Walker Lit:enaed iattneral Director and Embalmer. Office Phone 104, Ides. Phone 224. atest t ntousine Puneral Coach, titrired to operate one U. S. battleship Maryella in a momento.f enthtisi- bad - weather," he explained in answer would in a year send 2,000 boys and girls to college, giving eget $11,004. 'Uniforms tot' Classes. . rian of the 11u nit .A regulationg Ministry of Culture prescribes that all shhool girls roust wear sailor blouses as part of their classroom attire, With n's New Books, The number of new books publish- ed in the United IHifgdoin last yea ��yy�•�is 14,390, or et+ the average of 40 'tjoolts a dal, assn is a glowing magnet, .I. could no• to my look of surprise, "It's all for snore have resisted her then as she stood before me like a little saint fairly alive with the spirit of optimiser than an emotional sinner. can stand against an old-fashioned revivalist. '.1 knew there would conte moments 'of doubt later when I would kick my- self for a sentimental fool, but now' I was carried away by her belief in her propoganda. So 1 promised to join the cheer -up movement atrd'to seek for the kernel the best anyway, because this way we can all be together." I hastily smothered the reply that rose to my lips and busied myself ad- justing the carburetor. It was snowing slightly and a plea- sant leasant winter sting was in the air as I threw in my clutch and Grandmother started up with a jerk as if I had struck her with a whip. We left town at two o'clock and- here is the surprise with which 1 close tween two coast -defense guns at two hunred yards' range. It was magnificient! Grandmother Page was shamed to absolute silence for. the first time since we have been acquainted.. As we' pranced up to the gate the melody grew a trifle' thinner. All the players seemed to be working ;just as hard, but ` the result was discour- aging. One by one the artists would. cease playing and shake their instru- ments with a puzzled look. At length none was left but the bass-drurn play- er, He hammered away regardless until the leader took the drumstick away from him. Colonel Stewart, �v , the acting head of the Home, met us with out -stretched after the war was over. Anyhow, he hand. He was a` fine, hearty old fel- draw. an extra allowance' as a one - low with white hair and close -cropped arched man." military moustache. (Continued next: week.) ..NAFINON Nn Mi "The boys certainly appreciate your kindness; in giving a show for there," he told us. "We're eight males away from . anywhere out here and they don't get many chances even to see moving pictures." The members of the band came.up and he introduced them. As I shook hands enthusiastically with the bass -drummer, Colonel Stewart said; nr de Pilk Henwethcr. "This is Comrade You'll have to speak pretty loudly to him, as he is nearly stone deaf." I congratulated him. "It's, all for the best." "We're sorry we couldn't play that piece all the way through," apologiz- ed the bandmaster. "We know all:. the notes, •but it's so cold that the wind instruments all froze up. I told the boys not" to blow damp,_but I guess they couldn't help it." "`Never mind," I soothed. It's pro- bably all for the best°" He looked at int suspiciously, but apparently saw no guile in my eye be- cause he went. on cheerfully: "It will be all right when we get inside and thaw out the horns. Then we'll play it again. for you. We had a lovely+ time that after- noon. The old soldiers were as eager to play as children. In the summer time they had lots' of visitors, but in the .winter it was rather dull. The_ Home is on Three Bears Lake, eight miles from the' town of Fair Oaks' at the other end where the railroad sta- tion is. As,a consequence few people take, the trip in winter except for some` special reason. Comrade Abel Dreyenfurth had lost a lege at Antietam. , That did not in- terfere with a lively desire to learn the fox-trot, and'Maryella spent an hour teaching it to him.' The • bass -drummer - Pilk Henweth- er discovered in me a kindred soul: "I like you, Mr. Bilbeck,"he con- fided at the top of his voice. "I can sort of tell what you are talking a- bout because you make faces' when you speak." The undertaker's 'bus arrived just before dinner, We all ate together in, a large mess -hall. The` dwellers at the Horne cook their own meals and do all- their own housework. "That's the chief objection I got to the Horne," said Pilk Henwether, har- dly raising his voice above a shout. `There ought to be some female vet- erans. I'm durned if I like washing dishes." The dinner was good, all except the dessert, which was a fallen angel - food cake with ice-cream. "Henry Klingman made it," Pilk confided; "and I think it's punk, if you want my honest opinion. But I wouldn't let hint hear me say that be- cause it would only hurt his feelings." As Comrade Klingman was in the room and Pilk Henwether spoke in. his -ordinary tone of voice, there seemed little doubt of his feelings re- ceiving a jolt. "It ain't so bad, though," Pilk went on, "whcna yoti; come to think that Henry. has only got one arm. He says the other one was shot off at Chancellorsville, but it's my private opinion he lot it running n buzz -saw Thursday, January 23rd, 1930 Here and There 447 Born on Canadian Pacific " " Rail- way flyer "The Dominion," near Kanaka, British Columbia, recent- ly, a child has been christened Christina Patricia Rosalind, the names being arranged to make the initials '"C.P.R.,'" in honor of her birth on the railway. Little Miss C.P.R, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Peterson, of North Vancou- ver, B.C. "The biggest and most brilliant season of winter sports in the his- tory of Quebec City," is the de- ' soription of the forthcoming fes tivities at the Ancient Capital re- eeived at general tourist head- quarters of the ,Canadian . Pacific hie is recently. The season which now open will 'include four high lights: the Fete de Nuit, January 20;the Ice .Pageant, February 12-13; the International Dog Sled Derby of 120 miles, February 20-22; and the Masquerade Bali at. the Chateau Frontenae, February 21. E. W. Beatty, chairman and pre- sident of the Canadian` Pacific Railway, recently presented the Dominion Open Revolver Cham- pionship trophy and medals to C.P. R. police team No. 1 . of Ontario, which' defeated the Lethbridge team of the Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police in the finals with a score of 1412 'out of a possible 1500: Members of the winning team are Constables Prendergast, Gyves, Tingman and MacDonald and In- vestigator O'Brien. Canadian Pacific 'liner Empress of Japan, largest and finest ship on the Pacific coast, was launched from the yards at Glasgow Decem- ber 17 and will be in service from Vancouver early in the New Year, Well on the way to launching is'• the 40,000 -ton giant, the Empress of Britain, destined to revolution-; ise`Atlantic travel to and from Can- ada to Europe with a scheduled time of five daysfrom continent to continent. Ski-ing over two hundred miles of snow -blanketed wilds and "scat ing five `::passes of which three. have an altitude of over 8,000 feet,. six intrepid, skiers' of the Jasper Park Ski Club, ' will in January make the trip from .Jasper Park to Banff to attend the annual winter sports carnival that opens •in Feb- ruary. New. Brunswick's field crops for 1929 have an estimated' value' of $25,722,000as compared with $18,- 275,000 for 1928 and $18,413,500 for 1927, according to reports from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics just issued. Over $1,500,00 was mailed re- cently as, final payments to mem- beri of the coarse grain pools of Manitoba and Saskatchewan on the 1928 crops of oats, barley, flax and rye. This brings total payments to provincial pools by the Central Selling Agency to 61,eic per bush- el on oats; 6914c per bushel- on barley; $2.20% per bushel on flax; and 981/zc per bushel on rye. Manitoba's success at the Royal Winter. Fair, Toronto', recently, is described' by Premier Bracken as "the most femarkable . ever achiev- ed' by the province," Both in-num- ber nnum-ber and variety of championships andotherwinnings the records of --ast years have been far eclipsed. Investors may find profit in read- ing the advertisement of the S. A. Taylor Co., which appears on page 8, This firm has opened -a branch in. Wingham with T. J. McLean as man- ager, who will be found in the Greg ory;Block. ''a PLEASI G PRINTING For .. iscriivatng Cllstomers Our equipment is complete for the satisfactory production of printing of every description—from a small card to a booklet. With this equipment, suitable struck goes competent workman- ship' We will be pleased to consult you in regard to anything you may .head. The Advancc=TIrne.s VVINGHAIVI, „ ONTARIO