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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1924-07-03, Page 23!J'` • �nlanfiie� �l " e, �l. a ve Form of bitch Because it secures thebest distribution. 2. 1.: ' $ read: Because it 1 U e a • t1Se it is regular. L e a. a '� �? work to W up tS effar takes cars of It y r the ad- vantage � and the advertiser gets ap- subscription list, er s subs � probably not whereas And p va�:tage every week. . every paper read,rY ill out of three is 'more than one b s ' reg dbY three and four persons, i 1 and sur- rounding of Tin lsaha in the eagle Wing ham reaching pcompare medium to there is no m, and in district, Sot, � with e . The Wingham Advanc•Times I. It covers the field. It ipaper a p . a er that is read through; Its readers belong to the purchasing class. r I 1111 The Cenadian Pacific steamer Empress of Britain will arrive at Quebec shortly ' oxo her first voyage from Isiverpeol as a cabin -class steamer under her new name Meet- royal. IT)hitroyal. She is' the fastest vessel sa l_ t3 in . out of Liverpool and is sehe pled°ta Tun 'Iron u] there #o Quebec in six and a half days. BritishColumbia's payroll for 1923 was $150,000,000, according u r� 1 the Work- man's 're report of the annus to p, man's Coti pensatio7n Board: The payroll for 1922 " was 3128,592,- 502, and` for 1921, $130,099,37.3. Eng ploying firms :operating at the end of last year numbered 6,524, an in- creese,ef 145 aver the previous, year. Arr els el a. IM ES ' i r.111 £ V 2212222 2 2 4; 5`i rY ^h .k. d".il t„�,g�� ul:•�r.:• g.• w.� .,. i is needed as an inn for the coinfor 'Tourists and Hotels travelers and transient visitors. The 1924 season for the port of'' MVlgntreal was officially opened on , the morning of the 18th of -April, When the Government ice -breaker Lady Grey arrived in the harbor, A especially big season is anticipated, esp Y by the Canadian Pacific steamships, whose vessels on the St. I,awi e ece route this year will exceed 197,000 gross tons. g Vancouver 'this season has beaten Portland, the great wheat port of the Northwest and formerly the, great wheat .port of the.' Pacific. Portland includes flour in its wheat totals, Vancouver does not. Accord- ing to the Po ?� `tldnd press the Amer - lean ,city has loved, ovar 29,000,000 bushels of wheat to date, Vancou- ver, .in the same period, shipped 36,- 000,000, bushels,~ exclusive of a very,: considerable quantity: of flour. NI. t of Next to good, roads the most hue portant aids to the. tourist traffic of the country are good, well-managed country- hotels, says the - Smith's `Falls News -Records. The automobile the good roads movement it in- augurated, n- end good many added a have td ra e augt , -millions to Canada's' annual income. The average tourist - prefers to put np, in the cooler, quieter country, if -conditions at the hotels are to his. `liking, otherwise he will push on to the next town rather than lodge over - -night in an uninviting, badly 'kept, un -accommodating wayside hotel. Many =a. place has lost thousands of dollars sit could have made use of, if its. ho- tel accommodation had ben -up to any- thing near standard. The day has. gone by when the hotel was the ga- thering;, place: of, the: loafers. Now it i4r W INxHAM ADVO,] As Enjoyed by the Canadian Missionaries There The following letter from 1vtiss liargaret firma, daughter of Mrl 1'. J, Brown, St; litar)s,''wlto is now a missionary itz I]wei Ring, FfeChina, Till interest 'nearly of our readers, as it throws •sonic light, on. the condition met with by the workers. 'in that strange land, 1Dead Home People: - 1 got back from my trip to the. country on Friday evening, 3. certainly I Y enjoyed every, nroinent of the time, rte ' te.>Je st•t e i1'Irs, \'ferules went write ih 1Wc had d early Tuesday morning, f packed on MondayMondayevening so on Tuesday morning we waited until of- ter the mail man came, 1 was well re- werded for there were four hoarse let- ters,'end so I took thein along to read on the road, We rode out in Miss ;O'Neill's 'bug- gy, e. 'e democrat, tit d gy Int is like a'tvro s• � the such as we .had at home before adveiit,'of Fords, It has a flat toL] and wedrove one horse in it,, The the e ;. took and. -�e 911�r s • has been c'•tcib darter cook, along. He knew very little abort a horse so I did all the driving 'and helped .to: get the horse hitched, etc; 1 ` wish _you bad seen us when we were ready to' start Mr. and Mrs. ].3oyd ca deout to see that we :were all O. K. We had with us two am rmny'cots and two mattresses 'for the same< besides our visions -and bedding; our pro.-' a few books, 'plus the min- imum amount of clothes required. We tools a' minumuan because we knew there would. be little: enough space when we got there, The baggage took up most 'of the spade behind and the cools piled in on top. and Mrs, Menzies and I each had a basket of, provisions tinderour feet, There is no Clash -board and so you may ima- gine the picture that we made Miss Stewart thoiiglit we were very daring starting out, for slie thought we nei- ther • knew the way , nor how to drive the horse, but I certainly was not born on the farm. for nothing; and as everyone knew the horse was the one animal that I loved best On the farm. I forgot to •say that the very last touch to the affair was the whip, which much resembled a..bin'der whip at home, It has a bamboo handle abo'ut four feet long and the lash of equal ' length. The Chinese carter drive with these without reins, but I have iiet become so •expert in crack- ing that whip, and moreover, the ban- die was all but in two when I arrived home: Jiff! lc IIVl and L decided to back„ but ret9ind that, any hearse would not batik, except the wrong, way. He is an ugly tempered enianai, The ,cook ,got out to , take' him by the Bead, hitt the cools lzad'iao more idea how to back a four wheel- ed buggy than he had of how toget to the moot?, so he was wQ1'se than useless, 50 I got out and did it my- self, though' not before we had grazed a.young; tree and anold woman had s called u all sorts of bad naives. Then after we get out we inisscdthe turn again and got into worse trouble. We had: just crossed a high, narrow cul- vert and the horse started to baelt' and all but horned us into the ditch, so I decided ided to whip the horse to e make do could- not ,. that lie ] -00 l't,i11i know as be traced, think the . other were t hi T z ail a •'bit afraid, Well we got off at last. I' let Mrs, Menzies 'drive fora part "of the way to. give me a rest, but I kept the whip. so as' to, Mega - age tem -to go. Vie:. while eve came to a village After ie ? theatre and a. fair. where ;there was' a We were right on it before we nobs is - d The men had their wares dis- played on. both, sides of the street and Th. mach : prized Wilder silver medal; the.highest award of thethe Americain Pomnol'ogical Society, oldest horticultural body in North America; has been awarded,: to the Central.Experimental Farm at Ot- tawa for ttawafor the sixth time. The'xnedal on this occasion. was given for the Lobo apple,>one of the many fine varieties of McIntosh. Red parentage originated at the Central Farm. An estimate of $1,500,000 for fire protection and management of • for .est reserves has been; placed before., the Government for approval by the:. Minister of the Interior. The Min- ister stated that rreaFeedrastic meas ures of fire ;prevention would be taken this year and in this connec- tion the Department of the Interior proposes to utilize the Royal Cana- dian Air Force for the detection of fires. An • appeal for ine*easedypensions for _ the originals of the old Royal North-West Mounted Police is now before the Federal Parliament. The present pensions are based oil the .pay standards of 20 to 30 years ago and are therefore quite inadequate, the appeal claims,'and it is asked that they be raised to the same level. of the members `nted as those gra present Royal Canadian Mounted Police,. on .retirement.. "There is not a single geological reason why':"" each and all of the world-famous mining camps 'such as those of Kirkland . Lake, Porcupine andh ld not b dupla A BARGAIN Therailroad conductors suspended tickets tem- porarily work of taking up the as the train phhnged into the blackness of a long tunnel. When it finally emerged he found himself op- posite a young couple, both seemingly much flustered, and the young woman nervously readjusting her hair. Thinking to put them at their ease - the conductor remarked: "Did you know that tunnel we just came through cost twelve' million dollars," "Did it?" inquired; the girl. Then she added, after a pause, "Well, it was worth .it: in primitive countries woman is regarded somewhat as a beast of burden. She is'subjected to all sorts of drudgery, .does practically all the work, and her lot is hard and dis- -couraging. This custom is rightfully regarded as. inhuman ,and uncivilized: Yet thousands of women in this country today are 'shackled to the old-fashioned band pump. In many' cases they carry the water considerable distances ,after pumping it. The amount of time and energy lost is incalculable. "W.atcra have liberated thousands of women, and men, frons the grind- ing rind :angp toil of pumping and carrying water. They have brought comfort, cleanliness and d healthwhere dirt and d dig- e$e prevailed before. Duro systems give you all the con- venierices of city water serViCe, Run- ning water under'presSure in kitchen, bathroom, toilet, garden and barn is at your. service. '•> Compact, powerful, and automatic tea Duro systemis easily installed In or new homes and costs less, than ilea • 1t a clay to operate. Driven by either electric motor or gasoline engine. _baes rind soles. Ask nuts ora made in many sort olSysrcog eslas dor ort estimate re ori a??, eaolk wit of the horses head horst, with the help of One or two zne n, they forced a:road ittdrotgh Ph latform the e could not go of the 'theatre, which was righ ,t cross s the eod,butt and found everere was more place toget around, place in my life. glad to get out os nd>lwliat it ought and I cane tiiicicrstar man to face' a mob. Finally we got•. i the village next to tate one where to ,• eill was staying, Here we Miss O'Neill have' a little school' and the, crowd had. 1 titre to tell the teacher that we had come, and he came out and showed as the way to Chung Wang Tsu h, where Miss O'Neill was, It had can -a onoM this time ane" riienc:ed to drop rain by me � was we were glad that our a ou ) is more The country ll near six end.al ataoe than beautiful out there, .inti ' than here. There are wonderfulrl When the three army cots were so dup, 1� charas everywhere T yei•sin]mo ch side-by-side there ins only roopi. to. pears and.apricots, a ih They n much we are stat7cibetween two �of thean.'That ivas here to' the were so than after the'full width of the room, There was thee and they lay t y reminded they reinsured me only the one tiny;window form which rain. er. Miss ) was out we had torn the paper and for which of Vancouver, • O'Neill vandalism we were obliged to pay. there and `we got taken vans. That r got one wee wi d when we htWhere she was,' when leap*ing. w windew e into the little yard:'t did not ol>enwon•tlie court, but onlyotz, • that I could alinos a l ` narrow sin '' of couple o as solittle _o opening1 over the top. ,The1t, wltsar; a small p awning and Junii had an .t vn garms two ithat ht onthold- .. myShe was in -feet between,the two buildiahgs, 3-kept�' latter"was so _low on each side. 1 buildings'i kin of the "Black Hole of cal -couldthinking h we ch 6 It said 1 our Op. The peopletl ;ooii-i et the eiid of the yore a f Q'Nei11 lead aha cleared some potatoes and We had 'brotit li,. n t oust of lamb, We lied been',:fortunate enoug t to tact this, for you cannot ofiee 'get it es lite as. this in the season, Then we , lied sottl0 lettuce and radishes and 'air Ind cherries, These latter are not anything like home cherries. While we were getting ready the crowd watched us and fortumetoly: the raid kept sonle. away. 'They were fasein,. eted, The table had, drawers in it and I' could not get nt•y knees under, so yon may have a vision of me there, One lady came up and asked' me what we were eating. When I told her it was , cheerles she said she bad never in her, life cern them. I could not get over that, After 'stepper 'I talked to It was teenri • le.teeming soanc' of the people, t g ,' . Finally felt ' 1•': dark, lT rail] and very�* I]ad to go to bed so we got•our beds not :get through at' the other en o: ie i three monis, divided' into • e greet where the ;theatre was and'v;*as dvi (loot, Opened had ththe I knew' w=e. could not turn back, so we one into which served as room kept oin on, though .3- wondered no window and ve Thedining ro m 1. P going would be. When we got and reception roo m.I tare 'end �t o was our bedroom The cotta," There -was, only a mud.floor a om and the the, right.c left was where her three one eathe had the use ofa slept. We women a small ronin at the side' of stove.. in: a s the court yard. We decided to get. sup- per readyas soon as possible, for we uch en"oyed:'our noon mal had not much. J tee.' and T wvas;longing for a scup. of & arse The � cook -bad. attend to the as and , Miss O'Neill s old woman was feeling' very miserable and so w e neade the.,. supper. ourselves.. bliss w close up to the theatre the crowd saw es and all turned; and I shall ne- ver, never forget that moment. There were several Hundred mien there pack- ed ed like sardines and they -seemed to be trying to make a rush at us,' and Y. g everyone Said, "You can't get through For a mome t I almost had, a panic. I saw a policeman and I wanno't'quite sure whether or not he could be counted on to` help. The cook got It was a wonderfulmorning for 'a start. It had, rained sufficient in the night to lay the' dust, and the Moun- tains were• looking gorgeous. : We knew'our way as far as the brick kiln about one mile away, and the rest of the way we had: to go on faith and trust to our inquiries:- I found the whip very awkward to Handle and the horse certainly required it, though he went., much better:than'on the first wheat the him out. T occasion I had ] . is at the most beautiful stage. It has not; yet turned white and was looking so green and lovely 'everywhere as we went along, though there are•pla- ces' where it has died from drought. In ever so many places they had been digging out the irrigation ditches and, down and he and the policemailwent Sudbury, s ou e` they threw the;mud up on the road cated almost anywhere in' the 650, '000 square`; miles of the Quebec Lau- and 'I shall leave you to imagine how rentian Plateau, which 'stretches pleasant it Was driving over that. Af- from the Ottawa and:St. Lawrence ter we had gone to inquire the distance YCE EMPIRE laBASS MFG. CO. LTD. Distributors*eLonden and Toronto Rivers to Hudson Strait, according to .a statement -made : by T. C. Denis, Superintendent • of Mines of the Province ::of Quebec, at a, recent meeting of the Quebec branch of the Mining Institute of Canada. Canada is, • financially sound. On April 14th the investors and savings account holders of the country were offered twelve million dollars .worth of Canadian Pacific 'Railway' five per cent bonds and by four o'clock that' afternoon the ; issue had been, over -subscribed and .the books were closed: Telegraph' orders came from' all ' parts of, the Dominion, , a splen- did evidence of the amount of money available for sound investment and the country's. •confidence in the. fu- ture of the big railway. Another evidence is seen in• the`. fact that small investors are putting savings Into C.P.R.common 'stock which pays temper cent' on par value of $100,000. Since 1907• Canadian holding's of this stock,have increased front" 9.75 per cent "to' 21' per cent, at the present time and holdings in:a the British .Empire total about 75 per cent. we co lace to Pei Hsiang, the half -way p where we planned to eat our dinner.. We ;had been told at home that it was thirty 11. After we: had gone an hour we inquired` and were told that it was twenty li, then we went on a bit fur- ther and were told that it was twenty- five 1i, and 'then later still "twenty li. I felt like the man in the"story, thank goodness we were '. not losing any' ground. We got to ' Pei Hsiang: at neon. • That means that it took, us a little over three hours and a half • to go ten, miles. You may take it from me that it is the longest ten miles I have ever travelled. Mr. Boyd had told me to stop at the Inn in the East suburb'' of the 'town. There are a large number side by side and each one seemed to• have their quota' of carts,in front of them: I finally found a place and we went in front and soon had a large crowd of admirers, We had to feed the anir inal and water him.. I left the cook" to do this after I had taken off the bridle and already discovered - that there was no halter put in, but as he had..ltis basket in front of him he would not move.; We fed him beans and straw, Mrs, Menzies and I' went in to' the one private room the place af- forded and sat down and started to open our lunch, when I' felt so sick. Evidently the animals had slept in the place the night before and the' man- ure had' just been removed and'there was a big pile at the door. • I made a hurried exit. ..Even if it was improper' I .decided to sit': outside where they were making the, food. He sent 'but four then who were drinking wine, there, to give ` tis' the table. .. As the front •of this is open on the street, we had art, though we got some splendid. whiffs of garlic from the cooking food. Troubles never•. 'come 'sing We had taken our:own lunch and when I `tasted the coffee in th'e.theta mos, it was not quite hot and had toe touch tinned cream in it and so I did not enjoy it, When. our repast was over we proceeded out and with th help of the cook we took off the, wheels and oiled the axles,' I never knew anyone at home to oil theirs v- eryefew'ntiles but sttch is the custom in Chitin.. The Chinese carts can eas- ily be . oiled without removing the ' wheel; and so there was' wonderful' ex citement to see tis at this job. We had ever so many offers of help.' Miss O'Neill's carter has broken the coup- ling', or whatever it is you call it in tire wheel, by; not. having oiled it, so we had been told to oil it, I may just say that we used castor oil for this ;purpose. No one seems to have heard of anything else. Well, in all, it look es an hoar, and their we start- ed on ()tit way. We had entered, et the East gate and were to go out :at the South and 3 missed. the tliztt, 'The •greets are almost too -narrow to tern EAST WAWANOSH Miss Annie Nesbitt who has been the teacher at S. S. No. 9, East Wae wanosh for the past two years has resigned and the trustees have been fortunate' in securing an ea: -pupil of the school as teacher viz: Mr. Geo. Fococic, The advertisement brought forth forty applications. Misses Dorothy Kerr and Alba Carter motored to Palmerston on Saturday with Miss A. 'A, Nesbitt. The picnic in Thos, Taylor's btsli on Friday was a big . success. The weather waS ideal and the, crowd was one of the largest' and Miss Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kerr Kathleen also Mr, George Currie at- tended tended g. r•actuation exercises at Godericli Hospital on Friday. r. in the hoose and so besides l,.eeptn� our beds from touching .the walls we had to keen our bedding from touch- ing . the floor. We had to undress in lan- tern start: as we only had -the one - ] au tern and Miss O'Neill had to have that for'tlios'e who were studying. There was only a thin partition be- tween the rooms andthen there was no door but'a curtain. We could hear everything and every few moments so meagre would .raise the curtain. and i Peer , in at us. ".Inspiteof the noise I went off to sleep aitd so did Mrs. Men Continued on page three Canadian Teachers . P ederation. Convention at Victoria, [:` .C., Aug. 12-16 ieou is a wonderful Dominion opportunity hand; to, studyseew and tl beauties the off of our glorious' Dominion Ontario, , ` the rolling prairies, the majestic mountains and : the -- sparkling waters of the great Pacific „all in this very complete journey to the Convention centre. Special l Low Fares from all Ontario Points A special train 'de Luxe of the Canadian Nam nil Raliithra ye wa carrying the most modern type of till -steel equip. io set complete, leaves Toronto, July 26th. A number of optional routes may be taken on the return trip. " Full information, also rail and sleeping car tickets may oat ai ed from any ' of the foliating officers of the Public School yede TORONTO--Mr. A. E. Bryson, 44 Silverthorn Ave. HAMILTON -Mr. L. J. Colling, 98 Barnsdale Ave. x. HAM ILTON—Miss Hazel. G. Roberts, 107. Sanford Ave. South or any Canadian National ' Ticket Office THE SMILE Nobody ever added urs • The value of a singe:. We kno. how intich a dollar's worth, And how much is a mile; We know the distance of the sun, The size and weight of, earth; But n0 one here cars tell lis just • t How butch a smile is worth. BORN Sirran $—.11i Holviek, on i'riday,: Pipe 20,9 ., to Mr. and Ms's. Got!' r 02 d> don Sintnnons, 15th eon,, a dattght-, B rows"t= it Howielc, :.. on Saturdays June, et; /gee, to Mo and, Mrs Ger' door ,i�trowra,�sixtlh cots,, a danghte , do ndia.s Massacred the arras • COX Wt -1514 Eris, O ARl30RN WAS HICACO; 1$20 •were to address a letter to -day to Checagou, fone •If even as clever post-offiee official would be puzzled, •brut that was,how. the great French• explorer, Le Salle, spelled Chicago 241 years ago. Chicago Was only a name when Jolliet,' Pere Marquette and. the S de la Salle. camped there on their way to the Missis- sippi. Chicago 'was then & part of Canada -New s rance it was called, 'Jolliet and Marquette visited it 25t Years ago, or 'ten years earlier than les, Salle. then Chicago was.' a great treneportatiion centre. eve�}igFrench explorers for it was on the' for Itl�di�aris and , line of snatch wis�tward from Quebec, via the Great takes, to the Mississippi and southward to the Gulf of Meiddo. La Salle actually went front Quebec to tlhe Gals'' of Mexico' and back again, , and was m dered sonxewh e in Mississippi by his own followers, When the canoe and the prairie schooner of the pioneers'were succeeded by ythe railway train, Chicago became one of the worlds gteates�t transportation centres, being on the satne old lilac of march from east to the west, and vice versa, bort Dearborn the was built lis 1803 arid' fox three deeadee Was Chi's In 1.8X3 Indian massacred tho garrison, but NiW'CNttrAGO' WoM w CAWAoIAA14 ,. • Ia,ACIPICb.'RAILWAY , .•• -o frotri the. east, ' To-ela9' way train entered C g hick' rent railway hub,. the, spokes of. W. Chicago is a g railway . south east ' and west, Her new Union rutinorth, 'now e eaiuYi completion, .lie one of the Station, now n g P •11 be used by the finest terminals in the woicld and will Pennsylvania, Burlington, 'St. Paul and Alton rail Oa�O, tha ttl'd- foalin A ' Glatii aiad ids 18 ? .tla+ t i;, rahl� li ways. ent in Another new and important rail development ail Chicago is the move oaf . the. Canadian ; Pacific s the er offices 'and those o£ and steamship passenger ,. , , o£ Mxch•• Soo Line to the newt Straus Building, earner attrac- tive Avenue aid Jackson • Boulevard, a very a sing 32 story betiding not far feom the tive and'irnpo g 1 the rout© site of historic' rort Dearborn: Following to of the early explorers of 254 years ago, the Cana- dian o via its owtl;lilies and the dian Pacific enters & laces Michigan (Central Weste and frons Montreal and p the eastbound Chicago traveller a'boa'rd shin for! Europe in Montreal in less than,24 hours. the ste ove the Soo Line and Catiadiart Pacific, h ward x traveller reaches Vaneouvet in' 81 and a half lon10 CP from Chicago and in only 94 boars from ..., t h Whet would La Salle, J'altie�t and the gond now? 7 • k ehxrtttie thiatls of suelk tra'n'sportation fcat,a ,Mi �r;