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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1926-12-23, Page 8WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES T Thursday,. December. no,. reeli, MIIIMMENWI1 1>i10101m011INN f M emeeeeemegeieNeedueeemeeeeeeeeieN MI m a eaa ml i NI 1 1I alm m as al m aft ea 1 WOMEN'S COATS and DRESSES. j MEN'S and BOYS' CLOTHING . me and w. OVERCOATS. r.mrrx4to® MI ea se m ea me We wish our many cus- tomers and friends, A Very Merry Christmas. WOMEN'S PERSIAN LAMB COATS From $250.00 inns mm®mmsn®mmut®m■ MEN'S FURNIS .X INOS THE BEST. ■ MEM MUSE NENNIENNI -HEW . 11111111111111111111911111111111111121111B1111111118111 111111®IIII8I118111 11I11RII1m1111311 1112111®111®11111 , I • 1.11 ft The Evening in the Life of 1926 is Upon Use We shall soon be taking stock to find out whether the • year has brought a Surplus or a Deficit, If it be a Deficit you are young and with effort will take • advantage of next year's opportunity to yield a surplus. m r a • At age 65 you will reach the evening of life—YOU WILL HAVE NO SECOND CHANCE. Failure to make provision for this period of life spells D -E -P -E -N -D -E -N -C -E on relatives or charity. An endowment in the Mutual Life of Canada to mature at age of 60 or 65 years willguaranteeyou a surplus 'e g p for th evening of your life, Do not delay in this important matter. Use the Telephone..- Phone 165, District Agent Wingham. 11M1111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111E1111111111111111111111e11111111111111111111®1111111IP111111111IThI II111111119111®Ih! ID =! OOTH WHITECHU'RCH BORN --- On Tuesday, Dec. i¢th, to. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Inglis, a son, Mrs. Winnifred Farrier of :Toronto Normal School, returned to her hone here on Wednesday, ,The Box; Social and Christmas Tree concert held in Miss Linklater's school here on Thursday last was a decided success. A terrible accident happened in Kiri loss on the 4th Con., on Saturday: Mr, Robert Conn had his wood -cutt- ing outfit at ood-cutt-intgoutfitat Mr. Reuben Tiffin's bush, and somehow when he was putting the belt on the engine, his clothing became caught in the fly wheel, and whirled him around a number of times before the engine could be stopped. He was terribly bruised and his leg was badly broken above the ankle as well as Ms toiler bone. being fractured, He was taken t his house where Dr.'s' Rambly and Stewart gave hini medical attention, He was removed to Wingharn hospi-1 tel an 'Sunday, and is doing ao well as can be expected. Mr. -Geo, Deyell had a bee oil Mon- day, gravelling his lane, and hi the evening he treated his friends and neighbors to a dance at his home. RAPID CITY Messrs Harry and John Champion of Fordyce spent Sunday with friends in Rapid City.. Mr. Hiram Bloom and Mrs. A. E. Sells' spent an evening last week with Mrs. M. L. Gardner, Where are the boys of Rapid City? All back in Rod McDougall's bush, where E. Miller of Lucknow has the contract of cutting thirty-five acres of timber for. Baecheler's Mills, in Goderich. Quite a few of the boys of Lapid City attended the L. O, L. "428 Dec, meeting in Orange Hall and the meet- ing was well attended, the Lodge making fine progress:. The e1- ection of officers resulted as follows, Bro. Thomas Miller of Wingham con- ducting the election and installation, W.M. --• Cecil Mullin. Will Webster: Chap.—Geo. McXenzie, R. S. Peter Carter. I+. 5. - Ivfark Gardner. Treas,---John Millet, Marshall John Carter. Leet,- B �ortWa rd. Com,—D. C,r tor, Dr. ;Spence, Jas. Irwin, Thos. Henry, Wni. Me - Nall. THE LITTLE COUNTRY PAPER It's no sixteen page edition that ex- presses big men's views, And it's not filled up with pictures nor with telegraphic news; It isn't printed daily, with an "ex- tra" every hour, And the editor's not bragging of his influence and power; It may have its faults and errors, but these I will forgive For it's printed in the country, 'way back where I . used to live. It's only issued weekly, and it's not made up for style, But when it comes I gladly put the daily by awhile. I don't read in its pages what the wise and great men say, But I see that "Silas Jiggers broughff some wood to town to -day." And that "Grandma Parks is better," or that "Old Bill Jones is dead," And it tells just what the parson in his Sunday sermon said, I see again the faces of the friends 1 used to know In the dim and distant fancies of the happy long ago, And I read up in one corner that the fall winds howl and blow And that "Uncle Nathan .Smith pre- dicts an early fall of snow" Or that "our debating club has plan- ned a social for next week, At which our fellow townsman, Ab - Brotherton, will speak." There are never learned essays on the questions of the day, But it says that "folks are looking for another raise in hay." I can see no glaring headlines of the last election fight, But is says that "Tom Shaw marries Ella Edgerton to -night," And my thoughts somehow grow fon- der when the 'old folks' names I see, Telling that "Reverend Thomas Torn- pkitis was invited there to tea," It may be crude and homely, that same old country sheet, And the make up of its pages nnay be rather obsolete; It is datnp when I unfold it, and the print is sometimes blurred. Yet its always more than welcome; and I read it every word, And noreading r d nl, to a city .roan a great- er joy eau give Than the little country weekly print- ed "where he used to live," Here and There • Fifteen head of shorthorn stock owned by the Prince of Wales at his ranch near High River, Alberta, were purchased for the Kirkwood Fern in •California, according to an announcement made by Prof. W, L. Carlyle, manager of the Prince's ranch. Canada's largest muskrat ranch is now being established at Swan' Lake, about 40 miles west of Ques- nel in central British Columbia, There are about 4,000 muskrats on the farm now and it is estimated that the ranch will eventually have an annual output of 50,000 pelts. The S.S. Emperor of Port Me - Nicol, purchased by the Canadian pacific Railway Company and," re- named the S.S. Nootka, sailed from Montreal recently for Newfound- land and will thence proceed to Van-. couver via the Panama Canal to join the Canadian Pacific coastal fleet. The Nootka will be operated on a cargo service between Vancouver and Skagway, Alaska: Edmonton.—The first plant in Canada, outside of British Colum- bia, for the freezing of fish, poultry and eggs under the Otteson process, will be operating in this city by June 1st, according to P. Johnson, managing director of the Johnson /Fisheries, Limited. His firm paid $10,000 for the rights of the ter- ritory. The initial capacity of the plant will be fifteen tone a day. Victoria. The new drydock just completed at "Esquimalt, Victoria,'is the second largest in the world and only 29 feet shorter than the Com- monwealth dock at Boston, This giant dock, hewn out of solid rock, cost $6,000,000 and measures 1,150 feet long, 149 feet wide at the top and 125 at the bottom. Its depth is 49 feet 5 inches with' 40 feet of water in the sills at high-water. The dock will take the largest ship afloat. The shipment of Canadian apples, to England and to many centres on the Continent is expected to be heavier this year than ever experi- enced, according to J. R. Martin, manager of the foreign freight de- partment of the Canadian Pacific Express Company.. About three years ago the practice of sending Canadian apples to the Old Country as Christmas gifts became popular, and; the shipment each year have correspondingly increasdd. Facilities at the\Eastern Public Cattle Market in Montreal have been augmented by the addition of a new export cattle building, which was opened recently. This new building is considered one of the finest of its kind on• the continent and has accommodation for 50 car- loads of cattle. By the arrange- ments of 25 cattle chutes on each side of the main alley -way, a train of 25 cars can be unloaded at each side of the building. According to the western farmer a featureof the present year's her - vest was the use of "combines"— the combine reaper and thresher now being made by several imple- tient manufacturers in this country, One farmer using this outfit claims to have covered from 35 to 50 acres per day at a cost of 45 cents an acre. He says that they save the cost of twine and about nine -tenths of the labor of harvesting. The im- plements cost about $2,000. A. preliminary conference, the re- sults of which may be of the utmost importance to the Maritime Prov- inces, was held in the Board Room of the Canadian Pacific Railway at cently at the invitation of E. W. Beatty, chairman and president of Windsor street station here re- the eompany. It was attended by Hon. E. N. Rhodes, Premier of Nova Scotia; Hon. J. B, M. Baxter, Pre- mier of New Brunswick; Hon. J. D. Stewart, Premier of Prince Edward Island; E. W. Beatty, chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific Railway; A. V. Sale, Governor of the Hudson Bay Company; Colonel Stanley, of the Hudson Bay Over- seas Settlement; G. W. Allan, direc- tor of the Hudson Bay Company; and br. W. J. Slack, representing the. Canadian National Railway'a, The Advance -Times for ; the finest up-to-date job printing, We ,give sera vice and workmanship, +fumeh,rprrnrrriranu"renrryiriii ii ornnr""m,rr NEW DAIRY Opened Milk, Cream Etc. delivered to any part of Winghann every S morning, 5 GEO. . TERVITT 4 Phone 5oe-6, er,rr111rlrrfne.llriir,rrrueeeiem,oWrYremeeeweell 1312008108 A 14iiLLING CEI TISB. Saskaitaon Is Located in Centre ai Wheat "Growing District. Saskatoon f r'esees in itself the 1nt1111ng eity of Weetern Canada. Sit- uated as it is in the centre of a trad- ing area of $2•,000,000 acres of ar- able land, of which approximatui,5 one-third is under tillage, there lea realcall to the millers, The Quaker ()ate Company has had a flour in operation at Saskatoon for three years, and all the time is running to its full capacity ,of 1,200 barrels a. day. Recently, the Robin Rood Com- pany opened up a mi.1l with a capac- ity of 810 barrels a day, and has beet, running night and day since starting One of the larkest millere of the Un.. Land is now leaking inquiries abou: the possibilities of opening a plant at Saskatoon. Last year approxiately 200,000,000 bushels of grain were shipped from the district, which is considered with- in the Saskatoon trading area. Of the Western cities, Saskatoon has had the greatest increase in population, Tho figures .from the Dominion census ;show a gain for Saskatoon of 21.22 per cent. The building permits ' for the first nine months of 1926 was a million and, three-quarters, The mills and the facility for get- ting cheap feed has led to the estab- lishment of several commercial feed- ing plants for live stock. The fame of this city has gone far and only recently' the secretary of the Board of Trade received a letter from Athens, Greece, asking for quo- tations on 6,000 tons of hard wheat, 2,600' tons of white flour,: and 1,000 tons of granulated sugar. ,Tust wny the Grecian firms thought that hard spring wheat and sugar cane or sugar beets would come from the same area, it not '.apparent, but it is a compliment to the advertising that Saskatoon city has given itself. The College of Agriculture, which' IS an integral part of the University,. Is extending its operations, and has a number of buildings equipped for carrying on its particular work. The College Farm comprises about 830 acres, the Experimental and increase Plots, 450 acres., Its soil is a choco- late' clay loam with clay subsoil. Here and there heavy patches of heavy, hummocky clay appear. Quite a large acreage of wheat and other grains, corn, roots, grasses and sun towers an.e raised each year. Aro Cation of crops is planned suchas will tend to maintain the fertility of the soil and matte for a p,ermanew system of agriculture on the prairies. OANTALOUPES FRO* OLIVER. This District Is Now Producing Waterinelotis. Progress in fruit production in British Columbia is continuous, both in the way of greater1vclume and the development of new fruits.. A few years ago, for instance, the Oliver district began to grow cantaloup and attained a rapid success in thi, line so that its fame has today ex tended very widely for the produce tion of a specialized product. Males carloads are exported from the des trict every year. Three years age. when the first export business wa,, attempted, Calgary, the nearest im portant prairie centre, wan consider• ed the limit of shipment. Last year• after an initial experiment, quani:i ties were sent to Winnipeg. Noir: shipments have successfully bee: made to Toronto and other eastern. Canadian points with every prospeo of the product firmly establishing self there. The Oliver district seems now de tined to attain a similar renown in the production of watermelons l`;. which it has been interesting itsel. and to which considerable attentioi has been devoted. A neer v ariet ' known as "Winter Cream," has beet developed in the district with eight or ten melons on each plant, and oin grower is expecting to ship 3,00• crates from ten acres, Thee I: 0 confident feeling that this now eros. will develop in the same ;ratifyin manner as cantaloupes. Keeping It Dark. An American. was trying to impress on his British host the vast area o1 his native country. "Why," he explained, after many futile attempts to get his friend tc understand what be meant, "I can get on a train ^ in Pennsylvania at seven o'clock at night and at seven the next morning I can still be in Pennsylvania." The other seemed to grasp his friend's meaning at last, for he smil- ed and answered:. "Iran! Well, we've trains like the: en our railways, too; but we don's boast of 'ems "> This Isn't S0 Bad. It is told by Duncan McCaul Mitch ell -- being about a Scotsman, it would bo told by one. A friend of his in 'New York sea denly met a Siotsman struggling tin Broadway. ¶rhe Scotsman had just returned from the Florida gold courses, and 116 was dragging an alli- gator behind him. "What are you doing with that alligator.?": demanded the friend. "Why," retorted the Scotsman, f the son of 'a gun has got my ball!" An Underground "wonder: At the new Tube station new 'un- der construction beneath Piccadilly Circus, ,London, an area of 15,000 square feet will be devoted to the booking, hall alone; This will neces- sitate the removal of about 10,000 tons of London clay.When com- pleted the station will be able to handle 50,000,000 ,passengers an mail • Ammonia Salts In 'Gatineau District. The discovery is .reported of a val- uable mine of ammonia salts in the Gatineau district, Quebec, on the Gans river about 65 miles above Maniwakl.. It is stated that there is only one other mine like it en the American continent, whibh is in Colorado. 4 'Burns 1321,000 Barrels of. Oil a I)ay. The Aquttania burns 33,000 bar - rola of 011 a day on her transatlantic voyages. I�Itllllrlil�lll>MIiRl�lil�911IItNlll�llll�ll1�111111II�III�III�NIiI/111�1111�181�III�III�1111111(�IiI�III�III@�I ii 11 Fri for rxtrith: ort rnahtez for Deal ri,nrzt. 111 i s r, Yi .dam art Our TuddLwtprs anti Nrtt nti id sT Illtitl!@e11116111' I11E111l®III®III6III111111I1121I111118 1111;81III®III®191111l111lll®11131ll®111181l•101111111110111®CI! SANTA WAITING Ial School expects to be home for the holday. Miss' Edna Stinson spent several days in Walkerton withher sister, Mrs. E. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Johnston in- tend spending some time at the home of their daughter, Mrs. E. -Gamble, in Waldermar. Weddnig Bells are ringing in Ger- rie these days as well as Christmas bells. Orangemen of , the Gorrie Lodge meet Monday evening for the elecfi n of officers. Those appointed wert Mr. R. H. Carson Master; Mr. N man Wade, Dep. Master; Mr: E. Car- son, Sec'y; Mr. J. W. Hyndman is Financial Sec'y; Mr. W. Malone the • 1 -Chaplain. An excellent social time was spent after the election of offi- Oeireale In South Australia. cess. The area under cereals in Sou •, There was an excellent attendance Australia 3n 192.6 was shown by ► tat. the YoungPeople's League on Dial estimates to have been`8706 $ P g , acres, representing . an increase oval' Friday night. Rev. Craik gave , an the year 1925 of 295,598 aorea.:address on Chuh Wheat sowings totalled 2,064,668 es Abouto 'theWhat T3oly Spiourrit." TherchTeacresult- sores, an lnerease of 229,892 aures, r of :the recent contest was also ;giv and was the largest for. six years. I en. The League will re -open after the holida• ys with a Social evening, GORRIE NEWS Jan. 7th. Mr. Einr e son Sherd s expected Mrs. Jas, Leech left the village on -home from Detroit for the holiday. Monday and hopes to spend. the next I Mr. and Mrs. L. Jardine of Sask., few months with relatives in Listowel' will spend some time at the home of and Hamilton. I. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Cathers. United Church `At Home" will be Mrs. John Dane expects to leave' held in the schoolroom Wednesday, Gorrie early next week to visit with evening„ December 29th. Good pro -;relatives in Kincardine, gram. Lunch will be served. I Chrstmas Services will be held in Mr. and Mrs. Murray : Edgar vis -',the United' Church next Sunday, Dec. ited at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Alex 26th at ii: a.m. and 7 p.m. Edgar on Sunday, • Specal music by the choir. Mrs. A. Moffatt of Belleville is vis- The Public School Christmas con- iting relatives in this vicinity, • 'cert is announced for December 22nd Miss Doris Baker, Stratford Norm- Parents and friends invited... Hanna Company .1144.