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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-11-04, Page 1-FIFTH. YIVat WHOLE NUMBER 2812 SEAFORTII, FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 4, 1921. 82.00 A Year Int Advent* McLean Broa,, Publisher* Unparalled ' Price Smashing Sale Commencing Saturday November 5th MEN'S, BOYS', WOMEN'S CLOTHING . Selling away below the cost of Making. We look for a veritable stampede of buyers at the prices. Below we give only a few of the lines offered: Girls' Fine Coats $8.98 Women's Fall and Winter coats, all new ....$11.98 Women's Fur Trimmed coats ...... Men's Overcoats ....$19.98 Boys' Overcoats ...7 $10.98 Men's Pants $2.28 Men's Overalls $1.58 Men's Sweater Coats, good wool $2.48 Heavy ribbed under- wear ...... 98c Dress Gloves 98c Winter and Fall Caps . $1.38 Fine Dress Shirts ....$1.19 Work Shirts 89c Raincoats, men's $6.98 Raincoats, women's $5.98 10 Fur Muffs ... $7.95 20 Fur Stoles $12.95 Fur Coats $37.50 Heavy Wool Sox 48c Thi: is the event when one dollar does the work of two dt ilars in purchasing power. Come right in and partakeof the Joyous Feast. . The Greig Clothing Co. 1 EXT TO ABERHART'S DRUG STORE West Side Main Street PARLIAMENTARY LETTER Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, leader Of the Liberal Party and next Prime Minister of Canada, is gaining many supporters throughout the Province of Ontario by his masterful speeches duping his recent tour. Fresh from a most successful series of meetings in the Maritime Provinces, where he was everywhere hailed as the coming Premier, Mr. King is carrying the message of Liberalism now through Ontario and later through the Prairie Provinces and British Columbia. And everywhere he is gaining followers for Liberalism and friends for him- self, for the. people see, as he goes among them, that he is measuring up as Canada's strong man, ready and 1 able to take over the reins of govern- ment on December 6th, and give the : Dominion wise and proper govern- ment, which will bring her back to prosperity such as this country has not known since the defeat of the ; Laurier administration in 1911. • • • The Maritime Provinces' tour was like a triumphal procession, Mr. King 1 declared on his return. The Eeatst- ern provinces are solidly behind Lib- eralism; whatever differences there t may have been in the past are heal- ed, and Liberals everywhere are work- ing heart and soul for the return of their candidates. There is not a safe Conservative seat from the Ottawa River to the Atlantic Ocean, and while there will be a strenuous fight made - by the Meighen party managers to retain one or two, their hopes every- where are decidedly slim. That much was evident from the receptions given the two leaders when they were in the Maritime Provinces together. While Mr. Meighen was received cold- ly and respectfully, the Liberal chief- tian was hailed everywhere as the coming Premier and a worthy suc- cessor to the great chieftian, Sir Wi't- frid Laurier. Wen who had previoes- ly heard Mr. King speak voiced their amazement at the manner in which he had developed, and those who had not previously heard him were equally amazed. Many people followed him from one meeting to another in order that they .might have a further op- portunity of hearing the message of Liberalism which he :had brought. Local organizations and candidates are full of fight, and there is little doubt as to the result in' the three provinces on December 6th. • •• evident, unless the :government ex- pecte another war ineide of three years for the she'll boxes seen on the Levis whaae1ff, were all marked "Fire or destroy belfere 645." This apparent- ly means that the ehe'ila will be use- less after June, 1925, but. the Gov- ernment has brought in live ship- loads of them and distributed all of these to the various garrisons throughout the Dominion. , A reasonable excuse has not yet been given for buying shells in Eng- land and bringing them to Canada, while in the Dominign there are hun- dreds of munition plants, established during the war for making these very shells, and which now are etamding idle and with their expensive machinery rusting and useless. If five shiploads of shells were needed, surely Canadian labor would have benefitted to some extent by the mak- ing of these munitions in Canada, and even if they had been obtained' with- out cost in Great Britain it would have been far better to have saved the cost of transporting them here or used the same amount of money to provide work for Canadian workmen. The government's answer to Mr. King's letter has been made, but it is far from being convincing. rf it is possible to get right down to the root of things, there may be found a sinister purpose behind the bring- ing of five shiploads of ammunition from England to Canada this sum- mer, when the need is not for mann tions a nitions of war, ;but of peace and when there is u crying need for money an works to prevent suffering amour Canada's workpeople during the coo ing winter. Mr. Meighen will prob- ably have en excuse, and it. may be more or less plausible one at that but it will be hard to justify sue purchases and shipments in the eye of Canadians, especially when th nations of the world are convenin their delegates at Washington an seeking to find a means of cuttin down all war -like expenditures. tell the people that Sir Lomer was leaning toward Mr. Meighen's fol- lowing and that he was likely to throw in his weight behind the Meighen group but now they have that to swallow among other un- truths. Reports received from the different Quebec ridings indicate that there is not a seat for the Meighen crowd in the province. The Progres- sives have no strength there, and while there may be one or two mem- bers elected who conduct their cam- paigns under the appelation "Inde- pendent," when these come into the House they will line up behind Mr. King and the Liberal patty, who are fighting the people's battle against the entrenched interests. And, while the Maritime provinces stand almost as a solid phalanx, the Province of Quebec shows every sign of its noted solidarity. Sir Lamer Gouin, the strong man of that prov- ince, has accepted the nomination in Laurier- utrement, and in doing so declared Valeta, a soldier in the Liberal army, fightin under the il- lustrious young le et, Mackenzie Ring. For long the o vernment pro- paganda office had been seeking to • SOLVING ONTARIO'S FUEL PROBLEM During the years of war when th shortage of rolling stodk made it al most impossible Ito get coal an when the shortage of help rendere the price of wood for fuel almos i,rohihitive, our attention naturall: turned to the peat deposits which were known to exist in various part of the country. Peat has been use as fuel for generations in Ire'lani Scotland and other Enrppean coon tries but until recent years was giv en little consideration in Canada. The war, however, with its attending con- ditions, raised the question in Can- ada of how to place our peat deposits on the market at a small enough cost to compete with other fuel. Previous to the war, on several occasions, private concerns have en- deavored to commercialize one or an- other of the peat bogs of Eastern Canada. The chief interest, owing to its easy access, has centered round - the one known as the Alfred Marsh, located in Prescott. Owing to the experimental nature of the work and the tremendous expense in producing machinery with which to experiment, these efforts were of little permanent account and it was not until, as a re- sult of war -time necessity when the Dominion and Ontario Government were induced to co-operate in an at- tempt to develop satisfactory ma- chinery that anything worth while was accomplished. The result of this co-operation, in spite of the numerous delays following the delib- erate and methodical action character- Reports from the Western province and British Columbia are equally en- couraging. While there are a cer- tain number of prairie ridings which will return farmer candidates, there are indications that many of the farmer votes will switch before poll- ing day to Liberal candidates. Many good men are being placed in the field out there and there is a strong swing toward these Liberals as it becomes increasingly evident that the best Mr. Crerar can hope for is to lead a group in the House. The main battle ground is quite evidently Ontario. There the Meig- henites are tghttng the Farmers heavily, while the Liberal leader, in his tour, is pointing out the need for unity between the forces opposed to -the reactionary, hyphenated party, which follows at the heels of Mr. Meighen. The government every- where is condemned for its extrava- gance and wasteful handling of the public money and for its refusal to consult the people on any of the matters which mean further heavy public expenditures. Mr. Meighen sticks to his tariff war -cry and by nreaehing blue ruin seeks to make the people believe that the defeat of his government means the ruination of :Canada. on the other hand, Mr. King is showing that while the tariff must be maintained, there must be revision of it in the interests of every group and class in the Domin- ion. The home will first be consid- ered, Mr. King has sated, under his revision, and the chs ges made will he to reduce the cost of living, in- crease trade and industry in the country, and thus bring about a wave of prosperity such as that enjoyed under the Laurier tariff. - d a h s ¢ g d g i + Public Meetings • 1 Public Meetings will be held in the- 1 1. Strand Theatre, Seaforth ; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7th # at 2 o'clock p.m. TOWN HALL, HENSALL - Monday, November 7th at 8 p.m. • — Addresses will he delivered by MR. J. J. MERNER Conservative Candidate for South Huron. BON. DR. TOLMIE - Dominion Minister of Agriculture - MISS CLAYTON ' of Listowel A special invitation is extended to the Ladies to be present. - GOD SAVE THE KING t m. MiMi= . MIK= i i _.-i.i== i —, ,_ objeots of pity as in the old days point, and in the remaining portion when they drove into the villages of of the marsh, is about ten feet deep. the surrounding high land with the- To go into a full description of the old-time high twoawheeled wooden various vicissitudes of the develop - sprigged cart, the only vehicle which ment of the peat industry up to the could safely navigate the marsh roads present time while no doubt interest - of early days. Today "marsh farm- ing would be too lengthy. Some ers" are prosperous. The tworwheel- years ago one of the parties interest- ed cart of former days has been re- ed in the development of the industry placed by stylish four -wheeled out- bought a tract of 300 acres, and it , fits or the even present automobile. was by securing rights on this tract - They are possessors of productive that the present company is operat- 1 clay farms and, for a part of the ing. Much could be written also re - 1 year at least, they are blessed with garding the machines that have been t good roads. developed and discarded for the lair- ,, How was the change brought a- pose of putting the peat in a market - a bout? In the first place the part able shape. Two of these are still on s of the marsh which has already been d reclaimed permitted of drainage. The - _ --- I, tamarack was little by 'little taken away for fuel, ditches were extended Storm Proof into the muck and every gusumn what - • • • • The Prime Minister, in his tour thus far, has continued his claim that no extravagances have bean shown by the Liberal chief. In view of that it was interesting to note that on re- turning from the Maritime Provinces Mr. King !found at Levis a vessel oil the Canadian Government Merchant Marine unloading stacks of high ex- piosibe shells for use in. Canada. Just what they are to be used for is not ever depth had become dned was burned off. In the following spring the area thus cleaned was seeded with oats or other crop right in the ashes without even plowing. This. was repeated from year to year and has been gradually extended acre by acre for the past 25 or 30 years until to -day all that remains of the marsh is a strip possibly five miles wide at its widest point and not more than ten miles long. This is the part which has come in -to the public eye during the last few years, generally known as the Alfred Peat Bog; for "peat" is but an aristocratic name for "black muck." .lust what depth of this substance lay over the un- derlying clay only those who have burned it off from year to year have any idea. For many years this burn- ing procesls (went on. Any time during the past twenty years, when, during the month of September, the sky throughout the lower Ottawa valley was overclouded with a pecu- liar colored smoke that Often render- ed the sun -scarcely visible and when the peculiar pungent odor of burn- ing much assailers the nostrils for weeks at a time, the wise ones knew that there was an unusually extensive fire in the "Marsh" country. On many occasions not only the muck was burned, but fences, buildings and even live stock. A fire which burns underground is a difficult fire to check when it gets beyond control. The present scene of operation is close alongside the C. P. R. track on the short line between Montreal and Ottawa. They are at present work- ing on a mile long strip on the north side of the track. The muck at this istic of govern., ent operations, was the fact that in 1920, for the first time, peat from the Alfred Marsh to the extent of about 4,000 tons was placed upon the market. In view of these developments, it was quite natural that finding myself in the neighborhood of the Alfred Marsh one day early in May 1921. 1 should have taken the opportunity to look over the situation. A description as it appeared to naturally inexperienc- ed eyes may possibly be of some in- terest to others also. The Alfred Marsh is the• remains of what was once a most extensive area of similar territory covering approxim-ately fourteen miles to a side. It included most of the town- ship of Alfred with a considerable portion of two adjoining townships; including also the site of the noted summer resort, 'Caledonia Springs. Much of this territory is now pros- sperous and productive farm 'land. The territory (generally known. as "The Marsh" is roughly bounded by the Nation River on the west, the Ottawa River on the north and on the east by what is known as the sand ridge. Originally it was cov- ered with tamarack, blue berries, cranberries and moss. Most of the tamarack died off as a result of an attack of some parasite some twenty- five odd years ago. The moss during the recent war was used for surgical ,dressing in the hospitals in France. It was a most unpromising looking district and was. nicest decidedly shnin- ned by English -Speaking settlers in the early days. With the French-Canadian, 'how- ever, such was not the case. In this borbid'ding district these persevering people apparently saw possibilities that has escaped the eyes of the Eng- lish speaking settlers ands,with char- neterisltic industry they gradually en- croached upon the Marsh from the north and. from the east where the deposit of black soil was the shal.- lowest. Today, a great change has taken place. . No longer are the "March" farmers conbidere'd as an trench. Bucket conveyors reached manufacturing whiskey in order to -- down the full ten feet and swooned produce certiva characteristic flavors. up -the slushy, black stein and dump- But then, with the preemie " ed it into that part of the contrivance tendency, possibly that aide' of the known as the rpaeeration. This eon- industry ve81 not be dimtpoi fu consist of a r8aihine hiving knives, Canada. b�thi .r something aster a fashion of .the clay pulverizer in brick making. This shredded and mixed the peat inio'a plastic mase. I was informed- that peat is composed of hollo'v cetla'wbich are filled' either with air or water, and that if condensing and - harden- ing are to be satisfactory, these cells must be completely broken pp. • From the macerator, the peat passes on to a belt that travels on a bridge reaching about 200 feet. et right angles to the direction in which the outfit is proceeding. On this distributor there is a deflector which removes the pulp into a' machine which spreads. it over the surdlaee of the bog in a line parallel with the trench. This spreader leaves a row of peat twelve feet wide and four inches deep, which at the same time is cut into bricks about four by eight inches. These bricks when dry will condense to about two and a half by five inches After each trip of the 'machine along the length of the, Fut it starts backward without turning and the deflector is moved thirteen feet further out an the distributor, until in a few weeks, the available surface of the bog is covered with a single layer of bricks. By the time this area is covered the first rqw that nvas laid is dry enough and solid enough to be taken up. This is where the coileeting process comes in. This consists of a travelling trough about sixty feet long sup - "ported by small caterpillars. On this trough the men shove the deep "briquets', which are carried by buckets and deeded into .small cars to be taken tothestorehouse or ship- ped as required. While this is going on, the excavating and macerating processes are proceeding and -a new layer of wet bricks are being deposit- ed on the space from which the dry ones have just been removed. This machine weighs fourteen tons. It is a natarrafl source of wonder how such a heavy machine is able to travel or the surface of the bog, especially along the edge of the ten -foot cut from which the peat is being taken and which is more than half full of water. It is equipped, however, with white caterpillar treads. These, to- gether with the surface drainage, are no doubt responsible for this seem- ingly impossible feat. What is of even greater wonder is the fact that the other and bigger machine, which weighs twenty tons, can navigate equally successfully the surface- of the bag. It is the intention to have this machine equipped with a dis- tributor 'built on the same principle NE the machine now in operation, but owing to the fact that this machine widens the trench thirty-five feet at every stroke, it will be necessary to provide a distributing arm 800 feet long. This arm will be supported at various intervals by small caterpil- lars to which motive power will be conducted from the main engine. Some idea of the extent of this par- ticular outfit may be gained by the feet. that the belt used in the distrib- utor will weigh 43,, tons. It is a re- markable fact also that the machine now in use which is capable of turn- ing out forty to sixty tons of peat per day can be operated by just five mien. Since my visit to the plant I learn that the machinery for this 800 foot distributor has Arrived and has been installed, just fn time to give it a try out at the close of the sea- son. Initial tests have been satis- factory, and it promises to turn out fully 25 per cent. more finished peat with seven men than was possible for fourteen men with the former dis- tributor. To what extent the peat industry will feature on the fuel market of Canada is difficult to say. Those now in charge of the work claim that when both these machines are in operation, peat can be produced at a price to compare favorably with any other fuel. While up to the present, peat has not featured largely as a commercial proposition, yet it has been used during the winter of 1920 and 1921 in several Ontario cities, as well as in the country surrounding Alfred with very satisfactory results. Upon inquiry we found that farmers in ' some instances were hauling it for use in their homes a distance of ten miles, claiming that, at the price e' $4.00 a ton then charged at the •i nrks, it was cheaper fuel than to ray for the cutting of wood in their ,von bush. As a fuel, peat may he said to come half -way between wood and col!. It makes a hotter fire than coal but is not so lasting, although more lasting than hardwood. Some object to its use on account. of a slight odor• of burning muck. On the whole hewever, now that its use has been demonstrated and now that the mat- ter of evolving a satisfactory plant for producing it in fuel form is ap- parently in sight, it is quite pos- sible that the Alfred Peat Bog, ars wash as other deposits of a similar nature, may form an important fac- tor }p' solving the fuel problem in future years. Wlhile the use of peat is largely confined to fuel; that is not its only Your home is proof against the most penetrat- ing Wintry blast, if your windows are provided with outside Storm Sash It is wise to order early. N. Cluff & Sons SEAFORTH - - ONT. the ground, one, the latest known as No. 2, is in operation. The other No. 1 is an older machine with greater digging capacity but at the time of my visit, unsatisfactory in the distri- bution system. This, I understand, has since been altered satisfactorily. The preparation of peat for fuel consists in the first place of surface drainage in order that the bog sur- face may carry the heavy machines. in its natural state peat contains 90 per cent. water. Other operations, all of which are performed at the one time, with the one machine, are ex- cavation, maceration, distribution, drying and collecting for shipment. The machine that was in operation when I visited the works travelled backward and forward alongside the Thanksgiving iving Services g R1 1$'IiF,ARB APPOINTED1 - Mr. Hunkin, returning officer for-„ South Huron, was in Seaforth on flat- urdayand ,wore in the registrars who ' will make up the voters' Hat for the coming election. In town and vicin- ity tbey are as foilo'ws: Seaforth: Ward 1 -Ray Robs; Ward Two—HaroldWard; Ward. Three- Oharles Neely; Ward roars Wallace Parke; War. nye—Dalton, Reid. . Tuckeremith -- Bert Govenloek, James Hays, Mr. McGeoch, Gordon McKay. McKillop. --No. 1, Leo Holieed; No. 2, George Eaton; No. 3, Gelybt: Hillen • No, 4, Alonzo Sperling. Ilullett-JNo. 1, Gord. MaBrien; 2, Wes. Beacom; No. 3, Ed. Johns- ton; No. 4, Jos Brown; No. 8, Was.:. Mason; No. '7, Wm. Patterson. - Clinton—et Andrew's Ward, -W. S. R. Holmes; St. James' Ward, A. J.,.- Grigg; St. Johns Ward, Fred Ford;' St. George's Ward, Cliff. Andrews Goderich -Township — Yesoisflk; Ross, O. Ginn, Mrs. John 'Stewart,.. Rdbt. Clues, J. 5, Miller, Adam Can-- telon. • Their duties are to make op a list - of both mien and women over twenty- one years of age. British subjects and: residing in South Huron for at Least two months prior to, October 5th of this year, the date when the writs: were issued, and residing In Canada for one year prior to that date. These lists will be posted up on the, 21st of November and the registrars will then sit in their offices front November 23rd to 26th, to receive, and add any names omitted. GODERICH By-law Defeated.—By a vote of al- most four to one Goderich citizens turned down Monday the by-law auth- orizing the expenditure of $65,000 to- wards improving the water supply here. The vote was 87 for and 806 . against. Some time ago the Pro- vincial Board of Health ordered the inettallatian of an improved filtration plant, involving the above :expendi- ture. The reason for turning deem the by-law is due to the belief held bbyy local citizens that pure water cant tic obtained by extending the intake pipe out pant the south breakwater, with a good deal less expense. Just What action £lie 'Provincial Heard "re. -' Health will take is problematic, and will be closely watched by the rate- payers. Methodist Church, Seaforth SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6th when Rev. A. J. Langford, of St. Marys, will have charge of the services THANKSGIVING DINNER on MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7th Dinner served from 6 to 8 p.m., followed by an excellent programme. ADMISSION - 35c and '50c WALTON Farm Sold.—The fine 130 -acre farm of M'r. John Clarke, known as the !Dickson farm, has -been purchased by Mr George R. Love, of this lo- cality. The price paid was in the neighborhood of $13.700. 'Possession will be given on December lst. Mr. Clarke takes over Mr. Love's 50 -acre - farm on the 10th concession at the sum of $5.500. These prices to to show the price of land has not de- preciated in McKillop. Death of James Campbell: Word was received here on Wednesday of the death in London of a former well known resident. • of McKillop, in the person of James Campbell, who pass- ed away very suddenly, following a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Campbell had been a faithful and efficient em- ployer of the MoClary Foundry Com- pany for a number of years. The funeral will take place from the resi- dence of Mr. John Harris, Walton, this Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Notes.—Next Sunday, November lith, a union service of Walton and Bethel congregations will be held in the Walton Methodist Church at 11 a.m., when the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper .will .be .dispensed., Service will be held in the Bethel church at 7 p.m.—Walton public library will reopen this week after being closed for two months, with Duncan Johnson, as librarian. --Miss Mabel Stafford has very successfully passed her final examination at the Roynl College of Science, Toronto, graduating as a R. C. S. nurse, pass- ing all her examinations with honors. —Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Gardiner have returned from a pleasant visit with friends in Chicago and other places. —.iames Rea intends holding an suc- tion sale on November 8th. the sale_ is without reserve as the farm is sold. —John Claris has sold his fine farm to George Love of this locality. Pos- session will be given oe December 1st, and an auction sale will beheld en Wednesday, November 2nd.-11el- iowF en passed quietly, a few pranks being played by the younger boys.— Mr. .1. McMillan, manager of the Bank of Commerce, has been on the sick list for the past few weeks, but is improving. He wa# able to take a drive to the village' one day bast week.—Apples are a scarce artiele this fall. — Mr. and Mrs. James Bishop hr. ✓e moved into .the village. -- Mrs. Enock Clark is visiting friends at Blnevale.—Threshing and corn cutting are finished for .this season. Potatoes were a very good crop, but some report they are dhiseasedr— Monday next is Tharsk6givingWe wonder how many will remember to stop work at eleven o'clock for two minutes in memory of our fall who sleep in Mildews Fiel r. R. Hoy has started butchering .again which makes it v y convenient bet people who hive to bot salve. use.. In the manufacture of the "briquetts" some ate broken- and there is always a certain proportion of fine particles and duet not desired for fuel. This is now being used by the packing houses as an absorbent for refuse from the. elsaghter hones and is sold as fertilizer. It map al- so be a surprise -to aeon to learn thalt peat ie. used in the process of a ,le