HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-12-09, Page 2RISTMAS,
UGGESTIONS:
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FAMED A8 A. mire ow imams
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UAUSIi"ufi.
6bunder' of Rea Cross Used 'Phatp,
seal It Ras Now Become a World
Centre on Account of the League
of Natlww—•Once Was w;furitan-
leaf Community, But Is Now Very
Gay,
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I3..c luso Geneva la the city of John
C:alvin, whoseoname is always asso-
ciated with a particularly stern and
Joy1 typo of Christianity, a lot of
pe.iple imagine that It must be a
gloomy towu where the inhabitants
wear 0 ed-e)lored clothes, and go
a b.,..,t a 11h lona; faces.
C mainly when Calvin held the
-reins t;=n ova wall not a very pleas-
ant rhes to live in according to
i -t .darn ideas. Noue might be out
at <vr nine without Inst cause; no
gold or allver ornaments might be
(worn; uo Household might have a
dinner of more than three courses.
When John Knox, the founder of the'
Presbyterian Church of Scotland,
visited the city In 1664, he declared
It to be "the moat perfect school of
Christ that ever was In the earth
since the days of the Apostles."
But that was nearly four centuries
ago. Other times, other manners.
The two Johns, to whom everything
pleasurable savoured of sin, would
rub their eyes and shake their beads
if they could cone to Life again and
take a stroll along the Qual du Mont
Blanc In the height of the summer
season. Nowadays the gay toilettes
of the ladles and the elegant motor-
cars make a scene which Parte itself
can scarcely surpass.
It was not for nothing that Geneva
was selected as the headquarters of
the League of Nations,
Some sixty years ago another great
International movement came into
being at Geneva. A Genevlan citi-
zen, Henri Dunant, happened to be
present at the Battle of Solferino on
June 24th, 1869, and he was so
shocked by the sufferings of the
wounded that he returned to his na-
tive town determined to do some-
thing to mitigate the horrors df war.
His Ideas found sympthy among
his fellow citizens, the first Inter-
national- Committee of the Red Crone
area formed, and every civilized
country agreed to observe Its con-
ventions and accept its rultags.
What the Red Cross did during
the terrible years 1914-1918, in al-
leviating the lot of wounded and
prisoners, in tracing the missing, and
in succouring refugees, forme a great
chapter In the history of the war.
There are thousands upon thousands
of men alive and well at home to-
day who owe it to Henri Dunant
and his successors stat they are now
live and that their bones are not
ottl.e in a foretell loll.
e
early shopper wants and gets the pick
'Of' everything. We have prepared our stock
, with this in view, to give the buyers now a real
ch�an4ce--a complete stock, useful and beautiful
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Articles for Men, Women and Children.
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Silverware, Adams, Georgian, Old Colony pat-
tern at Reduced Prices.
Brass and old Copper Jardiners..$2.60 to $5.00
Nickleplated Teapots $1.50 to $3.50
Aluminum Teapots $3.25 to $3.75
Case Carvers, Sheffield steel, special. $5 to $9
Scissors and Shears 75c to $2.75
Real Ebony 4 -piece Manicure Cards $1.20
Automobile Skates $2.00 to $7.00
Coleman Stand & Hanging Lamps $12.00
Meat Grinders, Universal $3,50
Razors, Safety and Straight ....$2.00 to $5.00
Razor Straps, Carborandum finish $1.25 to $2.50
Electric Irons $5.50
Boys' Sleighs 75c to $5.00
Pocket Knives 15c to $3.00
Special Bobs to fit wagons, per set $2.50
O Cedar Mops $1.25 to $2.00
Carpet Sweepers $6.50
Everything in Granite, Aluminum
and Nickle Ware.
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Canada's oldest, moat practicig. and
most interesting fartin paper
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Edited, owned and published by practical
'farmers who operate a 200 acre experimental
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Departments of Interest for every member
of the family at all seasons of the year.
Helpful and practical articles on live stock
including Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and
Poultry.
Horticulture: -fruits and vegetables,
Dairy :-care of cows and handling of milk,
butter and cheese
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Reliable market reports—with
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"Before finishing the first bottle
1 felt a marked improvement"
The following testimonial u a message to all who are
run down in health, and shows what benefit is to be
obtained by a course of
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ARNOL
"An attack of 8a in the Fa111919 left me in such a weakened
condition that I could not walk scram the kitchen, and for nearly
two months, i spit blood and my neighbors, as well as myself,
t i was in the first stsrr• of consumption. My weight when
1 took sick yes 120Ib...0 l shrunk from that to 98 lbs. On the
Hlammendatba of nay Mandell beget to take Carnal. Before
ilaishing fear bead 6 bottle, l felt a marked improvement 1 then toots
andmy improvement wesmervelloue that at tea
end of site motes, I gainedin wstthe most 1 ever weighed
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1 dM �reeermaaad ARNOL 16 any one in a tw,4iwn eon -
M aseetset the beet as wen Mabe Moet palatable renis on
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end wee se fid s i weld essays Meath.. i pva her Camel is
bet Tartar ad tin toeg worerbtgthe ares ale to get eat of bed ler
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' (Mone sit seem,)
oUft D'RUGGIS'T FOR CARNOL
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As every newspaper reader knows
Geneva has for many years been th
rendezvous for all aorta oT inter
national meetings and conferences.
The delegates or "conferenciers,'
as the Genevans call them, make' an
interesting crowd, coming as they
do sometimes from the ends of the
earth. In the course of a short walk
in the strangers' quarter you may
meet half the nationalities of the
civilized world. As like as not you
will run across some burly British
Labor leader talking in the aceents'of
"Lancasheer" or "Glasca."
Geneva was thus clearly marked
out as the best place for the head-
quarters of the League of Nations,
and the sitting of the parliament of
the world.
I was privileged to be present at
the Bret full assembly last year, and
I well remember how, on arriving in
the city on the eve of the opening,
I found it all agog with excitement
over the great event. In the streets,
In the restaurants, In the Cafes,
everyone was tliscussing it. The
words "Societe des Nations," as the
Swiss call the League, were in every
mouth,
Next morning, in the Hail of the
Reformation, it was a solemn mo-
ment when representatives of forty
three countries took their seats,
white men, brown men, and 'yellow
men, hailing from everywhere, from
China to Peru.
To simplify the proceedings, only
two languages were officially recog-
nized—French or English. That is
to say, no matter what a delegate's
own tongue was, he Could only ad-
dress the assembly in one or other
of these two languages.
Directly a speech was finished, saY.
in French, an official translator, who
bad been taking shorthand notes,
and in the case of a prepared speech
had teen the speaker's manuscript,
came forward mad translated what
bad been sald into English.
This constant translation makes
things drag a little, but, -of course,
it is inevitable. Each delegation has
also one or more private translators
of its own, and several secretaries,
who sit with the delegates ready to
translate the speeches into their own
language, ,and otherwise help them
to follow the proceedings.
The work -of the League requires a
large -permanent star—some four to
flee hundred people. These are ac-
commodated in a former hotel over-
looking the lake, which was acquired
and .remodelled to serve as the
manent otbces. The staff is
from many nations: bu' arawn
predominate. cG9 Brltlsh
Geneva i^ a t aal 1lieasant place do
live In The ti8itevans are a hoaplt
:rine ' folk, rind very cultured, as
'dight be expected in a community
which bpende no lees than two-thirds
of its annual budget on education.
Much entertaining goes on, and
there are numerous theatres and
other evening amusements.
The town itteit 1s very fine, with
handsome buildings, broad streets,
and shady parks. One never tires
of looking at the noble lake, gener-
ally sunny and smiling, and dotted
with white -winged yachts, but same,
times lashed to fury when the wind
blows hard from the northeast.
Soetiontlgiso1s andssaAuhy to -
it :0 gli thi ishan,
WIiN ECZEMA
"Ft's -s- i Cleared
- Her Skin
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POINTS Sr. Prime, P.Q.
"I suffered for three years with
terrible Batons I consulted several
doctors and they did not do me arty
good.
Then, I used -ono home of "Sootho-
Salm"andtwoboresof"l rea-a-tiveg"
and my handaare now clear. The pain
is gone and there has I e•eu uo return.
I think it is marvellous because no
other mediciue did me any good
until I used " Sootim-Saliva" and
"Fruit-a-tivet", the wonderful medicins
mad. from fruit':
Madam PETER LAMAIIRE.
50c a box, 6 for $2.50. trial size, 23c.
At dealers or sent postpaid by
Pruit-a-tives limited, Ottawa,
FIRST WESTERN LAND SOLD
YEARS AGO
tatted, with thefts nlididtenli fasai{ly�� ,
gatheted abont,theth or seeking tbalr
own annum still .further suietsferd .
0r AOrtheafd, They taws apes elf
Mutton step is to the wast and the'
wilderness ,wept, oat, xtfe-day are:,
thriving eider and towns where
'Meech:Mg buffalo bones marked the '
ox trails of forty years "ago. Today (
are mighty freight trains, each with
its thousand -ton cargo of wheat ck i
merchandise, rearing down the roads
where the old ct,rt. created, To -day
are schools within walking distance/
of every fann house, churches within'
driving distance of every home. To-
day are telephones and every modern
convenience linking communities over
vast distances by the common bond
of the spoken word.
This year Canada ranks as the
third largest wheat -producing coup-
try in the werld, with 294,388,009
bushels, 90'`per, cent- of which was
grown in the three prairie provinces, I
of which the province of Saskatche-
wan produced more than half. The
Dominion is today the second larg-
est producer of oats, with 630,710,000
bushels of whioh 60 .per cent. was
grown between Winnipeg and the
Rocky Mountains; and the fifth Marg- r
eat producer of barley with 63,311,000
bushels, of which the prairies yielded
66 per cent.
The wilderness of forty years ago,
therefore, is one of the greatest gran -
4e aries in the world, truly an abnormal I
development. But this is not all. In
1881, when W. D. Scott sold that sec -
ion of land to the father of a pres-
nb-day newspaper man, there was
carcel y any farm live stock in the
eat. Dairying was not engaged in
Forty years ago last September 23,
the first section of C. P. R. farm land e
in Western Canada was sold for *2,50
an acre, subject to 'i rebate of $1.25 w
pct acre for the area br.ught under
callivation within three years. The
sale was made by W. D. Scott, now
assistant deputy minister of the de-
partment of immigration and coloc-
ization, who at that time was em
ployed in the C. P. R. land office
Winnipeg, to the late Charles Whit
head, father of the present owner
the Brandon Daily Sun. This sectio
was situated about five miles sout
of Brandon, ellicially noted as sec-
tion three, township ten, range 19,
first west of the meridian.n
In those days the price was consid-
ered fairly substantial. The construc-
tion of the main line of the Cadia
Pacific Railway had been proposed as
far as the Pacific coast from Portag
la Prairie, which was then the en
of steel, but just when this propose
would be carried through was unser
tain. Comparatively few people had
any conception of the enormous pos-
sibilities for agricultural develop-
ment in that extensive plateau run-
ning westward from Winnipeg to the
Rocky Mountains. Beyond Brandon
at a11. To -day there are 6,998,317
farm animals on the prairies, of which
881,899 are mach cows; and dairying
is only second in importance to grain
growing in the west.
W. D. Scott has teen with pride all
at this growth and change and has been
a contributing factor in it. Hundreds
of of miles westward of the first sec
-
n tion of C4P.R. land he told forty
en years ago he now owns a rich farm
of 1,000 acres at Lockwood, Seek.
He has seen Winnipeg evolve from
a frontier town to a metropolitan
city, which, with its suburbs, now has
a population of about 250,000, the
n gateway to a country of almost in-
credible resources. He was the first
e immigration agent for Manitoba, at
Winnipeg, being
appointed
From 1900 to 1903 'he represented
Canada at international exhibitions in
Paris, London, Glasgow and, Wolver-
hampton- When he came back to
Canada he was appointed superinten-
dent of immigration for the Dominion
Government, and as such be acted
until he was elevated to his present
only a�nere handful of pioneers had position.
penetrated as recently as forty years
ago. The Rockies were practically
an impenetrable barrier, the Pacific
coast being reached from the east by
ship sailing round Cape Horn. The
province of Manitoba had a popula-
tion of 62,260 compared with 61RIuw
in 1921. Winnipplr-res then a fron-
tier town n 7087 people, and
Brandon, which was regarded as a
far-flung outpost of the west, boast-
ed of a few hundred in population
In 1891, it only -had 3,778. Such
places as Calgary and Edmonton were
mere trading posts in the northwest
territories. Buffalo roamed the
prairie in their native state.
What a metamorphosis has taken
place since that first section of C.
P. R. farm hand in the west was
sold!
When it was realized in the early
eighties that the construction of the
transcontinental railway was assur-
ed, hardy pioneers began to push
westward, many in advance of the
railways; driving their yokes of oxen,
wibh their families and all their
worldly possessions loaded on a
"prairie schooner," or a Red River
Those who did not buy land rrom
the C. P. R. received free land from
the Dominion Government, provided
certain conditions were observed.
Scarcely any of the rich soil had been
brought under cultivation. The farm
machinery of the time was crude;
there were no competent advisers;
government experimental farms were
a blessing that came years later.
Yet these hardy pioneers stuck It
out, and in forty years numbers of
them are enjoying their declining
days in the communities they wrested
from the wilderness, prosperous, con
SHE TOOK HER
MOTHER'S -ADVICE
Now is in the" Best of
HeaIth because she took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable. Compound
Kcssock, Sack.—" My mother has
taken L dist E. Pin1:!1 m's V ^^table
- ton,,;; "'i•J.nr4
rr:icarnlpg of
ti Bales
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a• wen- ' ell
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and had Icer
corrhten tory bad.
1 have taken Lydia
E, Pinkham's
Vegetable Com-
pound and Lydia
E. Pinkham's
Blood Medicine
an u- t e Sanitive Wash also Dr.
Brown's Capsules and Prescription and
am much better in every way. I am
willing for you to use my letter as a
testimonial Nils I recommend your
medicines." — Mra resets NELSON,
Kessock, Sask.
It is not always hi business that a
woman is forced to give up her work
on account of ill health. It is quite es
often the woman who tines her own
work at home. When backaches and
headaches drive out all ambition, when
that bearing -down sensation
you, when you are nervous andel
os
the ogeat help for s
Lydia E. Pinkhanee Vt�M
TWO AUTOS PLUNGE IN RIV
TWO DIE
A bridge draw tragedy which took
the lives of ,Mrs. G. Earle Minne, niece
of Mrs. Con Eckert and Mra, John
Nolan, of Seaforth, and Mrs. A.
Emslie Gerrie and left Mr. and Mrs.
Frank H. Henson battling for life in
the icy water of Black River, was
enacted early Thursday morning at
Tenth street, Port Huron.
The bridge had been swung to per-
mit the sand and gravel steamer, E.
Gunnel], owned in Detroit, to pass
through the draw. A large sedan, in
which Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Hen-
son were riding, came onto the north
bridge approach which was heavily
coated with ice, crashed through the
guard gates and plunged into the
river. About two minutes later an-
other sedan occupied by Mra. G.
Earle Minne and Mrs. A. Emslie
Gerrie, went through the broken
guard gate and followed the Henson
car into the river.
:Mr, and Mrs. Henson were swim-
ming in the icy water, waiting for
help when the Minne car took its
fatal plunge, but its victims were
trapped within.
A boat manned by members of the
crew of the steamer Gunnell rescued
Mr. and Mrs. Henson, but it was not
until four o'clock Thursday morning
that their identity was known, as
they were rushed to the home of a
physician immediately after their
rescue. In' the .meantime, police of-
ficials were under the impreasionthat
other occupants of ,the Henson car
had been trapped within.
The identity of the victims of the
Minne sedan was not disclosed un-
til .the car hal been lifted from the
water by the hoisting apparatus of
the steamer Gunnell some hours lat-
er. The bodies of both women were
in the Minne car am they were
identified from cards they carried.
The victims of the river tragedy were
on their way home from a social
gathering, and Mr. and Mrs. Henson
were returning from the annual din-
ner of the Port Huron Golf and Coun-
try Club,
The story of tee fatal plunge as
told Frank H. Henson, prominent
young business man, is as follows:
"Mrs. Henson and myself were
returning from the Golf club and
when within about 100 feet of the
:gates] my. wife said 'the draw Is
open. The approach was coated
with ice. I put on the brakes, but
to !< second we had hit the' gates
which are poorly constructed, and
the car plunged into the river. We
went to the bottom. How Mrs.
Henson and myself got out, I do not
know. We may have opened the door.
I came to the surface first but could
not see Mrs. Henson. It was pitch
dark acid I started to swim and in a
few seconds bumped into a pile. I
saw Mrs. Henson come to the sur-
face and she started to ewim away
from me toward the center pier.
"She seemed to be floating on some-
thing, but I knew now it was the
air under her garments keeping her
up. She celled to ate that she was alt
Tight and would be able to make the
pier. She war affil swimming when
rescued. Site kept her head.
'As I clung to the pile and before
I saw 'my wife swimming, another
car -plunged into Rea river within a
feet feet of est. Mk was the Minns
arr. It stented to be standing on end
h the Vita gore leaearnedd later that i had Baugh t on
a submerge pit+, 'I retried to go to
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1NaiRPQR4TZD, 18bb- .
Oaptt]il tali ;)sa'tapiyla oedeoo
Ova" is sivsMN
ie o1sans ,.B
The cost of living la falling, also the Drive of -food
stuff. This neceesitateaibeed prod jt log, Pro,
duets -Aare and deposit"your earplug fn The Mo lrtona
Bank where it win be ready i`or any call and: yet
be earning interest.
BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT; .
Brucefleld, St. Marys, Klrkton
Exeter, Clinton, Henaall, Zurich.
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the car but went down twice. There
NT.? no sign of life about it. My
w;fe and I let talking to one an -
ether and she kept telling me she
was all right. A small boat then
picked us up. It was manse, by a
member of the crew of the Gunnell."
Patrolman Lane, who swung the
bridge, states that he saw the Hen-
son car approaching and tried- to
signal it from the swung bridge to
stop. He saw it go into the river
backwards. A minute or two later
he saw the Minne car' follow the ,
Henson car into the river.
Mrs. Minne was the wife of a
cement block builder and contractor
and is survived by her -husband.
Mrs. Ger,rie is survived by her hus-
band, who is an American Express
company messenger. She was the
mother of three children. Coroner
Falk will hold an inquest to place
the responsibility for the tragedy.
A radical change will be made in the
-location of the guard gates of the'
bridge at once,
An insect pest has been discovered
in New Zealand wb(eb eats off wheat
straw several inches above the ground.
There are more than 275,000 manu-
facturing plants in the United States
depending entirely upon electric
power.
Much of the slate quarrying in
Wales is done in underground work-
ir.gs with the use of compressed air
machinery.
After being closed, the tubes of new
opera glasses can be turned back into
the frames and carried in a vest
pocket.
A deposit of white marble said to
equal the best Italian in quality has
been discovered near Pretoria, Trans-
vaal,
Arc lamp carbons are mechanically
covered with a thin layer of metal
which is thickened by electroplating
by a new European process.
A new tester for storage battery
cells gives readings in amperes in-
stead of voltage readings from which
the capacities must be figured.
A reinforced concrete bridge with
an arched span nearly 300 feet long
has been built by a Swedish railway
to carry trains at high speed.
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