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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-04-20, Page 2ti 111111111111111111.111 faw�rea,r ar�d�l au vasal �wna�S��.l.-�� '"-'--: t ,�..r.'r-'T.'.i :--,�': (- =,!elm• We are selling "INVINCIBLE" Fencing. Does thismean anything to you? The wire for Invincible 'encing is made from open hearth steel. This pro- cess eliminates the sulphur and phosphorous almost altirely with the result that the wire stands more being less brittle, and retains the galvanizing etter than the ordinary fence. Everyone is convinced of the superiority of 8 wire even spaced fence and of this we have made a Speciality At 48c Per Rod, Cash We stock a full line of 6 and 7 wire fencing, al- so in 20, 30 and 40 rod rolls: Invincible Poultry Fence, 5 ft. high at 79c rod, Cash Bantam Poultry Fence, 4 ft. high, 60c per rod, Cash Barbed Wire, Steel Fence Posts, Brace Wire and Staples. GYPROC WALL BOARD is made entirely of plaster in the sheet; is fireproof; does not shrink; can be papered or painted, and does not crack; is cut with a saw, and can be put up by anyone. The ideal board at a remarkaly low price -4c per Square Foot Geo. A. Sills & Sons SETTLERS COME FIRE RANGERS During 1922; ,the Department of Lands and Forests utilised 312 assist- ant fire rangers io improve the pro- tective ayatem in settlers' districts. These assistant fire rangers are se- lected in each range, among the moat progressive settlers. They have the authority to issue permits to burn clearances and also to enforce the law, which requires each settler to watch the progress of his fires. They can also summon help and direct the fight against fires which may escape the settler or occur in tie vicinity of theil beat. This system of assistant fire rangers has become very popular, because it enables the settler to ob- tain a permit at any time, provided he has complied with the obligations of the permit, that is, if he has piled the debris of his clearing into heaps or rows and if he has cleared a strip of at least 60 feet between such heaps or rows and the adjoining forest. Of course the weather conditions must he favorable and there must not be any drought. The settler appreciated very much the fact that he is rto longer obliged to make ten to fifteen miles to the ranger's home, with the chances of finding him away. The moral effect is also great, as the as- sistant forest ranger residing among Ow settlers causes them to be more careful; they discuss between them- aelves the danger arising from the imprudence of careless people and we find that, in many sections, the set- tlers are co-operating together to the extent that they will all burn et the same time so all the available men are in readiness; therefore, the this means that, with the hearty co- • operation of all the interested, clear- ances are being burned and very lit- tle damage caused. In fact, in the Abitibi region, and the Lake St. John district where the assistant -fire rang. ers were employed, 90% of the clear- ances have been burned last year and only a few acres of green forest were scorched. This shows that the settler can burn his clearance provided we appeal to him in the right manner. CLEANS EVERYTHING A teaspoonful of Charm to a dishpan of water makes dishwashing easier. Dior 25c at all Good Grocers Save Soap Suds Making Suds cl,,reet from the Bar Saves Soap. You rub the Bar Soap on the soiled parts and get immediate results with no fear of undissolved particles of Soap scattering through the clothes. Bar Soap 9 p is the safest' and most satisfactory. ?~ c lee�25�?t; RI 9ISCUITS Try TeIIsYouWky a3a ndr I?' . HAROLD LLOYD IS LIKE MERTON GILL Harold Lloyd, the screen comedian, is a real Merton Gill, according to a friend who is not in the movies. Har- old was quite as stage-struck as the hero of "Merton of the Movies," though he did not have to go through such a painful apprenticeship, and at no time, we suppose, was he funny without being aware of the fact. Nevertheless, when he went on the 'stage it was not for the purpose of becoming a great comedian; it was merely to become an actor. He has even now his serious convictions, for we learn that among the things he does not like, "even though he is fam- cus and rich":— He dosen't like to see women smoke. He dosen't believe any man has a right to break the law—prohibition or otherwise. He does not like young men who forget to be kind to their parents. Ile does not like to think that he ever disappointed a little boy or a little girl. He dosen't like unwholesomeness of any kind. He dosen't like anyone "who ain't done right by our Nellie." Recently he married the demure Mildred Davis, his leading woman, . and we presume that she is also his best pal and his severest critic. Harold is about twenty-nine years old and was born in Nebraska. His father appears to have been of rather a shifty, if not a shiftless, na- ture, for he was continually moving about, and on one occasion when he had come into a fortune of $3,000. tossed a coin to decide whether he would take his family to New York or to San Diego. When Harold was lune he first felt the historonic urge, and used to act before his looking - glass, and try to learn slight -of - hand tricks. But there being no money in such performances carried on in the privacy of his bedroom, he bought a newspaper route in Denver and covered it for two years, until his father moved to Omaha. It was there he had his first contact with the stage. One evening he was standing before a store window watching a display of magic tricks, the fire reels rushed past, and all the other gapers followed them ex- cept Harold, who continued to stand fascinated. Then he became aware that somebody was watching him, arid looking up he saw John Lane O'Connor, leading stock actor of the town. The actor was naturally interested in a boy who preferred to watch magic tricks rather than follow the fire reef, and he questioned him. The lad spoke freely, for Mr. O'Con- nor was one of his idols, and con- fessed that his great ambition was to go on the stage. He was aolemn- ly warned against it and the actor told him tragically that he had not had a square meal for a month. Then Harold had an inspiration. He hold Mr. O'Connor that _Ifs mother was a fine cook,,, and ' would be glad to receive him as a boarder Sure ienough the next day Mr. O'Connor turned up and was received as a boarder by the Lloyds. At odd times he drilled Harold and rehearsed him in various roles, and taught him dancing and singing of the knock- about sort. He also procured him his first engagement, that of Little Abraham in 'Tess of the D'Urber- villes," played by a local stock com- pany. His work there won him sev- eral other juvenile roles that winter, and Harold felt that he was at 11asst on the highway to fame and for- tune. About this time he met anoth- er actor who helped him, and that was Frank Bacon, who years later was to abetter all records with firs play "Ldghtnin'." Bacon wished to take Harold on tour with him, but the par- ents objected. He wet 18 when the family moved to San Diego, where the father opened a restaurant and where if1RTURE Headaches and Indigestion Ended By "Fruit -a -dries" The Marvellous Fruit Medicine Like thousands and thousands of other sufferers, Mr. Albert Varner of Buckingham, Y.Q., tried many remedies and went to doctors and specialists; but nothing did him any good. d. N ipally a friend advised him to try "Fruit -a -Lives "—now he is well. As be says in a letter: "Foraeveeyyears, I suffered terribly from Headaches and indigestion. had belching gas, hitter stuff would come up in my mouth, often vomiting, and was terribly constipated. 1 took Fruit-a-tives and this grand fruit medicine made me well". 50e. a box, 0 for $1.50, trial size 25o. At deal rs or seat by Fruit -a -fives Limited, Ottawa, Out. O'Connor was teaching dramatics in a high school. Harold was ern - cloyed as his assistant. He also played a little in stock and helped a professor in fencing, so that he was kept busy, even though he earned little. Then there came a udden panic which caused the stock company to close and which lost O'Connor and his assistant their jobs. The restaurant business, too, faded out, and the Lloyds were as hard- up as ever. Just at that time, however, the Edison Company went down to San Diego to take a Spanish picture, and Harold boldly tackled the manager and got a job as an In- dian at $3 a day. When this engage- ment ended he got a job in stock in the suburbs for awhile, but at last determined to throw it up and try to catch on in the movies. He and his father went to Los Angeles, and 'he boy was able to get a few weeks' work from the Morosco Company, which was playing stock in such pieces as "Old Heidelburg" and in "Brown of Harvard." Then this com- pany closed and once more Harold was unemployed. His determination to become an actor did not abate, and for weeks he hung around Universal City, where the mbvies were made, trying to get inside and catch on. One day the idea struck him that if he would make - up he might slip through the gate, So he went back to the restaurant, outside the: gates and put on a make-up. Once inside he caught a job as an extra hand at $3 a day. He worked for some time until he attracted the at- tention and won the friendship of Hal Roach, the actor, and later on J. Warren Kerrigan. It was the latter, apparently, who perceived the fund of humor that the boy had, and soon he was advanced to doing cheap and frothy little slap -stick comedies which were tacked on the end of real pictures. ' His rise was meteoric, and probably more honestly earned than the rise of most of the other screen stars. Perhaps it was helped a little by his born -rimmed glasses, though be did not wear these in his earlier productions. The idea of • donning them came after he saw a sour -faced minister wearing them in a serious part. The • minister was as solemn as could be but he struck Harold as comical, and he determined to adopt this part of his make-up. eoua in habits, Prolific in reprodue- tion, and thrive in forest or field aline. They eat ,hark, leaves, and seeds; they girdle stems and gnaw roots of seedling, sa ling pole, and veteran tree; with dirt taken from their burrows, they build mounds whichprevent germination and stifle growth. They dig holes that sur- face water turns into deep denuded gullies. Their attack is not partial —buckthorn,' bush honeysuckle, dog- wood, beech, larch, sassafras, alder, ash, oak, cottonwood, willow, and wild cherry are a few of the tree growths that suffer. "Seedbed of nurserymen and for- esters; .,greenhouse, hotbed, and orchard are equally attacked. The forest and prop loss caused by the 750 kinds 6f rodents in this country, is reckoned in hundreds of :Onions of dollars each year, "In cultivated areas rodents naey be destroyed by poisoning, irriga- tion, winter flooding, burning over of breeding places, destruction of win- ter cover, and tapping. Trees may be protected by removing mulch and trash _from about the stems and banking with cinder mounds, by the use of wood or wire protective cylin- ders, or by painting with fresh ani- mal blood or a mixture of lime, soap, carbolic acid and sulphur. "But even when and where such laborious and costly work is done, damage is not wholly prevented," the American Nature Association points out. "In Ohio, lose and in- jury by rodents to newly set apple, pear and plum orchards has been fig- ured at $1 per acre per year—an as- tounding los of over $200,000. Snakes are nature's last line of de- fense in the battle against rodents." I'ORTABLE PUMPS STOP B. C. FIRES Portable gasoline pumps for forest protection purposes have demonstrat. ed their worth to such an extent that many of the logging operators in British Columbia are purchasing them in addition to the lire fighting equipment required, by law. The "Logger" realizes that an int- vestment of this nature constitutes a good form of insurance. He appre- ' crates that even though his "Don- ' keys" are well equipped with fire fighting implements, to handle fires occurring in the immediate vicinity of a "machine"; yet he has always to be ready for the fire starting away from this equipment, MANY SNAKES ARE AMONG BEST FRIENDS OF MAN "Many snakes are among man's best friends. They prey upon the enemies of his forests and his crops. In our fields and forests millions of little rodents are gnawing," writes Gayne T. K, Norton in Nature Maga- zine of Washington, "Meadow, pine and white-footed mice, kangaroo rats, pocket gophers, and rabbits are some of the worst marauders, krlewing no closed season for their destructive labors. "They are nocturnal and subterran- THEY TELL THEIR NEIGHBORS Women Tell Each Other How They Were Helped by Lydia E. Pink. ham's Vegetable Compound • Woodbridge, Ont.—"I took Lydia E. Pinkham's'vegetable Compound for fe- male troubles. I would have headaches, backaches, pains between my shoul- ders and under my shoulder -blades and dragging down feelings on each side. 1 was sometimes unable to do any work and felt, very badly. My mother- in-law told me about the Vegetable Compound and I got some right away. It has done me more good than any other medicine I ever took and I rec- ommend it to my neighbors. You are quite welcome to use this letter as a testimonial if ryou think it will help some poor sufferer. Mrs. EDGAR SrMMONB, R. R. 2, Woodbridge, Ont. In nearly every neighborhood in every town and city in this country there are women who have been helped by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in the treatment of ailments peculiar to their sex, and they take pleasure in passing, the good word along to other women. Therefore, if -you are troubled in this way, why not give Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound a fair trial. Thisfamous remedy, the medicinal ingredients of which are derived from roots and herbs, has for forty years proved its value fn such eases. Women everywhere hear willing testimony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pink= ham's Vegetable Compound. o Portable gasoline pumps with the necessary complement of hose, locat- ed at strategic points on an operation cati be carried quickly and without difficulty to fires originating beyond the reach of the steam pump on the "Donkey." THE FARM GROUNDS SHOULD BE MADE ATTRACTIVE The Canadian Horticultural Coun- cil believes that Canadian farmers are rapidly learning to appreciate comfortable, beautiful and edifying home surroundings, because it is now beginning to be realized that it pays from a cash standpoint, that it will help country Life to be what it should be, the most attractive of all, and because it will in no small measure and in conjunction with the rural telephone, rural mail, good roads and Radio help to keep the young people at home and contented. Farming should be, and some day will be, the most independent, attrac- tive and satisfactory profession in all the world, and one of the most im- portant steps towards that end is, that of having the home(. surroundings just as attractive as those of our citizens who live in the towns and cities. This end can be -accomplished much more cheaply and with more beautiful results, as the farmer has everything including an adequate space to work with. The appearance of a place is a very safe index to the character of the owner. Poor stock, poor vegetables, diseased fruit trees and wormy fruit go hand in hand with unpainted build- ings, filthy barnyards and a bare house with grounds unornamented, and yet the majority of our farms are in this condition. In fact, those with really well laid -out and well -kept grounds and orchards are the excep- tion. Making the borne grounds tidy and well kept, not only adds to the plea- sures of Life, but it is good business, for it should be remembered that the front yard of the farm is the show window of his place of business. It is also good business because it at- tracts the buyer for the products of the farm or the farm itself, as every- one likes to trade at a farm or a store that has an appearance of be- ing up-to-date, well -kept, of having fresh goods, and we are willing to pay the price for these things rather than take a chance on the others. Il also pays because well -kept grounds and buildings bring returns out of all proportion to their cost, In fact, in a consideration of this mat- ter, the word "investment" not "ex- pense" should always be thought of. Any farm, the house of which is framed with trees, porches shaded with vines, which possesses a smooth expanse of lawn, the objectionable features , hidden from view by trees, shrubs, or vines, has risen in value entirely out of all proportion to the time or money spent. Such a place will sell for a great deal more than a neighboring plate exactly as good, but in the condition too commonly seen throughout the country today. And the problem of beautifying the farm is not an expensive one, as the orchard trees may be so placed as to be of a very ornamental nature and profitable as well. In fact, landscape men to -day are using fruit trees for ornamental purposes more than ever before. With these as the main material plus shrubs, perennials and flowers tastefully placed in clumps and mass- es around the foundation of the house and in irregular borders, and with some vines to bide the bareness of TleTobacco Qualiy %2 LB.TIN S and in packages 4 the walls, the whole picture is chang- ed. A home not a farm -house is the result, Our farm grounds should be im- proved if for no dther reason than that of the women and the children to whom the love for beauty appeals even more than it does to men. Make the farm -house and grounds a real home not an eating or sleeping place or an adjunct of the barns and other buildings. "Eastlake' GNeanlrtea Cooper -bearing "Metallic" Shingles. Flnr, UghtnIn Rust and Storni Proof --Mak. Water by Condenslan Dew and Frost Seal Pastel Cent for Folder "r• The Metallic Roofing Co. 401 7284 King Sit. W , Toronto Money Advanced on Improved Farms To pay part purchase money or existing mortgage ; To erect buildings or improve present buildings; To buy stock; To pay off Bank Loans, etc. Farm Mortgages Purchased or Loaned Upon Do all your long term borrowing from an old established mortgage loaning Company. Your business will be confidential. You will always know where to find your lender and your desires will receive prompt and business -like consideration. 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