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The Huron Expositor, 1924-12-19, Page 3HURON XPOSITOR 14 .,01; Uu, 1jej , "Z1 obi 'Woe tyro** •went to t ftrn °peltedt.ther, door$ and a cioud of heavy fsmolteburst feral. ' He eiresed it kwricsitl$, and rettunecl to hia anxi- ous sisters, whom he reassured. e then went offto practice football Idth the uniVerat4t :Wane. One of the girls went in earch of her mother,and the, other attended to the household tasks. At 4.30 the Minister returned and Clarence got up. Sheateley was going down to the furnace, but Clarence told him that he had attended to it. Then Clarence went off and kicked a foot- ball about for a short time. It was after five o'clock when the minister went to the furnace, open- ed the 'door, and saw his wife's smoldering remains, but it was not until half an hour later that the coroner was notified, and it was not until nearly seven o'clock that the undertaker and the police between them threw water on the fire and extracted the charred remnants of Mrs. Sheatsley. The coroner's jury reported death from suicide, a theory held to by the minister, and Appar- ently for a week the police did noth- ing to solve the mystery. Their be- lated activities resulted in the dis- covery of curious marks and stains in the furnace room, which might or might not be Kama* blood, but which the minister supnesed to be the blood of rabbits he had killed and skinned. The autopsy revealed •the fact*that the woman had not breathed after she had entered the furnace. In other words, she was dead when her body was put in. When the body was buried it was discovered that, the head was miss- ing, and the undertaker testified that the skull had been smashed, but whe- ther as a result of a blow or the ac- tion of fire, who could say? So the mystery rests. ST. COLUMBA.N (Too Late For Last Week.) Noeee,......The Literary Society held their annual Meeting • on Tuesday 4smening, December 2nd-, when the fol - owing officers were elected; Presi- dent, John Louis Malone; Vice Presi- dent, Gerald Doyle; Treasurer, Ger- aldine O'Connor; Secretary, Junleti IlifcQuaid; Editor and 'Assistant, Jos. Moylan, ,Margaret Doyle; Coraraittee, Sohn Murray, Fergus Horan, Mary McGrath, Lucy Burke: With such a capable staff of officers we expect good things from the Literant, :So. vets, this season. neir first meeting and entertainment was held Friday evening, December 12h, in the parish Catholic Women's, League chipped a•Consignment of Christmas 'Create to the Aged Horne of Mount Tropes London, coneisting of a box of canned tuft, a box of, dressed fowl, one of oranges and one of apples and other eats. This is done annually and is greatly appreciated by the people of the Horne, as well as the Sisters in charge of it.—Mise Annie Downey and Catherine McGrath visited in Stratford during the past Week. CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THE FAMILY The cheapest, best and most appre- ciated Christmas gift would be a year's subscription to the Family Herald and Weekly Star of Montreal. It costs only Two Dollars and the whole family would njoy it. Thc beautiful art calendar for 1925 with a large picture in colors •which goes with the Family Herald this year, would help to brighten the home. We ails° hear that each subscriber is to receive a free entry to a popular con- test in which ten thousand dollars in cash will be awarded. That is sure- ly extraordinary value for the money. "Consumption Is No Respecter of Persons' 'In one of the glistening, beautiful rooms Of the Muskoka Hospital for Cariatiinptiveii, Harry Slatterns °Cell- s/les a bed right next to Jim Thom. Harry was studying Arts in the To- ronto University, while Jim was a laborer in another city. (Of eouree. that wits before both knew that they were victims of consumption.) Ilar.ry is a handsome young man, say about 22, and is particularly well versed in English literature. He home is in Western Ontario. Harry's bro- ,- titer is consumptive, too, and it was he who insisted that when Harry went back to school last fall, that he be thoroughly examined. The exaxn- illation revealed .4consurription, — so Barry withdrew from his classes, packed up a few belonging's and lour- lioYed to Muskoka Hospital for Con- sumptives."You know,' oars HarrY. –consurnptien Is no respecter of per- son. Here I am, Just as sick AS my room -mate. Ile was a laborer and I V19.8 a student: He worked nerd for years while 1 never labored in my life. He had no good home surround - lugs, while I have been eared for since birth. I can't understand it, can you." And with that Harry smiles a. little and settles down to let science and nature tight the silent struggle tor his health. Harry and Jim are but two of the many who are at present entirely de- pendent on the Muskoka. Hospital for Consumptives. The Hospital itself re - on the generosity of it's many friends. Contributions may be sent to Hon. W. A. -Charlton, President, 228 College Street, Toronto, Ontario. BRODHAGEN (Too Late For Last Week.) Notes.—Mr. Henry Ritz has moved finto town and is living in the resi- dence he recently purchased from Mr. Frederick Hillebrecht.—The sympa- thy of the community is extended to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wurdell in the death .of their infant son, two weeks old. „The funeral held on S2inday morning was largely attended and in- terment took' place at St. Peter's Lutheran cemetery, Brodhagen. The following acted as pallbearers; Mas- ters Lloyd Prueter, M. Hinz, George Rock and Martin Morenz.—The an- nual Christmas entertainment of St. Peter's Lutheran Sunday school will be held as usual on Christmas Eve. The Sunday school of McKillop Evan- gelical church are making prepara- tions for a sacred cantata, "The Sign In the Sky" which is to be presented 9.4 'the evening of 'the 25th of poeehl- bor.—A yen? pleasant .event' took plop° ,on Wednesday evening when Onus' Of the neighbors and friends of Mr. J. L. Beianewies, one of our gen- Merchants, gathered at his home to de him honor on his ,birthday. Mr. • Bennewies was corapletely. taken by, eUrprise, but after the significance of the occasion dawned upon liira,,, he bid ' the intruders Welcome Mad thanked' them for the: honor Conferred upon him. The evening was pleasantly apt in playing progressive euchre, the following being the prize winners: illegal's. L. G. Rock and John Ben- ne-wigs. The consolation prizes went tp'Xessrs. Gottlieb Mueller and Harry Beuermann. After midnight supper, Mr. W. L. Querengesser acted as mas- ter of ceremonies and on behalf of the gathering presented Mr. Ben- newies with a suitable gift in mem- ory of the affair and to. this the re- cipient made a feeling reply. Com- plimeatary 'speeches were &so made by Messrs, Louis George Rock and Ed. Gies. The trouble with wars in China is that no one seems to be able to find out whieh side won, --Kincardine Re- view. When I come to a neig/borhood which I do not know very well I want to go to every front door and ring the bell and ask: "What, sir, or madam, has been the most remark- able occurrence of your life?"—Mr. Bert Ridge. ASTOUNDING MYSTERY OF MINISTER'S WIFE One of the most extraordinary mys- teries of murder or suicide that has come to light 'for years is that con- cerning the death of Mrs. Addie Sheatsley, wife of a Lutheran minis- ter in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Though the first general as- sumption, in which the husband of the dead woman shared until recently, was that the woman had committed suickle, later developments make this seem ixapossible. But if the alterna- tive theory of murder is to be ac- cepted, there is not, so far as known, a shred of evidence to connect any- body with the crime. Indeed, it is said that the authorities, are now in- clined to abandon the murder theory. If so they must be prepared to ac- cept the suicide theory, which seems preposterous. If one believes that Mrs. Sheatsley killed herself he must believe that it is possible for a wo- man to step feet first into a blazing furnace, through a door fourteen in- ches square, thirty- inches from the ground, and then to close the door. Until the tragedy brought the Sheatsley family into national prom- inence, there was nothing in the life of any member of it that was at all out of the ordinary. The antecedents of Rev. Sheatsley And his wife reveal not a circumstance that raight in- dicate any motive for the woman be- ing murdered or for her self-de- struction. The Sheatsley were a commonplace couple, interested mainly in church work and in the affairs of a nearby college, in which the minister lectured on theology, and which was attended by their two sons. It has been suggested that the woman's excessive religious bent may have urged her to self-destruc- tion. On the morning of her death she was heard moaning in her bed about her sins, and one of her daughters got in beside her and comforted her. So far as is known her most grievous sin consisted in making some error about glasses at a church entertainment. She either put out the wrong glasses, or forgot all about glasses, and her conscience1 smote her. There was some differ- ence of opinion among members of the family as to whether Mrs. Sheatsley was in a particularly re- pentent mood on the day of her death. The physician who had known her all her life said that she was one of the last people to com- mit suicide. o On the day in question the family machinery revolved as usual until the afternoon. The husband was about his parish work; the mother was at home. The four children were at school. At one forty-five all the members of the family were away except Mrs. Sheatsley, the boys Milton and Clarence at the Capital University, and the two gills at vil- lage schools. Clarence was the last to leave, and he went then to find another boy whose mother had tele- phoned about her son. Clarence found the boy, delivered a message and then attended a class which be- gan at 2.30. Half an hour after he had left a baker called, rapped on the door, and receiving no answer left some bread inside. For another three-quarters of an hour the house was empty, so it is supposed, except for Mrs. Sheatsley. Then a univer- sity student. went to the house to leave some borrowed books. He got no answer to his knocking, but hear-, ing a noise as though- someone were working at the ?Unlace, he knocked at another door. A quarter of aft hour Ie went a. A quarter of an hour later Milton, the elder son, arrived, he haying loitered en is svity home ,S Lfl FARMER MAKES SUCCESS OF VEGETABLE CROP ON HIS ROADSIDE MARKET Seven years ago Oran and Ray- mond Jaacks rolled a wheelbarrow load of radishes, lettuce and onions out onto the concrete highway in front of their father's truck farm near Chicago and sold the vegetables for enough to buy two full rounds of firecrackers, roman candles and sky- rockets for the Fourth of July. That was the beginning of John Jaack's roadside market business, which has increased in volume until practically all of the vegetables raised on his 40 -acre farm are sold direct to con- sumers at his front gate. The gross sales of vegetqbles grown on the farm this year, degpite the unfavorable season amounted to $4,443.10, according t;,) rough esti- mates. The story of Mr. Jaack's seven years at this roadside stand and the years it took to build a business that returns about $5,000 annually is puz- zling to many growers on similar - sized farms who consider themselves fortunate in having kept their heads above water during the last few years. Some of these failures have come because truckers struggled along without policies—selling with- out any thought of satisfying their customers so they -will come back to- morrow, next week and next year. Mr. Jaacks has built up his direct sales by following definite, simple "(leas in marketing; offering only fresh, high-grade vegetable,s, asking reasonably low wholesale prices, giv- ng full measure and displaying a fairly complete line of vegetable products in season. "The concrete highway built in front of my farm has made it possi- ble for customers in the city to come to me," said Mr. Jaacks. "I have customers who have been coming to my farm for several years from towns and suburbs 20 to 25 miles up and down the lakeshore. I'm about fifteen miles from Chicago's loop dis- trict, but they come here from all parts of the city to get vegetables. "I have found out this one thing about men and women who drive out this far to buy vegetables. Most of them want fresh, sound vegetables of a high quality and are willing to pay a fair price for them, but they will not often buy poor stuff, because they can get that at home. My best ad- vertising comes from customers who go away from my stand satisfied." Mr. Jaacks says he displays only the best vegetables grown on the farm. Every gardener produces some low-gride products. but such crops harvested on the Jaacks farm are of- fered at an extremely low price or discarded. He always tries to grow a variety of crops, so customers will be able to get all of the various kinds of vege- tables they want when they come to his stand. He finds that if customers can't get what they want theyare forced to buy somewhere else and their business is often thus lost. This year, for example, he raised 23 different kinds—peas, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, radishes, sweet corn, tomatoes, beans, cauliflower, cucumbers, onions, beets, parsnips, parsley, carrots, oyster plant, leek, garlic, peppers, squash, pumpkins, celery and potatoes. The number of acres of each crop - grown is determined by the expected demand. This is not abways easy to determine, because the demand varies to some extent art the amount of products produced on etch acre varies from season to season. The tomato crop, for inetance, fell far short of the demand this year, and the carrot crop was ehort. So it is not always possible to figuroent in advance the exact number of acres to plant. Ado:Stag productiom to marketing, atefJssePi'acoa:Alar . Tkaiich o ,oda eb4 114010 Fi„, ig ftiaciPal quid ,,,-,ae‘4110tAf $100, $500, $1,000, $1' ,c,464 .$10,000, on oi.lt ,weeka ptjar POT* pt ,102 esti ititaroot ap.. c4t d94044Pxipaietn t4 .$4 a .4.% 4 4 ur Legal, investment for Canacliaa Insurarte Conpanies. t4 TRW= AND REGISTRAR; THE ROYAL TRUST comPiorr. Tranefere may be effected at the Registrar's offieee or agertestee ni Wheateepip Ottawup TOM, Winnipeg, Regine, Calgary end Vancouver: • ' Mr. E. W. Beatty, K.C.„ President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, letter of December 8, 1924, as follows:— These Note Certificates will be direct obligations of the Railway Company and haw nricritY over $93,335,354 Preference Stock and $260,000,000 Common Stock, representing au equity ait present market prices of approximately $460,000000. The Preference Stock has -received 4% dividends without interruption skice its issuance in 1865. The Common Stock has paid dividends continuously since 1882, with the exception of the year 1895, the rate since 1912 having been 10% per annum. In addition they will be secured by the assignment to the Trustee by way of security, of all unpaid purchase money or deferred payments owing or accruing due to the Railway Company in respect of lands in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Colima bia, sold or contracted to be sold by it prior to December 1, 1924. The amount duo or accruing due to the Railway Company on December 1, 1924, in respect of said sales was $66,000,000. The Railway Company will covenant to pay to the Trustee all monies, both principal and interest, less expenses and taxes paid to protect the security, received by the Railway Company in !respect of the said contracts. The Railway Company covenants that it will not charge the lands in respect of which such deferred payments are or shall be due, so as to prejudice in any manner the security hereby created. All monies received by the Trustee' will be utilized for the payment of interest on these Note Certificates and thereafter as a Sinking Fund for the purchase and cancellation of fhese Note Certificates at the best prices obtainable up to the call price prevailing at the time of such purchase. If Note Certificates cannot be so purchased the Trustee shall redeem the Note Certificates by lot at the prevailing call price. The Railway Ccnnpany will covenant that in the fourth and each succeeding year the annual amount available for the purchase of Note Certificates will be at least $300,000. The Note Certificates will be issued under, secured by and subject to a Trust Agreement between the Railway Company and The Royal Trust Company as Trustee. The net earnings for the last five years, after paying all fixed charges, includin' g interest on Consolidated Debenture Stock and all other obligations, have been as follows a -- Year ending December 31, 1919. ........ ....... $31,371,868 es &S 0 " 32,844,083 44 CIS St " 1921--------------------------33,169,867 66 46 " 1922. ........... .......... 33,545,140 44 n " 1923.......................... 34,899,409 Yearly interestc on these Note Certificates amounts to $1,350,000. The average yearly net earnings. for the last five years as above set forth amount to $33,155,873, or over 24 times annual interest requirements on these Note Certificates. These Sinking Fund Secured Note Certificates are offered if, as and when issued and received by us, and subject to tan approval of all legal details by Messrs. Meredith, Holden, Fieward. at Holden. Trustee Certificates in irate:ins form or Nana C.ertificates in definitive form will he available for delivery on or about December 30,, 1924. Price 92.25 and interest, to yield 53% The Royal Bank of Canada Wood, Gundy & Company Harris, Forbes & Company Limited Matthews & Company Limited Osier & Hammond The Bank of Nova Scotia Banque d'Hochelaga The Standard Bank of Canada Bank of Montreal The Canadian Bank of Commerce Dominion Securities Corporation Limited Hanson Bros. Nesbitt, Thomson & Company LUnited Greenshields & Company Imperial Bank of Canada The Molsons Bank The Sterling Bank of Canada 0 The National City Company j Limited A. E. Ames & Company R. A. Daly & Company Rene T. Leclerc, Inc. The Dominion Bank Bank of Toronto Union Bank of Canada La Banque Provinciale du Canada The information =attained ist this advertisement is bated upon official stoteinents anti statistics on eihich we have relied iz, he gazchafto tt,..z Note Certificates. We do not guarantee hat believe it to be =rect. Mr. Jaacks has learned, is necessary if vegetables are to be sold profitably. Truckers will get some idea of the way he adjusts his production from the records kept at the roadside mar- keting stand. Peas grown on a half acre of ground, selling in various sized lots, brought a total of $50. Many of the vegetables are sold in paper bags - 6, 8, 10, 20 and 25 -pound sizes. One thousand three -quart baskets of leaf lettuce, selling at ten cents a basket, brought $100. • Head let- tuce sold at from three to five cents a head, averaging four cents, or a total of $40 for 1,000 heads. Most of the spinach is sold in ten - pound bags at ten cents a bag. The 500 bags produced sold for $50. Three different kinds of cabbage- -early, late and red—were grown thie year. Eight hundred heads of early cabbage, grown en one-fourth acre of ground, sold for an average of seven cents a head, or $56. About 4,500 heads were cut from 1% acres of late cabbages, which sold for an aver- age of six cents apiece, er $270, A half acre of red cabbage yielded 1,600 heads and sold for an average of six cents a head, or $90. Most custom- ers want one, two or three heads, un- less they are buying for sauerkraut, and then they buy by the dozen. Mr. Jaacks thinks the radish is too commonly grown, and he cut his acreage down this year, producing only 1,1500 bunches with from 14 to 24 in it bunch. They were sold at five cents a bAncia, brieging $75. He grows only the scarlet tip variety. Sweet corn is one of his big crops. He grew four acres this year, or a total of 4600 dozen roneting ears. The first 100 dozen sold at 50 cents a dozen, and the reet—e,sos &men— averaged 35 cents a dozen. The four acres brought a grand total of $575. Golden Bantam, White Cob Cory and White Evergreen were the varieties used. About the same acreage of each was planted. The price through- out the season ranged from 25 to 50 cents a dozen. An acre of June Pink and Beauty tomatoes was set out, hut the crop was short, yielding 100 bushels which sold at $1.50. a total of $150. They were sold in three -quart baskets, twenty -pound boxes and in bushel lots. Fifty bushels of string beans wer,, produced on a quarter of an acre of land. Most of them were sold in three -quart bags at twenty cent. -s bag. The 1,600 bags grown brought $106.60. Longfellows Davis Wax and Hudson Wax varieties were grown. Two thousand heads of Early Snowball and Danish Stonehead cauli- flower were harvested from an acre plot and sold at prices ranging from 5 to 30 cents a piece, averaging fif- teen cents, and returned $300. One-eighth of an acre of Davis Per- fect cucumbers brought $40 from a yield of 100 dozens, selling at an average of 40 rents it dozen. Two kinds of onions were grown -- two acres of Yellow Globes, yielding 500 bushels (50 pounds to the . bushel), selling at 2% cents it pound, or $625; and one-eighth acre of White Portugal pickling onions, producing 2,0p0o0unpdo.or $s,8t0hat sold for four cents a Five thousand bunchee of Early Egypt beets corning from an acre of ground sold at an average of 3% cents a bunch, or $176. From five to six beets are pa.cked in eaeh bunch. Mr. Jaacks has jut started to dig Holland Crown parsnips and esti- mates he will have 260 bushels and get 50 cents a bushel or a total of $100. Two thousand bunches of Double Curl parsley, averaging four cents a bunch, brought $80. The price ranged from three to five cents a bunch. He estimates that on 11/2 acres of ground his Early Chanteny carrots will yield V0 bushels selling at 50 cents a bushel, and bringing a total of $200. Two hundred bunches of oyster plants brought eight cents a bunch, or $16. Two hundred arid fifty bunches of Muzzlebury leek, selling at twelve cents a bunch, brought $30. Two hun- dred strings of garlic, twelve in each string. brought $30. Each string sold for fifteen cents. I About 375 boxes of green peppers were sold over the stand this year at 50 cents it box, bringing $187.50. It takes about 21/2 boxes to make a bushel. From two acres of ground 150 doz- en squashes were harvested. They sold from five to 25 cents apiece. The average was about $1.60 a dozen. The entire crop brought $225. An acre of pumpkins sold for $187. There were about 125 dozen, selling at $1.50 a dozen. A half acre of turnips brought $50. Forty dollars' worth of root celery was grown on an acre of land. There were 800 roots, and they sold at five cents each. The early crop of about 0,000 pounds of Irish potatoes sold tet cents a pound, or $316, while the late crop of 200 bushels, selling at $1.00 a bushel, brought $200. Mr. Jaacks and his two hem one eighteen and the other I, do pram- tically all the werk in the fel& and Mrs. 'hacks mks Mee otand &wing the busy season. Tfra efflafdeeast e extra labor used on the farm this summer amounted to $250. The roadside stand proposition saves labor and greatly simplifies the job of marketing, according to Mr. Jaacks. He says the main differ- ence between selling the vegetables at home and bringing them into the South Water Street market is the labor and exposure in hauling. Ir e Horne Soon, Mother,' Writes Sammy Sammy is A keen little 18,5Hits .; looks much younger than he is—onity • six teen --and he has much more "StriA- • MITA than Is usual at his age. For • tWo y,:arS he worked in a foundry doing8 tnan's work. His father "worked beside him and helped him '71/taster the art of pouring molten metal. One day Flammy complained of it amp side but his people didn't worry much. "It'll be all right in the morning," mother said: "goand take a rest. • But It wasn't all right s In the morning, nor the morning after, no, nor a week After. It was r then time for a doctor to examimo Sammy. The doctor looked bind over several times, then took him to it speelalist. Both medical men agreed that Sammy Was eOrkfirtntiPtire and both held out some hope If he "leek the cure" at once. Sammy is quite a favorite up in the Muskoka Hospital for 00131CUICMP- tiVe5. He keeps the other patients in good humor with his pleasant moue and his quaint stories of IF'rench Que- bec whore he avant ma boyhood dam "Toll the telka ru be home coon."' he wittote in his last letter; Mod he probably totli be, for hs tit making splendid progrean. The Musk -ohm Hoapital for duraPtitroc, the Havek,of Ole peer at- itileted with tuhereildeiben, Isto,,, itargo meta/mro ralialtst tiObneedb.04 nreasezits to dc for tidn to �lt ilts Work. Centributiene time be sent to Hot,. W. A. ChavIten Prat Weak atS CletielPS &meet, Stemma>. Ontario.