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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1933-08-11, Page 3• n I, l 4.101,1iia• ,i933. 0 19 Seen in Rooster Attacks Child. (Helen[ a -ed two years, youniest daughter o dr. and 'Mrs. `Wm.' Pres- sacator, of 'Stephen, wandered' away from the house and entered a chicken opoop ey?here- she Was attacked by a rooster. Her scream's attracted the attention of the mother and the child uveas rescued from her 'perilous• peel- ltion. She was badly scraeoohed, her dace was cut and shoulder bruised.— Exeter Times -Advocate. Robbery Near Dashwood. (Some time Saturday night the home ,of Mr. Dan Ziler, near Dashwood, was entered and :some valuable., pap- ers and a watch were stolen. The papers consisted of a .mortgage and motes that were taken from a drawer. The thieves left a cheque behind, al- though they took away with them two blank cheque books. The police are investigating.,,— Exeter Timles-Advo- .cate. Hand Amputated. deer. George Coward, who a num- ber of years ago was 'bitten • on the band by a horse has •been suffering of late from the effects and on Wed- n•esday •;under`vent an operation in St, Jose•,h's Hospital, London, when the band was amputated at the wrist.— Exeter Tilmies-Advocate. Cow Causes Car Accident. 9unty Papers Al present iMr. efelKenrzie's venture is only in the eap4rinee$al Stage. He has shipped selvaged lots of the Peat and ' be clay found beneath it to Ot- tawa for analysis. The late Mr. Sap, Believe. knew there was peat • on the farm. (hue he did not think it e any co'rnmertial use, lee wish suc- cess to.MT. tel'cclieneie in the new in$ dustry,—+Clinton News -record. Broke Into Rubber Fahtory. Same person, or persons a `e dis- playing very mean tactics by .break- ing into the rubber factory. On last ,Wetielesday ,teelThursday this build- ing uildin(; was entered and some articles stolen. Some time ago this factory was entered and considerable dam- age, done. The authorities are de- termined that this 'practice mast pease at once and are taking precau- tions to stop those who may. in fu- ture be --about the (building from do- ing harm or stealing. An example will be 'made of any person caught trespassing on the property.--Wing- ham Advance -Times. While -•Alex. Mowbray, of Buevale; '(nils two sons, Verdon and. Kenneth, and Leslie Greenway, were driving in the gravel truck to their work at the -new bridge near Londesboro on Sat- urday they met with a nasty, accident. A man was leading a cow which bolt- ed and was struck by the truck and thrown into the • field. The_ -steering gear was put out of commission .and '(before Verdon, who was driving, was able to get the truck under control, at struck an approaching Loupe. driv- en by Williaire Taman, of Blyth, who escaped injuries: but Mr.' Rath, who was riding with him, struck the .wind- , •hield and was quite badly cut about the face and neck as well as having an arm injured. No person in the truck was injured: Both cars were quite badly damaged. The Provincial 'Traffic Offiicer• was notified and was soon on the scene of theeaccident. No blame is attached to either of the dlrivers. --Wingham Advance -Times.' A Near Serious Auto Accident. .Considerable excitement was arous- ed\ on Josephine Street in front of the Walker store on Friday after- noon about 5 o•'clock when 10 -year - Radford,, daughter of Mrs. Nettie. Radford, . Wingham Junction, was struck by ,a car. The little girl -who is visiting her grandn{other, Mrs. G. Jacobs, ran across the street and apparently did not see the. ap- •'proaching car. The car crashed into 'her but Melba had presence of mind and hung. -.onto the headlight and so escaped serious hurt. 'She was drag - 1 - ged about 10 feet and was indeed for- Lunate that she got off with bruises. 'Her left arm, hip and leg were quite sore with bruises but no bones were eroken.—Wingham Advance -Times. Dangerous Grass Fire. • The fite department was galled out on Friday morning to' extinguish a grass fire in a vacant lot on Picton Street. The fire, which was ignited by a neighboring resident,'got beyond control as it was fanned by a south wind and spread rapidly towards a boundary fence and adjoining build- ings.. 'The fire was ohecked when within a few feet of 'the fence and was soon extinguishedlb r...means of chemicals.--God'erich Signal. A, Swarm of Carp. Literally thousands of carp invad- ed the nuo.uth of the Maitland River on Friday last. These broad, piglike fish, some of them tbre.e feet in length, appeared just 'below the sur- face of the water ,in a swarm that extended several hundred feet up the river. No one seems to know where they came from, and their departure after a stay of a day o`r two was as mysterious as • their arrival. Theee fish are wide and deep and are said to live to a great age, and some at- tain a weight of forty pounds or' niore.. They are considered a good food in Europe and were brought to America some years ago, but they did not meet' the 'teeth of American people. Carp increase rapidly and appear in great numbers in ponds and sluggish streanvs. This' led to the conjecture that last week'b'swarm came down the river to the 'mouth. Peat Discovery in Hullett. Mr. R. W. McKenzie has discover- ed peat on his farm in •Hullett, just east of town. There are about ten •or twelve acres and an average depth of six feet. Most of us know that the, people in the British Isles still. -arse peat as fuel in their homes and iMr. McKenzie does not think there is , enough peat for fuel purposes and he grurposes putting it on the market as a litter for poultry, lasting much longer than straw and is more econ- •omical. Thepeat, when dried thor- •oughly, will also make good packing for florists when making shipments. ty arid it was here that Mr. Russell farmed all his• lifetime. During his residence in Hay he gained fame •for his ability to get things going at barn raisings. He was a Presbyter- ian. His wife predeceased him eight years ago. 'Surviving are two sons. —Zurich Herald. l+ r 'Welt' > as in\ st '1M+,.1:,. dip, to f mwntattnn �+e food: as. t iza 71c)344, o cur t' t o :exit ;tram the ste ash 'bo the fbeleei Were blocked, l labaienee may ban •Peenlptem of a diseased egndition of bhe stomach or WOW adjacent ,part, such as tl>fe gall- bladder, 'The ,flatulence itself may cause discomfort and a pain in the region of the heart, with a senseeion • of tightness and distress'. The correction of this condition de- pends upon the re'm'oval of the cause.. When it is a symptom. of some ab- normal condition; treatmijent is direct- ed to the cure of that condition. of it is due to air swallowing, then that habit needs to be correoekti. en this latter case, food should be eaten slowly and chewed thoroughly. Eating quickly, gulping food ' or washing it down with fluids likely means the swallowing of a good deal of air. The sufferer would do well, perhaps, to reduce ,eomewhat the quantity of food taken: There is nobhiriig alarming in the flatulence itself. 'The significance of the condition depends. altogether up- on' what is causing the trouble. It is always advisalble to know what is the cause, so that proper treatment may be'applied. Proper treatment is cer- tainly not indiscriminate dosing with baking sada or drugs. Here is another of the many ex- amples, of the . importance to health and comfort of, selecting proper foods and then eating them in the proper way. Many of our ills arise out of carelessness with regard to our foods. A Much Banned Weed . There is probably no weed le the universe so much, legislated against as Clover Dodder, which was intro- duced into Canada from Europe. It is a serious pest in France, Spain, Italy, and other southern. European countries; in Chili and other parts of South America; in the United States; and in fact in all countries which have long sumymers without frost. During the •years of' shortage in clove' seed crops in Canada it was frequently introduced and distribut- ed in imported.. seed, but its ravages 'Pon red clover have been noted only in a few instances, in southern Ontario and the Pacific Coast in years foli• lowing an exceptionally. late fall without frost until October. The dodder is an annual parasite with :.lender yellowish and reddish stems which twine about the host plant and oecome attached to the clover stems by suckers through which it obtains nourish -relent. Alfalfa dodder, say. the Dominion Seed 'Branch, has given trouble in southwestern Ontario and in the Prairie Provinces where, it is• known' tp have continued in alfalfa for three years. Badly infestel fields :•hiuld be ploughed under before seed forn s. New Summer Resort. The new summer resort being op- ened up south of Grand Bend is be- ing pushed ahead rapidly and many new cottages have 'been put up since last season. A large gang of work- men are now rushing to complete a magnificent log cottage along the lake front for a Petrolia family. The new cottage will cost from ten to twelve thousand dollars, containing two large fire places and three bath- rooms. The whole building is of logs with rustic designs. It is situated on the 'bluff With a beautiful view of the lake.—Zurieh Herald. Hay Township Resident Passes,. Scores of friends paid a last tri- bute Saturday to William Russell, pioneer Hay Township farmer, whose funeral took place. from the home of his son, Milton Russell, concession 2, ;Hay, near Exeter. Mr. Russell's death occurred at his son's home on Thurs- day last after an illness of many months. Deceased, who was burn' in Scotland nearly 84 years ago, was brought to Canada when six months old. His folks settled in Huron Coun- A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAI, ASSOCIATION AND LIFE +� INSURANCE COMPANIES \+ IN CANABA The Farmer The Scottish Journal of Agri ul- ture, issued by the Department of Agriculture, for Scotland, says the following poem describes the -position of the British farmerquite fairly: The farmer will never be happy again, His heart is eight down in his boots; For either the rain is destroying his grain Ori th•e drought i•s, des'teoyipg. • his roots. • In fact when you meet thiis unfortun- ate man, The conclusion you'll come to is plain, That Nature is just an elaborate plan To annoy. hiim again and again. • To some the above May appear humorous, says the Journal, but it is nevertheless true. FLATULENCE • Flatulence, or gas 'in the stomach, is a fairly common complaint and one which causes considerable concern and some .discomfort to those whom it afflicts. Normially, a certain amount of air is swallowed in the act of eating. The mast common ,cause of gas in the stomach is the habit which some peo- nl.e have of swallowing comparative- ly large alnrlountsof air, whether a- lone or with their food. Others de- liberately gulp down air to securere- lief from) abdominal distress: - The distress which results from the collection of gas during or after a meal is commonly due to swallowed air and failure to pass this air along into the intestines, as normally oc- VvN 1tr :HUMDRUM".... �PEN UP the road map. Pick out some fas- cinating spot. Then point the nose of your Chevrolet towards It—and take What does if matter if you must budget on trips? Half the thrill of owning a Chevrolet is the way you can pass by the gas pumps—the oil stations—and •tlie garages. Weather hot? That doesn't matter either—for Chevrolet has Fisher No -Draft Ventilation. Just turn on the breeze, whenever you like, and keep delightfully cool A.W. DUNLOP Seaforth, Ont. and refreshed. Roads tad? Who res—when you're settled back in this long, full -weight, smooth -engined Six. A long way to go? Chev- rolet gives you power galore—pick-up aplenty — and. the secure feeling that Chevrolet dependability rides with you as you go. Most of this year's cat buyers are leading die lives of Chevrolet owners—motoring smartly and economically in Canada's Great Sales Leader! Low prices and easy GM AC terms. WHAT 30,000 MOTORISTS TOLD US The "Automobile Buyer's Guide" tells about our recent sdrvey among Canadian motorises and provides information which you will find valuable in choosing your next car. Send for free copy: Customer Research Dept. General Motors Products of Canada, LSI. Oshawa, Ontario Name Address. C -21 I) Iw Alcohol, Fuel of the Future Three quarters of the power which the'world uses to -day comes from coal and oil. All the oil will be, used up in about•one generation. The coal will'" last longer, but will become increas- ingly difficult to mine' as we have to go deeper. So it is pretty clear ;that, if we want to go ,on using power - driven machinery, we shall have to look about pretty quickly for new 'sources of energy. By tieing coal and oil we are living on capital long ago slowly accumulated . Iby nature. The power we need Meet find some supply which is not capital but income, re- newed year after year. There are a number of possible sources. At the moment, less than ten per cent. of the power we use comes from falling water, and though this, could be considerably increased, it _would not seem that even a thorough utili- zation of this source of power could ever supply more than a fraction of our needs. You cannot get the full benefits of water power. 'unless you can use very high voltages for trans reittin•g it from where it is made to where it is to be used. In Germany, n-oltagen of over 200,000 are being us- ed, which makes the practicable dist- ance to which electric power can sent over 400 miles. It is quite like- ly that in the near future we shall be able to make- commercial use of half a•million volts. This would mean that the usefulness of big water- power stations like the Muscle Shoals and Dnieprostroi would be enormous- ly increased, as they could then sup- ply a radius of almost 1.000 miles. Then there are the' tedis, which in some parts of the world rise and fall 20 or even 50 feetetwice every day. There are already some small fac- tory plants that fill a reservoir at high water and use it to/kenerate power by letting it run out through a turbine at low water, In Britain, the Severn estuary has eery big tides and there is a scheme for making a barrage across this. With the aid of water power from dams in the Wye Valley, near by, it is cheated that it could supply all the southwest of England and Wales with power at two-thirds of the present cost. 1 hundreds of dollars to t � Each subscription in artears amounts to very .little, but multiply these small amounts by a large number - of sub- scribers and one can easily see that the totalwill be con- siderable. Some six hundred statements of arrears have. recently been mailed to sub- scribers.: If you have receiv- ed one will you please co- operate by remitting in the addressed and postage paid envelope which you will find enclosed. ']['hank You. The Huron Expositor McLean Bros., Publishers could be made. to serve a double pur- pose , and 100 years hence the public squares of towns in the hot, dry parts of the world might be shaded by a roof that would also be the - source of the mrunicipal electric sup- ply. • Then there is the project for using the difference in temperature eetween the top and the bottom of the sea. You go to the tropics and you sink a tube several feet wide and several thousand feet long into the sea. You have an apparatus with two cham- bers connected by a tube. ,ln the tube is a low-pressure turbine. Into one of the chambers you put some of the warn surface water. The other chamber is cooled on the outside by cold water pumped up from the bot - ton through your tube. Then you exhaust most of the air from this sec-• end chamber. The result is that wa- ter vapor passes off from the warm watert and is sucked through the tube, turning the turbine as it past- es. Once starter., this process will continue indefinitely. This method has actually been tried, off the coast of Cu'ha. • Up to the present it has not been a commercial success; but the idea is scientifically sound. •it seems 'exceedingly unlikely that science will in the near future find any way of making subatomic ener- gy available for power. And this is perhaps just as well, 'because the world is not ripe foe such a danger- ous toy. • A single drop of water con- tains energy equivalent to a year's continuous supply of 200 horsepower —enough to run a fleet of motor cars. if you suddenly freed all the energy there is in a lump of sugar it would be enough to blow up the city of Lon- don! With nationalism reinvent, such At best, however, tides can serve only limited areas with power. What about wind? The greats :t• trouble a- bout wind as a source of power is that it .is so irregular. Winder -ells could, of course, he used to pump wa- ter, to a height, and th''n the water could be run through turbines to'gen- erate electrical power. But, this is awkward, because obviously the best places for tapping wind power would be dry, open places, like the steppes of Russia, and these are just the laces where water is scarce. However, at considerable heights above the ground—between 2,000 and 3,000 feet—a wind is always blowing. At -this height a mill ivith vanes 300 feet across would develop a horse- power running into tens of thousands. Already in Russia experiments are being made with windmills 100 feet across the vanes. and it is possible 'that as engineering skill advances ww shall see huge windmills on the top of 'skyscrapers or lattice -work steel towers, grinding nut power for the city below. Already "sun engines" have 'been built in Egypt and in Southern Cali- fornia. Curved mirrors concentrate the suns rays on to a steam 'boiler, and are moved as the sun •moves. The plant in Egypt covers nearly one- third of an acre and generates only 60 horsepower. However, in Ger- many Dr. Lange has invented dilayer "sun - cell" consisting of t -of a compound of silver and selenium and covered with a layer of another metallic substance, so thin as to be actually transparent, which produces quite an appreciable current when struck by light. These cells do not Torr down but they need e,;great deal of space if they are to develop power- on orteron any large scale. Perhaps they power would be a curse rather than a blessing. Host of the aboveainethods, then, are likely to make some contribution to. the world's stcck of, power during the coming century., But none of thorn can expect to make a large con- tribution, and even taken all to they are never likely to cover as much as half'thee total demand. Where then, are we to look for our main ex- pansions? The answer seems to be in plants. Long -dead plants supply us with our chief source of energy to -day. For our energy to -morrow we shall prob- ably 'look' to alcohol fr m living plants. Pure alcohol is not only an excellent fuel, but can be produced extremely cheaply from any sugary or starchy substance. A quite re- cent scientific discovery makes it easy to get pure alcohol (99.9 per cent. pure) whereas less than 10 years ago all you could hope for commer- cially- was alcohol with 4 per cent. of water in it. This trifle of water matte all the difference in alcohol as a fuel. The buses of Paris are at the pres- ent moment 'being run on • a half-and- half mixture of alcohol and gasoline; motor fuels with from 10 per cent. to 25 per cent. of alcohol are on the market in 'Sweden, Germany-, Aus- tralia, and elsewhere. In the near future it is more than probable that many nations will save on their bill for imported fuel by making a good deal of alcohol out of home -'grown crops. But, in the long run, it is likely that we ,Shall use the tropics, where plant life is so luxuriant, as our great source of power alcohol. There, we could easily grow enough vegetable material to supply all the alcohol needed by the world. A hun- dred or two hundred years from now great factories near the Equator will distill the alcohol, tank steamers will transport it—in fact, it will be hand- led march as oil is now, only there will be ten times as much of it used. It will be the Alcohol Age. In that age the tropics will have,becom,e the center of power production, and tlfe world's economic geography will be drawn on quite different lines from those of to -day. WHEN USiNG W i LSON'S (FLYPADS ,At--„, READ DIRECTIONS .VA'CAREFULLY AND e* FOLLOW THEM gI EXACTLY Each pad will kill Ries all day and every day for three weeks. 3 pads to each packet. 10 CENTS PER PACKET at Druggists, Grpcers, General Storer. WHY PAY. MORE? THE WILSON ELY PAD CO, Hamilton, Ont. Slug; (2) the -Bristly Rose Slug; and (3) the Coiled Rose Worm. The. rust. skeletonized the leaves, leaving th ie veins and tissues intact; the Bristly Rose 'Slug first ate the under surface of the leaves but, as it increased in size, devoured all the leaf tissues ex---, cept the largest 'veins; and the Coil - d Rose Worm fed on the entire tis- sues of the leaves, and left only the largest veins untouched.. Arsenate of lead, using four ounces to ten gal- lons of water, would control these pests, with attention paid to spray- ing the ground round about. Cultiva- tion and the destruction of p'runings, dead leaves and other debris; by burn- ing, helped to destroy the hiding •plac- es of these insects, Solitary bees oc- casionally cut holes in the rose cane, laid an egg with some honey, and 'sealed it up. The only control :was to find the nest and destroy it. The raspberry weevil also cut rings in the bark of the rose can to lay an egg, The only control was to cut the cane off below the rings. Rants and vegetables mould and spoil very quickly if deprived of a circulation of air. Cellars, therle-. fore, should be ventilated to secure the passage of air throughout every part of it. Rotations should not be ironclad. Theyshould suit the type of farming, the farm and its peculiar'i'ties. Rota tions should be the servant of the farmer, rather than his 'master. A great need of the soil for crop growth is that of an air supply. Eir- ery one realizes the importance of air for animals, but that it is needed for plants is not such common knowl- Slugs, Bees and Roses At the annual meeting of District No. 2 of the Ontario Horticultural Association held at the Expe'rimenthl Farm. Ottawa, Mr. A. G. Duston of bhe Dominion Entomological Branch, in the course of an address dealing with insects of tire rose, mentioned the effects of slugs and solitary 'bee's on rose plants. The,eluge hid during the day, the three principal kinds be- ing known as (1) '1Ure European Rose TRY. HOTEL WAVERLEY NEXT VISIT CEN}RAL ECONOMICAL SPOTLESSLY CLEAN THOROUGHLY MODERN ROOM RATES vrITH PRIVATE BAT ATER 5250 0 BELL PHONE IN EVEhY ROAM .4 i