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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1941-10-10, Page 5• OCTOBER 10,4 941 PAX a DON'T GET YOUR NEW SHIRT DIRTY, JOE ! PONT FORGET OUR WESTINGHOUSE - WASH E „str — M _z See Westinghouse Cushioned -Action Washer — Canada's latest washer with all the newest advancements Sentinel of Safety Control .... Westinghouse Lovell Safety Wringer with Feather -Touch Release - . Million Dollar Precision Mechanism l Come in, let us show you proof that Westinghouse washes cleaner without wear... Trade' in your old washer On a new Westinghouse. only $103.95 WASHES CLEANER .. LASTS LONGER - NO TROUBLE .. NO WEAR ON CLOTHES Boshart Electric Radios — Ranges — Everthing Electric WesI!nhoij,se-- gtWAsHER (By David Lavender, condensed from Travel, New York) Winter. On the bleak Wyoming prairie a canvas'scovered' wagon hunched on a snow -cased -hill, its chimney smoke streaking across a cold yellow sunset, A dirty grey mass of sheep huddled nearby, tblatting hun- grily. A man walked round them, heading for the only home he knew, his sheepskin collar turned up against the wind. He -climbed into the ;wa- gon. The dpor banged shut behind him. An empty sound in an empty world. "He must be nuts to live like that e" you think. That's the common as- sumption of course. All through the West you hear tales about sheepherd- ers' mentality—like the one about the Treasurer, $90; Waterloo Fire Insur- ance Co., insurance on hall, $20; D. of C. premium, collector's bond, $15; J. Suplet, allowance, $10; Treasurer Huron, hospital acct., B. Robinson, $46.35; Treasurer, Hensail School Fair, $5.00; Treasurer, Grand Bend School Fair, $5.00; J. McBride, weed inspector, $147.70. The council adjourned to meet again on Monday, Nov. 3rd, at 1.30' o'clock in the afternoon.—A. H. Hess, Clerk. ROO WALTON 'Messrs. Wilfred and. Lloyd Nicholl, of Camp Borden, spent the past week at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Nieeholl. Mr. Gilbert McCallum returned ou Saturday from a 'business trip to Saskatchewan. Mrs. Roy Bennett and Mrs. Sam Burgess, of Brussels, are in Regina, where they will visit their sister, Mrs. George Campbell, and brother, Mr. James Long, who is in poor health. Mrs. 'Charles Drager, who spent- the past month in Toronto, returned home on Sunday. She was accom- panied by Mrs. Ken Rutledge, Miss ..x Jean Drager and Mr: 'Don Grey. Mr. Duncan Johnston and other rel- atives attended the -funeral of the' late Peter C. Kerr on Saturday last in Toronto. Mr. Kerr was a former, resident of McKillop, but has resided in Toronto for many years. He was confined to 'bed for a year or more from the results of a stroke and pass- ed away last Thursday. -He is sur- vived by his wife, the former Miss Kate Johnston; one son, Gordon, and one daughter, 'Mrs. James Gillespie, of Toronto. Year. Book ,- CoverNewFields The publication • of the 1941 edition of ,the Canada Year' Book is announc- ed 'by. the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics. The ,Canada, Year Book is the •official statistical annual of the coun- try and contains a thoroughly up-to- date account of the natural:resources of the Dominion ' and their develop- ment, the history of the country, its institutions, its dermography, the dif- ferent 'branches of production, trade, transportation, finance, education, etc. =in brief, a comprehensive " study within the limits of e, single volume• of 'the social and economic condition of the' Dominion. This new edition has been thoroughly revised through- out and „ includes in all its chapters the latest information available up to the date of going to press. The 1941 Canada Year Book extends tb over 1,000 pages, dealing with all phases of the national' life and more especially with those susceptible' of statistical measurement. A statipt4cal summary of 'the progress of 'Canada is included in the introductory matter. This gives a- picture in figures of the remarkable, progress that the country has made since the first census of , the Dominion was taken in 1871, sev- enty years ago. Special Articles The special articles that are shown in this edition of the Year Book have been selected to illustrate the effects of the war on the Canadian economy and to show such ,changes and devel- opments as have taken place to date. 'There are, eight such special articles, as follows: " The National Registration, 1940; Some Effects of the War on Canadian Agriculture; the Effects of Govern- ment War -Time Expenditures on the Construction 'Industry; Pre -War Civil Aviation and the Defence Program ; the War -Time Functions of 'a Central Bank; War -Time Control under the Foreign Exchange Control Board; Re- cent Advances in the Field of Educe tion, in Canada,, and a' special war •chronology that appears as Appendix I to the volume. Public finance Is introduced Dy comparative statistics of finance of all governments — Dominion, Provincial . and Municipal—of Canada. These sta- tistics are the results of -special stu- dies that have been made of this sub- ject by research organizations set up for the Royal. Commission on Domin- ion -Provincial Relations and for the Dominion -Provincial Conference. It is expected that -this series will be con- tinued and strengthened° ' in later edi- tions. In addition, the treatment of Income Tax is considerably extended; this tax- is of increasing importance in wartime and thbi'e is a greater pub- lic demand for particulars regarding its application. Another feature in the present edition is the introduction of tables showing the application Of gasoline tax and of suduession duties from the date, of their inception. Since the Dominion Government ,,has now entered these fields the tables pro- vide a baeltground for the latest stn. ,d'y of these sources of revenue oh a i tloii'at 'Molar - In the» present edition; a 'complete list of articles and of historical or descriptive text that has not been sub- ject to' wide change and' is ther'efore not repeated, is given following the Table of Contents. This list links the 1941 Year Book with its predecessors and indicates the extent to, which the Year Book must .now be -regarded as a series of publications rather than as a • single volume. ' Persons requiring the Year Book may obtain it from. the King's Printer, Ottawa, as long as the supply lasts, at the price of $1.50 per copy; this covers merely the cost of paper, printing and binding.: By a special concession, a limited number of pa- per -bound copies have been set aside for ministers of religion, bona fide students and school teachers, who may obtain such copies at the nomin- al price of 50 cents each but applica- tion for these special ' copies should be directed to the Dominion Statisti- cian, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawe,,,,, HAY CHISELHUHST Sister Dies in West Messrs. W. R. and Earl Kinsman, of Chiselhurst, received a wire on Thursday last informing them of the death of their sister, Mrs. George k. Bagshaw; Birsay,' Sask. The deceas- ed was -formerly Miss' Emma Kins- man, second daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Kinsman, of Tuck- ersnrith. After her marriage to Mr. George Bagshaw, they lived at Bir - say, Sask. She has been in failing health for some time and on Thu'rs- ' day; Oct. 2nd, she passed away. The funeral services were held' in Birsay, on Saturday last. Surviving are her' husband and ., two daughter's, Evelyn and Betty; one. sister, (Sennet) 'Mrs. John Whiteman, of Sutherland, Sask., and four brothers, John, of Birsay; Dan, • of Macrorie, and ,Ri'chard and Earl, of Chiselhurst, Ont. The regular monthly meeting of the council of the Township of Hay was held in the Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday, Oct. 6, with -all the members present. The minutes of the Septem- ber meeting were adopted as 'read. After disposing of the communica- tions, the following resolutions 'Were passed: That engineer's report, plans, etc., re proposed improvement of the Noith Branch Of the Black 'Greek, be accepted by the council and that by- law providing for doing the work and borrowing the money foe cost of same be provisionally passed and that the Court of Revision to consider ap- peals to 'be -held at the Town Hall, Zurich,' on Monday, Nov. .3rd, at the hour of '2 o'clock p.m. That Bylaw- No. ylawNo. 15, 1941, providing for application to the .Minister, Department of High- ways, for additional sum of $500.00 on estimated 1941 'road expenditures to provide for cost of proposed cul- vert .to be constructed, 'be read threes timeand finally' -passed. That the petition of W. F. Alexander rand oth- ers for improvement of a drain, he said over,, for further consideration. That In accordance with notice receiv- ed signed' by numerous intefested per- sons, Mr. T. R. Patterson, Engineer, be instructed to make a survey, re- port, etc., on needed 'repairs- and im- provements to the Zurich Drain ,South. That. accounts -covering payments on. township roads, Hay telephone, relief and general accounts, be passed 'aa' per vouchers: Township Roads—Treasurer Stant ley, assessed roads, Stanley Big Drain $45.00; pay list, No, 9, $21.20. Hay Telephone System—Bell Tele- phone Co., tolls, . July to August, $49.3.94; Bell Telephone Co.,' labor, etc., Dashwood Central, $55.78; A. F. Hess, Clerk -Treasurer, $87.50; C. F. Pfile, blinds, Da.shwood',• $40.66; H. G. Hess, salary, $175.00; T. H. Hoffman, salary, $183.33; Northern Electric Co. material, $130.23; W. H. .Haugh, re Dashweed central; $43,00. • General Accounts --(Municipal World supplies, $$.97; Treasurer, Zurich Fair, grant, X50; Treasurer, Exeter Pair, grant, ION A. P.s; iCio ii Music Critic To Be Here Local music teachers are anticipat- ing with interest a visit during the week of 'October 13th •frbm'Miss Persis- Hebden, A.T.C.M., of the Toronto Con- sereatory of 'Music. Miss 'Hebden has just 'been appointed travelling repres- entative and promotion manager, for T. C. M. REPRESENTATIVE Miss Persis Hebden, A.T.C.M., travelling representative for the Toronto _-Conservato"ry of Music, who will 'sit here during the coming week. the Conservatory. or more than 14 years she has teen a prominent mem- ber of the Toronto . Conserves ry of Music staff. For the first year in her new posi- tion Miss Hebden, will tour the larger Ontario centres and will later exten 1 her actitities,to take in the Maritime provinces, Quebec and Western Can ,ada. , Before joining the Conservatory staff Miss Hebden was a student of sfn.ging, piano and theory. She was for some time private secretary -to Sim Ernest MacMillan, Principal of the 'Conservatory. ` During her visit Miss •Hebden will meet with music teachers and lova residents interested in muaic, to dig: cuss music problems and .points 0 u lttiat interest. , f poor fellow who died: of exhaustion trying to ane,ke his bed; he couldn't figure out the long way of a square blanket, a If the hotpot of enviroziment is -, ough to dri a man crazy, those'ster- les would seem well founded, for the impact of sheepherding is terrific. -You can never, throughout the year, escape it. From the minute—but let's go back to that lonely wagon and look. The quarters are not as unbearable as they appear. Your bed is off the ground; -canvas reflects the heat of your roaring sheet -iron stove; built-in cupboards hold food, dishes, clothes, books. Things are more complicated if you tent' it; sleep on frozen earth, as you must in mesa lands like Colorado and Utah, where terrain is too rough for wagons. You can't accumulate any little comforts; travelling light is too important. Whether home is wagon or tent, you spend little time in it Hungry sheep rise at dawn, hunting the thin winter -range feed—cured rice grass, shad scale, even bitter sagebrush tips. You've got to make sure they move together, where you can eye them, for sheep is the most helpless of an- imals. It's only teeth are back up- per jaw grinders, useless for fight- ing. ' It isn't fleet enough to rut from attack. It hasn't size or endurance sufficient to buck storms or floods. Whatever chance at life it has, you give it. At night," with coyptes around, you pile out and listen until you're shiv- ering toe hard to hear. You fire shots. The utmost vigilance isn't enough. Killer cpyotes. tear down your ewes, eat their warm livers, for sheer de- structive lust. When the camp mov- er -comes to shift your, wagon else- where, you send 'for the •government trapper, who shoots full• of strychnine all the carrion he can' find, working on a canvas spread from horseback before he dismounts, wearing canvas gloves to leave no main -scent. Poison gets many coyotes.' Always you watch the horizon, smell the' wind, study birds flying; drawing on every bit of lore and sup= erstition you have gleaned for predict- ing storms. In still, steel -gray dawns you keep the sheep in the trees, be- hind protecting ridges. Blizzards, catching' you in the open, can be cat- astrophic. .Sheep turn and drift be- fore wind -driven snow, seeking es- cape, - They pile 'blindly into dry gullies until the living cross on' bridges of dead. They jam in, dead-end pockets, crushing, smothering "each other. You drift with them, cursing them, hating, fighting them, doing your best to save them. 'G,etting them stopped' in a shel- tered basin, you build a fire, hunker down to wait out the storm. Your belly's hollow, you're cold, lonely, you know the boss will say, plenty about the ones you lost . 'and working theherd back to the beds��r��ound, there are drifts to 'buck; you "lorry about feed deep -buried under this snow. Nights seem longer. Your thoughts turn in on yourself, and that is not good. - But it ends. ,Spring comes, earth thanes,, bluebirds whistle, abdomens of ewes swell, you step livelier, even the camp mover softens into a smile now and then. Shearing time. A dozen herds— traveiling on schedules timed to the hour, some ,having come 50 miles, same just three miles a day — creep towards shearing corrals where 'pro- fessionals snip off . each animal's fleece in one unbroken greasy mass. They get twelve -and -a -half cents per ewe, 25 cents for a 'big husky ram. Good men make twenty-five dollars a day. Lambing time. Breeding is control- led so that lambs arrive in spring. Mass motherhood " due, you hurry, drive 19 hours a day to 'reach' a pro- tected spot, split the herd (you have helpers now), let each ?bunch:; graze slowly. Unutterably weary you crawl into bed; an- hour later you're up. The stark (2,500 storks for the average herd) never waits: Yon stumble through icy fog, a midwife now, straightening twisted heads; -changing positions in case of breech presenta- tions, delivering the stillborn. The drizzle is -chilling live lambs to death. You take the feeblest to tents, give them a warm bath, dry them, wrap them up, feed canned milk from a small -necked bottle with a rag over its mouth. Don't keep a lamib too long; the ewe will forget its smell, refuse to own it. Sometimes mothers refuse children for no apparent reason; you resort to subterfuges' "to "awaken ma- ternal ens -Suet, rub the lamb's head with' the ewes own milk, or drag its tail through her mouth. Sometimes You have • to 'build a pen', lock them up together, before she'll decide • ' this. -really; is Junior after all. A ewe whose lamb has been born dead is not .willing to adopt an orph- an; she has to be tricked into it. You slip her dead lamb onto a canvas at- tached to a rope, drag it off. The ewe associates this movement with the lamb (not, with; you, for you aren't touching it); thinks the lamb alive, calls fel' it to return, runs after it, bleats and stamps in anxious bewil- derment. You get the dead lamb Out of sight, skin it, fasten the hide over an orphan, take it to the ewe. She snuffs the little thing over, inch by inch. This does not seem to be 'her child. Yet the swell is there. She emits a tentative rumbling noise. You breathe -again! (This sound of affec- tion 'between sheep is a deep grum- w;,bl'e made we'll down the throat with- 'ea mouth;.' ewes talk so • .ks to ewes at mating t.,..u). Each ewe learns the voice of its Iamb, the lamb •its mother's. . ,li ven- ings, sheep mill on the bedflround in indescribable con.fusidte Yet a knob —or ewe—will pick 'out the proper call, start running, as liupdreds of others 'are 'running. •Suddenly lamb and ewe join; down onfront knees su goes the lamb, ckbits melting greedily, bi tall bobbing in ecstatic jerks. on you go. Sheep ''mist be dapped in IMOIMOQl'eosote atiti pat .site miziune, Lambs =tat the onetr t 114.4tare bra'fda I Late arrivals and new purchases have swelled our fine showing of Coats and Dresses' to the greatest in our history! Style and value -wise folks will hurry here' for their Fall clothing needs before prices advance. • Value In Coats English all -wool Coatings, ' Boucle Cloths, Nubley Cloths, English Tweeds,' Genuine Harris' Tweeds and Inany others in plain or fur -trimmed types , .Seethe new Harris Tweeds in Swagger Balmacaan types. Love- ly dress coats, furred in the' latest mode with squirrel, mink, fox and ,. lamb. Colors include Black, Navy, Green, Wine, Grey and Brown. Come here for the latest trends in smart Fall chat styles. Every size" is pro- fusely represented. Priced from 19.50 to45.00 'STYE - RIGHT FALL DRESSES 3.95 to 13.50 - Simply. hundreds of figure -flattering, style -right Fall Dresses are assembled here for your ' choosing. Quality • crepes, • failles, wool fabrics and _many others styled in the popular tailored manner— Jacket Styles—longer waist line types, all are here in 'the newest sleeve and skirt lengths. ' Colors in- clude Wine, Soldier Blue, Green, Navy, Black, Brown and Beige. Gayly ornamented with jewelry or 'shirred and embroidered trims. Priced 3,95 to 13.50 ° See This Week's New Arrivals. In Smart FILL MILLINERY They're Startlingly New grid Different Stewar Bros. Seat�th- painted on. Always feed and water must be found. Days and nights merge into a blur of sheep, dust, smell, noise. Herds move tremendous distances with each shift of season — to high country (timber line and above) in summer, to comparhtively snow -free desert in ,winter. You try to reach your driveway ahead of other outfits. Early flocks grub out the grass; lag- gards often escape. starvation. Some herder's.' (not you of course) have been known to steal supplies, destroy bridges' and so forth, to delay rials. At last the mountains! Tough herding; thick' 'brush, timber, raging streams. In the main, forest 'rangers are considerate. If possible they pick you spots not too steep, with some open ground, wood' and water nearby. Tourists, ifisher-men, camp- ers, wonder how 'you can be so sure you haven't lost sheep in the hills. It is not so mysterious as it sounds ; herds break into subherds, each with leader (goats make good leaders, you use them) whom you bell. You get to know the bell sounds, can. tell with accuracy whether sheep are resting, feeding, growing nervous. You note black or spotted sheep in each herd, count these markers as you drive to the bedground at night; if orte is gone, others have gone with it; you hunt, shove them back down the mountain to the railroad'. Comes the Winter.. !Don't think about that .noro6'.'. N'i'ghta at''b crisp, star -bung; days an, indolent delight. You lie on Warm grass batiks, cher''' flower stems, dreatlr 'with, the ctoniide. it 1,4 You kid yourself, think the freedom of cloud andmountain your freedom too. Actually you are shackled to your jab as no other wage-earner is to his. In some 'States it is a peni- tentiary offense for a herder to leave 'his band without notice. It seems no sheepherder ever 'start- ed life as one. ,They have been col- lege graduates, merchants, convicts, engineers, writers, anything, every- thing, maybe escaping from the spiri•t- br'uising competition of the modern world. It is not a complete flight— the job takes too much courage, re- sourcefulness, responsibility. No one fights your fights. It is in your Own hands. Maybe that is the freedom of it. You've been the slave of this flock, -but its.god, too. You have made the weak trong, led the timid and fal- tering—and done it. alone. Are you crazy? You don't know. Don't care. Because whatever else you may or mayn't be, you're still a damn good sheepherder. HELP CANADA'S SEAWARD DEFENCE:,: Dead and Disabled Animals REMOVED PROMPTLY PHONE COLLECT: SEAFORTH 15. ' EXETER' 215 DARLING -AND CO. OF CANADA* tint. I 4 I, 'i li