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The Huron Expositor, 1945-02-02, Page 2I *SS • k) 01, tt, , , • • • , 0 t ev- '— ursday kfterneon b ticLeAll Subscription rates, $1,50 a year in vance, foreign $2.Q0 a year. Single -oopies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates 'on application. •SEAFORTH, Friday, February 2nd Go To Bed • There' are many'remedies for the common cold which is so prevalent in almost every district at the pres- • ent time. In fact almost anyone will furnish you with' a sure cure, with or without the asking. Dr. Harold S. Diehl, dean of medi- cal sciences and professor of pre- ventative medicine and public health • of the University of Minnesota, has •something to say along this line too.' The doctor who has made a life study of the common cold, says that a com- plete, adequate and balanced diet is necessary to keep one's health. • But beyond this, the doctor says, no special diet has any material value for either the prevention or • the cure of colds. The same is true of» vitamins, so widely exploited as a •cure or as a cold preventative. And the experiments that Dr. Diehl carried out at the University • have cracked wide open hundreds of old home remedies for colds. Nasal preparations were found to have little value, and someeven do actual harm. Mouth waShes, gargles» and antiseptics were found to be use- less, as were purgative, medicines. The drinking of great quantities of liquids, purposely to get rid of the poisonouts effects of a cold, was found to be ineffectual. Whisky, brandy • and hot toddies -with which a whole lot of people dearly loVe to treat a • cold, were classed as dubious reme- dies. Dr.'Diehl agrees that sulfa drugs •and penicillin are valuable in treat- ing strep infections and lung trou- bles or complications growing out of - a cold, but neither one has yet been • •-Awn to have any value in the treat- • ment of a common 'cold itself. The university researches, • how- • ever, showed the general hygienic measures help to get rid of colds, and the doctor gives this advice: • Go to bed and stay there until you • recover. By doing » so you protect others from exposure, you •also in- crease your own resistance and you keep » warm. And, it is pretty good advice too. • • _ Water Shortage Passing along a highway the other daywe noticed a large water tank on • wheels, pulled over on the shoulder of the road. Being long past harvest time,the sight was somewhat unus- ual, but a few inquiries soon con- vinced us that'the tank had not just, been abandoned since last fall, but • until last week's storm had bogged it down, it was a very essential vehicle on some farms in the vicinity. 'Last summer » could scarcely be •called a rekl,ly »dry one, but it was the driest in 'SWeral years. Even at • that, with a rainfall of over thirty inches in this part of Ontario, one would think that there would be no shortage of water on the farm, Unfortunately, however, in many instances, there is_ almost a water • famine. Fanners, of course, for very • obvious real estate reasons,- do not • advertise this drouth on their farms, but it is there all the same, and the • ways and means of supplying water • for their stock prove laborious and painful. • Where there is» a running stream on a farm, a hole can be cut in the ice and the stock driven back and forth, but poundage and money both - are • wasted in, the proeess. And When it c� es to transp?rting water • for a barrifull of stock, in zero wea- tker» and over» illed roads, the farm- ers life is mit to be envied.' Nature has always supplied the ter, but people have wasted- it " of the past decades to drain .everythisig, how y ,Jitter fruit gone; t be 0 seat 7. of co Rreme. tiOn howevert means a long, *Oa- ionS, wait, and the latter is anything but, clieap. liut a_ few following sumniers, even if they are no drier than the last, should convince the farmers in Old Ontario, that the sit- uation is really critical. And, if SO, perhaps some action will at last be , taken. • War Memorials • Considerable thought is being giv- en at the present time to the build- ing of memorials at• the close of this war, and there seems to be a very - general opinion. that these memor- ials should take. the form of a "liv- • ing memorial" rather than those • that were patterned after the last and previous wars in history. Speaking on this subject, the Bos- ton Monitor said something recently that should be conned over byall lo - Cal conimitted, particular y in the smaller communities, who are, or will be engaged in the promotion of these memorials: The movement which seems to be spreading among American cities and towns to construct 'living' war memorials in the form of public audi- toriums and civic and recreation cen- tres, promises a vast improvement • over the motley array of shafts and statuary, ranging from works of art to just works of the local iron fonn- dry, which have sprung up after earlier wars. But it would be well for the city fathers to plan carefully • even in this more imaginative direc- •''tion. An unused building somehow seems more lifeless and futile than • a statue which isn't supposed to do anything anyway, but just stand and remind by its presence. Many com- munities which erected memorial ' buildings after the First. World War with the hope, if not the expectation, that the mere exiStence of the struc- • ture would inittate and develop ` the activities which would make it func- tional, found that they had put the cart before the horse. It is sounder planning to think first in terms of appropriate community activities, • provide reasonably for their contin- • uity, and then proceed to the matter of a building to house them." 1 • Ana »i • Will 'Travel Be Cheaper? Will travel by rail be cheaper after the war?. At least there »would al- ready appear to be a prospect of that Recently several airlines in the United States have, brought their rates down to, and in some cases ev- en under the rail -Pullman fazes on the railroads. • One airline is even seeking per- mission to fly cabin class passengers at the rate of 3y2 cents' per mile. Both railways and airlines have served well in this war, but at the same time war has been a profitable business for them, and now» that aviation, has achieved its goal of equalling the first-class fares charg- ed by the railroads, will the compe- tition »developed in wartime be car- ried over into peace, and result in cheaper fares all round? • » • Take 250,000 Five Years We have heard so much and so frequently in these war years » about • the German destruction of European cities, that we seldom pause to think or even visualize what real destruc- tion means. 'The situation, ,however, was so simply » and realistically brought out the other day in a despatch from Warsaw, Poland,. to the London, England, News Chronicle, that it is well worth reading and remember- ing. It will take 250,000 Gernians five years to -rebuild wrecked Warsaw. "German labor will have to rebuild what German wickedness destroy- ed," said »the despatch, which esti- mated that only five per cent. of 'ex- isting buildings could be nadhab- itable. And the monetary loss was placed a'si,o00,000,000. Stefan Litatir, who wrote the Chronicle's story, said: "Warsavvr no longer exists., instead,- there. IS -a heap of ruins, perhaps the largest in the world—a maim Pompeii; of an •4axteng that 'must he Seen to realize the enormity f 'he Garages critri-"/ tereatinf Itema • 1:410ottOr of p$4, twenty -flan yeare age. FroneThe Huron Expositor Fshrnary 6, 1920 •- On, 'Wednesday Morning last W. Bell,'Who has been in McLar- 'eneS Hardware Store, Heusall, for a number of years, left to take una • , similar position in a large hardware store in. Windsor. • • Mr. John Doig, RIPPen, the •Well- known and skilled veteran fainter, met with an accident while workillS at Mr. Fitzgerald's, slipping on some stair steps and badly cutting his jaw. 'Miss Jessie Buchanan, Hensall, who has been attending Westervelt Col- lege, London, has accepted a position as teacheriin the Business College at Brantford. Saturday last was the coldest day of the year, the thermometer reach- ing, it is said, 27 -below .zero• . A rink of curlers, composed of W. • E. Southgate: K. M. McLean, G. A. .Sille and T. Johnstone were in St. Thomas on Monday playing for the Just Wright Challenge Trophy, but did not succeed in lifting it., Mr. E. Dinnen, Chiselhurst, who 'sold his farmson the 12th concession of Tuckersmith, hail purchased the farm of the late Mr. Leatherland on • ;the Seaforth read. • Charles Reid, Wm. Taylor, John .MeNaughton and Alex Thompson ship- ped fat stack to Toronto on Saturday last, from Brucefield. On Monday night a cry was beard n Brueefield and it was found that • Dr. David MeIntosh'e ban Was on fire. Three cattle and a horse were removed, but some hens were burned. The neighbors .had a •hard tittle sav- ing the house, which was quite close to the barn. •Mr. W. J: Finnigan, Egmondville, has purchased the old Collie property • in that village. Mr. August Hemme, of Manley, has disPosed •of his 1,50 -acre farm to John tanermann for $13,000 and since our last issue has purchased a manufac- turing plant in Elimra, and is starting a stock company of $100,000 fa run the business. Miss Anna Allison, of Usborne, left on Friday last for New York where she will Complete her training as a nurse. • Miss Gertrude Crich, of town,• tended the Normal •Scholl at-home and the unveiling of the memorial window at Stratford on Fridair last. • oottootlii ,• From The Huron Expositor. February 8, 1895 tiOnorad "BY Felelids Ser. 'GeOrgei "Tfagott, Qi Petawae Military- Camp, N93.0 „spent the 1184 • week with his Parioatea Mr. and 111ro Ah, HMO% TOP t11.,11.961,9 hosiga., at a gathering of relatiVISS and friena , on Friday night. IwOn.tylayee. guqstw Were Present at a supper tendered is his honor, and latar pity -five relay tives and friendsgabeed at to, home Of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lasri 1 ence to enjoy a social time in the Win of a dance and presentation. DireetS . • ly following lunch, Mr. Ed. Johnstea read an appropriate address, and as, teried a lovely» watch, the gift of ths gathering, on Spr. Reggaes wrist. The gesture was greatly appreciated ,by Sprsilaggitt, who relined suitably, Dancing continued, with music being- , supplied by; a variety of local talent, —Blyth Standard. Wolf Shit » Near Auburn .1111•1•10••• PHIL. OSIFE.R' LAZY MEADOWS ..• Rsr% J. Boyle • 1 wish we had never been given that thermometer. 'It threatens to. disrupt the whole pleasant tenor of living here at, Lazy Meadows. For Years we have been. living, quite hap- py, without scientific information on the temperature either inside or out- side of the house. In fact it didn't bother us at all, When I went to the village it was always pleasant to hear the argu- ments about the low for the night be- fore. There was always a certain amount of disagreement between the hatelkeeper and the feed store man. The feed store- thermometer could be counted on to be at least two degrees lower than the one hanging outside the hotel. In the summertime ithe feed store ,one was always at least two degrees higher on a blistering day. Of course this was on the say- so of the people concerned. Then on Christmas Day we unwrap- ped our presents to find, that one of them was a thermometer. I immedi- ately put it outside the kitchen. win- dow on the back porch. It bothered me all day and I had to look at, least every fifteen minutes to see what the temperature was. Next morning the temperature dipped down and I call- ed Ed. Higgins and casually dropped in conversation the fact that the tem- perature was so and so. -He immedi ately started arguing because he has heard the temperature given on the radio. The only trouble was, as 'it later developed-, that Ed. had got the A very pleasant social was 'held in the rooms of Britannia Masonic Lodge in Seaforth on Friday evening. Dur- ing the evening ,W. • M. Reid introduc- ed a short musical and literary pro- grame, consisting of a vocal selection by Mrs. Bright, Mr. Bright and Jas. Scott; a solo by Miss Town, and a comic song by George Scott. Miss ,Ewing was the accompanist. Dr. Can3pbell gave a recitation, and Rev: J. W. Hodgins an address. Mr. Andrew Govenlock,• of Winthi op has leased his .store for a •term of years to Mr. Frank Willison, formerly' the cheesemaker an that village. • . Mrs. Wilson, Sr., of Silyer Creek, slipped on the sidewalk near her resi- dence and broke her arm near the elbow on Monday last. The oyster supper in the Salvation Army Barracks on Tuesday evening was ,fairly well attended., considering the extremely cold weather. A 'public meeting was held in the Town Hall in Zurich on Monday last for the •purpose of forming a joint stock company to build a flax mill there net »summer. We understand upwards of $7,000 is already subscrib- ed, The managers of Carmel Church, Hensall, with a view to putting in a rc new. organ, intend extending the pul- pit platfort and making the necessary arrangements for the choir and organ at the rear 'of the pulpit. Miss Ada Gray, the celebrated New York actrese, supported by at excel- lent company, will appear in the 'Well- known play, "East Lynne," in Card - no's Hall on the 14th of this month. The Stanley Board of Health met in. the Town Hall, Varna, on Monday last with all the members present, nace- number of vitamins »supposedly con- tained in the sponsor's pills with the temperature. ' Mrs. Phil then slipped the thermom- eter inside. She was horrified to find that the temperature in the down- stairs was three degrees higher than On Monday William Craig, of Au!. burn, brought to town the body of is large wolf which he shot on Saturday while 13e and •his son,•William, wank. looking for a fox on Roy Daer's farm. south of Auburn. It was a yearlini and measured 52 incises from itose-tt - tip of tail. • Mr. Craig will _apply for - the bounty of $25.—OOderich Star. • . Farewell' Dinner < • • On Monday evening members of thk- stof the'People's Store met for a farewell dinner at Wong's Cafe fer Mrs. .Mary Pincher, • Who is leaving , shortly to join her husband in Eel- ; a certain doctor recommended in a land. During the evening a gift wr newspaper column, a number of days presented fiorn• the •staff to Mrs. Erie, before. We had to sthrt working on Haggitt.—Goderioh •Signal -Star. the fires so as to get an even tem- perature but without much success. .The kitchen range would start belch- ing heat to beat the band' just about the time we had the heater .in the front parlor under perfect control. When we ..concentrated on the kitchen range the heater would suddenly start giving off copious blasts of heat. ' We have been reduced' to almost nervous exhaustion. it seemed also that, every time I sat down to read during the past two weeks if has been to find magazine articles about the atmosphere factor in health. Tostop it all off, we didn't have the thermom- eter outside during the cold Snap., I had to sit by» and listen to everybody else argue as to just how far the mercury did go down. It was a mad- dening experience. Patricia Atm solved the whole prob- lem for us. She picked the thermom- eter down the other day and some- how or other left it sittiltg on top of the kitchen range. The mercury popped and we have gone back • to ,normal and sensible living. ... Huron Federation Of: :Agriculture—Farm.News: Receives Severe Burns 4- • Mrs. Lillian Thomas,• widow of Charles ThoTrnas, » 91 • Church Street, , Stratford, received severe burns ahofit the body .and hands when her.house- coat took fire while she • was prepar- ing breakfast on Sunday last. She was standing with her back to the stove when her clothing caught fie. She was taken to the Stratford Gen- eral Hospital, where it was found a considerable area of her body had beefs burned. Her condition was re-. ported as 'favorable." 11iIrs. 'Thomas ds -a former resident of Godericti, and 'her friends .here hope that the burns will not prove serious.—Goderich Sig- nal -Star. • 'Curlers Have Record, Memeershrp • During the past few years cUr11 . has taken on added enthusiasm here with this year setting a record Tn» membership and in activities. The - club has 93 mem,bers; six of ,whom are. aS'socia,te members. A round rob- ing is being played again this year and 18 rinks have been drawn ftfr this ,even.t.. The games which aye played each *Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights .are creating no end of enjoyment. There are two groups and play-offs will be held at the end of the series which should conclule- in a matter of three wpeks. Wednes- day afternoon and evenings are Ov- en over. to b,onspiel .play and Thurs- "day eventing is set aside for the ute• of the Colts. If the weatherman con- • tinues to dish up cold weather it wIlI be the best season since the rink was- built.—Wingham Advance -Times. Oddfellows Honor Returned Soldier ' At a recent meeting Of •Maitland Lodge, I.O.O.F., a presentation was made to Cpl. John Preston, who re- cently returned from •overseas. Fol- lowing the work in the oldge room a social hour was enjoyed and the Nolle Grand, X. Bader, on bdlrlit-ther— members of the lodge,, presented John with d travelling bag. Sohn espreas- ed his appreciation of the gift. He is the first member of the local lodge to return from overseas.- During 918 - meeting Cpl. Preston gave a very in- teresting account Of his work and ex- perience overseas. He said that e had received gifts of cigarettes f P1 the Oddfellows and other organa-' lions in toWn and said that thety wile: a , • muels •apiveciated. Winghans-Ad- vance-Times. Held Sleig.hing Party Old, Dobbin was called on o vide transportation for a - number Exeter, young ladies bent, op. a s ride party ,Wednesday eveniu last week, Wrapped in warm fiig 'and tucked' In' - with quilts, rode for several Milts In n bris nsosphere and wolind, up at the .dian Logien reams where they e ed hot tnikek Iduch.-;-Exeter Ti Advocate, — • New Corn Hybrids For Ontario . both; is likely to give better results Last December the Plant Breeders' when sown on their farris than may section of the •Ontario Hybrid Coen be expected from their own home Committee niet in »Chatham to study grown seed. » In Eastern Canada many the information from the several lic- farmers believe that seed brought ense tests made in 1944. The com- from Western Canada is not as de- mittee has recommended that • fifteen sirable as their own while others con - new hibrida be licensed 'for sale and tend that the reverse 1 the case, production in Ontario. Each of the says Dr. L. H. Newman, Dominion four major maturity groups is -repre- Cerealist, Central Experimental Farm, sented thus farmers a great- Ottawa. er choice within any one group. These opinions, no',doubt, are based Wisconsin, Indiana, Pioneer and ou experiences obtained when intro - Funks are names well known to corn during new seed. Conditions may growers in Ontario, These names have either, favored or ,hindreUlthe again appear among the new hybrids. best developmentspf the crop produc- In addition there are a number of new ed from such seed or a better» adapted tames --- Pfister,; Jacques, Hoosier. or less well -adapted variety may have Croat; Pride, Top Crop and Harvie. - been used. The results realized ,us- • Only one addition was made in the. ually determine the conclusions 'drawn very early group of hybrids, Wiscon- although these may Often be. quite »Sin 335, a reddish dent hybrid which faulty. has shown up well for ear production The Doinioidn, Experimental Farms In Central Ontario. • situated as they are in -every Prov - Three hybrids were added to the ince of the Dominion, have a partimi- early group—WASCancan 416, Funks larly goed opportunity to Investigate 0184 and Narvic 222, The maturity matters of this 'kind and full advent. index of these hybrids is about mid- age has been taken ofeithia fact. way between,Canada 355 and Canada A few years ago the Cereal 531, » » Division carried out an extensive ex - Six hybrids were added to the nied- periment whereby seed of Vanguard sum maturity group, namely: Harvie oats grown continuously at certhr ly: Robert .McIlveen, John Morr on, 300, pioneer 353A, Haivic 333, Pfister Branch Experimental Stations wa Id John Johnston, Thos. Fraser ad p27143,8.Jacques 1157 and Hoosier Crost be used in • comparing seed of the T. Cairns, same variety brotight In froth, the The barber and tailor, I. A. To the, late group an addition »f othOr stations ,annually. This work Matray'ne, of Varna, haS mad'" an- five hybrids was made. The'hybrids was edaducted at the Eiperimental other addition to his birsin . ' Ile are of similar maturity aa, Canada 696 Paris ' at Nappan, NB., Ste. Anne de has obtained an anctiou. license or slightly later and are suitable only la Pocatiere, P.Q, Ottawa, and Bran - for. the County of H 0 • • to longer seasoned areas for ear pro- dOrt, and. Cie Experimental Station at Thi e. cation of the new church duetiOn. , They are: Indiana 210, geavarlodge, Veaee trivet Diatriet, at illgreen took pinee last Sabbath. Pfister ;4897, Pride D66, Top Crop 115 'Alberta. .All» plots were sown. In que e discourses were delivered bY and Wisconsin 1692. adruplicat'and were, oareftillY op. Rev, A. D. McDonald, of ,Seaforth, CM The Harvie hybrids, listed are the erated litOrder that relia/31e, intorina- the following Monday night they held results Or "no corn, breeding program tiOn on yields might be obtained. a dinner at whielt the following gave at 'the Dominion Eiperlinental Sta.. .The tests were `contioned for three addresses: Messrs. Swan, ,Walker, to Ha,niOvv, Ont., and..,;are the first years ,at the 'end of WhiOh time •the and„Rendersen of Minimal; S. A; Md- iciiiritag which the 8tatititt plans irlfehnatiOn obtained did riot indicate Donald, of Varna, and Ekr,,,AteDortalri, tnItiake available to the ;c� vi tieofthiiif there W0nlc be any. ,AdVanta$0, of 'Oa.fo;Ktit, ;"; • ;''. Ora' of; OntatiO, • or .britieng, • * • seed Mit It "iti;;01 40 You » saPPoao Ramo ArOviori 'teeit titit.ffiedeti Iii0.61F4ii;444i1)01,0i1$046, Dcirolnion Prope4Y g »Mr.; "Vnilingtnn Joliestok sol Dominion Hottao and fill Zurith in hi Roan Johnston% who gets; inata rldItte0agi.011.. 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