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—SEAFOI TH, Friday, April 4, 1947.
Roads Hard Hit
This hasbeen a long, hard .winter,
but it's near its end—we hope. At
any rate, the .snow, is disappearing
from the highways. And its disap-
, pearance has• brought to 'light the
fact that the hard surfaced high-
ways, county roads, and town streets
have been pretty hard hit.
That- is not only true in this dis-
trict, but we believe it is the same
story over the whole province. Whole
sections of pavement have been heav-
ed by thefrost, while other roads
and streets have been badly pitted,
and still others are full of holes.
Fortunately there was not a great
deal of frost this winter, but when
roads are plowed to the surface, the
frost does get in. The hot sun in the
daytime and the 'freezing at night
does not improve the situation as far
as road ' surfaces are concerned
either.
All, in all, it looks as if the govern-
ment' and county repair bills for
roads this spring would be a consid-
erable one: Of course the govern-
ment will be the hardest hit, but as
it has declared its intention of .carry-
ing on the governmenttax of 11 cents
on' every gallon .of gasoline , used by
motorists, it will have more than -
enough to be able to meet the repair
bill, providing it applies the money
raised to that source.
Year by year traffic is increasing
on our roads and highways. Not only
that, traffic is increasing just as fast
in weight -as it is in numbers. The
half -ton and ton -trucks are the ex-
ceptioh one 'meets '• with now on the
highways. Their places have been
taken by the five, ten and twenty ton "
trucks, which are as common today
on our roads as the motor cars. And
the size and weight is upping all the
' time.
It is quite evident that the'present
hard surfacingmaterial on our high-
ways will not stand up very long un-
der the weight and speed of present
day motor traffic, which means wider-
and better roads over an ever in-
- • creasing ' mileage every year. In fact
mist of -the cement :highways that
were laid down ten or twenty years
ago, and which at the ' time were
thought to be permanent, have dis-
intregated' and will have to be re-
built. ,
However, everyone wants good
roads, and if their demands' are met
—and public opinion will force the
issue—the taxpayers must expect to
pay the price required, but they
should get all that they pay for.
•
Why Not Here?
We notice that the council of the
Town of St. Marys has taken action
to permanently _ maintain the shade
trees 'whieh, line its 'Streets. It even
maintains a'tree nursery from which
small trees are taken to plalit in place
of old, diseased or broken trees.
Why could not stick . a plan be f ol-
lo•wed in Seaforth:? Our tree -lined
streets are not surpassed in beauty
by any town in. Ontario But that
beauty will not last . forever. In fact
it is beginning to fade now and- has
been for several years, and what is
left is entirely . due to the foresight
of our pioneer =councils, and not at
all to those of recent years. .
On'°a number of our streets, par- ,
titularly • Goderich Street on the
main highway,'' the mapletrees lin-
ing the street on both sides, have
pas"sed their maturity. There are
gaps here Ind there; many are dy-
ing; ;one are dead, and a great
many of them retain only a fraction
f their former sutnmer beauty.
Why waft inti] tit majority have
gone?Why n t start Bulling and re -
Placing now? Nothing would en-
,large .the. town's, place on the Ontario
wap,more, nor as cheaply. But it is
time a start was being made. •
In The Legislature
There have been some pretty warm
times in the . Ontario Legislature
since the.session opened a few weeks
ago. And, what is ' rather peculiar
about these warm spots is that they
have not been occasioned by the Op-
position, but by the Premier, his
Cabinet Ministers and government
officials. -
The Minister of Highways had a
run-in with - the Speaker of the
House, and the Speaker forthwith
resigned. More than that, his resig-
nation was accepted and a new
Speaker has been appointedin his
stead. -
Then the Premier hinted that Cab-
inet Mthisters were shirking their
duties in . the Legislature, and 'were
not assuming the full ,responsibilities
of their departments. • As, a ,conse=.,
quence, he had entirely too much• to
do and to• oversee.
But Premier Drew's main wrath
has been directed in and out of the '.
Legislature against the Toronto
Daily -Star and its editor, Mr. Atkin-
son. ` The courts recently settled, at
least for the time. being, Mr. Drew's
libel action against that paper and
its editor. ' But apparently the Star,
not satisfied with winning the first
round, has continued to publish edi-
torials, while not of ' a libellous na-
ture, seem to have got' very far un-
der the Premier's skin, and he has
- taken violent objection to thele, both
in the House and over the air.
There is no doubt but that Mr.
Drew has some cause to be" angry,
but the things he hassaid about the
Star are both impolite and vehement
.and his outbursts have proved em-.
barrassing to his friends, if they
• have not also weakened his cause.
We would not for a moment offer
what would seem to be a rather'. ab-
surd suggestion that Mr. 'Drew
should follow the example of the
Dominion Premier in this or any=
thing else, but the newspaper .situa-
" tion regarding both is very similar.
Almost daily, for years, the Toron-
to Globe and Mail has been directing
trifling and sometimes miserable edi-
torials • at Mr. King. But Premier. _.
King has ignored them completely,
which mustpain the Globe and Mail
editor to the same extent as the
" tirades of -the Ontario Premier have
tickled the editor of the Star. At the
same time, Mr. King's attitude has
certainly raised him in the estima-
tion of the Canadian people.
•
The Children's Hour
Most of the older ' generation of
today, and possibly more -of form-
er generations, are familiar with
Longfellow's poem, `The Children's
Hour":
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Gomes a pause in the day's occupa-
tions,'
That is known as the children's hour.
I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my 'study, I see in the lamplight'
Descending the broad hall stair, '
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair. (Etc.)
But that was along, long time ago..
There is another kind of Children's
Hour today, so aptly described by
Stoddard King in the Spokane
Spokesman Review:
Between the dusk and the daylight:
When the broadcasters step up their
power,
Comes that large and magnificent
shambles
That is known as the children's hour.
The wee ones) huddle together
In time for the evening scare,
To chill their juvenile marrow
And curl their innocent hair.
Then over the waves of 'ether
To fill their sweet long dreams
Comes tales of terror and torture
And seventeen kinds' of screams.
yrs 4ort
IutereStlnti #teMS piCite4 tram
The Espositer of after and,
tWenteefive years ego.
From The Huron Expositor
ApriIA7, 1922 •
Seaforth ',Agricultural Society was
unfortunate in their select#on of • a clothes and eeeddng . . and bythe
date far their annual" spring fa#r last, next morning, there wawa wind oot-
Fridai!^,, as. March went out like a lion, �. ing across :A.11r place that almost
with,.a 'vengeance, and tae day was; stripped the feathers from the hens
ae3nihtng but a Fair Day. I foolhardy enough tQ poke outside.,
The eleering auction sale held VI There's something fascinating abeut
•
M9,. A .;fie, Routledge, concession 4, that• -last tussle of Winter; Nobody
Tuckeeslgith,on Wednesday, was .one mentions it. They goon feeling"ter
Spitlxtg. got ;eaugbt t is wick i?Y' ;,before and it' 'teak' off from •the road
lug to'tip-toe ittpast Wiiuter: Winter 'anal got enixe1 up with a wire tent .
reared up . on his hind legs and, let- When he heard about the mailman's
go with everything he had, lett, One predicament, he sailed out ha this
day . it was fine and balmy and contraption, " The ]gorse Was frighten,-
I started thinking aboutwearing leas ed enough, but when the snowmobile
came • along . the herse took off
in the general •direction of fete v'illag'e,
dragging one shaft behind him.
There "lvas ,:supposed) to be a . euchre
party in tae township hall but it was
eaeeelled on account of, the storm..
Folks gat busy on the party limes and.
-the only one who turned up for the
euchre party was Old Joe Dixon , .
and the only reason he 'didn't know
Y about it being cancelled is because'
he's deaf. He brought his violin along
because he thought that was what
they were saying on, the telephone
when they called;
After supper we sat around and
read and Iistened, to the radio, and
finally we had some apples out of the
pit that Plead brought in the week
before andforgot about. It. was ,real
cosy with the •fire in ,the heater
the front room, andthe plate of ap,
•ples and the wind prying and snoop-
ing around the eaves.
After it was all over we had to ad-
mit to ourselves that it was, for all
been tinkering around all winter with- of the 'storm, a quite pleasant experi-
a snowmobile. He had it out one day ence. . -
of the most largely attended and sue- taro that Spring has arrived and yet
ceseful sales of the season. The total , everybody `drown in his, own heart
-sum realized' was $3,500, knows that Old Man Winter is not
To See—heavy loads of grain and the one to let . a slip of a thing like
logs moving 'along on sleighs through Little Miss Spring' put anything over
Kippen on 'the first of April, did not him. •
have the appearance of a warmer early I I sat second' the house most of the
spring. I day. It was an ordeal to even try
Mr. William Buchanan has sold his and make •it down to the barn. There
fine dwelling property at theeast end was a 'skiff of snow `with the wind.
of Hensall Main Street, .,to Mr,. J. W., It was that hard, granulated kind that
Ortwein, who will occupy , it in the nips into your fiats like ground glass.
near- Future. , if drifted, across the Big. Hill where
As a result of the sleet storm, Hydro i there ,was still a lot of old snow, and
was off in town and district from Fri- the mailman had a hard job getting
day morning until late' Saturday eve- through: Ha horse got down in it
and broke the hafts of the buggy:
Mr. D. H. Stewart has purchased The oldest Jenkins boy ... the one
the butcher business in Seaforth from who was in the Air- Force .' has
Mr. Neil Klein, and has taken passes -
The Rob ltoy flour mills in Seaforth
have shut down for a month, -but, most
of the employees have been kept on.
Mr Isaac Hudsoe,, who. recently sold,
his farm in McKeaop, has leased .the
vacant store in the Williams' Block
on Main Street, and intends opening
up a produce business.
Mr. John Dundas, one of the fast
disappearing pioneers of Huron Coun-
ty, died at his home on the 12th con-
ec�ssioe of McKillop, on Monday,
March 27. Mr, Dundas was born in
Fermanagh, Ireland, in '1837., After
serving five years in the Imperial
Army and receiving his discharge, he
came to ,Canada in 1857, going immed-
iately to McKillop Township, where
he started) to hew out a home on the
farm where he died 59 years Iater.
A petition to 'the Government ask-
ing that the north pier at Bayfield be
repaired, has been largely signed by
tete' ratepayers of Bayfield; Clinton
and Seaforth, and Mr. Thomas Mc-
Millan will present the petition to
the Minister -of Public. Works at 1)t=,
tawa,'.and will possibly, be accompan-
ied by a delegation from Bayfield. ,
Mr. J. R Archibald, 'Silver Creek
Farm, who has been seriously ill for
s.••"week, ,is now showing signs of ,re-
eOvert'.
Mr, and Mrs. William Corbett and
three children, 'who have been the
. guests. of Mrs. A. D.•..Sutherland for
several weeks; leave on Saturday for
their home in Fort 'Saskatchewan.
• Mr.' Cooper has sold his 'eta -acre
farm near Chiselhurst, which he pur-
chased from Mr,'. Henry Horton .some
years -ago; to Mr. Turnbull, of the
Thames Road, and will move to the
Couch, farm in Hibbert. -
From The Heron Expositor
April el, 1897
Mrs. Archie McGregor, of Kippen,
feet with a bad accident which result-
ed' in a broken arm. While going
through a small gate, it closed quick-
ly behind and threw her off balance
and giving her a bad fall. •
Mr: Robert • Newell, of Chiselhurst,
Iea'venthis week for Manitol?,a.
Naas Jessie Gillespie, who has been
in the Northwest with her sister for
the past year, reterned to her• home
in Cromarty` on Friday.,
Mr,' John eli'kenhead, of the Lon-
don •Road, has porch sed from Mr.
John Avery, also of the London Road,
one .,of his .bulls at a reasonable fig-
ure. He is- .Royal Don.
• Mr. Downs, the new tailor •atBruce-
field•, has now- got quite comfortably
settled in,,the house just east of Mr.
Simpson's store..
Mr. Dnriean 'McCallum; of McKie
lops ,has sold Ills farm to Mr. Michael
Rowland, his neighbor, •for $5,500..
With the beautiful weather of the
past week,. the roads are now almost
dry and, the farmers are already plow-
ing their fieldsi • •
Mr. Robert Lerner, of Zurich; has
the contract for carrying the mail be-
tween Zurich and Hensall, '
A cattle beast of Henry Bauer, Jr.,
Zurich, which was In a yard, jumped
over a fence .into a well' which was
eller] with water within two feet or
the top. Fortunately Mr. Bauer saw
the •'animal jump, and held it by, the
horns until assistance came: and the
animal was pulled out by a borse.
Frederick J, Pope, M.A., a former
teacher in the Seaforth Collegiate,
hag 'been nominated by the Senate of
Queen's University, Kingston, for the
Royal Scholarship. given by Her
Majesty'•'a Commissioners, for the Ex-
hibition of 1851. The scholarship re-
apreaents $750 per• annum.
Mr.. James Hogg, of McKillop,`has
returned from his studies' at Trinity
Medical -College, Toronto.
Messrs. S. A. Dickson and James
McKinley, of Seaforth, have • been
elected °(Tice -President and Captain,'
respectively, of the University of To-
ronto Football Club.
Dust was flying on, Main Street this
week..The snowplow Bias been laid
aside nd the' water cart is being un-
earthed.
•
Mrs. Fox, mother of the faln'ous
violinist, is visiting her sister, • Mrs.
John A. ArSent, North Main, St.
At a •meeting of the Beaver Lacrosse
Club held in Cardyle's• Ilall on Tues-
day evening, the following officers
were elected fo'r the year: Von. pres.,
Dr. Mackay; Iran. v1ceeires,., Robert
Wilson; pres., H.'•W.. Wi11is; vice-
pres., Abe Daviasone sec., W. j; Suth-
erland; captain, P. 'Mulcahy; commit-
tee: ,Oecar
ommit-tee:.Oscar Nell,, G. Boyd, 11. M. Jack
son,- J. P. Bell ante A. Bethune.
Mr. iSnell,..of Exeter, has rented Mr,
Diebn's new hotel at Brucelieldi and
is having it furnished.' •
Mr. James McGee, ivho has .secured
the lentil and atageetattraci Prem Bar-
field to Sea'orth, late' purchased the
property of l,fr, 'W u Clark, on the.
Square in Beydi. aa, and has Molted, his•
family from Blyrtli.
'.•mak ...,:.
:JUST A SMILE OR TWO:
A railway employee was notified
that he was to serve on the jury He
asked the judge to excuse him. .
"We are very busy at the shops,"
he said, "and I ought to be there."
"So you are one of those men. who
think the railway couldn't get along
without you?" remarked the judge.
"No," admitted :the man. "e. know
it could get along without me—but I
don't want it to be found out,"
"Excused," said the judge.. ,
Man: "Call 'the manager; I've nev-
er seen anything as tough as this
steak!"
Waitress: - "You will if 'I call the
manager!"
Friend's: • "Does your husband ob-
ject to cats?"
Mrs. Jones: "I should say he does.
He says I feed all the cats in the
neighborhood. Won't you stay to
dinner?", •
• It was kit inspection and the Or-
derly Officer approached Private
Jones with the usual question_ s:
"Three shirts, Jones?"
"Yes, sir. One on, one in the wash
and one in the box."
"Two pairs 'of socks?".
"Yes, sir. One on and one in the
box."
"Good, laow where is the box?"
"Don'tknow, sir. I've lost it!"
• .,
Prison Visitor: "So you're here for
seven years. What's ase charge?"
Convict: "Lumme, guv'nor, there
ain't no charge. Every' thine's free
'ere."
•
The two survivors of a shipwreck.
a seaman and a stockbi'oker,` had,
clambered on to a raft.
"If a ship do'esn't sight us soon,"
said the seaman, "we'll starve."
"Dona talk nonsense!" snapped the
moneck
stoy!"broker,."I've got plenty of
Huron Federation Of
Agriculture-Farrr- Nws
A . -e .: •
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Livestock Poisoned by Orchard Sprays
Several capes of livestock poisoning
•
were investigated by'the Kenteille, N
S., Laboratory ea' the Division of
Chemistry, Science Service, Dominion
Department of Agriculture, during the
12 .months ended •March 31, 1948. In
the majority of cases it was found
that the animals had gained access
to orchard sprays and either ate grass
wet, will spray drift, or on which
spray had. dripped from trees, or
drank water on top.. of flotation sul-
phur barrels, or had access to wa-
ter' contaminated In other ways from
spray materials. In several cases the
level of arsenic in stomach contents,
in milk and urine was fatally high,
Horse Responds To Good Treatment
There are ,.similarities, between
horse and tracts)), power. • Both need
a teorough overhauling in preparation
for heavy work in the spring; and,
both meed ' a gradual breaking) in to
heavy work, says. J. G. Stothart, Divi-
sion of Animal Husbandry, Central
Experimehtal Farm, Ottawa.
With the horse it is its general
condition, feet, possibly teeth, and
the harness, that will need attention.
It is possible• on the general farm to
keep the horses in good) condition
on light regular work during the win-
ter, but when horses are not worked,
some thought should• be given to get-
ting them ready for the heavy ,work
in spring., About two weeks to a`
irionth ,before heavy work .starts the
feed should be increased. It should
be increased, gradually to put on some
extra flesh as well as tone the horse
up generally.
While' the horseis regarded as a
iamb animal, actually it is not dumb
at.,all. It responds tremendously to
care and "Oonsideration. It should . be
handled and groomed regularly. Much
of the wintencoat can be ' removed by
constant grooming,. and if this, is one
sweating too much when' heavy work
starts will be avoided. To improve
the pulling power and; often avoid lat.
ea lameness the horse's feet should
be trimmed, If a horse does not put
on weight, with good, feed and light
work, it is possible that his teeth •are
not right. If this is so, the teeth
should be'filed so that the horse will
get the besf.' advantages from the
feed.
Irl, addition to .overhauling the har-
ness by washing, mending and oiling,
it is important that harness be ,pro-
perly fitted: Nothing hinders the best
performance of a burse more than an
ill-fitting collar. It should be neither
too big nor too iniall, batt such that
will allow en even disitabution of
the pull on the shoulders. For the
first few days of heavy work •the con-
dition of the shoulders should' he
watched carefully and; the face, of
the •cpIlar ,should be kept clean. to.
avoid grinding dirt into the shoulders:'
Loss, of time through breaks and in,
jury to the horse can Often be avoid-
ed by the proper care and fitting of
the harness. -
Potato Food Values "
The 716a -way to serve food, vaInes
in potatoes is to soak them in their
skins. Of the choice between boiling
them or baking them, • boiling con-
serves more 'vitamins. Even, if -pota-
toes are to be served parsleyed, mash-
ed, creamed, hash -browned, or in sal-
ad, start them on their way boiled in
their skins.
' When raw potatoes are called for
in a scallop or soup, keep the peelings
thin, and peel the •potatoes just be-,
fore costae**. If allowed to soak, the
potatoes lbse some of their nutrition-
aI value. 'On occasions when they
have to be peeled hhead'• of cooking
time, pat them in salted water. Serve
them quick -cooked and steaming .hot.
The longer potatoes stand exposed to
the air, the more vitamin 0 they lose.
used.Left- vvers'should be covered and kept
in a cold place until•they are to be
*,
•'In any discussion•,ef cost of hog.
production, the questiov of cost of
feed, cast of breeding stock, cost of
equipment, overhead, and other items
must he considered: There is another
point ;of, equal importance .Which is
sometimes overlooked' and that is the
question , of the average number •of
pigs ,raised per litter, says J. G. Stoth-
art, Divis#on of Animal Husbandry,
Central Experinien•tal ,Farm; Ottawa.
As the yearly cost of maintaining the
sow has to be charged to'the litter or
•
litters she raises, and as. it takes, al-
most as 'much feed, the main item'of
expense, for a sow to raise and' wean
on•Iy five pigs as it would if she wean-
ed ten or a dozen, it is obvious that
the number over whish' this, 'cost' is
spread is particularly important.
There are several factors which in-
fluefice the number -of -pies, . weaned
per litter. Moat of them. have to do
with experience and attention, te the
many . small details of breeding, feed-
ing, management; and. sanitation,Fro . •
a breeding or inheritance point ,f
view the sow is mainly responsble
for litter size, The boar's influen. e is
later apparent on the thrift • and type
of the pigs, but it is the' sow a. . her
bare which influence the nunibe borsi
and weaned. ' •
Care and feeding before and , ring
pregnancy is of the' utmest i•m.'r.t-
ance to the number; 'health and vig,,.
of. the litter. The e;ow needs...raid
feed, minerals and' exercise. ,Id, de In
the. -form of iodized salt essential
in deficient areas°if hair essness is to
be prevented'.
A warm farrowing pen, its freedom
from draughts, its guard : i1' to pre-
vent the sow crushing the v. re young
pigs, ancIi its cleanliness, ar: im-
portant.
Anaemia,• the cause of consi+,=rable
lows of efkling pigs, is the resu . of
ars iron deficiency in the sow's, m' "k
end can be remedied in, several way
One of the simPPlest is. to feed each
little pig an amount of "reduced iron"
equal in size to a tablet of about a
quarter inch In diameter when about
three, ten and twenty days old, '
If after the foregoing details, are
followed the sow raises a small litter
of runty, pigs the best place for her is
the• perk barrel, However, there are
not many strains that fail to produce
when -given. the chance and: it profit -is
expected attention, to• the small stent
is essential,
ti654 W..0n4.Ave,
Denver .1, Colorado.
The Hditor, The 4,1004.E1xpositol1:
Deal` Sir: Just 4+eee1ved xay Copy
of March Ex
,14 positog . axed the ;pit -
tore on the front page of the ow
Huron & Bruce (Butter & gg Sl%e-
cial). ,stuck _(as, ueual) in ustard'a
cut, brings back a few memories.
1 ,am notso very: old y'pt, put. . j was
'just wondering how many fellows
there are left in .Hensall, (on might. be:.' ,
on The. Expositor .mailing list,; 'who
are Hensall Old Boys,), who,reanem,-
'her •ti a certain year• of a• big allow.
'Don't ask rue what, year it •was!
The place was in betwe'b i the :barn
on the back of Fred Busch property,
and the barn at the hack of Frank
Marshalls. We were pretty big kids,
but we had the equivalent of at least
a six -room heuse, stove and all, dug
into a huge drift; and if 1 remember
right, it -lasted quitesome time. . We
spent many "serious" hours on that
big job. Does anyone' remember whe-
ther that -big snow comes ,close to this
one, and what year it was?
Or, perhaps, someone 'remembers
the year that a box car was complete-
ly, covered on the sidingopposite the
,old "Salt• Block:" That was quite a
big snow too. when was that?
All that was quite awhile ago, and
seeing that picture, I just had to say
something about it.
Naw, out here in Denver, Colo., 'we •
get a snow fall once in awhile, like
the one last November, about thirty
inches all at once, .but it is all gone
in a week. We also get six to 15
inches at once, and as usual it disap-
pears in a couple of days., We also
feta few.'cold days too, but being up
so high, it is clear and crisp, we
really do not know what humidity is,
either summer or winter. And if I
must add to that, ani sure glad I'm
away from "humidity"- and ,want no
more `of it.
Speaking of •snow, theugh, come on
out here in June and July; Ilii take
you where yet can see (and play in)
just as much, if not more snow, than ..
there is in "Mustard's cut" right now.
And I'll guarantee you that you will
appreciate it a lot more. ' When ft is
80 to 90 degrees here in town, in an
hour or so we can "snowball" it till
you forget the heat, but here's the
best part of it: You return in the, eve-
ning
veHing to a cool city, perhaps a drop of
20 to 30 degrees, and use a blanket
at• night. We couldn't do that in`'°I3e,n-
sall iii the sum:er;• •
Denver -is quite a few miles away
from the foothil.i,s, let alone the moun-
tains, but by excellent 4highway (yes,
I'll say it, better ,than either No. 4,
or No, 7 or No. 8), over and through,
the mountains, it takes ',only 11/2
hours to get to Mount Evans, 14,260
feet ' up. • On the: way up you •pas•s,
Echo Lake; big, beautiful resort lake,'.
up in the mountains, surroueded' by
"Colorado"' pine trees, . If you tate
for mountain driving , and scenery:,
well, 'huff said.
This letter is just a reminder that
my thoughts do get back to Hensen
once in awhile, but it takes a good -
picture to make me say something
about it. '
Best wishes. -
JOHN B. (Jack) STEAQ,
Hensall Old Boy.
een in the
CountyPapers
Chickens Saved At Morning Fire
Fire caused 'from an overflow pipe
of, an. oilburner •in the henhouse of
Wilfred . Peachey, Britannia Road,
gave the fire brigade a quick rue at
two o'clock •Sunday morning: There
were 500 .six -weeks -old chicks in, the
henhouse, making a floor of down and;
feathers. OwIlig' to the bare with
whidh tire firemen, assisted by, neigh-
bors, handled, the little birds, all ex-
cept thirty of the 500 were recalled,
and taken into the Peachey dwell#ng.
and only slight damage to the hemi
house .was` caused by fire. A number
of chicks have since died, affected by
smoke. and the firefighting acid., The
firemen had a difficult task;• as, they
were in danger of crusbdng the chicks
under ',their •heavy boots..—Qoderich.
Signal -Star.
Lei Broken'• in • Motor/ Accident -
-A motor accident • occurred, about a
mile south of Tees.water on Thursday
afternoon when a ear driven b. Ftrank
Moore, of Toronto; formerly of Wing-
hame collided with a truck driven by
Harold' Finley, of near Gerrie; The
Moore car waa completely wrecked,
ith one°.side'being sliced off, and,
h the driver escaped with only a
broke leg is a miracle. The break
in the •g was above the knee and
quite a b•„one,, which we Understand
will mean < stay of several weeks #n
the hospita . The truck of 'Mr- "Finley
was also d''.maged with ,the rack be-
ing shifted two inches by. the impact.
—Wingham Advance -Times,
Offered As Municipal_ Park
,A meeting of the members, of •the•
Exeter Agricultural Societe met Wed,-
eesday evening of last' week and af-
ter some discussion 'passed a resole. -
lien to turn ,,the agricultutal .grounds
over to the municipality as a com-
munity park, Tlie directors of the so-
ciety met Saturday evening and
agreed.. to the resolution Which will
be passed oe to the municipal council
at its next meeting with the, v'econr-
mendation that the I resident, Preston
Dearing, and Nelson Stanlake 'tie ap-
pointed to the Cornnlunitty ” Park
'BQa.rd.—Exeter Time•s•Advocate.
Sets Up 'Office For" -Ailing M.L,A,'s
It$ough he ,has been ,retires. from.
pr. Lice nearly two yew, 1 • R
Hob : w or, Progressive ' onserva:
tive member Huron S • • th, work-
ed overtime all carifor
fellow politielane who complained of .
being i11, The doctor's be in a To-
ronto hotel just about was turned in•
to an office like he used to maintngain
at Dashwood' as nt
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