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A. Y. McLean, Editor
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SEAFORTH, Friday, March 10, 1950
You Can't Tell About the
Weather
As far as this district is concern-
ed there is little doubt as to how
March came in. It remains to be
seen whether the old adage "in like
a lion, out like a lamb," holds good.
Certainly, the way the weather has
been acting during the past three
months leads one to lose faith in
even such a long established truism
as that. Certainly( Spring arrives
officially on the 21st, but what may
happen ten days .later on, the 31st, is
anyone's guess.
After nearly three months of al-
most consistent, spring-like weather,
winter; with its snows, its blizzards,
its cold,' arrived two weeks ago. But
we in this district were not the only
ones who grew confused with the un-
seasonable fare the weatherman pre-
sented. Winter resort owners in
the Laurentions complained because
there was no snow, and as a result
no skiing. Their usual winter busi-
ness was ruined. On the Pacific coast
and in the Rockies there was so much
snow it was impossible to operate
lumber camps, \ and railway men
couldn't beep their trains running.
While admitting it may be unfair
to ask more of the scientists, the
Kincardine News thinks they are
our only hope if we are to have
weather as we want it, when we
want it.
"We hate to bother the scientists,"
the News says. "They've given us
flying machines and television sets
and penicillin and super -bombs.
They've improved our diet and.
streamlined our automobiles. But we
wish they'd do something about the
weather.
"All we need is a simple gadget
with a row of buttons on it, so we
can control the temperature with a
thermostat and turn on a rain show-
er or snow flurry when we want it.
And turn them off when we've had
enough. •
"A few more gadgets would help.
!An outdoor air-conditioning unit
could keep the crops reasonably
moist during dry spells.
"The weather remains one of the
least understood features of our ex-
astence. Meteorologists canpredict
ita little more accurately than a man
can pick a winner in a horse -race,
but not much. And when their worst
predictions come true, nobody cal, do
very much about it."
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To Burp or Not to Burp
That authoritative journal of Brit-
ish doctors, Lancet, has been disturb-
ed recently over a matter of vital
concern toevery mother and to many
fathers. In brief, To burp or not to
burp?
After carefully analyzing the pros
and cons from a medical standpoint,
• Lancet says: "If the psychologists
are right who attribute aggression in
later life to difficulties at the breast,
then the question of burping is im-
portant in national and internation-
al affairs. A campaign to study it
seems overdue."
The question has been going the
rounds for a year. It began when a
London woman doctor, Dr. Joan
Tanner, had a baby of her own and -
w:rote a letter about it.
Dr. Tanner made a study of the
burping problem, and concluded that
Wind was 'the cause of many diffiicul-
tiesvirith baby. She said' the best
burping' technique was by "holding
the bab - u: � :and patting or t stroking
firmly'' v`er the left lower ribs at th
baelalid,.earce.
Personally, and ' in the light' of . a
4xd'er4hle, experience, we doubt
ifs' riakes Aitch difference. We've
Penh 6 des ;tile a good . b r:
ant ,
:other: i dt,, • • e ' ;
them down they have gone right to
sleep. And,. after all, particularly
following the midnight feeding, that
is what counts.
Worthwhile Work
There will be general approval of
the recent announcement of Lions
Clubs in Huron concerning a survey
of crippled children in the county.
From the survey will be obtained
data which will permit the club to
proceed with a program of crippled
children's work.
The interest Lions are showing in
those unfortunate children, who
through no fault of their own, are
physically handicapped, is not new.
As early as the late twenties, annual
crippled children's clinics were held
in the county by the Lions Clubs of
Goderich and Seaforth, which at that
time were the only clubs in exist-
ence in the county. Out of these
clinics there were brought to the at-
tention of the Lions many cases of
suffering childhood, the responsibil-
ity for which was assumed by the
Lions. As a result of this interest,
there are today in the county doz-
ens and dozens of persons in full
health and accepting their responsi-
bilities- in their communities, who
otherwise may well have been com-
pletely crippled.
As the number of clubs in the
county grew, the responsibility for
seeking out cases requiring assist-
ance became that of each individual
club. The co-ordinated effort of all
ten county clubs, which is now plan-
ned, will result in a service to not
only the individual needing help, but
to the entire community, which will
be felt for years to come. The public
can be of great assistance in ensur-
ing that the attention of the clubs is
brought to all cases requiring assist-
ance.
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What Was Gained?
It is hard to .understand why all
the parties to the dispute between
the coal operators and the miners
had to wait until the eleventh hour
before arriving at a settlement. Why
was it- necessary to bring hardship
to millions and peril to the industrial
life of two countries before agreeing
on an operating basis?
In the light of the millions in wag-
es' which the miners lost, the conces-
sions given them amount to little. It
is the same with the operators. Not
only have they kept the industry at
a standstill for many months, with a
resulting loss in income, but at the
final showdown they agreed in the
main to the demands of the miners.
If the concessions given now are rea-
sonable or possible, why were they
not so nine months ago?
Another problem that arises` is
pointed out by the Ottawa Journal,
when it says: "The danger of the
public concluding that the coal indus-,
try, so vital to the nation, cannot
safely be left to the peril of recurring
disputes between miners and opera-
tors, that the state should step in and
take the mines over. In other words,
what is endangered by these con-
tinuous disputes and work stoppages
in the coal mines is the free capitalist
system itself. The public, in the long
run, may not be content to go on fix-
ing blame, or trying to fix it, on one
side or the other, but eventually
must say "a plague. on both your
houses" and demand that in the in-
terest of its own safety the mines
should be operated by some- other
agency, which• would be the State.
• "Socialism, complete public owner-
ship of all natural resources, can
come in that way. The odd thing is
that the coal mine operators and the
miners, both professing opposition
to socialism, both saying that they
want the free enterprise system,
don't seem to realize what their
eternal disputes are inviting — and
that the miners themselves don't
seem to understand that even coal
can be priced out of the market."
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Return To Old_Days
(The Elora Express)
In a storm or any place where cars
are held up and form -long lines, it is
emphasized in our consciousness that
this is a new day in the life of com-
munications, A new day and a swift
day except when something unfore-
seen. happens: And .then how very
quickly we are reduced to the same
plight;• our grandfathers who
&. Hamilton
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watkeci t �e � time
riot' • h'o�' o' ' ob ` ago as time. s.
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hooig Backward
By R J
One of the joys the teen-agers
and under teens of today do not
have to the extent wee did, was the
friendship, love and companionship
of dumb animals. They have too
many other . engrossing interests
today (wbich we did not neve) to
bother with pet animals, dogs and
cats, horses, sheep and calves, and
even hens. The more I have seen
of the intelligence and initiative of
dumb creatures, the more certain
I am that they are endowed with
reasoning brains—much more so
than many people I thave known.
Give me a good Collie dog fqr
faithful, loving understanding. The
famous film Collie, Lassie, is a fair
example of the well-bred Collie.
Then I had a cat, Pussy. She
was just a young cat when I was
just a young brat. We grew up to-
gether, and she lived to be 16.
Once she thoughtfully deposited a
litter of six kittens in my mother's
clothes basket. I was ordered
forthwith to remove the lot to the
little barn, where I made them a
nice nest of soft oat straw; while
Pussy uttered deep notes of dis-
approval of the whole 'business.
That night, in the middle of the
night (I slept upstairs. in an old-
fashioned folding bunk); I was
wakened by a wet mass of fur
dropped on my face. Pussy car-
ried each .one of those kittens
through the long, wet grass, in
the pantry window, up the stairs
to my bed, and when she had drop-
ped the last one of the six onto
my face, she got in herself, curl-
ed up, and purred like a vacuum
cleaner. There my mother found
us all in the morning, the whole
bunch snuggled up in my arms.
That cat was better at arithmetic
than I—she could count up to six,
anyway, else how did she know
she had them all safely transport-
ed?
There are still a few—alas. is
fear not very many—of we old-
agers, who remember the days of
the stupendous flights of the mi-
grating flocks of wild pigeons
(passenger pigeons), which spring
and fall darkened the skies over
Huron County. I.have seen trees
weighted down with their thou-
sands of roosting pigeons. It was
a marvel to the people in those
days that these birds could make
long flights from the sunny south
to the bleak northlands for nesting
and hatching, andmake the long
return trip in the fall, along with.
their amateur young. We little
dreamed in those days that, in our
time, mankind would conquer
the air and fly all around the
world with the speed and ease of
the passenger pigeon. They just
wouldn't have believed it, Even
Jules Verne's fascinating story of
"Around the World in Eighty
Days" was considered merely an
interesting but extravagant flight
of imagination. Anyone who had
declared that in our time great air-
ships would be carrying passen-
gers',` freight and mail to all parts
of the earth, would h been im-
mediately consigned to the London
Insane Asylum. You can't ever
tell from where you are sitting.
No old-a,gers can begin to de-
Dun smore:
scribe to the modern teen-ager the
wonderful beauty- and immense
number of those migrating flocks
of wild pigeons. I have seen the
sun darkened by the dense flocks
And no one knows what became of
them—what caused them to van-
ish from the earth and sky, and
become as extinct as the dodo, or
last year's income.. Though they
were slaughtered in great numbers
because they provided delicious
eating, still man was not responsi-
ble for their extinction. The last
known specimen, alive, known to
exist, died in a zoo at Cincinnati
many years ago, and none have
been seen or heard of since.
I have good gastronmonic reas-
on to remember the. wild pigeon.
On Saturdays it *as my great joy
to be allowed to go with my father
back to the woods shooting black
squirrels and wild pigeons, with an
occasional plover. Returning home
with a grain bag filled with these
plump creatures, a busy afternoon
would be spent plucking pigeons
and skinning squirrels. But, oh
boy! was it worth it, when we sat
down to Sunday dinner next day?
There were nine of us in the fam-
ily—eleven counting our parents—
and it sure took some fodder to
fill that bunch. My mother would
have an enormous pie, in a deep,
large round dish or pan, or what-
ever it was called. The pastry, a
golden brown, fluted around the
edges, and soaked inside with de-
licious gravy of pigeons and squir-
rels all baked together. Nothing
on earth has ever tasted as good
since, and I have sampled the res-
taurants of half the world. And
to think tl:,at if I had today just
one live pair of all those myriads
of wild pigeons that I absorbed as
a matter of course, fleet one pair
would today be worth a small for-
tune. I remember many years ago
when some scientific society offer-
ed $800 for a ,single egg of the pas-
senger pigeon.
generously to the
Years Agone
Interesting Items Picked From
The Huron Expositor of Twen-
ty-five and Fifty Years Ago.
From The Huron Expositor
March 6, 1925
Mrs. Charles Eggert of McKillop,,
entertained the ladies of the dis-
trict to a quilting bee.
Seen in . the County Papers
Hydro Worker Injured in Fall Alexandra Hospital and the meet -
Edward Rae, of Wingham, is in ing authorized that $450 be paid
the Wingham General Hospital en . it. This amount includes $287
with serious injuries suffered in a donated by Branch 109, Canadian
Legion, for the fund. As there, is
a balance of $450 owing, the hope
was expressed that other organ-
izations would follow the generous
action of the Legion. Plans were
made -to hold a bridge nearatbQa in
aid of the fund, and it was- decid-
ed to hold a tag day, subject to
permission of the town council, on
June 24, and the usual birthday
party will be held in May.—Gode-
rich Signal -Star.
The choir of Egmondville Church
was entertained at the home of
.Mr. and Mrs. James Howitt, Tuck-
ersmith, on Tuesday evening when
an enjoyable time was spent.
One day when we had been out
gunning for pigeons, one bird came
down with a broken wing, but oth-
erwise uninjured. I captured it
and bore it tenderly home. My
mother's skilled, gentle fingers
soon abound up and bandaged the
injured wing. Xe fed and cared
for the hands6me` bird; its wing
healed, and..it became very tame
and a regular pet. .It .would come
running to me when I called "Pid-
gie! Pidgie" and sit on my shoul-
der. Thus all through the summer.
Then fall came and the returning
flocks of migrating pigeons. I hap-
pened to be outside as Pidgie was
strolling about in front of our
place, when a huge flock of its
wild brethren passed over, flying
low, and uttering cries in a lang-
uage I did 'not understand. But
"Pidgie" understood, all right. He
stopped short in his tracks, look-
ed up at the flock, then suddenly,
for the first time since he was
wounded, spread his purplis.h wings
and sailed upward like a flash, and
joined the rushing mass of flashing
plumage.
I never saw "Pidgie" again, but
I bawled for quite a while.
Huron Federation of
Agriculture Farm News
Condition Horses For Spring Work
It's not' too far from seeding time
to give some thought to having
the horses in good condition. Lame
horses anil horses with bad shoul-
ders cause expensive delays dur-
ing seeding time.
During the winter months hors-
es get soft and their feet often be-
come brol;en to such an extent that
lameness occurs when they are put
to regular work. The feet should
be trimmed and straightened up
early. so that when the time comes
Lor heavy work the horse will be
ready for it.
Horses should be broken in to
heavy work, gradually, and even
before work starts teed should he
gradually increased to put on some
extra weight and tone the horse
up gradually. Have the hames
snug into the collar, as that brings
the draft closer to the neck Rest
the horses frequently in the field
and rub down their shoulders if
wet. Nothing causes sore shoul-
ders more quickly than a dirty,
loose -fitting collar grinding dirt in-
to wet shoulders. Bellybands should
Abe kept tight.
A few simple. extra precautions
when breaking horses into the first
of the spring work will be amply
repaid by the good condition dur-
ing the rest of the season. •
Woocflots - Can tee Profitable
Many farms in Canada have
something approaching a longterm
asset in the woodlot; a fairly well
paying addition to the farm which
does. not require a great deal of
care. Most of the care 'it does
need can be given when cutting
fuel or logs.
Most ,farm woodlots need what
is called an improvement cutting
in, which comparatively useless
species or malformed and dying
trees are removed to make way
for thee growth of better species
and more thrifty trees. The wood
from this improvement cutting is
usually neither large nor mer-
chantable as logs; but ' but lin the local
market it can •generally be sold to
advantage, if it is not all required
for fuel.
The woodlot should. be Matte to
produce both high quality and, low
value products. Yellow birch,
maple, pine and spruce, When
grown to maturity, will yield High
quality logs for which there is a
ready market. If the farmer }reeds
l'um'ber, has can have thestifling
deli's "sit IOW Cost.
' The ,tOpe. Of both mature
itiota t nd ye0Weod trees will
a large amount of fuelwood which
should be harvested when the logs
are cut. At this time, any young
or small trees broken or injured in
felling the mature timber, should
also be cut. .
Stand improvement of the farm
woodlot at the time of harvesting
is a logical step in woodlot man-
agement. This need not be done
all at once. When felling each
mature tree, the stand for' a°gond
distance around should be culled to
remove useless members of the
stand. In time the whole woodlot
will be in proper condition to
encourage the greatest growth,
30 -foot fall last week. He is em-
ployed on rural hydro work, and
while busy in the storm, fell from
a pole.—Wingham Advance -Tunes.
Purchases Zurich Farm
Mr. Donald Parsons, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Parsons, of Us -
borne, has purchased the 100 -acre
farm of Mr. James Broadfoot, of
Zurich. Donald has procured a
good farm and gets possession the
first of April.—Exeter Times -Advo-
cate.
Purchases Home
Mr. Allan Sehwartzentruber, of
Zurich, has purchased the house of
Mr. Ed. Eichler in New. Hamburg,
and has moved there with his fam-
ily. , Mr. Schwartzentruber has
been employed at the York Wood-
craft plant for the past three
months.—Zurich Herald.
Member Of Prize Winning Band
Mr. A. C. Robinson, hand leader
of the local Boys, and Girls Lions
Band, recently took his band from
London . to Toronto, and in the
Kiwanis musical festival there was
awarded first prize. Miss Eliza-
beth Baeker, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Clever Baeker, of Brussels, is
a member of this band. Arrange-
ments are in the offing for this
all -girls band to put on a concert
in Massey Hall, Toronto, in the
near future.—Brussels Post.
The remains of the office build-
ing in the D. D. Wilson block were
purchased at the sale on Saturday
by Mr. J. W. Beattie.
Mrs. H. J. Gibson entertained the
members of the Barbara Kirkman
Auxiliary of First Presbyterian
Church at an old-fashioned social
at her home on Tuesday evening.
On Tuesday evening a banquet
was held in the assembly room of
the Collegiate Institute at which
were present all the boys of the
school who took part in the Dun-
can Cup games during the series.
Principal Spencer was toastmas-
ter; Mr. F. S. Savauge presented
medals to all members of the win-
ning team. Mr. J. F. Daly and Rev.
T. H. Brown represented the
fathers; Dot Reid, the official re-
feree, and D.' Johnstone and N. R.
Bissonnette. The members of. the
team were: Wm. Hart, 'Manager;
K. Ament, A. W. Sillery, H. Mc-
Millan, W. C. Barber, J. Daly, H.
Cummings, W. Faulkner, C. Stew-
art and Gerald Snowden. -
About 75 attendedthe regular
monthly meeting of the United
Farmers held in Carnegie Hall on
Wednesday evening. Mr. Jas. Love
gave an interesting address on
"The Possibilities Of Canada."
Oscar Neil, J. M. McMillan, Ross
J. Sproat, Henderson Smith and
W. J. puncan• leave Friday morn-
ing for Toronto to see the Cana -
diens -St. Patrick's hockey game.
W. R. Smith and J. A. Stewart
were in Shaftsburg, Mich., this
week attending the funeral of
their aunt, the late .Mr -s. William
McCulloch, for many years a well-
known resident of Seaforth.
Horton & Thompson, Chevrolet
dealers, Seaforth, purchased the
tools and . accessories of Carlin
Bros. at the sale on Friday.
Miss Evelyn Dale, of Alma, has
been laid up with blood poisoning
in her hand.
The thaw of the past few days
has melted nearly. all the snew,
and wheeling on all roads, except
north of Seaforth, is fairly good.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Coutts, of Wal-
ton, entertained a number of their
friends.. on Friday evening.
Pasture Response Toy Fertilizer
The problem of increasing the
productivity of pasture land in
livestock areas is one which has
been extensively studied by the
Division of Illustration Stations,
says Ross Cairns. Since 192$ this
Division of the Department of
Agriculture has conducted pasture
fertilizer studies on widely scatter-
ed station farms in Prince Edward
Island, Nova Scotia, New Bruns-
wick, Quebec, Ontario and British
Columbia. Four hundred and
eighteen yield records have been
obtained from a standardized
formula study in which there is a
comparison of the relative value
of 1,000 lb. per'aacre application of
0-12-0 and 0-12-6 every three years,
and 0-12-6 every three years plus
100 lb. ammonium sulphate annu-
ally in stimulating pasture growth.
On the average of all 'yields
recorded, phosphorus when used
alone (0-12-0) has been the most
effective nutrient, giving a yield
increase of 3.03 tons of green
herbage per acre over the 5.55 tone
obtained on` the unfertilized check
areas. When potash was added
(0=12-6) the yield increase was 0.57
tons per acre. The addition of 100
lb. of ammonuni sulphate aflnual-
ly, as a supplement to the. 0-12-6
has further increased the yield by
0.96 tons of greenherbage per acre.
The effect of these various treat-
ments on the - per cent clover,
grasses and weeds is also record-
ed. The highest per cent clover
was fdntid on the areas treated
with 0-12-6, where it makes up 41
pet cent of the herbage .produced.
On the unfertilized area Clover
centriisnted only 23 per cent 01
the herbage.
In addition to the fertilizer
formula etitiatiarisons, plots ,. have
d the
tneluded for a etu of
begin�; , • •
eS'e& of annual &Winatibna In
( olitinnate o t)age 41)
Fire Threatens Bluevale Home
Fire of uncertain origin almost
destroyed the frame dwelling house
of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Waddell at
the south end of Bluevale about
one o'clock on Friday. Mrs. Wad-
dell, two small children and a baby
were in the house at the time. The
fire brigade from Wingham was
summoned and made a trip to
Bluevale, a distance of four miles,
in seven minutes. The fire was
confined to the living room, where
walls, -ceiling, curtains and furn-
iture were badly damaged by
smoke and water. There was a
strong wind. blowing at the time,
but Mrs. Waddell had presence of
mind to keep the doors closed,
preventing a draft.—Blyth Stand-
ard.
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From The Huron 'Expositor
March 9, 1900
The old Hannah homestead in
Tuckersmith, west of Egmondville,
was sold last week by auction for
$5,40.0. Mr. James Martin, Exeter,
was the purchaser.
Mr. B. A. Higgins, of Varna, has
purchased Mr. James Armstrong's
residence in Varna. The property
is conveniently situated and has a
commodious house. "
Mr. Wm. Berry, Brucefield, dis-
posed of a fine horse to Mr. Robt.
Elgie-for the sum of $100.
,Mr. P. McGregor, Brucefleld, re-.
cently sold a lot of 10 horses to
Mr. Jas. Thomson, who intends
taking a carload to Manitoba
about the middle of the month.
The Molsons Bank which recent-
ly opened in Hensall experimental-
ly, under the management of the
Exeter branch, has now been made
a regular agency and a resident
manager appointed, in the person
of Mr. Kern, of Sault Ste. Marie.
Mr, D. Urquhart, Hensall, is
shipping out great quantities of
lumber and is one of the most en-
terprising business men in the vil-
lage.
Mr. Alexander ,McBeath is busy
with men and teams taking logs
and wood out of the big swamp
west of Hillsgreen.
Mr. James Cochrane, Hillsgreen,
has four ewes that gave birth to
10 lambs. All are smart and do-
ing well
Wm. Logan, A. Dunkin, Win.
Dennison, John Johnston and John
McNaughton, Brucefield, were de-
livering ,horses at Hensall on Mon-
day, soiti to Mr. McNaughton, of
Manitoba.
The following were ticketed to
distant points this week by Wan.
Somerville: John .Steele, to Bay
City; Phillip Burgard to Niagara
Falls; Thomas Beattie, McKillop,
to Sheldon, N.D. • 'J:, ginner, Lead -
bury, td Moose 'Jaw, Sask.; Win.
Carroll, Seaforth- and John Pryce,
MdKil1011, to ,1'ktorla, B,C:; O. E.
and II', W. Ore'nii'eli to liot
Springs,' :ArkaiaYekl
Mr..ilabert >3e11, of the 'Seaforth
Poundal, whipped bile week an
electrio light engine lb 'the Code -
rich (*gall toe r .nod. One to -am
Bennett, Wingham, Ile also ship-
ped a sawmill outfitIvanhoe,
to ,
Ont.,, anti has anorder for4tit eters
tt;ie figlit ;engine front the . Pat.
Portage, J ufaber Co,, Of stat Port,
Age,
Mourn Passing of Logan ,Native
Relatives and friends of tills
community were deeply grieved to
learn of the sudden passing Tues-
day night at Sarnia Arena during
a hockey match of Right Rev.
Msgr, Thomas J. McCarthy, pastor
of St. Joseph's Church there since
its inception in 1923. He had been
in attendance at the funeral of
Rev. Michael Francis Dwyer in
Kinkora that morning. and was in
apparent good health. He was the
son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jer-
emiah 1VicCarthy, and was born in
Logan Town:4W on October 23rd,.
128e. He received his high school -
and college education at' St Jer-
ome's College, Kitchener, and Nia-
gara University, Niagara Falls, N.
Y. In 1910 he entered the Grand
Seminary in 'Montreal where he
took two years of theology. In
1912 St. Peter's Seminary opened
in London and Monsignor McCar-
thy became one t},f the first stu-
dents to enroll there: He was or-
dained by Bishop Michael F. Fal-
lon on June 6, 1914. Appointed
parish administrator at Ridgetown.
he later moved to Mount Carmel
as assistant priest. Early in 1915
he became one of the first Cana-
dian'chaplains to go overseas. He -
remained there until the end of
World War I when he returned
with the rank of honorary major
and was appointed assistant priest
at St. Joseph's Church, Stratford.
For a short time he was adminis-
trator of St. Martin's Parish, Lon-
don.—Mitchell Advocate.
Snowplow Catches Fire
With clouds rolling high in the
air, the screech of the siren and
the mad rush of the local fire bri-
brigade as it raced down the Main
Street Monday morning to the
southern limits of the town, it
looked as though a serious confla-
gration had broken out. It turned
out to be a truck on fire owned by
W. C. McDonald and being repair-
ed ,et Ed's Imperial Sales and Ser-
vice. The truck is used for snow-
plowing the streets of Exeter. Fire
broke out beneath the cab while a
mechanic was at work and the
grease , and oil started a nasty
blaze' with -clouds of smoke. The
fire was brought under eSntrolebut
not before considerable damage
was clone to the cab. — Exeter
Times -Advocate.
Oxygen Tent Installed in Hospital
There was an encouraging at-
tendance at the meeting of the
Women's Hospital Auxiliary in
MacKay Hall on Monday after-
noon. Mrs. D. D. Mooney presided.
It was announced that the new
oxygen tent badl been installed in
A Smile Ot Two
Bored: "Why do you call Mark
a smalltalk export?"
Boreder: "If there's, nothing to
say, ,he'll say it."
•
A negro, listening to the speech
of a perspiring candidate at
country picnic, remarked:
"He sho' do recommend hisself
powerful high."
r
Down at the club, thee) fellows
were whiling away a dull evening
between Christmas and New Year's
discussing the perenially popular
subject: "What I would 'lo if I
had a million dollars.''
Ail the men had given their.
-views on the topic save one.
"We haven't heard from you,
George," one of, the members re-
marked. "Surely, as the head of
a family which includes e luxury-
loving
uxuryloving wife and six expensive
youngsters, yon have something to
say On the subject: What would
you do if you had a million dol-
lars?"
With a wry grin, George replied,
"1 guess I'd pay it on uty Christ-
mas bills—as far as it would go!"
BOXWORD PUZZLE
By Jimmy Rae
World Copyright Reserved •
ACROSS
1—Line of waiting
people
4—Crush
7—Old French 'coin
$--Farewell
10—Imitating servilely
11—Baseball 'period
15—Request
16—Woolly
19—Reverence
22—Tint
23—Stringed
instrument
25 --=To be under
obligation
26—Pnr b1
27—Fortified
SO --Cover
21 Lively Spanish
dance
34—To make beloved
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28 ftorbitant -
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41 Plant of gourd, fatally ,
42—Russian Emperor's
title
45—Cluster of trees
46—Gaudy
49—Maker of hats
52—Venomous snake
53—A meal
56—Peculiarity of
expression
57—Wind instrument
(p1.).
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59—Place of public
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20—Web-spinner
21—Concluded
24—Volume of maps
28—Lodges on :perch
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duck
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1—Line of waiting
people
4—Crush
7—Old French 'coin
$--Farewell
10—Imitating servilely
11—Baseball 'period
15—Request
16—Woolly
19—Reverence
22—Tint
23—Stringed
instrument
25 --=To be under
obligation
26—Pnr b1
27—Fortified
SO --Cover
21 Lively Spanish
dance
34—To make beloved
87 --tot within
28 ftorbitant -
interest
40 ---Mountains of S.A.-
41 Plant of gourd, fatally ,
42—Russian Emperor's
title
45—Cluster of trees
46—Gaudy
49—Maker of hats
52—Venomous snake
53—A meal
56—Peculiarity of
expression
57—Wind instrument
(p1.).
58 --Elongated fish
59—Place of public
resort •
60—;i le s
DOWN
1—Member, Society
of Friends
2—Expel by legal
protiess
3—aBird of prey
4—Give up
5—Womatt'ie ' name
6-1'enlate . bird
7—A 'breaking tel
lee s
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21
. 9—Tavern
sourttoN ON 'Pmol;
12—Honey of plants
13—Mohammedan
religion
14—Stabbed
17—Genus of
microorganism
18—Messenger of God
20—Web-spinner
21—Concluded
24—Volume of maps
28—Lodges on :perch
29—,Additional
32—Kind of fruit
33—Large marine
duck
35—Lovely maidens
36—Burst of applause
38=0peT sore
29—Appropriate
wrongfully
43—Makes' 'ash'aimed:
44—Drive back
47—Ascend
48y4ugar coating °
50' --Minute particle,
51'.—In addition
54—II'airy,
55-Aathneisphore