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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-02-09, Page 7Cricket Hordes Devour Crops Of Three Counties NURSES The Toronto Hospital for Inourables. In affiliation with Bellevue und Allied Hospitals, New York City, offers a three years* Course of Training to young; women, having the required education, and desirous of becoming nurses. This Hospital has adopted the eight-hour system. The pupils receive uniforms of the School, a monthly allowance and traveling expenses to •nd from New York. For further Information write the Superintendent. ■ y,R ■„......... . N. ! Hoyt, In making a parachute Jump, * h fl ready, one hand to pull tho rip cord. The plane was found by Frank < Commons, a rancher, in a deep can yon four or five miles from the Com mons ranch. An organized air ■ search started several days ago un der the direction of Lieutenant Rus sell Maughan has failed to find any tTace of the ill-fated flier, of A St. Andrew’s Day Stalwart ft Z<? clean, bright Aluminum "M/ff ARRY-—JOIN CANADIAN COR-III RESFONDENCH CLUM. Add re MI Box 1738, Calgary, Alberta, Of 12 to by by is good tea Classified Advertisements BYS OWN TABLETS Found in Idaho ALWAYS IN THE HOME Missing Plane Searchers Believe Hoyt Used His Parachute, but Fear That He Died of Exposure Boise, Idaho—The airplane flown by y011- Fred Hoyt, misSing aviator, was found jn a canyoU |n mountainous Once a mother has used Baby’s Own Toblcts for her little ones she always keeps a supply on hand, for the first trial convinces her there is nothing "to equal them in keeping children Tho Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which regulate tho , bowels and sweeten the stomach, thus 1 Red Rose Orange Pekoe ■Top Quality - Whole Town Radio Fans Southern Idaho recently but there driving out constipation and indiges- i was no trace of the flier, who disap- ° o„ri peared a week ago when he ran into a blizzard on a flight Lake City and Boise. tlon, colds and simple fevers, and' making teething easier. Concerning I between Salt them, Mrs. Salusto Pelletier, St. Du- ‘ mas, Que., writes:—“I have used 17! REE—A NEW BOOK OF POULTRY ’ Lessons. I*. R. Guild & sons, Box T., Rockwood, Ont. Hoyt’s parachute was missing from Baby’s Own Tablets for the, past ten the demolished plane .............." residents clung to the theory bad frozen to death in the bound cessful The miles skirts of the Minitoka National For est, at tho edge of the Black Pine Mountains. One of Hoyt’s gloves and region after making leap from his plane. plane3 had crashed from Holbrook, on the out- old-tiino years and am never without them in that he the house. They have always given winter- the greatest satisfaction and I can a sue-‘ gladly recommend them to all mothers | of little ones.” The Tablets are sold twenty' by medicine dealers or direct by mail • at' 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wil liams’ Medicine Co., Brookville, Ont. *‘JVlormon‘* Pests Cause Abandonment of 200 Farms; Loss on All Crops in Seven Years’ Scourge in. Utah 162,000 Acres Infested Vernal, Utah'—Temporary loss -not less than 1,000,000 acres of farm land, destruction of crops over a per iod of seven years, abandonment of nearly 200 farms and a reduction in fatm population is the toll paid by three counties In > northwestern Colo rado to invading hordes of “Mormon” crickets. Eleven years ago the horde entered Moffat County and quickly spread ilo Rio Blanco and Routt Coun ties. Not until a year ago were ef forts made to combat these crickets, which are the size of a man's thumb in length, with- a more slender bodv, and possessed of an appetite causing them to devour every green thing growing, with the exception of sage brush and jumper trees-. Early last summer a representative d/ the Federal Department of Agricul ture was sent to northwestern Colo rado to make a thorough survey of the affected counties, and in his re port just issued said that in Moffat County 83,000 acres of privately own ed farm lands are affected by the in festation of the pest; in Rio Blanco 76,000 acres and iir Routt County! was Jound in the wreckage. 2,400 acres. The latter county last banning an organized search for spring erected tin fences on the bar- tho flier’s^ body,_residents pointed out der between it and Moffat County, and this method, although expensive, succeeded' -in vaslon. 800,000 Acres The report last seven years, taking the natural expansion of agricultural areas as a basis for the estimate, approximately 800,000 acres in the three countries would have been added to the cul tivated area under normal conditions'. But instead of showing such an in crease, or any increase, the records of Moffat • County alone show that 187 farms have been abandoned since 1920, in most cases this being, due to the destruction of crops by the crickets. Such abandoned farms in clude homesteads not yet patented and tracts of land leased from 'the state. Cover Area Like Blanket Some bands are so large that pests cover areas of from 200 to acres so thicklv that from a distance it appears as if a black blanket of 1m- mons'1 size had been thrown over tire area and other bands cover but a few square yards. The lands affected have a rough and broken terrain and this condition causes the'” hordes of crickets to form Into separate bands-. The same condition,'according to the report, makes more feasible the des truction of the insects. — It is proposed to • inaugurate a poi soning campaign early next spring, the work to cover the entire infested areas in all the counties and the gov ernment officials to be placed charge of this work. Two years ago a band of crickets, while migrating across ■highway near the Utah-Colorado state line, acctually held up automobile traffic for more than half a day. The band of crickets was three-quarters of a mile in width', and cars passing through it quickly found that the wheels were unablo to grip the sur face of the road due to the mess formed b,y the thousands of crickets crushed. These crickets are of the,, same specie that appeared in 1848 in Great Salt Lake Valley and threatened de struction of the first crops- planted there by the Mormon pioneers. When the crops were ready -to mature great hordes of-pioneers made war on the Insects-, the pests came d-own from the-mountains- and Invaded the grain fields. The drowning myriads In ditches and beating to pulp other myriads; but little headway was made against the enemy. The story is that when the pioneers had given upt all hppo ^of saving the crops numerous- flocks "of sea gulls came from the Great Salt Lake and vanquished the crickets by devouring them. preventing further in- Under Cultivation Lost states that during the that even if Hoyt had successfully leaped from the plane, he had little chance to find shelter nor the equip* ment to withstand the ravages of a mountain Winter. Finding of the one glove in the plane indicated that —aon The BABY in the the No motiier in this enlightened age would give her baby something she did not know was perfectly harmless, especially when a few drops of plain Castoria will right a baby’s stomach and end almost any little ill. Fretful-, ness and fever, too; it seems no time until everything is serene. That’s the beauty of Castoria; its gentle influence seems just what is needed. It 'does all that castor ’oil might accomplish, without shock to the system. Without the evil taste. It’s delicious! Being purely vege table, you can give it as -often as there’s a sign of colic; constipation; diarrhea; or need to aid sound, natur al sleep. . |Just one warning: it is .genuine j Fletcher’s Castoria that physicians recommend. Other preparations may be just as free from all" doubtful drugs, but no child of this writer’s is j going to test them! Besides, book on care and feeding of babies that comes with Fletcher’s Castoria is worth its weight in gold. A Nice Country / -— Quiet Tea Shop League Formed in Moscow to Get Peaceful Places to Talk at Night Moscow.—After serving as judge in the great accordion-playing contest which lasted for several days, Gelzer, the prima ballerina and idol of pre revolutionary millionaires and dapper officers of Moscow, danced to the strain’s of the favorite instrument of the Russian workers, evoking frenzied delight in the popular audience which jammed 'the State Experimental Theatre. On the same occasion Anatole Lu- nacharsky, Commissar of Education, declared that the accordion would suf fice to satisfy the proletariat’s musi cal yearnings, till the workers and peasants were able to afford pianos. One shudders"to think what Moscow would be like if this ambition is ever fulfilled. Moscow is already as noisy as Naples. Where can a couple of Soviet business men go for a quiet evening’s talk Tho home is impossible, for Muscovites have on an average only ■ fifty-six square feet of floor space each, which means three persons to a room, or nearly a score to a six-room flat. And the Muscovites are an ex pansive people, who like giving up roarious parties. Others play the guitar, accordion, violin or piano, or, in default of these, their radio sets. Muscovites take turns all evening at the flat’s sole telephone. In the kitchen half a dozen primus stoves and three or four- servant girls 'roar unceasingly. Why not go to a club? But a Moscow club is altogether unlike the New York Bankers’ Club, a place of repose bordering on coma. It is a place of agitation, just like a Jacobins’ club during the French Re volution, and one is lucky if he finds the members innocently engaged in putting down the tobacco evil and not discussing colored illustrations on the ravages caused by asphyxiating gas. In Summer there are the boulevards but there one may be suddenly startled- b.y M. Rykoff’s stentorian voice ex plaining broadcast back. So one industrial reconstruction from a lamp behind one’s. Moscow league has been the 'formed, namely, “The Friends of the Soviet Tea Shop,” to agitate for the establishment of plain tea shops with tea, but without agitation.---------- THE STANES AN’ BESOM AN’ BOTTLE An ancient player of the game on Stormont Loch near Blairgowrie, Perth shire. Mr. James Gordon of the Strathardie Club in the bonspiel of the Strathmore Curling province when 46 rinks played off for the fifth time in 24 yearn Search for “Dawn” Renewed in Nfld. , Eight Men Heard Sound of ’Plane at Same Hour St. John, Nfld.—An Investigation of the reports that a plane,, possibly the Dawn, was heard off the southern shore of Trinity Bay on Dec. 24, shows that six men, bird shooting from a boat, three miles off Hearts Delight, all declare that the sounds of a plane .could be distinctly heard coming from At the same tinues with loss of flesh and strength ' hour two men on shore state that until the patient feels hopeless. In i they were so positive that the sounds the majority of such cases the victim | came from a plane that they climbed to the top of a wood pile to catch sight of it, but the sky was overcast. Similar stories have been investigat ed without shaking the testimony. As a result the area between Trin ity and Conception Bay is- being comb ed by search parties in the hope of finding the Grayson plane. The up because of the reward of $1,000 offer ed. by M. A. Mosle, of New York, for the discovery of plane or occupants. Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, ac companied by Oskar Omdal, pilot, and Brice Goldsborough, navigator, set out from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the amphibian plane Dawn, short ly after five o’clock, eastern standard time, on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 23, for Harbor Grace-, Newfoundland, en route to Croydon, England. At 9.45 o’clock the following Sunday night the officer in charge of the gov- People Who Have Used Dr. Wil liams’ Pink Pills Speak of Them With Praise. “Going into a decline” is an expres sion that has come to be known as one of the most difficult conditiions with which physicians have to deal. It often describes an alarming condi tion because it does not yield to or- < dinary treatment and the debility con- a south-east direction. tfnilAS with Iakiq nF floa"h nnr? I " suffers from lack of good, red blood, and if the blood can be restored to normal no other medical treatment is necessary. Proper food and sunshine will do the rest. Every man, woman and child who lacks health and strength should at once take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to | build up their blood supply. The mis- ■ search has been actively taken sion of this medicine is to make new,1 rich re^ blood, which speedily re stores health and strength. “I am writing to tell you what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for me," says Mrs. J. H. Oulton, Firdale, Man. “A few years ago I was in a badly run down condition, so much so that I was subject to fainting spells which would I leave me in such a condition that 11 could hardly go about. Then I was stricken with influenza and this fur ther weakened me, and throughout the winter I remained in ..this condi- _ ____ tlon. I was taking doctor's medicine,1 eminent wireless station on Sable Is- but as it did not seem to help me, my I ]and claimed he heard distress signals mother advised me to try Dr. Wil-, from the Dawn, at that time many liaips’ Pink Pills, and I got a couple i10Urs overdue. A search, by United States destroyers of the waters be tween Cape Cod, where the Dawn was last sighted, and Sable Island, subsequently conducted, failed to re veal trace of the missing aeroplane. lianas’ Pink Pills, and I got a couple of boxes to start on. When these were done I seemed to feel.an im provement and I got a further supply to continue the treatment. , I took In all about a dozen boxes, and by that time I was in the best of health and had' gained in weight. My faith in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills is now unbound ed, and I keep a supply on hand and take them occasionally if I am not feeling quite well. I often recom mend them to others, and cannot praise them enough for restoring my health.” You can get” these pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50c a box from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brookville, Ont. volume the CX-112 the proper one. For A War Bird For The Snaitlu- Sonian In the Smithsonian Institution there is the stuffed body of a carrier pigeon which has been numbered among the heroes o the World War. Cher Ami was the messenger that brought about the rescue of Major Charles W. Whittlesey’s troops, which had been cut off five days from the re mainder of the'Seventy-seventh si on. When the “Lost Battalion” Separated from all supplies Divl- was and sources of help Majoj‘ Whittlesey used fiVe carrier pigeons as messengers. When Cher Anil flew into tho divi sion's loft and fell on th® floor one qye was gone and one leg’ had been shot away. But the me&age It car ried was intact. Th© body of Cher Ami was solved and brought back, to United States. * pre* the Money-lender: “Because I know your father so well, I an® only' charg ing you fifteen per cent.” Jones: “I’m glad yen didn’t my grandfather, Joel” , . Children Cry forX\\XX\X\\XXXXXX\XX\\\\\XX\\XXV^^XXXX.K\\l/Z For'IVotifcleJ’ due to Add indigestion acid stomach HEARTBUR.N HEADACHE The latest “nonsense” story con cerns a man whp asked a well-inform ed friend: “Where do all the old motor-cars go?” ‘They don’t,” the reply. Suitor—“Sir, I am very anxious to marry your daughter.” Her Dad— "Anxious, eh? Ever been married be fore?” Suitor—“No, sir.” .Dad that explains it.” GASES ■ NAUSEA. One tasteless spoonful in water neu-What most people call indigestionis usually excess acid in the stomach, jtralizes many times its volume in acid. The food remedy is acids. Bi what your doctor would advise. The best help is Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia. For the 50 years since its intention it has remained standard with physicians. You will find nothing else so quick in its effect,, sb harmless, sb efficient. has soured. The instant an alkali which neutralizes t don’t use crude helps, Use A FITTING CELEBRATION “I believe 1928 le a leap-year, tent ItT* "Sure, and I'm laying tn a big supply of Hope you can bet?* ---------.j,------- -— Lady (at theatre, to man in Beat behind)-—’! hope my hat' Is not wor rying you.” Hhe Man—“It is worry ing me a lot—my wife wants one fike it.” “That’s what I call a finished ser- • mon,” said a woman when the clergy* man’s droning voice had ceased. "I'm j glad to hear it,” said her neighbor. I “I had almost given up hope,” The results are immediate, with no bad after-effects. Once you learn this fact, you will never deal with ex cess acid in the crude ways. Go learn ■—now*—why this method is supreme. Be sure to get the genuine Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physb only time that woman has spoken to clans for 50 years in correcting excess mo is once. acids. Each bottle contains full direc* i — tions—any drugstore. Minard’s Linlhient for sick animals. Nottinghamshire Witness:The Power Tube Improves Multi- TubewReceivers x A power tube should always be used in the last audio stage of a multi tube receiver. If more than one stage of audio amplification is employed. If the receiver is required to deliver only moderate type of tube is greater volume and best tone qual ity the CX-271 or the CX-210 tubes should be used. One disadvantage of the latter two power tubes lies in their comparatively high plate cur rent consumption, but where “B” eliminators are used this is not a drawback. Power tubes- require higher “B” and “O” voltages than the other tubes in a receiver and for that reason aepar- ate “B” and “C” connections are pro vided. In older receivers this provi* slon may not have been made. For such cases special adapters or “dup lex bases,” as they aTe -called^ may he obtained which .permit power tubes to be used in these old receivers without any alteration n the receiver Itself. The separate connections mentioned are provided in the adapt er. Say ft with flowers, Say it with sweets, Say Say Say Say But it it it it with with with with always kisses, eats, jewelry, drink, be careful Mining Investors Intrinsic values govern market prices eventually. We shall be glad to analyze your holdings from that angle without obligation. LYLE, BELL & CO. Stock Brokers, Mall Bldg., Toronto ELgin 2136*7 Write, Wire or Phone ISSUE No. 5—’28 Place in Iowa Passes Ordin ance to Prevent Radio Interference Out In the little college town Fairfield, In Iowa, the wheels of pro gress muBt not interfere with radio reception between the hours of noon and 12 midnight, according the text of an ordinance passed the city authorities, just received the Federal Radio Commission. The ordinance limits the use of elec trical devices, such as washing ma chines, vacuum cleaners-, etc., which cause interference with radio recep tion only during the morning hours. The city law was passed after the au thorities bad received -protests from radio owners, who complained that housewives’ devices, driven by elec tricity,, had completely disrupted choice programs in afternoons and evenings. A fine of $100 or thirty days in jail has been set as the alternative punish ment for violation of the ordinance, the text of which -said: “It shall be unlawful for any per- Bon to operate any instrument, device or machine of any kind whatsoever, the operation of which shall cause . electrical Interference with radio re ception, within the city, limits of the city of Fairfield, Iowa, between the hours of 12 o’clock noon and 12 o’clock midnight on any day after the taking effect of this ordinance, save and excepting only such as may be 'necessary in making X-ray pictures or examinations in emergency cases of physical Injuries.” Men Called Poor Creatures As Compared With Women London.-—“Men are poor creature# compared with women,” said Sir Wil liam A.rbuthnot Lane, noted physician, speaking at a demonstration of the rthjrthmic health movement. “It is upon the woman that the fu ture of this country depends, and we must do everything in our power to keep her physically fit,” he said1. Sir William declared it is simple to keep fit. Good, clean, healthy food, fresh air and simple exercises would keep the body fit without any of the arti ficial means so often indulge*’ sn. PATEw *. .3 List of “Wanted Inventions’* and Full Information Sent Krr* on Request. THE RAMSAY CO.. T»ep* W, __________273 Bank St.. Ottawa Ont. *1The New Freely-Lathering (Jiticura Shaving Stick ForTender Faces EMOLLIENT MEDICINAL ANTISEPTIC in ini'^iirr ,u!rim»i|iI'*i ...... Woodsmen—Keep Minard’s handy. wHardest Working” Clock In Paris To Be Retired Paris.—The hardest working clock In Paris, after sixty-five years of; faithful tpil, may soon be retired on _! a pension. I _ The instrument, created by De-; j touche, clockmaker to Emperor Na-: poleon III, has been in service since 1868 in the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. During these years it has rung more strokes than any other • clock in Paris, since it sounded be-j tween 8 o’clock every evening and 8'; the following moiming the full hour; at each quarter hour. That is to say, ’ at three-quarters after midnight it peals twenty-seven strokes—an un-; usual performance, always startling to passers-by unaccustomed to the laboriousness of Detouche’s master-> piece. Nothing' Like It to- Relieve Colds In formula and action, Buckley’s Mixture is different from all other remedies. It literally “ acts like • flash" in conquering coughs and healing the inflamed parts. The in stant relief that follows the first dose is multiplied. 40 times in a 76- cent bottle 1 “Buckley’s” should be in every home. Your druggist sell# it under a money-back guarantee. , W. K. Buckley, Limited, «««’ 142 Mutual St., Toronto 2 SKLK JM I3CTUWLE Acts like a flash— a single sip proves it Swollen Join Sore muscles and strained liga ments quickly relieved by appli cation of Minard’s Liniment. i i SPIRIN You doubtless depend oh Aspirin to make short work of head aches, but remember that it’s just as dependable an antidote for many other pains ^Neuralgia ? Many have found real relief in an 'Aspirin tablet. Or for toothache; an effective way to relieve it, and the one thing doctors are willing you should give a child— of any age. Whether to break up a cold, or relieve the serious pain from neuritis or deep-seated rheumatism, there's nothing quite like Asbirhh Just make certain it’s genuine; it must have Bayer on the box and on every tablet. All druggists, with proven (erections. Physicians prescribe Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart Hoar, the Tablets will be stamped with their ’’Bayer Cross trademark-