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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-09-27, Page 3
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th Levity of the Press Don’t take the bull by the horns. Take him by the tail. Then you can let go without help.—Chicago Daily News..« * * « ♦ » ♦ ♦ • Many a man who boast that he never made a mistake in his life is etill young enough to get married.— Los Angeles Examiner. “Golf is educational” says a fa mous professional. At any rate it has taught some people to do some subtracting.—Galt Reporter,* * * * * * * * * It is the shortened skirt that made* women more independent, lias at least shown that they stand on their own legs.—Chatham News.♦ * ♦ • * » * » •. People who read trashy literature should have their minds cleared, de clares a critic. A vacuum cleaner is recommended. —Ottawa Journal * * * * * * * *♦ Whenever you hear one girl speak of another as being good and sens ible it is unnecessary for her to add that she is homely.—Chicago Daily News. ELIMVILLE has It The regular monthly meeting of the W.M.S. of Elimville was held at the home of Mrs. R. D. Hunter. The chair was taken by the vice-presi dent, Mrs, Heywood, in the absence of the president, Mrs. March. The meeting opened with singing followed with prayer by the pastor Rev. Mr. Whyte.. The roll call was answered by twelve members. A number of leaflets were read by different mem- brs on the work among the Indians. After singing another hymn the Lord’s prayer was repeated in uni son, A business session was then he'ld when it was decided that we pack U bale to be sent to Clinton be fore October the 1st. (2 ) That we have a booth at the School Fair, (3) That we engage the Sunbeam Trio for a concert, on Thursday, Septem ber the 27th.•«« *«« Mrs. Miner passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Neil, of Lucan on Thursday, September tihe 20th in her 90th year. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs, Ro binson, of Vancouver and Mrs. Neil, of Lucan and, three sons, Alex and Murray, of Lloydminister, Sask., and Hiram, of New Zealand. Interesting Trip Through Northern Ontario A Visit to the Mining Country. Women to be honorlu ORYBURUH ABBEY >|t * * * 4 « $ * We suppose mat if a man learns nothing else while his wife is on a vacation, he at least aquires a new Irespect for Record. a can opener.—Kitchener «** *** aren’t so numerous, con-Divorces sidering all the week end arguments over who is responsible for forgett ing to bring the sandwiches.-—Bor der Cities Star. Announcement was made within the past day 'or ,so of the appoint ment of Rev. G. A. Leiohliter, of Buffalo, formerly of Adelaide Street Baptist Church, London, as pastor of College Street Baptist Church, in Toronto. Mr. Leichliter is well- known in this district and his many friends will be pleased to learn that he is again assuming a ministerial post in Canada. * * * >!<** A lady asserts that women are ^gjiore resilient than men. Members of ’ both sexes, however, start life by being described as bouncing babies. —London Sunday Pictorial.♦ * * ♦* * »♦» The head of the Liquor Board in Ontario, says there are enough brew eries in that province, which natur ally, will also be the viewpoint of the existing breweries.—Lethbridge Herald. The engagement is announced of Jessie Lavina, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rogerson, of Hul- lett, to Mr. David Watson, of Mc- Killop, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Watson, of Hullett, the marriage to take place in September. Brick layers- have started the work on the Presbyterian church at Au burn and the building is expected to be finished, next month. 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McLAUGIILIN Correspondent in Exeter, S. G. BAWDEN i i Come in—We will gladly give you a demonstration AUTHORIZED WESTINGHOUSE DEALERS For Batteryless, Battery and the Full Line of Radiola Models t Compact Model - $82.50 Console Model - $167-00 USIC—symphony orchestras—famous bands— world-renowned singers—always the full-toned rich productions—exactly as you would hear them in the studio. 'One touch of the single dial control gives you the choice of the world’s best music—"if it’s in the air, a “ WESTINGHOUSE will get it.” You will be amazed at the perfect performance of the console model and its low cost of operation. I Last week we recorded.' the news item that Dr, and Mrs, Roulston had just returned from a trip up to Kirk- > land Lake, The former has such an . interesting story to tell that we are now going to publish some of his im pressions as we believe they will prove of interest to many of our t readers. One of the outstanding impressions was the vastness of the northern part of Ontario. We in the southern part are inclined to be lieve that we are the whole of On tario, but an awakening is <bue to anyone who travels northward on the Ferguson Highway,—that splen did highway which the present pro vincial government lias provided for allowing auto traffic between what might be termed Old Ontario and the great northern Hinterland'. Shortly after leaving North Bay, which has very aptly calls itself “The Gateway of the North’’ one has to halt to ob tain a travelling permit on which is stressed the need gaird to camp fires. One then commences sixty miles of almost est, with a magnificent stand of tim ber. The varieties noted were red, white and jack pine, white and black birch, balsam and spruce. For sixty miles this splendid forest ex tends, without a gasoline service station along the way, and the tra veller has impressed into his mind the fact that the lumbering indust ry in Ontario is still a present one and not merely one of the past. The road was very picturesque, being quite hilly and winding. From Temagami norm ward is seen at regular intervals th© havoc wrought by forest fires, the dead trees standing as silent sentinels warning the travellei’ to beware of being the means of starting another fire which would cause further havoc to the heritage of the present and future generations. Haileybury ■has risen from the ashes of the fire of five years ago and is' to-day a large thriving, modern town. At New Liskerad is a splendid agricul tural section, where the soil is quite fertile and prosperous farms are to be seen for many a mile. At Kirk land Lake (which is 17 6 miles north of North Bay) the central attraction is, of course, the gold mines. Cana da stands third in world gold pro duction, and the Kirkland Lake dis trict is the leader in Canada. The town is developing rapidly and new buildings are springing up every where. The most prominent mines- in the immediate vicinity a,re the Lake Shore, Teck Hughes, Wrigdit Hargreaves, Beaver, Sylvanite and Tough Oakes Burnside. In all ol these they speak of .gold in the mil lions. Lake Shore handles one thousand tons of ore a day in it’s mill. Through the courtesy of the mine officials it was the good fortune ol' Dy. Roulston to be shown through tlie whole plant (above ground) of both Teck Hughes and Lake Shore and to have thoroughly explained the entire process from the crush ing of the ore to the final smelting of the gold. The latter part was perhaps the most interesting .as it does not fall to tihe lot of everyone to be permitted to pick up “Kings” of gold weighing between 3 0 and 40 pounds and valued at seven to ten thousand dollars. It was more dif ficult to get underground, as the scale of operations at the different mines makes it difficult for visitors to be taken below, but our towns man was privileged to do so at the Lake Shore Mine. Miles of tunnels, with all the conditions that go with deep mining, create in the visitor a feeling of the smallness of man even in the midst of the work of his own hand. Also t'he immenseness of the operations makes one realize that the gnat men of Ontario are not only those who sit in Parliament and guide the destinies of the Province, or those who are t’he lead'ers of the great manufacturing industries of southern Ontario, but that some of the great men are to amongst the managers, and superintendents of mines of the North. of care in- re- a, trip through unbroken for- be found engineers the great Westinghouse Cr>. Speaker $39.50 WARREN MtcGILL F. RABETHGE, JEWELLER, Successor to Jas. Lawson: EXETER aSuccessor to Jas. Lawson: WHEN YOU BUY A WEST! NGHOUSE YOU OWN THt .WORLDS MOST ADVANCtP RADl'og) Warren, McGill dlied on morning at the home of his ___ ter, Mrs. F. Colquhoun, of Hibbert, in his 73rd year. Mr. McGill, about three weeks ago, went from his home in Mitchell to the farm of his son-in-law, to assist in the harvest. A week ago he suffered an attack of pleurisy, and this hastened his death. Tho remains wore brought to his home in Mitchell on Sunday after noon-, and the funeral took place from the family residence on Mon day .aftornoon. In religion he was a Presbyterian, and in polities a Lib eral. ’ Besides this widow he leaves two sons and1 a daughter, Neal, on tho homestead in Usborne Township; Ri chard, of Staffa and Mrs. Ferg, CoL quhoun, of Hibbert. The late Mr. McGill was born in, Usborne Town- i ship and he and Mre. McGill had been residents of Mitchell about 7 years. Friday daugih- Lwow, In Poland, Adds Museum to Its Notable Public Structures-— Food Sold on the Road. Lwow, Poland, is to have a new museum commemorating the patriotic deeds of Poland’s famous women. It was at Lwow, shortly after tho armistice had been signed, that the ‘women of the city, aided by young naen under military age, held back the invading Ukrainians until trained soldiers arrived, Says a bulletin from the National Geographical Society. Lwow, or Lemberg, as tho city was known before the wgr, when Galicia was a part of Austria, was founded as a fortress to protect its people from the invading Tartars. To-day it is Poland's third largest city, with more than 200,000 Inhabitants and an important business centre. It is pronounced Lvoof. The sidewalk of the rynek, or city square, surrounding the city hall, is a makeshift market place where there is a brisk trade among the city and rural folk. Here one can furnish a house as well as feed a family. One corner is occupied by vendors of live and dressed poultry, another by out door florists with potted plants and artificial flowers, while a third is adorned with piles ot bread, vats of butter, cases of cheese and pine knots for kindling wood. Women in their heavy shoes, full flowing skirts and large dark shawls stride among the “stands” with live, quacking ducks tucked under their arms and -man-sized loads of produce in sacks tied around their necks. The fish market is alwayB an at traction to travellers, for most of the fish are sold alive. Visitors might mistake the vendor, with his net in hand, for a dog-catcher or butterfly collector, except for the odor that permeates the neighborhood. His flBh are kept in huge tubs along tho sidewalk from which he catches any fish the purchaser chooses. The live lier the flsh in Lwow’s market, tho more desirable. The Galician capital has numerous churches built several centuries ago. The Greek Catholic Church of St. Nicholas arose 200 years before Columbus discovered America; St Mary's Roman Catholic Church has been standing since 1363, and the Armenian cathedral, one of the three cathedrals in the city, was built few er than a hundred years later. Many synagogues accommodate the Jewish inhabitants who make up about one- fourth of Lwow’s population. The Lwow Theatre, in the north west corner of the old town, Is a magnificent structure—one that the natives like to show to strangers. Its facade, a mixture ann architecture, fine promenades, opens into one of tlve parts of the whose dry goods, including men’s and women’s clothing, hang along the sidewalk, are presided over by un kempt, bewhlskered tradesmen. Then there are unsightly houses with half the windows broken; and their plas ter surfaces appear as though there ■bad- been an epidemic of dwelling house smallpox where the brick of the inner structures show through -the gaping holes. Lwow University, south of the city square, is one of Poland’s important educational Institutions, with an en rolment of more than 5,000 students. The Staropigiiski Institute has pro duced important works on the Uk rainian language and the Ossolinski Institute contains valuable manu scripts and early works on the Sla vonic tongue. The wall which held back the Tar tar hordes in Lwow’s early days was torn down early in the last century. Now the site forms beautiful prome nades and playgrounds. -The new portion of Lwow has many public parks, wide, well-paved streets and modern shops and buildings. of Greek and Rom- ls approached by But Its back door the most unattrac- city. Cheap shops TERROR TO BIG-GAME HUNTERS. African Buffalo Is the Most Danger* oils Beast In the World. Capt. C. Lestock Reid, the big game hunter, holds the view that the African buffalo Is, without exception, the most dangerous beast in the world. .When you hunt him, he says, he is often hunting you, and it is quite an open question which is hunting the best. He will hide behind a bush— not a difficut feat, for his size con sists of bulk rather than height—• and spring out on you like a night mare player in a perilous game of peep-bo; he will fetch a wide circle and come on you from behind; he will “tree” you for hours on end; ho is up to all manner of tricks when alive, and like Kipling’s Fuzzy Wuzzy, “ ’E’s generally shammin’ when he’s dead.” In the ultimate resort, when your- last cartridge Is expended or jammed, you can, it is said, save yourself from a buffalo by lying flat; he cannot get at you with those enormous, inward curving horns of his and, like a horse, he will not willingly tread on a hu man body. Every hunter knows that theory, adds Capt. Reid; “the doubt ful problem as to whether the buf falo knows it I have, thank heaven, never had cause to solve by experi ment.” The Population of Italy. Italy’s population increased 000 In 1927 and 409,000 in 1926, statistics just published show. Births for 1926 were 1,134,616 and for last year were 1,121,072. Deaths in 1926 totalled 680,074, while In 1927 they were 631,897. The number of still born was figured at 4 per cent, of the number of births. 444,- Falarla Fever. Malaria remains the most destruc tive disease of mankind. It takes h yearly toll of 2,tf00>000 people. Mexico Mousers. In parts of Mexico large harmless Snakes of the python type are kept to catch mice, as we keep house cats There are 200,000 known Varieties pf insects that attack trees, Kwat Restlng-Plaoe of Britain’s Great Soldier, Field Marshal. Eari Haig.’ This short sketch from Black’* Guida to Scotland (180) may be of Interest to Canadians," containing, as It does, a history of Dryburgh Abbey, the last resting-place of Britain's great soldier, the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, writes a correspondent to the Toronto Globe; Dryburgh Abbey was founded about the year 1150, during the reign of David I„ by Hugh de More- vllle, Lord of Lauderdale, Constable of Scotland, upon a richly wooded haugh, round which the Tweed makes a circuitous sweep, site supposed to have been originally a place of Drui dical worship. The monks were of the Premonstrntenslan Order, and were brought from the abbey founded at Alnwick, a short time before, Edward II. in retreat from his un successful invasion of Scotland, 1322, encamped in the grounds of Dry burgh, and burned the monastery to the ground. Robert I. contributed liberally toward its repair, but it has been doubted whether it was ever fully restored to its original magni ficence, The abbey, like that of Melrose, consists of a church in the usual form of a cross, and an adjoining monas tery. They are built of the same stone (taken from a quarry on the estate), possessing tho remarkable property of hardening with age. The architecture Is of various per iods, and displays both Norman and English architecture. The principal remains of the church are the west ern gable of the nave, the chapter house and St. Moden's Chapel, the ends of the transept, and part of the choir and monastery. Opposite the door by which tourists are introduced to the ruins is a yew- tree, as old as the abbey. A double circle on the floor of the chapter house marks the burial place of the founder. St Catharine's circular Window, 12 feet in diameter, and much overgrown with ivy, is a beau tiful feature of this part of the ruins. The nave of the church is 190 feet long by 75 feet broad, and under the high altar James Stuart (of the Darnley family), the last abbot, la burled. The refectory or great din ing-room of the monks occupied the whole front of the abbey, facing the south, and was 100 feet long by 30 feet broad, and 60 fe4t high. Be neath it are the wine and almonry cellars. St. Mary’s Aisle, at once the most beautiful and interesting part of the ruin, contains the remains of Sir Wal ter Scott, who was interred here on Sept. 26, 1832, in the tomb of his ancestors, the Haliburtons of New- mains, at one time proprietors of the abbey. On one side is the tomb of his wife, on the other that of his eldest son, Sir W. Scott. His son-in- law, Mr. Lookhart, was also buried tn the same place in 1854. Adjoin ing it, in the same aisle, are the bur ial places of the Erskines of Sheffield and the Haigs of Bemerside. In St. Moden’s Chapel lie several members of the Buchan family. In the im mediate vicinity of the abbey is the Mansion House of Dryburgh, sur rounded by stately trees. In a house within tho grounds once resided Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine,_ two eminent Scottish divines, with’ whom originated the first secession from the Established Church, of Scot land. On a rocky eminence overlook ing the river, on the part of the estate called Dryburgh Mains, is a rude colossal statue of the Scottish patriot, Wallace. A few miles down the Tweed is Mertoun House, the seat of Lord Polwarth. In 15 44 the abbey was again destroyed by a hostile In cursion of English, under Sir George Bowes and Sir Brian Latoun. In 160 4 James VI. granted Dryburgh Abbey to John, Earl of Mar, and he after ward erected it into a temporal lord ship and peerage, with the title of Lord Cardross, conferring it over to his third son, Henry, ancestor of David, ninth Earl of Buchan. The abbey was subsequently sold to the Haliburtons of Mertoun, and by them to Col. Todd, from whose was repurchased by David eleventh Earl of Buchan. On the earl’s death, in passed by deed of entail to Sir David Erskine, and in his nephew, Henry David, Earl of Buchan, on whose decease, In 1857, it descended to his grand daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Biber-Ers kine of Dryburgh, only surviving child ol’ the late earl’s eldest son, Lord Cardross, who predeceased his father in 1836. heirs it Stewart, 1829, it his son, 1837 to twelfth “DEATH M ATCH” BEETLE. Tapping Is Nothing But the Signal ling of the Male to Its Mate. The tapping of this beetle, believ ed by some people to presage the ap proaching end of a sick person, is in reality nothing but the signalling of the male to its mate. The insect lives in and upon old, dry timber. It eats its way inside a beam or a bedpost, but never attacks tho surface. It was this beetle which damaged the roof timbers of Westminster Hall, London, to such an extent that $500,000 had to be spent on repairs. In old “four poster” bedsteads the beetle would eat its way, deposit its eggs, and carry on until nothing but an empty frame remained. The “tap ping would be heard by the watchers at the bedside of a sick person, in the stillness of the night, and if the invalid died they would believe that the mysterious sound was a sign approaching death. •f What She Wanted. A little girl went into A, bntchor*B shop. "What do you want, my little woman?” said the butcher, “A sheep’s head, and moihnr sayw will you cut it off su nedr M The Wallis 20 THE MEASURING STICK OF THE TRACTOR INDUSTRY University of Nebraska, whichThe is the standard for United States and Canada in their Official Test No. 134, has the following to say about the WALLIS Certified Tractor. The Wallis Tractor pulled 75% of is weight on the Drawbar at 2.98 miles per hour. It Delivered 76.55% of its maxiuxn belt power to the Drawbar. It Delivered one HORSE POWER at the Drawbar for each J68 pounds of its Lincoln Test Weight. It pulled 27.05 h.p. on Low Gear at 2.98 miles per hour. It pulled 26.36 h.p. on High Gear at 3,77 miles per hour, Arthur Jones MASSEY-HARRIS MACHINERY RE-FLOOR WITH SEAMAN-KENT flooring Want an Extra Bedroom? Then why not re-floor that upstair store-room with, hardwood? You can make it won derfully attractive and comfortable, and it will cost you so little! Let us show you samples, and give you an estimate based on actual measure ments. • ROSS-TAYLOR CO., Ltd. Exeter, Ont. g c Constipation Is the Breeder of Disease Half the ills of life are caused by, wmstipatioa, therefore, regular action oi the bowels is the foundation, of health, in other words, keep your bowels regular and you won’t be sick. MILBURN’S are the remedy you require. They may be safely used at all times; they act mildly and thoroughly, and it is only xecessary to take one or two at night i« cause an easy, satisfactory movement ix the morning without any griping oi sickening effects. < Price 25c. a vial at all druggists or dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. ORDER YOUR FERTILIZER NOW AND GET IT AT THE RIGHT PRICE PUT UP IN NEW BAGS AND THE CONDI TION GUARANTEED FOR SOWING. A. J. CLATWORTHY Phone 12 GRANTON, ONTARIO WANTED SHIP US YOUR Live & Dressed q Goose & DuckPOULTRY & FEATHERS Highest market prices paid Buyers 12 months in the year FOR OVER 30 YEARS Orates loaned free Write for our guaranteed weekly price list Returns made the same day poultry arrives References:* Royal Bank, College & Bathurst; Dun’s & Bradstreet’s A. STORK & SONS Poultry and Feather Merchants 24 St. Patrick’s Market, Toronto