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of a library book when the telephone
rang. They were sounding the alarm
about the fire,
I'll never forget that fire as long as
I live. The sky was grim and dark
blue in color...almost black. The wind
was whipping the trees back and forth
The moon peeked out occasionally from
behind some very black clouds. It
was one of the bitterest nights in my
memory. It • was really the perfect
night for a murder.
The barn was blazing and far past
saving by the time we got there. The
wind was whipping up the blaze and
carrying piees of burning board
and chunks of the burning strawstack
all over the farm. At one point even
the house caught fire. Mother Nature
was in a grim and jesting mood.
Other things can happen on a
night like this. This would be the per-
fect time for Jessie, our brindle cow
with the crumpled horn to develop a
severe pain in her tummy. One of the
horses might get sick. They usually
-pick a time like this.
A year ago I had just finished
saying, "Well, thank heavens I don't
have to go out on a night like this
and the chores are all done, " when
the telephone rang. Mrs. Smith call-
ed to say that Peter WIts deathly sick
and would' I mind coming over and
doing the chores.. It was nine-thirty
and the cows weren't milked and she
couldn't leave the house because the
doctor was expected at any minute.
A man can certainly get himself irs-
to a lather over nothing. Each time
the telephone rings I jump like fright-
ened jackrabbit: I've looked oat the
window at least twenty - times in the
last hour expecting to see it all illum-
inated by a burning barn. Of course
now that I have worried so muck
there probably won't be a- thing happen
all night.
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Large assortment of Dolls and Toys in our
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General Election Hinted
Next Year
Winnipeg,—Leslie Match, Liberal
member of Parliament for Winnipeg
South, told the annual meeting of the
constituency's Liberal Assodiation :that
a general election is possible within
the next six months if the party loses
its wofking majority in the next two
by-elections. He did -not elaborate.
May .Adjust Restaurant
Meal Prices
.0-ttawa,—The Prices Board said it
was studying "the need for price ad-
justments in (restaurant) meal prices
to offset the various food cost increas-
es, including the added cost of fluid
snfll:."
'In.a statement it said, "The evidence
necessary to -reach a decision is at the
moment being collected and studied
and an announcement of -policy is ex-
pected in the near future." The study
is being made in conjunction with
restaurant operators.
Simultaneously the board announced
adjustments in the maximum prices of
a la carte servings of fluid milk and
milk drinks sold by purveyors of meals
and refreshments,
Hydro Cut Is Forecast
Toronto,,--Shortage of hydro power
in Southern Ontario has reached such
serious proportions that rationing may
have to be introduced as during war
days. Dr. Thomas H. Hogg, chairman
of the Hydro-Electric Power Commis-
Sion of Ontario said at a press confer-
ence.
Drj. Hogg said the reason for the
present shortage was "inability to ex-
pand during the war; lack of labor
and materials with which to construct
new sources of supply, and an increas-
ed demand following the war."
Lewis Challenges Court To
Impose Levy Of Any Amount
Washington,—John L. Lewis was
fined $10,000 and his United Mine
Workers, $2,500,000 after a roaring
courtroom scene in which Mr. Lewis
challenged the judge to fine him any-
thing he pleased.
The union will appeal, but mean-
while further contempt-of-court action
can be taken in the same court if Mr.
Lewis doesn't call off the 14-day-old
strike in the soft coal mines, now in
Government possession.
Reduction In Butter Ration
Early In 1947 Forecast
Ottawa,—A possible cut in Canada's
butter ration early in 1947 was fore-
cast before the Dominion-Provincial
Agrcultureal Conference here in a re-
port released today.
Report on butter ' production, the
Federal Agricultural Supplies Board
told the conference this year's output
"may not provide sufficient stocks at
the year's end to meet a six-ounce
ration in the first four months of 1947."
The present allowance is six ounces a
week.
Production of creamery butter in
1946, -the report said, will be 270,000,-
000 pounds, a drop of eight per cent
from 1945, Dairy butter production
was estimated at 53,000,000 pounds.
Soda Ash Plant
Plans Expansion
Arnherstburg,—Brunner Mond Can-
ada, Limited, a "big little plant"
which strikebound last summer, left
Canadian glass and soap crippled, has
embarked on an expansion program to
cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000.
Located in this Essex County town,
20 miles south of Windsor, because of
the proximity of salt andlitnestone,
Brunner Mond is the only Canadian,
producer of soda ash. It now operates
24 hours a clay and has a staff of 517.
First Execution In Province
Of Married Couple In 90;,years
Welland,—,Relatives - „Claimed the
bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Popowich,
who died on the gallows in Welland
County jail not long, after midnight in
the first execution of a married couple
in Ontario in more than 80, years.
The 45-year-old Popowich and his
38-year-old wife, Elizabeth had been
convicted of murder in the robbery-
slaying of Louis Nato Thorold merch-
ant last June. Ottawa authorities an-
nounced that an appeal for clemiency
had been denied.
Sugar Increase May
Follow Boost in U.S.
Ottawa,—Government rationing au-
thorities said that if the United States
gets a five-pound increase in its annual
sugar ration next April 1, as predicted
today in Washington, so will Canada
as the two countries receive supplies
from the world sugar pool on an equal
basis.
The individual sugar ration this
year in 'Canada, including' allowances'
for canning, will work out to about
33 pounds. Additional coupon rations
for jams and preserves will bring the
total to around 41 pounds
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228 Patients Rescued From
Peterborough Fire
Peterborough,—Prompt action by
orderlies of the Department of Veter-
an's' Affairs, Tuberculosis HoSpital,
permitted 228 patients from all parts
of Canada to escape injury as fire de-
stroyed the hospital. early Friday,
causing damage to building and equip-
ment estimated at $1,500,000.
The blaze, believed to have originat-
ed in a basement storage room, was
first noticed shortly before midnight
by Bill Anderson, a hospital orderly,
while changing into his worlting cloth-
es. He sounded a general alarm
through the hospital switchboard and
the 228 patients were cleared to safety
in less than five minutes,
Great Oak Canal-Gate Timbers
Supplied By Goderich Company
Large oak timbers have been cut
this fall for the federal Department of
Transport at the-plant of the Goderich
Manufacturing Co., and the last of
them were shipped last Saturday to
Ottawa to be used for repairing" gates
on the Rondeau Canal, and canals on
the St. Lawrence River.
The logs came from large oak trees
in the Dunnville and Hagersville areas,
and were hauled to Goderich by the
company's trucks. Each timber is
about 40 feet in length. Carloads of
them have been 'leaving Goderich all
fall. Owing to their weight only four
can be placed on a railway flat car.
The company contracted to supply 100
of these timbers, and the recent ship-
ment completed the contract.
PHIL OSIER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J. Boyle
The wind's howling around the eaves
tonight and we're having our first real
blow of the winter. The old heater in
the front room has a draft that could
take your shoes off without unlacing.
It's just the kind of a night for real
enjoyment because you can sit inside
and soak up the warmth and feel how
lucky you are not to have to go out-
side,
•' This is the kind 'of night . however
when something is bound to happen,
Two years ago, along about this time
of the month, Jim Harding's barn
caught fire. It was a bluStering; cold
night with an east wind that had a
whiplash of cold in it. I had just set-
tled down to soak up. the heat from the
old base burner and read some more
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All Year—
And Many Years
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