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The Brussels Post, 1939-1-11, Page 6wird r SO [Idiilii ^A1: ti set, %lt Hints g.. rttt. tiff Wert THE BRUSSELS POST THE BRUSSELS PAST in equlp'lnent. They were made by attaching a vieoe of taelled sheep - FOUNDED -1 573 heep,FOUNDED-1873 R. W. KENNEDY ,Publisher Publishes 17vetty Wednesday afternoon Sitbecription price $1.60 per year, paid in edvance, SubacriptiOhs in United States will please add 80e f01" postage. THE "POST" PRINT BRUSSELS CANADA Telephone 3t —. — Brussels, Ont. DEPENDENT Out there on the good old farm the other nibht tate hydro 'went off.' The cows were being milked by the electric nlilking•auaclliue, the milk was being separated by electricall ' driven machinery, the stable was lightt•d by hydro and the motor was busy grinding grain. In the house, Supper was being prepared and iron- ing was being completed, The ie. suit? Consternation, Language, For a period helplessness. Then the stortn hlew up, Cars were stalled. The mall -carrier was held up. The butcher anti este baker emild not make their rounds. Social engagements had to be can- celled, Horses and cutters ane even sleighs were out of commis- sion. The doctir could not make his usual rounds, Result! Helpless• ness. in a far more real sense than coo know we have educated ourselves into helplessness, dependence. It's a bad thing to cultivate tastes that may become our tormentors. We live in an electric age all tight, belt suppose the electricity should oe shut off! This effort towards free- dom is a wierd affair, when you come to think of it. We are wise in learning to use things. We are wise, too, in being independent of them. . v>�luea.y Could Thresh 66 Sheaves In a Day A person entering the log barn of 1838, during the harvest period would probably see the owner beat- ing the ears of sheaves over a pole which was suspended about two feet above the floor. This was called "rushing" and was the first fol'•m, of threshing known to Ontario. One pioneer boasted that he had been able to thresh as high as 66 sheaves in a day, in this man- ner, and usually obtained about one and a half bushels wheat, Too bad he could not have lived to see the modern separator with a capacity ,of 400 bushels per hour, Rushing was succeeded by flail- ing, the sheaves being rayed on the barn floor and pounded with the beater which revolved in the hands of the operator. The grain, straw and chaff were separatel by pour. ing them in the wind and the big homemade wooden .forks and shovels were useful devices for this purpose. When some ingenl• .005 settler designed the "wecht" (ancestor of the bushel measure - it was regarded as the last ward skin to a wooden rim, The great separator coos' snavice' ly more than a cylinder, In malt, lag these machines the farnleh' was obliged to co-operate with the Meet blacksmith. The latter made the metal parts or the outfit while tate former fashioned the wooden framework, Two feeders were re. - Mitred, one luauto cut bands and the other to handle the sheaves. Gtaln, chaff and straw were dunhped 1n a pile behind the throslh- er the man who invented tea "winllOwing-maeine" (primitive fanning -mill) won the gratitude of all concerned, It was a real 11810 in getting the grain clean enough for dispesal; * * 8• * * * * * (Cousin Ezra * * * (By A. R. K.) * 11 The overcoat that Ezra Wore. had served eight seasons, even more, it was entirely through; so Ezra told me weeks ago, he really wanted me to know, he'd get once !hat was new. IT But Ezra would not shop the home, just mention that and be will g:aan. they don't give bargains here; they haven't got the cut and style he's never noticed one worth while, and some of them are queer. IT So Ezra sent his cash away, some far off name he'd seen one day, he named the style and price; and he would have a jacket then, the envy- or all passing men, he'd greet the days of ice. IT But Ezra cannot wear This coat, he looks just like a billy goat, it has no swagger air; the sleeves aren't nearly long enough, and it 'is made of shoddy stuff, and fits just here and there, IT I'd rather buy my things right here, and if they look a trifle queer, it never worries me; 1f things are rather loose or tight, guite gladly they will make them right, just like they ought to be. IT But Ezra's stuck, he knows tt too, and he is stubborn through and through, and all he does is waif; he cannot get his money back, his coat juet stays there in his shack—it's hanging on a nail. Mrs. Reynolds Retires Mrs. J. B, Reynolds, wife of the governor of the county jail, will start the New Year with plenty of time on her hands, retiring from duty at the court house after twenty-eight years of service. Mrs. Reynolds was' a popular member ot the court staff, always obliging and willing to help in spite of the duties of the seven positions she occupied. She commenced work in 1910 as local court reporter and is resign- ing from that position, also those of deputy local register o ftlle Sup- reme Court, deputy county court clerk, and deputy registrar of the Surrogate Count of the County of Huron. She will retain the offices of special examiner for the County - of Huron, clerk of the election board of the county and matron of the county jail, Miss Evelyn Cooper will take over the duties of local court reporter. --Exeter Times,A:dvocate tip FARES AND TRAIN SERVICES' lqCUrer y.1 n. e , , . CANADIAN NATIONAL TELEGRAPHS MONEY ORDERS AND EXPRESS SPEED, DEPEND ABitITY. SAFETY Indulge in your favorite Summer spore —all or—in the balmy, invigorat- ing climate of Canada's Evergreen Play- ground. Golf, hiking, rids ng, motoriogs yachting, tennis . enjoy majestic mountain scenery—see snow -clad Canadian Rockies en route. Special Winter rates at hotels. Attractive rail fares now 1 n effect and until May 14s Return limit: Standard, 3 months Tourist and Coach, 6 months. Stop- overs allowed at intermediate points( Enjoy Winter sports In the Canadian Reticles —special low rail tannin effect during Jan, uary, February and March. Putt in/ormalioafrom any ticket agent. NAW.t 1 NATIONAL NOTE AND COMMENT Duping their .vielt to Canasta Their glalesti.es will not see the Dionne children, Neither will they vielt Brussels. 111 *ofte of that we hone they have a good time. Premier isepourn had some t,taubie in salons tor Australia los cause of a strike at U. S. Pacific coast ports. And 1t would be loot ih'1a mt•lt t0 be bothered by a 0.1.0, tletllousLatiOli, York township's reeve predicts a cut 111 the tux rate and what mak- es the I.raphecy really notable 1s teat 1t Was matte alts!' and not be lol•e the elee110ll, Ottawa folk will be unable to sou' eeai their prate in the rust that the oing auu queen are to spend 1001' days 10 tile t apitul and only a few 0001'a in 'lorQllto. Ontario's Fire loss increased by lz per Cent. tiering last year and coat 1s nut tea kmd of record that ouou'lu male us 1ee1 like patting cue another on tee Daca. Globe and Mall has an editurim on ,ue auh ahtages ut outdoor a..n during Canadian winters. Those articles write easily in a st,..m• heated otiice. H. G. Wells calls Hitler and lfau- eo,,u1 "l.c.wks" and that pr0m)1s cue thought that :lir. Welts has 11541,0r j,l•upe.'ty nut .mauves in 010081' country, ^^— The job of guaroing the King ane Queen (tiring their Canadian visit is to be turned over to the R. C. M. P. The world knows teat mean.; they will be weal guarded. A new electric exp, ess train in Italy has a speed ot 155 miles an hour. Italy has so little coal that her railways are electrified, and when at it she has turned out a rather colnptete yob. New misct•oscope is said to bt. able to seagulls, things a militia times, and one migut feel better it able t0 Durrow that 1111)8'athle witeai. tax,lig a squint at his asests, Perhaps we should begin anew and try to tank and talk in term, e,r int 10.0115 tli cloitars. We, jus,. 1101)0en where we pay a 'million a nay at inte,est charges on our bond- ed debta. James Roosevelt, eldest son of the arestden't of U.S., has gone to wont as vice-president 'et a shoving pletul a etsneee uy and missals he allows nettling at alt about it. Thai. is a good 0)1.155 1.0 stu1,1 1. he uv,.. dot stop neat there. 11, is proposed that the King while in Toronto miigbt close the session of the Ontario Legislature. Ana that of course would be a more. pleasant commission than trying to wut.ol it sit times when it is lh session. Middle-aged Montreal man was allowed to go on suspended sen- tence after pleading guilty to steal- ing a meals jar of peanuts, He might have put forward the defence that the evidence in the case was salted.. Themayor of Toronto considers that 81, hours is much too short for the visit of the King and Queen to that city. 'Toronto Should be care- ful as for same time past most of us have not used the word Hogtown. Toronto is haviuf quite a shell trying to find the identity of a wo- man who tried to vote in the name of another person at civic election. They could readily enough identify tetany hundreds who did not lake the trouble to vote at all. Pablic opinion is me�'curial. A survey by the British Institute o: Public Opinion showed tihat 70 po. cent, of the people would welcome a return .of the Duke and Ditches, Of Windsor If they decicletl to tali up their residence In 16" 'tants. A Year ago the same .sort of teat show- ed 00 pet' Dent, In favor of a 1 eturn. Theer is nothing unusual about 11 and there ale few epiniolis Wlilc,t do no; ;...1:1 a elisege, A lawyer Was naked by a woman friend whet was the difference be- tween a solicitor and a barrister. "Precisely the sumo," Ile replied "as between a crocodile anti an al. ligator," WEDNESDAY, JAN, 1t11, 1939 .LFT TJX LOOK AT THE PAST Moo ,ire Items Taken Pro* YU1es of tite Poor of t# and M Years Apo V.. ---r ................,..•...,..,. ,.. 50 YEARS AGO ETHEL W, Doig and wife, Kincardine, are visiting ,frientis here. * • • • James Menzies, Burke,e Falls, Patty Sound, is visiting friends here. J, C. Heffernan *arid• wife spent the New Year in Torouto. • * i Dr. Cole, wife and family, were visiting his parents, W, H. Cole and wife of Mitchell, for a few clays. * + • John Elliott, wife and son and James Elliott and wife spent New Year's weelt visiting friends 111 Stratford. MORRIS Frank Ingram is, here ou a visit from Brandon,. Man. * • • Presentation—Last Monday even- inga jolly company assembled at the residence of Samuel Barr to present Mrs. Alex. .Camp -hell (nee Miss Teenie Barr) with an address and a parting gilt from the officers and teachers of the Sabbath School, meeting in Anderson's School house where .firs. Campbell had been a teacher for several years. Miss Ireland read the address and Miss M. 1MIason made the presentation, the present being a beautiful silver butter cooler. BRUSSELS Melville Church W. F. Ni. 5, elect- ed as its officers for 1889: — Pres., Mrs. S. Ross Vice Pres., Olrs. .1', Stewart Sec„ Mrs. Graham Treas., Mrs. Malcolm Ex Committee, Mrs. N, MoLaurhltn ,Mrs. Herr, Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. W. Martin, Mrs. Jas. Welwyn, Mrs. Barrie, Mrs. Whitley and Mrs. A. MOLauclh,lin, auditors, * * t t • Married Caanrpbell - Barr—'In Morris, on Jan 2nd at the residence of the bride's parreuts, by Rev, G. B. Howie. Mr. Alex Campbell, of Gaylord, Mich, formerly of Morris, to Miss Christens„ third daughter of Mr, ,Samuel Barr, of Morris. 25 YEARS AGO JAMESTOWN An auction sale will be held at Robert ,Hamilton's farm on Thurs- day afternoon. • • • .S. S. No, 10, Morris held their annual meeting as provided, Dave Ramsay succeeds Chas. Forrest as trustee. The 1V00d contract went to D. Miller at $1.99 per cord. Thos Smith will be caretaker of 5011001 for, 1914 at a salary of 336. Robert Messer has the contract of putting up a wire fence 'around the school, W ROX ETE:R Perry Patterson spent day at his home here. * * * 'Mrs. George Aldan and Mrs. Gor- don Hastie organist and leader were remembered by the choir at the home of Mrs. Allan last Friday evening. he holi- Jas. Ballantyne has disposed of his livery business Co Ed, Lowry at Brussels. S, Dobbs of Beeton, was a visitor at the home of D. D, Sanderson, MONCRIEFF Sohn and Bert Forrest of Alberta are visiting friends in this locality, At the annual school meeting of S. S. No. 9, George McKay, jr., was elected trustee. Wood contract, went to George Spei't'an at $2.95 nal D. K. Livingstone at $3.00, 10 cord wets WALKER'S FUNERAL HOME William Street, Brussels, Ontario PERSONAL ATTENDANCE 'Phone 65 Day or Night Calls MOTOR HEARSE B t3, WALKER 6 mbalmer and Mineral Director', each, 0, W. McKay will be care- taker at $31,00 Pel' year. .GREY Miss Margaret Grant le here .o visit from Leamington. • • w Mrs and Miss Failte of Listowel' were vieltors at Thomas Alcotlt's, .14th con, * * Hugh and Mrs. Portes' are brick from a trip to the West. . i • M. Joseph Vance returned 'to Tarts - tock after visit:y.a two week's Vat hie daughter, Mrs. Robert Cochrane. MORRIS Asocial party was held :at hien- non Jookson's farm, 3111 11218, 1aeL Friday, • • • Miss Ellen Evans left for White- church where she will teach. Baxter Bawls", of Fillmore, Satk„ is here on a visit. Miss Ruby Clegg has gone to New Dundee, Waterloo Co., to teach school, Mis Irene returned to Hamilton Normal last Monday. • • • w Mr, and Mss, John W. Shoit- reed, of Peace River District are renewing old 'fi^lendehips in Morris Twp. B ELG•RAV E Thomas Armstrong, of Willow Ctiy, Dakota, is here on a visit with his brother. •W A LTON School re -opened last Monday with Miss Edith Deadman and Mias Bettie McDonall in charge. * * * Councillor Duncan Johnston was re-elected by acclimation to a seat at the townsbip Board. of Morris. ETHEL Mr. and Mrs. George Dunbar of New Ontario were visiting in this locality. Robert Hamilton of -Chicago and Sohn Pelton, of Wyandotte, Mich. were visitors at R. Parr's this week. w r • Andrew and Mrs. Balmier; Cllr. and Miss Thiel, of Mitchell; Louis and Mrs. Eckmier and family of Jamestoyn; William Lake of Brus- sels spent New Year's, at the home of Mr. and hits, C. Eolemler, CRANBROOK Miss Viola Long spent the past week with Milverton friends. • • • A. Ray,uan accompanied by itis niece 1I, M. Foerester, went to London. Mrs. Seol and •granddaughter Verna Hunter, are visiting in Credi- ton. Mrs, Omstead returned to Web. sten City, Iowa, after spending the past 9 months in Cranbrook. • * * Mrs, Sharp and Ed. Sma$ldon, of Toledo, visited their parents, Mr. an deIrs. George Smalldon duals the past, week. BRUSSELS Mrs. Pnooter went to Winghata last Friday. • • * Roy Carr was home from Wrox- eter for the holidays. • • • . Miss Annabel Forsyth spent the holidays with relatives. a,t Blyth. • w • D. A. Lo•tvey of Toronto, is here on a visit with relatives, • (Miss Verne Walker and Mias Isabel ,Streohan were visiting in Listowel at^•d Stratford. ,Russel Zlinmer•or• Toronto was holidaying with relatives and friends. * * * llr, anti Mrs. Leslie Kerr, of Clin- ton spent New Year's at the form er's parental home, Mire Lizzie • Assent ,spout New Year's holidays with her brother, Sant and Mrs. Ae1Hn, of Stratford. 4,—. *— Married Huether - Baer—At the home of the bride, on Dec, 31st, by Rev, S. L. MeiCul ock, Mr. John lauether is Miss Ethel Winnifred, daughter et Mr, R. Barr, all of Grey Townshie. • * • Logan • Jaeleson—alt the home of the bride, on Dec, 31st, by Rev George Jewitt, Of Blyth, Wm, A, Login', of Blyth to Miss ,lessie 73„ daughter of stir, and Mrs, II, Sack - Sen of Morris Torwltsitip, `T wonder if Jim will call tonight?" Do you tlayolecadl in the evenings? When somebody like Jim is in a distant towel and seemslen times as far away as hereallyis? And then the telephone bell rings—' and there's Jliul "Hello Jim, I was hoping you'd call!" r� Is there ever a titne when a cheery voice from far away is not welcome. \ { When the telephone bell announces it you feel grateful that there are still people who think about you —and prove it by Long Distance. /8.1\ P.M.. And Jim says: "Only 651 ?" • People who use Long Distance service are always surprised howlittle it really 50514. Ranking with smaller budget items like movies, cigarettes, laundry and shoe repairs, Long Distance telephone calls don't touch your pocketbook seriously—but do always touch your heart. LONG DISTANCE Costs so little! Jim's call cost only 65c and it travelled more than 200 miles. By using low Night Rates applying, as well, all day Sun- day — and placing "Anyone" calls—you can talk a long, long way—for just a very little. , The Calendar S have two missions: utility, one of sentiment. I ant the symbol of thus, cambin- ing the past, the present and the fu- ture. All the world looks at me, talks about me, anti regulates its busts flees and social life by me, No letter fa ever written, '00 boost ever published, no money ever coin- ed, that does not bear my imprint. I ant the one thing that the world must constantiy consult. 4 ask for display space in 7111r woes of business or your home. In return I guarantee 1.0 be useful, nud I hope to be decorative, ora of A clergyman, at a dinner, had llateued to a talkative young an who had much to say on Darwin and his "Arlgin of Species -1 "I can't see," argued the young wliippensuaprpev, "What difference it wouldmake to me if my grand" father had been an ane: a commented the clergyman, "I can't see that it would, But it might have mails a great difference to your grandinotlier,"