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The Clinton News Record, 1924-05-22, Page 3oast ee n '11.L A3rprq i sttcly 4,000 oiaions wee wti, ii the• n dr rnrg r .('See aeAtae11 aiannii -jta rid ; atrong The•erep 'was, a •fair one .'atrd '(lie pricey paid such as rel ar 0 rt on, dernig.the past season have 'a: ':the ,chief bu etre,' with Japan1lylcmg,1;C22 pais. '' 3Toli i,, N B ,Tho lumbermen. of, New llriin sic}C have seldom had eueh a rc,rnazlcdh`le Nvintei� for getting logs: ye sec trrr,ed"n. 'fair praRt to`the growers. Conditions have continued .favorable Grande -I' aizce, Mte Sltipmeats into the present month, and the cut, 2 grain £roto the Grande Prattle clod will be much larger than was antiel> Peace ll'ver districts over the J!ldmon- pated in the early winter, Great nurn- en, Ddi vegan alio British Columbia hers of small operators, dower to the t farmer who got out, a few thousand otalled 2,471,000• bushels of 'wheat Vet, have "added to the total a largo and 1,700,500 bushels of other grains. Saskatoon, Sask.' - Prelirninery work hae commencedon the Construe tion -of the 5480,000 pzoVmeiel eana- toriiim Saslcatoou, ' It is, aiiticipat- ed "that employment will be provided 'for upward :of 100,.nien immediately excavation word is completed and the running of concrete :commenced. Winnipeg, Man -British ,„ buyers were eatisfiod with the shipments of Canadian grain received last year, ac- cording to evidence submitted to the "cion on, German reparations. Rroya1 Grain Commission here. One witness said that . his company had Shipped 48,000,000 bushels of wheat to 'the United ICingdom last year, and not a single complaint had been regis- aggregate ...quantity " It is expected that appsosrnxately 50,000,000 feet of lamber will lie ma f eted. . ' •.Sydney,N.51--Advices received by the British h aspire Steel Corporation offices frons their London sales office .indicate new ore sales in 'Eiirope for; the corning season totalling °00,000 tons contracted .for up to -date; 'cath. the probabilities pointing to a greed total of half a million tons, dependent on the .result of the Dawes Commis:, Torontt;, Ont The exportation of Canadian made automobiles during the, twelve ntonths.ended March, '1924, Owed a remarkable increase over the expertatidn, during thetwelve months ended March, -1923, During the' .year ended March, 1924, 54,522 passenger ears valued at $27,246,025 were exported, and during the previ- nus year 45,108 ears,- valued at' 527,- 246,025 were exported, ,and during the previous year 45,108 cars, valued, at 125,606,850 were shipped from Can- ada.' The value of automobile parts exported,during the compared periods increased from- $2,355,066 to $4,162, - Medal Goes to Dr. Belding for Benefiting I-lunxanity A, despatch- from Chicago •says:--• Dr. E. D. Burton, president of the l7nivessity-of Chicago, announced on Thursday ,:that the 'committee" on award of: the Rosenberger Medal, to be, conferred for benefit to humanity, has recommended' the name:.pf Dr. -I!.. C. Banting of 'the University of To- ronto, for the discovery of insulin. The award will' be made next month. 0 n Russ1ia n s in Exile , Now let unnber 3,00000 Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia Unloading -20,000 hags of sugar on the" Toronto waterfront, the biggest shipment of sugar eve the city, It was refined in -Montreal• and 'brought. to : Toronto by tile: water route. eooived he 150 tons of dynamite. And it is npt only radium that has all this pent-up power but probably all the otherele- ments which make up what' we call nnatter'or everything we can see•. and touch. TO' DELIVER 'LECTURES.' Perbaps we have as yet only glean- ed a small portion of this harvest of scientific knowledge. We shall look forward to the coming to Toronto of some of the chief exponents of radio activity -at the. meeting- of the Beit- s THE ATOMIC:. BOMViE a We are `whirled through spade- mere specks of humanityon the earth's. crust;' it has always been so and that is perhaps why we are un- conscious of the -terrific rate at which we are travelling and why, if we were Awareof the fact, we should refuse to be amazed. The atmosphere press- es with re force of about 1:4' pounds on '787. z Automobiles used chiefly for who is now residing near Paris, esti- every square inch of our body and yet freight. increased from 3,720'in the nates that there are 3,000 000 R. we move and have our being unconsci- year ended 'March, "1923, to 15,396 in fans in a .ile, a bout' 300,000E of Whom' °us- of our' burden. We are in truth "li 'n Poe - wonders." We often reflect the twelve months ended.. March, 1924. are livingin Prance. •vt g a More Russians „o�f'llontreal, Que.-The value of: boots of distinguished rank under the :add on the dangers: of living ---4M and' shoes expt•rted by Canada during regime' are residents of Paris and; abilities of harm from fire, from ma - the year ended 14larch, 1924, more subs bs than' any other part of Eur -1 ehinery-from gods of our own mak- than doubled the exports of the pre- ope, Most of them are at work of t•ing'and fiom forces beyond our con- ceding ytar. Last year the exporta- some kindoranother 'or are living on'trol•' Do we ever realize that this Eons were valued at 1304,913 and for the fragments of their former for- our earthy paradise is ,a '-structure the previous year at 5130,034. The tunes. built of tiny but tremendous; bombs and that our Otivn material self is �r e i s similarly compdsed? If we, struck the '' percussion cap of; just one of those terrific atomic bombs we should be no more and perhaps the' old, earth no morel Itis rather a startling thought, but the unlikelihood of or action` ever becoming so effective leaves .room for - consolation. The atomic bomb_ is as yet merely e figment. of the scientists'' imagina- tion. 'There is no doubt of its exis- tense, but whether we shall aver be able to explode, it is still uncertain, And one shudders to think of the abuse to which it might be put by a militaristic, government. ALCI3EM•t REALIZED. :k little touch of "cosmetics" is,betng applied to the face of a huge blsou, Placed al the: entranoe of. the Canadiau building -at theBritishEmpire Ex- hibition, NORTHERN `ALBERTA SWEPT BY FOREST FIRES Parts of Saskatchewan Stiffer from Numerous Bush Coin flagations. A =despatch front Edmonton rays: - Bush fires art raging over yvide areas. deli. A resolution was passed urging in their speed and penetrating pon i'. in Nprthern Alh ria• ., The most ser- 'dial such emigration should. be stop-; They are of three types called -by Sir ba outbreaks are west o2 BdniOuton, ped until completely satisfactory Ernest Rutherford, Alpha, Beta and northwest of Athabasca, and in 'the plans were established for"ascertain-' Gamma rays. The first of these are Peace River country. Six hundred ing e children The first glimpse of what has since proved to be one of the most fertile fields of scienea was given to the world iry'IBeCquerc1in; Paris in 1896. Dr. and Madame Curie showed in 1003 that the phenomena observed by Bee- hers. J. P. Cousins querel were due to a new element Was recently appointed a magistrate in ca11 d radium. Other more wonderful t^ l,.Tudia, She hs: the first ieo- phenomena were same discovered by than to be so honored In India, the many workers salt* were attracted Send"a wise man ort an errztnd and to this new field for research. It was sa notion to him, found that the old`alchemietie, idea of y g the transmutation of the elements was here going on before our eyes. This Wonderful chemical element (elements scientists had previously thought to be incapable of division -the .irides- truetibie primary constituents of all Child Emigration to Doneinion matter) was spontaneously breaking Opposed. by 'British Women. up and giving rise to particles called electrons of only about one-two thou - A despatch from London says: -1 sandth the weight of the hydrogen Protests against the entigration oft atom, the •lightest gas known, and be- children, apart from their relatives,; ing shot off at a sPeed of some 40,000 to the Dofninious were• made by dsle-i miles per second. The radium atom is gates to the National Conference of thus like a mesa perfect machine gtm. Labor Women now being held in Lou- Its bullets, usually called `trays," vary CAANADIAN PRODUCTS -FAVORED AT WEMBLEY Government's s illian Dollar Investment WillBringin Substantial Retgrns. - A despatchrom London 'says :-A recent debate in the Ilouse of Com rket Re TORONTO. Smoked meats--Earee reed 2 Man. wheat ->No. 1. North,, $1.09 se th o, 3. Nor.. man, oats= --No, 3:C;W, 41%c N 40;F c. Man. barley-Nominel. ATI the above c.i.f., bay ports. Ont, barley. -6:j to 70e. Am. corn -No. 2 yellow, 95e. Ont, ltye-=74 to 78e Poe -No. 2, $1.40 to $1.45, hSlllfeed- D I. Montreal freights bags included Bran, per tun, $24 shorn-, per ton; 126; middlings, $3, good feed ',flour $1.85. " Ont. wheat -=13o, : 2 white, $1 ;1.04, outside. .Ontario No. 2 white oats-30.,te 41 Ont, corn' --=Nominal, Ont fleet -Ninety per cent, pat in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship man(, 14.75; Toronto' basis, '$4.75 bulk, seaboard, $4„40.. ••Asian flour -1st pat*', in iutesacle $6.10 per. hist,. 2nd pats,, $5.60, Illy-Eattra No. 2 timothy, per ton track, Toronto,. $16; No. 2, 11,0; N 8,_-$18 to $,14; mixed, $11 to $11,50 lower grades, $10 to :$12. Straw-Cariots, per ton' $9,50 t 24e, cooked 'Mie ';84 e 26,e; ''smoked` rolls, 17 to iSe,• 'eoftdge rolls, 18 to q', 20e;•broakfeS bacon,21 ts'25e; stso sial brand breakfast beeon, 23 to 300; : ' backs, boneless, 29 to 33e. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs„ $18,50; 10 to 90 ibe., 513; 00 lbs. and up, $17 lightweight retie,,° in barrels, $3,7; Iroavyweight rolls, I $$2. Lard ---Pure Cosner, 147. to 15lae; tubs 15 to 15.oe; pails, loft to 10c;- 2; prints, 18 to 18'r e; shortening, tierces 14 to 14/e;, tubs, 14% to 15e; pails, 15 to 15%c; prints,16ta to 17e, Heavy steers, °choice, 58 to 53.25; baby beeves, $8 to 50; butcher eteere,: e• choice, $7• to 57.75; do, good,' $6,25 to ,$6.75; o,'niede 55.75 to $6,, do, coin., '$4.50 to $5; butcher heifers,' tleace, - 57 to $7.50; do, med., 55 to $5.75; do, corn„ $4,50 ,to 54.75; buteher cows, choice; $5.25 to 56.215; do, med., 53.50 , to 54.50; butcher bulls, $4,50 to $5.50; bolognas, 52,50 to' 13.50; canners and cutters, 51.50, to $2; feeding steers, o. choice, 56 td 56.75; do, fair, 54 to $5; milkers, springers, choice, $75 to 590; stockers, choice, 54.75 to $5.25; do, ° fair, $3,75 to 54.20;; calves,choice,'$$,' to $10; do,;med. $7 to $7.50; do slur, $10, f. 4 to° 5: 0 • .i $ $ 5 , linos, choice ewes 515.50 Screening -Standard, recleaned, o.b., Bay ports, per ton, $17. Cheese -New, large, 1631 to 17e twins, 17 to 18e; triplets, 18 to 19e Stiltons 20e, Old, large,' 22 to 230 twins, 23t, to 24c; triplets, 24' to 25 Rutter-Finestcreamery prints,'8 to 34e; No. 1 creamery, 32 to 82c; N 2, 29 to 31e; dairy, 28 to 30e.r', Eggs-Eittra33, fresh, in cartons, 3 to -Ole; extra}gore, 28e; firsts, 25 26c; seconds, 22 to 28e. Live poultry -Chickens, 3 to 4 lbs 25c; hens, over 5 lbs., 26e 'do, 4 t mons -registered some auric( :concern- 6 lb's„ 24e; do, 3 to -4 lbs., 150; seri, y chickens, 4 lbs. and over, 25c' roes ing, the auceess of the British Empire ers, 180;:ducklings, over 5 lbs. Exhibition. To make it 'a financial 'do, 4 to' 5 lbs., 24c. , 26c access= the attendance must average ressed poultry-eChickens, 8 to 75,000 daily, and so far the average lbs., 30c; hens, 'over 5 lbs„ 280; d as only been .30,000: As far as the 8' to 4 lbs., 18c; spring chickens, 4 lbs Canadian, section is concerned, how- end over, 82c; roosters, 22e. ver, it is already,evident that the Beans -Can,, hand-picked, lb., 63fic primes 6e. • overnment's million dollar' invest= Maple products -S u pper .imp -eat is going to bringsubstantial re-' al.. 2.5 Yi p' $mp gal., $ 0, per 5 -gal tin,:$2:40 p turns. In the way of 'advertising itl gal;. maple sugar, ib., 25 to, 26o. s apparent that the exhibition will' honey -60 -lb. tins, 11 to 111,¢e pe e of incalculable value, and early _lib.; 10-1h. tins, 11 to 120; 5-1b, tin it is, can show a fair total- of actual, 11% to 12c; 21,4 -lb. tins, 121,1, to. 13 sales. A Canadian show case,menu-� comb honey, per -doz., No. 1; $3.75 t faeturer, who sent over an 'unattended g4'_o. 2,3.25 to 8,50. exhibit was cabled an order for 150 lots, placed with the Canadian -Exit- bition authorities by a merchant from Argentina. The firm, immediately rushed a representative over to take charge of its stand. The -presence of exhibriion,vis.tors has led big London stores to make special displays of Dominion products in their shop$.' There have been many comments on thehighquality of;the Canadian cheese; butter, etc., and this is understood to,b0.partly due to the foresight of the :Canadian provision trade and the:Department of Trade and`' Commerce last winter in making available in London cold stores a care- fully etlected, supply of these products° of the' highest quality.' It is" note- worthy that Canadian butter and cheese also bulk very largely in the supplies used by the exhibitian res- taurants, while those of New Zealand„ deepite ,their' admitted quality. have not been stocked at all, ' 8 to $16; do, bucks, $14 to $14,'50; do, i culls, 58 to 59; spring lambs, each, 58 -to $14; sheep, light ewes,' 58 to - c. $0:50; do, culls, 55' to $5.50; hogs, fed 3 and ,watered,, 57.50; do,ef.o,L., $7 do, country. points; 56.75; do, off ears °' ;(long hatri), 57,90; do, select, $8.25: 0 • -e MONTREAL. Oats, Can. West. No. 2, 51 to 52c; • do, No. 3, 49 to 50c; extra'. No. I, feed,, 48 to 483tc e No.2local white,'44 to 45c. O lelour, Man. spring wheat pats., 1sts, ng 56.10; 2nds, 55.60; do, strong bakers, t,..56 40; winter pats., choice,., $5.75 to • $ .85. Roiled oats, bag 90 lbs., $2.80.. Bran, 524.25. "Shorts, 526.25. Mid - 4 dlings, $32.25. Hay, No, 2, per ton, °, ear lots, $16. Cheese, finest Wests., 15 to 154e;, do, Eastn;?, 14 to 14 e, Butter' No. 1 pasteurized, 30%c; No. 1 'creamery, 29%e; seeonds, 2831,c. Eggs, fresh, specials, 33• to. 34c fresh, extras, 80 r to: 31c; fresh, firsts, 27 to 28e. Pota- toes,. per bag, ear lots,, $1.40 to 51.45. ✓ Mied. quality cows, 54.50 to $5.25; s, do, coin, $8 to' $3.60; calves, fairly c; good, $6.50; coin,' and mad,, ' o $5.50; elm,, $4.50; hogs, mixed butchers,. $8,25 to $8.35; selects;15°55t2!7°052°. ash Association to be held in August - next. After the Curies, Britisiiers h have -been the pioneers of this ultra feilliputian world and the names of e Sir Ernest Rutherford' who will speak G on the "Disintegration. of Atoms,'; Lord Rayleigh nd Sir a William Bragg are among the foremost scientists of q the world. b thousand deet of loge, the rirnCl`ti of th hildren's own inclinations in, stopped by a sheet of tissue paper, g , p the matter and for supervising the the second; by a thin sheet of lead foil, IT. Roberts, were burned near White- ehildren after their arrival in.thel7o- but it requires a thickness of goer -sort, northwest of Edmonton, Tele- tirinions,4IIan inch of lead to stop the gentian graphic communication' will} the Mrs. HarrisonBBali, president -of the rays; and it is these which are el:.b I ease River country has bPier,ititez- one' Conference of tabor Women, brought, to bear on rodent ulcer's and rupted by the fires burning the ,poles, said the Overseas Settlement Coin- vierious types of cancer with good • beinging tilewiros down with theta• niittee, on the invitation of the Can- raa'elts. Sp far 'no 1058'of lifp bas been tr J atliau authorities artwas sending a de u- ped. ' tation to Canada toe investigate ttte • COUNT TEE ATOIllS A despatch from Peince Albert conditions under which immigrant Desnite.the smallness of these, min in sa'i•s:- Word reached the city,'gtn children were. maintained there. - >ute ballets they can be seen and count•. '.P1tui'sday that disastrous f,10 eleept y y eti and even'their. speed' measures large areas in Ahngly, Nortli. SideProsperity- • New Zealand with stiitalyle instruments, The•leen- and Paddock Wood district 5, about 20 itulatioti of the gas helium -need fiir ieil00.north of Prince Albert, burning Shown in S><irplii3 •airships -in large'voldnies under !;:c .. out thio honigslipads, without loss of ": cicspatchfCom'�i'eii irgtot says:-= surface of all earth is now explain- , lite to humans or, steel:, Numerous the Neiv-Zealand accounts for the `tole since Rutherford and Soddy bush fires were raging early Thins- year show a surplus' of 11,812;000. showed ,that, it was.' one of the break - dee, morning in the district named, T1 revenue was £27'0 0000 and the (down 's of '"(til"' In thi ; , product but aro new iietermg out. It is Coni- ' 6 ' i connection it is'worth recalling that 0xperu 1 in e declined. Premier Massey ored another fire is still active on tun 'states the figures show the remark- in the Canadian West' we dative t -e.. Lulian reserve north of Alingly. abh.e prosperity bf' the country, largest source of this' aluable gas in Any legitimate form cit self ex res- Phongh reductions were made in land ,the 1 ritrsli:Entr:re, Other previously S 1 p *texpleinable things have now bean shin develops new strength, and calls and income taxes, the prosperity wet} eat Wan resources;lit -Lege Is 110 such that the revenge increased, The mace clear by the discovery of nidi- State Advances Department m, but perhaps. nothing so much ethee Corm.nP. seif.;exliression. thtit ile pa t 1c nt £G,- , - s ; 500 000 Inc housing arid land - grips- the imagination as .the fact that (dors' a man thorott hiy•tuii of b d enc settle 1 e one pound of this substance would - fe;etve9v and that, so 'i u3olcl tilifalds iner)i:. It is antheipated fltat i fa' , fit,powers, - : r s reakto bofor' an they £8,000,000 will be Available .this if all (lie energy were,release.; at sis,l s o aiulienee,- (1,8,M, .. year, puce -give an explosion as violent as Nal,/ Gle;eNDPeN '?ou Jt1$l- 1t15Te N fN WHiLE. I'M GONE, AN' li WILL MAKE {ori FOR(S-T-''O0RC,C4J r ' "'�5 r.Eech'Day. , Speak a gentle, kindly word, With a goodly smile; To an.animal or bird- It is- worth our while! • '-•-I3ert Morehouse. He that takes too great e. leap falls into -the ditch. , Considered the greatest -living English composer, Sir Seaward Elgar has been appoietetl by icing George es 725500r of Icing's A'Cusic, tc suecoed the late Sir Walter Patratt, Ile wag kni kited in 1904• and received the :Order of Merit in 1911; -. IN RABBITBOr O SIGNOR RAe5ejscrIN S. SECOND LAS ON ON. } tC\r ,To 'DANCE Ti-iE NEW SGtial VeateRQ05L`' Bta SLi DING LEFT.. FOO FOARD N 61-5P FIRSI"hL� To l'i-la RiCi1-i'C( THROW TelE' duel IIT ON THE PIGNT FOOT„ANP HOP; 50 HN-dit4 LEFT FO9r IN 0s CIRCLE.d; 1"rlEJ-4-•J FeO•up on trying to"niake allying out .of the land in England, lllr, and Mrs. •W. Shepard and their ten children have come to Canada to try. their - hick in "the great open space»." Natural Resources Bulletin: The- Natural: Resources Intelligence Serviee of. the Department of the Lt - terser at Ottawa says:, '. One of the most attractive exhibits in the forest. products' display at the British Empire Exhibition 'to the business than is a roll of newsprint eighteen feet in length. This paper was made at one of the,Northern On- tario mills, and is but a portion of the product of'a machine which turns out 800 feet of paper of this width per minute, or a'daily output of 200,900, pounds: - When consideration is givett•to the fact that but one newsprint -making machine is working at this capacity, the output of the many mills with many maehities will be appreciated. The woods to provide the raw ma- terial for this industry is taken from our forests. It is 'therefore self- evident that they deserve all the care we can give then(, particularly from lire, - ` Removal of douse Tax May. Repeople London Area Repopulation of the City of London proper -,-a square utile tin' the centre of the English ` capital; which hums with commercial activity X91 day long, but is completely, deserted alter night; fall -may result' 'front the abolition of the "inhabited • house duty" by. Chancellor Philip . Srowdei, the city's hord Mayor claims. In future business men May again live over their offices. without the house duty being required. -Many of- fice dwellings will now be reconverted into "dwellings, se as to save- the Mil- ers ers' the expense of: keeping up two; establishments, and this probably will lead to the return of the good old clays when the City, families hived iii the City. . -gym Australian Minister Needs ”"Airplane to Visit Flock` "Sky pilot" as a' nickname for a : clergyman will soon have more deli- - rtite significance if the example of the Rev. L. Daniele, formerly a London curate, now in charge of a parish in New South Wales, Australia,is wide- ly' followed says a London despatch., The minister is here to .make' an ap- peal for a single -seat airplane to en- able hint effectively to travel among the members of his congregation, scat- tered over a parish as large as all of England. Iiia district, Wilcannia, in the . far west corner of the Australian state, has an area of 40,000 square utiles, It consists of a number of small town- ships, many of which are about 200 Miles away (ren his home .station. Then, too,: there are scattered sheep , farms and isolated homesteads. The Rev. Mr. Daniels will be able to manage leis own plane if he gets it, for he was trained as a. pilot during the war. • No More Knights of St, Patrick to be Created Now that Ireland is no longer a part of liis majesty's first domain, the illustrious Order of St. Patrick -the proud motto of which is "Quin cepa- sort?" --is to be. allowed to lapse. This noble order, which was found- ed in 1783 by George Ill as the. Trish sister to the Order of the Garter, has been the highest honor the sovereign could confer on- en Irishman.. During its existence it has numbered the nob- lest Irish peers among its knights. Until, the present generation all the male members of .the royal' family have been Knights of St. Patriek,'but the sovereign as grand master and the Duke o1 Connaught at present are the only royal members. Although the Prince .of, Wales coiitmonlyap- peere in public weeeing the Order's nisi nia on bis duels( along with. the .Garter and the Thistle, he is not technically entitled to do so, its he has never been appointed; and arii'olled. Prince of Wales to Visit Rhodesia Next : Year A despatch , from Salisbury, Rho- desia, says; -Sir John CIi nceltoi,' Govet•uor of Southern Rhodesia, an - 1101311005 that the Prince orWaleswill visit llhodesia early- in iha summer of 1025, or towards the end of the year. Tho' Irian who cannot 1111 his heart with Iovo for his fellow -mortals nray' f111 his pay envolopo or iris bank fie- oount 10 ovorilowlne, but 1,o gill re'- 11120ns a pitiable bankrupt; a lament- abie'fallttre,'-B, 0, Perigee