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The Clinton News Record, 1939-10-19, Page 6PAGE 6 TILE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THE WAR OF JENKINS' EAR Rarely indeed has a war been nam- ed for an individual. The only two instances which occur to us is the Hitler War and that known as "The War of Jenkins' Ear" Down in the Carribean sea bounded by the upper part of South, America anddian the sickle scraped West In Archipelago, in 1731, a peaceful British trader, his vessel filled with legitimate prodacts contentedly sa- fer the port of London: Robert Jen - kine wail at peace with the world; he theught of his home and children whom s he should see in 3 months, smoked, ie pipe and dreamed of future ease of life. But it was not for long A Spanish privateer bore down ons him; the Captain and a cut-throat crew boarded the Rebecca. and strip- ' ped her. The story is tod by a noted Ehg- lish surgeon in a charming book call- ed "The Cradle of the Deep." It .is one of the best 'booksever written about the history of the West Indies and this book avers on the best of evidence that the sanguinary British Spanish War of the second quarter of the 18th Century, had as itsde- termining cause not an invasion of either Spain or Britain but the epi- sode of Jenkins' ear. Robert Jenkins had been brought up adjacent to Wrapping on the Thames and he was not the man lightly Ito put up with !ruthless robbery on the high seas. He told the privateer's Captain what he 1 thought about it in forcible language. He was not a diplomat; for his own sake he had better have said less. The result was that he 'was trussed up against the mast of his ship and had one of his ears slit off. As the rascally leader of the pirates bade him bon voyage, he recommended that Robert Jenkins should take his ear home with him as a souvenir. First aid was rendered by the ship's carpenter. The bleeding was stopped by the aplication of 'crude turpentine and the stump dressed by a piece of bunting steeped in lamp oil. Captain Jenkins followed the advice of the pirate. He wrapped the ear between two folds of sailcloth and stowed it away in his desk along with his sextant, his Bible and his bottle of rum. In 3 months Ire was in London where his story created a mild excitement. It was not until 7 years later that he was able to get his case and his mutilated ear before a Committee of the House of Commons. Then follow- ed the Hispano -British War which evientually changed - probably for all time - the ownership of most of the West Indies. The ruthless bid. for power by Hitler may also determine the fate of Germany. Britain's 20. ,Sq. Miles of Air Raid Shelters Twenty square miles of corrugated steel are being produced by steel works in strategic positions scattered over England, Scotland and Wales for the 2,500,000 "Anderson" air raid shelters ordered by the Government to shelter 1,500,000 people in their own gardens. Productions of the first 1,000,000 shelters, which began in mid -Feb - leery, was completed and the shelt- ers delivered by the second week in -September. The rate has now been increased from 1,0000,000 in seven months to 1,500,000 in about seven months. Yet this vital defence measure 1s, not hampering the supply of arma- ments, for the shelters' requirements represent only about 31 per -cent.' oi' the total production of all classes of British steel. With these figures in mind, the fol- lowing facts about -the shelters, given by the British Steelw.ork Association, Supply soma indication of immense total capacity of British steel in- dustry. Each shelter contains 14 sheets of Corrugated steel, six of them curved for the roof; 150 poundsof structural steel; and 24 bolts and nuts. the total weight . of the 1,00,000 shelters now. completed is about 420,000 tons, in Which is represented 17,000 miles of two-feeet-wide sheet. And there are 1,500,000 more shel- ters to come. "A GARDEN" The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth ;You're nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on, earth. NOW Sandridge and rafter measure- ments or area to be roofed, patched or. re. paired. Council Stand- ard "Tite-Lap" motel rOofing'ie a eound,per. =anent investment. AAbsolutely weather. tlg hazard.greatly 'reduces SOLD ON A 2S YEAR GUARANTEE ClegilSTANOARO Prices now are lower because of Sales Tax exemption. Save money by writing today. Manufacturera alsoof famous Preston Steel Trues Barn,, and Jamesway Poultry equip. . anent. Addreae: 808 Guelph St., Preston, Ont.. Eastern Steel products imded PRESTON 0NT. nm rm e/fpir mammal. c ronowro `Mustard's Life Given For Christian Belief' The pitiless desolation caused by Germans when they torpedoed the Athenia without warning on the first dry of war with Britain was refei- red to Sunday at memorial services held in five different churches' for Toronto victims of the passenger lin- er, as another party of the survivors reached the city The Athenia was sunk without warning, without mercy, but we. real- ly could not expect mercy from an Administration that has tortured human beings as the Nazis have in Germany," Samuel Factor, M.P., told 800 Jews at University Avenue Syna- gogue where Jewish veterans and Jewish recruits paraded in a body at noon. Rev. Dr. William H. Sedgewick told Westminster Central Anglican Church in the morning that Thornton Mustard, Principal of Toronto Nor- mal' School, sacrificed his life at the Athenia disaster to his Christian be- lief that women and children should be saved first, t"This frail Mans, victim off the deadly machine of war, is a symbol of the conflict between humanity and demonism, between civilization, and barbarianism, pity and ruthlessness, reason and violence, liberty and shame, truth and lies, Corsica and Galilee," .Dr. Sedgwick said; "Shall the ideology of Hitler prevail, or the world of values for which Thornton Mustard lived and died. This great cause in which we now are engaged is a challenge-eivery man and every nation is called upon to choose." Those at the memorial service in- cluded Mrs. Mustard, who was saved in the Athena disaster by her hus- band; their son, Rev. Charles Must- ard, and two brothers of the former Principal, Alex and Jaynes. World's Biggest Drop Hammer NOW WORKING IN NEW BRITISH FACTORY Transformation of a molten cheese - shaped ingot of light alloy into a crankcase of a modern high-powered aero engine is effected in a matter of seconds with three or four blows of a huge drop hammer now install- ed in a new factory "somewhere" in England. ( The hammer is the largest of its kind in the world and is latest add- ition to battery of new hammers of all sizes in operation at the factory which has been built and set in full working order in barely ten months. This rapid industrial development vies with the numerous other British factories which :have recently been established in double-quick time. The new drop hammer, a titan among machinery weighs 455 tons and is built into t,80l tons of concrete. Anvil -blocks weighing 360 tons are buried fourteen, feet where they rest on shock -absorbing timbers. The failing weight, of the hammer is 29 tons. Its impact face is kept heated so that little reduction in malleability takes place when this face impinges against the molten` in- got. Ploughing Up Britain 70,000 Tractors Ready For The Land Girls British farmers have now got 70,- 000 tractors ready to plough 1,500,000 acres of grass land for crops to main- tain Britain's food supplies. In 1914 not one British farmer in a 'hundred had even seen a. tractor. To -day British tractors show a vast improvement in design over the few thousand which were put on the land in 1917. As they are much lighter they can everywhere replacethe horse and with pneumatic tires in place of the old steel wheels, not only are their upkeep and fuel consumption• both lower, but .manned by the grow ing army of land girls they 'can now be used for haulage work. In many districts of - Great Britain the methods of application of mach- inery are to -day second to none in the world, and this wider experience, coupled with the huge contingent of tractors now available, assures the fighting forces of more than adequate support on the home front, Who Gets the Profit? While the Wartime . Prices and Trade Board has hardly had time to get into its stride, there is evidence of need for speedy action. Despite the fact that the Federal Government purchased in June fast four million pounds of butter for free distribution to needy families in an effort to re- lieve the glut of butter in storage and help the dairy industry, there is said to be fifty-five millon pounds of butter in storage bought at the depressed prices. Since the declare - bion of war, butter has, gone up five cents a pound to the consumer, which represents a wartime profit on the butter in storage of about $2,700,000, not one cent of which goes to the aid of the Canadian Dairy Industry. With forty-two million pounds of meat in storage, there has been in the past few days an advance in price of meat to the consumer of roughly four cents a pound, or a profit'' of $1,690,000 otv the meat in storage, none of which reaches the man who raised the beef. Flour is up one dol- lar a ghundred weight,.all milled from wheat bought at the low price. - Listawel Banner. To Share In Estate Probate has been applied for of the will of the lake Gordon Waldron. by his exeeutorS, W. 1). Boeck and J. R. Hetherington, Toionto, The estate consists of stocks and mortgages and cash on hand total ing $40,000. The income from the estate is left to his sister, Eliza Waldron of Br eofie]d, Ont., far life, and then to his brother, Byron Waldron for his life, and after their deaths the residue to two cousins and an uneie.; Deer Killed at Varna Sequel to"an early morning traffic accident was the finding by Elmer Webster, Varna road, ane mile east of the vintage, of the carcass of a deer by his roadside fence. The animal was probably one struck by a car owned and driven by Frank Elliott, of Myth. Ile telei. phoned to County Officer N. Lever to investigate. Elliott's car was dam- aged by the impact and a: search for the deer in the darkness proved un- successful. Mr. Webster, on finding the deer, a' full grown buck with hind quarters crushed and both hind legsbroken, telephoned Mr. Lever, who brought the carcass in on the side car of his motoicycle, POPULATION INCREASE' An; increase of 66 in the population of Seaforth was reported to council by Assessor William Arent at its regular meeting. The increase is the largest gain in Seaforth in some years. In presenting his report Mr. Ament commented on the increased popula- tion which is now 1,771. Total assess- ment is $1,114,955. Former Huron Sheriff Dies Robert G. Reynolds, for more than 52 years deputy sheriff and sheriff of Huron County, died on: Friday, aged 83. Born at Goderich and a lifelong resident of the town, he was a leader in Anglican church, fraternal, social and community activities. As a his- torian he possessed a fund of knowl- edge of early days of Huron County. He also was active in the • work of the, Royal Humane Society. One daughter, Claire, survivies, He entered the office of his grand- father, the late Sheriff Robert Gib- bons in 187.5, serving as deputy sheriff for 24 years. On 'his grand- father's death he was appointed sheriff, which position he held untilsem- edhis retirement in 1927. In 'all he se- ed 52 years in. Huron County court- house. , Possessed of a remarkable mem- ory, it was to Sheriff Reynolds that many Goderichites went for informa- tion of the yesteryear. Up until a short time ago he was a great walk - et, covering many miles in his hikes into the country when in his prime. He also did much reading and took a keen personal interest in acts of bravery, to see they were duly re- warded. BUSINESS CHANGES IN EXETER Two important business changes have been made on Exeter's Main St. The large produce building opposite the Town Ball occupied by Mr. W. C. Allison and formerly by Mr. H. T. Rowe has been sold to Canada Packers and in, the near future will again become „a hive of activity. In addition to their feed and poultry business rumor has it' that a turnip waxing plant. will be installed. Some alterations will be made to the build- ing. uild ing. The new owners get immedi- ate possession. In years past the building was used extensively in handling eggs and farmer's produce but in recent years Mr. Rowe and his successor Mr. Allison have confined their interests to coal, gasoline, and oil. Mr. Rowe has purchased from Mr. B. M, Francis the building ec cupied by Canada Packers and this will be' used in future by Mr. W. C. Allison, APPLE MEASURES MORE THAN FOOT IN CIRCUMFERENCE From the widely known orchard of Kenneth Cameron, where the current year's apple crop is -being harvested, the publisher . last week received a basket of Wolfe River apples. So im- mense in size were the apples, that it took only an even dozen to fill the' eleven -quart basket. The largest apple measured 142 inches ins cir-. cumferenee,-Lucknow Sentinel. EXPERIENCE Experience joined with common sense, to mortals is a, providence.- Green. To willful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmaster: Shakespeare. Experience is a jewel and it had need be so, for 'it ie often purchased at an infinite rate. - Shakespeare. To most nett expbrience ns little stern lights of a ship which ill- umine ably the track it has pasted. Coleridge. Life consists of learning in the alternate pro- cessn g ad unlearning, but it is' often wiser to unlearn than. to learn. --Bawer. man was ever so completely skilled in, the conduct of life as not to reoeivi: new information from age and. experience. -Terence, Experience is a .safe light to walk by, and he is not'a rash man ,who expects success in the future by the same means' which secured it in the past -- Wendell Phillips. YOUR WORLD AND' MINE e .r' (Copyright) ) e KIRKWOOD eir r•0.1100.W �r r warm rtir ANY vxrr. ANNWANAri In the good old days persons who Do you wonder that I treasure the receiMed letters kept them, and later letters of this friend? by JOHN C. -perhaps a hundred or more years later -biographers of fatuous men and women found these preserved letters infinitely precious documents. Nowadays it is uncommon practice for recipients of letters to save them -letter's, that is to say, that are. largely personal and self -revealing. Perhaps it is a good thing that most letters should be destroyed as soon as answered, for nowaday most let- ters are not worth saving: they are uninteresting and, not remarkable for literary excellence. In my own case I, save only a very few letters. Often I destroy very fine letters, just because I am not making it my practice to save letters; and `most certainlyy the letters which I writs to'1'riends should not be sav- ed, for they are written hurriedly, and, in respect of their contents, they are valueless. Yet P havle written letters which I wanted saved. Thus, whein Ii went to England, for the first time, in 1906, I wade it a point to write the best letters possible for me to write. I wanted to make my kindred at home see London as I saw it and tasted it. I do not suppose for a moment that my letters had any literary merit; yet I do feel that they had the quality of vividness. I had hoped that my letters -and they were numerous -had been saved, but alas, after having been preserved for quite thirty years, they were finally destroyed I bad wanted to see them again, feeling that I might be able to get froin them some pictures and impressions which had grown dimin memory. • 1 have saved the letters which I received from one friend -not be- cause file's friend has any fame, for he has not, but because of their sub- stance. My friend writes well and his language is choice; and his fancy unusual. Also, his philosophy of life is repeatedly expressed in his letters. Here, by way of example, is part of a letter which 1 have selected at random from a packet of my friend's letters. This letter is dated March 15th 1936, and was written from Ashevjille, North Carolina: Just now I have a job, and for the first time in some years am able to save something regularly ,.At my age I could not stand the Canadian climate= -I who was a born salamander. My age is be- ginning to tell, and any time I am apt to become a burden in- stead of a help. A week ago. I slid from my 74th into my 75th year. Will the mule in me ever be tamed? I resist the harnese today as vigorously as I' did fifty years ago. What a pity that I was ever endowed with all the mule's obstinacy but with none of the mule's sound sense! Please send ine books of any sort. Do not select, but pick at random, unless you can find Winwood Reade's 'Martyrdom of Man" and Buekie's "Introduction to the History of English Civilization". Both of these are wild and dis- eursive, but their style is de- lightful. I may explain that I had suggest- ed that my friend should come to Canada for a certain reason. My friend is atilt alive, and continues to live in North Carolina, but now in a hamlet. How he sustains himself I do not know. He is a sort of hermit, and his occupation is writing. From another letter, written a year later I extract as follows: This lovely valley is a sun- trap, and the stored -up rays made my cabin uncomfortably warm through the days, and in the evenings and night the air was so deliciously sweet and fresh and cool that 1 could do nothing but enjoy them. As. I write a refreshing rain is falling. In the mountains of this section summer showers are neither a terror or a glory. Sometimes they come up with surprisingly suddenness,heralded by the most vivid flashes of lightning and ominous peals of thunder - A stunning crash, as though Earth were driven On thundrous wheels to the gates, of Heaven, Bursts, peals and mutters, loud and deep; Then, sinking, growls itself to sleep, and all is still, At •other times the cloude are so near 'the earth that the drops fall so gently and sotfly that they must feel like a caress to foliage. I nevier tire of watching the marvellous" cloud and mist effects, whether the sky is piled up with glowing, gorgeous cum- ulous clouds or ':barred and mot- tled with finely -pencilled cirrus fleeces. Sometimes huge 'banks -' of vapour boil up from behind near mountains, like a threaten- ing oblivion; sometimes a thin. mist fills the valley, and if the sun comes out suddenly after a heavy shower and strikes the mist through some pass which I cannot locate, it is faintly tundra ous, like the light of the after - world imagined b y the early Greeks. And now for some extracts from native Prince Edward Island• early his native Pince Edward Island early this year. He was farm -born and, reared. He had taught school an* had been a reporter on a newspaper, He had tried selling, but .found this sort of work distasteful. So he went to live with his bachelor uncle early this summer -to share : the burdens of his uncle's farming, 100 miles or so north of Edmonton. I had a let- ter from this young man - in his middle 20's ---and he writes so hum- ourously and delightfully that I want to share his letter with my readerst The reasons for my long silence have 'been' the several stages of harvesting which I have come through with my head bloody but unbowed". Today (October 5th) we are having a fine snow storm, with the snow a foot deep on the level. This! is ,not, 1 understand, the league opener with Old Man Winter, but merelya pre -season exhibition affair. From today's showing the Old Man will enter the coming struggle heavy odds to take the pennant. My main jab there is cooking, with farming on the side. The meals are beginning to look like what I so thoughtlessly thought all meals would be like Today we had a brace of teal, three :vegetables and a dessert, Yester- day I got three teal with one shot, but could recover only two of them. Before harvest I had my left shoulder dislocated and had to be driven by car four miles over very greasy roads to a Catholic Mission hospital. The affair was not altogether wthout its hum- our, so the day is not a dark one in my memory of the summer. After this came the stocking, and though my shoulder was quite weak, Uncle Frank had to get a man for only one day to help me with that job. Since then I Kaye been getting steadily stronger and have advanced from a Grade A weakling to a Grade B. My ingenuity saved me from an inglorious defeat in sstooking. As my left arm was too weak to pick up, a sheaf (the Western name is bundle), I had to pick up the first sheaf with my right band and put it under my left arm, and the second under my right. To do this I had to handle the bundles by the twine. After several days my right fingers became dreadfully sore and their joints swollen. The morning ar- rived and I knew that I could not go on. As I sat on the side of nay bed wondering how to admit my uselessness, my eye fell on my shoehorn and the days was saved. I put a cord through the hole in it, and around my wrist loose enough so that the curled end butted the palm of my hand, and the "spoon" part ex- tended out over my fingers. Thus I was able to scoop up the sheaves, This little picture of life in Alberta differs much from the picture painted by my ageing friend in N. Carolina; yet both pictures are vivid and en- joyable. I am glad . to be able to share them with my readers. BEGINS 50TH YEAR OF RAILWAY SERVICE John W. Newton, Central Vermont Railway engineer who handles the throttle of the oracle trains "Wash- ingtonian" and "Montrealer" has be- gun his 50th year of railway service still as "fit as a fiddle". Newton completed 49 years of service on September 25. He began "railroad- ing" as a brakemen when a boy of 14 and 30 months later entered engine service as a fireman. He is the eld- est Central Vermont Railway em- ployee with continuous service. WEST'S WILD RICE IS INDIAN'S CROP Western Canada's most unique harvest is underway in Eastern Manitoba where hundreds'of Indians are reaping boatloads of wild rice from a number of lakes in or near the Whiteshell Forest Reserve. The wild rice'is generally harvest- ed by teams of two Indians in canoes. One does the paddling while the other bends overthe tops of plants which fringe the ]Hikes and flail the seed heads into the bottom of the canoe. Indians take off most of the har- vest. Some of them sell indeakend- ently, ethers gather the nice for agents who sell it in the United States. The crop usually runs around 50,000 to 60,000 pounds each year, al- though some years it has reached. 100,000 pounds. The main market is in the United States whee it is used partly for transplanting in wild game areas and partly as a food delioaey. The aver- age price for wild rice is 35 cents a pound, TRRURS., OCT. 19; 1939 !:RA®IOS i' 40'SENSAT10 , ALGA OF _ Av DRAMA', All Star Cast in Love, Intrigue, Romance. Adventure, and Historical Facts - THE LIFE F QUEEN VICTORIA C1� t WINGIIAM -11.1;5 A.M. MON. - WED. - FRI. Three Men In a Trap (By Harris Turner in, the Western Producer) All the old stories used to start off: "There was an Englishman and an Irishman and a Scotch/man." Just how difficult it is to get anything done is exemplified by the fact that the,Scotchman always objected to be- ing called a 'Scotchman and insisted he was a Scot, but to the great mass of human being undiluted by clan blood, a Scot continues to be a Scotchman whether he likes it or not. However, that's not the paint. This story is not about an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotchman, but about an Englishman, a Frenchman and a German. They met one day in a pub ar, if you don't like pub, they met on the church steps, or in the barber shop, or some other centre of com- munity activity. They were, naturally talking about the war. They were all farmers, one from Bedfordshire, one front Picardy and' one from Wurtem- burg. None of them had ever fired a shot in his life. They were talk- ing about the war They were all citizens of countries that had won and lost wars in the past, although the Englishman couldn't remember the ones 'he lost because there's no use cluttering up your memory with that sort of stale informaton. "What will you do if you win the war?" the Frenchman asked the German, not knowing whether he was being fait or sarcastie "I'll keep on farming," said the German. "It will be just the same. I will plant my crops and harvest them. I will pay my taxes and bring up my family. I can't see how it will make a great deal of difference to me." "What will you do if you lose the war?" asked the Frenchman, feeling that he had reached a more plaus- ible basis. "I guess," said the German, "that it won't make much difference to me. I'll farm just as I farmed be- fore and after the last war and just like my ancestors farmed before the last ten wars and before and between and after all the wars that ever made a mess of the country." 'Well," remarked the Englishman, "what's the use of going to war?" "It's those plaguey Poles," said the German. "It's this Danzig business. I don't know where Danzig is, but we can't let things go on like that" "Like what?" said the Fenchman. "I don't know," said the German, "but it's pretty bad." The German had an idea that Eng- land owned too much of the world's Surface. Ile was under the impres- sion that the Englishman being in possession of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and great hunks of territory here and there throughout the world, must be living in an at- mosphere of stuffed luxury. He was surprised, therefore, when the Eng- lishman told hien, as far he could de- terrine, there was not a great deal elf difference between the way he lived and the way the German carried on. All three of them, apparently, the Frenchman, the German and the Englishman, lived pretty much the same kind of lives. They planted their crops and harvested them. They paid their taxes, raised their families and went to war every twenty-five years. The fact that France con- trolled Morocco did not seem to have much to do with the price the French- man received for his millet, whatever that is. . The fact that the German navy had been destroyed 20 years ago and that the Germans no longer re- tain the -privilege, of exploiting a few hundred thousand natives in African jungles did not seen to have made nouis8 difference to the supply of beet in Wurtemburg The fact that Great Britain controlled three- quarters of the world's gold produc- tion did not seem to be reflected in the cheap clothes worn by the Eng- lish farmer. "Yet," said the German, "these things must be very important. Against this, of course, no arg2t- ment could be advjineed, and so the threefarmers went out into the backyaecl and 'killed each other, and after they were buried with due ceremony and considerable grief, their sons planted the crops, har- vested' them,: paid increased taxes and raised their families, praying with terrible 'earnestness that the male ehildwers .would grow into strong men who could be trusted to slay each other at the appointed tines. -Exchange, "YOUR HOME ' STATION" C KN 1200 kca. WINGHAM' 250 Metres. WIOE1KLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS.. Fri., ;Oet. 20th: 11.15 a.m. Bing, Crosby; 11.45 "Victoria Regina"m. 12.45 pan. The Bell Boys; 6.10 Farm. er's News, Sat., Oct. 21st: 9.30 a.m. Kiddies'' Party; 12.45 p.m. Hill -Billies; 6.16 Sport Reporter; '7.45 Barn Dance. Sun., Oct. 22nd: 1.00 p.m. Guy Loin bardo Crete; 1.30 Melody Tune; 6.15 Freddie Martin Orch.; 7.00 Rev. K. McLean Mon., Oct. 23rd:8.30 a.m, Break- fast Club; 11.45 "Victoria Regina"; 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys; -6.30 "Heart Throbs". • Toes., Oct. 24th: 11.30 a.m. "Peter MacGregor"; 1.30 p.m. Glad Tidings; 6.45 Sunset Hawaiians. Wed., Oct. 25th: 11.45 a.m. "Vie - belie Regina"; 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys; 7.00 Steele's Novatones; 8.00. CKN3L Little and. ..Thurs., Oct. 26th: 10,00 a.rn. Harry' J. Boyle; 11,45 Lawrence Welk Orch.; 6.30 p.m. "Heart Throbs". Early Winter in 1869 If you have felt rather disgusted with the weather this past week, take heart, the weather is much nicer than . it was in 1869. From the October 19, 1899 issue of the News -Record we quote the following: "In course of conversation on Saturday Rev. B. Clement remarked that just thirty years ago today, that is October 14, , 1869, snow fell and after three days respite winter set in in earnest and . 'continued without a break until April. . The farmers were caught napping that fall, their apples still hanging on the trees and the roots not having been dug and they suffered severely. It was a long and solid winter, even . in those "good old days", of which the present generation hears so much," Season's Crop Destroyed Gordon Barger, Concession 13, . Ashfield township, suffered a heavy loss on Thursday when lie had his large barn destroyed by fire. Thresh- ing hreshing was in progress and was about. half completed when a ball of fire emanated from the blower pipe which . was turned into the barn. In a short time the interior of the barn was a mass of flames and. nothing could be done to same the barn from des- - truotion., The threshing machine owned by Mr. MeNay, 'was destroyed in the barn. The barn, contained the season's crop of hay and grain, and the loss, partly covered by insurance,. Will be a heavy one. A. number of pigs which Were in the basemenn were saved with the exception. of. 3.. WANTED 1Young Men and Women After.' the last war we trained over 2,000 soldiers at the request of the Government. NOW we are ready to train young men and women for national' service as: - Telegraph Operators Freight Clerks Traffic Stenographers General Stenographers The war will create a demand for this class of work. The movement of sten, munitions and merchandise represents big business. These courses may be learned at halite, or you may hams personal in- struction. 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