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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-04-16, Page 6T 11I p I EQUIEEI? ON AC- COUNTS PAID 13Y CHEQUE Ile different parts of the province ople have been fitted for failing to siktach the necessary stamps to cher lues or receipts, in the case of the cheque, the stamp is not so often omitted, as the Bank. mill not cash the cheque unless the tamp is attached, but in many eases, it falls to the lot of the one cashing the cheque to pay the tax, if the one issuing it did not affix the stamp, The law requires that a two -cent revenue'' stamp be .attached to every receipt for money amounting to $10 or Over. In. many cases this law is not being observed, and same have been fined for not affixing the stamp, as was the case in Listowel a few weeks ago, Inspectors are visiting various Localities looking into the ob . servance of the law, and prosecutions may .follow. Sorne people have the impression. that a stamp is not necessary on a re- ceipt where the payment has been made by cheque, and when the words "paid by cheque" are written on re ceipt. This has been the general im- pression in Listowel, and in order to settle the question and protect the citizens, the Banner wrote to the De- partment of. Customs and Excise at Ottawa. The reply which reached The Ban- ner recently is as follows: Ottawa, 2nd March soze The Listowel Banner, Listowel, Ont. Sirs,— I acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 24th ultimo; requesting to be advised if a 'state- ment or . an account paid by chegtte, and upon which the words "received payment by cheque" appear, would be subject to the stamp tax on receipts. In reply, you are 'informed that 'a receipted statement or an account, paid by -cheque, when acknowledging the receipt of an amount of money for $zo or over is properly subject to the stamp tax on receipts, dy copy of Circular 237-L' Ref; is enclosed herewith .for your informa- 1 have the honorto be Sirs, tion in this connection. Your obedient Servant. In most cases a cancelled cheque is regarded as sufficient evidence of payment, butwhere the recipient of any suir] of $io or over gives a' re- ceipt, it must have the stamp attach- ed, no matter what form the pay- ment takes --cheque, cash, or ,contra account. People should keep this in mind. It takes a lot of two -cent. stamps to pay a fifty dollar fine. • A GRAVE INJUSTICE Dear Mr. Editor; I wish to draw the attention of the reading public to a recent enactment of the Ontario Legislature which is a grave injustice to Osteopathic Physic- ians of this Province. I refer to t1v Amendment of the Ontario Medical Act, Two Bills were introduced into the House and despite all efforts to. secure fair and reasonable treatment my profession has been forced by the medical profession to accept . these l3ills. 13y these, just enacted by the Fer- guson government an Osteopathic physician of the highest standing can not, among other drastic restrictions imposed upon him, use the title of. "doctor" or r "physician" or even re- present himself as such. Let me submit to you the text of the Act: "Any person not registered pursu- ant to this Act (Medical Act) ` who takes or uses any name, title, addi- tion or description implying or •calcu- lated to lead peopletoinfer that he is registered under this Act, or that he is recognized .by law as a physic- ian, surgeon, accoucheur,or licenti- ate medicine in surgery or midwif- ery or assumes, uses or employs tate title "doctor" "surgeon" or "physic- ian" . or any affix or. prefix indicative of such titles as an occupational des- ignation relating to the treatment of W IGRAM ADVANC !human' ailments or advertises or holds himself out as such shall incur a penalty of not less than $2,5 nor more than $zoo." Now I ask ,each one who has .care- fully read the above whether this is not a 'case of grass' class legislation and an intolerable injustice' to the profession of which I am a member, Frederick A. Parker, Osteopathic Physician .EAST WAWANOSH Mr. and Mrs. joe Thompson, ;and children of Sea Orth, spent .Sunday with relatives at Auburn and on the 9th, Mr. and Mrs, John Campbell and daughter of Aylmer, are visiting with 1 elatives at Goderich and Marnoch.' Miss Pearl Congrarn is spending the holidays at her home in Ripley. Mrs, Wm. Robinson and. Miss Lau- ra. are ^visiting ' with the former's sis- ter, Mrs. Gibson of Paris,, who is very low. Mss Gwcncloline McDowell., left on Friday to visit with her grand -par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. McDowell of Tor- onto, and with her aunt, Mrs. Mel- bourne McDowell of Peterboro. Miss. Lila Humphrey of St. Helens, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Geo. Walker: 1 • Mr. Chas. Robinson of Detroit,'' -re- turned to his home here on Thursday. IN, MEMORIAM In loving memory of any dear fa- ther, whom God .called to himself, April zsth:, 1924 Gone dear Father gone forever, Row we miss your smiling face, You have 1 -eft us to remember None on earth can take your place A happy home we once enjoyed How Sweet the memory still, But death has left a loneliness This world can never fill. Mrs. Kenneth . Weaver. struck e Ith of , by Accidept `':v'::i$� 1 •'•ti ply.:• ,AND AROUND m-.DICTNE HAT. , Second Street, a ndllingcompany's elevator and the Canadian. Pacific bridge. The ineort is a photograph taken of the Big Chief sutura] gas yell at Medicine Rat, July 26th,' 1900. These vas a closed -in pressure of 660 lbs. and an open flow of 3,000,000 cubic feet per day, an equivalent to 161 tons of coal, J UST thirty-nine years ago,• in July, 1885, • to be exact, a small crew of men in the service of. the Canadian Paeii;ie .r Railway, unloaded .a' portable water -well drilling machine at a point near where, whatis now the village of Allison, Alberta, thirty- five miles west of Medicine Rat, on the math line of the company. The erew had been sent to this spot to drill for water and set to work. Little did these men realise that they were about to make a find that was to be the beginning of a wide -spread industry.i Perhaps • they were disappointed when, instead of the water they were seeking, gas appeared in their well, but if they could have looked into the future they would have seen that this first gas well was to be the cause of the expenditure of millions of dollars,, the employment, directly and indirectly, of thousands of men, and the opening up of an enormous area stretch ing frons the Peace River in the north to the international boundary in the south, and from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Alberta- Saskatchewanline in the east. So much interest *as immediately aroused over the discovery of natural gas in this well that others were drilled in Medicine Hat, but the results were not gratifying until the year 1890, vrihen gas was dis- covered in considerable quantity while drilling was being conducted in •search of coal, and it was then found that it could be obtained in commercial cleans titles in what is now known as the Medicine fiat sand, at a -depth of about one thousand feet. In 1906 the first deep well was sunk and a splendid' flow of gas was encountered, front which the city of. Medicine. Rat has 'enjoyed the benefits of natural gas up to the present time, with the further 'l rospect a1f a long -continued supply. After this the Canadian ?aeifie Railway drilled a slumber of wells for: its own use and other concerns entered the field, The wells at use, Creek were drilled for oil, which was produced for a time gas (in imbignificant gila3>'tities beeng also enconnteeed, but these and many other wells ";resulted in Cisapp point - menu to their promoters. ' There were times that the, heartaches and the tragedies and the losses far ex seeded the successes andthe gains, but this did not deter the men who were willing to stake their all on what they had undertaken to do, and it is to their determined efforts that the later developments of petroleum and natural gas are due, The next gas field of importance to be developed was the Bow Island field, on which work was begun in 1908, on the south bank of the South Saskatchewan River on the Crow's Nest branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was in this field that Canada's largest gas well was drilled, producing, vehen com- pleted, approximately thirty million cubic feet of gas per day,and. it was on the strength of this de= velopment tat the enormous sixteen-enuh pipe line, one hundred and seventy-five miles in length, was financed and built in order to supply the towns en route; Other fields have been opened, among them that known as the Foremost field, located' on Etzikone Coulee, In 1914, the first well was drilled here in search of oil, and at a depth of about two thousand. feet, gas in very large quantities was found. Re- cently another well has been completed in this field, which is now producing over seventeen million cubic feet of gas per day and is one of the largest gas wells in Canada, giving to the towns and villages along this route an almost unlimited supply ofas. Ae many as three hundred wells have been drilled in Alberta up to thepresent time in various sections of the province. Not all have been productive of course, some having to be abandoned on 'account of drilling difficulties, while others did not yield the fluid sought, or did so in such. small quantities ue not to be worth the expense of further development, and so were abandoned for rendre productive holds, The possession of this natural resource to the people of Alberta is of enormous' value and its imp portance cannot be exaggerated. it has played a brig part in the past and will play a big part in the future in the development of the province It re- mains for the people themselves to see to it that it la properly used and coneer''ed for poeterity'-.-Wegtera Story tttag'agjese, ''Atxia;rar , April 6 "il }✓tJ'. SI 111R011l li itIM Blessed are the poor in salary for they shall pay no income tax. -o- He: "What kind of shoes do you think I ought to wear. with these hose? She: "Hip boots," —o-- Banks do not observe All Fools Day. They leave that for the fellow who has saved nothing for a rainy day. .—o„_ Women's skirts are to be three in- ches shorter this Spring, says a fash- ion ukase from Paris. It 'seems to be about time for the bow-legged sisters to be forming a• bloc, —0— Mike was passing Pat's house, and saw' Pat painting his -home on a hot summer day with three heavy coals on. He asked Pat if he was cold, and Pat said: "No, but the color card said to puton three coats' to get the best results." —0— Many a girl goes all through life wearing a halo, when she secretly yearns for just .a little mistletoe. _0_ Two negroes were working on a job where, the day before, there had been three. The absent one was a preacher as well as a workman, The two present were discussing the prob- able cause of the absence of thethird. After some guessing, one said to the' other with an air of .:superior know- ledge, _"I know whar' heis; he's down to your house with wife right. now." "He's better not be clown to my house with my wife," shouted the otic er. "If I ever ketch that nigger. down to my house with my wife J'11 run him—I'll run that nigger just as long as he can find anything to step on. — 0-- ]~?a.rectio as for taking a cold bath: Run the tub one-third fullof cold water, test with the toe, then cut off cold water faucet, and,turn on hot water full tilt: — 0-- Modern 0_Modern girls just love the water. Unless it happens to be in a wash tub. —0--:• Even,if a man's face isn't his for- tune, he usually feels cheap when he needs a shave, —R_ At any rate, the town drunkard can't claim that he inherited a taste for hair tonic: --0-- Idle rumors are always busy at work. — - Women can vote in South Africia now, They got it from us. It's about equal. ' We,. got earrings frosts them. ' —0 All of us are born equal,' but im- mediately after birth the inequality begins to show. .-0— Most bells can be tolled, but a dumb bell can't. —0 -- Next to a child and a dog, e. -negro is the best judge of whitehuman na- ture. WHEN THE HENS BEGIN TO LAY There is laughter in the barnyard, There is cackling in the hay; When the rooster sounds his trumpet And the hens begin to lay. There are holes arotuid the straw stacic, There are others in the hay, There is watching round the corner When the Bens begin to lay. There are smiles within the farm- house, When the lambs are safe at play, When the baby calves are dancing, And the hens begin to lay, There are omelettes superior On the table every day, And the hired man is happy When the hens begin to lay. Now's the feathered harvest time Theon list to what I say, Ile sure and leave a nest egg When the stens begin to lay, OA CE las come to the fore more and more in recent years as being absolutely indispensable • in Building Work Particularly iri foundation work of any new: building or dwelling, there is nothing that can compare to the lasting quali- ties of Cement. That is, if it's mixed and handled right so as to «;r withstand both the heat and cold Ktd We have bath the equipment and the men to .see that you get the best cement work. Calion us for full information. Ford n Wl lroxeier Phone 99 See us for long distance trucking Or moving UMW ra pa RN L1® s5 SPECIAL INVITATION TO BAND 'There'll be no "easy picking" for bandits -*hp the Forest •Park, • State Bank a good place to try their Iuck,_ Ratlier,they'l1 find it a bid* mistake—or, fatal gyve wouldsay-to visit that Money emporium and. try to get rough with those in charge. That bank's officials have learned. ilieir lesson rpm the looting of other depositories. And, accordi ugly', . they RELMORE Cleaning yards and burning rubbish, is the order of the day. What we need in our town is a few men like Timothy Hay. who knows how to nee the spade. Don't forget the :box social given by .the Busy' Bee Class, in the Com- munity Hall, Friday evening. Those home for the Easter holiday, are: Nellie Doig, Toronto, Elsie Dou- blolee, :a,t their homes, Miss Mary Rutherford from the West at John Darlings. The Institute ladies - held their meeting last Wednesday, at Mrs, John Petermais, membership 22. ' A paper on, "Little Things That lvlake Life Beautiful" was given by Mrs. Jas, Douglas. 'Roll :Call, '"Helps 'for. Saturday and Monday". Reading by Minnie Jeffrey, community sone,, 'When You and I Were, • Young Maggie," Miss Helen Mulvey and Irene Minn- dell, spent ,.Sunday evening with Eleanor and Minnie Jeffrey, Mr. and Mrj. McKenzie, 'visited Thursday sat Riversdale, Miss Lilian Ortman, returned to her home at Clifford,Saturday even- ing. Miss Pearl Douglas was on the sick list last week, but took a change for the better, .Thursday evening, Miss Ruby' Baird is visiting Winghailt, also Amy ,Ncwans, Mr: and Mrs, Herd and family, pent the holiday out of toren. s GLENANNAN Dr. Elmer Aitken of Toronto, spent Easter a1: his home here, Miss Bessie Scott, spent Sunday at her home in Carrick. Miss Mary Haugh of Toronto, is holidaying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Thos. , I;Xaugh. ITS FOR WARM "RECEPTION" s• eeemseetie have taken •precautions by mounting a business dike looking machine gun a counter whore it can spit lead to all ,,corners of the floor. • ,So bandits had better lay off that institution if they don't want to Le wearing wooden ki- nioias. i In the above photo, Cashier Albert Ross is ' explaining the machine gun's mechanism to Miss: Elsie Rice, ail gni ployee. Master Walfer Wilhite is visiting with his cousin, Alex, Marshall. Mr, Peter Muir of Toronto, spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mr,, Rebt. 19:ttii-; 4r. and Mrs. Oliver ,Stokes, spent Saturday in Stratford, •Miss Edna (iilkinsoti, who poli been attending Stratford Normal, is spending the Easter holidays with. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gilkins on. Miss Mary Austin of Belmore, is a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac. Stokes, ' Master Stewart Jeffrey, ig holiday- ing • at' Mr. Alex. Stewarts, Hawick: M iss Mary Aitken, nurse, is hoe for the baster holidays:. RAPS U.S. SJfiATI3 Charles G. Dawes, vice-president of the United States, who, in his inaugural address took the •'United States Senate' severely : to task on, the charge of unfaAthtniness to, lull*