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Zurich Herald, 1933-03-30, Page 4ZURICH lUm A Real Opportunity! 44. To New Subscribers, Paid In Advance, send the ZURICH HERALD to the end *1- 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 We will 4, 1933 for only $1.00 4. 4. 4. sa 4 When the North Winds do blow; and your heat will go. t. Let Us Supply You with Storni Windows and Combin- ,41 ation Doors at Greatly Reduced Prices! • Can Us by Phone, and we will gladly measure fkk-. openings free of charge. 0-1 v4,09,0 '- ZURICH re You of 4 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 111 repareci? 4 your PHONE 69 10 + +++4++++4.-e+++ +.:•-i-es.:-++++++++++++++++++-e++.ee•+++++ ,w • 4 4. 4. , R-7$ Ft: "Tr TO THE FIRST TEN CUSTOMERS ORDERING CULTIVATOR -+ s. "POINTS TO FIT ANY RAKE OF CULTIVATOR WE SUPPLY - FREE NEW BOLTS FOR SAME. GENUINE M. -H. POINTS 4- 20i EACH. TO FIRST TEN CIUSTOMERS ORDERING SIX 16" PLOW POINTS FOR ANY MAKE OF PLOW WILL GIVE BOLTS es FREE AND SELL BELOW MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE PRICES. ,CLUB ORDERS FOR TWENTY DOLLARS WILL BE DELIVERED 1: FREE IN 10 MILE RADIUS. see WE CAN SUPPPLY YOUR NEEDS FOR PLOWS AND MACHINES ' OVER 50 YEARS OLD. Wt have on hand the following used machines: No. 8 corn Cultiv- ator, No. 4 Bean Scuffler puller almost new; 3 drum steel roller; Orin, 'Scuffler, Ford Parts, Warren Box, Fanning es. We realize that Farmers were forced to sell below cost of production and are willing to share your loss.. .Special prices on Oil, Grease, and Tires during this ten day. Sale Commencing Saturday April it. New No. 7 Walking Plow a16.00. 4. Tel Shop 149 O. KLOPP & SONS Res. 67 Auctioneering? — YES! =.414444.444-m I ++++++++++++++ *14+44 +++++++++++++++4.4.4... H1LLSGREEN 0,0•••••,•••••ff • Mr. and Mrs. Relit. Mousseau and .daughter Marion of Exeter visited at tthe hemp .of Mr. and Mrs. E. Brad - dr. Orville Smith has been on the ••saiek list for a few days. Me. Clarence Reichert gave • a sparty in honor of Mr. and Mrs. E. aeroderick last TThursday •evening, of -.whom are hout to leave this neigh- asorheod and will be greatly missed .as neighbois in this community. 31r. and Mrs. Thos. Consitt of Hen ,aiffivisited iends in this vicinity. Vers. C. Siemon and son Leaton, azimut a visit at the home of Mr. and alle-s. G. Brown and family of Zuriich Mr- and Mrs. Alf. Reichert, Mr. „Alvin Reichert, and Mrs. G. Brown of Zuricb spent a day in London. Mrs. slas. Love spent several days with friends in Centralia. t,Syrup making is now the order of !the day. Inspector Beacom of Goderich vis- ited in No. 3 Hay a few days ago. Mrs. Robt. Stephenson has not %eat in the best of health of. late. DASHWOOD Iles and Mrs. M. Mciseac and family of Detroit .pent a few clays with has parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. .11cIeaac. Mr. John Hoffman of London, ep- ant the week -end with relatives. Miss Reid of Bayfield is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reid this week. Mrs. Mervyn Tieman is visiting fri ends in Kitchener this week. Quite a number from here attend- ed the funeral of the late Mr. Ezra Brenner at Grand Bencl on Sunday. Mr. and Me. Chas. Guenther we- re esalled to Windsor on Sunday oar- ing to the serious illness of their slat liter -in-law. Miss Edith Weber entertained the choir of the Evangelical church to a social evening last Thursday. '- The evening was spent in genies, contests and singing, after which a dainty lunch was served. The sale of the household effects of. the late Mrs. Baker vas largely attended on Saturday. The sale was held in the church shed owing to the stormy weather. Miss Elda Kraft returned to Lon- don after spending a few weeks at her home here. HENSALL Walter McBeth left last week for his home in the West after spending the winter months here. Laird Mickle was a visitor with fri ends hi Ridgetown. Nearly every vacant dwelling %as been picked up to rent in the village which is always a good thing for a town. Mrs. Thos. Dick, one of our oldest and respected residents, quietly cel- ebrated her 90th birthday, Mrs,Dick did not want any large gathering, but a few of her family and neigh- bors to remember, it was her birth- day, called to wish her congratulat- ions and .all kinds of good wishes. Geo. Fairbairn has rented the Ross farm 011 the London road two Miles south of tostria now occupied by H Block. He gets • immediate possession Wm. Fairbairn has rested the brick cottage on the Frank Ross farm on the London road where he will in future reside. Herb Mock held an auction sale oS his farm steek and implements on Tuesday last. 1)r. Harburn of Seaforth 'called on friends in the villages on Friday last. • Miss Gifford left last week feeler, ,ome to Ottawa aftee etendints sev• cral mouths et her home of Rev, and Mrs. W. A. Young. Mrs, Win. Davidson is visiting re- latives in Wingham. Wm. Beaver, who has spent the winter with his daughter in _Kitchen- er, returned to town .0e, Monday last He will again assist the Steel Briggs Co., in getting out the onion sets they have stored in their large ware- houses, , Mrs, Rich. Bletaliford has moved to' Exeter where sheWill Make her home,. with her brother, 'Chas. Harvey... Mrs, (Dr.) Wilson of l3ay City, Mich., who came home to attend the funeral of her mother, the late' 'Kra. Alex. 1\flann, returned home last we- ek, She was accompanied . by her father, Alex. Munn, who will spend' some time visoiting her in Bay City. Mrs. Etta Miller' of Windsor, whet has been visiting relatives -in town since the death of her father,• the. late Richard Blatchford, has return ed home. Robt. Bonthron has moved back its to her home on King St., after resid- ing during the winter months in one of T. C. Joynt's apartments Lloyd Hudson, -assistant at • the C.N.R. station 'here, has been 'trans- ferred to Forest to commence—duties on April ist. A meeting of bean growers of this district was heldein the town haron Friday faternoon last. when 'a • rePres sentative of the new organization or bean dealers and bean growers of Western Ontario was present to sign contracts. A representative of the rival organization of Bean Growers' Exchange at Chatham, was also _pre- sent. Hensall is a. centre of a big bean growing district. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dew qf Usb- oine were visitor's with Mr. and Mrs Wm. Consitt on Friday last. The members of Zurich Lodge No 224, Hensall, held a social evening in the lodgerooni, when a Most, enjoy- able time was spent by the menibers and their wives. Euchre prizes vvere won by Mrs. Dalrymple and Mi: Bowie. After lunch a short program was carried out. H. Q. Southcott, Exeter, giving several readings. He Stanlake og Exeter, entertained with sleight-of-hand tricks and this was followed by an address by G. J. Sutherland. Albert Traquair Wor- shipful Master of the. local lodge pre sided over the program. Annual Meeting A meeting of the Hensel Base- ball Club and baseball fans held on Monday night, March 27th in • the Council Chambers, Town Hall, •at '8 p.m., .a very good crowd. in attend ance. A. G. McLean and S. Rennie. that the minutes of last year as read be adopted. The Secy-treas., read. the Financial report stating the bank balance. as $31.51 .W. Drummond and L. Foster; that the financial state merit be adopted as read. The offi- cers of 1932 then vacated their chairs. T. E. Deurnmond and L. Fos, ter that Stanley Walters be chair- man for the eves -ling. S. .Rennie and Bt Welsh that James A, Patterion be seceerTeeee for 1933; and that T. E. Drummond be Presiden;.,; gee Presi- dents: tea follows:W. doldirig, W. Ortwein, Wm. Consitt, .W. Kers- lake, W. O'Brein, S. Rantie and T. E. Drummond that Ernest Shaddock be Vice President, H. Foster and R. Welsh that E. G. Mickle be manager. R. Weber be coach; that Hubert (Jerry) Drummond be mascote That the executive consist of President, Vice President, manager„ coach,' and. Secretary Treasurer. That the exec utive see to it that a captain be ap- pointed by the team at the first genie. That we play 0. B. A. A. Os terrnediate B. ban mid players play- ing in same refrain from playing in any independent ball team in Hen- sel That 0. B. A, A. team help. suply equipment except bats and balls to any independent, Cyclone or other team in Hensel'. Considerable dist- ussioti took place as regards playing. 0. B. A. A. ball as regards getting a, grouping and arranging mane. That. J. A. ;Paterson be„,appointed a deleg- ate to attend the annual 0. B. A. A. meeting to be held in Hamilton April 1st representing Heneall and the Huron League. Mr. S. Rennie in- troduced A. G. McLean stating hi' real ball fan and player, The me- eting then adjourned. COUNTY NEWS • 'Mr. aind Mrs. John Johns, of, Ea-, ter, celebrated their diamond -ling anniversary last Monday, They are pioneer residents of the dietrict C. L. Wren, of Hensall, has rented par of the Ocidfellow's block and is openteg up a starts for the punch - 'e of eggs, mans and poultry.J. W, McKibben, Reeve of Wing - ham, while in Walkerton recently slip eel and fell on the ice and had sev- sral ribs broken. He was taken to .he hospital zeid was unehle to return lame for a few days 1(in:sardine's ptiblic welfare gore- eittee has announced that on April 1 ellef disbursements will be disown ,nued, except in a few cases ,of • sne necessity. Local and transient les fares lerese than it pred- ate yeare and the committee feels I, • , that the Majority of relief eases sbese eln be eble to deal for themselves at- tar April isle One of the ileeet productions to be put on itt Exeter for some years was the beautiful religious drama m three acts "The Dreain of Esther" put on in the James St. United ch- urch last Tuesday evening ander the auspices of the Sunday School. The easte comprised 36 persons many of whom were dressed in beautiful ori- ental •costinnes. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chapmen .of Brucefield wish to announce tae en- gagement of their eldest daughtee, Lila Jane, R.N. to John Harold Jack - set and Mrs. Jackson 'of Tucker - smith, the wedding to take place the latter part of March, ' .• So impatient was Bill McIver to test the water the ethor day that he did not waif even to remove his rub- ber boots before' taking a plunge from a punt into the Goderich harboe It was accidental of course, and he was soon hauled to safety by friends immediately after which he could be seen hotfooted it towards his hoine. The water incidentally is still too cold to be enjoyed by early swimmers. • Mrs. Wesley Snell, a nurse in the private hospital of Dr. M. C. Flet- cher, Exeter, dropped dead at noon on Thursday last from a heart at- tack. She was 68 years of age and leaves several brothers and sisters. 70 years of wedded happiness, with never a quarrel during ail that time, is the proud distinction claim by Mr and Mrs. Wm. Smith of St. Marys, who celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at the home of their da- ughter on Saturday. Mrs. smith is 89 years of age, and her husband is 94. Mrs. Smith, especially, is remark- ably active for her age, and does all her own darning, mending and house work. The death occurred of Jean. Isa- bel Fowlie, beloved wife of S. G. Switzer of Tackersmith The decea- sed had been an invalid for 'three ye- ars, and upward :of a week ago suf- fered a stroke from which she could not rally. The late Mrs. Switzer was born in Tuckersmith on Feb. 14, • One of the upright girders- of the large steel • bridge over the Aux Sable Exeter was rammed and seri- ously damaged when a large trailer on one of the transport trucks pass- ing through from.the mirth and div- ed listo it. The impact was so heavy that the girder was badly bent that it will • be required to be taken out Lor repairs. A spread 'of 18c per 5-1b. tin of corn syrup among Goderich merch- ants supplying provisions for ielief, itt the price- charged the Welfare Board, suggests to some the advant- age 'that would have accrued m hav- ing paid officers who would -have got a uniform price or established a ant- rum price that would be paid to all LOST Ae Essex at crank, on" the Go- shen Line, front Zurich north. Find- er kindly leave with Mr. Elmer Klopp, Zurich. tention. of' the other _occupants who gave first aid and called Dr. Dunlop It required severm silver clasps to close the wound. Out of nearly 45 business houses, shown on a souvenir booklet of Sea - forth, only four are still doing bus- iness in. the same stand under the same name. They are the Doninion Bank, Cdedno's grocery, The R. Bell Engine & Thresher Co., and the Queen's Hotel. The E. McFaul dry goods store is in the saine location but under a different name as is al- so the Hawkshaw House, A fiddlers' contest and dance was put on by Lindsoy Smith, Bayfield,on St. Patricles night in the town hall at that place and was a bib success, there being a large crowd in attend- ance. Several players took part in the contest and Mrs. j. Parker being piano accompanist. The prize winner. were; First, James Lindsay; second Geo. Weston; 31:d, John Wilson.They were assistedin the dance by play- ers from Zurich -It was a very en- joyable night's •fun. A near tragedy happened in Clin- ton the other day when Mrs. E. Ent wood, Victoria et. and two. children were almost • overcome by co.al gas, the' result of a blocked chimney. Otto of the children took ill early in. the mining but the cause was not sus- • pected until later. A doctor was cal- • led, the, little boy could" not lie aro, • used until about eleven the same day • but all are now improving; John Thompson, of Blyth, had quite ,a narrow escape from a bad ac cident recently, he was returning from. Wirigham and the bad storm that was on at the time clouded his visibility so that when he was about miles from home he ran. into the ditch. He walked home -and the next morning took some help out, and get- ting Mr. Benninger's team the car was drawn onto the road. In assist- ing in raising the car he strained him self from which Ise suffered Consid- erable pain, but almost like a mir- acle, the next morning be found that he could breathe through his, left lung something he had not done for ever six years, and it is still working well. Damage to the extent of several hundreds of dollars was done to the stack and premises of the Dominion Store, Goderich, when fire broke out in the, office at the rear of the store last Sunday night. The alarm was turned in about 7.30 p.m. and'. the fire-fighters apparatus was on. the scene within two minutes. The fire, which evidently started from a small heater in the back of the store, had 1864 and was in her 70th yule. Her gained considerable headway arrd'was parents were the late Win. and Isa- blazing- fiercely when the firemen ar- bel Fowlie. t rived. Half -an -hour's steady fighting Judgment in the cases of Rex vs. was sufficient to control the blaze and .Carle -Dalton, was given by Mag. Mr. it was totally extinguished shortly Greig, Seaforth last Saturday inorn- after 8 o'dock. Smoke and water ing when the Magis. found that Dal- added considerable te the damage ton was not, guilty of either chagge.done by the fire. and. dismissed the actions. The tirst'ij n4rS'',0 wPs, that en J an 25th tba faidant did Sell neat in violation of 'WWII by-law. The. court found the evidence failed to' prove such sale, hence the action was dismissed. The cond charge was that the defendant had sold meat on Feb. 14th without first having procured a license to do so. The defendant admitted the sale, but relied upon his qualifications as a• distributing farmer and'clainied the exemption under the by-Iaw: The court concluded that Dalton estah- lishe,d these qualifications ana dism- issed the case. The Seaforth ttilitsr. Commission have received $285.38 as its share of the surplus which the Provincial Com mission has accumulated during the •past year. This amount is about one- fifth of that which was received last year:. The reason is that the provin cial officiels did not remit the whole amount due, - but deducted each local commission's share of the exchange which the provincewas forced to pay on bondy maturing in New York. In the ease of Seaforth this exchange amounted to something over $700. At e meeting of the directors of Goderich Industrial and Agricultural Society the other evening, J. Howard Robertson, was appointed secy-treas. succeeding Dr. W. F, Clark, who has held the •office for 25 years. A vote of thanks to the' retiring secretary was unanimously passed and he was Made en honorary president of the Society Chita alter of Exeter dropped in at the Exeter rink the other evening to me a • game of hocker and ten Minutes later on his, way to a doct- or, having been struck just below the . eye by the puck. He was the fourth ..i3dr,50r1 to stiffer a Himilar accident at :Neter this year. Harvey Pollen,tvho was injured so severely that he ha -i to be taken to Victoria. hospital, Loll Ion, is peogressing favorably, and the sight of his eye has been preserved. An unfortunate accident befell Stephen Powell of Exeter, he is past 1.2, and was taking a bath, and in sorrie mariner when stepping out of he bath tub • fell, striking hie head, Ind cutting a deep cireirilP., o t 5.""'ih, • of the impact in falling drew the at - 1 HOG SHIPMENTS • Report of Hog shipments for month ending February 28, 1983; Exeter, total 128, sel. bacon 45, ba- con 68, butchers 1.1„ heavies I. • Hensall—Total 232, sal. bacon' 116, bacon 201, butchers 20s heasaies 1, lights 3. Seaforth—Total seleet bacon 12, bacon 38, butchers, 7e, Huron. County—Total 7085, select bacon. 1894, bacon? 4374, butchers 590, heavies 48, extra heavies 2, lights 120. With the complatfon of the barbor will be in a much better position in works now in progress, Montreal 1024 to handle a record flow of grain than ever before. Witichnin Point elevator will be increased by 1,250,- 000 bushels storage capacity, mak- ing its total capacity 3,250,000s Four ,. additional shipping berths, are being: 11 provided at this elevator and will) be in commission early next month, and the elevator's loading capacity will be increased from 80,000 to 90,s p00 bushels an hoist. Reports to the Canadian Pacifin Railway,. show that there arrived at Winsupeg from the British Isles this, year for the purpose of works ing on • the :harvest, 11,883 men. Spe,ial et a are beingade to fire aecrepatiOn for as s peer sable to cover the winter period, and it is stated that it 33 now proleattale that a considerable number rsf thesq harvesters from Great Britain mid the Irish Free State remain in the Domition. Addreeeing a recent meeting of th:e 'Vancouver Board of Trade-, President E. WI Beatty, of the Ca- hadiat Paeifie Railway, amens:iced. that the company proposed Mimes diately to add two large modern steamers to its' coast fleet it, order to take mite. of increasing tourist, traffic over the company's coastal] lines. He also announced the early completioe of a new pier at thia, barber at a cost of teveral niilTiotts sehich has been made necessary by the eteady development, oft Oanadate leartesPetti,fie- trade. to T ffr 1/144, 1933, teets ESKIMO IS DOOMED' Dependence wpon white Man anal wait; of Civilization Fatal to Natives el the Nortb. In close Government supervision of both natives and traders lies the fu- ture welfare of Canada's Eskimo charges, according to Major L. T. Borwaeb, famous Arctic explorer, end for many years Northwest Ter- ritories 'Brands investigator. While the Eskimo population or tuo norabiou is holding its own at present, the only bope, he believes, of preventing their eventual extinc— tlon is Government control of trad- ing. Denmark took over operation of Greenland's trading posts 160 years ago, Ise points out, and the Eskimo population of the island, bats iacreased gradually from' 3,500 te 17,000t, Marked difference in the outlook on /ire of the Arctic aborigines after short contact with white men MAYOR L. T. 131.31.tWA.1.II pressed Major 13urwash ivhen in 19.2gt h-.1, met Eskimos on King William Island -,vhoto he first saw in 1925.. 'Gyro; oiled kings of their own country - tun' years before, they were bogging satsw food from the visitor on his socfnel Too sudden thrusti.eg of the na- tives from primeval conditions to the.' white mares civilization is blamed by the exp/orer Lor the transformative. state, they should b6 educated grad- ually- to live Sn competition with the. white man. The Eskimo imagines himself bet -- ter off iM close proximity to the white‘ man's ran -opener, That in Major 'Bur -- wash's opinion be is wrong. Life be- sornes more complicated for him with each new food -or trinket be dis- covers, until I/3 short time be has learned to rely on white - man's goods. to keep biro alive. Flowerer, le still hoks to tho ohr Esichno eltSi01719 Of haVing, two or three wives it he can afford them. Besides taming his ability as a pro- vider, litres bring another complica- tion in that the possessor of more.: than his share nray unconsciously in- vite less fortunate natives to make them marriageable widows. -Killings of this sort, Major Burwash says, pro- vide the rnajor crime problem in the Arctic„ alt the custom of doing away with old people who are 1.c— Roved to have lived their allotted span still goes on despite .Govern -- meat, efforts to stamp it opt, FTY-1.11/0 SOVEREIGNS. ` Golden Hoard 1Ponnd on Street by Three English Lads. •I'Dasee boys of Tottenham, Engrand„. feel that their education has been - sadly' Itataected. They think they ^sckaleralet have been told that England,, in the dim dark days before the, war, Bad a little coin tailed a sove- reign. A pretty little coin jt was;.. too, even if rarely seen nowadays. • The boys 'had, recently, the unex- petted pleasure of seeing fifty-two at.' them ark at -once--and they did' not . know what they werel They found!. them a bag :ley picked ups, andl tfionglit they were "'badges" of some.' mysterfous order.. In fabt they thought they bad done a good strata. of business when they sold three to') a passer-by for a shilling. 'Witlit most el the others they, literally, played ducks and. drakes, fer tas were used to skim °vex the eisefates ,of the ri-trez. They shOne, Not until one ot them returned home with OM of the "bacrgeen had saved as e mementt was the full truth known. Ills father broke it to) him gently—and then reported the matter tO tbe THIS NEW aLUBIER. Chemists who discover ways of making synthetic products do-- not timmiTy give away the secrets of their process_ But the men who have suc- ceeded in making a synthetic rubber told members of the American Chem- ical Society just how the feat was. perfetmecl. The ingredients are sira-- plia., me.tely acetylene, salt and water., But the process will seem a bit coin- • ptezette ose neiversed in the voca..--- bufaxy of eihemistryt ' • The catailLit polymerization of tex.dviaie raono-vinylacetylene is followed by a treatment with hydro- gen elAmide to produce chloroprerme. width by tontrolled polymerization Ise turned into Synthetic rubber. Making •synthetic gin seems considerably sine- pleas—Beams Post. 'FAMED CLIMATE. Colombia, .,the third laegeet muss- try South America., although with- ih the trereice, enjoys alt kinds on clineatw, Along the sea rebores and,' in Tow lanais of the valleys of the large revere the beat is intense ;ens the, platens of the cordilleras the mate its mild and temperate, while r,,e7.,,nr; reed- re-te e he proxim- ity cit Salo, wilt. ',ft.., .1 1./ per- petual snow,. Couaerlitenilg, in Col - 1 om I thave 0 Wit CI, fella • • waizs. aro gr wn,pr u a 0 ,i