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in the new -Thomson
Store and. Aparttment
were all Sanded by
Harry Bart
Expert Work at Reas-
- ,IMable Cost. Let Us
Quote You.
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• Robert
Porterfield
Carpenter in the new
Thompson Store and -
Apartments.
Alterations. and Re-
pairs a Specialty.
SATURDAY NEXT.
E. M. Thomson, of London,
To Conduct Up -to -Date
Gents' Furnishing a n
Shoe Store; Will Occupy
Apartment Above.
A new gents' furnishing and shoe
store eomes to 'Seaferbh on Saturday,
When E. IL Thompson, of London,
Opens in the °rich Islook. Before
coming to ISeaforth M. Thompson
has lived in London and previous to
that in Vancouver.
He has had considerable experi-
ence in the furnishing business and
for a number of years past has been
engaged in travelling for a where -
'sale fir m. Solme time ago he decided
to enter the retailing side of the busi-
ness. A number of tovnts were con.
,sidered but Seaforth was finally chos-
enas being the most suitable.
About a month age arrangements,
were made to lease the old Princess
theatre stand, then being altered ani
made into a Modern store by W. A
Crich. The store was ready the lat-
ter part of last week, and Mr. TheinP-
son win open on Saturday of this
week.
Thompson's Men's wear will .carry
in addition to a high class oft men's
Crich's Restaurant
Next the New Thompson Store
CRICH'S QUALITY BREAD
CRICH'S QUALITY CAKES'and BUNS
SILVERWOOD'S ICE CREAM
W. A. Crich, Proprietor
Phone 34' -- Seaforth
ALL' THE WALLPAPERING
AND PAINTING
were done by
SCOTT'S
WALLPAPER STORE
We Supplied the Materials.
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GEO., D. FERGUSON
Hardware, Paints, Etc.
• Sold the ,
Plate Glass
and. Hardware
Used in the New Store and Apartments.
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Muilt over- 'fizzy tye:are ago,
the attire to be oecnitied^1?Y
iM ThOMPson Was soled in the
early, days .1y W. 1`.1. Watson as
a rear eatatp, insurqbee and
e'evrinZ, 0104.411e- aqenvy. Bard.
win 8; Morris,?0 were iM next
tenants, abd Coadated a suc-
Icessfull bicYcle taIMP, About'
*is time the oilier was used
for the stage of bUtber by
ai4,0hard caraniQn, whq oPerated
q, clear/wry out the north roail.
Next to tenant the building.
was Ed. Latimer, who used it
as. a tin shop. In 1907 Bfessrs.
lDW. and Cady opened the first
Moving 'picture int Seaforth
the building;and the following
year Messrs. McKenzie and
Sproat bought them du.t. Sib -
sequently Mr. (MteKe.rizie took
over the entire management
Until the theatre elosed last
fall. M. Ctrich acquired th`e:-
rblock in 1922.
furnishing, boots :and shoes for men,
women and chikNen. '•••••Silk hosiery
and tmlen's •made-to-measureclothes
will likewise be included in their
StoCk.
04r. and Mrs, Thompson and their
family have already moved in ;and'
are occupying the fine apartments
vvhieh have been planned above the
store.
Killing Echoes -
For Paderewski
Too much ;twang threatetned the
success of Paderewski's recent huge
piano recital in Madison Square Gar-
den, New York- city.
Reverberating echoes would
scramble the divine tones into.. a
jangln.g jumble. • .
But the jangle was cured and the
16,0.00 listeners heard- every , ;note
clear and clean.
This was be -cause 47,000 square
feet of soUbd-absorbing Imaterial had
beenstretched like a •giant blanket
Over the heads -of the audience. This
false -ceiling had been constructed
after a careful investigation by engi-
neers. To quote a mail report of
Science Service (Washington):
"The chief diffieulty with the
acoustics of the big auditoriuin aross
from the excessive reverberation—
the prolongation of sound, by echoes
from the Walls and ceiling. A cer-
tain amount of it produces, a -natural
effect, but if echoes .are .too long
sustainedthey produce a jumlble.
There is a particular period of rever-
beration that is most desirable for
each hall or auditerinm. The engi-
neers found that the grearb size of
the Garden made it impossible. to
apply existing formulas, which are
based on spaces up to 2,000,000 Cubic
feet in capaCify. As the capacity of
he Garden Ls 6,200,000 cubic feat, a
ittle less than that of the gas -bags
f the airship Akron,they had to
esort to new methods.
"Using ,phonograph records which
roduce tones of known •-frequency.
he engineers measured the actual
reverberation period; and found that
t was just twice as long as it should
e. The 'audience, covering the floor
nd banked against the walla, would
bsorb ,some echo from those sources
ut net enough. A ceiling, Imade of
material which woiild absorb just.
he right amount of sound, would do
he rest. Rock wool was laid in
sections on the ^girders 'considerably
elow the natural ceiling."
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Here's gottietliirig, rihttt the al-
ley of those who like to mu11 over
statistics. The Dominion departtrinent
of trade and commerce transporta-
tion and auto preliminary report is
out, and :contains amtong-other things
the following automiotive facts: Total
number of autos registered in On-
tario in 1931 was 489,713;_number of
cars registered as compared with
population of Ontario gives us seven
persons per ear, the lowest figure for
any of the .provinces; the highest was
the Yukon territory with 33.8 per-
sons for each auto; total- cars regis-
there.d in the Yukon was 12;. number
of persons per car across the Dentin -
ion.: Prince Edward Island., 12.7!
Nowa /Scotia, 14.1; New Brunswick,
14; Quebec, 19.7; Ontario, 7; Mani-
toba, 110-.8;1 ISaskatiehewan, 10; Al-
berta, 9.2; and British Columbia, 8.7.
Contributing factors to the problem
of juvenile discipline and control: the
razor -strop went out with safety -raz-
ors, the hair -brush with bobbedhair
and the woodshed with natural gas.
--Arkansas Gazette.
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THE COMPLETE ELECTRICAL IN STALL:ATI-ON-
-WAS DONE BY THk.1
• Public Utilities Commission
SEAFORTH
The Fixtures were all chosen from our complete
stock, and all materials used were supplied by us.
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- We have on hand, or can procure, all -modern
Electrical Appliances.
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Atitiient.' and
Alterations On- Old Princes%
Theatre Sit'!.6- have Given
Much Employment to -Lo-
•cal Conceit's; Store and
Apartments Are Improv-,
ed at Considerable Ex-
pense.
STEAM HEAT,
THROUGHOUT
When W. A. Crich found himself
with an empty"theatre on his hands
at the endue ,the Princess'r long run, he
decided the only way to get rent from
it would be to instal a modern store
front and fix Up the stand. Times
were bad and there were already
empty stores in town, but he determ-
ined to take the chance. That he was
jnstified it evidlenced, by the fact that
a tenant was soon secured.
Having onee decided to improve
the site, little time was sPent in get-
ting started. Carpenters were soon
at work taking down the old' front,
Metalling the new. IM'asons cut new
windows, bricked up old- ones. Elec-
tricians did their Wiring; painters and
!paperhangers were • busy. And so in
a little less than a month, what was
formerlyf a most behind -the -times
empty theatre was- transformed into
a modern store and apartment.
Mr. Crich made one decision and
that was that the fittings and equip-
ment were to be up-to-date and the ma-
terials used were to be the best, and
where possible, were to be bought in
Seaforth. That this thought has been
before the workman is evidenced by
the finished job. •
The store has two modern plate
glass windows with a central door-
way, the window* being of such a size
as to give maximum display. ,Each
window will be lit • by five flood
lights. To the north of the store and.
next to Mr. Crich's own store, a stair-
way leads to the apartment above.
Behind the store there is considerable
store room space, and below is a cont.;
smodious cellar.
• The apartment, the interior trim
of which is B. C. fh,Consists of a
living room, dining room, three bed-
rooms, kitchen and bathroom. The
floors throughout are of oak.
'The'electrical installation in the
(Store and apartment, with a separate
service for each, was done by the
Public Utilities Commission of Sea -
forth. The apartment is wired for
an electric stolvle,and other appliances
and convenience outlets are conspien
ens in each room. The store will be
lit by four 300 watt bulbs in reflec-
tors.
The millwork, lumber and plaster-
board for the entire ;building, was
Supplied by -N. Qluff lSons. Doors
and trim in the apartment are of
The
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Established 1860
McLEAN BROS., Publishers
Opposite the New Thomp-
son Store.
Handling a Complete
Range of Printing for
all businesses, be they
new or old, including—
Letterheads
Envelopes
Ledger Sheets
Counter Check Books
Statements
Sale Bills
Tags -
Labels
Etc., Etc.
MAY WE SERVE YOU?
• Phone 41, Seaforth.
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Britigh Columbia fir and the floors
are of eark- Partitions are -covered
with plasterboard and Papered.
ProrniGeorge D. Ferguson was sur-,
chased -the pitate7,glass for the store
front and thehardrwarelfor the build-
ing. .
George A. ,Sills & Son were respons-
ible , for the plumbing, which includes
the bathroom and kitchen fixtures.
An electric element will be used for
water heating.
The heating of the whole building
-will be by steam, the installation be-
ing done by JOhn W. Modeland. Stearn
for the system will be gbitaJined from
the boiler in Mr. fCrich's own store.
This will make the new store and
apartment .practically the Only one in
town which is rented with heat.
Masonry and plastering were done
by' R. Frost & Son. This included
:cutting three windows in the apart•
ment and two at the rear of the store.
The brick walls in the apartment were
all back plastered which will assist
tnaterially in heating.
Wallpapers were supplied by Scott's
Ws/limier Store and this firm also
hung the paper and did all the paint-
ing and staining. • The floors were
also finished and polished by Scott's.
The carpentry work in the entire
building wasunder the direction of
Ro;WINV:Porterfield. This included re-
moving the .forbner front,- installing
new display windows, building parti-
tions and laying floors.
Instead of scraping the new floor:,
by hand, 'as is usually the case, the
work was done by Harry Hart with
a sanding machine.
Contortionists are said by a circus
manager to be t'he happiest perform-
ers. They ougthrt to be, when they
have no trouble in Viking ends meet.
—Weston Leader.
Newton D. Baker's opinion that
congress ought to be in session all
the . time reads like a menace.—The
Minneapolis Journal.
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The banker's chief interests are
interest 'and ;principal—Glasgow Her
al d.
New taxation is not insupportable
—lit is merely income-odious.—Border
Cities Star.
Our new American ambassador is
a teetotaller. A water Mellon. --Sun-
day Pictorial.
A little moonlight now and then
'often marries the best of men.—King-
ston Whig -Standard.
'Baseball is a healthful exercise.
Who doesn't feel better after the
seventh inning stretch? -- Toledo
About the most expensive thing on
earth is rooney.--St. Catharines Stan •
dard.
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We supplied the Plumbing
• for the new apartment.
The Best in the
• 1 Neatest Manner
is our Motto in
Plumbing and Heating.
GEO. A. SILLS & SONS, HARDWARE
R. Frost and Son
DID ALL THE ,PLASTERING AND BRICK WORK
In the New Store and Apartment.
QUALITY WORK AT REASONABLE COST
Phone us at 183, Seafortly, when in need of re-
pairs, alterations 'Or new work.
Cement Tile—All Sizes—Always in Stock
Heating and Steamfitting
By
John -W. 1Viodeland
Let us quote you on your next Electrical, Heat-
• ing or Plumbing Installation.
Phone 4 on 143
Announcing !
the opening of
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Thomson's Men's Wear
on
Saturday, April 30ili
In the Crich Block.
Handling a complete assortment of
Men's Furnishings, Ladies', Men's
and Children's Shoes, Silk Hosiery
andMen's made -to -measure clothes
Thomson's Solicit Your Patronage.
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