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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Published on CoUingwood street, Flesherton, Wednesday of each week. Circulation over 1000, ; Price in Canada $2.00 per year, I when paid in advance |1.50. In I paid in advance $2.00. ' U. S. A. $2.50 per year, when W. H. THURSTON, . - Editor F. J. THURSTON, - Assoc. Editoi EDVrOKIAL ITEMS New Baseball League The opposition in the Ontario Leg- islature is delivering election addresses in various sectionji of the province, but 60 far the rank and file have not developed much enthusiasm. Whethei thtTe will be an election this fall is not known, but the opposition will not be caught asleep. • • • Luckily no loss of life is reported in the first marine disaster on the Great Lakes on Saturday when the S. S. George M. Cox piled onto the Rock of Ages Reef in Lake Superior. The waters of the Great Lakes have always taken their toll in lives and ships and will continue to do so. • • • With the death of a young lady at St. Catherines from a delayed para- chute jump it behooves the govern- ment to institute a law against in- discriminate parachute jumping, the same as was done when travelling over Niagara Falls in a barrell was prohibited. There should be some law to save' them from themselves. » • • A number of Flesherton citizens en- joyed a drive on Sunday through the Beaver Valley to Thornbury and Mea- ford. The blossoms on the fruit trees were at their best and the sight was a delight to behold. This par- ticular district is becoming better known each year and for real beauty outrivals the famous Niagara penin- sula. The Centre Grey Basc4)all League i.s now an assured fact. .\t a well attended meeting held in Kimberley lau Thursday evening the League was organized for 1933 with five toams en- teiing, fourofthcni, Dundalk, Flesh- erton, Vandeleur and Kimberley, the (•!d rivals, with a new entry from the Btaver Valley. All clubs except Flesherton were represented at the meeting. It was decided to allow each team to sign 20 players, vj-ho must play with the club nearest to their resi- dence. The entry fee was eet at $10 for each team, and any protests will have to be accompanied by a marked chetjue for $15. A meeting is to be held at Kimberley this Thurs day evening to pass the list of play- ers and draw up a playing schedule. George Dundas of Markdale was ap- pointed the official league umpire. The election of officers, presided over by Matt Dillon of Thornbury, ix;sulted as follows: Hon. Presidents, (George Mitchell, Flesherton, Chas. Boland, Vandeleur, Geo. Hanbury, Dundalk, W. R. Fawcett, Clarksburg; president, Robt. Lawrence, Kimber ley; vice-preiiidents, M. J Thornbury; Dr. A. D. McAllister, Dundalk; Elmer VVarling, Vandeleur; Earl Dillon, Kimberley; William Tur- ney, Flesherton; secretary-treasurer, H. J. Thompson, Vandeleur. Parliament Prorogues •><«>>.5.^^X~K">«>'>'W**<~HK~X~W"X'^'>'><~><><~>*<^'^X"><'*<~X^ . Flesherton Public School 4th Class â€" Hon. â€" Audrey Mc- Cracken, Ethel Dargavel, Burton Bel- lamy and Charlie Thompson equal. Pass â€" Robin Goldsborough and Geo. Loucks equal, Roberta Leavell, Marg- uerite Croft, Ella McRac, Marion Miller, Fred McTavish, Betty McDon- ald, Ben Leavell (spelling.) Sr. 3rd â€" Hon. â€" Fred Gibson Donald Scott. Pass â€" Bob Stuart, Tom Banks, Athol McKillop, Doris Taylor (sixilling), Norman Loucks. Jr. 3rd â€" Hon. â€" Wesley McCrack- cn. Pass â€" Bryson Clark, Gordon Semple, Marion Wickens, Bill Henry, Oly McDonald, Ben Btilaniy, Clifford Littlejohns, Evelyn Leavell, Jack Loucks, Dorothy .Wolton, Fred Thompson (spelling), Thelma Miller (literature.) Sr. 2nd â€" Alice Thompson, Ruth Turney, Iva Brown, Alan Chappie, Dorothy Patton, Edna Croft, Stewart McRae, Eldon Fisher, Joe Banks, Don- ald Graham. Jr. 2nd â€" B«-niee Leavell, Fred Conking, Jim Thui^ston, Florence Newell, Marjorie Thistlethwaite, Har- old Graham. 1st Class â€" Jean Duncan, Jack Kennedy, Jean McTavish, Margaret Thompson, Bob Banks, Doris Loucks, Marjorie Newell, Evison Wilson, Ethel Taylor, Arlene Taylor, Charlie Meg- gitt. Sj-. pr. â€" Colleen Thibaudeau, Jean Loucks, Diana Gold.sborough, Earl Thurston, Ruth leavell, Teddy Mc- Cracken, Carman Loucks, Bob Meg- gitt. Jr. Pr. â€" Mary Bank.*, Ken Henry, Jack McDonald, Gordon Dungey, Nor- man Dungey. "» • • • Editor . i Letter to The i ONTARIO HONEY KEI'RESENTA- TIVE RKTIKNS FROM (;RE.Vr BRITAIN VV%"%*%"»*V%*V^.^ • • ♦ • • • • • •^^ •^ •^ Editor of the Advance: The present school board of S. S. No. 7, Osprey, wish to inform the public as well as the ratepayers ot the section that they have no "pub- licity agent", as Mr. Hale stated in his letter of last wc-tk. As for fair- ness and courtesy of the new trustees, just what does Mr. Hale mean? Another statement re finances of school viz. $2300 surplus at the last audit is rather misleading. The audit shows a surplus of $1340 with town- ship grant to come. But the former treasurer did not take into considera- tion the fact that the amount of the debenture S547.'.)4 was deducted from the grant, also he takes the credit for decorating the new school, the bill for which was paid this year amounting to §80.00 with cleaning And also blackboards amounting to $'â- ).'). 00. Deducting these items leaves an actual balance of slighltly over $1COO. Re $400 borrowed one year in June this was covered by extra maintenance grant which owing to someone's carelessness was not re- ceived on due date. With the grants cut as they have been the board will need all the com- mon sense (cents) available, but hope they will bo able to carry on without the aid of the former secretary-treas- urer and his colleagues. â€"HOWARD SHORT, â€"HARVEY PEDLAR, â€" ERN HAWTON, Trustees George R. Paterson, Honey Com- mercial Representative, Ontario Hon- ey Export Association, London, Eng- land, returned to Canada this week. Mr. Patterson comes back after his first season's operations on the Unit- ed Kingdom market in the interest of Ontario beekeepers and this year sold over one million pounds of var- ious grades of honey. Prices real- ized have been fair and in the major- ity of cases above returns obtainable OB the local market. Mr. Patterson will spend the next three months aniontr Ontario beekeepers organizing matters for next season's shipping profram. AUTO KILLS DEER Dr. N. M. Craig, a FergiM physic- ian and author of a war play, "You're I>ucky If You're Killed," narrowly < scaped injury when driving north on the Fergrus- Arthur highway. A large deer jumped from the ditch crashing into the windshield of his car. The deer was being chased from a nearby bush by a dog, and becoming confused AS it crossed the highway plunged to its death against the front of the tnr. Dr. Craig was uninjured. Redistribution has occupied the whole time of the House since I last wrote. Rumoj^ were afloat that Pailiament was to prorogue :it this fixed hour and that, but it did not and has not. The "Elder statesmen" deliberated many hours and were, I believe, able to iron out some of the difficulties, but not a sufficient num- ber to end the debate. Charles Bishop writing in the Ottawa Citizen sums up the whole -situation amusingly: "The Dove of Peace which was flutt- ering round the House of Commons yesterday flew out of the window last night. There was thunder and lightning outside and at the same time some ominous rumblings within." And that was a week ago. Mr. Motherwell's method of stick- ing his cane through the map has proved effective. His constituency has been restored â€" restored it is true at the expanse of another Saskatche- wan seat. The Hon. Robert Weir, Minister of Agriculture and the Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King had a warm ex- change of uncomplimentary state- ments. Mr. King took the ground that he had not been treated chivalr- Dillon ' ously, that the Government had de- liberately sought to make his return as difficult as possible. IMr. Turn- bull, the chairman of the Saskatche- wan redistribution committee, was moved to ironic mirth at the talk of chivalry, reminding the House of the treatment given Mr. Meighen at Port- age La Prairie. The debate moved from Province to Province with only the members af- fected taking part in the debate and since the boundaries of ridings are known only to those who live in the locality, or who have studied intens- ively the map of one Province, the debate has been particularly uninter- esting. The longest debate so far has been that concerning the redis- tribution of the Province of Quebec. Powerful speechc-s were made by Mr. LapQinte and Mr. Cardin. Mr. La- pointe stressed the importance in Quebec of the boundaries of counties, municipalities and parishes. His argu- ment was that this redistribution violates them all and charged that there was a determination on the part of the Government to hive Liberals, making some seats perfectly safe for the Liberals, but diminishing the number in which they had a fighting chance. Mr. Pouliot made many forty-minute speeches and all the time groups behind the scenes were trying' to reach an agreement. There was some talk that the Prime Minister would make the final decision but this he evaded, stand'ng instead be- hind the committee's report and en- dorsing it as one of reasonable equity. The Prime Minister's view is that the Opposition. Without going into the details, Mr. Chairman," Mr. Bennett said, "I must say that I have not reached the point where I believe that human nature is so constituted that those who for the moment are out of power are unwilling to recognise that fact. In all sincerity may I say that while reasonable justice is being done to the Liberal party is in the ascendancy provincially and federally in point of the numbers of members from the Province of Quebec, in this Parlia- ment there happens to be in power a Conservative administration. Is it not fair to say that Hon. gentlemen opposite must recognise that fact and recognise the further fact that when a choice has to bo made in one of two given ways you must expect that choice to be made in the way that will be mo-st advantageous to the party in power. Is that unfair? Is that not what has always happened in regard to anything?" The Liberal Leader, Mr. Mackenzie King, came out definitely in favor of proportional representation. "I be- lieve that the only true method of securing a representative Parliament i» by a system of proportional repre- sentation properly worked out with regard to the Dominion as a whole.' He went on to claim that during his lime as Prime Minister the Govern- ment had introduced a measure deal- ing with proportional representation in city constituencies, but the meas- ure was not r<!-introduced because the government had not a majority in the Senate. Immediately after 1921 Mr. W. C. Good, who was then M.P. for Brant, urged Parliament to ailo'pt propor- tional represenUtion and he kept the urging up session after session. He was undoubtedly an authority on the subject; I recall when he finished speaking there was practically noth- ing left to be said, though in brief speeches the Southeast comer did support him. His consUnt hammer- ing at the subject induced the govern- ment to introduce the bill of which Mr. King spoke, but that the Liberal government at that time was not par- ticularly interested In the legislation A man who Insists on tearing into' '* ^^om\ by the fact that the bill only the stock marktl-s at the first sign Kot first reading. There was noth- of a rise should make certain that hi.-^ '"*f ^^ prevent the measure being car- j r arachute is working well. ' '^'' '" *be Commons since all our Special Paint Offer ENDING JUNE 10 Buffalo Paint 59c qt. or $2.20 per gaUon NEW LUXOR PAINTS in all Colors Window and Door Screens Shingles at Low PricCS Window Screen.s made to order at 12 ccnt.s per square foot. Screen Doors also made to order. A few Shingles left at the* low prices. Next car will be up 40c per sq. LIME, GYPROC, FLOORING, SIDING, DOORS- ALWAYS IN STOCK Flesherton Planing Mill 'Phone: 24 j Flesherton, Ont H. A. McCauley, Prop. X ^^^«^^:»o<»4^«^<^'~C'><'*<~K-**************<'^!*'*'**5"^ members would have supported it. It is to be hoped that by the time we get around to redistribution again public opinion will be strong enough to secure through Parliament propor- tional representation in thickly settled communities and a single transfer- able vote in any single-member con- stituencies left. House of Commons, Ottawa, May 27, 1933. â€"AGNES MACPHAIL. COMMUNITY SHEEP DIPPING Two dippings of sheep every year are advisable, the first in the spring and the second in the fall. Spring dipping should be performed as soon after shearing as possible. June is the most suitable month since in June all lambs will have arrived and the weather is favorable. Community dipping has a number of advantages over Individual farm dipping. It costs less, there is less labor for each individual farmer, and an annual com- munity dipping day insures that all flocks in the district will be dipped. A community desiring to build a permanent community tank may make application for a set of forms to the District Sheep and Swine Promoter in any of the provinces. A concrete tank properly built is not expensive, is more permanent and grives entire satisfaction. After a suitable loca- tion has been selected as central as possible for the sheep owners in the district, the most economical method of building the tank is to arrange the work co-operatively, delegating some- one to draw the gravel, another to haul the forms and cement, and oth- ers to dig the hole, mbt the concrete and f iill in the forms. For the individual farmer with a few sheep where no community tank is available, it is not necessary to con- struct an elobrate dipping plant, A large barrel or trough large enough to immerse the sheep thoroughly will answer the purpose. A small drain- ing platform can easily be built, so that the sheep when dipped i^an 'be allowed to stand for a few minutes until the dip drains out of the fleece and runs back into the dipping vessel. COSTLY FISHING TRIP remembered by C. W. Hortop, of Rockwood. Bright and early he mot- ored to Homing's Mills with his fish- ing tackle prepared to indulge in the sport on the private property of L. C. A. Strother. One of the owner's patrolmen spotted the intruder and he was placed under arrest by County Constable Robert K. Lambert, taken to Shelbume and turned ov«r to Chief of Police Samuel R. McCauley, who brought the prisoner to the county jail here. That Attorney-General Price's officials are obliging was dem- onstrated Sunday afternoon when Crown Attorney R. David Evans and Police Magistrate Hugh Falconer met and allowed Hortop's release on f 1,000 bail supplied by a brother and a neighbor who had motored here from Rockwood, a distance of about forty miles. - Hortop, who did not have a chance to catch any fish, pleaded guilty to trespassing and was fined $10 and costs, the costs alone amount- ed to $24.40. â€" Shelburne Free Press. iWe heard of a woman the other day who passed her 50th birthday. Mothers' Day, May 14, will long be Most of them pass 'em up. FROM THE FIRST ISSUE Editor, The Advance: I am pleased to know that you are trying to get some information re- garding the "Old Timers of Flesher- ton". I for one have, (and always will) very pleasant reiollections of my boyhood days spent in the Old Town, and will never forget my good filends when first I launched out to ru.-itle with the world on my own ac- count. If my memory serves nie correctly, I took the first ".\dvanee" papers in the P. 0. to be mailed out to var- iow Post Offices in and around the country, from the late, and first pro- prietor, A. R. Fawcett, who was a- mbng my warmest friends, as I was there when the Advance was first puljjished, and now have one er two copies that were printed some years after, in 1884 the year I left for the west. It is interesting to note the marked difference, for the better, of tha Advance now, and when first pub- lished, they do not look much like the sama paper. We have taken the "Advance" continuously ever since first publication and could not do with- out it. Think I could write a small book on my memories of the people, village and surroundings of Flessherton, but I am aware that you do not want to be bothered reading long letters, eo will wish you the best of luck, and hope you will get what information yot require to maks your work an interesting souvenir for all those who still remember the old "Home Town" and by-gone days. Yours truly, "for old times sake." â€"GEO. A. HIGGINBOTHAM, Vaacouver, B. C. Spring Hardware WASH BOILERS $1.49 with copper bottom. Good Tin Boiler Size t'O. GLASS WASH BOARDS 49c HOUSE BROOMS 29c 5-string, Selected Excellent value, corn stock. FISHING REELS Level Winding. Quadruple multiply- ing, adjustable click. /'SHERWIN-WILL!AMS\ V PAINT / It saves your house and spares your pocket ! 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