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•' "^ i tt ! "Vl '"'*^''*' *"" â-  » â-  nm mL *" -T^- WED., SEPTEMBER 6, l'J33 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Published on Colli n^ocxl street, Flesherton, Wednesday of each week. Circulation over 1000, Price in Canada 12.00 per year, when paid in advance |1.50. In p«id in advance $2.00. U. S. A. |2.60 per year, when W. e. THURSTON, - - Editor r. J. THURSTON, . Assoc. Editor "Boys Were Boys" In Early Days "Memories" By A. S. THURSTON EDITORIAL NOTES The Los Ani'grclea Times man is an observant lad. He has ascertained that the girl who isn't st^onfir enough to wash dishes can change a tire in two minutes flat. • • • Down in Mimico, on the Toronto Hamilton Highway, property owners are abandoning vacant lands because of the high taxes. Taxpayers have learned there, as well as elsewhere, thai they cannot permit extravagant management of their affairs without suffering for it. If celebrants dance they must pay the piper. • • • There is a general election for the province in progress in British Col- umliia. But none of the candidates are nominated as Conservatives There are other candidates in nearly as varied numbers as Heintz pickles, but the old party, once so -strong and assertive on the Pacific Coast, has gone out of business. * • * If We are not to have a Provincial election this year, why all this tur- moil among the party horses? * » • An o\i\ world fashion.^ observe exclaims: "Oh dear, hooks and eye are back again." When a delay was caused at a recent Paris fashion op t'ninir it was explained that the mnd?l had "fifty-four hooks and eyes to do â- up." As though it isn't hard cnou"'' to be on time now-! ♦ * » ''.vlan wanted for gardening," reads an ad in a Terrt Haute paper. "Also to take charge of a cow,who can sing in tlie choir and pump an organ.'' Which reminds Capper's Weekly ol the old ad- asking for "a strong horse to do the work of a country minister," and us of the othe'- want advertise- ment of a well-known Pre.-^hyterian <'lcler of the old school, "Wanted, a man to drive a horse of .a religious turn of mind." » » » Because of the great drought that prevailed throughout many lands this year, various weather-wise men havj been telling us that this has been Mr. Hei-iert N. C'asson, publisher of the Krticiency MaKB-iine in London, England, and author of 70 business bi;i;ks, as a boy was a resident of .Markdale, the son of Rev. Wesley Cas- son, Methodist minister, fifty years ago. In his book, "The Story of My Life," he makes reference to his early days in that village. His father had been pastor of several Methodist churches before going to Markdale, and in speaking of his boyhood days spent there, he says, as quoted in the Markdale Standard : "Here we were not so far outside of 9ivilization. We were only 75 miles north of Toronto. There were bears and beavers in the woods, but "o rattlesnakes. There was btill plenty of excitement, as Irish-Cath- olic farmers lived on the south of the village and Orangemen on the north. When they came in on market days and filled the drinking-houses there were plenty of fights. "For six months I went to school, but I was soon head over heels in mischief. On one occasion, as oui .'â- â€¢chool had only one door, I came out early and filled the porch withwood. The master and the children had to climb out the window. I found a po.sition in the general shop of W. J. iMtFarland â€" the principal merchant ar.d grain dealer of the village. My pay was to be 10 pounds sterling the first year, 20 tlie second and ".0 the third. During the two and one-half years in his shop I learned the rough- and-tumble art of money-making. In my last year I did a man's work. I loaded railway wagon-.s with wheat. I packed butter and I cou.Ttod eggs. And I learned how to be fairly skilled salesman behind the counter. "Nine or ten of the village boys, including Mr. McFarland's son, Billy, were allowed to use the big loft of the shop as a club-room. We equip- ped it as a gymnasium. This enabled me to blossom out as a bit of an athlete. I became the champion long distance runner and for a time tho champion boxer. One of our sports was to entice a farm boy up to our gymnasium. Then I would put on the gloves with him and knock him out. .*!1 went well until one day v.lien a strong left-lianded farm boy came up and gave me a terrible beat- ing. After that my dreiimj of becom- ing a heavy-weight pugilist faded. "Our club eventually became a vil- lage nuisance. We began to plan mis- chief. We rigged up a darning needle in one of the counters of the -.ihop HK.NDEKSON â€" Robert Henderson born in Tyione, Ireland, came to Can- ada in 1840, and came to Artemesia in 1855, being married to Fanny Wat- son in 1843. Their seven children. Jas. W., Toronto, inspector for the Toronto. Loan Co., married Mary J. Bellamy, Cannington; Margaret J. (Mrs. U. J, Carson) Proton Station; Wm. J., Wareham and Fle.<herton; Joseph, Maxwell, married Jane Poole, Lady Bank, second marriage, Mary Heron, Maxwell; Thomas, TorontJo, school teacher and dentist, married Florence Watson, Kirkton; Matilda A., married John Paul, undertaker. Feversham; Samuel, Toronto, Hydro- Electric inspector, married Elizabeth Dodds, Toronto; Robert H., Toronto dental specialist, married Clara E. Tyson, Brantford, second marriage, A. Etta Ayerg, London; Fanny L., Mrs. John Johnston, Wareham and Dundalk. Only living members of the family are: Mrs. Paul, Samuel and Dr. R. |I. Henderson. PROTON STATION Proton Station softball team re- turned from the tournament in Dun- dalk with two games to their credit, having won from Fleshl-jrton and Inistioge. Swamp fires are raging not fai from this village. .Schejl opened ^Tuesday morning with Mr. G. Littlcjohns of Markdale in charge. Mi-.-.se.s Marjorie and Roberta Ache- son have- returned to their schools in Toronto. .Miss Emily Acheson re- turns to her duties as principal oi Chatworth Continuation School and V.'i^ Maude .\cheson begins in a school near Melancthon station. Miss Marguerite Sims and Miss Beitha Hemphill visited in George- town. Mr. and Mrs. T. Kirkwood and Mr. Lloyd Lyons spent the weeK end and holiday at the home of Mr. Chas. Lyons. Mr. R. G. Agnew, K.C., of Toronto visited his cousin, Mr. R. Q. A^-heson. Ml-, and .Mrs. Walter Corbett of Toronto visited the former's mother and brothtr here. Ml. R. G. Acheson cold a young team of horses to Mr. H. Ruff ot Corhetton. pretty much an unprecedented dry'^° ^^^^ when wc pulled a string ii season, and that the weather ha:: been drier and milder than that of the mid-Victorian era. Records of the meteorological offices, hov.-ever, fail to show little difference one do- cade compared with another. The "early" and "latter" rain in Palestine is iust the same character and sched- ule as it was 35 centuries ago. Tlie Jordan overflows Us banks today jutit as it did in Biblical times. In the Tiiatter of moisture for the thirsty land we can, however, help nature by having all waste land planted with suitable trees, so that evaporation may be delayed and the soil may have plenty of time to make use of the moisture. Descrt.s have been per- sistently perpetuated and added to ijy the destruction of trees. « * * The capital of Saskatchewan, Eegina, is only a short distance from that portion of the Province which has suffered in rcH;ent years from droughts and ravages of the cater- pillar pests, and we have all been called on to lend a helping hand to our brethren on the prairies. It "has been difficult to make ends meet, and many belts have had to be tight- «ned. One is all the more surprised to learn that there was recently a wholesale destruction of foodstuffs at Rpgina that might have been very fittingly donated to the hard-up set- tlers. The World's Grain Exhibi- tion was held in that city a few weeks .since, and when it closed the fine grains that had been exhibited, an/>antiiig lo 27,00 bushcys, were consigned to the city incinerator, and were .speedily reduced to smoke and ashes. No doubt the holocausters were moved to this disposal of t»io good grain by the advocates of crop destruction as a means of increasing the cost of food products! Did they exhibit wi.sdom? MAM AND BACON EXPORTS TO C.B. ESTIMATED AT 60,000,000 LB. Department of Agriculture offic- ials at Ottawa, now estimate th»t â- 60,600,000 pounds of ham and bacon -will be exported from Canada ii. â- Great Britain this year. Last spring thp estimate was .^,000,000, but al- ready the 25,000,000 mark has been pawed and the best half of the yeai ha? yet to come. The increase in the exchange to 30 cents on the pound sterling, above what the Canadian Government guaranteed in it<! ptalr ilization fund, wiil encourage th« 1)8 o:: tra;U- as well a« the live cattle. would stab any farmer who happened to be sitting on the needle. This gave us great joy for .several days, until we stabbed a bad-tempered man whf chased us and comi)lained about his wound to McFarland. 'Once We found a new way to break up an open-air band concert, l)y throwing fire-crackers in the horns and under the seats of the bandsmen. In the evenings w-e played "tick-tack" on the windows of people whom we did not like. Also, we fastened their front doors. If the doors opened out- wards we used long screws. If they opened inwards, we fastened the door- knob to a tree or gatepost. "As mo.st people went to bed early we would now and then wake them wx). We would drag a big wooden box into the street, put resin on the edges and push a two-by-four plank back and forth across it. We called it oui- "Dutch fiddle." "One day we went too far. We in- cited a fight bet-.veen two drunken men. Three of us were arrested and brought up before the magistrate. One of us was Herbert Brown, the son of the magistrate. The second was Billy McFarland, the son of the leading merchant. And I was the third, the son of the Methodist min- ister. We were let off with a \^4Arn- ing v.liich the villagers thought we richly deserved. "After we had played all the tricks we could invent, we bought guns and revolvers and went hunting. We want after bears and beavers in a huge «wamp and coulil not find our \v.iy out until evening was upon us. We bad plenty of narrow escapes. One boy, the son of the Presbyterian minister had an eye shot out." From Markdale the family moved to Mitchell and later Heiibert N. was the student pastor of Westside Meth- odist church in Owen Sound. His doctrine was not acceptable to the ministry and he was never ordained. After several years in the United States he went to England, where he is considered one of the best inform- ed men with regard to business sys- tems methods. FALL PAIR DATES Fur dyers, we arc told, are o« .itrike. Then rabbit skins will, for a while at lea-st, continue to be rab- l>it skin.^. A local motorist recently reminded us that once upon « time motorists .-topped to help a fellow motorist in case of a flat tire c:- engine •trou';!-'. Now the car has to I; jmashc I bs- yond repair ar.d a few people kil'.-"1 or i"j-.ned ' efore nnycr.j st -^ps. A"'ston Sept. 15,16 •^^''''ie Sept. 18-20 Cape Croker Reserve .... Sept. 21, 22 <^hesley gept. 19, 20 Clark.sburg Sept. 19, 20 Collingwood Sept. 25-28 Dundalk Sept. 26, 2T ^"n Thanksgiving Day Fcver.3ha.m Sept. 20, 21 Grand Valley Sept. 29, 30 "a"over Sept. 14, 15 Holstein Sept. 28, 2'J K'Lsyth Oct. 5, fc Markdale Oct. 4, 5 Meaford Sept. 21-23 Mi'dmay •'. Sept. 19, 20 Mount Forest Sept. 20, 21 Neustadt Sept. 30 Orangeville Sept. 14, 15 Orillia Sept. 14, 15 Owen Sound Sept. 28-30 Paisloy Sept. 26, Zl Pricoville Sept. 21, 22 Rocklyn Oct. 2. 3 Shelburne Sept. 19, 20 Tara Oct. 3, 4 TORONTO (Canadian National) Aug. 25-Sept. Walters Falls Sept. 26, 27 Wiarton Sept. 14, 15 International Plowing Match, Derby Tp., Owen Sound, Grey County Oct. 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th. Fall Goods Arriving Men's Work Pants and Sweaters at prices that will tempt you ALL NEW STOCK **•;♦**•><••;••;••>*•?♦?'? Men's Work Pants $L95, $2.50, $2.95 and $3.50 Men's Wool Sweaters V neck coat style Re^ailar $2.00 for $L49 each Boys* Pull-over Sweaters. AlKwool worsted. Sizes 26-32 85c each Tanglefoot Fly Spray, 8 oz. size 19c Wonderful Soap, 10 bars 25c Osprey & Artemesia Co-operative Co., Ltd. FLESHERTON made by SHERWIN-WILLIAMS the super-quality floor enamel ^^ -^ • i It beautifies a variety of floorings . . . wood, cement floors, linoleum. Yoii can buy it in nine fetching colours . . .' embracing siich popular tones as Dutch Blue and Light Orange. The range of colours includes a wide variety of interior decorative schemes, as a glance at our MAR-' NOT colour chart will show you. And MAR-NOT has qualities of wear never' before realized. Scrubbing, tramping, the severest usage . . .it happily survives them all, and continues to offer a smooth, beautiful finish. It's sound common sense to go over your floors with MAR-NOT Floor Enamel. Come to Paint Headquarters and be wise I JENAMSi., Fejncing Time This is the right time to build your wire fence. We Have all Styles of FarmFence, Barb Wire BRACE WIRE and STAPLES SPECIAL on 7-STRAND 48 in. high WIRE, pter roll 40c. Shovels' Forks, Axes, Saws, etc. Washing Machines and Wringers. GUNS, RIFLES AND AALMUNITION Electric Lamps 25, 40 and 60 watts, each 25c ALADDIN LAMPS New assortment of AL-'^DDIN NU-TYPE LAMPS. Colors: Crystal Amber, Green and Nickle, ask for details how to get one for $3.75 Frank W. Duncan Phone 54 - - - FLESHERTON r DO YOU "I ALWAYS KEEP BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL BOTH EYES ON THE ROAD? I -REMEMBER 8733 Persons were killed or injured in Ontario in 1932 BECAUSE OF CARELESS DRIVING MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS i* « I Ir - ' < >(-