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Listowel Banner, 8 Sep 1927, p. 4

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W. A. Johnitone Eye Specialist Listowel Phone 202 Read What This Is Your money ‘back or good _ eases. Creighton’s Drug Store. Collections Waeeh andje collections only. a ’- experience speaks for tself, aesuring effeqiency and reliability. KELLY & AIKEN COLLECTORS = oe Bank of Canada Sound and Orangeville Men's Shoe Store West Side Wallace Street If you are looking for men’s or boys’ shoes call and see what Ihave. My stock consists of fine. welts and heavy work shoes in several of the leading makes and my prices are the lowest. SPECIAL, all canvas shoes at greatly reduced prices. t C. Prueter FREE! A ticket for Prin- cess Theatre to ev- $1 worth of School Supplies. Van's Drug Store Special in Panco Sole Oxfords Sizes 8 to 10 1-2 at - - $1.25 HP to 2-0 - $2.25 ‘Shoes at $150 $k and $2.75 —— Jalter’s \ ery student buying | Boys’ and Girls’ || School Shoes { | | rasto fs through a narrow bottle-neck ; | (rier of chains across the channel in j | | storm, IN QUAINT DALMI OLD WORLD BEAUTY BELONGS & TO THE PAST. > Becun the Time of the Mlyrian The qnaint, old world beauty of | Daimatia; that little titular kingdom im the Cisieithan division’of Austria- Hungary, is bs he says a writer in the London Tim To the Hiiacarss war gencration, which shuns all contact with modern Civilization, the Gulf of Cattaro of- fers a consolation of selitude which is met to be found elsewhere even on this golden coast. Under a northern d@imate, the Boka, with its grim, overhanging mountains and its dark, unfathomable waters, would look like the entrance to the valley of the sha- dow of death, but in the sunshine of the south the beanty of the panorama is seereeens rather than lessened by @ presence of an all-powerful and awe-inspiring The glories of the Boka’ belong to the past, and to-day its little town- ships are slowly dying, ruined Bc ed substitution of the steamship fo sailing vessel. From the time of ee Hilyrian pirates down to the end of last century the Boka was the home of the great Mediterranean sailing ~. many it will be new cans under Venetians the Croats w sailors Croatian ¢a: made their homes and baitt thelr palaces and their Por, a spite of the presence of orthodox Serbs and Montenegrins in the neighboring ports, Perasto was Ppre-eminentty Roman Catholic, and even to-day the Perastini have re- ed true to their ancient faith. They were a race not only of mari- ners, but of fighters whose whole life was a battle against the sea and the Turk. When the Venetian Comman- der-in-Chief put to sea, his flag was the twelvg brav- to. nestling in precipice its two islands of St. and Madonna of the Rock standing out like two pearls on the St. i=] > ; the black velvet of the water, is the fem of the whole dg The mighty mariners to their last sleep, but e Madoues herself fs still worshipped ter true saflor, no matter n. The Madonna bas a curious his- tory When the siroceo blows the Boka cn be veary rough, aad terrible is the toll it has taken in ships and in human lives. The entrance to Pe- called The Chains, so-named because the inhabitants used to throw a bar- order to kéep out the constant stream of pirates. Until the middle of the fifteen cen- tury the island which the et neah er now graces was unknown. Indeed, was only a partjally submerged ack One night, however, after a violent a shipwrecked mariner was found clinging to the reef with the ; miraculous Madonna in his hand. No | one | | 1 donna kpew how the picture came to be there. From that day the Madon- na has been the special cuardian of all Roman Catholi¢ sailors Her island has been built up plous- ly with stones brought from far ane wide by grateful sailors, and the Ma- herself, @. beautiful Sane from the early Renalssance period, enshrined in a gy surrounded Med eypresses. “Even ay. every r5th of August, sailod eiblme of every race come to pay ker homage and to add@ a stone to her island home. ‘The visit of tans Beatty and the British | flee 6 is stil the chief event } the life ‘of the modern Perastino. ‘The poverty of the inhabitants is almost indescribable. Even in the days when the whole Boka lived on the Austrian fleet, the ntlx of the young men emigrated to America, and ~the y, the war ) and the American immigration quota have put an end to this cutlet, and ({ie-present generation lacks _ > inf- tlative to break new .groun Even Cattaro itself has the i print of a dying town. It is the gate to Montenegro, From Its back door Jeads the path up mighty Lovchen, the grim mountain which cuards the fastness of the Montenegrin capital. Here, on Sundays and_on feast days, ; One can sea the contract between the ‘old-world amd“the tew~ American | civilization, Behind the town the Montener are dancing thefr“'kolo,” rrins a kind of | Scottish eightsome in whtch man and i women outvie frenzied leaps and bounds. ; dance | each their When the is over, the women shoulder their packs and, laden like’ mulea, other in | begin without.complaint the long as- cent to Ceitinje, while the men, pte- | turesque and flerte-looking, follow i lana one is on Ni leisurely Wate idle but magnificent. epy across a narrow bridge football ground, Eng Hand's ong” éontributinn to Yugoslav cvil then short walk to the dancing-hall on the crkahg apg on age to syncopated mu young oe Ba Sr hort. ‘kits a Shingled hai neing athe niyo with F ta a k “and dane Serbien thee ee from Listowel Elmira Rtas Fair on and Mro. War Ge ‘ha oe develop the. et the Port ef mill ins ones and: the ti inhabl- tants Zrow rich On kea-borne a commerce, But cry old-world peace will have Vanished. © § ; the Middle A | in 4 Visit to Scutari on Market Day Is 0 Remaps © ee ee mie! The picturesqueness of the women AD -forma the of an aeticlé pene in.the London Daily y, pei y J. or Material p “he —e has’ laid its band on fon “Albania slast, ¥ More is Sele done ip Tirat™ else. Tirana ts, or a large Mostem the ee. So poe country, about twenty-five m at Durazzo. get Pparations ie made; it a pinee of dust, rata, hovels and ‘melancholy rana} ie the modest rest- dence of the President.of the Hepube He of Albania, open, rat! straggling place, gathe sce several painted mosques. its few older roads are but miry lanes, but a number of new ones are being plere- ed with a certain amount of despatch, well planned. They are made after Peter the Great's style. Where the required road passes through a standing house, half or a passage of the road is cut neafly away and’ the rest left standing. The newest of the new roads com tains a fresh hotel named the “Bar and a Partisserie Parisicnne. Round the corner are the signs of dambt- hars, or dentists, and groceries are making their appearance. Tirana has a reputed powerful wireless stat- tion also, which communicates with Brindisi, and a small paper is being r by Albania’s first journal- .M. Chekresi. So, after its long seckitioe Albania 's oestaning to go the way of the wo The artist ly ‘> well to visit Albania now, before uniformity is achieved. Never In Europe have I known such an emblazoned scene as upon, say, the market day at &cn- ri. Indeed, it may compare with some of the most eelebrated sraniples of the picturesque outside our con- tinent. It has not the dark, well-like mystery of the deep, declining streets of Fez, nor can it show the blown robes and the ot Damascus. Eastern erranty re is 1n open beauty about it without compare. It fs as if a sower had come and scattered, and in the free places the human grain had come to flower. Like flowers truly are the banks of women, seated n winding rows and clumps as ir- regularly as wild flowers break, vending thecloths and laces and tissues they and their mothers have spun and woven and embroidered. you pass them in the country- side you will see that they are never idle; striding along erect or bent beneath some burden upon shoulders, yet they are forever Pinning as they walk. A skein ts one hand or both, and they go endlessly winding or turning after the manner of their craft ere below Scutari Castle they spread their goods, than which they themselves are perchance mora wonderful. Some of them are searlet and some in yellow snatches of both, and many in white with variegated embroideries. Some are in black, Shoshi, unrelieved black, but with their skirts standing out stiff and fy in | or | the women of the | i} ' turning upwards, so that with thelr), rough woollen leg-coverings and Sandals they look like so many! Mongolians. Here and there a woman customer } i f ee ree ° — “ Just because sugar iy an everyday |” thing—also one eo our most import- ant foods—few of us realize what 2 "| vervTong’ way back its lists or thaf there gan be any romance ppecnes to such an Ondtenty” artici@ ros. wienoe Kt® cam . no man y knows, except ben oh ike every- thing else, it came us from the e hear of Po Gee in ‘China longbbefore our era, though ancient writers speak of it as “the: sugar of which think India,’” te! it originated in that vast cou 5 e name, however, is be derived Span trace its ene! career takes us from country to country, 7m continent to sa mae from geatary to;century, an were t eeds of daetlig-do Soclsiuanl in The old days e ets anxious to secure this coveted juxary for their In the eighth century the Moors introduced sugar canes into Spain, and five ee later sugar was and Sicily. Then it wee vehat Venice, realising jn eres o ee could be- centred energies upon sewed the aie marhet for thet wonderful ct. sugar became eusly been un- aware of each othér’s pre: Maas and fa there between and flourished a prosperous commer- clal bond. Then came the Crusades, and gal- lant warriors returned to their na- tive Jand | loud in the praises of the ing element of the Past, and Bngland sought to obtain large supplies to méet her own og rly in the fifteenth centu a Venetian invented a better method of refining sugar than was thpn known. But gradually r countries re- sented the exor rg exacted by Venice, and ook around for means ,.of establishing their in- dependence of t one source of their supplies. The King of Portugal! had enttings of the canes sent from Sicily to Ma- deira, where the“industry grew and Prospered for two centuries, becom- ing in time the chief source of Euro- pean supply, while London super- seded Venice as the chief market centre—at least, of the Western worl Then followed the discovery of the West Indies by Columbus and the founding of the great sugar Maustry of those islands. The securing of sugar called for bravery. It meant peril and hich adventure for the seekers; but it also | meant the blood and tears of black slaves shipped from Africa to toil in the cause of sugar production, And not only black slaves, for thousands of survivors of the, Battle of Wor- cester and the Monmouth rebellion, and hundreds of British political prisoners were transported to West Indies ¢o take thelr place among the oppressed, During. the eighteenth century England, France, Holland and Spain all wrestled for the control of the world's sugar supplies, while in the United States its cultivation vent on apace, says the writer of the fore- coing in the Weekly Post, Birmning- ham. The Gypsy. The word gypsy is derived from Egyptian, which was first corrupted pag Gypcian, and then into Gypsy r Gipsy; the Gypsies being pepular- supposed to be Exyptians. Eth- fn foll dress walks amid them, ! aologists generally concur in reard- though they are generally so close i ing them as descendants of some ob- that you must push your way. Neck- | secure Hindu tribe. They :ppeared fn laces of gold coins swing upon her | breast and heavy earrings from her ears; she is perhaps a recent bride. Here and there, too, are Moslem women, clostly veiled, with but one long slit to narrow and so regularly horizontal that it is like the slits in the conning-towers of warships. But most are Christian, y their black hair In tufts, thrust threugh aitner side of the kerchief which they -wear over their heads, Besides there are others, women and men, inconceivably shaggy and tattered, with bits of sacking anda fragments of old cord flopping about them, in the garments of utter destitution, mere pagodas of rags. All move and interm!ngte and jostle without thought, bending over the cloths or the. squarer of leather the tanners and the, leaves of tobacco om curers alike spread upon the ground. The last remnants of old rubber tyres are ther made into sandals, and pecvnadar in the folds of aig ‘s skirts or-in vivid roug gs. It is a sight without a paral- fel, and I think that the hand of a true painter who came to paint it might shake as he it, shake with fear that it jmisht suddenly tremble and pass from his sight and join all that ,beauty and that wabaer which endéd in the western nds when _ clouded ae of waned a is stilt time for th paint", ‘but he ust hasten. ° of Briar Root. } The root used <A making = eastern Europe at the beginning of the 11th century, and are now feund in every part of the world. They speak a corrupt Sanskrit dialect. and are dark-skinned, dark-eyed, lithe and sinewy. They are nomadiac, liv- ing largely In tent®, huts are generaliy fortune te lers, musicians, cattle dealers or, titkers, They appear to be destitut® of any system of religion but tracos of v ious forms of paganism are © found o their language and custo Ww ater-Tap Waste. our water-tanps leak? If sn, | they are probably wa aitias between 17,909 and 42,000 gallons of water annually. Mr, R. Howell, a Freeman of the City of London, has perfacted, after fourteen years’.research work, a new washerless, splashiess, dripless water-tap. It can be taken to pleces in’ a moment or two and cleaned, and is guaranteed to work for ten years without repair or replacements. Should anything go wrong with new spare parte will be easily obtain- able. During tests, one tap with ful) pressure of water was mechanically turned on and off 268,090 times, equal to eighteen years of domestic wear, and even then it did not leak. World's Wettest Spot. London's average rainfall is one 23 inches, but in Freetown, the ital of Sierre Leone, 131 inehée | of Frain descend from the the, skies ro- “Mr: Prank wate Labor Day at Kiacnrdtne, Mr.-and-Mre, M. R, Hay.spent the week-end visiting friends in ecen : Messrs. Oscar and Albert Nick kel have returned honie: from their trip to Nova Scotia. Miss Margaret Hall, of Kitchener, spent Song Day with her mother, Mra. R. 1 rs. Alfretta Moffat and Miss Garsidine Moffat spent the week-end} er with friends in Stratford. Mrs. Fred Wells is. visit ting Haftiston at the home: of-her sister, Mrs. Robert Stevenson, Miss Kearns-and Mises Monkman of Toronto, were the guests of Miss P.- Vines over the week-end. Miss Frances MtDonald of Winni- peg, visited in Listowel on Friday last, and was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mra. F. W. Hay Miss Edith George -of- Oshawa, spent the week-end in Listowel sg her parents, Mr. and Mrs. rge. 0. Whitfield DP. and family, Mrs. He ‘rbert, Mrs. acermpation by Sherbert, as Brodhagen, and ies Em Fach Wednesday at ma 1, the lake at Goderich Leave for West— Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hird of Listo- wel, left Wednesday morning for the West, where they expect to spend four months in the Alberta district owing to the poor health of Mr. Hird Giving up Rooms-— Mrs. Atkinson, who has been occu- pying roome over The Palace Meat Market, is giving up housekeeping in Listowel. She is spending this week in-Tara, and will return to town to resume her position in the Bazaar. Failed to Win Plice— The Listowel band took part in the comeptitions at Toronto Ex. Thursday of last week, but @id not succeed in getting a place in the prize money. The band from Mea- won first place their and Weston came seco LETTERS TO THE EDITOR a THE DOG POISONER People who eet out polsins for dogs or cats should think a bit and consider the penalty if caught. “0 reat many years, in this town and’ other towns in this dist- the dog poisoner has run ram- part and has not been checked up on his nefarious practice. Many valuable dogs have been poisoned and many hearts have been saddened by the loss of their ‘favor- ite pets. It is not necessary to set out. poison for doge that annoy you by running through your favorite garden or flower bed, or for dogs }s that howl at night. You have recourse to the law in every case. All you have to do is to notify the town authorities, and any damage done will have to be paid for by the; owner of the animal, i eazas the owner would rather pay, may times over, the cost of the dam- age than have the dog poisoned. People who take things in their own hands and set out poison for dog3, are performing a criminal act and are Hable for three months in jail or a hundred doNars and costs. | This should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks that he can set gut poisons of any kind and be with- in his rights The principal reason why x have not been prosecuted in the past for poisoning doga is that the ownere have taken their Joss an have tried to forget it and out of the and in many | 16 il aio g etig P Sunday, Sept. 11th mca a.m, —The P ‘astor. a.m. 2 sennae echool. ns 7p. m .—The bicaee A litter -} wale, in ae y. Sept. 11th 10.30 a.m. Sas one re Public Worship.—Rev. H. 7 p.m.—Public morales iter a Ww. . Jackson. Thursday, 7.30 p.m.—Prayer service Rickarde, "phone 391, et. - % To. borrow: es firet mo gage; soot aecurity. Apply at ee ner Offi sarge WANTED Wanted, a good maid. Apply to Mrs. J. Cectt ‘Hamilton, “paone ees FOR RENT A Sey ch the wil by mo ty clo era Alt pel, Do Subject: Solo Subject Gladstone Circle church will meet at the home of Mre. Lennox, Main street, on Thursday The the service in the Presbyterian chur- son of Rev. W. Rey. iwil Rev. Laura Nickel, a “United Church Listowel Sunday, Sept. 11th, 1927 Rev. E. F. Armstrong will preach MORNING “WHAT IS CHRIST) H TO OUR AGE?" ~ Anthem “Sing nee - Gae y Buck Mrs. cous, A five room apes with hard ' wens floors, bath, water electric lights, centrally Tocated. upper, East Main St., Listowel, es SPOR SE ROE oF IT) EAT MORE. Choice lake trout, “whitefish, fresh cod, fresh tiHet#, smoked fillets, fresh vegetables, also choice. spring chickens, ‘Clark, phone 410. FISH I8 Gome ANNIVERSARY and TEA MEETING, The Carthage United Church anni- versary will be held Sunday, Sept. 11. Special services. meeting Monday night, Sept. 12, Good pro- gram. } EVENING SUPREME CHOLCE” nthem ‘“‘Now the Day is Over” Marks Mixed quartette The Church With The Open Door P. F. Hoadley, Organist, E. F. Armstrong Minister. of the iteamber 15 bt W.M.S. will have . eee 0 next Sunday morning and 5 Erskine of Monkton will speak. In evening Rev West of Toronto J. West of Atwood, 1 occupy the pulpit. . > J The opening of a United the service of song. On Monday night a fowl supper will be held followed a program. . J. Mangetee n, ’ of Milverton i occupy the pulpit on Sunda rning, September llth, in o'clock, ck. and at Wallace at ae e services in St. Paul’s wut n church there, John Grabb,; > Misses Oleda Messrs. Wilfrid bert Nickel, rothy Fritz. and Albert Fritz, attended the dist- convention or the Luthe League held a Walkerton .on Mon- ay. United : St: Paul’s Lutheran church at ten-thir- and Mrs. R. B. Geelhaar, Migs | Messrs. Oscar Nickel, R ap and BRUSSELS SILVER FOX RANCH We will have to offer high class registered (1927) silver fox pu also prover breeders at reasonable prices. Terms to euit you.’ John A. Wilson: Ethel, Ont. 9-29 RAWLEIGH PRODUCTS Hugh H. Waddell, the Rawleigh representative, will call in the rur- next few orders given prompt attention. 8-15 WANTED Wanted —_—sreiiable earconentatize for district: must be well in rural districts. Splendid Sememnnity to connect with a real company, and {Goin good rime References re- uired. Sudbur Zinc Syndicate, tise. 123 Federal Building, Rich- mnotiting W West, Toronto, Ont.’ 9-8 N Prof. E, ‘Katz, the well known op- tical epecialist, will teat eyes at the een’s Hotel, Listowel, Saturday of his. week. Head ache and all eye sgt troubles relieved through pro- perly fitted’ glasses. By our great skill and long expé¢rience we can help_you even when others. fail, t Church at Molesworth wifl be mark= | te-ffefofedeetegee defect teteretededete bated ed by epecial services yéxt Sunday, | + + Sept. 11th ey. Colin Young, D.D.}% THIRD LINE Spas + secretary of Home Missions. Listo-|+- “ wel and Gorrie talent will t in Noskosforfon! eoafostots Doafeslelontecfefesteots Mr. and Mrs. Schmitzer and daugh- ter, Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Beckner. Mr. Sehmidt, of Kitchener, spent Labor/Day with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel »| Pommer. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Felkar§ and Pear!, epent Sunday with friends at 5 agg and Mildmay Rapp is ‘vigiting rel Ses, ‘on Toronto. Serine ee ea ee Se ae ee ea ie +4 KRURTZVILLE * + Sesbeectectendesteotieteodestestecteetectesiececdededede teste dene Mr. and Mrs. Sam Schmidt and Miss ‘(Nprma Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. | George\Schmidt and baby of Kitch- ener, ‘attended the Nuhn = re-union goodness of their heart, have not held at the home of Mr. and. Mrs. taken any actio -—- Sol. Ludwig recently. In future, however, the culprit detente eedeteesetetete eens There will be no eervice at the wili not get away so easily as there Mayne church next Sunday owing to is A secret organizafion“in tow ton / BORN the church opening at Molesworth. follow up and prosecute any future) < Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wolf, accomp offenders. C.B.H. Form Information NY sort of form that your business may need can pro- duced. by us quickly, exactly as you want it, and at a cost lower than you re accustom- ed to,paying, - A call will bring a man ., to-tell you how we do ais hier i no obliga- Cy COSSITT—In Listowel, th, day, (Leonard Dale). VANDRICK—In Listowel, on S@tur- 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Vandrick, a son. co * . September 3rd, DIPPEL—On Sixth concession, Wal-}. 28th, on Sunday, August ‘janied by Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Master. motoréd-to Toronto on Sunday and BERGEY—In Saginaw Mich. OD) gnent the holiday Thursday, Sept. ist, 1927, to Mr. * unday visitors at the home of M: and Mrs. John Bergey, & 800-!and "re. Sam. Schmidt were Mr. and Mrs, Jake Eydt and Mr. Paul Eyd: Mr. Fred Schmidt ‘from. Kitchener. patr; and Mrs. Sam Henkel and Mas'- ‘er,Carl; Mr, Henry Daum of Stra!- ford, an Mr.* and Mrs. Jacob chmidt The weather has. been favorab!- and most of the people have finis! 1927, to-Mr.-end Mrs. Oscar Dip-leq harvesting around here. pel, a BOR. ages stig Mr. Adam Kroft spent the week end in Elmir ARK—On Boundary (West, on Wednesday, September 7th, 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. Thos, Clark, daughter. on ~Monday, Wie: 8 ra. Miss Bertha Schmidt left on Tue- day to take a course in the Wi ham Business College Mr. Herb MeCabe. accompanied B r. an Alex McCabe Lioyd Faust motored to Tornato « on a Sept. to Mr. and Friay, returning on Tuesday. Cossitt, of Toronto, a 6 (Mrs. r. Mrs. Bayne, Mies: Paulin. Cossitt was formerly M Marj-} Vines of Listowel, Mies Munkmar orle Spears, of Listowel.) Mies Kearns of Toronto, visited » the home of Mr. and Smii! PET Oy ’ *, “I eb ht ve : ana 5 WHAT. DOES.YOUR LABEL INDICATE? Renewal. time for Paes ‘ma jority of our sobscribers has prompt settlements. To m @ rate $2: per annum © Mie §0 in the Gaited States) small. We would ask our sotnens to help the Publish- ney by remitting without de- rt your saet 59 reads: “Jan. ale deelolegeeletelnteinteinieiiebelebeeteiele PSP eS EST Ee : 4 Pere Mrs. Vines on Monday ‘ CANADIAN PACIFIC. DOUBLE WEEK DAY SE AVION LISTOWEL -HAMILTON Every day except Sunday conven tent a obese and afternoo. ‘train ber vice is ted f Goderic from towel gue rise Irpegesnt> points io .and> intermed- Teave™ tomcat

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