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snowstorms bury motors howling gales sweep through country ontario roads blocked navigation halted by violent gales cobourg ferry put in at toronto 30 inches of snow at huntsville winter made a thorough job of bis most typical of winter have prevailed i in this disttict siuco yesterday there sweden pays homage savage onslaught over the weekend and left a trail of blocked roads snow bound countrysides and delayed navi gation before the surprised province had awakened to its defence snow fell in varying quantities from the far north to the us border iruntsville leading with a reported fall of almost 30 inches highways and county roads wero blocked in a number of localities the blizzard reaching perhaps its greatest ferocity in the area around owen sound where visibility in the early af ternoon was limited to ten feet and drifts reached to the runningboards of cars the toronto maple leaf hockey beam was forced to turn hack near liracebrhlge vhon the road to tiieir parry sound training camp be came impassable lako polls reported all shipping tied tip awaiting a letup in the high winds and raging seas which made the upper lakes extremely hazardous for the bigger vessels two freighters were aground but no danger to their crews was anticipated one captain des cribed weather conditions as the worst for the tiue of year in his recollection a deep depression over the hudson straits late last night indicates a con tinuance of the west winds which have brought the cold and snow on their wings blizzard at sault sault saint marie 6 nt oct 19 the soo received her first taste of winter weather this season when a northwest wind starting saturday morning brought four inches of snow and more is expected the tempera ture went below the freezing point friday night tlie storm of the nature of a minia ture blizzard tied up shipping on the upper lakes the snow making for low- visibility and the wind kicking up rough seas that prompted sailors to tie up their craft at whitellsh and de tour the steamer cornelius of the bo- land and cornelius lin of buffalo downbound with grain is aground at point aux pins and tugs of the thompson company of the michigan soo hare gone to her assistance the steamer n p leopold of the in land steam hip company passed through tiie locks yesterday morning tho first boat to pass the locks up- bound since 10 pm friday nine inches of snow were plied on the deck of the leopold in some places even the anchor holes were covered with snow ah vessels navigating between vltlteflsh and detour are covered with snow and they report very heavy seas at whitefish and say the upper lake is impossible of navigation the leo pold was one of a lleet of about 15 lake freighters held up in the storm at lletaur passage the captain said it was the worst stoim in had seen oa the lakes for this time of the year hockey team blocked orlllia ocl 13 forced back from tiieir trip to parry sound by a real winter itlizzaid in and around brace- bridge the toronto maple leaf hockey club advance partv returned to orlllia pour cars left toronto on sunday at noon with chily fall weather that made tiieir trip as far as severn kiver a pleasant one then 3uow waa en countered and between gravenhurst and uracebridge the drifts were at least a foot high on the road cold hits grapes welland oct 19 the first 3tiow of the winter season fell on saturday in welland and the temperature went down to 33 degrees above zero accord ing to unofficial records farmers at tho market stated that the weather would likely put a stop to further grape consignments to the city thirty inches of snow huntsville oct 19 nearly 30 inches of snow has fallen here motor traffic has been seriously interrupted and pedestrian traffic has been light boats delayed fort william oct 19 strong west erly gals with freezing temperatures accompanied by blinding snow flur ries delayed shipping saturday all over lake superior tho ss keewatin docked saturday w itli her upper works sheathed in ice as a result of battling aleet and wind only three grain boats are reported ns clearing with cs0000 bushels from the port of port williamport arthur and cue upbomid lleet of eight boats is merely reported as en route with no time set for arrival drop at hamilton hamilton oct 19 within a week the mercury has tumbled 20 points in hamilton and on saturday afternoon the first snow flurry of the season oc curred of short duration the fall was heavy enough to remind citizens that winder days are in hore the temperature was recorded at 3 de- was a marked drop in the tempera ture and a high wind throughout the night and today has been accom panied by intermittent snow flurries eight below in edmonton edmonton oct 19 edmonton was the coldest city in the dominion with a minimum temperature of s below zero owen sound oct 1 for the pas 10 hours owen sound and vicinity has experienced a regular midwinter storm it started to become cold on friday morning but the change was rot very effective until saturday morning when snow began to full this kept up intermittently all day saturday and during the night and early sun day morning the storm developed into a regular blizzard and there is little indicataion of a letup quite a quan tity of snow lias fallen but the wea ther is not cold and there is little snow in tho streets although in the country districts several inches of snow have fallen apple growers are apprehensive of what might happen to tiieir crop should it become coker the bulk of the winter apples is still on the trees although large quantities have been picked two women die in motor smash miss minnie mara mrs mor- ley aylsworth london victims woodstock oct 19 miss minnie mara and mrs morley alysworth j both of london are dead and several persons injured as a result of a head- on collision between uia automobile in which they were driving and anoth er car driven by andrew patterson of hamilton the accident took place on a dangerous curve on no 2 highway about two miles west of the city at 1130 am miss mara who received terrible head injuries was killed instantly mrs alysworth living until nearly seven oclock sunday evening when i she succumbed to her injuries at the woodstock general hospital the accident occurred a3 a result of an attempt to cut in when round ing the corner it was reported by provincial constable logan on in vestigation the cars met practical ly headon and both overturned in the ditch one on either side of the highway it was found necessary to lift the aylsworth car in order to re move the body of miss mara in the aylsworth car were morley aylsworth manager of the huron and erie mortgage corporation mrs mor ley aylsworth miss mara miss cath erine aylsworth and tho aylsworths young son in the other car were andrew patterson and mr and mrs george smale they were taken to tho woodstock hospital suffering from cuts and bruises but were allow ed to leave after treatment both drivers were questioned by the police after which aylsworth wa3 arrested on a charge of criminal negll genco and released on 5000 hall tho other driver was not held mourners gather at wharf at stavanger sweden to pay homage to andrea and companions daring illfated arctic balloonist of last century whose remains were on the svenskund hound for stockholm watch the weather forecasts present cold spell a little premature fatally hurt by explosion homework tasks boy shows great fortitude to be abolished teacher predicts university professors son climbs stairs unaided to ask for help experimenting in basement death comes sunday after brave fight terribly injured by a premature ex plosion of a homemade bomb one hand blown off and the other badly crushed his face cut am his intestines perforated by broken glass 13-year- old allan guest n of prof w s guest of the university of toronto quietly climbed the stairs from the basement of his home saturday after noon and asked that a doctor be called after a hopeless battle at the to ronto general hospital he died at 11 oclock sunday night without whimpering the plucky boy asked his brother to call a doctor made his way into the kitchen where a maid was working asked her for a glass of water and hastily assured her that everything will be all right just before ho lost consciousness he pupils should do all their studying in school he says abolition of home studies for school pupils and higher iaries for teachers were forecast in a speech delivered re cently by dr w d perelva director of protestant education in quebec before the sixtysixth annual couven- fined to his room upstairs the lads j on of tho provincial association ot mother was with the father i protestant teacher in montreal ere building radio u t schoo hours declared lr allan had been working recently on p when school is over let the pupils go home and do something else and go home yourselves ln- allan and his 15yearod brother fank were experimenting in the basement of their fathers home at so mcmaster avenue shortly after lunch time saturday prof guest has been on sick leave from the department of j electrical engineering of the school of j science for nearly a vear he was con a homemade radio iel which he and frank had constructed from odd pieces j gleaned during their youthful forays into secondhand shops and labora tories they had experienced difficul ty in building a saticractory battery and it was understood that they were working on it last week a few- days sought to allay her fears still further j ago the youngest boy had gleefully by remarking with a smile guess i rushed to his mother and announced wont be able to bake any more cookies that i have the southern stations for you peggy with by hand blown coming in strong after three months off hard work two are drowned in lake simcoe blizzard sweeps across prairies duck hunters victims rough waters third member saved b bowers oracle of owen sound outlines future weather stops at february owen sound unless his planets to sections such as british columbia his delvings in the past aud his da- or britain toucheu by torrid ocean ductions should fail him the northern hemisphere ontario included is lu for its first touch of winter on or currents in addition to data covering weath er in past years the owen sound about the seventh of november fob oracle is guided largely by the nauti- lowed by a quite mild spell leading cal almanac particularly as to posi- up to winters first real ousla ightj tions of the planets and stars he i about nov 22 it was pronounced here j once use other almanacs but got bad- receutly by the oracle of owen sound ly fooled several times when they for years it was the sage of chats- gave erroneous positions and threw worth who made such predictions his calculations out but now the oracle of owen sound i guess the nautical almanac must speaks for the sage ot chats- be dependable because sailors have worth is no more to have accurate dope he comment for years j b bowes has been el known as the sage of chatsworth 1 storms to recede but for the past year has had his judging from his detailed predic dwelling place and the sawmill byj tious now in process of completion which he makes his living a mile or for the coming year tho seer ot the so outside of owen sound there fore the old title of sage is now re placed by the oraclo of owen scund but under whatever title he stands he will still be the same old j b known far and wide in tliia district directly and elsewhere through the press equally for his philosophy and the uncannily high percentage of ac curacy of his longdistance weather forecasts as he himself terms them and long distance is right ho usually make3 up his predictions weathers vagaries anticipates a win ter of alternate and more or less equal periods of storm aud comparative calm most of the winter months will be along tho lines of november which he thinks will bring calm dry weather for the first few days winds rain snow and frost about the seventh mildness in the middle of the month and from about the 22nd to tho end strong winds heavy ralis snow and extreme cold the early part ot december he two torouto men were drowned in the choppy waters of lake simcoe just before noon saturday and a third staggered to the shore and was picked up exhausted after holding fast to an upturned canoe for an hour i tho victims were wallace v bis hop aged 31 of 203 ranleigh avenue and sam gibbons aged 25 of 9s lytton boulevard harold thorne aged 2s of iiva i lonsdale road the third member ot tho party was saved when he clung to the overturned canoe till it drift ed to shore the three men belonged to a party of five who set out in two boats to hunt ducks at the south end of lake simcoe opposite elmhurst beach near keswick waves upset canoe three heavy waves caught the side of tho canoe and upset it thorne tohi isaac walton a farmer who found him stggering up tho beach and through the bushes fter the ordeal ot hanging to the canoe with numbed fingers for an hour after being thrown in the water all three tried to right the canoe and then the other two started to swim for shore thorne stated he remain ed with the canoe not being a strong swimmer he was seen by isaac walton who with his son was cutting wood near- byand both took him to the farm ot selby sedore where he soon recover ed from the exposure and cold of unthreshcd grain in northern sections suffers seven inches of snow i winnipeg chill winds from the north lashed the prairies this week in saskatchewan and alberta heavyj snowfalls disorganized traffic in cities and shattered hope3 of immediate re sumption of threshing in rural area3j millions ot bushels of grain in the northern portion of the two provinces lie soaked and un threshed and are now covered with the copious snows blizzards brought drifted 3now to city streets and piled the white banks far higher than the six and seven british planes may use canadian helium london the posslbllty of using canadian helium as the lifting power for tho british airships ot tho futuro is now under technical consideration memoranda it i3 understood are be ing prepared for submission to the air ministry helium has a great advantage over hydrogen gas in that it is non-ipflam- uiable and nonexplosive but its great er cost and lesser lifting power havo in tho past militated against its use helium is found in natural ga3 in ontario and in alberta and it i3 esti mated that canada could produco about three million cubic feet of helium a year if proper extraction plants were established thomas w gibson deputy minister of mines for ontario recently stated that helium exists in canada only la very small quantities tho only known sources ara in caledou township in ontario and in alberta ho said december 18 next january is a difficult month to outline but there are promises of a storm about tho seventh the first half will he unsettled hut the last halt should be quite stormy most of february should bo mild but this prediction is not complete yet and may be changed i look for an early spring and a dry summer i promis ed this past summers drought you provincial fliers break old record man dies as car skids off ferguson highway north hay oct 10 norman roble a former forest ranger at holland was almost instntly killed when the motor car which ho was driving skid- 1 ded off the ferguson highway ten mie3 south of cochrane with him in tho car were mrs thomas bonner and dobles sixyoarolj sen who were not seriously injured gr v heavy fog which settled ovr the met has made nights con- kidciabh colder the strong chilly wind wl ii matured snow continued sunday 1 wintry a ln3srol in 1 oct ix conditl a- australias wheat yield estimate 200000000 bushels sydney australia the official grain statistician of the common wealth estimates that tho present area under wheat in australia is abuot is160000 acres and places the anticipated yield at 2000000 bushels about this time of year and they said will see tho finishing up of the chart general weather conditions in the northern hemisphere from 12 to her perhaps lasting a week this 14 months ahead i will recede gradually particularly the father evolved method colu ut tha comparative luiet and ti t i miidne33 ot the rest of decembe will it was j bs father who ready bfl broken h uluettled wo a evolved the unique method ot gaug ing weather in advance mr bowes grandfather interestingly enough bought grain for tho british govern ment during tha crimean war and was a comparatively wealthy citizen of dalkeith scotland his son after spending a sizable portion ot his inheritance travelling round tho world settled down to teach school and do a litte farming near phikorton ho got the notion hv aniemborrandthoso whotoiiowed could dope out tha weather in ad advlce are uiaill1 themselves vanco and sent for as much aj he 1 could get of the detailed weather data for many years previous from the british united states canadian and australian weather offices chocking thbs data with tho posi tions of planets and other astronomi cal data in previous years and lu the approaching 12 months ho amused himself by figuring out weather pre dictions for months to come all over the world if certain astronomical conditions produced certain weather in one year ho argued there was a probability that tho sarc conditions would produco tho samo weather if they prevailed again in tho coming 12 months and in checking up he was surprised to find that his predic tions camo trua in a surprising num ber of cases when the elder bowes died some 30 years ago his son now the oraclo of owen sound developed the theory further until his fame grew and he was titled by common consent the sago of chatsworth oracle ho growi mora convinced every year that the theory is funda mentally sound and can ha made to forecast accurately general conditions on this continent a year or mora ahead of timo accuracy average high his average of accuracy so far has ranged from 80 to 85 per cent keep total of 14000 air hours expected by seasons end sault ste marie out oct 19 when tho present flying season is com pleted tho air operations department ot tho ontario forestry branch will havo established a new record of over 11000 hours flown during tho yeart tho highest previous total was in 1020 when tho airmen rolled up a total of llb00 flying hours itcpoits tiled at the department covering nir operations up until oct 17 show a total ot 13015 hours flown the fly- nd as tho ing operations aro not yet complete and thero aro somo reports yet to como in so that captain maxwell is confident that tho total will reach 1 1000 to dato six operating bases have been closed they aro lake st jos eph caribou shehandowan twin lakes iteml lake and oba lake it is expected that the remaining oper- der the present syatemir pereival said many teachers sen tht children home with a great deal 01 studying to do before the next school day and the parents have to do the teaching next day the teachers hold ton o com petition to see how parents compare b3 pedagogues it the parents are going to do the teaching they should get the salary cheque he said while no definite promise of in creased salaries for fachers was forthcoming the various speakers told the delegates that every effort was be ing made to make the profession more alluring and this involved increased financial reward this is crtainly along the right lines growing children should not be burdened with home lessons les3 than half the present number of pupils should bo assigned each teacher so that closer and more intimate atten tion could be given to the scholars parents are loaded with heavy taxes or charges for their childrens educa tion and are necessarily obliged to help or oversee the home lessons which they are paying for pupils are actually obliged to work many more hurs than their teachers do and are tied up for a longer time than the average business man oflice employee or day laborer this exacting mental toil interferes with their physical de- inches of precipitation recorded in teloiment aml tae genera health parts ot alberta and saskatchewan an we northern saskatchewan is hardest hit by the worst october bliznard in years seven inches of snow fell at saskatoon as the storm stretched from nipawein in the east to battle- australian flier reaches goal ford in the west precipitation last ing for a dozen hours in most cases left wheatfields snowladen and threatened to prevent threshing this fall in many cases sprouting and matting ot wheat has already been reported stocks which havo lain unthreshcd for weeks in northern alberta where heavy crops were expected ore cov ered with a white blauket it is esti mated that half of the north alberta crop is yet to be threshed due to the wet weather of the past few- weeks five and onehalf inches of snow fell in edmonton during an 1s- hour blizzard temperature within 10 aud 12 degrees of zero were listed in northern towus on october 13th snowfalls blanket ed calgary and hegina in the south ern parts of the provinces but vanish ed on appearance of a bright sun ing in mind that his predictions are not intended to apply to local condi tions on any specified dato or period but to general conditions in tho north- orn hemisphere and on this continent in particular thoy are applicabio mostly to regions betweon tha j3th ating bases in tho province will be closed some timo next week during this past week most of tho planes on station returned to sault ste marie for tho winter and for reconditioning tho operating personnel who have manned the planes during the suni- and 55th degrees ot latltudo but not mer have departed on ieavo kings fordsmith arrives at port darwin making a record flight port darwin northern territory australia oct 19 swooping down from tho skies from across the timor sea wingcommander charles kings- fordsmith established a new record for flights between england and tho australian continent and beat his friendly rival fllghtlleutenant c w hill who left england four days ear lier to australian soil tho new mark established at his landing in nino days 21 hours 40 min utes is considerably better than the previous record of 15 i days estab lished in february 192s by bert iiinkler rival suffers mishap behind him on tho island of timor ho loft flightlieutenant hill who saturday morning on the vergo of breaking hinklers record by a day himself turned over his plane on a beach between keopang and ata- peoplc timor smashing both wings ot his airplane damaging its under carriage and breaking its propeller ho himself escaped uninjured but his mishap allowed kingsfordsmith to overtake him and get to australia first had hill arrived first ho would havo beaten hinklers record by a few hours and established a record ot his own which would havo hold until kingsfordsmith arrived smithy as australia knows the airman whoso feats many consider to surpass thoso of colonel lindbergh appeared tanned and well as ho des cended from his plane it was almost impossible to rcalizo that ho had been through ono ot tho most gruelling flights in the history ot aviation and that tho trip had been niado against his doctors advice kingsfordsmith had two operations and two bouts with influenza in tho few weeks preceding his start from heston middlesex on october 0 best flight he ever made his first net upon landing was to ask for a cigarette describing tho last lap ot his flight over the clangorous timor sea kingsfordsmith comment ed that it was tho best he had ever mado and that ho had avoragod 110 miles per hour the chief differences between european and our educational systems 1 is that in europe young people are prince albert and nlmos ai much at tk to think and here they are largely trained to remember big growth of industry shown in dominion canadas industrial growth and th great expansion ot her exports pro vide one of the most remarkable chap ters in the history of world commerce her industrial production has trebled in 20 years this statement from to ronto gives an idea of the giani strides made by the dominion from an isolated and dependent community canada has become a na tion trading with practically every country of the world exceeding many ot the oldest and largest countries in trade standing canada leads the world in the exports of wheat printing paper nickel and asbestos occupies second place in tho export ot wheat flour as well as occupying a very high place in tho exports of many other staple commodities such a3 lumber aud timber automobiles fish copper barley cheese raw furs whiskey meats rubber tires farm implements pulpwood cattle raw gold silver lead rye oats rubber footwear leather and hides in volume of trade can ada also stands high among leading nations of the world t the elfins invitation by robert e key velvet shadows lie on the lawn tho moon lias clambered tho skies no dew has fclleu the grass is dry como where tho autumn corn is high and a breath of the south wind sighs wo shall scurry tho sleeping pewits brood and startle the restless hare and a lark will stir at our vagrant feet as we cleave a way through the whis pering wheat and threaten the coneys lair wo shall raise the voico of a watchful dog down there by the lonely farm aud a cock will crow on the elmtreo log and away by tho pond a big bullfrog will echo his hoarse alarm we shall pauso at tho threshold ot early day and watch for the golden hour then joy shall carry our feet astray into the distant hills to play on the top of a dawncloud tower from the christian science monitor new modern bakery to cost 750000 contracts are being let lu winni peg for tho erection ot the most mod ern biscuit bakery in the entire west ern hemisphere at a cost of 750000 this welcome news became known re cently when mrf austin j bordley sales matiager ot christie brown and company limited announced that his company had acquired an entire block on notre dame avenue west winni peg on which tho new plant is to ba erected work will commenco as soon as arrangements with contract ors aro completed and it is expected that the new bakery will bo in full operation within nino months time a staff numbering in the neighborhood ot one hundred persons will be em ployed anklets to stop mixup of babies chicago hospital has adopt- eddevice with self- locking clasps chicago anklets with selflocking clasps which must bo severed to bo removed aro now being used to pre vent baby mixups in chicago hospit als drarnold kegel city health com missioner revealed recently tho anklets bearing metal identifi cation tags attached in the presenco of two witnesses at tho timo of each birth aro being used as a result ot a mlo established by dr kegel to elim inate the possibility of a repetition of tho recent bambergerwatkins baby mixup which attracted nationwide at tention tho anklets aro used in addi tion to tho regular hospital tags in tho bambergerwatkins case the infants of mrs charles bamberger and mrs william watkins wero mixed in hospital when identification marks orthe babies were confused by placing each child in the wrong cloth ing tho mixup was finally adjusted the moon says a radio expert throws back tho wireless waves from the earth we dont blame it every cloud may havo a silver lin ing but every overcoat hasnt a silk one success is merely a matter of buy ing your experience and selling it at a profit nature gives every man a character but he must supply the reputation him self black flics are again swarming in northern ontario which provides tho when tho parents swapped tho babies cheerful reflection that thoxr may bo thoy took homo from tho hospital next years flies