Grey Highlands Newspapers

Flesherton Advance, 27 Jun 1923, p. 3

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V j s Canada's Fifty-Sixth Birthday Canada, on arrival of her fifty-, of the world, with a 1922 production sixth birthday, is yet a land of small and sparse population, and, taking account of this aspect alone, people in other lands frequently ascribe to of over 380,000,000 bushels of such quality that uninterruptedly for ten years the Dominion has carried off tha world's first honors for that crop. This country, to which are ascribed the Dominion attributes and qualities [ such inappreciable qualities, has a of insignificance in other phases of j virtual monopoly of certain valuable her national life. j mineral deposits. With but one-half But with her population this atomic! of one per cent, of the world's popula- element ceases. In all her aspects : tion she produces 90 per cent, of its Canada is to be thought of in terms of, cobalt, S8 per cent, of its asbestos. 85 immensity. A land created on a Ti-jper cent, of its nickel, 12 per cent, of tan plan, of towering mountains,! its silver and 4 per cent, of its gold, sweeping forests, horizon-bound plain, 'She possesses 17 per cent, of the coal fertile valleys, expansive lakes and' resources of the globe and 71 per cent.) mighty rivers; all enterprise is con- < of those of the British Empire, ceived on a mammoth scale, and so in! Canadian enterprise has of necess- bringing these magnificent natural ity been planned and carried out on assets under human control, under- 'a scale compatible with these extn- takings have in many instances sur- sivc resources. At Niagara Falls, passed in magnitude anything pre- Canada has great development ofi viously undertaken. The occasion of electrical energy, while the Queenston' All hail to the day when the Britons Rejoicing to mark how we Ivmor came over The Flag of Old England. Weekly Market Report TORONTO. Man. wheat No. 1 Northern, $1.21. Manitoba oats No. 2 CW. 54V>c; No. 3 CW, 51 %c; No. 1 fed, BO^c. Man. barley Nominal. - x AH the above, tracK, bay ports. Am. corn No. 3 yellow, $1.01 H; No. 2, $1.01. Barley Malting, 60 to 62c, accord- ing to freights outside. Buckwheat^No. 2, 70 to 71c. Rye No. 2, 79 to 81c. Pnas No. 2, $1.40 to $1.45. Millfeed Del., ^Montreal freights, bags included: shorts, per ton good feed flour Ontario wheat No * Ontario No. 2 white oate-50 to olc. JnUrio cor, -Nominal. Ontario comb honey, per doz., No. L $4.50 to $6; No. 2, $3.75 to $4.26. Smoked meats Hama, med., 28 to 28c; cooked hums, 39 to 4A-; smoked rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 25 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34c: sp- cial brand breakfast bacon, 34 to 38c; backs, boneless, 37 to 42c. Cured meats Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 Ibs., $18; 70 to 90 Ibs.. $17.60;. 90 Ibs. and up, $16.50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight rolls, $33. Lard Pure tierces, 15*4 to tubs, 15% to 16c; pails, 16 to Canada's 1022 wheat crop would make over 12 billion loaves of bread, and to carry it would require trains over 2,000 miles long. Canada raises more wheat and consumes more bread per capita than any other country. 200 million of the 388 million bushels were moved during the season. Canada won the world's wheat championship in 1893; for ten years successively the world's first wheat honors wtnt to the Canadian West, and in world wheat competi'ion in 1921, Canada secured 22 of the 25 prizes. Seajrer Wheeler also captured the world's wheat championship five times, and created a world pro- duction record with 8- bushels to the acre. another birthday to the Dominion is power plant features the world's sufficient excuse to make a rough largest water-wheel-driven generators, survey of some of these. At Bassano, watering the Canadian Canada's coastline totals in length Pacific's vast eastern irrigation tract, nearly one-half of the circumfervnce'is the ec/itinent's greatest irrigation of the globe, with 12,000 miles of sea dam, and at Gouin, at the head of coast and 220,000 square miles of the St. Maurice River, P.Q., is tha freshwater fisheries; she possesses world's biggest dam with a capacity most expansive and potentially weal- double that of the Assouan on the thy fishing: grounds, and in Lake Su- Nile, perior shares with the United Spates Among other features in which And planted their standard with sea foam still wet! Around anti above us their spirits will hover, Rejoicing to mark ho%v we honor it yet. Beneath it the emblems they cherished are waving. The Rose of Old England the road- side perfumes; The Shamrock and Thistle the north winds are braving, Securely the Mayflower blushes and blooms. Hail to the day when the Britons came over And planted their standard with sea-foam still wet, Around and above us their spirits will hover, it yet Manitoba flour 1st pats. We'll honor it yet, we'll honor it yet, i ^ 6 90 b , The flag of Old England! We'll ^o.fS. honor it yet. large, li)c; To- $16 to Slfi.75; sheep, choico, light, ,. , to $6.50 ; do, choice, heavy, $4 to $4.50 ; twins, do, culls and bucks, $2.75 to $3.50; t kfy Extr ? N 2;| toothy, IK: <,, ao, rair, $o to *to.ou; milkers, spring- In the temples they founded, their track, Toronto, $15; No. 3 timothy, era. each, $70.50 to $100- calves faith is maintained, S13 to * 14 : mixed, $12.50 to 313.00; choice, 89.50 to $10.50; do, med $7 to Every foot of the soil they be-: !ow . er grades, ?8. $9 ; d o> con , $5 to $(5; lamb spring queathed is still ours. JJS*E **" Per *"~ *' , ,, ironto, $9.50. The graves where they moulder, no; Cheese New foe has profaned. But we wreathe them with verdure, i and strew them with flowers! 'Stiltons, 33 Vic. New The blood of no brother, in civil strife , cheese, 28 to 30c. poured. Butter Finest In this hour of rejoicing encumbers '.] our souls! The frontier's the field for the triot's sword, And cursed be the weapon that f ac- ' ove ^ tion controls. Joseph Howe. Big Things Under Way. The following are among the big the largest body of freshwater in the Canada leads ia the possession of a! undertakings planned or under way world and its most extensive inland vast game fishery. Mountains, preserve in the Rocky Alberta. This national Her forest resources are second to park has an extent of 4,400 square none and she is the world's first fur miles and gives protection to 10,000 producer. She is surpassed by only on country in the production of pulp nd paper and by one only in her wealth of water powers. Canada has a great reserve of vir- gin arricultural land with more than 200,000,1)00 acres of arable land in the Western provinces as yet Rocky Mountain sheep alcjie. These are but some few of the many big things Canada possesses natural, agricultural, commercial and engineering features of which a country yet in its infant growth may well be proud. Canada may yet be in Canada: Canada's building, 1922, $331,843,- 800; 1921. 240,133,300. Completion of Welland ship canal. expenditure on new velopment. Railway systems planning large additions to rolling stock. Sir Adam Beck states that present capacity development of Chippawa- Queenston plant is in sight, and fur-! ther prospective development Aa ?i No - - yellow, 98c. Data- 86.90; do. 2nd^, 86.40: strong bakers'; A.. s*fm * _ - _ awe turkeys, young, 10 Ibs. and up 25c. at total cost of probably $100,000,000. 1 s d bv the plow and nianv attract! vc - mall in the nuniber of her citzens, Completion of Toronto harbor im- provements, at total cost of $25,- 000.000. New $10,000,000 power Winnipeg, with capacity of 165,000 h.p. New plant and dam of Shawinigan $5,000,000 is to be spent for new terminal facilities at Montreal and $1,500,000 at Quebec. gal.; maple sugar, lb., 'JS , $10; Vix^ern hogs, fairly "good weight, Hollinger and other gold mines inT! ! $10; sows. W.50 to $7; papers offer- S.ooo|^^^-^ * Si .b.f^fLr?i'to^c CI^G^SS^ felccted Canada from Coast to Coast Charlottetown, P.E.I. The lobsteriyear and expenditures will be limited fishing season opened recently for the to linking up short stretches and n-. North side of the Island, and big pairing bud spots in the reads, catches are being reported, some fish- ermen larding as much pounds ; a single day. as 1,100 Halifax, N.S. The gold mine for- Reginu, Sask. Prof. W. G. Wor- cester, ceramic engineer for the Sas- katchewan Government, is making a time will remedy this: the stage is , w fertile farms available for immediate set and ready for that bigger popula- V r ,* nn ^ W f r C " whlch wl11 de " settlement in the East. Yet. with, tion which, when it does come, will ve ' p , , '!?!? h ' p " what she has under cultivation, s'he' transform this country into one of the! *- 5 ' 000 ' 00 Pover development has already assumed second place leading-if not the first-country of Scheme P la ed/or harnessing amongst the wheat-growing nations' the world. P? wer f Lake &t John and Kiver. Another power development on St. Francis River, to produce 30,000 h.p. Graving dock at Esquimault, B.C., $4,000,000; drydock 1,150 ft. long at St. John. N.B. Great Lakes Pulp and Paper Co. plan to spend $2,000,000 on a paper mill at Fort William. Several other new or additional sive developments. pulp and paper plants are planned in special investigation of whiteware different parts of the Dominion. BBUIBX. .o. ine KOIU mine lor- . vov B v - _ merlv operated near Carleton. Yar- clay d.po.1* In Southern 1^ Ljifc"*fi SSt* 1 iii\;( i Y ui 1 ^ i KWU i ic:i \jfi *c;iuii, *. 0.1 - i r - r -- . i (inn *. i_ *i i* mouth County, is being inspected, andjchewan for the benefit of a British 000,000 on new umvers.ty building. 1__ ^f u i I i i ^ 1 _l yVTitflinw t TX'ViipVi r>rMtmnlaf*ia .>. ,li. v^-I.tv. Wll syndicate which contemplates estab- lishing a pottery in the province. determining their actual Edmonton. Alta. Short courses of j helpful instruction for wives of soldier X.B. The renown settlers are being arranged on a com- samples of gold and lead have been sent to Perth Amboy, N.J., for analyz- ing and value. Frcdi'ricton, 000 for four new buildings. New Trinity College buildings under way. Several large elevators are planned for, including a 10 million bushel one in Montreal, which will be the larg- est in the world. Each province is spending many millions on good roads. build a $2,000,000 ocean pier; Government Ballantyne pier also projected for $.",000,000 at Vancouver. Britannia Mines to spend $2,000,000 on reconstruction and improvements. which New Bmacwtck seed potatoes ! prehensive scale by the Department of Wireless transpacific station plan- are gaining in other countries, has re-j Extension at the University of Al- ned for Vancouver to cost $2,000,000. suited in the farmers of this province; berta in co-operation with various! Toronto University asks for $1,500,- planting a larger acreage to seed po- 1 other official organizations. tatoes this year than for some time. Vancouver, B.C.- The Whalen Pulp past. To date more than one hun^and Paper Co. plans to take out 20;- dred farmers in PiscaUiguis County, p 000,000 feet of logs in the vicinity of Maine, have signed up for seed pota- J Thurston Harbor. The T. A. Kelley toes from New Brunswick. I Co. is getting out 14,000.000 feet for Quebec, Que. The Quebec Pulp and the Powell River pulp mill and for Paper Co., a new corporation recently ; export. These operators and other organized, will buiid this summer at, smaller " es are a11 on the Queen Sillery, P.Q., groun.dwood pulp mill] Charlotte Islands, but there are other with a daily capacity of 100 tons. The' ! P ers a' "*? the coast and on some plans provide for expansion of the ' tne ' s ' an d s - plant for the production of sulphite; " d newsprint when it is de- 1 Fifty-five Armenian Orphans Sault ste. Marie. Ont.-A syndi-j to Embark for Canada. cate, composed of Messrs, W. J. Madi-' IT" gon. D. H. Hooey, and A. Harrison, I A despatch from Marseilles, France, have started operations near Kauf-i 3:-Throu K h the efforts of a Paris man Spur, Shawanaga, opening up a | committee, fifty-five Armenian orph- feldspar mine. They report feldspar an , s who * r u nv f d from , Belrut Wl11 be in very large quantities and of the ' aken u to Cherbourg, where they will beat quality. k "'' ' i '" 1 ' "" : " 1 Winnipeg, Man. Expenditures on' * roads in Manitoba this year will am-j Speaking before the Canadian Club ount to $556,500, according to an- of New York, Dr. James W. Robert- D.-. P. E. Doolittle Re-elected president of the Cana- dian Automobile Association at the Hamilton couvention. Canada. Canada, Maple land, land of great; mountains, Lake land and river land, land! 'twixt the eas: God grant us hearts that are large as our heritage. Spirits as fret- us its breeze. Grant us Thy fear, that we walk in humility, Fear that is reverent not fear that is base. Grant to us righteousness, wisdom, prosperity; Peace if unstained by disgrace. Grant us Thy love, and the love of our country, Grant us Thy strength, for our strength is Thy name. Shield us from danger, from every ' adversity ; Shield us. Father, from shame! Last-born of nations, the offspring of freedom, j Heir to wide prairies, thick forests, red gold: I God grant us wisdom to value our birthright, Courage to guard what we hold. Arthur Beverley Cox. It is a pretty serious thing to break i an old friendship, for, like china, it can never be made quite whole again. ' A broken friendship may be soldered,' nouncement by Hon. W. R. Clubb, son declared that in the past four Minister of Public Works. Of this! years Canada had made more real sum $273,000 will be contributed by ! progress than any other nation along the province, $60,000 by the Domin-lthc lines of child welfare. Six Can- ion, and $223,600 by the municipal-! adian universities are giving courses British Columbia plans $20,000,000 but it will always show the crack. The Western Canada Coloni- zation Association. The Western Canada Colonization Association has been entirely re- organized, the new board consisting of representatives of the Dominion Gov- ernment, the Canadian National Rail- ways and the Canadian Pacific Rail- way. This effects the creation of a national land settlement organization co-ordinating all the available immi-! gration forces in the country. Ade- ! Lord Ampthlll Grand Master of th Grand Lud^e of coming of , - U ; & ' n V, nada f r , Grand represented on the next five years and equal contri- bution from the Dominion Govern- ment. The Imperial Government has signified its readiness to implement! Last year itS Tlullff $1|)OOOO !>,' \-l. i.- t-n nonlnf- u'or.i nn'ov.l, continent THE LARGEST PASSENGER ENGINE IN CANADA Sixteen new passenger eiLgines are shortly to be put in operation over the uatlonally-owiied railway lines in Canada, of which the engine in the pic- ture above is the first. The engine is ninety feet long a nil it weighs 290 tons. ion, and $223,600 by the municipal- adian universities are g.vmg courses nrst. me engine is ninety feet long and it weighs 290 tons. Don't try to <ave money bv savin* 1 with l^S ities. No extensive provincial high- 1 to women to fit them for work in TH engines are built in Kingston and represent the last word h. develop- food, Hk- ' the man who' traded his Content 'ro way undertakings will be started this saving the lives of babies, he said. | ment of sp<>eil and power locomotives. Leghorns for Pint-inn i with 16" I J total of 2,690 birds its pleejp, $100,000 per year to assist ' were entered in the laying contests in sending British colonists. In addt- '' conducted by the Dominion Expert- tion unexpected private subscriptions mentsJ Farms and these birds laid aggregate approximately 1,000,000. | 391.805 eggs, giving an average oJ Sir Augustus Nanton, of Winnipeg, is ^ l"'l egs per bird, fn nvernge pro . the new president of the* organization, duction British Columbia led with "* j !81.2 eggs per bird, Ontario second eggs, and the Canadian conducted at Ottawa, third IN RABBITBORO OH . DOCTOR -DID xou HEAR ~S~ ABOUT JUDGE BUCK '5 ROBBERY?) 1 r YOU ARE A CASE. POCToR - DON'T OF YOU ' WELL- WHY NOT MAKE. A HUSBAND OF ME. ? NO 1 WHO 5 HE BEN ROBBING NOW MISS TLOPPV

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