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THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE WEDNESDAY, JANUART IJ, •» THE 'FLESHERTON ADVANCE Published on Coliingrwood street, Tleaherton, Wedne«day of each week. Circulation over 1100, ; *Priee Ir Canada, |2.00 per year, [ <|rii^i paid in advance |1.60. In • jb.S^* fS-SO per year, when paid in advance |2.00. 9r. H. THUKSTON. Editor JJOT LANTKRNS. BUT FOOTPATHS The sacrifice of human life on the highways of the Province continued j up to the last day of 1927, and the killinK season pr<.misep to be as brisk | ai ever in the year on which we have i entered. Thi.s. too, despite the 'num- erous suggestions which wise ones have continued to make to pedes- trians. In Eljtin County, for ex- ample, as a sequel to the killing of a respected resident who was run over and killed while walking to his home, close to the side of the roadway, it is suggested that if he had been lighted up the auto driver would have passed him by. It is therefore seriously proposed that pedestrians should either keep off the roads, or light themselves up â€" behind a.* well as l)e- fore, we sppose. Surley there is no aeed to go to all this trouble. Our opinion that there should be a rais- ed footpath for the pedestrian on all highway?^ On it he might reason- aibly expect to he out of the way of all vehicles, and the autoist especially would be protected from actions for damages or criminal prosecution. It was surely shortsighted, or worse, for the authorities to go to big expense to widen the roads to accommodate vehicle traffic and to remove even the semblance of provision for the safety of foot passengers. And it is especially necessary that the foot- path should be re-e.Uahlished in order that the lives of children, going to and from school, may be protected. by Mrs. Lo Lee Chi, a citizen of Hong [ Kong, the famous British possession off China. F;-eling biar hearted, Mr. Lo gave his wife two billj in Chinese n>ij: ey and ,*he hid them in a pocket. Forgetting that she was so rich, she washed the dress. Then came the ir- oning and she found the bills thor- ougHy cleaned and wall starched. The husband took them, now a mere lumj), to the bank, and after unscram- l.linjr them, all that could be discov- ered were the words, "Shanghai" and "Hong Kong," but the number and the date had disappeared. The bank refused to honor them and now it is uyj to the Privy Council to decide what ! they are worth, if anything. Bowes Forecasts Another { Fairly Dry Summer The Fierce Light That Beats Upon A Throne To Have High School An enthusiastic meetin â-  of the rate- pr.yers of the Fevershan school sec- .^gnes MacPhail was in town last week. I don't know whether I'd care to be in her shoes (literally speakinft) or not. For instance, as she passed our window, I made the remark to tho.-.e in th? office that "There's Agnes MacPhail." In.itantly, every man and woman had to rush up to the front to take a ppek at her, just as though she I were Rudolph Valentino, ths Prince of ^ I Wales or the whole of Barnum's cir- 1 I cus, elephants, wild animals, clowns j I and bra.is band all rolled up in one. I i ' don't know whether they were di?ap- i pointed or not. any way, all they saw | i was a well dressed, fine looking, mod- | I r:.t personage, whose claim to distinc- i Canada's only will hftvie a very decided .now storm of strong, persistent winJ, rain and s.iow; decidedly cold; latt few days milder. January, 1929 â€" First '.liree weeks The annual weather predictions of | very mild. Mr. J. B. Bowes of Owen Sound werei February, 1929 â€" QuU- mild. published in the Toronto Mail & Em- pire last week and we give them be-'r 1 C<,L«~I Caj* low as they appeared. Mr. Bowes ' F CVerSnam dCDODl 060. is to the fore with his long distance weather prognostications for 1928 and for the first part of 1929, which will mak3 very interesting reading for all, v/ho make any pretense of watching ; ^r'^, ^^. j,g,j j„ ^^e scl vol on Tues the weathsr conditions and its varia- , j^^ afternoon and it w;. •• decided by tions from year to year. Mr. Bowes ^ ^^j^ ^f 53 f^p g„j 7 a^jainst to build hrs be?n spending quite a considerable ^^ addition to the present school house time of late in calculating his fore- j -^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ jjjgj, gchool in the casts for the next twelve months, and ' ,(,„„8hip of Osprey. Mr. H. W. Ker- is :ntiified that he will not be very „jj,,g„ explained tl c situation and far ...It. He bases all his predictions 1 ,^^^^ jj,g n,ecting th' cost of the build- on scientific principles and maintains j^g ^^j ^jj^ receip -; to be obtained. that he cannot go far wrong at any ^.j^ j^^n Wilson < f Collingwood is t'l^"- the architect and drew the plans for With regard to 1927 he admits that the addition. It i» stated that Mr. he was a little bit off in the spring D. L. Weber of Kimberley has been predictions, but that taken as a whole awarded the cont act, the building to his forecast of a fairly dry season ccjt $4,500 and with the heating plSnt came true. A glance at the 1928 and incidentals the cost will amount forecast goes to show that there is not to approximately $5,350. The need , a great deal of change from that of of a high school in Osprey Township j lart year, and that the coming year is i-.as been felt for some time and it is going to be another dry one, although n credit to the ratepayers and trustees IN MEMORIAM LeGARD â€" In affectionate remem- brance of our dear mother, Christena LeGard, who entered her eternal rest January 12, 1922. Oh, speak not of the love that's sooth- ed or falters. Oh tell us not of idle, vain rcr^ets. We miss her ,aa the earth v/ould miss the sunshine; We loved her so our hearts cannot forget. Sadly missed. â€" Meda and Allen. Advertise In The Advane* he does not think that it u going to be di'y enough to be at all harmful to the farm crops. These forecasts are for any part of the Northern Hemisphere located in the same relative ffosition between the oquBtor and the pole as North Amer- tion is that of being Canada's only j ica, and are not to be applied to coun- j v.-oman M. P. I tries or areas which receive their heat A little later I was in an office ' from the torrid or ocean currents, I ac'i o is the road» when she passed 1 such as Great Britain or the British : Again.and I called Jim's attention to [ Columbia coast. Mr. Bowes is proud thn fact He jumped to the front o^ his record of past years, nothwith- I window as quick as lightning to see I standing the many criticism.^ which the sights, with the remark, "Gosh, j have been levelled at h.m. and he is ; I've never see Aggie before. Darn, f prepared to stand back of any predic- I she's a fine looking girl, isn't she?" i And there you are. I suppose that's the kind of stuff that's going on a- lound her all the time except down in Ceylon and in the neighborhood of the Feversham section that they have taken the matter into their own hands. Nobody has ever added up The value of a smile; We kn&w how much a dollar's worth And how much is a mile; We know the distance to the 3un, 'ihe size and weight of earth. But no one here can tell us How much a smile is worth. CLEAN 'EM UP This is the Time to Clean Up your Slow Accounts. We are Specialists in Collections. Let us Turn your BAD DEBTS in- to Hard Cash. We are doing this £or others. â€" Why Not For You? KELLY & AIKEN Persistent Collectors Orangeville Guelph Owen Sound ANNUAL MEETING. EDITORIAL NOTES They have a new mayor in Toronto â€" one of the Mac's. Surely Mayor McBrid^ will see to it that the Pro- vincial capital has a City Piper. • • • Sir Thomas Beecham, one of Brit- ain's great musicians, declares his nation is the lazie.^t in the world. He foresees a generation which will never get out of bed. Many of this ! generation arc now practising, with the aid of radio and indulgent wives. | Cattle prices took a turn upward last year, being $4.50 per hundred- weight higher. On the other hand. the hog market has been disappoint- I ing, and the tendency has been down- 1 ward. Experts prophesy that 1928 > will likely bring satisfactory results to the farmer who s.tudies the markets. pf South Grey, where they all know her since she was so high. Wherever I she goes she is the synosure of all I eyes, gaping, staring and with all kinds of comments, nice, nasty and otherwise. Women being women maybe 999 out of every thousand envy her and would like to be- in her .ihoes. But personally, being a he- man, I believe I'd be inclined to tire r.f it after a while, and some day turn on the rabble and with fierct countenance and pugilistic gestures, 'â- xclaim in my most terible staccato, "Go to the blazes," orly I wouldn't pronounce blazes that way. That's what I would do if I were in Agnes' ihoes â€" but then that's impossible, for I wear nines and Agnes takes four and a half or thereabouts, I presume. â€" Wiarton Echo. PETTY FOES. We are told that nearly a third of the homes in the United States are ! without baths, which lea^s the wise- j acre of the Arkansas Gazette to ex- 'â-  plain that this does not matter as ' nearly a third of the people of the United States are seldom at home. • â- â€¢ ♦ A Canadian doctor, who has had a distinguished career in the British metropoli.^, is among those knighted by the King this New Year. Many soldiers from the Dominion, who re- ceived the benefit of his care and »t- tention while pjntic"^aling in the great war, will rempmljer him as Dr. I George Washington Badgcrow, and j will agree that he deserves any hon- I our that may be confei-red on him. I Dr. Badgerow is an old York boy and ; visits his alma mater in Toronto per- I iodically. Stanley, the great explorer, said that more of his men were killed by insects than by elephants. The stings and poison of the swarms of petty foes were worse and in the end more deadly than the attacks of wild ani- mals. That is so often the story of life. People who heroically fight great dangers yield to little frets and worrie.1, and go down before the small trials of daily life. Petty temptations cat into character. Trifles make hu- man intercourse an irritation instead of a help, niid foara cause more troub- le and hindrance than do actual fatal- ities. The tiuth is that we pit our â- itrength, our ''ourage, our Christian faith pgainst real evils, but we let fears, anxieties and doul)ts have their won ring way and do not realize how they rob the days of their peace and the heart of its valor. tion he makes, admitting that no per- son can make a perfect forecast of weather conditions' for a year. January â€" First ten days very cold; strong winds; heavy snow falls; bal- »nce very mild and calm. February â€" First fifteen days quite mild and calm; about 17th cold and un- settled; 24th strong winds, rain, snow and quite cold. Marqh â€" First few days the finish of the February storm, then real mild and dry to about the 24th, then cold, windy and wet. April â€" About the 6th a very decid- ed storm of wind, rain and heavy snow very cold. This storm will be follow- ed by very mild and dry weather for the balance of the month. May â€" First week, very strong and cold winds, rains and a very probable 5now storm with some frost. June â€" First few days mild. Ab- out the 6th very strong winds, heavy 1 rains and frosts in northern districts. July â€" First week strong winds and heavy rains; balance very warm, calm and dry, conditions conducive to thun- derstorms. I .\ugu.)t â€" First half average tem- perature and quite dry; strong winds' with rain about the 16th to 22nd, with ' balance mild. I September â€" Average temperature,' calm and dry to about the 26th, then cool winds and rain. ^ | October â€" About average tempera- ture, calm and dry to about the 20th, then very strong persistent winds, heavy lains and a very decided snow storm will fill in the last 10 days of the month. November â€" First few days will see the finish of the October storm! b 1- ancc very decidedly dry and warm. De-emberâ€" First ten days quite dry, warm and calm; next fifteen days The annual meeting of East Grey .Agricultural Society will be held for the election of officers and other bus- iness in the Town Hall. Flesherton, on .January 1.1, at 2 o'clock in the after- noon. All members and those wish- ing to become members' for 1928, are urged to be present to show that sup- port is behind the Society. A spec- ial invitation is extended to the ladies. R. RICHARDSON, T. W. FIN1?LAY President, Sec.- Treas. NOTICE. Smilcy's Mill. Ceylon. Our Saw and Shingle Mill at Cey- lon will open for business about the first of February. Custom lumber sawintr. Shinglebolts to be cut 50 inches and pealed. Terms cash. W The T)kimond Need Never be Old-Fashw?ted /DRBCIOOS STONSS nevfr Jr wear out. Their I'u- tnortaltty Is aasured. But '.h« â- tonrs rlchent Jn assoclatlona arc often found In eettliitfJ which seem unlovely to mod- ern ey«i. For Burprlslntfly little money, you may have tno precious stones from an o.d- fashioneil Jewel mounted m on i-.tquUlte new si-ttlriT t at will enhance the beauty of the gem many times. I,et i!» tho\e you the Iuvcl« modem tvltina^ far rtn;;j, bar-pt<n. "to., in whitf or grefm gold ""d ploiinum. A. Armstrong & Fleslierton, Ont. Son -jr. A Toronto Star:â€" Bro. Currie of the Roo Star, who maintains that wolves won't bile, will kindly rise and ex- plain the despatch from Austria, say- ing that eleven girl.i returning from a party through n fnr?.?t were de- voured by wolves. Nothing ea.'icr fov tjie genial Seo scribe. The Algonia w»lvjs are civi- lized. WISE MEAFORD COUNCIL, Great Burglar.1 v/er* l.anged in Britain up to IfiUD. Hanging too lenient a puni.-thrr.'jnt for a thug who now goes abroad with a loaded revolver ready to kill anyone who re- fiues to meet his ileniunds. .As hang- ing i.-i not likely to be revived for this crime, the judge.- shouKI impose the severest punishi.ienl provided l>y the law. This should should apply also to the man unable to !;ivc n propar account of himself while found pos- sessed of a loaded revolver or other murderous weapon. There is to the credit of the lf>27 j I Meaford Council the taking nut, about ] ' the first of April la.it, of a policy of r ir?urance against claims for accidunt.s | ' or fatalities occuring on any of the | i rrrroration' work or in connection I '• with any of the town property. | \ Under this policy th? town is inde'n- ' i nified against claim? for damages to j I the extent, we understand, of ten thr.usand doll.irs, the policv, of se?ms '""'-'"^i Ijeing renewable 'yearly. It I Wii.-v fortunate indeed that the town was thus insured when the regret- I able fatality occurred on the market ' .4!]unre. Which claim has been set- tled in the payment to Mrs. Perry â-  Smith of thiHeen hundred dollars â-  bv the Globe Indemnity Company. The policy was taken out about the I firat of Aprila last and payment of j the first year's premium ($100.15) ' was made on the fifth of May. The British Privy Coun' il is ciilter upon as the last court of resort in th' Empiro, to settle maiiy odd qup.-<lion.<. Just now it has under cnn-iiideration the question of bow much washing a bank bill will stand and still be val- uable as currency. The matter has been brought before their Lordships TENDERS WANTED. Scaled Tenders will be rjceivcd by : the undersigned up to Jar. 25th, for \ 20 cords of green mnple and b?pch wood, 18 inches l()ng. In he delivered to ,S.S. No. ."1, .Artemesia, by the firjt of March, 1!>28. â€" GEO. R. BLACKBURN, Sec.-Treas. R.R. 8^ Flesherton. 1 siness Trainiml ><> Young people who wish to succeed will make the necessary preparation for success. The best preparation is a Business Course or a Shorthand and Typewriting Course, or both. The Very Beat place to take up such a course is at the Northern Business College Owen Sound, Ont. For forty-seven years past we have specialised In preparing young men and wome ntor Buslneai Pesltlona. Thousands o( them are successful business men all over Canada. We have the best premises and equipment In Canada. We can do for you what we have done for others. It will not coat you anything to In- vestigate and nnd nut. Write or call at the college, circulars free. C. A. FLEMING, P.C.A. Principal. « Great Reduction in Men's Overcoats , This week we are offering a big bargain in Men's Heavy Plush-lined Overcoats at an ex- ceptionally low price. These are a real buy. Regular $24.75 To Clear at $19.75 W. G. KENNEDY •PHONE 37 i,."- Grocery Specials Fancy Biscuits, reg. 35c. for 26c Fancy Biscuits, reg. 25c. for 22c Chipso, regular 25 cents for 22c 3 Cans Clark's Soup for 25c ^ WE HANDLE CURED MEATS. Men's Wear â€" Reduced Men's Overalls and Smocks, reg. $2.25....$1.75 Men's Mackinaw Coast, reg. ^.50 $7.50 Men's all-wool Underwear reg. $2 $1.40 Men's heavy Caps, to clear at $1.35 A. WATSON OPEN EVFNINGS 'PHONE IN YOUR ORDER START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT! Musical Instruments Sherlock-Manning Pianos. Mendelhsohn Pianos DeForest-Crosley Radios Fada Radios. Ampliphonic Phonographs Apex Records â€" Sheet Music Photograph Gallery Electric Photos Taken Day or Night W. A. HAWKEN PHOTO .\K'riST AND MUSIC DEALER • FLESHERTON,ONT. New Cement l>lock. PJione 17j.