Everybody Rattled When that rat got into the switch at the pump house and put the elecâ€" tric power out of commission for five hours, Davey wasn‘t the only one ratâ€" tledâ€"‘cause the telephone in his office sure was rattled, too. Warning > Get in a â€"ham or two! â€"Blossom visitors will soon be with us. ~For the Simple Reason Whyâ€" Sally Short Skirts says that the reason she goes out so much at night is because she is afraid to stay alone. The young man with the pearl tie pin and wrist watch says that a friend of his claims that dew does not injure the finish of new cars. I told him there had been lots due on some cars, but one doesn‘t really notice it. Saturday some local men had nerve enough to put screen doors on the house. From whatever viewpoint it is to be judged, the Great West Canâ€" adian Festival recently brought to a conclusion at Regina, was a sucâ€" cess. In attendance it eclipsed its forerunner at Winnipeg last year. Its handicraft exhibit covered a wider range, a more comprehensive representation of the peoples of the West hac@seen arranged for and, in the words of J. M. Gibbon, sponâ€" sor of the festival, "Saskatchewan pas proved that within its borders is the foundation of an art upon which will be built a ‘structure of * * .. y _ Planted those spring onions yet? This column is to be known by the above title. In it will be reâ€" corded all the wise cracks of the week, and we invite our readers to contribute any bright sayings. Dear Reader: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th, 1929 Four New Canadians from Hungary whose native dances delighted thousands in > attendance at the Regina Festival Not one Royal Master in a thousand will ever puncture. Not one in five thousand will blow out under two years of service. EVERYVTHING GRIMSBY............ BEAMSVILLE DOMINION TIRE DEPOT LUITTLE BIT ‘THE GREATEST TIRE . ; THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN: FOUR HUNGARY MAIDENS ROYA L Good Evening! sessscsscccessseentressese00 0006000 008008080000 080 00 000000 00 000000 000 The Royal Master was built without regard for cost. It is the finest tire that can be built. Its massive tread is double thick, cured by a new slow process. Its carcass is made with extra plies of web fabric. Sideâ€"walls are guarded against scuffing. The Royal Master is made oversize. Or rather, the right size for real tire economy. If you want tires that will last as long as you keep your car, then buy Royal Masters. On sale at every _=. : /he national culture finer than that of any other nation on earth." Over a hundred folkâ€"dancers interpreted the dances of many racial groups. Folkâ€"singers numbered over oneâ€" hundred and sixty. Handicrafts struck response from thousands and it is safe to say that next years festival, which is already beâ€" ing planned, will receive still greatâ€" er support and present a folkâ€" pageant to be unequalled on the continent. The festivals have been arranged under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Hole in the Stocking Most of the girls at the exâ€"students‘ dance took off their shoes to, join in the Cinderella danceâ€"no doubt, those who did not care to enter had a reason. hundred an‘ The Appreciative One "A toast, fellows!" exclaimed the hobo, lifting his tomato can. "Here‘s to de holidays! Bless de hull t‘ree ‘Twas Ever Thus f Now that Easter is over and spring is here, all that poor hubby will hear is, "We‘ll have to start houseâ€"cleaning any day now." j â€"â€"/Is Spring Here? We have yet to see the boys playâ€" ing marbles and the girls skipping. Hard to Convince A Grimsby Beach man says he won‘t believe, spring is here until he sees ants crawling on the picnic tables. â€" The Heeâ€"Haw A winona reader says that away back in those neverâ€"toâ€"beâ€"forgotten days, Old Dobbin had faults, but he was never called secondâ€"hand the day after you got him. Lord, let it ne‘er be said That I have dared to tread A heartless road, And plied a goad This I would make my prayer: That no one‘s weight of care Shall heavier be, f Because of me; That one now weak and faint Shall never make complaint ; That I have flung the stone Which caused his groan. ......West End Motors Bousfield & Company A PRAYER sixtyâ€"five of Coroner J. H. McGarry opened an inquest Saturday night and adjourned it until Thursday. ‘The mother of the children is prostrate with grief. Mr. Then Dr. Davidsomn and Arnold Smith, father of the children, secured from him the admission that he had found the gun, called to the little girl, pointed it at her in play, and fired. To the police later the lad is said to have told the same story. At the hospital doctors found buckâ€" shot. The body was xâ€"rayed and it was discovered the whole abdomen was full of shot. The brother , was questioned, but is said to have claimâ€" ed that he knew nothing about the accident. f W. Huntingford, milkman, opened the back door of the Smith home to find the little girl unconscious in a pool of blood. He called assistance, but the child died on the way to the hospital. It was thought she . had fallen downstairs and received her inâ€" juries on jagged fragment\s of: a broken milk bottle which lay near where she was found.. 14 Phyllis Jane Smith, aged 3, died within an hour Saturday, March 31st, after being shot by her brother, Richâ€" ard, aged 7. The boy put the shotâ€"gun back in its place in the cellar and said nothing about the shooting, ~police state. When Calgary read of the four additional floors which will add 200 rooms with bath to the city‘s accommodation it thbught of Stanmrpede week, and the thousands who pour in from all points of the compass, clamouring for accommodation and joining the mill of Cowboys, Indians and oldâ€"timers who for one week drop back to the color, romance, gaiety and sport of the early 80‘s. Calgary is & steadily progressive city. ?fÃ©ï¬ Its trade and commerce continue to expand.: |$4%Â¥ It is a great city of the plains and the Palliser will be as spacious and beautiful as is fitting enmesaes to city and the times. ‘ @The "Empress" addition of 270 rooms with bath shown above will also be appreciated by an ever inâ€" creasing number to whom the quiet English city of the Pacific coast holds arnual appeal. The new wing will be a beautiful structure carrying out the chateau type of architecture exemplified by the old building. When, however, its walls become ivy clad and its stone lines and traceries are covered by the foliage O ver the signature of E. W. Beatty, chairâ€" man and president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has come the announcement that large extensions are to be made to the Palliser Hotel at Calgary and the Empress Hotel at Vancouver and that the additional accommodation will be ready for occupancy before thespeak of the present years tourist traffic. This is good news, not only to the two cities more directly concerned where a total of more than four million dollars will be spent in the work, but to a vast legion in all corners of the earth to whom the Canadian West is a lodestone. _ THREEâ€"YEARâ€"OLD GIRL SsSHOT BY BROTHER I would not come to power For one brief hour To rule and fright To show my might; If help I cannot give, Humbly I choose to live, I would not crush men down To wear a crown. @ U & s / c after ‘}l'\‘x‘»\i »81'5 ti,',‘f’ l ‘\-.\,:{\‘: s ‘* meal f 3 ‘ ‘&\‘_'/ CJâ€"15 Your doctor will tell you how chewing relieves nervous tension, how the healthful cleansing action of Wrigley‘s refreshes the mouth and tones you up. Wrigley‘s does muchâ€"costs little. Upon a fellow back, Or white or black, Compelling helpless him To run to serve my whim. I‘m never too tired to sleep now â€"~~ _ Rested nerves make all the difference WRIGLEYS PALLISER AND EMPRESS EXTENSIONS â€"Edgar A. Guest. THE INDEPENDENT, GRIMSBY, ON1ARIO Glory is a poison good to be taken in small doses.â€"Balzac. The whole of virtue consists in its practice.â€"Cicero, Nothing can be fairer or more noble than the holy fervor of true zeal. â€"â€" Moliere. P He that hath a trade hath an esâ€" tate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.â€"Frankâ€" lin, â€" Prosperity is a great teacher; adâ€" versity is a greater. Possession pamâ€" pers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.â€"Hazlitt., He leaped from his seat and a ,glance showed him what had hapâ€" pened. Clad as he was in a leather !jacket and rubber boots, he grasped the wires and hurled them to the side of the road. Then he ran.: to the flaming Cowan car, and, although badly burned by. his. daring> deed, managed to drag Mr. Cowan to safeâ€" ty. The auto was practicklly desâ€" troyed. â€"Both men were later given treatment. ; S l In the meantime Fred Cowan, of Thorold Township, drove by, and in the inky blackness failed to see the low hanging wires. His car broke into flames when it came in contact with them and he, too, was burned, being rendered semiâ€"conscious by the shock. A young lady companion with him was unhurt, but her screams atâ€" tracted the attention of Carl Crawâ€" ford, who was driving along the highâ€" way with six passengers in his car. Several Welland residents narrowly escaped a horrible death at the Black Horse corners, eight miles from here, during Friday night‘s ~storm, when nine telephone poles, loosened by the heavy rains, listed, the high tension wires being lowered to within a few feet of the Thoroldâ€"St. CathaFines highway. & j Previous to the listing of the poles, a truck of the Blenheim Haulage Company had passed by and lost a wheel a short distance beyond the Black Horse corners. The â€" driver, Irvin Pearson, and a companion reâ€" turned to the village for tools, and on their way back Mr. Pearson was struck on the forehead by one of the wires. Horribly burned, he was rushâ€" ed to the Niagara Falls hospital, where he is not expected to recover. ~During last week‘s storm a _hay barn on William French‘s farm, Conâ€" cession No. 3, Glanford, was struck by lightning and burned. The damâ€" age is estimated at about $1500. Mr. Erench‘s farm adjoins that of John Dickenson. | Milking was in progress when the barn took fire. The untiring efforts of Mr. French®and his men, assisted by neighboring farmers, prevented the fire from spreading. Smith is president of Smith Brothers, construction company. NARROW ESCAPE BARN IS BURNED When these two extensions are completed, Canadians may take still more pride in a chain of Canadian owned and operated hotels which extends from, coast to coast and in point of view .of service, coml'f(i)rt and appointments is second to none in the world. it will lose nothing and fit still more with the backâ€" ground of holly hedges and boxâ€"wood trimmings. e 4 iss Don‘t : tell is a lie} whe or a lie to t God has given you one face and you make yourselves another. â€" Shakespeare. i Dr. Knechtel, a farmer residing about four miles east of Souris, Manitoba, has about 6,000 bushels of Reward wheat which he is going to ship out all over Western Canâ€" ada in twoâ€"bushel lots, as soon as the list of addresses arrives from Ottawaâ€"for the project is under the supervision of the Dominion Govâ€" ernment. As is pretty generally known, Reward wheat â€"matiires about a week earlier than Marquis and, for this reason, can be grown further north. This early ripening means, roughly, that a new strip of country 75 by 1,000 miles, is made available for wheat growing. _ _A change in telephone numbers has drawn attention to the train inquiry office in the great Windsor Street Station of the Canadian Paâ€" cific Railway in Montreal. The girls who are or duty there handle each on an average of 200 calls an hour. and as many as 300 an hour during‘ rush times. They carry most of the information in their heads and seldom have to refer to a timeâ€"table. They are asked queer questions sometimes. Reâ€" cently someone asked, "When does the afternoon begin," and the old poser turned up, "What time does the four o‘clock train leave.:" The old English Yuletide Festival held recently at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C., proved to be one of the most popular events. of last year. Carols and yuletide music were rendered, the ancient "Ches. ter Mysteries" staged, and Dickens‘ "Mrs. Wardle‘s Christmas Party" was produced.. The festival culâ€" minated in a ball at which some seven hundred persons attended. It is believed that plans are already being made for a larger and better celebration next year. Fortyâ€"two years of service with the Canadian Pacific Railway withâ€", out having broken any of the comâ€" pany‘s rules or otherwise earned a mark against himself is the unique record held by Arthur W. Savage, engineer, who has just retired on pension. â€" Mr. Savage, who is well known throughout the Eastern Townships, fired the train that laid the first steel on the line between Sherbrooke and Farnham. During 1928 between 5.600 and 5700 Prince Edward ‘Island foxes have been shipped abroad. an inâ€" crease over the 4,260 shipped the preceding year. +~These have been bhandled without a single known casutalty. â€" Since the middle of Ocâ€" tober foxes have been shipped to Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Ger. many, Czecho . 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