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Quality Building Products The following under the heading "UIg it, or Lump it", is fromt last week‘s Val D‘Or News:â€"â€" Main streéet drama reached a new peak recently when two rugged workâ€" ers found themselves in a predicament. Hired on a subâ€"contract basis, their task was to makse an excaevation in front of a well known taxi stand for the entry of the watsr line and the sewer line. Imagine their surprise, when, with abctut fsur feet of work done, they found themselves in a morâ€" ass of mud, pebbles, water, old cigar butts and tin cans. Here was trouble. They hadn‘t included that in their verbal agreement. Down went their shovels and they locked up their conâ€" tractor. ‘"More money". "What for?" Well, it was wet, it was going to take them longer than they thought it would take and their criginal price was too low. "The hell you say," remarked the stoneâ€"hearted contractor to nis peeved subâ€"contractors. "Dig it. or lump it." 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HAMILTON 11L U MBR 42 ] heading "Dig and 10 ind th surprise f â€" worl Head Office and Yard Timmins Phose 117 the others had I¢ well until the fo fortified by "wha on the szene and new diggers mak efforts, t ation. Wi grabbed their messy hole and lumped it towards the nearest tavern, which was very handyâ€"it was next door. In the meantime the contractor deâ€" siring to have his work completed got two other men to start digging where the others had left off. All was going trench roared their protests as the earth, began to come down in their part of the ditch. The cthers roared back but still kept on digging. Amidst the roaring of the upper and lower earth tossers the law arrived. The boys above were gaining on the boys below. Finally the boys below climbed out of their volcanic surroundings and the law started a conference. In between parts the conference the prejudiced earth tossers would move back and toss in another shovelful. The conference lastâ€" ed for some time, and when it was over the trench was filled in again and the law found that he could really do noâ€" thing about it. When the last grain of dirt had been vengefully tossed back from where it had been laboriously lifted, the original subâ€"contractors wiped the sand off their hands, swaggered through the inâ€" terested crowd to the tavern and reâ€" marked to the barman at elbow "HMe told u we sure lu Power Shovel Head the Wedding Party at Val D‘Or (Frocm Val D‘Or News) An edrly morning wedding party was held up for twenty minutes on Thursâ€" day morning when the cavalcade of cars with the wedding party heading breakfastwards near the main street excavation was forced to follow me lone power shovel as it scampered along the oneâ€"way section of road at an allâ€"out speed of .005 miless per hour. In spite of a blast of squawking horns from the cars behind it, the shovel crept along stolidly and at Korman‘s corner, the horn blowing cars managed to slip by it. ren American Restaurant Magazine:â€"An old New England sea captain, one Hanson Gregory, gave the modern American doughnut its hole. The date of the great contribution was 1874. The captain was a boy at the time. Watchâ€" ing his mother ifry doughnuts, he noâ€" ticed that the centers of the cakes alâ€" ways seemed doughy and suggested eliminating this part before the cakes were cooked. Laughingly she followed the suggestion and the result was so satisfactory that she never went back to the old way. Her method was copied by others until it spread over the whole country. Z1 Consult Us About the Home Improvement Plian us to dif lumped it rovelling ba removed pre > workers 11 ared â€"their a2ey ild den ple he contractor deâ€" rk completed got art digging where ff. All was going r subâ€"contractors, takes", appeared they watched the headway in the d pisneered, they ve expletives. Reâ€" d worked for noâ€" no pay for their y had an inspirâ€" d of warning they e of shovels and ick the dirt that t or lump it, and Much laughter. Branch Office Kirkland Lke Phone 393 end of the But fashicns for the country all have a peasant flair these days, either pure cr tinctured with early American. In fact, the peasant accent is one way of ?making your old maple seem like someâ€" ithing very new and sophisticated. It‘s interesting with modern, too. Exciting and Different By all the odds the Mexican and Panâ€" American flavor is the most exciting 'peasant vogue this season. Mainly beâ€" cause it‘s so different from anything that‘s come from Europe. One perâ€" !fectly delightful summer dining room ‘attractled us particularly because it was cool locking and unexpected. A smallish informal dining room to begin withâ€"walls painted white, furniâ€" ture in natural light wood finish with pigskin seats a brightly red wooden \chest with a lift lid. The end wall of ithe rocm was glassed in but with cpaque glass and across this in slightly lm’egular formation ~were shelves to |hcld a colletion of pale Mexican glass, iall ranging through the shades of aquaâ€" marine. The oblong wojrd table stood | against a long wall of the room and unâ€" lder an open window with a wood slat ‘shade. Mexican tin candlesticks and ';lightlng fixtures gave a bright and scintillating accent to the room and a centrepiece on the table of pineapple and lemons was colorful and right. A Matting Floor Another delightful Mexicanâ€"flavored rcoom that we‘ve recentlyâ€"seen had a matting floor, walls painted adobe pink, a bay window with striped cotton dxaw curtains reaching to the floor, a very modern leather covered sofa in front of the fireplace and a metal bound Panâ€"American chest with Mexiâ€" can tin lamps on it. The large bird cage made of some kind of Panâ€"Ameriâ€" can reed hung in the centre of the winâ€" dow while under it stood a game table of the same reed. A pair of hassocks with deep grassâ€"type fringe made seats to fiank it. Time was when we‘d have been callâ€" ing you names if we said you were countrified. As for saying that you lived like a peasant, well, no doubt you‘d have cut us dead. But now it‘s the height of style to be a country jJake, and living like a peasant implies that you‘re quite highbrow! Mexican modern is turning up all Here is ore of the California colonial pieces of furniture sponsored this season. The cupboard itself is painted in an old dull white, while the inside is in brilliant blueâ€"green with bright contrasting decorations. A pleasant interpretation of the Tyrolean vogue, this living room has chalk blue wall;s:, an interesting mantel with facing of blue and white marblized composition a nd a shelf holding dramatic painteg trays. Tbe rug is Accessories in copper and brass highlight the blue with white fringe and the chairs are in printed li nen. room. Most of the furniture is maple. New Trends in Peasant and Provincial Decorations. Mexican and Tyrolean Designs Leadâ€"Many Combine Gayly with Maple and Modern. | THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO PLEAsANT HOMES about. For the most part this is exâ€" pressed with modern furniture in comâ€" bination with fabrics, rugs or ornaâ€" ments from beyond the Rio Grande. Or maybe Mexican colors and some Mexiâ€" can pictures do the trick, with Mexiâ€" can pottery and glass for good meaâ€" sure. Blue and brick are prevailing colors. by Elizabeth MacRea Boykin A near relation to these strictly peaâ€" sant influences are the California coâ€" lonial things that are appearing all about. Influenced, of course, by a Mexiâ€" can background, they nevertheless manage to express something of that brilliant flagrant individuality that is California. The interesting thing about this California Colonial vogue is that it has sc many tempting versions. Simple and forthright in line, bold in czclor, free and sweeping in design, 1: comes as a refreshing interpretation of the informal in Gecoration. The furniture in this category that is feaâ€" tured now has been painted a very weathered white with bright daring designs in color. A corner cupboard, for example, rather crude in line and heavy coking, is painted in this offâ€"white, antiqued, then the inside where the open shelves are, is painted in a brilâ€" liant greenâ€"blue with contrasting flowâ€" er motifs in white dashing strokes. A bed with low head and footboards finâ€" ished each with a narrow shelf across them is all in this old white except the part just under the shelves which is in a dull apricot color with the same bright contrasting flower decorations. This type of furniture is doubly interâ€" esting because it suggests such grand ideas for rehabilitating old furniture. ® Tyrclean As for the European peasant influâ€" ences, far and above the most signifiâ€" cant this seson is the Tyrolean vogue. It continues to inspire both clothes and home furnishings with its hearty freshâ€" ness. The most sophisticated version of the Tyrolean infliuence in decoraâ€" tion was a country living room we saw some time ago; the walls were chalk biue. which is very paleâ€"â€"almost a blueâ€" whiteâ€"and the rug was blue with white fringe. A mantel in curving and sweryâ€" ing outline and faced with a blue and white marbilized composition was topâ€" ped with a narrow shelf holding one California Colonial huge painted tray and a pair of smaller ones. Maple furniture of the usual early American variety was the basic furâ€" niture but a chest or so of painted Tyâ€" rolean furniture were added and two easy chairs were upholstered in a printed linen of imore or less Tyrolean motif. An alcove, lined in pine panelâ€" ing, achieved a pleasant brightness by having a painted decoration against the pine. Into this a maple sideboard with very tall brass candlesticks was placed. Accessories in copper, pewter and brass brightened the whole effect to just the proper gleam. Another little Tyrolean room that we saw and liked, also maple as to furniâ€" ture, had wall paper in white with a small red and green flower pot design in it, then draperies of green felt with little red felt rosettes appliqued on the border. Similar was a room with pine panelled dado, plaid wall paper, maple furniture and Tyrolean motifs in potâ€" tery, accessories and curtains (which were also green felt with the same little rosettes of felt appliqued to the borâ€" ader). A much simpler and less expensive way to get a Tyrolean atmosphere is to use some of the brightly printed dress cottons....the kind made to sell for dirndls. Curtains, informal table cloths or even bed spreads and chair pads of some of these bright cottons will make even the most rockâ€"ribbed New England furniture fairly dantce with glee in good Austrian fashion. A Peasant Aspect for Maple If you decide to give a peasant aspect to your maple for an informal room, don‘t take it too seriously. One of the chief charms of the Tyrol is its lightâ€" heartedness so ‘be sure to keep that spontaniety when you use it for a decâ€" ocrative theme. It‘s fun for a change of scene, and very easy to achieve at small cost. That‘s why it‘s so delightful for a simple, hearty, much livedâ€"in room. Both Mexican and Tyrolean motifs are so easily translated into current usage in connection with furniture that you might already have, such as moâ€" dern or maple, as suggested. But, of course, you don‘t need to be restrained there if you don‘t happen to have those porticular things and still want to be provincial in the new ways. Makeshift furniture, painted brightly for the purâ€" pose, serves almost as well. Make It Yourself Or maybe you‘d like to decorate some real peasant furniture for yourself. If you do, send a stamped, selfâ€"addressed envelope for our bulletin "Designs for Painted Furniture Decoration", It inâ€" cludes motifs that you can trace and paint on furniture, thereby brightening many an old and unused piece that will then see better days again. These motifs are peasant, but not any patrâ€" ticular nationality. By the colors you use, you can give them whatever charâ€" acter you wish to emphasize in the room probably they‘re more Swedish than anything else. In doing a peasant room, you don‘t need to keep to any one natioality, you kow. That means that you can ring in those Italian potâ€" tery cups and the French provincial plates you‘ve got left over from other years. And add a Spanish pitcher or a Russian rug for good measure if you‘re lucky enough to have one. Huntingdon Gleaner:â€"There is to be no more sunâ€"bathing in the forest of Fntainebleau, France, the mayor havyâ€" ing decided legs must be covered to the knee and there are to be no more bare backs. Campers, says the mayor, are the worst offenders. They insist on washing in the morning in their bathâ€" ing suits outside their tents, and dryâ€" ing themselves in the sun. Now no one is allowed to wear a bathing sulit as the whole of their costume on pain of prosecution. (Copyright, 1937, by Elizabeth Macâ€" Rae Boykin.) 884 _ Petroleum Resources â€" Manitoulin Islands $ * 65 t * 4 71 Third Avenue Phone 327 4 5 4 4 4 n Een m e mR The presence of oil springs near the eastern end of Manitoulin island was first reported by the Jesuit missionaries to the Indians of this region in 1648. Geologists confirmed the occurrence of these springs, and as early as 1863 wells were drilled on them, but with little commercial success. Between the years 1900 and 1912 considerable drilling asâ€" tivity again took place, but as the wells were put down without regard to strucâ€" ture. the results were inconclusive. Report on Petroleum Possiâ€" bilities at Manitoulin and Other Islands. The present search for cilâ€"bearing areas thoughout Canada has attracted attention to the possibilities of Maniâ€" toulin and adjacent islands. Thn a reâ€" cent preliminary report (paper 37â€"25) by the Geclogical Survey Division, Deâ€" partmert of Mines and Resources, Otâ€" tawa, timely information is presented on the petroleum resources of the isâ€" lands, which should prove a valuable guide to future drilling operations. Based on field investigations by M. Y. Williams in 1935, the report contains lergthy description of the formations and structures, and an account of past drilling operations, together with the records of several of the wells. It is accompanied by two preliminary maps, one showing the geology of Manitoulin island, and the other the locations of wells, and the structure contours on top of the Trenton Group. The work by the Department during 1935 and in preovious years has demonâ€" strated the occurrence Oof three wellâ€" defined structures which have promise for oil and gas accumulations, namely the Gore Bay, Perch Lake and Rattleâ€" snake Harbour structures. The Gore Bay structure regarded as the most faâ€" vouable, is recommended as the first that should be tested. f The view s expressed however, that it does not seem probable that Maniâ€" toulin island will ever be a large proâ€" ducer of oil, but there is room for further exploration on Barrie island, in the area west of Meldrum bay, and on Cozckburn island, where no drilling has been done as yet. In the absence of ascertained structures such drilling must ‘be of a "wildâ€"cat" nature, and accurate logs of all wells should be kept as an aid to future development. Copies of the preliminary report and maps can be obtained from the Chief, Bureau of Gecslogy and Topography, Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa. (From Val D‘Orâ€"Lamaque News) Ben Budgeon, directscr of mining for the Hammell dynasty, told us one of the best cowboy stcries in a long time. It appears that in theâ€"early era of Laâ€" maque activity with Green Stabell alâ€" ready in production the two camps got together on a deal whereby fresh meat was to be made available by the purâ€" chasing of a carload of cattle from When Lamagque Brought in Cattle by the Carload SMITH ELSTON VISIT OUR SHOW â€" ROOMS There‘s More Than Meets The Eye! DEPENDABLE PLUMBING and HEATING The unfortunate thing goout ordering plumbing or heating work is that the value of the job cannot be judged by the appearance. True, the attractiveness of the fixâ€" tures can be appreciated at a glance but of greater importance still is the quality of the materials and care of the workâ€" manship hidden in the walls. If a high standard is not maintained in this unâ€" seen work, trouble will result and great water damage may be done to both the building and furniture before the deâ€" fect is repaired. All this expense and inconvenience can be saved by entrustâ€" ing the job to a reliable firm in the first place. Smith Elston fully guarantees ail their workâ€"and their guarantee really means something. THURsDAY, AUoGUST 12TH Parrie Examiner:â€"A reader of The Examiner reports that on a trip through the United States she observed the Stars and Stripes fiying over every school, large and small, passed during school hours, and suggests that it would be fine to see the Canadian flag fiying over every school in Canada. It surely would. western Canada. This must have been about 1933, because, over the phone system then strung on trees, the local mine officials were notified that their carload cof cattle had arrived in Amos and in some mysterious way the door had been opened and the freed boâ€" vines were by that time wandering around the streets of Amos. A rush trip to Amos by representatives of both mines resulted in their coralling the cattle and parking them in a scow that was to be towed to Sullivan by a steamâ€" boat. As it was nearly at the freezeâ€"up time the scow was left stranded at the mouth of the Milky River by the boat because the lake was freezing rapidly. Hence another rush call came to the mines to salvage their live beef from the barge in the river. This was done and the cattle were herded through the virgin forest some ton miles to Blouin, were they were divided and left in susâ€" pense as to the exact date of their deâ€" mise. When the cattle were counted it was found that one lone steer was miksâ€" ing in the first massed herding of cattle from the Milky to the Stabell which could be labelled the "Barge of the Steak Brigade‘. Mr. Budgeon reâ€" ported at the end of the story that the beef hadn‘t turned out as fresh as they thought it would beâ€"he also stated that they were glad when the last shoulder was demolished in February of the next year. Paying Business Light Lunch and Confecâ€" tionery, located on Mountâ€" joy Street, opposite Third Ave. Fully equipped Price $1,200 Newly constructed 3â€"room house, near new schools, Lot fronts on T‘wo streets. Price $1100â€"Terms $500 cashâ€"$35. per month. Bargain REAL ESTATE INSURANCE 17 Cedar N. Phone 1330 Maple Street Northâ€"5â€"room House with 3â€"piece Bath, Basement. Furâ€" naceâ€"Terms $1,600 cashâ€"$50 per month, 40 ft by 100 ft. with lane. Price $200 Termsâ€"$25 cash, $10 per month.