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«REMOVt.. TIK ant qAprvmUN AtM UPR1VMfAMNW ? - P.yqAuYI THURSDAY, SECPT. Oth, IM4 PAGE TEN THE CL.ADtJJIAN STATESM ', yOWM V T1-.VJ-Aq Naorks Drothers of Perth ýop Flight Acting Group calis the Good Old Days (b? I.M. in The Brockville prices. Corne Saturday nights sRecorder and Times) when the final show was on, the boys and girls from Tin Cap, Lyn, W were glad to meet old Athens and other adjacent points frIen "Teddy" Reynolds, when would sit in for the early evening he b ed in some weeks ago meal and corne to town in ye old frOm 'Iionto for brief visit with democrat or double seated buggy, Tom I oe, George Floster, Joe I pull up before a hitching post, tie Mvalette Ed. Venney and a! her1 the tcam and then proceed to uchool ýbms of the long a90.1 seek diversion with the towns- 'Teddy a brother of Katie folk. x(Kftty) ks, who gaincd re- 2lOn t b.e well known Marks' The gay blades were wont to B ' 7i lw o mresp'ius"sIlick Up" witbin a red-poled bar- days. Sh 's the wife of Ernie ber shou where they would look Marks and tey are still hanr)ily over th-- nid "Recorder" and sean located in awa, wherc Frr" the buxoni beauties in the "Po- was elected zayor a few years lice Ci7zette." then while the girls ago. went window-shopping 'ere a vi- si tat an ice cream parlor for the Thoughts cthfe Marks Broth - ,. milk-zhake, etc. Then tbey ers xii take 'tt old-timrcr back ail ioincd up and joyfully wend- to the road shows of the board- ced their merry way ta Ritcbie's Ivalk era when îey oft appeared 1 Grand Opera House where most in the old Grard Opera HIsc 'likeix ' Marks Brothers or Harry <now the Regerit Theatre). Big Iiev shows were the feature R. W. (Bob) Mark.s early visual-atrcin Ized possibilities ot playing toa aatato wide circuit in a series of road The 'fa mous brothers had their ohows and this goes back to that headquarters at Christie L a k e pristine period with its purpie near Perth, where t h e y h a d patches known as the "gay fine- grown from childhood. There in ties" when the good citizens of a large play house they got ta- this old town liked their amuse- gether their casts, rehearsed their ments simple and urcomplicated many plays and planned their by sophisticated sinning. 'Twas tours. And what plays they were: always a week's stand at popular "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with Eliza Mon who try OId Chum stay with it fl for keepsi For Old Chum has character ail its own;; ; distinctive aroma; ; a fresh, cool, long-lasting flovour; Bey a package of Old Chum - todayl OLD CHUMR The Tobaicco of Quelity CU C AR E ,R IP* T I E .R OLIG*O R W STREET O AND ENNISKILLEN ATHLET Fr1t., 1Sep 6:15 p.m.-SOCCER GAME AT SI CLAREMONT vs. ENNISKILLEN 8:30 p.m,-DANCING (Bo und and To Ruth Wilson's Variety C ADMISSION m Dooths mNovelly Danice Priâ crossing the Ice, "LençL Rivers," "The Two Orpbans," "For His Sake," "Ten Nights in a Bar Room," "The Bowery Girl," "At the Point of the Sword,"\"The Girl from Frisco,"' "'Little Star- light" and others too numerous to mention. Grand aid days when tbey wouid pack tbemn in at tbe oid "Grand" and occasionafly in "Mickey" Suliivan's Victoria Hall. Ah yes, we can sec once more the ancient footligbts, roll- back curtains and garish stage effects in the Grand Opera House of happy memory. These piays were a near ap- proach ta those actual ideals, as- pirations and notions of morality of the old Victorian 9mall town in that age of borsebair sofas and stercoptican views of# yon Niaga- ra Falls. The plot-was plain and required na imagination, a Cal- vinistie denunciation of heavy dark moustaches enticing inno- cence with a halo compounded of broken hearts and burning tears above the herione's sparkling ti- ara. Moral goodness in rags nev- er failed ta make the dear girls cry and the rasp of the dueling sword ,resolved the court ing youtb to draý» a blade for bis lady faire. Really good oId melodrama, frank and unabashed, with vil- lainy that made their audiences shÙdder and hiss -and virtue that reconditioned the reflexes of the great bai polioi. The brothers were Bob, Tom, Aleck, Joe and Ernie. The wife of Bob, May Bel- le Marks, was noted as a leading lady .in some 200 repertoires A number of promotions in the important transportation depart- ment of tbe Canadian Pacific Railway, designed ta, give faster and more efficient service to the public, have been announced. Left ta right abave are E. G. O'Brien, of Montreal, who takes over the new post of chief of car service; H. Chester, Winnipeg, and V. G. Smart of Toronto, bath of whom become assistants ta the general superintendent of trans- portation; P. W. Raines, Toronto, who will be the first superinten- dent of safcty and train rules; and BUILLETINS FROM wîile otner feminine leaus were BR L N Grace and Kitty (Reynold)BR L N Marks, who haiied from Brock-1)I ville and in long gane days lived =uIRD .WLOI( in Home street. 0f the brothersr ail have lef t this eartbiy sceneé except Ernie. i The famous headquarters, "RedV Cedar Inn" at Christie Lake, isr now a home for the tired tourist and could those memory-baunted \valls but speak wbat tales they wouid enfold. And so in nostai-t gaic memory the oldtimers wili Mergansersf caIl 'back those glamorous and happy spaclous days when the Mergansers are safer from per-1 Marks Brothers of the silk bats secution than most Ducks, be-E woud ometotown. cause the hunter who knows bis woul core tabirds deliberately avoids taking them for bis bag. They are saved CLASS 0F 1949 by being fîsh eaters, sa that their About1,00 menand omenflesb is nlot palatable. As aiways, Abou 1,00 en ad wmenNature bas taken this choice of wili graduate from the Agricul- food into account, and has pro- tural Coileges of Canada in 1949. vided them with a tool especiallyi The Dominion Department of La- designed for catching and holding' bour points out that this number1 their slippery prey. Their buis, is more than tbree times as large unlike those of their relatives, as that which bas been considered are cylindricai, bave a nail at the a normal graduation. tip, and are edged with sharp Employment authorities do not teeth. This peculiarity bas earn- consider this too large a rein- ed for tbem, the name "Saw- forcement in view of the expres- Bis". sed opinion regarding the varlous Their hind toes also are some- trends in employment of agricul- wbat odd, being developeci into tural graduates. flat paddies similar ta those of A pfroportion of the students Sea Ducks. Tbey dive and chase wili take up farming, others will the fisb under water, using theirj specialize in the sciences directly wings as well as their feet like associated with agriculture, or propellers. The fishing is often1 will adopt teacbing as a car- done in large companies, the1 eer. But industries sucb a those Mergansers'spreading out into a concernied with handling and long front uine and diving simul- processing foods-meat packers, taneousîy. Only wben severe ear- milk distributors, canners, cohd ly freezing obliges them to leave storage plants-farm equipment their small, fresh water lakes and manufacturers, seed merchants, ponds do they take ta sait water. and other industries allied witb Then tbey change their diet ta agriculture, are now making an crustaceans and mollusks. increasing 'bid for the services of Usually sulent birds, if alarmed those witb agricultural training. tbe oeie croak. Wben de- sirable, they are able ta f ly quite fast. The three kinds of Mer- gansers are much alike in bath looks and habits, the greatest dif- ference being in the heads of the maies. Ail may be found across the continent. The American Mergenser is the ANCE largest: 2 inches in lengtb. The aeausrsgreteacaduit male's head and upper neck Imm a tu brdseofth es ai- A N C E gloss bla aggd uests. t winta.hollow tee. eae and r raedsae ruhtthen ed mo- i thger bird hks onyufeaters frmhersintonofbrent methe Sedes aci thebroing ber- i csewhileer atestand s by. 'ed haebygdcrs son as hawte, te yun esn notses reghtbside Watethe mo- ther i ad ta carroy tbether s fo evern end the winte nthe wrnost sote poi. mat t0Eram-bff1 0 _ relad selfwirst estimate oftheds C.Aa red bydian aplthte r fr 948is laed arithb15,619,000. forthe 147oe.i ~UAVVot riThNovascid atesthmaeof 3,30,00 sesf or1948 is about i FCHOCLUBlier agbi utlri.s 330a0tesh els uede that of (SiverColecton) shosingerin Ca af 735,00hrstbu- or evens et iate ropnth 8,392000 uhelsprt.Lwecop are fst simate n theaa-po duing plronces194withte ecep- It 1567,00uuhrscop)e To Nova Sbcowbra estimat- o ÎCHOG GRO ND 33ed ,0crop helof o,00,9048sis isu >rchestr330,000 bushels umor tha in1947 (Siler C llecion) i shws a .nRub inofM735,000 bu- arfltiatdincular tifacs ache RADIO provns ihtexcp d Squart)tion of upeas hean es rd 25co,13000 uhesi F. E. Howse, Montreal, who will be the first supervisor of station services. Ail of them will make their offices in Montreal effectie September 1 and report to R. E. Taylor, general superintendent of transportation. Mr. O'Brien, as- sistant general superintendent of transportation at Montreal for the past six years, bas been with the C.P.R. since 1901; Mr. Chest- er, inspector of transportation for the prairie and Pacifie regions since 1944; joined the company in 1916; Mr. Smart. who last year took. over the post of special rep- PONTYPOOL As we have trudged along life's highway we baye bad ta dodge nany a swift kick aimed in aur direction. We bave sometimes had a helping hand stretched aur ,vay. But we tbink one of the -ucest happenings was this weeki Nben we received word from Miss Julia A. Syer, Lýexington, Mass., U.S.A., that she reads and enjoys the Pontypool column. Judging from the saur looks we often get, we bad came ta think that peo- pie read the column but didn't enjoy it. Tbank goodness Miss Syer's letter arrived while my wife is on holiday. I can thus enjay and gloat aver it without rxaving to explain blushingly that I neyer met Miss Syer. Even when I haven't committed a misdemea- nor, I stammer and stutter and get red in the face like a scbool- boy caugbt snitching apples, ev- ery time my jailer fastens ber nice brown orbs on my homeiy face and says "bow came?" And mind you, we've been married over twenty-eigbt years. Guess some guys just naturally have a guilty complex. We used ta wonder wby tbe In- dians let aur forefathers take this country from them sa easily, but resentative, eastern region, has been 31 years' C.P.R. service; Mr. Raines, for the past five years ruies instructor for the eastern region, bas been wîtb the railway since 1912, and Mr. Howse bas been inspector, transportation de- fpartment, since March of 1947 and with the road since 1917. Their jurisdiction wili be system- wide in the important depart- ment known as "the heart of the raiiway" wbich sees ta it that the Canadian Pasific's 1,800 locomo- tives, 75,900 freight cars and 2,- 700 passengers cars are at the rigbt place at the rigbt. time. vîously. Amongst the items list- ed was tinned grapefruit juice at two tins for 21 cents. Put your hand out Toronto. Bihl Hackwood bas been seliing it at that price, rigbt here in Pontypool, ail sum- mer. Tobacco harvest is in full swing at George Van Dam's f arm. The hired help sounds like a mýeeting of the United Nations, there are two of Polish extraction, four French, two English, three Irish and haif a dozen Dutch. The work is bard, the bours long, tbe pay good. Any time fromn 7 arn. ta 6 p.m. you can hear the worker's h appy iaughter and chattering. praving tbat, if lef t alone, one na- tion can get along fine with an- o ther. With a temperature of 36 degrees on Wednesday morning, many of us began to be fidgety about tbe possibility of the tobac- co crop being frozen. Incidentai- ]y, it is the rin'csi toba-cco that freezes the quickest. Somne of our local tobacco hein bhave camneý fup with an irritating red rash, known as tobacco poironing. Phyllis Stewart is back'from ber tr-ip to the Ca-nr,dian West, ridir,ý 1--r bike -rolind town and 'looking like a million dolla-rs. She says ber trip can oniy be describ- ed as great. One of aur local boys, Fat Mos- nearly frozen, ahl in the space Of Kirby school. A veteran of the a few days we conclude that the last war, and a Czcchoslovakian Indians weren't so dopey after ail. to boot, John Kerosana. has been Bet tbey don't want it back as a engaged to te"ých Carscadden gift.. scboo1. He will be boarding at In a recent issue of a Toronto Alvin Olan's farm. We wish both daily we noticed an item stating boys the best of iuck. how cheap a lot of food items One of the nice things abouti were compared to a few days pre- the local tobacco crop is that it 4j Proceeds to be used to improve the Soccer Field. In case# rain the event will be held on Monday, September l3th, '4& The currant Australian wbeat, area is reported ta be about 20 per cent below the 1947 record acreage altbougb no official res- trictions on acreage were impos- ed. Reasons gîven for the decline are that farmers found it difficuit ta prepare some land owing to heavy weed growtn, and suat Px»- vailing high prices for wool and fat stock induced farmers to leave more cropiand in Pasture or to grow more fodder crops. n M WANTED' brings that perennial favorite back to our vlclnlty, Anne Van Dam. Dave Sexsmith Is back from his holiday and sporting a tan that is really becoming. We warned you a littIe while ago that a new business was go- ing to start soon in the village and about two days after this appears in print, don't be surprised if a bot dog stand de luxe starts serv- ing tbem right on the west side -of the main drag. Recent visitors at Ed 'Young- man's include Elizabeth Olan, of Milibrook, Mr. and Mrs. Don Tbompson and Normie, Courtice, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bickle and Joan and Mr. Biekie Sr., Oshawa, Mr. and Mrs. Sid Biow, Toronto, F. L. Hanniman, Lanark, D. Gib- son, Hamilton, W. Manger, Shar- bot Lake. Our local church will be hand- led by the United Church Minis- ter of Janetville. It seems odd that a communîty like this can- flot support a resident minister. Maybe we are ail to blame for flot pulling our weigbt financially. SEE THE FILTER QUEEN Canada's Bagless Vacuum Cleaner FOR FREE DEMONSTRATION WRITE OR PHONE: PHONE 812 . L. ITCHING 19 BRADSHAW ST., B6WMANVILLE Bowmanville Business School Fali term begins Sept. 7 and Oct. 5 ENROLL NOW District Agency for Remington MODEL 5 DELUXE Portable Typewriter Costs littie ta own this beau- tiful streamlined model. BOWMANVILLE BUSINESS SCHOOLI MRS. C. A. BARTLE TTI 154 King Street East Phone 434 j A1 An important weight in the balance of nature is the Prairie Chicken. By destroying weed seeds, grasshoppers and other insects, it makes the farxner's work easier and more profitable . . . it helps protect the food you ecit. The Prairie Chioken is a fine game-bird too. Given facir protection, it thrives near farms and towns and con contend with its natural enemies. But hush-fires and over-hunting are two enemies it cannot successfully fight against. The Prairie Chicken r..-,ods our help in reducing these threats to its survival. ~'I- -~ tucmrv m CAKUISS, un The Heath Hen, a close relative ci the. Prairie Chicken, has been extinct since 1933. The. forces that ,xterxmnated the. Heath Hen ca.n destroy the Prairie Chicken unless we ct now to protect it. CARLI&G7S TOI CARLINS SOMMERES LIMITES WAERLOO. ONTARIO TOURS 10 INJOT TOURS TO PROTECI Dl 4 WIN A NANTEL1 I TICKETS 10c 3 foi '/ i 1 - ---- vbvwb- Young Women Young Men for Hiarvestint Peaches, Pluma Pears, Apples, Grapes, To- matoes and other Fail Fruits and Vegetables Accommodationflnl Farm Service Force Camps Aug. 15 to Nov. 15 Campers must bring blank- ets, sheets and pillow cases. for further information write ONTARIO FARM SERVICE FORCE 9 Richmond Street Est Toronto 1, Ontario Auspices: Dominion-Provin- cial Farm Labour Committee il , 1 .ýi