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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1928 a Good-fellow work was efficiently | cared for by the clubs,~the churches | what and the business men. To give to this work was a pleasure, of course, but not wholly satisfying, ' because our check was sent with little ef- ort and then you Sere through. nvi She decided to give the idea some thought ahead of time and not be cheated out of sharing a happy Christmas this year. She would start planning: right' after Thanksgiving and give her invitation early. The idea came that very night at the din- ner table. id Himself had finished carving and was ready to visit. "Fred is worried about his wife," he said, "she's so tired and needs a rest so badly,--the youngsters are good children and help all they can, he insists, but there are six, you know, He rather dreads Christmas, I saw. There are so many things to buy for six lambs, and they want to give each other gifts at Christmas,--naturally, "He didn't say this, but I saw it just the same, Its his first year in the suburbs, and buying coal and a house is an extra load for him to carry. I thought of asking them to dinner, if it wouldn't be too much work for you. I'd help of course." Fails to Answer Directly She did not answer directly. Just the sort of folks one would like to help, she mused. But Joan needs more of a boost than just one day, Christmas Day, She's been perfectly fine, bless her heart. "Would you be willing to take a week of it, Ed dear, ~wiping noses, and washing faces and having youngsters under foot, for a. week? Himself looked at her thoughtfully, "You know perfectly well I would be here mornings and evenings, that is all,--you would carry the extra work, I surely could carry my end, if it wouldn't be too much for you." She nodded her head. "It's all right. They will help each other. Joan could get away to her mother right after Christmas. - And have a week's rest without a chick or child to think about. They'd try hard to be good, to feel they were helping her I'm sure. I'll start them at once!" i he 4 don't follow you, honey. Start a "Oh, Christmas presents, -- theirs for each other. That will take care of the Saturdays." Himself looked bewildered. resents Made at Home "Dearie," she said, "they will want to make things for each other, since they can't buy them, So I'll ask them here in relays on Saturdays and help them plan their gifts and get them pil g The older ones can go on by themselves, during the week, Then Fred and Joan can have Christmas Eve with us and Christmas dinner, The children will all help with that of course, And Joan can leave for her Mother's right afterward. You and Fred can take over the outdoor sports.--Why, it won't be so hard to manage." Letter from Joan to Mother Mother dear: Yes, that splash is just what you think it is. It's a tear, But it's a glad tear, so don't worry over it, lease. Maybe you can guess that 've needed a rest more than any- thing else. I hate to feel so cross all the time when I know that a little vacation would fix me up just fine, I baven't hinted this to Fred because there just wasn't any way to arrange it. Then Madge called up and of- fered to take the six of them off my hands for the. holiday week so I might come to you. Oh splash, there goes another tear! I wouldn't think of it if it were any one else, but she is. so sensible and says they are to help each other, and that the men are to take their share and, oh, think what it will mean! Lovingly and tearfully, \ Joan. P.S. I'm to leave right after din- ner Christmas day, J. Letter from Jonathan (Eight) to His Grandmother Dear Grandma :-- How are you? We are just fine. We are going to have our Christmas at Aunt Madge's,. We are starting to make presents, One for you is a surprise. Hoping you are the same. Your grandson Jonathan. | made a beginning. Dear Girl:-- It takes a while to get started to rest, doesn't it? I hope you have How is your Mother? My dear love to her and greetings for the holidays, and Hap- py. New Year, too, Yesterday finished quletly, After the romp outdoors the youngsters were ready for supper and all went to bed promptly, Today we are pre- paring a bulletin to send you, Tell your mother all about Christ- mas eve and how dear and funny they were about their presents. Peter on the floor with his wooden duck saying quack for it, every time he} pulled the string that opened its mouth, is one memory. 3 Have a good rest, dear, Love from Madge. P.S. Here'is the Bulletin: From the House that Jack built, Colors flying, health excellent, dis- positions cheerful. Notations by the writer when the child cannot manage it. Peter: I love you mama, (This is the way he wanted his report.) Josephine: I like the kitten; it plays so cute. (Note, Is this a bul- letin?) Jonathan: Love to Grandma, We are making a bob-sled, Little Joan: Am going to read all of Aunt Madge's Alcott books. Fred Jr.: The children are behav- ing very well, thanks to me. Clara: Say, Mother, look Fred wrote, It's all thanks to me of course, Tomorrow is the Expedi- tion, what AGAINST DAYLIGHT TIME Peterboro, Dec. 1%, -- At the closing session of the Peterborough County Council here, a resolution was passed unanimously calling upon the Ontario Government to refuse to establish daylight saving as a Provincial measure. This ac- tion was taken to ffset a proposal started by Chmbers of Commerce to habe summer time adopted on a Provincial basis, In Montreal, a minister preached a sermon on "The Inheritance of the Scotsman." As a matter of fact the sons of the heather do not wait for any inheritance but go out and get it.--Brantford Expositor, FISHING SCHOONER BELIEVED LOST Boston, Dec, 12. -- The ninety ton Boston fishing schooner Vir« ginia, well known to many Nova Scotians, is believed to be a total loss on Cape Cod. went ashore near Welfieet and the usual efforts to refloat her 3 high tide failed. Last April the assistance ofthe Nova Scotia schoo- ner Rose latter schooner filled while carrying a cargo of lumber, towed the Belliveau into Shelburne, In November of last year the Vir- inia herself was disabled in Nova cotia waters, After ®eing becalmed several days, with a burned out bearing in her gusitiary motor, she was towed to Liverpool, N.S, by a Canadian Government boat, 'BEARS ROAMNOR CUNOTRY The Pas, Man, D :*12, -- Big brown and black bears are roaming the north country in larger num- bers than ever before. They are Worrying livestock in some sections ad and owners keep rifles close at and, A pair of black bears attacked and slled a team of black horses, near Hudson Bay Junction, recently, and escaped before the owner could get a gun, ear Kamsack, C. Smith and his son shot a 360-pound black bear, seven feet in length, Prosnectors reachin, here recent- ly complained that black bears had awakened them at night in their efforts to get the grub from sleeping bags, where it had been deposited for safety, , "ORM WOOL POOL Edmonton, Alta, Dec, 12, -- The province of Alberta now produces more than one third of the total irginia went to the| e Belliveau, when the| yy The Virginia | Keeping Up With he Times : p- S-- THE OLD TIMER 'Heap 0 more wood--the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will; ell jioep our Christmas still, merry Today, and from this day onward, great crowds to be flocking along the road to Christmas, Up on yonder height the city of Christmas is to be seen, shining in the sun, its domes glistening with tiny stars of snow and its green spruce trees laden with gifts of delight. The road to Christmas to start from evarswlierewin the factories of our own land where busy workmen to be Jurhing out the glorified <pro- ducts of the firms; in faraway places, steeped with romance and adventure --~in forest and desolate wastes of snow where milady's' fur coat is trapped; in the home of the artist and wherever the ingenuity of man to meet demand, ~ Along the road to Christmas to go the hundreds and the thousands, yearly making that pilgrimage to that city on the height, The road to be crowded with young and old, rich and poor, all pressing to the goal, The faces of the children to be full of eager hope and joy, and the faces of the poor to be expectant, while the rich and the old to pass on as down a familiar road, every land- mark to be familiar in the passing. r The road to Christmas to start everywhere and to lead through the stores of Christmas spirit where all the riches of the world to flow and to be passed en to the thousands of homes, bringing gifts of beauty and Rowgley and fitness, The Christmas road to uphold the traditions of cen- turies, uniting families and friends and spreading affection and cheer throughout the world, n the stores of the: Christmas spirit to assemble thousands, on thesé ays, as they to march down the road to Christmas, In the windows of these stores one to catch a glimpse of the Christmas spirit, in the varied coloring and decorations. The wel- come to be felt as soon" as one to pass through the door, and, on the road to Christmas, many to stop a while in the store of the Christmas spirit, In the columns of The Times one to vision the stores of the Christmas spirit, Pausing at the way stations on the, road to Christmas thousands to stop and scan the pager which to hel here the Christnias spirit to wl, In the store of the Christmas spirit one to find everything, the newest and the best, Stores that advestise must first have quality to speak about, and quality to be what every- one to seek, whether it to be a toy or an automobile, a fur coat or a radio, a dozen eggs or a pound of butter, Stores that advertise to have al- 'ways good gcods, the advertising as- suring a quick turnover of stock and frequent turnover to assure the pur- chaser better selection and lower prices, . Stores of the Christmas spirit to be stores that advertise, stores seek- ing patronage, stores seeking to please, stores depending on satis faction for the chance to survive. The 'columns of The Times to be filled these days with suggestions, helpful, economical and with the knowledge of experience. The tra- veller along the road to Christm#s to regard The Times as the "through ticket" to ensure a safe and a satis- factory trip, A wonderful road this road to Christmas, which one may see on every day of this week and the next, A road of happy children all given the right-of-way along the route; a road where kind 'words and kind thoughts to be the language univer- sal; a road of love and little patter- ing feet and of big hearts and good will, And on the sign board on the road to Christmas to read these s ting words, "Thirteen shopping dis n- til Christmas--shop early." Time flies and already the crowds to surge about the shops. What it to be next week only past experience of late shoppers to answer, --tired and weary and distracted clerks,~the pick of stocks gone, The nicest gifts and the most satisfaction to be obtained by the early shopper. And in the midst and hurly-burly of Christmas shopping one to pause a moment to consider the case of the poor, It to seem that mighty little interest to be worked up by the Christmas Cheer committee, who to hope to bring happiness and cheer into every needy home, The sum' a little over $400 to date for a cf the size and the wealth of Osha to be nothing short of a smear on) the good name of the city, which, af] this time, should have contributed in the thousands of dollars, This. is appeal, then, to generous hearted Oshawans to remember that happie ness on Christmas day cannot be true happiness if tears are coursing down the faces of the little children of the poor, ALUMINUM FROM SHALE? New Glasgow, N.S, Dec, 12, -- A possibility of building up a profit able aluminum husiness ~2 a by-pro- duct of the shale operations here 1s scen following exhaustive tests which indicate that aluminum exists in consfderabl~ quantities in the shale deposits or torbanite, The metal could be economically ex- tracted, it was said, A contract has been placed for the building of a retort, which is expected to be ready for operation in January, | A plant. capable of assimilating fifty tons of shale per day and ex- tracting between sixty and ninet vallons of ol per tcn, is planned, The oil, it is claimed, will yield 65 per cent gasoline and the remainder fuel oil. It was stated that. when operations were enlarged and a pro- duction of two hundred tons of shale per day reached, enough illu- minating gas to supply the town v uld be obtained, The aluminum in the shale after the oil extraction is sufficiently large to make this by-product the most valuable part of the operations, engineers claim, wool output of the Dominion, the|®& figures for 1927 being 1,492,191 pounds out of a total of 3,648,254 8 pounds for the whole of Canada. These figures, which in each case are for the wool handled only through the Canadian Wool Grow- ers' Association, were biought out at a recent meeting of wool growers of Alberta in connection with the proposition to organize a co-opgra- tive marketing pool on lines simi- lar to those of the wheat pool. Five co-operative selling among the wool growers in differ- organizations | § ent parts of the province were re-|@ presented at the meeting. If the proposed pool is formed, as | & is anticipated, it will work on a con- tract basis, as is the case with the wheat poc', instead of the voluntary basis on which Alberta wool is now marketed through the Canadian Co-|} operative Wool Growers' tion, During the hearing of a police court case last week a man professed Associa- to be deaf, but when an officer drop- | § ped a coin on the floor he turned to pick it up. Money talks, The OSHAWA FISH and POULTRY STORE From Ontario's farms comes the Oshawa Fish and Poultry Store's stock of Christmas Poultry. We have a fine selec- | tion of Turkeys, Geese, Ducks and Fowls, and at the very lowest prices. Our Prices Are Right We also carry seasonable lines of the choicest varieties : and Lake Foods handled under the strictest paridtice of 5a tions. Use our delivery service. Our truck passes doo every day. Call our phone number -- 3267, il will bring us to you at once. 8 Simcoe St. S. IR A ------- ara : "He Knows What He Wants ! Simcoe St. N. ND so do we! And in that knowledge, experience and our consequent provisions we can be of wonderful service to the woman who shops for her men folks. Things that men do not want in apparel are not here because in this Man's Store our buying is concentrated only on those things our day-to-day experience tells us men do want. Broadcloth Pajamas Wool House Coats Novelty Knitted Vests Wool or Silk Hosiery Silk Dressing Gowns Silk Mufflers JOHNSTON'S Phone 676 Bh rt FR 25 1 0d 3954 2d id ig Ph 2d a0 8 Jedd Seid Sudd Sad Ge add mg wig wid Rid Hg :