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x "THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1931 ; sockville. -- Clem. Coughlin's and barns, at Eloida, were ly. destroyed by. fire early ou day morning. snts of the buildings were lost pite of all the efforts put forth save them, ) Mad Good Year ockville, -- The annual meet of Knox Presbyterian Church, ckville, was held in the rch hall. Reports from Sunday ool, Ladles' Ald, Sunshine Cir- and church treasurer were very factory and showed a very ccessful year and a balance to credit of each soclety. Mayor Likes Roses 'Kingston. -- Mayor George C. ght is a great lover of roses. Ingston's chief magistrate likes kinds of flowers, but he favors , and it was for this reason, én he was elected mayor, that "gave a standing order for a fresh bogquet of roses to be deliver- ed daily at his office in the city y at his own expense. ] Build New School ingston. -- The Property Com: mittee of the Separate School Board will consider the advisabil- 'ity of building a school to replace t. Vincent's Academy at the cor- per of Bagot and William streets. Not Caused by Ashes Kingston. -- "The Court House fire did not start from hot ashes getting fire to shingles piled in one corner of the room in which the ashes were kept," is the statement of caretaker H. Keeler 'of the 1 Court House. Leg Badly Fraetured Hastings. -- Alfred Metcalfe, of . Asphodel, met with a very painful 'accident, while in the act of kid- | ding a forty-foot pole. It in some . manner, got thrown against Mr. ' | Metcalfe, fracturing his leg in two | places, between the knee and the ankle. Home Destroyed Peterboro. -- One of the great- est tragedies of the year in this vicinity occurred when all the worldly possessions of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Farthing, Leahy"s Lane, were entirely destroyed by 7 as -- | "Pyretest" | Safe Drugs | f "Puretest'" is the name of | il the highest quality line of | ii simple home remedies, put il up in convenient packages for home use. Each product is guaranteed pure and of the finest tested quality, and || Jil every package is scaled to fii ensure, cleanliness. | The best is none too good for Baby's health and happi- || ness. Therefore we suggest | Puretest. Zinc Stearate, Sugar of Milk, Boric Acid, Castor | Oil, and Glycerine Infant Buppositories. Whenever you want safe, | yet simple, home remedies, ask for Puretest preparations | in their attractive blue and white packages. The line comprises among other things Epsom Salts, Witch Hazel, Spirit Campher, Russian Oil, . Glycerine, Rochelle Salt, Senna Leaves, Tincture lod. ine, Cascara, Cod Liver Oil, etc. "SAVE At The Rexall Stores | Jury & Lovell | King E. Phone 28 WITH SAFETY" Simcoe , 8. Phone 68 ee tr Most of the fire, while firemen were absolutely powerless to check the mass of flames, or save any of Lhe house- hold effects. The fire is helieved to have started in the oil stove in the chicken brooder. No Marriages \ Port Hope. -- According to the vital statistics registered at the Town Hall here for the month of February, there were no marriages in that month, There were eight births and six deaths. Pastor Asked to Remain Port Hope. -- At a meeting of the official board of the Port Hope United Church, Rev. G. A, Sisco, who is now in his third year as pastor of the church, was extended a cordial invitation to remain as pastor. Tax Arrears $7,500 Campbelliford.--J. D. Cumming, tax collector, reported on the am- ount of taxes collected. There were approximately $79,000 of the 1930 roll collected. Arrears am- ounted to $7,589. Colborne. -- #tanley Downing met with serious injuries, when a cow he was legding, suddenly jumped, knocking him down and trampling upon him. His thigh Jone was broken close to the hip oint. FEEDS INFLUENGE ON DEVELOPHENT OF DAIRY CATTLE Interesting Experiment Con- ducted by Station in Quebec Is a superior or inferior cow born or made is a question that is very often asked. 0 help answer it, an experiment was conducted at the Cap Rouge, Que., Experimental Sta- tion. Twins were chosen for this pro- ject, to minimize the chance of er- ror due to breeding. One of them was well fed and weighed 785 pounds just previous to dropping her calf at 2 years and 22 days; the other was scantly fed and weighed 600 pounds just previous tn drop- ping her calf at 2 years, 83 days. It is evident that feeding had an in. fluence on the development of a heifer, in this case, and this is an important point because there gen- erally seems to bé rather close re- lation between weight of dairy cat- tle and production. The well fed heifer gave 11.30% pounds of milk and 655 pounds of fat, during the first two lactation periods, whilst the scantily fed hei- fer only ylelded 3,767 pounds of milk and 168 pounds of fat. This is probably an extreme case, but {t seems that the most profitable way is to feed well, without pampering: on very good pasture, no concen- trate; at other times, all the clover hay they will consume, with silage and roots when available, and a grain allowance of from 2 to 3 pounds per animal, per day, accord- ing to age. PROBE FRAUDULENT NATURALIZATIONS Judge Wallace, Woodstock, Appointed Commissioner to Investigate Cases Ottawa, March 14.--Following investigation carried on through- out Canada for the past 15 months by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Judge Wallace, of Wood- stock, Ont., has been appointed a commissioner by the Federal Gov- ernment to investigate cases of naturalization papers obtained fraudulently. * BODY HARD | SOFT SLAB CUT STOVE LENGTH AND .» GUARANTEED DRY Also neral Motors Wood woO0D & H CONE- CLEANED ANTHRACITE olvay Dustless Coke Pocahontas-Sized Cannel Dixon Coal Co. Telephone 262 5 Direct Lines to Central STRATA LAYERS INDICATE AGE OF THIS WORLD New Method Is Being Pre- pared by Arizona Professor Phoenix, Arizona.-<A new meth- od of reading the earth's age by counting certain peculiar layers in her crust, just as tree rings are read, is in preparation here. The layers-are "varves," the geological name for thin annual earth depos- its laid down many thousand years ago by the glaciers. The reader is Prof. A. E. Douglass, director of Steward Observatory of the Univer- sity of Arizona, In one of the most amazing feats of modern science Douglass discov- ered a method of tree ring reading that identifies trees which were growing when the pyramids were building, that tells the dates of con- structing prehistoric wooden houses of the American southwest, ' that identifies even the drought years of past ages." "aw ren fas Now he proposes to apply this metnod to the varoves. He has cpent much time studying these de- posits with their discoverer the famous Swedish professor De Geer. Water melting from the glaciers in summer deposited a layer of seed and dirt. In winter this de: posit stopped. -Very hot seasons left their finger marks in the form. of extra deep deposits. Through thousands of years these successive layers were each season buried more deeply, pressed flat and hard, but as distinguishable as are tree rings, permanent leaves of history for whoever finds the key to their meaning. Properly treated the varves are as distinctive as tiger's stripes. De Geer has counted 17,000 of them, The problem is to learn the date of one of the layers in a varve, Af- ter that all the other years can be identified in that deposit like counting the rungs of a ladder. Dr. Douglass' tree ring discover: ies offer the dating method. It is based on sun-spot cycles and the lean and thick succession of growth going with dry and wet years. The sun-spot cycles swing from wet to dry years and show plainly in tree rings. few geologists have found records of similar cycles in varves, , The Douglass - method {dentifi- ed sun-spot cycles--not all of them --but certain of these weather fluc- tuations have left combinations of fat and lean growths ag distinctive as a code, " No two of these codes appear to be the same. If once an identified date can be pinned upon one of these varve codes, this key year may be used anywhere in the north- ern hemisphere, even to connecting dates of prehistoric America with Europe. The difficulty of finding this iden- tification 1s no more preposterous than was the apparently wild pro- ject that Dr. Douglass started upon when he began the new successful tree ring studies. At that time lacking sufficient astronomical in- struments, he turned to the trees to study sun-spots. Y A Strange Mixture Comedy With Music London, Mar. 14--"My sister and at the Shaftesbury Theatre recently, is 4 strange 'mixture, according to the drama critic of the NEWS- CHRONICLE, E. A, Paughan. He says: "The first act, in which the beatuiful Dorine, Princess de St. La- verne (and the Swedish Alexa Eng- stroem is a dream of beauty and charm) makes love to her shy libra- rian, Professor Fleuriot, is light and fascinating comedy. Ralph Benatz- ky's music is skilfully adapted to the dialogue. The act nro: ises an even- ing of rare delight. But when the Princess has arrived at Filosel's shoe sho~ in Naney, and pretends to be a sister, the character of the comedy changes. There are st"l some charm- ing scenes, in which the professor falls in love with the princess's 'sis- ter' but low comedy of typical Eng- - i "| Chief Justice Lafontaine la new comedy with music presented lish style shatters the ture of the play." NEW TRIAL GRANTED Montreal, March 14.-- Austin Cassidy, of Ottawa, convicted of the murder of William Bertram Marshall in Hull, Que, last fall, today was granted a new trial by in the ate struc court of appeals, FIRE NEARLY FATAL TO THREE PEOPLE Sault Ste, Marie, Ont., Mareh 14.--Fire which broke out at four o'clock Friday morning in the Fin- nish Hall in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was responsible for damage amounting to $15,000 and during it three people almost succumbed to suffocation and had to be re- moved by firemen. A Dangerous Place London. March 14.--Be careful the next time you go into the bathroom. Do you know that it is the most SCIATICA? Stabbing pain in hip and thigh T-R-C's completely relieved this cast of Sciatica au Neuritis combined The suf- Her husband writes: "I got a $1 bax of T-R-C's for my wife who had 8 in the left hip mn pik ho left band, She ow di Rheumatism, Lame Back, New ralgia. No harmful drugs. SOc and $1. You owe it to yoursell to try ,., 'T-R~C'® B53 dafgerous ' place in the house? In Britain last.year more than 100,000 people received injuries in bathrooms, some fatal, That figure is not un- usual, These are the commonest kinds of accidents: Electrocution, scalding, broken limbs by' slipping, drowning, fainting and heart failure. WHICH DO YOU "PREFER? A LIABILITY -- The Oshawa Gas System at the Present Time is a liability to the people of Oshawa. Its 1930 operations resulted in a loss which will continue to grow with the present out-of-date plant and equip- ment and limited distribution system. It is impossible, with the present system, to reduce the price of gas s0 as to increase consumption and give some hope of profitable operation. This has been proven by the great effort made by the Public Utilities Commission last year to place the gas department on a paying basis, but without success. : To modernize the present plant would mean an expenditure of a very considerable amount at once, and probably further expendi- tures in the future, and these expenditures are absolutely necessary before there is any hope of producing, selling and distributing gas on a profitable basis. These expenditures, however, would mean an increase in the city's debenture debt, and in the annual interest charges, which would have to be met out of gas revenues or by addie tions to the Tax Rate. Under the present system of operation, the city treasury receives no taxes from the gas plant and distribution system, it being exempt from taxation as a public utility owned by the municipality. With only a limited field within Oshawa to serve, the gas plant and distribution cannot be extended sufficiently to provide a high enough consumption to enable rates to be reduced below their present levels. The people of Oshawa, on March 21, have to decide whether they wish their gas system in the future to be a liability " OR AN Sold to parties capable of developing it, the Oshawa Gas System will become an asset to the community: -- * Because the purchasers will, by agreement, spend $100,000 within the next twelve months in the improvement of the plant and extension of the system, using Oshawa labor for its work, and provid- ing employment for a large force of workmen. Because Oshawa will be the headquarters of a gas system which it is proposed to establish throughout Central Ontario, and will have the manufacturing plant of the system, thus making necessary here a larger plant, employing more people. Because as the consumption of gas increases throughout the whole sysfem served by the city of Oshawa, the consumers of this city will receive the benefit in reduced rates for gas for domestic and industrial purposes. This will save money to the people of Oshawa by lowering their gas bills. . MAKE YOUR CHOICE WISELY ON MARCH 21st Yote For All Three Bylaws This is the second of a series cf advertisements authorized by the Mayor and Council and the Public Utilities Commission of the City of Oshawa. ASSET Because the gas system will be assessed, for general taxation, at $84,000 for the first ten years, in accordance with the current standard of assessments fixed by the city assessor, bringing in thousands of dollars of new revenue to the city. Because the purchasers agree that in establishing their coking plant, it shall be so established within the city of Oshawa, thus pro« viding a new major industry with a new payroll, Because the purchasers are negotiating for a large site adjacent to the harbor for its coking plant, and for wharfage space suitable for large vessels, to take care of the requirements of the plant, thus making it a big factor in speeding up the developmennt of the Oshawz, Harbor. Because the purchasers will relieve the city from all possibility of future losses, taking care of the remaining payments of principal and interest to the H.E.P.C., amounting to $301,000, and reducing the city's capital debenture debt by $196,000.