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â-  p i i.'U- Wednesday. April 30 th. 1924 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE THE Fiesherton Advance W. H. THURSTON, Editor AN ENDOKSATION The Hanover Post, after dealing at length with the hospital question, has the foltowinR endorsation of our attitude : "The Post belic-ves absolngfly that indigent patients should be given (*N'ery opi">itunity to be restored to health, ami thiit, if no one else will do so. it behooves a municipality to meet the cost of such treatment. Surely we have not sunlc to the level where we consider human life as of no ac- count. There may be flaws in the Act, but these can be changed. We believe that indigents, before even entering a hospital,should be compell- ed to "et sanction from the municipal council; in other words, that the coun- cil should have some say if they must foot the bill. Also the clause of the Act which defines a resident requires careful consideration. We can sym pathize (luite readily with Fiesherton, which municipality is shouldered with a heavy burden on account of a man who happened to live there last before entering the hospital." A GOODLY HERITAGE MeNeil CEMETERY RULES McNeil public cemetery authorities, I'riceville. have published a little book of rules and regulations â€" some- thing Fiesherton should have done long ago. In this )^ notice that the price for digging graves is $2.50 for child and $3.50 for adult, caretaker to remove all surplus earth after graves filled. Cutting grass on plot is 30c. for eacii time. These prices are very reasonable. How do they compare with the happy-go-lucky way the things are done here? WHY LET THE EDITOR HAVE ALL THE SAY? The Globe issued a special edition of 24 pages on Monday dealing with the mining industry of Cai'.:;da. The extent of this industry as sl.own in this special edition will be an eye- opener to Canadians themselves. We really do not realize the magnitude of our inheritance in this regard. In fact nobody yet knows what it is, be- cause new fields are continually open- ing up and new mineralized localities are being constantly discovered. As one authority has said, our mineraliz- ed potentialities are only in embryo as yet, but the evidence of this good thing is growing greater day by day. Canada is now the second largest pro- ducer of silver in the v^orld, and the total mineral production of Canada during 1923 amounted to the enor- mous sum of $214,019,832. It is a goodly heritage. FLESHERTON NOT IN ON THIS? We have been told that all the towns and villages from Orangeville to Owen Sound will observe Wednes- day afternoon as a half holiday. It seems that so far neither Fiesherton nor Holland Centre have considered this matter. It is about fifteen years since this plan has been generally adopted and during that time it has worked out well, in fact so well that there has been started an agitation to make it a provincial law and to have all places observe the same after- noons. Fiesherton is larger than many places that have made a half holday a success. Years ago all the arguments against doing so were swept away. The fact that our pros- perous sister towns do not suffer in any way should be proof enough that it would work here. All that is needed is a couple of the merchants to start the thing right and of course advertise the movement sufficiently, and away we go. We clip the following article from an exchange. We do not know where it originated and therefore cannot give credit, but it is good enough to find a place in the editorial columns of any paper, and to it we say hear, hear, and raise both hands in affirm- ative : "Why let a community, say like this, or even a much larger one, allow the editor of the local paper to have all "the say" as to community work, improvements, regulationsâ€" and re- strictions as applied locally, or indeed on any live local question ? The ed- j itor's opinions and suggestions are often criticised severely enough in the little room back of the store, in the barber shops and in other places where men meet and talk on public questions. If you have a better idea or a better plan than the editor why dpn't fou get out with it. The editor will be glad to give you space in his paper to express your ideas. He will even help you to put your ideas in shape to be printed, and will welcome rather than object to, your criticism and your better ideas. Now this is a privilege you don't get anywhere else. The pulpit may denounce and may criticise, but you can't very well re- ply. But you can air your views through the local newspaper if they are worth anything, and there is noth- ing the editor will more gladly wel- come than a friendly criticism of his views, the advancing of any new ideas, the suggesting of some new improvement. If you can't write you can at least come in and let the edi- tor know what you think. Try it. Exchange of thought is of great value. â-  In this way you can help promote ideas that would improve community ideals and bring town and country into closer relationship." HOME Bx pne qf The Old Boys THE OLDEST CITIZEN ] X EDITORIAL NOTES You may go fishing on Thursday of this week, and you may catch some and you may not. May day, you know. • * * • The chain prayers are on the go I again. It would seem that people would never get over this foolishness and let up with it. No goo can come I from the practise and it is only a ! waste of stamps and time. Pay no attention .to them. I • * * • ' Recently The Advance has been flooded with propaganda pr9 and con on the church union question for pub- lication. We are refraining from pub- lishing this unless paid for at usual advertising rates. The church union committees have expended their all- owance on the big dailies and now expect the small papers to publish their arguments free gratis. In this fight we are decidedly neutral. The failure at Toronto seems to have been a mere skirmish in the battle. i't'i «x-> (â- â- a-.''-, r: j^itim S To the Farmers of Canada To the men who till the soil and who there' by add to the wealth and prosperity of Canada, the Bank of Montreal extends its complete facilities and the helpful co-opera- tion of its Branch Managers. , In all parts of Canada the Bank has con- veniently located Branches to which farmers regularly come to discuss thrir plans and seasonal requirements with the Managers. Small accounts are willingly handled. W. B. A. CROSS, Manager Fiesherton Branch BANK OF MONTREAL Established over ICO years When these pages were written for personal amusement 'and with no thought of publication, a few. years ago, there were but two men left at Home whose lives ran back to the earliest days : the Insurance Agent and the Apothecary. The former was still in harness, but the latter .saw thne pass by his window while he sat reading or thinking, clear- brained, but crippled of body by ill- ness. But since then the Call has come to both, and from the streets of Home their wandering feet have been called, and their mantle has fallen upon other shoulders. But even though not now numbered among the folk of Home, no reference to the Home of yesterday would be complete without them. When Home was young and beck- oned with all the alluring novelty and promise of a pioneer community, it drew the Insurance Agent, â€" but he was then a young, ambitious man, the servant of a keen business instinct. With a young wife behind him he plunged into business on a man-sized scale and finished as a large store structure that had bravely started out to be a huge hotel, and became one of the important traders in the growing centre. And flourished! Game a time in the course of years when he had to say a long, last fare- well to the still young wife and face the future with his two young mother- less children alone. Came a time, soon after, when adversity bestirred itself again, and the business failed, though honorably. With a broken spirit he re-embark- ed in a business sufficient to maintain his little family and educate tiiem, â€" then in the course of years became I postmaster and forsook the merclian- I dising business. • There were many business ventures through the years of the Insurance Agent's life at Home, for what is bred in the bone will show in the flesh, and he was a born trader; but he always retained the post (jffice. From early morning till late at night he could be found diligently and studiously going over his aflairs in the small office. When letters were expected from distant ones and the mail \yas not opened on Saturday night it was no uncommon thing to have the missive handed over at church; â€" and once when sad news was dreaded, he brought it sympathetic- ally late at night after the mail was sorted. Regulations did not call for him to open the mail when the night train came in (and he may have been break- ing regulations for ought I know in delivering it) but if it was wanted he was ready to oblige. 'This was years after his daughter had been married happily and his son had re- ceived his call to the Manitoba bar. It seemed as though he might al- ways be postmaster; and indeed one wondered could the king keep the postal system running smoothly with- out R. J. to sort of steady it from that end. He might have a grocery store, or an insurance business, or a feed store, â€" but the post office continued without change. R. J. was as much an institution as the postal service itself, and a deal more accommodat- ing. And then one day we learned that he had sold the great frame business block that for years had been the only "family" he could claim at home; and with the block, relinquished the guard- ianship of the mails! It was unthink- able; for so many years R. J. had been associated with that block and the postoffice that there was surely no other place where he could fit in and be himself. True.he proposed to continue his in- surance business in one of the offices of the block; but he did not own it, and it seemed to be pretty much part and parcel of his life. Strange things happen; and one winter's night the snow for miles around was reddened by the wierd glare as the large block roared to the heavens in a terrible sea of flames; and in a short hour an- other of the links with Home's histor- ious past was but a memory. And since tWat time he lived a semi- hermit life, supporting himeslf by his insurance business, but living as one apart from the currept of daily life in the village. He seemed a connecting link getween the present and far-dis- tant past, but one gained the impres- sion that the link was gradually weakening and that Mystery was tugging at his soul to claim it for that sti'ange place where past and present and future merge into the inconceivable vastness and reality of eternity. And one day the claims of the spirit triumphed, and the vehicle of mortal clay was deserted. He had passed the veil and re-joined the wife of his younger years. And yet, â€" Home rolls on, and on. He no longer passes the collection plate with his feeble dignity of -x Sunday, nor is his slow step to be seen on the street. But Home con- tinues as though he had never been, and trace of his citizenship is no more, save in the hearts of those who cherish his sturdy worth. Fiesherton W. I. Finances The following shows the Fiesherton Women's Institute receipts and ex- penditure for the past year : â€" Bal. on hand May 6, 1923.... fl80.23 Interest 9 62 Government grant 3.00 Members' fees 8.50 Net receipts July 12 373.47 Miscellaneous 173.79 Total receipts : $724.05 Expenditure 173.79 Balance on hand $550.26 Membership, 34. EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY THENE\V SUPERIOR CHEVROIjftT LEADS T^ WAV! / WE INVITE YOU TQ^'CAtL AND^SE]^ THE ^ New 5-Passenger Touriog Chevrolet Price $798.00 delivered to you full equipped NO EXTRAS NEEDED DISTINCTIVE FEATURES r^ r^*xef £\f #^«^a»>o 4-i^m ^^^ ^^^ Superior Chevrolet is continually making new .4OW V'OSL or VjperallOn ,eco rds m gasoline mileage â€" 30 to 75 miles to the gall- on beii]g not uncommon, any other car. 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McTavish & Son, Fiesherton =a THE CROWS as they are and as we'd like them A lady who is an inmate of the Gravenhurst sanitarium writes The Advance as follows : Reading an extract from The Ad- vance in my home paper, The Chron- icle, re the crow, I was tempted to send you some lines I wrote last year, when the crows were legion. My sleeping ' porch faces east and south being semi-detached, and about two hundred yards from the south-east corner of the building there are some Very high white birch trees, where from all indications, the crows had a rookery. As these lines were merely written for the amusement of patients and staff affected, I make no apology for their merit as verse. The crow is such a pretty bird, Its plumage with such a sheen In certain lights, it looks quite black, In Others blue, and green. We read oftimes of its conceit How 'twill fuss, and preen and a' But nature sure the crow did cheat When she gave it just a caw. But lest you start with pity adorning This old bird, for nature's seeming abuse. Try sleeping here at four in the morn- ing And I'm sure you will say, "what's the use! Why those blamed old crows which seem just overhead Can m.iice enough noise to waken the der.ri; 'Tis true nature gave them only a caw, But I wish she had given them noth- ing at a'. There .; a million I think, or that n^any more, 1 On cows and their ilk, I'm really | quitel sore. | But sDon we know they will migrate south , Go cawing away on the wing, Then perchance in February, or the i.ionth of March They il be welcome, as a "herald of :. pring" ~"Sky." Nc.e : â€" After a long, co.J winter, the trows are with us aga.n and we join with you in hoping they are never exterminated, for it was with real Pleasure we greeted their first caw. â€" M. H. The Car That Tackles Every Job When a man needs a car for many -jobs he turns instinctively to the Ford touring car. Primarily, the Ford tour- ing is a family car and as such has estab- lished a splendid reputation for service and de- pendability. BODY FOUND IN PARK Hanover, April 27 â€" After thre_e weeks of search and continuous drag- ging of the Saugeen River, the body of W. H. Hines was accidentally dis- covered on Saturday on the shore of Hanover park and only BOO yards from the dam where he met his death on April 5. Mr. Hines, an electrician by trade, was opening the sluice gates of the dam when he fell into the water and was drowned. Diligent search and dragging failed to recover the body. On Saturday a stranger from Owen Sound grew im- patient waiting for a train at the station, sauntered along the shore of Hanover park and came across the body of Mr. Hines on the shore. The funeral was held Sunday and attended by many members of the I. O.O.F. and L.O.L. with which orders Mr. Hines had been identified. But its useful- ness does not end there. You will find the Ford touring doing No matter where you live or drive your car, the nearest service sta- tion is always a Ford service station every job that cars have ever been used for â€" mak- ing the quick nm to town on urgent errands â€" taking produce to market and supplies back home â€" doing everything, in fact, that a util- ity car is called upon to do. And it does them all quickly, eco- nomically and satisfactorily. A real car for work and recreation. F. O. B. Ford, Ontario $445. Taxes extra. Electric ttarting and llghUng cqalpmenl $85 aim. See Any Authorized Ford Dealer CAR.S 'TRUCKS - XI*_AlCTOR.S8 » i BORN SEMPLEâ€" In Islington, Ont., on Ea.ster Sunday, April iiOth, 1924, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Semple, nee Pansy Tuppling, a son. CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Martin Phillips desires to thank her friends for kindly sym- pathy and assistance during her rec- ent bereavement. SHOES THE best in all Hewetsons for Children and Misses. E E E Oxfords and straps for ladies. BROWN " ADAM " SHOES FOR GIRLS Everything for baby. Sandles for Everybody The best variety we have ever had. A. E. HAW General Store - CEYLON Cash Cream Station - Store doMa every Tues. and Fri. ev«. ^w>J ., k ♦•.♦