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:Nt WEDNKSDAY, MARCH '.'v > . U)26 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE a THE aESHERTON ADVANCE Published on Coiliniovood street, Fleshorton, Wednesday of each â- week. Ciiciihition over 1100, Prioe in Canada, $2.00 per year, when paid in udvancu $1.50. In U.S.A. $2.50 per year, when paid in advance $2.00. W. H. THURSTON, - Editor P. J. TIU'RSTON - Asst. Editor THE SHORT COLRSE On Pi'iday of last wcelff the Flesh- erton Agricultural and Home Eco- nomics Short Course was brought to a close, after four weeks of profit- able discu'-rsion and demonstrations of farm operations, household care, and home nursing. Both country and town |H>ople have attended the meetings and showed much interest, which wa.i very gratifying to the promoters of the Short Course. It can be ea.sily seen that people are in- terested in bettering farm and home conditions, which can be done by selecting and applying ideas and practices which are applicable to their particular cnoditions. Definite results of this course to many may seem slow in appearing. This is possibly to a certain extent true, but it should be remembered that quick changes are often followed by dis- astrous results. It i-i in the months which are to come that the people will be benefited, first by bettering themselves, later their particular locality, and lastly the community as a whole is benefitted by having such meeting;; and demonstrations r,s given by a Short Couuc in Agricul- ture and Home Economics. The Department of .Agriculture in Grey County is doing excellent work in promoting better Agriculture in this banner province of Ontario and â- we are indeed fortunate in having a representative who is giving all he has for the betterment of farm conditi- ons. Mr. T. S. Cooper is to be heartily thanked for bringing the course to Flesherton and for the good it has dope this part in bring- ing the farmer closer to the work vrhich the Department of Agriculture is doing in their interests. Mr. Coop- er is the right man in the right place. He had an able assistant in Mr. J. B. Nelson, a young man who is well learned in his profession. The Depart- ment of Agriculture is always willing and eager to assist the farmer in his problems and asks consultation in any farm matter. Letters From Our - Subscribers â- J Letteii received by us recently from old residents of this part include Mr. David Parliament of Brantford, .Mrs. Walter Scott (nee Miss Stone .)f Ceylon) of Delia Alta., and W. L. Hudson of Lethbridgc, Alta. We were oleased to hear from these subscrib- ers. The All Wie l-ditor A subscribe' wrote an ed'tor as follows: Mister Editor: You think you have an answer for everything, answer these trifling questions and ob lige me: How long is a piece of string? How m jch does a ton of Ice weigh? Why .to they call it a new moon when it is the same moon; Why do women not have beards. What makes wa' -;r wet ? An.swer quick â€" Louis. And tht editor le plied to each as ,''olljv..s-- (1) Twice the distance from the middle to .?uch end. (2) Half as much as the ice man asks for it. (â- ',} Hccjiusc babie.'-. are born every month who never saw it before. (4) Mother Nature knows they couldn't hen) ther cliiris still long enougli to sliavo. (5) Two patts hydrogen and one part oxygen. IN MEMORIAM WOOD â€" In loving mmory o' r.v dear wife who passed away, Feb- ruary 18th, 1925. Gone and gone forever How I missed your sniiling face, But you left me to remember None on eartli could take your place This day brings sad memories, Of a loved one gone to reet, You will always be remembered By the one who loved you best. Sadly missed by Husband. IN MEMORIAM CONRON â€" In loving memory of Ethel May Conron, who passe*! away March Ith, l'.)25. While the midnight stars are gleaming On a lonely silent gi-avc, Beneath it sleeps our mother. The one we loved but could not save. Her weary hours, her days of pain. Her troubled nights are past. Her ever patient, worn-out frame Has found sweet resX at last. Long days, long nights she bore her pain To wait for cure, bat all in vain, Till God himself knew what was best, He took her home and gave her rest. â€"Sadly missed â€" Husband and Sons. ADVERTISER'S DECALOGUE The ten commandments of advertis- ing were drawn up by an American •ome years ago. Here they are: "Be hnman. B-> interesting. Be easy fa> understa .1. Be easy to read. Be humorous, when you can. B« unusual. Be unexpected. Be tempting. Be sub- tle. Be positive." â€" Edinburgh Week- tjr Scotsman. Mr. W. H. Thurston: DcarFi-iend:- Just a few lines. We are still liking it here in Ladner. It has been a lovely winter with the grass nice and green all the time, and numerous flowers bloomtng. There 'aave been some days just like summer. We are sendng the account of our Golden Wedding, also our photo. We always look forward to getting the Adva.ice and always enjoy reading it. Your old friends â€" Mr. and Mrs. W, H. SLOAN, Ladner, B. C. The Advance: Enclose subscription for weekly as a letted from home. We for your paper, which we look ifct JO much news through your local correspondents, whopi we are glad to hear from, and it is enjoyed by all v5 westerners. We are also enjoy- ing one of the best winters we ever saw row with the fine wintry â- .veathor and the use of the radio in many homes, people are taking some thing.s out of life as intended. Those who went to California and out west to the coast for a betterment for the winter, have missed a real treat this time. Wishing all readers, including your staff a prosperous season. â€" A.T. HUTCHINSON, Strongifield, Sask. rJAN AND WIFE Ha;i a man a right to chastise his wife, if in his opinion, she stands in need of con-ection? There seems to be a difference of opinion in the minds of some of those who are char- ged with the enforcement of the law. A Chatham police magistrate ruled recently that a man had right to do with his wife what he had a right to do with his children if they need- ed to be restrained. A l.oronto mag- istrate takes a different view, hold- ing that a man has no more right to strike his wife than he has to strike any other woman, and no right at all except in self defence. There was a time, indeed when ac- cording to British law, it was not â- )nly the right but the duty of ^a hus- band to chastise his wife if he felt that she needed chastisement; but v/hether that law ha.s fallen into dis- use, it does not command popular approval to-day. Women who claim equal rightu with men naturally ob- ject to receiving punishment from their husbands, and even among those who have no desire for the recognition of complete equsjty the right of a man to inflict corpor- al puni-shment on his wife, even if she should be in need of correction, matter of fact, it is the custom of is very seldom maintained. As a the courts to deal rather sevywly with the wife beater. There may be those who believe that we have departed too far from the ancient customs, or some of them; hut mo<-.t pct)ple tike pride in pointing to the piodcm status of women and children as an evidence jf the ailvnnre that ha? been made in our civilization. FLESHERTON SCHOOL REPORT •Jr. 3rd â€" F. Wolton, E. Ferris, J. Gihion, H. Best, B. Pulton, B. Sled, D. McMullcn, M. Ferris, D. McFadden, E. McKillop, A. Warling, B. Castio, B. McEachnie, M. Stuart, V. McMastor, A. Laughlin ,E. Freeman. Sr. 3rd â€" S. Preston, G. Stuart, E. Fisher, G. McMastor, W. Colgan. A. Clements. 4th Class â€" A. Hoard, J. McFadden. K. .McMidlen. M. Bibby, E. Fcnwick, U. Sled, L. Batty, M. Fenwick, A. Le- vel-, B. Patton, A. Invin, B. Phillipi. Junior Room Sr. 2,ndâ€" J. Gibson, E. Gibson, E. Patton, W. Preston, W. Laughlin, E. Kerton. Jr. 2ndâ€" H. Bihby, E. Warling, L. .McEachnie, H. Croft, E. Talbot, C»eo. Boyd, H. McKillop, W. Welton, W. Little Johns. Sr. Ut â€" Pearl Gibson, R. Bellamy A. Turney. Jr. 1stâ€" E. Brown, E. Clements, E. Burnett, A. Lawrence, H. Laughlin, C. Talbot, (absent.) Primary B. â€" E. Croft, P. Patton, F. Lawrence, D. Stuart, B. Murray, G. Gibson, H. deCndmore, R. Semple. Primary A â€" Doris Kerton, Doro- thy Kerton, Jim. Poole, A. McKillop. A woman shopper approached the Assistunt Postmaster in • the local post office yesterday. '•! would like to look at your red three-cent stamps,' she said. The official obligingly brought out a sheet of 100 stamps. Pointing to one in the centre of hip aheet, the discriminating customer said sweetly, "I'll take that one!â€" Orangeville Sun. Col. Armstrong Speaks For North Country in House off Commons Liuet-Col. Ernest C. Armstrong M.P. for South Temiskaming, last week made his maiden speech in the House of Commons, and at its close was warmly complimented -jn his del- ivery. It was a most auspicious be- ginning to the parliamentary career of this talented native of Flesherton The address was a model â€" short, to the point, without political bias, a spl- endid plea for a better understanding by the people of Canada of the great natural resources of th North Country of Ontario â€" agricultural, mining, 'um- bering and manufacturing. Col. Armstrong was a pioneer in the district of Cobalt. He was one of the first settlers in the harilet that became the busy centre of the silver mining industry, and his fellow citizens honoured him by repeat-jd'v selecting him as their chief magis trate. It was a natural evolution tlia' he should be sent to parliament as the representative of the vast surround- ing territory of South Temiskam- ing. Col. Armstrong gave the foll- owing graphic recital of his early ex- periences :- I have been to every mining camp in the last twenty years; the only rush I have missed was that into Red Lake the other day, and I- would not have missed that had I not been elected to this house. Twenty years ago the government of Ontario projected north ward what is known as the Temiska- ming and Northern Ontario Railway. It was regarded as a waste of public money to build a railway into what many people described ns a muskeg country. But after the contractors had carried the road beyond the con- fines of North Bay they ran through the valuable silver formation at Co- balt â€" a camp that has become known throughout the world as the highest grade in the history of mining. It is going as strong to-day as it p^'- er was. It has eralady added $230,000- 000 to the wealth of this country, anii 13 still producing from $7,000,000 to $8,000,000 a year. The history of the advancement of that country is even more wonderful than the realm of romance. Hon. members may think 1 am enthusiastic. Well, I am en- thusiastic, so much so that I am afraid I shall not be able to tell the story of the romance of the Timiska- ming railway as it should be told. The railway has followed the trail that Champlain blazed. And that won- derful road is going towards Hudson bay. "Beyond Cobalt is the beautiful town of llaileybury, which was recent- ly burnt out, but which its enterpris- ing people have rebuilt and improved. It looks across Lake Timiskaming to the purple hills of Quebec. In fact we get our inspiration from that prov. ince. Further up you strike New Lisk- eard, and thence north for eighty mile you have the finest agricultural coun- try in Canada. You will find there as beautiful farms as you have anywhere in old Ontario. Men have gone in there within the last few years and have taken off enough pulpwood from their land to provide them with work- ing capital sufficient to establish themselves a.; farmers. "Then you can drive over a fine automobile road for nearly one hund- red miles. In about a year and a half we hope to have a trunk- roa<l from North Bay to Cobalt, passing through the beautiful forest reserve of Timigami. I would ask the House, Mr. Speaker to have a rece.is not in the winter, hut in the summer, when we shall be glad to entertain the hon. iiionil)i!r.s in the bcauUful isles "i territory, sir, is the embodiment of a lake TiinajTami. That agrirultura! territory, sir is the mbodiment of a great principle: the mining industry oiiened up there ha.^i made it possible I'or ppople to come in and till thp soil with profit to themselves and ben" cfit to the mining population. Wf arc almost a self-contained-country. That is the only market the farmers have but it is a good market." The Colonel afterwards dilated on the richness of the gold ,silver a'nd mining industry in which, he casually remarked, wages double that paid in the maratime provinces, are paid. Fifty .nor cent of his constituents, h.^ explained, came from the province of Quebec, and immediately over the border is the much spoken of no'..^ mining camp of Rouyn. in Quebec pro- vince. All live in harmony, and ai-o mutually intere.sted in the progress of the great North. The gold mints produced $23,000,000 last year; this year their output promises to be $30, 000,000. To-day, Ontario's gold yield has third place in the world's production, and it is fast approaching first place. To the right of this wonderful min- ing territory, is the great pulp de- velopment at Iroquois Falls, where every twenty four hours, 6oo tons of news print goes south to supnly the need.-* of the continent. Continuing, Col. Armstrong referred In these glow ing terms to other valuable resources within his territory :- "Twenty five miles further up the road, you come to the town of Coch- rane on the Canadian National rail way, which is the best built road, with the easiest grades, on the North Am- erican continent. This road does not stop at Cochrane, however, it goes further down over the height of land and passed onward towards the icy wa ters of the Hudson bay, and at the Tin Can rapids there is a flow of 25, 000 horse power which is utilized to turn the wheels of the Abilibi mills. There is wealth of romance in thatj Northern country and I tell the eo- j pie from tlu west that if they do not] hustle up \\s will beat them to it. Be-; yond that v/e have the largest china I clay belt probably known to the world, and we have asbestos. A gen- tleman who came out the other day brought also a very fine sample of c -"I. We have not much coal but if V.-; can get this commodity in the north coiintry we shall have the greatest industrial centre there will be found on this continent." Concludi:ig his model address, Col. Armstrong pointed out the necessity for parlianent lending its intelligent ic ear to the appeal for intelligent developmen'' of Northern Ontario, and Quebec. Geologists have given as- surance that we have in this north- land, known as the pre-Cambrian area, a territory swept clean by the wonderful forces of nature, exposing to Canada the greatest treasure coun- try in the now known world. He off- ered to the Minister in charge such assistance as is in his power to aid in the development of these vast poss ess'ons. The North needs liberal and efficient transportation,^ and af- fo:-ds the very best of markets for the products of the older settled portions of Canada. This is a day of great opportunity, and the men of the I-forth are vigorous and progressive Canadians, ready and willing to co- operate with their fellows in other parts of the Dominion to vigorously and hopefully promote the develop- ment of the land. Certainly, a masterly plea for the Northland, and we congratulate Col. Armstrong on its successful present- ation. CEYLON PUBLIC SCHOOL Sr. 4 â€" Reta Marshall 81, Marguer- ite McMullen 80, Dora Stewart 79, Blanche Genoe 72. Sr. 3 â€" John McMillan 73, Jackson Stewart 69, Kendal Stewart 52. Jr. 3 â€" Jimmy Sinclair 73, Donelda MacDonald 71, LaVerne Piper 70, Stella Marshall 68, George Jaynes 6Sf Hilda Genoe 60. Sr. 2 â€" Stanley Hunt 83 Milford Piper 81. Jr. 2 â€" Katie Stewart 78, Francis Collinson 65, Dick Stewart 64, Lloyd Archibald 62, Eddie Genoe 60. 1st â€" Nellie Genoe, Orton Leslie, Margaret Collinson, Georgina Mac- Donald, Ernest Mathewson, J. P. Stewart, Olive Marshall. , Sr. Pr. â€" Leslie Chislette, Alex. Marshall. Jr. Pr. â€" Herbie Chislette, Jean Marshall, Laura White, Mabel Haw, Murray Marshall, Harvey Archibald. Names in order of merit. The numbers are per centages; No. enroll ed 37; av. att. 35.05. â€" Mrs. F. J. Sleeley, Teacher. LIVING AMID FILTHY SURROUNDINGS Last Friday Dr. Marcellus, Medical Officer of Health for Esquesing town- ship, accompanied by Chief McPherson â- visited the habitation of F. Dickieson and his wife and three children â€" ^the old deserted house on lot 25, Con.. 1., Esquesing. They found very un- janitary conditions. On the ground floor there was the living room. This had to answer for the living, eating and sleeping quarters for the family. In a room off this there were 2 cows, 1 horse and 2 pigs, and the place was filthy be- yond description. The Medical Offi- cer of Health ordered the animals removed and the premises put into sanitiary condition. He will make a second inspection shortly. Dickie- son is employed at the tannery. The family occupied a house in town for some time, but because of their fil- thy habits > no landlord would admit them again. â€" Acton Free Press. S. S. NO. 3. 08PREY Jr. 4 â€" ♦Clarence Winters, Norman Ring. Sr. 3 â€" Harold Ring, *Kenneth Moore, '•Edith McImiis,*Harry Moore Jr. 3 â€" Lome McQuay. Sr. 1 â€" ♦Isobel Mclntyre, ♦Margar- et Mclnnis, Elmer McQuay, Reta Grummett. Pr. B. â€" Allie Ring, ♦Duncan Mc- lnnis, Robbie McQuayl Gordon Moore, Mary Grummett. Pr. A â€" Charlie Grummett. Those marked ♦ present evei^ day. â€"I. M. HINCKS, Teacher. Today is what we were all looking forward to yesterday. You can only make interesting fri- ends by being interested. REPORTING UNSAVORY COURT, NEWS One of the problems encountered by the weekly newspapers is the re- porting of police cases. Every indi- vidual editor faces the difficulty once in a while and it is a topic at a good many meetings where editors gather. Opinion is divided chiefly into two I main camps. One side claims that the full particulars should be given (except in cases where it would not be fit to print), the others favor giv- ing a short outline of the charges and the penalty, but shielding the Individ ual who is in trouble by withholding his name. The daily papers give names and all the details they think interesting. We notice that among the nearby weekly papers -which do the same is the Ac- ton Free Press. There is no sec- recy about the cases reported in its pages and many cases both in the town and vicinity are reported every week. The reason for this is probably because Mr. H. P. Moore, the editor, is also the Police Magis- trate. We have not heard him give his opinion but we suppose that he thinkp that the puUlicity helps to prevent crime just as much as the penalties of the court. But the small town editor often sees that the punishment falls part- ly on those who have no part in the misdemeanour especially the â- wives and mother of the defendants. There fore they are apt to be more merci- ful. The Magistrate must inflict the penalties fearlessly and in the case of either p. fine or an imprisonn^ ?nt, the prison-r usu.'jlly bears tho bunt of it: but with tho names publi '.led, the relatives arc apt to feel i lore keenly a! out it. The peop".< at 'he court know v.'ho is the g'.iilty one and i';o news spreads over i^aost of the r oa of a village like our own but itill it does not reac'i as many as those who see the Viper. A short account of the case with the pena'ty stated should act as a preventative to a cei-tain extent. â€" Tara Leader, The Good Old Da^sâ€" Plush Al- bums, Easels, Croquet, Natural Com- plexions, Foot Dancing, Bustles. Things you could tell children that would shock or suprise them. It isn't the rooster's early rising "that makes him unpopular; it's his talking about it. WINTER TERM OPENS 'i(^/^Si- OWEN SOUND Individual instruction. BuBinesa and Shorthand courses. Preparatory courses for those who missed first chance at public school. Catalogue Free. C. A. Fleming, F.C.A. G. D. Fleming. DRAMATIC CONTEST - IN - The Flesherton High School - ON - FRIDAY MARCH Sth AT 8 p.m. The Farm Youth Association are staging this contest, which will bring together some of the best dramatists in the county. A real contest is assured, and plenty of fun. Admission 25 cents t. The People's Grocery Kernedy's for Groceries GROCERY SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK 3 pkgs washing soda 2 pkgs lux 2 pkgs Gillex 2 pkgs charm 4 bars of P & G. soap 4 bars of Comfort soap 4 bars of Gokl Soap , .^ bars Standard Soap 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 W. G. R E N N E D Y Phone 37 STOP THE laCTOR ORTHOPHONIC Consolette is Here Come in and hear this wonderful machine. An exact reproduction of the Victor artist, before SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1926 AT W. A. Armstrong & Son^s FLESHERTON, ONT. v.o