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tMmum THE FtESHERTON ADVANCE Wednesday, December 9, 1936 T t *|4 » . » * , « * I > :t: -> â-  â-  â-  T • \ 5. < V . At Fles herton in 1897 Miss Carry A. Sullivan Retires After Leng-thy Service With Tlie Bell Telephone Company of Canada Miss Carrie Sullivan of Montreal, an old Flesherton girl, has retired from the employ of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada and the following ed the employ of The Bell Telephone Company as an operator in the old Main exchange. After about two years in the Main ekchanKe, she was tran«- article appealed in the current issue ' ferred to Uptown where her out-stand- of "The Blue Bell," the splendid magazine issued by the Company in the interests, of its employees : On December 1st, Miss Carry A. Sullivan relinquished her duties as chief operator in charge of the var- ious operating unites located in the Plateau building, Montreal, to start enjoying a leave of absence which pi-ecedes the cominR-into-effect of her application for Clasg "A" Pension. For some time preceding the date, ing qualfications were soon recognized and two years later she was promoted to supervisor. Promotions and trans- fers followed rapidly, including a pi'o- niotion to a.ssistant chief operator in Westmount, followed by her appoint, nient as chief operator at Victoria, now York, in April, 1913. From Vii'toria she was moved to Westmount and later to the St. Louis office. When the manual office was cut in l'.»21. it included a large part of the Miss Sullivan had been entertained on ! l)usiness section of Montreal and de- several occasions in honour of her re- i nianded the services of an outstanding tirement. She was the guest uf | chief operator. Miss Sullivan was honour at the Queen's Hotel at MISS CARRIE SULLIVAN of her staff and, on this occasion, she was presented with a silver tea service as a token of the esteem' in which sh^ was held by the operating staff. The supervisory staff entertained her at a dinner at Chez Maurice. She was the dinner given to her by the members guest of honour at an evening gather- ing given by the male members of the traffic staff, chief operators and a number of friends from other depart- ments. Owing to the coinciding of the date of this affair, and that of a traffic conference a number of traffic men from other parts of the area who had previously worked with Miss Sul- livan were able to be in attendance. During the evening. Miss Sullivan was presented with a gold wrist watch as a memento of the pleasant relations she has enjoyed for many years with those in attendance. Miss Sullivan started her telephone career at Flesherton, Ontario, where she Was employed by the late W. A. Armstrong (then branch manager) as an operator on a switch- board which was located in his jewellery store. After several years in Flesherton, ar- rangements were made whereby Miss Sullivan came to Montreal and enter- logically selected for this position ••Md, while she has remained in the same operating room ever since, she has been through an interesting and important period of telephone devel- opment. For a number of years, this office remained manual, but. with the opening»of the Lancaster dial cen- tre, the Plateau office became a com- bination of manual and dial, in that originating calls were handled on a manual basig while incoming calls were handled by means of the dial .'iiuipment. The Lancaster DSA board was installed in the Plateau building and became a part of the Plateau operating equipment. Miss Sullivan thus became the first dial office chief operator in Montreal. Later, when it became necessary to install a new infonnation board, it was installed in the Plateau operatnig room and the information work moved from Main to Plnteau. At a later date, the official PBX was converted to dial with the switohbcard located in the Plateau operating room. In addition to these various services. Miss Sullivan has also been in charge of the centralized intercepting board which for a number of years handled the intercepting work for the manual offices in Montreal. In addition to being familiar with the technical requirements of all these various services, Miss Sullivan has always stood very high, both in the eyes otf the management and the minds of her staff, for outstanding ability to deal with numerous and varied personnel problems which out of necessity go with a position such as hers, and ghe has been exception- ally outstanding during the past few trying .years in her ability to main- tain a high moral unJer the most trying conditions. Miss Sullivan is leaving shortly for an extended visit to her sister in Southern California with the expec- tation that the change in climate and relief from duties will have a ben- eficial effect on her health. She expects to return to Montreal some time next year where she will make her home and continue her outside interests. She is a keen motorist and actively interested in women's clubs. Feeder Cattle Policy Concession Extended In order further to accommodate farmers in the movement of cattle and lambs to Eastern Canada from the dried out areas of the Prairie Prov- inces, and in view of the continued open weather favourable to the trans- portation of livestock, the assistance offered by the Dominion Depai'tment of Agriculture under the terms of the Feeder Freight Policy has been ex- tended to December 16. The conces- sion originally applied only on ship- ments made prior to December 1- Under the Feeder Freight Policy one-half of the freight chai-ges will by rebated by the Dominion Department of Agriculture on carload shipments of feeder cattle two years of age and un- der and on lambs born in 11)36 which â- we purchased at and shipped from a country point in the prescribed drought areas of the Prairie Prnvin- tes. The refund is not made until the stock has been fed by the applicant for a period of at least three months in the case of cattle and two months in the case of lambs. The Feeder Purchase Policy under which one way transportation and ex- penses of a farmer or his agent who goes to Western Canada to purchase one or more carloads of feeder cattle or feeder lambs is paid will be in ef- fect until December 31, 1936. Treasure Trove (Goderich Signal) Thirty-five years ago three spinster sisters moved into an apartment on the S(iuare. Soon after, when sev- eral friends had called, the sisters found two bills on the floor, a one dollar bill and a twenty-filve cent "shin-plaster." They tucked the money in a purse to await word from a claimant and soon forgot about it. Last week end they were moving their effects from tlie apartment which had been their home for so long, when they came upon the for- gotten purse with its little hoard of money. The bills arc now more or less curios, for the dollar bill is a De- minion of Canada issue of Sir Wil- fred Laui'ier's time, dated March .SI, 1898. The face of the bill contains a central pictui-e of lumberjacks straining at logs with pcavies, flanked by pictures of Lord and Lady Aber- deen, with a picture of the Ottawa Parliament buildings on the reverse side. The ''shinplaster" is still older, be ing dated March 1st. 1870. The Niagara Falls, Ont., hospital is advertising for a new skeleton. Has any of our readers one in his cupboard? When a man begins to realize the truth about himself, it frequently re- tards his progj-am for reforming his neighbors. An engineering item informs uh that buildings are now being "torn down from the ground up." Strikes U3 ag a grammatical impossibility. Maybe boyg wouldn't be so eager to appear hard-boiled if they knew that the i'esult was to make them half-baked. 'i"i"4"i""l" W V V â„¢ V V •«• 'V 'I' 'It V â- *• WV "T TT^^ ^'WW ^ !«»T«iIi»lttTiiT»itiAf^tltt*r -ji-d If you are in doubt about just how many weeks it is till Christmas, ask the nearest small boy. Theory is what helps a man have big ideas. Practice is what enables him to "bring home the bacon.' S. S. No. 4, Artetnesia * I ♦ * Sr. 4 â€" Mui-iel Talbot ()9*, R. J. Mc- Nalty 63, Jack Bannon 59. Sr. 3 â€" Alma Atkinson 92, Winnig Awde 89*. Fred Bannon 74*. Laurene Talbot 63*. Jr. 3 â€" Kussell Lee 70. 2nd â€" Christina Duncan 80*. Sr. 1 â€" Helen Awde 76*. Jr. 1 â€" Anne Stinson 82*. Sr. Pr. â€" Leslie Duncan 80. * denotes perfect attendance. â€" Helen M. Henderson, Teacher. NOW you can â-  â-  Make alterations and improve- •; ments in your home or roof your :: barn on easy terms. UNDER THE GOVERNMENT NEW HOME IMPROVEMENT PLAN Tile charges are the h»\vest in the iii.story of deferred payment I)iuing". Such a wonderful opiiortunity to renew and improve your ])ri)i)crty is not likely to occur a.cain. Make the most of it. We will gladly answer your questions on the Government Loan Plan. Flesherton Planing Mill * Telephone 24 H. A. McCauley, Prop. i;*'i'>' H '< "> **' | ii t« *' H i | i | i. | i. n .<ii H l ' ^| i^ ^ i^♦â-  ^ l ^ i♦^l ^ i♦â- ^i^|i » . ^ â- ^^â- iiâ-  ^ â- â-  ^ iâ-  ^ â- l ^ â- â™¦â- |i♦♦♦♦lt♦l|il^ t« l^^l» » . | â- . ^ â-  ^ .. ^ ^i. | â- . ^ .â- ^iâ-  ^ .â-  ^ »^iâ-  ^ i♦»»â- ^i ^ â- Â»â-  ^ â- â-  ^ »»lii ^ ll ^ »»â-  ^ iâ-  ^ â- , | ,^â-  » EAST MOUNTAIN (Last week's Items) Sleighing will soon be here if this snow keeps coming as fast as it has during the past week. Mr. A. B. Idle .spent the week end at his pai-ental home at Clarksburg. Recent visitors at the home of Mr. G. McMullen were: Mrs. R. J. Brack- enbui'y and Marjorie and Miss Jean Wolstencroft of Flesherton, Mr. and Mrs. A. Fawcett, Vernon and Irene, Mrs. R. W. McMullen of Kimberley. Mr. Gordon McMullen arrived home last week from the hunt, with a fine large buck. Mr. Elwood Partridge of Rock Mills is assisting Mr. Comfort Thompson. Messrs. Jack Brackenbury and Geo. Akitt of Flesherton have been doing some repair work at the school. Mr. Ernie Thompson has been buzz- ing wood near Duncan. No currency is elastic enough to stretch from earning capacity to de- sire. Power to Stop Bleeding Coincident with the subject of bleeding we just came across the following story in an exchange and pass it along to our readers: "The power to heal bleeding wounds^ with a glance is the sti-ange power claimed by Mrs. Daniel Cardinal, mother of ten children, in the Northern Ontario mining town of Creighton. She heals nose bleeds, severe wounds and heni- orrahages by merely looking at them, she claims. It is all very mysterious, 'My father on his death-bed cenfided to nie the power to stop blood,' Mrs. Cardinal said, ''This power can only be passed on at a person's death, from man to woman, or from woman to man'. To give the secret away, she says, would be to end the gift. To these who are skeptical, ^rs. Card- inal extends a sincere invitation to come and see her some time when they have a nose bleed." READ THE "SMALL ADVTS". Madison Cafe Good Meals at Low Prices JAS. LOW, Prop., Flesherton Christmas ^^ Suggestions This Store Offers a Wonderful Selection of Entirely New Seasonable Goods at Very Reasonable Prices LADIES' SILK SCARFS 25c to $1.95 LADIES' HOSIERY Full Fashioned; Silk, Silk and Wool 49c to $1.00 MEN'S PYJAMAS Broadcloth and Flaimelette $1.49 to $2.50 Ladies' Wool Pullovers Big Selection 98c to $2.95 LADIES' KID GLOVES Imported Flare Cutfs $1.50 to $1.95 Men's FANCY HOSIERY New Designs 39c to 75c HANDKERCHIEFS In Fancy Box 19c to $1.00 Men's Lined Kid GLOVES Grey, Tan and Cream Cape $1.00 to $3.50 Ladies' SUEDE GLOVES Pull-on Style; all colors 50c to $1.00 MEN'S MUFFLERS Reefers and Squares 50c to $1.95 LADIES' GOLOSHES Plain or Fur Tiini $2.25 to $3.00 Linen LUNCH CLOTHS With Colored Border; Some with Napkins 79c to $2.50 Velvasuede PYJAMAS Non-run; new colors, one or two-piece styles $1.50 and $1.95 MEN'S NECKWEAR AH New Patterns 25c to $1.00 LADIES' FOOTWEAR Pumps or Ties $2.25 to $4.50 RAYON BEDSPREADS White and Colors Ladies' NIGHT GOWNS WOOL SWEATERS New Color Combinations $1.25 to $4.50 MEN'S SUSPENDERS Garters or Sleeve Holdei-s 25c to 75c $2.75 to $4.50 Crepe and Velvasuede; white and colors $1.50 to $1.95 Jaoquard Bath Towels Now Smart Designs LADIES' STAPAKS The Newest in Baggage $6.75 to $8.95 39c to 89c MEN'S SHIRTS Collar attached or sel)arate 79c to $2.50 „ LADIES' NECKWEAR Organdy Lace and Satin Collars, Jabots, Collar and Cuff Setts BEDROOM SLIPPERS Big Range of New Styles 75c and $1.00 SKI SLACKS 49c to $2.25 Gift LINGERIE SETTS Crepe and Velvasuede; white and colors $1.00 to $1.50 Ladies' CREPE HOSE Newest Shades; all sizes 69c and $1.00 Black, Blown and Navy J $2.25 to $2.75 1 Ski Caps, all colors 89c to $1.00 Ladies' HAND BAGS New Shai)«s 69c to $1.00 -.1 1 I / SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DISCOUNT ON Men's Overcoats and Windbreakers All this season's selections are included in this Special Christmas Offering Toys For The Kiddies Wonderful Assortment o! Children's Toys on display on the Second Floor. Just what you have been looking for at Reasonable Prices China and Glassware ALL NEW PURCHASES. Tea Setts. Dinner Setts, Berry Setts, Cups and Saucers, Bon Bon Dishes, Bridj^o Prizes. Crystal Goblets. Tumblers. Sherbet Cilasses, Fancy Glassware, Flower Vases. Jardinieres. ^ Chriitmas Groceries Raisins, Currants, Prunes. Candied Peels and Cherries. Icings and Icing Sug-ar, Shelled and Whole Nuts, Or- anges, Lemons. Grape Fruit. Figs, Dates. Grapes, Jelly Powders. Cranberries. Candy. .Ml new pnrchases. General Merchant F. H. W. HICKLING FLESHERTON •-»-»- â- â- â- â- â- â- â- â-  »- â- â-  â- - â- â-  â-  *-.â- -â- â€¢ - â- - •- •- â- --â- -.•- *-•->-â- Â« 'I 'V 'w Tttt â-¼â-¼â-¼â-¼â-¼â-¼â-¼â-¼ w 'I' "P 'V T 'V 'V 'T V '1' vn |..|-.. » »»,|. » . l i,|itt>,|i,|i, H .,|i,|i,^,t,^, I ., t .,i,, t ,ti, t ,|,.[,, | ,.> 4 . 4 i .| i»4.^ ^ J