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the georgetovm herald wednesday evening november 23rd 1938 page7 a e cripps cordially invites yoitand your family to view the new ford cars and trucks for 1939 and obtain full information about i new mercury 8 an entirely new ford built car in the lower medium price field i 1 at their showrooms main street north georgetown 1 opposite cenotaph several good used cars at l reduced prices s jnotmroinnotuiiu nut satisfied users n 44ua cjmgastteje ojj 1 qnetesi jleatihtf value the satisfied w of ove a hundred thousand canadian home- owners u your positive guarantee of the gr heating value money can buy give your home die thrilling comfort and dependability of the world a finest anthracite order blue coot today w h kentner son phone 12 georgetown blue blue coa rhe modern fuel for solid comfort tone m m simrttov smnr sat 7 1730 bub rststfcmcbl kce continent wide daily service at low fares when you travel by motor coach our travel bureau will plan tours to anywhere anytime i ji m4mujmjiillfi jmi hutu routings stop ovirs hottl t ttc mimnm7iiiaimwjhjih t1ckits and imtormation at w h long phone 89 georgetown gray coach lines miljjnery see the latest in fall and winter millinery felts voours velvets in all shapes and sizes a great reduction in prices also vests flowers ribbons misses claridge gei henld block upstairs main stffceet georgetown slock jottlos tin first used or praterruig in 1809 nicholas appert of paris franc discovered the art of canning and as awarded the prize for it by napoleon in 1809 he used wide- mouthed glass bottles with cork toppers a year later peter dur and took out an english patent for preserving food in this way but aling it up in canisters of tin well as glass etc ezra daggett and his nephew 1 horn as kensett introduced the canning of salmon oysters and lob sters in new york in 1819 and ken sett was one of the pioneer devei opers of the tin can with the eng lishman peter durand its inven tor in 1825 oysters and sea foods were the first canned foods to be come popular and kensett soon moved to baltimore which became the canning center small canneries sprang up al along the atlantic coast but until civil war times they worked under difficulties the cans were crudely ade by hand and were expensive and undependable the canners were without scientific knowledge of the principles involved and each had his own secret methods tin smiths or cappers sealed the food in the cans and their demands were sometimes unreasonable processing was done with boiling water and took several hours gail borden took out his patent for can nmg milk in 1856 fruit canning in california began also the pacific salmon canning round trip detroit f 8 90 chicago 16 40 los angeles 70 40 folks if folks would only practice what they preach there d be a healing balm for every breach vast heights would be attalnaole ost hope would be regalnable if folks would only practice what they preach if folks would just be careful what they say there d then be few heartaches day by day and burdens that oppress would roll prom many a weary troubled soul if folks would just be careful what they say if folks to other folks would just be kind there d be a mighty healing of the mind the v odd with happiness would hum regain its equilibrium if folks to other folks would just be kind so folks let you and i to day agree rhe other fellows point of view to and life will be more livable if well just be forgivable and help ijng in the year of jubilee e emily pickard scotland is due for a severe shock when they learn over there that the rnud and bonnie game of golf is not the civil war demand for canned j scotch at all but dutch the dls foods gave the industry its great impetus machinery v as invented for performing the various opera tions and the use of canned goods became widespread while some branches of the industry such as meat packing are centralized oth er branches such as fruit and vege table canning are scattered throughout the country five kinds of tonnage used by large vessels vessel tonnage should not be con fused with cargo tonnage a carto ueight ton is 2 240 pounds while a cargo measurement ton is 40 cubic feet a vessel measurement ton is 100 cubic feet the carrying capac ity of ships is limited by the amount of measurement space available within their holds and by the amount of weight they can safely carry this is called register or deadweight tonnage respectively the five kinds of vessel tonnage advises a writer in the chicago tribune are gross register the total inclosed space of a vessel expressed in measurement tons of 100 cubic feet including engine room bunker fu el spaces crew quarters store room spaces cargo spaces etc net register the total inclosed spaces of a vessel available for cargo and passengers in measurement tons of 100 cubic feet total deadweight the number of weight tons of 2240 pounds consisting of cargo fuel stores supplies fresh water for the boilers etc required to put i ship down to her marks her max imum loadline deadweight cargo capacity the number of weight tons of 2 240 pounds which a ship can carry as cargo after de ducting the weight of fuel stores pphes and fresh water required for the boilers etc displacement the equivalent of the weight of the water displaced by a vessel fully loaded and ready for sea this the largest tonnage dimension of ship but it is not commercially iportant covery lias just been made strangely enough by a group of harvard pro fessors of government conducting a research into interna tlonal law they turned to the life of hugo grotius or hulg van groat as he was known in his own country he great renaissance authority on juris prudence in one volume lhcy found an engraving from a painting of gro- tlus as a youth shaming him holding a golf club quite similar to those i w as grotius was born in lo83 the game must have been well estab lished in holland by the time he reached manhood further research revealed tha golf was played on the ice in the nethr lands as earlj as 1600 holes were chipped in the trozen surface of the inland waterways which must have presented a smooth if chilly surface the game is believed to have been introduced into scotland by two sco tish sailors who learned it while thtir boat was frozen in dutch waters it is wild on strictly unreliable authority th it the r families hae been using tht same ball ever since thought and language in it broadest sense language is any means of expressing thought uid this would ncludt the sounds made by a babv or by a dog observes a writer in the detroit news only the efj simplest of thoughts can be exors ed without words though musical composers mathematicians and others have their own as of expressing thought by music figures and letters etc language had to be evolved in some way or other possibly the an guatre o fthe most primitive man con slsted largely of gestures and cries or grunts but this is mere speculation the roorback a roorbick is a fictitious story or forged report concerning a polit ical candidate circulnted just be fore an election when it is too late to proe ts fils ty hefore vot ing begins it ir t n ted from a slory printed in 1844 to n jure the reputation of limes k p ik curt date for president just before the election tl ci i in it t iii c n y printed what was supposed to be an extract from a tour tl rough the wester and soutl rn states in 1836 by baron roor back the item contained i descnp tion of a slavedriver s camp and stated that 41 of the slaves had been purchased by polk this state ment was printed in a number of other papers but the part concern ing polk was proved to be a forg ery the description of the camp had been taken from featherston haugh s excursion through the slaves states there was no au thor named baron roorback ham christmas delicacy hams many of them canadian are christmas delicacy in the british west indies canada s ham and bi trade with the west indies has been steadily increasing for the past decade nearly 2 000 000 pounds canadian hams and bacon were ported in 1937 the value of australian exports to canada for 1937 38 was 2 140 725 slight decrease from the previous car canadian exports to ausrraii were valued at 8 045 136 app ixl match 40525 680 1 an increase n more than 32 per cent on the prevuu ars total i hi 75th nnniw rsary of the noa scotti fru t crowers association ll celebrated at the association s an il onvention to be held at k it n in december the book of the dead the book of the dead book of going forth in the day an egyptian text was established in its present form before 700 b c the greater part of il is found in pyra mid inscriptions and in papyri of about 1500 b c it includes the pre scribed funeral words including magic formulas for the dead to use there is also some description of the afterworld nine miles of canada s first railway line built over 102 ears ago are still in use as part of lite canadian ni tlonal ra iwnys present route fron montreal to point across the st lawrence rhrr and form an import int co meeting link on the montreal new york boston service the gtnal line of which thes nine miles rem m w is sixteen miles iorur ran between laprairlc and st lohns the crude coaches introd iced in 1836 were drawn over iron st od wooden rails by an english locomotive in dorchester and on occasion the scan dalous speed of 20 mlies an hour was attained lighthouses wrecked by waves all over the world the sea seems resentful of man s efforts to help mariners four times lighthouses have been built on england s eddy stone rock tlje first constructed in 1694 was torn to pieces in only ten years the second lasted more than 50 the third more than 100 but in the end the booming surf had its way if earth stopped revolution the united states coast and geo detic survey says that the absence of rotation and revolution of the earth would so change the whole system of tides currents rivers and in fact generr configuration of the earth s surface that conditions would be un imaginably different as to the pos sibility of the sudden cessation of re volution the late camllle flmmarlon the noted french astronomer said were the earth suddenly stopped in its course the shock would be trans milted by recoil so to say to all the constituent molecules of the terrestrial globe and as if each received a stun ning blow the whole earth would be instantaneously luminous and burn ing and an immense conflagration would devour the world well be right over no orders accepted for delhrerr yesterdayj bat outside of that just try us for quick service well be right over with the right coal famous reading anthracite the laundered coal k c mcmillan phone 10 eobgetown r h thompson co fall hardware genuine edison mazda lamps 25 40 and 60 watts 20 banner ash sifter electric sandwich toaster c each 298 195 best grade nails and cement included roofing 1 ply 150 v r 2 ply 190 p rou 3 ply 225 p rou caulking cement black 98c gal grey 1 98 gal cocoa door mats 14 x 24 49c cocoa door mats 18 x 29 85c household axes with handles 139 window glass 10 x 12 per doz 75c window glass 12x14- per doz 85c all sizes in stock at lowest prices galvanized wash boilers 98c mossberg bolt action 22 cal rifles fr 900 up dust mops from 49 c up chan wax clb rent johnsons electric floor polisher pease furnaces with fire pots guaranteed for 25 years plumbing beating tinsmilhing and electrical work r h thompson co phone 46 georgetown tca plane rushes serum air express save a life when mrs dick toomer of ma grath alta was brought to leth bridge recently suffering from pneu mania her physician dr d b pow ler found that her case required a special serum there was none avail able in lethbrldgc at 10 oclock at night a long distance telephone call was put through to a wholesale house in winnipeg by 1130 the precious scrum was on board a transcanada plane by four oclock next morning 11 was in the hands of dr pbwlei through the agency of the tca and the canadian national express airs toomer s life was saved the new air service will prove a real boon to medical service sold dr fowler in this case it was a life- saver and we surely appreciate it poor man manager where is mr brown clerk speaking on the telephone to his wife how do you know its his wife well he s been on the telephone half an hour and i ve only heard him say hello so far now is the tune to make arrange ments for your christmas advertising mr merchant i our illustrations win prove helpful picobac