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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1928 THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE i- M ' -Bili^folOITO Our Service to Farmers Fully conscious of its opportunities to serve agriculture^ this B^nk uses every means at its command to meet the various banking requirements attend- ant to this vital industry. Sales Notes collected and loans made against same if desired. Money ad- vanced to responsible farmers for the purchase of stock, seed and farm equipment. Money Orders sold at lowest rates. TH! Transact your btuineu with our nearest branch IMK^IDSOKTO FEVERSHAMâ€" C. H. Smith, Manager. MARKDALEâ€" W. L. Young, Manager. 827 Grey Councillors Don't Profit Unduly Only $5,174.15 Paid Out To 38 Mem- bers, as Against $13,619 Paid to the 23 Members in Wellington. ances, mileage, comrensation to the They Call Him ''Miracle Merchant" They called Fred W. Anderson the "Miracle Merchant" because in the town of Cozad with 1,300 population, he has built up a business doint; an annual volume of $300,000. How does he do it? Mr. Anderson gets about a bushel of mail every day and about half of it is from nierch- ants who ask that question. Until he was 23 years old, Mr. An- derson "worked out" as a hired ni.^n on Dawson County farms. Sl'i^eping in a cold room on the farms, he would snuggle, down into his blank- ets to keep out the zero temperature of the Newbrasck winter, and dream of being a great merchant some day. And he saved money, saved $800 out of the $20 and $25 a month he got on the farm. When he had $800 he went to Cozad and found he couldn't start much of a store on $800. So he got a job in another man's store, rose at 5, swept the store, clerked during the day, and re-v ranged things at night, often work- ing until 10 and 11 p.m. But he was learning the business. After tvo i years he quit, borrowed $2,200 from j a loeal bank< and in 1906 started a I little store of his own. ! He gave his patrons service the ^ like of which had never been seen in 1 that community. Nor had the local ( paper ever seen such advertising as I he began to invest in. j His business grew, and kept on : growing. He built additions to the J store and then outgrew the additiona. I Today he has a department store, with 37,000 square feet of floor space. Here is a message from Mr. An- derson to other merchants. If I were to start a business again chairmen of the various standing ' today I would spend 5 per cent, of committees, the special grant of $<:00 ' my gross sale in advertising. It to the Warden, etc., and outside of : pays. this there are some smaller accounts | «i have no sympathy for the mer- for special work done which will not chant who sleeps between advertised run the total up to more than $150. | blankets on a bed of springs that The ratepayers of the county of Greyj^re nationally advertised, who sleeps have no reason to complain of the,in advertised pajamas who puts on overhead expense in the management j advertised undferwear, shirts gart- of their affairs from the standpoint j ers and shoes, and when he gets up In a recent issue of the Fergus News-Record, details were published | "f the members of the county council | eats advrtised cereals and foods" for with regard to the amount of money paid to the 23 members of the Wel- lington County Council for sessional allowances, mileage, road commission- er's work, attendance at the commit- tee meetings, etc., for 1927 when it was shown that the total amounted to $13,619.30. This is the smallest total in the five years in which the allow- ances have been printed. It might be stated that the Well- ington county council holds five sea sions every year, although only two of them occupy the whole week, the at any rate, says the Owen Sound , breakfast, who rides to work in an ad- Sun-Times, and the officials of the county who are paid a regular salary do not receive any more than h the other counties of the province; ir. fact the salaries in Grey are lower than in a number of others where there arc less councillors and a smaller popu- lation and assessment, Koep Out of Grain Fields Use The Advance Small Ads. In the revised statutes of Ontario others varying from t*vo to three days! which are arranged in foiu- volumes each. The members received their us- {with one as an index, we notice the ual mileage of 10 cents per mile one following: "It shall be unlawful fori way, and their sessional allowance is any person at any time to enter with ' $6.00 per day, while they also receive j any sporting implement in his pos- the same rate and milea^" when at- 'session, or permit his dog to enter tending the meetings of the commit- -into any growing ot- standing grain tees, which are usually held in the i without the permission of the owner court house at Gueplh. jor to hunt, shoot or with any sport- The report of the auditors of the i ing implement in his possession go county of Grey for the year 1927, i upon any enclosed or unenclosed which is now available, show that the ' 'and after having had notice not to total amount paid to the 38 members hunt or shoot thereon." Farmers of the Grey county couiicil in 1 927 1 who are bothered with hnit*»r3 corn- was only $1,174.15, showinsr that thej'ng on their premises do not need to affairs of Grey County are managed | run to a lawyer to ask what steps along economical lines, and that the , should be taken to keep hunters from members of the council do not prof it , tramping through their fielJs of grow- unduly as the result of their work. ling grain. All that is necessary is to Wellington county council has been , warn the hunter to get off the premis- notorious for a number of years past , es and if he rufuses enter a complaint on account of the large sums of money ; with a magistrate and let the law they have spent in carrying on the[t»ke its course. The owner of doers business of the county and at election running through grain are also liaclc. times this is always a matter which ' â€"Port Elgin Times. comes up for discussion with the re-| suit that there are many changes | There is an epidemic of tire t.hrft from year to. year in the personnel in Barrie. of the council. I The most important committee in I the Wellingtoa county council is that ' of the county roads, from which there , is appointed a sub-committee, called the Committee of Five, and in 1927 this committe alone received $7,995.30 , from the county treasury. Grey also ' has a committee of five to look after the county roads, but their expenses in 1927 were only $481.00, and Grey' county is a much larger county than Wellington, with conseiuently more \ roads to receive attention. The chair- man of the committee of five in Wel- lington, Mr. Udney Richardson of El- ' ora, received $1,660.40 in 1927, while the chairman of this committee in Grey, Mr. J. A. Pringle, of Keppel, ; received $161, which was the largest amount paid to any member of the' committee, which is composed of the Warden, Chas. Holm, Reeves Pringle Taylor, Calder and Lembke, the lattor receiving but $39.10 as his share of the total. The Road and Bridge Coirimittoo of Grey received a total of $368.35, which includes their attendance at commit- tee meetings, the allowance for this being at the rate of $4.00 pet* day, mileage, etc., and is certainly n.-.t to be found fault with. The balance. $4,324.80, spent by the Grey council covers sessional allow- vertised car, and who, when he gets to work refused to advertised. He ought to go broke." I advertise some way every day. I cannot wait for the Ifecal weekly and semi-weekly papers alone. I I keep something going every day." "I use space in the papers every is- sue." "Advertising is a kind of long dis- tance telephone call, with the charges reversed." If it were not for the press, mer- chants would be fifty years behind the times." Mr. Anderson uses full page adver- tisements in the local papers all the time. He has something to say. The publlp read his advertising because they find the unusual there. They find much of the news of the town right in Mr. Anderon's advertising. He makes his store a community centre, a rest room â€" a kind of haven for everybody. And that's how he does it. Barrie town council has decided trat a hair dressing establishment is not a barber shop. SHINGLES Wa.shington Cedar, 10 inches dear. Same thickness as N. B. 25 courses to the bundle. These shingles came highly recommended and we are pleased to further recommend them for anyone wanting a first class roof. $5.25 per M. W. A. Armstrong & Son Hand Home uction Containing valuable luggestions on home planning with Oyproc, Rocboard and Insulez. Write for it. CANADA GYPSUM AND ALABASTINE. LIMITED Parte Canxta FlreproQi For Sale By Frank W. Duncan, ^ITboardy Flesherton, Ont. Mr. P. Mathewson received an in- jury to the bones of his ankle, when he jumped from the beam of a barn, a distance of about 12 feet. Mrs. Heron, widow of the late T. Heron died at the home of her dau- ghter, in Buffalo, on Thursday last. The interment took place on S jnday at Maxwell. Deceased was 76 years of age. A young 12 year old girl, Bertha Gloria Whalen, daughter of Mr. Hen- ry Whalen was cruelly murdered at the wood alongside the railway track a third mile from the railway station at CoUingwood, on Wednesday of last week. DON'T When I quit this mortal shore And mosey 'round the earth no more. Don't weep, don't sigh, don't grieve, don't sob; I may have struck a better job Don't go and buy a large bouquet For which you'll find it hard to pay. Don't hang around me looking blue I'm maybe better off than you.. Don't tell folks that I was a saint, Or any old thing that I ain't. If you have dope like that to spread, Please hand it out before I'm dead. If you have roses, bless your soul, Just pin one in my button hole. Advertise in The Advance CAT PURRS WHILE MOUSE PLAYS ABOUT The old newspaper axiom of the fact of a dog climbing a tree being news, has little on an incident which happened in the store window of Brown and Co., seed merchants, last Saturday night, when a cat and a mouse, in full view of the public less than a foot apart, were to be seem, each watching the other, but appar- ently unconcerned. A tap on the window by a passerby shooed the mouse down a hole. The cat purred on peacefully, seemingly being of the opinion that the mouse has res- ident rights around the place as well as itself. â€" Barrie Examiner. Canada has a telephone for every 13 people. HalfJMidays Alliston Thursday Arthur Wednesday Brampton Wednesday Dundalk Wednesday Flesherton Thursday ' Hanover Wednesday ! Listowell Wednesday Markdale Wednesday Meaford Wednesday Mount Forest Friday Owen Sound Wednesday Shelburne Thursday Tara Thursday Walkerton Thursday Wingham Wednesday HOW TO LIVE Furniture Talk ON Be slow to judge your fellow men. Be swift to do the right. Be modest if some praise you gain. Be good with all your might. Be blind to faults of other folks. Be mindful of your own. Be careful over little things. Be brave when all goes wrong. Be mindful of the words you speak. Be true, be just, be strong. AGENCY FOR Massey Harris Implements INSURANCE WRITTEN IN SEVERAL COMPANIES ON BOTH FARM AND TOWN PROPERTY. John Wright FLESHERTON How Money Can be Sav- ed Even on the Catalogue Prices by Dealing at FINDLAY\8 We buy considerable of our Furniture, such as Chesterfield Suites, Dining Room Furni- ture and Kitchen and Bedroom Furniture, from the factories at Hanover. Now, what de do, should we not have display enough in our store to please you, is just to take you for a car ride to Hanover, and there you can pick out what you desire in any of the lines mentioned. Now this is how w'c can save you money. We cat! sell at a lower margin of profit when the goods are sold before their arrival at our store, than if we had to stock them for some time. They have a wonderful display of these diffeernt lines ofer there, and we feel sure that we can please and satisfy you. Come and let us demonstrate to you one small side to our motto "Service." THOS. W. FINDLAY Furniture Dealer Funeral Director HON EST M" ^m MSmmmmKr. m mmmmmms mmw jftw •^^i; «:-::»>:-:<-x-;;-;-::»>:vXvX ,:^^:^ xW^^i?^ mm, mm. ••y.-::-y,-K', A DOLLAR'S worth of value for every dollarl That's what you want in a Used Car. That's what you get lierc . . . plus a bonus of extra attention to the quality of the Used Car you buy. You'll find our Used Cars honest value because they have been taken in at fair prices on new Chevrolets . . . checked over as to condition and appearance . . . and offered for sale at the lowest possible prices. c„.„„. Come in and inspect these honest Used Car values. CHEVROLET SEDAN â€" 1925 Model, in first class me- chanical order. New tires all around and has had wonder< ful care. D. McTAVlSH & SON FORD COUPEâ€" 1925 model 5 Balloon Tirefs, License and Feat Feed. See this one. FLESHERTON, ONT. AUTHORIZED yj CHEVROLET DEALER TJ .*s^--^