THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1919. T0° GRIND LINESTONE HERE) pemssmesanszas 7 (MAKING TWELVE PER CENT LANDLORDS USING HOUSE SCAR-| PLANS BEING MADE TO ESTAB- i CITY TO BOOST RENTS. MSH) A COMMERCIAL PLANT, } Case Cited of dandlord Receiving Twelve Per Cel On Actual Value Placed On House. A citigen stated to the Whig on Monday that landlords are to blame Pulverized Limestone Has = Been Found to Be Beneficial to Worked Out or Soured Soil. Plans are now being made to es- tablish here a big commercial plant "The right PAINT to PAINT right" MEANS: Less frequent painting RAMSAY'S Paint can be applied by anybody a cr AS PLEASANT TO TAKE FOR SALE BY McKELVEY & BIRCH, LTD. ne THOROUGH IN MATHIEUS SYRUP OF TAR & COD - LIVER OIL a Coughs, Colds, Grippe, Bronchitis, hooping Cough, Asthma, Etc. 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Limited TORONTO, ONTARIO The Kind You Have Alva in use for over thirty Canada Food Board License Nos., Cereal 2-000 Flour 15, 16, 17, 18 PURITY OATS make "good wholesome ; porridge ys Boiight, and which Has been years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per- sonal supervision since its inf Allow ho one to Po deceive laceive Tm in this. 8nd You Have Aways' Broan , wae xnav COMPANY, Cd WE Bought Some. persons talk Byen emai because they find it i tures, but line to Intprast any one else. for the présent high rents as they are charging rents 'which are too high present, A moderate sized house has been $25 a month. not well built, being like too many others--"A house built to sell' On April 1st the rent was jumped given, "There is a scarcity and what can you do?' twelve per cent. on 'his money. An explanation advanced is that Militia Department who are tempor- arily residing here. This has un- a house, pay a high rent and still keep a home in some other part of the country Another reason is the who, however, and giving up rooms, This should ease the tion somewhat, { | BLEW BUBBLES IN VAIN. "Tuberculosis." when his fellow-countrymen would have exchanged a field piece for a cake of castile, Captain Frauz von _Rintelen, convieted German plotter with an aversion for the Atlanta bles in the Newark jail, in an effort to convine was suffering from tuberculosis. jail assented the ex-German naval officer had "borrowed"" possessed by his fTellow-prisone and, after having eaten it by t pound, had emitted from his lips a doctors. But the unpalatable meal was eaten in vain, for, still spouting bubbles, von Ritelen was shipped south. GET MONTREAL SCALE, Increase For Quebec Protestant Women Teachers. Quebec, April 3.--The Protestant Board of School Commissioners of this city has accepted the increased scale of salaries submitted by the Association of Proiestant Women Teachers. The scale was based on that passed in Montreal. This, to- gether with other increased expen- diture, will necessitate an increase in the Protestant school tax in Que- bec, which will be brought up to sev- enty cents per hundred dollars' valua- tion. +» WITHDRAWS OPPOSITION .. To Use of Danzig by Polish Troops "in France. Paris, April 2. --Qermany will not persist in. her opposition to the use of Danzig by Polish troops on the way from France to Poland, ac- cording to advices reaching Paris newspapers. Marshal Foch, who had planned to leave last night, will leave Paris to-day for Spa to meet the German representatives to dis- cuss the Danzig question. The mar- shal had a long conference Tuesday with Premier Clenmenceau.™ To Keep Their Promises. Ottawa, April 3.--Hon. J. D. Reid presented to the Railway Committee of the Commons a policy designed to compel companies holding chart- ers to construct their lines. He proposed that during the first year the company shounld grade and provide ties for twenty-five miles. At the end of the setond year twenty- five miles should be in operation and! twenty-five miles additional each year until conipleted, The Minister of Railways suggest- ed that a clause of this nature should be inserted in the charter of 'every raflway company incorporated by the Federal Parliament. Local Option In Assess, ent. Toronto, committee of the Legislature last night which will be received with approbation by a large section of the people of the province. The two most changes in the got are to grant local Bien to municipalities to grant par- fon from assessment on Sad moderately priced houses: and to Intiouie the amust of personal in- come exempt from Both these changes were BD aation. the committwithout opposition. Tells About Siberian Nati In a letter from a member o Siberian in proportion to the money invested. The case he quoted is an interesting comparison 'with the pre-war condi- tions when the housing situation was not as much considered as it is at rented to a mechanic in the city for The house was built a few years ago, and while new is The house was offered for sale to the $10 a month with the reason being This landlord received there are a great many officers of the doubtedly something to do with the situation as most of them take over students will soon be leaving if not houses. present situa- Doctors Skeptical of Von Rintelen's Newark, N.J., April 3.--At a time penitentiary, was blowing soap bub- examining physicians he This became known when officials of the all the' Pp foam which for a time puzzled the which will be. similar to a plant which is now being installed at the penitentiary to grind up Hmestone and use it as an alkaM to counter- act the acids of the soil on farms which have been worked out or be- come soured The plan has proven very success- ful in the United States, particularly near Chicago, where there is a big commercial plant which pulverizes the limestone of that district and after it 8 prepared it is shipped al over the country. Exhaustive tests and experiments have been made of the limestone of this district and it has been found to be equal, if not superior, to that of the Michigan deposit. When the lo- cal stone is ground up very fine and spread on land it will agcomplish the same results--assist in the vegeta- ble growth on the land. SUES PARISH PRIEST. Man Who Was Not Allowed to Wor- ship Behind Altar. Quebec, April 3.--The Rev. Father Theodore Dumas, pastor of the par- ish chureh at St. Raphael, Bellechasse county, is the defendant in an action for damages filed here, claiming $500. . The plaintiff is one A. Leblanc, of that parish, who elaims that after being allowed to worship behind the altar at mass, he was one day ex- pelled from that part of the church, hence the action. FIRST TIME IN 70 YEARS, The Harbor of Rimouski Is Clear of Ice Quebee, April 3.--For the first time in seventy years the harbor of Rimouski, down the gulf, is clear of ice at this date. The ice bridge be- tween Rimouski wharves and St Barnabe Island broke up on the 29th of March and canoes and flats are paddling all around. erth Customs Official Loses Wife. Perth, April 3.--J. V. Watson, col- léctor of customs, Perth, is receiving sympathy of the citizens in the' sud- den loss of his wife. When Mr. Wat- son left home on Monday to go to work, Mrs. Watson was in her usual good health. About ten o'clock their little son went down town for the mail, and returning shortly before noon could not locate his mother, un- til he went out in the yard, When Mr. Watson came home a few minutes later the house was empty and on go- ing to the yard he found his wife lying on the ground, and the little son, about five years of age, break- ing his heart over the prostrate body of his mother, "Mrs. Watson was an exceptionally robust-looking lady, but it is evident the bursting of a blood vessel in the head was the cause of death. Britain Looks For Trade. London, April 8.--The new Depart- a plan for the reform of the Consular service and the establishment of com- mercial attaches. It is proposed to spend at least £1,000,000 annually on the Consular service and mearly £250,000 on the commercial attaches. Several?" associations of British manufacturers intend to take advan- tage of this new activity om the part of the Government. The largest of these represents directly, or through Allied organizations, nearly 20000 firms, with a capital of £4,000,000,- 000. Will Boycott Towns. Whitby, April 3.--Fred Rowe, the president of the local United Rarm- ers' Club, 'which was organized re- cently at Brooklin, says that if Whit- | by and Oshawa adopt daylight sav- ing as they did yesterday he will or- ganize the farmers of this district to boycott the two towns. + In 'this connection it is odd to nots that it was the only actual farmer of the town council of Whitby, W. A. Broughton, who moved the adoption of daylight saving. Gets Con rete Contract, 'Belleville, Ajril 2--L. E. Allen, C.E. of this city, has secured, through the provincial government, a large contract which 'involves a considerable sum of money. It is the construction of all concrete work on bridges and culverts be tween Preseott and Ottawa on the Ottawa and Prescott provincial fighway. A quiet wedding was solemnized in Brockville on Monday at the re- sidence of the bridé's parents when Miss Mary Stalker Conn, only daught- ar of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Conn, was ha in marriage to Frederick Johnston Curran, late of the 2nd C.M.R., who recently returned from France, J. E. Chrysler, who for the past thirty-three years has conducted a Jewelry store in Brockville, has ais- of his business to W. M. Has Ottawa, ment of Overseas Trade is ready with | no drugs pills" --no nerve cures [WAR PUZZLES] [A FOLLETTE SENATOR LA FOLLETTE Preverited passage of war resolution, two years ago today, April 3, 1917. Find another Hun sympathizer. YESTERDAY'S ANSWER Right side down nose at elbow. ------------------------_---- SAID HE WAS DEAD Niagara Falls, April 32 james rrived hme last might. "This ds my second ti on earth," he was iri ii ling his friends, @e shook hands. Among his tro phies from the war are memorial with his own name on them, divers clippings from newspa- how he was killed at memorial cards --no "dyspepsia | keep myself hit by the morning glass ENO' YF" FRUIT SALT ES, and that spoonful of Eno's taken in a glass of water before breakfast is. responsible for many a man's clear-thinking and business efficiency. 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Clipped From the Whig's Many Bright Exchanges. Hiland D. Robins of Clayton, N.Y., and Grenell Island, N.Y., died at Clayton on March 27th, agéd fifty- four years. He was a famous river guide. Mr. and Mrs. David Lowery, Kin- burn, announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Beatrice May, to Wilbert Lorne Steen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Steen, Pakenham. The death occurred on Sunday of James Hodgen, at the home of his son<dn-law, Hartford Parliament, third concession of . Ameliasburg. He was a retired farmer, eighty-six years of age. The King bestowed the distin- guished service order on Major Rob- ert Harkness, son of Rev. Dr. Hark- ness, pastor of Knox church, Corn- wall, This is the second occasion the young Cornwall officer has had honors bestowed upon him, Mrs. Ida C. Bellowes, widow of the late Dr. Caled Bellowes, died at Ottawa on March 31st. Mrs. Bel lowes' maiden name was Ida C. Huntington, daughter of the late Erastus Huntington, Kemptville. pk PH mba ot soci Mrs. 'Bellowes was born in Kempt- ville on April 6th, 1853, A formier resident of Brdckville, N. B, Colcock, passed away last Thursday in London, Eng. He had been in ill-health for a long period. He was the former proprietor of the Brockville Times. The funeral of Mrs. J. Doak, Who passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs, George Humphrey, Wilstead, took place Sunday ~after- noon to the vault at Lansdowne. Mrs. Doak, who resided in Lans- downe, went to visit her daughter, Mrs. Humphrey, a few days after Christmas and shortly afterwards was taken ill. She was seventy-nine Years of age. ~ {Brother Feels Sick! He Wants a Candy Cascaret" To Mothers! You will avoid worry and trouble by giving your children Cascarets instead of naity, Castor Oil, Calomel and Pills. Children look upon Cascarets as Candy and never refuse them even when sick, bilious, feverish, constipated. Besides Cascarets cost only 10 cents a box, Btations Aions and from a y Ect 72 cary Give Cascarets to 3 on pic 10 cent box, AL van