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Ghost Is Laid ~~ In Police Office The "ghost in Tillsonburg's police office has been unearthed. For a couple of days strange, and at times spooky. sounds, were.-heard at -the building, Then, town afficials and plumb- ers took down a pipe leading from the stove to the chimney. Inside the 'chimney they found .a plump' pigeon, - thoroughly] 2: enjoying itself, and appare tly ed not in the lonstowverpied FET] the' situation, * Giielph Winter Fair »+ Has Big Entry List +$20,000 in. Cash Prizes for Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Seeds, Grain and Poultry-- Light Horse Show feature Each Evening November 29, 30, and Dec. 1. _ chairman of the Seed and Grain: EK. HAMPSON; B.8:A., Hamilton, Vice-President of the Ontario Pro- vineial Winter Fair, Guelph, the old- est organization of i : tario, Mr. Hampson who is one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the Guelph Show, being held this year Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1, is also TomnAttee, . - adds to the plantfood which Is ay- What Science xs Doing * RADIUM ARTIFICIALLY PRODUCED Jean Frederick Joliet-Curie and his wife, . Irene, daughter of the allable when the strawberries are ready to grow in the Spring, and it causes the snow: to lodge as pro- tection for the crap. When the growers' are not able to obtain a strawy manure, they put gn a good covering of straw, Q. "A person fells me if sow fertilizer containing more than 2 per. cent, lime that the lima wi'l counteract on the fertilizer, thereby « making it useless, while '-another late Marie Curie, who discovered - Y i+ } radium, have succeeded in artifi- saysc l- may use .fer(ilizer -contain- ing 60 pér cent. lime and still-be cially producing radium elements. . hint =gras ~ot rare Tadium would be required ta produce the radium. elements obtained=by the - Leoad Would vou begooa--eny-- ough te put me right,on this? H. "D, = Essex Courty, i ; A. Whether.or not lime will react. Cuviiot-Caries, achievement in view of. the" fact that the world radium supply is Lt only 10 grams ANE vr FEVER AND ARTHRITIS. Artificial fever --- produced by electricity--is pictured as a possi- ble key to the successful treat- ment of arthritis -and_asthma. Such a. fever, or temperature, i when raised to a point that might | result in death if produced by the body itself, has been -used--with cases of 133 "a some success in cheguic: arthritis. === "officials of the Guelph Winter Fair from President Dr. W. J. R. Fowler down, are more than en- 'thusiastic over prospects for this year's show as entries continue to pour into the--office- of Secretary L.. E. O'Neill, Parliament Bulld- ings, Toronto. * Guelph Fajr, known all aver Ontario as "The Farmers' "Show," is well and truly named. Here you will find the cream of "Ontario horses, cattle, sheep, swine, seed and 'poultry all under one . roof. Tere is'where farmer meets farnier ina warm aiid friendly at-. mosphere as they watch the judg: ing -oI thé various classes in tho: 'large arena. The. **Farmers" Frieng*. > Horses are. featured at Guelph, where 'there---are no lessthan 110 classes for the "Farmers' Friend." There are 47 classes for cattle; "72 for sheep; 26 for swine; 40 for seed and grain and 193 for poultry. Each evening of the fair is feat- ured by a light horse show. It is. an, increasingly popular -attraction. Announces "Z"" Nickel Dr. Paul D, Merica, vice*presi- dent of the International Nickel Company of Canada and noted re- search authority on alloys, who announced the "development, af- ter six years of study of a new' material known' .as.{Z" nickel with " __strength comparable With that of". : steele--Dr;--Merica- «was: _rgcently awarded the 1938 John Fritz gold medal for his outstanding work in * thé field of alloys. i + Quebec Leads In : ~~ Number of Blind Of 3,808 Pensioned In Canada .»1,270 Are In That Province --1,023 In Ontario ' More "blind "persons are draw- ~ ing pensions in Quebec than in any other province of Canada. Of the 3,806 people in Canada pen- sioned under the. plan passed two years ago granting allowances to blind persons over 40 years of age, 1,270 are residents of Que- Beg a * = 71,023 In Ontario +4 A. total expenditure of about - .$1,000,000 annually is estimated for "pensions, the Dominion, Gove . ernment paying 76 per cent. and- the remainder being paid by the provinces, Sala Make Survey of Biindness . A staff of about 00 doctors is being kept busy throughout the rt ~~ - Dominion making the necessary - AL physical examinations. Though #! the act has actually bern in force" only a few nionths, th medical d staff hag virtually caught up with the rush which resulted when pen- . sions were first granted. Once the examinations are com. pleted; the medical "staff = will "launch on' a general survey of blindness in Canada. This will be #' designed to collect data as to age- groups, causes of blindness and liards," sald Smith, say!" -----Guslomer==="A 2,000-pound tg 'a lof safer than you are just now." other valuable information. "As soon as the cold weather comes I have to stop playing bil- "Ilow's that?" 'asked his fried. "Every time the three balls get together they remind me of my ov- ercoat." i Customer (to head waiter): "Just -as a matter of curidsity did the waiter. who took my order leave any family?" > "Darling, would you -love me it had only one.eye?" "Why, no, déar. What a thing to -- "Very well, then. Let that umbrella." ne carry "Last week my hushand went -rabbit-hunting, and: we've since ' |'. | put up enough meat to last us ° a year." Neighbour -- "He niust be a cracker shot --_ getting all "'those rabbits." em "Oh, hubby didn't shoot any:- rabbits. He hit-a cow." :- . Customer ---- 'I want a ton of coal' - ---- Dealer --- "What size?" it-it's not asking too mich." Andrew. Carnegie, the financier; had himself 'aroused each morning by the playing of the bagpipes. Everyone is of some use, even if nothing more than serv- ing as a horrible example, A] A city chap was crossing a past- ure: a Cily' Chap (shouting to a farmer) -- "Say there, Is this bull safe?" Farmer -- "Well, I reckon he Is a Canadian National Railways Revenues The gross revenues of the all- inclusive Canadian National Rail- ways System for the week ending Nov. "7, 1938, were ....$4,011,965 as. compared with - 4,068,109 forthe corresponding period of "1937, a de- crease of ... TO REACH THE NOON There is no present possibility ~ of man visiting the moon; but it would bb rash to predict that such a visit will. remain unmade, Dr, Peter M. Millman of the staff of the Dunlap Observatory said last week. But if it were possible for man to visit the moon, he would over have. to learn to walk all again. sie = sms ilakla 5.35 G icin noes "Con_fertiiizer and couniera ue ols féct of the-phosphates, will depend upon' the form of lime, the forng-of™ ~maleyrials used in the fertilizer, and jhe length of time they are in con: tact If theWime should be air-slak- ed burnt lime, it would be very ac. tive, in .redction; or turning back the soluble phosphate to the insol- uble form. If the lime is natural ground calcium carbonate Jdime- "stone, it will'not act so quickly. It the lime is largely magnesium: car. bondte or dolomitic limestone, the reaction will be slowest.-2 per cent, __would be 40 lhs in a-ton.-1 believe it is possible to use double or triple this amount without -much rever- sion, providing-the mixed«mstesials-- --do nu{ stand very tong::60 percent or 1,200 1bs. per ton seems to me to be an excessive amount 'of ground limestone to put in a mixture, I know that this has been done in certain cases where such concen. trated material as ammo-phos (11- 48). used ias a better business _to put in just enough linié to make up a mixture fo the half ton total - in » R i 'eres . 4 ---- _ wn . (7 i Th Papers come out 'clean. EN e and fresh from the : : =) = 4 BOOK SHELF |] Pouble Automatio Booklet, HUI 3 By ELIZABETH EEDY 2 [) A IE ¥ . RR = == = Se LS 3 : 3 a Ld "MY SEVENTY. YEARS" Py ; by Mrs. .CGeorge Black, M.P. ' At seventy her "career" began! Our second woman member: to" » : be elected t6 the 'House of Com- | mons is a glamorous figure in Can- |' =adtan ime, Wow béyond her thiee- score-and-ten mark and "living on borrowed "time," she looks back on 0) ; J at colorful and eventful past: "Like 0 £_. Anns A OVINE Pictu wy HIG Wn reeis: -- ' U ¥ befor me," she writs; "the Chi- 00 cago Fire of 187k, , , the prospgr- ous '70's and'$0's"_..". the gay and 0 frivolous "90°s [= the Klondyke 4 gold rush and the Trail of "98 , .". | g : TELE staking claims; panning gold . , , ! ST = i running mills , .". years of happi- : ifi d Ad 3 pi : ness with, George Black . . | Gov ti ernment Housé at Dawson , , ; the Sl ie ver . sin Great War. .-, overseas service , , , = AH ot) 5 ee back home to Dawson . . , Ottawa; -- TT -- . a back bencher's wife . , . the AGENTS WANTED" r UPHOILSTERING & FURNITURE Speaker's wife + ... and now, at = ' SAP ? ; 3 ; ) } WN BOSS, GET AJITO ar \ the age of seventy, I take my place | BE YOUR OWN BC edioinet tear oie LYONS =~ ~in-Parliament; Member for Yukon! coffee, oxtracts, spices, etc. * Two ALTERATION SALE 5 Yiikon that I love -- that vast, rug- hundred. produgts, month. Start 3 RECONDITIONED FURNITURE 3 3 : ard- day Tripl offer at.our | 2sveryihin be eRard) A. ih EE A LL BTR Os Eg re ! Produets Company Lid, 1031 Dor sold atm fraction of its real value, : --fun-and-felends; the-place -where-I-- have spent the happiest time of my lite," - (In her early thirties Mrs. Black joihed the trail of '38 and walked over the Chilkoot pass, known as "the worst trail this side of hell"). "My Seventy Years," by Mrs. < George -Black, -M:P,, for the -Yukon -- Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons ----chester--East, Montreal, * AGENTS--SELL MEN'S NECKTIES for Christinas. Write for samiples, Murgatroyd Agencies,. Yonge St. Arcadé; Toronto. AURONS BY MAIL APRONS FORMBIG WOMEN, THREE styles, - tubfast prints--colors, red, blue, green. Three for one dollar, "post paid: Needleeraft-Guild,- 533 _ |. College Street; Toronto. - solve cquations having real roots, IF arm C olumn - 0-0-0000 the *vatious-departments -of the heavy top-dressing in addition to' 200 lbs. per-acre of fertilizer. You "A space ship travelling 150 miles an hour would require 1,000 hours to reach the moon," le said. at - we 3 re --0~-- 5 Pe ELECTRIC BRAIN DOES ARITHMETIC. A 'mathematical brain operated * by electrical waves 'that will quickly solve equations has. 'been invented independently at. the University of Pennsylvania and at the Radio Corporation of America laboratories, is used the "clectrical! brain will -- and when alternating currents are used jt will solve the equations" when the roots are imaginary, eluded: "The extra weight carried : -- a - Saas Poti -- FER TO BVRILY Tver ~~ | --by-thesesvomencven CAUSES . AN OFFER TO EVERY INVENTOR. By et x 2 List of inventions und full infor. 'premature breakdown of thecjr- Masgrege Folie. = mation sent free. The ltumsay Com- n yr - LL : 5 ,, J pany, Registered, Patent Attorneys, culatory system. GOL] ., " 3 273 Bank 8t., Ottawu, Cai. - dic _ Diamond drilling starting... er Tr ---- : . 4 Official nine color map of Por- I'ERSONAL y The Native Affairs Department cupine geology, size 10 x 16, also === (Conducted by. Professor Henry G. Bell with the co-operation of College, Ontario. Agricultural Guelph.) Q. "Would 'you advise a person to top-dress fall wheat, and would you dress it lightly or heavily? And when we sowed it, we put 200 lbs, of fertilizer on it. Would you advise me to put straw or manure on the strawberries, and would you put it on lightly, or_heavy?" -- C. P, of Bruce-County, E : - A. Light dressing of strawy man- ure would be a good protection for fall wheat, I would not suggest a do not say what analysis was used, but the protection I _ mentioned should he beneficial, = : Regfirding the'putting of straw or strawy manure on- strawberries, '1 would say that jt is the practice of strawberry growers on light soils to apply a fairly good application of strawy manure in the Fall. This Scratching - g Brea RELIEVE ITCHING In A Minute Z eciems, blotgh ples, athlete's foot, rashes i] i, Fo 4 , Its geatle ft ke --dries fast, Steps the intense fresh fae ally, A 386 Lrial bottle, at stores, proves li-- oc mca back, Ask for D. D, D, PAESCAIPT GML. re "Issue 48--'38 When. direct current |, "surance Medical Directors in New * York, he cited statistics based on "of South Africa is investigating a x where ammo-phos and concentrated Ltd, -- $2.75, potash are used, and reduce the amounts applied per acre. ctually . - Shortens Life 'It has long been argued that - fat persons live shorter lives. than other people. Dr. Louis I. Dublin, of the Metropolitan Life Insuran:e _Co., decided to test this theory on women. At a meeting of Life In- Fat A ties are hoping the . change this year, Eight four nests. - . Consideration is now b cx by the Post Office De at Ottawa to the special + 121,248. women's policies and con- No penguin chicks have been hatched at the London (England) Zoo for eight years, but authori- luck . will arc in turn sittingon four eggs in "stamps to mark the occasion of the visit of the King: and Queen to Canada' early next Summer. AUTOMONILE REPAIRS Shock Absorbers SALES AND SERVICE! ALL MAKES. 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When they all sing th fo head, 4 that off- rst e tries to he +4 crippled boy, move his chair, ries p Tony HA y, move his ¢halr over t iS Se iy akes his ony angrily refuses " "Well fellas, we've had a good day? * Everyorie goes to Chapel that evening and Whitey Synopsis: Hoya' Town 1 . Ma a notorious i urious as to the pro- LLL | Tietle, A bit | the washbasis. ita when - ! angater, w belligerent "Whitey, gimme Rdsentfol because he doesn't understand the @ f th s who let a crippled alohé--~which i Tat Fon Po alk LL ley dive y sn ¢ fille Pee he 8 Watson), Over ds some lights. No! tty Sve n i hy Wee cha #'to him and lau the Xi "him, rg His muscles) and Pae-w hs joyously when he sees the oes oo Sao tay, ella | S100 Tkaghnr from | Brastie Wi HA oy eter °, umo ow p WW. a dormitory with assurance. the joke. | Read the nest thrilling spisoder _s a EE es +! . 'd Ls od refuge for hoya founded by Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy). 5 Tv al S85 ide ho asks him to take his younger brother, Whitey (Mickey Itooney) to Hoya'. Town for a décent about Tt Whitey accompanies Father Flanagan, but makes plans to leave the minute he gets One day he. Is sumnioned by Joe . "When I'm Mayor" : a Piggy-back tomorrow?" es his attention REE re in their beds alréady, There wéen Tony's bed and oe Rub- | his. towel ff oudly de- Whitey plans fevenge, Waves, be de 6b" will-be-h imself, "Pll vote tole? "When PmMayorar Learning that the bo ; annual election sem Nn am themselves for « he oti that She ext of holder of this £23 rts' His Piaf elds in - et ---- > in French Jace aE -fiuard, reversible Mar: PR oy