_ *Subseription Rate $1.50 A Year in Advance Otherwise $3.00 % + (THR LISTOWEL BANNER, ‘Thursday, May 271. 1920. * eas te ‘Sng Cole 8 ‘No ‘Fatality When Big C Terrific Speed, Turns Turtle On Pavement ~ ar, Going At . MESSRS, A. E. MALCOLM AND E. K.] HACKING HAVE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE—FORMER FINED FOR SPEEDING. Charged with rith speeding on the public streets, Mr. Malcolm settled out of court today by pleading guilty before Magistrate Hamil yi jaa, Dut he the magistrate accepted é h.~ Whtle testing out the speed of a new $8,000 ninety horse-power Mar- mon touring car Sunday morning on one of the business streets of town, Mr. A. E. Malcolm, manager of thet Andrew Malcolm Furniture compan and Mr. Lester Hacking, son of Reeve Hacking, miraculously escaped fatal injury when the big car turned over at the head of Mill street, only a few feet in fromt of a car coming in an opposite direction, driven by Mr. Henry Bender of town and contain-, ing seven people. | Mr. Malcolm Was only slightly hurt! and went to Kincardine the next day, but Mr. Hacking had two or three ribs broken and suffered other minor injuries. The finish on ‘the car was "hardly scratched, but the top, windshield, fenders and one of the rear wheels +) . im) EVERYBODY'S COLUMN ; Ten Cents a line for first i insertion. Subsequent inser- tions Five Cents. Minimum charge Twenty-Five Cents. + ten 5 f Gocart for Sale. Apply box 569, Listowel. 1 tnp WANTED General housemaid. (Dr.) Philp. Apply Mrs. tfnp LOST IN LISTOWEL Pair of gold rimmed glasses. Find- er kindly leave at this office. ltp} FOR 8S Five vear old horse, driver Apply | F. O. Clarke at The Bazaar t{ip; Ho \ Riess for sale cheap. James K. | Lawrence. Davidson street., Box 302, Listowel. ltnp CEMENT Carload of cement on hand. Place; your orders with KR. T. Kemp & Son, phone | LZ 1. tinp INFORMATION WANTED As té whereabouts of Charles Raveti, formerly of Henfryn, Ont. This office will appreciate learning his present address ltp sT Car of land and cattle salt. in 200 pound sacks, to arrive this week. Farmer's wishing same will please | leave their orders at J. H. McDonald's, flour and’ feed store. tfop FOR SALE | Brick residence, extra lot and stable, S. W. corner, park lot 12, east side of Elm street, property of the late Conrad Fisher. Apply to B. F Knipe of F. M. Zurbrigg, execu- tors. 2t FOR EXCHANGE Will the party who was recently given the wrong pair of trousers by mistake, kindly return them to Rog- ers Tailor shop, and have them ex- changed for his own. tfnp DOG OWNERS, ATTENTION! A supply of tags has been secured and all dog owners are advised to secure them forthwith, for after June, dogs without tags, will be consider- ed as stray dogs, and destroyed. J. Wilson, constable. tfnp NEW ROAD GUIDE Appleton’s new road ghide, pub- lished by the Musson Book Co., Ltd., Toronto, is ‘now on gale. It is in conyenient form, contains a variety of information valuable to motorists, and being a big improvement on any- thing previously published, is sure to be in great demand. itp UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE of Farm Stock, Implements, Hay and Grain, and Household goods. C. F. Vandrick, Auctioneer, has been in- structed to sell by Public Auction, _ Ezra Wetzel, at Lots 8 and 9, Con. Mary borough, near Wyandott Chee: Factory, on Friday May 28th, 1920. Mr. Wetzel has sold his Farm, and everything must be sold; he is posi- tively giving up farming. This is a great big lot of good stock and im- plements. The Sale wil start sharp h at one o'clock, on ot of the vast amount of goods to sell ' EZRA WETZEL, GORDON MecBWAN Proprietor. Clerk. Cc. P. VANDRICK, Auctioneer. 2tnp = | vance, a collision and some casual- | has been privileged | Stranger, driving a Ford coupe, ‘the leading roles in an exciting chase: ; Who was going at a lively clip, and ! pursuers were wrecked‘ and the brakes dam- aged. = body of the car also shift- ed about’ eight inches on the rear axle. It is now in Hube’s garage un- dergoing repairs. At the time of the accident Mr. Maicolm was driving. But the story is that shortly previous Lester was handling the car and managed to hit her up to sixty-eight nifles an hour on the Wallace street pavement. This wasn't fast enough. Mr. Malcolm said he could get more out of her than that and it is reported that the speedqme- ter touched as high as seventy-fotr. In any case the momentum was 80 great that when the powerful brakes wer® applied the car skidded for a considerable distance on the pave- ment, burning the tires and leaving rubber on the roadway about a block back. It was still travelling at such a terrific speed when at the head of Wallace street, that in an attempt to make the turn east, the car was run up over the curb onto the sidewalk and after barely escaping a crash in- to the bank of Hamilton, turned tur- tle at the head of Mill street. The wheels were still spinning when a car with seven occupants, driv- en by Mr. Bender and coming north on Mill street with their view ob- structed, was brought to a stop justa few seconds after the big Marmon shot out from behind the bank and overturned in front of them. Had they been a few! feet further in ad- ties would in all probability have-been Mrs. Travis Reaches A_Remarkable A PASSED AWAY FRIDAY IN HER 88TH YEAR, AT HOME. OF DAUGHTER. oo Still bright and cheerful of @ sition despite the frailties of adv; ing age, Mrs. Susan Travis mn Pet passed to the Great Beyond on day, May 21st., in her 89th. year, at the home of her daughter, Mra. John Petch, Main street west, with whom she has made her-‘home since- the death of Mr. Travis twelve years ago. Though her eyesight had fatted and other faculties were impaired, rs. Travis maintained . patient Christian spirit 'till the last and » prepared when the call came, a speaking of her passing Sunday ph ing in the Methodist church, the tor, Rev. Dr. Hazen, referred to. as one of the older saints of the church and spoke of her attfactive| Christian qualities, ~ Mrs: Travis has been a resident of Listowel for twenty-seven years her genial nature won her the affeet- ion of many. Rev. Dr. Hazen had charge of the funeral, which was held on Saturday] to Fairview cemetery. e A family of four daughters sur- vive: Mrs. (Dr.) Cron of Iowa, R. D. Johnston of Midland City, Mich- igan; and Mrs. John Petch and Mrs, John Howat of Listowel. ‘ the result, Mr. Malcolm hasn't the reputation of being a careful driver and locally speed limit without Ente arference from, the officers of the law ! Stranger. Puts One Over Town “Cop” WAS WANTED BUT DECLINED TO SELF BE CAUGHT. * Constable Wilson and an unknown took | ; about town Monday night. which re- ‘sulted in the “cop” being frustrated in an effort to arrest the man for) speeding. It was a thriller such as ordinarily you would onl expect to see at the movies. When Constable Wilson first saw! the stranger, he was driving on Main, | Street from the direction of the arm-' 'ouries at a rate of speed that the chief censidered quite excessive. On being accosted, he told the chief where he could go. and without wast-, ing any time, shot street. Constable Wilson at once jumped into a car standing at the curb, which; happened to be Mr. J. W. Sangster’s, | and directed Robert McMillan, garage | man, who stood nearby, to take charge of the wheel and follow in hot pur- suit. The pair were gaining on their man. on up Wallace for a time he looked like a sure vic- tim. But on reaching the end of the pavement he slipped one over on his Instead of continuing out into the country, with every chance ; of being run down. he turned right) for, about and headed for down town a- gain. The pursuing car was halted. Con- stable Wilson piled out and with his big stick lifted, mfde for the coupe. If nothing else, he intended to smash some of the glassware so that the! car®could later be detected. But even: in this ambition he failed. The stran- ger was bound not to be caught. He shot on lots of gas, took to the ditch and cleverly managed to get by the “cop” and the other car. With a good lead, he chased back to fix his own! | { | FOR SPEEDING) LET HIM-! Mrs. Mott Dies Soon Methodists Condemn_ Dancing / At Schools , LACK OF INTELLIGENCE CHARG- ED AGAINST SCHOOL MANAGE- MENT IN PERMITTING SUCH. The following resolution, re social | amusements among home, high and ‘ continuation sehools, was unanimous- ly adopted at a meeting of the Ridge- town Methodist district, held “last week at Highgate: ; “We the members of the Ridge- { town district of the Methodist church, | having had our attention called ,to the practice of high schools and con- tinuation schools in certain sections of the district ending their field day sports with a public dance, wish to express our disapproval of such a ' practice. We believe it to be a ser- {ous impropriety on the part of the management of the schools that in- stitutions supported by the commun-| {ed a blaze which broke out early this ALREADY $700 OF ‘THE $1,000 ASKED OF LISTOWEL, HAS BEEN RECEIVED Though. the objective of $1,000, has not yet been reached in connec- tly}. tion with the Salvation Atfmy Forward Movement drive in. Listowel, Dr. James Moore, chairman of the local committee, who very generously start- "ed off the t with a contribution of $100, announces that there has been an encou g response and that al- ready something close to. $700 has been received. It is felt that there will still be a considerable number desirous of sub- scribing to this worthy cause and on that account the lists will be kept open for a few days longer in an effort to bring the total up to the full a- mount of the objective. he contributions of these will by Mr. Hay at the Imperial bank. | The. work of distributing the en- velopes by way of a house to house canvass, was chiefly in the hands of a number of young ladies, who did the duces assigned them wel! and with good success. As a general thing, they, were kindly received and a num- ber who contributed modest 4mounts explained that but for the numerous| demands recently, they would have been inclfned to give more generous-| ly.” | Walkerton Visited By Serious Blaze ROLLER RINK DESTROYED BY FIRE THAT TREATENED BIG SECTION OF TOWN. — Walkerton, May 23.—It was with difficulty that local firemen prevent- morning in the rollar skating rink from wiping out the whole town. As t was, the roller rink, and R. E. Truax & Company's stables and lum- ber piles were completely destroyed, seyeral residences badly damaged, and the roofs of nearly a score of bnild- ings partly burnt. A strong wind was blowing and sparks were carried great distances. Very little debris was left on the scene of the fire, but for miles around the country is covered with ashes and cinders. The fire is thought to have been eaused by a cigarette butt or fire- ity permit under their auspices a form of amusemgnt that by a considerable | number ofits patrons is considered. Skating rink was a roaring furnace. decidedly evil in its tendency. Fur- for educational purposes should; ther, if such a practice represents the, ideals and intelligence there fostered the reputation of the institutions is injured as a proper place for the high- er culture of our young. To make it | 4ppear to be reasonably courteous to | the entertaining school that young people from 12 to 18 years in a strange town, without any provision for their billet, should be expected to toiter around from 6-to 9 or 10 { dance until midnight and after. and then seek their home 10 or 15 miles away, certainly does not represent intelligence, does not even represent sanity, to say nothing of the moral feature involved, and we would, there- request the secretary to bring this matter to the attention of the schools concern After Leaving Town PASSED AW AY tr NDAY AFTER BEING IN LONDON LESS THAN TWO WEEKS. o'clock at night, then engage in the! | ! crackers. The first alarm was rung in at 3.30 this morning, and when the firemen arrived on the scene the The flames quickly spread to the adjacent lumber piles of the planing mills, and from there to the com- pany’s stables. The firemen with difficulty succeeded in saving the mills themselves. The-residence of W. H. McBurney, upon which the flames early obtained a good hold, was saved from total destruction, but was badly damaged The roofs of W. H. McBurney, upon which the flames early obtained a good hold, was saved from total destruction, byt was badly damaged. The roofs of the Truax office, Pletch's flour mill and many houses were several times on fire, but citizens rushed to the rescue, and, with the firemen, suc- eeeded in preventing the blaze from spreading farther. W. A. Clark, owner of the roller skating rink, sustained the heaviest loss. He had very littleginsurance, and it is scarcely likely that he will rebuild. The total loss was consid- erably over $5,000, though it will cost much more than that to replace the buildings. While much valuable lumber belonging to the Truax com- pany was destroyed, including two carloads of shingles which had just been unloaded, the ‘material was heavily insured. Wallace street. The other car was again in pursuit. But their man was, onto the game. Turnihg at the manse,! onto Penelope street, he switched off, his lights and had no difficulty in mak- ing a getaway. The constable states that several saw the car turn the corner at Liv- ingstone’s, but because of the speed at which it was travelling and on ac- count of mud, the license number couldn't be distinguished. Thrown From Motor Cycle But Escapes Injury Alvin Goldner escaped serious in- jury Sunday morning when thrown from his motor cycle onto the side- walk at the corner of Main and Wal- lace streets. When rounding the dummy police- man, there was a horse and rig in front of him and in attempting to a- void a collision, he lost contro! of the motor cycle and ran into the curb. The fork and front wheel of the motor cycle were badly damaged and the rider took a header onto the ce- ment sidewalk, but wasn’t seriously urt. Miss Taite, to reside at Glenwood private hospital, 453 Ridout street, London, Mrs. Melissa Mott, greatly loved by many here because of her excellent Christian character, passed away on Sunday morning in her 84th. year. Rev. W. E. Millson of London, a former Listowel pastor, conducted service at Griffith's undertaking par- lors Monday afternoon, which was at- tended by Mrs. Hugt and Mr. A. M. Smith of town, also Dr, F. A. Large, formerly of Listowel, but now of Windsor. The remains were conveyed on Tuesday via C. P. R., to Embro, where they were interred in the family plot. The Taite family were always held in the highest respect in Listowel and for a number of years the four sisters, Mrs. Burton, Miss Matilda Taite, Mrs. Mots and the only surviving one, Misa} L. Taite, resided together at the corner of Raglan and one streets. They were all ristians whose lives attracted papivation and won them many close friends. Less than two weeks after leaving | , Listowel in company with her sister, | | of St: In the section of the town where the fire broke out the buildings are chiefly of lumber construction, and citizens can scarcely understand how _the blaze wa 4 prevented from wiping ‘out the whole district. Sovereign Block Purchased For ThejUnited Farmers Six members of the Listowel Farm- ers ‘Club, Messrs. John McL . George Hargreaves, William Turn- bull, William Cleland, Clinton Smith and Walter Jickling, have Eager g the business block of Mr. ’. Sov- ereign, on Wallace street and will rent it. to the United Farmers for a co-operative store. The block is a splendid one, con- sisting of Mr. vereign's grocery store and Heath’s barber shop on the first floor and residential quarters up- stairs, including the meeting place of the Daughters.of the Empire. It is stated that a sitting room and other accommodation forthe country folk will be’ provided. | Christ Church: Anniversary— Rev. pezon | ahd oe M. A., recto L. gladly be received by Dr. Moore or}: apectad sgteuche: for the an- “STRAW BATS —Men's and Boy's, - ‘services of Christ church on Three — Fined For Reckless Driving On Streets Of Li TWO ARE ASSESSED BY MAGIS- TRATE ~-HAMILTON $15 ap| COSTS—OTHER $10 AND COSTS, On complaints latd by Constable Wilson, three motorists. appeared before Magistrate Hamilton this week and were fined ‘for reckless driving on the town streets. a UNION GOVERNMENT METHODS The Toronto -Globe -is strongly urging that a Domin- | iom general election be held as early as possible and in a edi- — . s ca 2 s e s . s Lioyd Armstrong of Elma “town- * torial on Monday says in part: ship pleaded guilty and settled out of| « The Dvayton Budget is a court by paying $10 and costs. * sample of Union government. * Sam Caruso of Listowel and W.8.'* methods—a series of new tax- © Carter of Stratford appeared in police} * os thrown at the public with * court Wednesday afternoon, and)e no preparation, no instruction, a though pleading otherwise, were * no proper plan of procedure, © found guilty and fined in each case} * and putting retail business for * $15 and costs. - * the time being utterly at sea. * | Warning was given by the magis-|* [pon such methods mercantile. * trate that a second offense would| + podies have a right to speak. e- mean a more serious penalty and that: « a on the third there is no option to ale e © »® © « © # # 6 . jail sentence. | He instructed that in each case the conviction should be endorsed on the license held, so as to be on record in case of subsequent offenses. Those giving evidence for the plain- tiff in the Caruso case were the con- stable, S. J. Stevenson and Dr. M. H. Moore, and for the defence the accus- ed and George Youn, motor mechanic, who was riding with Caruso in a motor truck Saturday afternoon when the offense was committed. The constable and Mr. Stevenson claimed that the accused was driv- ing his motor truck through heavy street traffic and at a down town street intersection, fully fifteen miles an hour, when to have been safe half that rate would have been reasonably fast. Caruso denied that he was driving at any such rate. The motor was on “low” all the time and he was ready to give fifty dollars to Joe Wilson or anyone else who could make it touch fifteen miles an hour in low gear. it was noisy because on “low” and the motor racing, but he was positive he wasn't driving fast or couldn't with the car in the condition it was, Youn explained that the car had; been undergoing repairs and was not | working right. They couldn't switch! it from low to intermediate or high! and musn't have been going, he said, | faster than eight or nine miles an| hour. Further, it was running on) only two cylinders, he gaid. i It was the magistrate’s contention, that if the car wasn’t in good work-| ing order, the busy Street was not the proper place for trying it out. | The charge against W. S. Carter, of Stratford was for an offense com-| mitted by a truck driver in his em-| ploy, while jn Listowel on May l4th., Witnesses for the prosecution were! Robert Ronald, William Filsinger and the constable. These three claimed: that the young fellow was driving on Main street at a speed too fast for the safety of the public. ] The only evidence offered in de-, fence was the statement of Carter that the driver accused, regularly cev-' ered the Toronto-Hamilton highway | —the most dangerous spot in Canada for the erring motorist—-but this in Listowel was the first charge laid against him. His worship made some comments’ on the law governing traffic and stat- ed that as far as he was concerned, he wds going to see that they were kept. Carter's fine and $21.45. costs _ totalled, mee Methodists Of District Had Year Of Of Progress | OreeneNEEED NATION AL CAMPAIGN BY $10,000, BUT. OTHER DEPARTMENTS DIDN'T | - SUFFER. Milverton, May 21.—Reports of @ very encouraging nature were p re-- sented at the annual Stratford district ; meeting of the Methodist church, which was held this week, showing | among other things that although = the district over-subscribed its ob-— jective to the national campaign by — upwards of $10,000. other depart- ments of the work did not suffer, but appear rather to have been stimulat- For instance, there was an in-. crease of $781 in the missionary con- 4 tributions, and 222 in membership. . There were also eight volunteers for” life service. ! At the ministerial session on Wed-" nesday Rev. T. W. Hazelwood, Wal- | lace; Rev. J. G. Woollatt, Fullarton, and Rev. A. J. Love were examined and continued in probation, while Rev. J. M. Finlay, of St. Thomas, was recommended for ordination. Rev. E. H. Bean, evangelical miny ister of this town, gave the address of welcome at a public meeting in the evening. presided over by Rev. W. H. Graham, of Stratford, chairman of the-~ district, and addressed by Rev. A. J... Langford, of St. Marys, and Rey. Dr. G. N. Hazen, of Listowel. Rev. J.-F. Sutcliffe was chosen as representative on the stationing committee and dele- gates appointed to attend the confer- ‘ence are Sheriff Magwood and H. J. Near, Stratford; J. W. Eedy, St. ' Marys; I. Hord, Mitchell; J. C. Hay, Listowel; I. C. Whitney, Milverton; John Vine, Trowbridge; BE. L. Robin- | son, Wallace; Andrew Robb, Atwood; W. S. Merryfield, Monkton; I. Leary, Staffa: H. C. Facey, Munroe; H. Dunsmore, Harmony; Robert Raw- lings. Lakeside; J. W. Davis, Well | burn, and Joseph Whetstone, Thames- ford. Alternatives are H. C. Green-~ way. Mitchell; R. S. Bridgeman, Thorndale; D. S. Whaley, St. Marys;.: 4 John C. Ward, Monkton, and L. &, Dougherty, Stratford. Resolutions were passed condemn- ing prize fighting, race track gamb- . ling and the proposed legislation pro- viding for easier divorce in Ontario, - or on other than the ve tye grounds. It was also decided to re-. Lively Fire Early | Seana to the general conference © Sunday Morning ; McKEEVER'S ~ BARN ON MILD: STRE WITH SOME STOCK, D. DESTROYE The large barn and stables of Mr. John McKeever on Mill street, and the contents, which included two horses, ten young pigs, some cutters, and bygg@ies, were destroyed by fire of; unknown origin, which broke out be- tween three and four o'clock Sunday | morning. The blaze had gained such head- way before the alarm came in that the firemen confined their efforts to saving other property in the vicinity, which had caught fire. It was a spectacular blaze and when the firemen arrived they found sev- eral wooden structures burning merr- ily. The McKeever building was be- yond hope. Hay’s elevator, A. B. George's ice-house, Ellis” stable and McKeever’s old house, half destroy- ed by fire some time ago, had caught fire but with the exception of the ice-house, were covered by the water before serious damage was done. Mr. McKeever’s loss will be con- siderable as the property was only lightly insured. Mr. Miller's car. kept in a portion of the ice-house, was saved, also his summer’s ice supply, but three dozen six gallot. ice cream cans, some new tires and other thi stored upstairs, valued at ahout $70 were burned. There was ance on them, as they had moved and notice hadn't been fora the insyrance company. At The Bush— The Y. P. 8. of the Baptist church held a picnic at nese bush on Empire Day, There @ program, lunch and | special committee that the minimum j a for ministers be increased to | |Minimum Wage Ket” Omits House Maids By putting up > another carte when the Minimum Wage Act reached the committee stage in the Legislature | Tuesday, the Liberal leader won out | on his point that any minimum wage © ! scales which may be drawn up by the | government board for the protection | of women and girls, will not include | domestic servants or farm As the Bill now stands, it includes all women and girls who work for hire, with the exception of the above. Dur- ing the afternoon the Bill was sub- jected to over an hour’s debate, through which all the old points in opposition to its broadness of scope were repeated. The attitude of H. H. Dewart was that for one year at — least the Act should be limited to in- dustrial workers, until the govern- © ment sees how it works out, and that later, if necessary, it could be ex- — tended. Hon. Walter Rollo defended ~ the Bill freely up to the time the Liberal Leader brought in his amend- ment to the effect that it should ‘‘not., include domestic servants or farm laborers.” After that time, there was” not a word of protest against the Lib- | eral Leader’s amendment, and it was | accepted without a vote. The only . \ other change made in the Bill was hat it should become effective ine Stoner 1920, instead of in July. Buys Corner ig . Mr. A. Krohn has ‘purchased from Mrs. D. D. Campbell, the corner lot | at the end of Division street, abutting © on the school wardens. 5