Your banking can be successfully done by mail. Whenever it is difficult for you to come to the Bank in person, send in your Bey | _. deposits by registered post. eae ceived will be credited to your account and All moneys re- : IMPERIAL BANK” KF CANADA LISTOWEL BRANCH, Nis R. R* ¥, ad 2 Mecager. The Listowel Banner | Published every Thursday after- noon by The Rg 30d Publishing Co. Cc. Blatchford President wh General Manager The Banner has a large and grow- ing circulation throughout North Perth and portions of the County of ba apn som a the public. in the "tuetving agit ekeg of which Listowel is the centre, without appearing in The Banner. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS | All advertisements must be in office not later than ten o’clock Tuesday | morning to insure insertion in the fol-| lowing issue | Telephones: 66. nensene® Our Commercial Department is! well equipped for turning out the best | work. Office 61, aaa ol Nov. 18th, 1920: Leacock is getting to be a bigger! joke every day. His latest is that if) he were founding a university, he} would found first a smoking room, the! idea being to encourage the students! to smoke up their brains before start-| ing in on their studies and to spend | the money on coffin nails that hard working dad intended they should | buy lead pencils with. ™ ' Toronto Saturday Night has a ‘hot; shot” on the Spracklin case, so they, tell us. We haven't read it, but Sat-| urday Night’s opinion on moral is-; sues has to be discounted a hundred per cent., and even what's left musn’t, be taken seriously. We suppose the fact that they also publish the Wine | and ‘Spirit Journal for the liquor | trade, would heip to explain their) bias, - Another stranger passed a list a- round the business section on Mon- day and collected a substantial sum of money in short time and with little effort. He claimed to have lost an| arm by bloodpoisoning and promised to use the money exclusively for the purchase of an artificial limb. The paragraph to this effect was signed W. J. Nolan.” When such chaps hit town they should be promptly re- ported to some authority and their] story investigated before they are al-' lowed to make the rounds. Continuing | the begging from town to town, such | fellows can make an easy and more generous living than most@of the ten-/| der hearted contributors, many of} whom, we noticed, wisely signed ‘A Friend” instead of lending their names to lead others on. | . . ONE SIDED STORIES Correspondents down on the border are sending such one-sided stories in; to the daily press regarding the ac-| tivities of the officers in their efforts to enforce the law, that they are not; a safe basis for use in editorial com- ment and many papers that are tak- ing the chance are doing an sngnsties | by creating an unfair sentiment a- gainst the license officials, and handi-| capping them in their difficult task. | When the other side of the story | came in regarding the holdup of a’ man named Chauvin and the manager | of the Postum Cereal company, it put, an entirely different face on the sit- | uation to that presented by the orig- inal despatch. We didn't live down | that way several years without get- ting acquainted with some of those! indignant “respectable citizens’’ whl are being troubled by the Sprack-! lins, and it’s a bit interesting to know’ that they have got into that class. = laslenseal WE an oe 7. TO THE Pp” AGAIN sitection rh will soon be around | again, and unless it’s a ‘‘false alarm"’} that’s being sounded, as has more’ than once been the case, there is go- ing to be some “‘new blood’ in next year’s council. A good many citizens are frank in their condemnation of what may be termed the controlling element of the present council, and certainly this element has given plenty of oc- easion for criticism, but whether or not those who say it’s time for a “clean-up,”’ will show that they mean business and be on the job when jt comes nomination ool and election day, is another ques oa that’s the = big trouble lo- erence, There's plenty of criticism, too much “ef it, during the year, from chaps who were “slackers” on nom- ination and election day, when it was mpost important that they be on the job: And just how far this indifference| been allowed to go, is indicated the fact that last year the name of the town “cop” was on the bulk of the nomiation papers. Other citi- gens so little who went in, penat they left it to the constable to counts, | faithfully and well all her days, and pick their repres ntatives, ‘Now they’re kicking, :and they little sympathy. deserve’ Dear eet Pardon me for coming to you wien some of my worries, but it. was through the press that we were ask- éd last spring to help beautify the town. They told us to clean up our back vartakuatt ‘bax beautify our lawns. I tried to do’both but with little suc- cess. In/thd first place we cannot water the lawns unless we pay extra water rates. That is if we use the *hoge. But I am told that on a certain street in, town the water was allowed to run to waste, owing to a defective tap, for more than a month. Enough water was wasted to have watered all the lawns and flowers on the street. What is the use trying to have nice lawns and clean walks when your neighbors’ hens use them for a rest- ing place after they are tired scratch- ing up your flowers and garden seeds? The neighbors, beiny very obliging, FROM OTHER PAPERS : sh say they must close them up. In the ing until they see fit to do so and even, after they are supposed to be closed SHOULD ALL HAVE LIGHTS (Mail d Empire.) Ontario shoul@ have a law requir- ing all wagon vehicles to carry @ light after dark. The accidents a- rising out of collisions in darkness will become more frequent unless something is done. A SERIOUS HARDSHIP (Torosto Globe.) A lighthouse keeper in Georgian Bay watched over the dead body of his wife for three days, the heavy weather preventing a trip to shore. Lighthouse-keepers should be provid- ed with signalg so as to summon help ‘in emergencies. In the present case the woman’s life might have been saved if a passing steamer could have ; been signalled. A MAN OR A Cow (Farmers Sun) We sometimes lose our sense of proportion and relative values. It is doubtful if the average ‘‘parasite” living in the town and city is worth as much to his country as a good cow. It is production and service that and the cow serves man then in death perfofms the final ser- vice of all, The parasite hangs on and sucks away at the results of the producer. RESPECT FOR MINISTERS (Toronto Star.) A recent sensational event brings out the fact that there must exist a respect for ministers of the gospel in quarters where there had been little reason to suspect it. Men who never attend church and who ordinarily have nothing to do with churches and ministers, or preaching, praying, and fasting, sud- denly show a deep solicitude for the reputation of the clergy when they learn that a minister has been out after midnight tmterfering with rum- running and making a aes of himself. Many men over on the border are shocked to think that a minister would step down from a sacred pul- pit and chase them : a fast auto; or that, instead of being asleep in his !} respectable parsonage in the small hours of the morninf, he is out on the river in a fast launch preventing them crossing over to Detroit with a cargo of hooch on which they could make one thousand per cent. profit were it not for the way in which he is prostituting his holy calling. Waterloo Organist Coming— Mr. C. F. Bean of Waterloo, organ- ist in the Methodist church there, is to play the organ in the ‘Listowel Methodist church on Sunday next. It is expected that Mrs. Bean, contralto solosist of the Waterloo church, will sing. For the past two Sundays Miss Annie Good of town and Mr. Deek of Wellesley have acceptably supplied. C. F. VANDRICK SALE REGISTER | on Tuesday. UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE of Farm stock, implements, hay. grain and etc, for Mr. J. R. Wilken, at lot 2, concession 4, Maryborough, Nov. 3rd, 1920. A big lot of geod stock and implements. Sale at twelve o'clock. See bills for —__— ! particulars. UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE For the Executors of the Estate of the late Alexander Walker, at lot 3 concession-{/13, Mornington, on Wed., Dec. Ist.,.1920; farm stock, hay, grain and household goods. The sev- enty acre farm will also be offered the same day, if pot previously sold,’ subject to reserv@ price. Sale at 12 o'clock. See bills for particulars. ON FAIR D. Friday Dec. 3rd. en at the Grand Central Hotel, Listowel, a monster Auction Sale of furniture, stoves, harness, robes, cutters and etc. Bills will be out in a few days. AUCTION SALE Of furniture and household goods, {in the town of jPalmerston, for Mr. 4. Calder, on Thursday, Dec. 2nd., 1920. Sale at one o'clock. . FOR SALE Four good houses, in Listowel, and a number of good farms in Howick, Wallace anfi Mornington townships. It will pay you to see us if you are ri Me a house in town, or a good ™. in there is always a way out, (as the saying is)and one or two of the more observent'kind, will find a hole some- where and proceed to do more work in your garden in a couple of hours before you are up in the morning, than you can-do in a whole forenoon. In early Autumn they are all let at liberty, and the consequences are you eat hen-picked tomatoes and apples, if there is any left for you at all. But you must say nothing to your neighbors about the matter for they are very touchy about their personal affairs and believe in British fair play, (at least for the hens). The dogs of the town, numberless as they are, walk over your lettuce and straw- berries, comb their hair out on your raspberrybushes, scratch up a couple of hills of potatoes, walk serenely over your radish and cucumber beds and proceed on to the next garden. When I recall the visions I had in spring of a beautiful green lawn, clean walks and a flourishing garden, and compare them with what I rpally had—a lawn barely covered with grass, walks and lawn which the neighbors’-hens had strewn—vwell, not with daisies—a scratched and down r trodden garden, is it any wonder that | I am discouraged and have decided, that until the hens and dogs of Lis- towel are under some brand of con- trol that will compell them to remain where they pelong, I will try no more to help beautify the town. meantime, you must postpone garden-/|- — COM- WHER: tis it is expedient and nec- to take tna vote of the Electors of iietowel entitled to vote on a By- Law to loan $25000 to a Company to be incorporated to manufacture mot- or. car wheels and icity accessor- 3 -— it therefore and. it’is hereby enacted by the Municipal Council of the town of Listowel that the vote of the Electors of the town of Listowel slall be taken on By-Law No. 783 on Saturday, the 27th day of November, 1920, to commence at the hour of A.M. and to continue until 5 o’clock P.M. and no longer ‘That B. L. Hy Bamford shall be Re- turning Officer and that the following shall be Deputy Returning Officers. viz for: : Bismarck Ward, Geo. Adams, Dy. R. O., Askew’s shop. Victoria Ward, Wm. Bradley, Dy R. O., Bean's shop. Gladstone hdr a J. McKenzie, Dy. R. O., Fire H Dufferin Ward, ry D. Philp, Dy. R. O., Wilkins House. ‘Lansdowne Ward, G. Raines, Dy. R. O., Public Library. And the following shall be Poll Clerks for the election: Bismarck Ward,. Fred Johnston. Gladstone Ward, W._R. Clayton. Victoria Ward, M. McGillivray. Dufferin Ward, F. C. Kelly. Lansdowne Ward, J. R. Grant. Passed in Open Council this Ist day of November, A. D, 1920. J. A> Hacking, B. L. H. Bamford, Reeve. Clerk. 3tnp Town of Listowel SYNOPSIS OF PROPOSED BY-LAW NO. 783 OF THE TOWN OF LIS- TOWEL. The Purpose of the proposed by- law No. 783 is to issue debentures of the corporation for the sum of $25,- 000 and to loan same to a company to be incorporated to assist in the establishing of an industrial factory and plant for the manufacture and! assembling in Listowel of motor car} and other wheels and other accessor- ies, parts and equipment in connect- A hen-picked, dog-tredden citizen. so | . i | | IN MEMORIAM ~ Ss! - BENDER—In loving memo of, our dear mother, Mrs. Elizabeth "Be: der, who died on Nov. 20th., 1915. |!" Oft we think of you, dear mother. And our hearts are fraught with pain ; Oh, this earth would be a heaven | Could we, but hear your voice, again. | Five long years ago you left us, | i | i How we miss your smiling face, But you left us to remember None on earth can fill your place. —Daughter Emma., . Sactes? eestestectectestectectestectestestestasfostecl fonlesfostendesfestenteefecdendeelecteelecteeleelecdesleebeeleele dele Ba HOSPITAL NOTES “ Og oelenlenfes[oeteetesfooleeleolocfoeloslostoeloelerfecloeleeloeteeleeleetocte | The Women’s Hospital Auxiliary held a very successful shower on Nov. 13th. in the Business College and wish to extend their thanks to the fol- lowing contributors for their dona- tions: Misses Ioerger-——-3 quarts fruit, 4 quarts pickles, 1 pound tea, 2 pounds! coffee. Mrs. J. J. Kennedy—2 ibs. butter, 2% quarts fruit. + Miss Gunther—13% quarts of fruit and pickles. Mrs. George gooseberries. Mrs. A, Cameron—2 quarts fruit, pickles and cabbage. | Mrs. George Reusedy--# quarts} fruit. Mrs. W. C. Kidd—3 quarte fruit. Mrs. Joseph Fair—3 pints fruit. . ot ry oh 4 Spence —1 quart Mrs. J. W. Sangster—8 bottles fruit and pickles. Mrs. J. MW Baker—2 quarts fruit. { Mrs. J. J. Foster—-2 quarts fruit. ; M R. Kidd—2 quarts fruit and pickle Mrs. “George Melrose—2% quarts ie = jelly _ AH. Nichol—2 quarts fruit, ure. F. Sharpe—Baskét of pota- oes. Mrs. S. S. Rothwell—Bag of pota- toes Lag quarts of jam . J. Dowd—1 quart of fruit. srs. aan Stuart—2 quarts fruit. Mrs. T. L. Hamilton—2 quarts fruit and 1 jar pickles. Mrs. George Harron—3% quarts fruit, <7 and honey. Mrs . P. Rennie—2 quarts fruit. Mrs. LC “Bolton—2 quarts fruit and pickles. Mrs. John McDonald—-2 quarts fruit and pickles. Mrs. Secord—2 quarts fruit. Mrs. R. A. Climie—8 bottles jam. Mrs. J. Purcell—2 quarts fruit and pickles Mrs. ‘Tabberner—1 pint jam and 1 quart pickles Mrs, R, Oliver—1 bottle pickles. Mrs. D. Sanderson—i% gq fruit and pickles. fruit. Mrs. James Moore—1: quart cran- berries, 1 weatt cherries. Mrs, W. A. Kibler—2 quarts fruit. Mrs.“A. J. Nelson—2 quarts t. The Hospital will be glad to receive further donations at any time, from those who forgot about the shower. ‘ed is $25000 repayable in Mrs. C. V. Blatchferd—2 quarts ed cle and other trace and other art- : icles. The amount of the debt to be creat- twenty | equal annual installments of $2179.- . 61 each. The interest charge is six per cent. The Company, before being entitled! to the loan, shall] invest in buildings. | plant and machinery at least $30000 and deliver to the Carporation a mortgage with full covenants for the own's security. There is a fixed ass- essment of $10000 on which the Company shall pay taxes. Take Notice that the above is a true synopsis of a proposed By-Law which has been taken into consid- eration and will be finally passed by | the municipal council which publica- tion in the event of the assent of the electors being obtained thereto after ‘ the expiration of one month from the date of the first publication thereof the date ofewhich is the 4th da f November, 1920. Take Notice Also that the votes of the electors qualified to vote In that behalf will be taken on the said By- Law on Saturday the 27th of Novem- ber, A. D. 1920 at a poll to be held by the duly appointed Deputy Re- turning Officers and Poll Clerks be- tween the hours of nine o'clock A.M. and five o’clock P.M. of the said 27th day.of November, 1920. The Mayor of the said town will attend at the council chamber in the Public Library at ten o'clock in the forenoon on the 25th day of Novem- ber A. D. 1920 to appoint persons to attend to the various polling places and at the final summing up of the ‘ votes by the clerk on behalf of the persons interested in and promoting or opposing the passing of the said by-law The Clerk of the council will at- tend at this office in the Council chamber at ten o’clock in the fore- noon of the twenty-ninth day of No- vember, 1920, to sum up the num- ber of votes for and against the said by-law. Take notice further that any tenant who desires to vote on the said by-law must deliver to the clerk of the muni- cipality not Vater than the tenth day before the date appointed for taking the vote the declaration provided for by subsection 3 of Section 265 of the Municipal Act being Chapter 192, R. 8.0. 1914 _ 8B. L. H, Bamford, Clerk of the town of Listowel. 3tnp Differ on Church Union— ' nig Ministerial Alliance of London addressed recently by Rt. Rev. David Williams, Bishop of Huron, on the subject of the Lambeth Confer- ence. The Bishop outlined the con- cessions made by the Anglicans in the interest of Church unity. Rey. G. A. Leichliter, pastor of Adelaide| Street Baptist Church, however, made an address in which he strongly op- Mr. On the other hand, Presbyterian and Methodist ministers warmly approv- and motor truck disc wire, wooden. on with motor car, automobile bicy-' : cocoa? |MerRoupE FoR Tin! wore ox " ‘THE ELECTORS ce age a. a A. | 10 A PROPOSED 4 ent ! ote cd nadvised Als purchased: from J. H. McDonald, his Flour, Feedand Seed Store, also the ~ business of the Listowel Bread Co. We respectfully invite your patronage. oe] oe McDonald & Riggs | W. A.'McDonald - - ° CLM. Ri ® M. Riggs For High-Grade Chocolates Choicest Home-Made Candies Delicious Hot or Cold Drinks and the Best in Ice Cream Dishes Patrenize the ‘Diana Sweets’ RESTAURANT THE - STORE - OF - QUALITY | It’s Too Early To Put Your Car Away Get more use out of it. Don’t let a little flurry scare you into storing it. :. BUT BE SURE YOU HAVE “ANTI-FREEZE” In The Radiator = This is something you shouldn’t neglect another day. To put it off may prove disastrous. It is cheaper to pay for Anti-Freeze than for fix- ing a bursted radiator. Also watch that your battery isn’t run down, for they will freeze if allowed to get in this condition. And when storing them, bring them tous. Wetor dry storage as you wish, but the dry storage adds greatly to the life of your »pattery. We handle Tire Chains, Tires, Tubes, Non- Glare Lens, Oils, Greases, etc.,and also do Elec- tric Welding. ‘What about Overhauling Your Car this winter ? Our repair shop is recommended by many * of the most careful autoists as thé only place to get your work done satisfactorily. § R..O. Hube & Son oe “ ed the proposal as being in the true interests of Christianity. Ae | The proprietor of the second-hand Shop was not so tidy as he might have been. One day while ding in ing man, anxious for a sale. , Lots of them, as clean as anything “Well,” said the ie ‘ectins a~ way, ‘‘go in — put one of them on.’” —Houston Pos front of the shop a man approached him and said: “Have ye any clean shirts. in yer shop p?” “Sure I have,” answered the cloth- . 4